“As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that someone should confirm his own existence only by the hands of an electric wall clock. There had to be a more cognitive means of confirmation. But try as I might, nothing less facile came to mind.”

Subtlety and class are what ultimately set apart certain techno releases from the multitude of records coming out each week. With this new four track EP on M_REC Ltd. Grey Series, Echologist (aka Brendon Moeller) skillfully incorporates a wide range of ideas, delivering an affective and fascinating piece of unconventional far out techno. 'Impossibility', the opening track, stands at the crossroad of dub techno and so-called mutant house, with its mean bass drum carrying a smooth analog melody through a field filled with sharp and trippy sounds, in a journey that is dark and sexy at the same time. 'Geographica' is more experimental, with its proggy and psychedelic sounds laid on a set of mutating beats traveling through rawness and distortion. Stuff that can only come out of real machines. On the flip side, 'Too Far Gong' is an oppressive and haunting track: dark spaced out electro. The closing track, 'Drug Company' remains on the same trajectory, but pusher things farther on an heavier dubby drumscape, taking advantage of the brain-liquifying properties of piercing sounds. Meant to belong in every dark and uncompromising set.

Echologist - Geographic
A1: Impossibility
A2: Geographica
B1: Too Far Gong
B2: Drug Company

(MRECLTDGS06 - 12")

Release Date: 02 September 2013

MRECLTDGS06 - Echologist - Geographic

Coefficient - Field Transitions EP - B2: Vacuum Instability (Original Mix) - M_Rec Ltd 07 (12" &amp; Digital) - Release Date April 2011

Coefficient - Vacuum Instability (Original Mix)

Coefficient - Field Transitions EP - A1: Scale Invariant Spectrum - M_Rec Ltd 07 (12" &amp; Digital) - Release Date April 2011

Coefficient - Scale Invariant Spectrum

" There is nothing left to watch but fire and the night: circle within circle, light within light. Messages arrive in the net where discrete pulses cross. Parametal engines of joy and disaster give them wave and motion. We interpret and defeat their terms by terminus. The night? What of it. It is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated deities plummeting in ash and smoke, roaming the apocryphal cities, the cities of speculation and reconstituted disorder, of insemination and incipience, swept round with the dark.”

Juho Kahilainen -the man who actually inspired label owner Max_M to conceive the Grey Series sublabel- returns with a new EP of experimental excursions that delve into the darkest realms of dance music.
From the opener 'In Umbra', the sense of freedom and detachment from genres' standards and limitations is palpable. It's a tense, stripped down drum pattern that might adhere to the recent resurgence of broken beats, hosting a breathtaking and unapologetic melody from the heyday of idm that only ends in a sea of bass reverbs. Undefinable.
'Xemx' has a regular 4/4, rich with vintage analog sounds. The thick layer of spacey and sinister soundwaves that slowly grows inside it reinforces the thematic nature of the EP, inspired by the artist's emotional reflections on the "Dyson sphere", a scientific concept imagining a system of orbiting solar-power satellites meant to completely encompass a star and capture most or all of its energy output.
On the flipside 'Coronal Loop' is an exercise in analog techno shamanism. You could say that this is a friendlier track, gelid and dark, but with that forward-driving bassline that defines irresistible techno.
Closing the EP, 'The Fuck Up' is a similar experiment where the loops gets nastier, interestingly enhanced by elements of raw Detroit techno. It's mind-bending dance music dedicated to those who lose themselves captured by the properties of good techno.
Max_M and his Grey Series continue to grant freedom to artists deviating from cliches and formulas. Juho's "Dyson Sphere" encompasses that exact desire.

Juho Kahilainen - Dyson Sphere
A1: In Umbra
A2: Xemx
B1: Coronal Loop
B2: The Fuck Up

(M_RECLTDGS07 - 12")

Release Date: January 2014

MRECLTDGS07 - Juho Kahilainen - Dyson Sphere

Max_M / Fabrizio Lapiana - 1001
A: Max_M - 1001A
B: Fabrizio Lapiana - 1001B

(M_RECLTD1001 - 10")

Release Date: February 2014

OVERVIEW:
Driven by the inherently political nature of techno, M_Rec Ltd. launches a new series of 10” vinyl editions aimed exclusively at showcasing quality techno tracks. As straightforward black label 10” records, with the tracks info etched on vinyl, these releases offer Max_M and his label the opportunity to quickly distribute new exciting productions to dedicated djs and vinyl lovers.

On this very first release, label owner Max_M and Attic Music founder Fabrizio Lapiana explore the dark corners of techno with two hypnotic cuts. Stirring away from the techno-tool formula, these tracks are fully formed narratives, journeys that seem to pay tribute to the vinyl format itself, meant to be played in their entirety.

Max_M’s cut is abrasive and moody. A forward driving and rich bassline meets a set of sharp drones, along with a glacial melody setting the undertone for the whole experience. It’s a track dedicated to no-light dancefloors and late night sessions. Experimental and impactful at the same time.

