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2021

Visceral, densely textured, and intricately programmed, Swarm Intelligence’s distinctive sound comes from almost a decade of releases, spanning multiple genres and tempos. His non-conformist approach to music has earned him a solid reputation worldwide.

Born in Dublin, Simon Hayes found a home in the city’s thriving bass and techno scene in the early 2000s. He became a regular attendee at nights run by the likes of !Kaboogie and Electric City, and later went on to DJ and host events.

A student of computer and electronic engineering, he later focussed his studies on artificial intelligence and began to apply learned concepts to music. He graduated in 2009 and moved to Berlin shortly thereafter, where he founded his Swarm Intelligence project. Initially intended as an antidote to the city’s then monotone four-to-the-floor offerings, his sound was raw, high tempo and distortion-laden, and better suited to illegal raves and squat parties.

It was this abrasive tone that led him to the doors of the seminal Ad Noiseam label, with whom he went on to release two rhythmic noise albums: “Faction” (2014) and “Rust” (2015). He also began touring extensively, including an AV performance at the infamous Maschinenfest. His hefty live sets later drew the attention of the Boiler Room crew, who invited him to perform at a Berlin edition of their show at the end of 2015.

Drawn to the emerging bleak and brutalist techno sound at the time, Hayes returned to his roots. His debut EP “The Lighthouse” (2016) on the then up-and-coming label Voitax was widely supported on floors across the continent. This was followed by releases on Instruments of Discipline (“Home Recordings”, 2017) and Earwiggle (“Flatlands”, 2017).

Propelled by this momentum, he went on to release his widely-acclaimed fourth album. “Against the Dying Light” (2018), released on Voitax, was written as a reaction to the shift in global politics towards fear and oppression. "If Industrial Techno is a sewer – flowing under the infrastructure of club culture, always there, hardly changing – then this is a horrific eruption from those subterranean depths, impossible to ignore or forget once exposed to it" – The Wire. Swarm Intelligence debuted this album during a memorable live set on Berghain’s Säule floor, and proceeded to tour across Europe.

This year has seen Hayes return to his rave beginnings with a drum-machine focussed EP on New York Trax Imports, as well as a cutting-edge technoid release on the renowned 47 label. His upcoming “Ultraware” EP on Voitax utilizes experimental DSP and modular synthesis to reimagine classic rave foundations for dancefloors of the future.

https://soundcloud.com/swarmintelligence

SYNOID PODCAST 120 // SWARM INTELLIGENCE

Brecc - Rave Attack [NTNB001]

WB: www.hex-barcelona.com
BC: www.hexbarcelona.bandcamp.com
SC: @hex_technomovement
IG: www.instagram.com/hex_technomovement
YT: bit.ly/HEX-youtube-channel
SP: spoti.fi/31cAWLa
CL: www.hex-clothing.com

Reka @ HEX Berlin w/ SPFDJ, Lorenzo Raganzini, Paolo Ferrara, Tham - 05092021

We are pleased to welcome our dear friend Ancient Methods to the Kaos London Podcast Series. Michael Wollenhaupt has been a regular guest at our London events for the past eight years, creating some of the most epic, incendiary sets in the club's history with his signature style of pitch black machine funk, electronic body music and industrial techno.

