AVANTgarden

"Beyond your eyes, unreal dark
Beyond your cage, unreal force
Beyond your dreams, unreal forms
Beyond your love, unreal death".
Die Form 'Luminary (L'âme Électrique)' [1995]

L'âme Électrique - JANUARY 2018 // Dark Electronics - Techno - Industrial - EBM

01/2018

Overnight Freeform - January 14th, 2018 (KUNM 89.9 FM; 3:00-6:00am)

Microsite: http://iddk.houndstoothlabel.com/
Pre-Order: http://bit.ly/2CNyA8V
Buy individual tracks each day as they are premiered on Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2Djl6CU

The release represents a complete rethink about what it means to compile and commission music in the streaming era – and the tracks and seductively dark atmospheres conjured as a result are exploring all kinds of new sonic territory, too. In short, the cream of leftfield electronic talent have been given a brief: to take the phrase “in Death's dream kingdom”, or the whole of T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men from which it comes, as inspiration.

The resulting 25 tracks will be released, day by day, together with further artist information, to build into the full work. Not an album in the traditional sense, certainly more than just a playlist, it brings together a seriously diverse array of talents into a coherent whole with a vivid aesthetic reverberating through it. It occupies a similar space to the great home listening electronica acts of the 90s – Future Sound Of London, Global Communication, the Artificial Intelligence axis – but there are no throwbacks here: this is radical in sound and thought. Dark music for dark times.

01 - Otto Lindholm - Cain
02 - Pan Daijing - The Island Within
03 - Lanark Artefax - Styx
04 - Petit Singe - Komm Wieder Mit
05 - Peder Mannerfelt - Post Sense Perspective
06 - Tomoko Sauvage - In Some Brighter Sphere
07 - Pye Corner Audio - Box In A Box
08 - Sophia Loizou - Shadows of Futurity
09 - Abul Mogard - Trembling With Tenderness
10 - Pär Grindvik - Speaking Their Minds
11 - Koenraad Ecker - Rat's Coat
12 - Roly Porter - Without Form
13 - Hodge - Sunlight On A Broken Column 
14 - Gazelle Twin - The Dream Ends 
15 - Shapednoise - Ghostly Metafiction
16 - ASC - Tessellate
17 - Batu - Zoo Hypothesis
18 - We Will Fail - Carbon Trail
19 - Peter Van Hoesen - 98 Lines
20 - Spatial - Haunted Dance Hall
21 - Yves De Mey - Solemn But Fading
22 - Mindspan - Accept Things As They Are
23 - Kangding Ray - Glacier
24 - ZOV ZOV - Post Six
25 - Ian William Craig - An End Of Rooms

25 TRACK COMP

VA / In Death's Dream Kingdom

A freshly picked selection of music for your ears and feet.

Selections // 12th January

https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/85964-antwood-sponsored-content

@margaret-antwood

Antwood (a.k.a. Canada's Tristan Douglas) returns to Planet Mu with his second album 'Sponsored Content'. The album is more reflective than his debut, last year's 'Virtuous.scr'. The relentless mood of the first album has given way to a more melodic, stripped out sound. It still shakes with speed and energy, but with more space, more moments of delicate sadness and strange cyborg pop. What comes to the fore in 'Sponsored Content' is Tristan's gift for melody, coupled with the uncanny feeling that somehow his strange music is an entire ecosystem of it’s own. It's best explained by Tristan himself:

"This record was made during a very challenging year. Some of these challenges were for the best, some were not, most were both, others were neither. The music is inextricably tied to these events, whether I like it or not, and I’ve begun peeking out from behind my self-imposed veil of heavy conceptualization; revealing things about myself that my previous album Virtuous.scr didn’t."   "In the past year, I found that ASMR, which I had previously used as a source of foley in my music, was a fairly effective sleep aid. I’d been using the videos in this way for a few months, when I noticed a popular ASMR YouTuber announced a plan to incorporate ads into her videos; quiet, subtle ads, woven into the content. What bothered me about this was that these ads would target viewers, such as myself, during times of semi lucid vulnerability. This disturbed me, and I unsubscribed."

