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Msqta Dreams

OCS010 Positive Centre - 'Hiding Knives'

Chemical Reaction - Marko Abramovic

Tracks: 

A1 Sedvs - Ritual Purity
A2 Sedvs - Protect and Serve
B1 Stock Projects - Same 1
B2 Stock Projects - Same 2

Viennese techno imprint Bare Hands is pushing its rugged, warm analogue sound towards new territories with‚ European Moral Standards'. Following up their first release, Bare Hands opt for rather eclectic Soundscapes, yet keeping analogue roughness and a spontaneous feel in their focus. 

On side A, Herla's offshoot Sedvs, leaves the comfort zone of 4x4 with ‚Ritual Purity', delivering a sonic exploration of rough, stabbing waves of synths embedded in gloomy, washed-out drums, yet keeping one foot in the club with ‚Protect and Serve', a true 'left of the field' delicacy, meant to cook up the floor right before the main dish is served. 

The B Side, host to mysterious outfit Stock Projects, kicks off with‚ ,Same 1', a toolish, subby basement workhorse driven by a relentless kick topped with hypnotizing hats to send any floor off into lock step. ‚Same 2' however, provides a bouncy neo-technoid cut, reminiscing the gems of a lost era without stepping too far away from the dodgy, sweaty dancefloor it calls home. 

Bare Hands'‚ European Moral Standard' EP arrives in a limited run of black vinyl and includes hand numbered postcard artwork on raw 250g paper.

Sedvs / Stock Projects - European Moral Standards EP (barehands002)

For the 5th Parabel Podcast our Nihad Tule gives us a piece of a live recorded set from his performance at Lehmann Club, Stuttgart. Enjoy this one and a half hour ride through hard driving, hypnotic techno at it's best.

https://soundcloud.com/nihadtule

Booking: Linda[at]parabelmusic.se

Parabel Podcast #05 - Nihad Tule

Lucindo - Alien Rebellion EP [3TH007] (Snippets Version)

We are excited to announce a full length album (2x12”) by key Cititrax artist Broken English Club​. After the strong reception of his split EP with Silent Servant (Official)​, solo work for both Cititrax and Jealous God, and recent feature on the Cititrax: Tracks Volume One EP, oliver ho​ (also known for his Raudive​ alias) expands upon the themes in his earlier output. Now though, he is presenting Broken English Club as the multifaceted project that it is. He fearlessly exposes a range of emotion through varying sound, texture and song structure. The result is a manifestation of his influences (post punk, noise, techno, grindcore) melded into his own unique vision and culminating in an album that sounds absolutely massive, both on and off the dance floor. About Broken English Club, in Oliver’s own words:
“It’s not about some idea of the future, it’s about a grubbier seedier world. There's no superior technology here, there’s a romance to damp concrete buildings and abandoned reservoirs. Somewhere in the nursing homes that smell of bleach and piss, under the jaundice yellow glow of street lights, there’s a dark soul. I like music with a sense of dread, there’s drama or suspense in that feeling somewhere.
I am fueled by the energy and noise of 1980’s grindcore. The track 'Scum' is a tribute to the Napalm Death song of the same name. Those kind of brutalist noise bands are a very English thing to me, the oblivion of that is romantic.
I am fascinated and disgusted by things, and I like that friction. The best things in life seem perverted and disgusting at first and then become beautiful and transcendent.
I have these ideas filling my head and it gives me a sense purpose, I owe it to these obsessions of mine to see them through, to give them a place to exist. That’s Broken English Club. “
This album will be pressed on 160 gram splattered black and clear double vinyl limited to 999 copies, housed in a heavy weight high gloss sleeve, featuring art direction by Veronica Vasicka​ and Silent Servant with photography by Corinne Schiavone. Broken English Club’s Suburban Hunting 2x12” will be released in late November. Digital release to follow.
http://minimalwave.com/articles/article/broken-english-club-suburban-hunting-2x12
Pre-order here: http://minimalwave.com/releases/release/suburban-hunting/

Broken English Club - Suburban Hunting 2x12" (samples)

Phase Fatale is the techno project of Berlin-based DJ and producer Hayden Payne from New York. Born out of his various post-punk and cold wave bands in the past, Phase Fatale is an artistic endeavour that serves as an outlet for his own interpretation of the darker, harder and industrial-leaning techno. The project aims to demolish the border between music and noise to create a new individual vision of techno – the sound of future war, whether it’s captured on vinyl or an extract of the digital static.
Phase Fatale uses exclusively hardware to achieve his distinguishable sound for his live sets while his DJ sets feature a unique blend of techno laced with EBM and industrial. His 2014 debut EP Skyscraper on Italian label Avant! Records moves between noise-ridden soundscapes and minimal industrial techno rhythms, capturing the spirits of both EBM classics and modern contemporaries. His most anticipated forthcoming 2015 releases include EPs on Berlin-based [Aufnahme + Wiedergabe] followed by Jealous God. Phase Fatale has played alongside acts such as Clock DVA and Cold Cave around the world from Los Angeles to Moscow.