Tracklist
1. Sarah Lundy - Piseog
2. Jonas Reinhardt - Of Amunmose
3. PWCCA - Sleep Disturbance
4. Lon - A Dead Body Falling (Temudo Remix) / Altar Of Flies - Terapimusik
5. Blush Response - Counter Corruptor (Falhaber Remix) / Coalminer - Burning Magnesium
6. Kris Baha - Revolting / Laibach - Now You Will Pay
7. Persona Non Grata - My Psychosis
8. NZM99 - Kingdom of Crow (Notausgang Remix)
9. Grung - Initial Retribution / Arnaud Rebotini - The Spark In Her Eye
10. Kay Mascara - Ondafio / Zaliva-D - 嗡嗡症 Weng Weng Zheng 
11. Shabaam - The Troubles / Wishmountain - Hammer
12. Cursal - Grinding Resonance
13. Asstnt - Purgatory 
14. DJ Funk - Knock Knock / Nasty Habits - Shadow Boxing / Senyawa - Menuju Muara 去河口
15. Ex.Hale - Covered in Dust
16. Hurtado - Thoughts Of Escape / Menace Ruine - Pigeon Rain
17. m3f!$$$xxx - Revolutionary Army
18. Substencia - Humanimal / Apoptose - Nidstång
19. Terence Fixmer - Electric Ghosts /Garibim Ahmet - Bey Dagı (Uzun Hava)
20. Swarm Intelligence - Shrapnel / Day Before Us - Mircalla Von Karnstein
21. Lamia Vox - Dionysos / Klint - Miles / Breaking Chains - Possibilities
22. Matrheim - Excalibur / Amateur Hour - Utan Andetag
23. Ghost In The Machine - Emergency Loop / Desroi - When All Is Said And Done
24. Exos - Warlion / Simbolo - Mind (Mick Wills Edit)
25. Mossed - Random (Vegim Repaint) / 3.14 feat. Alekzandra - L'oubli
26. End Train - I Can't Hear You / Thomas Leer - Crossmaglen
27. Leo Laker - Ironbrick / 6th Circle - Slave
28. Oxygeno - Thirty Against One / Velvet May - Behind The Tedium
29. May McLAren - Conocimeinto Ilimitado FM / Unknown Artist - Is Out (Disco Morato Edit & Cut)
30. IV Horsemen - Hyakki Yakō
31. Hiromant - Dharma / Sühne Mensch - Für Alle Sterbenden
32. DJ Valentimes - Recourse / Reeko - From Beyond The Grave
33. No Intellectual Property - Machine Guts / Sonologyst & Rapoon - Pape Satàn, pape Satàn aleppe

Kaos London Podcast #011 Ancient Methods

Back on the Rinse France Zone, ecstatic to invite the record label MURDER TBS with Khidi resident OTHR and the honcho of the label Puritan !

Independent record label founded by Myn in Melbourne Australia and currently based in Paris, @public-system-recordings works at promoting an alternative and anti-conformist kind of music, always pushing the limits between wild rhythms, haunted melodies and corrosive soundscapes, somewhere between rage and elegy.

Listen to Public System Recordings every 2nd Saturday of the month, from 22h to 00h [CET] on rinse.fr

Rinse France Podcast

Public System Recordings Myn invite Murder TBS avec Othr & Puritan - 10 Juin 2023

Knife presenta el podcast 180 por Ancient Methods, proyecto de Michael Wollenhaupt. 

Desde su aparición, el proyecto ha sido a menudo etiquetado como “pitch black techno war funk“  (citado después de una reseña inicial de Boomkat) y estrechamente asociado a lo que más tarde sería etiquetado como el movimiento "tecno industrial". Esto posiblemente se deba a la estética radical de la máquina que Ancient Methods ha convertido en un sonido característico inconfundible desde hace más de una década. Aunque el marco mecánico sea -ni más ni menos- un embajador físico de un contenido más profundo, hay una profunda emocionalidad humana encerrada en la coraza rítmica.

Knife presents podcast 180 by Ancient Methods the project of Michael Wollenhaupt.

Since its emergence the project the has been often labelled as “pitch black techno war funk“ (quoted after an early Boomkat review) and closely associated to what later on would be tagged as the “industrial techno“ movement. This is possibly due to the radical machine aesthetics Ancient Methods has developed into an unmistakable trademark sound, since more than a decade. However the mechanical framework is - no more, no less - a physical ambassador for a deeper content, there is a profound human emotionality enclosed in the rhythmic shell.

