Cybernetics, or Ghosts?

Accelerated Cycle

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01 Nothing Is Free

Taken from 'Struggle & Emerge'. Released 13/05/16
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Following last year’s breakthrough album “Tundra”, Lakker return to R&S with a very special new project.
 
Lakker were commissioned by the RE:VIVE Initiative to create a new conceptual work solely sampling field recording, TV and radio broadcasts from the Dutch National AV archive, The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The curated material provided all related to and was representative of the theme the “Dutch and water”
 
The resulting 8 track release “Struggle and Emerge” is a tense soundtrack to the machine driven mid-20th century that captures the complex relationship between the Dutch and the water that surrounds them- unyielding, colossal, industrial. 
 
Broadcasts from the flood of 1953, which claimed over 1,800 lives and decimated the southern province of Zeeland are sampled in the gloomy “Open Clouds”. The contemplative “Broken Clouds” features a radio broadcast the day after the Nazis inundated the Wieringermeer Polder in 1945 in an act of desperation before retreating.
 
In order to combat the catastrophic power of the sea Dutch engineering has needed to go to equal extremes. On the album, the propulsive and dramatic “Reclamation” blaring “Ever Rising” and pummeling “Maeslantkering Gating” capture the sheer size, scale and power that is Dutch flood protection. Lakker gained inspiration from archival footage of the closing of the 32km Afsluitdijk, a man made barrier protecting the Netherlands from the vicious North Sea, a first hand visits to the futuristic engineering marvel, Maeslantkering and the never ending challenge of keeping the sea at bay. 
 
To gain insight into their topic, Lakker ventured on a tour around the Netherlands, meeting leading academic experts in the field. From the world’s premier flood defense department at TU Delft, to a professor of amphibious culture at the Free University of Amsterdam, to art historians and specialists on the ground; the duo were given first hand insight into the centuries long tumultuous relationship between the Dutch and the water.

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Lakker - Maeslantkering Gating

"End-of-days, brain haemorrhage techno with pulverised breaks. " - Resident Advisor
Support from Aphex Twin, Nina Kraviz, Ben UFO, Objekt, Avalon Emerson, DJ Seinfeld, JASSS and more

AQXDM aka @aquarian x @deapmash -- out now on Bedouin Records

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AQXDM - Ballad 002

featuring Weightausend. Taken from [SPCTR011] Laguna 10" out on Haunter Records on October 5th.



"Haunter’s chief spirit Daniele Guerrini a.k.a Heith turns Indonesian gamelan into spectral, plasmic ambient designs on ’Laguna’, his 2nd vinyl following ‘Silence Will Expire’ [2014]
Coming from the same skool of unsettling ambient thought as Coil and their myriad side projects, ‘Laguna’ is a richly and purposefully meditative session patently in thrall to the complex, chaotic, yet subtly iridescent harmonic qualities of tempered metal alloys and South East Asian scales.
The A-side’s title cut finds him accreting and parsing layers of field recordings into a steeply opiated and viscous slosh resonating somewhere between Kink Gong and Sleazy’s The Threshold HouseBoys Choir, whereas the B-side’s ‘Tree Stand’ appears to invert that radiant effect with unsettling, endothermic dynamics and ‘Maria’ folds in Matthias Girardi a.k.a. Weightausend for a more mystic, tonal variant recalling the atmospheres of John T. Gast and M.C. Boli’s Gossiwor duo. "

-Boomkat

Maria (feat. Weightausend)

4 snippets in one file from the Rodeo Sound ep by ISABELLA.
Releasedate something late August 2019. Distributed by Clone.
Tracklist:
A01 FRIENDCESS (5:10)

A02 TOOT TOOT (7:19)

B01 THREADED FLIP (5:57)

B02 SYNTAXING (6:46)

ISABELLA - Rodeo Sound (Börft170 - 2019)

new single from the forthcoming Giant Swan debut album on our own label KECK: giantswan.ffm.to/keck001

Pandaemonium

Whities 027

Turbo Olé

Hard to Say / Tournesol

Hard to Say

Silkworm. The new single taken from Do Not Be Afraid Of Tenderness (out Feb 2021).

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Lakker - Maeslantkering Gating

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