you ever use Nanoloop step sequencer for the gameboy?

Initiate records kicks off its journey as a label with “Schatz” - a mighty 8 track release representing their sound and musical direction to perfection. “Schatz” means treasure in German, and this label is on a treasure hunt for great music.

From broken beats to techno, Initiate loves rich dub infused textures, complex polyrhythmic patterns and good old sound system science bass body feels, and this release does all that!

“Schatz” is the track that gave the EP its name. It’s a hardy 170bpm tribal workout, layered with dubby pads and propelled by a galloping bassline. Following is Plunderer - a pirate of a track with a howling
bassline reminiscent of DnB goodness and atmospheres taking you far away in the ocean.

Fantasie ties the marauding tracks together with a smokey drone floating above the ocean.
This release is accompanied by 4 great remixes. Hypnotic techno captain Ness remixed Fantasie to create a sailing groove that’ll steam up your dance floor. Circula’s remix of Schatz is a delicious 140bpm post dubstep dub voyage. It’s Broken. Esoteric. And infused with poetry. Heating things up is Pattrn and Brüne from Durmitor’s remix of Schatz. With a spiraling arpeggiator and a throbbing groove, it propels you
far away into your cerebral consciousness. To round things up, 2559 offers a special take on Plunderer, a disorientated post-apocalyptic journey lost in the middle of the tempest where earth isn’t in sight anymore.

Premiere: Hesh & Oliver Si - Schatz (Circula Remix) [Initiate records]

Yamaha SY77 + PitchLoop89 &  ProphetVS + H3000.  Prophet 12. Long held notes and lot of envelopes and LFOs.

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Spiritual Machines

VC-118A - Spiritual Machines

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a rough mix of excerpts from some of the tracks of the upcoming Monolake VLSI album. Release date October 7 2016.  http://roberthenke.com/releases/ml-032.html

VLSI - teaser

VLSI - Teaser

For our sixth release we received this beautyful ambient journey from the Tbilisi based talent , Saphileaum.
With "Mountain Lighthouse" he takes us to this mystical and bright world of the Mountain Lighthouse.

Saphileaum - Windmill Next To The River

»sichten« refers both to »opinions« as well as the »examination of material«. in lose sequence, we will invite friends and colleagues, but especially music lovers to share their opinions on music with us or to look through their collected materials in order to present music that tends to be out of the focus of current media channels.

as a label for electronic music our focus is on examining exactly this genre. but in the context of the series, we are rather looking for more hidden, unknown, perhaps forgotten music. we want to present the yet undiscovered, and also offer a platform for other cultural environments with different musical approaches.

each issue will be supervised and compiled by a curator. an introductory text shall explain the artistic approach of the respective curator. in this sense, the format of a double lp can only provide a first insight and wants to invite to a more in-depth research.

for the first issue of the series, »sichten 1«, we asked frank bretschneider to compile his own, very personal selection of current electronic music. his choice fell on six artists, whose different styles meander between accessible music on the one hand and very abstract compositions on the other hand.

Sichten 1

zavoloka »inflame« taken from »sichten 1«

French duo Ligovskoï are to release Esam, their second artist album and first on Field Records. It features eight expertly crafted tracks that take the listener on a spacey and hypnotic journey towards inner bliss. 

Formed by Nikolaï Azonov and Valerio Selig in 2010, Ligovskoï once again draw on a sound palette that includes samples, synths, vocals, feedback, guitar and field recordings that merge in a painterly and romantic form of music. It recalls vast landscapes, abstract patterns and poetic movement. The title 'Esam' refers to a small, isolated mountain located on the moon, and the album is a journey to a similarly otherworldly landscape absent of human life. It features free improvisations, repetitive patterns and experimental materials that convey a wide range of emotions and styles from weightless shiny atmospheres to dark, heavy and swarming textures, leading the listener to deep contemplation. 

'We spend a lot of time exchanging thoughts and feelings about the experiences we had while creating and listening, like old friends looking at clouds and discussing the shapes they see. By publishing our music, we hope that listeners will recognise their own feelings and that they will understand or feel something in common with us.'

From sombre musical landscapes made from lingering drones to more uplifting, light emitting tracks, this is a slow burning but high impact album. Tracks like ‘Behaim’ suspend you in comforting sound, the title track prompts inward reflection and the likes of ‘Cortege’ is the sound of being listen to the heavens.

Tracklist:
A1. Thessalonians
A2. Mungu
A3. Behaïm
A4. Fairbanks
B1. Dautz
B2. Esam
B3. Bjanka
B4. Cortege

Bandcamp

Ligovskoï - Esam

Chosen instrument: Dave Smith Instruments Mopho X4
Artist: https://soundcloud.com/cuna1214
Instrument information: https://bit.ly/2ElvxbD

~ Full of things that have never been ~

Cuna - Dave Smith Instruments Mopho X4 (Exp#2)

This track is from June 2006. I found it on a backup drive whilst searching for something else. When I made it, I soon felt something is missing, it sounded old and nostalgic too me,  a dead end, a film watched way too often. Now, I feel even more distant to it. My musical interest moved away from anything that could be labeled 'minimal techno', a genre that became mostly totally empty, uninspired and formalized. However, I like the color of this track, this reminiscence to this certain sub-genre of Chain Reaction / post Basic Channel tracks.  If I would have done it in 1995 - fantastic.  

(And if you want to get an idea of my current vision of electronic club music come to a Monolake concert )

http://www.roberthenke.com/downloads/free_track_2008_11.html

Monolake Decay

more snow outside,  more tea inside, and more 'i am not going to edit this for two months but leave it as it is'.

This is the result of making myself familiar with a bunch of new Eurorack modules.  <3

VLSI - Teaser

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