floating through the galaxy…planets appear, each with a different vibration that creates a sound… and, while disappearing, leave an echo…a soundscape…gathering stardust *

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Pxrkx - Noir ( ultra slowed )

It’s already been two years since Leonardo Martelli’s debut with the four-tracker Menti Singole. He has since been following the direction he took with this first release, at a rather slow path, releasing a lone and haunted mini-album, Previsto, in the meantime. With Menti Singole Vol.2, Martelli establishes a picture of his music, an update of his aspirations in the feminine.
 
Sparse, clear-cut and slightly nerve-racking, Micaella opens the record with the precision of a neurosurgeon. The song can be seen in many ways as a good introduction to the music of the Italian musician – past and probably future. Ethereal string machines balance the nagging acid leitmotiv: as often with Martelli’s music, there’s something going on in the background, some anonymous forces operating off-screen.
 
We can make the same assessment with Alice, the most obviously desperate tune on the record: the sad synth melody comes in as if it was trying to fill an emotional void, but the supposedly reassuring sentence is not complete, notes are missing. On Laura – just like with Alice – Martelli keeps on playing with the potential of abstraction of rap samples, a process we’re familiar with since Previsto.
 
Sofia gives a particularly striking example of this weird game he likes to play as Biggie Smalls’ words get progressively eviscerated from their meaning. Backed by bare percussive samples (a numerical metronome, copyright-free digital ersatz of percussions), Sofia depicts – without any artifice – despair in a post-industrial world, where everything has lost any sense of materiality – while Previsto was still set in a industrial world of steaming factories. Disarmingly simple, Menti Singole Vol.2 offers electronic mourning music at its most elegant.
Buy vinyl : https://bigwax.fr/fr/antinote/music/menti-singole-vol.-2

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Label: Aroma Pitch Recordings
Cat. no: APR 005
Artist: Aroma Pitch
Title: Phase 27 EP
Format: 12" maxi vinyl / digital
Release date: July 2018

aromapitch@googlemail.com
www.aromapitch.com

A1. Stray and Converge
A2. Blackout
B1. Latin Lover
B2. Aquasphere

Written and produced by Jesse Scherwitz, Julius Richter and Magnus von Welck 
Mastering by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin
Design and Art Direction by Hugo Hoppmann
Distribution by Lobster Theremin, London

Aroma Pitch - Phase 27 EP (Preview)

@BestEffort Records jumps out of the box with their inaugural release ’Number One’ - a selection of tracks that celebrate friends making music together.

"Cantao" is a unique hybrid between computerized dub, subaquatic g-funk and triphop ambiance. High quality Canadian Content from  @NapMusick and @D-Tiffany.

Release Date - July 2018

Sinchi Blog - https://www.sinchi-collective.com/2018/06/28/premiere-nap-d-tiffany-cantao-best-effort/

Youtube - https://youtu.be/H-9Td5DUVQE

PREMIERE - NAP & D. Tiffany - Cantao (Best Effort)

Tanzbar Records is the perfect fuel for the discerning DJ - limited vinyl releases that deliver big sounds in a tasteful manner. This forthcoming Tanzbar release from Far Out Radio Systems is no different. Two tracks designed for big rooms, paired with two IDM productions, but all carry that charateristic soul of FORS tracks, tough drums and emotive, careful synth programming. “Muskoxen” is just that - calm, reassuring pads sit over bubbling drums somewhere north of 170 bpm.

Released: 16/08/18

Check:
https://soundcloud.com/thomasneyens
https://soundcloud.com/tanzbar_records

First Play: Far Out Radio Systems - Muskoxen [Tanzbar]

To mark the 10th ØEN REC. release Fruit debuts with “Island Tape” a striking album of atmospheric and cinematic soundscapes. Originally from Iceland, but based in Denmark Fruit has been making waves in the Copenhagen club scene with his eloquent DJ and live-sets. On “Island Tape” Fruit presents a more personal and introspective side to his distinctive production skills. 