"Sponsored Content explores this idea of subversive advertisement, at least superficially. It’s obviously about the ubiquity of ads and the commodification of online content. The unlikely placement of ads in the music aims to force the listener to become hyper-aware of being advertised to rather than passively internalizing it. But after the record was finished, it became undeniable that really it wasn’t so much a “concept record” about advertisement; it’s as much about intentionally devaluing the things I’ve invested myself into, and over-complicating my work. When I realized this, I considered taking the ads out, and playing the music straight. But I left the record as it is: honest, flawed, with a little humour, and slightly up its own ass."

"I collaborated with El Popo Sangre (a.k.a. Paulin Rogues) for the visuals after he showed me his short film “Fantasy” which used several tracks from Virtuous.scr. He and his team at UNICORN added a depth to the project I could never have done on my own."

Antwood - Wait For Yengi

Following a pair of head-turning releases for the Mannequin label, Spanish techno explorer JASSS will soon be releasing her debut album, 'Weightless.' Scheduled to arrive via Swedish outpost Ideal Recordings on September 18, we debuted the LP's ominously slithering title track on Red Bull Radio's First Floor, our weekly look at what's new in electronic music.

@jass-29
@ideal-recordings
http://redbullradio.com/shows/first-floor-shawn-reynaldo
http://redbullmusicacademy.com

Weightless

JASSS "Weightless" [First Floor Premiere]

‘No Idols’ Out Now -
Big Dada / Stream / Download: https://visionist.lnk.to/valueSO

Taken from ‘Value’ released 20th October 2017 via Big Dada.

Watch - https://visionist.lnk.to/noidols/youtube

No Idols

City - A Goal is an Image

Available 29 September 2017 on limited translucent 12" vinyl and digital formats.
boomkat.com/products/a-goal-is-an-image

I. Provinces
II. Your Stream
III. Pain/Power
IV. End Zone
V. Mutual Life
VI. Inevitable
VII. The Good Soldier
VIII. Of One Kind
IX. Ffaith
X. SAR
XI. Immaculate

City ≠
@citymusic33
twitter.com/citymusic33
www.facebook.com/citymusic33

HALC012

Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy
Artwork by Lane Stewart & Collin Fletcher for Halcyon Veil

A Goal is an Image

City - Pain/Power (HALC012)

6 RDHD x SPDJ – Limited 12" Vinyl
stoor.bandcamp.com/album/6-rdhd-x-spdj

Bandcamp

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Pre-order 12" - tinyurl.com/ycy4kpfq
Sónar premiere - tinyurl.com/y9x4q6ld
Resident Advisor Tracks feature - https://tinyurl.com/y9y8fj3g

a) If You Want To
b1) If You Want To (Gacha Bakradze Version)
b2) If You Want To (Edmondson Version)

Cape Town duo @christian-tiger-school provide the 3rd part of the Lissoms series. Both graduates of the Red Bull Music Academy and part of the Sónar line-up this summer - they've previously posted an LP for the mighty Tommy Boy & remixes for SubPop, and had their work remixed by luminaries like Mndsgn.

'If You Want To' embodies their sound and the fervent Cape Town beats scene aptly - esoteric UK influences sit amongst ambient soundscapes and a cracked breakbeat, pinned on a looped bassline - growing in intensity but using the most subtle of touches.

@gacha’s version posits the track somewhere between slow-burning disco and krautrock, framing the character of the original with loose jams on his array of studio gear.

Finally, @edmondson's version is a minimal, 2-steppy take honed by the Berlin sounds which have pricked his ears for the last couple of years.

Available on super limited 12” from 12/1/18.

Early support from Scuba, Kink, Maya Jane Coles, Dauwd, LTJ Bukem, Doc Scott, Man Power, Synkro, Franklin de Costa, Urulu, Black Loops, Endian, Mali (Rhythm Section), The Maghreban, Fold, Tom Ravenscroft (BBC6music) & more.

Christian Tiger School - If You Want To - LLL003

Download or Stream: https://sinners.lnk.to/sevenseals
Music Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOnceBONFkw

@abenorthernmusic

The second release on the Sinners label is another essential one. It comes from Abe and packs a real punch across two hugely dramatic techno tracks. 

Seven Seals is first and is a slow burner with precision percussion dangling over rumbling bass. A poignant synth progression builds the tension up top and after a suspenseful breakdown it drops into a marching groove that will have the floor locked.

On the flip, Sail is a busier and more turbulent track with alarm like synth sounds, glassy textured and rubber kicks that drive the thing along. It’s a robust groove filled with sombre moods and dark energy that really sucks you in over the course of its seven minute length. 

