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Alessandro Cortini

Way With Silence is the first single from Vogue Dots second EP, Mauka. 

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Way With Silence

Synthi A driven by KS keyboard/sequencer.recorded live.

EMS Synthi 111214

Alessandro Cortini Boiler Room x MUTEK MX Live set

play loud. speak loud. act loud.

Happy Birthday MLK Jr.

011517

Alessandro Cortini, live instrumental set at Death By Audio, NYC, December 11 2011. Performed on a Buchla Music Easel.

Alessandro Cortini - live at Death By Audio, december 2011

Carola - Säg Mig Var Du Står (Bottenvikens Silverkyrka Acid Edit)

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Antwood (a.k.a. Canada's Tristan Douglas) returns to Planet Mu with his second album 'Sponsored Content'. The album is more reflective than his debut, last year's 'Virtuous.scr'. The relentless mood of the first album has given way to a more melodic, stripped out sound. It still shakes with speed and energy, but with more space, more moments of delicate sadness and strange cyborg pop. What comes to the fore in 'Sponsored Content' is Tristan's gift for melody, coupled with the uncanny feeling that somehow his strange music is an entire ecosystem of it’s own. It's best explained by Tristan himself:

"This record was made during a very challenging year. Some of these challenges were for the best, some were not, most were both, others were neither. The music is inextricably tied to these events, whether I like it or not, and I’ve begun peeking out from behind my self-imposed veil of heavy conceptualization; revealing things about myself that my previous album Virtuous.scr didn’t."   "In the past year, I found that ASMR, which I had previously used as a source of foley in my music, was a fairly effective sleep aid. I’d been using the videos in this way for a few months, when I noticed a popular ASMR YouTuber announced a plan to incorporate ads into her videos; quiet, subtle ads, woven into the content. What bothered me about this was that these ads would target viewers, such as myself, during times of semi lucid vulnerability. This disturbed me, and I unsubscribed."

"Sponsored Content explores this idea of subversive advertisement, at least superficially. It’s obviously about the ubiquity of ads and the commodification of online content. The unlikely placement of ads in the music aims to force the listener to become hyper-aware of being advertised to rather than passively internalizing it. But after the record was finished, it became undeniable that really it wasn’t so much a “concept record” about advertisement; it’s as much about intentionally devaluing the things I’ve invested myself into, and over-complicating my work. When I realized this, I considered taking the ads out, and playing the music straight. But I left the record as it is: honest, flawed, with a little humour, and slightly up its own ass."

"I collaborated with El Popo Sangre (a.k.a. Paulin Rogues) for the visuals after he showed me his short film “Fantasy” which used several tracks from Virtuous.scr. He and his team at UNICORN added a depth to the project I could never have done on my own."

Antwood - Wait For Yengi

I’m very happy to announce a new collaboration with Alessandro Cortini, a master of electronic noise and synth player in Nine Inch Nails. I’m a huge fan of Alessandro’s work and I’m proud to share this music with you, something we’ve been working on for the past few months. An extremely limited white-label 7” titled Sun Draw Water is available at Mount Analog in LA, Phonica in London and through the Phantasy web shop: https://fanlink.to/DAACSDW

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Daniel Avery + Alessandro Cortini - Water

Following a pair of head-turning releases for the Mannequin label, Spanish techno explorer JASSS will soon be releasing her debut album, 'Weightless.' Scheduled to arrive via Swedish outpost Ideal Recordings on September 18, we debuted the LP's ominously slithering title track on Red Bull Radio's First Floor, our weekly look at what's new in electronic music.

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Weightless

JASSS "Weightless" [First Floor Premiere]

‘No Idols’ Out Now -
Big Dada / Stream / Download: https://visionist.lnk.to/valueSO

Taken from ‘Value’ released 20th October 2017 via Big Dada.

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No Idols

City - A Goal is an Image

Available 29 September 2017 on limited translucent 12" vinyl and digital formats.
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I. Provinces
II. Your Stream
III. Pain/Power
IV. End Zone
V. Mutual Life
VI. Inevitable
VII. The Good Soldier
VIII. Of One Kind
IX. Ffaith
X. SAR
XI. Immaculate

City ≠
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HALC012

Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy
Artwork by Lane Stewart & Collin Fletcher for Halcyon Veil

A Goal is an Image

City - Pain/Power (HALC012)

Hydra is the second release in a series of collaborations called Assimilarity, this time a joint venture between the Dice and Maestro Allessandro Cortini.

" The whole idea came about following the successful collaboration between ourselves and Pär Grindvik on our track 'Buried' at the end of last year. What started out as curiosity about what could happen if outside input was brought into the process, turned into the feeling that this could be further explored by maybe turning it into a project and a series of releases. We have reached out to different artists that we like and that we feel we have a kindred spirit with in our approach to music, and we will put these tracks out individually throughout the year. To make sure that all these different tracks with different collaborations don't feel too apart from each other we have asked London based Brazilian artist Fabio Almeida (who was Malcolm's flatmate in London in the 90s) if we could use some of his work as artwork for the different covers. Fabio has picked out a set of images that have a common thread but also stand on their own, which is also the way Fabio sees his creative process. For us this kind of sums up the project in a nice way. Together but apart.

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Roll The Dice & Alessandro Cortini - Hydra

Recorded at plutonium studio 
Recorded mixed by Aidan Hogg 
Written by Jaimee Fryer.
Musicians Ft: Jaimee Fryer, Peter Bernoth, Vlada Edirippulige, Luke Pallier, Dougal Morrison.

Roll The Dice & Alessandro Cortini - Hydra

Roll the Dice