Cultivating soundscapes and narratives that are melancholic yet uplifting, the album is a highly intimate and emotional journey. Across the album’s seven tracks Fruit showcases his unique sound, navigating between ambient soundscapes, percussive melodic house and haunting atmospheres. Skilfully crafted and executed, we are incredibly pleased to share this one with you as our tenth release.   

Release date September 7th on cassette and digital 

All tracks produced by Fruit (@fruitdj)
All tracks mastered by Joel Krozer at Six Bit Deep
Artwork by T L S

Tracklist:
7 xo Planets (04:59) 
Words (05:46)
Bedroom Romance (10.33]
Orbit (3:27)
Italo Island (7:19)
Strangers by the Lake (9:10) 
Sól (1.52)

Fruit - Island Tape [ØEN010] Preview

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From the EP 'EMERALD ISLAND'

Konduku returns for a series of club focused records on Nous'klaer Audio. The K series will launch with the 3-tracker Emerald Island. Music and photography by Konduku. 

Artist: @https://soundcloud.com/kondukukonduku
https://www.facebook.com/konduku/

Label: @https://soundcloud.com/nousklaeraudio
https://www.facebook.com/nousklaeraudio/

Nous'klaer | K1

Premiere : Konduku - Yol [Nous’klaer Audio]

Taken from  the album 'ATAXIA' due out on 15th March
Planet Mu - ZIQ405  - Preorder http://smarturl.it/RianTreanorATAXIA
https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/122321-rian-treanor-ataxia

Rian Treanor will release his anticipated debut album ‘ATAXIA’ on Planet Mu this March. The striking full-length follows singles for The Death Of Rave and Warp’s Arcola imprint as well as live sets at Boilerroom x Genelec, Nyege Nyege festival, tours in India and various high profile EU shows.

The title ‘ATAXIA’ means 'the loss of full control of bodily movements' and relates to Rian's music which is “intended to make people’s bodies move in unpredictable ways.” He adds “the angles in the letters, the phonetics seem to mirror the geometry and idiosyncratic patterns in the music.” Rian explains that components of the tracks were made by generating a series of irregular events and re-structuring them, or by destabilising a pattern that is constant.

  When asked how the album compares with his previous releases, he says “My earlier EPs share a similar interest in angular and asymmetrical rhythms that are designed for club sound systems,” adding “they were more improvised, focusing on sequencing and pattern modulation, using standard drum sounds and synthesiser patches. ATAXIA is more focused and stricter, it’s more co-ordinated in terms of the track selection and the rhythmic structures. I spent more time refining the synthesis and sound design, pushing it further than the previous releases.” He expresses an interest in exploring opposites in his music: “fluidity and syncopation,” “systematic and unpredictability,” “reduction and extremity,” “irregular symmetry,” “easy listening and brutal”. There’s clear a conceptual backdrop, but the music itself is not overthought. There’s an immediate joy to much of the album – check out ATAXIA_D3 with its wonderful cut-ups and modulations of the phrase “people don’t understand people.”

  The roots of Rian's playful sound are directly linked to his love of the music he grew up with. Coming from Sheffield, you can hear elements of industrial, synth-pop, bleep, extreme computer music and speed garage at play. From Cabaret Voltaire to Warp and beyond; the sound of his city has been, and is, an integral part of his musical development and is still a direct influence.

  Last year, he noted in an interview that "I'm not a computer programmer, I'm not an articulate person in that kind of way. I'm a visual artist." Now he elaborates “I meant more that I’m a visual thinker.” Drawing and visual art have been a fundamental part of his life “since I was a child. I got really into graffiti as a teenager and around the same time I got into mixing and these both developed together.” You can sense the mind of a visual artist at work in his music which is also reflected in the artwork he created for this project. 

  As well as his visual art, installations and multichannel sound works he is involved in numerous collaborations such as with composer Nakul Krishnamurthy exploring the common ground between Indian classical music and electronic music and his work with improv saxophonist Karl D'Silva, plus his time studying with Lupo at Dubplates and Mastering in Berlin (who taught him the “importance of reduction”) have all helped shape and push his sound into other unique and adventurous zones. Treanor is developing on different levels and in different forms all at the same time, re-imagining the intersection of club culture, experimental art and computer music, presenting an insightful and compelling musical world of fractured and interlocking components.

