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DrumTraTrax

Drum Track (OMAAR remix)

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Bravamax

@geinst

area127 invited a collective of artists to their chemical lab to experiment beyond the club conventions. The result? A mesmerising mix of psychoactive elements and sonic chemistry to send your mind on a deep inner exploration.

https://area127.bandcamp.com/album/127va004

cover alchemist ~ https://instagram.com/simonajonusiene
sonic mastering ~ https://instagram.com/_ctrls
lab manager ~ https://instagram.com/tadasmajeris

Gëinst - Particules [127VA004]

@stennyyy

area127 invited a collective of artists to their chemical lab to experiment beyond the club conventions. The result? A mesmerising mix of psychoactive elements and sonic chemistry to send your mind on a deep inner exploration.

https://area127.bandcamp.com/album/127va004

cover alchemist ~ https://instagram.com/simonajonusiene
sonic mastering ~ https://instagram.com/_ctrls
lab manager ~ https://instagram.com/tadasmajeris

Stenny - Variation Principle [127VA004]

@esgeem

area127 invited a collective of artists to their chemical lab to experiment beyond the club conventions. The result? A mesmerising mix of psychoactive elements and sonic chemistry to send your mind on a deep inner exploration.

https://area127.bandcamp.com/album/127va004

cover alchemist ~ https://instagram.com/simonajonusiene
sonic mastering ~ https://instagram.com/_ctrls
lab manager ~ https://instagram.com/tadasmajeris

Esgeem - Eastern Warships [127VA004]

@radiationpattern

https://area127.bandcamp.com/album/127va004

area127 invited a collective of artists to their chemical lab to experiment beyond the club conventions. The result? A mesmerising mix of psychoactive elements and sonic chemistry to send your mind on a deep inner exploration.

cover alchemist ~ https://instagram.com/simonajonusiene
sonic mastering ~ https://instagram.com/_ctrls
lab manager ~ https://instagram.com/tadasmajeris

Radiation Pattern - Lu Laùru [127VA004]

@fgnouh

area127 invited a collective of artists to their chemical lab to experiment beyond the club conventions. The result? A mesmerising mix of psychoactive elements and sonic chemistry to send your mind on a deep inner exploration.

https://area127.bandcamp.com/album/127va004

cover alchemist ~ https://instagram.com/simonajonusiene
sonic mastering ~ https://instagram.com/_ctrls
lab manager ~ https://instagram.com/tadasmajeris

Huong Federkeil - Muldvarp [127VA004]

Hesaitix - Noctian Airgap (PAN 152)
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 152
Release Date: 06 December 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/NoctianAirgap

Through the haze we could make out hardly anything. Just the black line of the horizon. And in the distance the faint glimmering of the sea.

James Whipple returns from a long period of musical dormancy with his first full length LP for PAN since 2017.

As M.E.S.H., he honed a singular and unpredictable sonic identity on his debut album Piteous Gate. Re-emerging as Hesaitix, the now-familiar motifs have become streamlined, the sound palette both more refined and more elaborate. Even at its most abstract, there is an uncanny presence permeating the record, a convincing emotional reality with its own narrative and spatial logic.

Opener ‘Cusp of Unknowing’ announces itself with crushing low end synths feathered with delicate chimes before dissolving into the oceanic din of a data center. Rolling, engine-like subs mark the start of ‘Taurian Shade,’ a low- tempo percussive drive past iced-over chords and angular synth lines. ‘Geflatnet’ and ‘Volunteer’ dip into grooves bordering on nostalgic, referencing a misremembered golden era of electronica long-players. On ‘Santarosae (Black Dolphin),’ a sense of primordial awe comes to the fore, while ‘Black Line,’ originally presented as an audio installation in 2022, uses the human voice to explore a narrative approach to sound. ‘Noctian Airgap’ and ‘Anticrime’ return to syncopation and its complex moods, while ‘Subdermal’ and ‘Hypersea’ embrace repetition in service to atmosphere.

Hesaitix - Taurian Shade

Hesaitix - Santarosae (Black Dolphin)

Hesaitix - Black Line

Hesaitix - Subdermal

Taken from the 'Persona' EP, out now on Warp Records.

Bleep - http://smarturl.it/persona-bleep
Stream - http://smarturl.it/persona-stream

Rave Voyeur

PAN DAIJING - Lack 惊蛰 (PAN 79)

Format: LP / Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No: PAN 79
Release Date: 28 July 2017

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pre-order: http://pan-daijing.bandcamp.com/album/lack-pan79

Pan Daijing announces her debut album, ‘Lack 惊蛰’, on PAN this July.

Culminating as the purgative ‘finale’ to her improvisational live performances, Pan Daijing’s debut album also offers an insight to her future works. The process was intuitive and raw, born out of her previous explorations. Over the past 2 years, she has composed, recorded and edited different concerts and field recordings across Europe, China, and Canada, forming the basis of the record. Arriving as her first full-length album, ‘Lack 惊蛰’ was crafted from this long, painstaking mental and physical practice.

Daijing’s pieces are created around a very intense and intimate mental catharsis, often expressed through a close physical interaction with strangers in her live sets which seek to engage them in a highly personal way. “When I was finalising this album, they didn’t feel like tracks to me anymore, but more like a psychoanalytical process,” she says. “I saw myself being this absurd, mad person ‘acting’ out the sounds… It’s rather physical, and became like a mindgame. All things came out naturally as part of me.”

The narrative of the album presents a perspective of the world as ‘the theatre of our minds’ - where Daijing sees the record as an ‘opera piece’ in its storytelling and drama.

The release is mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M, featuring photography by Ralf Marsault, and artwork by Bill Kouligas.