Sounds From NoWhere welcomes aboard the Canadian duo Orphx (Sonic Groove / HANDS).

Orphx have been creating their unique fusion of rhythm and noise since the mid 90s, combining elements of techno with the experimental techniques and critical spirit of industrial music.
The project was founded in 1993 by Rich Oddie, Christina Sealey, and Aron West, who began creating improvised soundscapes and audio/visual performances inspired by early industrial music, grindcore, and power electronics. 
Following cassette releases on their own Xcreteria label, West departed to focus on absurdist noise project Tropism while Oddie and Sealey began to push Orphx in a more rhythmic direction. 
Their distinctive sound used powerful layered rhythms, modulating soundscapes, and processed vocals and samples to explore themes of psychological conflict and social control. 

Orphx have refined their sound across numerous releases and many changes in tools and techniques, moving from reel to reel tape machines and homemade instruments to software sequencing and processing, and then back again to hardware following Sealey's adoption of modular synthesizers in 2008. 
Oddie and Sealey are renowned for delivering improvised live performances that combine modular synth, drum machines, software, and live vocals. 
They have toured throughout Europe, North America, Japan, and China, appearing at international festivals such as Berlin Atonal, Katharsis, Labyrinth, Mutek Montréal, Rural, and Unsound, and regularly performing at techno temples such as Berghain / Panorama Bar, Tresor, and KHIDI. 

Their work has been featured in films and documentaries, including I Dream of Wires (2014) and Soundtrack for the Urban Decay (2015). 
In recent years, they have been working on new audio-visual performances using infrasound and multi-channel speaker systems, working in collaboration with video artist Patrick Trudeau and McMaster University's Institute for Music and the Mind. 

We are delighted to share with you this incredible mix signed by the Canadian' electronic duo.

Tracklist:
01. Ann Southam - Boat, River, Moon [Melbourne]
02. Sphare Sechs - Enceladus 01 [Malignant Records]
03. Visions + Phurpa - Ascendance [Cyclic Law]
04. Leila Abdul-Raul - Dark Early Hours of Morning [Malignant Antibody]
05. Radiosonde - No Solutions [Ground Fault]
06. Himukalt - I’m Afraid [Malignant Records]
07. Cut Hands - The Claw [Blackest Ever Black]
08. Nastika - Black Sun in the West [Horo]
09. Atom TM + Esplendor Geometrico - Estas Solo [Geometrik]
10. Synpascape - Uprising Confessions (Orphx Remix) [Ant-Zen]
11. Rhys Fulber - Right Hand of Reason (Phase Fatale Remix) [Sonic Groove]
12. Schwefelgelb - Reflex (An-i Remix) [N-Plex]
13. You Hung - The Truth Was Different [Downwards Records]
14. Overlook - Purr [The Stone Tapes]
15. Restive Plaggona - Pink Collar (SHXCXCHCXSH Remix) [Sacred Court]
16. Sam KDC - Gordian Knot [Auxillary]
17. ASC - Saturate [ARTS Gallery]
18. ASC - Gaussian Function [Modern Cathedrals]
19. Homva - Puthia [Homva]
20. SARIN - Repression (Privacy Remix) [BITE]
21. Orphx - Suspended Animation [KHIDI]
22. Catharsis - Step Through the Spaces [Zhark Recordings]
23. Katsunori Sawa - Roughneck [Weevil Neighbourhood]
24. Oscar Mulero - Espectro Rojo [Pole Group Recordings]
25. Teste - Depressive Technoid Slop [L.I.E.S. Records]
26. Unhuman + Surit - Precipitated Paranoia [Black Sun Records]
27. Hakai - Anxiety (Christina Sealey Remix) [Megastructure]
28. Kareem - Hinrich / Necropolis [Zhark Recordings]
29. Nastika - Black Sun in the East [Horo]
30. The Untouchables - Culture Clash [DNO Records]
31. HHY and The Macumbas - Ergot Glitter [House of Mythology]
32. Ireen Amnes - A Day More is a Day Less [Sonic Groove Experiments]

Read the talk with Orphx: https://www.sfnwseries.com/orphx-interview-for-sfnw/

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Sounds From NoWhere Podcast #139 - Orphx

As Your Skies Are Fading Away

Summoning an Iwa

Future Present

Razing the boundaries between post-punk-minded industrialism, dusty hardware hoodoo and noise-adjacent explorations of electronics’ wilder end, Canadian outfit Orphx has been dishing out some of the finest slabs in recent times when it comes to bringing along that steely, sedition-inducing warehouse ruckus in town. Showering hazardously riotous brainwaves upon crowds of unsuspecting ravers as they subjugate your eardrums to a tempest of rough-edged sines, warlike percussions and filthy analogue whorls, Orphx know no rest in putting your senses to the test throughout a vortical parade of foaming, rumble-ready techno madness. Lock in, zone out.

