𝒯𝐻𝐸 𝒪𝒯𝐻𝐸𝑅𝒩𝐸𝒮𝒮 ₑₚ.₁₃
december 2024 (𝕟𝕠𝕠𝕕𝕤)

blume &
guest : @bensleia (on the 2nd half)

𝒯𝐻𝐸 𝒪𝒯𝐻𝐸𝑅𝒩𝐸𝒮𝒮 ₑₚ.₁₃ ʷ ᵇˡᵘᵐᵉ & ᵇᵉⁿ ˢˡᵉⁱᵃ (𝕟𝕠𝕠𝕕𝕤)

Mattia Prete returns to Jazz-o-Tech with a new EP that emphasises the power of collaboration. His dark, abstract Eruption EP blends electronic and jazz sounds and features musicians from the label roster across five edgy tracks.
Prete has been expanding his musical horizons in recent years. After building a solid foundation in techno, he has begun to work across a wider world of electronic and organic sounds while also working closely with formally trained musicians, plenty of whom feature on this EP. 
 
This world has allowed him to express himself more freely and authentically while adapting and responding to new and contrasting settings. From performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival with Daniel Calvi as 505 to DJing in underground venues like Tresor in Berlin, he continues to make innovative connections between different worlds while continuing to bring diverse artists together on this label.
 
As always with his productions, Prete went wherever the music took him with this EP. It follows no trends, is packed with expressionism and draws on deeply personal emotions while once again highlighting that techno and jazz can communicate together in many different ways. The results are cinematic and fluid, run through with dreamy synths but also built on direct and clubby rhythms with an industrial undertone.

Opener 'Nebula' Ft. Aki Himanen and Aleksi Kinnunen is a widescreen sound with live jazz drums and pained sax lingering in the air above fizzing synths. It's roomy but packed with details and ever-increasing drama. 'Solar Approach' ft Alegros rides on rubbery kick drums and has sweeping chords that reach up to the sky where twinkling melodies awake. There's a halfway switch up when breakbeats change the groove and sombre trumpets sweep across the mix.
'Subway Juice' ft. TUN is much more direct and physical. The sax notes are busy and restless, the drums crash hard and the cymbals splash loudly while acid motifs and busy melodic scales play out in a wild frenzy. 'Cactus' brings a punchy jungle rhythm and icy synths bring unease and edginess to the oversized bass, then Prete collaborates with Daniel Calvi and Leonie on 'Palettes'. It's another bold and in-your-face collision of brass, bass guitar, punishing drums and low-end menace that drives into darkness.
  
Jazz-o-Tech is a label that draws on the rich heritage of two of the most visionary and experimental genes in music: jazz and techno. Taking inspiration from the freeform creative nature of those two musical worlds, artists on the label mix tradition with modernity, improvisation with experimentation, and create a new sound known as techno-jazz. Modern music needs to be ambitious. It must aim to deliver a musical message which is one step beyond what has already been heard. It must take you on a new musical journey into unknown dimensions and emotions. That is the Jazz-o-Tech mission.

Credits:

Track 1 features Aki Himanen on trumpet and Aleksi Kinnunen on Drums

Track 2 features Alegros Gramma on Saxophone

Track 3 features TUN (Torino Unlimited Noise) with Gianni Denitto on Saxophone, Mattia Barbieri on drums, and Fabio Giachino on Keys and Synths.

Track 5 features Daniel Calvi on Synths and Electric Bass, and Leonie on Saxophone

Written, produced and arranged by Mattia Prete
at Garden 505 Studio in Berlin.

Mixed and Mastered by Luigi Di Filippo at LRS Factory in Rome

Artwork by Todo Kunst

Released by Jazz-O-Tech

Solar Approach ft. Alegros

The Psychonauts w/ Sister Effect 14-02-2025

Ce mois-ci, nous recevons dans notre série de podcasts Speechmaker, résident sur Noods Radio avec son émission mensuelle Bodân, il est aussi co-fondateur du label Ethos Records aux côtés de Eendracht, avec qui il anime Oratio sur Retreat Radio. Acteur clé de l’association rennaise ÖND, il contribue en tant que DJ et programmateur à l’émission RadiÖND sur Egregore Radio.

Son spectre musical est large : électro, beats brisés, bass music, techno, downtempo, ambient, rap, grime… Il privilégie avant tout l’inattendu et l’intensité, alternant textures immersives et choix audacieux. Un silence peut surgir pour capturer l’attention, suivi d’un groove implacable qui enflamme le dancefloor.

Refusant toute étiquette, Speechmaker navigue entre tempos et atmosphères avec une précision chirurgicale. Rapide ou lent, sombre ou exalté, il façonne un langage sonore singulier, conçu pour provoquer des émotions fortes et ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives.

@speechmaker

SSS Podcast #571 : Speechmaker

Streaming from Amsterdam's Radio Radio: this is RRFM.NL w/ @kat91199

Tracklist:

12 Chairs - Maroki
Lizard Eyes - Reptant
Mechanical Rustle - Ayesha, Sha Ru 
Cowlick - Mor Elian & Rhyw
Pleasure (Bambounou here to please remix) - Jennifer Loveless
I.M.O.K. R.U.O.K. - Dimension 23
Drive - S.O.N.S
Temptations and Distractions - Blu:sh
Eso Eso - Mor Elian
Buzz - Ayesha
LOKO (unreleased) - MXC
Grafters - Sputnik One

RRFM • KAT • 27-03-2025

Counterpoint Radio - Ep. 1 - Stave

READ > inverted-audio.com/premiere-supercontinuum-topped-bons-part-2

Following a string of self-releases, Brooklyn-based producer Supercontinuum unleashes his debut album, delivering twelve raw and high octane hardware experiments, primed for bare knuckle techno ravers...Our pick from the album is ‘Topped Bons, Part 2’, a mutant drone voyage where ghostly overtones and saturated basslines amalgamate into a sinister, slow-burning nightmare. As the track unravels, it conjures a macabre sonic hallucination, teetering on the edge of pure horror.

