Electro / techno 1-15.05

Blightcaster - s/t
Cat. Nr: DN023
Format: DL
Release Date: October 21, 2022
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/blightcaster

An anonymous duo split up by border control between Melbourne and London, with an axe to proverbially grind. Blightcaster takes its name from Magic: The Gathering but its affinity with the fantasy trading card game stops there. Or that’s at least if you think fantasy can’t also be a nightmare. The mostly recorded, rarely live noise, gorenoise, power electronics, hardstyle (etc.) band began in the dank privacy of a southeast London basement in 2016, before being cut short by an expired visa and a return to Australia for one of its members.

A handful of years and a global pandemic later, the two had the opportunity to finish their work remotely, sending files between countries and ruminating on the rotten core of a world that has only gotten rottener. Tracks like “Hymns from the Slaughterhouse”, “Disgraced Species” and “Devastator Slug” wheeze, croak and crackle with swells of extreme distortion. “Mind Unleashed” and “Weaponised Banter” offer a pounding though heavily degraded gabber in a barely melodic turn that you would never detect in the goregrind comparison of a band like Last Day of Humanity or Agents of Abhorrence’s contemporary grindcore.

Recorded using whatever they had with limited skills, Blightcaster is the no-fi product of sessions with a broken laptop, cracked software, a cheap synth and buggy contact mic. And while the duo’s own nihilism denies having a message, you might make one out in the blood-curdling shrieks and crunching beats of “Miserable, Mediocre, Nothing”. If ‘inspired' is the wrong word to use, Blightcaster are at least informed by the likes of labels like Self Abuse, Blood 'n' Guts, Head Fuck and Shit Wank Records. There are samples from survival horror games like Manhunt and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, but also from the meme zeitgeist; such as the 'Small, Angry Man Yells at Trumpet Player' youtube video. This is the sound of life in the crumbling hell-realm of reality, where ruin and plague meet magic.

Mastering by Rashad Becker
Design by Niels Wehrspann
Artwork image by @clochefolle
Blightcaster logo by @rotten_realm

Blightcaster

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Blightcaster - Disgraced Species

https://jadzia.bandcamp.com/track/saatana-perkele

saatana perkele

The final premiere from @theburrellconnection 'Hyper/Orbit' debut EP. This track sits at A2 - and it's absolutely insane. This is Hyper/Orbit, 12" will be out very soon!

BANDCAMP - https://craigieknowes.bandcamp.com/album/hyper-orbit

VINYL:

Clone - goo.gl/Z7kw8f
Red Eye - goo.gl/ZFNrM8
Boomkat - goo.gl/a2WaFe
Juno - goo.gl/bJA5Jz
TripleVision - goo.gl/45qPuQ
Unearthed Sounds - goo.gl/MSuR9V
Atom Heart - goo.gl/UiKE4t

...and yeah, it's got FUCKING GOLD CENTRE LABELS.

Buy @ Bandcamp

PREMIERE: The Burrell Connection - Hyper_480 | CKNOWEP11

Peak-time energy from DJ Overdose as the RotterHague founder weaponises his raw electro with dizzying samples and rapid-fire drum patterns.

'When Cities Collide V' is out February 4th on RotterHague Records.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2Rs1vKl

@jayoverdose
@rotterhague

Premiere: DJ Overdose - I Know You Hear Me [RotterHague]

Narrowly escaping the tragic events of 61 Cygni E, Microthol have landed on a previously undiscovered planet in the Arcturus system. Aided by a 3D-printed army of nanobots they have managed to subdue a dominant local species of cute but murderous feline shapeshifters. Enraged xenoethicists and ailurophiles have crowdfunded an invasion fleet to return the rogue operators to earth. 

out march 2019
vinyl via https://clone.nl/item53825.html | https://juno.co.uk/products/microthol-transmissions/712237-01/ | https://hardwax.com/80628/microthol/transmissions/  
digital via https://trust.bandcamp.com/album/transmissions
distributed by @clone-distribution :: clonedistribution.com/release/53825
artwork by dextro.org

a1 :: hostile invasion
a2 :: armoury funk
b1 :: dissonanz
b2 :: transmission 0604

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[TRUST35] MICROTHOL - transmissions [out march 2019]

Taken from SBKT026: Various Artists - Cache 01

Release date: April 26th 2019

Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Artwork by Kim Laughton

Cache 01

Hyph11e - Sinking

READ MORE -- dummymag.com/new-music/premiere-solid-blake-tred-disconnected

Glaswegian producer Emma ‘Solid’ Blake is a current staple of Copenhagen’s burgeoning electronic scene. Co-founder of the now-defunct Apeiron Crew (along with Mama Snake, Courtesy and Smokey), she’s been consistently churning out leftfield electronic gems and turning out full-throttle sets around the city. She’s just helmed this hefty rework of Tred’s ‘Disconnected’ forthcoming on E-Missions – which we’re premiering now below. The cut opens gently, with rippling synth waves, before throwing down some heavy, freeze-dried bass tabs. Tune in now.

Fragments Into Nothing

Premiere: Tred - 'Disconnected (Solid Blake Remix)'

Available: http://tiny.cc/NeuralUberization
with versions by @gyurbhi @dylanscheer
out May 15, 2019
Mastering @avbvrn 
Artwork/Design @shbadr sarahbadr.com

Neural Uberization

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NEURAL UBERIZATION (GYUR version)

SHEVCHENKO FT DREW SEELE & FOREVERBOY MUSH

Written and produced by Thegn
Mastered by Ptwiggs
Art by Muriel Xiong

Silver Blade, Shattered Mirror, Deceiver.
three tracks that lament in awareness of
the dual nature within,  

To reify ego through intense self scrutiny bears new life of the self one divided across domains. 
The identity and the identifier face each other. To spawn and destroy a vessel for sins, externalising the ego as another entity and then killing it.

Like observing the life and death of atomic particles, sound waves throw themselves into ears with violent self destruction that pulls on heartstrings. 

Dirgelike drones absorb noise dampness with massive inertia. Silver Blade chronicles the destruction of the self, glossy metals and heavy bass nestle chants of chaotic self aggrandisement, preparing the target for assassination.

Bringing awareness to the dual force within us all and then allowing it to die. 

The identity and the identifier face each other in Shattered Mirror. ‘You see yourself from the inside out’ pieces of glass embedded into the infrastructure of the psyche. Process of illumination of flesh carving the details of our sins, subconscious merging into consciousness shattering old patterns into dancing shards.

The ultimate conclusion comes with Deceiver. The immune response flushes negativity out with intense distorted polyrhythms echoing through the body. Pulsing to purge the self, veiled screams etch deeper the void outside the two halves. When there is ego death what is left?

NEURAL UBERIZATION (GYUR version)

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