Releases

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/allegedwitches, Le Chocolate Noir
Track: The Quest
Label: https://soundcloud.com/kri-records
Format: Digital EP
Release date: 29/08/22
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c6qglpFDdvk

Christian Kroupa, aka Alleged Witches, and LCN (Le Chocolate Noir) combine to launch new imprint KRI with their expansive ‘Worlds Connect’ EP, accompanied by a remix from Alessandro Adriani.
A new imprint hailing from Ljublijana, Slovenia, KRI aims to capture the lost futures of EBM, electro and nu-wave from the 80s while pairing them with future-focused productions of the now. Named after post-punk group Otroci Socializma, the label ran by local DJs and promoters Schrauff & Lavka will showcase records enjoyed both in the club and at home, while re-issuing obscure and timeless records alongside fresh material from producers across the globe. The first instalment welcomes a well-crafted journey and debut collaboration between Christian Kroupa, arriving off his LP on Natural Sciences under his Alleged Witches alias, and Return to Disorder and L.I.E.S. alumnus LCN (aka Le Chocolate Noir), with the two producers serving up their eclectic ‘World’s Connect’ EP - backed by a remix from Mannequin boss Alessandro Adriani. Opening production ‘The Quest’ welcomes a futuristic electro ride through warped vocals and resonant synths to set the tone, before Alessandro Adriani’s take on the track dives into darker, murkier territories as he serves up a powerful acid-flecked remix. On the flip, ‘The Hate That You Preach’ continues the dystopian feel with a chuggy production guided by vocal echoes, while ‘Electro City Express’ takes cues from its title with a surging, sweeping journey through cinematic synths. B3 ‘Contraint Attached’ rounds out the vinyl offering with a dark yet immersive and absorbing tumble through post-punk, EDM and synth-wave influences for an intoxicating trip. The release also comes with a digital bonus in the form of the PAN YU version of ‘Electro City Express’ - offering up a ray of light and an abundance of energy via intergalactic leads, bubbling electronics and nimble percussion throughout.

Worlds Connect (incl. Alessandro Adriani Remix)

PREMIERE | Christian Kroupa & LCN - The Quest [KRI] 2022

SETR008 V.Ö. 14.10.

A) TIFFY L’AMOUR - FOLLOW ME (FREY & MENQUI Glockenspiel) 
B) DIE GESUNDEN - Filmmusik (FREY & OTTER Dive)

Serious Trouble label presents a mind bending record that brings together forward thinking jams from the early 80’s into present time with reworks of Tiffy L’Amours’ „Follow Me“ and „Film Musik“ from Die Gesunden. Both received an editorial treatment by Benedikt Frey, Menqui & Philipp Otterbach. With kind allowance by the original composers this 12“ marks the editorial spirit of Serious Trouble and waves tribute to moist cellar jams.
The A-Side „Follow Me“ Rework by Frey & Menqui is a wild extension of the original which gently adds a weird drummy cowbell intro before it introduces the chanting eccentric original. That got enhanced with an extra electronic bass recording and relooped cut & phrases emphasing you to hit the bell just one more time.
On the flip side „Film Musik“ Frey & Otterbach dived into the artists main motive and layerd it with a lyra, sh101 and external drums in an 8 hour session. It respectfully keeps the spirit of the playful original. In comparison to that though they managed to built a seamless endless „escheresque" staircase to mad mountain. An Immortal Acid exploration.

Die Gesunden & Tiffy L'Amour Reworks (Benedikt Frey, Menqui, Philipp Otterbach)

