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PHONO is a non-compromising music festival dedicated to experimental and electronic music based in Odense, Denmark. 

12. - 14. OCTOBER 2017

PHONO17 – Encourage

11-12-2017 - 17/12/2017

Here is our incomplete, biased, oversimplified summary of our favourite music this year: the final dregs of Christmas Pudding on the plate.

The Stray Landings Christmas Pudding

Buy HTH035: 8 track CD & digital http://found.ee/HTH035 
Buy HTH030: 2 track remix EP on heavyweight 12" bit.ly/HTH030 
Download HTH030 from iTunes: smarturl.it/HTH030 
Play HTH030 on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/4oNkddDxTVLrF77X5R1daq

“An absolutely outstanding piece of work” - Mary Anne Hobbs (BBC 6 Music)

"Haxan Cloak remixed Akkord and it's one of the best things he's ever made" - Tri Angle Records

"For anyone bold enough to drop it in a club, expect folk to fall over or climb the stacks by its final climax" - Boomkat

HTH030

HTH020 (The Haxan Cloak’s Cloud Of Witness)

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Akkord – HTH020 (The Haxan Cloak’s Cloud Of Witness) [Houndstooth]

Natureboy

Shipibo Icaro

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9q48mvvv39qviyx/Estelle%20-%20American%20Boy%20Ft.%20Kanye%20West%20%28Hounded%20Remix%29%20%281%29.mp3?dl=0

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Estelle - American Boy Ft. Kanye West (Hounded Remix)

We're hosting the first listen to the new EP from eclectic, noisy Bristolian producer Silver Waves out on Howling Owl Records / Portals Editions on 22 July. More info here: https://crackm.ag/2S5MDOA

SILVER WAVES - 'V'

N.M.O. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK---S2LX88

2LP / HOT SAUCE / DIGITAL 

‘NORDIC MEDITERRANEAN ORGANIZATION / NUMEROUS MISCOMMUNICATIONS OCCUR’ [DIAG031]

7 OCTOBER 2016

To celebrate Diagonal’s HOTTEST AND SWEATIEST release yet, the first 100 copies of the record will include a battery acid popper of HOT SAUCE by Alexander Krone, a sauce maker and visual artist with a background in the Amsterdam and Mexico punk squat scene.

Nordic Mediterranean Organization / Numerous Miscommunications Occur [DIAG031]

RIYL Roma

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DIAG031 N.M.O. 'RIYL Roma'

YALLY (Raime) - Burnt (excerpt)

Winner track of the contest by Jessy Blue + Elina S.A. @elina_audio_specialists

download: flokosh.bandcamp.com/album/memphexpe-tape-cassettes-available

FATA MORGANA

Pedro Vian

Title: 
Beautiful Things You Left Us For Memories

Pedro Vian - Pandora (Peder Mannerfelt Remix)

MOM007

Written and Produced by Pedro Vian
Remixed by Peder Mannerfelt 

Modern Obscure Music 2017 ©
All Rights Reserved ®

Design by Marc Monguilod
Photography by Adrià Cañameras

Pedro Vian - Pandora (Peder Mannerfelt Remix)

Melodrama

Green Light

Taken From the album 'Distractions' CD/LP/Digital -
 out on Hyperdub 2nd June 2017
Preorder direct from us here and get this track upfront: https://ikonika.bandcamp.com/

Distractions

Ikonika - Manual Decapitation

Full stream of Ellen Arkbro's stunning composition "Mountain of Air," a rework a track from her latest work, 'for organ & brass,' out on Subtext Recordings on April 14.

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2017/04/premiere-hear-a-stunning-new-composition-by-ellen-arkbro/

@ellenarkbro
@subtext-recordings

More info

Premiere: Ellen Arkbro - Mountain of Air

Taken from the Maximum Joy compilation "I Can't Stand It Here On Quiet Nights: Singles 1981-82", forthcoming on Silent Street Records. 

Pre-order 2x12" here:
https://silentstreet.bandcamp.com/album/i-cant-stand-it-here-on-quiet-nights-singles-1981-82

Lyrics: Wrafter; Music: Maximum Joy
Produced by Dick O'Dell, John Walker, Pete Mayburn
Originally released on Y Records (12Y 11, 1981).

I Can't Stand It Here On Quiet Nights (SSR001 - Mastered WAVs)

Maximum Joy - Silent Street / Silent Dub

theLay Low

Love Theme

Desert Exile

Ever since their initial singles were released in the mid-1990s and became international calling cards for the Chain Reaction label, the Porter Ricks duo of Thomas Köner and Andy Mellwig have represented that crucible point in which techno music leaked into new social environments and became the background music for cutting-edge cultural critique. Their submerged “scuba” sound, presented in dark tone colors and reverberating to infinity, is now instantly identifiable as one of the ‘soundmarks’ of Berlin club culture. Just as importantly, it is still a palpable aftershock of a pre-millenial genre explosion that saw deep dub, shimmering post-rock, abstract hip-hop and art-damaged noise all drinking from the same well of inspiration. Together with restless international collaborators such as Kevin Martin, and theoretical thinktanks such as the Mille Plateaux label, Mellwig and Köner were key players in a larger decentralized rebellion against musical monoculture. Their stated desire to make unexpected timbral shifts as important to their compositions as rhythm, along with their indifference to concerns like public image, set up a situation that critic Kodwo Eshun picked up on early on (“no pictures or interviews act as shock absorbers…the full force of their inexplicable sounds falls around your ears.”)

