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Com Truise - Galactic Melt (10th Anniversary Edition) release 11th March

Ghostly International_part3

WeirdStuff

Analog / Modular Synth

Ghostly International - 3

Sculpturegardening

Foraging Music

Vegetal Passivity

Our sixth VA compilation continues in the collective spirit at the heart of Pressure Dome; here taking its fullest form. The first of its kind in the label catalogue, ‘Two [Is Greater Than] One’ sees a selection of PD regulars and friends of the label put their heads together across eight atmospheric tracks, equally as suited to the club as to solo listening. 

Those who have followed the label for a while will be no stranger to the comp’s first collaborator. Human Resources teams up with London dub techno specialist, Keplrr, on ‘Spring’: a mood-led composition where the impact is contained in atmosphere. Fragmented drum breaks are engulfed by airy synth pads and punctuated by a dancehall-indebted rhythm that marches at 90BPM. ‘Yuppel’ welcomes Noods Radio mainstay Sid Quirk aka Keppel into the mix. He is joined by label boss, Yushh, on a ruminative percussive tool, guided by cavernous drums that fabricate a vivid, immersive environment. With the guidance of Brighton’s Caldera, the journey continues with Süss Choc. The reverb-laden synth plucks on ‘evoke water droplets, and hallucinatory details echo around them to create the illusion of being in a mountainous cove.

Delay Grounds – an audiophile in the truest sense of the word – is next to take the baton. Together, he and Yushh take it up a notch on ‘Telomere’ – a full-bodied club-ready track packed with glitchy chords and giddy drums. A gnarly, Pariah-esque breakdown segues into the track’s second wind where pitched-up vocal chops accelerate it to the compilation’s energetic climax. With the help of London drum specialist, Syz, ‘Fuzbidun’ keeps our feet firmly on the dancefloor. Breakbeats are chopped and rearranged, flitting between double and half time whilst a distorted mid-bass roughens things round the edges, prepping the ground for the compilation’s move to a more inorganic feel.

Bristol don, Forever, joins Yushh next on ‘Passing Notes’ – a groove-driven club track where skittish percussion ricochets from side to side, so palpable it tempts the touch. ‘Crash Bash Party At BUFOs’ is no different. The link-up between Delay Grounds and dance music’s stalwart of musique concrète, Wordcolour, is completely idiosyncratic to both artists: the perfect combination of found-sound percussion and skillfully rehashed vocal samples. It’s up to two PD mainstays – Roy Mills and Human Resources – to close proceedings. A chugging rhythm bubbles under the surface of ‘Sycophantasy’, sending us on a dubbed-out trip before picking the pace back up again.

Copy – Annie Parker
Artwork – Jesse Webb
Mastering – Matthew Bentley

Süss Choc

Caldera X Yushh - Süss Choc (PDCOLLAB001)

Release: Camina Lp
Artist: Daniel Imhof
Label: MŎNɅDɅ
 Cat-No.: MND063
Release Date: 2023-04-05

➟ Download/Stream: bit.ly/3ZC62ss
➟ Bandcamp: bit.ly/3ZJ6pkU
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We’re thrilled to share with you our next release woven by modular-magician Daniel Imhof, accompanied by outstanding remixers such as: Landhouse, Mujia & Tajo, Indygo, Malü & Kalypsoul, Kunterweiß and Isaque Solaris.

Get ready for a truly stellar journey through deep emotional realms. <3

"Camina" is Daniel Imhof’s first release on Monada. Both songs are minimalist in their sound structure and yet radiate a true fullness of emotion. A slow, soulful and warm journey through deep space into an imaginary world, where a certain kind of peace of mind can unfold. After decades of playing for crowds as a club DJ, this Lp reflects his gradual move towards the sonic realm of ambient music. He is thrilled by the contributions of the artists on this project.

Daniel Imhof is a musician and DJ based in a village close to Bern. His studio on the grounds of an organic farm is surrounded by birch trees. When he lets his gaze wander over his modular landscape, sometimes a red kite or a white crane flies into the picture. This might be one of the reasons why his music has this organic feel to it. His monthly ambient show "voyage" on the alternative radio station "Rabe" on Sunday mornings is an invitation to listen deeply, to lie down, to daydream. Occasionally he plays live for sleep concerts or other kinds of horizontal meditations.