This is another standout EP that will add real drama to any DJ set.

Abe - Seven Seals

#FREE DOWNLOAD

#FREE DOWNLOAD: Robert Monarch - Three 'O' Three (original mix)

MEDi close 2017 with Gantz's Dying on Acid EP.

Following collaborations with El Mahdy Jnr on the Spry Sinister 12, Commodo & Kahn on the Volume 1 LP & Commmodo for Buckwild / Free Focus...

...his latest EP sees Gantz working with Elif Dikeç, Dedw8 & spoken word artist Rider Shafique to deliver yet another unique and intersting record.

Formats: 12 Vinyl & Digital

Release: 31.12.17

Dying on Acid EP

Gantz - Fugazi ft Elif Dikec

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I pretend to reach for her, but before she can guess my intentions, I catch one of her wings instead. She flutters, trying to break loose, her one free wing batting my hand.

Stream / Download

Moth Wings

https://www.discogs.com/Tim-Fairplay-An-Introduction-To-Consumer-Electronics/release/11173670
Timothy J. Fairplay's debut on Nocta Numerica Records
(Vinyl / Digital)
Buy the digital version here: https://noctanumerica.bandcamp.com
Buy the vinyl on Clone, Juno, Deejay.de, Red Eye Records or directly from our Bandcamp. 
EP EXPECTED FOR JANUARY 2018

Catalog number: NN009
Title: An Introduction To Consumer Electronics
Artist: Timothy J. Fairplay
Distributed by Syncrophone (Worldwide)
Artwork by Humangigz
Mastering: MA Spaventi

A1 - Pure Hex
A2 - An Introduction To Consumer Electronics
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B1 - Honecker Complex
B2 - Birthday Celebrations At Utrecht Space Disco

Timothy J. Fairplay - Birthday Celebrations At Utrecht Space Disco

@NeinRecords starts the year with the Techbeton EP titled ' Technobeton 2018' with remixes coming courtesy of Daniel Kyo, Pet Peeves (one half of Pin Up Club) and Walter.

@Technobeton was started in Sofia, Bulgaria as a joint venture corporation between 100% TECHNO and 100% BETON. The company aims to translate beats and basslines to concrete tracks and builds them in real scale and in 100% BETON, thus examining certain spatial and sculptural properties of contemporary Techno music. In a second conceptual loop the built concrete is being liquified to sound tracks and arranged in a loud timeline to 100% TECHNO. All together 100% TECHNO + 100% BETON react in a self-sufficient closed circuit and form the sound and vision of TECHNOBETON.

However, our pick of the release comes from Valencian @DanielKyo, who produces a typical high quality, dancefloor ready killer of a track to start the new year in fine fashion.

Release Date - 05/01/18

TECHNOBETON 2018

PREMIERE - Technobeton - This is Countach (Daniel Kyo Remix) (Nein Records)

♬ Klick für mehr ☞ http://trndmusik.de/2018/01/wundersam-bunt-und-unvorhersehbar-die-zehna-ep-von-shkoon-erscheint/

⚡ Follow us on YouTube ☞ https://www.youtube.com/c/TrndmusikDe
🌃 Follow us on Spotify ☞ https://spoti.fi/2jzGmv2

Get Shkoon's EP on Acker Records here: 
➟ Beatport: http://bit.ly/2qi1jRd

Mit der schwerelosen Präzision eines Jagdfalken im Wüstenwind ziehen @shkoon-music ihre ätherischen Klangschleifen um uns. Langsam, aber kraftvoll. Die obertonreiche Harmonie von arabischem Gesang, Streichinstrument und synthetischen Melodien flimmert aus den Lautsprechern wie die heiße Luft über noch viel heißerem Sand. Damit nicht genug, denn atmosphärisch ist ihre „Zehna“ EP auf Acker Records (@3000-grad) so wundersam, bunt und unvorhersehbar wie der vom Stich eines tropischen Insekts ausgelöste Fiebertraum: Der musikalische Weltenbummler @timboletti schickt seine Hörer mit seinem Remix in die Schwebe, @josef-herrhausen & Treindl interpretieren Shkoon im Kontext ihrer einzigartigen Zeitlupen-Ekstase und @jpattersson ist in echter Progadub Manier mit seine Trompete zu hören. (...)

