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Acteurs 
I W I
PUBINF014
Release Date: 2nd June 2014
5 Track Mini LP / Download

Pre-order: http://publicinformation.bandcamp.com/album/i-w-i

Video: http://youtu.be/tMj4HBGTVSA
 
A year on from their Public Information debut, Chicago duo Jeremy Lemos and Brian Case return to the fold with five new pieces of exquisitely produced wave-funk-techno-noise-electronics.

It takes great skill to pull off a three-minute electronic drone-grumble to kickstart your new record. Lemos and Case have it in droves. The tension is jet-black, loaded with friction. Modular energy pulses in and out, in and out. Then suddenly Case takes to the microphone, snarls and spits “Hey Bullfighter, read about you in a book...”

I W I finds Acteurs in a more assured, confident, angry mood than their debut. The signifiers are there – claustrophobic Ike Yard glare, Factory Floor throb, Diagonal abstractions – but we now have a bold swagger, stomping triumphantly into frightening new space. The crushing late-song collapse of “Honey Bear” is a breathtaking wall of clatter and noise that Tim Hecker would blush at. The loopy saw-tooth menace of “River Card” is as strange as anything they’ve done and the pummeling title track could easily shatter those murky dancefloors of strip-lit basements where people from the future dance in amongst the normals; machine drums puncturing the smoke, ear damaging feedback rattles the walls, torn Moog shapes cutting chatter to zero...end of night.

We have a feeling that this is merely a stepping-stone to an incredible future direction for Acteurs, but what a platform. We will be there all the way.

Tracklist:
A1 Pride Of Classes
A2 Ewe
B1 Honey Bear
B2 River Card
B3 I W I

Acteurs - I W I (Taken from I W I mini-album released 2nd June 2014)

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https://secondendrec.bandcamp.com/album/ser002-va-collage

If it appeared right before you, just for a second, would you either walk this fleeting path or let it vanish in a blink, hidden forever beyond the fine lining of your eyelid? Taking the road to nowhere can be tempting, just as the urge to leave everything behind. Paradoxically, embracing the void feels so fulfilling - but isn’t acceptance part of the grief? We’re all searching for our own secret place, where inner peace could finally grow from its embryonic stasis. 

Much like that uncertain trail, the present 'Collage' compilation charts a course through the soft, dreamy side of contemporary electronic music. Designed either for the club or a living room, this ethereal patchwork of 14 tracks is woven from silk-like sound design. ambient techno, experimental, IDM, atmospheric dub sonic - each genre highlights in turns ultra-stretched audio spectrums, smooth instrumental lines, introspective reverberations or digital breaks. 
After Jonnnah’s ‘The Next Kingdom’ - debut LP published earlier this year, this second release embodies the label’s musical ethos once again: cold yet heartwarming textures, celestial synths and volatile rhythms.

releases December 6, 2024 

A.D : Jonnnah 
Graphic design : Tiphaine Voix, Lucas Dupuy 
Mastering : kick21 
Words : Loïs Markarian

pi premiere: Box5ive - HMU (Second End Records)

new RAMZi album on FATi Records
https://ramzi1.bandcamp.com/album/balmini

release date : June 6th
artwork: Miguel Cruz

FAT08: RAMZi - balmini [clips]

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The story of Konsistent’s connection to Electric Shapes began thanks to a mutual friend—Nikita—who introduced us. That introduction led to a meeting at the Digital Tsunami festival, where hours of inspiring conversations revealed a shared vision and passion for underground music.

Konsistent quickly became one of the first well-established artists to support what we were doing. He recorded an early episode for the Electric Shapes podcast series, giving the project a major boost in its formative days. More than just a guest, he played a key role in shaping the label’s direction.

In fact, Konsistent was the one who pushed us to take the leap from SoundCloud-only releases to launching a proper label on Bandcamp. Without that encouragement, Electric Shapes might have remained just a podcast platform.

He contributed to our very first compilation, returned for the fourth edition, and has once again joined us for the latest release—marking an ongoing creative relationship that’s become part of our core story.

Outside of Electric Shapes, Konsistent’s music has landed on some of the most respected underground labels: Lio Press, Eine Welt, Space Ritual, Sounds of Ogigia, Kalahari Oyster Cult, Macadam Mambo, and brokntoys. His sound—raw, hypnotic, and deeply textured—resonates across genres and borders.

His role in Electric Shapes goes far beyond collaboration. Konsistent helped us believe in the potential of this project—and he’s been helping shape it ever since.

Follow artist - https://soundcloud.com/konsistent

UT6⚡️Konsistent - Spacefolk 2#05 [Electric Shapes]

We Do Recover, the new album from Powell and his first album proper on his own Diagonal Records, is a vitalising record of recovery and a statement of reassurance. The music is intensely emotional and lean, and forms a uniquely expressive story that opens up new ground in the artists’s bizarre continuum of synthesised sound — this time triggered by experiences of grief and addiction.   

The suicide of one of his life-long friends in 2024 was a life-changing loss which eternally altered Powell’s life, and consequently his music. A period of recovery followed, one accompanied by the assembling of this album from hours of music made between 2018 and 2025. “After my friend’s death I felt I went into a tailspin, but really, I was already in one,” he says. “I found myself unable to handle anything – my way of coping was always to run away and escape. I realised it was going to kill me, so I made some changes. It made me see the music I had been making through a different lens, one that mirrored my experience of recovery. It’s not linear, it’s often difficult, but there is beauty there if you look hard enough. I wanted it to be a message of hope, if only for myself.”  

