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BEST OF TECHNO 2018

This latest installment in the Stroboscopic saga once again calls upon the talents of two label veterans; both having released EPs on the label while also contributing to its five-year retrospective series. This new split release shared between Kangding Ray and Rrose is a fitting partnership: after all, both individuals are known for advancing the progress of rhythmic electronic music while drawing from creative influences and movements that weren’t typically associated with the ‘techno’ lineage until these producers made such links possible.
Kangding Ray’s side, “Ardent,” is a gripping and propulsive piece formed in the same spirit as the songs from his latest full-length, Cory Arcane. Dramatic and cinematic from beginning to end, it makes the listener and/or dancer feel like a highly alert martial artist slicing and kicking through a host of liquid-metallic adversaries, with disciplined synth bass and rich melodic swells as defensive weapons. Slick and accessible without ever being conventional, “Ardent” convincingly collages stuttering and minced sequences together with steady percolation and smooth, brassy undertones - three different sonic ‘states of matter’ that unify to make Kangding Ray’s musical
imagination into an almost tactile thing.
The entity known as Rrose, meanwhile, presents a track here that reaffirms that artist’s expert skill at crafting perfectly symmetrical and mesmerizing musical palindromes (a skill that can be seen on other standout Stroboscopic Artefacts tracks like “The Stare,” and also on Rrose’s interpretation of James Tenney’s classic palindrome “Koan [Having Never Written A Note For Percussion]).” The track in question, “Swallows,” is appropriately named, impressing upon listeners like the sonic equivalent of a massive searchlight which, once it lands upon its target, swallows or vacuums up the listener’s conscious attention. This elegantly arching set of multiplying and disintegrating waveforms rewards those with the courage to return its insistent gaze and to “play at maximum” volume to reveal the wealth of detail concealed within its deceptive minimalism.
With its scientific exactness and sheer originality, this split is an essential listen not just for fans of either artist, but also for any seeker after new perceptual revelations.

Kangding Ray / Rrose 'Ardent / Swallows' [SA027]

Luigi Tozzi - Hierophant

Conrad Van Orton, VSK (3) ‎– Quantum Entanglement
Label: Modularz ‎– MODULARZ 024
Format: Vinyl, 12", EP
Country: US
Released: May 2016
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno 

Tracklist
A1 Sub Atomic 
A2 Interaction 
B1 DP 
B2 Angular Momentum

Quantum Entanglement

Conrad Van Orton & VSK - Angular Momentum

Ell039 Architectural - Heaven Can Wait EP

Architectural delivers a hypnotic yet driving 4 track ep, each track stands out on its own showcasing what this man is all about. 

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Vinyl Available on:
Kompakt.fm : http://www.kompakt.fm/releases/heaven...
Decks.de
http://www.decks.de/t/architectural-h...
Juno.co.uk
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/archit...

Digital:
https://www.beatport.com/release/heaven-can-wait-ep/1954335

Artwork By : Melkio

B1. Architectural - Temptation

@EtappKyle’s first full Ostgut Ton EP release sees the Ukrainian-born, Berlin-based Berghain resident emphasizing the connection between spaces, while avoiding Techno’s overt intergalactic clichés. By partially linking to his ‘Continuum EP’ (Unterton, 2016), the results are four tracks of pristine, sci-fi minimalism, propelled by Ambient synths and percussive explosions in distant skies – more utopian than dystopian.

Buy 12"

Etapp Kyle | Alpha

Today the musical vision offered by Berghain resident @AnswerCodeRequest, real name Patrick Gräser, has proved far-sighted. While at first glance electronic music in 2018 seems increasingly balkanized, borders between genres have once again become fuzzier. Now, on his follow up LP ‘Gens’, Gräser looks beyond the bass euphoria of his debut album ‘Code’ (Ostgut Ton, 2014) toward darker horizons and a desolate atmosphere befitting of current global circumstances.

Catch Answer Code Request on the road: http://ostgut.de/booking/artist/answer-code-request/dates

Listen at
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2qJ1sNQM9FakZj5oCz0oMP
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/gens/1333506695
Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/de/album/54754852

Pre-order the album at
Bandcamp: https://answercoderequest.bandcamp.com/album/gens
Ostgut Ton: http://ostgut.de/ton/record/211
Bleep: https://bleep.com/release/94140-answer-code-request-gens
Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/gens
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/gens/1333506695
Juno: https://www.junodownload.com/products/answer-code-request-gens/3644172-02/
Traxsource: https://www.traxsource.com/title/917376/gens

Buy LP

Answer Code Request | Sphera

Available from 12th March on the Kneaded Pains label.
Pre-order from Beatport http://found.ee/Qud4s

@kneadedpainsrecords
@denseandpika

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A Sagittariun - Arc Of Enlightenment (KP24) [clip]