ZEHNA

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Shkoon - Napauken

Get Physical launches into 2018 with a remix package for Cape Town native @ryanmurgatroyd's 'Something Said'. One listen will make it obvious why Murgatroyd has become a rising talent on the South African scene and an artist prominently supported by Black Coffee. Now, with the touch of German maestros @super-flu-de, 'Something Said' receives a minimal, but punching new techno tone. The remix package is out on January 12 on Get Physical.

Something Said Remixes

More exclusive music

Premiere: Ryan Murgatroyd 'Something Said' (Super Flu Remix)

Don Mykel kills the HNHH Freestyle Session, production handled by Loa Gaze.

Don Mykel - HNHH Freestyle Sessions #011

Over the past decade, FaltyDL has worked with a lot of labels: Ninja Tune, Planet Mu, Swamp 81, Rush Hour, Aus, All City, his own Blueberry imprint... and that's just a partial list. On January 26, however, this shapeshifting Brooklyn producer will add another label to the list when he drops the 'Three Rooms' EP via Hypercolour. Ahead of its release, we debuted the booming "Big Room" on Red Bull Radio's First Floor, our weekly look at what's new in electronic music.

@faltydl
@hypercolour_glasstable
http://redbullradio.com/shows/first-floor-shawn-reynaldo
http://redbullmusicacademy.com

Three Rooms EP

FaltyDL "Big Room" [First Floor Premiere]

from the album... https://tinyurl.com/yb8b5emw
Ghostface Killah & Apollo Brown "The Brown Tape'

The Brown Tape

Rise of the Ghostface Killah (feat. RZA)

Ghostface Killah & Apollo Brown - Rise of the Ghostface Killah (feat. RZA)

Haze is the first single from new album "The Sky Looks Different Here" released on MoonDome on February 9th.

Available on Sky Blue Vinyl LP + DL.  Distributed by Kudos.

The Sky Looks Different Here

Haze

Download Now!

https://Empire.lnk.to/RightTime

Download Now!

Right Time (feat. Iamsu!)

Microsite: http://iddk.houndstoothlabel.com/
Pre-Order: http://bit.ly/2CNyA8V
Buy individual tracks each day as they are premiered on Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2Djl6CU

The release represents a complete rethink about what it means to compile and commission music in the streaming era – and the tracks and seductively dark atmospheres conjured as a result are exploring all kinds of new sonic territory, too. In short, the cream of leftfield electronic talent have been given a brief: to take the phrase “in Death's dream kingdom”, or the whole of T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men from which it comes, as inspiration.

The resulting 25 tracks will be released, day by day, together with further artist information, to build into the full work. Not an album in the traditional sense, certainly more than just a playlist, it brings together a seriously diverse array of talents into a coherent whole with a vivid aesthetic reverberating through it. It occupies a similar space to the great home listening electronica acts of the 90s – Future Sound Of London, Global Communication, the Artificial Intelligence axis – but there are no throwbacks here: this is radical in sound and thought. Dark music for dark times.

"With this piece, I attempt to conjure up some waking nightmare. Disorientating and clangorous but inevitably reaching toward the light. Do we get there?" ~ Pye Corner Audio

01 - Otto Lindholm - Cain
02 - Pan Daijing - The Island Within
03 - Lanark Artefax - Styx
04 - Petit Singe - Komm Wieder Mit
05 - Peder Mannerfelt - Post Sense Perspective
06 - Tomoko Sauvage - In Some Brighter Sphere
07 - Pye Corner Audio - Box In A Box
08 - Sophia Loizou - Shadows of Futurity
09 - Abul Mogard - Trembling With Tenderness
10 - Pär Grindvik - Speaking Their Minds
11 - Koenraad Ecker - Rat's Coat
12 - Roly Porter - Without Form
13 - Hodge - Sunlight On A Broken Column 
14 - Gazelle Twin - The Dream Ends 
15 - Shapednoise - Ghostly Metafiction
16 - ASC - Tessellate
17 - Batu - Zoo Hypothesis
18 - We Will Fail - Carbon Trail
19 - Peter Van Hoesen - 98 Lines
20 - Spatial - Haunted Dance Hall
21 - Yves De Mey - Solemn But Fading
22 - Mindspan - Accept Things As They Are
23 - Kangding Ray - Glacier
24 - ZOV ZOV - Post Six
25 - Ian William Craig - An End Of Rooms

