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Tailored Tracks - June 2019

A little selection of summer offerings from my recent trawling of the airways... on the hunt for new ear loving morsels.

June 2019

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T r i s h

http://www.delsinrecords.com/release.php?idxRelease=3633

To mark the occasion of Delsin hitting 100 releases, the label is to release five new various artist EPs throughout the rest of the year. Besides a special collector's box edition, all EPs will be offered separately, with limited edition colour runs and unlimited black copies. All fifteen tracks will also be compiled onto one CD.

Following on from the first EP that included tracks from Claro Intelecto, Gerry Read and Unbroken Dubs comes the second offering, which features Mike Dehnert, Conforce and CiM.

The Fachwerk boss Dehnert goes first with 'Passenger', a full blooded techno cut with writhing synth lines and drums that canter and gallivant like wild horses though a fuzzy haze of analogue detritus.

Next up is label regular Conforce who turns in a typically underwater and atmospheric track, 'Wave Trace' that is filled with ethereal ambiance, swirling celestial melodies and a frazzled rubber bassline.

Finally, CiM - releasing his first cut since 2004 - turns in 'Way Station', an experimental piece of heavenly sound design that has vast echo chambers filled with sonorous bell rings, but also the busy micro activity of lots of tiny synthesised sounds. 

100DSR/VAR2 (Delsin)
a1. Mike Dehnert - Passage
b1. Conforce - Wave Trace
b2. CiM - Way Station

Buy at Delsin Webshop

V/A - 100DSR/VAR2 (Mike Dehnert, Conforce, CiM)

Solar Plexus

JAVA Clouds /مجسمه سازی مهتاب

Anxiety Online !

Ilario Alicante & Tom Dicicco_ Unbalanced 2

Silk Rhodes is vocalist Sasha Desree and producer Michael Collins. Pains is a 45. The cover is a sheet of acid. http://stonesthrow.com/silkrhodes

VINYL

Silk Rhodes - Pains

From the album Yes Lawd! http://stonesthrow.com/nxworries

Nxworries - Anderson Paak & Knxwledge - Suede

Frozen Flame

Marcel Dettmann @ flex

Purple Sea feat. Madame Gandhi

ESCATIC TO FINALLY SHARE THIS SONG WITH YOU°
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT ON THIS MUSICAL JOURNEY!

if you drive through my mind… 
all the images you will see
pretty pictures 
all the time 
killed these fantasies of mine
hope you don’t cry
hope you don’t cry
so rewind,
to the child
all the messages she received
scrambled into code
worms within her head.      
hope you u don’t cry
hope you don’t cry
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Check out the Drive EP .... THNX FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT XXXX
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Drive

B1 - PAWN SHOP PEOPLE - DEC ONE - MFVO005

Photosynthesis

Ar gael i'w lawrlwytho 10/5/19

Available for download 10/5/19

Sain Recordiau Cyf

Lleuwen & Ifan Dafydd- Bendigeidfran (Ailgymysgiad Ifan Dafydd Remix)

A double take on @dimartinelli’s TIDES

Because twice is nice and every opportunity to work with inspiring A-level artists is one to jump upon, Di Martinelli strikes again with two masterly remixes of his TIDES track. While Berlin by night seems to be the thread that ties it all together, remixers @prequeltapes and @scubaofficial both churn out a very different version of this dusky dance floor filler.

‘When I discovered Everything Is Quiet Now, Prequel Tapes’ second album, I just knew I wanted to work with him’, Di Martinelli recalls. ‘There’s so much emotion and detail in his work. I’d been waiting for the right track to ask him to work together. TIDES was just the thing.’ 

In keeping with his signature analogue sound, Prequel Tapes composed a track all of its own that loosely plays with the elements of the original. The subtext is raw like a night out in Berlin, grittily textured with shards of EBM and Industrial. Fast-paced yet languorous, these retro Roland 808 vibes are laced with ethereal, hardly intelligible vocals à la The Knife, softly floating to the surface. 

In the night, the borders between trance and acid blur. A quiet intermezzo reshuffles the entire stack of cards and some of Anne Clark’s Sleeper in Metropolis seeps in. In the end, it boils down to seven minutes of sleeplessness, preferably looped to provide a soundtrack for your insomnia.

SCB works his magic
Not content to hear just one version of his labour’s fruits, Di Martinelli ventured for a second interpretation. Paul Rose aka SCB left his native London to become a fixture in Berlin’s Berghain. Accordingly, he’s cut and dried TIDES to become a cult hit reverberating from club walls the world over. 

Starting straight off the bat, a bone-dry beat fills your eardrums with unapologetic insistence. Suspense builds up as on top of that relentless hammering layer after layer is being built, adding a bassline that creeps up from underneath and only comes up for air in an apostrophe of slashed and syncopated vowels. Then, like a carefully subsiding tide, the track tiptoes before once again crashing on a shore of pointed hi-hats, picking up right where it left off. Merciless yet cathartic down to the very last beat.

