Techno: Dark / Leftfield / Industrial - 5

AVN043 - Zvrra - Bizzaroland

Bizzaroland
Society
Bizzaroland II
Figurine
Inside
Oracle
Prohibited
Tired beetle
Untitled

Written and Produced by Zvrra.
Mastered by Neel @ Enisslab, Rome.
Artwork & Design by @atact.uk
© AVIAN 2021

AVN043 - Zvrra - Bizzaroland

Carl Finlow keeps on keeping on. As the world changes around him, the veteran producer continues to do what he does best - craft top-quality electro tunes which invoke the sound’s Drexciyan heyday, yet carry themselves with an assurance that is all of Finlow’s own. 

Finlow remains a prolific producer more than a quarter of a century on from his emergence. Still averaging several records a year across a variety of aliases, recent times have seen Finlow forge particularly strong links with the Central Processing Unit label. Now, after a run of EPs for the Sheffield imprint which began with 2018’s ‘Projections’, Finlow’s Silicon Scally project offers up CPU’s first drop of 2022 in the form of the ‘Field Lines’ LP. 

Silicon Scally productions have long been marked out by how they combine piston-precise beat programming with more textured synth play. ‘Field Lines’ runs with this formula to deliver some of Finlow’s most atmospheric material to date. At once shadowy and expansive, listening to ‘Field Lines’ is the aural equivalent of taking a night-time drive around some futuristic metropolis. 

The beats cruise sleekly here. Many of these burbling machine-funk numbers hover at mid-tempo, the crisp clip of their drum programming given shape and depth by all sorts of percussive tones fizzing around at the fringes of the mix. Even when ‘Field Lines’ seems to set its sights on the club - the Bunker Records-aping ‘Amino’, for instance, or the dystopian whizz-bang of ‘Static Fire’ - the tracks here strut sturdily rather than giving in to full-on freakouts.

However, from this sturdy base, Finlow moves outwards. Working with tones which range from rapid-fire machine-gun bass to keening, dawn chorus keyboard pads, Finlow leads us through the futurescape with the expertise of a seasoned guide. Cuts like ‘Submerged’ and ‘Yield’ are brilliantly cinematic, blooming from those reliable drum pulses into miniature masterpieces of nocturnal electronics. Elsewhere on ‘Field Lines’ there is a mechanical majesty to ‘Inhibitor’ and ‘Altered Domain’ which invokes the brave new worlds that Kraftwerk repeatedly conjured in their heyday.

Central Processing Unit’s first release of 2022 is ‘Field Lines’, an LP of electro-funk explorations from Carl Finlow’s Silicon Scally project which will thrill regardless of whether it’s experienced through headphones or out on the dancefloor.

RIYL: Drexciya, Kraftwerk, Cygnus, Annie Hall

Field Lines

Silicon Scally - Field Lines

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The in[bass] community is a group of like-minded people from St Petersburg, united by a love for low frequency music. We collect all kinds of interesting music that we like and really want to share with you.

The sixth edition of the in[bass] podcasts features Spiritual Voices, with a mix full of exclusives and auteur work.

IN[BASS] Podcast s3e6: Spiritual Voices

Format: Vinyl EP 12" (140-gram), Digital
Country: Australia
Release Date: May 2024
Style: Experimental, Techno

Öjskog’s debut album Dolda Byar is a study in explorative, far-reverberating industrial and techno landscapes as described by Berlin’s Hardwax record store. The remixes EP of Dolda Byar continues down the explorative and experimental path with four exceptional remixes from Notzing, Ena, BODYXVIII and Fresnal Lens.

Notzing’s Dream remake of Aatos delivers intricate time signatures and layering that produces an ethereal landscape of the original, while Ena highlights his signature micro-sampling style of organic and found sounds to deliver a twisted remix of Kefhel. BODYVXIII’s remix of Gleymdu is an opaque study in sonic experimentation and Fresnel Lens rounds off the EP with a haunting and unnerving reduction of Hanna.

Dolda Byar Remixes

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Öjskog - Dolda Byar Remixes [SL016]

Taken from Bleu Noir's Naviguer à vue EP on Low Volume Randomization, out April 10.

Pre-order: https://bleunoirnuances.bandcamp.com/album/naviguer-vue-2
More: www.orbmag.com/music

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Premiere: Bleu Noir - Emergence Of Details

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Ancestral Voices - Forces of Consciousness [HORO]
HOROEX40
Released on 2x12” / Digital
https://ancestralvoices.bandcamp.com/album/forces-of-consciousness

Horo proudly presents the long-awaited fourth studio album, Forces of Consciousness, by Ancestral Voices.

Following Liams first venture, 'Night of Visions,' a diary of a physical and life-changing journey to South America, he took a trip into seismic, dark, and heavy frequencies with his second LP, 'Divination,' which plunges into the notion of ritual. The third LP delved into the cosmic, devising custom tuning systems for the meditative 'Navagraha'.

Liam continues this conceptual approach that threads his work together with Forces of Consciousness - an exploratory dive into metaphysics, how consciousness creates reality, and how sound exists to bind and sustain our thoughtforms in harmony.

"I am fascinated by the intricate workings and unexplained phenomena beyond the physical. This has become a journey as I seek to understand the interconnectedness of all things. The threads that bind us to this experience.

Everything is consciousness; all things in existence are inherently conscious, including living and non-living entities. Consciousness is not merely a product of our brains and bodies but a fundamental universal aspect.

