'Night Of The Endless Beyond', the sophomore album by Lord Of The Isles AKA Neil McDonald for the ESP Institute, had almost become a mythical piece of work. The tracks very slowly crept into formation from the lowest depths of 2021, and once the completed album finally made the leap from creation into manufacturing, an entirely new onslaught of follies and delays awaited at the pressing plant. We began to laugh, for not only did Mario Hugo’s otherworldly sleeve artwork visually translate this music so well, but it was an uncanny premonition to the album being lost in space, falling through a black hole, evaporating into the aether like a dream that never really happened. But, at long last, ground control has confirmed contact! It did happen, it will arrive, and it’s not a myth.
	Listening to 'Night Of The Endless Beyond' now feels like the return of a strayed friend, one whose distance left us pining for an embrace. Although this Techno relies on unassuming means, there is a remarkably complex and persuasive emotional statement embedded here, insisting we learn to endure the long game and allow ourselves patience to investigate and appreciate the minutiae contained not only within the notes, but their negative space. From its introduction, through its mellow crests and valleys, there is a conveyance of restraint — subtle dynamics that quietly beg for attention, repetition so hypnotic that imaginary melodies are inescapable, transient peaks so deliberately scaled that we mourn the subsequent decay. In accordance with Neil’s ESP debut, 'In Waves', we never feel attacked by instrumentation but shielded from sharp edges, able to step inside the music, breathe the air it occupies and know its true intentions, whether bright or bleak.
	Just prior to the album close, a film dialogue excerpt summarizes everything quite honestly by proposing, “The truth of the universe is waiting … the truth of what is … it’s all going to go away … everything … into blackness … the void … and nobody is in charge.”
	“…and what do you do with that?”
	We stare long into the 'Night Of The Endless Beyond' and answer… “You smile.”

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This months edition of Social Records Society starts with soul before moving through to more dancefloor oriented cuts.

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In this day and age, and despite digital technology, long periods of time are necessary to create modern and very complex music. Nphonix's productions are the perfect example of what we mean.
LNS016: Trisolarian EP is a collection by the producer and audio engineer Fedor Stepanenko aka Nphonix, featuring Yurii Makarenko aka Age of Rampage, and Alexander Saykov.
Fedor first made his mark on the electronic world via a slew of quality dancefloor-oriented drum&bass tunes from 2006 onwards, released on some of the genres preeminent labels. But the last 10+ years have seen Nphonix switch focus away from drum&bass towards a more diverse, polyrhythmic electronic palette, as future bass/juke/footwork/techno and house all started to colour newer work.

The new EP will be released as a Limited 12” vinyl package and in digital formats on Lounge Squatt. Exclusively out on Bandcamp on the 26th of December 2022.
The label is also set to team up with the photographer and artist Contatto Meccano for LNS016’s stunning cover art.

A1. Nphonix & Age Of Rampage - On The Way (Original Mix)
A2. Nphonix & Alexander Saykov - Lithe (Original Mix)
B1. Nphonix - Trisolarian (Original Mix)
B2. Nphonix - Oblique (Original Mix)

W&P by Fedor Stepanenko
Featuring: Yurii Makarenko (aka Age Of Rampage) and Alexander Maykov
Master: Dadub Mastering Studio 
Cover art: Contatto Meccano

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