Standard Deviation continues its Vinyl series with another Split release, aiming to foster intercultural exchange, collaboration and friendship between Ukraine and the international community. For the second Vinyl project, emerging Ukrainian musician @omonbreaker shares the stage with Berlin based Mala Junta Resident @ddan-tek. 

The Split format is a musical dialogue between two worlds, backgrounds and histories. With Mala Junta resident and Seattle raised D.Dan on the A-Side and Kyiv based, Dnipro-born Omon Breaker on the B-side, the record aims to reflect on both their individual experiences and musical journeys, as an honest statement of their current works spanning across D.Dan’s high-energy Trance and groovy summer Techno towards the EBM and 90’s style influenced works of Omon Breaker.

releases October 20, 2021 

Original tracks written & produced by D.Dan, Omon Breaker 
Mixed by D.Dan, Paul Georg 
Mastered by Anne Taegert at Dubplates + Mastering 
Pressed and manufactured at Intakt! 
Artwork Photography by Valentine Bo 
Art Direction by RAM

Standard Deviation

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D.DAN / OMON BREAKER - STANDARD DEVIATION (previews)

BLANKA - Love Letter

premiere of "Conformal Invariance" by Arthur Robert
taken from the EP " Hydrostatic Equilibrium", released soon on hereandthere

EP Details:
https://novafuture.blog/2024/11/07/arthur-robert-hydrostatic-equilibrium-ep-hereandthere/

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Artist: Arthur Robert | @arthurrobert
Label: hereandthere | @hereandthere_etc

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Order via Bandcamp: https://nfredirect.de/?r=HNT002-BC

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Arthur Robert - Conformal Invariance [HNT002 | Premiere]

Remix for Obstructor out now on my label NRBK. 

Obstructor - Izanami (Nørbak Remix) | NRBK006

To speak to Luca Daniel Schwarz aka LDS about his music is to be enthusiastically guided into a complex world of his own creation: clean and powerful techno which pulses with life from the textured patterns and drum sequences that have fills and accents that would make anyone who's picked up a set of drumsticks envious.

Yet this ecosystem of noise is deceptive; Schwarz's process for making music is very different to how a live drummer would create the same subtlety of performance. Forever researching new technology, Luca got deeply interested in different programming languages, and created a series of probability based music tools for manoeuvring sounds and sequencing.

Manipulating those probabilities takes a skillful alchemy, needing understanding of both musical structure and how the tools he devised work. To return to the drummer analogy, if the drummer is focussed and intentional in the moment of playing, then the method used in LDS tracks is almost diametrically opposed, with all of the intention coming in the assembly of the instruments, potential paths, and gateways; once play is pressed the music flows, following all the rules that were set in advance, not unlike a domino run or Rube Goldberg machine.

And like a domino run, the results are fascinating and, ultimately, fun: staccato vocals pop in and out in 'zipp prompt'; laser-like synths pulse; background noises sweep across the aural plane of the dub techno of 'diff, blockmix' and 'pow' adding texture that brings vitality all-too-easily missed out when complex mathematical processes become entwined with music creation. The high sensitivity to texture and rhythmic detail in Stadion Progg is multiplied further on Jean Redondo's remix - whose track, Hypersonic, was the backbone of 2023's 'yet' compilation on Tresor.

The balance between technology and a sense of fun might also come from the maker; it's not easy to overstate Schwarz's passion for what is now his favourite way to make music, "it never gets boring. There's always a moment of anticipation to see what actually emerges." And the true "power of 2" comes into play when the resulting music can be fed back through the system again and again, potentiating the music in exponential ways.

BANDCAMP

PREMIERE: LDS - diff, block mix

Needed You

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Buy here: found.ee/flour-visitors

The Visitors EP is a transcendent tour of Flour’s auditory cosmos and fascinating inner world, essential for all lovers of hard techno’s trancier moments, it finds itself perfectly at home in EXHALE’s cutting edge catalogue.

Kicking off the EP, which he describes as ‘a four-track journey exploring identity and transformation’ is the darkly beguiling ‘Mystery Land’, where pummeling kicks and trancey pads take us into hyperspace as we are drawn into ‘the discovery of an unknown dimension’. On title track ‘Visitors’ we go deeper still as Flour invites us to ‘encounter one’s own alter ego’: driving rhythms are offset with haunting operatic vocals, intense building synths and a broodingly urgent break building tension as a voice warns of ‘system failure’. Powerful peaktime gear. Next up is single ‘The World Beyond’, a transcendent fusion of hard techno and psytrance for the depth of the rave. Melodic beeps over a fiercely propulsive kick erupt into squelchy acid textures and we are catapulted into the dark mystery beyond. Dancefloors from Berlin to Napoli will go hard for this one. The closing chapter of this epic sonic journey is delivered by ‘Eternals’, ‘a timeless, introspective echo’ that invites us to consider the ‘other side’ as a limitless space within. Trancey and pumping, haunting vocal samples and pads give the track an ethereal edge, while the constancy of the kick keeps our feet on the ground (and moving).

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Flour - Visitors (snippet)

...an ode to one of the greatest skate videos ever, Alien Workshop, and Joe Castrucci...

SHUT004 - Memory Screen

Dress Parade

PRSON002 - Stephanie Sykes (with Ansome & Edit Select remixes)

Stephanie Sykes - Glimmer Of Existence

Shifted-A1-chapter 69

I was bored so I made this remix of this lovely track from Opus III , the lyrics makes even more sense nowadays.

Free download for y'all !
Stay safe.
Leo

Opus III - It's A Fine Day (Quelza Remix) [FREE DOWNLOAD]

∄ is a cultural institution in Kyiv, established in 2019 on the territory of a former brewery, located at 41 Kyrylivska Street. It serves as a multifunctional space for club events like ∄ Community Events, Curated By, Enareї, for experimental music concerts like Miasma of the Real and other cultural events.

∄ also manages the in-house music label Standard Deviation. Established in September 2020, Standard Deviation is a multidisciplinary label for music, art and publishing, cultivating creative exchange between an aspiring Ukrainian scene and a global community.

K41 is the community-born name of the institution embraced and widely used by the public.

D.DAN / OMON BREAKER - STANDARD DEVIATION (previews)

∄ (K41) / Standard Deviation