Consciousness creates reality; our consciousness shapes our perception of the world. Our thoughts and beliefs play a significant role in shaping the reality we experience.

While intangible thoughts cannot be measured physically, they shape our reality tremendously. Our thoughts significantly impact the world around us.

We are waveforms, and everything around us is sound. Sound plays a vital role in maintaining balance, whether the sound of a chirping bird, the whistles of dunes, or the resonance of the Earth.

As a collective, we make up chords that continuously merge and try to find a harmonious balance that sustains our consciousness. In essence, thought forms coexist to create harmonic structures, a lattice of electrical current that manifests as the lives we live every day."

The patterns change with the observer.
Matter is a limitation of consciousness.
That which was first was the immeasurable.
The harmonies remain.

@ancestralvoices

Forces of Consciousness

Ancestral Voices - Threads [HOROEX40]

Ancestral Voices - Latent Codes [HOROEX40]

4ème chambre d’inquiétude - Trois-Quarts Taxi System (Mai 2024)

Blame Rec is thrilled to present a mix by Enigma's crew member Low Order.

https://www.instagram.com/loworderproductions/
https://soundcloud.com/loworder

ZOLFO 002 w/ Low Order (02.06.24)

“There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.”
Change is constant, collapse inevitable. With ‘Inevitable Collapse’ new project FAR rejects templates and dancefloor patterns, turning in four works of spontaneous techno contemplations. On the A-side “Hypocrite” opens with billowy, retroactive synths, weaved into some desolate sci-fi landscape. “Ignite” then wields hand drums and sparse electronic meditations akin to early Shackleton-meets-Aphex Twin through a Polygon Window. “Carrier” on the B-side is as chugging techno as it gets, albeit haunted by a deconstructive FAR presence. Finally “Smash The Walls” concludes in rolling waves of unpredictable surf. Recorded in long single takes and produced with solicitous mix-downs, ‘Inevitable Collapse’ is an intriguing debut for those more peripherally inclined.

FAR -  Carrier

Release both Vinyl / Digital 

- Vinyl (2018.SEP)
- Ditigal (2018.OCT)

A1 - MESSIAHWAITS - BLACKENED

Forest Drive West - They Live Ep

Forest Drive West is gifting Midgar with 4 dub cuts infused with warm, earthy tones and cosmic delightfulness.

Mastered by Mike Grinser at D&M Berlin
Release Date : 26 June

Artist : @forest-drive-west
www.facebook.com/ForestDriveWest/

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Forest Drive West - B1. Ricochet

Available now on limited marbled 12" and digital - https://horo.lnk.to/horoex29

Buy both Retrocausality EP's together - https://horo.lnk.to/retrocausality

Japanese artist Maiko Okimoto aka Lemna returns to Horo following her acclaimed EP for the SNTS helmed label ‘Sacred Court’. Retrocausality is 2 EP’s that continue her genre-less approach to electronic music. Aligned most closely to the Grey Area sound that Sam KDC and ASC have been expanding on in recent years, Maiko’s approach is singular. The reality of her music working on dance-floors for Techno audiences is a happily incidental result and not a structural design. Maiko’s music comes entirely from an innate feeling transferred into grooves and ethereal ambience.

Retrocausality works with the concept of the crossover between the spirit world and science - for example, the commonality of thoughts and theories in Buddhist philosophy and Quantum Physics. The realms of these are divided, but essentially the concepts are similar.

The EP’s title ‘Retrocausality’ implies that we can perceive this world from both in terms of ‘A Priori’ (from cause) and ‘A Posteriori’ (from result).

The tracks on Retrocausality represent an accurate cross section of Maiko’s musical style, from the other worldly ambience of Supervoid to the rhythmic winding of Thusness and the heads down floor tunnel of Sattva.

At a time when electronic music is becoming less adventurous as a whole, Lemna represents a beacon of intrigue.

HOROEX29 - Lemna - Retrocausality: A Posteriori

A1. Supervoid
A2. Flatland
B1. Platonia
B2. Tesseract

HOROEX30 - Lemna - Retrocausality: A Priori

A1. Nature of Karma
A2. Sattva
B1. Bardo
B2. Thusness

- 2 x Limited coloured vinyl 12”s and 8 track digital
- 12"s available separately or as a bundle
- Limited 100 edition of each 12" with hand numbered insert


https://www.facebook.com/lemnamusic/
https://www.facebook.com/horolabel/
https://horo.bandcamp.com/

Retrocausality: A Posteriori

Lemna - Flatland [HOROEX29 - Retrocausality: A Posteriori]

ISSXI   VSK - Silencio

De Astrologia

Amelia

ELANDA, is a multidisciplinary artist blending DJing, live performance, and somatic movement practices and sculpting. She has performed at prominent venues and festivals across Scotland and England, earning a dj residency at Glasgow’s iconic La Cheetah, where her sets fuse Afro inspired electronica , UK bass, jazz, electronica, dubstep and more. 

In 2024, ELANDA transitioned into live performance, incorporating music production, vocals, and stagecraft to connect with audiences in a deeper, more dynamic way.

As a co-founder of the Lüuma Collective and Annies Eden, they create conscious spaces through events that celebrate holistic healing, sound baths, and somatic workshops. ELANDA’s work is dedicated to fostering community and empowering personal expression through music and movement.

An electronic music label.

We do not accept demo's.

We are not a sub-label.

Lemna - Flatland [HOROEX29 - Retrocausality: A Posteriori]

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