Pre-order : https://ar-fm.bandcamp.com/album/stakhanov
Release date: June 2, 2021

One year and a half after Jaroska’s ’Red Room Offering’ release, Lyon-based AR/FM label is back with the fourth imprint of its catalog, due for June 2021.
Following the label’s aim of exploring a widened techno spectrum while working with and promoting unsung talented friends, AR/FM is about to provide another beautiful piece of music, this time from ephemeral trio Stakhanov.

This eponymous LP offers 55 minutes of dense, fluctuant electronic experimentations, taking inspirations in the relentless Soviet worker myth. Its frantic and industrial overall atmosphere, set by sharp yet harsh paces, is eventually pulled to pieces by murky and hallucinated ambient acts, depicting a way darker story than the one told by the USSR propaganda.  
Thus, one rhetorical question remains: Could this unhealthy man-a-machine glorification come to any different end than madness?

Based upon Hugo Charpentier’s drawings, that can be found both on inner and outer sleeves, the 7-track album definitely takes advantage of its visual dimension, resulting in an elegant double-12” black-&-white gatefold layout. 

Releasing Stakhanov was also for AR/FM a way to pay tribute to the golden era of Lyon alternative electronic scene around 2013-2016, of which the project-members were three of the many faces. 
Through their different collectives and labels (CLFT Militia, SILO, Palma…) amongst others, all the instigators of this creative craze considerably contributed to the constitution of a new generation of Lyon-scene protagonists, AR/FM being one of them.

Release Infos:
Date of announcement: Monday, May 17, 2021 
Date of release: Wednesday, June 2, 2021.
Styles: Deep Techno, Dub Techno, Ambient, Industrial, Acid, Downtempo, Drone
Limited-edition of 150 double-12” Gatefold vinyls, including download code and 30*30cm insert by Hugo Charpentier.
Public price: 26 € + shipping.

Credits:
Music: Mathieu Reynaud, Léo Paillard & Fabien Ainardi 
Mastering: Lorenzo Targhetta
Artworks & Design: Hugo Charpentier 

AR/FM Links:
Bandcamp: https://ar-fm.bandcamp.com
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/aroomfmuzik 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ARoomFMuzik
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/fr/label/1457939-ARFM 
Contact: contact.arfm@gmail.com

AR/FM#004 - Stakhanov LP - Previews (OUT JUNE 2, 2021)

Memory Clap Acid, Born out of the ashes of the late 90’s California Bay Area rave scene, the Post-Hardcore & Experimental Movement of the early 2000’s in Oakland & surrounding Northern California cities, & his current involvement in recording & engineering his friends Cold Wave & Body Music bands.
Aldo Giovanni’s Memory Clap Acid project is an amalgamation of all these endeavors & influences warped & twisted into a fucked up no nonsense & non-genre club music.
Deemed the Lemmy of Acid House by his peers & contemporaries.
Mr. Acid is in the business of fucking shit up & thrashing about on the wheels of steel or thru a Power Electronics inspired live Acid set.
Currently he has some way out there releases on his home labels Detroit’s Junted, L.A.’s The Black Lodge, Glasgow’s Clan Destine Records, & Melbourne’s Up North Records;

MEMORY CLAP ACID [SONS OF TRADERS INVITE]

JS Alvarez, is a dedicated and adventurous connoisseur of music but is loyal to no one genre. At an early age, Alvarez engulfed himself in punk, hardcore and metal while growing up in Miami. While performing with a handful of hardcore punk and post punk bands, his musical taste expanded widely. So he decided to give DJing a chance. After celebrating 2 years of running a successful dance party in Miami, he moved on to Chicago, cutting his teeth on more disco and soul. Now he finds himself as a resident at Chicago's Smartbar with a monthly series called Research & Development. Although Research & Development focuses on techno, it consistently seeks to highlight artists who blur the lines of genre and experiment within and outside dance music.

JS ALVAREZ [SONS OF TRADERS INVITE]

Albacore, one of Eduardo's side projects to spread variations of his sound. Frenetic rhythms, interferences, weird junglist accents and acid vibes with industrial tone;

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Elitepop is a monthly radio show by Enfant Terrible for Intergalactic FM (IFM/CBS). A new episode is transmitted every first Monday of the month on the Cybernetic Broadcasting System channel at IFM for 1 hour from 21.00h onwards… No talking... just music!

Episode 17 was transmitted May 2021 and has a focus on "heavy" sounds... post-metal, post-techno and the likes...

Elitepop #17

Psychic Liberation presents “Friendly CSA Compilations Parts 1 & 2”. A compilation in two parts consisting of artists orbiting the PL canon from around the world in an effort to raise funds for Roots Unbound Friendly CSA.

Roots Unbound (RU) is an abolitionist grassroots organization based in Brooklyn offering nature-based programming centered around food justice, therapeutic horticulture and ecological disinvestment to people in the NYC area with a focus on supporting and uplifting people impacted by the carceral system.

Friendly CSA is a cooperative, agricultural initiative that was mobilized to respond to the food apartheid within New York jails and prisons. Roots Unbound sends care packages of harvested produce that are
chosen by incarcerated folks via a newsletter sent out every month, by growing and collaborating with local New York City land stewards. This CSA is provided at no cost to the recipients, funds raised for this CSA will be used towards packaging, postage, printed materials for newsletters, and a P.O. box.

To find out more information and donate further :
rootsunbound.org

opencollective.com/rootsunbound/donate
credits
releases May 7, 2021

Mastering : Glyn Maier
Image :Nick Klein
Layout : RJM Vanderheyden

Friendly CSA Compilation Part 1

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ALENE MARIE - Waterside Memo

Lyon Based Salma Rosa, music enthusiast with an endless curiosity, exploring many genres from doom jazz to experimental club music. She introduces here a journey through ambient, avant garde and post club.

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Salma Rosa [13.05.2021]

For this podcast for TIKKA radio, Lostsoundbytes concocted a cocktail with some foggy downtempo beats, shamanic vibes and duby howls with Panoptique, Psychic TV, Senyawa, Cut hands and more...

https://soundcloud.com/lostsoundbytes
https://lostlostsoundbytes.bandcamp.com

Lostsoundbytes ~ 06.05.2021

Influenced heavily by the metallic and industrial sounds that surround him at his day job, Veldt (HANDS, Industrial Detroit) channels those sounds into a rhythmic chamber, filled with electronics that hint to influences from the Rhythmic Noise, Industrial, and Techno strata.

While residing in Detroit, Michigan. Veldt works closely and in partnership with Industrial Detroit and his own tape label Scorch Assembly.

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Recorded in Bologna (Italy)   XX.05.2021

https://soundcloud.com/bxp [https://soundcloud.com/randomnumberslabel]

Born in Sardinia and currently based in Bologna, Carlo Mameli, aka BXP, is an Italian Producer/DJ and Random Numbers label co-owner.
He explores the multiple possibilities in electronic music production, with a closer look at its IDM side, ranging from ambient to techno, electro, and acid.
His sets are hypnotic, dry and crystalline. His record selection is the weapon of choice for a journey through different styles and genres.

• bxpmusic.bandcamp.com/
• randomnumbers.bandcamp.com/
• www.discogs.com/it/artist/561773-bxp
• www.discogs.com/it/label/969460-Random-Numbers
• www.facebook.com/BXPMUSIC/
• www.instagram.com/bxpmusic/

E.S.T. 053 • BXP

Rockin Bass EP will be available from December 5, 2025 on all digital platforms.

1. Modari - Rockin Bass (Original Mix)
2. Modari - Call Me (Original Mix)

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