For proof of Porter Ricks’ enduring legacy, look no further than the fact that “dub techno” is now a stylistic movement that has expanded far beyond the confines of Berlin and the Basic Channel / Chain Reaction label alliance (where Mellwig’s mastering skills also played a starring role). Lurid traces of PR’s aesthetic can now be found in the work of producers like Andy Stott and Miles Whittaker, showing the potential for the duo’s unique ‘aquatic’ techniques to be applied to a variety of different musical contexts. However, this does present Porter Ricks with the unique challenge of reasserting themselves in a scene that has mastered their sonic vocabulary so well, the originals themselves run the risk of sounding like imitators…are they up to the task?

Their new LP on Tresor, Anguilla Electrica, may be their first full-length release in seventeen full years, but it radiates with confidence and with a clarity and intensity rarely seen in a world so oversaturated with communications noise. It’s made clear at once that it’s a continuation of a sonic ideal rather than a tribute to what has already been achieved: the duo is not idly sitting back while their newer acolytes do their talking for them. From the outset, the title track “Anguilla Electrica” slithers to life with bouncing and panning sequences that cover the full frequency spectrum and provide a perfect update on Porter Ricks’ exploration of animalistic movement and perception. Elsewhere, pieces such as “Scuba Rondo” also reanimate the classic Porter Ricks sound in striking fashion, playfully setting up a virtual sonic kitchen in which gelatinous sound phrases blend with steamy hisses and distinct crackling. In other places, like “Port of Tangency” and “Shoal Beat,” the duo once again demonstrates just how effortlessly catchy the conversational tension between lockstep groove and slightly unhinged, unidentifiable sound material can be.

This new LP is well worth the wait and is a life-affirming one in an uncertain and perilous time, drowning out daily anxieties like a rush of incoming surf - yet it is far more invigorating than relaxing. True to the Porter Ricks tradition, it will be just as exciting hearing this music as it will be to experience what new cultural mutations it leaves in its wake

Anguilla Electrica

Tresor Store

Porter Ricks - Anguilla Electrica

The title track off DJ LAG's fan exclusive 3-track EP, "Trip to New York". 

The EP was distributed via Whatsapp on 14 July 2017 to those who had signed up via DJ LAG's website.

Trip To New York EP

Trip to New York

Trip To New York

Music composed and produced by Caterina Barbieri between September 2015 and January 2016. Mixed at Elektronmusikstudion in
Stockholm (SE). Composed with an ER-101 Indexed Quad 
Sequencer and a Verbos Harmonic Oscillator. 
Images by Giovanni Brunetto 
Photography by Angelo Jaroszuk Bogasz 
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi 
First edition pressing of 500 double LPs packaged in a gatefold jacket. An edition of 200 sets on transparent blue vinyl is available for Important mailorder customers: http://importantrecords.com/imprec/imprec449
Bandcamp: https://caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/patterns-of-consciousness
"...has an imperial, exacting beauty." (The Wire)
“…few albums have hit us as hard as Caterina Barbieri’s 70-minute opus, Patterns Of Consciousness. On her debut full-length, Barbieri commands tsunami-height waves of arpeggiated analog synths." (Fact Mag)
"Patterns Of Consciousness finds Caterina Barbieri at her best, elegantly moving between melodically pleasant yet twisted sequences and comforting, reassuring sonic spaces. Every piece, while given a singular identity, is part of the bigger picture: a work of art that will push you, pull you, and then eventually leave you with your back against the wall once you get to the last track. " Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails)

Gravity that Binds

The openng track from the EP, Tommy Released on Hyperdub 29th September 2017.
Universal iTunes link for Tommy EP: http://smarturl.it/KleinTommyEP
And on Apple Music with ‘Runs Reprise’ streaming: http://smarturl.it/KleinTommyEPAppleMus
Preorder Vinyl and digital direct on bandcamp here: 
https://klein1997.bandcamp.com/

Tommy

Klein: Prologue ft atl, jacob samuel, thisisDA, Pure water,  eric sings

From album 'TRACED', Pattern 04, Sonic Pieces, 2017

Traced

Post Human

A. Sportiv003 Cosmin TRG - Afterburn

Full stream of Yair Elazar Glotman's evocative new album, Compound, out now on Subtext Recordings. 

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2017/10/stream-yair-elazar-glotmans-evocative-new-album-in-full/

@yair-elazar-glotman
@subtext-recordings

Compound

Exclusive: Yair Elazar Glotman - Veil

This is the lead track from DJ Taye's debut album  ' Still Trippin' due out on Hyperdub on March 2nd 2018. It features Chuck Inglish from Midwest Rap group 'Cool Kids' on vocals.
You can preorder the album and also buy this track here: https://djtaye.bandcamp.com/

Get It Jukin Feat Chuck Inglish

Get It Jukin

DJ Taye - 'Get It Jukin' Feat Chuck Inglish

Hyperdub is a record label based in South East London UK

Klein: Prologue ft atl, jacob samuel, thisisDA, Pure water, eric sings

Hyperdub Records