On the flipside, Fabrizio Lapiana offers a crafty cut. With melody and drum work growing together, the track brings ambient soundscapes and complex beat programming into total harmony. What comes out is an affective and uniquely melodic techno track that mixes old and new, a touching listen on and off the dance floor.

With this new 10” series M_Rec Ltd. creates another output to convey and preach its vision and passion for all things techno.

M_RECLTD1001 - Max_M / Fabrizio Lapiana

M_Rec Ltd 20 - Coefficient – Blood Red ep

A1: Subsurface
A2: Tesseract
B1: Blood Red
B2: Point of Departure

Release date: March 2014 (Vinyl)

OVERVIEW:
The world of M_Rec refocuses on unassuming and dedicated dancefloor tracks with this release on the original Ltd. imprint by british producer and sound engineer Coefficient. Steering away from the saturated world of big and harsh techno, Coefficient concentrates on the craft of reviving and re-exploring archetypical mind-altering techno, rooted halfway between the American midwest and the heyday of british rave culture.

The opening 'Subsurface' takes advantage of a groovy refrain to showcase uplifting drum programming and shadowy soundscapes. A great set opener to put the room in the right mindset. Things get a little darker with 'Tesseract'. While the intricate patterns and basslines play the integral part in the track, there are intriguing melodies interplaying to make things sexier and affectively trippy. 
On the flip side, EP title track 'Blood Red' is a more maximal experiment, definitely meant to shake things up. Throughout this joint the synths get bigger and state-inducing, while the bass drum keeps things forward driving. It's a traditional loop-driven track that belongs in the apex of a proper techno set. Closing track 'Point of Departure' rediscovers British leftfield electronica and celebrates the early morning hours of outdoor raves. It's a track dedicated to the last few people standing, rich of melody and delays.


M_Rec Ltd 20 - Coefficient - Blood Red ep

“Neither of us said a word as we picked our way down the path for the next quarter of an hour, and the sky receded to a deep violet.
I had the illusion that, as it got darker, it moved away from us, expanding like a bubble, rushing away at a million light-years an hour, and as it whooshed past stars, we began to see them.”

You can tell label owner Max_M loves producers that aren’t afraid to experiment with the most hypnotic and mind bending properties of techno and electronic music in general. With seven release under its belt, it’s now obvious that Grey Series was conceived around a very clear idea: organic sounds, complete lack of stylistic restrictions and an overarching love for introspective and crepuscular atmospheres. The eighth 12” in the series is signed by Spanish producer Tadeo, who follows a long list of releases on his very own Cyclical Tracks and Another Intelligence imprints with four caliginous cuts that belong to the brainiest and state inducing sets.

‘Reasons’ is a short opening interlude that borrows from Vangelis soundtracks and epic ambient soundscapes, built on a loop that is clearly techno-inspired. ‘Uncertainty’ emerges via layers and layers of ever-changing loops. With its progressive nature, it’s an unconventional techno track that hypnotizes through the relationship of melody and repetition. There are bells, strings and harsh sounds at play here, creating something that thanks to a great bassline is groovy and gelid at the same time.

On the flip side, ‘A Step To The Future’ has a crafty, Detroit-y bassline with a trippy melody growing around it. Comes out as a restrained experiment that distantly references ravey refrains, kinda like an academic dissection of a massive 90s techno classic. ‘Latence State’, the last joint on this EP, pushes the hypnotic loops even further. Things get liquid and complex, although still carried tightly by an irresistible melody. Once again things are light and dark at the same time, interestingly suspended between seedy and celebratory. 
It’s Tadeo’s trademark sound at its best.

Tadeo - A Container Of Contradictions
A1: Reasons
A2: Uncertainty
B1: A Step to The Future
B2: Latence State

(MRECLTDGS08 - 12" / Vinyl Only)

Release Date: April 2014

MRECLTDGS08 - Tadeo - A Container Of Contradictions

M_Rec Ltd 21 - Forward Strategy Group - Levity

A: A Marvel
B1: Levity
B2: Learned

Release date: June 2014 (Vinyl)

OVERVIEW:
The duo behind Forward Strategy Group returns with their first release in almost a year. Following the success of the “Labour Division” album and “The New Formal” EP (both on Perc Trax), Al Matthews (Bleaching Agent, half of Blacknecks) and Patrick Walker have worked with Max_M and his M_Rec Ltd. to bring three complex and hypnotic cuts to vinyl fans and djs around the world.
“A Marvel” sounds like an ode to the label’s vision. It’s a trippy and layered loop made of molded, elastic sounds that subtly mutate, aided by a warm, but stripped down and forward driving groove. Its crescendo is paced and systematic, a celebration of experimental techno.
On the flip side, the due brings in a small dose of their industrial heritage. Initially, “Levity” is a more brutal affair, with it’s groove formed by an unforgiving bass drum and a rolling mechanical refrain. What grows around it is unexpected thou’: with a melody of analog synths that brings back memories of the best Detroit and layers of gelid soundscapes, the drum programming shifts to the background and the track transforms into another hypnotic and brainy experiment.
It’s a similar deal with ‘Learned’, although things are a little bit more martial and aggressive here. While the atmosphere is still crepuscular and sidereal, the drum programming maintains center stage with an old school stomping loop and an ‘in your face’ bass drum.
Max_M continues to cherish relationships with dedicated techno veterans and this Forward Strategy Group release is just another chapter in the label’s celebration of underground techno.

