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Mix - Matyáš Václavek 
Graphics - Marek Bulíř

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Full stream of Stefan Vincent's "Mono No Aware," taken from Pre Melancholy EP on Musar Recordings, out June 30.

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Standards & Practices is proud to present ‘Imitable Behaviors’, the debut EP from label cofounder and frequent collaborator Ken Meier @ken-meier. All four tracks here have been kicking around in various iterations but were finally completed earlier this year. Refining and developing the sound he’s cultivated on remixes for Israel Vines and Jake Reif, as well as material under the name Obelus for Karl O’Connor’s Downwards imprint as well as Mysteries of the Deep, this is the first material released on our Double Standards sub-label since 2018’s acclaimed 12” from Device Control, ‘The Spirit Module’.

‘No Confidence’ kicks off the proceedings in fine style—it’s a sleek, aerodynamic modern electro cut with plenty of tension and rhythmic drive. ‘Fact Pattern’ follows, a favorite of ours—sparse and jittery, all nervous energy with razor-sharp drum programming and jagged, mottled sonic textures. The spacious, dubby ‘Omnipresence’ utilizes a half-time melodic feel to great effect, and the crunchy ‘End Matter’ closes the EP on a memorably quirky and idiosyncratic note, a stripped-down DJ tool that, like the other tracks here, manages to be both functional and substantial at the same time.

Friend of the label Karl O’Connor aka Regis had this to say about the release: “This is everything I love about music, but unfortunately it’s all in the wrong order.” We couldn’t agree more, Karl.

Releases August 25, 2023
Written and produced by Ken Meier
Mastered by Steve Bailey at rrreplica
Design by Common Name, New York
Special thanks to the FOM massive

Imitable Behaviors

Ken Meier — Fact Pattern — Imitable Behaviors EP

Standards & Practices is proud to present ‘Imitable Behaviors’, the debut EP from label cofounder and frequent collaborator Ken Meier @ken-meier. All four tracks here have been kicking around in various iterations but were finally completed earlier this year. Refining and developing the sound he’s cultivated on remixes for Israel Vines and Jake Reif, as well as material under the name Obelus for Karl O’Connor’s Downwards imprint as well as Mysteries of the Deep, this is the first material released on our Double Standards sub-label since 2018’s acclaimed 12” from Device Control, ‘The Spirit Module’.

‘No Confidence’ kicks off the proceedings in fine style—it’s a sleek, aerodynamic modern electro cut with plenty of tension and rhythmic drive. ‘Fact Pattern’ follows, a favorite of ours—sparse and jittery, all nervous energy with razor-sharp drum programming and jagged, mottled sonic textures. The spacious, dubby ‘Omnipresence’ utilizes a half-time melodic feel to great effect, and the crunchy ‘End Matter’ closes the EP on a memorably quirky and idiosyncratic note, a stripped-down DJ tool that, like the other tracks here, manages to be both functional and substantial at the same time.

Friend of the label Karl O’Connor aka Regis had this to say about the release: “This is everything I love about music, but unfortunately it’s all in the wrong order.” We couldn’t agree more, Karl.

Releases August 25, 2023
Written and produced by Ken Meier
Mastered by Steve Bailey at rrreplica
Design by Common Name, New York

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Label: Midnight Shift
Catalog number: MNSXLP006
Artist name: Rivet
LP name: L+P-2
Date of physical release: 06 Oct 2023

A1. Tilt To Turn 1
A2. Tilt To Turn 3
B1. Ten Blind Doors
B2. Sarcoma
B3. Rōsh
C1. Le Kland
C2. Tilt To Turn 4
D1. Lilo's Lullaby
D2. Hukat (feat. L.T. Fisk)
Bandcamp only: Tilt To Turn (Live for Intonal Festival) 

L+P-2 is Rivet's second album following his acclaimed debut, On Feather and Wire, released on Editions Mego in 2020. The wheels were already in motion for a subsequent album on the same label, but tragedy struck. Peter "Pita" Rehberg, the legendary owner of Editions Mego, suddenly passed away at only 53 years old, leaving the experimental electronic music community in a state of pitch-black grief. Rivet was among the many deeply affected by this loss. The inspiration and support from Rehberg had propelled Rivet to create at a level he himself was uncertain he had mastered. For Rivet, Rehberg's death felt like the death of music.