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DI MARTINELLI
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@dimartinelli

SCB
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialScuba
Twitter: https://twitter.com/scubaOfficial
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scubaofficial
@scubaofficial

Prequel Tapes
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prequel_tapes
@prequeltapes

DI MARTINELLI - TIDES (Prequel Tapes Remix)

The latest episode of Newtype Rhythms is live and at the ready, courtesy of a stunner of a guest mix from Italian producer https://soundcloud.com/maenadveyl. For more info on Maenad Veyl, as well as interview on his album and creative process -- check out Inverted Audio: https://inverted-audio.com/maenad-veyl-supplies-a-solipsistic-mix-for-newtype-rhythms/

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Newtype Rhythms #83 - Special Guest: Maenad Veyl

Sassy vocal house from Detroit-based producer @ladymonix.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2019/06/03/premiere-ladymonix-ft-rashida-track-39/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/LADYMON

Track 39

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LadyMonix feat. Rashida - Track 39 (STW Premiere)

DAX J & UVB – KING OF THE SEWERS - MONNOM BLACK 019

A1. Murder Wave
A2. Enrico (Dont Cry You Can Live)
B1. Killer & Clutch
B2. King Of The Sewers

Vinyl Release date – 12th July 2019

Berlin’s Monnom Black is back again with the King of The Sewers EP; four cuts of pulsating techno from two of electronic music’s most uncompromising young figures, DAX J & UVB. Already well-known for its more fundamentally rugged take on modern electronics, the label’s 19th release is another intense transmission deep from the underworld.

The menacing tone of the EP hides the friendship that’s developed between these adopted Berliners, two young men who met in the city and discovered a shared passion for raw analogue audio and electronic sounds that marry starkness with depth. Although they began DJing at the same warehouses since 2014, the duo have waited until the right moment to bring together their mutual love of unique mechanised noisescapes and the high-end production values they’ve developed over years of experience and experimentation. The King of The Sewers is that record, a gritty soundtrack inspired by forgotten lives beneath eastern-bloc cities.

For Monnom Black this latest release continues a run of unmistakable techno records that challenge the mainstream with a non-conformist philosophy. The label’s ethos is to push boundary-testing music by artists who are unafraid to explore a chaotic, divided world in the belief that distinctive music can still create moments of grace and community. This is music for the deepest, darkest parts of the night, breaking beyond the dancefloor and into the liminal spaces where analogue and digital, body and mind meet. The King of The Sewers EP represents another step forward in the development of a record label pressing at the borders of what contemporary techno can be.

Digital Release date – 26th July 2019

Mastered By Matt Colton @ Metropolis Studios

King of The Sewers

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DAX J & UVB - MURDER WAVE

VA - Mnemosyne
Out on cassette and digital on June 14th.

After closing its chapter serie, ASG gather a fierce bunch of label affiliates introducing a new format for the label. 
Glancing over the past 4 years, Mnemosyne discloses a new path in which elusive soundscapes and dilated rhythms melt in an undefined space, oscillating in a detached time.

Mastered at Artefacts Mastering Studio, Berlin.
Design by Giandomenico Carpentieri.

B2 - Prequel Tapes - One Thousand Ten

Laiap

Order 'Retrace' at: https://ghostly.com/products/retrace-ep
Or at the retailer of your choice: http://ghostly.lnk.to/lusine-retrace

Retrace

Lusine - Retrace

'Find Sound' is the debut record from Shards, a London based vocal group led by singer, composer and producer Kieran Brunt. Combining voices, synths and percussion, Find Sound is an astonishing exploration of the human voice; using the concepts of sound and light as simple metaphors for gaining understanding. The album’s pieces are intended to be miniature sonic paintings, with each adding to an overall picture of the emotional confusion of early adulthood: the uncertainty, the excitement, the terror and relief.

After collaborating with Terry Riley in 2016, Brunt was asked by the Barbican to form a choral group for Nils Frahm’s Possibly Colliding festival that summer. Following the success of the shows, Frahm invited Brunt to join him in Berlin to collaborate on choral arrangements for his recent album 'All Melody'. Shards have since gone on to collaborate with other notable artists, including Michael Price on his recent LP 'Tender Symmetry'.

Each of the singers in Shards brings a very distinctive musical personality to the group, something which Brunt was eager to emphasise on their debut record. Rather than aiming for a seamless blend or absolute precision when recording, the differences between voices has been intentionally highlighted — celebrating their unique textures and inviting the listener to hear their minutest details up-close.

"The group ended up consisting almost entirely of friends and friends-of-friends. I also tried my best to ask people who weren’t just singers, but who do have other projects and musical interests. As such, we have people in the group who are also composers, instrumentalists, folk musicians and teachers. It’s a vibrant mix, and I’m constantly discovering new things about them the more we make music together.” — Kieran Brunt

Shards is Kieran Brunt, Lucy Cronin, Sarah Latto, Bethany Horak-Hallett, Kate Huggett, Chris Huggon, Jack Lawrence-Jones, Rose Martin, Augustus Perkins Ray, Oli Martin-Smith, Josephine Stephenson and Héloïse Werner.

· pre-order 'Find Sound' on LP/CD/DL: https://idol.lnk.to/FindSound

Find Sound

Summer Sickness

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Shards - Summer Sickness

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Bedroom Tapes is comprised solely of lost material from a recently discovered box of cassettes that emerged in the process of a house move. These tracks capture some of Paul Woolford’s most wide-eyed and naïve creative impulses at a tender age. 

Seemingly lost forever, some were part of sessions that led to him being signed to now-defunct UK techno imprint Blue Basique. This is the first chapter in this archive and an intimate portrait of the artist at a key stage of his creative development. 

The tracks have been carefully mastered with a loving hand by Matt Colton who has been meticulous to retain their idiosyncrasies. 

Released on 2xLP vinyl / CD / Cassette - Cut and mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis, manufactured at optimal media, Germany.

Bedroom Tapes

Phosphorescence

Special Request - Phosphorescence

Blawan at AwakeningsFestival 2013 (Spaarnwoude, Houtrak)

SoundCloud: @soundcloud.com/awakenings
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Website: www.awakenings.com/

Blawan at Awakenings Festival 2013

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

Special Request - Phosphorescence

Houndstooth