M_Rec Ltd 21 - Forward Strategy Group - Levity

There are these trends in the techno scene to either keep things dubby, dark and grimily subdued or give in to the influence of industrial music and produce aggressive techno tools. In both cases the surprise and delivery are concentrated in an idea compacted in the first few cuts of the record and it’s up to the dj to delineate a journey, fulfill desires and produce intelligible fantasies and emotions for the audience.

The M_Rec Ltd Grey Series offshoot aims at bridging the gap between a club track and a self-sustaining musical journey and this new concept EP by Edanticonf is another soulful and mesmerizing experiment where ambient, proggy electronics and techno blend together. Think of it as a parenthesis within an album, as the tracks work around a very clear idea, meant to be absorbed and examined in sequence. A special release that perfectly fits the vision behind M_Rec Ltd Grey Series.

‘Movement 1’ is a bold intro where the sharp sounds of synthesizers come together to set the epic tone of the EP. Think of late 70s soundtracks by Tangerine Dream, Goblin or John Carpenter, but with a penchant for romantic/dramatics and futuristic images. Its melodic refrains returns in ‘Movement 2’, where things warm up aided by pulsating melodies and an irresistible groove. It’s an emotional journey that isn’t afraid to be maximal in its attitude toward the use of hymnic hooks. Deep stuff.
‘Movement 3’ is an introspective ambient experiment that brings back those infinite cinematic images we saw in the opening track, while ‘Movement 4’ is the trippiest cut on the vinyl, hypnotic, atmospheric and grave.

Edanticonf - Human Body Movement
A1: Movement 1
A2: Movement 2
B1: Movement 3
B2: Movement 4

(MRECLTDGS09 - 12" / Vinyl Only)

Release Date: July 2014

MRECLTDGS09 - Edanticonf - Human Body Movement

Max_M / Fabrizio Lapiana - 1002
A: Max_M - 1002A
B: Fabrizio Lapiana - 1002B

(M_RECLTD1002 - 10")

Release Date: 29 July 2014

OVERVIEW:
Time for the second black label M_Rec Ltd 10”, a series of no-frills vinyl records used by Max_M to deliver dancefloor oriented tracks to djs and techno fans around the world.

On one side, Max_M delivers an irresistible joint that thanks to layers and layers of elements manages to surprise beginning to end. That high pitch bell sound, which is somehow becoming a trademark in Max_M’s productions, splits in multiple directions generating soulful melodies and grooves. A perfect track for peak time.

Fabrizio Lapiana’s cut is an introspective journey rich in modular-fueled melodies. Its mellow refrains pay tribute to ambient classics and trippy British electronica, while the drum programming sets the track into a techno context, groovy and forward driving. 

M_RECLTD1002 - Max_M / Fabrizio Lapiana

M_Rec Ltd 22 - Allen - Gravity Assist 

A1 - Gravity Assist
A2 - EM26
B1 - MH370
B2 - Kepler 

Release date: September 2014 (Vinyl)

OVERVIEW:
Techno was always meant to invoke images of the future. Whether dystopian or utopic, you want your music to inspire otherworldly images and ideas. Enter American producer Allen as the newest addition to the M_Rec Ltd roster… 
His 4-tracks EP embraces the set of values and intentions that were dear to the pioneers of the genre, while still delivering some incredibly exciting dance floor oriented material. 

Opener ‘Gravity Assist’ is a trippy refrain that can set the right tone at the beginning of any serious set. Sharp and hypnotic, it moves forward carrying the listener into the atmospheric landscapes we all want to be taken to on a good night. ‘EM26’ continues the journey and gets a little bit more aggressive, with a set of layers made with harsher sounds… It’s still an organic vibe, intelligible dark sci-fi for devoted techno heads. 

On the flip side, ‘MH370’ gets more crepuscular and introverted, while still showing off a good amount of muscle. Its beat is forward driving and stomping, while the melodies celebrate those esoteric and uncharted territories that have surfaced with the brainy and experimental techno we’ve seen emerging in the past few years. Closing off the EP is ‘Kepler’. Darker and grittier than the rest of the tracks, it showcases the talent of a new artist whose name we’ll likely start hearing more and more often. 

