Name: Alleged Witches - Spirit Caller by Red Bull Music Academy
Duration: 7 min 28 s
Description: Slovenian producer @allegedwitches assembled a dark and percussive EP for @dimensions-recordings. Here's "Spirit Caller" from the 2014 RBMA alum -- a moody floorfiller dappled with hand percussion and covered in haunting tones. The EP arrives September 13th. Check it on Bandcamp here: https://dimensionsrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/initiation-rituals

https://diffusereality.bandcamp.com/album/poladro-d-quantum-pilgrim-vinyl-12
https://soundcloud.com/diffusereality/poladroid-quantum-pilgrim-vinyl-12
https://soundcloud.com/poladroid-rr
https://soundcloud.com/diffusereality

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Seasoned heads may already be aware of dynArec. The project of one Chris Kalera, dynArec has been a force in the electro underground for more than two decades at this point, releasing numerous records and helming the Vaporwave label to boot. He has marked himself out as a purveyor of top-quality machine-funk during his career, a producer who runs with the spirit of Detroit to craft club traxx of wicked intensity.

After a period of relative quiet in the late 2010s, Kalera has roared back into action recently, with a run of releases emerging in 2021 and 2022 across labels including Cultivated Electronics, Superluminal and Umwelt’s New Flesh. Now the Vaporwave Records founder takes his Central Processing Unit bow with the Force In The Sum EP, and his hard-hitting electro style is immediately at home on the Sheffield imprint.

Force In The Sum commences with ‘A Dispatching Role’, a track where eerie vocal snippets and delay-drenched anti-melodies cluster around a volatile low-end wobble and crisp 808 snap. It’s equal-parts ominous and invigorating, kind of like the Thom Yorke of ‘Kid A’ times if he’d been granted an audience with Gerald Donald. ‘A Dispatching Role’ is prime slalom music, and the mood carries through to following cut ‘Stabilized’. After a stentorian opening of unerring kick drums and fizzing keys, ‘Stabilized’ soon blooms into a retro-futurist robo-electro joint which comes off like a more textured iteration of Unit Moebius.

Things open up a little more on first B-side ‘Canonical Form’ - at least, they do before the track’s pretty opening flushes are interrupted by a vicious blurting bassline reminiscent of, say, Jensen Interceptor. There are no broken beats here, the track’s unyielding four-on-the-floor thud pushing the joint a little more towards techno mode than the A-side jams. This straight beat remains on Force In The Sum closer ‘Classification Of Elements’, with sputtering hi-hats playing off the groovy pings of the synths to devilishly danceable effect. Slip-sliding saw sounds and spine-tingling, almost ‘X-Files’-esque lead lines enter to up the ante, but the mood shifts after dynArec starts to lace lush chordal stabs and delay-drenched modular runs through the track. All the while, a voice repeats the mantra “what matters is the sound” - and who could deny the truth in this statement?

dynArec’s prolific recent run continues with the four track Central Processing Unit debut Force In The Sum. Tense, expansive and worldbuilding, this is wickedly danceable electro done right. Truly, what matters is the sound.

RIYL: Jensen Interceptor, Cardopusher, Cygnus, Silicon Scally

dynArec - Force In The Sum

Originally from France and now based in Berlin Isolated Material has dropped a steady run of heavy hitting releases on labels including; Brokntoys, Haws, Ukonx, 909 Connection and Mind Controlled Rectifier before joining us for his debut EP on 20/20 Vision. 

‘Hidden Node’ kicks off the wax with a jarring excursion of futuristic breaks and abrasive sound design firing on all cylinders with complex drum patterns, bleeps and glitches.  ‘Asynchronous Funk’ sees Isolated Material serve up an abstract slice of electro funk with a solid broken beat groove peppered with unexpected moments of off-kilter magic. 

On the flip side - title track ‘Hidden Node’ offers up a dose of Drexciyan inspired funk primed for a set on the dark side of the moon with; high octane breaks, quick fire drum programming, intricate synth patterns and ominous undertones. Wrapping up the EP ‘Unmarked Sequence’ is an equally potent chaser for the wide eyed deep space traveller in need of body jerking breaks.   

A1 - Abstraction Layer
A2 - Asynchronous Funk
B1 - Hidden Node
B2 - Unmarked Sequence

VIS331: Isolated Material - Hidden Node

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Last track off my 'Wilderness' EP on Nottetempo label.

122 Xtension Beat Ii IN 2  (Nottetempo)

https://youtu.be/XE8-fJGpx9Q

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Born in Trondheim, Norway, Stian Gjevik is a rarity amongst electronic music producers. Possibly the most interesting musician representing the braindance and IDM sounds of today, EOD’s productions have landed on labels like WéMè Records, sleepers, cpu, 030303 and Aphex Twin’s highly respected Rephlex. Dropping on bbbbbb last year, his ‘Swurlk EP’ sold out within a month and received support from Aphex Twin, Bicep, Bjarki, Nina Kraviz and many more.  
 “It's the album I've wanted to do since I started making music - feels like a dream come true. Inspired by what got me into electronic music in the first place; jungle and early ‘00s Warp/Rephlex "drill & bass"-type stuff, but shifted through my own EOD-style lens. Oh yeah and loads of lovecraft references because I love those.” - EOD 
 A must-listen for fans of sublime synth-driven cuts, otherworldly beatless affairs and frenetic, machinedriven jams, EOD’s ‘Named’ is a refreshing and highly anticipated debut long player from a true master of his craft.

Named LP

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The stems of these tracks were made available by Tzusing. This is my spin on it :)Let me know what you think!

Tzusing - O.D.D. (Alberta Balsam Remix)

Slovenian producer @allegedwitches assembled a dark and percussive EP for @dimensions-recordings. Here's "Spirit Caller" from the 2014 RBMA alum -- a moody floorfiller dappled with hand percussion and covered in haunting tones. The EP arrives September 13th. Check it on Bandcamp here: https://dimensionsrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/initiation-rituals

Alleged Witches - Spirit Caller

214 - Everything Changed
Parental Advisory Frustrated Funk [FR047]
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214 - Everything Changed - FR047

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