However, that brooding sentiment was abruptly shattered when Rivet's beloved dog and companion, Lilo, was diagnosed with incurable cancer just a couple of months later. They were inseparable, and now they would be separated nonetheless. The only way Rivet could cope with this double blow was to compose—for Lilo, for Pita, for his own sanity. L+P-2 is the result.

While the album naturally emerges from a place of despair, it's remarkably comforting. Partly, this stems from Rivet's singular ability to make machines not only sound human but also act human—sincere and warm, yet flawed. In more than one track on L+P-2, you'll encounter a distinctive melody and a gnarly bassline dancing hand in hand with Rivet's eccentric and captivating drum patterns. Then, seemingly on a whim, the melody takes off on its own, leaving the faithful bassline behind—much like a dear friend that suddenly vanishes from your life without warning. Yet life goes on, and so does the music. But never unchanged. Never.

L+P-2 is an album of lamentation, yet also of resolve—a dedication to those who go through life losing more than their share because they always carry too much.

har jag hukat 
så länge 
att allt blivit skevt 
att allt blivit skört
//
have I hunched down 
for so long 
that everything has become askew 
that everything has become brittle


Written and produced by Mika Hallbäck Vuorenpää
Post-production and mixing by Oscar Mulero at Dead Souls Studio Gijón
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu
Vocals, lyrics and piano on track 9 by Johan & Leonard Andersson
Photo by Sandra Hallbäck Svensson
Artwork by Takashi Makabe
Tracks 1,2,7 commissioned by Intonal Festival 2021 for the 'Tilt To Turn' dance piece with Frédéric Gies (available on Youtube)
Track 10 recorded live at Kornheddinge Kvarn in april 2021 and mastered by Måns Öjbrandt Wikenmo
Running order by Björn Jumme and Andreas Andersson

L+P-2

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MNSXLP006 - Rivet - L+P-2

As a devotee of nature, Atoloi explores sound creating a mellow amalgam of layers using echoing synths, processed field recordings, and self-created samples; all mixed in a lysergic experience of heavy-grained noises and evocative instrumental compositions.
Not sticking only to club-oriented sonorities, instead, his productions and mixes search for other depths, in which the listener can get lost in a dense "no boundaries" journey between the worlds of dance and meditation.


SC: https://soundcloud.com/atoloi 
IG: https://www.instagram.com/_atoloi/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/Atoloi.Music

| EPISODE 192 | Atoloi

Taken from Winter Nights VA on Initiate Records, out December 23.

Pre-order: https://initiaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/winter-nights
More: www.orbmag.com/music

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@steevio

Winter Nights

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Excerpt of Cosmogrove, part 1.

https://soundcloud.com/agonis-amenthia
https://soundcloud.com/janloup
https://soundcloud.com/kondukukonduku
https://soundcloud.com/hems
https://soundcloud.com/varuna4053

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The two part series COSMOGROVE compiles remix treatments of selected tracks from Varuna’s Cosmogram & Mangrove Management releases.

Pt. 1 features four reconstructed cosmograms by the hands (and minds) ((and souls)) of AWC favs & friends: Agonis and Jan Loup wander the lush gardens of Singapore’s variously de & re-naturalized (sic!) air travel hub; Hems revisits an outgrowth of contemporary petroculture and takes a trip to the remnants of Abu Dhabi’s would be post-oil model city; and Konduku goes vertical to prune Milan’s abundant concrete forest.

While the world relapses into petro-desires and indulges in fossil fuel bingeing :(((((((((, AWC remains committed to diagramming post-natural feedback loops. Stay tuned.

Varuna - Bosco Verticale (Konduku Remix) - Snippet

Indefinite Pitch PREMIERES. Edition 623

Alessandro Baroncini - Dormiveglia

V/A - Free Palestine
[Not On Label]

Produced by Alessandro Baroncini
Mastered by Raphaël Cuevas
Artwork by Timothée Boubay

Self-released by Free Palestine from France
Release Date: December 11, 2023

Alessandro Baroncini

https://soundcloud.com/baroncinialessandro
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089832693078
https://www.instagram.com/baroncinialessandro

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Indefinite Pitch PREMIERES. Alessandro Baroncini - Dormiveglia [Not On Label]

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Artist : @tromborg
Track : Desert Gloam Pt. 1
Label : @indefinite-pitch
Format : EP / Digital
Release Date : January 28, 2024
Bandcamp : https://tromborgmusic.bandcamp.com/album/desert-gloam

Produced by : Tom Nilsen aka Trøm Borg
Mastered by : J. David Lucio S
Layout by Mark Wagner

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