This is beautiful, looking forward for the full album

Soft Electro-nic

"A wise dog, a nice dog is twice dog."
Latest offering on French label Last Embassy, courtesy of Antechamber (alias of Codex Empire).

Release date: April 1st, 2021

Pre-order via: https://lastembassy.bandcamp.com/music

https://soundcloud.com/lastembassy

Premiere: Antechamber - Foundation Myth [Last Embassy]

AVN042 - GEZA  - Dialoge 1

A1 - DIA001    
A2 - DIA002    
A3 - DIA003  
B1 - DIA004   
B2 - DIA005  
B3 - DIA006  

Written & Produced by Jan Grebenstein.
Mastered by Neel @ EnissLab, Rome.
Artwork & Design by @atact.uk
© AVIAN 2021

https://avianstore.bandcamp.com/album/dialoge-1

AVN042 - GEZA - Dialoge 1

Track from NE83 Yttrandet – Yttrandet 2xCS

Victor died a day in September 2019. He died young, but he had used his life well. A life he from early age documented in music and texts with curiosity and humour, imagination and bravery, a life in the range between the present and the past, departure and return, loneliness and a sense of belonging, dissonance and harmony.

In the 2000’s Victor was a part of the bands Alexi Jungle, Figaro and Pale Corners, while he in the 2010’s mainly worked with his solo music project Koenigsfrost and as a DJ at several clubs and the festival Way Out West. Yttrandet – signifying both “judgment” and “testimony” – was his last music project.

In his music we can still hear his expressions, his soft irony and his accurate vision. The time we shared is not just a question of years and days, it is a continuous movement. We who live on remain with our memories and your legacy through your music.

In the texts he wrote, Victor often shows a touch of dreamlike surrealism as in this dream:

The sun is about to set. I am alone in the woods. The body aches and the worry escalates from grinding noise to a tide. I fall asleep and when I wake up everything is bright, and the worry has disappeared. Now I see the wall a couple of hundred metres in front of me. Black and shining as polished granite, cut in one piece, it reaches from the west to the east without interruption or opening. A wall. Two creatures, a giant and a dwarf, are standing in the shadow of the wall and they are doing something. I explain that I am in a hurry, that I must go forward. The dwarf says ”Forward?! There is no longer any forward. Forward ends here!” Now I can see that the giant is building an enormous ladder. My curiosity takes hold of me. ”Why is he building a ladder?” The dwarf looks at me, first suspiciously, but soon he exclaims ”My name is Gabriel!” ”But what is this ladder?” ”Ah, that one. The last one collapsed, it was too old, so Jacob here builds a new one.” I ask if they also need to get over the wall. ”Over the wall? No, no, we are going back up.” The dwarf points up at the sky and continues: ”You will not get over the wall. You have to wait until Jacob is finished, just like everybody else.”

Recorded by Victor Palm in Malmö, Copenhagen and Oslo 2017-2019.
Mastered by Noah Kin.

Yttrandet – Methylene Blue

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@shxcxchcxsh are back with their sixth album 'Kongestion' - presenting a mixture of avant-garde rhythms and hair raising sonic experimentations. Our pick 'Stio' is techno that’s been reduced to a skeletal selection of elements.

Kongestion

SHXCXCHCXSH - Stio [Avian]

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Track from NE87 Rune Bagge – Grab a Star

Out on LP and digital December 2nd

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome
northernelectronics.bandcamp.com

Marking his third for Northern Electronics, Rune Bagge's new album, Grab a Star, narrates a melancholic thread through a brilliantly luminous astral-electro scene. Carving an achingly delicate relief through six tracks, there's a neon hinge to the emotive mechanisms at work, offsetting the meditative armature with sheer torque and a blustered spirit.

Rune Bagge - Allima

Rune Bagge – Fade Away (Touch The Sky)

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Intetheten

Aa Sudd lands on Midgar with the 4tracker "Pushedd" displaying an adventurous pack of mid-tempo rollers and grey area dnb-goes-techno exercises. Aa Sudd navigates head down through high density fields.

