Electronic Music (Aoki Takamasa, etc.)

[p*dis] distribution sampler for Septmeber 2012

p*dis sampler 2012.09

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Grischa

Vincey Beats

Noise and experimental-edm

About time I wrote one about my new home, Hong Kong. So, inspired by the insects I recorded on my iPhone on my way down from the Peak where I took this photo, here it is!

Part of my slowly growing set https://soundcloud.com/andiyi/sets/riding-to-kawa-karpo

Probably be a few changes before final mixdown and mastering, so all comments very welcome!

City In The Clouds

CAPSIZE RECOVERY takes the listener on a ride through a very dark universe of gloomy sounds and atmospheres.

the eight rather longish tracks of the album are characterized by senking‘s epic signature sounds - creepy hovering bass lines, clean and slowed down drums, paired with oscillating and sometimes fierce synth melodies and shots.

with his extremely deep and dubby arrangements that explore the depths and abysses of bass heavy music, he again is able to create soundscapes that convey a subtle sense of unease or even fear, as if they were the soundtrack to a mysterious and disturbing film.

already the opener „chainsawfish“ reflects this perfectly. a minimalistic composition of droning basses and synth pad sounds is decorated by scary voice snippets that seem to be taken from a horror movie, which eventually evokes the uncanny feeling of being haunted.

the track „tiefenstop“ - a truly telling title - is a continuation of this theme and can be seen as the lowest point of the journey where the bass is reaching ever deeper spheres. again, voice snippets are used that intensify the hectic and stressful impression of the track, but here they are juxtaposed with rather positive and balancing melody lines.

besides the omnipresent mysterious atmosphere, the overall sound of jens massel‘s new record is organic and possesses a certain live character that can also be discovered in the last track. senking, by the way, is also one of the few artists who creates his music without the use of a computer.

„enduro bones“ starts with a monotone beat to which single elements like echoes, synth sounds, and fragments of melodies are added. by means of repetitions and extensions, the track is gradually becoming more dense and complex, and therefore it seems to be a song that is being created at this very moment.

senking‘s new record is an excursion to the depths of the human psyche. it‘s like the record is reflecting a difficult situation one can get into, as well as the struggle of getting out of it again - hence the title CAPSIZE RECOVERY.

senking. shading (excerpt). taken from senking. capsizerecovery

0913_14 skch lvst de-grid 001

after their successful ep collapsed (r-n116) the bristol based project strikes back with a full length album on raster-noton. once more james ginzburg & paul purgas challenge the perceptual boundaries between noise and music and the potential for both technology and architecture to embed and codify themselves within sound.

recur is presented as emptyset’s third studio album, continuing on from their work with demiurge. the material examines the central themes of time, structure and recursion, through the analysis of scale and the interaction of both formal and fractured sonics. the album furthers the project’s exploration of rhythm, dislocation and feedback within the framework of full frequency sound, structural abstraction and analogue processing. the work examines how notions of time interact with both experience and form, and the resulting modes through which this affects sound through compression and rarefaction and the forcing of signal thresholds to their critical point.

recur is also available as cd ( r-n151), 12" vinyl (r-n151-2) and limited edition of 180 gr heavy vinyl + cd + art print signed by the artists (r-n151-3).

emptyset. limit (excerpt). taken from emptyset. recur

Thanks for the support this year everyone! Here's a free track for you to download.

Ital Tek  - Golden (Xmas 2013 Free Download!)

'A thrilling mix by LCC connecting original soundtracks of movies from different decades' | @secretthirteen

www.secretthirteen.org/lcc-lascasicasiotone-mix-review

Tracklist:

01. Lars Johan Werle, Evald Andersson, Lennart Engholm, Olle Jacobsson, P.O. Pettersson - Opening Scene (Persona OST and Sounds) [feat. Children Choir - Just a closer walk with thee (Heavenly Creatures OST)]
02. Jed Kurzel - The Dream (Snowtown OST)
03. David Wingo - Signing‬ (Take Shelter OST)
04. ‪Genesis Breyer P. Orridge, Lady J, Bryin Dall, A. Genese - I love you I know‬ (The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye OST)
05. from Kynodontas (Original Sounds)
06. Antony Partos - Journey (Disgrace OST)
07. M83 - Holograms (You and The Night‬ OST)
08. Mark Korven - Where are we (Cube OST) (feat. Benny's Video Original Sounds)
10. ‪Clint Mansell‬ - Pi R^2 [πr²] (π OST)
11. Philip Glass - ‪Koyaanisqatsi‬ (‪Koyaanisqatsi‬ OST) (feat. Laurence Anyways Original Sounds)
12. ‪Michel Rubini & Denny Jaeger - Beach House‬ (The Hunger OST)
13. Thomas Bangalter - Rectum (Irréversible OST)
14. Howard Shore - 801 A-B (‪Videodrome‬ OST) (feat. Seom Original Sounds)
15. Walter Murch - What's Wrong (THX 1138‬ OST and Sounds)
16. Philip Glass - Suite for String Quartet (Bent OST)
17. ‪Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel‬ (Gerry Soundtrack)
18. Caetano Veloso - Cucurrucucu Paloma (Happy Together and Talk to Her Soundtracks)


