Electronic and techno - Part 1

Killing Distance

Xquisite Releases present ‘hypocrite 21’ the new release by London based artist great area

through five tracks great area weaves a diary of intimacy, as much with the grey beauty of the city as with any human, time
spent travelling on buses and walking pavements, great area seems to offer these songs as companions. 

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sg5KITdT04

cover art by grey area
mastered by oscar khan

great area - dead

Does It Look Like I'm Here?

Goes By

this live (des life)

Is Peace Wild?

>EThereal Futhion

Endless song (I fell so)

that saturday felt like a dream

Colonial Patterns

Struck With Deer Lungs

HELM - Chemical Flowers
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 99
Release Date: 17 May 2019
Purchase: https://bit.ly/2Uxqs9z / https://bit.ly/2UpJ0bA

Luke Younger returns to PAN with an eight-track album of his most direct work to date. Composed alone at NO studio in the Essex countryside, to start an album with a piece called ‘Capital Crisis (New City Loop)’ seems an intentional misnomer. Long, sustained periods in the rural studio setting see Younger working with an array of fragmented, disassociated sound sources to build upon 2015’s Olympic Mess. It shares a similarly inclined vision of the urban environment, but here Chemical Flowers makes reference to paradoxical notions of authenticity and creative practice by way of questioning the structures around us. Collages are assembled and dismantled, temporal and spatial boundaries fluctuate and movement is an overarching theme.

Surrealist drowned world atmospheres sculpted far enough away from the source of inspiration leave plenty of room for ambiguity. The nocturnal nature of the recording process is self-evident, and pieces like ‘Leave Them All Behind’ tap into a deep psychedelic undercurrent. Confused narratives, emotions and aleatory hallucinations ebb and flow throughout. ‘I Knew You Would Respond’ evokes murky soundtrack terrain with eerie repetitive strings and ambient respite, disrupted periodically by brief bursts of granular noise. It’s one of the records most unnerving moments, possibly as it’s one of the most recognisably human.

The album navigates dense passages with recurring signifiers. Hollow percussion, modulating delay and curious field recordings come and go, maintaining a perpetual state of flux where nothing stays the same for long. The drowned world theatricals return on the swamp-like ‘Lizard in Fear’ whilst string rhythms creep in on the penultimate track to incite momentary electroacoustic harmony. Floating synthesis slowly washes over and the title track unfolds - five minutes of reverb-laced portamento, visions of decay and Editions EG influenced
world-building. Movement is key.

Chemical Flowers features string parts arranged and recorded by JG Thirlwell (Foetus / Manorexia / Xordox). Additional cello played by Lucinda Chua and saxophone by Karl D’Silva. The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

http://p-a-n.org

Chemical Flowers

HELM - I Knew You Would Respond (PAN 99)

Sheet One

Plasticine (Remastered)

Drp (Remastered)

Plasticity (Remastered)

Helikopter (Remastered)

Gak (Remastered)

A Shadow In Time

Loidis/Pendant/autobouncer620/Bell Le Roy/Independence Ave. Orchestra/Mio Mio/Mosslander Tablet/Royal Crown of Sweden

Struck With Deer Lungs

Huerco S.

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