SERA014: Satellite Era presents "Distant Arrays Volume 05" - the fifth edition of our various artist series that aims to diversify our collection of experimental dance music.

Our long-awaited return to the Distant Arrays series finds us venturing back to the core idea that encapsulates our label: experimentation. This edition targets eccentric subgenres, maximalist sound design, and distinct ventures to glitched-out realms. We are thrilled to introduce an entirely new cast of producers onto our roster, each wielding an unparalleled approach to the world of leftfield electronic music.

Setting a stylistic precedent for the release, we welcome @disektor and @tenebralcortex to our label with “Selective Exposure.” Based in Morocco and France respectively, the two Geometric Corruption artists combine their efforts to deliver a challenging track that focuses on forward-thinking sound design. Panning glitched tones travel through the spatial soundscape, while a distorted kick drum consistently drives the song’s energy. Beneath all its glitchy gloriousness lies a notable foundation inspired by both braindance and breakbeat.

Following his remix on our latest compilation “Year Two: Revisited,” Los Angeles-based artist @ramonpang joins forces with Italian producer @pcnxo to deliver a track that closely ties their different styles together. Blending precise drum work with pleasant vocal cuts that feel like a motif, “Death-Singing Flower” is an ode to experimental music that is unafraid to be emotional. As of late, both artists have been delivering highly acclaimed projects individually: Psykh proudly represents the Millennium Strike crew, while RamonPang just released a full-length record on his Tabula Rasa imprint.

Having been on our radar since the start of the label, we welcome Montreal-based producer, visual artist, and event organizer @fxbip. With formative releases on Concrete Collage, he finds sonic inspiration just about everywhere, from modern electronic to microtonal and contemporary classical music. His latest track “Hydrogen Cocktail” is a clear nod to the niche world of breakcore - frantic percussion, alerting pads, and a gabber-like bassline all align to create an authentic experience for avid followers of the subgenre.

Based in Northern California over the years, @lobie has quietly grown with the experimental bass music scene historically from that region - this is a clear influence in “Grid,” with its attentive sub and melodic synths. The track was produced and performed live without the use of a digital audio workstation, utilizing his personal arsenal of synthesizers and samplers. Implementing polyrhythmic patterns that are rotated throughout the progression, this unique track has found a proper home on the off-kilter side of our label.

Distant Arrays is an immersive showcase of our audio/visual capabilities as a collective. We are honored to introduce you to our growing team, continuously expanding our newfound interpretation of sound.

"Stationed beyond the horizon lies a cluster of autonomous satellite arrays - each serving as capsules of detained time, points of transit between diverse concepts, and the sensorial relation between tangible audio and visual worlds. They fill the thin air with varied frequencies and beam optic elements into the minds of drawn newcomers and devoted adherents alike. Though each array hosts different creators from every remote edge of this decaying planet, they communicate with us through the vigorous potential of art. They link together to create a limitless field without borders – only human connection. These are the Distant Arrays..."

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Fxbip - Hydrogen Cocktail

Ever heard the term "Drill & Bass" ?
Even tho we are not fan of putting everything in a little box, this is the perfect description for Alex Chisholm's, aka HAL, music.

Analog basslines, gritty breakbeats, cut & paste madness & rolling snares, it's all there! All in a playfull, yet melancholic, melodic package.
Perfect for driving on the highway by night.

Our other collaborator Jerry La Flim is blessing us with a superb remix of the title track as well.
crédits
Out on 9 novembre 2022

Music by Alex Chisholm aka HAL
Track 9 remix by Jerry La Flim
Mixing by Eric Hoegemeyer
Mastering by Julien "Stazma" Guillot at the Electric Voyage Studio
Artwork by Julien Guillot & Alex Chisholm

Bandcamp

CC36 - HAL - Zippermouth

THIS IS GEAR FUNK YO!!!!

After so many delays in the making of this record, we are so happy to present Antisocial, by Anorak.

Following his 2019 debut on the label, Talkin' Macheens, our friend John Wells is back with a collection of absolute bangers.
Acid / DnB / Breakbeat bangers EVERYWHERE!!!

ALL HAIL ANTISOCIAL!!!!
ALL HAIL ANORAK!!!!
ALL HAIL THE GEAR FUNK!!!!

