Spring Theory is proud to announce its latest release, an LP from San Francisco-based experimental producer and label alumni Aria Rostami. Titled Agnys, it's an intensely personal and introspective reflection on friendship, loss and rebirth in our hyper-connected society. A rumination on a collaborative project started with Rostami's now deceased production partner, roommate, and friend Shawn Dickerson, it utilizes a melodic and ambient techno sound palette to take the listener on a journey that touches on the uncanny permanence that information technology lends to the tragic fragility of the human experience.

Mirroring the time distortion of the information age, and how new and old exist simultaneously on the internet, Agnys is a record that unfolds in reverse. The deep and minimalistic b-sides, "White-White," "Soroban" and "Beghilos" guide the aesthetic experience. Unified by an emotion of retrospective nostalgia, they were all created by editing and contorting aspects from a single recording made from Dickerson's piano — a dusty and detuned standup made sometime before The Great Depression that now sits in Rostami's bedroom. "This plays with both the idea of sameness (something old, something that's been done, something bland) and newness (something re-contextualized)," explains Rostami.

By contrast, the warm embrace of "Clepsydra," the symphonic dancefloor grandeur of "Seven-Segments," and sharp punchiness of "A Square Tablet Strewn With Dust" reveal Rostami's own take on the sonic structure of the B-sides. "The A-sides are a reinterpretation of the world made by the B-sides much like the B-sides are a reinterpretation of Shawn's interests and ideas. In this way, the listener works backwards to the source."

"The internet became a key player in our relationship. The web dissolved old walls of discovery and opened itself up through search terms and piracy. We were discovering electronic music we couldn't even conceive of." says Rostami. "For Agnys, I took ideas that are new, ideas that are old, and ideas that are just old enough to be recycled again and focused on certain points that I thought Shawn and I could have explored more if we had had the time."

Simply put, Agnys is a beautiful record from one of San Francisco's most talented producers. We're excited to release it, and we're very excited for you to hear it for yourself.

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Aria Rostami - Agnys [ST006]

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To The Beat of The Drum is Konrad Black, Natalia Escobar and Jeremy Shaw – longtime partners-in-crime who have decided to return to basics and throw an intimate party of timeless dance music. This mix represents a condensed version of what you may hear at the third instalment of the TTB/OTD party, taking place at OHM, Berlin on April 16, 2015.

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Natalia Escobar 
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Konrad Black
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LN-CC Store Mix 061 - TTB/OTD

Aria Rostami -  Soroban

Aria Rostami -  White-White

Aria Rostami -  A Square Tablet Strewn With Dust

Aria Rostami -  Seven-Segments

Aria Rostami -  Clepsydra

Written, produced & recorded by Moisture
Additional production by Emanuel Sundin
"Orgone" contains samples of "Say Something" by Fra Lippo Lippi 
licensed via Rune Grammofon

Mastered by Darren Ziesing.
Distribution by Rush Hour 
Cover: Ivar Lantz
In stores 7th of March 2020.

This double A-sider is the fruit of a long gestating collaboration with fellow Malmö-based record collector/selector & producer Simon alias Rizzolo DJ (alias Moisture). Closely intertwined with the label in various ways since the start, his path to producing started with re-edits and a more wild-haired approach to deejaying, finally landing into his own groove with the 2018 album A Freak Is Born. Released as a privately pressed cassette, the album featured two tracks co-produced with Fasaan founder Prins Emanuel. 

On that first album, the palette was a lo-fi reverie of minimal waves crashing into depths of goth and heights of camp. Here for the 12” format, we instead get the full onslaught of power tools gleaming in the blast of strobe lights. The weight of GAMMUT unfolds and delivers exactly what the title suggests: a complete scope of percussive barrage unleashed in tight locked grooves and smattering reverberations. In addition to that, we are treated with a spine-tingling re-imagining of the concept of a bass drop. 

For ORGONE, a 1984 track by Norwegian group Fra Lippo Lippi serves as the backbone of the composition. Championed by cosmic DJ Daniele Baldelli and here pitched down to wrongspeeder tempo, Moisture uses the original song to bridge the gap between his roots in the re-edit scene as well as in the cosmic tradition. Thedry  mechanical bassline is flanked by hollow percussion that eventually propels into a crystal-chimmering microcosm of orgone energy.

Moisture - Gammut

Isle Of You

Specifically music from label ECM Records.

ECM Mix

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2. 100Hz - LFO - Cease & Desist
3. Central - Body Issue - Dekmantel
4. Peter Lüdemann & Pit Troja - Southerly - Be With
5. River Yarra - Aorsum Wislhs - Antinote
6. Capablanca - Lap Dance [Lipelis Dub] - Discos Capablanca
7. Reel Houze - No Difference [Dub] - Optimo
8. Toyin Agbetu presents Nemesis - Let's Make Luv 2nite - Frame of Mind
9. Garies - Don Bongo - Future Times
10. Masarima - Freak Like U - Clone
11. Black Devil - “H” Friend - Anthology
12. Steve Pepe - Mileversi - Hivern Discs
13. A-Team - Trouble [Dub] - Seance Centre
14. Wolfram - Automatic Dub [Cable Toy Remix] - Public Possession
15. Alva C - MSL - Bakk
16. Mu - Destory Human Creation - Tigersushi
17. Stingray313 - NKKK4_2 - Naked Lunch
18. RD² - Sharing Angels - WPH
19. Antoine Kogut - Sphere Of Existence (I-Cube Unexpected Dub) - Versatile
20. Konx-om-Pax - Paris 5am - Planet Mu
21. Aleksi Perälä - NLL561606933 - Clone

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