This intense and genre-spanning work was a personal mission of his to create something containing the character of Detroit but with a sound all to itself. The concept for the album came from a period of subconscious self-exploration while traveling through remote regions of the Peruvian Amazon. The progression of the album tells the story of facing his fears, moving through them, and turning their power into personal strength.

FRANCOIS DILLINGER presents his second-ever LP ‘ICOSAHEDRONE’ with a style that is electro in structure, but with a techno and industrial soul. It brings together evolving, organically influenced sound design with heavy drums and hypnotic basslines to create machine music that feels very much alive. The vinyl version contains three original tracks from the complete LP, alongside three remarkable remixes.

In ‘Navigating the Swamp’, looping drones and sparse melodies are embraced by surging bass as the song takes you on a journey through low hanging branches and pitch black water. ‘Sit and Wait’ gives you drums and delayed acid loops that beat your chest as you welcome the arrival of your deepest fears into your conscious mind. Lastly, ‘Dream Thief’ approaches like a distant storm, crashing thunder to shake loose the clouds blanketing your dreams, stealing them from the grips of your self-doubt.

The vinyl release is accompanied by remixes from Keith ‘K1’ Tucker, Detroit’s Filthiest, and Diffuse Reality’s own Squaric. Each chooses to take the minimal aesthetic of the original and add vocals to the mix, giving them an even deeper message. Detroit electro royalty Keith Tucker redefined ‘Dream Thief’ with K1’s classic vocoder technique alongside dystopian pads and a melodic bassline that grinds away even the sharpest of edges. Another Detroit mainstay, Detroit’s Filthiest adds a Vader-esque vocal refrain to ‘Sit and Wait’ alongside string stabs and phrenetic drums sure to evaporate the sweat off any dancefloor. Finally, Squaric adds some nuclear radiation to ‘Navigating the Swamp’, ratcheting up the tempo to guarantee complete obliteration of your ego.

The equipment used at the time of recording this album included: Elektron Digitone, Behringer Deepmind 12, Malekko Manther, Elektron Digitakt, Elektron Analog Four, Roland Se-02, Moog DFAM, Jomox MBase 01, and a Dread:box NYX—all arranged and mixed in Ableton Live. The entirety of the album was created at his Detroit studio over the span of 30 days during the brutally cold winter of 2019.

Remixes: Keith Tucker , Squaric & Detroit's Filthiest
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Label: Diffuse Reality
Photo/Artwork: Jordi Guarch

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FRANCOIS DILLINGER - ICOSAHEDRONE LP [Diffuse Reality]

Seasoned heads may already be aware of dynArec. The project of one Chris Kalera, dynArec has been a force in the electro underground for more than two decades at this point, releasing numerous records and helming the Vaporwave label to boot. He has marked himself out as a purveyor of top-quality machine-funk during his career, a producer who runs with the spirit of Detroit to craft club traxx of wicked intensity.

After a period of relative quiet in the late 2010s, Kalera has roared back into action recently, with a run of releases emerging in 2021 and 2022 across labels including Cultivated Electronics, Superluminal and Umwelt’s New Flesh. Now the Vaporwave Records founder takes his Central Processing Unit bow with the Force In The Sum EP, and his hard-hitting electro style is immediately at home on the Sheffield imprint.

Force In The Sum commences with ‘A Dispatching Role’, a track where eerie vocal snippets and delay-drenched anti-melodies cluster around a volatile low-end wobble and crisp 808 snap. It’s equal-parts ominous and invigorating, kind of like the Thom Yorke of ‘Kid A’ times if he’d been granted an audience with Gerald Donald. ‘A Dispatching Role’ is prime slalom music, and the mood carries through to following cut ‘Stabilized’. After a stentorian opening of unerring kick drums and fizzing keys, ‘Stabilized’ soon blooms into a retro-futurist robo-electro joint which comes off like a more textured iteration of Unit Moebius.

