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Classic mix from London's finest capturing the raw energy at seminal nightspot.

Colin Faver at Nude Hacienda Aug 89'

Taken from the album 'Quixotism' released as CD and Download.

Oren Ambarchi 'Quixotism Part 5' (eMEGO 202)

Andrea Belfi - "Natura Morta" out november 7th on Miasmah.

Natura Morta, "dead nature" or "still life". This album can be understood as a powerful study of the minute details of the art of electro-acoustic composition, as much as the Renaissance "nature morte" were a masterful display of the artist’s skill in portraying the glow of a ripe fruit, or capturing the light beaming on a vacant chair.

Six tracks, to be listened to as two long explorations in the art of variation and repetition. Layers of drums and percussions intertwine with synth waves making the portrait come to life, detail after detail, until a complex figure emerges from the white canvas. The constant, unsteady sounds, wavering noise, swirling cymbals, and distant feedback gently pull the listener into the picture, letting them enjoy every detail of this beautifully staged compositions.

Recorded at EMS studio, Stockholm, ZKM in Karlsruhe and at the legendary Funkhaus in Berlin, this album mixes influences from both Italian minimalism and the electro-acoustic contemporary scene. Somewhere in between the electronics of Keith Fullerton Whitman, the percussive repetitions of Jon Mueller, and the atmospheric sensibility of Pan-American.

Andrea Belfi - Roteano

Taken from the new Ben Frost EP - 
'V A R I A N T' - out on vinyl and download on 8 December 2014 through Mute / Bedroom Community  (U.S release dates - Download 9 December / Vinyl 13 January)

The limited edition EP features remixes of tracks taken from the latest album A U R O R A by British producer Evian Christ (following his critically acclaimed Waterfall EP and work with Kanye West); Downward label boss and techno producer Regis (previous remix credits inc. VCMG, Terence Fixmer), Good by Air affiliated experimental artist Dutch E Germ (previous remix credits inc. Fatima Al Qadiri and Mas Ysa); Australian duo HTRK and raster-noton recording artist Kangding Ray.

V A R I A N T :: EP TRACKLISTING
Venter - Evian Christ TF 12” Mix
Venter - Dutch E Germ Remix
Venter - HTRK Remix
No Sorrowing - Kangding Ray Remix
Nolan - Regis Self Medicating Edit


Pre-Order V A R I A N T here: 
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Bleep - https://bleep.com/release/55179-ben-frost-v-a-r-i-a-n-t

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Ben Frost :: 'Venter' (HTRK Remix)

Æ Sa Kjør

Ultradyne live in Madrid 2015-5-23

Last regular show for the time being.
Check https://twitter.com/Tony_Surgeon for updates and information.

Jake Conlon- So Long Farewell - Forte Techno
Gabe Gurnsey - Falling Phase - DRONE004
Dot Out - The Wall - GATE009
Eomac - Heretic - Inner Surface Music inner009
Kahuun - Plenty Headroom (Vakum Remix) Ploink PL006NK
Ritzi Lee - Snakepit - Sub-d37
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma - Strange Dreams [We Know Each Other Somehow LP]- FRKWYS12
Pev & Hodge - 21 Versions - LIVITY016
Faetch - Takm - Earwiggle EAR011
Rrose - Vellum - EAUX691
Yko - Minako (Bee Mask remix) - Ako 02
Blawan - Weakening Force - Ternesc TESC002
Kamera - Prince Valium - Phantasy PH45
Zenker Brothers - Night Hustler - IMF06
Uncrat - Evolutionary Convergence - Subsist sub-d39
Deapmash - Breakness - JoeFarr Remix
JoeFarr - Mormon Shuffle - LSR014
Charles Cohen - Sacred Mountain [Brother I Prove You Wrong LP] Morphine
Scape One - More Switches - CPU
Eric Cloutier - Palimpsest - wolfskuil limited wltd026
Luis Ruiz - The Grigori Covenant - unreleased
John Heckle - Bon Voyage - Lunar Disko LDR17

Surgeon - Rinse FM broadcast 21st June 2015

This is the recording of a live improvisation performed at Freerotation festival in Wales.
I was seated on the floor of the yurt with the audience so as to give us the experience of travelling together.
Thanks to Steevio for making it possible and to everyone who was there experiencing it with me.

