Modular techno obsessive and dark pop connoisseur: Julia Bondar’s fourth studio album Bonding sounds like nothing else you’ll hear this year.     

Julia Bondar is a Ukrainian born, Barcelona based electronic music artist, singer, and songwriter. Her journey as a musician started when she was making demos for Endorphin.es modular synthesizers to help her partner, Andreas Zhukovsky, to promote and develop freshly engineered modules for his Endorphine.es brand.  Bondar soon became a co-founder of the brand and moved the company from Kiev, to Barcelona, where her obsession with modular synthesis truly took root. 

Prior to Bonding, Bondar has released three albums, the latest of which was 2020’s Industrial Symphony LP which demonstrated her innate ability to extract orchestral sounds from synthetic equipment. A blend of techno rhythms and dark pop, it paid tribute to Bondar’s idea of a modern industrial symphony, employing the powerful and unique characteristics of analog machines while also being harmoniously linked to the pleasant, danceable, and hypnotic atmosphere of industrial rhythms: themes that are explored further on this new album. 

Across nine distinct and engrossing tracks on Bonding, Bondar blends and plays with genre, from industrial, techno, electro, avant-garde pop, dark wave and more. Danceable and melodic, often moody and sinister, sometimes euphorically melancholic, she puts a unique stamp on every track she produces, giving the album a traceable through-line despite its myriad and often disparate influences and tones.  

Album opener Ruby Red sets the tone in dynamic fashion: a pummelling techno thumper that gives way to two further full on industrial techno bangers in Pleasure & Pain and Flamboyant – visceral, no-holds-barred cuts that see Bondar fully cut lose with her driving, highly energetic modular programming.  

From there the album drifts into perhaps its most self-reflective moment, with the intro to La neige et ses messes noires. This arresting track was made as a love-letter to French electro in collaboration with Maman Küsters, a French duo formed by Gaël Loison and Cyril Pansal, with Pansal penning the lyrics to Bondar’s music and Loison producing. This love of dark French electro is further explored on Obey: a haunting, mid-tempo slice of crushing electronica that simply demands your attention. 

The title track offers a brief respite from the intensity of the previous tracks, offering a space to move your body in a tribal, hypnotic dance. Antisocial is about embrace your true self, explored by a broken beat pattern and sidewinding synth lines that ebbd and flows between crushed drums and ethereal pads, and the broken beat structure is continued on the closing track In Flame: a gorgeous, expansive redemption offering the listener space to reflect. 

An arresting, beguiling listen from start to finish, Bonding is a call for emotional transformation, with Bondar evoking different states and feelings: starting from superficial but reaching to the deepest corner of your mind. This album is designed as a conversation between Bondar and her audience through the music and track names, a call for reflection and conscious approach to listening.

PREMIERE : Julia Bondar feat. Maman Kusters - La Neige Et Ses Messes Noires

prodigy-poison (NF re-edit)

Phon.o - Whi5tleblower


Mille Feuilles - Stigmates #1

01. Mille Feuilles - Stigmates #1
02. Automat - All Around Us
03. 99LETTERS - Edge
04. Molécule - Clak
05. C16 - Quarantaine (MF Edit)
06. Beaumanoir. - Will To power
07. Dyssomnia - Hypocrisy
08. Amorem - Hands (MF Revisited Version)
09. Commuter - Steuergerät
10. Andrew Claristidge & The Claydermans - And Now You Dance
11. Vezna - Attention (MF Edit)
12. Gofrilab - Lucky Floor
13. Nomenklatür - Bend Out Of Shape


MF026 - 2015 © Mille Feuilles

www.millefeuilles.org

Stigmates #1 -  C16 - Quarantaine (MF Edit)

A bit more than a month ago I was thanking you all for following and staying up-to-date regarding my project, and intended to offer you a small gift. 

Time has passed and the May-June frenzy as well, so here it finally is ! Straight from my vault, here is a little edit I did last year i guess, that i still like a lot.

Aliens Can't Stop Smoking

More info:

Full stream of 'Armour,' the new LP from Reeko under his Architectural moniker, out now on Wolfskuil Records.

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@darko-esser

Architectural - Delicatezza

Info:  
This track is part of "Two" by Miss Kittin & The Hacker. 

See details below or check discogs: http://www.discogs.com/Miss-Kittin-And-The-Hacker-Two/release/1733978

Buy the track at: 
Zero Inch: http://www.zero-inch.com/artist/Miss_Kittin/track/Ray_Ban/88410
Beatport: http://www.beatport.com/track/ray-ban-original-mix/816952
Itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/album/two/id307360659?l=en

Lyrics:
Opening the window 
To feel the wind blow 
Is the sky grey or blue?
 I see the world through you

Behind my Ray-Ban
 A screen between the world and I

I only show what I want 
The sun is too strong
 Are my eyes grey or blue? 
You can't see me but I can see you

Behind my Ray-Ban
A screen between the world and I

Protection on the go
 And a vision in stereo 
Is my mood grey or blue?
 I see the future through you  

Behind my Ray-Ban

2009: Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Two: 10. "Ray Ban"

