Release date: Jan.11/21 

Innovative producer & sound designer Alexander Church is branching out with Life Scripts, a new sub-label of Configurations of Self, focusing on more experimental, electronica, breakbeat and ambient sounds. It kicks off in style with a new EP from Common Factors aka Church and frequent collaborator James Welsh with today's premiere being the dark atmospheric 'Disparaging Patterns'. As always we appreciate any support & we hope you enjoy! 

Alexander Church 
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Yorkshire-based label head, Alexander Church, is an adventurous artist who's been making music for over two decades, having run his own record shop in the mid-late 90s. His discography includes everything from melodic soundscapes to industrial techno under a range of aliases, always sourcing inspiration from his own deep thinking and desire to tell a personal story. 

Former post-punk band member James Welsh is just as free roaming, having made everything from bass to techno on labels like Futureboogie and Phantasy Sound. They have long been working together on some of electronic music’s most interesting projects and have now come together as the duo Common Factors to launch the new offshoot of Configurations of Self entitled Life Scripts. 

All the music for the new imprint is inspired by the use of boutique analog synthesizers from Buchla, Black Corporation, Portabella, and Erica Synths - including the Syntrx and Sky Dada System for this inaugural release.

Church on the theory behind the label:  
“We create stories about our lives, what they have been and what they will be. This starts in childhood where we weave our perceptions of ourselves and of the world around us into a narrative about what we can and will do. These life scripts then continue to have a deep and unconscious effect on how we live our lives. They shape our self-image, and yet we seldom realise where they come from and are often unaware that they exist at all. Our life scripts are often encouraged and shaped by parents and other family members, whose life scripts were shaped by their parents and so on. In this way, we become a product of our family's history. Likewise, our scripts are also woven by cultural and national forces. Life scripts are not all the same as they may also be significantly affected by individual events, such as being criticized by a teacher or bullied by other children. Life scripts can be very detailed and they can be very vague. They can be very empowering, yet they can also severely limit our lives.” 

The EP opens with six minutes of dreamy breakbeat action on ‘Five Clusters’, a track that is lit up with glistening synth lines and whirring bass, alien sound effects and bubbling pads that make it all the more absorbing. ‘Modelling’ is a subtly uplifting affair with old school post-rave energy, heavenly melodies and glistening FX all powered by dusty breaks. The brilliant ‘Disparaging Patterns’ is more intense, with a darker atmosphere and tightly woven drums, percussion, bass and synth lines all warping and wrapping around each other to hypnotic effect. Lastly, ‘Junctions' is a celestial piece of melodic electronica with ever-evolving lines and shifting chords suspending you in a sea of synth bliss. This is a strong start to what is set to be another fascinating new label from Church. 

Tracklist: 
1) Five Clusters 
2) Modelling 
3) Disparaging Patterns 
4) Junctions

Disparaging Patterns

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Premiere: Common Factors - Disparaging Patterns [Life Scripts]

All forms music lover turned Tech head ! 

I have them all alive 🎶🎵🎼

DJ Roger (Digital Bionics) came to live in Australia in 2011 from England where he started DJing in 1994 in Glastonbury town, Bristol
and around the fields and forests of Somerset.

After being a part of the early rave scene in London, he left for the countryside of Somerset and settled in Glastonbury town in 1992.

He's mixed in a lot of tents and cafes in Glastonbury festival year after year, bars and clubs in Bristol along with lots of private parties, heavily 
influenced by what he describes as extraterrestrial Techno and other creative dance genres, that have a spacey and experimental edge, along with some melodic uplifting Trance sounds, Future House, Dubstep, Electro Tech, Breaks, Drum and Bass , Electronica, Electro House, EDM, Psy Trance, Pop ,IDM, Good Chill, Weird Trap, Odd Prog.

He left his decks and records in England for the benefit of a younger generation and decided to use a laptop and controller for mixing in Australia 

Roger could also be heard playing as a resident, in Jack’s Bar, Keen St, Lismore regularly, mixing a blend of House, Electro House, Techno, Prog, Breaks, always with a psychedelic, creative or crazy edge.

He is also a regular at Honey Pot Production's beats on tap gigs, as well and the monthly NEMESIS collective in Nimbin, bush doofs, and numerous private parties such as Fashionably Trashed and Triple Treat, 

He's also played multiple gigs for 3rd Eye Productions in Lismore NSW's Hub, which is now the Metropole Hotel in Keen street, Lismore, NSW where he’s also been playing upstairs at the rooftop bar and garden independently and now as a guest with the D’Bakery crew.

Long mixes are his passion, always busy in the headphones looking for a hook or some oddball sounds to throw in.

Most gigs are recorded and uploaded. They can be heard here. 

https://soundcloud.com/roger-andre

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Founded originally as a boutique electronic music blog in 2012 in India, now crossing borders in Berlin, Getting Deeper has organically grown and consistently delivered authentic music with genres such as deep house, deep tech, minimal, IDM, downtempo, trip-hop and techno.

Lush vibes, melodic intricacies and sublime mindstates are places we constantly strive to reach through the music we publish. We also like to encourage escapism, philosophical meanderings and sometimes indulging in the dark side of things. In simple words, we like to get deep.

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