Paradise Engineering
RTTD011 – May 14th, 2018
Vinyl 12″

https://galaxian.bandcamp.com/album/paradise-engineering

Glasgow based producer, Galaxian, is set to drop the 11th release of Helena Hauff’s Return to Disorder imprint. “Paradise Engineering” is an ambitiously psychedelic piece of machine mastery that will be right at home on Hauff’s label, with which she set out to bring “punk rock and techno together” in 2015. The label’s name refers to the reactionary post-WW1 art movement, Return to Order, which called for a rejection of the avant-garde in favor of conservatism and classicism. Return to Disorder has embraced experimentation and genre bending with releases from the likes of Children of Leir, Morah and Umwelt. Galaxian’s proximity to the sharp edge of quantum chaos and belief in the anarchism of nature make him a fitting addition to the Hamburg based label.

“Paradise Engineering”, is a lot to unpack. Within its four tracks, Galaxian lays out an intricate web of self, spiritual and socio-technic exploration and critique. Producing the cover art alone took him on a 12 month journey, while meditating on questions of inner-alchemy, freedom and transcendence. The music covers extensive sonic topography with each of the four distinct tracks building a critical tension while creating counterpoint for one another. Violently intricate drum machine work stakes out the boundaries of “Paradise Engineering’s” autonomous zone, where Galaxian lays out a dense thesis on the harrowed human condition. The tracks leave the listener much to ponder, especially with lines like, “You have been deprived of knowledge by frequency control” and “All possibilities exist”. Synth and bass lines emerge oscillating around each other from deep space on the EP’s second A-side, “Mutual Arising”, clean and crisp supporting elements to stratospheric strings. It gets significantly more aggressive on the B-side with “Life Force” drilling through neck-snapping electro drums with acid patterns, whose methodic dynamism and complexity begins to sound like inter-galactic alien transmissions when blown through a dizzying effect chain. Comfortably between literal and abstract, complex and elegant, “Paradise Engineering” is a deep and rewarding listen.

Paradise Engineering

Galaxian - Life Force [Paradise Engineering RTTD011]

Picking up from where she left off with last years successful Tools of My Purpose, E-Saggila has returned to BANK employing a more sublime and immersive electronic document. Previously leaning toward noisier and distorted rhythms, she has incorporated more sophisticated elements into writing and production. Dedicated to Sublimity is a product of growth and progression but still reflects the raw elements we’ve heard in her early recordings. Lush and atmospheric elements coincide with the brutality of her live sets and play off one another as a cohesive representation of the E-Saggila project.

Dedicated to Sublimity

Glass Wing

E-Saggila - Glass Wing (BNK-015)

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Alfredo Mazzili - Reminiscenza

Our first LP is presented by our deeply appreciated resident Héctor Oaks. Taking inspiration from his marathon sets in Bassiani’s second floor, Höroom, and the 11th of May in Tbilisi, the techno staple crafted his own take on contemporary dance music. “As We Were Saying” is an unapologetic collection of heartfelt, powerful techno. Crafted by a vinyl lover for dancing purposes, its arrangement and composition fits both, club or as an energizing home listening. This is the soundtrack for our revolution.

“The 11 tracks are a portrayal of the spirit captured in the vaults of the Dinamo Stadium. From my point of view, this is the voice of a generation that found it’s freedom in raving. To all of you my Georgian brothers and sisters, and anybody who felt touched by this. As we were saying: we dance together.
One of you.”

B1 Héctor Oaks - Forwarded State Of Evidence

Selection 001

@EtappKyle returns to Ostgut Ton with ‘Nolove’, a project encompassing a four-track EP, short film and forthcoming web exhibition focusing on Western Ukraine. Specifically, the music and artwork home in on the cities of Kamianets-Podilskyi and Chernivtsi in Bukovina, where Etapp Kyle grew up and developed his interest in electronic music.

Although now part of Ukraine, Bukovina had previously been part of Moldova, the Habsburg Empire, the Russian Empire, Romania and the Soviet Union. Its turbulent history and position on the border of Romania and Moldova have resulted in an extremely varied tapestry of cultural influence, as featured in the video for title track “Nolove”. There, youth, fashion, music culture sit side-by-side next to religion, violence and war – and larger political struggles.

The EP gives shape to the musical developments Etapp Kyle has made in both the studio and DJ booth since the release of 2017's ‘Alpha’, his latest 12" for Ostgut Ton. In contrast, Nolove's four tracks are minimalistic, detailed electronic ventures inspired by personal reflections on Chernivtsi and Ukrainian cultural identity. Forward-facing in rhythm and melody, the EP offers meticulously-produced leftfield dancefloor impressions of the region’s past, present and future.

Answer Code Request | Sphera

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