electronic and neoclassical music, combining nostalgic and futuristic sounds

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Colin Benders - Rigmarole 
Digital & physical release 
Out on HIss & Hertz Records 
Release date: Dec 17 2021

Following in the footsteps of his vinyl-only debut EP, “Floaty Things”, electronics transcender and modular warlock Colin Benders clocks in on Hiss & Hertz with “Rigmarole”, a five-track odyssey ushering us amidst mazes of intricately woven improvisations, hectic rhythmic landslides and mood-enslaved machine talk. 

Recorded during lockdown, like its predecessor, the album pledges to showcase the darker side of Benders’ live streams turned archival recordings, whilst shedding a broader light on his breadth of scope as a spur-of-the-moment conductor of highly demanding, circuit-bending symphonies of sorts. 

A shape-shifting flow of unpredictable essence, flush with climactic flights, untamed divagations and further mind-expanding excursions into chaotic sound expanses, “Rigmarole” is the fruit of a philosophy and particular relationship with his steadily growing online audience, with whom he’s come to go full circle; from sharing his knowledge and approach towards modular expression in open-ended, non-formulaic fashion, onto stamping the result of his jamming sessions on black wax thanks to the continued support of his community. Comprised of five live-recorded joints spanning the widest array of styles, tempi and moods, “Rigmarole” is a magnetic field where Benders’ sound blooms in all its alchemical potency and spontaneous finesse.
 
Via extended windows into his ever-resourceful headspace, Benders threads his way across brooding ambient scapes, sci-fi-indebted spaciousness and metronomic minimalism (“This Is Fine”), hi-octane, tribal-laced industrialism on a droney tip (“Wait”), stadium-sized arpeggiated techno (“What’s That Noise”), gritty basement thunder down your spine (“I Can’t Feel My Legs”) and wide-screen, cosmic-friendly exploratory wares (“Carry Me”) - somehow shaping a cohesive ensemble of music out of his all-embracing investigations in the realm of modular potentialities and live-told inspiration. Keeping you on the edge throughout, “Rigmarole” will be written down as a defining moment for Benders, an unpigeonholeable artist in constant search for the next thrill.

01 This Is Fine

BROKEN ARCS, Pt. 2

Invader 303 - Broken Arcs

LudoWic presents his new album HORIZONTAL FALL, the successor to SUPER8 MEMORY. An album with a strong cinematic character.

Music: Matheus Lodewijk
Label: Wic Recordings
Mastering: Maria Triana
Artwork: Nanou Lodewijk & Timo Reisiger
Photo: Timo Reisiger

HORIZONTAL FALL

Buy the exclusive collaboration on Bleep: https://bleep.com/release/73657-mark-pritchard-x-kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-nownow-absolut-collaboration

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We believe that « everything is a remix »

Remixes are a major part of the electronic music history. The club culture take off on remixes, some of the greatest dance hits where made from remixing original tracks.
Our primary purpose is to highlight this exercise by offering the opportunity to artists to either work on a remix or offer a track to be remixed by an artist they admire. It is overseen and curated by independent music lovers and supported by The Absolut Company, a brand that is permanently involved in the field of contemporary arts and creation with a tradition of supporting artists such as Keith Haring and Andy Warhol at their very early stage of their career. The Absolut Remix project is dedicated to the art of combining or editing existing materials, to produce something new.

As a start, every last Thursday of the month, we will unveil a new remix, from a newcomer or a legend, from disco to techno or IDM and house music. And more to come...

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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
@western_vinyl | facebook.com/kaitlynaurelia | twitter.com/kaitlynaurelia

Mark Pritchard
@markprtchrd | facebook.com/markprtchrd | twitter.com/markprtchrd

Absolut Remix
@absolutremix | www.facebook.com/AbsolutRemix | twitter.com/AbsolutRemix

Buy on Bleep

Mark Pritchard x Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Now:Now (Absolut Collaboration)

From the new LP, Excision After Love Collapses: frktl.bandcamp.com/album/excision-after-love-collapses

Excision After Love Collapses

FRKTL — Fire Upon The Deep

This EP includes 3 noisy ambient drone songs with some industrial flavoured beats at a total lenght of 22 minutes. I worked on »Slow As Fog« over the last year.

PHON.O - Snapchat Soliloquy

Thanks God For Air Emotions

mouvements libres

chimera

love is a lie

pom pom

pom pom 20 19 Berghain - Halle

Netherlands based ambient artists LudoWic and Hautefort are the latest musicians to combine their strength to share song space with a new single ‘Villa Noxil’. A song combining two friends with different musical inspiration, using synths and piano, improvising a musical masterpiece in one take. 

LudoWic’s electronic music is raw, dark and at the same time atmospheric. Visuals play an important role during the live shows, which are strongly inspired by modern art, architecture and technology. In addition, LudoWic uses a lot of analog vintage synths and gear.