@supercontinuum

Supercontinuum - Topped Bons, Part 2

Title:
Earth

1: "Earth", 05:02 (00:00)
2: "Parting", 06:22, (05:02)
3: "Trees", 05:28, (11:24)
4, "Insects", 1:35, (16:52)
5, "Visitor", 04:23, (18:27)
End (22.50)

Dates:
01-Nov-2025 (inception), 01-Nov-2025 (finalised), 04-Nov-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund
Music Video by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/album/earth

Description:
After recording "Granie Demo3 - Lyra Dreams The Halloween Edition" (Ref. [1]), I had to have a wind down session just jamming out, or was it going more hyper -- you be the judge.

Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4 were recorded DAWless on the Granie, feeding it the Soma Lyra 8. Granie is my granular synthesiser Ref. [2].

Track 1 used a definite tuning library, whereas for tracks 2, 3 and 4, it was all modified and improvised. The tuning is listed below, negative frequencies meant play backwards, these were the grain play-back frequencies, which may differ to the human perceived frequency.

Grain Bank 1 frequencies [Hz]:
1: -1.635
2: 0.265
3: 0.985
4: 1.465
5: 2.165
6: 2.865
7: 4.165
8: 12.465

Grain Bank 2 frequencies [Hz]:
1:14.
2: 3.
3: 13.
4: 20.
5: 25.
6: 32
7: 28.
8: -2.4

Grain Bank 3 frequencies [Hz]:
1: 3
2: 14
3: 17
4: 22
5: 23
6: 25
7: 41
8: 47

Grain Bank 4 frequencies [Hz]:
1: 117
2: 122
3: 125
4: 129
5: 131
6: 136
7: 141
8: 40

The tuning was determined one grain bank at a time, all by ear, ensuring each new bank's ith note worked well with the next bank's ith note.

For track 5, I was curious what the tuning of track 1 would sound like with a fixed discrete tuning instrument, so took the raw track 1 tuning and put it into Ableton Live, an exact replica of tuning but with no granular synthesis human perceived tuning corrections. Some selective octave reduction was also used, this tuning is shown below:

ID, Bank, Local, FreqRatio, Cents
0, 0, 0, 1.000, 0c
1, 0, 1, 0.162, -3150c
2, 0, 2, 0.602, -877c
3, 0, 3, 0.896, -190c
4, 0, 4, 1.324, 486c
5, 0, 5, 1.752, 971c
6, 0, 6, 2.547, 1619c
7, 0, 7, 7.624, 3517c
8, 1, 0, 1.070, 118c
9, 1, 1, 0.229, -2549c
10, 1, 2, 0.994, -11c
11, 1, 3, 1.529, 735c
12, 1, 4, 1.911, 1121c
13, 1, 5, 2.446, 1549c
14, 1, 6, 2.141, 1318c
15, 1, 7, 0.183, -2936c
16, 2, 0, 1.835, 1051c
17, 2, 1, 8.563, 3718c
18, 2, 2, 10.398, 4054c
19, 2, 3, 13.456, 4500c
20, 2, 4, 14.067, 4577c
21, 2, 5, 15.291, 4721c
22, 2, 6, 25.076, 5578c
23, 2, 7, 28.746, 5814c
24, 3, 0, 1.118, 193c
25, 3, 1, 1.166, 266c
26, 3, 2, 1.195, 308c
27, 3, 3, 1.233, 362c
28, 3, 4, 1.252, 389c
29, 3, 5, 1.300, 454c
30, 3, 6, 1.347, 516c
31, 3, 7, 0.382, -1665c

I used a bell instrument, ok, this is weird, the tuning, not the instrument, but it worked, 8 notes for each of the Granie banks, strung together into 32 notes and just stuck with only using those 32 notes. I realised I needed a timing track, so picked a drum set and set the Push2 midi controller into 1/16th repeat note mode and improvised some drums into a 21 bar section. Improvised on the Bells track into 18 bars. Put the percussion and bells into looped playback and improvised on the Lyra 8 -- one take, improvised tuning oh ya.

This was all done in the session view of Live, then bounced into the arrangement view ready to play back and do the mastering by putting in volume swells for interest.

You can hear the whole album on my YouTube channel at:
https://youtu.be/Dd1BKzmb1hU

References:
[1]	Granie Demo3 - Lyra Dreams The Halloween Edition, Link: https://youtu.be/5HTL0VaQpvI
[2]	Granie, Granular synthesiser by Norman Freund, purchase at: https://normanfreund.gumroad.com/l/granie


Insects

Defiance Idref

OBITAL

Download on :
http://www.lesyeuxorange.com/podcast-series/lyo081-versalife-aka-conforce/

LYO#081 / Versalife (aka Conforce)

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Supercontinuum - Topped Bons, Part 2

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