Techno's Outer Limits - April 2017

Refracted B2B Horizontal's Dj-set for the Rausch Sleepover Drone put together by Raum für Kunst e.V. at Backsteinboot on Friday, November 29th, 2024 co-founded by Musikfonds & Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.

The visual entitled 'Dance of Electrons' is an oscillogram, realised with an analogue computer by Herbert W. Franke in 1954-1958.

Track list:

Refracted B2B Horizontal | Rausch

Berlin’s Refracted has been a name dear to us for some time, having contributed a remix to our inaugural label release nearly six years ago. The Paral·lel co-curator and resident has cultivated a devoted following over the years for his uncompromising vision developed through a remarkable catalog of releases for label such as Silent Season, Bitta, Sublunar and his own Mind Express. For our series Refracted contributes a mix true to his signature style, crystalline and patiently layered with unwavering intent, drawing across decades and genres to invite us into a divine state of mind. Thanks Alex!

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Artwork by Mei Oele - Boser Tritt.

Sure Thing Mix 140: Refracted

We’re so honoured to welcome Refracted to The Observatory, whose sonic explorations have inspired us deeply over the years <3

This spellbinding set was recorded live last month during Astral Industries’ takeover at Resør Listening Room in Berlin.
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Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
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The Observatory - Refracted @ Astral Industries, Resør Listening Room, 2025

Refracted @ Parallel Festival 2024

Refracted
Archive of Unmapped Terrains [ME006]
https://refracted.bandcamp.com/album/archive-of-unmapped-terrains

“Archive of Unmapped Terrains” marks the third chapter in Refracted’s sonic explorations in LP format. A collection of pieces that drift through impossible landscapes and shifting inner geographies. Built from layered textures, drifting atmospheres, and subtle rhythmic currents, the album invites the listener to wander through abstract terrains where forms blur, dissolve, and reassemble. Each track acts as a fragment from an unseen atlas, an auditory record of places that can’t be found, only felt.  

Releases December 5th on Mind Express.

Archive of Unmapped Terrains [ME006]

Refracted's set recorded live on Saturday, 26th July 2025 at Paral·lel Festival in Port del Comte, Spain.

Refracted @ Paral·lel 2025

A1. Submarine K-221
A2. Off The Grid
B1. It Lives Below
B2. To Breath Under Water


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Acronym - Off The Grid

PRG/M - Assioma Geometrico
1 - Apotema
2 - Asymptota
3 - Catheto
4 - Hypotenusa
5 - Hypotenusa (Hydrangea Light Vision)
6 - Asymptota (Ruhig Woggle Interpretation)
7 - Apotema (Kalos Shadowy Forms Edition)

Assioma Geometrico

PRG/M - Assioma Geometrico

Track from NE33 Ulwhednar - Modern Silver LP

Pre-order: https://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com/album/modern-silver

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome

Ulwhednar - LKAB

Release date (vinyl, cd & digital format): 24th of February 2017

A1 Suffocate
A2 Down
A3 Stabbing
B1 Porcelain
B2 Strobing
B3 Coming Apart
C1 Black Massing
C2 Interior
D1 Her
D2 Morning Star
D3 Positive Mutilation
D4 Porcelain (Ideal)

Token is pleased to announce Metabolism, the sophomore album from Sigha. The LP marks James Shaw’s third release on the Token label following his singles Christ Figures and Our Father. Metabolism represents an arrival: the artist offers his definitive statement on a production aesthetic that has been in development over the last few years.

Shaw’s work as Sigha has always placed the listener at a centrifugal point that invites a clandestine hypnosis rather than an abject hysteria. Cavernous low ends fixed firmly and effectively in a mono space tether the music to the body, while exquisitely executed white noise patterns and crystalline pads warp and hiss around the stereo environment. This keen ear for distinction within the frequency spectrum acts as the central theme on the LP.

Metabolism encompasses a power dynamism that departs from the explicitly greyscale finish found on his more conceptual work as Sigha and as A Vision Of Love for Guy Brewer’s Avian label. Though elements of Metabolism maintain a driven, corrosive quality, each searing sequence or mordant drum machine hit occupies its own space. On high-energy dance floor moments and abstract tracks alike, Shaw’s approach to distortion is one that sets out with an objective to separate components rather than to bind them. This creates a matrix of aural stimuli that remain heady and inherently propulsive, but are realised in a fashion more akin to high fidelity sound design than processes traditionally associated with the techno genre.

The record possesses a powerful musicality beyond this acute attention to form and structure. In the past, Shaw’s productions have often married high-energy drum work with subtly shifting minor keys spread around the sonic periphery. On Metabolism, emotive leads sit squarely and comfortably in the foreground, and build towards rapturous crescendos that are crisp and omnipresent throughout the mix. These careful layers generate the extraordinary tension that has since become a hallmark of the British artist’s work.

Metabolism is a techno album, but its frame of reference is generous, drawing on the finest facets of the artist’s own varied discography and the wider electronic music landscape. Cohesive and modern, Shaw’s latest work eschews a handful of riffs on a single idea in favour of a multi-faceted, fully realised expression of what the genre can be - it is a vital addition to the Token label’s already enviable catalogue of releases.

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TOKEN70LP – Sigha – Metabolism

Mind Express is back on the scene with three cuts of trademark mental grooves ready to test the purists in the booths and dancefloors from around the world.

Cat No:003
Release Date: 01/05/17
Distributed by Juno

Pre Order: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/refracted-mind-express-003/637048-01/

Refracted - Mind Express 003 Snippets

Marco Shuttle - Olga

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Refracted - Mind Express 003 Snippets

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