Tracklist:

1. Coil - Lowest Common Abominator
2. Porest - The Porest Trap
3. Gidia - Gidia to Kyma feat.Vougioukli Sisters
4. Sob Story - Doghouse (ANFS remix)
5. Tapefeed - Kickback
6. Sebastian Hoffmann - Seperated
7. Above Morality - Aderal (Makornik Remix) / Jrpjej - Елэ Елэ
8. Sons Of Silvija - Drugo Dvorishte (Tool Mix) / Penelope's Fiancé - Suffocating Persuasions / Idalaska - Transfixion
9. NX1 - About Yourself
10. Organik Fanatik - Bang! Bang! (Try Not To Blink) (NZM 99 remix)
11. Blush Response - Covetous Desire / Paradox Obscur - Dark Fortress
12. K-Deey -Adagio (Marc Faenger Headspace Remix)
13. Joz - Y (Ket Robinson Remix)
14. Filmmaker - Omnicide
15. Sans-Fin - Mademoiselle
16. Razbibriga - Body Language / More Ephemerol - Ex-Raver
17. JK Flesh - PI11.1 (Ancient Methods Remix)
18. Ruben Seoane - Hoag’s Object
19. Violent - Drawn By Pain
20. Orphx -Man Of Sorrows
21. Monolith -  The Hunter  /  Abu Ama - The Impossibility of Holy & War (Zyontific Eclipse version)
22. Energetic-X - Diapason
23. NN - A Taste Of My Divine Venom / Winterblood - Graue Magie IV
24. Sirio Gry J - Disgregatio Temporis (Uncto remix) /  Turkish Delight - Deniz
25. Ryuji Takeuchi - Die Sonne / Pacific 231 & Rapoon - Al-Misr
26. RNDG - Research Manifesto / Jimmy Smack - Anguish
27. Modern Doom - Futureworld / Carter Tutti -  Coolicon-A
28. Wishmountain - Hammer (Ancient Methods Remix) / Pablo Ribot - Mantra
29. Julian BØ - Real Times
30. Black Pyramid - Nonves / Galatée - Le Miroir Fantastique
31. Broken English Club - Pervert (Club Edit) / zz33Hz - Karma Coma Camaleon
32. Kameliia - Pulsar / Ekman - A Way Home
33. YelworC - Data Control (edit)
34. I - Murdered - Skin Jacket / Soj Soj - Kull, Feck, Due / Hante - Beyond The Waves
35. Temporal Geometryk - Circulo de Entendidos /Opus Occvltiis - Fikta
36. Schmerz - Misery (edit)
37. Linear System - Phobos
38. La Fiesta Tiste - A Veces Los Sueños
39. De Ambassade - Palette (edit)
40. Ezra Pound - Canto 81 (excerpt)

@ancient-methods

Knife Podcast 180 | Ancient Methods

Ancient Methods _ HÖR - November 15 _ 2024

We are very pleased to welcome Second Tension as our 36th guest on the Kaos London podcast series with a live mix of new music created for the Kaos London showcase at Astron Club, Athens in July 2024.

Second Tension is a project by Stavros Tilkeridis, a Greek artist and DJ. Stavros started creating music back in the early nineties, with next to no access to the outside world. He started with tape loops, not too dissimilar to those by Pierre Schaffer, and got his hands on his first sampler, Mpc 2000xl, by the late nineties. Stavros was introduced to rave culture in the early two-thousands and experimented his way through them, using his music to search for a deeper, hidden meaning. He started Second Tension in 2016 as an attempt to capture a progressive spirit in electronic music, combining primitive and industrial aesthetics. With 3 EPs and an LP  on Persephonic Sirens, and several  released on OSM Tapes, and Monolith.

Artwork courtesy of Jari Anttonen @fantastinen.ai

Kaos London podcast #36 - Second Tension

For the 111th edition, we welcome Crystal Geometry

Modular chaos. Industrial pulse. Relentless precision.
For our 111th edition, we welcome Crystal Geometry, the French live act who commands an ever-evolving arsenal of hardware to summon a sound as mechanical as it is merciless and felt in the front row.

Rooted in the grit of EBM and forged in the shadows of post-industrial techno, his sound is raw, physical, and unflinching. A standout at Intercell: The Void and during our Soenda edition, his live sets don't just fill the room. They command it.

