a1 - Slowly Counting Backwards
a2 - Natural Elevation
a3 - The Weight Of It
b1 - Soft Palate
b2 - Into Your Ocean
c1 - Several Instances 
c2 - Clotting Time
c3 - Standing Water
d1 - Tradecraft
d2 - This I Know

Recorded, Processed & Mixed by Shifted, Antwerpen 2020
Mastered by Rashad Becker @ Clunk, Berlin
Artworks by Szilvia Bolla
Design by Atact.uk
©️ AVIAN 2021

AVNLP006 - Shifted - Constant Blue Light

2 MKII + 2 Tape Deck

Artists | J. Krohn, rookas, Vile Temper, Undveld, Devika, Nastika, Nigh/T\mare, Pact Infernal, Mogano, Llimbs, Sam KDC, Kronom, Prophän, Opake, Restive Plaggona

Labels | Standards & Practices, static motion, Several Minor Promises, Pi Electronics, Beläten, Thrènes, Voidance, Psychophonie De L'éternel, Borders Of Known, DVNTT

https://beatboxvinyl.com/
https://www.discogs.com/seller/avez/profile

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RVSHES - Mantis 12 - Delsin Records - DSR/MTS12

vinyl: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/7763/rvshes/mantis-12
digital: https://delsinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mantis-12

a1. MTS/RHS I
a2. MTS/RHS II
a3. MTS/RHS III
b1. MTS/RHS IV
b2. MTS/RHS V
b3. MTS/RHS VI

Delsin’s Mantis series continues to platform hybridised variations on modernist soundsystem music with the arrival of RVSHES, the production partnership from Logos (James Parker) and DB1 (Dylan Brownsword). Both artists have production credits on respected platforms such as Hidden Hawaii, Nullpunkt, Tectonic and The Death Of Rave and more than a few collaborations to their name. As RVSHES they’ve also released on re:st, and now their precision-tooled drum pressure is being applied to six exacting studies in rig-ready rhythm and repetition. 

There’s a spartan, cyclical nature to the work Parker and Brownsword carry out, setting up a sturdy beat set to non-standard timings and teasing it out over an extended run time, but they also exercise a keen sense of infinitesimal progression, edging their tracks past DJ tool territory into a more captivating headspace. Maintaining the immersive atmospherics of the Mantis series to date, theirs is a sharply focused sound which sits at the intersection of tough minimal techno and polyrhythmic broken beat, positively geared towards DJs favouring inventive building blocks in their sets. 

Artwork by Bernie van Vlijmen.

Buy @ Delsin Shop

RVSHES - Mantis 12 (DSR/MTS12)

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

Bandcamp

MNSXLP006 - Rivet - L+P-2

https://0207carrier.bandcamp.com/album/neither-curve-nor-edge

Carrier - Neither Curve nor Edge
Cat # CRRR001
Label : Carrier
release - 22/09/23

A1 - Into the Habit
A2 - Shading
B1 - Still So
B2 - The Motions

Carrier is the new project from Guy Brewer, the producer behind projects like Shifted, Covered in Sand and Alexander Lewis. Brewer has been responsible for some of the most confrontational dancefloor music of the past decade. Never one to linger though, he returns with a new sound, a new ethos and a new gamut of feeling and colour.

Throughout his career, Brewer has ducked and dived through the tangled web of classification, often unexpected yet always evasive. He is at his most deadly though at the inception of a new project. A futurist at heart, in the traditional sense, he relishes new beginnings.

The first release in an eponymous series under his new guise is his sharpest to date. Widescreen, immersive, driven by a new gait and less bloody-minded in his timing, he appears more at home and also more adventurous in his new garb. Across four gothic, stepping patterns he states his intent to explore the electronic music axis not as it was, but as it is.

Carrier - Neither Curve Nor Edge - CRRR001 clips

re:40
12" vinyl limited to 120 + digital

Hungarian producer Ghost Warrior returns to re:st with an exceptional journey in experimental jazz and fusion electronics to mark his third EP for the Swiss based imprint. Over the course of seven tracks he moves away from the stripped down drum & bass efforts that we know from him and presents a new turn in his long going production career. The result is a warm collection of works mixing hazy jazz infused electronics, down tempo beats and organic instrumental jams all polished with his trade mark high end sound design. An exciting new chapter for a producer that has been pushing boundaries since he emerged.

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/ghost-warrior-ive-been-there-vinyl/970957-01/
https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/166882-re40-ghost-warrior-ive-been-there

I've Been There

Ghost Warrior – I've Been There

Strange Routine captures the essence of autumn's melancholic beauty through its ambient and experimental melodies and embraces the transformative spirit of fall, weaving a tapestry of sound that is as haunting as it is mesmerizing. From the outsider's perspective to the eerie depths of the night tunnels in Europe, the album delves into realms unexplored. The music conjures a sense of mystery, drawing listeners into a surreal world where time and reality blur.

