Risks Issues Opportunities II 
Release Date 18.02.2022
Distribution: One Eye Witness
Artwork Omnigroup

Pre Order https://riolabel.bandcamp.com/album/risks-issues-opportunities-ii

A1 Syncboy – Tuerkis
A2 Pannotia – Wavering Limits
A3 Twoonky – Primera
A4 Airaboi - Resilience Transmissions
B1 Charlotte Simon - User Work Hard
B2 Willie Burns – I Am Back
B3 Nadia D’alò – D.S.
B4 Bocksrucker - Der Müde Tod

They are here, all over: sudden, random molecular movements. Invisible and yet extremely effective. Perceptible only to those who turn on things from a peculiar outlook. Now Rio unfolds the second edition of “Risks Issues Opportunities”, bringing interstellar musical developments full of little, yet profound molecule advances. Eight mystical fate spinners, with the muscle to shed some light on unanswered questions, that will stay unanswered after all. Monolithic, yet deeply fragile compositions, made by terrestrials like Leipzig based producer Syncboy, Pannotia from Sydney, Italy based dusty drum machines lovers Twoonky, Charlotte Simon, known as one half of the art duo Les Trucs from Frankfurt, Berlin mystic’s like Airaboi or Nadia D'Alò of the duo INIT, Brooklyn based “The Thing” housekeeper Willie Burns and Vienna’s symbolist sound poet Bocksrucker. They all created electric signs for the above. Murky analogue prophesiers without prophecy, bringing headway music against the greedy frontier spirit. Hypnotic tones out of a hazy musical outer space. Like a dream that forgot to dream, they wave around with veiled frequencies full of ray, processed through analogue machine power. Music, that is able to in sight humans to an Atget photography. Able to transmit flashes to the firmament, to stars that wander darkling in eternal space. And yes: to some who listen a sudden physical movement might transpire, despite the fact that all was made without a particular practical value. Art for art's sake. In favor of an alternative to reality. Compellingly haunted by itself. Like stone, that awaits a random molecular movement.

RIO07 V.A. - Risks Issues Opportunities II

Ex Ponto - In A Quarry… - OFFEN 021

Artist: Ex Ponto
Title: In A Quarry...

Track list:
1. In A Quarry...Far, Far Away (15:34)
2. Golden Hours (07:28)
3. Shed 14 (03:38)

Australian musician, composer and producer Ex Ponto aka Ivan Mašić has self-released dozens of albums with improvisation collective, Council of Elders, and experimental no-wave band, Wunderlust.

On his Offen Music debut Ex Ponto is constructing an alternative civilization of grace, post-sarcasm and intuitive response. 

„In A Quarry...Far, Far Away“ is a 15 minutes long wandering with Joseph and August Norster around The Quarry, Beech Forest, Victoria, Australia, January 27, 2020. 
Life affirming „Golden Hours“ is an alternative to the general wait for extinction and completition of a suicide program out there. An ode to the moments when sunlight turns magical.
„Shed 14“ is a personal reminiscence of the legendary club in Melbourne. 

„Ex Ponto respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations as the sovereign owners of the country where I live and work. I recognise that sovereignty has not been ceded and pay my respects to all Elders, past, present and emerging.“

https://exponto.com.au/portfolio-item/the-sublime/
https://www.theprojects-quarry.com/

Credits:

Field recording on In A Quarry…Far, Far Away taken from a conversation between Joseph and August Norster (father and son) 
The Quarry, Beech Forest, Victoria, Australia, January 27, 2020.

written and produced by Ivan Mašić
mastered by Enrico Mercaldi 
cover photo by Joseph Norster
graphic design by Percy

Offen Music 2022

In A Quarry...

2. Ex Ponto - Golden Hours - OFFEN 021

"Always take from the past - avoiding the empty longings of nostalgia - with a view to understanding the new place it might hold in the future. Good Morning Tapes has done just that, and with the 90’s revival in something of a full swing, the label finally gets the chance to release a pivotal 10 year old mix that didn’t just ignite a curious wave of reflection and appropriation, it marked a culmination in the shifting sonic sands for its creator Mr. Alexis Le-Tan. His name needs little light thrust upon it in these hallowed cosmic halls, with his enduring and ever present mixes being a staple for those that know. 

Back to Disco Valley is arguably his most important mix - it both recontextualised a dirty and forgotten sound of the past, and facilitated a wave of new freedoms for those wishing to look backwards in order to move forwards. Most importantly it planted the seed for everything Full Circle to come.