In Death's Dream Kingdom

Box In A Box

Pre-Order

Pye Corner Audio - Box In A Box (Full Track)

Microsite: http://iddk.houndstoothlabel.com/
Pre-Order: http://bit.ly/2CNyA8V
Buy individual tracks each day as they are premiered on Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2Djl6CU

The release represents a complete rethink about what it means to compile and commission music in the streaming era – and the tracks and seductively dark atmospheres conjured as a result are exploring all kinds of new sonic territory, too. In short, the cream of leftfield electronic talent have been given a brief: to take the phrase “in Death's dream kingdom”, or the whole of T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men from which it comes, as inspiration.

"The Hollow Men inspired me for several reasons: there’s obviously the incredibly beautiful wording - i’m not a poetry lover per se, but T. S. Eliot is in my opinion second to none. 
The duality in the poem: is it about love, is it about war, defeat or hope…? There’s hardly any doubt left in the last paragraph, but the path to those 4 lines makes you reflect on every step. It’s definitely not something i wanted to mimic with my track, but i hope there’s a glimpse of that duality in it…." ~ Yves De Mey

The resulting 25 tracks will be released, day by day, together with further artist information, to build into the full work. Not an album in the traditional sense, certainly more than just a playlist, it brings together a seriously diverse array of talents into a coherent whole with a vivid aesthetic reverberating through it. It occupies a similar space to the great home listening electronica acts of the 90s – Future Sound Of London, Global Communication, the Artificial Intelligence axis – but there are no throwbacks here: this is radical in sound and thought. Dark music for dark times.

01 - Otto Lindholm - Cain
02 - Pan Daijing - The Island Within
03 - Lanark Artefax - Styx
04 - Petit Singe - Komm Wieder Mit
05 - Peder Mannerfelt - Post Sense Perspective
06 - Tomoko Sauvage - In Some Brighter Sphere
07 - Pye Corner Audio - Box In A Box
08 - Sophia Loizou - Shadows of Futurity
09 - Abul Mogard - Trembling With Tenderness
10 - Pär Grindvik - Speaking Their Minds
11 - Koenraad Ecker - Rat's Coat
12 - Roly Porter - Without Form
13 - Hodge - Sunlight On A Broken Column 
14 - Gazelle Twin - The Dream Ends 
15 - Shapednoise - Ghostly Metafiction
16 - ASC - Tessellate
17 - Batu - Zoo Hypothesis
18 - We Will Fail - Carbon Trail
19 - Peter Van Hoesen - 98 Lines
20 - Spatial - Haunted Dance Hall
21 - Yves De Mey - Solemn But Fading
22 - Mindspan - Accept Things As They Are
23 - Kangding Ray - Glacier
24 - ZOV ZOV - Post Six
25 - Ian William Craig - An End Of Rooms

Solemn But Fading

Yves De Mey - Solemn But Fading (Clip)

Microsite: http://iddk.houndstoothlabel.com/
Pre-Order: http://bit.ly/2CNyA8V
Buy individual tracks each day as they are premiered on Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2Djl6CU

The release represents a complete rethink about what it means to compile and commission music in the streaming era – and the tracks and seductively dark atmospheres conjured as a result are exploring all kinds of new sonic territory, too. In short, the cream of leftfield electronic talent have been given a brief: to take the phrase “in Death's dream kingdom”, or the whole of T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men from which it comes, as inspiration.

"" ~ Mindspan

The resulting 25 tracks will be released, day by day, together with further artist information, to build into the full work. Not an album in the traditional sense, certainly more than just a playlist, it brings together a seriously diverse array of talents into a coherent whole with a vivid aesthetic reverberating through it. It occupies a similar space to the great home listening electronica acts of the 90s – Future Sound Of London, Global Communication, the Artificial Intelligence axis – but there are no throwbacks here: this is radical in sound and thought. Dark music for dark times.

