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Dark Minimal, Techno & Dub

Isolation EP

Sonomatic

Preternity

Life (Rrose Remix)

Preorder Vinyl & Digital via Bandcamp:
https://bit.ly/3HDYuN8

One Eye Witness:
https://bit.ly/3zvUqvB

Discogs: 
https://www.discogs.com/release/21614911-Primal-Code-AI-Calculator

Out 28.01.2022

Up next in our main series are Milan-based dub techno outfit Primal Code. With a solid back catalogue comprising releases for Hypnus Records, TGP and Konstrukt, the Italian duo have honed their skills to impressive effect over the last few years, forging a sound signature thoroughly engaging on both body and cerebral levels, and now punching in on KOC to breathe further hard-hitting opaque heat into the collection.

Putting things into gear, “AI Calculator” propels us across dim-lit streetscapes and murky subterranean entrails, pared-down to a minimal array of modular signals, subtle machine inflections and particularly acute rhythmic progression. Steering the original into further pumped-up, DJ-friendly territories, NAFF affiliate Priori drops the hammer badman style, bringing forth the racing muscular bass and squelchy machine talk on loop mode to keep everyone on their toes from start to finish.

Flexing a different kind of acidic swagger, “Autopilot” pulls out the weird extra-terrestrial jazz tropes and whirling dynamics for a round of proper otherworldly bop in the outer-space. Last but not least, “Mainframe” rounds off the release on a more openly experimental note, letting the loops, envelopes and textures float in a haze of half-controlled abstraction. The result evokes something of an immunocompromised Rubber Johnny getting glazed as he weightlessly drifts off from a galaxy to another, and into another world completely.

Primal Code - AI Calculator w/ Priori Remix (OYSTER32 - Snippets)

Captagon

Air-Port

Existenz

Zahlensender

Hymn to Moisture

Dissolve

New on Kompakt 
http://www.beatport.com/release/plastik-2014/1362858
http://www.kompakt.fm/releases/plastik_2014

Simon Baker - Plastik 2014 Remix

Haima

German DJ/producer Markus Suckut returns to Rekids with another 2-tracker on November, 4th. Here you can give the A side of his upcoming "Good Times" ep - "10 Y" - a first listen.

Head to review: http://bit.ly/2fxLX54

Markus Suckut schickt mit „Good Times" eine weitere EP auf Radio Slaves Rekids Imprint ins Rennen. Die A-Seite „10 Y" könnt ihr hier vorab hören.

Zum Review: http://bit.ly/2fxLX54

Good Times EP

Premiere: Markus Suckut "10 Y"

A regular contributor to Figure SPC, it was Jeroen Search who both started the series and also put an end to its story. With this creative chapter neatly closed, he is now bringing his ever-impressive work back to the main label.

Coming soon.

www.figure-music.com/news

Time Signature EP

presale

Jeroen Search - Da Capo (snippet)

Incense & Black Light

subway

Maceo Plex - Mutant Pulse Feat Paradigm Shift

Taken from: Artefakt - Remixed - Delsin Records (dsr-c14) 

Comes together with remixes from Valentino Mora, Polar Inertia, Evigt Morker.

https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/6165
https://artefakt.bandcamp.com/album/remixed

Forest Drive West (@forest-drive-west) coming off the back of a fantastic album on Livity Sound that showcased his hi fidelity take on bass, jungle and techno. Here he flips 'The Fifth Planet' into eight broody minutes of involving drum programming and groaning synth drones. A subtly uplifting tune thanks to the gorgeous pads in the background, but real bass heavy system music when it comes to the dance floors.

Remixed

The Fifth Planet (Forest Drive West Remix)

Buy @ Delsin Shop

On his new EP ‘1972’, veteran producer and live musician @Tobias-Freund offers up four tracks of layered and meticulously-crafted techno using his extensive archives of tape recordings collected since childhood. Referencing a mix of profound political events in Germany history and esoteric meditation guides, the Berghain resident's warm, detailed sound edges beyond the floor toward brain-tingling home listening and wanderlust autobahn escapism.

The EP begins with the titles track’s buzzing synths panning rhythmically across the stereo field like a hypnotist’s pocket watch, while a somber, sampled string melody pushes further into cosmic territory before concluding with a bi-lingual eulogy. “Schism” soars with a never-ending snare roll and sparse kicks – an entire track floating on a break that never lands. On “The Wisdom Of No Escape”, Freund combines soft, polyrhythmic bleeps with esoteric vocal samples on an infinite inward path of hallucinogenic self-discovery. EP closer “Electric Storm” makes a turn for the ultrastoned, with hats and writhing vocals disintegrating and reforming over a soft, round steady pulse.

Buy 12" EP / Digital

Tobias. | Electric Storm

Three years in the making only to be held up nearly another whole year due to COVID, this dark brooding monster of an EP by Brussels-based artist Strapontin, aka multi-disciplinary artist Patrick Belmont, is finally seeing the daylight on Invisible, Inc. Clocking in at over 35-minutes, the record is almost album-length and spans a multitude of depths and moods with elements of techno, new wave, rock 'n' roll, house, and tribal… all glued together with a sleazy atmosphere reminiscent of the electronic body music pioneered by Strapontin’s Belgian forefathers Front 242 and their German peers DAF. Add to this a heads-down-no-nonsense darkroom beast of a remix by techno maestro Sascha Funke and the package is complete.

About the track we were given to premiere, Strapontin himself said: “It started with a desire to move away a bit from my dancefloor side and go into more undefined fields, I wanted to work with blurry sensations that I can't understand. I like mixed feelings, and ‘Dramatex 300’ is made of that ambivalent mood. The voice is saying 'I'm feeling empty' and 'I'm feeling healthy' at the same time. I like that paradox”. 

You can find (and buy) this and other music pearls on the Bandcamp page of the label: https://invisible-inc.bandcamp.com/

Follow @strapontin & @invisible-inc, peeps!

subway

Rod Modell

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