@freybenedikt RIO09 // 11.18.2022 // Distr. One Eye Witness

When British Airways got privatized and listed on the London Stock Exchange, somewhere in Canada the first Starbucks outside of the US opened, and the Walt Disney Company signed an agreement with the French Prime Minister to construct Disneyland Paris. In the sky above southern Argentina, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, northern Somalia, and the Atlantic Ocean a hybrid solar eclipse materialized for 7.57 seconds, whilst Margaret Thatcher performed for 45-minutes on Soviet television. Some days later, The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, Diego Maradona wins his first Italian soccer championship with Napoli, and Eighteen-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust lands a private plane on Red Square in Moscow. In the mists of the world's first conference on artificial life at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Mainland China opens in Beijing, and Prozac gets approved for use as an antidepressant in the United States. Much give way for the future, down there in 1987, the year that marks the title of Benedikt Frey’s freshest mini album, out into the world on R.i.O., the label he runs with some pals in the North of Berlin. It’s a dubby melancholic conqueror, wistfully, repetitive, drilling, absorbing, spooking. It makes you dream. Not particular of the year 1987. But it’s all there: The Red Square, the untouched land of the Val d'Europe, Diego on fuego. Six dark-ish tracks in trance, melancholic dub, downbeat heaven, journey music depths, all full of light and yet so dark. Futuristic dramas linked to a speculative past. In our dreams all might look different. The eclipse may last 27-minutes. You meet Neuromancer cyberpunks and blade running Ghost dogs, all taught to hack by Phrack. Cristal clear melodies, sampled voices, and veiled basslines, analogue scopes, and digital ropes, longing for a past that storm into the future. A time where deep listening widens the acoustics into infinity, while neon glows charm the light smog. Benedikt Frey been down there. Or maybe not. His latest music tells stories from the bygone, vested with the forthcoming. Come in and look out. There is nothing to see, yet so much to hear. ML

A1) Phrack 5:55
A2) Trencher 6:15
A3) ORI 3:38
B1) Attitude 5:45
B2) Dummy 5:43
B3) Steam 5:30

Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

1987

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RIO09 Benedikt Frey - 1987

PREMIERE COMME DES LARMES – CDL

PREMIERE CDL || Anatolian Weapons - Sub-Aquatic [Sounds Of Ogigia] (2023)
 

Artist » Anatolian Weapons - https://soundcloud.com/anatolianweapons

Ep Name »  Terpsichore Dance 

Label » Sounds Of Ogigia - https://soundcloud.com/soundsofogigia

Edinburgh, UK


Format: Cassete + Digital Album 

Release date: March 15, 2023 


BUY HERE >>> https://soundsofogigia.bandcamp.com/album/terpsichore-dance


Disciple of the god Apollo, Terpsichore was the Muse of the dance, and it was known to be the most enigmatic of the nine Greek muses.

She was the mother of the sirens, and she would lure sailors to shipwreck on their island with their music and hypnotic, beautiful singing.

Terpsichore has been invoked as a metaphor for rhythm and ordered movement in the universe.

The planets orbit the sun and the sun, with other stars, orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The planets go through the Milankovitch cycles in which their orbits around the sun adjust in very regular, periodic, or rhythmic, ways.

Terpsichore’s influence goes beyond just the humane, as It can also be seen in the observable universe.

She is now the Muse not just of human dance but also the cosmic dance in which the whole universe participates.

Music by Anna VS June, Steve Pepe, Francesca Colombo, Bear Bones, Lay Low, Pannotia, Nixxon, Tassilo Vanhoefen, Yuto Takei, Amerza, Orestt, The Dude Of Stratosphear, Anatolian Weapons, Théo Muller, Konsistent, Vidock & Ghassen Chiba

Design by Vanja Rakic
Label run by Pako Vega
Mastered by Sam Smith at Green Door Studio in Glasgow

Availabe on a limited edition cassette (50 copies)

Snippets: soundcloud.com/soundsofogigia/va-sounds-of-ogigia-terpsichore-dance-soo03-snippets


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Terpsichore Dance

PREMIERE CDL || Anatolian Weapons - Sub-Aquatic [Sounds Of Ogigia] (2023)

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Mayo -  Longing Without The Expectation Of Satisfaction

A Smashing Tape Records Release.

Mastered by Toni Quiroga at Accept Productions.

Produced by Antonio Barbetta & Boris Barksdale

Raw Ambassador & Boris Barksdale - ZERO GRAVITY ( SMA012 )

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https://soundcloud.com/unrealexpect
🛒 https://unrealexpect.bandcamp.com/album/devil-dancers
🔊 https://youtu.be/h4dLkhwdWxc

Devil Dancers is a 20 track storytelling compilation of experimental minimal wave and punk electronics.

The title is a tribute to one of our favourite tracks by Oppenheimer Analysis (OA - Andy Oppenheimer and Martin Lloyd) that was originally self-released in 1982 on a cassette entitled "New Mexico" recorded at the height of the Cold War and home-taping boom.

