SoundCloud WeeklyDec 18

A2.Neel - Souls On The Run

BleeD presents... 'Social Sculpture'

For the first time, Volte-Face's BleeD releases a Various Artists compilation, featuring friends and close family of the label. Named after Joseph Beuys' concept of 'Social Sculpture', which serves to harness collective potential in an attempt to transform society (in some small way at least!), the release features eight different artists who embody the BleeD sound of the last few years of activity - Volte-Face, Rote (Daniel Avery & Volte-Face), DJ Nobu, Peder Mannerfelt, Opuswerk, Refracted, AWB and BLNDR.

Released on physical & digital formats July 13th.

A1 Volte-Face - Plus Four++++
A2 DJ Nobu - Fish
B1 Opuswerk - Transhancement
B2 Refracted - Depth Charge
C1 Rote - Shit Business
C2 BLNDR - Doepfer Exercise
D1 Peder Mannerfelt - Dig 6 
D2 AWB - Nimh

Volte-Face - Plus Four ++++

premiere of "Mind Over Body" by @sedvs_vie & Peel
taken from the EP "The PLF Sessions I", released soon on @barehandsvie

EP Details:
https://novafuture-blog.com/2018/05/30/sedvs-peel-the-plf-sessions-i-bare-hands/

Sedvs & Peel  - Mind Over Body [BAREHANDS006 | A2 | Premiere]

Conforce - Terra Modis EP - Delsin Records (129dsr) 

a1.	Celestion
a2.	Vessel	
b1.	Zephyr
b2.	Aerial

https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/5947

Conforce is back on his home label with four more of his richly detailed and hugely atmospheric techno tracks. It's his first release on Delsin since latest album Autonomous back in 2017 and finds him in typical underwater techno territory.

'Celestion' kicks things off with smeared pads and rubbery, dubby drums instantly setting a hypnotic groove. The serene ambience makes it feel like you're deep down in the ocean and various deft sonic details drift by the keep things on the move. 'Vessel' is another fathom deep track with supple drums undulating on the sea bed as beams of synth light things up from above. There’s melancholy in the pads that brings a rueful vibe, while 'Zephyr' is more troubled and turbulent thanks to the wet, gurgling synths and darker bass sounds. 'Aerial' rounds things out with heavyweight, rumbling kicks and ominous energy that keeps you on edge, despite the presence of beautifully celestial keys. As ever, it all makes for an absorbing trip.

Buy @ Delsin Shop

Conforce - Terra Modis EP (129dsr)

[NOR017] Mown - New Horizons

"French producer Mown delivers a set of three pure, diverse and cosmic tracks complemented by a trippy remix from label boss Foreign Material."

1. Calypso
2. Galileo
3. Apollo
4. Calypso (Foreign Material remix)

Release 28 June 2018
Mastered at ALHEK Mastering Berlin
Artwork by MA7R

[NOR017] Mown - New Horizons (PREVIEWS)

For its 303rd release, Tresor Records is glad to present a commissioned work by Donato Dozzy.

Rome based production maestro and DJ extraordinaire Donato Dozzy is unanimously considered as an illustrious leading light in all techno artforms.

Along his long career and extensive discography, Dozzy has proven to use his instruments in most interesting ways, always re-inventing his music, always presenting new approaches to both the deeper and the more rhythmic forms of electronic music. It was self-evident to Tresor Records to enroll Donato Dozzy’s talents for this assignment, a nod to the seminal Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer.

The result is a relentless collection of radical, propulsive and bleeding-heart acid tracks.

Donato Dozzy wishes to dedicate this work to his lifelong friend Filo.

Tresor.303 releases July 13th on 2 x 12” vinyl and digital.

Donato Dozzy - Back (taken from 'Filo Loves The Acid' — Tresor.303)

Cat. number: INS 3

Tracklist
A1 Merino - Ode To you 
A2 Black Propaganda - I’m My Biggest Enemy 
B1 The Baker - Of gold And Bitter Bread
B2 Verraco - Entry of The gods Into Aburrá

Release date: 26/06/2018

Format: Vinyl, 12", EP, Clear, Limited Edition

All tracks programmed and recorded by parceros del glorioso y doloroso Valle de Aburrá.

Get it here__
Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/2JRiNxp
Lobster Records: https://bit.ly/2JWPFkk

VA — Medellín Rave Society — INS 3

Four tracks of angular, uplifting techno that are sure to invoke dance floor liberation. "Interlacing" is the second record from Brooklyn artist @iamdustmite on his personal vinyl imprint, Supervoid Records.

@iamdustmite
www.sprvd.com

Distributed by Ready Made.

