End of Cycle

The Fall

"First, time will tumble and then the earth.
The clouds begin to race, the earth boils over; this is the sign.
This is the beginning of the end"

TRACKLIST
A1 Age Of Iron
A2 Degenerate
B1 Kali
B2 Seven Signs

Release date (vinyl & digital): 27th of January 2014

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Eschaton EP

Eschaton (Ancient Methods & Orphx) - Age Of Iron

This is the year of Peder Mannerfelt's rebirth.  After seven years he's laid The Subliminal Kid to rest.  With this new 12", the chains have been locked in and the road map has been obliterated.  EP1 is focused like a laser etching out intricate patterns in massive, humming machines.  Mannerfelt's ideas have been reduced to a razor's edge and he balances these freeform compositions like a master.
This EP could be seen as a prelude to Peder Mannerfelt's debut album under his own name that will be released by Digitalis Industries in February and at the same time is the first part in a ongoing series of self released records by Mannerfelt.
Opener "Hook (end)" crashes like waves from a metallic ocean bearing down on the shore.  The bass craters beneath, digging its way to the listener's core.  Each idea is stripped down and simplified to the point of near exhaustion, resulting in tracks that are relentless and infecting.  "Psalms and Songs and Voices" is propelled forward by crushing kick drums and rhythmic bass pounding.  Somehow, though, Mannerfelt works unsuspecting hooks in between the peaks.  It's incredible.  "With Psalms and Songs and Praises," the final track on this 12", everything is pushed to the limit.  This is absolute maximalism; an overload of the senses that cannot be escaped.  It's the opposite of everything else on the EP, combining everything into a single, massive escape.
This is the sound of machines humming.  This is the sound of the factory floor in rebellion.  And yet, this is only the beginning; the first chapter of a novel yet to come.  This is the sound of Peder Mannerfelt finding his voice.

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Psalm And Songs And Voices

Negative Fascination (Expanded)

Temptation & Desire

Expansive ethnic woodwinds, sweeping strings and exotic male and female vocalizations combine with driving, warring percussion in these action-packed, Mid-East orchestral trailer cues, summoning a strong sense of adventure and place with regional oud, lute, zurna, santoor, gadulka, and laouto.

Drogos Castle

Gaspar The Pigeon

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Shock

hæra is the alias of Oskar Szczepański, BAS.KOLEKTYW founder, DJ and producer living in Warsaw, Poland and Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Mixing his love for the over the top, brutal rave sounds, post-metal guitars, experimental rap vocals and awkward sense of humour, the emperor is a no-nonsense 3 track EP that is probably our most club-ready release to date. Starting with the industrial techno gallop of the title track, through the metal footwork monster that is the fool and the extremely noisy drum tool the chariot, hæra leaves you with no space to breathe.

Physical copies of the EP are available for pre-order – mixed media prints, limited edition of 14 pairs of major arcana tarot cards, designed by Lloyd Clipston, a visual artist based in London. Cards are sent randomly and provide you with divination for your own interpretation.

Written by Oskar Szczepański 
Mixed and Mastered by Ensor/Gagarin Studio 
Artwork by Lloyd Clipston 
Released by BAS.KOLEKTYW

the emperor ep

hæra - the chariot

‘Scanning Backwards’, @PhaseFatale’s second full-length album following his 2017 debut album for Hospital Productions, is music about control. Using the connection between weaponized sound and psychological manipulation as a conceptual foundation, Hayden Payne explores the ways in which music – and sub frequencies in particular – are used to influence thinking and to synchronize emotions and behavior: from military technology to sound systems and the physicality and sexuality of queer techno culture.

Taken from:  Phase Fatale | Scanning Backwards
out January 24, 2020 on Ostgut Ton [OSTGUTCD48/LP34]

Buy ‘Scanning Backwards’ as 2x12" LP, digipak CD or in digital formats: https://www.berghain.berlin/shop/releases/phase-fatale-scanning-backwards/

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Bandcamp: https://phasefatale.bandcamp.com/album/scanning-backwards
Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/scanning-backwards
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4Vszky1GAUnME7GqMJJVkB?si=eV6nkqn6RiW8aWAtQjwXyQ
YouTube: https://youtu.be/cfVE-Kz8dYc

Known for his innovative post-punk takes of dance music as featured on EPs for unterton and Ostgut Ton, the Berghain resident draws on his background as both a guitarist and sound engineer to create a heady mix of broken rhythms, noise-, and shoegaze-inflected techno, often at slower tempos. The result is music with space and pace to expand, highlighting the intense rushes of frequencies found in both sonic warfare and functional dance music. Over eight tracks named after a combination of historical and fictional narratives from literature and science fiction, Payne’s rhythmic excursions explore different manifestations of sound as power – specifically within the context of seeing Berghain as an instrument itself. This is also reflected in the album artwork, taken from an early flyer for the SNAX party series and an obvious ode to the fetishization of power dynamics.

In his own words: “All tracks on the album, no matter the style, were tailored to sound a certain way in Berghain – something I figured out through years of dancing in the middle of the floor, DJing as a resident and investigating what frequencies really penetrate the body. This includes speech and high-frequency, brain-penetrating instrumentation and drilling textures that I had not utilized so often before, but which I think also have an effect on thought and memory. It's especially true in a space where gay and fetish roots combine with music in unexpected ways, almost in a cultish manner. A musical and physical deprogramming and reprogramming, psychic driving and de-patterning, the erasing and replacing of memories.”

Ultimately, ‘Scanning Backwards’ surveys not only the manipulative properties of electronic music (mantras, loops, subliminal messages) but also how rhythm facilitates both moving and thinking in synchrony; a pulse of coordinated sound- and brainwaves.

Artwork: northor | Layout: Yusuf Etiman

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Phase Fatale | Splintered Heels

I came over this acapella on Freddy K's Krzrzrz podcast during the pandemic and figured it might fit with this track..

Temptation & Desire

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