01 - Otto Lindholm - Cain
02 - Pan Daijing - The Island Within
03 - Lanark Artefax - Styx
04 - Petit Singe - Komm Wieder Mit
05 - Peder Mannerfelt - Post Sense Perspective
06 - Tomoko Sauvage - In Some Brighter Sphere
07 - Pye Corner Audio - Box In A Box
08 - Sophia Loizou - Shadows of Futurity
09 - Abul Mogard - Trembling With Tenderness
10 - Pär Grindvik - Speaking Their Minds
11 - Koenraad Ecker - Rat's Coat
12 - Roly Porter - Without Form
13 - Hodge - Sunlight On A Broken Column 
14 - Gazelle Twin - The Dream Ends 
15 - Shapednoise - Ghostly Metafiction
16 - ASC - Tessellate
17 - Batu - Zoo Hypothesis
18 - We Will Fail - Carbon Trail
19 - Peter Van Hoesen - 98 Lines
20 - Spatial - Haunted Dance Hall
21 - Yves De Mey - Solemn But Fading
22 - Mindspan - Accept Things As They Are
23 - Kangding Ray - Glacier
24 - ZOV ZOV - Post Six
25 - Ian William Craig - An End Of Rooms

Accept Things As They Are

Mindspan - Accept Things As They Are (Clip)

Microsite: http://iddk.houndstoothlabel.com/
Pre-Order: http://bit.ly/2CNyA8V
Buy individual tracks each day as they are premiered on Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2Djl6CU

The release represents a complete rethink about what it means to compile and commission music in the streaming era – and the tracks and seductively dark atmospheres conjured as a result are exploring all kinds of new sonic territory, too. In short, the cream of leftfield electronic talent have been given a brief: to take the phrase “in Death's dream kingdom”, or the whole of T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men from which it comes, as inspiration.

"Creating spaces to hear the sound breathe; this piece explores with scrutiny the dark zones in between the sounds, or as TS Elliot puts it:
"Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, falls the Shadow" ~ Kangding Ray

The resulting 25 tracks will be released, day by day, together with further artist information, to build into the full work. Not an album in the traditional sense, certainly more than just a playlist, it brings together a seriously diverse array of talents into a coherent whole with a vivid aesthetic reverberating through it. It occupies a similar space to the great home listening electronica acts of the 90s – Future Sound Of London, Global Communication, the Artificial Intelligence axis – but there are no throwbacks here: this is radical in sound and thought. Dark music for dark times.

01 - Otto Lindholm - Cain
02 - Pan Daijing - The Island Within
03 - Lanark Artefax - Styx
04 - Petit Singe - Komm Wieder Mit
05 - Peder Mannerfelt - Post Sense Perspective
06 - Tomoko Sauvage - In Some Brighter Sphere
07 - Pye Corner Audio - Box In A Box
08 - Sophia Loizou - Shadows of Futurity
09 - Abul Mogard - Trembling With Tenderness
10 - Pär Grindvik - Speaking Their Minds
11 - Koenraad Ecker - Rat's Coat
12 - Roly Porter - Without Form
13 - Hodge - Sunlight On A Broken Column 
14 - Gazelle Twin - The Dream Ends 
15 - Shapednoise - Ghostly Metafiction
16 - ASC - Tessellate
17 - Batu - Zoo Hypothesis
18 - We Will Fail - Carbon Trail
19 - Peter Van Hoesen - 98 Lines
20 - Spatial - Haunted Dance Hall
21 - Yves De Mey - Solemn But Fading
22 - Mindspan - Accept Things As They Are
23 - Kangding Ray - Glacier
24 - ZOV ZOV - Post Six
25 - Ian William Craig - An End Of Rooms

Glacial

Kangding Ray - Glacier (Clip)

Microsite: http://iddk.houndstoothlabel.com/
Pre-Order: http://bit.ly/2CNyA8V
Buy individual tracks each day as they are premiered on Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2Djl6CU

The release represents a complete rethink about what it means to compile and commission music in the streaming era – and the tracks and seductively dark atmospheres conjured as a result are exploring all kinds of new sonic territory, too. In short, the cream of leftfield electronic talent have been given a brief: to take the phrase “in Death's dream kingdom”, or the whole of T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men from which it comes, as inspiration.

"The endless, endless waiting, the descent into something infinite and dense. A modern gothic tale played out in organ and guitar" ~ ZOV ZOV

The resulting 25 tracks will be released, day by day, together with further artist information, to build into the full work. Not an album in the traditional sense, certainly more than just a playlist, it brings together a seriously diverse array of talents into a coherent whole with a vivid aesthetic reverberating through it. It occupies a similar space to the great home listening electronica acts of the 90s – Future Sound Of London, Global Communication, the Artificial Intelligence axis – but there are no throwbacks here: this is radical in sound and thought. Dark music for dark times.

