Taken from the forthcoming album Artefakt - Days Bygone (dsr/int1) to be released on Delsin Records on May 10th 2021.

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Nick Lapien and Robin Koek have earned plenty of stripes exploring different strains of techno and electronica, both individually and together as Artefakt (@artefakt-official). It is their collaborative work which has found a natural home on Delsin, and now their second album on the label, Days Bygone, helps launch the Interstellar series as they continue to explore beyond the dancefloor trappings of conventional techno.

If their 2017 debut album Kinship married forthright techno dynamics with a mellow, melancholic sensibility and 2019’s Monsoon saw them heading into deeper, meditative rhythms, then Days Bygone finds Artefakt leaning even further away from standard structures to create an album steeped in mystery. It’s not a formless ambience they’ve conjured up though - pronounced patterns are still prevalent to propel Artefakt’s productions, but there’s less emphasis on percussion and more time spent shaping soundworlds with nimble arps and gliding pads.

There is still space for beats on Days Bygone, but as on ‘Orinoco Basin’ those drums fall in fluttering formations to gently buffet languid keys rather than imposing on the direction of the music. The heaviest they get is on the dense, swinging ‘Terraforming’, but it’s a light-footed configuration compared to a trad-techno thump, with the drums serving as another texture in conversation with the elements surrounding them.

Because of the shifted focus away from hegemonic beats, it’s left to the keys and pads to define the landscape each track traverses. Sometimes furtive and suggestive, elsewhere pearlescent and diffused across great expanses, it’s these striking, sublime formations which define the atmosphere Lapien and Koek have sought to create. The outright ambience of the closing double act pushes this idea to a logical conclusion, leaving the possibilities open for what comes next from Artefakt.

Artwork by Raymond Lemstra.

Orinoco Basin

Artefakt - Orinoco Basin

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Vaclea is an exclusive track for the Bass Bins and Curlicues CD sampler curated by Daniel Blumin. 

The track is made from field recordings I made while cleaning my leather couch with a vacuum cleaner (Vaclea! sic). You can clearly hear the original loop at the beginning, around which the track is built, and for which I used and created sounds based on the same field recording. 

Bass Bins and Curlicues features the beautiful art of Andy Gilmore and killer previously unreleased music from Soft Pink Truth, Seefeel, Rrose, Jan Jelinek, Simon Pyke (Freeform), Bass Clef, Afrikan Sciences, The Vegetable Orchestra, Sistro, Dr. Nojoke, The Idealist (Joachim Nordwall), Saint Abdullah & Eomac, Gunnar Haslam, and Berk Offset! 

Available only to subscribers to the freeform radio WFMU and those, who pledged for their fundraising campaign.

Dr.Nojoke - Vaclea (Bass Bins and Curlicues, WFMU)

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@maheras marks his fifth release on his flourishing Los Angeles-based record label, @intothewoodsrecordings, with 'Tartessos' - a moody and minimal 12" filled with potent stabs and hazy atmospherics. 

On the B-side of this supernal and hypnotic release, Roman Flügel delivers an outstanding remix of the single with a ghostly and potent redesign that keeps the momentum of the original track while pushing a more dub tech agenda onto the dancefloor.

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Premiere: Maheras 'Tartessos' (Roman Flügel Remix)

@MentalModern releases a V/A compilation by four great Italian artists - Ness, Luigi Tozzi, Mod21 and @Alan-Backdrop, whose dreamy track Hǎiyáng is Monument's pick for the premiere. The digital version comes with one more "Bandcamp Exclusive" track by Gianluca Meloni aka @Laertes. 

The V/A is out on November 30th.

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MNMT Premiere: Alan Backdrop – Hǎiyáng

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Boeckler - Cochlea (Kontinum Reinterpretaion)
Cochlea [Ambient002 / Proselytizing]

Produced by Maximilian Böcker aka Boeckler
Additional Production by Jonas Wernicke aka Kontinum
Mastered by Carlos Koschitzky at Koschitzky-Mastering
Artwork by Maximilian Böcker aka Boeckler
Released by Proselytizing from Leipzig, Germany
Release Date : November 06th. 2019

The cochlea is your only way in the body to convert sound into electronic signals for the brain. 
Without your hearing, any kind of music that you find contemplative will do you little good. 
Protect your hearing with good music that is shielded from reality. 
Use the remaining power of your cochlea to enjoy the really important things in life.

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Cochlea

Cochlea (Kontinum Reinterpretaion)

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[PREMIERE] | POLISH TECHNO.LOGY | Dorian Gray – Save Our Future [DORIAN001]

We Planet (Album) by Dorian Gray
label: DORIAN
Format: Digital 
release date: 08.07.2020


Dorian Gray launches its new platform 'DORIAN' and debuts with 'We Planet' (an album dedicated to our planet that aims to raise awareness on climate-related issues) thus giving the musical direction of the lab-oratory, which will be mostly focused on the progressive and trance side of deep techno. 

'We Planet' consists of 14 tracks, which are a story about the world around us. Dorian Gray helps us stop for a moment and think about what Earth and Nature are around us. .Today we are pleased to share with you some of his wonderful artistic work! Enjoy!


TRACKLIST:
1. Dorian Gray – Climate Alarm
2. Dorian Gray – Our Place On Earth
3. Dorian Gray – Alien Dna
4. Dorian Gray – Nature Biology
5. Dorian Gray – Molecular Nano Exp
6. Dorian Gray - Wandering Atoms In The Cosmos
7. Dorian Gray - A New Home
8. Dorian Gray - Earth Awakening
9. Dorian Gray - Mother Earth Nostalgy
10. Dorian Gray - Critical Condition
11. Dorian Gray - Mother Earth's Revenge
12. Dorian Gray - Fighting
13. Dorian Gray - Save Our Future
14. Dorian Gray - Disappearing


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[PREMIERE] | Dorian Gray – Save Our Future  [DORIAN001]

Forthcoming in January 2021: Amandra x Mattheis - Lettre Ouverte LP.

Two artists who have carved out their own niche in todays techno universe join forces for their first collaborative full length. Ten tracks across two vinyls demonstrate the unique synergy between these two friends. In their collaboration they each focus on their own expertise, combining best of both worlds. Amandra on drums and Mattheis on synths - creating overlapping, constantly shifting patterns, like an endlessly captivating moire effect as result. Artwork print by Ruben Uvez. Pressed on 180g turquoise coloured vinyl, including downloadcode.

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Amandra x Mattheis - Carapace (taken from the new album "Lettre Ouverte")

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