M_Rec Ltd 22 - Allen - Gravity Assist

M_Rec Ltd LP01 - Samuli Kemppi - The Observer Effect

A1 Particle Spray 
A2 Agitated 
A3 Locked 
B1 Power Of Voltages 
B2 Water Lake 
B3 Unsung Heroes 
C1 250 Days 
C2 Beneath The Surface 
C3 Wrong Turn 
D1 Tailgating 
D2 Passage 
D3 Never the Same

Release date: 10 November 2014 (2x12" Vinyl)
Cat N°: M_RECLTDLP01
Mastering & Cutting at The Code Studio (Berlin)
Artwork: Sergio Andretti﻿
Worldwide Distribution: 712 Distribution﻿ (Berlin)

OVERVIEW:
We often forget that techno artists are some of the most knowledgeable and passionate music enthusiasts. Luckily we are forced to a shift in perception when an album comes out, when all the ideas and intentions that do not fit a format push the producer to embrace something new and consequently showcase some of the most interesting electronic music out there. It’s a narrative that can be applied to many of the producers that are currently pushing techno toward more experimental grounds… a group Samuli Kemppi certainly belongs to. Growing up in Helsinki, Finland and discovering the Detroit sound in the late 80s, Kemppi has consistently contributed to the advancement of techno for the past decade, sometimes as dj and promoter, but mostly as producer. Unafraid to experiment with all sorts of subsets within the realm of techno, his records have been released by a diverse range of labels (among which we find Prologue, Mote-Evolver and Perc Trax) but it’s with M_Rec Ltd. that the artist is set to release his debut album.

“The Observer Effect” is a brainy and challenging record. Recorded exclusively with gear, with all tracks arranged live, its tracks are pure explorations of the process of writing electronic music. It’s all about perfecting the loop in real time, being in the moment without any digital memory to limit the potential. Forcing oneself to go back to the roots of the genre itself, basically writing a personal and heartfelt letter to its early pioneers. Although raw and unpolished, the results convey a very honest love for the essential nature of the genre and the emotional power of the electronic loop.
Obviously, Kemppi’s attitude and vision live strong through the album: working as an intro, “Particle Spray” is a crepuscular and haunting track that pierces deep. “Agitated”, “Locked” and “Power of Voltages” are conceptually ruthless techno experiments where the core of loops gets explored until a certain climax is extracted. “Water Lake” is unsettling dark ambient, standing before the second set of loop-heavy tracks. “Unsung Heroes” and “250 Days” are basically skeletons of instant rave classics you end up losing yourself into. With “Beneath The Surface” things get even darker and sparse. It’s basically harsh dub sounds working as dissociatives. “Wrong Turn” goes out to busted dance floors and is probably the friendliest of the tracks on the record. Rough on the surface, its groove is irresistible. Expect to see this exciting electro monster getting a lot of play. The last tryptic formed by “Tailgating”, “Passage” and “Never The Same” explore more hypnotic grounds. Slightly more fluid, with more melody at play, these tracks stay consistently sinister in their nature, concluding an album that is not afraid to stay personal.

M_Rec Ltd LP01 - Samuli Kemppi - The Observer Effect

Overall Severity / Fabrizio Lapiana - 1003
A: Overall Severity - 1003A
B: Fabrizio Lapiana - 1003B

(M_RECLTD1003 - 10")

Release Date: 25 November 2014

OVERVIEW:
The efforts of label chief Max_M and Attic Music’s own Fabrizio Lapiana has so far proven to be a potent combination. Sharing wax space for the last two releases on M_Rec Ldt’s discreet new 10” vinyl series, the pair have so far turned in a stirring duplet of some of the finest, fully-formed pieces of modern techno music. Now, for the third installment, Max_M steps aside to let a brand new outfit take the helm.

The mysterious and so far unreleased Overall Severity nestles comfortably into the A-side with another swollen, undulating melodic arrangement, true to form of what we’ve seen from the series so far. Then on the B-side, Fabrizio Lapiana offers more of his dark and groovy techno, toned in what has become a signature splash of vintage British-redolent electronica. 

M_RECLTD1003 - Overall Severity / Fabrizio Lapiana

M_Rec Ltd 23 - Mørbeck - Pyramid

A: Mørbeck – Pyramide
B1: Mørbeck – Arrival Of The Stranger
B2: Mørbeck – Geometrix

Release date: January 2015 (Vinyl)

OVERVIEW:
We don’t question the relevance of techno in the current musical landscape, but look back ten years or so and you’ll
fgure things were a little stagnant and uninspiring. The techno scene in Berlin certainly did a lot to spruce new life in the
genre and people like Mørbeck with his Vault Series releases were somehow pioneers of the industrial-infuenced
sound we now celebrate and take for granted.

Now landing on M_Rec Ltd. with a 3-track EP, the Berlin resident fuses his aggressive sound with the hypnotic, darkroom
elements that have defned the label’s vision. Opener ’Pyramid’ stands on the more experimental side of techno.
Unpredictable and disquieting, the groove is a journey through an uneasy and freaky landscape. The bass drum here is
initially viscous, but as the track progressives it gets increasingly more interesting, craftily engineered. On top of it, it’s
basically a mixture of industrial and psychedelic elements, which keep the cut rather weird (in the best way possible)
until its conclusion.

Things get more ravey on the fip side, with ‘Arrival of the Stranger’ setting itself as a a stomping and forward driving
track. Bass and snare drum synced together scream Berlin from the beginning, serious and hostile. The groove refnes
itself into an amazing big room techno killer, getting wilder and more layered thanks to a set of subtle loops and razor
sharp arrangements. Closing the EP is a more druggy and crepuscular joint titled ‘Geometrix’. The groove is more fuid,
with feedback and soundscapes growing on top to narrate one hell of a dark and unsettling journey.