LCC - Secret Thirteen Mix 143

Track taken from Emptyset, debut self-titled on double LP, reissue. Available now to buy from: www.subtextrecordings.net/ SUB014

Emptyset - Completely Gone (SUB015)

»LA DEMEURE; il y a péril en la demeure« is the opening to a five-part complex of works by artist grischa lichtenberger. »LA DEMEURE« – the residence – could be outlined as intimacy, a symbol of isolation and privacy: the joy of being withdrawn from economic, temporal or social restraints in the confinement of a home. it owes gratitude to a protective otherness, a hospitality that leaves a trace in all the works deriving from this freedom. the double bind of an enabling retreat (la demeure) and the remaining (demeurer) trace of this otherness in it generates the central tension of »LA DEMEURE; il y a péril en la demeure«.

the single tracks on »LA DEMEURE; il y a péril en la demeure« and their components are constantly ruptured, disassembled and reassembled again. some passages allude to a weird fractured version of pop music, others may evoke associations to a disjointing music box, to something mechanical that is not working as it should. the time signatures of the tracks are constantly subjected to a mangling and squelching process, all the while keeping a constant rhythmical flow.
in his very own way, grischa lichtenberger is examining limits, new experiences and unfulfilling expectations. this unfilteredness and rawness, the lack of a target group the music is made for, is what is fascinating about this record. »LA DEMEURE; il y a péril en la demeure« thus becomes a luxurious-kafkaesque collection of materials, an uncensored archive of a seeker.

»LA DEMEURE; il y a péril en la demeure« will be released on CD and accompanied by three vinyl EPs that will place the experiment in relation to the public. the five-part cycle will be completed with a second album focusing on »IL Y A PÉRIL EN LA DEMEURE« – exigent circumstances – a legal term which allows law enforcement to break into the private residence because of an imminent danger (péril).

grischa lichtenberger »keys t« taken from »LA DEMEURE; il y a péril en la demeure«

A rare DJ mix from one of electronic music's chief practitioners.

RA.276 Alva Noto

This is an excerpt from 20min length song "LOOP for A.M. SHOW WINDOW6". People who buy A.M. works will get this full length CD during "A.M.SHOW WINDOW" exhibition at at KATA Tokyo from 26th  ~ 30th January 2016. edition 300.

"LOOP for A.M. SHOW WINDOW6"からの抜粋です。オリジナルは20分の作品です。2016.1月26日〜30日の期間にKATA Tokyoで開催される "A.M.SHOW WINDOW"にてA.M.作品をご購入いただいた方にCDをプレゼント。限定300枚。是非遊びにいらしてください。


mastered by Yoshinori Sunahara

LOOP for A.M. SHOW WINDOW6 _ excerpt

inspired by her residencies at stockholm‘s EMS studios, kyoka‘s new EP »SH« might be her most experimental record so far.

the 4 tracks presented on this EP can be described as snapshots having a spontaneous character as they were edited and recorded during various sound checks and performances.

the results are not less typical of kyoka‘s chaotic sound with unforeseen shifts in beat, unpredicted repetitions and surprising clicks and bops. the rather slow and gloomy opener »susurrus« is followed by a somehow dubby and strongly up-tempo track, »smash/hush«, that culminates in a repetitive and hypnotic swirl. the b-side, on the other hand, continues with a rather slamming track and is rounded of with »shush«, a track that loses some speed, but not complexity through its diverse breaks and cuts.

besides a release on vinyl, this EP will also see a CD release in japan with two additional tracks that will be available digitally through raster-noton‘s online shop.