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01. Deutsch Nepal - The Hierophants of Light - Tesco Organization, 1994
02. Ash Ra Tempel - Amboss - Ohr, 1971
03. Puce Mary - The Transformation - Pan, 2018
04. Ninos Du Brasil - Algo Ou Alguem Entre As Avores - Hospital Productions, 2017
05. Cienfuegos - The Mountains Are Crying - L.I.E.S. Records, 2018
06. Maenad Veyl - Out Of Sight - Veyl, 2019
07. Ruffhouse - Straight 9s - Samurai Music, 2015
08. Sam KDC & Flamina - Bitter Root - Samurai Music, 2022
09. Years Of Denial - Love Comes And Goes - Pinkman, 2019
10. Torn w/ Sam KDC and Korse - Onibi - Samurai Music, 2022
11. Emptyset - Gate 3 - Caravan Recordings, 2009
12. Clock DVA - Neoteric - Anterior Research, 2016
13. Sonar - Consume (Morgenstern remix) - Ant-Zen, 2006
14. Vatican Shadow - Crown Prince Hamza - Hospital Productions, 2017
15. Statiqbloom - Spectral Dimension - Sonic Groove, 2022
16. Torn - Bushido - Samurai Music, 2022
17. Prophan - Moorish Sorcery - Rhadab, 2018
18. Orphx & Kareem - The Light That Returns - Zhark, 2022
19. Morah - Sirines - Vanila, 2017
20. R-oderick - The Wolf - Sonic Groove, 2022
21. Vertical Spectrum - Samael 008 - Warm Up Recordings, 2018
22. Temudo - Cranston - Warm Up Recordings, 2021
23. Lag - Kontrola - Mord, 2014
24. Orphx - The Collapse - Murder Records, 2022
25. Orphx - Moirai - Gwi Myeon, 2022
26. 5713 - Running In A Dystopian Metropolis - Eye For An Eye Recordings, 2020
27. The Last Days of S.E.X. - Max Pressure - Hands Productions, 2022
28. Statiqbloom - Devout Error - Sonic Groove, 2022
29. Rumenige feat. Takaaki Itoh - A2 Numb 8 - Numb, 2002
30. JK Flesh - Gullibility - Avalanche Recordings, 2022
31. Adam X - Telepathy With Dead Friends - Sonic Groove, 2022
32. Carl Finlow - Bind - 20:20 Vision, 2020
33. Morphology - Lagrangian - AC Records, 2011
34. Stanislav Tolkachev - Sometimes Everything Is Wrong - Subsist, 2011

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01. S.A.M. - Crush (Original Mix)
02. Donk – Warmth (Original Mix)
03. Sublee - Metime (Original Mix)
04. Mirko Loko - Mind Your Step (Original Mix)
05. Tal Fussman - Eyes (Original Mix)
06. Z.I.P.P.O – Eleven (Original Mix)
07. Joshua Onairam - Lucid Calm (Original Mix)
08. Moy Santana – Ariake (Original Mix)
09. Gentian - Nothing Else Of Value (Original Mix)
10. Format - The Session Continues (Original Mix)
11. Justin Berkovi – Echoes of Subversion (Original Mix)
12. Salbany – Crossroads (Original Mix)
13. Ian O'Donovan - Heat Seeker (Original Mix)

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Guise - Capillary (Orphx remix) (Black Monolith Studios Master)

I played a new mix in my recent sets and just want to share that with you. hope you like it....

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Warsaw (Walker FSG Remix)

Recorded by @orphx for The Memoir, 2020
All tracks written and produced by @orphx
Artwork by Gabriella Holmström
Curated by @hypnus

01. Orphx - Words Once Spoken (@malignantrecords, 1996)
02. @conradschnitzler - Solar Cells (Orphx Remix) (Unreleased, 2000)
03. @mlada-fronta-official - ER (Orphx remix) (M-Tronic, 2001)
04. @ricardodonoso - Versperum (Orphx remix) (@denovali, 2016)
05. Orphx - Variable Geometry (Fear Drop, 2004)
06. Orphx - First Light (Remix) (Hymen, 2014)
07. @svrecaofficial - Jade (Orphx Remix) (@semantica-records, 2012)
08. Orphx - Alternation (Hands Productions, 1999)
09. Orphx - Aurora (@khemia-records, 2016)
10. @wata Igarashi - Lucifero (Orphx Remix) (@midgar_records, 2017)
11. @erikadotnet - North Hex (Orphx Remix) (@ithqdetroit, 2013)
12. Orphx - Apparition (@sonic-groove-records, 2011)
13. @michalwolski - Magma (Orphx Remix) (Technosoul, 2015)
14. @ntogn & @luigitozzi - Wsjr (Orphx Remix) (@hypnus, 2015)
15. @guise1 - Capillary (Orphx Remix) (Singularity, 2011)
16. Obtane & @giorgiogigli - Theory of Radical Structures (Orphx Remix) (Zooloft, 2012)
17. @deniserabe - Lucy’s Dream (Orphx Remix) (Rabe, 2018)
18. @essaiepas - Lights Out (Orphx Remix) (@dfa-records, 2016)
19. Blackhouse - Whispers of Love (Orphx Remix) (M-Tronic, 2010)
20. Systemic - Phi (Orphx Remix) (Duality, 2013)
21. Orphx - Lost Again (Hands Productions, 2011)

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andreas gloeckner aka moctan (synthesizer, sampling and programming) has been perfoming since 1994 in different guises and has supported various dark electro, noise- and industrial projects from the bielefeld area. projects such as ars moriendi, asche, morgenstern, templegarden and monokrom. 
         
  since 1998 he has been experimenting with electronic dance music or to put it another way, he has been perfecting his personal take on intense and explosive club-music - all under the moctan moniker. the results were four full length albums (tecmusic/2002; musick/2004; suspect/2006; come closer/2008)
          
  "moctan is my solo-project in which i can realize my personal definition of hard technoid dance music; 'moctan' is my way to satisfy my love for four-to-the-floor music. the intention was always to create a mixture of peaktime techno combined with dark electronic sounds and a touch of noise which makes your body move." (a.gloeckner)
          
          

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