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Pavel Milyakov — drifted off (feat. Richie Culver)

On June 27, 2025, a long-dormant signal reactivates from Hamburg's hidden places: Helena Hauff and F#X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Records—their first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014. Like a hieroglyphic recently discovered and translated, R4 feels more like a long-awaited resumption than a comeback.

Recorded to tape with minimal editing or post-production the record is a classic example of the symbiotic relationship that can come from the interaction of human and machine. This punk ethos isn't invoked through distortion alone, but through method; in the album's breaking from the received wisdom of hardness tethered to speed as most of the tougher pieces are lower BPM and vice versa (with one notable exception in the mind-melting stomp of BLOKK).

Across ten tracks, Black Sites traverse a landscape where genre dissolves into intention. It migrates through electro's danceability, acid house's corrosion, and into the liminal realm of machine funk—a genre coined by Andrew Weatherall, which sounds like the results of technology dreaming of soul where the emphasis is on live execution, on immediacy over perfection—a sound forged in the act of creating, not polishing.

In a 2013 interview, around the time of the first Black Sites EP, Hauff was quoted as saying that she wants "things to fit together properly, but on another level, I really want them to make sense together." That principle animates R4: The album's form reveals itself in time, with each movement echoing and amplifying the others to create a synergistic whole.

From the opening crawl of C4 (a name that like the music foreshadows the explosions to come) to the end-of-the-night bliss of MOTHERJAM via the intense peaks of BLOKK, 707, and classic acid track 3D it's clear that R4 is a work made with serious intent; a refutation of a world where streaming has made the two-minute single the dominant musical form again. R4 demands immersion, not just attention. It is not a collection of tracks, but a singular, recursive experience: a mirror in which sound and listener repeatedly rediscover one another.

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Black Sites - C4

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https://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-155-bourbonese-qualk-my-government-is-my-soul-lp

Mannequin Records proudly reissues "My Government Is My Soul", a searing 1989 statement from Bourbonese Qualk, one of the UK’s most defiant and politically engaged experimental acts. Originally released on the group’s own label, this LP captures the uncompromising spirit of a band deeply embedded in the resistance movements of 1980s Britain.

Recorded during a turbulent period of social unrest, "My Government Is My Soul" stands as a fierce response to authoritarianism, surveillance, and the neoliberal decay that defined the Thatcher era. Bourbonese Qualk fused industrial rhythms, minimal synth, distorted tape loops, and spoken-word polemics into a sound that was both confrontational and deeply physical—a weaponized form of music rooted in activism and direct action.

Widely regarded by fans as one of the band’s strongest works, "My Government Is My Soul" has earned a near-mythic status in underground circles. Fans have praised the album’s stylistic breadth—“sometimes it kisses the hem of rock, at others it bows towards the likes of Steve Reich & Philip Glass".

This reissue, fully remastered by Rude 66, reintroduces a critical work of post-industrial dissent to a new generation. Still as urgent and unflinching as ever, the album resonates with today’s climate of mass disinformation and systemic control. It is a timely reminder that sound can still be a form of resistance.

The digital edition includes five bonus tracks that were previously available only on the original CD version, now made accessible in digital format exclusively for Bandcamp. 
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release date: June 16, 2025

Bourbonese Qualk - Ton Ton Macoute

Today on Meta Moto Premieres we have Sadie La Chèvre and Nora Düster - Extra Bleu Ciel, a minimal synth band based in Biel, Switzerland.
Extra Bleu Ciel is a bipolar borderline hyperactive teenager who likes to eat marshmallows at the cemetery.
Extra Blue Ciel cries with joy contemplating the flight of hysterical crows at sunset.
Extra Blue Ciel loves joyful despair and finds joy hopeless.
Extra Bleu Ciel will always be 15 years old in 1981.

"Hypersensible" is the idiosyncratic trace left by individuals oscillating between nightmare reality and waking dream, sailing between naive euphoria and lucid disillusionment, trying to defy fatality and maintain hope, dancing in the pre-diluvian mud of a dying 21st century.

Credits:
Produced and mixed: Sadie La Chèvre and Nora Düster
Mastering: Kill Shelter
Artwork: Diana Tolstovaite
Format: Tape / Digital
Release date: 14th of Mar / 2025
Order here: https://metamoto.bandcamp.com/album/extra-bleu-ciel-hypersensible

Extra Blue Ciel:
SC: https://soundcloud.com/extra-bleu-ciel
IG: https://www.instagram.com/extrableuciel_

Meta Moto:
SC: https://soundcloud.com/metamoto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/metamotometamoto
FB: https://www.facebook.com/metamotometamoto

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Extra Bleu Ciel - Scars like Wrinkles [mms006]

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Mild Affect is the founder of Umbra, a Moscow-based promo collective focused on industrial techno, EBM, noise, and other forms of dark, abrasive electronic music. Today, the dark electronic scene in Russia is going through a deep crisis: clubs are closing, access to international platforms like SoundCloud is blocked, and cultural isolation is growing. Despite this, Umbra continues to organize events and nurture a space for raw, transgressive sound.

