Name: Roll the Dice & Pär Grindvik -Buried by Roll the Dice
Duration: 4 min 56 s
Description: One more song to finish of the year that was. It never really found its place in the context of our last album 'Born to Ruin'. But in a fresh coat of arms courtesy of our dear friend Pär Grindvik.Consider this our humble effort, a soundtrack for the festive season.

This is an IMMENSE and PECULIAR track, love it! Discovered it thanks to Laurent Garnier. Fantastic job guys !!!

Wow, epic niceness! Thanks a lot for the DL!

Rrose - Onceless

A bonus track from the planned Microgravity reissue.

Biosphere: Clovis

This Beats Handmade

In April of this year, Donato Dozzy took a set of mouth harps back to his parent’s house in the Italian countryside and set about exploring the possibilities of that most basic of instruments. The mouth harp had been calling to Dozzy ever since childhood, when he had discovered the “marranzano” on a holiday in Sicily with this parents at the tail end of the 1970s. Almost four decades later, Dozzy had begun to see in this peculiar, ancient sound, the roots of the music he’d been making and playing in clubs all these years. It was time to find out how far he could trace it all back. 

The Loud Silence is the result of those explorations, an accompanied deep-dive into childhood memory, social history and the roots of psychedelia. Recorded indoors and outdoors, half-way up mountains and on the edge of the Mediterranean sea, the record is meditative but also powerful. Dozzy has distilled his ideas into an incredibly intimate sound, one that invites an inverted sort of exploration, pushing you further and further into your own head. Each track maintains an inviolable central pulse, while delicate, fluttering sounds hint at vast spaces that might open up at any minute - they’re just waiting for you to connect with them. Field recordings hover below the resonating harps, adding to the mysterious atmosphere. Tracks like ‘The Loud Silence’ and ‘Downhill to the Sea’ are wrapped up in simple rhythms, their strict throb drawing you deeper and deeper into the primitive sound. 

Where so much of today’s trance-inducing music is mechanical, born of grids and microchips, The Loud Silence pulses with the presence of the human body. As Dozzy says, “The hand gives the tempo, together with the breath.” It’s all about the mouth, the ears, the hands. The organic physicality of the sound, made in concert with the body itself, generates a primal response in the listener, an undeniably visceral understanding, an empathetic resonance. “When you play such an instrument, you'll feel all your bones vibrating to the sound in a sort of chain reaction!” says Dozzy. "It becomes an emotional and physical clean up. In Italy, one of the ways to call the jew's harp is 'scacciapensieri', which literally means 'It kicks thoughts away'". 

The sound and its effects also carry with them a sense of history, of community and of social ritual. Trance states, whether shamanic rituals in the Amazon or DJ sets in dark night-clubs, have always relied on a social element, a communal understanding of what is going on, what is expected to happen. The Loud Silence is a personal album that speaks to this communal experience, that wonders implicitly why these ancient ideas of society and community have been so devalued today. “In a moment where all individuals seem to act egoistically and not as a tribe,” says Dozzy, “This music gives me the sense of continuity with the past.” 

Throughout history, states of altered consciousness have been religious, political, poetical or nihilistic, but rarely ever just a means of innocent entertainment. There is something inherently transgressive about removing the shackles of individual will and succumbing to something larger than yourself. Giving up your base desires and ambitions in favour of a sound, to submit yourself to something as simple and fleeting as vibrations in the air, the sound of some metal resonating in another person’s mouth, is a way to communicate with the part of you which is in everyone else too. It’s a way to reach both in and out at once, to the heart of what it is to be human on this planet. At a time when nations are burning and whole continents are on the edge of breaking apart, recognising the bonds that bring and hold people together, recognising that what we share is what truly defines us, couldn’t be more important. 

Downhill to the Sea

For this second release, Asfa (@4sf4) is glad to present you Perniciem, his 4 track EP and visual experimentation booklet. With sound and visual raw materials collected during his trip to Rome, Asfa attempted to enhance local ruins around the theme of emptiness. Its collages recontextualize stones fragments thanks to different techniques, including granular treatments.

Release July 3, 2017

Tracks written and composed by Benoît Lefeuvre. 
Mastering by Joseph Dubrule. 
Poem written by Léa Moret-Bailly. 
Visuals and artwork by Benoît Lefeuvre.

Perniciem

Asfa - Minerva

One more song to finish of the year that was. It never really found its place in the context of our last album 'Born to Ruin'. But in a fresh coat of arms courtesy of our dear friend Pär Grindvik.Consider this our humble effort, a soundtrack for the festive season.

Roll the Dice & Pär Grindvik -Buried

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Theory of Colours - Versions

Murmure (Rouge Mécanique Running Remix)

Roll The Dice presents `Elevate´, the third release in their collaborative series Assimilarity.
This time the Dice have teamed up with vocalist extraordinaire Glasser, which takes them into new sonic territories.
”We were really curious to explore the world of vocals, as this is an area we have never tapped into before.
However we did not want to just slap a vocal on top of a track, but rather try to dig deeper, to make the music and vocals sound as a whole. Let the vocals be part of the machine so to speak. We could not imagine anyone more adept than Glasser to guide us into this uncharted territory."
To complete the collaborative narrative, London based artist Fabio Almeida has provided yet another stunning piece of art for the cover, this time named
Click Clack.

Roll The Dice & Glasser - Elevate

Automne Fold

World Within Words

ФАКТУРА continues to explore the depths of the Ural electronic scene. Next in line is a cassette by a musician from the city of Serov, Ivan Somov, who is releasing music under the name NotNotice.

NotNotice music is filled with the atmosphere of occultism, it introduces into the trance, plays the role of an excellent instrument for the dance floor.

 "The Constructor" is based on methods of cutting different sounds into separate samples. Tarkovsky, the sounds from the office, recorded by my girlfriend, the transformer and some other details fell under the scissors. By picking up the sliced pieces of sound, like goods on pallets, in slightly noisy techno canvases.

https://soundcloud.com/faktura_ural

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