A deep exploration through experimental and industrial fields featuring a lot of new and well known faces: Devil Dancers goes further in the label references, while Alan Harman, Panoptique, Helen Island (Violent Quand on Aime) and Le Matin show that the future is also bright for minimal synth.

Experimental music by Bound by Endogamy, Religius Order, Legion 808 and LostSoundBytes to set what is cool in industrial music.-

𝔖𝔴𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔰𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔰

Tracklist:

A1. Penelope’s Fiance – The Burden
A2. Le Matin – On Est Dans Le Futur
A3. Nothing Was There – Other People Sounds
A4. Alan Harman – Frail
A5. Bound By Endogamy – Tutor
A6. Legion 808 – Dazed Walk And Heart Race
A7. Lostsoundbytes – Mechanical Castle
A8. WOSTO – Body Catcher
A9. King Rambo Sound – Gathering Of Freaks
A10. Inca Pax – Body Industry
B1. Helen Island – (;´༎ຶٹ༎ຶ`)
B2. Fiesta En El Vacio – Mauricio
B3. Panoptique – Into My Shredder
B4. Religius Order – Desire
B5. Chris Mitchell – Darkroom Democracy 
B6. Ole Mic Odd – Don’t Take It Personal
B7. Asymmetrical & LKSMN – Sibilla Cubana
B8. Új Bála – Vihart Arat
B9. Scarlet Hex & Lbeeze – Come Around
B10. Top Ten – Ghost Themed Song

Body Catcher

PREMIERE: WOSTO – Body Catcher [Unrealistic Expectations]

Buy here: https://pinkman.bandcamp.com/album/40g

Pinkman's resurrection of its Broken Dreams series is marked by a release of Dolphins – Benedikt Frey's project with Markus Woernle and Nadia D'Alo.

40G evokes landscapes of doom, disorienting pleasure, and the surreal visions that occupy a sleepless night; the soundtrack to a Lynchian fantasy about the creatures that haunt the murky waters of the modern mind.

It's an album for finding yourself on a stranger's couch, tearing at the fraying edges of another endless night, wrapped beneath a blanket of drugged-out kraut.

"I am here to guide you through the night," the trio sing on 'Alright'; we believe they’re up to the task.

BANDCAMP

Dolphins - 40G (PBD22)

Humans have to drink! They went down to the pond to quench their thirst. Sipping from the cool wet while being on all fours, they saw the reflection of their own faces for the first time. This must have been the beginning of the ongoing struggle of mankind dealing withself-consciousness. Anna and Ole (Das A&O) also met at the water point and much like the myth of the first human couple “Adam and Eve” they ate too much poisoned apples but instead of getting obsessed with one’s ego, they wrote somebeautiful Synth Wave music together! Immortalized on a seven-inch piece of wax, the results are now available on Rat Life Records.

Das A&O - Les Hommes Boivent(RAT21)

Artist: Bläck Dävil https://soundcloud.com/blackdavil
Track: Alptraum (Gesloten Cirkel Remix) https://soundcloud.com/gesloten-cirkel
Release: 3 July 2023
Cat: KILLEKILL028
Label: Killekill https://soundcloud.com/killekill
Release date: July 7th 2023 
Format: Vinyl + Digital
Pre-order: https://clone.nl/item73160.html

DT PREMIERE: Bläck Dävil - Alptraum (Gesloten Cirkel Remix) [Killekill] (2023)

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https://soundcloud.com/esp-institute
🛒 https://freybenedikt.bandcamp.com/album/fastlane
🔊 https://youtu.be/nVzU6dgMxek

