Singles, EP's & remixes

Label: Mord
Artist: Operator
Title: Theurgy EP 
Art by Alfred de Curzon
Cat No: MORD078
Format: 2 x 12" and Digital

A1 Proxima B
A2 Dance In The Darkwood
B1 Umbra One
B2 Century Station
C1 Complex Raid 2089
C2 Ode To Luna
D1 Apex Cut
D2 Arcturus
X1 Pleroma [digi only]
X2 Precipice [digi only]

Release Date: 23.07.2021

***
staring full ghastly
like a strangled man
animal dreams and suicides
bickering with the echoes
the sun seemed warmer
when we smiled today
***

Theurgy EP

MORD078 - Operator - Theurgy EP [Previews ]

Label: Audio Assault
Artist: Operator
Title: Proton Waterfalls EP
Cat No: AAR044
Format: 12" and Digital 
www.audioassault.com

A1 - Proton Waterfalls
A2 - Lionheart
B1 - The new Knowing
B2 - Fearless

Release Date: 09.09.2013 / get your vinyl copy before it hits the stores!
audioassault.com/release/DEAL001/
audioassault.com/release/AAR044/

Operator is the heavy-weighted techno pseudonym of Rich Jones. His first EP under this name on his own label Gnosis records is among the Audio Assault crew's top played releases from last year. He further enhances his amazing analog sound on this full 4-tracker on Audio Assault.

supported by: Psyk, Ben Sims, Christian Wunsch, Sawf, Paula Temple, Samuli Kemppi, Shifted, Chris Liebing, Drumcell, Exium, Kr!z, Paul Mac, Xhin, Developer, Audio Injection, Adam X, Jeroen Search, Tommy Four Seven, Peter Van Hoesen, Pfirter, Cassegrain, Mr. Jones, Charlton...

Audio Assault 044 - Operator - Proton Waterfalls EP (previews)

We are proud to present 13 years of From 0-1. The Techno music scene has changed immensely in the last 13 years, but our mission remains the same... release high quality dancefloor tracks, designed to move the body and stimulate the mind, while choosing to work with the most genuine artists we encounter. This compilation celebrates 13 quality artists we respect and admire around the world. We see the effect of Techno music as a global phenomenon. It shatters borders, and eliminates barriers between us, ultimately bringing us closer to each other. Without it, we may never have made connections and struck friendships with the artists represented in this release. Beyond all the Instagram superstardom, pay-to-play relationships, flashy nonsense, and ghost produced who-gives-a-shit tracks, there is still a solid and vibrant core of artists worldwide working day in and day out to keep it real. A small cross section of those artists are represented right here. With the end of the pandemic in sight, we know you are all eager to get back into the club. We wish you a quick and rapid rebound from all of this as soon as possible, and hope these tracks make your bass bins bang. Thank you so much for your support these last 13 years. See you on the dancefloor. 

Mastering: Dietrich Shoenemann 

Visual Design: Rubidium

Bandcamp

Operator - Cloud Cities of Venus

Artist: Various Artists
Title: Natural Selection: In Aid Of Ukraine
Label: Natural Selection
Catalogue No: NSUKR
Format: Digital
Release Date: 15th March 2022

Bandcamp: https://naturalselectionlondon.bandcamp.com/album/natural-selection-in-aid-of-ukraine-2

Track Listing:
1. Alex Schultz - Day One
2. Cluster Lizard - Being Alive Isn’t Everything
3. Plant43 - Rivers Of Rust
4. Annie Hall - Random Burst Robot
5. Blixaboy - Senso
6. Stormfield - Pyrophoric
7. Alex Jann - The Age Of Confusion
8. Fleck E.S.C - A Story On Earth
9. dynArec - Celestial Cut
10. Umwelt - The Dark Between The Stars
11. Assembler Code - Automata
12. Obzerv - The Network
13. The Advent - Audio Illusion (1995 Remaster)
14. Sterac - For Better Days
15. Operator - Courage
16. HIRT (Hiroaki Iizuka & Ryuji Takeuchi) - Force
17. Rommek - All Blood Is Red
18. Cressida - Fatigue
19. ANDRØMEDA - Manipulation
20. Alex Schultz - Molotov
21. Linear System - Gama
22. Kalter Ende - Stop and Patience
23. Nemrac - Vortex
24. Ryuji Takeuchi - Belief In People Power
25. Charlton - D-M-T-F-P
26. Somatic Responses - Hard Brenin
27. Slave To Society - Tundra
28. Ex.Hale - Underwater Dub
29. Mina Lord - Perun
30. Kotra - Delta Movement
31. Religia - Morning Invasion
32. Jauzas The Shining - The Unconventional
33. Paul Blackford - Concord