Welcome to the frontline.

Crystal Geometry | Artaphine Series 111

Premiere of "Vibrant Bloom" by art.ic, taken from "Syllabus" VA, forthcoming on Syllabus Recordings

Pre - Order: 
https://syllabusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/syllabus-various-artist-2

Label: Syllabus Recordings
Artist: art.ic
Title: Syllabus VA
Track: Vibrant Bloom
Format: Digital 
Release Date: November 3, 2025

Follow Syllabus Recordings: 
SC: https://soundcloud.com/syllabus-629238082
IG: https://www.instagram.com/syllabus_recordings/

Follow art.ic: 
SC: https://soundcloud.com/arthur-morand-378456510
IG: https://www.instagram.com/art.ic_

Syllabus VA

Pre - Order

art.ic - Vibrant Bloom [Premiere]

🗝मेरा लंड चूसो
 ݁🩸Note that the following art piece includes shards of: Cute Whore by Cecil & Why You Never Became a Dancer Whitehouse & some looney hi-tech creations by TotumFactum. ݁🩸

PSYCHOFAERY - Je veux oublier.....mindent! (sc)

Next episode of Abaddon Podcast with Faux Naif

Faux Naif has a particular view on club music. Under her Faux Naïf alias she digs for records often outside of the electronic spectrum, often championing the lesser known sounds of EBM, Tropical Goth, Synth & Post Punk. Her broad tastes in these genres mostly stems from the 80s and typically dark in sound, she takes as much influence from British groups like The Cure, Coil and the Cocteau Twins as she does any electronic producer.
Faux Naif supports these sounds on her radio show on Threads Radio located at the London venue The Cause and also through her own parties M || M (mouthiimouth).

Follow Faux Naif: 
SC - https://soundcloud.com/faux_naif
FB - https://www.facebook.com/fauxnaifmiim

Abaddon Podcast 086 X Faux Naïf

Welcoming our international guest Ancient Methods back at our second collab with Drugstore Belgrade. Stay locked.

Ancient Methods | Boiler Room x Belgrade: Drugstore

premiere of "Trigger" by VUUDUU 
taken from the compilation "OHNE005", released soon on Ohne Kommerziellen Wert

Compilation Details:
https://novafuture.blog/2020/02/11/various-ohne005-ohne-kommerziellen-wert/

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Artist: VUUDUU | @vuuduumusic
Label: Ohne Kommerziellen Wert | @ohnekommerziellenwert

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Order via Bandcamp: https://nfredirect.de/?r=OHNE005-BC

Info & Buy

VUUDUU - Trigger [OHNE005 | Premiere]

Immortal EP

Darkest Secret

No one hears any sound the same way. Every emotional and intellectual response to a song is a tangled network of deep-seated memories and social pressures. The banalest hook can inexplicably reduce someone to tears, while a passionate crescendo might be deflected off an impenetrable shield of self-seriousness. A pealing lead atop a thunderous kick might be instantly triggering for one dancer, while another is having their future emotional response to music shaped in that very moment. With the first release on his new, pointedly titled label Disco Inferno, I Hate Models teases the possibility of inspiring moments of intense, soul-wrenching nostalgia in one listener and blasting open new neural pathways to profound sentiment in another.

Printed sleeve / clear vinyl / holographic B-label

Mixdown: Mathis Kolkoz
Vinyl Mastering: Thomas P. Heckmann
Digital Mastering: Znzl

B1.I Hate Models - Sad Groove [DIOO1]

HEX is an independent Techno movement, responsible of the inception of the new music genre called "TechnoMetal".

Founders: @lorenzoraganzini & @paoloferrarahex

Vinyl & Digital label: 
http://hexbarcelona.bandcamp.com
https://www.beatport.com/label/hex-recordings/76721

DEMOS: demos@hex-technomovement.com	

Events bookings: karl@goldroomgroup.com

Reka @ HEX Berlin w/ SPFDJ, Lorenzo Raganzini, Paolo Ferrara, Tham - 05092021

HEX Techno movement

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