Interlacing

SPRVD002 – Dustmite – Interlacing [Clips]

More info - http://loose-lips.co.uk/blog/premiere-rommek-arkose-bp0521

Sedimentary - Set in Stone Trilogy

Arkose

Pre-Order

PREMIERE: Rommek - Arkose (BP052.1)

A1 / 1. If Nature Is Unjust, Change Nature
A2 / 2. Globular Hymen
B1 / 3. Science Is Not An Expression But A Suspension Of Gender
B2 / 4. And With Fire Came Disparity

Serena Butler returns to the fore with an EP for Stroboscopic Artefacts. “We Want Neither Clean Hands Nor Beautiful Souls” is a four track recording of Butler’s personal juncture with the Queerverse and his engagement in queer politics, an elaboration on the alternate freedoms and minimal politics of alienation introduced with her 2016 release on Eerie. By bringing her mission of inclusion and diversity to Lucy’s Berlin based imprint S>H/E has found a kindred spirit in the pursuit of, what SA describes as, “an incessant accretion of new ideas and new formal elements that must transcend any self-limiting expectations of genres or cliques”. This release embodies the shared revere that Butler and SA have for the subversive power of techno; or, as Butler says, “the explicit, organized effort to repurpose technologies for progressive gender political ends”.

The EP’s path begins with the opener “If Nature Is Unjust, Change Nature”, a shadowy crescendo of whispered rhythms and minimal-synth leitmotivs from alt-clones of Rrose and Second Woman grafted memories. “Globular Hymen” is the club supernova of the lot; an interstellar blizzard of layered arpeggios, which hit like the wrath of a pantheon of angry goddesses. “Science is not an expression but a suspension of gender” lays on the feel of afterlife, a dubbed-out lullaby between lo-fi drums and subtle interference patterns of noise. This is the sound of Butler getting between you and your ears; reminding you to step back from certainty and imperative judgments. Last but not least, “And with fire came disparity” unleashes a vocal swarm of declaration and rebellion. Despite the straight-forward title, this is a true Demdikesterian mutant-techno stepper, with neither clean words nor a beautiful soul.

All tracks (w)&(p) by 
Federico Cataldo u / Serena Butler ♀ 
Graphic concept by Ignazio Mortellaro [OA].
℗ & © Stroboscopic Artefacts 2018
Cat. No SA033 – all rights reserved.
www.stroboscopicartefacts.com
info@stroboscopicartefacts.com

Serena Butler - "We Want Neither Clean Hands Nor Beautiful Souls" [SA033]

Preorder: https://stroboscopicartefacts.com/shop/roar-satotem002/

Stroboscopic Artefacts is releasing its latest addition to the forward leaning edge of electronic music with the Totem series, unfurling as a chain of transparent 10” vinyl, each of them having their own subtly divergent takes on the aesthetic space defined by techno and club culture. The Totem series continues investigations previously established by Stroboscopic Artefacts, namely the relation between sound and material object, spatiotemporality and the architecture of music. The Totem series aims collapse the artist, their intention and resonance with the public into one object, an artifact of beauty and functionality, the transparent 10-inch which becomes an emblem. In choosing a less common format for the Totem series, Stroboscopic Artefacts aims to reinforce the cognition that each of these pressings is a unique object, carrying a message that will develop as the record’s existence moves through space and time.

The second release to be pressed into Totem’s slabs of 10-inch vinyl is from techno impresario Luke Slater’s L.B. Dub Corp moniker. Slater has been operating as a pioneer, with a full deck of aliases, throughout the genre’s many corners since the days when techno was a newborn phenomenon. The stripped back sounds of L.B. Dub Corp’s last releases on the imprint have resounded naturally within the psychotropic space carved out by Stroboscopic Artefacts. The “Roar EP” injects a carefully measured dose of dance floor adrenaline, getting a gradual rolling start with its A-side “Roar”. A hypnotically simple drum machine pattern lulls us into a state of quivering vulnerability where Slater’s tweaking of the reverb and decay on the one spare saw-toothed synth element creates a kind of minimal rapture that’s enveloped by an unforeseeable boiling of tape delay and ambient space. The B-side reserves the best of what makes dub and techno friends-with-benefits. “Hard Wax” is a hard- nosed amalgamation of a hand full of dirty analog sounds that Slater deftly weaves in and out of each other. The track’s ovular syncopation of machine grit and off-beat accents give the feel of an AI drum circle rising from tomorrow’s post-industrial ashes. B2, “Sure Step Dub”, keeps the machine minimalism rolling, while living up to its name as a guaranteed dance floor spinner. Once the track’s 808 wood block and clap staple the tracks template to the listeners’ skull, the hi-hat and wobbling synth create the parameters of what becomes a bubbling party soundscape – complete with hooting vocals and a sudden ecstasy rush of strings. Full of surprises and eloquent minimalism, L.B. Dub Corp’s Totem release is going to give listeners plenty to ponder when imagining what’s to come next from the series.

