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Lowfish Reel Electronics Volume 14 - October 17, 2013

Intro is a mangled Coil sample...

1. "Xylitolic" (Grapht Fatal Flowers Remix) - Zyxt
2. "When all is said and done" - Ancient Methods
3. " Moddax" - Perc & Modern Heads
4. "Least Inkling" - Front 242
5. "Babaks House" - Cloudface
6. "Dust" - Alex Smoke
7. "Elephant Generators" - Solvent
8. "Sleep Games" - Pye Corner Audio
9. "Prisms" - Clockwork
10. "Daylight for 15 seconds" - Manasyt
11. "Blackpool Late Eighties" - Holden


Lowfish Reel Electronics Vol. 14

Before I did stuff under the name Lowfish I recorded as Pest(e). "Wrinkle" is from the 1995 cassette release "Test(e)" by Pest(e). I thought I was pretty clever with all the brackets…I did the art to this as well - I was just starting in graphic design then...

This track and a few other Pest(e) tracks were re-released on Suction Records (which we started in 1997, the year after this cassette was produced).

Wrinkle - by Pest(e) - 1995

ARTIST: Skanfrom
TITLE: Postcards
LABEL/CAT#: Suction Records / suction027
RELEASE DATE: October 7, 2014
FORMAT: Vinyl/CD/digital

Suction Records is proud to present "Postcards," a new full-length by Skanfrom - his first album since 2002… Skanfrom is Roger Semsroth from Berlin, best known for his  purist minimal techno project Sleeparchive.

Before Sleeparchive, there was Skanfrom… Skanfrom first appeared in the late-90s, releasing limited edition 7"s on his own A.D.S.R. label, part of a small movement of DIY labels influenced by the melodic, experimental electronica output of labels like Rephlex, Skam, and Warp. Skanfrom's music displayed a particular affinity for the lush, melodic electro of Bochum Welt, an early signing to Aphex Twin's Rephlex label; you could practically call Bochum Welt the blueprint for Skanfrom's sound. But there was something a little different about Skanfrom…

Unlike Bochum Welt, who claimed influence from big shiny '80s producers like Trevor Horn and Thomas Dolby, Skanfrom was also listening to a lot of raw synthwave music - the influence of early Depeche Mode (Speak and Spell), Kraftwerk (Radioactivity), and obscure bands like Vice Versa and Ceramic Hello, clearly set Skanfrom apart from his IDM contemporaries.

Skanfrom found a likeminded home in Suction Records, who were releasing records by Solvent and Lowfish with many of the same musical references. In 2002, Skanfrom released his debut album on Suction Records, "Hand Picked Fragments." A lot has changed since 2002, but in Skanfrom world, 2014 is very much the same. "Postcards" is full of the same pure and melodic electro(pop) that made Skanfrom so special to us from the start. As it was in the beginning, Skanfrom produced "Postcards" using little more than his beloved Roland SH-101; this classic vintage monosynth, with it's minimal layout and pure analogue tone, remains the ideal instrument for Skanfrom's enduring, synthetic sound.

"Perseids Over Greenwich" by Skanfrom

Jason 'Solvent' Amm has been active since the late 90s, creating numerous indefinable mutations of dance, rich with the pulsing warmth and chaos of analogue circuitry. Recent years have seen Amm serving as producer, co-writer and interviewer for the independent documentary epic I Dream Of Wires exploring the history, demise and resurgence of the ultimate electronic music machine, the Modular Synthesizer. All the while Solvent has pursued the industrial, acidic sounds that have always lain dormant in his work, and this mix for R$N offers an emotional gut punch, with slow, stately machine music giving way to chunks of bristling techno and bursts of quivering, tentatively euphoric melody. We caught up with Amm to discuss just how a producer who doesn't "put a lot of stock into recording mixes" goes about making a mixtape...
Full interview here: http://www.theransomnote.co.uk/music/mixes/solvent-the-ransom-note-mixtape/

Alessandro Cortini - Stella 
Lowfish - Knives 
Alain Kepler - Radio Wave Tracker 
Clouds - Blood Skating 
Varg - Norrlandsbrigad 69R 
Cylob - Durftal 
Strider.B. - [Bradley's Robot A1] 
Gescom - Viral Rival (Rmxd By Ae) 
[UNKNOWN ARTIST] - [Papers001-B1] 
Cloudface - On None 
Blacknecks - Don't Dream It Be It 


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Solvent - The Ransom Note Mixtape

Taken from 'New Ways: Music From The Documentary I Dream Of Wires' by Solvent, out August 14, 2015.

Purchase at The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/collections/music-downloads/products/solvent-new-ways

Solvent - King Vincent (Wrangler Remix)

Digital Poodle "Work Terminal (Solvent revision)"
from "Revision! vol.1 - Work Terminal"
Suction Records / suction036
12"/digital - Nov 2015

Digital Poodle - Work Terminal (Solvent revision)

"Tunnel" -- from "EP 1"
BUY: rx-101.bandcamp.com/album/ep-1

Suction Records presents the first in a series of archival releases by RX-101 - previously unreleased material, originally recorded to cassette circa 1997-1999. Pure and authentic Aphex Twin-style techno/IDM/electronics.

“EP 1” (suction032)
12” vinyl EP - October 17, 2016

RX-101 - "Tunnel"

Apples & Synthesizers

Poly Ensemble

www.plasimusic.com

Lyrics:
I leave my soul that I built for you
I leave my land
I leave my all for a day or two, and see what can find

Under the sky in my broken shoes, from gorge to sand
500 miles in a caravan, the journey just begun

And I feel so free, can't wait to see
What's next for us, for you, and me, right now we breath
There'l come a day, when blue turns grey
When all the memories we have will fade away

When we're here and have it all, now If we hesitate we'll fall
But we have nothing here to lose
Make the call

I'm not alone in this lonely life, I'm not alone
Wherever I go I will find a way to take & share some love

5 different strangers became our friends, from east to west
We met all these acquaintances, that no one could have guessed

And I feel so free, can't wait to see
What's next for us, for you, and me, right now we breath
There'l come a day, when blue turns grey, when all the memories we have will fade away

When we're here and have it all, if we hesitate we'll fall
We have nothing here to lose
Make the call

Watching the sun by the horizon, the sky is blue, you're next to me
Wherever we go this road can lead us back to what it all once used to be

https://www.letssingit.com/pl%C3%A0si-lyrics-make-the-call-dhtqb3r
LetsSingIt - The Internet Lyrics Database

Now & Then

Make The Call

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SOLVENT WISH BASSABYSS MIX

Tongues

Our Time

self-titledmag.com/2017/12/13/ne235-solvent-mix-idm-braindance/

NE235: Solvent

Last winter Julius Smack & Kohinoorgasm + special guest Wizard Apprentice performed on Dublab in Los Angeles. They read texts from books on AI, self defense, and Latinx poetry and performed some songs. We're delighted to share our favorite moments from their program.

Wizard Apprentice - Evidence

These songs  belong to their authors, they are not mine.

Transllusion  - Dimensional Glide

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.



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