The latest Singularity ritual is completed, and the might of Derlich is the focus.
Delrich productions are always stark, austere, brutal affairs, and this is no different.
I never promised you a rose garden is a non stop assault.  Tight metronome kicks, electrical slices, white noise cymbals, machinery and metal objects collide, forming a hypnotic but relentless audio piece.
Triangulation appears at the beginning to be an almost conventional techno track, starting with typical 4x4 drums, but it isn't too long before the chaos descends.  Noise touched monochromatic strings enter the fray along with clanking percussion, building and building to a frenetic level pushing the mind down into submission.
Fading memory is a somewhat calmer track, with broken kick rhythms and metallic resonances backed by rhythmic noise.
Halfway through a strange melody begins, giving the track an unsettling quality, as it seems half joyous, yet half paranoid.  A great moment to disorient the listener.
The remix of Rose garden, from Voidloss is percussively driven by huge distorted drums providing a concrete solid groove.
The track builds with a feedback cacophony that causes the teeth to grind, and then switches up quickly at the break with a messy acid line, taking things back into a more groove based section, before the feedback rises up again for a final frenetic push.
The Casual Violence remix of Triangulation takes everything into a more pensive place.  Gentle noise washes and subtle echoey drums slowly build to be surrounded with a slow electronic melody.  Epic and filmic this could easily be the soundtrack to a dark and brooding post apocalypse drama like The Road.  
Singularity Recordings - Defying the transient.

Singularity Recordings Sin024: Derlich - Messages of Love EP

Release 11 on Singularity brings us back into darker realms. 
Two of techno's darkest, most creative artists remixing each other makes for an epic release. 
We start with the Casual Violence remix of Realisation of Mind Fractures by Voidloss. Casual Violence, known for his output of melancholy, shadowy music takes the original, already a formidably dark and twisted piece, and takes us even further into the abyss. Violence broken kick drums, factory chain hi hats, twisted metal atmospheres collide in rhythmic chaos for a truly storming opener for the EP. 
Voidloss remix of the chart smashing techno hit Briefly Sexual, by Casual Violence, takes us into the broken beat mayhem Voidloss has become known and respected for. 
The drone from the original is enhanced, layered over a fantastic machine funk beat with melodic sub. Piercing pads lead the famous briefly sexual vocal into the track for a breakdown. The break builds and twists, finally bursting back into a massive anthemic dark techno future classic. 
The sub rumbles under a beat that locks down tighter than before with melodic metallic synths, a restructured vocal, and that fantastic drone. 
The Casual Violence remix of Simple things for simple minds, by Voidloss, hits us next. 
Immediately the beat is more machine like, more ominous than the orginal. 
Some of the background ambience from the original is more upfront in the remix, making this mix more spacious. Gunshot hats push the beat forward as atmospheres build and warp, playing against the groove. A great heads down number perfect for locking down the dancefloor. 
The 2nd remix of Casual Violences Briefly sexual, provided by Voidloss, finishes the EP off nicely in a twisted way. 
This time everything is slowed down. The kicks are huge, pounding, each one like a collapsing building. The sluggish drone is given a valium injection, giving an underwater effect. White noise hats and snares keep things tight, the vocals are really twisted this time, swirling in and out of the mix. Liquid metal percussion smashes around the 2nd half of the tune like some out of control robot in a junkyard giving a slippery groove that should really get the feet moving. All in all a very infectious, and contemporary end to an EPIC EP!!

Voidloss - Realisation Of Mind Fractures - Casual Violence Remix (BM Studios Master)

