The Interpolar South podcast series is one out of two podcast series presented by Interpolar. It displays a collection of more mellow sets that can function equally as a companion to a chilled-out evening with friends as to an after-hour or a study session. We aim to deliver a variety of genres ranging from house to ambient, electro and drum’n’bass and thereby expand your horizon with quality music from around the globe.

Guest Mix by: Monteforte (Nica)
https://soundcloud.com/montefortemusic
https://soundcloud.com/nica_electronica

Mastered by Gregory Bloch / Overdrive Audio (https://soundcloud.com/gregoire_666)(www.overdrive-audio.com)

Monteforte - Interpolar South Podcast - 011

Release date (all formats): 2nd of June 2014

CD / Digital:
1. Narrative
2. Birth
3. Requiem
4. Plaintive
5. Lullaby
6. Vallecula
7. Winter
8. Petrichor
9. Aleph
10.NGC5128 

2LP:  
A1 Narrative
A2 Birth
B1 Requiem
B2 Plaintive
C1 Vallecula
C2 Winter
D1 Aleph
D2 NGC5128


From his first EP release in 1996, British producer Inigo Kennedy has built a sound which embraces both the traditional and the ambitious - as well as the emotional, the organic and the energy of live performance. Continuously studying the effects and capability of digital equipment, Kennedy has released in excess of 100 records, either as himself or through alternative monikers (Reducer, Tomito Satori). He has released these records on labels such as Missile, Semantica and his own Asymmetric. Since 2007 Inigo Kennedy and Belgian label Token Records have had a particularly close and fruitful relationship. Kennedy released three times on the Ghent-based label last year, including the thumping 'Emitter' and spiralling epic 'Cathedral'.

In April 2014 Inigo returns to Token - and with a project that feels like the culmination of all those years and all those records: a CD, 12'' single and 2x12'' LP under the banner of Vaudeville. In true, theatrical manner, Vaudeville is a collection of differing themes - from the abstract and freakishly odd to the direct and resonant. And just as the Vaudevillian shares a common purpose with his co-stars as the 'voice of the city'('voix de ville'), there runs through the centre of this record a clear narrative for urban experience.

'Narrative' presages the mood with a cold wind, before 'Birth' emerges with rain on the ground and a helicopter searching in the swirling darkness. 'Requiem', next, is more direct, as a warm kick and frenzied timbres interlock; the rumble recalls echoing and unhappy machinery. As one cornerstone of the record, 'Plaintive' is Requiem's anxious but happier brother: an organ winds its way down a slope, as soft toms herald the start of reflection on a heroic journey. 'Lullaby' has a deep and echo-laden undercurrent, building from afar but also warm and so incredibly close. 'Vallecula' is lower slung still, the atmosphere rough and moments before the morning light: the uncertain hour, the uncomfortable and unpredictable, a paranoid heartbeat. 'Winter' is the rolling patter of rain through clashing snare taps and dragging hi hats, solid thumps in haunted isolation. 'Petrichor' strides like a boss through his realm, again enwrapped in dank surroundings. 'Aleph' is the coolest act, a tremor of synth and an icy kick of determination. It's a race through the streets in sturdy boots, swirling in its certain melody. And at last there is the final cornerstone - 'NGC5128' (a galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus). A reflective end, this galactic rumble is late-of-bar heavy, and has a fitting space synth jagging in and out.

As a whole Vaudeville is a presentation of space, industry and enveloping urban darkness in a single, turbulent journey. It is the culmination of an organic and emotional approach to production. It is Inigo Kennedy at his finest. 

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www.facebook.com/inigo.kennedy.music
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Vaudeville

Inigo Kennedy - Aleph

Matrixxman - Sector III: Polyphony - Dekmantel (DKMNTL053) 

a1.	Matrixxman - Initiation
a2.	Matrixxman - Access Granted
b1.	Matrixxman - Desert Planet
b2.	Matrixxman - Horizon

https://shop.dekmantel.com/release/5540/sector-iii-polyphony

Dekmantel regular Matrixxman returns with the third, and final instalment in the Sector series, Part III: Polyphony. In this triptych, the producer from San Fransisco sets out to highlight the key components behind the sounds and style of techno, exploring the range within the confines of a particular limitation. Following Parts I and II, which looked at Rhythm, and Acid, Charles McCloud Duff charters the realm of Polyphony with four, meticulously produced techno tracks, expanding his repertoire of cult, dancefloor music.

Polyphony refers to the simultaneous combining of many notes in a musical sequence. In electronic music, this specifically refers to the role of the synthesiser - such as the Minimoog, ARP Odyssey, which can produce different pitches simultaneously. Polyphony has been an integral characteristic of the genre’s sound for over a quarter of a century, and can be heard in many key records, living a the sonic forefront of these four tracks.

