Quenched and Tempered  (a duct-ape mix-tape)

Impurities (Equitant Remix)

in 2012 talented synth artists submitted tracks to Synth Scene Magazine for a 2nd zine/comp cd that never was produced. the money ran out after SS#1. here is that collection of songs submitted for SS#2... they need to be heard.

SS#2/ Beta Evers-Move In My Body Rhythm

CONSUMETE!

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Cat-No: F//008
Kontravoid - Undone

One can imagine, listening to Kontravoid’s latest release, an alternate reality in which the cold-war played out to the background of drum machines and spectrographs, sinister audio technology manipulating a hidden frequency of the world’s unfoldings. Cameron Findlay returns to his masked alias for the first Kontravoid release since his debut self-titled album, years in the studio reap their rewards as the production on ‘Undone’ effortlessly cuts its way through hypnotic dance floor compositions.

‘Hold Nothing’ implements perfect song structure, with precise breaks, ferocious snare builds and simple repeated vocal phrases enveloping the main groove in symbiosis. A playful criminality sets the mood of the record here, one for pouted lips and furrowed brows on bunker, basement dance-floors.

‘The Last Thing’ is a straight forward dance floor stomper, arpeggiated synths batter the listener like blunt instruments, locking the body in a rhythmic cell, dissonant, steam whistle drones contrast with gurgling, radio transmission synths to shift the balance of the parts from uplifting wooze to downcast dance automaton.

‘Not Your Dream’ opens with a moment of primitive, science-lab techno, echo laden vocal jabs open the door to new-beat territory while the synth lines swing between pure rhythm and hypnogogic, alley-chase sound track, clocking in at seven and a half minutes, this is another track destined for synth-wave, dance floor greatness.

‘Undone’, the self-titled track from the release focuses on softer-synths and pads, still motivated by driving drums and percussion, the vision of a lone, masked figure emerges, cutting a path through mud and snow, factories half submerged in some destroyed, industrial miasma. Muttered vocals set a strict grounding to the piece, keeping the track from escaping into sentimentality, layers of cold synth melodies artfully weave between percussive crescendos as radio static crackles distantly.

As a natural companion to the record Schwefelgelb close with a remix of ‘Hold Nothing’, where the percussion is stripped back to its bare necessities and the synth parts are sliced down into even more pointed arpeggiations.

With his concrete approach to song writing and bear-trap grasp of dance floor composition, Kontravoid cements his reputation as one of the stand out voices in the current new-beat, synth wave scene.

Tracklist:
A1 - Hold Nothing
A2 - The Last Thing
B1 - Not Your Dream
B2 - Undone
B3 - Hold Nothing (Schwefelgelb Remix)

A2 Kontravoid - The Last Thing

desire is proud to announce the release of subtitled debut album by Italian synth-wave masters Newclear Waves. 

Hailing from Rome, exploring droned out electro pop territories with an interest for a refreshing hyperactive 80s New Wave, Newclear Waves’ soundscapes seem to surround a fruitful visual-graphical imaginary which deals with mass consumption, apocalyptic visions, weird machineries, post-modernism and the order of chaos. A promising new coming in the universe of home made electronic avant-gardism.

A2 The Black Hand

Group - Lescure 13 ‎
Release Title - Collaborators
Format - Cassette 
Country - Belgium
Released - 1990

Lescure 13 - Im Bleeding - Belgium 1990 (Swarm Edit)

whole album: 
https://detritirecords.bandcamp.com/album/words-and-actions-senza-veleno

vinyl:
https://detritirecords.bigcartel.com/

B2) Words and Actions - Tutto passa

Death & Leisure is proud to announce the sophomore album from the very special Autumns.
6 tracks of raw sneering electronics. Coming out in spring.
Autumns is the solo project of Christian Donaghey, From Derry, Ireland, an outlet for electronic post-punk with a lethal pulse. After a brace of rough demos without preliminary hype, the project emerged fully formed on Karl O’Connor’s (aka Regis) illustrious label Downwards back in 2014, the youngest act in a new vanguard of artists that included the likes of Tropic of Cancer, DVA DAMAS and The Kvb. 

‘SHORTLY AFTER NOTHING’ 

A SIDE
SHORTLY AFTER NOTHING
EXPENSIVE SUIT
CRITICAL NONSENSE


B SIDE
SLOW WET HEAT
TALKING TO YOURSELF
SOMETIME SOON

Extended Autumns biography here-

Autumns is the solo project of Christian Donaghey, From Derry, Ireland, an outlet for electronic post-punk with a lethal pulse. After a brace of rough demos without preliminary hype, the project emerged fully formed on Karl O’Connor’s (aka Regis) illustrious label Downwards back in 2014, the youngest act in a new vanguard of artists that included the likes of Tropic of Cancer, DVA DAMAS and The Kvb. 

Preceding releases for Clan Destine Records, iDEAL Recordings and DKA Records have seen the project engaged in a rough trade of transgressive noise, dysfunctional metal dance and DIY punk angst, yet each of these milestones has represented a different proposition. 2016’s ‘A Product of 30 Years of Violence’ saw the project moving into vast glacial spaces after propulsive post-punk discord of 2015’s ‘Das Nichts’. 2017 presented a further progression into Autumns’ journey from his post-punk beginnings to producing some of the tautest and no bullshite electronic music around with the release of his debut album ‘Suffocating Brothers’ on Clan Destine Records. Gaining radio play from selectors like Trevor Jackson, Regis, Debonair and Giant Swan.

