Chris Roman aka 214 hurls himself out of the gate at 140bpm for our latest Dreamcast, a pace that lets up only slightly across the next 75 minutes. This is a masterclass in electro and its manifold signifiers: 80s stabs, cosmic pads, austere vocals, liquid acid, Drexciyan robo funk…it's all here, blended together with the intimate skill of a craftsman. Chris lives in the rocky wilderness of the North West, and if you stick this on and close your eyes you can just picture those vertiginous peaks and the fever dreams they’ve inspired.

@214_electro

Tracklist:
Giordano - Sticky End
Splash Pattern - Hammervand
Liebknecht - Reykjavik
Omicron - Navigator
The Hacker - Nano Technology
Commuter vs The Hacker - Roentgen PT1
Hoffman - Lauras Palms
Paal - Highbrow
London Modular Alliance - Lemon Mishap
Ste Roberts - Dominated until 5am
Cygnus - Robotech
Radioactive Man - Born in the USB
Eversines - Connection
Itay Dailes - Space Through Time
D&S - Historical Synopsis
Rampa - 2000
TX - No Bio

Dreamcast006 - 214

Dream Ticket celebrates 10 releases on this planet with a VA matching old label favourites with fresh new blood. Multidisciplinary artist Koolmorf Widesen kicks things off with a madcap acid squirmer that will terrorize your sense of direction as much as it moves your body, before DT stalwart Binary Digit hits us with his latest signature braindance pounder. On the flip, Ryan James Ford, another DT alumni, brings us a techno banger that marries the best of Detroit and Berlin, then newcomer ZDR closes things out with stuttering, dreamy piece of jungly dnb magic. Here’s to the next 10!

Bandcamp: dreamticket.bandcamp.com/album/tetrarchy-dt010

Pre-orders for shops soon at info@carpetdistribution.com

@koolmorf
@binarydigit
@ryanjamesford
@zdrkp

Various Artists - Tetrarchy [DT010] - Out Now

Taken from the album 'Anus Family Taco Caravan' on Acid Waxa
(TAPES SOLD OUT)Available to DL here http://acidwaxa.bandcamp.com



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Acid Elf - Agrolove

recorded at Logos. Art: Lorenzo Arioni. Mastered by Niccolo Caldini
〉WATCH: https://youtu.be/j80cG8enI_I?feature=shared
〉PRE-ORDER the album: https://leonardobarbadoro.bandcamp.com/album/musica-automata

Musica Automata

Bomi

In his original program notes for Sonatra, composer Michael Gordon writes that he conceived of the piece for solo piano as a sideways tribute to Frank Sinatra, but with the sonata form as an equal and opposite force that tugs at the music from within. 

“I grew up playing, or mis-playing, the piano,” he notes. “When I started writing Sonatra, I decided that since I would probably only ever write one piano piece in my entire life, I wanted to use all the keys on the piano, and use them often. I constructed long chains or links of major and minor thirds that ceaselessly wind their way up and down the piano. Eventually they start cascading and intersperse with glissandos half the length of the keyboard, sounding to me like the performer has at least four hands.” 

Sonatra is slightly more than 15 minutes in length, but when performed in both equal temperament and just intonation, as Bang on a Can All-Stars pianist Vicky Chow has done for her singular recording of the piece, it takes on the aura and personality of a two-part epic. 

“It’s by far the most challenging piece of music I’ve worked on,” she says. “When I first looked at the score, I knew immediately that I’ll live with it for the rest of my life. Every few months, I slowly worked up each section, like chipping away at a slab of marble. I had to pace myself, push myself, and be sharp at every twist and turn, or else I’d trip and fall flat on my face. 

“Performing it with just intonation adds another hurdle to overcome, because you can easily feel as though the arpeggios spiraling up and down the length of the keyboard are wrong. It adds one more sadistic layer to the traumatic physical experience a pianist or any other musician or athlete puts themselves through when trying to achieve an impossible feat. This is one of those pieces.”

Sonatra

SONATRA

Vicky Chow & Michael Gordon: SONATRA (excerpt)

Over the course of a decade, Michael Gordon has collaborated with the world-renowned Kronos Quartet on a series of provocative works that have sought to stretch, bend and otherwise reshape the boundaries of modern classical music. Clouded Yellow assembles these works for the first time, perfectly encapsulating the breadth and complexity of this long-standing creative partnership. 

Clouded Yellow features four pieces: the title track (composed in 2010), Exalted (2010), The Sad Park (2006) and Potassium (2000). The title of the first refers to the clouded yellow butterfly, which is known in England for its mass migrations; the word “clouded” is also meant to describe the blurred harmonies and melodies of the piece. 

Potassium is for amplified string quartet and electronics, with a fuzz box used throughout to lend a mysterious distortion to the sound. The Sad Park is accompanied by recordings of children ages 3 to 4 and their responses to the tragic events of 9/11. Exalted, which also features the Young People’s Chorus of New York City conducted by Francisco Núñez, sets the opening of the Jewish Kaddish in Aramaic, connecting the choral voices of mourning to those of the children in The Sad Park.

Clouded Yellow

Michael Gordon & Kronos Quartet – Clouded Yellow

Shed is one of our favourite artists and definitely a no bullshit guy. His discography, including all his different names & projects, will impress you more than his social media appearance. As it should be. We really appreciate that he contributed a mix to our podcast series!

Interview: http://iliantape.de/ilian-tape-podcast-series-031/

Ilian Tape Pod

ITPS031 SHED

Handlogic - Earplugs (Koolmorf Widesen remix)
out now
bit.ly/2y6QJhC

Handlogic - Earplugs (Koolmorf Widesen remix)

Konrad Wehrmeister - 5050

A1. Eins
A2. GeigerCounter
A3. Movie
B1. TDA
B2. Overdose
B3. Vestak

Foolhardy Lush Smartphone Pause

ITX013 KONRAD WEHRMEISTER - 5050

Buy: https://powervacuum.bandcamp.com/album/nice-try-donnie

POWVAC023: Amish Boy 'Nice Try Donnie!' (preview clips)

The 8-track album Gábor Lázár - 'Source' is released 26th June 2020 on Planet Mu:
https://smarturl.it/GaborLazarSource

Watch the video directed by Lőrinc Borsos:
https://youtu.be/NE-HqxknCyk

Gábor Lázár's colourful discography extends from sound art to his more recent dancefloor detonations. From his first release on Lorenzo Senni's Presto! label to his collaborations with Russell Haswell and his popular 'seizure inducing' team-up with Mark Fell entitled 'The Neurobiology of Moral Decision Making' to his last album 'Unfold' on The Death of Rave, where he balanced relentless, snappy rhythms and wonky melodic tones against more measured chords to create a deliciously fruity futurism.

Gábor has now signed to Planet Mu for his new album 'Source' which moves forward with the dance music direction he started to formulate with 'Unfold'. Gábor first fell in love with electronic music simultaneously through dance music and it's IDM offspring, and also with harsher, noisier computer music on labels such as Editions Mego. This collection, which develops slowly over 8 tracks, works its way through his own take on these influences, moving across themes and loops as if each track is a different stage in a process. 

All these tracks sound incredible on a club sound system. The listener can hear nods to hoover bass and 2-step in 'Phase', or trance techno in ‘Excite', the dive-bombing bass of dubstep in 'Effort ' or the frantic techno influence of 'Route', emulated in the minimal forms Gábor has created with a sound artist's precision and a strict adherence to his vacuum-like grids. Gábor bends his sounds, abstracts them and re-contextualises them; basslines fire out of the grid at strange angles and squirm as if they've come alive, shards of melody shoot off at wild angles, attacking with drama and a thrilling sense of energy.

Source

Gábor Lázár - Source

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forthcoming music on:
Further Electronix
Helical

Released music on:

Dream Ticket (Carpet & Snares)
Wil-Ru
Caoutchou Records
The Centrifuge UK
EVES Music
FreshYo!
Phaked
Rancorous
Illphabetik
Sarcòfaga
ECG
Anoise