M_Rec Ltd. starts 2015 with a nasty release: three tracks that ft any moment of a proper techno set.

M_Rec Ltd 23 - Mørbeck - Pyramid

"Something wasn't quite right here. The room was white, cold, empty. But as he feverishly cast his eyes about, a rising panic suddenly seized his throat. Something wasn't right. He looked down to his hands, clammy and starting to tremble. Stop it, he thought. You're just being paranoid. He scaled the room again. Nothing. There was nothing here. He was completely alone. The hairs on the back of his neck began to prick, an icy finger traced the line of his spine. He was completely alone. He was alone. He jumped and turned around. Nothing. The blank, colourless walls stared back at him. Unblinking. Silent. Still. And yet… someone was watching him."

For the timely tenth edition of the Grey Series, M_Rec Ltd welcomes back Donor / Truss to the fold. Whilst Tom Russell has been lately flexing his Truss muscles with Perc and causing a furore as Blacknecks with Bleaching Agent, Donor's Greg Schappert has been busy readying his dystopic debut album, Against All. After last year's swampy Aber for their first Grey Series outing, Ash sees the production partnership revived in the form of a trio of gritty, excursive techno works. Starting with cut one on the A-side, Ash simultaneously builds and decomposes, eked along with hypnotic loops and irritated layers of noise to conclude in a creaking industrial crescendo on the B-side. 

Donor/Truss - Ash
A1: Ash 1
A2: Ash 2
B: Ash 3 

(MRECLTDGS10 - 12" / Vinyl Only)

Release Date: February 2014

MRECLTDGS10 - Donor/Truss - Ash

RA LOTM MIX
Get lost in this journey though M_REC LTD's signature spacey sound. 
Founder @Max_M splices together old and upcoming material.

Tracklist:
Juho Kahilainen - Interlude
Edanticonf - Movement 4
Tadeo - A Step To The Future
Donor/Truss - Ash 3
Forward Strategy Group - A Marvel
Moerbeck - Arrival Of The Stranger
Coefficient - Blood Red
Allen - MH370
Max_M - 1001A
Fabrizio Lapiana 1003B
Samuli Kemppi - Power Of Voltages
Overall Severity - Rossella
Wrong Assessment - Persecutory Beliefs
Max_M - Architectural Lie
NX1 - MR8 

RA LOTM: http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2391

RA: Label of the month: M_Rec Ltd

M_Rec Ltd 24 - Max_M - Dissertation

A - Exceeding Brightness
B1 - Architectural Lie
B2 - Scape Sequences

Release date: March 2015 (Vinyl)

OVERVIEW:
After a series of prized splits and collaborations, M_REC LTD's own Max_M returns with 'Dissertation', his latest fully-fleshed solo effort.

'The Kidnapper Bell' was his last EP for M_REC LTD. The avid vinyl lover and collector has since put his "maximalist" values to work sharing wax with the likes of Fabrizio Lapiana of Attic Music, as well as with newcomers Wrong Assessment. Not one to rush things, 'Dissertation' then comes at a peak time for Max_M and M_REC LTD, representing the culmination of a ceaseless dedication to the type of stolid, hypnotic brand of techno intrinsic to both chief and label.

"Exceeding Brightness" governs the A-side with blue blips set to a progressive chugging pace, enveloped in a trademark background of fuzzy mechanical whirrs. "Architectural Lie" then opens up the B-side with a loop of warm chords that roll into a tumult of diffused hats and jangled melodies. "Scape Sequences" concludes in a subaqueous fashion; viscous, heady and stupefying. 

M_Rec Ltd 24 - Max_M - Dissertation

There’s a lot of techno out there but none of it sounds like Stanislav Tolkachev. In the past few years the prolific Ukrainian producer has molded his love for old school techno with enormous doses of experimentation and tension. The results have been incredible. His EP for M_Rec Grey Series (“Depth Of Light”, released in 2013) grabbed everyone’s attention thanks to off-key interpretations of fast and forward driving techno, reminiscent of the rave years. These are soundtracks to psychoses, filled at the same time with excitement and nervousness. Impossible to ignore.

This second EP for M_Rec Ltd Grey Series 11 (titled “All Night Vigil”) opens with “Vitamin K”, a Vangelis-on-LSD intro where melodies get crooked and queasy while still delivering large amounts of feeling. “That’s Where the Dog is Buried” is an almost-ten-minutes trip where jazzy analog sounds become increasingly unstable, incited by a pounding bass line. You can play this track in its entirety and, for once, people will literally freak out.

On the flip side, “All Night Vigil” is much less playful. Tolkachev’s signature build up of synthetic sounds is endlessly manipulated over a bed of very aggressive drums. These acid experimentations remind us of the Universal Indicator series on Rephlex, but in 2015 things got a lot more disturbed and wild. Closing the EP is probably the most dancefloor friendly of all the track. Titled “The Chance for Both of Us”, the cut revolves around an equally untamed acid refrain, although soundscapes and reverb grant it a beautiful sense of melody. Drum programming is kept raw and stripped down making the track perfect for the most unconventional and adventurous sets.
“Night Vigil” is a thrilling release of very experimental techno. 