Although Mild Affect began making music only in late 2023, he represents a new generation of Russian artists emerging from the ruins of a once-vibrant underground. His work channels a sense of urgency and resistance shaped by the harsh realities of the current cultural climate. Through this mix, he offers a glimpse into the atmosphere and defiance of a scene fighting to survive — and reconnect with the global underground.

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Support the artist:
https://soundcloud.com/mildaffect
https://instagram.com/mildaffect

https://soundcloud.com/umbramoscow
https://instagram.com/umbra.moscow

The photo and the artwork in the background are by his friend and Umbra co-founder, Mr Khorne.

https://instagram.com/mr_khorne

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Tracklist:

01. LIINEAS - Tranquilizer [Depth.Request]
02. North Toxic Influence - Silver Runway [H E T H I C]
03. Skumring feat. Macfra - All Things Are Nothing To Me [ades]
04. Templər - Athos [HANDS]
05. Ancient - Methods - Systems [47] / Flint Glass & Ah Cama-Sotz - Menegokre [ant-zen]
06. Templər - Ultra Noise Brigade[GWI MYEON RECORDS] / Couronne de Merde - Body Mortification
07. Siamgda ꕾ Marie - Celeb.Oratory [HANDS]
08. Ryuji Takeuchi - Expect The Unexpected (Original Mix) [Local Sound Network]
09. ESEPSIS - BROKEN [NYPRA]
10. Mono No Aware - 2nd Face (Project Erratic Remix) [HANDS]
11. The Fifth Stigma - Silent Pain [Infidel Bodies]
12. Eve Schwarz & Dolgener - Coping Mechanism (Ottoman Grüw Remix) [MUTANT MODALITY]
13. Rynzler - Rescue The Fallen Part 2 [Phage Tapes]
14. Ancient Methods - Immured In Supreme Beliefs
15. Second Tension - Pleiades [Persephonic Sirens]
16. NZM99 - Revenge [Persephonic Sirens]
17. Graave - Endangered Species
18. C4AT - Gods Above The Hills [Murder tbs]

From Hell to Disco - #037 - Mild Affect



Every breath I take, my chest tears apart
Only your name is stuck in my throat
I called out so many times
But no answer ever comes


I can’t sleep
When I close my eyes, I see your last profile
If I touch it, it would shatter
Yet I still reach out



Your absence hurts too much
The edges of the world blur
Your voice, your scent
Before everything peels away
I’ll break too



I’m afraid of morning
The days without you pile up
Time alone
Pushes me mercilessly



I want to touch
But I can’t
Even if my voice goes hoarse, I keep calling
I know a thousand times it won’t return
Still, I walk toward you



Your absence hurts too much
The edges of the world blur
Your voice, your scent
Before everything peels away
I’ll break too
Your absence hurts too much
The edges of the world blur
Your voice, your scent
Before everything peels away
I’ll break too



Just one more time
I want to breathe within you



Midnight Haze

Dreaming

Telepathic vision

Beneath the veil where silence lies,
I hear your thought, though lips are still.
A mirror gleams behind the eyes,
An unseen current bends the will.

It is not just sixth feeling,
But an echo alive,
Not a higher revealing,
It’s the shadow that thrives.

Through the storm of minds we’re burning,
Hidden voices intertwine.
Entangled flame, forever yearning,
In your silence, I hear mine.

No chain of sound, no mortal tongue,
Yet soul to soul the bridges rise.
A timeless song is never sung,
But thunder speaks within the skies.

It is not just sixth feeling,
But a path to survive,
Not a crown of concealing,
It’s the river alive.

Through the storm of minds we’re burning,
Hidden voices intertwine.
Entangled flame, forever yearning,
In your silence, I hear mine.

No barrier of flesh,
No fortress of the bone,
Your heartbeat is the mesh,
Where my spirit is known!

Through the storm of minds we’re burning,
Hidden voices intertwine.
Entangled flame, forever yearning,
In your silence, I hear mine.

Boundless stream of thought unspoken,
Through the dark our spirits shine.
From beyond the five awaken,
In your silence, I hear mine.

Lyrics: © Alex Maistrov
@inferix

Music: Generated with AI

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