 Back to Disco Valley is above all else a personal reckoning for Alexis and Joakim, it marked a moment when many problems inherent in a trapped older sound - with a sublime yet dated history of its own - could breath fresh life in the present day; a new slower realm was born. The slowing down of dance music is nothing new, and certainly where peak time beats have existed a spiritual shadow that revels in a slower ethereal space to dance has never been far away. 

Stylistically on one level, Back to Disco Valley might seem to build on what Baldelli or Loda were doing many years ago, and it certainly has that effortless charm, but it goes much further, not just in its re-appraisal of the frenetic fast paced sounds of Goa, but as a signifier of where many wanted to head on the dancefloor - towards a slower oasis - incorporating new releases and modern sounding rarities along the way. Indeed, in selecting the 33rpm dial rather than that marked 45, Full Circle at once opened up the new space inside a music some of us went bananas to 30 years ago, and at the same time made sense of a crucial yet forgotten heritage; a confession became a badge of honour.

 Coming back to Full Circle and its genesis: it was only a matter of time before the old Goa records would come back down from the racks and spawn a new life, and perhaps whilst Le-Tan cemented something a lot of us knew, Back to Disco Valley somehow liberated many of those early records from their stylistic shackles initiating a creative project that - along side the collaborative work with Joakim - has released a wave of inspirational edits and re-imaginations. 

Full Circle - in all its conceptual & metaphorical majesty - really has come to represent the most stylish of takes on past sounds, both in the realm of selection and re-working. It is certainly true that Back to Disco Valley - sounding now as it did then (to the select tuned ears that got to listen) - reflects a perfect meeting between an off-tempo past, present and future, being more than a functional assemblage, it revives many a lost memory, inspiring a new batch of ideas, and always looking back with a purpose.

"Back to Disco Valley" is available on cassette via the GMT Online Store.

@alexisletan @joakim

GMT52 Full Circle - Back to Disco Valley (Snippets)

B1 Philipp Otterbach - The Lost Track

@freybenedikt RIO09 // 11.18.2022 // Distr. One Eye Witness

When British Airways got privatized and listed on the London Stock Exchange, somewhere in Canada the first Starbucks outside of the US opened, and the Walt Disney Company signed an agreement with the French Prime Minister to construct Disneyland Paris. In the sky above southern Argentina, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, northern Somalia, and the Atlantic Ocean a hybrid solar eclipse materialized for 7.57 seconds, whilst Margaret Thatcher performed for 45-minutes on Soviet television. Some days later, The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, Diego Maradona wins his first Italian soccer championship with Napoli, and Eighteen-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust lands a private plane on Red Square in Moscow. In the mists of the world's first conference on artificial life at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Mainland China opens in Beijing, and Prozac gets approved for use as an antidepressant in the United States. Much give way for the future, down there in 1987, the year that marks the title of Benedikt Frey’s freshest mini album, out into the world on R.i.O., the label he runs with some pals in the North of Berlin. It’s a dubby melancholic conqueror, wistfully, repetitive, drilling, absorbing, spooking. It makes you dream. Not particular of the year 1987. But it’s all there: The Red Square, the untouched land of the Val d'Europe, Diego on fuego. Six dark-ish tracks in trance, melancholic dub, downbeat heaven, journey music depths, all full of light and yet so dark. Futuristic dramas linked to a speculative past. In our dreams all might look different. The eclipse may last 27-minutes. You meet Neuromancer cyberpunks and blade running Ghost dogs, all taught to hack by Phrack. Cristal clear melodies, sampled voices, and veiled basslines, analogue scopes, and digital ropes, longing for a past that storm into the future. A time where deep listening widens the acoustics into infinity, while neon glows charm the light smog. Benedikt Frey been down there. Or maybe not. His latest music tells stories from the bygone, vested with the forthcoming. Come in and look out. There is nothing to see, yet so much to hear. ML

A1) Phrack 5:55
A2) Trencher 6:15
A3) ORI 3:38
B1) Attitude 5:45
B2) Dummy 5:43
B3) Steam 5:30

Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

1987

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RIO09 Benedikt Frey - 1987

Bonjour !  2 Songs to discover from the Album 

Two years in the pipeline, with four recording sessions, and here we go. With the one and only magic Jonquera, we are happy to show you this musical project. A mini-LP with 6 songs, as a token of love dropped for the Neue Deutsche Welle and for the fingers that get hurt in the sockets. The mastering is done "in-house", the cover too, on the floor on all fours with pens, felt-tips, photos taken by Louis Waterlot, comrade of the Pays Noir, and the composition of Structure Bâtons. 

