B1 - Varuna - Out Beyond The Settlements (Snippet)

More than five years since his debut album, sound artist Albert van Abbe now presents NONDUAL on Raster – a contribution so perfectly tailored to the platform that it is hard to conceive it is his first. NONDUAL will be out in February 2022 alongside DUAL, a remarkable collaboration with the label’s co-founder Olaf Bender (Byetone). 

NONDUAL has been inspired by nondualism. The term refers to the recognition that what we essentially are, behind this seeming multiplicity and diversity of objects, others and selves, is a single indivisible reality. With NONDUAL, van Abbe presents the listener with an opportunity to sonically explore this realization. 

The entrance to van Abbe’s nondual universe is a Cellar Closet. And yes, there is a portal deep inside, but it doesn’t lead to any kind of Narnia that C. S. Lewis would recognize. Rather, you’re presented with 14 consecutive landscapes made up of the architecture and infrastructure of yourself, on a nano-mechanical level. Sharp tapping cadences, sudden bursts of acidic noise, deep resonating oscillations – the sounds of the beyond microscopic machinery that makes us all tick. The scenery is wild but never chaotic: blistering rhythmical pulses collide with ethereal ivory harmonies, creating movement and balance, creating us. On this level, it’s plain to see that we’re all the same – in a literal sense. The rest is just a question of magnification and ego. 

Played and exhibited as an audiovisual project in the new ∄ Club Concert Hall in Kiev, Ukraine as well as NXT Museum Amsterdam, NONDUAL is a new live audiovisual performance, a realtime 4K+ flexible visual synthesizer based on Andreas Nicolas Fisher's Supervoid series played in conjunction with the NONDUAL soundtrack. 

NONDUAL was conceived at the Willem Twee Studio in 's-Hertogenbosch, where van Abbe also utilized a grand 'DIY' prepared piano in the adjacent concert hall, extensively sampling Beste Aydin (Nene H). The album was further mixed and engineered with Byetone at Funkhaus in Berlin. Jochem Paap (Speedy J) did the mastering for the album, the first full mastering project outside of his own material at STOOR in Rotterdam. A dream come true for van Abbe.

Nondual

Albert van Abbe »I hear a sigh coming down« taken from »Nondual«

Live recorded in Yerevan, Armenia 2017-2019.

Լույսի քանակը

owcltd029 | Cloistral - Լույսի քանակը

about relief & direct sunlight

image by @ kazu.saitou.3

sun, hypnosis

MALA HERBA is a solo project of sound artist and queer music
activist Zosia Hołubowska. Based on traditional music, magic, and demonology of Eastern Europe, Mala Herba's performances are sonic rituals. The music draws from darkwave and minimal synth- wave but sometimes the melody cracks, the voice becomes a magic spell and the song transforms into a noise soundscape.

After being featured on compilations by labels such as DKA, Exiles, and Total Solidarity by Oramics, Mala Herba released their debut LP "Demonologia" on [aufnahme+wiedergabe] in January 2021, followed by a digital EP "Omnia Vanitas" with two remixes and two covers on the same label.

Unknown Album

| EPISODE 141 | Mala Herba

Mix #395 in our series comes from AE35 (Anti Gravity Device).

Yosuke Ikeda aka AE35 is an Electro DJ / Producer in Tokyo, Japan.

In 2000 he started an event with his partners called “Tokyo Electro Beat Park”. Then he launched an electro label “Tokyo Electro Beat Recordings”, released some compilations. In 2007, he released his first EP “Electric Sunrise E.P.” from Fdb Recordings. His “Underdrain EP” was chosen as 2nd out of 5 in Dave Clarke’s Electro Top 5 Nov 2013. 

In 2014, he left “Tokyo Electro Beat Park” and launched new electro label named "Anti Gravity Device".

His massive-electro style is regarded highly both at home and abroad. He is making electro-machine-beats from the land of rising sun to the world.