More info: http://digital-tsunami.org


Digital Tsunami 084 - Phase Fatale

Taken from the album BENEDICERE
08.12.2015 - Day of the Immaculate Conception
Order here:  http://thedevilandtheuniverse.bigcartel.com/
or www.rustblade.com/

Nikopoia

Release date: 18/01/16
Cat no: TINFOIL003
Distribution: Veto Music Wholesale

Tracklist:
A1. Foil 22
A2. Foil 15
B1. Foil 18
B2. Foil 19

Tinfoil - Tinfoil 3 (previews)

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01. BLNDR_Movement Strobe 3
02. Dadub_Path
03. Emptyset_Beyond
04. Kangding Ray_Plate 2 Rmx
05. Xhin_Disinformation rmx
06. Regis_Church of All Images (Regis Version)
07. Sendai_Following the Constant
08. Monolake_Aligning The Daemon
09. Retina.IT, Dadub_Kykeon
10. Orphx, Ancient Methods, Eschaton_Kali
11. Positive Centre_Great Excavator
12. Emptyset_Gate 3 (Original Mix)
13. BLNDR_Mental Stretching (Incantation 1)
14. Autechre_Second Scepe

PoleGroup Radio/ Oscar Mulero/ 25.12

A2 Blawan - Rubber Industry

Blankstairs is pleased to announce the release of 'Pathfinder', the latest record from Washington State resident Archivist. 'Pathfinder' is Archivist's second release on Blankstairs, following 2015's  'Migration', which Impose Magazine celebrated as offering listeners “the possibility of transcendence.” Archivist's new record is no different, featuring three original deep techno tracks along with a remix by Bunker NY resident Eric Cloutier. With 'Pathfinder', Archivist shows himself to be one of the West Coast's most intense and interesting techno producers.

Opening the record is “Klamath”, which rises gently out of the darkness before overtaking the listener with its percussive power. Channeling the Washington landscape, the track is a rich and hypnotic ride that flows like a landslide before finally returning to a state of rest. 'A Rogue Moon' is a ghostly trip down shadowed trails, as euphonic echoes and esoteric strings find space in the tracks cavernous kicks, making it perfect for late nights and early mornings.

The second side features two takes of the title track 'Pathfinder'. The original version shows Archivist's ability to temper a peak time tune, with rolling rhythms and cacophonous stabs of chords that boulder over the listener, leaving little left in its wake. Eric Cloutier closes the EP by rebuilding 'Pathfinder' into a clean, cutting cleaver, proving that Cloutier is just as powerful as a producer as he is a DJ.

BST014 will be released in 12" and Digital formats on February 19th, 2016.

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Pathfinder

BST014: Archivist, 'Pathfinder' [Previews]

For those who know Antigone and DEMENT3D’s co-founder Francois X, it is impossible to draw the line between their collaboration and friendship. Three years ago, when the duo began exchanging tips on records, production techniques and gears, they had nothing particular in mind. This strategy, or lack thereof, revealed to be much more beneficial to both. One night of 2013, Francois X invites Antigone to DSCRD’s studio — a creative bunker in Paris suburb that was DEMENT3D’s inner circle headquarters at the time. This friendly, spontaneous session quickly turned into a creative workshop and by the end of the evening, “The Hated SZ” was already there.

As you may imagine, projects spanning over such a long time can be risky. You get lost, but that’s what the boys wanted. While slowly affirming their personal sound signature, they were crafting new textures, where their mutual sense of fine dance music and detailed production would hit a new freedom threshold. Francois X admitted to be under the spell of Aposuspita, an art performance and mystical character created by French artist Laura O’Rorke for which he created the soundtrack. The result is a double-EP, the soundtrack of a powerful rite de passage between reality and fiction. A carefully crafted dance music record that tells a story and alters your mind. Just like Aposuspita sucks the pain away from her tribe, Antigone & Francois X’s “EP TITLE” offers a modern day catharsis to the listener.