Vinyl & digital

CCWAX002 - A3 - Anti Social - Anorak

Breaks of Dawn

Dubplate Pressure

horsemen

In her EP Separation, released on Paperfunk Recordings, RiANTHE transposes the very notion of separation into sound: a tight kick-drum thump ticks off the seconds of an expanding rift, a dense bass line pulses like blood retreating from shared memories, and gauzy synth layers slowly shear apart, leaving a transparent corridor of silence where you can hear a new identity crystallising from the shards of former closeness; the music does not merely illustrate detachment—it inhabits it, revealing how an act of separation widens the space to breathe, and how, in that sonic pause between “we” and “I,” it finally becomes possible to hear one’s own echo.

RiANTHE - Restless Thoughts

Title : Itch
Label : MURDER CHANNEL
Catalogue number: MURCD-040
Release Data : in early September

Track List

01. Infinity ... And Beyond
02. Unstable Choir
03. Allergic Itching
04. Minor Manifesto
05. The Hammer
06. Noise & Acid
07. Noise & Acid (Stunt Remix)
08. Unstable Choir (Les Tête Au Fond Du Lac Monster X Remix)

All songs Written,produced & Mastering by Julien Guillot aka Stazma
Artwork by Timothée Mathelin
Track 7 Remix by Stunt
Track 8 Remix by Monster X
Executive Producer : Yuta Umegatani (MURDER CHANNEL)

Label :
    Murder Channel
Release date :
    15 / 11 / 2016

Itch Ep

01 - Infinity ... And Beyond

3D Stas - Define Unit - Rebellion - Remix

Floyd's Breakbeat Shop - Breakbeat show on criminaltribe.com/radio. Every second Tuesday of the month in 20-00 CET brand new breakbeat, big beat, breaks, industrial, electronic rock from post-soviet territory producers! Everything that bring the beat: true old school & new stuff from fresh releases and dub plates!
This show was dedicated to hard breakbeat & electrorock! Only 2017 stuff and dubs! Check it!

Tracklist:
00:00 Ra Djan - Ratamahatta [Dub]
04:46 D.Bruce - Black Side [Dub - 11.12.17 on CTR]
07:59 Subface - Buzz (Floyd the Barber Remix) [Dub - 28.11.17 on CTR]
10:41 [SC]Smash3r - Wicked Device [Free]
14:41 Inner - Jamcoder [Free]
19:29 3D Stas - Lost Civilization [Dub]
22:39 FB Force ft. Ido Uzan - Compressor Head (Live Version) [Dub]
26:17 Laughing Us - Rise Muthafacker [Hackcore Remix] [Free]
29:21 TRN18 - Africa [Cyberspace EP]
32:21 Subface - Satan Meatball (Under Influence Remix) [Dub - 28.11.17 on CTR]
35:05 DJ GranD PetRoleum - Rock in Beats [Free]
38:19 Furst Lowlett - Proxy of Death [The Day Of Dead LP]
40:45 The Indigy - DCP [Asylum 711 LP]
42:50 KAMODO - Я Поклоняюсь Сатане [Romantic Collection 2017 - 3D EP]
45:12 Subface - The Chase Beats (Izotope remix) [Dub - 28.11.17 on CTR]
47:57 LUCIFERRO - Racekiller Rock'n'Roll (feat Godless & Sku) (Remix) [HELLHITS LP]
51:51 Hyper, DaVip - Android Kid [The Adventures of the Android kid - Part 1 EP] 
53:36 Rastr - Ammonia [Dub]
57:11 DJ Make Illusional - Darksiders [Dub]
61:00 SATYR - Mars [Free]
63:48 QuantX - Reverse Side (Neironik Remix) [Free]

Floyd the Barber - Breakbeat Shop #027 (14.11.17) [no voice]

Another collab, finishing up old projects started by Cybernetika and then run through the Shivaxi meat grindr (yes that subtle pun was intended)

Cybernetika & Shivaxi - Hex (v1)

Once I've decided for myself that I must sit and write a full length album, which is a quite less popular nowadays in electronic music. For me it's a lifestyle and musical experience, the tunes was collected through a long period of my creating years, some of them even was started as a demo versions back in 2012, so probably the album covers a very diverse stylistic picture. Also for me it is a new approach to a music writing process, because I've collaborated on this LP with a maximum amount of great musicians, it's really made a unique experience and pleasure to work on. 

Stylistically it has a influences of breakbeat, big beat, industrial, metal and soundtrack music...

Becoming Bionic

The Underworld

Shivaxi here, I make chunes, and play old video games and stuff