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Taken from Donato Dozzy & Sabla's Crono EP on Gang Of Ducks, out April 28.

Pre-order: https://gangofducks.bandcamp.com/album/crono
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The transcendental finale in a three-part experimental sound compilation, Melifera Records’ Whispers of the Valley Part. 3 closes a chapter celebrating nature and organicity. Reflecting the label’s manifold identity, the VA’s seven tracks pay tribute to the beauty of fusing artistry and environmental appreciation into music.

Find the full read here: www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-paul-reve-reunited-foreign-pieces

Whispers of the Valley Part. 3 will be out on May 6th, 2023. Order a copy via https://melifera-records.bandcamp.com/album/whispers-of-the-valley-part-3-mlf011

Premiere: Paul Rêve - Reunited Foreign Pieces [MLF011]

Katatonic Silentio - Mantis 11 - Delsin Records - DSR/MTS11

vinyl: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/7726/katatonic-silentio/mantis-11
digital: https://katatonicsilentio.bandcamp.com/album/mantis-11

a1. Themes
a2. To
b1. Hide
b2. From

Deepening the sound well of the Mantis series’ explorations in subliminal club music, Katatonic Silentio (@katatonicsilentio) arrives with four tracks of spatial, subtle and elegant electronics. Milan-based Mariachiara Troianiello’s approach to soundsystem-oriented music has evolved over time, moving from hyperkinetic, breakcore-tinted post-rave music to patient, sound design-rich tapestries on her latest Les Chemins De L’inconnu LP for Ilian Tape.

On Mantis 11 she continues her established leftfield approach while also tapping into a particularly restrained, meditative mode which aligns with the loose ethos orbiting Mantis. Snaking, crooked rhythms plot a course through artfully sculpted reverb and delay - a skeletal, dub-informed sonic stamp shot through with especially expressive production, primed for dancehalls prepared to journey further in pursuit of full immersion.

Artwork by Bernie van Vlijmen.

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Katatonic Silentio - Mantis 11 (DSR/MTS11)

'Digital Swamp' is the second single of my upcoming album 'Terugblik'.
thesomethingsomething.bandcamp.com/album/terugblik

Mastering: Stephan Mathieu / Schwebung Mastering
Artwork: Deborah Mora / Orah

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Previews from Terrain’s ‘Corners’ EP, out August 25, 2023.
Order: https://vargmalrecords.bandcamp.com

A1. Blind Spot
A2. Vintage
B1. Corners
B2. Singularity (feat. Localhost)

The EP is available on black 180-gram 12” vinyl and digital formats.

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab Studio
Artwork by Ciaran Birch

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Terrain ‘Corners’ EP [VARGMAL002]

Label: Midnight Shift
Catalog number: MNSXLP006
Artist name: Rivet
LP name: L+P-2
Date of physical release: 06 Oct 2023

A1. Tilt To Turn 1
A2. Tilt To Turn 3
B1. Ten Blind Doors
B2. Sarcoma
B3. Rōsh
C1. Le Kland
C2. Tilt To Turn 4
D1. Lilo's Lullaby
D2. Hukat (feat. L.T. Fisk)
Bandcamp only: Tilt To Turn (Live for Intonal Festival) 

L+P-2 is Rivet's second album following his acclaimed debut, On Feather and Wire, released on Editions Mego in 2020. The wheels were already in motion for a subsequent album on the same label, but tragedy struck. Peter "Pita" Rehberg, the legendary owner of Editions Mego, suddenly passed away at only 53 years old, leaving the experimental electronic music community in a state of pitch-black grief. Rivet was among the many deeply affected by this loss. The inspiration and support from Rehberg had propelled Rivet to create at a level he himself was uncertain he had mastered. For Rivet, Rehberg's death felt like the death of music.

However, that brooding sentiment was abruptly shattered when Rivet's beloved dog and companion, Lilo, was diagnosed with incurable cancer just a couple of months later. They were inseparable, and now they would be separated nonetheless. The only way Rivet could cope with this double blow was to compose—for Lilo, for Pita, for his own sanity. L+P-2 is the result.

While the album naturally emerges from a place of despair, it's remarkably comforting. Partly, this stems from Rivet's singular ability to make machines not only sound human but also act human—sincere and warm, yet flawed. In more than one track on L+P-2, you'll encounter a distinctive melody and a gnarly bassline dancing hand in hand with Rivet's eccentric and captivating drum patterns. Then, seemingly on a whim, the melody takes off on its own, leaving the faithful bassline behind—much like a dear friend that suddenly vanishes from your life without warning. Yet life goes on, and so does the music. But never unchanged. Never.