Stanislav Tolkachev - All Night Vigil
A1 - Vitamin K
A2 - That’s Where The Dog is Buried
B1 -  All Night Vigil
B2 - The Chance For Both Of Us 

(MRECLTDGS11 - 12" / Vinyl Only)
Release Date: 28 April 2015
Distribution: 712 Distribution - Berlin

MRECLTDGS11 - Stanislav Tolkachev - All Night Vigil

After debuting earlier this year on a collaborative split with Max_M for Parachute Records, Italian producer Wrong Assessment lands on M_Rec Ltd with his very own 12”. 

’Disillusionment’ is a tightly programmed techno tool packed with groove. There’s a warm and almost melodic bass line here, clearly indebted to the Detroit groove, but darkened as it has become custom with Italian producers and their sound. The loops that develop around it are of the hypnotic kind… the sound that recently made M_Rec Ltd Label of The Month on Resident Advisor. Parachute affiliate CW/A (already involved in Clockwork and Avatism) delivers a prime time remix that transform the original into an aggressive techno anthem. Playing intelligently with the elements of the original, the remix delineates a very interesting narrative as it fluctuates between harshness, funk and psychedelia. Expect major playtime.

On the flip side, ‘Persecutory Beliefs’ is basically a tribute to all proper techno dancefloors. With tension and tightness, the track revolves around a forward driving ravey refrain perfected for those late night sessions. Closing the EP, ‘Inner Turmoil’ follows a similar path, but gets druggier and more crepuscular as it evolves. Like throughout the entire EP, there’s a love for proper 90s techno at play here. Dark stuff for late, late nights.

Is it clear that Max_M and his label M_Rec Ltd have discovered major talent in Wrong Assessment. Expect more great things throughout 2015.

Wrong Assessment - Unsuitable Therapy
A1: Disillusionment (Original Mix)
A2: Disillusionment (CW/A Remix)
B1: Persecutory Beliefs (Original Mix)
B2: Inner Turmoil (Original Mix)

(M_RECLTD24 - 12" / Digital)
Release Date: 12 May 2015
Distribution: 712 Distribution​ - Berlin

M_Rec Ltd 25 - Wrong Assessment - Unsuitable Therapy (Incl. CW/A Remix)

Max_M - The Kidnapper Bell - B1: The Kidnapper Bell (Shifted Remix) - M_Rec Ltd 09 (12" & Digital) - Release Date 26/09/2011

Max_M - The Kidnapper Bell (Shifted Remix)

Max_M - The Kidnapper Bell - A1: The Kidnapper Bell (Original) - M_Rec Ltd 09 (12" & Digital) - Release Date 26/09/2011

Max_M - The Kidnapper Bell (Original)

Ben Gibson - More Than Milk - A1: Implex (Original) - M_Rec Ltd 10 (12" & Digital) - Release Date 16/01/2012

Ben Gibson - Implex (Original)

M_Rec Ltd 11 – Cassegrain - Painter-Palette EP

A1: Painter of Modern Life (Original)
A2: Painter of Modern Life (Ed Davenport Fixation)
B1: Palette (Original)

Release date: Monday 26 March 2012 (Vinyl)

M_Rec Ltd is proud to welcome on board Cassegarin, Greek-British producer Tsiridis and Berlin/Vienna based composer and producer Evirgen. Both interested in exploring the territories where dark, raw techno meets UK-influenced sounds, they already left a mark on the international techno scene with releases on Prologue and Mickrowave.
On this new vinyl for M_Rec LTD, they bring two original tracks and a remix by Ed Davenport. The A side opens with A Painter Of Modern Life, a track laying the perfectly disturbed rhythm of modern life. A sequence of hypnotic techno where the rhythms are never heavy, the sounds antiseptics. Around this base, a brilliant and affective melody emerges. A touch of class that only few can sustain. Completing the A side there's a remix by an artist who has brought a lot of quality to the techno scene: Ed Davenport (Figure SPC, Liebe Detail, NRK Music, etc.). He throws the original track into a vortex of syncopated rhythms and deep atmospheres: the groove that comes out is amazing. On the B side Cassegrain showcase one track. Palette is true techno, with its rhythm straight and direct. There is no stopping, even with soft sounds rising slowly from deep below. Everything transforms into a pleasant trip, exciting and alive. At just the right pace.


M_Rec Ltd 11 - Cassegrain - Painter-Palette EP (Incl. Ed Davenport Remix)

Grey Series, an offshot of the already well established M_Rec Ltd., aims at celebrating the reclusiveness of techno, its core ideas, its attitudes and its most recent mutations. Traditions that while remaining, have allowed today's artists to conceive uncompromising and exciting sounds.

Its first release sees Juho Kahilainen explore dark and glacial territories.
"Epilogue " is the end of the darkest set, with its sinister piano moving slowly on a set of digital sounds meant to shut off any source of light. "We Heard it Coming" enhances stripped down techno with echoes of what seems to be field recordings from an unexplored locations. "Rotko " dims the light down with its flirty, crepuscular details. Acid and irresistible, it's a trip that carries you on and on. "The Less We Try " takes a dramatic turn, where a beat that pays tribute to acid sounds encounter a martial soundwave and its tense and dooming melody.