After three years of work, what began as an innocent one night stand turned into one of Paris most exciting release for year 2016. One of the first collaboration between two rising figures of the scene depicted in Resident Advisor’s 2012 “Paris Real Scenes”. A record that embodies the spirit of community that has been fostering the Parisian crowd for over 3 years and that is now reaching a new level, both socially and artistically. The Parisian scene has grown from a sparkle to an organized community of like-minded people, so has the relationship between those two bad boys, and we are proud to crystallize this wild energy on wax.


08 We Move As One

06 The Sorcerer

05 Living Doll

04 The Hated SZ

03 Ready To Escape

http://flau.jp/releases/56.html

"Farewell" is worldwide debut album of Taiwanese female fronted chamber ensemble Cicada who played with Olafur Arnalds, Rachel Grimes, Balmorhea.
“Farewell” described how someone who went through the cycle of a relationship. It’s about breakup, facing the future alone and also reveals the teenage girls inside us. Cicada selected 14 songs from “Over the Sea /Under the Water”, “Pieces”, and “Let’s Go” With the new recording and production, together they told a story.

tracklist:
01 Farewell (in a pretentious way)
02 …till the day we meet
03 Drowning in the Fog of yours
04 Happily Ever After?
05 Pieces
06 Encrypted Desire
07 No Words
08 Breakaway
09 Lake’s End
10 Meteoric Night
11 Told You!
12 Boom Boom
13 What do I do?
14 Here We Are! 

Cicada - Farewell (Album Preview)

https://clandestinerecords.bandcamp.com/

A rad split LP by The Friend (whose debut on the label was on DARK ACID V, is the founder and owner of How to Kill Detroit, as well as releasing great tunes under different names for labels like R&S apollo/illian tapes/stylss/juke trax) and L/F/D/M (who killed it on his solo Clan Destine EP aswell as with releases on Optimo/CGI and Estactic, at the same time as releasing killer cuts with Dom ex from Factory Floor as Green Gums and Bronze Teeth)...FUCK SUNSETS and BALEARIC FISTING for all...
The Friend brings us 4 tracks of sludge techno straight from the source in Detroit, from the creeped out stylings of ROOM(S), the bleeped out techno of STAR, the menacing groove of BENT and pure bass with STRIPPING.
L/F/D/M (loves flacid disco muscle) drops 4 varied tracks for this, from the full on raging acid techno of BELTON, the intricate drones of DROME V II, creepy sex loops on 88 and the degraded synths of UNTRUTHS.

THE FRIEND AND THE SIGNIFICANT OTHER - BENT

Developer Archive 06
written and produced by Developer

Release Date - MAY 10, 2016
Vinyl / Digital

DEVELOPER ARCHIVE 06

After appearing alongside Clint Mansell and Philip Glass on the soundtrack for Park Chan-Wook's recent psychological thriller Stoker, Emily Wells prepares to release her latest album and single.

Album ‘Mama’ (out June 3rd via Partisan) combines subtle hip-hop inflections and wide-ranging sounds with Emily’s distinctive feline vocals, creating a record that is simultaneously light & delicate with a bold punch of personality.

Contrasting with the heavy layering and electronics of the original, the European version of ‘Mama’ sees Wells re-imagining the entire record acoustically for a second disc and mirror version. These fresh renditions of an already unique record are stunningly austere, recorded solely with voice and guitar. Emily Wells has stripped off her own armour, leaving only her crystalline voice and equally unambiguous songwriting on display.

String-laden single ‘Passenger’ is released on April 29th. Its noir-ish tone is cinematic in its scope - a song that becomes a real focal point of Mama.

Watch the video for ‘Passenger’ here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXAaPvVaZDQ

From the start of her career, Wells’ musical interests were simply too wide ranging for just one instrument. Trained as a classical violinist, the Texan soon created her own sonic “spaceship,” an ever-growing pulsating arsenal of synthesizers, effects pedals and toy instruments, all tied together with live sampling and a genre-agnostic approach that is diverse, distinctive, and utterly her own. Honing her sound on a series of independent releases, including an acclaimed cover of The Notorious B.I.G.’s classic ‘Juicy’, it was these initial glimpses and the countless live dates both as bandleader and solo performer that carved out the musician she has become today.

The female singer-songwriter stable may be packed with unique voices and varying degrees of talent, but Emily Wells is an artist whose innate complexities lift her out of that particular stable and into a realm all of her own.


Emily Wells - Passenger (Kid Koala Remix)

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