For this installment we've invited Magnum Opus who brings to the table an unrelenting mix of harsh intensities - just how we like it here at casa del N.I.M! 

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Magnum Opus is the new identity that is part of Felipe Novoa, a project forged from its industrial origins, dark but melodic nuances that can transport you from nostalgia to the rawness of those powerful sounds. 

He has released music on labels like: Drøne, Soil Records,Mosaique Records, Up north Records, Pildoras Tapes, The black Lodge, Analog Texture Records, the hiddens, idlestates, buraco, Forkha and more.

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SC: https://soundcloud.com/magnum-opus-opus
FB: https://www.facebook.com/Magnum.opus.n/

N.I.M PODCAST :: EP.71 [Magnum Opus]

Welcome to the 2nd Unmasked Theoria.
Guest: Khemia Records.

🕯 The second guest on Unmasked Theoria, our new interview series focused on vinyl labels, is Lee Adams, founder of Khemia Records, Kaos London events and a long-time friend of ours at Unmasked. 🕯

Talking about music in the current situation feels difficult and strange at times, but it´s after an interview like this that one realises how resourceful music people are, and how life inspires creativity in our world, no matter what. 🌹

2021 marks the 5th anniversary of Khemia and the 18th of Kaos, and it felt just like the right time to have a chat with their founder, Lee Adams and talk about the past and the future of his projects.

Together with the interview that came out yesterday, Lupus, another great friend of both ours and Kaos, has prepared for us a mix made just of tracks released on Khemia. In this journey you will find a taster of the eclectic spectrum of sounds that make Khemia Records one of our favourite London labels.

Tracklist:

Law 334 - Velis
Prophan - My Love Was Not Good Enough
Offizier Rinzer - Not Yours
 L-Shape - Swarm
Rrose - Emboli
Orphx - Aurora
Offizier Rinzer - Today You Died (For Me)
In Aeternam Vale - La Grille
In Aeternam Vale - Dave
Distant - Hydrargrya
Prophan - A Death Shall Not Be Vain
Dahlia - Repressed Urges
Blind Delon - Rule II
MARMO - Alchimia

Interview: https://www.unmaskedtechno.com//Interviews/UNMASKED-THEORIA-2%3A-KHEMIA-RECORDS

Khemia - Web Links:
https://www.facebook.com/londonkaos
https://www.facebook.com/khemiarecords
https://khemiarecordslondon.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kaoslondon/
https://www.instagram.com/khemia_records/

Unmasked - Web Links:
www.unmaskedtechno.com/
www.facebook.com/unmasked.events/
www.instagram.com/unmasked.london.official/
www.residentadvisor.net/profile/unmasked
www.youtube.com/channel/UCRDYlRi_9_TXs_8OoJ1h3Xg

UNMASKED THEORIA 02 | KHEMIA RECORDS

Artist: Stanislav Tolkachev
Title: 'Everyone In Between'
Label: Dystant Recordings
Cat. #: DST004
Format: Vinyl & Digital
Release: 21st May,​ ​2021
Pre order: https://dystantrecordings.bandcamp.com/music

Sounds From NoWhere is pleased to premiere a new Stanislav Tolkachev' gem on 'Dystant Recordings'.
A collective of artists who express with their “club” side:  Dark and liquid sonority from Stave-Karim Maas and Wrong Assessment, passing through the more solid and fast ones represented by The Extraverse and Magna Pia, Enigmatic arpeggios by Danilenko and an usual intro by Stanislav Tolkachev. 

"The paradox, the best way to reveal to men a hidden truth"

@stanislav-tolkachev
@dystantrecordings

Premiere: Stanislav Tolkachev - Everyone In Between [Dystant Recordings]

A Various Artists of two volumes characterized by the two side of the Artist.

(Vol.I, Vinyl 12")
A collective of artists who express with their “club” side:
Dark and liquid sonority from Stave-Karim Maas and Wrong Assessment, passing through the more solid and fast ones represented by The Extraverse and Magna Pia, Enigmatic arpeggios by Danilenko and an usual intro by Stanislav Tolkachev.
"The paradox, the best way to reveal to men a hidden truth"

Mastered by Coefficient (Pat Cooper), London
Artwork Handmade ctpoil by Stanislav Tolkachev and Valeriya Tarasenko

Bats In Pool

Vinyl

V/A: Bats In Pool (Vol. I, Vinyl)

For this installment we have Berlin based DJ and label owner Dim Light with a mix that throws you deep into the harsh and sinister darkness.