Singularity is 10!!!And for the 10th release we celebrate with a genre smashing release. 
The mysterious underworld figure Villain returns to us, handing us some spoils of his war against the genre police. 
The EP kicks off in grande fashion with the explosively dark and grimey Down in Flames.Sitting somewhere between techno, industrial, noise and dubstep, this beast of a track uses off kilter rhythms, a sluggish, dragging, grinding moody bassline and bursts of noise to drag us around the dancefloor.Like some great unstoppable biomechanical war machine, this track smashes into a breakdown leading us to a twisted vocal supplied by the act Battle Flags.A deathly sigh takes us into the second half of the tune where the sound of a thousand sharpened knives hovers over the strange electronic groans of the tortures souls in purgatory. 
A genre defying, and truly massive slab of genius. 
The 2nd track from Villain stays in the same region of genre crosstalk. 
Pounding kicks provide pile driver stability to a massive oscillating bass drone.Snappy percussion drives the beat forward surrounded by rusting, decayed noise hits and scrapes.A sudden blast of noise hits you over the back of the head after a short break and you realise you are staring into the headlights of some enormous rusting juggernought blasting it's fetid horn at you to get the hell out of the way. 
The second breakdown, literally breaks down, into chaos, and then the rebuild is a real surprise.Housey stabs and more pounding beat construction lead you into a danse macabre for the final act. 
A true horror show of a tune that will smash any discerning dancefloor into pieces. 
For the 3rd track we have a remix of track 1 provided by the truly sublime Inigo Kennedy.Inigo is an artist we have always respected, a truly unique force within the techno movement, Inigo is a constant innovator, an artist and explorimenter who never gets caught up in trends or fashions. 
The remix he provides is a pounding exercise in ebb and flow.The noise of the original is enhanced and moves in and out of the piece like waves on a beach.The vocals become percussive stabs, strings enhance the tension, and the percussion becomes more frenetic.The overall effect is an austere, sharp, almost cold experience that chills your emotions whilst still pushing you to move your feet. Disturbing, in a good way! 
Genius at work!!! 
The final tune for the EP is the Voidloss remix of Down in Flames. 
V turns in an industrial dubstep piece, heavy heavy halfstep beats keep the grinding sub in check.The sharpened knives are sculpted into a rhythm pattern for the top end and the vocals from the orignal are brought up front, and twisted in a demonic way. 
The overall feel is very heavy, and more stripped back than the original. 
The break smashes us back into the second half with a techno riff that spins to a different time than the main rhythm, increasing the tension, and the bass starts to grind more noisily. 
This mix really takes the ethic of dubstep and concentrates it into a really heavy, hard, extremely dark piece of work that would cause total carnage on a big soundsystem. 
The 10th release of Singularity leaps forwards again, showing innovation, dancefloor savvy, and emphasizes the forward thinking stance of the label

Villain - Down in flames (Innigo Kennedy Remix) (Black Monolith Studios Master)

The 9th talisman of Singularity Recordings has been uncovered, and again we have something special for you. 
For this release we introduce the music of the truly wonderful Blind Summit. 
This artist came to our attention via associates who suggested the musicality of his works would be interesting to us. 
Well, that was an understatement. 

You rarely find such accomplished musicality in techno and so we felt the need to present this music as soon as possible. 
The music provided by Blind Summit is something different for techno. The title track of the EP lifts you up straight away, 
envelopes you in a huge warm space filled with glistening melody, sweeping strings, phasing, hypnotic bass, and tight 
detroit rhythms. The track is uplifting, filled with love and joy, and yet without any cheesy-ness or kitsch. Simply a 
beautiful piece of music that deserves your time. 

The Seventh Opinion is again, epic in scale. Filmic, spaceous, positive, the music of a hopeful ending to an apocalyptic 
movie.Simple clean beats provide the backing pulse to an evolving, growing, melodic cascade that would fit into the 
sets of a number of genres. 
For us this is what techno is about, forward thinking, defying stereotype, innovative, unique and highly creative. 

Ciclosporin takes the established and epic Blind Summit sound into darker regions for this EP. Creeping paranoia, 
forboding entities, a more machine-like beat, like Mills but more complex and orchestrated. Lights out, strobes on, 
grit your teeth and weather the storm! 
The 2 remixes provided by Voidloss gently re-interpret the material without straying too far from the overall vibe. 
The paradise beats mix of Motion Departure places trademark Voidloss broken beat percussion underneath the blind 
summit strings. Adding complex but subtle percussion shifts, a more simplified string arrangement, and some epic 
builds that flow in and out mirroring the ocean-like drive of the original. 

The Hold me as I fade mix of The Seventh Opinion goes off in a different direction. Taking the vibe of the original into 
dubstep crossover turf. The melody is stripped and taken into half time, a massive slab of sub is dropped underneath 
whip cracking beats, and drifting, etheric pads and melodies are brought in to enhance the original and take it into a 
more dream-like, tender and melancholy space. 
Overall a fantastic beginning to 2011 in our opinion, setting the tone for the rest of the year, and, we hope, the 
start of an interesting relationship with this artist for Singularity.