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Camina Lp

Camina

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Daniel Imhof - Camina (Original Mix)

Taken from the cassette "Pulsdisco#1" released on Complete Command 2014.
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDsFI7WdRCo

Betong

ARTIST: Celldöd
TITLE: Pulsdisco
LABEL/CAT: Suction Records / suction030 
FORMAT: 12-inch / digital EP
RELEASE DATE: Feb.3, 2015

Suction Records is pleased to present "Pulsdisco" (suction030, 6-track 12-inch), the debut vinyl release by Celldöd﻿, a new name to the Suction Records roster. Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, Celldöd's output to date has been a series of extremely limited cassettes. This 12-inch is a selection of tracks from the first two tapes, Pulsdisco#1 and Pulsdisco#2.

Celldöd is the solo project of Anders Karlsson, well known in the EBM scene for his involvement in the band The Pain Machinery and as a live member of Severe Illusion. It's no surprise then, that the Electronic Body Music pulse of bands like DAF, Nitzer Ebb and The Klinik is at the heart of Celldöd's sound as well, but with a twist. Celldöd strips EBM down to it's core, eliminating vocals and any superfluous details. Celldöd offers a raw, minimal, and purist vision of EBM; hardware tracks recorded live to tape using just a handful of machines. Celldöd's bare bones dance cuts are dirty and primitive, but manage to steer clear of retro trappings, sounding fresh and contemporary. Despite being driven by Nitzer Ebb-style basslines and militant electronic percussion, you can also hear the squelch and funk of vintage acid house and proto-techno in Celldöd, giving Pulsdisco the same techno/EBM crossover appeal of artists such as Silent Servant, Adam X and Terrence Fixmer. 

Tracklisting:
A1: Betong
A2: Pulsdisco 1
A3: Deffad
B1: Pulsdisco 2
B2: Stålull
B3: Som Rakblad

Celldöd "Deffad" A3 (suction030 PREVIEW CLIP)

Celldöd "Stålull" B2 (suction030 PREVIEW CLIP)

Celldöd "Som Rakblad" B3 (suction030 PREVIEW CLIP)

The original version of this track is featured on Celldöd - Pulsdisco (Suction Records ‎– suction030).

Pulsdisco (Fishermen Body Mix)

Moog

I Am A Spaceman

Realistic Source

You Have Been Selected

Mixed Waste 4.2

Micro Melodies

New Ways: Music from the Documentary I Dream of Wires

King Vincent

Pattern Recognition

World Series of Love

Duckpond

Motivator

Avant Poop

R+B=?

All For Now

Umbrella

Some Kisses

Swamp

Avalon Blonde

Moog: The Electric Eclectics Of Dick Hyman

The Moog And Me

The Legend Of Johnny Pot

Moon Gas

Let's Dance - Live!

You Brought A New Kind of Love To Me (Live at the Marriott Marquis, New York City, 1986) [feat. Dick Hyman & Louie Bellson]

Conservatory of Flowers

Abstract

Glimmer

Goldengrove

Dare-gale

http://solventcity.com

http://facebook.com/solvent

http://discogs.com/artist/Solvent

For over a decade, Jason Amm’s work as Solvent has neatly defied categorization. His music is too sweetly melodic for techno or acid, his compositions too fiendishly detailed for synth-pop. He was too steeped in the sounds of the ‘80s to participate in the incipient IDM scene; he was briefly lumped in with the short-lived electroclash movement, only to outlive it; he’s played “minimal wave” parties and goth clubs, indie-rock shows and techno all-nighters. But even as words fail in the face of Solvent’s music, its pleasures are anything but elusive.

Today, Zimbabwe-born Jason Amm lives in Toronto, ON, where he spends his time obsessively grappling with an outsized collection of vintage analog synthesizers, samplers, and sequencers. Solvent first materialized in 1997 with a string of singles and full-lengths (1998’s Solvent, 1999’s Solvently One Listens) on Amm’s own Suction Records, the Toronto-based label he founded with Lowfish’s Gregory DeRocher. The watershed release Solvent City (2001) on Berlin-based Morr Music introduced Amm’s sound to a wider audience, and Apples &amp; Synthesizers (2004) marked Solvent’s move to Ghostly International. Along with notable remixes of artists including Soft Cell, Alter Ego, and Adult., Solvent tracks have appeared on high-profile DJ mixes and seminal compilations.

Solvent’s most recent record on Ghostly International, 2010?s Subject to Shift, marks a turn for the darker as Amm embraces his love of the abrasive sounds of acid and industrial. And while a sinister tone or two now dances among Solvent’s sparkling hooks and bright streaks of synthesizer, and while Amm’s music drifts even further from accepted genre-specific reference points, Solvent’s sound has only deepened. After more than ten years of composing love songs for robots, Amm sounds like nothing more than himself.