Grey Series is dedicated to everyone who lives techno today, who recognizes that there's a whole array of possibilities to explore, away from whatever the dancefloor requires.

Juho Kahilainen - We Heard It Coming
A1: Epilogue
A2: We Heard It Coming
B1: Rotko
B2: The Less We Try

(MRECLTDGS01 - 12")

Release Date: 04 June 2012

MRECLTDGS01 - Juho Kahilainen - We Heard It Coming

M_Rec Ltd 12 – Aiken - Balance

A1: First Balance (Original)
A2: Second Balance (Original)
B1: Second Balance (Regis Remix)
B2: Third Balance (Original Remix)

Release date: Monday 25 June 2012 (Vinyl)

The roots of proper Detroit techno are wrapped all around this new M_REC Ltd. release.

Madrid-based producer Aikan drops three new tracks on this 12": 'First Balance' is basically a subdued dancefloor anthem, structured to surprise. There's melody, kick and experimentation, delivering in every sense. 'Second balance' pays tribute to those hypnotic melodies that we all recognize as techno staples.

On the flip side, Regis (undoubtedly one of the most relevant techno acts of the last 20 years) re-interprets 'Second Balance' boosting its most sinister side, playfully manipulating industrial and acid elements. What comes out is an exciting, but contained apocalypse that makes all rooms vibrate. To close the EP, 'Third Balance' turns all acid elements to overdrive, celebrating the techno that plays late at night, where layers and layers are interlaced to drive things forward.

Balance is another chapter fitting M_Rec Ltd. idea of techno as a clearly defined school, but with boundaries meant to be pushed in all directions.

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M_Rec Ltd 12 - Aiken - Balance (Incl. Regis Remix)

“Alpha Centauri (α Centauri, α Cen; also known as Rigil Kentaurus, Rigil Kent, or Toliman) is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. Although it appears to the unaided eye as a single object, Alpha Centauri is actually a binary star system (designated Alpha Centauri AB or α Cen AB) whose combined visual magnitude of –0.27 would qualify it as the third single brightest star in the night sky after the –1.46 magnitude Sirius and the –0.72 magnitude Canopus.”

This second release of the Grey Series is dedicated to the  above mentioned star ‘Alpha Centauri’. 
Ness uses all his skills and experience to create a soundtrack to describe the atmosphere of three important stages. 
Drones and metallic sounds that move through space and a mystical universe.
Three tracks where you can feel the depth and experience the fear of the unknown.
Techno of a high quality that fully reflects the school of music where Ness comes from.
Feelings that come from far away!

Ness - Rigil Kent EP
A: RK First Stage
B1: RK Second Stage
B2: RK Collapse

(MRECLTDGS02 - 12")

Release Date: 01 October 2012

MRECLTDGS02 - Ness - Rigil Kent EP

M_Rec Ltd 15 - NX1 - MR

A1: MR1 (Original)
A2: MR2 (Original)
B1: MR3 (Original)
B2: MR4 (Original)

Release date: Monday 21 January 2013 (Vinyl)

OVERVIEW:
NX1 are Samot and Surit, childhood friends and long-time production partners. Hailing from the same town in Majorca the pair have spent the last ten years developing a mutual passion and utopic vision for contemporary techno as individual artists, a collaboration now formally coming to fruition as Nexe Records. 

The project launched discreetly enough last year with the NX1 series. No track titles—only numbers, self-released and limited to just 200 pressings, the catalogue (totalling three EPs, with a fourth on the way) wears the “no-nonsense” insignia boldly pinned to its lapels, collectively posing as a commanding and stripped back showcase of music very literally speaking for itself. Indeed it is a concept that repeats throughout the remainder of the NX1 discography, and features once again here: the duo’s first four track EP, and debut release for M_Rec Ltd.

Seasoned NX1 followers will find the duo packing even more of a punch this time as the pair push proven scopey soundscapes and thundering basslines into deeper, darker extremities. If the latest NX1 self-releases have adopted more dub-techno tones, then ‘MR’ returns to earlier blueprints culminating in four moreish variants of sleek and driving techno. From the groovy hypnotism of “MR1” and “MR3” to the swirling strung-out highs of “MR2”, down to the sludgy depths of closer “MR4”, the NX1 message resonates loud and clear: Music is nexus. Plug into the system.

M_Rec Ltd 15 - NX1 - MR

“A beautiful woman reclines on a chaise longue. One arm props up her head, and from the other an elasticated toy bird bobs up and down. Her gaze follows the movement of the bird; her luscious lashes fluttering in time with each flap of its papery wings, as though spellbound—only alive and at the mercy of its female master. We are the voyeurs, and just like the bird we are entranced, teased, and utterly powerless. We are her slaves, bound by seductive rhythms beyond our control. We want her, we want to dive deep into her, but we are just her bird, bobbing up and down. Up and down. Up and down on a string.”