kyoka »smash/hush« taken from kyoka »SH«

as a central point of reference of grischa lichtenberger‘s »la demeure/il y a péril en la demeure« complex, raster-noton releases a limited edition of three 12“ vinyl EPs that are accompanied by a handmade, signed and individualized screen print.

the three EPs were set up as an experiment. each of the records is guided by a word that could be described as a phantasmagoria, a delusion of the 20th century – like a metaphor that is concerned not only with its immediate meaning, but with an implication more emotional, more irrational, telling something about the mindset of the not so distant past.

these keywords already existed before the production on the tracks began and thus played the role of an indirect orientation or playground for association. nevertheless, the EPs are not conceptualized, but rather a collection of habits and strategies in relation to the titles.

common to all EPs of the triptych is the question of a connection between intimacy and the public sphere. aesthetically, the music presented on the EPs ranges from distressing and unaligned dancefloor-oriented tracks to tribal and politically charged drones to unsettling noise ballads. on »spielraum«, for example, hypnotizing music box melodies are combined with claustrophobic breakbeats. »allgegenwart«, on the other hand, presents mechanical rhythms and sawing pads, topped with high-pitched warning sounds. last but not least, the final EP »strahlung« features self-forgetful, gloomy and melancholy tracks backed by melodies that remind of a barrel organ turned upside down.

please note: this special edition is limited to 500 copies and was printed, stamped and signed by the artist himself. print and paint application variations are intended.

for more on the ideas behind the series in grischa lichtenberger‘s own words, see: http://www.grischa-lichtenberger.com/spielraum_allgegenwart_strahlung/

Spielraum

grischa lichtenberger »001_0315_13_dest« taken from »spielraum | allgegenwart | strahlung«

Not Waving - Redacted

• 1st vinyl edition of Not Waving’s absorbingly raw, adventurous 2nd album
• Originally issued in edition of 100 gold tapes in 2013. Now sought-after 2nd hand
• A refresher of sorts, following the powerful new sound of Not Waving’s Animals LP for Diagonal
• Newly remastered for vinyl by Matt Colton @ Alchemy in an edition of 500
• RIYL Pye Corner Audio, John Carpenter, Edward Artemiev

With the necessary vinyl reissue of Not Waving’s sophomore solo LP Redacted (2013), Alessio Natalizia reminds us of his nascent psychedelic side in light of his lucid, skizzo deviations on the Animals album for Diagonal. While there’s a mutual sense of technoid momentum to both albums, Redacted is a far gauzier, freeform and sensual beast; one richly steeped in proto/post-club atmospheres and allowing his imagination to run away with itself.

Conceptually, Redacted pursues the “classified” themes of his Remote Viewing-inspired Umwelt (2013) LP into even murkier departments, drawing subtly ‘marish parallels between the cold war atmospheres that birthed original post punk, industrial and proto-techno, and the current pallor of socio-political unrest that pervades our present situation.

Omitting the original tape’s expansive closer for the sake of a single LP cut, this vinyl version plays out like an alternative soundtrack to scenes in the overgrown, radioactive zones of Tarkovsky’s Stalker, using an anachronistic palette of analogue machinery to emphasise a sense of fluid, shimmering motion and out-of-place-and-timelessness that genuinely goes straight to the head with trippy effect. 

Swampy slow techno horror themes vacillate with decayed pastoral panoramas and windows of synthetic optimism, both lush and disquietingly needling, using dissonance and sweeps of hazy noise to ultimately spell out a foreboding but dreamlike sort of electronic subterfuge and suspense that resonates with the nostalgic Stranger Things score as much as Leyland Kirby’s Intrigue & Stuff series.


BUY!

Not Waving - Redacted 2 [ELP023]

Somme (v2.0)

Almost Dead Celebrities, LP, "Manga" - Requiem Records 2011

Akira Kosemura - It's on Everything - A Park (someone good)

Akira Kosemura - It's on Everything - orgel (edit) (someone good)

Grischa Lichtenberger - and.IV [inertia] - 1011 11 ss1 (raster-noton)

Dagshenma - helko - evaks (shrine.jp)

Dagshenma - helko - offthelight (shrine.jp)

Balmorhea(バルモレイ)「Stranger』

■日本流通盤のみボーナストラック1曲のダウンロード・クーポン
ライナーノーツ : 吉本宏
全10曲 ／価格 : 1,980円 (税込み) ／発売日 : 2012年10月4日
レーベル : Western Vinyl ／流通 : インパートメント p*dis