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Dim Light is a record label owner and DJ based in Berlin.

Being a music nerd since his early youth, he got into listening to electronic music around 20 years ago. After several years of practicing all by himself he started releasing online mixes around 2011.

In 2015 he launched Nemorous Records together with Anja Zaube and after that played a few selected gigs at events like Apathy at Grießmühle, Tokonoma in Kassel oder Smallroom in Bielefeld, sharing the decks with artists like Talker and Oake.

In 2017 he finally started his own brainchild Voidance Records, so far releasing 5 EPs and 2 tapes and hosting 2 showcases in 2019. Voidance Records deals with the darkest strains of the electronic music genre, hosting new as well as established artists like Meer, Chafik Chennouf&Katsunori Sawa and Llimbs, to name but a few.

Dim Light‘s musical influences range from all different genres like Ambient, Black Metal, Electroacoustic music or Techno, which also reflects in his sets.

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SC: https://soundcloud.com/dim_light
FB: www.facebook.com/dimlightberlin
IG: www.instagram.com/dim_berlin/
Label - voidancerecords.bandcamp.com/ // www.voidance.net/

Mix for NIM

N.I.M PODCAST :: EP.73 [Dim Light]

Track: Doom Slug
Release: Suffer Not Enough EP
Artist: Plural (@plural)
Label: Rhod Records (@rhodrecords)
Release Date: 01.06.21

· Read, Play, Buy: https://vanitydust.com/track-premieres/plural-doom-slug-rhod-records

Suffer Not Enough

Doom Slug

Read · Play · Buy

Premiere: Plural — Doom Slug [Rhod Records]

Moddullar duo releases "Optical Resolution EP" on Lewis Fautzi's Faut Section. Monument premieres track "Ragel" from the release, that will be out on June 16th.

@moddullar
@fautsectionofficial

MNMT Premiere: Moddullar – Ragel

Lost In Ether | P R E M I E R E | Albert Salvatierra - Landing On The Red Planet [Skryptöm]

taken from: Albert Salvatierra - Expedition to Mars 
release date:  18 06 21
pre-sale: https://skryptom.bandcamp.com/
 shops links: https://skryptom.bandcamp.com/

An unexpected journey of a space crew to the Planet of Mars. One of the crew members realizes that he is actually an alien and he discovers a rare find on the Red Planet. An other alien has been transmitting a signal from another planet to be found and after the signal was, luckily, heard by him, they travelled back to Earth to get connected and to create magic through their music.

Albert Salvatierra
https://www.facebook.com/DjAlbertSalvatierra/
https://soundcloud.com/a-salvatierra
Skryptöm Records
https://www.facebook.com/Skryptom/
https://soundcloud.com/skryptom-records
www.instagram.com/skryptom_records/
https://skryptom.bandcamp.com/

Expedition to Mars

Lost In Ether | P R E M I E R E | Albert Salvatierra - Landing On The Red Planet [Skryptöm]

SEMANTICA 130.3 - September
SEMANTICA 130.4 - November

S.E.R.E.S. - Cosmic Noise

Title:
Earth

1: "Earth", 05:02 (00:00)
2: "Parting", 06:22, (05:02)
3: "Trees", 05:28, (11:24)
4, "Insects", 1:35, (16:52)
5, "Visitor", 04:23, (18:27)
End (22.50)

Dates:
01-Nov-2025 (inception), 01-Nov-2025 (finalised), 04-Nov-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund
Music Video by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/album/earth

Description:
After recording "Granie Demo3 - Lyra Dreams The Halloween Edition" (Ref. [1]), I had to have a wind down session just jamming out, or was it going more hyper -- you be the judge.

Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4 were recorded DAWless on the Granie, feeding it the Soma Lyra 8. Granie is my granular synthesiser Ref. [2].

Track 1 used a definite tuning library, whereas for tracks 2, 3 and 4, it was all modified and improvised. The tuning is listed below, negative frequencies meant play backwards, these were the grain play-back frequencies, which may differ to the human perceived frequency.

