Fuse, Brussels, BE 17 September 2022 / Birthday Party

Tadeo - The Opening (Madrid Techno - MT01)
S File - Sirens (GND Records - GN165)
Mark Broom - Mapping (RSPX - RSPX25)
Club MCM - Club M.C.M. (Steve Rachmad Remix) (Brave New World Records - BNW 014)
Jeroen Search - Karuna (Figure SPC - FIGURE SPC Z)
Robert Hood - Bond Solid (K7 Records - K7376DTM)
Midfield General - Coatnoise (Dave Clarke Remix) (Skint - SKINT62)
Robert Hood - Bond Solid (K7 Records - K7376DTM)
Dimi Angelis - If I Could Fly (Krill Music - KRL011)
Fischerspooner - Emerge (Dave Clarke Remix) (International Deejay Gigolo Records - GIGOLO 105)
Planetary Assault Systems - Rip the Cut (Luke Slater Remix 1) (Mote Evolver - MOTE063)
Rebecca Delle Piane - Decanter 5 (Mord - MORD 087)
Jeroen Search - Search 2021-022 (Rudiment - RDMT001)
Steve Bicknell - Defence Mechanism (KR3 Records - KR3001)
Anthony Rother - Youth (Datapunk - DTP 15-3)
Cesar Almena - Motherfucker (The Advent Remix) (Code Records - CODE25)
Dave Clarke - The Wolf (The RRKS 2053 Remix) (CDr)
Oscar Mulero - Covered In Sand (KR3Records - KR3006)
Paperclip People - Paperclip Man (Retroactive - CAD 007)
Fran Hartnet - 2000 Machines (Aurora. - AT001)
LFO - LFO (The Leeds Warehouse Mix) (Warp Records - WAP 5)
Damon Wilde - Rotary (Slam Archive Edit) (Soma Quality Recordings - SOMA525D)
Mark Broom - Blue (S-File 2020 Edit) (CDr)
Robert Hood - Teflon (M-Plant - MP317)
Viagra Boys - Girls & Boys (Patrik Berger Remix) (Year0001 - YR0123DLX)
Dirty Jackers - Supersonic (Magura - MAG 043005)
Dimi Angelis - Dark Sneak (TH Tar Hallow - TAR007)
Sleep Archive - Stuffed birds (Sigma5 - S5PVC1)
Truncate - The Drill (Truncate - TRUNCATE24)
Phuture Pfantasy Club - Spank Spank (Low Fat Vinyl - LFV 1)
Rødhåd - Alternation (WSNWG - Back To Zero - WSNWGBTZ002)
Ruskin & Broom - Latch (Blueprint - BP060)
Dj Assault - U Can't See Me (Ben Sims JFF Edit) (CDr)
Ritzi Lee - Meltdown (Underground Liberation - UL004)
Aaron Carl - Down (Acapella) (Wallshaker Music - WMAC 30)
Ritzi Lee - Meltdown (Underground Liberation - UL004)
Perc - RS 220 (Rude Trax - RDTRX 001)
Underground Resistance - The Seawolf (Mark Broom Re-Edit) (CDr)
Fall Shock - Synthetica (Black Asteroid Remix) (Manic Depression - CDr)
Drvg Cvltvre - You Got Me Running (Viewlexx - V032)
Raffaele Attanasio - Lust (Letters From Jerusalem - LFJ003)
Bauhaus - Here's The Dub (Special Effects By "Loonatik & Drinks ®") (Beggars Banquet - BEG 91T)
Raffaele Attanasio - Lust (Letters From Jerusalem - LFJ003)
Ethan Fawkes - Back To The Flow (Ethan Fawkes - EF005)
Wildchild - Renegade Master (Hi Life Recordings - 577131-1)
Planetary Assault Systems - Give It Up (Mote-Evolver - MOTE055)
Christopher Just - I'm A Disco Dancer (Dave Clarke Remix) (International Deejay Gigolo Records - GIGOLO 08)
Adonis - No Way Back (Trax Records - TX112)
Rene Wise - M37 (Beard Man - BMD027)
Rock Master Scott And The Dynamic Three - The Roof Is On Fire (Reality - D-239)
Rene Wise - M37 (Beard Man - BMD027)
Gettoblaster & Dj Funk - Get Dat (Dirtybird - DB191)
Hndrk - Ravy (Unlike:U - 476170)
Dj Funk - Run (UK Extended Mix) (Pro-Jex - PROX014)
Black Lotus - Eclipse (Flug Remix) (Flash Recordings - FLASH216)
Dave Clarke - Just Ride (Skint Records - BRASSIC 31LP)
Black Lotus - Eclipse (Flug Remix) (Flash Recordings - FLASH216)
Dave Clarke - Just Ride (Acapella) (CDr)
Renato Cohen - Pontapé 2013 Remake (Drumcode - DC108)
Floorplan - I Feel Him Moving (M-Plant - MPM32)
Robert Hood - Amazon Dust (M-Plant - MPM44)
Mark Broom - Tracker (RSPX - RSPX42)
Truncate - User 7 (Drumcell Remix) (CLR - CLR101)
Syncbeat – Music (Streetwave - MKHAN 18)
She Wants Revenge - Red Flags And Long Nights (Geffen Records - 9857524)
Truncate - User 7 (Drumcell Remix) (CLR - CLR101)
Gary Beck - Firetree (BEK Audio - BEK050)