1. Posthuman - Wake Up (Acid Mix)
2. Anthony Rother - Atomic Hunger
3. Anthony Rother - Eighty Four
4. Ctrls - Your Data
5. Yazzus - Vinyasa
6. Hermeth - Well Yes But Actually No
7. Jensen Interceptor x Viikatory - Getup!
8. AE35&Shun - Blunt
9. Viikatory - My Mind (Dagga Remix)
10. Amadeezy - Amadeezy - Booty Break
11. Anthony Rother - Hydrocarbon
12. Alienata + CYRK - G Factor
13. Mr. Ho - Mind Pollution
14. Generator - Drop The Bass
15. Kid Ginseng feat. Questosahn - Elektro Brotherz Are Here!
16. Ctrls - Sleepkillers
17. DEXORCIST - NIGHT WATCH
18. GREAZUS - Raverz
19. Nite Fleit + CYRK - Navel Gaze
20. Kid Ginseng feat. Questosahn - Fat Laces
21. Dave Clarke - Break Cover
22. AE35&Shun - Planet Bass
23. Netzwerk Florida - Earth.Wind.Fire
24. Serge Geyzel & Karsten Pflum - Confibula and Dots
25. AE35&Shun - Hunger & Durst (Demo)
26. Jensen Interceptor / DeFeKT - Free Your Mind

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ae35
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ae35electro/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ae35/

Hypnotic Groove Mix #395 - AE35

Guest mix by @devi-ka-1

More @modal-analysis: http://www.movement.radio/podcasts/modal-analysis

Guest mix by Devika w/ Modal Analysis (01.10.2022)

Aria Series 45th episode presents: EKATA.

London based Dj/Producer EKATA is self-described as genre and sound obsessive. She has built a reputation as a huge advocate for Electro and a creator of a dark and warped experience. Her sound best personifies ominous grooves and obvious sci-fi fixations which embody her carefully picked selections and the journey she takes you on. 


EKATA has just announced her debut release on 'planet destroyed' - a VA by AVOIDANT, the Electro sister label of Soma records due for release on the 5th of Dec 2022.

Other artists featured on the same VA are long standing top tier artists such as Marcel dettman, Slam, terrestrial Access Network + many more. 


EKATA has also just recently been selected along with a couple of other artists as one of the new faces of the biggest music institution in the world - TRESOR in Berlin, which saw her play in the prestigious cage in September 2022. 

Aswell as many gigs in Berlin this year, she has just joined leiden agency in France so has an exciting 2023 in the pipeline.


You can catch EKATA this Friday the 2nd on HöR in Berlin for the Avoidant showcase with Slam djs and Ngoni. Then in the evening she's closing crack bellmer for fan fiction.



Tracklist:

1. Spindrift - Adaptive fiction

2. Amper Clap - Breaks Land

3. Yarn Init - Blind Step

4. Ctrls - Transfer

5. Diodes - 4-attack

6. Composite Cone - Turbo

7. Braincell - So far so good

8. Saigg - Satelmix

9. Anthony Rother - Trooper

10. DJ Astrobee - Bizarre paradoxes

11. A.S.R - Groundbreaker

12. SOD90 - Mantaray (Luz1e Remix)

13. Jadzia - Virtual Network

14. DJ Stingray - No Knock

15. LDS - Punk Coding

16. Manao - Let me see you

17. SOUR - Fusion

18. Slam aka autonomous - into the light 









ARIA SERIES [045]-EKATA

Bekha Mujiri - The Light

Standards & Practices is proud to present 'Imitable Behaviors', the debut EP from label cofounder and frequent collaborator Ken Meier. All four tracks here have been kicking around in various iterations but were finally completed earlier this year. Refining and developing the sound he's cultivated on remixes for Israel Vines and Jake Reif, as well as material under the name Obelus for Karl O’Connor’s Downwards imprint as well as Mysteries of the Deep, this is the first material released on our Double Standards sub-label since 2018's acclaimed 12” from Device Control, 'The Spirit Module'.

'No Confidence' kicks off the proceedings in fine style—it’s a sleek, aerodynamic modern electro cut with plenty of tension and rhythmic drive. 'Fact Pattern' follows, a favorite of ours—sparse and jittery, all nervous energy with razor-sharp drum programming and jagged, mottled sonic textures. The spacious, dubby 'Omnipresence' utilizes a half-time melodic feel to great effect, and the crunchy 'End Matter' closes the EP on a memorably quirky and idiosyncratic note, a stripped-down DJ tool that, like the other tracks here, manages to be both functional and substantial at the same time.

Friend of the label Karl O’Connor aka Regis had this to say about the new release: “This is everything I love about music, but unfortunately it’s all in the wrong order.” We couldn’t agree more, Karl.

Written and produced by Ken Meier
Mastered by Steve Bailey at rrreplica
Design by Common Name, New York
Special thanks to the FOM massive

Imitable Behaviors

Ken Meier — No Confidence — Imitable Behaviors EP

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