01 - Otto Lindholm - Cain
02 - Pan Daijing - The Island Within
03 - Lanark Artefax - Styx
04 - Petit Singe - Komm Wieder Mit
05 - Peder Mannerfelt - Post Sense Perspective
06 - Tomoko Sauvage - In Some Brighter Sphere
07 - Pye Corner Audio - Box In A Box
08 - Sophia Loizou - Shadows of Futurity
09 - Abul Mogard - Trembling With Tenderness
10 - Pär Grindvik - Speaking Their Minds
11 - Koenraad Ecker - Rat's Coat
12 - Roly Porter - Without Form
13 - Hodge - Sunlight On A Broken Column 
14 - Gazelle Twin - The Dream Ends 
15 - Shapednoise - Ghostly Metafiction
16 - ASC - Tessellate
17 - Batu - Zoo Hypothesis
18 - We Will Fail - Carbon Trail
19 - Peter Van Hoesen - 98 Lines
20 - Spatial - Haunted Dance Hall
21 - Yves De Mey - Solemn But Fading
22 - Mindspan - Accept Things As They Are
23 - Kangding Ray - Glacier
24 - ZOV ZOV - Post Six
25 - Ian William Craig - An End Of Rooms

Post 6

ZOV ZOV - Post 6 (Clip)

Microsite: http://iddk.houndstoothlabel.com/
Pre-Order: http://bit.ly/2CNyA8V
Buy individual tracks each day as they are premiered on Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2Djl6CU

The release represents a complete rethink about what it means to compile and commission music in the streaming era – and the tracks and seductively dark atmospheres conjured as a result are exploring all kinds of new sonic territory, too. In short, the cream of leftfield electronic talent have been given a brief: to take the phrase “in Death's dream kingdom”, or the whole of T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men from which it comes, as inspiration.

"Thinking about Eliot’s poem I kept coming back to a thought: why do we insist on using narrative in place of what is actually going on? Rilke had it wrong perhaps: angels aren’t terrible because of how brightly they burn and so consume us, but because of how much we would burn for them in our wild fits of restlessness and searching. We construct so dearly our kingdoms of dream and death, thinking this is who we are. But no next words will help – there is no more truth in those words unhappened than with these now disappearing ones. So this song might be a hymn to an unstory: our rooms are false, and the angels aren’t terrible but the likeness we search for them in surely is." ~ Ian William Craig

The resulting 25 tracks will be released, day by day, together with further artist information, to build into the full work. Not an album in the traditional sense, certainly more than just a playlist, it brings together a seriously diverse array of talents into a coherent whole with a vivid aesthetic reverberating through it. It occupies a similar space to the great home listening electronica acts of the 90s – Future Sound Of London, Global Communication, the Artificial Intelligence axis – but there are no throwbacks here: this is radical in sound and thought. Dark music for dark times.

01 - Otto Lindholm - Cain
02 - Pan Daijing - The Island Within
03 - Lanark Artefax - Styx
04 - Petit Singe - Komm Wieder Mit
05 - Peder Mannerfelt - Post Sense Perspective
06 - Tomoko Sauvage - In Some Brighter Sphere
07 - Pye Corner Audio - Box In A Box
08 - Sophia Loizou - Shadows of Futurity
09 - Abul Mogard - Trembling With Tenderness
10 - Pär Grindvik - Speaking Their Minds
11 - Koenraad Ecker - Rat's Coat
12 - Roly Porter - Without Form
13 - Hodge - Sunlight On A Broken Column 
14 - Gazelle Twin - The Dream Ends 
15 - Shapednoise - Ghostly Metafiction
16 - ASC - Tessellate
17 - Batu - Zoo Hypothesis
18 - We Will Fail - Carbon Trail
19 - Peter Van Hoesen - 98 Lines
20 - Spatial - Haunted Dance Hall
21 - Yves De Mey - Solemn But Fading
22 - Mindspan - Accept Things As They Are
23 - Kangding Ray - Glacier
24 - ZOV ZOV - Post Six
25 - Ian William Craig - An End Of Rooms

An End Of Rooms

Ian William Craig - An End Of Rooms (Full Track)

UK record label based at fabric, East London. Run in part by Rob Booth (Electronic Explorations)

Pye Corner Audio - Box In A Box (Full Track)

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