ポストクラシカルの先駆者としてEfterklangらと共に世界的な評価を得ているBlmorhea(バルモレイ)の5枚目となる最新アルバム。
ポストロックのダイナミックさを融合させた彼らの最高傑作が完成！

Dirty Projectors, Goldmund, Here We Go Magic,蓮沼執太を輩出して来たWestern Vinylの看板アーティストであり、2ndアルバム『Rivers Arms』(2008)、3rdアルバム『All is Wild, All is Silent』でポストクラシカル・シーンで絶大な支持を受けEfterklangとツアーを共にしてきた米国テキサスの6人組Balmorhea(バルモレイ)。
いままでアコースティック・ギターとピアノを多く使ってきた彼らですが、今作ではエレクトリック・ギターのループ、ヴィブラフォン、シンセ、ウクレレ、スティール・パン、そしてドラム。荘厳な雰囲気を得意とした彼らが、昨年リリースの7インチ”Candor/Clamor”の流れから、よりポストロックの要素を加えダイナミックなサウンドへと進化しました。
メロディーや音の派手さだけに頼らない彼らの美学が随所に詰まった作品。昨年ポストロックの復権を取り戻したExplosions In The Sky『Take Care...』に続く歴史的名作の予感です。

＜Balmorhea(バルモレイ)＞
2006年にRob LoweとMichael Mullerで結成。テキサスの地名Balmorheaからバンド名をつけているだけに500人弱のテキサス西部の生活から彼らの音楽は大きな影響を受けている。『フィールド・レコーディングスとアコースティック・ギター、ピアノを中心とした傑作『Rivers Arms』(2008)、バンジョーとドラムを加えた出世作『All is Wild, All is Silent』(2009)、そしてクラシカルでミニマルな室内楽の荘厳さを持つ『Constellations』(2010)
と様々な形で彼らの高い作曲のセンスとアレンジ能力を聴く事ができる。いままでにFleet Foxes、Tortoise、Bear in Heaven、mono, Here We Go Magicらと共演。

Balmorhea - Stranger - Pyrakantha  (western vinyl)

http://shop.raster-noton.net/?pid=269

»the title ›and IV (inertia)‹ refers to a fictionalized successor of the baksan neutrino telescope in the caucasus region. at first, it has been an idea for a novel, based on the consideration that it is impossible to deal with the topic of a ›lebensraum‹ like berlin without being hit by stylization – so I had to experiment with strategies of fiction.«

with »and IV (inertia)«, grischa lichtenberger presents his first full length record on raster-noton after his participation in the unun-series. for his musical production, he uses field recordings of his environment which are manipulated and broken down to their bare nakedness until only fragments are left. apart from analogue sources, he also uses digital sound data which is likewise turned and twisted until the boundaries between analogue and digital are blurred.

the arrangement of these atomic elements results in a rather rough and brute, machine-like cut-up sound with an outstanding dynamic – almost none. it seems like that the 21 tracks only consist of a minimal set of elements, but which are rearranged in a virtuous manner and with a high degree of variation. broken beats and dribbling basses allude to downbeat tunes, let one stumble because of their arhythmicity, to eventually take up the underlying groove again. equally, there are fierce and harsh technoid elements. and towards the second part of the record, there is also room for new developments where more introverted and airy songs take over.

lichtenberger’s musical production on »and IV (inertia)« goes in line with his general artistic work, which also comprises other artistic genres such as installations and paintings. there is a mental attitude behind all this, and while the music sounds abstract, one may still identify his personal note. In this way, »and IV (inertia)« is the extension of a concept he already started with his »~treibgut« ep (r-n112), »to define aspects of legitimation for an artistic work in engagement with the concreteness of one’s living situation.«

grischa lichtenberger. 1210_08_4+ (excerpt). taken from grischa lichtenberger. and IV (inertia)

grischa lichtenberger. 1110_01_lv_1b. taken from grischa lichtenberger. and IV (inertia)

Taken from the single 'FA 2012' released as 12" / Download

Fennesz 'FA Mark Fell Remix' (eMEGO 151)

Dscrd "L'Envers Des Clefs" (Lucy Remix) [Dement3d 004]

Boiler Room Berlin 019: CTM Festival/ Alec Empire, Pole, Kangding Ray, Miles Whittaker & Pharoah Chromium

[Broadcasted on 24th January 2013]

Tracklist & video at http://boilerroom.tv

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Grischa Lichtenberger - and.IV [inertia] - 1011 11 ss1 (raster-noton)

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