Injazero is a forward-thinking boutique label straddling Instanbul and London via the impeccable mind of Siné Buyuka. And I’m not just saying that because she also released my album. The diverse and boundary-pushing output of the imprint includes music by Matt Emery, C. Diab, Heinali, KMRU, Hinako Omori, and most recently a collaboration between Tegh & Adel Poursamadi. So I’m always tuned into what Injazero is up to. And this time, I am more than pleased with their latest! Halina Rice is a London-based electronic musician and AV artist, with a debut, titled REDUX released back in 2017. It may have just slipped passed my ears, but it only takes one listen for them to prick up! This is modern electronic music at its finest. Deep rolling bass, sharp synthy stabs, and incredible atmospherics make up this cinematic journey into a mind expressed through ELISION – a fusion of the abstract and real worlds, combining synthetic with organic in music, art, and technology. “The idea is to evoke places that don’t exist – like a surreal parallel world,” says Rice about her sophomore release. “Fracture” is one of my favourite pieces, which is why I selected to premiere it for you here today – it encompasses the fragmentation of reality through jittery and elastic elements, which seem to come in like waves, to unsettle and heal. Further on the album, Rice explores sound through a range of styles, anywhere from experimental IDM to dancefloor hitters, with a nod to artists such as Rival Consoles, Max Cooper, and Jon Hopkins. And if any of these names tickle your fancy, you’ll be in love with Halina Rice.

Elision

Fracture

TRACK PREMIERE : Halina Rice - Fracture

Playing Robots Into Heaven

Asking To Break (Pt. 3 / Endel Chill Soundscape)

Tell Me (Pt. 3 / Endel Chill Soundscape)

Taken from the forthcoming "Sea Songs" single by ex-Indirect band member Hennadii Boichenko. Pre-order 7" vinyl record.

This is the 3rd appearance of Odesa-based Hennadii Boichenko (ex-Indirect) on Muscut, after his contribution as a part of the Indirect band (Ab Pharmacy / Waltz - 2014, Ode To The Sea - 2016 with Nikolaienko). 7” single, “Sea Songs,” - is a record mixed and tape mastered by Dmytro Nikolaienko. This is also the first episode of a newly started series of analog production chain releases with master reel tape transfer to lathe cut (the label has only been sending digital master files to the record plant before that). This year, Muscut twists from electronic music to instrumental and eclectic ones with more similar releases in the queue - Cukor Bila Smert's recordings from 1990-1993, Nikolaienko's "Meta" (exploration of metallophone on tape loopings), Fleischesmarkt's - disbanded Odesan punk/kraut band from the late 2000s.

Credits:
Composed and arranged by Hennadii Boichenko
Vocalese (A1) by Mila Solovyova
Saxophones and flute (A2) by Mike levtushenko
Mix, processing, master tape by Dmytro Nikolaienko
Graphic design, visuals, and video by Day Night
Muscut 32,2024
Direct tape to vinyl transfer, MONO, 33RPM

Sea Songs

Detouch

Pre-order

Hennadii Boichenko - Detouch (Muscut 32)

Windswept

Barely There

Bochum Welt - Laurel Canyon

Will Over Matter

Aura Cleansing Frequencies

VINYL: https://clone.nl/item38307.html
DIGITAL: https://analogicalforce.bandcamp.com
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AF002 
DWAALLICHT I WELKIN EP
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LTD EDITION VINYL I LACQUER MASTERING I
400 COPIES I HAND NUMBERED I
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A1 HUMIDEX
A2 32614
B1 FIRMAMENT
B2 DEBT LOOP
B3 CYCLIC ESTER (XYLOL MIX)
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©+Ⓟ Analogical Force 2016. All right reserved.
Written and produced by Reid W. Dunn somewhere in Niagara Falls.
Mastering by Alek Stark at Fundamental Audio, Madrid.
Artwork by Joan Bernat, Berlín.
Distributed by Clone, Rotterdam.
www.clone.nl
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Madrid’s Analogical Force continues its run proudly to present ‘Welkin EP’, second in the catalogue and first from Niagara Falls, NY-based Reid Dunn (well known as WISP) under his misterious DWAALLICHT alias. Many -like us- have been looking forward long time for this stuff, now the wait is over.

Just when the 10th anniversary of the still acclaimed ‘NRTHNDR’ album on now-defunct Sublight label, and six years after ‘We Miss You’ and ‘The Shimmering Hour’ on the Rephlex camp, the Aphex Twin-approved producer is back exploring spectral acidish territories, intricate drum patterns with thick synths, nervous breaks and rhythms, nostalgic rising-falling melodies...waving this elements to his will. It seems that Reid has deemed the time right to do what he does best. A record so immune to contemporary styles and aesthetics are almost by definition timeless, and it's tempting to call ‘Welkin EP’ that.

Dwaallicht doesn’t hide his influences; AFX, Squarepusher and Mike Paradinas are obvious reference points, but add Tangerine Dream, Phuture 303 or Mr Fingers to the mix and you’ll get a sense of the scope of Reid’s personal vision. 

Braindancers: ‘Welkin EP’ will all remind you exactly why you loved this talented guy for so long and why hes one of the most uncompromising artists working in electronic music this days.

...Absolutely essential!


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[AF002] DWAALLICHT 'WELKIN EP' [2016]

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