Mastering by Neel at Enisslab Rome
Pressed by AFG in Rome
Distributed Worldwide by ReadyMade in Berlin

Aa Sudd - A2. Menodice

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Track from NE61 Ulwhednar – Razor Mesh Fencing
Out on 2xLP and Digital on March 29th.

The relentless stride of Northern Electronics can be put down to the attitudes of its owners, Anthony Linell and Jonas Rönnberg. Their collaborative project, Ulwhednar, has been shapeshifting at the centre of the label since its inception, and has captured their hard line electronics in its many guises.

Following on from 2017's 'Modern Silver', their new album reprises the intensity by grappling with its themes from a refreshed perspective. Crossing Norrland, the northernmost part of Sweden, and graffiti incidents and exploits, 'Razor Mesh Fencing' tracks the fervour of operations left undercover with blistering rhythmic pieces.

With only brief moments of respite on 'Razor Mesh Fencing' its stamina perpetually keeps us on the edge. Winding around its paths, our escape is in its adrenal crescendo.

Recorded by Anthony Linell and Jonas Rönnberg in Sofia, Sweden 2018
Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome

Razor Mesh Fencing

Ulwhednar - Through Gates of Ice

Dr1d

Track from NE81 Evigt Mörker - Enande måne EP
Out on EP and digital March 19th. Pre-orders on Bandcamp from March 5th.

'Enande måne' is Evigt Mörker's first release for Northern Electronics since his artful debut album, 'Krona.' The fizzy bliss of melancholia's brutal truths have rarely been explored this thoroughly by Evigt Mörker until now. Though often riding the torque of his caustic moments with a playful, ebbing refrain, these four tracks lead with the elation.

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome.
Artwork by Jonas Bard.

Evigt Mörker — Enande måne

Track from NE82 Anthony Linell - Winter Ashes LP
Out on EP and digital March 19th. Pre-orders on Bandcamp from March 5th.

For their first collaboration on an original audio-visual artefact, Ali M. Demirel and Anthony Linell have developed a stunning and unsettling work that studies the Icelandic landscape as a motor of mythology. Titled Winter Ashes, our senses search for logical order and signifiers with which to measure our relation to both the visual and aural elements, and by detailing the inhuman scale and structure of the region in this way, a hypnotic ambivalence regarding our place unerringly haunts the work. This edition is a snapshot of Linell's musical contribution at a moment of reflection in the project's enduring evolution. Far from being an acoustic summation of the collaboration, Linell has derived these pieces from his work with Demirel, retaining the name of the activity through which the album has arisen.

The nucleus of Winter Ashes is the relationship between landscape and mythology, a snare that binds us in contradiction. In its most common usage landscape refers to the visual indicators of any given terrain over and above any innate material properties. In its verb form it typically describes the agreeable construction and reconfiguration of terrain by the human hand. Our aesthetic preferences are from the outset privileged in the concept of landscape; our eyes are obeyed first. This is in distinction to mythology in which allegory upon analogy tells of but does not show the gods. Making sense of this nexus is to train our visual faculties towards seeing what is concealed, if not to merely search for an interaction with what is completely and surely unobservable.

Iceland's unearthly appearance is something else. It is conspicuously suited to the complexities of a task such as that which Winter Ashes imaginatively demands of it. It readily inclines toward the quality of the sublime. Situating this demand historically, Winter Ashes is inspired by the long and fragmented history of recording and retrieving Norse mythology, just as it is the mythology itself. The Codex Regius, a compendium of Old Norse poems that has been dated to the 13th century, and the Edda, a collective term for two volumes of medieval Icelandic literary works to which the Codex Regius is connected, both serve as points of reference. All were lost for periods of time throughout the centuries, and sections of each remain lost forever. As promptly as these documents tell the stories of Norse mythology, they register how easily they recede from written form back into the landscape. Though persistently morphing, it seems truer to look to the latter over the former as the eternal, volatile setting for these stories. Winter Ashes makes this ambiguous task its point of departure.

Words by Patrick Quick

Recorded by Anthony Linell in Gotland, Kebnekaise, Iceland and Stockholm 2019-2020.
Photographies by Ali M. Demirel in Iceland 2019.
Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome.

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