Releases

Means&3rd - Thought Contortion EP - NUANCE001

Unveiled Nuance is the newly founded imprint by Manchester’s Means&3rd, a platform solely for his own productions. The Eastern Bloc Records staff member inaugurates his debut vinyl release with 3 tracks covering a balance between hypnotic and driving techno, in keeping with his adopted style of recent years.

‘Thought contortion’ opens the EP with a thunderous low end, propulsive rhythms and immersive sweeps of sound design, teamed with modulated synth patterns that assist the unfolding of its persistent structure. ‘Fragility of perception’ follows with its elastic 3 step synth groove and reverb rich textures which provide the bed while the percussion provides an airy dynamic. ‘Aural Dissociative’ closes the EP with an all-together headier affair, a dynamic drone providing the backdrop while flickers of rhythm supplement its evolution and heavily modulated lead lines take the focus.

Pressed on 140g Black Vinyl, reverse board full colour print sleeve with poly-lined inner sleeve complete with download code via bandcamp.

Distribution Via Rubadub Glasgow

https://soundcloud.com/means3rd
www.unveilednuance.com/
www.instagram.com/means_3rd/

Produced, Programmed and Mixed by Means&3rd
Mastered & Cut by Helmut Erler @ D&M Berlin
Design by Means&3rd
Pressed By Matter Of Fact, Güstrow, Germany

Thought Contortion EP

Preview - Means&3rd - Thought Contortion EP - NUANCE001

Means&3rd returns to Unveiled Nuance with 002 following the label's debut 'Thought Contortion'. This time coming armed with 4 tracks providing a more direct club sound and falling in line with NUANCE001's affinity for low-end, tight percussion and underlying tribalism.

‘Aberrance’ opens Side A with a broken rolling kick drum and FM-type polyrhythmic stabs which reach a kinetic climax with further patterns of distorted FM crunch and propulsive percussion that sit next to alien sound FX. ‘Life’s Glorious Mosaic’ gives way to a much more mesmerising mood, utilising classic CR-78 percussive shots to provide energy amongst a sea of delicately delayed glassy synth chirps, spacious and mystic, the perfect hypnotic spell.

‘Kairos’ is the first cut on side B, picking up the pace with deep and dense shamanic formant drones juxtaposed against ethereal stabs which provide rest bite from the heavy groove, a chance for the ear to get lost in a moment of psychedelia before seeing us out with the return to the solid rhythm. ‘Discordianism’ closes out the EP, anchoring around the repetitive grit of the lead synth, textured stabs unfold next to squeezed shots of phased synth work that subtly lay underneath it, the whole track, reduced in nature, perfect as a layered tool.


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Pressed on 140g black Vinyl, reverse board full colour print sleeve with poly-lined inner sleeve.

Pre-Order available at Bandcamp: https://means3rd.bandcamp.com/album/lifes-glorious-mosaic-ep

Produced, Programmed and Mixed by Means&3rd 
Mastered  by Neel @ Enisslab, Rome
Cut @ Schnittstelle Berlin
Design by Means&3rd 
Pressed By Matter Of Fact, Güstrow, Germany
Distributed by Rubadub, Glasgow

Life's Glorious Mosaic EP

Preview - Means&3rd - Life's Glorious Mosaic EP - NUANCE002

Means&3rd - Character Ethic EP

Record number 3 from Unveiled Nuance brings a new confidence in the further developed sound of owner Means&3rd. A continued eye for detail as well as a roughness that breathes dark soul into the production aesthetic that we have yet to hear from the artist.

“Hardship Repackaged As Growth” Opens the EP with boomy, rugged low end and grainy driven synth lines with sharp hits of wide sonic impact and a depth of layered atmosphere, placed on a bed of dense percussion until its break point exposes contorted, abrasive stabs just surviving the crunch of their processing, that then take the forefront. “Countenance” replies to the previous track with a more calculated, rounder and organic palette of audio that focuses on a cadenced synth line that breaths with the arrangement, fizzing to break point and engaging the deeper listen. Swung percussion keeps the groove providing a propulsive backing that sits on gnarled bass hits before the focus returns on the charged lead line.

“Character Ethic” carries deep suspense from the off, with filtered menace being teased below the surface, warping atmospheres are stacked and build the apprehension against a militant 16th shaker before an almost vocal like modulated synth reveals itself and is left to dance prominently across the stereo field. Layers of energy providing percussion complete the picture for a mesmerising trip. “Desperate And Relevant” the most driving of the 4 cuts takes an effectively reduced stand where square wave accents build new levels of intensity. Propulsive low-end and cohesive percussion writhe through the track’s arrangement closing out the EP with a powerful ending, a blistering siren sees the track’s breakpoint provide a release worthy of the pressure built.

Pressed on 140g black Vinyl, reverse board full-colour print sleeve with poly-lined inner sleeve. 

Produced, Programmed and Mixed by Means&3rd 
Mastered by Neel @ Enisslab, Rome
Cut by Marco Pellegrino
Design by Means&3rd 
Pressed By AFG, Rome, Italy
Distributed by Rubadub, Glasgow & Readymade, Berlin

Character Ethic EP

Preview - Means&3rd - Character Ethic EP - NUANCE003

[PREMIERE] | Means&3rd - 1.42 [PTL003]

◘ VA 2​.​0 by Various Artists

Artist: Means&3rd 
Track: 1.42 
Label: PTL
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno
Cat. No: PTL003
Date release: 06.12
Format: Digital

PTL strikes again with 11 tracks of modern groovey and deep techno, featuring artists from Manchester, Warsaw, Gdynia, Gdańsk, Wroclove and more !

◘ TRACKLIST

1. Means&3rd - 1.42  
2. Michał Jabłoński - USO  
3. Vertical Spectrum - Zadra  
4. SKZ - Shotta  
5. Larix - Puls  
6. Staryk - Serpent  
7. Rethe - Hold the Dissonance  
8. Marboc - No Means No  
9. Renwick - Lehnsherr  
10. Beerhouser - Artifacts  
11. Subcode - N8

◘ PRE-ORDER / BUY LINK:

https://ptlbypolishtechnology.bandcamp.com/album/va-20

◘ MORE:

Means&3rd:

https://soundcloud.com/means3rd
https://www.instagram.com/means_3rd/

PTL:

https://soundcloud.com/polishtechnology
https://www.instagram.com/polishtechno.logy_ptl/

VA 2​.​0

1.42 [PREMIERE] | Means&3rd - 1.42 [PTL003]

Unveiled Nuance, On Board, Polish Technology

Means&3rd / Eastern Bloc Records /Manchester

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