Grain Bank 1 frequencies [Hz]:
1: -1.635
2: 0.265
3: 0.985
4: 1.465
5: 2.165
6: 2.865
7: 4.165
8: 12.465

Grain Bank 2 frequencies [Hz]:
1:14.
2: 3.
3: 13.
4: 20.
5: 25.
6: 32
7: 28.
8: -2.4

Grain Bank 3 frequencies [Hz]:
1: 3
2: 14
3: 17
4: 22
5: 23
6: 25
7: 41
8: 47

Grain Bank 4 frequencies [Hz]:
1: 117
2: 122
3: 125
4: 129
5: 131
6: 136
7: 141
8: 40

The tuning was determined one grain bank at a time, all by ear, ensuring each new bank's ith note worked well with the next bank's ith note.

For track 5, I was curious what the tuning of track 1 would sound like with a fixed discrete tuning instrument, so took the raw track 1 tuning and put it into Ableton Live, an exact replica of tuning but with no granular synthesis human perceived tuning corrections. Some selective octave reduction was also used, this tuning is shown below:

ID, Bank, Local, FreqRatio, Cents
0, 0, 0, 1.000, 0c
1, 0, 1, 0.162, -3150c
2, 0, 2, 0.602, -877c
3, 0, 3, 0.896, -190c
4, 0, 4, 1.324, 486c
5, 0, 5, 1.752, 971c
6, 0, 6, 2.547, 1619c
7, 0, 7, 7.624, 3517c
8, 1, 0, 1.070, 118c
9, 1, 1, 0.229, -2549c
10, 1, 2, 0.994, -11c
11, 1, 3, 1.529, 735c
12, 1, 4, 1.911, 1121c
13, 1, 5, 2.446, 1549c
14, 1, 6, 2.141, 1318c
15, 1, 7, 0.183, -2936c
16, 2, 0, 1.835, 1051c
17, 2, 1, 8.563, 3718c
18, 2, 2, 10.398, 4054c
19, 2, 3, 13.456, 4500c
20, 2, 4, 14.067, 4577c
21, 2, 5, 15.291, 4721c
22, 2, 6, 25.076, 5578c
23, 2, 7, 28.746, 5814c
24, 3, 0, 1.118, 193c
25, 3, 1, 1.166, 266c
26, 3, 2, 1.195, 308c
27, 3, 3, 1.233, 362c
28, 3, 4, 1.252, 389c
29, 3, 5, 1.300, 454c
30, 3, 6, 1.347, 516c
31, 3, 7, 0.382, -1665c

I used a bell instrument, ok, this is weird, the tuning, not the instrument, but it worked, 8 notes for each of the Granie banks, strung together into 32 notes and just stuck with only using those 32 notes. I realised I needed a timing track, so picked a drum set and set the Push2 midi controller into 1/16th repeat note mode and improvised some drums into a 21 bar section. Improvised on the Bells track into 18 bars. Put the percussion and bells into looped playback and improvised on the Lyra 8 -- one take, improvised tuning oh ya.

This was all done in the session view of Live, then bounced into the arrangement view ready to play back and do the mastering by putting in volume swells for interest.

You can hear the whole album on my YouTube channel at:
https://youtu.be/Dd1BKzmb1hU

References:
[1]	Granie Demo3 - Lyra Dreams The Halloween Edition, Link: https://youtu.be/5HTL0VaQpvI
[2]	Granie, Granular synthesiser by Norman Freund, purchase at: https://normanfreund.gumroad.com/l/granie


Insects

Defiance Idref

contact: michaljablonski@lostinether.pl
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"Ether, or æther, was the mysterious substance once thought to suffuse the universe and be the medium that propagated light (and radio waves once they were discovered). Before that, it was the material that suffused the realm of the Gods. So, to say that something is in the ether means that it is something being communicated from place to place; it has no precise location, just as a radio broadcast can be heard from many different places. "

* Lost In Ether 
Here you can find personal visions and expressions of alternative electronic music represented by artists invited to show their own ways to explore sounds which are embraced into one wave of sound - podcast recorded for "Lost in Ether".
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