Tailored Tracks - June 2020

'Abundance Of Selves' is taken from Conforce his forthcoming album 'Kinetic Image'.

Boris Bunnik has finished his third full-length album as Conforce. Entitled 'Kinetic Image', the ten-track album is to be released on Delsin in November following on from his standout offering, 'Escapism', back in 2011.

In the last few years, Dutchman Bunnik has established himself as one of the most prolific producers in many different sonic realms. From deep, stripped down explorations to raw and rugged techno via conceptual and cinematic sound design projects, he is a master craftsman who coaxes evocative sounds from both analogue and digital tools whether working as Versalife, Silent Harbour or any of his other monikers.

Kinetic Image, though, is the sound of Conforce producing without the dancefloor in mind. It’s the sound of him moving away from the past and into the present. The album has very much been designed to be heard in one sitting, as a complete experience that moves away from regimented 4/4 beats and into slower, more surreptitious tempos.

The result is an all consuming sonic journey of intriguing and inspiring sounds that range from full on cerebral excursions into vast open spaces that throb invitingly (Scientific Trajectory) to underwater daydreams that suspend you deep in an ocean as various mycobacterial details float by. There’s also more industrial sounding fair that depicts a desolate warehouse in perennial decay (Semantic Field) and mysterious echo chambers that spread out all around you as celestial light beams and haunting melodic ripples gently float by as per the excellent Temporary Reversals.

An aquatic vibe pervades – no doubt a side effect of recent projects under other monikers – and the title itself relates to the fact that Conforce wanted to make moving images and art that evolve and unfold like passing landscapes. He sure has done that, because Kinetic Images is like an imaginary soundtrack to the last days of Atlantis… it sucks you in, it churns you about and it makes for music that consumes your whole conscious and rewards it with very real sonic imagery.

As is always the case with this label, the album comes with bespoke artwork from Dutch designers Graphic Surgery who are inspired by “urban environments” and “experimental electronic music from the 1990’s”. Created using an analogue spray paint/stencil technique, each 'box' or 'step' is an original image on paper and gives rise to the aesthetic of minor failures. As such, the repetitive and monochromatic design they have come up with for Kinetic Images is both structured and architectural yet dynamic and fluid at the same time. Completed with crisp typography and luxurious amounts of negative space, it’s artwork as considered as the music it conceals.

Tracklists 'Kinetic Image'

[ Track List 2xLP ]
a1. Conforce - Semantic Field
a2. Conforce - Spatiotemporal
b1. Conforce - Formerly Programmed Decisions
b2. Conforce - Temporary Reversals
c1. Conforce - Abundance Of Selves
c2. Conforce - Scientific Trajectory
d1. Conforce - Underwater Settlers
d2. Conforce - Excess Mortality

[ Track List 1xCD ]
1. Conforce - Excess Mortality
2. Conforce - Spatiotemporal
3. Conforce - Temporary Reversals
4. Conforce - Semantic Field
5. Conforce - Scientific Trajectory
6. Conforce - Underwater Settlers
7. Conforce - Formerly Programmed Decisions
8. Conforce - Abundance Of Selves
9. Conforce - Optimum Pace
10. Conforce - Anti-adaptive State

Kinetic Image

Abundance of Selves

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Titansword

Release date (vinyl & digital format): 6th of July 2015.

The releases on Curle roughly go anywhere between deep house and solid techno, but Hiver’s deep techno sound is probably what I appreciate most myself if I had to choose. Melodic, floating and based on traditions but without sounding like something you already heard too often, that’s about how I would describe the Italian duo’s second Curle EP. Their first one got played by Sven Väth and Efdemin just to name a few. Hiver hold a residency at Milan’s Dude Club, but in the meantime have played everywhere from Dimensions festival to Panorama Bar.

TRACKLIST
A1. Hiver - Same Mistake Twice
A2. Hiver - Vorticism
B1. Hiver - Out Of Blue
B2. Hiver - Tangerine

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Same Mistake Twice EP

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No Nonsense jagged-edged deepness. Young gun Tom Dicicco kills it with these two slices of strobe light euphoria. Those dance floor moments when you forget where you are.

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Com Sin / Fiere EP
Label : Sound Of Vast
Cat No : SOV013
Release Date : February 2018
Format : EU12”
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Tracklisting
A1 Fiere
B1 Vedenie
B2 Miere

Miere

SOV013 Com Sin - Miere

@marbodmusic's Remix of @johannesalbert's "Whirring In Distance" will be released July 20th through Frank Music. More Info: http://bit.ly/TP_Marbod

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Whirring In Distance (Marbod Remix)

Johannes Albert - Whirring In Distance (Marbod Remix)

Enter Revolution

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You Can't Walk Through A Buffalo Herd

Two leaders from very different musical worlds, the innovative pianist Bruce Brubaker and scientist-now-electronic-artist https://soundcloud.com/max-cooper collaborate to create this latest expression of music by Philip Glass and tell a story of diversity and vulnerability. 
  
Commissioned by and introduced at the Paris Philharmonie in 2019, Glassforms melds the acoustic concert grand piano with synths and cutting edge electronic production techniques to create a compelling album and a dynamic live experience.

Bruce Brubaker and Max Cooper - The Poet Acts [Taken from Glassforms]

After contributions to 2019’s ‘locus error’ and 2018’s ‘happy new year! we wish you happiness!’ Carlota presents her debut EP on трип.

On ‘the bow’ EP Carlota exposes the subtleties of emotion, memory and time through various aural explorations.

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Carlota - entropy to syntropy

I'm back with 2 tracks after a prolific few months or so in the studio. 

'Monolith' has got some of that Italo House feel, but also some crunchy, driving drums. Ideal for the sunset before everything gets a bit more rowdy. 

'Fac' is a big room track, without the typical big room tropes or a sledehammer kick. Scattered with some skittering hats and a persistent guttural bass-line.

Get it over on Bandcamp: https://isaacreuben.bandcamp.com/album/fac

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Isaac Reuben - Fac (SNIPPETS)

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