"Thresholds" is the first Sal Solaris solo album in 15 years marked by a variety of collaborations, splits and minor releases. From a musical point of view this is probably the most complex and certainly the most rhythmic work of the duo which opens a new chapter in its history.

The Sun radiates and cools down. Mountains erode and grind into sand. Any system tends to minimum energy and maximum entropy, that is to uniformity. But while chaos does not reign yet, the universe is a complex thermodynamic landscape filled with low grounds and peaks, ridges and valleys. To go from one valley to another we need a breakthrough. As when a match boosts energy to let reagents gain ability to cross the threshold, and continue to roll freely and independently.

"Thresholds" is an acoustic study of a breakthrough over the threshold. Therefore the album constantly crosses genre limits. The listener is taken from a thicket of dark techno to a rave meadow, and in the middle of dark ambient wasteland he or she gets thrust against a rock of minimal electro.

"Thresholds" is also an attempt to answer the question of what may be a match in human life situations. How to cross the pass, when the ridge is covered with clouds. The album can be regarded as a box of matches, or an experimental map of passes for those who feel confined in their valleys.

Authors can not guarantee its absolute accuracy.

Cassette version of the album with two exclusive remixes is released by NEN Records and available for purchasing at https://nenrecs.bandcamp.com/album/thresholds

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Sal Solaris - Thresholds CD version remixes

After 'Shodar EP' released in 2016, Raymond is back on Nocta ! 

'Tourner Les Petits Boutons' is the first release of a new digital series. No worries friends, we will continue to produce records of course but we wanted to release more music and open this series to new genres. So stay tuned. We hope you will enjoy this new release as much as we do.


Pre-order : https://bit.ly/3G0g3rq

Release date: 01/06/2022

Catalog number: NND001
Title: Tourner Les Petits Boutons
Artist: Raymond D. Barre
Distributed by Underscope
Artwork: Christophe Le Gall
Mastering: Krikor Kouchian

01 - You Am What
02 - Agent De La Frappe
03 - Montgolfière De Feu
04 - Claude François Ne Te Regarde
05 - Hyperplanck
06 - One Way Door

01/06/2022

[Preview] Raymond D. Barre - Tourner Les Petits Boutons

With a Little Help From My Friends

Purchase the release: https://rndmclub.bandcamp.com/album/who-i-am
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HryRL7t0kco

Two associate fellows of the RNDM, Wellew and Etrigan, brought their collaborative effort to home label and steaming with licks of old-school rave, whiplash acid, big-room euphoria, and signature freakiness approach. Made after years of friendship, a series of b2b DJ sets and lifelong musical kinship, ‘Who I Am’ is a split between two soulmates who lost their uniqueness in the infinite process of brotherhood sounds cross-pollination. During a recording session of the EP, Wellew and Etrigan discovered that their tracks sounded almost identically and tried to reinvent themselves to find their true personal sound.

Starting with the sick and twisted acidic anthem 'Who I Am' Wellew fulfills all your emotional and physical needs and continues to explore the same playful demeanor throughout big-room stomper 'My Harmony'. On the flip side, Etrigan establishes his vision and asserts his style with hi-nrg hardcore and jacking trance-infused rave, making them perfect for lifting the energy on any dancefloor.

Who I Am

Premiere: Etrigan - Who I Am [RNDM]

Drei Gesichter

Drei Gesichter (Club Edit)

Mein Fundament

Mein Fundament (Club Edit)

Was übrig bleibt

Was übrig bleibt (Club Edit)

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San Regret - Sharks On Acid

Barro Music Label continues its commitment to the hardest and darkest techno with their latest release, an EP from NX1. We would need a lot of space to describe what NX1 is all about, suffice it to say that this Barcelona-based project by Surit and Samot has been blowing up sound systems and keeping us dancing to exhaustion for years. Under this alias, they've released on premier labels like Bite and Earwiggle, alongside their own imprint, Nexe Records. Their latest offering on Barro features four original tracks plus a remix by Nöle. This won't be the last time we see these artists together, as they've joined forces to launch a new label, Kätte, which has already dropped its first release.
BR1 delivers a powerful post-apocalyptic industrial techno track, dominated by a deafening bass drum and showcasing exceptional sound design. The following two tracks lean more toward straightforward techno while exemplifying NX1's harder, darker side. BR2 is a hypnotic composition featuring industrial, razor-sharp sounds, demolishing bass drum, and skin-deep bass. Just when you think it couldn't get any harder, along comes BR3. NX1 reaches new levels of intensity in this track, characterized by saturated synthesizers, aggressive sound design, and a commanding vocal sample demanding obedience. The fourth track sees them dialing back the BPMs to craft an industrial atmosphere that evokes images of desolate highways and abandoned cities. Nöle's contribution comes in the form of a remix of BR2, highlighting the vocal samples while playing with the rhythm to create yet another dancefloor banger.

BY :EL GARAJE DE FRANK

NX1 - BR3 [BARRO#011]

Chupacabras - Bumpy Road

Elitepop is a monthly radio show by Enfant Terrible for Intergalactic FM (IFM/CBS). A new episode is transmitted every first Monday of the month on the Cybernetic Broadcasting System channel at IFM for 1 hour from 21.00h onwards… No talking... just music!

Episode 57 was transmitted February 2025 and this episode is one hour of music recorded as live dj set some time ago at a hidden / secret party...

Elitepop #57

Sal Solaris - Displaced (Vigook remix)

Sal Solaris - From Now to the New De Sitter Space (Ухушуху remix)

Sal Solaris - Tautology (Myrrman remix)

Sal Solaris is a Russian electronic duo working since late 1990s. Starting its experiments with autistic ambient, the project moved to dark techno fused with industrial noise and fury. Collaborators mention among sources of their inspiration science fiction and philosophical concepts such as psychoanalysis, and say they practice audiotherapy for 'broken cohesion of the world', propaganda of neoteny, inner and outer space conquest. Last years Sal Solaris play live a lot sharing the scene with such different projects like Ancient Methods and Bad Sector, Demdike Stare and Ambidextrous, Inade and SHXCXCHCXSH. Duo has releases on such labels as Cyclic Law, Hau Ruck!, Zhelezobeton, Kultfront etc. Last album 'Thresholds' appeared in 2016 at their own label NEN Records.

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