Name: Function by Emptyset in Drone Ambient
Duration: 3 min 10 s
Description: Emptyset 2011 LP release on Subtext Recordings

Drone Ambient

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upsammy - Being is a Stone
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 132S
Release Date: 02 March 2023
Purchase: https://pan.lnk.to/BeingisaStone

upsammy shares ‘Being is a Stone’, the first single from the upcoming full-length album ‘Germ in a Population of Buildings’ out via PAN on May 5th.

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Mixed by James Ginzburg
Artwork by Jonathan Castro Alejos and Tharim Cornelisse

upsammy - Being is a Stone (PAN 132S)

Rhizomes

Tetsuo II

https://secd.bandcamp.com/album/se-cd03-match-fixer-done

Match Fixer - Melted

Diamond Stars

ZroZro

First single from 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 by 𝐗𝐚𝐥𝐭 𝐗𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 

@xaltxcess

Diamond Star [RX003S1]

Rivet’s new album for Editions Mego is an uplifting and joyous affair coming in the wake of tragedy and disenchantment. It is yet another rebirth from an artist willing to take a step back and reprise the current situation he is in. Mika Hallbäck has a long credible history in the Swedish underground. First recognised for his industrial techno works under the Grovskopa moniker he worked privately on more experimental works that eventually came out as On Feather and Wire, an album released on Editions Mego in 2020. After much acclaim for this bold new direction that blended electronic abstraction, pop and industrial forms into a heavy synthetic trip two tragedies struck. One was the passing of label boss Peter Rehberg and then the passing of his dog Lilo, who was as close as a companion one could have. These events led to the release of the more unsettling follow up L+P-2 (Lilo and Pita minus two) on Midnight Shift Records in 2023. Peck Glamour sees Rivet return to the reawakened Editions Mego with an album of optimism inspired by reconciliation with loss and further explorations of new mental/sonic realms.

Hallbäck defines his approach as not being married to any particular machine, instrument, process or genre. However he holds a particular affinity to sampling, of which, he says, provides the dirt and grit amongst what would otherwise be pristine, generic machine music. The contemporary crate digging method of scouring obscure download music bogs for unique sounds was his preferred research practice.

Peck Glamour is an album full of tracks brimming with the excitement of exploration. It's the results of a mind informed by punk, industrial, techno, dancefloor, disappointment, trauma and rebirth. Here the synthetic and authentic is viewed simply as the same means of human rationale and expression.

The opening, ‘Catch Up to Light’, sets the scene with ecstatic and odd fluorescent vocals sliding amongst crystalline likembe whilst synths swirl amongst the external festivities. ‘Orbiting Empty Cocoon’ is somewhat a homage to the alien sound worlds of The Orb, one which takes the listener deeper into a mind melting array of teased potential as visual elements are executed in a mask of audio wizardry and euphoric staccato rhythms, the later being a nod to Singeli music. ‘Patitur Butcher’ is more dance frontal utilising the Ghatam drum and a YouTube rip of a Chinese language lesson. ‘Plastic Bag Putain’ was made during the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and should be clear of its intent. ‘All that Heaven Allows’ is a marimba cover of an imaginary Love Parade anthem. 'Kyrie Geire’ potentially briefly fills the void left by the demise of Coil. The entire trip of Peck Glamour is sewn up with ‘We left before we came’ whereby extraneous recordings of double bass player Gregory Vartian-Foss (tuning/strumming/moving the bass) are superimposed with local field recordings to create a gorgeous bed of sounds acting as an exciting exit music to this sharp collection of cinematic ear excursions.

Peck Glamour

All That Heaven Allows

Rivet 'All That Heaven Allows' (EMEGO317)

from APPX:16 Eternal Game

Releases: Feb 6th 2025

Credits:
Written and produced by Jordan Nason
Vocals by Alona Verzun
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Artwork by Amos Turner

APPX:16 Eternal Game

everything ft. alona

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Emptyset 2011 LP release on Subtext Recordings

Function

Andøya

Stave

Høyvika

Ma°tinden

Kvastinden

A°se

Corra Linn

my contribution to the Berlin Atonal More Light Box Set series 

https://berlinatonal.bandcamp.com/album/berlin-atonal-more-light-1-5

https://berlinatonal.bandcamp.com/album/berlin-atonal-more-light-boxset

Digital available immediately and free with vinyl purchase, which ships in January ’21. 

@berlinatonal

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Emptyset is a London/Berlin based production project formed in 2005 by James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas. The project examines the material properties of sound and its correspondence with architecture, performance and physical modes of production. Their recorded output includes the releases Borders for Thrill Jockey, Recur and Collapsed for raster-noton, Signal a commissioned performance working with ionospheric propagation and Medium an expanded live recording in Woodchester Mansion in Gloucestershire. Emptyset have produced works and installations for the David Roberts Art Foundation, Spike Island, Tate Britain and the Architecture Foundation and presented live performances with Unsound, CTM/Transmediale, Kunsthalle Zurich, Ruhrtriennale and Sonic Acts.

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