Pre-order : https://ar-fm.bandcamp.com/album/stakhanov
Release date: June 2, 2021

One year and a half after Jaroska’s ’Red Room Offering’ release, Lyon-based AR/FM label is back with the fourth imprint of its catalog, due for June 2021.
Following the label’s aim of exploring a widened techno spectrum while working with and promoting unsung talented friends, AR/FM is about to provide another beautiful piece of music, this time from ephemeral trio Stakhanov.

This eponymous LP offers 55 minutes of dense, fluctuant electronic experimentations, taking inspirations in the relentless Soviet worker myth. Its frantic and industrial overall atmosphere, set by sharp yet harsh paces, is eventually pulled to pieces by murky and hallucinated ambient acts, depicting a way darker story than the one told by the USSR propaganda.  
Thus, one rhetorical question remains: Could this unhealthy man-a-machine glorification come to any different end than madness?

Based upon Hugo Charpentier’s drawings, that can be found both on inner and outer sleeves, the 7-track album definitely takes advantage of its visual dimension, resulting in an elegant double-12” black-&-white gatefold layout. 

Releasing Stakhanov was also for AR/FM a way to pay tribute to the golden era of Lyon alternative electronic scene around 2013-2016, of which the project-members were three of the many faces. 
Through their different collectives and labels (CLFT Militia, SILO, Palma…) amongst others, all the instigators of this creative craze considerably contributed to the constitution of a new generation of Lyon-scene protagonists, AR/FM being one of them.

Release Infos:
Date of announcement: Monday, May 17, 2021 
Date of release: Wednesday, June 2, 2021.
Styles: Deep Techno, Dub Techno, Ambient, Industrial, Acid, Downtempo, Drone
Limited-edition of 150 double-12” Gatefold vinyls, including download code and 30*30cm insert by Hugo Charpentier.
Public price: 26 € + shipping.

Credits:
Music: Mathieu Reynaud, Léo Paillard & Fabien Ainardi 
Mastering: Lorenzo Targhetta
Artworks & Design: Hugo Charpentier 

AR/FM Links:
Bandcamp: https://ar-fm.bandcamp.com
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/aroomfmuzik 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ARoomFMuzik
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/fr/label/1457939-ARFM 
Contact: contact.arfm@gmail.com

AR/FM#004 - Stakhanov LP - Previews (OUT JUNE 2, 2021)

Ecoutez le florilège de Nico Motte via sa sélection de jazz, digital reggae, old-school, indie et bien plus pour une heure de paysages énigmatiques et approche cinématique.

More infos and tracklist at www.lyl.live

Depeche Motte w/ Nico Motte (13.04.21)

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Integer – a durational located sound walk+ generative composition by @breakwavedj

“Integer” is part of a wider body of work that focuses on the narrative of locational history and the recording of biotic and abiotic constituents, before further changes take effect. Curated using visual programming language, the generative piece is an infinite iteration of nine panned notes with variable loop lengths. The result is a continual soundscape; the computer has creative control and the music thinks for itself. Using field recording techniques and
specialist equipment, sounds are captured and the act of recording becomes part of the overall composition. Covid-19 has lead us to engage in practices alone, such as sound walking. This piece invites the listener into the sonic environment, where durational listening and interaction in the geographical location is shared. 

*The use of headphones or full-range speakers is advised, the duration of the piece is 60 minutes.

Variations w/ Breakwave - 12th April 2021 - Integer -

Rinse France Podcast

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Takeover Grid : Duckett - 1er Mai 2021

Played & Recorded at Kauz  by Isi!

RBW Journey Live From Kauz - 05.05.2021

Isi! | RBW Journey Live From Kauz - Radio Bollwerk - 05.05.2021

Opening excerpt from the new double cassette released by The Trilogy Tapes.

Fred Moten's answer to the final question at his "Symphony of Combs" lecture presented at Haus der Kulture der Welt on Nov. 17, 2019.

If you would like a full transcript of this passage, please PM me. 

Full video recording of the lecture: https://www.hkw.de/en/app/mediathek/video/76046

Full audio recording of the lecture: https://soundcloud.com/hkw/fred-moten-symphony-of-combs

Cassette and more information available here: https://thetrilogytapes.bandcamp.com/album/subrepunt-prospera-fata

Composed between February and December, 2020.

Subrepunt Prospera Fata (Excerpt)

JOHN BARROW 18.5.21

https://soundcloud.com/alfred092

https://www.retreatradio.net/alfredo92

Alfredo92 #10 (22/05/21)

https://soundcloud.com/djharoldd

Monthly Topographical Conspiracies & Sonic Accountabilities recorded for Skylab Radio

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S.E.T.I. - Cygnus X-1
Yu Miyashita - to lonesco
Wataru Iwata - (The Irrational Relation) Between Universal and Particular
Quench - Nightshelf
Legiac - The Din Skided
S.E.T.I. - Illustions
Spednar - 10+8
Logos - Glass (Shapednoise Remix)
Material Object - dr8zN
Kindohm - Unfollowed Silence
Circular - City Dweller
Drojji - Althorun
Kaishandao - Positive Affirmations
Aedena Cycle - Tone Program

Faultlines E21 - harold - code to ride

your flower @myflower1 providing a crisp snippet of his extended stream for Research. recorded live at Selector Records in Seattle, WA

rebroadcasted as part of our monthly on @radio-relativa

My Flower | May '21

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michael@heavy-trip.com (CA / US)
sync & licensing:  
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contact: joseph.kamaru.jk@gmail.com 
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Variations w/ Breakwave - 12th April 2021 - Integer -

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