NUGRA – Obnoxious Habits

NUGRA, at 28, has been sculpting sound for over five years, forging a unique path where the weight of metal and rock collides with the raw energy of punk, the delicacy of classical music, and an unrelenting search for new frequencies. Inspired by artists such as AudioSyntax, Varazslo, Astral Labyrinth, Obscurum, and Yoshua EM, his music forms a labyrinth of emotion, depth, and sonic experimentation.

Obnoxious Habits is an exploration of human dependency and daily psychosis. This 3–track release stands at the intersection of chaos and control – a study of obsession rendered through sound: absurd yet tragic, grotesque yet familiar, reflecting how our habits can both protect and imprison us.

With Obnoxious Habits, the listener steps into a vortex of psychosis, where familiar patterns twist, dissolve, and reveal hidden truths.

03 - Nugra - Obsidian Ritual  - 230 bpm

Pre-order from the following sites:
www.phonicarecords.com/product/mo-re…-music/147532

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/mo-reece-flight-mode-c-mo-futur/664510-01/

https://www.deejay.de/Various_Artists_C_Mo_Futur_Ancient_Light_WU3001_Vinyl__289648

One of the new generation of kids from the WU dancefloor who has been promising something as great as this modernist acid bouncer for some time. A multi-generational peak-time banger for all floors with one foot in the psychedelic sandbox. We’re expecting big things from this one, keep an eye on Mo Reece and his special take on big and bouncy club tunes.

WU3001

C MO FUTUR

MO REECE - C MO FUTUR

OUT NOW:
https://esp-institute.bandcamp.com/album/artificial
https://www.discogs.com/Benedikt-Frey-Artificial-/release/10963301

[ESP048] Artificial

ESP048 B2 - Keygrind

Forgotten Corner - Prosthetic Limbo (forg004)

Dear music friends,

after a 4 year hiatus, we are proud to return with our fourth Forgotten Corner 12” vinyl release!

The vinyl is available to buy by emailing - philbanksdj@yahoo.co.uk
or via Discogs

https://www.discogs.com/Forgotten-Corner-Prosthetic-Limbo/release/12152548

Initially there will be a run 0f 50 copies with hand screen printed card inserts & a press release. The entire press is limited to 100 copies.

about the release -

Side A: Forgotten Corner - Prosthetic Limbo
written, produced and mixed by Nick Mackrory & Phil Banks
The original version was created by Nick & myself, Autumn 2017, using various Roland, Dave Smith, Doepfer hardware, plus additional live percussion.

Side B: Forgotten Corner - Prosthetic Limbo (Cassini Division remix)
Cassini Division is Kyle Martin’s solo project. His previous remix on forg002 still sounds timeless, so we asked him to remix forg004. Kyle agreed and delivered a monster of a spacious hypnotic slow techno re-imagination!.

Kyle took all of the different elements & put each of them through his modular system & homemade modular fx, he then merged them with some other tones and percussive sounds that he created on his Macbeth synth, re-pitching the sounds to lower the frequencies & then adding various spring reverb
fx to create the spacious immersive atmosphere. The end result is a total trip... turn up loud, close your eyes....repeat!.

If you haven’t heard any of the other projects Kyle’s involved in please check...Vactrol Park, Spectral Empire, Brain Machine & Land Of Light

Thank you for taking the time to listen to our latest release, we hope you enjoy the music!

Phil & Nick (Forgotten Corner)

Forgotten Corner - Prosthetic Limbo (Cassini Division remix)

from Picadilly records:


"Benedikt Frey and Naia d’Alò's Init project received great initial praise through two well conceived pieces for John Talabot's Hivern disco back in 2015. Now the pair are back on Les Disques De La Mort with a four track EP rich with their moody techno delights.

"Stereometric" sees a swollen electric base gently plume as ghostly vox and slowly eroding artefacts are scattered through the mix; landing somewhere between Bay Area minimal wave and the taut techno meanderings of Marcel Dettman. 

"Nuts" is an anthemic slice of darkwave electro; tense, a little bit menacing and cinematic as hell - conjuring images of late night mutant car chases through guttural cityscapes. 

"Wheels" sees us dive down smacked-out electro-post-punk rabbit hole; landing in a drug stained bedsit around Hulme Crescents circa '89 with next doors party still in full swing two days since it began. 

