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For this @DarkScienceElectro premiere we check in with Russian imprint Analog Concept. The label is back with a new record from Koova and MSRG.

This record is the result of quality work with synthesizers, modulars and drum machines. The music reflects the highest level of artists and the ability to work in a multi-genre format.  Each track is unique and touches on different subgenres of electronic music from IDM to Electro.

Clips: https://soundcloud.com/ancpt/ancpt004-koova-msrg-human-machine-interface-ep
Buy: https://www.deejay.de/Koova_%26_MSRG_Human-Machine_Interface_ANCPT004_Vinyl__975280

Additional resources:
www.analogconcept.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/analogconcept
http://www.facebook.com/analogconcept

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Since 1991, Tresor has provided a home for artists to develop their ideas for advanced new sounds and broadcast them to the world. The pioneers that first traversed the Detroit-Berlin connection and were at the forefront of a new cultural movement gave to Tresor its original and continuing mission: community, resistance and reshaping the world to come.

The Tresor 30 compilation represents a major landmark in this continuing history of electronic music. This unique collection of music profiles some of the artists that gave the previous three decades of Tresor its sound and foundation, but it also casts its gaze forward. Writing new postcards from the future, this collection brings new artists who maintain a connection to that original mission to the fore, charting ways in which this ethos can continue to build bridges and break walls in the next 30 years.

Bringing together 52 essential tracks - both classics and exclusive commissions - each of the 12 records in this box-set charts a unique line of flight from those artists that helped define the shape of this new music to those who continue to pattern its landscape further.

The future is bright and it’s now.

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It Knows Your Name

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Neptunian Influence, Seventy-Four | Featuring @bbmmgg / @erikadotnet / @ithqdetroit

Neptunian Influence: Detroit Brunch Journey's End is the gift that keeps on giving. Recorded live on May 25, 2024, we are proud to present Ectomorph's electrifying DJ set. To have the iconic Detroit electro duo perform at our closing party was a dream, and they slid in and took everyone in attendance deep into the Great Dark Spot. We hope that you enjoy this little piece of NI history!

SUPPORT: https://ectomorph.bandcamp.com/ 

Meet you in the Great Dark Spot <3

NI74 | Ectomorph

Inertia Dreams

Zerk (SA) - Beyond the Surface [Superordinate Dub Waves]

2xLP pressed on black vinyl at Archer Records, Detroit -

A1 Beyond The Six Realms
A2 Filthy Demands
A3 Agate

B1 Crawl of the Cthulu
B2 Mysteries (of The)

C1 Stalker	
C2 The Alarm

D1 Psychic Downfall
D2 In Dreams

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Ectomorph occupy a unique and strange place within Detroit Techno history. Founded in 1994 as an inspired reaction to DBX, Basic Channel, Rob Hood, Sähkö, and Drexciya, they released their first 12" singles in 1995 as an attempt to make Detroit music for Detroit itself, rather than exclusively for export.

The mystique of their early singles led to mythic status and a strong underground cult following, which they have continued to develop through releases on their own Interdimensional Transmissions label. Their live shows are legendary for their ability to fluidly incorporate improvisational techniques into synthesized music (and for the sheer amount of hardware that they bring to the stage). The Ectomorph show is all analog, no computers or samplers or even drum machines: all sounds come from the modulars and the mountains of Moogs.

Ectomorph (now officially comprised of BMG & Erika) reconvened in 2016 to write new music, which led to a series of live shows where the new material was tested via performance and allowed to evolve in form. To capture the energy of these performances, the new material was recorded in the studio totally live, multitracked for further engineering, but with no editing whatsoever. This music, to borrow a phrase from Derrick May, is what it is. The entire album was recorded live in one or two takes in the Interdimensional Laboratories in Detroit. This is the sound of the idea that is Ectomorph, presented in its natural and organic format, live and improvisational.

Interdimensional Transmissions (or IT) is a Detroit-based label founded by BMG (Brendan M Gillen) in 1995, with its first release the debut record by Ectomorph. The label has come to represent the left-hand path within Detroit Techno, Electro, post-disco, etc. IT often takes a wide musical lens and incorporates history as a way to find something both pure and new. IT is collaborative in nature, and functions as a dialogue between label partners BMG, Erika, & Amber. IT parties have also gained a cult status internationally, with their recurring No Way Back events becoming the focal point of a sort of post-rave cultural phenomenon and the annual after party highlight of Detroit's Memorial Day weekend.

Written and Performed by Ectomorph
Produced by BMG

Recorded live in the Interdimensional Laboratories, Detroit.