L+P-2 is an album of lamentation, yet also of resolve—a dedication to those who go through life losing more than their share because they always carry too much.

har jag hukat 
så länge 
att allt blivit skevt 
att allt blivit skört
//
have I hunched down 
for so long 
that everything has become askew 
that everything has become brittle


Written and produced by Mika Hallbäck Vuorenpää
Post-production and mixing by Oscar Mulero at Dead Souls Studio Gijón
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu
Vocals, lyrics and piano on track 9 by Johan & Leonard Andersson
Photo by Sandra Hallbäck Svensson
Artwork by Takashi Makabe
Tracks 1,2,7 commissioned by Intonal Festival 2021 for the 'Tilt To Turn' dance piece with Frédéric Gies (available on Youtube)
Track 10 recorded live at Kornheddinge Kvarn in april 2021 and mastered by Måns Öjbrandt Wikenmo
Running order by Björn Jumme and Andreas Andersson

L+P-2

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MNSXLP006 - Rivet - L+P-2

Machine Woman - When Elegance Becomes Violence - Delsin Records - dsr-e14

vinyl: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/7778
digital: https://machinewoman.bandcamp.com/album/when-elegance-becomes-violence

a1. Heavy Cream
a2. Untitled Glitch House Beat
a3. Voices
b2. I Received Your Email Today
b3. Yes Mate

Delsin is pleased to welcome the unique sound experimentalist @MachineWoman, presenting a captivating five-track journey out to the glitchy fringes of techno. MW, with her force of personality, continues to push the boundaries of her practice, offering bold and innovative approaches. She skillfully interlaces her voice through disorienting processes, embodying the essence of her self-styled mechanical organism.

In her hands, drums with a tangible in-the-room feel become precision-engineered components and needlepoint synthesis writhes with uncanny organic logic. The EP delves into themes exploring human behavior both online and offline, the delicate palette of breakbeat techno, and the transformative journey of aging. As the EP’s title implies, transformations can be dramatic and entrenched elegant qualities in oneself can become violent overnight, whether in terms of your look, your mindset or your ability to connect with others.

Through this ambiguous intersection of Woman and Machine comes a playful danceable impulse and a tracky focus which will give DJs plenty to work with even as they edge the errant frequencies and twitchy rhythms into the mix. While it’s far from straight-laced and functional, this Machine jacks as hard as it jolts, and yet there’s a sensual quality to MW’s processed voice peeking through the crunchy melee of ‘I Received Your Email Today’ which softens the attack.

It calls back to some of her earliest work, occupying a strangely inviting late-night hinterland where it’s hard to tell the replicants from the humans.

Machine Woman - When Elegance Becomes Violence (dsr-e14)

MIST007 - Various Artists - Well of Sand
Release Date: October 23, 2023 (12" & Digital)
Buy: surethingrec.bandcamp.com/album/well-of-sand

A1 Command D – Half Blue (Violet Mix)
A2 DYL – PJ2
A3 Beats Unlimited – Burn Your Theremin
B1 Foreign Material – The Living Planet
B2 Tammo Hesselink - Petse
B3 Third Space – Push (Part 2)

Sure Thing presents Well of Sand, its second compilation. Six tracks from label friends and favorites, each new to the roster and offering bold, untempered explorations of tempo and weight, a concise yet expansive collection recalling the deliberate cadence of rippling sand and the sheen of shimmering oases.

Mastered by Neel at Enisslab
Artwork by Sofia Hjortberg
Additional design by Nathaniel Young

MIST007 - V/A - Well of Sand

Strange Routine captures the essence of autumn's melancholic beauty through its ambient and experimental melodies and embraces the transformative spirit of fall, weaving a tapestry of sound that is as haunting as it is mesmerizing. From the outsider's perspective to the eerie depths of the night tunnels in Europe, the album delves into realms unexplored. The music conjures a sense of mystery, drawing listeners into a surreal world where time and reality blur.

1. Outsider
2. Disappear As Hands Draw Near
3. Voidwalker
4. Through The Night Tunnels of Europe
5. Hibridean Sky
6. Flesh Held Once Again
7. Half Life (Digi only)
8. Benzodiazepine Sea (Digi only)


releases October 30, 2023

Written & produced by Undveld
Mastered by Outliers Mastering / Sam KDC
Design by R.B.
Vinyl by darkroom.lt

Undveld ~ Strange Routine SMLP001

“Anevite Void Remixed” showcases some of the many diverse influences on Erika’s critically acclaimed second solo album “Anevite Void”. 

Here her ambient album closer “Wandering Mountain” transforms into two faces of techno, first the monolithic hypnotic slab of sound from Mike Parker then to a powerful peak time melodic banger from Wata Igarashi. The other side features a totally different take on her influences, with Eris Drew delivering her “Body Rock Remix” fusing a number of styles to push the highlight of Erika’s album to new heights, and Whodat discovering a deeper side to “Tomorrow’s Fires”. The digital version includes a slamming techno and electro fusion mix from Noncompliant of “Anion”. 

Erika began performing live in Ectomorph in 1997 when she was gifted a TR-606 by BMG and asked to join the group. This grew to her building her own studio, performing solo as Erika, collaborating with people like Jay Ahern and Noncompliant, and performing as a member of Circle of Live. Her depth of thought and clarity of vision has led to her mentoring people on live performance through the In Bloom platform, where she has made a large impact on many up and coming musicians. 

Erika is currently splitting her time between being based in Berlin and Detroit, is part of the triumvirate that runs Interdimensional Transmissions (BMG, Erika and Amber) that are releasing this record and produce legendary events such as No Way Back, Samhain and Return to the Source. She performs live and DJs and collaborates and oozes sonic truth in its many forms. Visit the “Anevite Void Remixed” in fall 2023.

Anevite Void Remixed

Erika - Anevite Void Remixed (Preview Clips) [IT 52]

Enquiries: info<[at]>mnshift.net.
Not accepting demos.

Label from Singapore.

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