For their next trick, the anonymous R-Zone crew turn out three darkly engaging cuts that once again look back to a ravey heyday for their inspiration, but at the same time conjure up some refreshing contemporary ideas that will no doubt have dancefloors in raptures. 

EP opener 'Onefourone' is an epic end of the night track with big drums, melancholic chords and a sombre sense of finality that makes you think the world could end anytime. 'Gravity' sounds like an invasion from space, with falling synth lines, buried deep drums and clattering percussion all making for a foreboding atmosphere. 

'Stolen Birds' fills up the flip side with a groaning and darkwave synth line and cooing birdcalls. As big hi hats come in and glassy tinkles fill in the airwaves, it turns into a stormy affair that is both dancey and cerebral at the same time. As always with R-Zone, this is compelling, creative music that bristles and brims with all sorts of occult charm.
"support!"

"Onefourone is totally ridiculous , looking forward to play !"
Dj Simbad (Various / Browsnwood Rec.)

"I love onefourone and stolend birds, messy as fu** :) radio support"
Jan Kinčl Zero (Radio808, Zagreb)

"Beautiful music, will watch out for wax."
Norman Nodge (MDR, Berlin)

"gravity sounds nice"
Delta Funktionen (Ann Aimee, Berlin)

"awesome release!"
Tom Dicicco

"Nice one! Gravity is an absolute winner."
Lakker / Eomac

Marko Nastic (Radio B92 / Exit Festival, Belgrade)

"Gravity --- ohhh yesssssssssssssss "
Laurent Garnier

"Gravity for the sideways sets :)"
Mosca (Ann Aimee, Not So Much, Prime Numbers, London)

"awesome release! will play all of them"
Rogér (Deathmetaldiscoclub, Amsterdam)

"Gravity for me"
Randomer (Hemlock, London)

"love all three"
Tomaz (22tracks, Sint Pieters Leeuw)

"gravity and stolen birds are wikked"
Solenoid (Graphene / Belief System, Berlin)

"gravity is the one for me! thanks"
Jean Pierre Enfant (Les Enfants Terribles/Trouw, Amsterdam)

"Gravity sounding great !"
Tessela (Poly Kicks)

""stolen birds" is the one!"
Thaddeus Herrmann (Das Filter, Berlin)

"my fave unknown vinyl series!!"
Hunee (Hunch Music / Rush Hour, Los Angeles)

"HUGE-sounding tracks. Tough to play but I imagine they hit the spot in the right place, at the right time. Stolen Birds my fave. Thanks. "
Dave TTB (TOTHEBONE, London)

"Onefourone and Gravity are great!"
Roger Gerressen (ESHU / ESHU Records, Nijmegen)

":)"
BNJMN

"not quite for me."
Electric Indigo (indigo:inc)

"Yuppp, all 3"
J. Tijn

R-Zone 13 - Onefourone / Gravity / Stolen Birds

Unraveling the depths of my being each day through the use of unconventional sounds.

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We R here

R-Zone. Who is involved isn't exactly a secret, those who feel so inclined can piece the information together quite easily. It is however irrelevant to the concept of R-Zone, which would like to shift the focus away from namedropping and perception based on hype around individual artists and bring it back where it belongs; in the lap of the music.

The sounds exhibited across each track are fresh offerings that combine brightly coloured synths, swirling pads and non-standard beats into captivating and kaleidoscopic soundscapes that constantly evolve from start to finish. A cosmic, intergalactical energy pervades each release, transporting you to a world far away from here. The rest of the tell can be told by R-Zone themselves:

“Have you ever stood in a traffic jam in the middle of nowhere with complete strangers desperately looking for a party that may or may not exist? Have you ever wandered around a bombed out illegal warehouse rave at X in the morning on an E come-down? Have you ever stood in limbo between the click of a strobe or between the shards of a dense orange haze that emanates from a fog machine? Floating away on never ending waves of music and substance induced - we may as well call it - LOVE? Where for one brief moment it didn't matter who you are and what you do and how you look or how many scene-points you have? If so then you will remember the R-Zone as a shadowy place that never fully exists yet is always waiting. “

“In the whip of a snare, the beat of a kick, the wail of a string or the rush of an arpeggio, in those heart pounding moments of anticipation and in the glorious release of a drop. And then, as those frozen moments echo out and fade into a corner of space-time where nothing seems quite real, you descend among your peers, feeling somehow richer and more enlightened - as if you have been touched by something. You know it can make the world seem an empty place, a barren wasteland devoid of endorphins, where neurotransmitters merely twinkle but never shine. Just remember you are not alone. Others have entered the R-Zone with you and together we may embrace its infinity - as we enter into a new age.”

“Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

DIY independent records / tape label specialized in experimental industrial dance music.