All tracks (w)&(p) by Luke Slater AKA L.B. Dub Corp
Mastered @ Artefacts Mastering Studio, Berlin
Graphic concept by Ignazio Mortellaro [OA]
℗ & © Stroboscopic Artefacts 2018
Cat. No SATOTEM002 – all rights reserved
www.stroboscopicartefacts.com
info@stroboscopicartefacts.com

Preorder

L.B. Dub Corp - "Roar" [SATOTEM002]

Session Restore - Time & Again EP / inc. Stojche remix 
Cat Nr. : Rauh 008
Format: vinyl
Distribution by Triple Vision

Session Restore - Dusting (Stojche Remix)

Peter Van Hoesen’s ‘Folding Backwards’ features on IMF10, the debut label compilation from Index Marcel Fengler. It is a work almost two years in the making and details the past, present and future of his imprint.

There are 18 tracks that are all exclusive to the compilation - including a new production of Marcel, a very rare work by Redshape under his real name (Sebastian Kramer), the debut of Marcel’s new alias AZUR focusing on melodic and groovier sounds, plus new material from Alva Noto, Scuba’s SCB project, Shed, DIN, FJAAK, Lucy, Eric Cloutier, Thomas Hessler and many more. Full compilation will be out digitally on August 17.

IMF10 Compilation Part 3

Deejay.de

Peter Van Hoesen - Folding Backwards - IMF10.3

It’s 1977. There’s a chill in the air, like on a usual December evening. It’s cold, but the night is fraught with a strange ferment, a mysterious energy that seems to announce a revolution.

Supercinema 001 - Alfredo Mazzilli
inc. Eric Cloutier Afterhours Version

A1. Fahrenheit 451
A2. THX 1138
B1. THX 1138 (Eric Cloutier Afterhours version) 
B2. Alfredo Mazzilli - Icarus XB1

RELEASE DATE 28th September 2018

Writer and Producer | Alfredo Mazzilli
Mastering | Enisslab Studio
Distribution | Triple Vision Distribution
Artwork Designer | Francesco Briganti

Supercinema 001

Presales

Supercinema 001 | Alfredo Mazzilli inc. Eric Cloutier Afterhours Version | Snippets

"Enter the wormhole" of our fourth release via Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/tracks/922658

Life is complex and since the only way out is through, complexity demands be embraced. As a label dedicated to bringing two unique minds together for each record, Inkblots has always aimed at uniting kindred spirits by making their differences audible.

With two contributions each by Berlin’s Irakli (@irakliiy) and Stanislav Tolkachev (@stanislavtolkachev), the fourth installment of Haiku (@theperfectunknown) imprint makes no exception. Instead, it might be its most exceptional offering yet. Just like the principle of the Rorschach test at the conceptual core of the label, the musical perspectives offered on »Inkblots 004« are minimalistic at their base but open up a pathway into two complex musical minds.

Irakli’s »34 Choices Of Gender« draws on an abrasive experimentalism that is contrasted with a heavy kick drum, making the former I/Y member’s first proper solo offering a perfect compromise between his sound art-orientated productions and his knack for intricate yet joyous techno. Between the piercing high frequencies and the warm bass sounds, the STAUB (@staub-5) resident gives space to a singular and futuristic idea of techno that is as life-affirming as it is dancefloor-ready. »Topological Errors« further elaborates on this vision, putting more emphasis on the groove that arises out of interlocking sound events. It’s as if the first and the second wave of Detroit techno had found a home on the Berlin dancefloors again – finally united, this time around.

While Irakli explores the sonic richness of sound, the Ukrainian producer Stanislav Tolkachev dedicates himself to the lysergic qualities of rhythmic structures. »Taste Of Ink« is a bubbling piece of synthesizer minimalism that lets its manifold elements tumble freely through space. It’s a piece of vertical techno, more interested in creating intensities along the way than following the narratives we’ve all heard over and over again. »Equally Different« expresses an approach that is, well, equally different indeed: the nervous clicking of a closed hi-hat and a thumping kick provide just enough of a framework for the penetrating bleeps floating over them not escalate into total chaos. It’s a stunning track that seems to accelerate or slow down deliberately while remaining hyper-focused throughout. Order and disorder, presenting themselves as two sides of the same coin.

Tolkachev and Irakli meet each other on this Inkblots issue with two of the most outstanding perspectives on contemporary techno. Along a minimalistic matrix, they both make clear that the story of techno has not been fully told yet, offering a complexity that demands to be embraced.