Mastered By Neel At Enisslab Studio In Rome
Cover photo by Baboophotography
Sleeve Designed By Brendan M Gillen
Vinyl Mastered By Carl At Trutone
Pressed At Archer Records In Detroit
Distributed by Fit

IT 42 © 2018 Interdimensional Transmissions. 
Published by Interdimensional Publishing (ASCAP)

Stalker

Ectomorph - Stalker [IT 42]

The first-ever DJ set from a key Detroit live act.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=652

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RA.652 Ectomorph

debut mini album on 180g 12" vinyl by Vivian Koch ... cinematic electro synthesiser dreams for days!

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A key Detroit live act live from the RA Underground Stage at Movement 2018. We're back in 2019 with LSD, Umfang, Ryan Elliott and more.

RA Live - 2018.05.26 - Ectomorph, Movement Detroit, USA

Exhausted Modern is a project established by Czech musician Ladislav Zensor whose approach to sound creates metaphorical expression of fatigue which comes from living in a world where technology takes over. In his compositions accent is put on analogue sound with a slightly raw character. The percussive passages are interluded with melodic elements which altogether create very atypical, personal and often dystopic sound. Work of Exhausted Modern is regularly released on well-established labels as Brokntoys, Veyl or Rotterdam Electronix. He also releases his music thru label Endless Illusion which he co-founded together with Raphael Kosmos back in 2011. Together they as well create series of mixes for radio stations including Integalactic.FM. He always tries to bring unconventional glimpse into electronic music combining old forgotten tapes with the current avant-garde sound.

A recording above was done by Exhausted Modern at a Lithuanian festival - Supynes Playground 2019 - where he was invited by curators of that stage, online media platform Calypso Magazine. Accompanied by another artist, responsible for the live visual projections - Mgla2080, from Polish electro-industrial crew SYNTETYK, Exhausted Modern’s live set was taken to a new intense and unique sonic experience that audience could live through.

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Lost Trax - Surface Treated - Delsin Records - 139dsr

a1. De Laye
a2. Surface Treated
b1. Interstate (Halfway Home Mix)
b2. Still

https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/6495
https://losttrax.bandcamp.com/album/surface-treated

Unknown collective Lost Trax return for a third EP on Delsin following two previous outings since 2017. Also releasing on the likes of Tabernacle and Frustrated Funk, they deal in emotional music that comes direct from the heart and heads straight for the dance floor.

'De Laye' is a quick and slick, deep and dubby techno cut with plenty of room for the twisted bassline and busy, bristling drums. 'Surface Treated' trips you out with sci-fi sounds and electro influences that recall classic Detroit as they surge into the future and 'Interstate' then gets perfectly dreamy and far sighted, with thoughtful chords and keys drifting up top about tight, punchy drums. This most serene and sublime EP ends on 'Still', a crisp electro cut with icy keys and plenty of machine made drum funk. It makes for a most stylish and timeless collection overall.

Surface Treated (139dsr)

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Lost Trax - Surface Treated EP (139DSR)

REVIEW > inverted-audio.com/review/natural-electronic-system-mediterranea-ep

Italian duo @naturalelectronicsystem mark their second solo outing on Casablanca’s @tikitarec with a 4-track EP which perfectly showcases the pair’s diversity and breadth over tempo and style. This variability is echoed in the titles of the four works, with each piece named for a different wind pattern native to the Mediterranean area.

Tikita 011

natural/electronic system - Grecale [Tikita]

TARS + Kalman - State Transition

EPM Podcast 129 comes from Detroit electro-techno experimentalists, Ectomorph. Now officially comprised of BMG & Erika they have continued to furrow their own idiosyncratic path through the contemporary electronic landscape. It’s this uncompromising view that now comes into focus with their kaleidoscopic mix. From the pulsating experimentalism of Jed James and r2π, to the tweaked electro of Techmarine Bottom Feeders and Datawave, nuanced techno of Forest Drive West and Mike Parker to the tough industrialism of Rhys Fulber and SHXCXCHCXSH they take us on a pilgrimage to all four pillars of the Techno anti-rule book. With their live shows pushing an improvisational and organic format, this DJ mix sees them tackle the dancefloor with a more direct, pressure building intensity. 

‘Ectomorph’s ‘Masonic (Live in Detroit)’ and Erika’s ‘The Filtered Sun (Live)’ are out now on Interdimensional Transmissions.

Ectomorph’s remix of ‘Sons of Thunder’ features on the new Techmarine Bottom Feeders EP ‘The Oceanic Depths of Jupiter’ (EPMMusic).

