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A-TON is a new edition and platform of Berghain's in-house imprint Ostgut Ton, focussing on ambient, archive and alternative music, differing from the club-focussed records on the main label. Furthermore the first A-TON offering – Chronicles I – marks the start of a series from Luke Slater's The 7th Plain moniker, with remastered, previously released and unheard archive material.

First published on General Production Recordings between 1993 and 1996, Slater's The 7th Plain pushed the further burgeoning genre of ambient music towards its boundaries by not limiting itself to mostly beatless synth pads, but by including propulsive beat progressions, nuanced rhythms and subtle melodies. The 7th Plain's extramundane music dodged classification, as heard on the albums The 4 Cornered Room and My Yellow Wise Rug (both on GPR, 1994) – emotional, eerie and escapist music, at the time of release forward thinking records that in retrospect managed to overcome time.

Originally recorded at Slater's Spacestation Ø, now all newly mastered for A-TON, Chronicles I depicts the futurist aesthetic and musical agenda of the 90s in a contemporary context, without nostalgia but confidence of its timelessness. With seven original musical pieces and a previously unreleased Ken Ishii remix, The 7th Plain sounds as spirited and relevant as ever.

While “Boundaries” (taken from My Yellow Wise Rug), “Grace” and “Surface Bound” (from The 4 Cornered Room) should be familiar to Slater aficionados, “The Super 8”, “T Funk States”, “Slip 7 Sideways” and “Chords Are Dirty” are previously unheard like the aforementioned remix of Ishii's “Extra”.

The 7th Plain - Chords Are Dirty

The 7th Plain - Grace

Shadows Documents

Low Rhythm

Doubles

Radius Walk

Duett

Feel Good (feat. Khruangbin)

On November 27th of this year, Japanese Techno pioneer Ken Ishii will see the release of his new album on Japanese imprint U/M/A/A (@umaainc), titled "Möbius Strip." 

Featuring two collaborations with The Wizard himself, Jeff Mills, as well as Dosem and Go Hiyama, the album will come out digitally, as well as in a standard edition CD, a Limited Edition CD with extra bonus features (video, bonus track and original typeface), and a 7″ Clear Vinyl edition complete with hardcover.

Today, we present to you an exclusive premiere of one of two collaboration tracks between Ken Ishii and Jeff Mills featured on the forthcoming album.

Möbius Strip Track Listing:
1. Bells of New Life
2. Chaos Theory
3. Take No Prisoners (Album Mix) with Jeff Mills
4. Vector 1
5. Green Flash (Album Mix) with Dosem
6. Silent Disorder with Go Hiyama
7. Prism
8. Vector 2
9. Skew Lines
10. Polygraph
11. Quantum Teleportation with Jeff Mills
12. Vector 3
13. Like A Star At Dawn

"Möbius Strip" comes out in full on November 27.

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Take No Prisoners

Premiere: Ken Ishii with Jeff Mills "Take No Prisoners" - U/M/A/A

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