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With his Alleged Witches moniker, RBMA alumni Christian Kroupa keeps expanding his range of experimentally inclined techno productions. The native Slovenian was recently featured on Scuba’s ‘Fabric 90’ mix CD and follows this appearance up with a new cut simply named after his alter ego. “Alleged Witches” draws attention to itself with the kind of rumbling, off-kilter beat backbone you would expect to hear on a Hessle Audio or Hemlock record. The shrouded vocal sample adds a ritualistic feel to the track.

Alleged Witches’ debut EP is out June 9th via Meda Fury.

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Serve The Spirits EP

Alleged Witches - Alleged Witches

A1. Inti
A2. Kappelberg Chant
B1. Routine
B2. Skreet Lvl Dub

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ISS002 SKEE MASK - ISS002

"Ancient beings, sing up to the sky, but the sky responded, we never understand."

Zaliva-D is a Beijing-based electronic music & visual duo consisting of members Li Chao (music) and Aisin-Gioro Yuanjin (visuals). Founded in 2003, Zaliva-D have been developing and perfecting their unique breed of dark electronic music for well over a decade, its timbre and melody conjuring up nervous energy, bleak scenes and frustrated anger.

"Sky Singing" is Zaliva-D’s second concept album, with Li Chao’s haunting, and at times violent vocals and melodies telling stories that are neither in the past, present or future.

Produced & Mixed by Li Chao
Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Cover Art by @baojiaxiang

Sky Singing

Zaliva-D - Sky Singing

Objekt — Cocoon Crush
Format: 2xLP / CD / Digital
Cat.No. PAN 97
Release Date: 9 November 2018 
Pre-order album: bit.ly/2xhO0kR / bit.ly/2OvxYuv

PAN welcomes back Objekt for Cocoon Crush, his first LP since 2014’s Flatland. Over the past four years Objekt has continued to challenge conventions with his club output (the Objekt #4 single release and the Kern Vol. 3 mix CD for Tresor), while maintaining his reputation as a DJ who deploys impeccable technical finesse in crafting elaborate narratives from a diverse and challenging palette of electronic music. 

Written between 2014 and 2018 in Berlin and on the road, Cocoon Crush once again sees the producer jettisoning the functional requirements of the dancefloor. Marking a further evolution from the youthful exuberance of Flatland, Cocoon Crush explores a more introspective side, with themes of human interaction resonating throughout the record as it ruminates on a spectrum of complex moods rooted in 4 years of sometimes turbulent personal experience. 

Cocoon Crush represents an aesthetic departure from Flatland’s largely synthetic tonality, drawing from organic source material and natural textures to illustrate perplexing and unfamiliar sceneries in photorealistic detail. In Cocoon Crush, Objekt diverges further still from his musical influences to craft the purest manifestation of his own musical personality to date: an intriguing and enigmatic album whose reference points are hard to pin down, in which ghostly synth passages weave through mind-bending, weighty drums, and ASMR-triggering foley collages scrape and sparkle. Through meticulous sculpting, Objekt traces a rich and impressionistic journey through claustrophobia, hope, guilt, anxiety and joy, nested in layers of sonic detail which reward with every listen. 

The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring photography by Kasia Zacharko, and layout by Bill Kouligas.

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Cocoon Crush

Objekt - Secret Snake (Single Mix)(PAN 97)

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Gates Need Inputs

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Listening Blue
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"The Land Of Extasia varies between each person. Here we see a group of 7 artists returning from parties in various countries, to put the ideas shared, the energy, and the blissful escape – to waveform. The Land Of Extasia is temporary, it can exist for an evening, it is a home where common goals are felt and a sense of equality is achieved. It revitalizes those here, only to leave and create what is heard here." - Listening Blue

Leaving the Land of Extasia

In Silvam Credimus

PREMIERE: Sub Accent - In Silvam Credimus (LB007)

We’re accustomed to hearing releases from Central Processing Unit which veritably fly out the traps. Indeed, you could spend hours listing all the great uptempo club tracks that have dropped via the Sheffield label down the years, rambunctious rollers from artists like DMX Krew and 96 Back. However, there is another side to the CPU sound, one that is slower, more considered and owes plenty to downtempo and 90s electronica.

Paul Blackford is a producer who has long embodied these two facets of CPU’s output. On one hand you have his 2014 label debut The League Of Shadows, a set of fizzing IDM-techno innovations which remains highly sought-after to this day; on the other there is Light Years, the cool and collected return to CPU that Blackford made three years later. The latter record, with its painterly synth work and neck-snapping drums, remains a touchstone for Blackford’s latest CPU release, a new twelve-track LP entitled Betamax.

While the tempos of Betamax may be rather relaxed, the sonic palette used here very much links up with CPU’s other drops. It is one forged in the forward-thinking electronic styles of the 1990s - Drexciyan electro, Boards Of Canada’s wistful electronica and the boundary-pushing IDM of Rephlex Records. Mind you, this is also one of the first CPU drops to draw a little from another side of the traxx - though Betamax may not be as schooled in plunderphonics as DJ Food or Nightmares On Wax, there is something in the lilt of these beats which obliquely doffs its cap to those old breaks.

Betamax proves yet again that Blackford is adept at experimenting and incorporating new influences across the course of a record without disrupting its vibe. As well as standing adjacent to the machine-funk sound that has long been a cornerstone of electro, Light Years was an LP in which subtle nods to G-Funk and P-Funk could be discerned in the rhythmic programming. These influences are felt once more on Betamax cuts such as ‘Far From Home’ and ‘Fortress’ - the former comes off like an after-hours take on Space Dimension Controller, or maybe even Daft Punk’s ‘Something About Us’. Meanwhile a space-age, slightly alien quality enters the production in the album’s final third, something signposted by aptly-titled highlight ‘The Nasa Beat’. 

While Paul Blackford’s Betamax may switch the pace up for Central Processing Unit, the album’s richly-harmonious electro-hop sound proves a fine foil to the label’s more high-octane releases.

RIYL: Boards Of Canada, Bochum Welt, Luke Vibert, Steven Rutter, Space Dimension Controller

Betamax

Paul Blackford - Betamax

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