Things open up a little more on first B-side ‘Canonical Form’ - at least, they do before the track’s pretty opening flushes are interrupted by a vicious blurting bassline reminiscent of, say, Jensen Interceptor. There are no broken beats here, the track’s unyielding four-on-the-floor thud pushing the joint a little more towards techno mode than the A-side jams. This straight beat remains on Force In The Sum closer ‘Classification Of Elements’, with sputtering hi-hats playing off the groovy pings of the synths to devilishly danceable effect. Slip-sliding saw sounds and spine-tingling, almost ‘X-Files’-esque lead lines enter to up the ante, but the mood shifts after dynArec starts to lace lush chordal stabs and delay-drenched modular runs through the track. All the while, a voice repeats the mantra “what matters is the sound” - and who could deny the truth in this statement?

dynArec’s prolific recent run continues with the four track Central Processing Unit debut Force In The Sum. Tense, expansive and worldbuilding, this is wickedly danceable electro done right. Truly, what matters is the sound.

RIYL: Jensen Interceptor, Cardopusher, Cygnus, Silicon Scally

dynArec - Force In The Sum

'XLR8R+039' is an Osàre! Editions label showcase curated by Elena Colombi in collaboration with XLR8R, featuring Novo Line, Schulverweis, , The Spy, L/F/D/M, Mayurashka, Sepehr, and Colombi herself. 

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Sepehr & Elena Colombi - Undulating Thoughts [XLR8R+039]

To be released mid-October

https://yuyay.bandcamp.com/album/yskayan-knowledge-yuy013
www.yuyay-records.de
Distributed via Bordello a Parigi (NL)

Written and produced by Robyrt Hecht / https://soundcloud.com/robyrthecht/
Mastered by Hypnoid

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These 6 mystic Electro excursions are all about sharing knowledge. The wisdom is here, you just have to decode it.
YUY013 marks a turning point in YUYAY's rigour. The old researchers are all but forgotten. The originators appear.

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“The Yskay were located at an unknown territory in a bygone epoch. We learn from their high culture by analysing these sonic relics.
Yskayan knowledge was common property. It was free. It was for everyone. It was in everyone. And so it grew. And so it grows.”

[YUY013] Robyrt Hecht – Yskayan Knowledge (Snippets) // 12" vinyl

https://ratliferecords.bandcamp.com/album/data-theft

Since a couple of years there has been a lot of data transfer between the thief and the rat. 
After the first bytes got exchanged, it was clear they speak the same code: Communication on the basis of rhythmic structure! After some interferences and transmission drop-outs, we can finally announce the transfer is complete and will materialize in form of a 12“ vinyl record. Data Theft is a six piece strong selection of Rhythm Beat Master ship. It will be difficult to find more bang for the buck anywhere else. You can now own this magnum opus that is Rat Life Records 20th release!

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Data Theft - Data Theft (Rat 20)

Exhausted Modern - Thought Forms

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Artists: Lowfish / Solvent
Title: suction001
Label / CAT#: Suction Records / suction001 (25th anniversary reissue)
Format: Vinyl 12-inch/Digital EP
Release date: November 11, 2022

2022 marks the 25th anniversary of Suction Records, the Toronto-based electro/IDM label founded in 1997 by two emerging producers, Lowfish (aka Gregory De Rocher) and Solvent (aka Jason Amm), the latter still overseeing the label to this day. The label’s inaugural release was a split Lowfish/Solvent 12”, marking both artists’ debut vinyl appearance. 

Gregory and Jason had known each other since high-school, but a deeper friendship was forged during their university years, after Gregory introduced Jason to early Rephlex releases by Aphex Twin and µ-Ziq. Gregory had been making electronic music in his bedroom for more than a decade, but it was those Rephlex releases that ignited Jason’s passion to do the same. After several years of obsessive gear buying, music making, and playing tracks for each other, Lowfish and Solvent had hit their stride, and their demos even attracted the interest of legendary early IDM labels labels Skam (for Lowfish), and Isophlux (for Solvent). But things were slow-moving in those days — letters, faxes, phone calls… nothing was panning out. So that’s when they decided to start their own label, and put out 300 copies of this 12”, suction001.

The label was heavily inspired by contemporary artists like AFX, Autechre, and Panasonic, but on suction001, those influences collided with their ‘80s synth-pop and industrial roots to create something unique. 25 years later, it still sounds fresh, and like nothing else out there. On suction001, 808 drum machines are run through distortion and breakbeats are chopped and mangled, contrasting with melodic OMD-style leads and catchy synth-pop basslines — a sound the label would refer to as ‘distortion pedal new wave.’ 