ATAXIA

Rian Treanor - ATAXIA_D1, Taken from ATAXIA out 15th March

Crack Magazine

Crack Mix 254 – re:ni

Roger 23 - is demanding for a CULTURAL NEGOTIATION

A1. Gathering Dust
A2. Cultural Negotiation
B1. ...w/Da 15,88% Assistance Ov Nils Maneuvers In The Dark: Win [Mega MIX + Super Dub]
B2. From Interval To Interval He Does Chance His Postion (Black Gold Mix)

Galactic Peace Gathering Hymns

ITX014 ROGER 23 - IS DEMANDING FOR A CULTURAL NEGOTIATION

The fourth multi-artist EP from blog-turned-record label Innate takes the imprint’s inherently warm and far-sighted sound into new intergalactic directions, offering up a quartet of cuts from established producers and rising stars: all inspired by dreams of cross-cosmic travel and the alluring weightlessness of deep space.

While all of Innate’s previous releases have tended towards the futuristic and otherworldly, EP number four explores the label’s love of stargazing electronic music much more explicitly. It features tracks that tend towards the timeless, mixing shimmering, life-affirming melodies, starburst electronics and twinkling chords. 

The A-side is all about deep, melodious and spacey electro, with tracks coming courtesy of two artists who are at very different stages in their musical careers. Up first is Steven Brunsmann AKA Aroy Dee, an experienced and much-loved Dutch scene stalwart making a rare appearance away from his acclaimed M>O>S Recordings label. “Leegte”, his sole outing of 2020 so far, is impressively immersive with Brunsmann cloaking a jaunty bassline and lo-fi electro beats in sumptuous aural textures and glassy-eyed chord sequences. The second slab comes courtesy of Innate label regular Gilbert, whose dedication to the more melodious and ear-catching end of the machine soul spectrum has been such a feature of the imprint’s releases to date. “Furthest Planet” may well be his most inspired musical workout yet: a deep electro roller whose lilting lead lines, shimmering electronics, yearning chords and tumbling acid lines are little less than life-affirming.

Over on side B, the sound subtly shifts towards the vibrant, multi-coloured sci-fi shimmer of techno in its purest form. First to make his mark is label newcomer Jonski, an alternate alias for fast-rising Bristol electro producer Zobol (real name Jon Chimielewski). “Venusian Surface” is classic star-gazing techno, with vivid chords, echoing synth squiggles, bubbly TB-303 motifs and alluring lead lines rising above a classic tech-funk bassline and bustling machine drums. To round of a great EP in style, Innate turns to effervescent Welshman DJ Guy. Fresh from inspired outings on Unthank and Other World Music, the Cardiff-based producer slams down a sweaty, energetic and forthright techno stomper. “Aphelion Orbit” boasts some brilliantly breathless, jacking drum programming – all machine-gun snare fills and snappy handclaps – but it’s the celestial shimmer of the accompanying chords and melodies that lingers longest in the memory. It’s a perfect conclusion to Innate’s most melodious and action-packed release to date.

PREMIERE : Aroy Dee - Leegte JA

Lots of great music coming out these days

Load Management pt. 1

Munich based record label founded in 2007 and run by the Zenker Brothers. 
Artists: Andrea, Andrés Zacco, Atrice, Dario Zenker, Deetron presents Soulmate, Djrum, Dj Plant Texture, Etch, Fireground, Full Bloom, Jake Muir, Jichael Mackson, Kas / Galaxian, Katatonic Silentio, Kid Sundance, Konrad Wehrmeister, Laksa, Mia Koden, Marco Zenker, MPU101, Packed Rich, Pessimist, Prime Vertical, re:ni, Roger 23, ROLROLROL, Sciahri, Seba & Paradox, Simple, Skee Mask, Stenny, Surgeon, Sustrapperazzi, Thigpen, Walton, Zeki 808, Zenker Brothers

ITX014 ROGER 23 - IS DEMANDING FOR A CULTURAL NEGOTIATION

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