Sin009-Blind Summit - Motion Departure EP promomix

To celebrate the end of summer, and the gradual slip into the darkness of winter, Voidloss has supplied us with an epic double EP of darkness and wonder.
The introduction track Realisation of Mind Fractures, sets the tone for this release.  Hypnotic, psychedelic, a mix of aggression and fear and disturbing subtleties, owing more to the roots of industrial music than anything.
After the introduction track we are taken through a diverse and emotional journey plotting the thoughts and feelings of Voidloss through a turbulent year.
Death of Rebellion continues on from the intro track with harder drums and a more mechanical soundset, grinding and churning it's way to oblivion as sirens and metallic drones scream and sing in a horrific discord.  
Discarded Yet Real takes things down a notch, a subtle journey with a much more straight up groove, the darkness is more insidious and implied, but everything changes after the break which throws things into a juxtaposition of old school chicago house and modern industrial sensibilities.  A modern classic, if you will.
The following track, In Silent Defeat retains the subtleties of the previous track, adding a much more hypnotic cycle to the percussion, and a minimalist, melancholy tone and treatment. The latter section of the track adds another hint of old school house and detroit tech vibes. Quite beautiful.
The Weirding Way goes even further into mantric and hypnotic zones.  The bass adds a subtle menace underneath layers of changing machine drones, shifting percussion, lo-fi claps, shuffled hats and disarming rhythmic synth hits.
When moving on to Black Desert Mirror the track intro starts in quite an airy, positive space, but things slowly warp from the point the kicks smash into the mix.  
The melodic metallic percussion and pads are soon thrown against raging jagged synth drones, joined in the break with a primal scream of defiance, to produce probably the most overwhelming track on the EP.  A total wall of sound.
We step into an eerie calm in the next track, recovering from the storm.  Minimal broken beats with a real relaxed swing and warm factory drones go forwards to a break, slowly building tension that release into a real dancefloor workout with an uplifitng epic vibe underpinned with some really pretty shimmeric chordal melodies.
The minimal funk workout continues with Swill retaining the broken beat vibes of the previous track.  This time the order is a heads down pure dancefloor workout with more attention being paid to the trademark Voidloss atmospherics.
Moving to the penultimate track on the EP and the beats get heavier and more direct.
A thumping, stripped back groove takes us back into the disturbing metal factory with shimmering steely drones and clunkng percussion.  Angle grinder pads smash you out of the break into a space filled with unexpected old school hood-like melodies for a very purist techno journey sure to please the real genre heads.
The final track returns to a place driven by strong broken beats.  Airy, dream inducing pads and warm metallic drums surround you and push you into an epic breakdown that seems to give you space, preparing you for some trancendental meditative journey.  The final drive of the track is epic, uplifting, huge and yet not pandering to any obvious cliches.  A distant hand moves, influencing, educating, guiding you through the spaces it presents, beckoning, never pushing.  
Fantastic.


Voidloss  2 - The Death Of Rebellion

Promo audio for the upcoming Industrial Doom Metal album from The Voidloss on Singularity Recordings.

To be released via

http://music.singularityrecordings.co.uk/

The Voidloss - Every Scar is a Victory - Album Promo

13 is a lucky number for Singularity Recordings, although we aren't really superstitious.
Our feature artist for the Epoch EP is Rory St John, a producer from Ireland with a reputation for pushing techno music to the edge.  We can't explain how Rory makes his music but we are fairly certain it involves black magick and alchemy.  There is no other way he could possibly put so much detail and complexity into his alien productions.

Time Overtone is a deep, rolling, minimal piece filled with subtle percussion and ambience detail.
Lush chords dance around sharp noise hits and slicing hats putting you on edge and leading you to the unexpected coda.  The latter half of the piece slowly lifts you, warms you, with a synth line made to bring love and joy back to your heart.  The effect is like dancing at sunrise.

Noughtsmith crashes right into you at full power.  Massive fractured kicks and snares march across your face as metallic, industrial ambience and twisted synths flay you.  The beat reinforces further into the piece, completely locking you to the rhythm until a final broken synth line provides an added layer of paranoia.  Complete dancefloor devastation is assured.