Ever since their initial singles were released in the mid-1990s and became international calling cards for the Chain Reaction label, the Porter Ricks duo of Thomas Köner and Andy Mellwig have represented that crucible point in which techno music leaked into new social environments and became the background music for cutting-edge cultural critique. Their submerged “scuba” sound, presented in dark tone colors and reverberating to infinity, is now instantly identifiable as one of the ‘soundmarks’ of Berlin club culture. Just as importantly, it is still a palpable aftershock of a pre-millenial genre explosion that saw deep dub, shimmering post-rock, abstract hip-hop and art-damaged noise all drinking from the same well of inspiration. Together with restless international collaborators such as Kevin Martin, and theoretical thinktanks such as the Mille Plateaux label, Mellwig and Köner were key players in a larger decentralized rebellion against musical monoculture. Their stated desire to make unexpected timbral shifts as important to their compositions as rhythm, along with their indifference to concerns like public image, set up a situation that critic Kodwo Eshun picked up on early on (“no pictures or interviews act as shock absorbers…the full force of their inexplicable sounds falls around your ears.”)

For proof of Porter Ricks’ enduring legacy, look no further than the fact that “dub techno” is now a stylistic movement that has expanded far beyond the confines of Berlin and the Basic Channel / Chain Reaction label alliance (where Mellwig’s mastering skills also played a starring role). Lurid traces of PR’s aesthetic can now be found in the work of producers like Andy Stott and Miles Whittaker, showing the potential for the duo’s unique ‘aquatic’ techniques to be applied to a variety of different musical contexts. However, this does present Porter Ricks with the unique challenge of reasserting themselves in a scene that has mastered their sonic vocabulary so well, the originals themselves run the risk of sounding like imitators…are they up to the task?

Their new LP on Tresor, Anguilla Electrica, may be their first full-length release in seventeen full years, but it radiates with confidence and with a clarity and intensity rarely seen in a world so oversaturated with communications noise. It’s made clear at once that it’s a continuation of a sonic ideal rather than a tribute to what has already been achieved: the duo is not idly sitting back while their newer acolytes do their talking for them. From the outset, the title track “Anguilla Electrica” slithers to life with bouncing and panning sequences that cover the full frequency spectrum and provide a perfect update on Porter Ricks’ exploration of animalistic movement and perception. Elsewhere, pieces such as “Scuba Rondo” also reanimate the classic Porter Ricks sound in striking fashion, playfully setting up a virtual sonic kitchen in which gelatinous sound phrases blend with steamy hisses and distinct crackling. In other places, like “Port of Tangency” and “Shoal Beat,” the duo once again demonstrates just how effortlessly catchy the conversational tension between lockstep groove and slightly unhinged, unidentifiable sound material can be.

This new LP is well worth the wait and is a life-affirming one in an uncertain and perilous time, drowning out daily anxieties like a rush of incoming surf - yet it is far more invigorating than relaxing. True to the Porter Ricks tradition, it will be just as exciting hearing this music as it will be to experience what new cultural mutations it leaves in its wake

Anguilla Electrica

Tresor Store

Porter Ricks - Anguilla Electrica

out now on nein
https://www.beatport.com/release/voodoo-spunk/2140208

Cabaret Nocturne - Occult Spells (Black Light Smoke RMX)

Evolve (Remote Remix)

FREE DOWNLOAD:
https://whypeopledance.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-matediteria-materi-005

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whypeopledance is back with another MATERIÁ release, for which friends, family members and colleagues - 16 of them - made 16 different edits for almost any occasion. Harsh raw vibes, ambiguous hip-hop disco treats, just pick and roll!

Compiled by Serial Experiments. 
Artwork by Serial Experiments & Scannoir.

V.A. - MATEDITERIA

FREE DOWNLOAD!

Dead Luck (½GOTT Edit by Scannoir) [MATERIÁ 005]

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Paris => Cabaret Sauvage, Trabendo, Rex Club, Badaboum, La Java, Mazette, La Machine du Moulin Rouge, La Prairie Du Canal, Petit Bain, Nexus, La Madrague Festival, Palais de Tokyo, La Rotonde Stalingrad, Silencio, ZigZag, La Clairiere, Wanderlust, Nuits Fauves, Double Vie, Pamela, Virage,  Le Monseigneur etc...

France => Calvi On The Rocks, Cabourg Mon Amour, We Love Green, Sarcus Festival, Tres cool Festival-Deauville, Highfive Festival-Annecy, Briques Rouges Festival-Lille, Bains Numeriques Festival-Enghien, Macadam Nantes x2, Lieu Unique Nantes, Le Sucre Lyon x3, Le Terminal Lyon, Le Petit Salon Lyon, Iboat Bordeaux x3, Chapiteau Marseille, 1988 Live Club Rennes, Gare Saint Sauveur Lille x2, Ostra Nancy, Grenoble Campus, La Bobine Grenoble, Angers, Nuit Blanche Saint Denis etcetc...

Europe => London x4 , Manchester x3, Leeds x2, Edinburgh, Berlin x3, Hamburg, Freiburg, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Stockholm x2, Copenhagen, Geneve x4, Lausanne, Neuchatel, Zurich x4, Bern, Lucern, Madrid x2, Ronda, Barcelona, Porto, Prague, Budapest, Sofia, Vilnius x2, Palanga, Belgrade, Zagreb, Warsaw, Saint Petersburg, Moscow etc...

PREMIERE : Julia Bondar feat. Maman Kusters - La Neige Et Ses Messes Noires

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