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UNDERSEA MOUNTAINS - Pt.2 (IA003)

Recorded and mixed by Elisa Batti and Cyb at Optofonica Studios, Amsterdam, in January and February 2019.
Mastered at Artefacts Mastering Studio, Berlin, in July 2019.
Released by Immaterial.Archives in December 2019.
Vinyl 180 Gr. Limited Edition (IA003).

VAVILOV (Kaiser Remix)

Luca La Rocca - Arsenico EP (PRRUKD 19013)
1. Arsenico
2. Escape
3. Exile

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More Info... http://deathtechno.com/2019/11/13/deadcert047/

Label: DEAD CERT. Records
Artist: Stephan Krus
Title: Transcendental Curves
Release Date: 13 November 2019
Format: Digital
CAT#: DEADCERT047

01. Cycloid
02. Horopter
03. Catenary
04. Isochrone

DEAD CERT. Records is a label linked to the well known website deathtechno.com ran by Jack! Who? in the UK. A diverse palette has seen the previous releases feature music from artists including Audio Injection / Truncate, Paul Mac, TWR72, Echoplex, and Petter B to name but a few.

Following his spectacular Black Mail XIII collaboration called "Obelisk", Stephan Krus returns with a creative and diverse solo EP. Proving his production quality once again, he also has appearances on labels like Decoy, Naked Lunch, and SK Black.

"Cycloid" begins with a sense of drama and deep cerebral aesthetic, before the pulsing, hypnotic acid bursts through and it really picks up power and attitude.

Track two "Horopter" has an altogether straight and rolling groove of delayed sounds and a cavernous feel. Later getting into a riff of abstract metallic tones, this has a juxtaposition of serious vibe and jovial mood making it a choice DJ weapon.

Third on offer is "Catenary" that completely switches up the style, bringing a whole new freshness to the fray. Combining angular licks and rough industrial textures, it's also laced with a gritty and dirty analogue funk.

To close the EP is "Isochrone" that skilfully harnesses a stuttering melody and plucking sonics with masterful precision. Brooding and tough, additional layers of sonic grunge raise it to intense heights of mind-twisting goodness.

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DEADCERT047 : Stephan Krus - Transcendental Curves

Be As One presents "Expansions 0.1", showcasing their in house artists collective with a 12 tracker various artist LP.

1 Linkan Ray - Serbian Taxi
2 Hertz Collision - Sequence
3 VIL - ACE
4 Jor-El - Desire
5 Marco Bruno - Follow The Trail
6 Shlomi Aber - The Voice In My Head
7 Alexander Kowalski - Rolling On Auxiliary
8 Moses(IN) - What's The Occasion
9 A M B E R - Telling you
10 Sairen - Interstellar
11 Dökser - Zika
12 Cvlto - Resin

Release date :
Vinyl 21st November 2019

VA - Expansions 0.1 (BAOX05)

Bandcamp: https://knowledgeimprint.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-20
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/v-a-2-0/2973235
Traxsource: https://www.traxsource.com/title/1337094/v-a-2-0

This second Various Artists release on the label once again brings together some talented artists from around the globe. With a focus on strong, timeless sounds, there is a common thread flowing through the productions of the five artists being showcased. 

French artist Blenk opens the package with ‘Spell’, a pounding offbeat piece that is guaranteed to stand out in any techno set. With precise sound design, a devastating low-end and uncanny vocal-like stabs, it is both unique and functional. The Blenk sound is carving a path of its own! Following this is William Arist’s ‘Like Everybody Wants Now’. The Uruguayan artist has been in the game for some time, and his production experience is on full display here. Much like the A1, this track is focussed with its sound design, but equally functional for DJ sets. Taking things back to four-to-the-floor, this A2 is an essential for the peak-time dance-floor given its driving energy and heavy beats. 

The B-Side opens with ‘Mantis’, a loopy DJ tool by UK producer Yant. It combines hypnotic elements with classic drum rhythms in an arrangement that carefully ebbs and flows - making it suitable both as a standalone piece or layered within a mix. The B2 takes things in a slightly different direction as American artist Ari Atai showcases his Detroit-influenced cut ‘Signal Phase’. With a foundation of analog drums and bleepy synths, the track builds with careful sound manipulations and closes out the release perfectly with its moody feel. 

The digital bonus comes by way of India’s Dotdat. ‘Polyslave’ is a full force production that was made with one clear purpose: to do damage on the dancefloor. With minimal elements, it’s some powerful drum programming that carries the arrangement whilst subtle synth parts add a bit of extra spice to the production.

A1. Blenk - Spell (Original Mix)
A2. William Arist - Like Everybody Wants Now (Original Mix)
B1. Yant - Mantis (Original Mix)
B2. Ari Atai - Signal Phase (Original Mix) 
Digi: Dotdat- Polyslave (Original Mix)

Format: Vinyl & Digital
Releases May 19, 2020

A1 written & produced by V. Mor | A2 written & produced by W. Arist | B1 written & produced by A. Tomlinson | B2 written & produced by A. Atai | ‘Polyslave’ written & produced by S. Naren 

All tracks mixed by each respective artist (B2 mixed by D. Jones)
Mastering: Mixroom (ZA)

© 2020 Knowledge Imprint

Various Artists - V/A 2.0 [K-I010] (Previews)

Tobias.' (@tobias-freund) track 'He Turned Into Him' will be released on 'ENSō 2020' through @reiten-0 on July 24th. More info: bit.ly/ReitenTobias

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ENSō 2020

Tobias. – He Turned Into Him

Full stream of Kosei Fukuda's "時ノ間 Toki no Ma," taken from his forthcoming LP on Reiten, out December 18.

