2015

Afx Effect

Electro1

Sugarbush? I want to dress you up like a little president. I feel your spirit in baby blue plastic walls.

Sugarbush?

Humans have trapped their vision of the world in a spider web called language, everything you know, every structure of your thought is developed
linguistically before it develops at any other scale. Your reality is condemned to the semantics of the construct of it, things wouldn't exist if they don't take part in language, as you even give the "unknown" a restricted meaning to a the word "unknown". and a galaxy wouldn't exist without the word itself.
Our divorce from nature, our failure to communicate is the fruit of an irritated spectrum to this world. Syntax and its rules is the mother of all rules
as it has been developed first by each of us. we talk in words, we think deeply in words, and small is the room left to higher forms of communication and reflection.
Language is the real matrix that shapes the depth of our reality, one thing is certainly in common; mortality.

Fusam - The Syntactical Nature of Reality

PFERD - Legal (Safari's Step Remix)

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Legal (Safari's Step Remix)

"Bored In the USA" from Father John Misty's forthcoming album "I Love You, Honeybear" out February 9th on Bella Union (Europe) and February 10th on Sub Pop (North America / Rest of World).

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Bored In The USA

From forthcoming new album CARRIE & LOWELL
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Available on Asthmatic Kitty Records March 31st (US) / March 30 (EU)

More info: http://carrieandlowell.com

LYRICS:
Now that I fell into your arms
My only lover
Give out to give in
I search for the capsule I lost

Drag me to hell
In the valley of The Dalles
Like my mother
Give wings to a stone
It’s only the shadow of a cross

I slept on my back 
In the shade of the meadowlark 
Like a champion
Get drunk to get laid
I take one more hit when you depart

I’ll drive that stake through the center of my heart
Lonely vampire
Inhaling its fire
I’m chasing the dragon too far

There’s blood on that blade
Fuck me, I’m falling apart
My assassin
Like Casper the ghost 
There’s no shade in the shadow of the cross

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Sufjan Stevens, "No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross"

Taken from the album "Apocalypse, girl" out now on Sacred Bones. & Su Tissue (Norway). 

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Jenny Hval - That Battle Is Over

Rolando Simmons - Magic Crystal [AOU18] - Released on July 6th
TAPE / STREAM / DL: https://caoutchou.bandcamp.com/album/magic-crystal

Rolando Simmons lives in a desolate coastal town of Sweden and divides his time between a creaky old townhouse and two rural homes. The dreamlike environment of meadows, grasslands, hills and lakes, combined with his fascination for Drexciya, AFX and Isao Tomita inspired Rolando to make this odd fairy tale music. 

Similar to his heroes, Rolando uses a bunch of hardware: Alisa 1387, MS-20, MC-4, SQ-1, Blofeld, Machinedrum, TX-7, 606, Poly-800, Filterbank 2, VSR-3 reverb which all ends up in Renoise. Other inspirations include Sibylle Baier, Jandek, Vashti Bunyan and Debussy.

All music written and produced by Rolando Simmons 
Artwork: Mattias Östling 
Mastering: Jonas Uytdenhouwen 
Protected by Creative Commons license

Rolando Simmons - Sisters On The Shore (EP OUT NOW)

Track from the forthcoming album "Dark Age"

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Catalyzer

First mp3 single from Protomartyr's The Agent Intellect, out 10/9/15 on Hardly Art records. 

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The Agent Intellect

Protomartyr - "Why Does It Shake?"

Unreleased sister track to Nia. Written in 1997.

A live recording of a track from my future release "Touch Me"
Recorded 04/07/15 @  Madrid
*recording crunched by club limiter/compressor*
https://mnlth.bandcamp.com/

Livetrack_Madrid_Track_04/07/15

Atrophy Hunting

Storming Heaven

Close your eyes and dance...

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Cover by Elsa Folli 

Pferd - Löwe

http://santi-productions.com/album/to-fro
https://soundcloud.com/santi-productions/sets/to-fro

A bold exploration of sound design and musical form. As in a concerto, To & Fro introduces, develops and recapitulates multiple themes in ever-changing sonic layers. With To &  Fro, Santi once again displays his omnivorous appetite for various musical influences and techniques: bottom up sound design and sequencing, polyrhythmic percussion, extended harmonies and electronica.

Santi- Dynamo

Legal

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Rotwang has an ear for melody and rhythm; each track chugs forward with a sense of purpose. It is a singular trait, however, that the purpose is often threateningly ambiguous.

This atmospheric dissonance characterizes Rotwang, and he is most visible when the sense of tension and dread woven into the anatomy of synth lines is made manifest. The effect is not achieved through any particular combination of effects or reliance on an overtly gloomy aesthetic. Rather, it is built as each track evolves and is perceived through those constant evolutions.

It is not all darkness and pounding hearts, though. In another move taken from the horror genre, Rotwang seems to enjoy having fun with the listener; some of the tensest moments dissolve into what edges very close to dance and pop. One eventually feels that the man behind the upheaval has a wry smile on. This is not the music of dour, humorless introspection.

For all inquiries: rotwangsound@gmail.com