”Sector Series: III Polyphony” provides an exercise in melody and polyphony. Throughout the EP, swaggering rhythms are inter-washed with a sea of multi-melodious, reverberated notation. ‘Initiation’ resonates with the grandiosity, and harsh claustrophobia of early Underground Resistance. ‘Access Granted’, drives hard with pulsing effects, with a dystopic, rhythmic cacophony of euphony. ‘Desert Planet’ plays around with a differing tempo, imagining a more fantastical vision of music, echoing back to earlier Plastikman productions, using a vast sonic spectrum to conjure up a colour palette of alien imagery. ‘Horizon’ rounds things off; a track that builds on minimalism with a progressive composition, allowing the polyphonics to drive the track, harnessing the adept production qualities that Matrixxman has come to be recognised for.

DKMNTL053 // Matrixxman - Sector III: Polyphony

Dave Aju readies his ‘Off Weed Or Sane’ EP on Herbert’s Accidental Jnr. ‘Everybody’s Watching’ is a percussive dancefloor rallying call…

Read more:

Off Weed Or Sane EP

Premiere: Dave Aju ‘Everybody’s Watching’

Electronauts presents Rydeen - Chords And Stuff

PREMIERE: RYDEEN - CHORDS AND STUFF

Straight off the back of his remix on the last Insult To Injury release, we’re very excited to welcome back Tom Coveney (a.k.a. one half of Psychemagik & 100% of techno-titan Thomaas Banks) to the label as part of Apollo View. Together with long-term collaborator Jon-Mark, the Apollo View boys have cooked up two tasty interpretations of pieces that inspired them when they began their musical journey together back in 1992. These renditions make up their worldwide debut, Delta V

First off the conveyor belt is, ironically, IV; a tip of the cap to the classic, Piano Tune, they have created part-electro-smasher / part-piano-mega-anthem. Massive 808 kicks boom away as a frenzy of percussive white noise bursts & hats jostle for position over the top, whilst heavenly piano chords puncture the furore in all the right places. 

Things take a slightly slower turn for the nostalgic ambience of II, a nod to the staple ‘Sing Time’ but with recreated synth sounds, which leads us into a world of synthesised guitars & gorgeous sampled vocals. Festival sunrise sets, ahoy!  

First out the traps on remix duty is Logtoad, whose release on Optimo’s AF Trax last year has not left the record box! We were expecting big things from his mix of II & he’s delivered the goods here in spades. 

Up-and-coming super-star Violet completes the package with a skip-tastic, bass-heavy version of IV. Somewhere between Chicago house and UK garage, celestial pads whisk you away to Drum Machine Island, where the native 909’s are off their tits on hallucinogens, achieving transcendence around the fire.

Delta V EP

Apollo View - II

Sider - Hidden Mantra (Original Mix)

SIESTA

Reef is a house, tehno and electro dj from Baku.

Tracklist:

1. intro The Exaltics, Heinrich Mueller - Temporal Matrix
https://solaronemusic.bandcamp.com/track/temporal-matrix-2

2. Solid Blake - Warp Room
https://solidblake.bandcamp.com/album/warp-room

3. Stenny - Westward
https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/track/westward

4. CYRC - Zeigarnik Effect
https://www.beatport.com/track/zeigarnik-effect-original-mix/14420207

5. Shedbug - Ambroxitil
https://lobstertheremin.com/track/ambroxitil

6.  Kronos Device - The Engine
https://www.beatport.com/track/the-engine-original-mix/929564

7. Crushed Soul - Gravitational Field
https://crushedsoul.bandcamp.com/track/gravitational-field

8. Legowelt - System Shapeshift
https://legowelt.bandcamp.com/track/system-shapeshift

9. Vaal - Cop show
https://veyl.bandcamp.com/track/cop-show

10. Dark Vektor - Es El Momento
https://www.beatport.com/release/es-el-momento/3181309

11. RXDX - Accretion Disc
https://bassagendarecordings.bandcamp.com/track/accretion-disk

12. DJ Overdose - Time I Get Nasty
https://liesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/time-i-get-nasty

13. BLCKMETHOD - UVLK

14. Fieck E.S.C - Shaping Grey 
https://bassagendarecordings.bandcamp.com/track/shaping-grey

15. Maelstrom - Lost Axis
https://mechatronica.bandcamp.com/track/lost-axis

16. VC-11BA - Crunch
https://chaindata.bandcamp.com/album/crunch-plonk

17. Animistic Beliefs - Thief Of Sanity
https://brokntoys.bandcamp.com/track/thief-of-sanity

Ophidian [REEF]  -  17.12.2020

Gaz_ 23.01.21 E'Dance Cut

Online music magazine and Annual Awards for Electronic Arts, Music and Innovative Pop Culture.

PREMIERE: RYDEEN - CHORDS AND STUFF

ELECTRONAUTS