Alongside progressive appearances on cult labels the project has developed a notorious high-intensity live show, having played and toured with artists such as Silent Servant, Veronica Vasicka and Wire, performing to audiences from Los Angeles to Beirut, and Moscow to Berlin. Autumns’ has also ventured outside the typical music world by taking up projects such as performing alongside Samuel Kerridge at the 2016 edition of Paris Fashion Week for Downwards, creating a sound installation at Void Gallery, and improvising a desolate live score to David Lynch’s ‘Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me’. Earning Autumns a fierce reputation not only as a live act, but as a multi-disciplinary artist.

Following contributions to labels such as Amok Tapes, Touch Sensitive, Veyl (Maenad Veyl) and Earwiggle (Sunil Sharpe), as well as remixes for Strange Therapy, Infidel Bodies, and Clan Destine Records. 2019 see’s Autumns' experimentation in the studio go much deeper, with the release of his sophomore album ‘Shortly After Nothing’ on Oliver Ho’s (aka Broken English Club) innovative ‘Death & Leisure’ label, alongside a heavy touring schedule, a collaboration with post-punk legend Eric Random, the launch of his radio show ‘Dyslexia Tracks’ on Dublin Digital Radio and more upcoming releases to surface throughout the year.

Autumns - Shortly After Nothing Album Preview - Death & Leisure

1.Mind Control

Written and produced by Maxime Gendre
Mastered by Benjamin Joubert

Network Of Pain

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No Generation (feat. Negative Datura) Live

8. Existential Nihilism

Artist: Nghtly
Song: Getting Married To Satan
Album: L'alba del caos
Label: Detriti Records
Format: Cassette and digital
Catalogue number: DR080
Release date: 6th September 2020

Bandcamp link:
https://detritirecords.bandcamp.com/album/nghtly-lalba-del-caos

Nghtly (https://soundcloud.com/francesco-tella) has just released another tape with Detriti Records entitled "L'alba del caos", featuring five new songs plus a remix by the label mate Unconscious (https://soundcloud.com/unconscious). The whole release, including Getting Married To Satan which we're proud to premiere, confirms the style of the Italian musician. "L'alba del caos" is pure EBM mixed with techno which looks to the masters of the genre, with rough beats and synths.

PREMIERE: Nghtly - Getting Married To Satan [Detriti Records DR080]

KREIGN - KREIGN II
SCAN 151
2CD - Album
Scanner / Dark Dimensions Label Group
Release Date : 04.12.2020

Info :

Nachrichten aus den USA sind ja momentan eher zum Kopf schütteln,
umso mehr freut es uns das Debut Werk von Amerikas Vorzeige EBM Band KREIGN dem geneigten Fan endlich weltweit verfügbar zu machen.
KREIGN, bereits seit 2010 ativ, sind Ryan Hutman und Xiån Austin.

Ihr eigener Anspruch ist es, sich in eure Schädel zu bohren und die Tanzflächen der einschlägigen Clubs zu erobern.

Old-School EBM allererster Güte.
Druckvoll, eingangig und offen für moderne und zeitgemäße Einflüsse von außen.

Ihr Debut Werk erscheint in einer limitierten Erstauflage + Bonus CD auf der u.a. Jürgen Engler (Die Krupps) bei einem "Gastauftritt" zu glänzen weiss.

Info (UK)

"KREIGN is an American Electronic Body Music project formed in 2010 by Ryan Hutman and Xiån Austin as a tribute to old-school EBM.
Their music delivers a gnarly soundscape of hard basslines,
phat beats, and aggressive vocals certain to drill through skulls and devastate dance floors around the world."
"On December 4th, 2020, KREIGN is releasing their debut album in physical form as a 2 CD set on Scanner / Dark Dimensions Labelgroup.

The second disc on that limited Edition features remixes by Die Krupps, NZ, ELM, Autodafeh, SPANKTHENUN, Reaching for Shadows, Nova State Machine, and KREIGN themselves."

An EBM MASTERPIECE.

Tracklist:

CD 1 :

1. Shit Storm
2. Disco King
3. Lost Purpose
4. 5 Layers of Chaos
5. Live Fast
6. Dismembered Quietly
7. In That Frame of Mind
8. Building You Back (feat. The Strand)
9. Face Melt (feat. The Strand)
10. Add It Up

CD 2 :

1. Disco King Phukkin' with the Fluxxuationz - KREIGN
2. Building You Back - NZRMX
3. Face Melt - Remixed by ELM
4. Shit Storm - Reaching for Shadows Mix
5. Disco King (Feat. Jürgen Engler)
6. Live Fast - Remixed by Autodafeh
7. Disco King - SPANKTHENUN Get Off Mix
8. Live Fast - Relativity Mix by Nova State Machine
9. 5 Layers of Chaos - DIE KRUPPS remix by Jürgen Engler

Available from here :

http://brokensilence.de/lnk/kreignii/
http://brokensilence.de/lnk/kreignii-2/

KREIGN - 5 Layers Of Chaos

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