"Mindwork" invites said neighboring crusties to an all-night post-Goa-trance rave up on some moonlit beach and populated by shady drug dealers and Mad Max type characters all locked into its full-throttle stomp. "

DLM019 A2 INIT - NUTS 1644 PM

As excitement builds for this year's Convenanza Festival, the event curated by Bernie Fabre and Andrew Weatherall, Höga Nord get set to release a compilation celebrating the artists performing at this years . Among the performers are Komodo Kolektif.  Having been featured on Weatherall's NTS show Music's not for Everyone the Glasgow collective are heading out to Carcasonne to woo the crowds with their unique brand of Cosmic live instrumentation and no doubt the centrepiece will be Daratan Ceremony, a track which straddles the line between Etnofunk and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Tabla sounding drums underpin distorted wind chimes, growling thick bass in a track which in another dimension would be the theme for a warped wildlife documentary series about humans, no doubt being watched by ants or some other dominant technologically advanced species.  Members of the band have released solo on Optimo and Invisible, Inc. and along with several other sometime members have melded live instrumentation with machinery musically in the same way that body horror director David Kronenburg has on film.
Höga Nord's association with Andrew Weatherall continues to be fruitful with this fantastic sampler heading into the weirder and slightly more Cosmic edges of electronic music.

https://soundcloud.com/hoga-nord-rekords
https://convenanzafestival.com/

PREMIERE | Komodo Kolektif - Daratan Ceremony [Höga Nord Rekords] 2018

Second release from Nantes-based label and collective Abstrack, this new release only made from lost tapes of the 'Traumstatter Phonogramm Archiv’, one of the largest ethnographic recording collections. 
12’' out in June, also including tracks from Malcolm and 404, via Chez Emile Distribution.

https://soundcloud.com/vidock-ar
https://soundcloud.com/abstrack-records

PREMIERE | Vidock - Lost Tapes [Abstrack] 2019

"Out of the box" live edit using SL1200MKII, Taula4, Ditto, Space Echo. Re-cut by Alexis Le-Tan. 
Artwork by Neuwave Studios LA

C4P4BL4NC4 - H3llr4zor (Alexis Le-Tan Redit) FREE DL

“It’s not easy to transform a jam into a proper tune that haunts forever. The two Glaswegian friends MR TC and Lo Kindre are in possession of that special skill that can transform spontaneous tuned-in music into something significant without losing the gut feeling along the way.

As solo artists they have released on labels like Optimo Music, 12th Isle and Against Fascism Trax, and together released 'The Storm EP' in late 2018 on Vienna's Neubau. Now they continue their collaborative work on PHASE001 – an EP that also marks the launch of their own label that listens to the same name. The start-up brings four analogue tracks that courageously link cold waving synth-shocks, neon-light nonchalance and haunted spoken words; deep hypnotic musical witchcraft that peels itself out of the history of dark electronic music with a pulsating and haunting atmosphere.” 

- Words by ML

released late August 2019 

Recorded and mixed in Glasgow by MR TC & Lo Kindre 
Artwork by Andrija Čugurović
Mastered by Curved Press 
Vinyl Distributed by Rubadub

PHASE001

MR TC & Lo Kindre - PHASE001 (Preview)

buy here : https://alternativefakten089.bandcamp.com/

Aʟᴛᴇʀɴᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ Fᴀᴋᴛᴇɴ has been chasing the dream of an open minded dancefloor & exploring the weird and obscure side of Munich’s underground electronic music scene for quite a while now. As the clubnight came to a sudden halt during the recent pandemic crisis, full focus is now put on its first official audio release, Alternative Fakten Vol. 1.

The 250 piece limited tape compilation showcases 17 essential & freshly
emerged artists linked to the Aʟᴛᴇʀɴᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ Fᴀᴋᴛᴇɴ platform and the
community around it: Angela Aux, Bartoszek, Beinwell, Bosch, Dompteuer
Mooner, Ela Te Pass, ELi LiNE, Grotto Terrazza, Holle Schnee, Jonas
Friedlich, Kim Twiddle, LeRoy, Lüsch, Neu Verboten, Mercedess, Persona,
San Quentin, Tom Zwotausend und Wildes.

Alternative Fakten Vol. 1 is available physically and digitally as of
May 30th via http://alternativefakten089.de.