For the third edition of M_Rec Ltd’s vinyl-only Grey Series comes a brand new collaboration between Repitch’s Ascion and our own Max_M, as Asma. Inspired by Dutch experimental filmmaker Frans Zwartjes’ 1968 short film of the same name, “Birds” morphs longing and stifling sexual tension into an opus of bold and emotively charged techno. Poignant, lyrical, sensual and at the same time weighty and profoundly compelling, “Birds” is another fine example of the kind of transcendent dance floor material that has come to define the Grey Series offshoot. Sandwell District affiliate Silent Servant follows with a solid neo-vintage remix on the b-side, complete with drum and chord stabs that lift “Birds” out of the basement to wander in haunted house and techno limbo.

Asma - Zwartjes
A: Birds (Original)
B: Birds (Silent Servant Remix)

(MRECLTDGS03 - 12")

Release Date: 18 March 2013

MRECLTDGS03 - Asma - Zwartjes (Incl. Silent Servant Remix)

"Go. I don’t need you anyway. You were only holding me back. You, with your rigid ways and impenetrable exterior; I’m not like you. I need movement, fluidity. Freedom. Expression. Feelings. I need to be alive. This emotionless, glass-eyed view of the world that’s your vision. And you held me to it, like some sort of prisoner. Yes, that’s what you are. You’re shackles. Iron bars disguised as safety. You thought I would stay with you forever, in the limbo of that grounded shrinking quadrant, drip-fed. Your pet. Your lab rat. For a while there I totally lost myself, sinking further and further under your sedation. Life became colourless. And then there was nothing. But in the curlicues of deep encompassing darkness, that’s when I realised: I wasn’t the weak one. It was you all along. You needed me. I was the prop that stopped you from falling down. Well, no more. This ends now. It’s time we became unbound. I release you. Go. Be free."

Grey Series 04 comes from the farthest corner of Eastern Europe courtesy of Ukrainian techno pioneer, photographer and designer Stanislav Tolkachev. Like the sullen eerie beauty of his black and white photography, Tolkachev’s music explores the darker, surreal fringes of electronic music in its purest, rawest state. Retroactive seams run through his audio and visual output to date from the grainy analogue qualities of his Detroit-facing sound, through to the classic stills that emboss his discography. They are almost one and the same, both challenging and re-contextualising the past with modern sentiment, agendas and hidden meanings pursing with intrigue and ambiguity. ‘Depth of light’ sees Tolkachev plot more intoxicating, caustic dream sequences, translating fitful night terrors into a diverse and multifunctional EP. Beginning with the woozy title track we confront fears (“Like a cat’s shadow”) and anxieties (“Break something that breaks you”) on the feverish A-side, before flipping over for reserved reprieve (“No home no flag”) and acid-washed revenge (“Don't shit on your own doorstep”). And then we awake. Tired, sweaty, but satisfied.

Stanislav Tolkachev  - Depth of light
A1: Depth of light 
A2: Like a cat’s shadow 
A3: Break something that breaks you
B1: No home no flag
B2: Don't shit on your own doorstep

(MRECLTDGS04 - 12")

Release Date: 06 May 2013

MRECLTDGS04 - Stanislav Tolkachev - Depth of light

Samuli Kemppi - Cyclic Model EP - B2:Expand - M_Rec Ltd 06 (12" &amp; Digital) - Release Date 24 January 2011

Samuli Kemppi - Expand

“It was fate,” she said. “Inevitable,” he replied. “Us meeting like this...” “...Against all the odds.” “I mean. We’re so different, you and I.” “Worlds apart,” he agreed. “It should never have worked.” “And yet, here we are.”
“In transition.” “In transit,” she quipped. “Always together, even when apart.” On that note he turned to her, all serious and sullen. “I want you to know this,’ he went on. “What we shared has forever changed me, and disrupted the world around us, for a while. I will wear your sweet-saline kiss eternal. All I ask...” He paused, hesitantly. “...Is that you take a little part of me with you too.”

Despite the watery divide between them, Brooklyn-bound Greg Schappert and London-based Tom Russell have fostered a production partnership as Donor / Truss for the last six years, emerging today as one of techno’s more robust and hardworking duos. As solo artists they’ve racked up notable releases between them on labels like Stroboscopic Artefacts, Perc Trax and Our Circula Sound, outside of Schappert’s own Miniscule imprint. Meanwhile Russell has been stepping out as the acid-charged MPIA3, lately flexing a ‘less is more’ approach with outings on Avian and R&S.
For Grey Series 05 they don the Donor / Truss moniker once again after a spell apart, proving themselves as accomplished and unpredictable as ever with the fully formed ‘Aber’. On the A-side swampy techno is bruised with house in “Spacial”, turning soupy on the sluggish and barely rippling “Beneath”. Fidgety “Ease” then does an about turn on the B-side before plunging headlong into swollen substrata stuff on the close.

Donor/Truss - Aber
A1: Spacial
A2: Beneath
B1: Ease
B2: Aber

(MRECLTDGS05 - 12")

Release Date: 01 July 2013

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