On a cold and rainy night in August 2021 Vytautas has shared with us some of the songs from his personal vinyl collection.

Asilelis Ir Lape - Weevil VINYL

OTR Especial - Camilo

i'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR$ (MVQX REMIX)

Rat-Spirited Dweller delivers five tracks that relentlessly drag you through the dust, grease and glister, through the speed of ritual and violent meditation. Twisting distorted voices with industrial sounds, this caustic EP lays bare Acidic Male’s self-embodiment of dirt.

Releases on limited cassette and digital February 18, 2022.

@acidicmale
Mastering by @kfrey
Artwork by Acidic Male

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Acidic Male - Something Violently Morose [DC013] (Snippet)

Recorded in a secret party in Venice - 13/02/2022

https://soundcloud.com/tlxco is an electronic punk project based on sourly crazy sound

SIM 028 - TLXCO

Elitepop is a monthly radio show by Enfant Terrible for Intergalactic FM (IFM/CBS). A new episode is transmitted every first Monday of the month on the Cybernetic Broadcasting System channel at IFM for 1 hour from 21.00h onwards… No talking... just music!

Episode 28 was transmitted April 2022 and Is going back to the roots of ET some sort of way… meaning minimal electronics, dark beats, elektro, industrial, …

Elitepop #28

Dalmata Daniel ‎– DDD08
Kabal - Vampire Castle EP
[Digital / Exclusive Ltd. Merchandise]

"I simply like something that could be likened to the essence or mythology of a genre, which ironically goes against my broader beliefs, because essentialism is something I abhor, but in music as a discipline, it's perhaps innocuous."

Vampire Castle EP by now Prague-based musician Andrej Kabal explores and subverts the framework of a particular genre, its boundaries whether elastic or sturdy. Being constrained by stylistic tropes can be surprisingly liberating, and perhaps ephemeral too, a mirage. The tracks resulted from spontaneous sessions: from experimenting with text-to-speech to strumming on a guitar. Deeply personal, the EP reflects a specific period of his life.

"These tracks came to life in my room while I was living in Petržalka (a concrete-block district in Bratislava), where I could amazingly listen to music until 4am undisturbed, so I was able to delve into production. I can relive this vibe when I listen to the tracks again. The dimly lit room, me smoking at 5am on the balcony, observing the sleepy Petržalka council estate unrolling in front of my eyes."

The mood of the EP is opaque and mellow, like that fleeting time of the day, where dusk is transposed into dawn; slightly menacing (like a John Carpenter soundtrack, one of Kabal's perhaps more obvious inspirations on this release), with spots of light seeping through.
The title "Vampire Castle" was inspired by Mark Fisher's concept and uses samples from his work. “Individualise and privatise everything”, “essentialise”: we are all doomed indeed, but as Fisher wrote “Outside the Vampires’ Castle, anything is possible.”

– Lucia Udvardyova

Written & Recorded by @kabal666

Mastered by The House of What You See

Art Director / Artwork by Dániel Jani (Studio Jetski)
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Dalmata Daniel: www.dalmatdaniel.com

Vampire Castel EP

DDD08: Kabal - Vampire Castle EP [SNIPPETS]

Co-founder of Sons of Traders, Berlin based TANS debuts on Dead Channel with this collection of darkened acid electro and analog broken-beat heaters. Stripped-down percussion, raw gut-punch basses, occult vocalisms, and unsettling atmospherics that linger in the shadows meld seamlessly together in this blighted jewel. Not to be missed!
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Releases on limited cassette and digital May 13, 2022

@tans-1
Mastering by @kfrey
Design by Brian Drabant

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Tears on the Host

TANS - The Missionary [DC015] (Snippet)

The haiku that guided this;

Winter waterfall
a rock untouched
by sunrise or sunset
(Naviar haiku challenge 607, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge ),

has an obvious staring point, "Winter Waterfall" the track has finished up quite experimental.


Waterfall = white noise.
So I started with a noise source in Voltage Modular and created an evolving sequence that processed the noise output through a spectral filter bank using two instances of the WC-96 Spectral Processor from DMT Audio. I then created a rhythmic element by feeding that output through an LFO controlled envelope, passing the output on to Quadelay from Waverley Instruments. 

With the noise elements in place I added some pulses using basic VM modules then moved on. Having used a couple of tweaked Dreamsynth presets last week I decided it was time to take the deep dive and learn how to patch Dreamsynth from scratch. Dreamsynth (https://cherryaudio.com/products/dreamsynth) is deep, almost modular. I made a patch for the chord sequence; yes I know it's a bit weird but I liked it in isolation while developing the DS patch so kept it all be it sequenced, converted to MIDI and passed out from VM. While experimenting I found that if I played in a low register I got a rumbly semi random texture so I split that off and tweaked it a bit to represent the rock, triggered by a separate sequence in VM. The final element is a drone layer made from DMT Audio's "West Coast" modules (Uncertainty and Harmonic Oscillator), left over from an early experiment and passed through a band pass filter modulated by reused control, voltages from the noise sequencing. 

With all the elements in place I made two changes before recording, I added a small amount of ShimmerVerb from Eventide to the chord sequence and replaced the pure white noise that I'd planned to use at the beginning with a sample of a real waterfall from freesound (Staying close to waterfall by trader_one -- https://freesound.org/s/670515/ -- License: Creative Commons 0), because I wanted a touch of gurgling water.

With everything in place; opening waterfall, mapped physical controls, multitrack recording and no real plan. I hit record and improvised, one take, longer than I'd expected.
I'll own up to doing a lot of mastering to make the dispirit elements gel but didn't add anything significant.

Winter Waterfall - (naviarhaiku - 607)

Image created by me.
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Gefressene Jäger

Dark Ambient Music inspired by the writings of HP Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos cult. Be scared and enjoy!

CTHULHU MYTHOS - TENEBROUS

Underground stream from Buenos Aires, Argentina

OTR Especial - Camilo

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