To read the interview with Ectomorph click here: https://s.epm-music.com/2U0RJPp

EPM Podcast 129 Tracklist – Ectomorph

Jed James - Delia's Descension
r2π - Indoor Outlook
Forest Drive West - Hidden Past
Wata Igarashi & Voiski Present WAV - Pomme
Rhyw - IRL
Torvvo - Saphrone
Föllakzoid - IIII (DJ Nobu Remix)
Iori - Vertical Motion
KGIV - Morgan
Ido Plumes - Which Way Is Up
Techmarine Bottom Feeders - Sons of Thunder (Ectomorph remix)
Sepehr - Consortium
DJ Hell + Jonzon - Bazetoya
Datawave - Genotype 1
Baby T - Portra (Hybrid Mix)
Israel Vines - Encroachment
Andrea - Reinf
End Train - Into The Sun's Maze (Oscar Mulero Percussive remix)
DJ Plant Texture - We Are Here
SHXCXCHCXSH - DROW
Danny Daze - Propaganda & Manipulation
demongay - Cock Lust
Amanda Mussi - Boomerang
Peter van Hoesen - Faultline
Mike Parker - Dragonesque
Tobias. - The Wisdom Of No Escape
Function - Cosmic 909 via Supermoon Trancemission
b.mod - Suricata
Rhys Fulber - Apostel (Headless Horseman Remix)

EPM podcast #129 - Ectomorph

Privacy.

Privacy by name, privacy by nature: this artist has no need to reveal anything about themselves because their music is more than enough to keep your mind and feet occupied. It’s electro but with subtle differences in the way the corrugated drums make you jack, the way the metallic hits ring in your ears and the way the synths burrow deep into your psyche. 

He has produced a number of underground hits and dance floor bombs in the
five years since debuting but is continuously tweaking the template. More recent
releases on the likes of Klasse Wrecks and Klakson have drifted off into different
realms: there have been deeper cuts where watery chords sink you into an oceanic abyss and lithe mutant bangers where acid energy and serene futurism rub up against each other. In amongst all this, there have been sludgy slow-motion soundscapes and distorted EBM interpretations on Valcrond Video which prove this artist can say whatever they want with equally compelling results.  Complementing this mindset in every gig, with his appearances at Klubnacht(Berghain), Else Rave w. Helena Hauff & the brilliant banger you are about to listen to recorded at a private warehouse rave this summer.

We might not actually know that much about Privacy, then, but we know that they never fail to entertain in subtly different and enjoyably deceiving ways. And really, what else matters? 

Let his music do the talking.

Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/privacyprivacy
Discogs: www.discogs.com/artist/3411756-Privacy-3
RA: www.residentadvisor.net/dj/privacy
Facebook: www.facebook.com/privacyprivacyprivacyprivacy
Booking: sil@phuturewest.com

Tracklist
Illusion of Safety - Trumpet Field
DJ Cop Killer - 187 Blues
Too Short - Blow The Whistle (mix)
Kafkactl - Approximation Error
Carl Finlow - Syncopated Automated
Int Main - Get Loose
Detroit in Effect - Shake a lil Faster
Binary Digit - 808AF
Detroit's Filthiest - Skrippers and Skrimps
Technobeton - No No (Franz Scala Remix)
Valium - ManMachine Story 2000
Larinov - Never Forever
Luke Eargoggle & Kan3da - Night Smoker
Donald DDrum - Elektrofancy (Snitchy9 Re-Twerk)
Cyberian Knights - This is the Sound of Underground
DJ Mell G & Mutant Joe - How U Talk About Ur Girl
Sonic Youth - Dreamed a Dream (Lost Gen Edit)

DUSK110 By Privacy.

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/ashyl-music, https://soundcloud.com/clery-vernacular
Track : Ruthless
Label : https://soundcloud.com/vernacularmusic
Format : 12" Vinyl, Digital
Release date : 22/01/21
Purchase : https://vernacularrecords.bandcamp.com/

Vernacular Records is proud to announce the launch of a new series called “Vernacular Fields”. In this series, label worked with an Armenian photographer, Sarkis Torossian, who did the visuals. His work is not only about developing analogue photos of landscapes, there is whole transforming process of the image afterwards.
After developing, he digitalises the picture and modifies it to realise, by hand, monochromic prints on a drawing paper. 
The outcome is a unique visual on every print, worthy of a numerical paint. “Vernacular Fields” is about the work of a physical object on small series. The EP with a visual by Sarkis in a 10” format, a USB stick with the release and a digital file of the artwork, all inserted in a 10” vinyl cover. This will be limited to 20 editions, the EP will also be available in digital format.
In terms of music, the format is a 4 titles EP including a featuring with another Vernacular Records resident. This first series is opened by our resident Ashyl called “Polar Lights”. 4 tracks of “Epic Breakbeat”, thought as a journey around his universe, it includes a feat. With label resident Clery.

Polar Lights EP

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PREMIERE #1404 | Ashyl feat. Cléry - Ruthless [Vernacular] 2021

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rest of world: mike@berytus.art

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