The following machines were used-
Buchla Music Easel
Electro Harmonix 45000
Strymon blueSky
Sony PCM-D50 recorder

Freerotation 2015

Anthony Child - Live improvisation at Freerotation, Wales 11th July 2015

This year I had the honour of playing the closing set at my favourite festival in the world; it was a profoundly intense, joyful experience which rounded off one of the most wonderful weekends I've ever had. Here's the recording.


T/L:

E-Dancer - World Of Deep (Carl Craig Remix) [Play It Again Sam [PIAS] - KMSPIAS 001]
Daniel Maloso - Ritmo Especial [Cómeme - 006]
Underground Resistance - Ma Ya Ya [Underground Resistance - UR7-055]
Sound Design - Bounce to the Beat [Hard Times - HT002]
Laksa - Contrasts [unreleased]
Samuel L. Session - Off The Chain (The Drums) [Klap Klap - kklap005-6]
L.B. Dub Corp - So Much [Ostgut Ton - o-ton86]
Sleezy D - I've Lost Control (Space Side) [Trax - TX113]
Sote - Spundae [Record Label Records - RLR34]
Mark Fell & Gabor Lazar - Track 6 [The Death Of Rave - RAVE010]
Gescom - Motor1 [Source - 1243]
Simulant - Access Future Audio (Mix) [Scopex - SX12002]
Minor Science - Glamour [Whities - WHYT004]
Chaos - Afrogermanic [Underground Resistance - UR-021]
Plastikman - Elektrostatik [NovaMute - 12 NoMu 25]
Sleeparchive - Senza Titolo Three [Mord - 018]
DJ Sneak V AVH - Psychic Bounty Killaz [Relief - RR 767, RR 767.1]
Clark - Christo [Planet E - PE CLK 895]
Love Inc. - R.E.S.P.E.C.T. [Force Inc. Music Works - FIM 065]
The Hypnotist - Night Of The Living E-Heads (Hitchie Rawtin functional edit)
Xray Xperiments - Take No Chance (Remix) [Xray Recordings - XRAY 004]
The Aphex Twin - Phloam [R & S - RS 9201]
Underground Resistance - Transition [Underground Resistance - UR-3000]
Basic Soul Unit - Soulspeak (Shed Remix) [Dolly - DOLLY7]
Prurient - A Sorrow With A Braid [Profound Lore - PFL-152]
Call Super - Acephale I (edit) [Houndstooth - HTH029]

Charlie - Spacer Woman [Mr. Disc Organization - MDO 58507]
Cristian Vogel - Differentiate [Mille Plateaux - MP027]

Live at Freerotation 2015 (closing set)

Music from the forthcoming EP by Luke Abbott and Jack Wyllie of Portico. 

Released via Buffalo Temple (BFFT003) on 25th September available on 12" vinyl and digitally.

Etxeberri

Suzanne Ciani
Buchla Concerts 1975
FKR082LP
Finders Keepers Records

Finders Keepers invite you to witness the incredible first ever Buchla synthesiser concerts/demonstrations providing a distinctive feminine alternative to The Silver Apples Of The Moon if they had ever been presented in phonographic form. This is history in the remaking.

This spring Finders Keepers Records are proud to release an archival project that not only redefines musical history but boasts genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we’ve come to understand it. To describe this records as a game-changer is an understatement. This record represents a musical revolution, a scientific benchmark and a trophy in the cabinet of counter culture creativity. This record is a triumphant yardstick in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial moon. While pondering the early accolades of this record it’s daunting to learn that this record was in fact not a record at all… It was a manifesto and a gateway to a new world, that somehow never quite opened. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic, pulses, tones and harmonics found on this 1975 live presentation/grant application/educational demonstration had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the promoted work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita then the name Suzanne Ciani and her influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of our record collections. Hopefully there is still chance.