For the first remix we are very proud to have the mighty techno legend that is Makaton.
A true maverick, innovator, and pathfinder who runs the seminal Rodz Konez, Makaton has always been way ahead of the game.  A pioneering artist who always seems to be the first to walk into dangerous territory, laying a path for all to follow.  The music of Makaton is only just being fully assimilated now, years after the fact.  The Makaton remix demonstrates exactly why he has true respect from the underground.  The original tune is completely transformed into something new and sublime.  Smooth broken beats, underwritten by a subtle,  energetic bassline provide a solid framework for the uplifting yet abstract ambience that shifts and slides around.  Strobe light hats cascade down from above whilst a hypnotic metallic drone lifts the mind.  Old school rave stabs shoot across the soundfield giving touches of familiarity that keep you grounded.  
Makaton does what only he can do, he produces something right on the leading edge of the techno blade.

The Voidloss remix takes the original and strips it back for a more clubby feel.  Big subby kicks, white noise hats, provide the pulse for an industrial flavoured groove.  The originals chordal stabs are brought up front and the beautific riff enters earlier on.  After a love drenched break a slightly darker edge is brought in with some broken down, corroded percussion that is a sure fire lock for the floor.

Mechanical prayer, from Rory, truly demonstrates the level of his programming genius.  Shattered, splintered beats pound and crash against noise hits whilst industrial synths and ambience whirl and spin drunkenly around them.  This is a real big slab of pounding madness that is sure to please IDM fans and DJ's.

FemmeB, the final track from Rory, again leans towards the IDM camp.  Slightly more subtle than the previous track, and more pensive.  Huge taiko drums lead the way, a war dirge filled with the horror of it's victims.  An insane distorted guitar tears into the latter half of the piece, completely grinding you into submission for this cacophonous end to a great EP.
Keep an eye on Mr St John, you really never know what to expect, other than that you will never have heard anything like it.

Rory St John - Mechanical Prayer

Guise - Capillary (Orphx remix) (Black Monolith Studios Master)

For the 16th Singularity release we proudly present Escapade by Villain.
After much time spent exploring the underground, hidden world, Villain comes up with a truly cutting edge take on the world of electronica.
This album is a hard, hammer forging of Techno, Bass Music, Dubstep and electronic Jazz.
Tracks like The Plan, Stakeout and Leave No Trace show signs of Bass Music and Dubstep influence with their thick fluid sub, shuffled percussion and sprinklings of Jazz sensibility all cloaked in darkness.
Materials, In Motion and Subterfuge lean more towards Techno stylings, but still remain between-genre.  Again the emphasis here is on thick rumbling sub pulses that provide an underlying darkness, but the beats push harder, ready to shake the walls and smash concrete.
The album peaks with the title track Escapade, starting dark and broken, and quite subtle, but eventually opening up like a flower to reveal the beautiful colouration if its main melody.  Beautiful, funky, epic, touching, and also with the addition of a 303 line, quite rawkus.  
We are sure this album will be an underground classic for 2012 and those with refined tastes and open minds will be sure to succomb to the shadow of influence cast down by Villain!

Villain - Escapade (BMS Master)

And from the skies the 17th angel did fall, with wings charred and blackened, and a halo turned to iron.
Our 17th angel has also fallen with the Derlich helmed Cult of Static EP.
The first blow is struck by the track Subversion.  Like a nuclear wind scraping the landscape clean, the track is driven by harsh, controlled, rhythmic noise that just builds and crushes and twists until you are lifted away, completely cleansed.
Radioactivity, the 2nd track, is slightly more restrained.  Geiger counter clicks and E.M static back a life support machine pulse of drums as various bursts of abstraction flow in and out.  Claustrophobic experimentalist techno at its best.
The Voidloss remix of Radioactivity takes a big slab of Bass Music percussion and rams it into the experimental noise of the original, piling on the funk, heavy bass, and feedback noise for a massive dancefloor destroyer.
Unavoidable Truth, the final track from Derlich, is the pure raw Rhythmic pulse of unadulterated chaos.  Voices of the dead drift in and out, machinery clatters into the mix, ever intensifying until a rawkuss crescendo mashes your mind into submission.
Derlich proves once again he is a formidable force in techno, and the perfect artist for Singularity Recordings.

