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Nightdrive ( For Sale )

Origin of Erosion (feat. soho rezanejad & nils gröndahl)

Croatian Amor - "Finding People" 12"
Posh Isolation 194
Out May 5th, 2017

Croatian Amor - Sky Walkers

HELM - Chemical Flowers
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 99
Release Date: 17 May 2019
Purchase: bit.ly/2Uxqs9z / bit.ly/2UpJ0bA

Luke Younger returns to PAN with an eight-track album of his most direct work to date. Composed alone at NO studio in the Essex countryside, to start an album with a piece called ‘Capital Crisis (New City Loop)’ seems an intentional misnomer. Long, sustained periods in the rural studio setting see Younger working with an array of fragmented, disassociated sound sources to build upon 2015’s Olympic Mess. It shares a similarly inclined vision of the urban environment, but here Chemical Flowers makes reference to paradoxical notions of authenticity and creative practice by way of questioning the structures around us. Collages are assembled and dismantled, temporal and spatial boundaries fluctuate and movement is an overarching theme.

Surrealist drowned world atmospheres sculpted far enough away from the source of inspiration leave plenty of room for ambiguity. The nocturnal nature of the recording process is self-evident, and pieces like ‘Leave Them All Behind’ tap into a deep psychedelic undercurrent. Confused narratives, emotions and aleatory hallucinations ebb and flow throughout. ‘I Knew You Would Respond’ evokes murky soundtrack terrain with eerie repetitive strings and ambient respite, disrupted periodically by brief bursts of granular noise. It’s one of the records most unnerving moments, possibly as it’s one of the most recognisably human.

The album navigates dense passages with recurring signifiers. Hollow percussion, modulating delay and curious field recordings come and go, maintaining a perpetual state of flux where nothing stays the same for long. The drowned world theatricals return on the swamp-like ‘Lizard in Fear’ whilst string rhythms creep in on the penultimate track to incite momentary electroacoustic harmony. Floating synthesis slowly washes over and the title track unfolds - five minutes of reverb-laced portamento, visions of decay and Editions EG influenced
world-building. Movement is key.

Chemical Flowers features string parts arranged and recorded by JG Thirlwell (Foetus / Manorexia / Xordox). Additional cello played by Lucinda Chua and saxophone by Karl D’Silva. The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

http://p-a-n.org

Chemical Flowers 

HELM - Leave Them All Behind (PAN 99)

The debut collaborative album by City (@citymusic33) & i.o (@0rods) out now on PTP cassette and digital editions.

Composed long-distance over several years, '​Spirit Volume'​ finds the musicians combining City’s industrial brutality with i.o’s frenetic, highly technical drumming. Curiously, the meeting of the two results in moments of serenity and calm that are few and far between in both of their solo oeuvres. “Faith,” a rework of a similarly-named piece that appeared on City’s debut Halcyon Veil LP, is the high water mark in terms of intensity, while “Markerlight” is an almost Bohren-esque night drive through i.o’s expansive and gorgeous guitar playing. “YS” features plaintive synth work from fellow Vancouver producer ​x/o​.

City is the alias of guitarist and producer Will Ballantyne, based in Vancouver. City has released records on Halcyon Veil and Ascetic House, and toured extensively throughout Asia, Europe, and North America.

i.o is a band consisting of Maxwell Patterson; drummer, guitarist, producer, and visual artist. Maxwell lives and works in Victoria, BC.

Written and produced by City & i.o
Drums and guitar on all tracks by i.o
Synths on YS by x/o

Mastered by Aaron Wharton
Artwork by Loic Le Hécho
Designed by Collin Fletcher

Tracklist:
1. Anxiety object
2. Faith
3. Fatal flower
4. Bitter
5. Churchlight
6. Markerlight
7. Mirage silent
8. YS (with x/o)
9. Forever an image

Spirit Volume

Cassette|Digital

City & i.o - Markerlight (from 'Spirit Volume' [PTP2014])

As featured on AQNB's 'even my dreams don't go outside' art & music compendium.

Buy now: bit.ly/2RXX9JY

even my dreams don't go outside

Keru Not Ever, 'Strette' (2020). Courtesy the artist.

Last Creations

Silent Spring - Last Creations

pol100 ‘Sepsis EP'

pol100 is an alias used by Italian producer Paolo Maiarelli. Maiarelli is originally from Ferrara, a small city located in the north of Italy. Inspired by the likes of Arca, Rabit and Lee Gamble among others, it has been four years since he started to create music under the pol100 moniker. During this period he developed, what he calls, a more personal sound that can be heard on his previous releases ‘ANOTHER FINE DAY’ and ‘PLAGUE EP’ released on respectively Elastica Records and Du Couer Records. His latest work ‘Sepsis EP’ will be released on Bound Centre and introduces us to a new chapter in Maiarelli’s work. The complex mix between Ambient-like audio engineering and break/bass heavy electronica is conceived from his research into the idea of sound over structure and is based on the four symptoms of septic shock. On basis of these four symptoms Maiarelli created a listening experience that transcends conventional forms of arrangement and sound design and forces the listener to take a deep dive into the concept and physical consequences of the disease.
credits
releases September 8, 2020

Artist:
⚔ pol100 (www.soundcloud.com/wasmusic-1)

Artwork:
⚔ Buien

Mastering:
⚔ Edoardo Elliot

Tracklist:
01. pol100 - Fever
02. pol100 - Edema
03. pol100 - Hypothermia
04. pol100 - Altered Mental States

Video:
⚔ Buien

Digital Distribution:
⚔ Clone (Rotterdam)

Links:
www.facebook.com/poll100
www.instagram.com/_pol100_

www.facebook.com/boundcentre.official
www.instagram.com/boundcentre.official

www.instagram.com/buien_

www.clone.nl