HJ002-VA – “Friction”

The second release on Hypnotic Journeys brings together emerging Georgian producers and celebrated names from the global techno scene, weaving a story of tension, resistance, and transcendence.

Batumi-based newcomer Grenuy opens the compilation with a debut ambient piece that feels both intimate and expansive, a slow-burning meditation on space and emotion. His work is reimagined by Van Morph, a revered producer and founder of Khoros Records, who drives the track into deeper territory with an old-school, hypnotic groove.

NFNM (formerly Kapa), a young yet distinctive voice in the Tbilisi underground, delivers a piece of textural techno rich with movement and raw emotion. The journey concludes with a powerful remix by Tsott, founder of the forward-thinking Spira Records, whose deep and cerebral approach brings the compilation full circle.

“Friction” is a testament to Hypnotic Journeys’ ethos: uniting generations, sounds, and visions through hypnotic techno as a futurist statement.

Mastered by Van Morph, Verbindung (Tsotne Tabatadze)
Artwork by Ozeki Gagamaru (Gegi Azarashvili))

Distributed by Triple Vision

FRICTION VA

NFNM - Friction Love (Tsott Remix)

An very old song. A souvenir, bad quality. Recommend headphones. This is one of my first compositions.

For One

The Rituals series rises again — a fresh strike carved deep into black wax. RITUAL12 summons an international assembly of techno insurgents from the OMEN roster, each delivering their own sonic rite. Across two sides, the intent is absolute: raw, unfiltered power pulled from the shadows and unleashed on the dancefloor.

[SIDE A]
SWARM INTELLIGENCE – Inexorable
Berlin’s Swarm Intelligence ignites the record with precision-tooled percussion and fractured basslines. Polyrhythmic tension winds tighter with every measure, industrial grit locking into a cybernetic march toward total hypnosis.

B.A.R.K – Shikijitsu
A bone-rattling invocation of distorted low-end and ceremonial drums. B.A.R.K drives forward like ancient machinery grinding to life, a Japanese primal energy sharpened to a deadly edge.

AXKAN & DUELLIST – Resilience
Mexico meets Scotland for a brutalist assault: hammering kicks, serrated synth textures, and walls of analogue saturation. No safe passage here — only forward momentum into the heart of chaos.

[SIDE B]
EAS – Honored One
From Los Angeles, EAS delivers a tense, ritualistic construction where a subterranean EBM bassline pulses through metallic drones. Hypnotic, uneasy, and charged with controlled dissonance.

HATELOVE & OGMAH – Hanged Bodies
A dark ceremonial groove heavy with ritual percussion and spectral synth chants. The layers rise to a fever pitch, blurring the line between transcendence and collapse.

CRYSTAL GEOMETRY + AXKAN – Kratom
France’s Crystal Geometry joins AXKAN for a militaristic strike of modular chaos and pummeling drums. EBM-infused basslines drive beneath razor-sharp synth fire, rallying the midnight faithful to the front lines.

RITUAL12 is not a compilation — it’s a convocation. Forged in analogue heat, drenched in distortion, and aimed directly at the heart of the floor, this record demands full surrender. Step in. There is no turning back.

All tracks written and produced by the featured artists.
Mastered by Tim Vitek (Chicago)
Artwork by October Midnight
Design by Feder Sanz

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RITUAL12

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A2 - B.A.R.K - Shikijitsu

Close to a year after its Blasted-fathered, inaugural first EP, Depth.Request operators reveal that the London-based imprint is far from being dead in a cradle and has a pair of legitimately attention-commanding names presented on the sleeve of its sophomore record as a matter of fact: with a career spanning well over a decade, Osaka's reliable warehouse demolitioner Ryuji Takeuchi needs little in terms of introduction and really so does A1 remix-assigned Swarm Intelligence, whose designer creations are known to provoke thought and action at even degree.
Phenomenon Of Combination starts off with Noctambulism, an anxious-to-get-to-it opener whose 6 kicks a tact work nicely to perceivably speed up its tempo of 132 and aren't halting for bit as the distorted acidic sequence, spinning hats and tides of noise gradually show up to do what reaching crude oil connection would to a wildfire already raging. 
As percussion in a revised 136-BPM version is approached differently and with more emphasis applied, the signatures remain uneven—as is often the case with Swarm Intel's offbeat and off-the-wall production; that aside, the roaring digital grinding and vertiginously panning mid-section drones add sinister colors to Takeuchi's metaphorical picture which wasn't exactly evoking green pastures and still waters to begin with. 
While brought down to 124 a minute, one probably wouldn't want Somnambulism running much faster anyway with a somewhat convoluted drum programming that is involved; a steady rise of distortion and gain of its fluctuating acid bassline also proves to provide enough fortitude to make up for the mid-range tempo and slowly but surely fills up every patch of the spectrum with acute aural intensity. 
Definitively exhausting the synonyms for this titularly addressed brand of parasomnia, Sleepwalking brings the release to closure through diligently whanging 4x4s alongside a condensing arrangement of 16x16s, paced at 137 and supported in their plight by faintly striking claps with light hats peaking from behind the perpetuating pattern of a deranged acid wall that undoubtedly does to psyche something akin to subtly stirring the sanity meter towards E while drilling a hole in tank to eliminate the possibility of a refill.
Maddening in all good senses, second adoptee of Depth.Request is a four-pack of tools forget to inflict hard damage, best recommended to those that regard their local factory-made-a-venue as weekend retreat.

