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A freshly picked selection of music for your ears and feet.

Selections // 16th February

Uakoz & Alex Lentini - Fake Smiles

After his joining with Ostgut Booking in 2015, his contribution to the Ostgut Ton | Zehn compilation and two 12“es on Ben Klock’s Klockworks label, Ukraine-born, now Berlin-based producer and DJ Etapp Kyle debuts on Unterton.

As with his previous releases Etapp Kyle captures his playful, multi-layered Techno endeavours with single-word track titles: Continuum EP starts off with “Opto”, an atmospheric track with fazing bleeps, ensouled synths and subdued claps – a prime example of his great feel for musical detail. “Ahora” builds upon this vibe with more asynchronous drum patterns, well placed drips of melody, distant pulses, mesmerizing pads and hints of rattles amongst other percussion.

The EPs title track “Continuum” is distinctive through its use of industrial hammer jabs and reduced, puzzling synth pads that are counteracted by a more dominant, steady and stubborn kick drum. “Limb” contrasts unconventional pulsating, hypnotic synth tones with sharp claps and snare sounds, and rounds off this 12“ of all new, puristic and futurist Techno, catering as much to the darker corners as to the brightest spots of the dance floor.

Etapp Kyle | Ahora

Artist:			Uakoz & Alex Lentini
Title:	 		Isolated EP
Label:			OFF Recordings
Release number: 	OFF127
Labelcode:		LC-37385
Format:  		Digital / Vinyl
Releasedate: 	04.04.2016 (Digital) / 2016 (Vinyl)

Web: 			www.off-recordings.com

Tracks:
1. Uakoz & Alex Lentini - Isolated
2. Uakoz & Alex Lentini - Puzzling
3. Uakoz & Alex Lentini - Changeless
4. Uakoz & Alex Lentini – Puzzling (Andre Crom Remix)
5. Uakoz & Alex Lentini – Nothing More

Italian bred artists Uakoz & Alex Lentini deliver their debut OFF EP, after earning much praise for their recent outings on Terminal M, Flash and other labels.

A love for spacy techno is the common element of all 4 originals. While Isolated & Puzzling rely more on psychedelic sinewave melodies, Nothing More & Changeless feel closer to dub techno.

OFF-head Andre Crom created a very functional remix, reinterpreting parts of "Puzzling"'s notes with a bass synth, and a hypnotic arrange that works steadily towards a central break.

Uakoz & Alex Lentini - Nothing More - OFF127

Uakoz & Alex Lentin I - Puzzling (Andre Crom Remix) - OFF127

Uakoz & Alex Lentini - Changeless - OFF127

A little taste of what's to come on the new Orphx album entitled "Pitch Black Mirror". Released on November 3rd, 2016. Vinyl 2x12"/Digital on "Sonic Groove Records" and Compact Disc on the legendary Industrial label, " Hands". Vocals on Sever the Signal by Marie Davidson

You can listen to the EP in it's entirety here. Please buy if you like: https://sonicgroove.bandcamp.com/album/pitch-black-mirror-sglp02

Orphx-Sever The Signal (Clip)

After 3 years of silence and experimentation, noise project Unhuman has evolved with its eponymous C22 cassette traveling between the boundaries of techno, post-punk, industrial and electronic body music with 4 alienesque tracks. Mastered by Jos Smolders. Digital master by Joseph McGeechan

Physical release: November 1, 2016 (ships immediately w/ download code)
Digital Release: November 18, 2016

Unhuman - Gefallen In Not

A2 on BT16 Versalife - Polychange coming out this month.

Versalife - Cloaking Mod

Ms Roxanne has a special bond with her samples of construction.
Re.Birth Distribution
Out Dec 09 2016
12''/Digital

https://hardwax.com/78459/sawf/miss-roxanne/
https://clone.nl/item43435.html

Ms Roxanne KAFTA001

B2. Sawf - Crikey [KAFTA001]

Out on December 5th 2016

12" Vinyl + Insert

JG15 Phase Fatale - B2 "Cell"

out now on @YoungTurks - limited vinyl release, digital hopefully dropping in the new year.

Sampha - Plastic 100 (Batu Remix)

Buy: https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/challenge-me-foolish

Mike Paradinas returns to his µ-Ziq moniker after five years. Inclement is a lumbering, spooky, peak-time Paradinas melody from 1998, it's arpeggios intertwining to make more than the sum of it's parts.