Inkblots #4: Irakli & Stanislav Tolkachev

RA New Tracks: A1. Irakli - 34 Choices Of Gender [Inkblots #4]

P.E.A.R.L. is launching the fifteenth installment of his Falling Ethics series with two versions a serious club destroyer that have been released on the label back in the early days of Falling Ethics. Sorrows has been reflipped to a 2018 version that is sounding modern, large and in synch with the current esthetics in techno music. While this version can be located on the B side, on the A side we find a larger than life CUB version (Karl O'Connor & Simon Shreeve) that will definitely turn some heads over the next few months. Reworking classics is not always needed but in this case, it's a welcome addition completely in harmony with the times.

Release Date: 14.09.2018 

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A1. P.E.A.R.L. - Sorrows (CUB Version) - 06:16
B1. P.E.A.R.L. - Sorrows (2018 Version) - 06:08
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Sorrows was written & produced by P.E.A.R.L. in 2014 / Berlin
A1 version by Karl O'Connor & Simon Shreeve
Cover photo by Monochrome Laboratory - Art by Acid Hazel
World wide distribution by Triplevision.nl 
Falling Ethics Records © 2018

P.E.A.R.L. -  Sorrows (2018 Version)

Grand River – Pineapple LP

Dutch-Italian composer, musician and producer Aimée Portioli alias Grand River is back on Spazio Disponibile. After a debut record on the label in 2017, she now serves up her first ever physical long player, Pineapple.

The record draws on Portioli’s love of electronic music and sound design, as well as her background in traditional composition and formal training on a range of musical instruments. An experienced sound engineer and composer for national radio, she crafts absorbing film scores, experimental and ambient projects and takes in symphonic calculations that blur the lines between traditional composition and research-based modernism.

All that is evident on Pineapple, which is named after the most peculiar of fruits and is just as peculiar, but ultimately satisfying, across ten remarkable yet rewarding tracks. They are often long pieces which take in wallowing electronic landscapes, with real ambient beauty next to a subtle sense of narrative that is absorbing throughout. Unusual sound sources and a masterful sense of suspense characterize the album and make it as fascinating as it is enjoyable.

Spazio015 - Grand River - Pineapple

Artist: Irakli, Zesknel
EP: The Moment Just
A. - Irakli + Zesknel - The Moments Just
B. - Irakli + Zesknel - Not So New
D* -Irakli + Zesknel - Evening Prayers

Release Date: 20.09.2018
IRIS003
*D - Digital Only


After reissuing Stanislav Tolkachev’s masterpiece Blue Mood, the Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound comes back with two fresh pieces from Georgian artists Zesknel and Irakli.

Following a strong start with დე / DE – Sounds From Georgia, this new record explores a more abstract electronic music.
Zesknel, who is a resident of the renowned Bassiani Club, collaborates here with Irakli on two dreamy and airy soundscapes which aspire to depict and recreate the atmosphere of the Georgian capital. To do so, they asked for the help of Rezo Glonti who proceeded to make field-recordings in Tbilisi. This work served as a base in order to create something unique and true to the city.

The project is part of a sound installation which aims to blend architecture with sound. The idea of the two artists was to conceive a space where they could translate the spirit of Tbilisi. Inside that space will be found works exhibited by other Georgian artists. And this is all part of the exhibition “Lara Protects Me. Eine Georgische Erzählung” at the Museum Angewante Kunst Frankfurt (opening September 20).
“In the institute, a question has become an obsession.
Lara protects me. What does it mean?
And who is this Lara? Volatile like ethylene, the answer is a chimaera.
With our sounds that will resonate
Inside this one chamber.
We hope you’ll vibrate,
And maybe find an answer.“

Cover artwork is a picture by David Meskhi who is also taking part in the exhibition.

Museum Angewante Kunst Frankfurt, exhibition info:
https://www.museumangewandtekunst.de/en/press/lara-protects-me-a-georgian-story.html

Mastering A & B: Tim Xavier // Man Made Mastering
D*: Arkita Studio

Irakli + Zesknel - The Moment Just (IRIS003)

Acid Friend

Depthy Acid (Foreign Material Remix)

Tin Man - Depthy Acid (Foreign Material Remix)

The Rotterdam-based Ben Buitendijk (@BenBui) returns his own label @Oblique-Music with Alternative Hypothesis EP. The three-tracker stays true to the labels "emotionally driven techno of a deeply layered nature" focus, and Monument is happy to premiere the name track of the release.

The Alternative Hypothesis EP is out on September 28th.

SoundCloud WeeklyDec 18

Jorah Mormont