Over the past 25 years, Suction’s sound has morphed and evolved, but in recent years has shifted back to it’s original Rephlex-inspired roots. That makes 2022 the perfect year to revisit this wild, 1997 debut, now reissued in a new, expanded edition for it’s 25th anniversary. The reissue adds 2 bonus tracks — a 1999 remix by Detroit electro-punk duo ADULT., along with a previously-unreleased version of Lowfish’s A1 cut, and also features new and improved artwork, including an insert with full label discography. 

Limited to 500 copies, and comes with a Bandcamp download card.

Tracklisting:

A1. Lowfish “Helski Gotenks”
A2. Solvent “Course Hub with Garnish”
A3. Lowfish “Helski Gotenks (version)”
B1. Solvent “Flexidisc”
B2. Lowfish “Your Last Legs”
B3. Solvent “ESP (edit)”
B4. Lowfish “Peanut Butter Castles”
B5. ADULT. vs Solvent “Flexidisc (remix)”

ADULT. vs Solvent "Flexidisc (remix)" (from suction001 25th anniversary reissue)

State Of The Ether #12 Clear Memory Special

State Of The Ether is a bi-monthly radio show on @operator-radio. Its focus lies on the artists along the axis Rotterdam <-> Leipzig and their music. Aiming to showcase unreleased tracks, an amalgam of unfinished, unmastered and not quite thought out tunes is presented.

This episode celebrates the release of CLEAR009 - Dog Balls - Tell It To My Dog. It does so by showing a retrospect on the works that Clear Memory has put out so far. There might be some unreleased tracks inside as well!

Alles kann, nichts muss.

+++TRACKLIST+++
XDATA - Frozon
XY0815 - Gates Need Inputs
XY0815 - Solar Exploration
DJ Detox - The Groove
Next Neighbours - The Bill
Zielkonflikt - Weltzentralcomputer
En Direct - Chelsea Cut
En Direct - Rendez-Vous
Westlake & Hayter - Deansgate Mob
Westlake & Hayter - Element Of Error
Westlake & Hayter - Sucksonia
Milium - The Gifted Man
Mr. Beef - Ziel Verfehlt
Stranded Wires - No Trix
Robyrt Hecht - The Cone
Carl Y. Scheele - Phosphorous Match
Robyrt Hecht & Milium - Deception Manoeuvre
Varum - Cosmos
Varum - Carmen
Varum - Oh Word
Varum - Forthcoming
Int Main - Doubletap
Yarn Init - BFDM
Uncanny Lovers - Definition
Dog Balls - Alle Goede Dinge
Dog Balls - Tell It To My Dog
Hayter - Leicht Bewölkt, Sonst Hayter
Unknown Artist - Forthcoming
Unknown Artist - Forthcoming
Unknown Artist - Forthcoming
Milium - Unreleased
Milium - Unreleased
Milium - Unreleased
Unknown Artist - Forthcoming
Dog Balls - A Ship Will Come

State Of The Ether | Episode 12 | Clear Memory Special

Full album available here:

https://draconiansteps.bandcamp.com/album/direct-out

Taken from the upcoming cassette release Direct Out. 

Draconian Steps 004.

Acid Freq. - A2. Confidential Meeting

Dataintrång / Luke Eargoggle  " The Supertrance Experience " Stilleben Records069

D3070 - Phantom Operation EP (LDI009)

A1 Data Transmission
A2 Phantom Operation
A3 Dark Valley

B1 Dark Valley (The Exaltics Remix)
B2 Dark Valley (Lloyd Stellar Remix)
B3 Cyber Zone


LDI Records is thrilled to present its latest release: "Phantom Operation". An EP by the rising electro talent, D3070. Hailing from Italy and inspired by the sounds of Detroit, D3070, aka Alboren Bani, is quickly making a name for himself in the electro scene with his fresh approach to the genre.

"Phantom Operation" features four original tracks and two remixes by The Exaltics and Lloyd Stellar. The EP showcases D3070's signature sound and style, combining haunting synths, driving rhythms and an overall ominous atmosphere that is sure to captivate fans of the genre. The addition of the two remixes by The Exaltics and Lloyd Stellar add a unique dimension to the EP.


releases May 30, 2023

Composer: Alboren Bani
Master: Rude66
Artwork: Autograph

Phantom Operation EP

Phantom Operation

D3070 - Phantom Operation EP (+ The Exaltics Remix)[LDI009]

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