Powell has existed of late in an intensive mode of creation that utilises stochastic processes (probabilistic events) and a particular sonic palette. But where previous releases – such as the many prongs of his a ƒolder project, or the hyper-synthetic Piano Music 1—7 on Editions Mego – interrogated and developed formal processes for synthesised sound, on We Do Recover the processes are subsumed as tools for expression. What unfolds is an extended suite of minimal music that articulates and traces an intensive period of upheaval, pain, and hope; tight envelopes of sonic architecture are led astray; energies explode beyond bounds previously set. We can feel the collapse of control, and an overflowing sense of something starting anew. It is, in turn, surprising, baffling and beautiful.

The story begins with the radiance and glittering synthetic tones of ‘All These Feelings’—like looking up into the vastness of the night sky. By track seven the wonder has become unsteady, with wayward keys, stochastic shapes, brittle fizz and hurried words emerging, unprompted, from the stillness. There is percussive brutalism in ‘Relapse’, and ’Afterlife’ brings weight and solemnity in its funereal refrain. Four-to-the-‘floor ‘Newborn’ turns the lights on as an equilibrium of sorts is sought and wrestled with, before ‘So Rivers Plunge’ sings like nobody’s listening — a MIDI orchestra warming up in the box while the laptop remains asleep. Closing track ‘The Bitter End’ is no ending at all, instead promising a future in shimmering torques, caught on the wind of hope. It returns to us, with renewed awe, the starlight we began with. 

WDR LIVE will premier as an expanded audio-visual show in London at the ICA in London on 4th October — a specially-curated evening of mutant electronic music featuring Florian Hecker and Marcin Pietruszewski, and as a rare live appearance of Concrete Fence (Regis x Russell Haswell). The show continues Powell’s ongoing collaboration with Swiss filmmaker Michael Amstad and Norwegian visual artist Marte Eknæs, who worked on the film/image component of a ƒolder. Amstad and Eknæs also took the photograph on the album cover, a technicolour image of a pregnant male seahorse, its swollen belly at once fragile and beautiful.

WDR is the first full-length solo album Powell has ever released on his own label Diagonal – all other releases have been EPs, 12”s, or collaborations — and so it represents a landmark in his catalogue in more ways than one. “I nearly added a question mark to the album title,” he says. “Recovery is a long process, and the album reflects that. There’s a lot of short termism in the world right now, but recovery, in whatever guise, is the opposite of that… It takes time.” 

We Do Recover

Buy 'We Do Recover'

Powell 'Life' from We Do Recover [DIAG070]

Live from Neukölln: Prayforevilspirit b2b Black Snake Whip in full takeover mode! 👾

Prayforevilspirit b2b Black Snake Whip

Somewhere between a de-synchronised Kraftwerk and a non-genius Mamman Sani, lies the musical essence of Bravo Tounky. Solo project of Oblio Aubert (Dhavali Giri, Sierra Manhattan, Bermudaa, ...), Bravo Tounky is an attempt to make comfy soundscapes, filled with synthy melodies, cassette tape textures and digital bleepbloops.

https://soundcloud.com/ssubterraneos

Falsa Propaganda 023 w/ Bravo Tounky (22.07.25)

Out now: flowtape.bandcamp.com/album/survivors-vol-3
VA playlist: soundcloud.com/flowtape_records/sets/survivors-vol-3

The track: "Based Oscillator", represents Survivors vol.3 V/A FLOWTAPE
Artist: @chris-mitchell

А1. Gegen Mann - Dam Ester Move
А2. Velax - Inside Conflict
А3. Alpha Sect - Emergencia
А4. Randstad - Energy Worker
А5. Nechkin - Better Place

В1. Krokakai - Esters Eye
В2. Artem Lastname - Wasted State
В3. Invalid User - Nada
В4. Chris Mitchell - Based Oscillator
В5. Boris Barksdale - Fruit Punch

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Mastered by Mu Mastering
Graphic design by Madek

Chris Mitchell - Based Oscillator

Live recording at the Future Intel headquarters in The Hague. Streaming live every Thursday and Friday on YouTube and futureintelradio.com. For more info, visit our website.

Extase Urbaine ╚═ Future Intel ═╗ 22 08 2025

Recorded live at HYDRA, a raw underground gathering near Kaunas, Lithuania. An intense journey through techno, electro and breakbeat — dark, hypnotic and restless, shaped by the forest and the energy of the night.

foto by Alina Pasiuk

HYDRA set 2025-08-23

order: http://mannequinrecords.bigcartel.com/product/mnq-078-maoupa-mazzocchetti-untitled-12-bonus-cd

*** First 100 copies comes with a 3 unreleased tracks bonus CD EP . Available only at Mannequin Records direct orders. There will be no digital/bandcamp downloads available for it. ***

Hailing from Brussels, Maoupa Mazzocchetti debuts on Mannequin Records with a killer 3 tracks proto electro / industrial single, anticipating his debut full length planned for the beginning of 2016.

Deep, dark, stripped-down, Mazzocchetti’s tracks regurgitate the lesson of the 80’s Belgian ebm/minimal synth legends in a new and fresh nervous musical urgency.

Limited edition of 300 copies.

Mastered by Rude 66, The Netherlands.

Graphic design by Maoupa Mazzocchetti.

A2 Another Sinistra Century

No demos

🗓️ Mannequin Records showcases
alex@neptunemusic.net / sari@neptunemusic.net

Distro > http://www.rushhour.nl

Bandcamp http://bit.ly/NcCZYL
Beatport http://btprt.dj/1eGHvo5
Juno http://bit.ly/1hZtSIH
Boomkat http://bit.ly/MBEvCM

A2 Another Sinistra Century

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