i like the effects and instrumentation very much... the dark mood is super ⚡💥⚡

Pre-order : https://ar-fm.bandcamp.com/album/stakhanov
Release date: June 2, 2021

One year and a half after Jaroska’s ’Red Room Offering’ release, Lyon-based AR/FM label is back with the fourth imprint of its catalog, due for June 2021.
Following the label’s aim of exploring a widened techno spectrum while working with and promoting unsung talented friends, AR/FM is about to provide another beautiful piece of music, this time from ephemeral trio Stakhanov.

This eponymous LP offers 55 minutes of dense, fluctuant electronic experimentations, taking inspirations in the relentless Soviet worker myth. Its frantic and industrial overall atmosphere, set by sharp yet harsh paces, is eventually pulled to pieces by murky and hallucinated ambient acts, depicting a way darker story than the one told by the USSR propaganda.  
Thus, one rhetorical question remains: Could this unhealthy man-a-machine glorification come to any different end than madness?

Based upon Hugo Charpentier’s drawings, that can be found both on inner and outer sleeves, the 7-track album definitely takes advantage of its visual dimension, resulting in an elegant double-12” black-&-white gatefold layout. 

Releasing Stakhanov was also for AR/FM a way to pay tribute to the golden era of Lyon alternative electronic scene around 2013-2016, of which the project-members were three of the many faces. 
Through their different collectives and labels (CLFT Militia, SILO, Palma…) amongst others, all the instigators of this creative craze considerably contributed to the constitution of a new generation of Lyon-scene protagonists, AR/FM being one of them.

Release Infos:
Date of announcement: Monday, May 17, 2021 
Date of release: Wednesday, June 2, 2021.
Styles: Deep Techno, Dub Techno, Ambient, Industrial, Acid, Downtempo, Drone
Limited-edition of 150 double-12” Gatefold vinyls, including download code and 30*30cm insert by Hugo Charpentier.
Public price: 26 € + shipping.

Credits:
Music: Mathieu Reynaud, Léo Paillard & Fabien Ainardi 
Mastering: Lorenzo Targhetta
Artworks & Design: Hugo Charpentier 

AR/FM Links:
Bandcamp: https://ar-fm.bandcamp.com
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/aroomfmuzik 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ARoomFMuzik
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/fr/label/1457939-ARFM 
Contact: contact.arfm@gmail.com

AR/FM#004 - Stakhanov LP - Previews (OUT JUNE 2, 2021)

The Hour Of The Sleeping Stones

Crossing arms, crossing legs
Wearing a snow-white veil 
The silhouette: 
Whimsical dance, burning in vain 
And the flame danced fabulously 
Time is preserved, minutes are in no hurry
Fate lighten, reflected on the pale face.  

The lonely shadow in the window
Played and reminded:
A wind blew from the cold night, from the window frame 
Soared, drown in caress
 As quivering as wings  

Shadows float out of the gloom 
And a ray of hope kindled
 Resentments burn at dusk
 A fire aflame quiescently on a thread.

Pechblende - Cities & Desire

Purchase: bit.ly/3QrFcz1
Catalog #: GN69
August 19, 2022
CASS+DIGI

Born in Baghdad, raised in Tasmania, and now based in Barcelona, Dania Shihab moves between cultures and continents with an amorphous creative vision directly tied to her transient existence. As founder of experimental outpost Paralaxe Editions, Dania divides her time between Spain and the remote corners of Australia, where she works as an emergency doctor. Now, Dania presents her solo debut 'Voz,' which finds her rediscovering her voice as a primary instrument. 

The title “Voz”—Spanish for “voice” and signaling to her transnational experiences between Spain and Australia for the last decade—is especially fitting, as Dania grew up in a household where singing was culturally frowned upon. “I used to record myself privately by dubbing my vocals onto tapes in my bedroom and lied about joining the school choir. A lot of what I did musically was done in secret. For that, I have a difficult relationship with my voice,” Dania explains. And although not all the songs have vocals, the tracks here show Dania’s voice in an undeniably self-reflective, introspective, and cathartic light.

Created using a smattering of looped-and-layered vocals, instrumental samples, modular synthesis, cassette tapes, and piano, 'Voz' is an entrapped exploration of harmonics and tonality, weaving together manipulated vocal fragments, processed field recordings, and meditative atmospheres.
 
Dania sets the scene with the melancholic majesty of “I Lied,” a solitary chorus of lifted and lilted vocals and peripheral drones wafting through the air. “Aleph” floats in an ascending, slow-motion sprawl of synth tones, distant pianos, and kaleidoscopic lyrical abstractions. The low-fi churn of “Fire Dash” offers a vibrant milieu of witching hour merriment; a sinister snapshot that searches in the shadows to find even odder beauty. 
 
“Whale Song” departs the well-trodden path and ventures into a thick brush of humid ambiance like a sweltering aural travelog of some uncharted place. The backward drift of “An Individual” levitates in a bubbly fog of heavenly harmonics, while “The Other Thing Is” awakens in a calm, piano-drenched state of hustle and bustle. “Anomaly” closes 'Voz' in a grandiose din of ethereal melody and glorious devastation.

Dania - "Anomaly"

caught up in the winter i jusss wanna biyte urr hart😁😁❤️
 prod by @xplantera

winnnnter ☃️🌨️ x coxton yard 😆

A reworked version of one of the tracks used in the soundtrack to Surface Area Dance Theatre's production, 'Auricular'.

Auricular was performed in April 2017 at CCA, Glasgow (16 April), Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed (22 April)and at Turner Contemporary, Margate (29 April),

http://www.surfacearea.org.uk/auricular/

GB 2 Re/r/ed

Dedicated to Airkit   https://soundcloud.com/theairkit

Mårble & Minereed - Dedicated to Airkit

“To lose one's self to the act of listening, to become fully that which is attentively experiencing the music.”-  Daniel M Karlsson

A loss of self features renders of two drones in just intonation of indefinite duration. Daniel M Karlsson has made the code for this music freely available via his website which can be downloaded, modified, and listened to using the open-source program SuperCollider at - danielmkarlsson.github.io

C60 XK15

Daniel M Karlsson - A loss of self (excerpt)

Huellas Entreveradas

La Ba-Balle du Chien-Chien a la Me-Mere

RADIANT

Midoriyutaka 緑豊か

Enshrouded in high-pitched static and elusive fumelike oscillators come "Sundowning", a new mini-album signed by Preston Weippert's most prolific alias, aka Volunteer Coroner. Co-founder of the Colorado-based Trust Collective label, Weippert's music vectors a collection of desolate murals often painted with industrial-grade fuel. A low-resolution picture of oil fields burning from your window seat. Closed eyelids against the sun, into the red.

“Loss as gain- forever in blood”

EN17

Recorded during the Summer of 2020
Volunteer Coroner is P.W.

Sundowning

Volunteer Coroner - A Token Saved From A Previous Life

Ambient / Field Recordings / Synth / Drone / Noise / Experimental

Midoriyutaka 緑豊か

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