"Following the appalling criminal invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s forces, London based record label and events collective Natural Selection take a firm stand and show their solidarity with Ukraine with this colossal 33-track V/A fundraiser compilation, by which 100% of proceeds will be donated to Ukrainian charity foundation Come Back Alive. Natural Selection have brought together some of the most respected names in electronic music, including some closely connected artists within the Natural Selection family and also a hand-picked selection of Ukrainian artists including Alex Schultz, Cluster Lizard, Zavoloka, Kotra and Religia. Other artists include the likes of The Advent, Rommek, Slave to Society (AnD), Charlton, Somatic Responses, Operator, Sterac, Annie Hall, Umwelt, HIRT (Hiroaki Iizuka & Ryuji Takeuchi), Linear System, Cressida, dynArec, Assembler Code, Fleck ESC & more. Great efforts have been made from everyone involved to come together and contribute to this release at such short notice, showing incredible commitment and dedication to support this urgent and vital cause. 

With this release Natural Selection have meticulously curated a daring fusion of artists and genres, bridging the heavier spectrum of Techno, Electro, Acid, IDM, etc. with new, experimental style and form. Expect the most cutting-edge, hard-hitting, underground electronics throughout its entirity and extreme diversity in sound. Natural Selection's 'no boundary' ethos remains uncompromised with this release."

Mastered by @dadub Studio

Natural Selection: In Aid Of Ukraine

Natural Selection: In Aid Of Ukraine - V/A [Previews]

!To even start saying something about the remixers or mention their biographys or discographys would mean to expand this infosheet to a book-sized techno history volume.
!We say thank you for all the support over 20 years and thanks again for really heartfelt remix work we’ve received from our friends to realize this huge project.

K-Remixes Single One

Offshore Funk - Palm Cove (Rich Jones Deep Dive) Snip

Buy/Stream: https://fanlink.to/SYMDIGI027

Operator:
SC - @rich-jones
IG - www.instagram.com/operatoruk/
FB - www.facebook.com/operatorrichjonesofficial

Carbon Towers EP

Surface Shimmer

Buy/Stream

Operator - Surface Shimmer - Symbolism (Low Res Clip)

Out on vinyl and digital...

Played/supported by Exium, Developer, Shifted, Jonas Kopp, Radial, Psyk, Chris Liebing, Rebekah, Tommy Four Seven, Luke Slater and more...

To avoid confusion with other similarly named artists, on all download sites it is listed as the artist 'Operator (UK)'

Gnosis vinyl 001 coming July 2014.

http://www.gnosisrecords.com/

Operator__Proton Waterfalls

Rising from the south coast UK techno scene, Rich Jones has been mastering his sound for nearly a decade. Producing hardy, hypnotic techno for labels such as Reset Robot’s Roomba Music and Alan Fitzpatrick’s 8-sided Dice label he has found his productions been played by the likes of Richie Hawtin, Derrick May, Adam Beyer, Slam and Funk D’Void to name but a few.
 
His Soma 306 debut begins with Depthcharge, an instantly grabbing warehouse vibe emphasised by a falling synth over a solid sub-bass foundations. The concrete roots of the track are supported by a horn-like melody which explodes into a mainroom techno workout.
 
Sasha Carassi adds weight to a similar rhythmic progression and desends into the tougher side of techno. Introducing some of his own vocal stabs he turns Depthcharge into a voluminous monster.
 
On the final track of the EP, Complex 001, Rich Jones develops deep and steady synth stabs with delicate additions that play off the underpinning groove. Percussive swells join a distant and pitching pad giving powerful drive to an already alluring track. This has already been getting massive support from label bosses Slam.

Anticipate expeditious dance floor reactions with this EP; to the point, and most certainly dance floor focussed.