Rather than lock into a specific song structure or pattern, Hautefort’s music flows in many directions, following melodic ideas and rhythms as they appear. Hautefort’s music is held down by the ghostly synths that hover just outside the frame and the occasional intrusion of a synth bass pulse. Overall, it creates a mysterious, expressive experience.

Villa Noxil

LudoWic - Prinses Beatrixsluis

LudoWic - Solar Highways

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter CIV by Earthen Sea. 
Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

Earthen Sea's new album "Grass and Trees" is out now on Kranky.

Tracklist:
1. Hazard - Location South
2. Anjou - Lamptest
3. Chris Herbert - Suashi
4. Thomas Koner - Tokyo (Hour One)
5. Vida Vojic - Fleet
6. Tomoko Sauvage - Clepsydra
7. Ana Roxanne - Nocturne
8. 0 - Ilta
9. Vladislav Delay - Untitled
10. Mount Kimbie - Adriatic (Klaus Remix)
11. Radius - Transversewaves (cv313 reshape)
12. Jake Muir - Shoal
13. OM Unit - Tahatan (O$VMV$M Redux)
14. Porter Ricks - Harbour Chart
15. Space Afrika - u+00b1
16. Echospace - Spatial Dimension (Variant's Reprised Conduction)
17. Xth Reflection - 05-06 4
18. Christopher Bissonette - Orffryreus Wheel
19. Vladislav Delay - Untitled
20. Billy Gomberg - 8

https://soundcloud.com/earthzone
https://earthensea.bandcamp.com

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter CIV

Mysteries of the Deep CIV - Earthen Sea

LudoWic - A9 Gaasperdammertunnel

Piano Version of the track Panoramic Feelings from the Katana ZERO (Original Soundtrack): https://wicrecordings.lnk.to/KatanaZERO-OST

Panoramic Feelings (Piano Version)

LudoWic - Panoramic Feelings (Piano Version)

@user-592868704 => @holysimilaun & @coedencoedencoeden

From CXA002 | Various Artists - New Anxieties
Release: 31/10/2019
Order/buy via: https://cruxaxul.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
01. Silicone - Internaelogy I
02. Shō - This Tired Feeling
03. Aeon Gate - S2HG
04. Ceramic Flowers - C - 1995 O1
05. YS - Malaise
06. Lymbs - Endless Growth Forever
07. Shannon Soundquist - Telephone Phobia (Magst du anrufen?)

Mastered by Simon Hawemann @sludgestudios
Except "S2HG" mixed and mastered by Antonio Gallucci
Artwork by Sarah Kowalewski

2019 AD. The Arctic Circle and the Amazon are on fire, fascism is on the rise again, the gap between the richest and the poorest is still widening. New anxieties need to be addressed.

Crux Axul has invited seven musicians to write and record a piece of music motivated by the way they perceive the world changing around them at a seemingly ever-increasing pace.

From Silicone’s flickering exercise in melodic modular experimentation, to YS’ contemporary take on Musique Concrète, to Shannon Soundquist’s longform drone meditation, New Anxieties offers seven takes on a world in turmoil that are each as unique as they are coherent as a whole.

New Anxieties

S2HG

Aeon Gate - S2HG

From CXA002 | Various Artists - New Anxieties
Release: 31/10/2019
Order/buy via: https://cruxaxul.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
01. Silicone - Internaelogy I
02. Shō - This Tired Feeling
03. Aeon Gate - S2HG
04. Ceramic Flowers - C - 1995 O1
05. YS - Malaise
06. Lymbs - Endless Growth Forever
07. Shannon Soundquist - Telephone Phobia (Magst du anrufen?)

Mastered by Simon Hawemann @sludgestudios
Except "S2HG" mixed and mastered by Antonio Gallucci
Artwork by Sarah Kowalewski

This Tired Feeling

Shō - This Tired Feeling

Emma District (GLOW 2019)

EMMA DISTRICT (GLOW 2019)

Daniel Avery + Alessandro Cortini - Illusion Of Time

I’m proud to present Illusion Of Time, an LP made in collaboration with Alessandro Cortini out 27th March on Phantasy/Mute. I’ve been a huge admirer of Alessandro’s work for many years and this project was every bit as inspiring as I knew it would be. The experience felt unique in that much of the recording process was done remotely - we were both touring heavily at the time - sending each other care packages of beautiful noise from various parts of the world. Waking up in different time zones, different cities to something new was always a total rush. We were able to finish the record together in New York whilst on the Nine Inch Nails tour, the luminous context of which feels very fitting for an album we’ve given our hearts to at every stage. The album was mixed by Marta Salogni, the artwork designed by Planet Luke and the video for the title track (which is online today) directed by Tom Andrew and Sam Davis; we surrounded ourselves with masters.

Love and energy to you all,
DA xxxx

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Sergei Rublev