Close your eyes and merge into Benedikt Frey’s 'Fastlane'. Imagine sitting in the driver’s seat of a an automobile, one with exceptional horsepower and torque, as you stare out the windshield at the red light, warping in fata-morgana a mile down the road. It’s a straight-away, a black top with two lanes, and against your better judgment you decide to floor the gas. No hesitation in your muscle, your ankle or the ball of your foot, which you now realize is some kind of universal pivot, the first point of contact fusing your body with the will of machine. In this moment you’re in awe that you, a human, an animal, grew from pond scum into something so advanced as to engineer this thing, a mechanical beast capable of overwhelming power and exhilaration. But you also feel a seductive dread, an outside force diverting you from caution toward a dangling carrot of curiosity, asking yourself, ‘How far can I take this thing?’ The dread, now a constant, is numbed, equalized by an adverse intoxicating gratification. You feel both sensations in real time, however, rather than take responsibility for yourself, friends, family and innocent bystanders, you cement your foot to the floor and lean your head back. Noise around you fades to mute. Smell the benzene-scented air, feel the wind on your face, the menacing vibration of the vessel you control beneath you and every grain of asphalt under its tires. This mile has now lasted an eternity and you’ve left your body for some objective view, as if watching climax of a film. Past the point of no return, you embrace abandon and lean into fate. The film becomes slow motion, a crawling pace so mesmerizing you convince yourself of an option to eject yourself from this madness, but as you finally let go of your last morsel of fear, you run the red light head-on into the nucleus of a fantastic glistening sculpture of torn metal, glass, oil, broken dreams and heartache. 'Fastlane' may be just drum machines and synthesizers if you’re timid, but listen harder and know the catastrophic reality of existence, a wreckage so gruesome we dare not rubberneck, but afterall it is our nature to stare.

PREMIERE: Benedikt Frey - Crank [ESP Institute]

Premiere of the track "Aller Sans Retour" by the French artist Gustave Retour, taken from his upcoming release on Big Science Records.
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Artist: @gustave_retour
Track: "Aller Sans Retour"
Title: "Cérémonie En Vert"
Label: @bigscience
Format: Cassete + Digital
Mastering, Design by Warzou
Release date: September 6, 2023
Pre-order: https://bigsciencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/c-r-monie-en-vert

Premiere: Gustave Retour - Aller Sans Retour [BGSC2310]

Premiere of the track "Acid Thirst" by the Brooklyn-based M Parent, taken from his upcoming release on Zement.
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Artist: @m-parent
Track: "Acid Thirst"
Title: ZEMENT009
Label: @zementrecordings
Format: 140 gram vinyl 12" + Digital
Release date: September 25, 2023
Pre-order: https://de.juno.co.uk/products/m-parent-zmnt-009-vinyl/942831-01/  ||  https://zementrec.bandcamp.com/music

Premiere: M Parent - Acid Thirst [ZMNT009]

free download

Drums of Liberation

Two years on since his BR debut in Berlin, our attention is drawn once again to Benedikt Frey and his Lopasura (Love, Pain, Sunshine & Rain) imprint. Since its 2012 formation, Lopasura has housed Benedikt's own releases. Following on from the Connect Four compilation by Drvg Cvltvre, Mark Forshaw, The Acid Mercenaries and Benedikt himself, he now returns with the label's fourth release. Out of the Fog showcases a trio of analogue-laden techno mastery. The title track opens proceedings fittingly. Acid low-tessitura chords hiss continuously underneath while siren synths whir in and out in their grandeur, peaking to symphonic effect before fading back into the dark. A sense of drama that encompasses Love, Pain, Sunshine & Rain comprehensively.

Catch Out of the Fog creeping out of the shadows on 21st April via Lopasura.

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Benedikt Frey "Out of the Fog" - Boiler Room Debuts

Full stream of Benedikt Frey's haunting "Private Crimes," a cut from his new album on ESP Institute. 

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2017/09/premiere-hear-a-haunting-cut-from-benedikt-freys-debut-album/

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Premiere: Benedikt Frey - Private Crimes

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05.07. Kappa Futur Festival, Turin
14.06. Masters, Zagreb
07.06. KuH Festival, Bad Wildbad
31.05. TBA, Düsseldorf
18.05. Outracena, Lisbon
27.04. Arkaoda, Berlin
24.02. Macadam, Nantes
09.02. LAF, Pforzhyme
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29.12. Karmakoma, Belgrade
16.12. Sables Mouvants, Madrid
18.11. The Love Inn, Bristol
17.11. The Carpet Shop, London
11.11. Epicentar, Skopje
08.09. Arkaoda, Berlin
28.08. Dolphins @ Warning, Berlin
23.08. Dolphins @ Tanzhaus West, Frankfurt 
13.08. DT Camp, Lithuania
14.07. K&H Festival, Bad Wildbad
03.06. Renate, Berlin
14.05. Doka, Amsterdam
01.05. X, Berlin
21.04. Control Club, Bukarest
10.03. Sameheads, Berlin
02.18. Barcelona, Colectivo Secreto
02.17. Latvian Art Academy Carnival, Riga
01.13. OHM, Berlin

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Dolphins - 40G (PBD22)

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