From the album "Challenge Me Foolish" out 13th April

Challenge Me Foolish

Inclement (from the album 'Challenge Me Foolish" 13th April)

Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles has announced his fourth full length album 'Persona' will be released on 13th April via Erased Tapes.

The title 'Persona' was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film of the same name, specifically a shot in the opening credits of a child reaching out to touch a woman’s face on a screen, which is shifting between one face and another. This powerful image struck Ryan and it inspired the album’s main theme — an exploration of the persona, the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us, the spaces in between; between states, people, light and dark, the inner persona and the outer persona. 

"My music is generally is generally inward looking. I like finding something about the self within music, that doesn't have to be specific but maybe asks something or reveals something. This record is a continuation on the self through electronic sounds. Like Legowelt once said ‘a synthesiser is like a translator for unknown emotions’, which I think sums up what I am trying to do. I think all these emotions we have make up our persona. So in a way by finding new ones you alter or expand your persona. And that is what I want my music to try to do. I deliberately aimed to be more sonically diverse with this record. I wanted to experiment more. I wanted to create new sounds and new emotions.”

Recorded at his studio in south-east London, ‘Persona’ benefits from Ryan’s exploration of a dynamic production process that combines analogue-heavy synthesisers, acoustic and electric instruments with a shoegaze-level obsession with effect pedals. A greater depth of emotion and confidence can be heard across the album. From the deconstructed movements on ‘Unfolding’ that starts the album with a snap of delayed snares, the apocalyptic drones of the title track and thundering drums in ‘Phantom Grip’ to more  restrained ambient feels of ‘Dreamer’s Wake’, ‘Rest’ and ‘Untravel’. The latter transverses six beatless minutes of undulating melodies representing “a limbo space, a feeling of ennui, of not really ever being known to others and others not ever really being known to you”.

'Be Kind' reveals a musical connection with fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm, with its minimal approach and improvisational nature. On the more complex sounding ‘I Think So’ Ryan aims to replicate a colour collage with sound. Like a musical kaleidoscope, a flashing and convoluted mass. Written after he saw Slowdive perform live last year, ‘Hidden’ builds from whispers to landscapes of controlled noise. In an interview with XLR8R magazine, Ryan explains: “once you start trying to make a sound loud, then you turn your back on thousands and thousands of sonic possibilities. One of the best things to do is to start a track with a really quiet, weak sound.” Taking this idea to its ultimate conclusion, ‘Fragment’ closes the album as an innocent sounding ambient piece, almost nursery rhyme like, yielding time for reflection on how the persona has changed.

'Persona' follows the success of a series of releases — the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘Sonne’ EPs, long player ‘Howl’, and 2016’s mini album ‘Night Melody’ — that saw Ryan mature into what Pitchfork has called a “forward-thinking electronic musician with his own ideas about sound”. Atypical of instrumental-electronic music, Ryan has achieved a signature sound that’s unmistakably identifiable as Rival Consoles. Going beyond typical electronic music production, Ryan defines it as “songwriting with an electronic palette of sounds”.

The increasingly dynamic live audio-visual show, born from bespoke performances at the Tate and for Boiler Room at the V&A Museum featuring self-programmed visuals in Max/MSP, has propelled him to play around the world. Ryan launches ‘Persona’ at London’s XOYO on 12th April with further dates to be announced.

Persona

Unfolding

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Rival Consoles - Unfolding

Taken from the forthcoming Ostgut Ton album: @AnswerCodeRequest - ‘Gens’ (OSTGUTCD42/LP28), out February 23, 2018. All album info here: http://ostgut.de/label/record/211

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Answer Code Request | Ab Intus

It's real!
Faceshopping!
I'm real when I shop my face!

Delighted to share this song with you- created with my darling of inspiration CECILE BELIEVE!

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SOPHIE — Faceshopping

Special Request returns via Gerd Janson & Shan's studio, as they completely re-build both Brainstorm and Make It Real across four frenzy-inducing incendiary versions custom made for sending the rave over the edge...

https://houndstoothrecords.lnk.to/specialrequestremix 

Cut & Mastered by Matt Colton @ Alchemy. Manufactured at Optimal-Media, Germany.

Special Request X Gerd Janson & Shan

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Special Request - Brainstorm (Gerd Janson & Shan House Mix)

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