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Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles has announced his fourth full length album 'Persona' will be released on 13th April via Erased Tapes.

The title 'Persona' was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film of the same name, specifically a shot in the opening credits of a child reaching out to touch a woman’s face on a screen, which is shifting between one face and another. This powerful image struck Ryan and it inspired the album’s main theme — an exploration of the persona, the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us, the spaces in between; between states, people, light and dark, the inner persona and the outer persona. 

"My music is generally is generally inward looking. I like finding something about the self within music, that doesn't have to be specific but maybe asks something or reveals something. This record is a continuation on the self through electronic sounds. Like Legowelt once said ‘a synthesiser is like a translator for unknown emotions’, which I think sums up what I am trying to do. I think all these emotions we have make up our persona. So in a way by finding new ones you alter or expand your persona. And that is what I want my music to try to do. I deliberately aimed to be more sonically diverse with this record. I wanted to experiment more. I wanted to create new sounds and new emotions.”

Recorded at his studio in south-east London, ‘Persona’ benefits from Ryan’s exploration of a dynamic production process that combines analogue-heavy synthesisers, acoustic and electric instruments with a shoegaze-level obsession with effect pedals. A greater depth of emotion and confidence can be heard across the album. From the deconstructed movements on ‘Unfolding’ that starts the album with a snap of delayed snares, the apocalyptic drones of the title track and thundering drums in ‘Phantom Grip’ to more  restrained ambient feels of ‘Dreamer’s Wake’, ‘Rest’ and ‘Untravel’. The latter transverses six beatless minutes of undulating melodies representing “a limbo space, a feeling of ennui, of not really ever being known to others and others not ever really being known to you”.

'Be Kind' reveals a musical connection with fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm, with its minimal approach and improvisational nature. On the more complex sounding ‘I Think So’ Ryan aims to replicate a colour collage with sound. Like a musical kaleidoscope, a flashing and convoluted mass. Written after he saw Slowdive perform live last year, ‘Hidden’ builds from whispers to landscapes of controlled noise. In an interview with XLR8R magazine, Ryan explains: “once you start trying to make a sound loud, then you turn your back on thousands and thousands of sonic possibilities. One of the best things to do is to start a track with a really quiet, weak sound.” Taking this idea to its ultimate conclusion, ‘Fragment’ closes the album as an innocent sounding ambient piece, almost nursery rhyme like, yielding time for reflection on how the persona has changed.

'Persona' follows the success of a series of releases — the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘Sonne’ EPs, long player ‘Howl’, and 2016’s mini album ‘Night Melody’ — that saw Ryan mature into what Pitchfork has called a “forward-thinking electronic musician with his own ideas about sound”. Atypical of instrumental-electronic music, Ryan has achieved a signature sound that’s unmistakably identifiable as Rival Consoles. Going beyond typical electronic music production, Ryan defines it as “songwriting with an electronic palette of sounds”.

The increasingly dynamic live audio-visual show, born from bespoke performances at the Tate and for Boiler Room at the V&A Museum featuring self-programmed visuals in Max/MSP, has propelled him to play around the world. Ryan launches ‘Persona’ at London’s XOYO on 12th April with further dates to be announced.

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Intro of "After I Said Goodnight" features a jungle ambience totally created on "The Mighty Serge" modular analog synthesizer in a live improv performance in 1980. It is from the album "Lullaby for the Hearts of Space." It is available on Hearts of Space Records on the Valley Entertainment site. www.valley-entertainment.com 
The whole album consists of two extended pieces performed live on the Mighty Serge Synthesizer. I hadn't built the Steiner EWI (electronic woodwind instrument) until 4 years later. Enjoy!
For more information - www.kevinbrahenyfortune.com

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