GAMUT INC – BREATH OF SEVEN BREASTS

I’ve been experimenting further with re-tuning everything I own into Carnatic scales and using chance operations in my sequencing to control slides, accents and reverb and delay sends.

I used to use maxmsp to retune synths using midi guitar mode and pitch bend on each channel with a snazzy custom patch I built but now oddsound just does it all for me. I think they built weird scales into live itself now but oddsound MTS does it better. I've become slightly obsessed with the bhairavi raga scales, they're dreamy. 

Is anyone else really suffering with live 12? It crashes all the time for me when any project reaches over a few tracks in size...

Pang Remold

Art Form 4

Exet

Exet [2 min promo]

»La Traversée« (»The Crossing«) is Matthias Puech’s second album for Hallow Ground and follows up on 2023’s »Mt. Hadamard National Park.« Profoundly inspired by re-reading »The Odyssey,« the French composer, instrument designer, and scholar used a Eurorack modular synthesizer to create four pieces that are by far the most intuitive and emotionally charged in his ever-expanding catalogue. Puech’s masterful command of sound comes to the forefront with even more urgency on this record. A wandering meditation on the human condition, »La Traversée« is an album that is constantly in motion—complex electronic music at its most gripping and evocative.

The foundation for »La Traversée« was laid when Puech prepared a live set for a tour organised in collaboration with Hallow Ground in support of »Mt. Hadamard National Park.« Before writing the first three pieces—»Ennosigaios,« »Polyphármakos,« »Nekuia«—the 18½-minute-long »Ithâké« was composed in near-total isolation in the South of France at the end of 2023. Puech performed the material live several times before taking a step black from it for a while. He revisited the pieces when preparing them for a release. »I was struck by how the technical process and the intention behind the music had completely vanished from my memory,« he says.

What remained intact, however, was Puech’s association of the material with one of the most influential texts of Western literature. Reading a graphic novel adaptation of »The Odyssey« with his two four-year-olds, he noticed the effect that it had on them and himself. »Its themes of longing, fear of and attraction to the unknown, unresolved quests, and the struggle for control felt topical,« he says. »I was completely taken. Every story ever told seemed contained in this ancient tale; every story I have ever tried to tell as a composer seemed inscribed in this framework.« This also extended to formal motifs such as the repetition of incidents, narrative developments, or dramatic effects that also mark »La Traversée.«

Puech says that he perceived Homer’s writing as musical, »like an old Delta blues or a Renaissance counterpoint,« which inspired his writing process. »With a couple of knobs on my Eurorack system, I could control the unfolding of a story,« he notes. »This made me pass through different emotional states and led to moments in which everything made sudden sense—when you as an artist get a glimpse at something essential, can touch upon something universal.« This shines through »La Traversée,« a wildly imaginative album that is deeply personal while also telling a story far more wide-reaching than that of its creator.

Composed, recorded and mixed by Matthias Puech
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Cover: excerpt from J. M. W. Turner, Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (1842)
Drawing by Matthias Puech

La Traversée

Ennosigaios

https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/colour-kinetica-bc095

The Dormon brothers have been honing their craft since the 90's. Releasing a raft of albums and EPs on some great labels like Piehead, Lom, Senton, Progerik and the seminal Toytronic, over the years. "Toytronic" in particular, was one of the labels that inspired what we do here at Bricolage. It had a huge impact on me as a teenager and the Multiplex "Pinghaus Frequencies" album from the label was constantly on rotation in my bedroom. It's pretty surreal that now, more than twenty years after hearing that album, we can welcome them onto the label. The world works in magical ways.

"Multiplex recordings are far from the standard studio format, as we build up the tracks on two sets of music equipment, in two countries, with two biased opinions of what the final result should be. But instead of fighting for control of the studio and the mix, we surrender control of our ideas to each other, which has worked well so far."

The result makes for raw, analogue chaos. When they go hard they go all in but there's also the other side that seeps through with their more textured electronica that breezes along so smoothly.

The "Colour Kinetica" album has all the Multiplex hallmarks. Abrasive yet vibrant melodies, cyber basslines and elastic rhythms. They take the genre's bleeps and bass elements and put them through their own audio grinder to create a unique brand of head spinning electro.

"Colour Kinetica" is their first new album in quite some time and it's safe to say it's been worth the wait as we get to enter into an innovative sonic realm. 


https://soundcloud.com/user-64321338

Colour Kinetica

Multiplex - The Long Way Ohm (from the "Colour Kinetica" album)

Pressure Front

Plaque w/ YOKEL: 4th November '25

https://ransom-note-records.lnk.to/TrolleyCoin

Ransom Note Records are over the moon to welcome underground hero Autumns to the fold! Autumns, aka Christian Donaghey, has been catapulting angular Post Punk weapons over the ramparts since 2014, via the likes of Downwards, Opal Tapes, iDEAL Recordings and DKA Records. You may have witnessed his fierce live show already, which he has been touring all over the world with Veronica Vasicka, Silent Servant and Wire. We are therefore thoroughly hyped to welcome him with open arms, as he propels four ferocious tunes in our direction. 

The brilliantly titled Trolley Coin is as immediate as it is well named, with beautiful retro bass and Art of Noise-esque drums assaulting the senses. Trademark distorted, echoed vocals are present here too, building an atmosphere of duality: one part petrified dread, one part danceable joy!

FOLLOW AUTUMNS:
https://soundcloud.com/autumns
https://www.instagram.com/autumns.dss/
https://autumnsdss.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/autumns.dss.official

FOLLOW R$N RECORDS:
www.facebook.com/theransomnote
www.instagram.com/thisisransomnote
ransomnoterecords.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/ransom-note-records

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Autumns - Trolley Coin

Artist: Hypercube (Rodrigo Passannanti)
Release page: https://evel.bandcamp.com/album/ai-antichrist
Genre: Twisted Electronica
Label: Evel Records

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Echo Vault Drift – Drift Phonk Instrumental Beats

The days are shorter, afternoons are darker and outside is cold. December's full moon, aptly named Cold Moon, was shining bright yesterday night. And our 65th episode of Selene Series arrives in due time to put a soundtrack to those winter moments. 

This time we went for a rough and ready exercise on half-time. It has been a while since we have shared a mix of modern drum and bass, atmospheric, psychedelic and swampy. And our folders are full of it! Really enjoyed improvising with a selection of music we have been itching to play with for a while. Some amazing artists and humans in this selection (L) 

Let your mind dance and maybe get lost on this collection of incredible sound design, impossible drum patterns and a fast fast fast tempo. 

Welcome back to Selene Series, see you when the moon is full...

Mixed by DOC.

Selene Series 065

HYPERCUBE creates a complex soundscape under CPU demands

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