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Collection of shadows

01 Suspended in the void

Lower Synth Department - My Favorite Doll

Lower Synth Department - Robots On The Beach

Unreleased from recent Technique album on TONN Recordings
vocals by Meandabox

Technique  - Up Mix, Unreleased

From Prinzessin's 'Exit Wounds' EP on TONN.

Available on TONN Recordings Bandcamp.

Mastered by Ariaz.

Image Christopher Martin.

Exit Wounds

This Romance

This Romance - Prinzessin (from the 'Exit Wounds' EP)

Prvo Lice Množine / JRK

Iv/An - J.R.K.

unreleased

featuring the Soundmaster Stix St-305 drum machine
Roland Alpha Juno synthesizer
Moog The Source synthesizer
Roland Boutique JP-08

wrote this after watching the film Xtro 1982

Lifeform

From the album, 'Serrures et Palmiers' by Bleu Russe.

Out on cassette on New Sinister Bandcamp.

Released in association with Petrol Chips.
Mastered by Ray Borneo & Monsieur Willy
Image © Arthur Maserati

Serrures et Palmiers

Le corbeaux

Les corbeaux - Bleu Russe (from the cassette album)

Cover version of the Electric Prunes song "I had too much to dream (last night)"

AvonRim - Too much to stream

Chaos Not Conspiracy

Chaos Not Conspiracy - FOKKER

From the Misfortunes album, 'The Isle of Tomorrow' out now on TONN Recordings.

Available on 12" vinyl on TONN Recordings website catalogue and TONN Bandcamp.

Lyrics by Nikolina Chatzipantazi 
Mixed by Konstantinos Iosifidis (Lostinthe) 
Mastered by Thanos Mylonas

Image © Christopher Martin

The Isle Of Tomorrow

Στο Τέλος Του Δρόμου

Στο Τέλος Του Δρόμου - Misfortunes (from the 12" vinyl album 'The Isle Of Tomorrow')

The music of the band is deeply influenced by and related to the experimental electronic music of the late 1970s and early 1980s, that was made in Sheffield by bands like The Future/The Human League, Vice Versa, Cabaret Voltaire, or by the formerly in Preston based musician Colin Potter and a few American avant-garde artists, pioneering in electronic music, like John Bender, etc.. Although the band is very careful in creating a minimal electronics sound, obviously appearing vintage in itself, it is produced in a hybrid way, by using analogous procedures and modern techniques of production as well. So in the end Lower Synth Department is concerned with post-minimal electronics so to speak.
 
The name of the band is related to at least three different references, which intercommunicate and therefore depict the sound of the band: first to the cold aesthetics of modernist, especially brutalist architecture, which conveyed and expressed a very dehumanized attitude to life from the 1950s till the 1960s, that still affected even the 1980s. Second, technically speaking, to the low frequency oscillator, which creates a rhythmic pulse or sweep and is often used to modulate synthesizers, delay lines and other audio equipment in order to create effects used in the production of electronic music, while the final reference derives from the band's name abbreviation.

Lower Synth Department - Robots On The Beach

Lower Synth Department

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