Rich Jones - Complex 001

Rising from the south coast UK techno scene, Rich Jones has been mastering his sound for nearly a decade. Producing hardy, hypnotic techno for labels such as Reset Robot’s Roomba Music and Alan Fitzpatrick’s 8-sided Dice label he has found his productions been played by the likes of Richie Hawtin, Derrick May, Adam Beyer, Slam and Funk D’Void to name but a few.
 
His Soma 306 debut begins with Depthcharge, an instantly grabbing warehouse vibe emphasised by a falling synth over a solid sub-bass foundations. The concrete roots of the track are supported by a horn-like melody which explodes into a mainroom techno workout.
 
Sasha Carassi adds weight to a similar rhythmic progression and desends into the tougher side of techno. Introducing some of his own vocal stabs he turns Depthcharge into a voluminous monster.
 
On the final track of the EP, Complex 001, Rich Jones develops deep and steady synth stabs with delicate additions that play off the underpinning groove. Percussive swells join a distant and pitching pad giving powerful drive to an already alluring track. This has already been getting massive support from label bosses Slam.

Anticipate expeditious dance floor reactions with this EP; to the point, and most certainly dance floor focussed.



Rich Jones - Depth Charge

Dark, hypnotic techno tools. New EP out on limited vinyl 12" and digital soon...

Operator - Going There [GNOSIS003] (Preview)

Artist : Operator
Title : Elastic Minds EP
Cat. Nb: Sing-r 8
Label: Singular Records
Mastered by Stéphane Dri.
November 2015 / Vinyl only
Distributed by DNP Music Berlin.
Track listing:
A1 – Elastic Minds
A2 – Aer Fixus
B1 – 50 Degrees
B2 – Flat Rotation Curves

Operator - Elastic Minds Ep - Singular Records 8

Distribution via ReadyMade:
orders@readymadedistribution.com

Blue Hour - Remixed [03]
Release date: Monday 27th August

Written & produced by Blue Hour
Remix & additional production by:

A1 Flow State (Ben Sims Remix)
A2 Introspective III (Operator Remix)
B1 Unearthed (Ctrls Remix)
B2 Merdian (Truncate Remix)	

Mastered by Tim Xavier at Manmade Mastering

–

Published by Copyright Control 2018

Vinyl exclusively distributed by ReadyMade.
www.readymadedistribution.com

Digital Distribution: 
www.bluehourmusic.bandcamp.com
www.epm-music.com

For booking enquiries contact:
benjamin@mutual-obsession.com (Worldwide)
jia@deviationagency.com (North America)

For more info visit:
www.bluehourmusic.com

Remixed [03] | Ben Sims, Operator, Ctrls, Truncate

--Excerpt from Aeons At Play live set--

With UK Techno artist Operator (a.k.a Rich Jones) working the groove via mixer, drum machines and effects, and Dutch stalwart Radial (a.k.a Jeroen Liebregts) conjuring textures and hooks through sampling and manipulating his self-developed modular synthesizer, Aeons At Play is a new and potent musical dialogue between these two Techno veterans. 

Having a combined experience in electronic music production and performance of over 30 years, the pair decided to join forces and venture into the unknown, allowing the listener an insight into their creative process as they build a unique, and entirely improvisational, sonic journey. 

This live show format lets the audience witness ideas being formed, and further developed, on the fly, into concrete and tangible sonic objects. These are then sampled and deconstructed again, allowing the direction of the journey to shift dynamically, with no pre-recorded loops, plan or road map. 
This makes for an effortlessly evolving rhythmic soundscape punctuated with contrasting moments of intense energy and momentum, followed by stripped back, meditative sonic plateaus. Disparate tempos and styles blend seamlessly together, and wherever the two take the journey, however deep, forward motion and dance floor energy always remain key. 

Aeons At Play live shows bring creativity, bold yet nuanced sound design, and confident progression, with the ability to decisively shift gears at striking pace, thanks to the insight into dance floor mechanics these two experts uniquely bring. 
Intense, hypnotic journeys of freeform modern Techno, loaded with energy and groove, but always expressive, organic, textured, and ever evolving. No two sets are ever the same...

Aeons At Play - Clusterstuq

The A Side from the first EP as my alias Operator, out on Gnosis Records...

