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Excerpts from recordings of some recent, more contemplative live sets at Fridman Gallery NYC and Atlas Theatre in Boulder, CO.  Thanks for listening :)

Antenes - Liveset, Ambient(excerpts)

Taken from the Diminuendo EP, out now - http://smarturl.it/DA_Diminuendo

// Daniel Avery - Song For Alpha
// The new album, out now http://smarturl.it/DA_SFA
// Full Album Visuals https://youtu.be/u0nB1Unh5G0
// The Deluxe Edition http://smarturl.it/SFA_Deluxe

Diminuendo EP

Light Of Falling Rain

Order here: https://17steps.lnk.to/OffPeak

Following on from the 'Aset Forever' EP by label bosses Dusky, the next release on 17 Steps comes courtesy of Russian duo Formally Unknown, who've previously appeared on Moscow's Capital Bass and their own Bass Oddity imprint. Out 19th October, the 'Off Peak' EP exists somewhere near the intersection between Detroit techno, UK bass weight and the CoOp scene.

We're very happy to be premiering the title track, which mixes twitchy bleeps and thunderous bass pulses with splintered percussion and a butter-smooth breakdown. So deep you'd need a submarine to even catch a glimpse.

Off Peak

PREMIERE: Formally Unknown - Off Peak [17 Steps]

1800HaightStreet's new EP 'Age' is four tracker of deep diving techno that segues between aquatic dub techno, thundering drum 'n' stab jams and synth-heavy epics. On February 15th, the Vancouver duo releases the EP on Lobster Theremin's sublabel Mörk. Today on Peak Time, we premiered "Melody From A Dream."

Tune in to Peak Time on RedBullRadio.com every Monday to Friday, 12 to 3 PM EST: www.redbullradio.com/shows/peak-time

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@lobster-theremin

1800HaightStreet "Melody From A Dream" [Peak Time Premiere]

www.stroboscopicartefacts.com

Following on from Adriani’s first incursion on Stroboscopic Artefacts in 2017, ‘Enter The Fire’, and a recent contribution to the label’s thematic VA, ‘Flowers From The Ashes: Contemporary Italian Electronic Music’, Mannequin boss Alessandro Adriani returns to the label for his highly anticipated full-length debut for SA, ‘Morphic Dreams’.

Introducing the album is ‘Embryo’ is an immersive four-track micro-odyssey spanning across jagged ambient scopes, unmapped acidic grounds and further leftfield-friendly sonic territories, opening up the path for his forthcoming sophomore LP and first ever for Stroboscopic Artefacts, ‘Morphic Dreams’.

Throughout eleven cuts painstakingly executed but lacking not an iota of the fresh, spontaneous oomph that made his sound stand out of the crowd of techno producers to have emerged over the past decade, Adriani lays the foundations to a suspended sound imaginarium, governed by its own rules and principles of gravity.
 
Revolving around the notions of sublimation and quest for inner balance, 'Morphic Dreams' is comprised of four distinct sequences, conceived and designed as reflections of four mental states, each of them linked to the four alchemical elements - i.e. Water, Earth, Air and Fire - here represented by the A, B, C and D-sides. Fluid and enveloping, the A-side bathes the listener in some zero-G uterine vortex, pitching and rolling from the slo-burning exotic sensuality and tribal spell of 'The Tropical Year' to the trunk-bending, arpeggiated fast-track pulse of 'Storm Trees', through Raindance's feverish electro swing.
 
Entering a further abrasive, minerally rich phase, the B-side unleashes Adriani's dark side with optimum conviction. Deeply anchored in earthly materiality, this new evolution stage starts off to the frantic Italo bass of 'Dissolving Images', rushing headlong into a kaleidoscopic maelstrom of fractured reflections and nasty Giallo-like ambience. The delirious body stretch sequence then rather abruptly swerves onto a calmer flux with 'Dust/Mist', a much enticingly hip-swaying collaboration with Simon Crab, ex-member of the seminal '80s UK industrial-experimental band Bourbonese Qualk, before 'Casting The Runes' engulfs us into a tormented world of swollen eeriness and disquieting esoterism.
 
Back to a widescreen showcase of droney distortions, nasty acid swashes and other quirky drum programming, 'Hors De Combat' opens a new chapter, shortly followed by the playful bass intricacies and modular jeu-de-piste of 'Invisible Seekers', featuring Avian affiliate and longtime friend Shawn O'Sullivan. A further mind-expanding piece, C-side closer 'Crow' deploys its blackened wings wide and high as a chaos of martial percussions and liquefying synths slivers crash past the red-hot skyline. A fluttering melodic interlude, 'Things About To Disappear' blazes a clean trail for 'Make Words Split And Crack' to flourish, slowly but surely blooming into a nonstop grandiose twelve minute-shy finale geared up with the stirring cacophonic force of a Ligetian symphony and something of an epic-scale Kubrickian soundtrack.

all tracks (w)&(p) by Alessandro Adriani
between Berlin and Rome, 2016-2018
thanks to Shawn O’Sullivan and Simon Crab for their contribution
dedicated to my father Roberto:
“too near to god – to pray. too near to heaven – to fear.”
mastered @ Artefacts Mastering Studio, Berlin
graphic concept by Ignazio Mortellaro [OA]
(p)&(c) Stroboscopic Artefacts 2019
Cat. No SALP008 / SACD011 – all rights reserved
www.stroboscopicartefacts.com

Morphic Dreams

A1 - Alessandro Adriani - The Tropical Year [SALP008/SACD011]

Eb and Flow

Eden (TML Remix) [feat. Stella]

Aciid in the sky

https://stilldistantrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-circuit

Still Distant Records 2020

Pentland Park - The Circuit

Barcelona to Brooklyn via UK: following two very special releases from Beartrax, for their third release (and second of 2020) hot new NYC label Melodize welcome one of Spain’s most consistent electronic ambassadors, Factor City co-boss Undo, and Cin Cin bossman Fort Romeau for remix duties.   

Hot on the heels of his stunning ‘Dark Woods’ EP earlier this summer, Undo comes packing some stunning electronic tackle. Sitting somewhere between Border Community and Underworld, both cuts are lavishly layered as myriad synths bubble and ripple away in their own little co-existing worlds.

Baggy, charming and just nicely off-grid, both sides of the coin can be flipped; those looking for a darker jam will be all over ‘Sixty Days’, a powerful cut where the basses melt into swaggering loose kicks. Need things even darker? Then jump on Fort Romeau’s remix where the kicks are cemented into place with a stark acidic twist.

Meanwhile those of us hungrier for more of a cosmic head trip will find serious pots of gold at the end of the rainbow that is ‘Just One Day’. A twinkling, shimmering odyssey, tracks like these don’t come round all that often. Melodize realise total bliss once again.

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