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Ten years after the transcendent syncopated debut ‘Progress Chance’, Ricardo Donoso returns with a pulsing retrospect of rhythmic determination and wide-eyed wonder with ‘Progress Trap’, his new album for Denovali. As is customary with Donoso, the moods on these electronic miniatures vary from piece to piece; some somber, brooding, and laden with mystery, others starry-eyed, tinged with sci-fi, and hungry for adventure.

Connections are finally forged between Donoso’s early hardware synthesizer arpeggiation experiments, his darker and more abstract work with an emphasis on synthetic textures, pulsation, and sound design and the more recent extreme full throttle electronic mayhem and prog inspired technical opuses found in the Calibrate/Re_Calibrate/Content era. 

Progress Trap is as harmonious as its predecessor allowing dissonance to subtly seep in, providing mere hints at the undercurrent of threat hidden beneath the music's smooth surface. If ‘Progress Chance’ was naive and innocent, ‘Progress Trap’ is mature and calculated. Perhaps some of the optimism has extinguished, but there is a stalking exhilaration which threads through the entire album, taking on merely different shades between sides – as with most of Donoso’s work something verging on a deep longing always lingers heavily as an aftertaste. There's a lot to digest on Progress Trap, as with Donoso’s entire canon, but as always, the effort is repaid.

Progress Trap

Ricardo Donoso - Master and Emissary

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First part Ben:
Biosphere & Deathprod - Twin Decks
Belief Defect - Unnatural Instinct
Tim Hecker - Winter's Coming
Labradford - Battered
The Bug - Forever (Eternal Dub)
Deathprod - Polytwin
Raime - The Dimming of Road and Rights
Caterina Barbieri - Arrows of Time

Second Part Arigto:
Johann Johannson - 	The Mountain View, the Majesty of the Snow-Clad Peaks, from a Place of Contemplation and Reflection
Tim Hecker - Castrati Stack
Martha Skye Murphy & Maxwell Sterling - 86 km
LORN - YESTERDAY'S PAIN
Aho Ssan – ???
Sven Helbig – Repetition feat. Surachai
Mica Levi & Oliver Coates - Dolphins Climb Onto Shore for the First Time
Mario Batkovic - PRIMORDIUM FINALE
Ah! Kosmos - Live (Yaşalmad?m)
Berserk - Guts

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Tragedy to Come w/ Ben Chatwin 12/04/2022

The Black Opal

Solace

Taken from the new Ben Frost EP -  'V A R I A N T' - out on vinyl and download on 8 December 2014 on Mute / Bedroom Community (U.S release dates - Download 9 December / Vinyl 13 January), pre-order here: http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/88102

A film by Trevor Tweeten. 

The limited edition EP features remixes of tracks taken from the latest album A U R O R A by British producer Evian Christ (following his critically acclaimed Waterfall EP and work with Kanye West); Downward label boss and techno producer Regis (previous remix credits inc. VCMG, Terence Fixmer), Good by Air affiliated experimental artist Dutch E Germ (previous remix credits inc. Fatima Al Qadiri and Mas Ysa); Australian duo HTRK and raster-noton recording artist Kangding Ray.

V A R I A N T :: EP TRACKLISTING
Venter - Evian Christ TF 12” Mix
Venter - Dutch E Germ Remix
Venter - HTRK Remix
No Sorrowing - Kangding Ray Remix
Nolan - Regis Self Medicating Edit

Pre-Order V A R I A N T here: 
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Ben Frost :: 'Nolan' :: Regis Self Medicating Edit

This track presents a stereo version excerpt of Meredith Monk's Eclipse Variations from Starkland's "Immersion" surround sound DVD.
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Meredith Monk: Eclipse Variations (stereo version excerpt) from "Immersion" DVD

Polarity is a library containing over 950 sounds themed electricity and technological progress.
All the content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K, a couple of Sennheiser MKH8040 and a LOM Elektrosluch 3+ for electromagnetic interferences. The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.

Recording Locations:

Pavia – Italy
Glaisdale – UK
Dundee – Scotland
Manchester – UK
Gravesend – UK

Purchase Link:
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Video Preview: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSzmwo9MyqU

Polarity Audio Library

Premiering on Magnetic Mag: http://bit.ly/2r9j2ti

Bristol-based solo electronic producer LTO @lto-oa returns to Injazero Records following his debut, 2015’s No Pasa Nada EP. 

While plaudits for LTO have tended to focus their praise on No Pasa Nada’s tense and eerie programming, its deep sonics and waves of static, Storybook gives us access to the beating heart within the machine. It is an album not purely of mechanics, but also of human warmth, formed with a colour palette of equal digital and organic materials. There is expression and articulation, delicateness of performance, voices both natural and treated, piano and brass, all deftly placed about a canvas of electronic fabrics.

LTO first made waves as part of mysterious electronic collective Old Apparatus. Their music - anonymous, dark, ghostly, subterranean - was reminiscent of garage and grime scenes, but sheened with a nocturnal miasma and a fierce intellect, obfuscated by deliberate myth-making. And while LTO as a solo producer retains elements of this darkness and beguiling sound-design, Storybook sees him let the light in.

A vision is laid out by album opener ‘Change’. It combines gentle, dulcet synthesis with a percussive line made of table-tennis recordings and Spanish-language voices that softly echo in and out of the space, like Katie Gately remixed into Brian Eno’s ambient records or the poise of Max Richter filtered through Chris Clark’s production lens. These themes wander and weave through the record. They comprise willfully corrupted notions of the ‘single’: broken, distorted vocal pieces that never quite move as expected, yet somehow remains approachable and deeply touching. They comprise fluidity and elasticity, a human-ness that enwraps the mechanical parts, in the same sense as Holly Herndon or Nils Frahm. A highly accomplished pianist (indeed, a piano teacher in his civilian life), LTO’s astute musicality is the foundation stone beneath the magic and abstractions of Storybook.

Injazero Records will release Storybook on 180g vinyl and digital formats on June 23rd 2017. The record was mastered by Taylor Deupree (Dustin O’Halloran, William Basinski, Helios) of 12k Mastering.

Storybook

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Chrysalis EP

Chrysalis

It seems French musician and photographer Frédéric D. Oberland might be able to play more instruments than I can name. Mentioned in the creation of his latest album, Labyrinth, are electric guitar, Dark Energy Doepfer, harmonic pipe, critter, Guitari Organelle, hurdy gurdy, pantophone, alto saxophone, duduk and flute, just to state a few. 

With the release due for the 26th October, we were kindly offered an exclusive stream of 'La Part Du Feu', an achingly sparse piece of meandering electronics. 

Read more here: http://straylandings.co.uk/news/premiere-frederic-d-oberland-nahal

Polarity Audio Library

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