Deep Ambient Techno

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Golden Dawn

Our label turns four today. We are delighted to present the newest compilation Y002 including twelve tracks mixed and selected by our dear Viels.
All the single tracks and the continuous dj mix will be available soon on a double CD and digital format.
Including tracks from Quan, Na Nich, Ruhig, Brendon Moeller, Particle, Lõn, Viels, Mersel, A.Brehme, Yogg, Mike Davis (DE), Głós.
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Y002

The Grand Tour

A. Brehme - The Grand Tour

Environment Control

Smothering Dreams

Vril & Rødhåd Presents Out Of Place Artefacts

PROCYON

ARTIFVCT - Disintegrate

Two years after releasing the acclaimed Crash Recoil, Anthony Child aka Surgeon returns to Tresor with new LP, Shell~Wave. Retaining the minimal equipment list and studio-version-of-live-show-sets approach of the previous album in order to focus on the work itself, Shell~Wave is a deeply personal document of both where Surgeon is and has been, converging three decades of experience with a continued curiosity in the untested.

"To make this project, I had to dig really deep in terms of what my relationship was to techno; I've been involved with it for a really long time and there's a lot about it I feel dislocated from, so I had to really think hard about what techno is to me. I often get asked "what is techno to you?" but I can't answer that with words; this album is the answer."

From the complex, twisting track Infinite Eye to the caustic Soul Fire, the eight tracks that make up the body of the album are single-take explorations of the vast, hard yet minimal techno Child is synonymous with. 

Neatly dividing the record in two, the emotional centre of the record comes in the form of Dying, a vibrating, beatless piece that with a mantra-like vocal loop steeped in reverberating effects.

Further echoes of dub production appear throughout the record as tracks like Divine Shadow, and Empty Cloud have an almost ever-present mist of reverberation, driven by the appearance of a new delay unit in the equipment list; while much of the philosophy of Crash Recoil's creation is present, the process and the instruments have changed as Child again switches up his approach to studio work.

This insistence on trying novel techniques doesn't preclude returning to old ones, as this use of modern digital machines with live, hands-on takes that are as inspired by 60s producer Joe Meek and 70s reggae as they are by this year's synthesiser expos.

"For me, it's an interesting experience returning to old techniques again after 30 years. [I'm] always exploring and finding myself back at the beginning. Connecting the present with the past."

This philosophy of 'time travel' is inherent to the music itself as the synchronised loops repeat while the delay and effects branch out, forming unique eddies; distinct quantum moments within the circular whole; the future leaking through the spaces between the sounds. All of the concepts on the album are perfectly communicated through the painting by Taiwanese artist Jazz Szu-Ying Chen which suggests the movement of water, sound waves, and the chitinous shells of sea creatures.

BANDCAMP

Surgeon - Dying

Buy or Die

Boys I Love You

Frailty

FTRSYSTM - ADHD

Get it here: http://smarturl.it/AL016

The third Realm Of Consciousness compilation on Tale Of Us’ Afterlife Recordings is the label’s most complete statement so far.

The four-vinyl opus opens with Tale Of Us’ now anthemic ‘Nova’, a high-impact and well-loved staple of their sets this year. Agents Of Time continue with the percussive rattle of ‘Paradigm’, before the first released collaboration between luminaries Recondite and Henrik Schwarz shines with understated melody.

Amongst Mind Against’s eerie masterpiece ‘Portal’ and impressive first appearances on Afterlife from Scuba (as SCB) and Steve Rachmad (as Sterac) are ethereal contributions from Fideles, Ovend and Øostil. UK techno veteran Edit Select channels the darker, hypnotic spirit of Afterlife with ‘Phase In’, setting up the sprawling, 14-minute epic from Luigi Tozzi and Antonio Ruscito.

To begin the compilation’s fourth disc, Konstantin Sibold & Kosme’s ‘Cyclone’ lifts the tone, leading into a more introspective sound from Hunter/Game on ‘Changing Weather’. Upcoming German talent Kevin De Vries follows with his infectious cut ‘Mágoa’ and Tone Depth ends the odyssey in mesmerising style with ‘Ibn Sina’.

The full spectrum of Tale Of Us’ Afterlife label is on display here, as they continue to push the envelope with a high-quality and diverse selection of artists.

Various Artists - Realm Of Consciousness Pt. III (AL016)
A1 Tale Of Us - Nova
A2 Agents Of Time - Paradigm
B1 Recondite & Henrik Schwarz - Motion
B2 Ovend - Nuits Fauves

C1 Mind Against - Portal
C2 Fideles - Lotus
D1 SCB - Tide Slide
D2 Øostil - Quantic

E1 Sterac - Universum
E2 Edit Select - Phase In
F1 Luigi Tozzi & Antonio Ruscito - Subterrel + Ex Funzione

G1 Konstantin Sibold & Kosme - Cyclone
G2 Hunter/Game - Changing Weather
H1 Kevin de Vries - Mágoa
H2 Tone Depth - Ibn Sina

Available on 4x12” vinyl and digital from June 29, 2018.

AL016

Luigi Tozzi & Antonio Ruscito - Subterrel + Ex Funzione

Grebenstein and Seefried – radical autodidact and trained musicians – have been working together for 6 years between longer periods of rest, intensive musical output emerged in short and concentrated sessions. A stripped back way of working, with only one drum machine, one synthesizer, and one voice, is reflected in the minimalistic and uncompromising songs they produce. Those who get drawn into the songs of the duo will find themselves simultaneously shocked into overdrive and lulled into a temporary peace – always guided by Seefried’s warm and deep voice.

At the end of 2019, in the year of the label’s 25th anniversary, they will be back on Regis’ Downwards Records with their new release “Raging Tender“.

Written and produced by Jan Grebenstein and Christine Seefried, "Raging Tender" is the title track of Grebenstein & Seefried EP out on Feb 1, 2019 in vinyl 12” and digital download.


Cat. No. LIN081 – All rights reserved.
℗ & © Downwards 2019

Raging Tender

Grebenstein & Seefried – Raging Tender [LINO81]

"The Sixth installment of the ISSXI | EP Series features an epic 11 minute journey 'Through The Mines of Khazad-Dûm' by Ntogn."

ISSXI.VI

Thank you J. R. R. Tolkien for a lifetime of inspiration.

Body. Mind. Spirit.

ISSXI.VI

Through the Mines of Khazad-Dûm [ISSXI]

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Polar Inertia

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