LISTEN ON YOUTUBE

PREMIERE : Lüsch - Geld (feat. Holle Schnee)

Teerpappe is a Hamburg-based label run by Wosto. The upcoming, 5th release in the label's catalog is a double V.A. compilation TEERSCHWESTERN with tracks by Endo Monk, Acid Lion, quadrat schulz, Sauerstofff, Fred und Luna, Occupied Head, Hans Solo und Wosto, Kaspar Müller.

Syncboy aka bodo hansen created his own musical language, mixing up krautrock, psychedelic, (post)punk, electronica and drones using his laboratory of analogue synthesizers, sequencers, fx and field recordings

Credits: Written & Produced by Bodo Hansen

TEER005 TEERSCHWESTERN VARIOUS ARTIST 2 x 12"
release date: 31.07.2020

60 limited 12" DO LP with special covers and Digital
(only from teerpappe(at)teerpappe.com or teerpappe.bandcamp.com/)

https://soundcloud.com/teerpappe
https://soundcloud.com/syncboy

PRÈMIÉRE: Syncboy - Hope [Teerpappe]

+ @riolabel @initinit

Benedikt Frey is many. Or just one? He is a composer. An arranger. A DJ. A ghost producer. A fan. He plays in bands like INIT, or Dolphins or KEYS +++ produced the last two albums for Chris Imler. Downbeat in experimental dub zones. The goat for Edits and remixes. When house was his nation, he used to listen to pen names like Suedmilch or Venedikt Reyf. He still likes the music formed under their umbrella, but today his tomorrow is not echoed in yesterday. His sound signature moved on. Into the open. He founded labels like R.i.O. or Serious Trouble. 

He lives in Berlin. Physically. In mind Benedikt Frey is at many places. Traveling far thru his home studio that is a flat a studio a flat an instrument a record collection a flat a studio. Everywhere gear, vinyl, tapes, instruments, rooms for spontaneous sonic notions, these moments, when a sudden strike of stimulation falls. He is inspired a lot. For music to dance. Music for films. Music for live shows. Music for dancing glows. Techno, house, downbeat, ambient, jungle, electronics outside the norms. Those transportive ones. Jamming with others. Jamming with his mind. In Berlin Wedding, North of the town, where the lights dimmed low, neighbors share the flow, and a small river runs slow.  As a DJ he plays here, there, everywhere. Big clubs, small shacks, festivals, gatherings. From fast to 90 BPM - as he feels. 

For himself. For the crowd. In the spur. He still remembers his club kid days. Going to dance with friends. Down there in Offenbach. Doing the Robert Johnson. Collective emotions for a better tomorrow. These he still seeks. In his music. His shows. His collaborations. You can book him for a party. For enlightenment. For ecstasy or introspective perspectives. Dancing slow, whilst pirouetting a high-pitched show. 

Since more than a decade. His own music is out there, too. Bringing his spirits in sound. On his own labels. On international imprints like ESP Institute, Hivern Discs, Craigie Knowes, or Emotional Response. Solo works. Driving ones. Slow drills. Teased during his DJ dates around the planet. 

The music plays day and night. Inspiration comes. From a simple kick drum. A movie sequence. A bird on the sill. A picture, totally still. Can’t kick that feeling when it hits. Benedikt Frey. In dreams. In streams. In music. Emotions. Situations. At night. In those flashy lights, when it bites.

24.5. b2b with NVST, Kauz Zürich
10.05. Säälchen, Berlin
26.04. Zentralwäscherei, Zürich
25.04. b2b Philipp Otterbach, Arkaoda, Berlin
04.04. Sameheads, Berlin
13.03. Säule, Berlin
22.02. Kegelbahn, Luzern
21.02. Fribourg, CH

---- BYE24

17.12. Kiosk Radio,  Bxl
15.12. Curly Teeth b2b w. NVST, Bxl
30.11. Panorama Bar, Berlin
16.11. La Culottee, Paris
19.10. LAF, Pforzhyme
05.10. Sameheads, Berlin
28.09. Buka, Milan
21.09. Chemiefabrik, Zürich
14.09. Ausland, Berlin
16.08. Salon Des Amateurs, Düsseldorf
21.07. Am Bach Festival, Lucerne
05.07. Kappa Futur Festival, Turin
14.06. Masters, Zagreb
18.05. Outracena, Lisbon
27.04. Arkaoda, Berlin
24.02. Macadam, Nantes
26.01. Sameheads, Berlin

ESP048 B2 - Keygrind

benedikt frey