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Summoning the devil himself

Eric Random started in the band The Tiller Boys, which included Buzzcocks's Pete Shelley, who played at some of those legendary Factory showcases at the end of the 1970s. Their last date was sharing the bill with Cabaret Voltaire on that night captured as Live at the YMCA on October 27th (yeah, you missed my birthday again this year) in 1979. Following the split, Random (who was only 18 in 1979) began working closer with the Cabs, recording at their Western Works studio in Sheffield with Stephen Mallinder at the desk, joining the Cabs following the departure of Chris Watson in 1981 and appearing on 2x45 and The Pressure Company, and even playing a one-off show billed as A Certain Random Cabaret which included members of A Certain Ratio.
Random's music fits in appropriately between contemporary music of 23 Skidoo and Cabaret Voltaire. Structured rhythms provide the backbone for songs which often push the ten-minute mark, never straying from the established tempo, while a bass line frequently remains fairly constant throughout each piece. On top are layers featuring tape manipulations, faint guitar, horns, melodica, and muted vocals, soaked in primitive echoes and delays found primarily on early recordings from the mightiest dubmasters.

Once again LTM's presentation is classy and respectful, including an informative booklet to accompany the music. Disc one captures singles and compilation tracks from 1980-1982 while disc two features the 1982 album Earthbound Ghost Need (a Burroughs reference from Naked Lunch) in its entirety.

Random's inclusion of a cover of "Bolero" by Ravel at the end of the Earthbound Ghost Need album is hardly a surprise, as the structure of that song is almost a blueprint to the main ideas of most of Eric Random's music: songs are very long and simply do not stray from their main theme. (It's a formula that shouldn't be unfamiliar to Cabaret Voltaire and Richard H. Kirk fans.) Songs like this work well in clubs and in other social settings but two discs of long cuts is a lot more to ask of a listener as opposed to an extended 12" single here and there. The four songs from the That's What I Like About Me EP open the first disc and the muddy footprints left by Stephen Mallinder and Western Works are all over it. (It's not a bad thing, honest.) The length of these four songs is an album in nearly anybody's book, which makes it somewhat unbalanced when compared to the following six tracks, which average around 4 minutes each.

There is plenty more Eric Random yet to compile and reissue, as following these recordings Random traveled to India to study non-western musics, continued his friendship and alliance with Cabaret Voltaire, playing various concerts with them (including a show with Richard H. Kirk as recently as 2000), releasing music on their Doublevision imprint, and performing in other projects like The Free Agents, and The Faction (Nico's backing band in the 1980s). CV fans should especially be anxious to see the Mad As Mankind single released again but as this stuff was out around 1984, it simply wouldn't have quite fit in to the material collected on Subliminal 1980-1982. I'll wait patiently myself and take the time this material needs to settle in completely.

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Taken from @kayal_jd's new KG Mixtape, out April 15, 2020 via @beat-craft-music

In April, 2020 Beat Craft has selected the Egyptian artist Omar Kayal for its debut as an imprint. Beat Craft 001, KG Mixtape, is a 22 minute mixtape of 8 original previously unreleased tracks by Omar Kayal plus a collaboration with Egyptian producer Essperx. 

Previously released on Egypt-based label ANBA, Kayal's talent emerges strongly in this mixtape where melodic lines are "heavily influenced by my Nubian origin and developed on piano scales in nights spent over Ableton", he comments. Epic choruses are mixed with breaks, drum and bass, more gloomy atmospheres and subaqeous alien synths and organs. The work reflects everyday restlessness, anxiety, stress, will to escape, and the artist's existential self-adressed question: is it worth it?

Artwork by Carlo Quaranta

Revised by Mostafa Onsy

Mastered by Roland Nagy

Released by:
Beat Craft

The work is a tribute of the artist to Nada Hasan

Premiere: Omar Kayal - Nayba [Beat Craft]

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Увод У Ботанику by @lil_taty1. Taken from 02faulty two single split release, out April 25, 2020 via One Man Army.

Pre-order: https://liltaty.bandcamp.com/album/02faulty

Lil Taty is Belgrade based producer and DJ who emerged on the scene during spring 2013. His music is heavily influenced by UK club music in its most sinister shape, yet manages to find its own niche among the contemporary club movement. He is a co-founder of @minoradjustments-records alongside @bolelee and founder of MURK @murkbeograd podcast - mix series which discover fresh and exciting DJs from both the local and international underground scenes. With influences ranging from Fugazi to Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Lil Taty is a man with a taste for audacious sound, which is reflected in both his DJ sets and his productions for the likes of Classical Trax, heel.zone and SEAGRAVE.

Artwork by @springboardtx

Mastered by @bolelee

Released by:
One Man Army

Premiere: Lil Taty - Увод У Ботанику [One Man Army]

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Taken from @alleycatss new album Evr2, out April 21, 2020 via @midlifemusic.

Evr2 is a collection of odes to nostalgia / letting go / "facing reality"
Soundtrack to imaginary transitory places
Seizing the mood of lonely summer dusk
Goodbye past.

Artwork by Alley Catss
http://alleycatss.neocities.org

Mastered by Fausto Mercier (Roland Nagy)

Released by:
Midlife Music

Dedicated to Alexandru Cuza

Evr2

Premiere: Alley Catss - Evr21 [Midlife Music]

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Taken from @markbartha new album '18', out May 1, 2020 via @exiles-electronics.

https://barthamark.com/

The idea of the most recent personal project - the album titled '18' - of Márk Bartha (music composer for theater and film) came to life in 2018. At that time, facing a pause in the flow of life along with a set of personal problems, the artist decided do use the act of creating as self-therapy. To shape the musical material, Márk drove his inspiration from personal experiences and deep self-reflection.

Artwork by Pleux
https://www.instagram.com/pleux_/

Mastered by Roland Nagy (Fausto Mercier)

Released by EXILES
EXILES is a Budapest-based label focusing on regional electronics.
https://exiles-electronics.bandcamp.com/

Premiere: Márk Bartha - ktty [EXILES]

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Taken from @dj-pacifier new EP Rescue & Research Pt​.​1: DJ Pacifier, out May 15, 2020 via @failed-units.

Pre-order: https://failedunits.bandcamp.com/album/rescue-research-pt-1-dj-pacifier

Montreal's DJ Pacifier debuts on Failed Units with 3 ridiculous breakcore power grabbers. Berlin's @smog_0 and Failed Units boss @daniel-ruane-2 come in and finish the hit.

Full Album Preview: https://soundcloud.com/failed-units/rescue-research-pt-1-dj-pacifier

Design by Luca Lozano, Sheffield
PLANETLUKE.COM

Mastered by Dominic Clare @ Declared Sound, Leeds

Released by Failed Units

Premiere: DJ Pacifier - Endless Mode (smog Remix) [Failed Units]

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Taken from @xi-n new EP Lymph, out November 3, 2020, via @a-flooded-need.

Can you feel claustrophobic in a huge desolate space?
Does our mind represent a safe place for the permanence of our most intimate fears?
Manipulate, abstain, shout: the cyber-grime sound of XI-N is pure repetition and reduction. 'Lymph' is an immune response to perennial digital surveillance.
Five tracks that represent different points of view of a conscious misinterpretation of digital information.

Mastered by Carmine Laurenza

Released by A Flooded Need.

Premiere: XI-N - Syndicate [A Flooded Need]

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Premiere: XI-N - Syndicate [A Flooded Need]

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