Microlith – Subtle Variance

Dedicated to Efthemia Hatzisavas. 
Written, produced and mixed by Lucas J. Hatzisavas. 
Mastering by Johanz.

Melodies From Inside

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Efthemia [Further Electronix]

Transcendental Number

Ascending Bubbles

Recht Auf Rausch - Das Ende Dieser Welt

One year on from his first appearance on the PM+ series, Glasgow’s LWS returns with another two surefooted club cuts shot through with the emergent producer’s trademark flair and laser focus. Matching crisp functionality with dance-melting peaks, he’s zeroed in modernist machine music to incite a feverish response in the firmly established format of the PM+ releases. 

‘Oop’ ratchets down its rhythm section in an instant, leaning on a hefty sub payload and sprinkling some lopsided spectral synth work up top. It’s the buzzing sawtooth bass which will really cast brains and bodies asunder though, gouging a path through the springy groove like a hyped raver making a beeline for front left dosed up on Irn-Bru. 

‘Routine Supreme’ has its own share of fireworks to set off, maintaining the instinctive bounce of ‘Oop’ before derailing the circus train with staccato tech triplets to get gun fingers twitching manically. There’s space for pitch-sliding breakdowns and subtly euphoric peaks, but the rhythm section remains front and centre for maximum club capability. 

Road tested by the trustiest of turntable botherers, both these cuts come with a rave-wrecking guarantee, but that’s no surprise as LWS confirms his prime position in the liminal zone where house, techno and bass coalesce.

Artwork by Håkan Ullberg 
Mastering by Isle Audio

LWS - Oop [PM+ 10]

Self Learning System presents a new 5 tracker: Only Drowning Men Could See Him, by label co-founder DJ Unisex, is offering a raw mix of contrasting styles. Atmospheric patterns and hazy synths get irritated by off-kilter Breaks which praise the unconventional. Focussing on experimentation this EP embraces imperfections and challenges the norms of listeners.
credits
released May 2, 2025

All tracks written and recorded by DJ Unisex in the midst of the Black Forest hills during winter of 24/25.

Artwork by Lennert Wiltner 

40.80981688021358, - 76.34101540714796 - Only Drowning Men Could See Him [SELFX002]

Samskaras

Ride The Duck (Instrumental)

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eu.Reca - Ride The Duck (Instrumental)

Dance With Me

Holy Flow

I Wanna

Subtle Variance

8oh8 Freight

Backwards

Remember Members

Acid in a Church

From I Feel Nothing EP > Sleeperhold Publications and Dream Recordings > Vinyl out now > Digitals and cassette 12.21.12

Children Of A Lesser God

One could be forgiven, if stumbling upon some nameless wav files, for thinking the White Stains back catalogue was perhaps a collection of unfinished pre-2012 Lust For Youth tracks Hannes Norrvide never got round to vocalising. Layered, synthetic pads are held together under ultra-bright melodies and an all-encompassing lo-fi atmosphere. Yet herein lies the beauty of the project; that it can present a sense of absence and still feel, ultimately, fulfilling.

But this new album is leap forward for White Stains' Belgian protagonist, Koenraad Impens. Pale Desires tip-toes tenderly the line between the washed-out synthpop of old and a move into a cleaner, more delicate territory. This is a far less aggressive incarnation of the project and whilst retaining some essential elements much of the harsh lo-fi aspect has been stripped away in favour of more ambient textures.

It's a sign of maturity; once commanding presence, now reclining under fading neons, White Stains is perhaps becoming the project it always wanted to be.

A1. Routines
A2. Dissolving Time (Nightsides)
A3. Modern Distractions
A4. Reflections on White
B1. Reclining Under Neons
B2. Constant Summer
B3. Half Thoughts
B4. Pale Desires 
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released April 26, 2020

Artwork by Koenraad Impens
All tracks by Koenraad Impens, Belgium, 2018/2019

Pale Desires

White Stains - Constant Summer

Dijego has made music, broadly made music, from he was 6 years old and
never back down since then...


4TH TIME CAPSULE aka 808 BOX [Fundamental Records]
https://soundcloud.com/alekstark/4th-time-capsule-aka-808-box-short-cuts

Hello 307 [CPU Records] // http://cpurecords.net/microlith-hello-307/

Dance With Me [CPU Records] // http://cpurecords.net/microlith-dance-with-me/

VOICELESS X "Another Way" [Analogical Force]

Bookings at: hellomicrolith@gmail.com

Holy Flow

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