Name: Aprilheights- It Is Flat by Furthur Electronix
Duration: 5 min 39 s
Description: Aprilheight unreleased material coming out soon on FE Specials..

Aprilheight unreleased material coming out soon on FE Specials..

Aprilheights- It Is Flat

Opfern is the result of hours of music sent to us in the winter of 2021 by Calum Mcleod, mainly known for his work as one half of the techno duo Clouds, but presenting here his first solo work as Power Inc. Released as a double cassette & digital album, Opfern explores amorphous drift over nine long-form tracks that evolve & devolve in a slow state of flux, with sound sources and samples smudged to the point of degradation and abstraction, revealing a compelling and affecting mix of digital artefacts, psychoacoustics, plaintive melodies & fizzing soundscapes. 

W&P by Calum Macleod - Artwork by Al White & Calum Macleod

This preview comprises of the following tracks covering Tape 1, Side B:

03. LWK
04. Zischensynthese
05. …in the sky Zentraleuropa

Released August 2022 on Double Cassette & Digital LP

BUY HERE

Power Inc. - Opfern (Preview)

@janloup & @maquissonsistem

It is autumn 2022, Alice and Stefan, also known under the artist names Jan Loup and Maquis Son Sítsom, went from Toulouse on a  tour of Europe. We were lucky and ran into them along the way. We spent some nice time together in Prague and Brno and recorded next part to Transcendanz series. Then the earth collapsed after them, but they promised that they would return one day. We will wait with hope.

Jan Loup’s territories of exploration are split in several directions. Sometimes on her show Mana-Machine (LYL Radio) and with her collective “Aïra”, she visits ambient sounds, soothing pads and organic glitches, depicting fantasy mental landscapes, at the crossroads of dreams and consciousness. Sometimes in her own music production and during more festive times, she seeks to transcend emotion through more intense rhythmic mixtures, filled with saturated drums and its distortions. She conceive her dj-set like rituals, associating track by image and texture affinity, always in this desir of expressing or liberating the emotions as well by listening as through dancing. In her univers the party time is lived as ceremony attempt, a rite to escapde from capitalism and the prison of the ego, to find back the sens of self and the connexion to others, rediscover our wildeness, with or without success.

Maquis Son Sistèm
~ dedicated to these celebrated areas, interstices forgotten by our peers where we engage to form and re-form spaces of collective trance ~

Maquis Son Sistèm is a musical project and alias of Stefan Dubs that expresses itself through the records of the eponymous label, a show on LYL radio ‘Le Son du Maquis’, and his live dub project which consists of live re-interpretations of his songs using the multipist as instrument but also sound effects and dub sirens.. using both the traditional techniques of the studio dub version and those of the mix session.

@kosmic_skaut & @yomomsmokescrack
A new kind of event has just arrived in the city. Transcendanz is a carefully curated party that has a main purpose of gathering people together and creating a wholesome experience. Made by people who love night life, and want to explore what is beyond...

TRANSCENDANZ 6 w/ Jan Loup & Maquis Son Sistèm

The world keeps on turning... and we're at the same thing still.
If it's not your first you know what you're in for... for the first timers; enjoy the ride.

(malfunctioning-)machine tracks. sound at their best when played v loud!

note: as usual the disc features two exclusive cuts (not available on digital)

mastered by the bastard

Pre-order at RH

B14 Snippets - New hot 12" out in a min...

When we established Balmat in 2021, neither of us could have imagined that within two years, we’d be putting out an album by one of our musical heroes: Mike Paradinas (@mikep), aka µ-Ziq. The British producer has been an inspiration to label co-founders Albert Salinas and Philip Sherburne since the 1990s. In fact, his album-length remix project The Auteurs Vs µ-Ziq was one of the very first pieces of electronic music that Philip bought, way back in 1994. To have the opportunity to release his music now feels like a real full-circle moment. 

Paradinas, of course, needs no introduction. Under a slew of aliases, chief among them µ-Ziq, the British artist revolutionized leftfield electronic music in the 1990s—coincidentally, this year marks the 30th anniversary of his debut album, Tango N’ Vectif, for his friend and sometime collaborator Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label—and his label Planet Mu (@planetmurecords) has built up a formidable catalog of visionary, forward-looking records, mapping virtually every corner of the electronic spectrum. With 1977, he turns the clock backward in a sense, and not just with the album’s title: Rooted in classic ambient and electronic sounds, these 15 tracks evoke the anything-goes spirit of the early ’90s, before the tools and tropes had calcified into cut-and-dried styles.

There’s no shortage of familiar sounds on 1977. There are echoes of raves and chillout rooms and transmissions from the fringes of techno; there are detuned synths and glistening reverb tails and, above all, gauzy vox pads, the eerie glue that holds it all together. The title, he says, is meant to invoke a general sense of nostalgia, bookmarking a year in his boyhood when he became more self-aware. More than anything, 1977 sounds like µ-Ziq distilled: Stripped of his signature breakbeats and customary chaos, Paradinas’ first-ever strictly (well, mostly) ambient album presents the essence of his music in a whole new light.

Along the way Paradinas touches on dark-ambient drones (“Marmite”), horror-film themes (“Belt & Carpet”), jungle breaks (“Mesolithic Jungle”), and even house music (“Houzz 13”), which marks the first bona fide dance-floor moment on Balmat to date). Yet the album never—to our ears, anyway—feels expressly retro. Rather, Paradinas plucks timeless sounds out of the ether and gives them a gentle tap, spinning them into unexpected new orbits. At times, 1977 feels like an experience of extended déjà vu: When we first listened to it, we had the sense that we already knew this music. It was as though we had heard it years ago, perhaps on a battered cassette tape lent to us by a friend, and been searching for it ever since. We hope you feel the same.

1977

µ-Ziq - 1977 [BALMAT05]

From Lazy Mechanics by Carrier aka @shifted

https://thetrilogytapes.bandcamp.com/album/lazy-mechanics

Lazy Mechanics

TTT BANDCAMP

Carrier – Ten By Ten

Out now

Digital: tinyurl.com/xsf4yn5j
Vinyl: tinyurl.com/kbhntbkv

1. Don_t DJ - Lemon Garlic

info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/aks-sado-vladimir-bocharov-presidiomodelo
https://drongotapes.com/album/-

Aks Sado. Vladimir Bocharov

Off The Record this month takes a dive into the mind of Chicago artist and musician Beau Wanzer. 
Wanzer is commonly known for records on Ron Morelli's L.I.E.S. imprint as well as working with labels like Brew, L.A. Club Resource, iDEAL, Natural Sciences, and Nation. His in touch ear with industrial, electro and experimental music has seen him work alongside the likes Traxx and Steve Summers as the excellent Mutant Beat Dance, Dan Jugle as the head banging Juzer and more recently De-Bons-en-Pierre with Maoupa Mazzocchetti. 
For this mix Wanzer goes no holds bared into the world of tape culture with noisey and hissing electro and synth tunes as well as some chuggy industrial moments. We had a quick chat with Beau about the mix and what he has coming up!

Off The Record Mix Series 41: Beau Wanzer

Wind Tunnel, Hood Monk Inuyasha Style-

Taken from 'Yes', Shinichi Atobe’s fifth album 

Available now bit.ly/38L8P9R

Shinichi Atobe - Lake 3

Label started by Anil Lal, Jay Lal and (Majkel Graphic Designer.) Set to release acid based electronix on limited pressings of 200.

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