Another Techno Dimension

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Another Techno dimension

Objekt launches his new label, Kapsela, with a 10-year anniversary reissue of his lauded production ‘Ganzfeld’. An ambitious, evocative electro/IDM epic with cavernous drums and a riotously funky bass solo, Ganzfeld was initially released in 2014 on Leisure System as the B-side of Hypnagogia, a split EP with Detroit electro pioneers Dopplereffekt. It quickly garnered critical acclaim (including Track Of The Year by Resident Advisor) and amassed a cult following despite clocking in at 147bpm, a relatively unwieldy tempo for most DJs at the time. Given the seismic shifts in tempo and genre that have taken place in the 10 years since and the emergence of a new generation of producers with whom Ganzfeld’s influence has resonated, 2024 seemed like the perfect moment for a re-release.

Commissioning remixes for the first time, Objekt enlists Djrum, who delivers a jaw-dropping 10-minute rendition which weaves through multiple genres and tempos with the cinematic flair of a short film score. Milan’s Piezo contributes a taut, prickly interpretation that builds tension at 80bpm before exploding into a cathartic double-time closer. Finally, US ambient artist Ulla fully deconstructs the original into a serene, undulating lullaby.

Objekt - Ganzfeld (Djrum Remix)

In 2020, Phasmid released his debut single ‘Shunned’ on Gimme A Break’s We Are Viable compilation, raising funds to support Leeds-based MAP Charity. Five years on, the eclectic DJ and producer has announced that his debut physical EP will be released via GAB on March 7th 2025.

Having cut his teeth in the UK Garage and Breaks scene, Phasmid took an extended leave from the DJ circuit to refine his sound and production techniques. Hadal Zone is the culmination of Phasmid’s various musical explorations to date, showcasing the producer’s signature clean-cut and bass-led take on breakbeat, electro and trance fusion.

On the A-side, the title track kickstarts the EP with a clinical electro breakbeat workout. While rooted in the production style of contemporaries such as Aloka and Client 03, Phasmid pays homage to the UK dance lineage, sampling Baraka’s 1995 Jungle single ‘I’ll Be There’. ‘Fractal’ and ‘Onyx’ push the project forward with two experim

Artist: @phasmidmusic
Buy: https://phasmidmusic.bandcamp.com/album/hadal-zone-ep

PREMIERE: Phasmid - Hadal Zone [Phasmid]

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Breaka - Roundhouse

With In Filtration and Paradigm I wanted to explore aspects of 4x4 Grime and Techno, touching ground on the dubstep-meets-techno sound that's been making rounds these recent years. The result is an honest approach to these worlds, attempting to pick up the fundamentals while incorporating my own sense of merging grime, 2-step, techno and dubstep.

https://soundcloud.com/mod-sens

Buy:
https://modsens.bandcamp.com/album/in-filtration-paradigm



PREMIERE: Mod Sens - Paradigm

Two years after releasing the acclaimed Crash Recoil, Anthony Child aka Surgeon returns to Tresor with new LP, Shell~Wave. Retaining the minimal equipment list and studio-version-of-live-show-sets approach of the previous album in order to focus on the work itself, Shell~Wave is a deeply personal document of both where Surgeon is and has been, converging three decades of experience with a continued curiosity in the untested.

"To make this project, I had to dig really deep in terms of what my relationship was to techno; I've been involved with it for a really long time and there's a lot about it I feel dislocated from, so I had to really think hard about what techno is to me. I often get asked "what is techno to you?" but I can't answer that with words; this album is the answer."

From the complex, twisting track Infinite Eye to the caustic Soul Fire, the eight tracks that make up the body of the album are single-take explorations of the vast, hard yet minimal techno Child is synonymous with. 

Neatly dividing the record in two, the emotional centre of the record comes in the form of Dying, a vibrating, beatless piece that with a mantra-like vocal loop steeped in reverberating effects.

Further echoes of dub production appear throughout the record as tracks like Divine Shadow, and Empty Cloud have an almost ever-present mist of reverberation, driven by the appearance of a new delay unit in the equipment list; while much of the philosophy of Crash Recoil's creation is present, the process and the instruments have changed as Child again switches up his approach to studio work.

This insistence on trying novel techniques doesn't preclude returning to old ones, as this use of modern digital machines with live, hands-on takes that are as inspired by 60s producer Joe Meek and 70s reggae as they are by this year's synthesiser expos.

"For me, it's an interesting experience returning to old techniques again after 30 years. [I'm] always exploring and finding myself back at the beginning. Connecting the present with the past."

This philosophy of 'time travel' is inherent to the music itself as the synchronised loops repeat while the delay and effects branch out, forming unique eddies; distinct quantum moments within the circular whole; the future leaking through the spaces between the sounds. All of the concepts on the album are perfectly communicated through the painting by Taiwanese artist Jazz Szu-Ying Chen which suggests the movement of water, sound waves, and the chitinous shells of sea creatures.

BANDCAMP

Surgeon - Forgotten Gods

Radiccio (2025)

Deepest

Artist: Evelyn
Title: 'Trace'
Label: White Owl Records
Cat. #: WHITEOWL011
Format: Digital
Release: 25th April, 2025
Pre order: https://evonthetrack.bandcamp.com/album/surface

Sounds From NoWhere is pleased to premiere a Evelyn' gem on 'White Owl Records'.

White Owl Records are a vinyl and digital label based in Brooklyn, USA who have a focus on live and machine-driven techno from its wonderful underground scene.

Evelyn is a force of heart and fire, who joins the White Owl roster following music featured on Linear System's Modern Minimal, ESP Institute, Oneiros, and nul records, as well as appearances on Rinse FM, and The Lot Radio.

With over a decade of production experience across countless genres, she's honed her craft in service of liberating herself and others. 
Her relationship with machines began in Ohio working in construction, and has expanded since moving to New York three years ago to include repairing lighting and electronic equipment. 
Her close relationship with machines makes her particularly attuned to compose some of the city's sweatiest, most thundering techno.

"Trace" pushes forward with polymetric growls and relentless fervour, using sharp percussion and dystopian textures that accent the hot, dense track.

@white-owl-records

Premiere: Evelyn - Trace [White Owl Records]

Blue 01 - Tessela & Lanark Artefax
Release date - 9th March 2018
Buy - https://whities.bandcamp.com/album/blue-01

A - Glisten
B - Touch Absence (Intimidating Stillness Mix)

Designed by Alex McCullough. 
Mastered by Beau Thomas

Distributed by Rush Hour

Blue 01 - Tessela & Lanark Artefax: Glisten / Touch Absence (Intimidating Stillness Mix)

https://callsuperandparris.bandcamp.com/releases

There was an aging writer called Mortise Koshimitsu who lived in a small apartment. The apartment was beset with problems. It was damp, the wiring was frail and in the summer the leaking pipes added a must and swelling to the wood in the windows that effectively countered the joys of the heat. Koshimitsu’s life had been lived chiseling away at circumstance, and circumstances had not proved easy. There was however, one small reliable rush to be had, and it lay through a gloomy doorway, down some stairs and past a register.

Side A.

Call Super and @parris_dj

Call Super and Parris - Chiseler's Rush

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Another Techno dimension

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