1. Outsider
2. Disappear As Hands Draw Near
3. Voidwalker
4. Through The Night Tunnels of Europe
5. Hibridean Sky
6. Flesh Held Once Again
7. Half Life (Digi only)
8. Benzodiazepine Sea (Digi only)


releases October 30, 2023

Written & produced by Undveld
Mastered by Outliers Mastering / Sam KDC
Design by R.B.
Vinyl by darkroom.lt

Undveld ~ Strange Routine SMLP001

Standards & Practices is thrilled to announce an exciting new release from veteran producer and label owner Jonathan Krohn, otherwise known as Stave, and Bristol-based producer Tavis Hitchcock, who writes and releases music under the name Karkossyn. Karkossyn's superb debut EP ("Troubled Youth") for the like-minded and consistently excellent UVB-76 imprint led to a conversation about a possible collaboration, which has resulted in "New Values" - a 12-track split cassette which highlights and showcases both artists approaches to blackened, scorched-earth electronics.

Stave's contribution is a solid summation of his craft and acts as a potent reminder of his range and abilities as a producer: from the cacophonous, arrhythmic "62523" to the simmering, coiled tension of "Relearn / Forget", there's ample evidence here of an artist operating at the height of his powers; the expansive, surprisingly moving "Rolyy" ends the first half on a powerfully lyrical note.

On the flip side, Karkossyn begins with the bleak atmospherics of "Hidden Heart", which soon gives way to "Break The Fall", a heavy dose of Scorn-esque breakbeat-driven bass weight. "For The Floor" ratchets up the tension to an almost unbearable degree, and the droning, cinematic ambience of "Memento" and the dense, pulverizing "Ruins" finishes the split EP in an elegantly brutal fashion.

Digital and Cassette Tape
Stave: Tracks 1–7
Recorded and Mixed Chicago, USA

Karkossyn: Tracks 8–12
Recorded and Mixed Bristol, UK

Design by Common Name, NYC
Mastering by Steve Bailey at rrreplica 
c+p Standards & Practices Records, 2023
STANPRAC009

New Values

STANPRAC009 — Stave/Karkossyn — New Values — Preview Clips

Fusions I

Is the first reference forming part of different volumes where the only elements in each of these is to recover important elements in the creation of harmonies and sound constructions that the human being turned into an artist manages to capture with his imagination and experience, capturing it on a single base.

For this occasion, different human beings who have evolved in sound have been invited.

Produced & Mixed by: Various Artists
Track(s) by: A.Denial, Adam Rahman, Atoloi, FFP, Martyn Päsch and Mechanist
Format: Digital WAV/MP3

Mastered by: Red Noise
Artwork by: Martyn Päsc

Free Download

Atoloi - Per Un Nero Talismano

Taken from EM + STAV's Endless EP on JoyLift, out November 20.

Pre-order: https://www.deejay.de/EM_+_STAV_Endless_JOYLIFT001_Vinyl__1036394
More: www.orbmag.com/music

@em_stav
@forest-drive-west

Endless

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Premiere: EM + STAV - Odd (Forest Drive West Remix)

Available digitally on Bandcamp at:
https://www.stanprac.com

About this release:
Standards & Practices is proud to present "Stave Interpretations” — remixes of original material by Stave @stavesoundsystem, featuring Israel Vines @israel-vines, Patrick Russell @ptrckrssll, Ken Meier @ken-meier, Karkossyn @karkossyn, and YŌKA @yokatechno.

The first interpretation comes courtesy of Patrick Russell — who, in addition to being a visionary DJ, has proven himself to be a terrific remixer and producer in his own right — contributes a version of "Drum Four" that is arguably one of his best to date: a sinuous, grimy excursion into unknown waters brimming with atmosphere and menace.

Following Russell, Krohn himself brings us a disintegrated, alternative take on "Drum Three."

Karkossyn, aka Bristol native Tavis Hitchcock, is easily one of the most thrilling discoveries we've made as of late. His split EP with Stave ("New Values" on S&P) is only his second release to date, and both devastating interpretations of “Relearn/Forget” on display here, two juddering, broken beat behemoths, hint at even greater things to come.

Newcomers YŌKA contribute a suitably monstrous, industrial-tinged version of "Drum Two."

Veteran DJ and producer Israel Vines, who recently released a pair of brilliant EPs on Tresor — including a superb collaboration with Camille Altay as CAIV — uses a fast-paced, halftime approach to rethink “005", full of energy and an almost unbearable, nerve-jangling tension.

And finally, S&P co-founder Ken Meier, who recently completed a triumphant solo venture on our sublabel Double Standards ("Imitable Behaviors”), delivers an 85 bpm version of “002" that turns the original on its ear — all terse, clipped sonics, stripped to the bone with lush pads that add cinematic sweep and grandeur. 

Mastered by Steve Bailey at rrreplica
Design by Common Name, New York
c+p Standards & Practices Records, 2024
STANPRAC010

STANPRAC009 — Stave/Karkossyn — New Values — Preview Clips

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