Support from Ben Klock, Xhin, DVS1, Truncate, Drumcell. Rebekah, Steve Rachmad, Alan Fitzpatrick and others.

http://www.gnosisrecords.com/Home.html


Operator__Elements

RICH JONES - The Archaic Revival
[SOMA361D]

1. Archaic Revival
2. Solstice
3. Demonic Intervention
3. Biotope
 
Release Date: 04.03.13

Rich Jones makes a welcome return to Soma with his follow up the successful ‘Depth Charge’ EP released back in 2011. This time Rich hit us with a more refined, darker sound with 4 tracks of pure Techno lined with pulsating drums and deep synth work

Title track Archaic Revival starts with a solid groove and a hypnotic synth line that builds slowly and bubbles under the surface. The synth starts to open up as hats start to wash over the mix, setting the pace for the track. Raw old school claps and further hats drop in to enhance the techno vibe. Whispering reverbs creep in as the pace is brought back down in the middle for a short break down before the synth opens up and hats enter again to drive the track home.

The second track Solstice starts out with a more complex rhythm with dark percussion evolving throughout. A deep melodic synth line starts to flow into the track creating an early morning dance floor vibe. By the middle of the track you cannot help but be locked into the tracks melodic groove, perfect for those small hours of the morning.

Demonic Intervention come straight from the depths. A deep kick and growling synths create a dark feeling, forcing the tension straight through you. Pitched 909 hats help to drive this track down that highway to hell!

Biotope rounds the EP out perfectly and definitely has more of a house vibe to it. A stabby synth line sets the tone from the get go before nice airy hats jump in and keep the pace going. Like the rest of the EP nice raw sounding claps flutter through the track creating an excellent dance floor builder.

Rich Jones turns in another solid EP for Soma which shows a definite maturity in his sound.



Rich Jones - Biotope (Soma 361d)

Rich Jones - Demonic Intervention (Soma 361d)

Rich Jones - Solstice (Soma 361d)

Rich Jones - Archaic Revival (Soma 361d)

On our last release for 2020 we welcome UK's producer and label owner Rich Jones aka Operator for his debut EP on MindTrip. 'Apocryphal Truths' includes five energetic cuts showcasing his mind-bending yet still tough signature techno sounds. From the opening track Sense to Facade Crush, till the last Mycelium, you can feel the energetic, rolling heaviness covered with tripped out textures and 90's influenced Techno patterns. Operator introduced himself to our MindTrip world with his 2hrs exclusive mix on MindTrip Podcast episode 48 and we are pleased to welcome him back for his personal release work.

We wish you all a Happy and Trippy New Year!

- Mastered at www.isleaudio.com -

Operator - Sense (Original Mix) [MT33]

Label: Mord
Artist: Various Artists
Title: Herdersmat part 30-33
Cat No: MORDH005
Format: 4 x 12" vinyl and digital

BUY: https://mord.bandcamp.com/album/herdersmat-part-30-33

Release date: Feb 5th 2021

A1 SHXCXCHCXSH - EAUOAI
A2 Jokasti & Nek - Dromos 
B1 Temudo & Ribé - Rite 
B2 Tapefeed - Unshackle 

C1 Cristian Varela - Eighth 
C2 Certa Ratio - 002 0026 
D1 Razbibriga - Cicada 
D2 Kaiser - And Yet Again 
D3 Go Hiyama - Unchance Operation 

E1 Tensal - Aquelarre 
E2 Dimi Angélis - Deconstruction 
F1 DJ ANGELDU$t - Green Glockz 
F2 Diabla Diezco - Window 
F3 Antony Doria - Confusion 

G1 Sciahri & Desroi - Jupiter's Gravity is Jealous 
G2 Jaraossa - VCA 
H1 Operator - Moving On 
H2 Jamaica Suk - 4th Dimension 

***
Mord.
Morderstwo.
Rotterdam.
Herdersmat.
***

MORDH005 - Various Artists - Herdersmat Part 30 - 33 [Previews]

https://operator1.bandcamp.com/
MORD; Ilian Tape; Symbolism; Mindtrip; CLR; Singular; Blue Hour; Audio Assault; Soma. 

I run Gnosis Records.

Also work with Radial as Aeons At Play. 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBymQtAQiZLImTEnzIc2ig