A selection of tracks I wrote about in my Octoblog. Because when we as musicians think about networking, we should think about appreciation and support. And because my own music is created from many tiny samples of already existing music, I am naturally very interested in the fact that all this wonderful music flowing through the ether out there finds the light of attention.

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Tentacle Loot (Music I wrote about)

Strength is developed with a quiet grace, rooted in quiet conviction rather than strength. Light runs through every surface, giving shape to weightless presence. It is the type of power that breathes, that protects, that simply is: constant, luminous and alive.

Lucid Vale

Day Dreaming

From 'Complete Earthworks' out now on Cassette and Digi

Complete Earthworks

DBA026 A1 KAREN GWYER - PROPHASE METAPHASE ANAPHASE TELOPHASE

Rough-edged Argentinian producer NGLY will issue his debut LP, 'Cities of Illusion,' via the L.I.E.S. label on October 3. Ahead of its arrival, we debuted the raw, industrial-tinged churn of "Jessica Abre Los Ojos" on RBMA Radio's First Floor, our weekly look at what's new in electronic music.

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NGLY - Jessica Abre Los Ojos [First Floor Premiere]

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2016/11/premiere-stream-rx-101s-new-album-in-full/

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Like Yesterday

Premiere: RX-101 - August '97

FICKLE SYSTEMS

lessness

Anaconda Flow

https://jensmasimov.bandcamp.com/album/exhaustive-portal-ep-2

JHM - My Mouth Tastes Like Battery Acid

'Push Power ( a 1 )', out now on Ninja Tune: https://actress.lnk.to/push-powerSo 

'Karma & Desire', out now on Ninja Tune: https://actress.lnk.to/karma-desireSo

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LAGEOS

Momentum

Savage Grounds return to the never ending warpath with their new EP "Body Weight Compressor". After a one-year break, which was used to collect ideas, machines and material, they are releasing six titles with brooding melodies, sounds from the factory, diystopian texts and authoritative marches. An unnaturally restrained chaos. Being released by Infoline Global it provides a reflection of the city they live in.

We live in the dark. We have nothing to say. We are the void inside you that devours everything.

A1 Tortured Love

CHEN YI - THE 1978-1983 / LP
WVINYL 024 / Late Night Rec.
90%WASSER REC

side one
01 STAND UP – 1981
02 HAIL – 1982
03 COMMUNE #17.3.1979
04 RUG – 1982
05 WARGAME – 1983
06 CHENSESSION #6.4.1978
07. TAPE – 1979/80
08 HONEY MONKEY – 1980

side two
01 ROUNDER – 1981/82
02 HONEY MONEY – 1982
03 THE – 1979
04 CHENSESSION #20.5.1979
05 RAPE – 1981/82
06 POTATOHEADS #21.3.1980

Limited reissue of this obscure industrial-no wave record released in 2006. Due to reaction of people about "Rug", which fastly became an anthem for curious minds and unconventional dj's, both Robert Schalinski and Saulk from Mélodies Souterraines thought the rest of album should get more interest. 12 years later, we're happy to announce this reprint, which keeps original artwork and label design. Simon, The Exchange worked on remastering each tracks from original tapes. LIMITED TO 150.

The CHEN YI Commune (1978-1984)
The Chen Yi Commune was founded in 1978 by about 20 women & men from London & the surrounding area. The building of the commune, an old school in Chelmsford, was located on vast premises & was encircled by a wall. The aim of the commune was to create a closed subsystem, a kind of subsociety and to narrow down its contact to the outside world only on very few specific actions. Life in the commune was lead hermetically closed. All circuits, the food, culture and communication circuits had to be self-contained.
The influence of the outside world on the inner life of the commune & vice versa, was controlled. Actions aimed at the outside world were directed towards specific persons.
Due to the hermetically closed life within the commune during the first years, there were almost never problems with the local population. Not until 1982, after some members had intensified their public communication, it came to a brief, open conflict at the end of which stood the breakup of the commune and the destruction of the house in 1984.

About these recordings:
Most documents on this release were recorded in the Chen Yi commune with a Studer A80 MkIV2“ 16 track with Dolby SR.
These early tapes were never completed or mastered by Chen Yi. Partly they include unfinished session recordings or notes. That’s why a heavy post processing was necessary, sometimes even reconstruction. For years I was looking for the right equipment to listen to and mix the approximately 30 tapes. There were approximately 55 audio cassettes on top of that, with uncut recordings from the commune, from the so called „rounds“, the sessions and so forth. My father left me a tumultous accumulation of recordings, creasy & stuck together tapes that were for some curious reason been recorded using the most expensive studio technology you could get back then. However, none of the musicians had learn how to use it.
The Chen Yi commune never was interested in producing records, some of the members even refused any form of release whatsoever. In 1981 one member (Chen 8) released a tape edition called „Hanging“. The title referred to the first 3 english witches who were hanged in Chelmsford, where the commune house was located.
This cassette was sent to various record companies. John Peel saw a potential in Chen Yi which led to a recording contract in 1982/83 with CBS. About 7 tracks were produced for the first Chen Yi LP „The Rape“ in 1982. Basic lines were recorded at the Chen Yi studio in Chelmsford. For 2 tracks the end production was completed at the Trident Studios, London. More couldn’t be finalised, because CBS suddenly pulled out of the contract. This left unfinished tapes of an LP & an EP (3 tracks for a planned Peel Session, 1983), on which partly only drum computer & synthesizer can be heard as a basic pattern.
Chen 26

Chen Yi - RUG / 1982 (WVINYL 024)

appears on CUT SURFACE's label compilation "C" [out: 13.04.]:
cutsurface.bandcamp.com/album/compilation-c

Johnny Fünfhaus - Gewölbe Abfallend

Kempes - Yes/No & Forever
Available to buy here -
https://passarellarecords.bandcamp.com/album/yes-no-forever

Following on from their debut release ‘Sentimental Idiot’ on Jennifer Cardini’s Correspondant Music, Kempes return with 2 new tracks ‘Yes / No’ & ‘Forever’. Both tracks delivering a perfect balance of tension and groove, perfectly suited for the more enlightened selectors and dance floors.

‘Kempes’ is London-based producer and Passarella Death Squad’s founder Danny Passarella alongside Tom Wegg-Prosser of ‘We Have Band’ fame.

Support from Erol Alkan, Marcel Dettmann, Cristian Varela, Perc, Anastasia Kristensen, Marco Bailey, Wehbba + Nemone from BBC 6 Music. Sasha, Violet, Richard Fearless, Jennifer Cardini, Tim Sweeney and more.

Forever

Buy - Forever

"Ah, cassette #4-- a split release by two very dear NYC friends whom I've known for years via my involvement with the International Winners Collective. Each side is a single piece of music, each being distinctly different.

Side A is a solo piece for grand piano by Gabe Raines' Suncastle project. Historically, Gabe's work involves immersive, sitting performances centered around sublime drones with trance-inducing visuals and lights. It came as a much-welcomed surprise when I went to see Gabe perform at the Park Church Co-Op in the Winter of 2019. He enlisted the help of a large orchestra/ensemble for a performance of two new works. The piece on this tape, "Tonal Rainstorm", was the first of the two-- serene and percussive, with a very dynamic trajectory."

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Buy via: https://kaphaselections.bandcamp.com/album/sun-castle-keso-ks04

Premiere: Sun Castle - Tonal Rainstorm [Kapha Selections]

Octobird is a Pro-Jockey, Discjuicer and Music Lover born and based in Berlin, Germany. Someone who’s not necessarily looking for yet unknown sounds in electronic music rather than putting already archived sounds of a long-forgotten future into a new context. Trying to blur your brain’s reception of connotation and curiosity.

Working with sound fragments from old vinyl recordings and films is certainly not a completely new approach, but Octobird archieved to develop his own language from this heritage of Hip Hop and House Music. Strongly modulated microsamples, a handful of drum computers and hardware synths, and jams as raw as possible glue his musical output together.

Get in contact via 
octobird[at]various-vegetables.org

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