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13 July

Maxim Samos - 13 July

Modern Slavery is a 4-track EP including two original tracks and two remixes. Aurum delivers two slow-moving tracks driven with dark atmospheric sound design with obscure programmed female vocals layered with energetic basslines.
The title track 'Modern Slavery' has a darker theme with a forceful groove mainly created by the bassline and supplements the groove of the drums. The track is layered with melodic, almost symphonic synth melodies which complements the bass. Loopy but progressive vibe creating a darker feel with a wide range of sounds that are spread out and are designed to enhance the stereo image and sound wider.

Out 22/07 on https://soundcloud.com/inflectrecords

PREMIERE : Aurum Miles - Modern Slavery

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/candy-kingdom-synths
Track: The Star's Leap At Night
Label: Candy Kingdom
Format: Digital EP
Release date: 11/02/22
YouTube: https://youtu.be/xb-aXtKFAbU

Candy Kingdom Synth Orchestra's new single 'The Star's Leap At Night' offers more utopian visions for dance music and includes remixes from Lauer and Vitling.
Candy Kingdom Synth Orchestra is Berlin-based, Jerusalem-born Uri Yacobi Keller. He has been in the German capital for almost a decade playing in clubs such as Griessmuehle and About Blank. The data scientist has a long-standing love of house, techno and drum & bass as well as a passion for sci-fi that infuses his music.
His fantastic 'The Star’s Leap At Night' is a driving and pulsing electronic house track with starry-eyed keys and neon chords. The yearning vocals imbue it with passion and meaning as the bubbling arps soar into the cosmos. The synth version strips away the vocals to allow those well-programmed chords more room to shine.
The Star’s Leap At Night is an EP of beautifully melodic house magic.

The Star's Leap At Night

PREMIERE | Candy Kingdom Synth Orchestra - The Star's Leap At Night [Candy Kingdom] 2022

Whilst the iron was hot, I delved back into the 'Apex' sound pack again to see what it still had to offer and low and behold, Launchpad Session 233 popped out!  I'm thinking this song slightly overshadows Launchpad Session 232 but you be the judge!

Launchpad Session 233

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Ever since their initial singles were released in the mid-1990s and became international calling cards for the Chain Reaction label, the Porter Ricks duo of Thomas Köner and Andy Mellwig have represented that crucible point in which techno music leaked into new social environments and became the background music for cutting-edge cultural critique. Their submerged “scuba” sound, presented in dark tone colors and reverberating to infinity, is now instantly identifiable as one of the ‘soundmarks’ of Berlin club culture. Just as importantly, it is still a palpable aftershock of a pre-millenial genre explosion that saw deep dub, shimmering post-rock, abstract hip-hop and art-damaged noise all drinking from the same well of inspiration. Together with restless international collaborators such as Kevin Martin, and theoretical thinktanks such as the Mille Plateaux label, Mellwig and Köner were key players in a larger decentralized rebellion against musical monoculture. Their stated desire to make unexpected timbral shifts as important to their compositions as rhythm, along with their indifference to concerns like public image, set up a situation that critic Kodwo Eshun picked up on early on (“no pictures or interviews act as shock absorbers…the full force of their inexplicable sounds falls around your ears.”)

For proof of Porter Ricks’ enduring legacy, look no further than the fact that “dub techno” is now a stylistic movement that has expanded far beyond the confines of Berlin and the Basic Channel / Chain Reaction label alliance (where Mellwig’s mastering skills also played a starring role). Lurid traces of PR’s aesthetic can now be found in the work of producers like Andy Stott and Miles Whittaker, showing the potential for the duo’s unique ‘aquatic’ techniques to be applied to a variety of different musical contexts. However, this does present Porter Ricks with the unique challenge of reasserting themselves in a scene that has mastered their sonic vocabulary so well, the originals themselves run the risk of sounding like imitators…are they up to the task?

Their new LP on Tresor, Anguilla Electrica, may be their first full-length release in seventeen full years, but it radiates with confidence and with a clarity and intensity rarely seen in a world so oversaturated with communications noise. It’s made clear at once that it’s a continuation of a sonic ideal rather than a tribute to what has already been achieved: the duo is not idly sitting back while their newer acolytes do their talking for them. From the outset, the title track “Anguilla Electrica” slithers to life with bouncing and panning sequences that cover the full frequency spectrum and provide a perfect update on Porter Ricks’ exploration of animalistic movement and perception. Elsewhere, pieces such as “Scuba Rondo” also reanimate the classic Porter Ricks sound in striking fashion, playfully setting up a virtual sonic kitchen in which gelatinous sound phrases blend with steamy hisses and distinct crackling. In other places, like “Port of Tangency” and “Shoal Beat,” the duo once again demonstrates just how effortlessly catchy the conversational tension between lockstep groove and slightly unhinged, unidentifiable sound material can be.

This new LP is well worth the wait and is a life-affirming one in an uncertain and perilous time, drowning out daily anxieties like a rush of incoming surf - yet it is far more invigorating than relaxing. True to the Porter Ricks tradition, it will be just as exciting hearing this music as it will be to experience what new cultural mutations it leaves in its wake

Anguilla Electrica

Tresor Store

Porter Ricks - Scuba Rondo

https://relaxerelaxer.bandcamp.com/album/relaxer-5

Jamie Lee (Halal & Relaxer's Me-Time Meltdown)

BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/sepehr-body-mechanics-ep/
We are excited to release a 6-track EP from San Francisco based DJ, producer, and remixer Sepehr Alimagham. The San Jose native has been a fixture in the Bay Area house and techno scene for quite awhile now — on the dance-floor, behind the decks, in the studio, or all of the above. Early influences like Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin and post-hardcore bands later in high school started his affinity for off-kilter, underground music. In 2017 he began performing live PA sets, utilizing his immense production backlog to perform vivid and electric sets, from potent dance music to psychedelic and esoteric soundscapes. 