- rhetor, Aivazovsky Waves

A1. Ryuji Takeuchi - Noctambulism
A2. Ryuji Takeuchi - Noctambulism (Swarm Intelligence Remix)
B1. Ryuji Takeuchi - Somnanbulism
B2. Ryuji Takeuchi - Sleepwalking

Written and produced by Ryuji Takeuchi
Remixed by Swarm Intelligence
Mastered by Alain Paul
Artwork by Tolga Tres
P&C 2019 Depth.Request

Format : 12'' vinyl & digital
Release date : 25-11-19

DR002 - Ryuji Takeuchi - Phenomenon of Combination - EP - Preview

1. Vanya Limb - The Guardian
2. Devastia - Ravishment
3. Nani Killa - Swollen
4. Penelope's Fiance - Aimless Wanderer
5. Vohkinne - Gateway
6. Persohna - Disguised
7. XVIII - Isolation
8. Booz - Teoria Del Caos
9. Rhombic - Cabalango
10. VYN·1 - Gravital Moves
11. Rotor Militia - Flashbacks
12. Fatos Çeta - Seismic W'aves
13. Yenny Skev - Lies

Artwork by Rafael Tanaka

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IB011 // Hyperlacrimae - Yoga Darśana
[Cassette/Digital]
Out on May 

Barren wastelands, a distant moon.
Far screeches: gloomy rituals.
Piercing cries.

The deepest indigo, a desolate and rude imagery.
Yoga-darśana : this is a den of iniquity.

Hyperlacrimae’s savage sound shows the Italian duo’s roots in industrial music with the addition of a strong dark-infused oniric attitude.
Straddling post-industrial sounds and a personal style with tribal and catacombic features, a sort of mystical and distorted ritual, a wild dance with an ancient and primordial flavour.
The LP oscillates between a raw intense dynamism - fully demonstrated by “Kobra”, the album’s climax, “Kogawa No Gotsu” and “Blood Ties” - and a sense of perdition, evinced in reflective acts like “Incubus” and the outro “Korekore-Matakawa”. There’s also room for the distressing atmosphere of “In My Poison”, a contemporary example of obscure Industrial’s heaviest face.
The remixers Impure Secretion, Scarpa and Shrouds participate with three reinterpretations of great impact.

Tracklist:

A1. Kua Heke Te
A2. Kobra (Endless)
A3. In My Poison
A4. Blood Ties 
A5. Kogawa No Gotsu 
A6. Incubus (Demon) 
A7. Methu Muathai 
B1. Blood Ties (Live "Fire" Edit) 
B2. Korekore-Matakawa
B3. In My Poison (Impure Secretion remix)
B4. Kogawa No Gotsu (Scarpa remix)
B5. Poisoned Kobra (Shrouds remix) 

credits
Recorded and Produced by Erminio Granata & Carmine Laurenza
Vocals by Carmine Laurenza
Mastered by Hyperlacrimae at Red Dungeon (Naples)
Artworks and Photos by Nullam Rem Natam (Athens)
Design and Layout by Erminio Granata

HYPERLACRIMAE - Yoga Darśana [Cassette IB011] [Rmx by Impure Secrection,Scarpa,Shrouds]

Black Pyramid - INTER VAIN

For the next installment we have Berlin based artist/dj YULAV, with a full on turbulent ride of a mix - the perfect accompaniment of madness!

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Abstract artist and DJ from deep Siberia, Yulav has moved to Berlin in 2019, in order to bring fresh and frosty spirits to the place and contribute to its cultural development. Yulav has already participated in numerous exhibitions, concerts and other events during her stay, and now focusing more on a relatively new project - Widows Radio. With a help of her friends, Widows Collective, now she curates weekly radio shows series, promoting flint* artists(www.youtube.com/channel/UCoHgQyIRCSOZdaq8I9Y4Vlw)

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SC: https://soundcloud.com/yu_lav
FB: https://www.facebook.com/iamyulav/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/yulav/?hl=ru

N.I.M PODCAST :: EP.55 [YULAV]

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THE DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOUR 12”es by HYPNOSKULL – this means in clear words: thirteen 12inches in 2020, one track each week in 2020. The released track will be downloadable on this soundcloud for one week. Don’t miss them. Track 49 is titled "COME AGAIN", recorded november 7th and 8th 2020, lyrics written with 23 selected oneliners, words and remarks of instagram followers. Video's at the anti/techno FB page and/or the techno cartel youtube channel. FIND THE DOWNLOADABLE TRACK ALSO AT ANT-ZEN:

HYPNOSKULL - COME AGAIN - THE DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOUR 12"es 49/52

Monya - Save Me (Original mix)

Techno & Experimental label based in Kosovo, curated by XVIII.

Contact: lxviii-label@hotmail.com

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