Derlich - Subversion (BMS Master)

The 18th phase of the Singularity evolution is here.
Our latest release features the talents of Underground techno artist Systemic, an artist with releases on Jactation, Labrynth and his own imprint Duality, his music has always kept us interested, standing out from the norm.
  With this EP the Systemic sound has transformed, evolved, mutated into something dark, distorted, unique and, perfect for Singularity.
The title track is slamming thick broken beat kicks, dark resonant bass pulses and evolving robotic soundscapes sprinkled with crisp shakers and hats.  The soundtrack to the darkest alien film.
  Blot is a more sparse affair. Deep thudding kicks, underpinned by a real low sub, provide the constant pulse around which scattered and fractured cybernetic sound-creatures dance.  Very unsettling.
  Flights edge is a real heads-down piece.  The pace picks up, the kicks have a lot of sub to them, organic percussion provides a good hip shake to lock down the groove.  The soundscapes in this piece are really the most fractured of all.  This is like the trip inside the workings of a dying machine intelligence.
  Thought and Memory takes a classic electro feeling and turns it on its side.  Turns it on its side and then smashes its circuits.
The beats are constructed from electrical noise and glitches, and eventually add up to some really hot machine funk.  A great rhythmic workout yet with no cliches.
  The Voidloss remix of Raven brings the pace up a little.  The beats are broken with some low slung and loose percussion taking cues from bass music and dubstep.  The original bass pulse is broken down even further, and the soundscapes are taken further into the distance.  Deep sub keeps the floor rumbling and the pressure is eventually released by some old skool techno pads for a suprising lift at the end.
  The final remix by Frelleson and Knudsen (Knudsen is one half of Northern Structures), also takes a broken beat approach.  The main drive is provided by a slowly twisting drone synth, joined eventually by more organic percussion grooves and electronic distress beacons.  The whole piece builds into a deeply hypnotic and slightly jarring example of electronic warfare.
  Once again Singularity proves that it champions true uniquity in electronic music  

Systemic - Raven (BMS Master)

Summer comes to Singularity Recordings, and as always we like to release something special before we take a break, and so we are proud to represent the first album from Blind Summit. 
Mr Summit, after much hard work, presented us with a deep conceptual musical working which exceeded our expectations. The album is born out of a deep personal tragedy and the process of working through this emotional trauma led to internal discussions concerning chaos, life, death, loss, blissful joy, individual suffering and denial. The album shows some roots tracing back to the earlier years of techno, with the more musical leanings of Detroit and European electronica, but also dips into contemporary orchestral arrangements, with less repetition than motor city music. There is an obvious influence of environment and landscape, particularly the countryside of the north of England, which is the home of Blind Summit and something which he openly loves and expresses in his own photography. The countryside of the north is a juxtaposition of lush greenery, decaying historical industrialism, and misty melancholy, and we hear this in the music. 
We won't go into a track by track synopsis of the album, the music deserves to be listened to and digested without a guide, and the album is entirely about listening. Don't expect a collection of tracks designed to be slotted into a few minutes of a DJ set, this is electronica firmly aimed at the ears and the soul and we encourage you to let Blind summit take you on a journey through a landscape of emotion.

Blind Summit - Opaque Conclusions (BMS Master)

It's heartening that the move back towards hard techno has focused on Birmingham and occasionally Detroit rather than the dead-end loop sound of the late 90s. Happily, Nonamaka takes inspiration from these classic approaches on Chaos. "Tangled Cravings" is a hell for leather slice of dense Birmingham techno, somewhat less oppressive than early Surgeon and Regis, but still not to be underestimated. "Solitude of Silence" and the Voidloss remixes of "Silence" and "Cravings" are more in keeping with modern sounds thanks to their stepping rhythms and lunging basslines, but the release highlights are "Impure Desire" and "Look with Fear", the kind of distorted kick drum-led analogue techno that Jeff Mills excelled at during the early to mid-90s.

Sin021: Allan Nonamaka - Not Unlike Chaos EP

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Singularity Recordings serves as a platform for intelligent, intuitive, progressive and artistic electronica and techno.
The label provides an outlet and focal point for artists who work in their own unique way, regardless of fashion and trends, our main concern is to look forwards, to observe the flow of the river and move in another direction.
We nurture and support artists who make art for arts sake, those that follow their own path, those with the courage and the imagination to find themselves in their music and to strive for their own individuality.

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