In short, Suzanne was a self-imposed twenty-year-old employee of the Buchla modular synthesiser company, San Francisco’s neck and neck contender to New York’s Moog. Buchla was run by a community of festival freaks and academic acid eaters whose roots in new age lifestyles and the reinvention of art and music replaced the business acumen enjoyed by its likeminded East Coasters. In the eyes of the consumer the creative refusal to adopt rudimentary facets like a piano keyboard controller rendered the Buchla synthesiser the more obscure stubborn sister of the synth marathon, steering these incredible units away from the mainstream into the homes and studios of free music aficionados, art house composers and die-hard revolutionaries. Championed and semi-showcased by composer Morton Subotnick on his albums The Bull and Silver Apples Of The Moon, Buchla’s versatility began to open the minds of a new generation, but the high-end design features and no-compromise modus operandi was often confused with incompatibility and, in the pulsating shadow of Moog’s marketing, the revolution would not be televised nor patronised. Suzanne Ciani, as one of the very few female composers on the frontline (and also providing the back line) did not lose faith.

These “concerts” are the epitome of rare music technology historic documents, performed by a real musician whose skills and academic education in classical composition already outweighed her male synthesiser contemporaries of twice her age. At the very start of her fragile career these recordings are nothing short of sacrificial ode to her mentor and machine, sonic pickets of the revolution and love letters to an absolutely genuine vision of and ‘alternative’ musical future. In denouncing her own precocious polymathmatic past in a bid to persuade the world to sing from a new hymn sheet, Suzanne Ciani created a bi-product of never before heard music that would render the pigeon holes “ambient” and “futuristic” utterly inadequate. Providing nothing short of an entirely different feminine take on the experimental “records” of Morton Subotnick and proving to a small, judgmental audience and jury the true versatility of one of the most radical and idiosyncratic musical instruments of the 20th century. These recordings have not been heard since then.

Suzanne Ciani - Buchla Concerts 1975 (Excerpts)

Elements Chord Mode

This remix has been made using exclusively a Prophet 08 and the music recorded by Ochre.

Ochre - Paper Unicorn (Marc Melià Remix)

Alessandro Cortini, live instrumental set at Death By Audio, NYC, December 11 2011. Performed on a Buchla Music Easel.

Alessandro Cortini - live at Death By Audio, december 2011

Moon Wheel — རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ་

'Fear Of Floating' is the second single from Australian-born, Liverpool-based composer, saxophonist and founder of Immix Ensemble, Daniel Thorne. The track, taken from Daniel's solo debut 'Lines of Sight', is a grand, transposing soundscape that places Daniel’s saxophone front-and-centre, allowing the abstract beauty of his meandering and contorting melody to breathe, amongst the chaotic backdrop of spiralling undulating effects. 'Fear Of Floating' perfectly encapsulates the atmosphere of the record; equal parts magnificent, unnerving, mind-bending and deeply satisfying.     
 
"Although the album wasn't written to follow a specific narrative, I felt it should have the feeling of a journey, leaving a place of chaos and noise and arriving somewhere both serene and unfamiliar. As the final track on the album, I wanted 'Fear of Floating' to be to be the opposite of the album’s beginning ('From Inside, Looking Out') by being much sparser, eschewing large dense textures and instead focusing on a single melodic 'voice' that gets bashed about by its surroundings, before finally washing up somewhere peaceful and alone." — Daniel Thorne
 
Praise for Lines Of Sight, out March 15th on Erased Tapes:
 
“Dizzying compositions that thrive on chaos and control.” Self-titled  

“Analogue and digital, improvisatory and programmed, tactile and gaseous, this ripples between worlds.” DJ Mag
 
Deeply moving, full of otherworldly beauty and rapture, the album is alive, throbbing like a circulatory system, colourful and glowing. It literally dazzles – effectively capturing what the birth (or death) of a planet might sound like.

Every strand is fresh, vital and purposeful. The description ‘seamless’ might suggest a smooth, bland fusion, but here elements overlap in intermittent, undulating layers of mesh. Avant-garde, noise, electronics, ecclesiastical, classical and a touch of jazz come together, each occupying their own space while acquiescing with the whole.

Pre-order 'Lines of Sight' on LP/CD/DL: https://idol.lnk.to/LinesOfSight

Lines of Sight

Fear Of Floating

Daniel Thorne - Fear Of Floating

I've been DJing 20odd years in various conditions, getting more and more diverse musically. Less blinkered? Me? Haha! With age comes maturity. so the wise man says... 

Want to know more or book me to play some lovely music just send me a message. All the very best.

Andrea Belfi - Roteano

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