The project is called „AnDerMole“ and the album “High Life in Tüten”. So Welcome. “An der Mole” means “On The Jetty”, where you most of the times can get a foretaste of both the storms to come and the wisdom of this fishing golems full of scars.

Only a very few amount of exemplars in preorders left. If you want some some, DM me or 
Thanks to the loving souls met on the side of the roads and to everyone who already supported it. Clock is Tickin’ 

Link to BC for Digitals - ntoab.bandcamp.com/album/high-life-in-t-ten

NTOAB jeez is A3 - AnDerMole - Karma

Catalog#: MMS505
Format: Vinyl – 10inch EP
Country: FRANCE
Released: 25 dec 2022
Genre: Electronic
Style: Industrial, Dub, Electro

Our dubby ‘detective’ Axel Larsen is back for another 10 inch on the « Special » series (MMS), establishing the « Criminal Music » genre for good !
You will find in this EP a concentrate of foggy atmospheres, heavy basslines, tension rhythms and dark melodies that will fit perfectly in your next Cluedo night. It can also be used during a GTA session, but be sure that its maximum effect will be in a dark room full of crazy motherf****rz ☺
Limited to 300 copies, don’t snooze !!
Mastering : Rude 66, Artwork : Axel Larsen, distribution : Rubadub/Syncrophone
TRACKLIST :
A1. Hygiène du squelette 4:46
A2. Dans la Peau d’un Simplist 4:47
A3. Chevaline Dub 3 :26
B1. Automatique Détéctive 4:53
B2. L’été Noir 4 :55
B3. Le Pyromane du Château Rouge 4:31

MMS505 - Axel Larsen "L'été Noir" [PREVIEWS] OUT!

The dulcet sounds drifted in through the window, carried by a soft breeze from the west of the town. Every morning it provided an organic wake up call; a sweet soundtrack to life in this quaint little place. Its source remained unknown - even if if you followed the path towards it, soon it evaporated as if it were emitting from the air itself. There were theories and speculations; some said it was the ghost of a mythical siren sent to lure in sailors from their ships, others maintained that it was simply the way the wind echoed off the cliff face. But ultimately there was no explanation needed, they counted themselves lucky to wake to these sweet sonics each and every day.

Under his Tolouse Low Trax moniker, Paris-based producer Detlef Weinrich has become revered for his psychedelic compositions, often stretched into unfurling opuses. For his fifth album Leave Me Alone - which is set for release on his regular haunt, Hamburg's Bureau B - he experiments with a more playful sound, matching dub and hip hop influences with raw, tribalistic electronica. Amongst the LP's 13 tracks is 'Ossia', a collaboration with Rome-based singer and producer Eva Geist who layers a political spoken passage from Italian poet Pier Paolo Pasolini over Detlef's lumbering electronics.

PREMIERE: Tolouse Low Trax feat. Eva Geist - Ossia [Bureau B]

premiere of our A2) Split Ep on Serenades @serenades_show

Dolphins: @freybenedikt, @menqui, @nadia-d-al.
@odopt: @grishanelyubin, @me-is.

Artwork by Alina Tiulina.
Design by Nikita Lanndau.
Dope Mastering by Sergey Luginin.

Distribution by @bordellodistribution
distribution@bordelloaparigi.com

Dolphins - Commander (SRNDS03)

Del Connect -Saddle Up

Pre-order Raudie's debut album here: https://superutu.bandcamp.com/album/now-the-spark-has-flown

Begin, a spark, ladybug, windowsill, notes app, eye, tap and touch, the ticking clock, somehow new, pleasure, distance, mud, patience, time, mystery, the flow, spirit, the phone, helixes, black tassels, Botticelli, Roman Bust, naïveté, Kronenbourg 1664, splinter, messages, salt, pepper, cherub, train, lake, Latvia, Airbus A380, Gare du Nord, memes, the planets, foolish, tender, summer, tears, romance, love, process, mirrors, blame, reflection, poems, sentences, pen, boy, man, ?, hourglass, exploding, hot, cool, dagger, death, life, the middle part, witness, hands, 10 fingers, hours, minutes, seconds, feel it, loser, blind, future, past, present, loneliness, friction, kismet, fiction, darkness, forever, Sisyphus, stuck, transience, change, constant, gilded, mountains, heavens, Venus, adore, doors opened, end.

All songs written, performed and produced by Raudie McLeod
Using a no-brand electric guitar, Nord Drum 3p, Korg Wavedrum, Shure SM58a, Ableton Live 10 and his voice

Mixing and mastering by Joseph Buchan.

Raudie and Super Utu operate on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

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