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Ruten

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Premiere: Kosei Fukuda - 時ノ間 Toki no Ma

Premiere of 'Sekka 石火' by Kosei Fukuda, taken from RUTEN- album, forthcoming on REITEN

Label: REITEN
Artist: Kosei Fukuda
Title: RUTEN-
Track: Sekka 石火
Catalogue: RTN012
Format: Vinyl, Digital
Release Date: December 18th, 2020

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Kosei Fukuda - Sekka 石火 [Premere | RTN012]

One day things seemed perfect, but the next day everything was different. This wasn’t anything knew, she’d come to expect change now, found her own ways of acclimatising. Her ability to adapt and to settle quickly had been sharpened after life had thrown so many obstacles and challenges her way. She could handle anything now.

Producer and sound artist Kosei Fukuda makes a return to his own Reiten imprint, this time for his debut double LP Ruten. Marking the thirteenth release on the label, which Fukuda has grown as a space for experimental electronics and leftfield techno, the long player references Heraclitus’ famous adage that ‘everything flows’, with the two parts relating to the principle of Yin and Yang, and it’s infinite cycle of energy.

PREMIERE: Kosei Fukuda - 夢遊浮遊 Muyuu Fuyuu [Reiten]

OECUS Podcast #227 with KOSEI FUKUDA

Reiten label head Kosei Fukuda is a producer and sound artist who has shared his time between Tokyo and Berlin. Delving into the music scene of the latter in the late 2010s, he attracted attention of Berghain resident Tobias Freund who mixed all Reiten releases from the third one on in his Non Standard Studios and contributed a remix on the fifth.

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OECUS Podcast 227 // KOSEI FUKUDA

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After two series of conceptual EPs and the intricate experimental “Enso” Festival compilation, Kosei Fukuda returns with a full length solo project – the debut LP. This marks his thirteenth release on the @reiten-0 label – a platform he created to showcase his techno music and the more general, experimental aesthetic agenda of which the club music is but one facet. 

In principle, the two albums called Ruten – and Ruten + are meant to represent the principle of Ying & Yang, the two elemental forces and the eternal cycle of energy. As a whole, they signify a journey from the nascent being to the eventual dissolution of everything into nothing. 

The second volume offers a different take on such explorations, moving towards more nebulous and more fuzzy modes of musical imagination. It is here where Fukuda’s music begins to evince ineffable qualities, going beyond words that could definitively grasp its content. As such it seems to be asking: are patterns really there, or are we projecting them onto the world? This change of the composition style signifies a change of intellectual perspective, the second complementing the first. Drone-like sounds of the opening tracks appear alien initially, but on closer inspection they are reminiscent of this-wordly ambient sounds – just amplified many times over, stretched to a border of recognition, and rearranged for a thought-provoking auditory experience. They are impressionist vignettes where chromatic properties count for much more than any beat or harmonic structure.

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RUTEN +

Premiere: Kosei Fukuda "Jikou" - Reiten

Through his ambient and experimental compositions, Japanese artist Kosei Fukuda is on a mission to guide the listener to connect with their inner spirituality. 

In 2018 he launched his REITEN imprint as an experimental arts platform for his own productions, of which there have been many (13 releases to be exact). Last year he opened the platform to his contemporaries for the label's first V/A release, a collaboration with Tokyo's Ensō Festival which saw artists like Rabih Beaini, Lemna and Renick Bell join him to explore the corners of ambient and experimental. 

These are the sonics that make up his Monday mix for us. One for the insomniacs, for the early risers and the day dreamers, Kosei blurs the blissful and the discordant, urging you to connect with yourself and the environment around you.

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Kosei Fukuda: The 'Monday is OK' Mix

This new mixtape comes from Kosei Fukuda, the Japanese producer and sound artist, who shares his time between Tokyo and Berlin and who has prepared a deep listening hybrid DJ mix.

Fukuda camo to the scene in the late 2010s, attracting the attention of Berghain resident Tobias Freund. Fukuda's sound delves into minimalistic narratives and dark atmospheres, with a penchant for longer, conceptually inclined works which culminated in early 2020 in the two-vinyl collection of electro-acoustic improvisations compilation under the philosophical aegis of Enso featuring such acts as Recent Arts, Renick Bell or Rabih Beaini.

Fukuda return returns with a full solo project, Reuten, his debut LP and his thirteenth release on the Reiten label – a platform he created to showcase his techno music and the more general, experimental aesthetic agenda of which the club music is but one face. Ruten is a Japanese concept whose closest Western counterpart is the ancient Greek notion of ‘panta rhei’. Referencing Heraclitus’ famous adage that ‘everything flows’ is not just the philosophical inspiration behind the album but also the succinct aesthetic manifesto of sorts.

The two albums called Ruten – and Ruten + are meant to represent the principle of Ying & Yang, the two elemental forces and the eternal cycle of energy. As a whole, they signify a journey from the nascent being to the eventual dissolution of everything into nothing. Yet there’s still a deeper message at play: the omnipresence of patterns. Even the incessant flow of changes is patterned. The philosophers ask what it tells us about reality. The artists offer answers, each coded in the respective artistic language. In this work, Fukuda hints at the idea that a pattern is both an abstract structural quality and a concrete aesthetic value. The music is a complex sonic story about the interlocking meanings of pattern and flow, and it is a meditative exploration of the human experience of this entwinement.

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