"Body Mechanics" is six tracks of acid drenched dance music that ebb and flow from floor filling club thumpers to more cerebral soundscapes. Inspired by the new wave of the acid sound as well as nostalgia from his formative years in the San Francisco music scene, 'Body Mechanics' takes a functional, yet psychedelic approach to 303 styled techno and electronica.  Attention demanding basslines, indiosyncratic structures and hallucinatory atmospheres provide an effective framework for Sepehr's vision. The themes of the track titles take root from a series of dreams Sepehr had with a common atmosphere of strange characters and textures, akin to scenes from David Lynch's 'Twin Peaks'. All songs have been mastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The vinyl comes housed in a jacket featuring a dark and inviting cyborg hand holding a rose designed by Nicole Ginelli.

Body Mechanics

Sepehr - Roses + Thorns

Get your copy: https://KompaktRecords.lnk.to/LilyEPSD

Elina Shorokhova aka SOELA (@soelaela) is a multi-talented artist hailing from southern Russia who now calls Berlin her home. It is there where she continues to build her presence in the community through her live and DJ sets alongside documenting the local scene and artists through her lens as a photographer.

LILY EP may be 4 tracks but as a collected whole, sounds and feels like an album when heard from beginning to end. The title track emits her talent as a pianist by setting a tone of gracefulness that is carried throughout the EP – broken beats float in and out of dub drenched ambience that flows with cascading vocals. CLOSE YOUR EYES echos a spirit of Detroit House with refreshing new intensities. Again, her vocals caress the track but as an incredibly catchy hook. WHITE BECOMES BLACK shows her own interpretation of dub techno and combines that into a classic house beat. I HAVE A DREAM sounds like she bridges all of the previous track elements into a single whole which makes this tune the perfect closing track for any DJ set and of this release. A steady low-end groove keeps the ricocheting snares and somber synths cruising to an up-tempo rhythm.

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Soela - I Have A Big Dream

Sebastian Melmoth - The Dynamics Of Vanity
Artificial Dance 2019
AD008

Since forming in 2006 post-punk experimentalists Sebastian Melmoth have been on a thoughtful and adventurous musical journey. In a constant state of aural evolution, the London-based four-piece has a delivered a string of albums and EPs that variously touch on everything from garage-rock, grunge and lo-fi pop, to electro, new wave, dark ambient and music concrete, all the while drawing on a myriad of literary and artistic influences.

The band’s first release for Artificial Dance digs deep into their admirable and eye-opening catalogue and draws together some of the Amsterdam-based label’s favourites from the more electronic end of the band’s output. Entitled “The Dynamics of Vanity” – a comment on Western culture’s obsession with rehashing the past and the band’s own in-built distrust of artistic naval-gazing – the set is not a ‘best of’ retrospective but rather a ‘sort of’ selection of stylistically interconnected cuts that gives a very specific snapshot of the band’s work.

Check for example “Icarus”, a drowsy, hypnotic and sample-laden soundscape that effortlessly joins the dots between post-rock, pitched-down electronica and early morning ambient, or the slowly unfurling throb of thought-provoking opener “The Engineering of Consent”, a swelling, melancholic post-jazz meditation on propaganda and governmental mind control featuring spoken word samples from William S Burroughs in conversation with Brion Gysin, Timothy Leary, Les Levine and Robert Anton Wilson. 

The showcased songs are typically hard-to-pin-down, too, with the re-imagined gothic horror break-up cut “Prosopagnosia’ and slow-burn audio addition of “Waiting For Godot” being joined by the wide-eyed morning dream-pop hallucinations of “Seeds (Descent Into Decadence)”.  It all adds up to a collection that expertly showcases one engaging thread – of many – running through Sebastian Melmoth’s esoteric body of work.

https://artificialdance.bandcamp.com/album/sebastian-melmoth-the-dynamics-of-vanity-ad008

Sebastian Melmoth - The Dynamics Of Vanity (AD008)

mixed by VHSound
mastered by Drop Records
produced by SOVIET | VINTAGE
written by Melineh
artwork by mosh @msho.mosh

ես էմոցիոնալ եմ 
և, ո՛չ հիստերիկ
անգամ ծառի ստվերը 
մեջս բարձրացնում է ալիք
ես էմոցիոնալ եմ 
և, ո՛չ հիստերիկ
մի կաթիլ մեղրը՝
մի մեծ հուզմունքի առիթ 

ես էմոցիոնալ եմ 
շատ էմոցիոնալն եմ 
ես էմոցիոնալ եմ և ո՛չ հիստերիկ
հաճելի քորացավը՝ 
մեջը մտնելու առիթ 

աղի թե՞ քաղցր՝  
դեռ չեմ որոշել 
դրսից թե՞ ներսից՝ 
երկուսն եմ ընտրել 

աղի թե՞ քաղցր
քա՜ղցր, քա՜ղցր

դեռ, դեռ, դեռ չեմ հասկացել
ի՞նչ է մեջս կատարվում,
ի՞նչ է կատարվո՜ւմ 
դեռ, դեռ, դեռ էմոցիոնալ եմ 
դեռ, դեռ, դեռ չեմ հասկացել 
դեռ, դեռ, դեռ էմոցիոնալ եմ 
ու դեռ չի չորացել

ես էմոցիոնալ եմ

hystera/ հիստերա

Melineh

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