Surfacing by @mmessell is an EP inspired by notions of transitions, cycles & liminalities. Releases 27.11.2021 on @txtcollective.

A video has also been created for one of the tracks as well as the cover-art by queer visual artist and filmmaker, Ingerlise Øllgaard. Her work can be explored further under the alias amplifiedbones on Vimeo.

Purchase: https://texturcph.bandcamp.com/

Credits:
Artwork & video by Ingerlise Øllgaard
Music, mix & master by Martin Messell

Track list:
I 05:56
II 08:12

Additional links:
https://www.instagram.com/textur_cph/
https://www.instagram.com/messellmusik/
https://www.instagram.com/ingerliseoellgaard/
https://vimeo.com/user67157578

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Brenner (@justbrenner) brought out the big guns for this one! 5 diverse beats, from breaks to classic house to techno, these tracks can service the night no matter what the occasion. Hailing from Columbus, OH and representing Detroit's techno neighbor, he is also a founding member of the mind-melting 'Headcleaner' parties that occur there. They transport the audience via an immersive experience at the intersection of sound, visual effect and motion. Enjoy the latest release from PITS! [^-^]

Brenner - Duplicity

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extract from the A-Side of the JOE COLLEY 10inch "Acting As If" released in the Substantia Innominata series in December 2022. 
order it here:   https://www.dronerecords.de/album.view.html?album=21114

press release: 
MECHANICAL RITUALS: 23 years after his EP for Drone Records (DR-28, as CRAWL UNIT) we are proud to release another / new work of conceptual / minimal / object drone artist JOE COLLEY from California.   
We think JOE COLLEY (*1972) is a master of using mechanical object sounds and electronic static, but also strange low fi found found sources and field recordings, creating alienating, surrealistic effects, similar to the likes of SMALL CRUEL PARTY, JIM HAYNES, DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE or even the more experimental side of ZOVIET FRANCE...  
His newer compositions seem always to be filled with electro-magnetic hummings, strange hissing and the pourings of metallic objects as a basis, but you never find the use real instruments, synths, or masses of effect procession. Thus a very own scent of mystery appears, as all of these radiations are not really from this planet, without any "cosmic" connotations..
For the creator, these sounds are connected with unreal emotions of "Being Lost", a mistrust in what may be called reality, and a general feeling of alienation... - you can only wonder how this can result in such beautiful droning expanses.. 
Presented here are over 30 minutes of very best new COLLEY material (entitled   "Limit / Limit"  und "Always I / Always II") => through these drones of strangeness the mind is thrown inside an unrecognizable and confusing realm of broken electricity and something like audible-made atmospheric pressure.. 
Lim. 300 copies with artwork by dutch designer and micro label hero MEEUW, using a special silver print (on reverse board), BLACK vinyl. glossy black inner sleeves.

REVIEW:  "When Joe Colley speaks about his work and even about his life, he shrugs in an awkward attempt to stave off an existential frustration that not only his work addresses but also seems to consume his identity. There are numerous metaphors through his titles that allude to endless failures and a nihilism full of contempt, but Colley also implores a desperate urgency to express these poetics no matter how painful they may be. For three decades now, Colley has been a central and persistent figure in the California noise community. First recording under the moniker Crawl Unit and running the short-lived Povertech label, Colley presented a preternaturally strong acumen of electro-acoustic techniques and abstraction through a vast language of blistered textures, atonal noise, and gnarled drone. By 2000, he dropped the Crawl Unit moniker in favor of his own name with an ongoing discography of damaged yet exploratory electronics. 

Colley returns to Drone Records for this 10" on the Substantia Innominata series, many years after his Crawl Unit "Tuscon Mon Amour" 7." In describing "Acting As If," Colley offers a vague series of descriptors: unheimlich, terror of the familiar, and no faith in what is "real." Within the sustained movements of scrabbling textures, motorized abrasions, and uncomfortable harmonics, such conditions are made manifest and Colley amplifies them into something eeriely sublime. 
All of that held within a self-contained logic that works within and against his deep knowledge of drone-on minimalism, musique concrete dynamics, and the explosiveness of noise culture. His swarming masses, throttled rumbling, and smoldering tension are all encircling and folding in on themselves. Rhizomes of sound that speak poison. Drink up, if it doesn't kill you, it will only make you stronger. "- Jim Haynes / Northern California, 2023

JOE COLLEY - Limit (edit)

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🇬🇧 The twelfth reference from our Banger Records label comes from the artists Art&Facts, EvilSound and Kout, with an EP full of electro.

🇪🇸 La duodécima referencia de nuestro sello Banger Records viene a cargo de los artistas Art&Facts, EvilSound y Kout, con un EP cargado de electro.

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I'm fragmented.

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