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Deep Techno +- 125 bpm

From the minds of the comfortably raised, well-educated, middle-class theorists with a truly staggering personal vanity and a developed taste for self-indulgence.

Selected Works Summer 2021 vol. 4

˼ R E L E A S E S ˻

pallet town

Taken from Polygonia's EP Children Of Chaos on Secuencias Temporales Records, out August 16.

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Premiere: Polygonia - Gaia

Dream Horizons

Flakes Flying Upwards

Metaphysical Scribbles

Crystal Valley

Soul Reflections

Lyder’s new album “weird fishes” is a shimmering dive into the unknown. With effervescent textures and dreamlike instrumentations, the electroacoustic trio invites listeners into a surreal seascape. Saxophone, violin, voice, and keys, all filtered and transformed, weave through ambient waters that feel both tender and disorienting. Each track explores a distinct layer of the deep – from sunlit shallows to abyssal ruins where forgotten echoes linger. “weird fishes” is a sonically fluid journey: colorful, strange, and full of hidden life.

Music by Lyder
Recorded on Januar 24, 2024 at FatCat, Munich

Polygonia vocals, violine, electronics
Moritz Stahl saxophone, electronics
FTP Doctor vocals, keyboard, electronics

mixed by Polygonia
mastered by Niklas Bühler
Cover by Polygonia

Lyder - Weird Fishes [Tunnel Visions]

Pre-order: http://anotherdarkage.bigcartel.com/product/exek-biased-advice-another-dark-age

Another Dark Age is proud to release Exek's debut LP, Biased Advice, which follows one self-titled cassette EP (2014) and a single contribution to a split cassette (2015). The album collects rerecorded and past material, which together stands as the fullest realisation of an Exek identity, honed during two years of haunting Melbourne’s live gig circuit. 

Before forming as a four-piece band in 2014, Exek remained an abstract concept in the mind of front man-to-be, Albert Wolski. With songs written but no musicians to perform them he enlisted Andrew Brocchi (synthesiser), Henry Wilson (bass) and Sam Dixon (drums) and together they began recording material according to Wolski 's vision.

"Then they were there, on my arms, on my legs, everywhere." - 'Foregin Lesions'

The addition of Nell Grant on saxophone made previously murky reference points plainly obvious: Exek are the progeny of a Melbourne scene that established itself around Dave Chesworth and Philip Brophy’s Innocent record label of the 1980s and its greatest offering,  Essendon Airport’s Palimpsest LP (1981). But Exek  dared to abandon the pop and funk tropes of the early Australian new wave scene reaching out to  German post-punk of the same era. Wolski’s songwriting is akin to that of the records put out by Hannover’s No Fun Records and Hamburg’s Zickzack, channeling the droll lyricism of The 39 Clocks and saturated with self-deprecating Attitude. 

"New friends, new influence, new ring around the finger, a hedonist who finds regret.”  - ‘A Hedonist’

Exek are messengers for today’s young, unemployed, immobile, self-obsessed middle-class.  The themes of societal isolation, heartbreak, consumerism are all funnelled through metaphors of terminal illness, monsters and bondage. Their vision mirrors Tuxedomoon’s ‘Holiday for Plywood’ but crucially Biased Advice is a sermon that Exek preach to themselves. The band pit themselves as both victims and saviours living in a world that’s trying to extinguish them, or worse still, mould them into boring automatons. 

“Spitting image, two legged, stick figured, adolescent, disinfectant, replicant.”  - ‘Replicate’

The conceptual weight carried in Wolski’s lyrics follows on from process. Dub and other studio techniques are used throughout Biased Advice and are no better evidenced in the 16-minute modern (and instant) classic, ‘Baby Giant Squid.’ This song remains unchanged from it’s cassette release on Melbourne’s Resistance/Restraint label but spread out over one side of a record it lays bare its perfection. Basslines that stand out one moment give way to dubbed out percussion, hissing tape delay and reverb drenched vocals. Simply, this post-kraut-dub-psyche-punk excursion looks back over it’s shoulder as it leaves ‘Bella Lugosi’s Dead’ for dead. It’s a sublime balance of improvisation and cold calculation. 

“Excitement entails the probability of murder to eliminate stress.”  - ‘Baby Giant Squid’

It’s the tension between this teetering psychotic nihilism and arrangement with studio-like precision that gives Biased Advice the tone of a forewarning. But of what?

“Listen well.”  - ‘Submitted’

Exek - A Hedonist

COMATEENS - ghosts

Originally written by Human League. Released on a cassingle that accompanied the New Age Outlaws LP

Being Boiled

INDEFINITE PITCH   |   PREMIERE 014

Knay - Kneeless
Counteractions [ALXNDR012 | Alexandar]

Produced by Valentin Bertel
Mastered by Voislav Dimitrijevic
Artwork by Voislav Dimitrijevic

Released by Alexandar from Singapore
Release Date: May 31 2020

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Indefinite Pitch | Yantai
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Kneeless

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How to levitate - Dreaming (Latua Remix)

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Epsilon - Concord 
Nautilus [IO:017 / IO]

Produced by Yassine Zouaoui aka Epsilon
Mastered by Niklas Bühler at Klangstellwerk
Artwork by Carmen Maria Schweiger aka Ohneweil
Released by IO from Munich, Germany
Release Date : October 10th. 2020

Epsilon is a musical art project by the tunesian producer Yassine Zouaoui. He works a lot with his own voice, which gives his productions a very unique character. With his dark and experimental tracks he tries to get rid of his inner pain which he also releases through singing. Since he is a really good vocalist he combines his own creations of organic and experimental sounds with his own touch which defines a lot of his latest work.

Epsilon
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IO
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Nautilus

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PREMIERE : Epsilon - Concord [IO]

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Daniel[i] - Ileus
Release Date - 7 December 2020
Vinyl & Digital
Catalog Number - LLESS023
Buy on Bandcamp - https://bit.ly/lless023-sc-bc
Buy on Juno - https://bit.ly/lless023-ju

Artwork by Polygonia
Mastering by Giovanni Conti
www.artefactsmastering.com

Lowless on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/lowlessmusic/
Lowless on Spotify - http://bit.ly/lowless-catalog
Artist on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/danieli_whs

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Track List :
A1 - I.1
A2 - I.2
B1 - I.3
B2 - I.4

Ileus

Daniel[i] - Ileus [Preview] | LLESS023

Full stream of Raär's "Rituals III," taken from his upcoming LP on Vaerel Records, out December 11.

Pre-order: https://vaerel-records.bandcamp.com/album/ra-r-le-monde

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Premiere: Raär - Rituals III

Taken from Ádám Erdei's album 33 on Visionary Mind Records, out December 22.

Pre-order: https://vmind.bandcamp.com/album/33
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@vmindrecords
@eadam87

Premiere: Ádám Erdei - V

Full stream of Kyntral's "Huemul," taken from Norite's forthcoming compilation, Noritian Mysteries II, out December 30.

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@norite
@kyntral

Noritian Mysteries II

Premiere: Kyntral - Huemul

In A Lonely Place

Taken from IBRIL's EP Système Stationnaire on Nodal Group, out January 28.

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@nodalgrouprecs
@lfnn

Premiere: IBRIL - 10.6 Masses Solaires

Full stream of V4w.enko's "Procedure B," taken from his upcoming EP on G89 Records, out January 22.

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@g89records

Premiere: V4w.enko - Procedure B

Knay releases "Long Time No See EP" on Kvltö Records. Monument premieres track "Mountain Call" from the release, that will be out on January 25th.

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MNMT Premiere: Knay – Mountain Call

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