Studio Brussel: duyster (all tracks ever played) - part 9

death drone vol.2

Remix from 'Fleshed Out' by Gazelle Twin. Released on Anti-Ghost Moon Ray Records, 29 July 2016.

Bandcamp: gazelletwin.bandcamp.com/album/fleshed-out
Double Vinyl: gazelletwin.tmstor.es/cart/product.php?id=28946

Still Life (Blanck Mass Remix)

Guilty of Everything

Somersault

Detlef Schrempf

Detlef Schrempf (Live Acoustic)

The Soul of All Natural Things

Children

So Low is an occasional night in Glasgow run by Iona Fortune, Katie Shambles, Becky Marshall & JD Twitch. So Low is strictly for creatures of the night and plays music that could perhaps be described by the words Dark Waves / Cold Waves / Minimal Synthesis / Maximal Industrial / Lo-Nrg / Forgotten Flemish Goth Bands / Teutonic Apocalyptic Beats +++

It is now also a label, administered by Optimo Music.

After debuting with Happy Meals “Full Ashram Devotional Ceremony” album, here is the first 12” release, “Now & Then”, a various artists 4-track EP featuring two tracks from now and two from then. It is released in late July. 

The four tracks are -

A1) Ian Hicks - False Awakening (2017). 100% Modern Maximal 110bpm Synth masterpiece with buried vox from half of Portland’s much missed Soft Metals.

A2) Luxos - Vihreä Ovi (2017). 100% hypno atmospherics from Glasgow’s Luxos aka Maria Rossi (Cucina Povera) & Daniel Magee (Lo Kindre).

AA1) Carl Matthews - As Above So Below (1982). 100% synth XTC out of Cumbria originally released on the Flowmotion compilation on Colin Potter’s ICR label.

AA2) The Schmutz Sisters - La Folle (1988). 100% Goth waltz classic from Switzerland. End of the night dancefloor drama assured.


The 12” comes housed in a bespoke hand printed fold out poster sleeve inserted into a plastic sleeve with screen printed text on the plastic, designed and created by Katie Shambles. Due to the extremely labour intensive nature of the sleeve design this will be a strictly limited edition of 300 copies.

Released on vinyl (and digital) on July 14th 2017. Distributed by Kompakt.

OM So Low 001 -  Various - Now & Then 12" EP (sampler)LTD 300 copies edition.

Robotiko Rejekto - “Rejekto”

A1) Rejekto (Perfekto mix)

AA1) Rejekto (U.S. Dub)
AA2) Rejekto (Frenchbloke cover version)

Optimo Trax 30 celebrates a double 30 year anniversary; the original release date of “Rejekto” and 30 years since Twitch started dj’ing. In 1987, Twitch, who wasn’t known as Twitch yet, picked up a copy of “Rejekto” at Glasgow’s then numero uno import shop, 23rd Precinct. He was smitten.

Shortly after that he got his first ever dj gig and played “Rejekto” in his first ever dj set. Nobody danced to it. He kept playing it and still nobody danced to it. Eventually he gave up playing it, but never stopped loving it. 

A few years ago he felt the time was right to try playing it again and this time people danced to it. In fact, people loved it and would ask about it and shriek in delight when they heard it. There is often a lot of false nostalgia talked about in dance music and how it “was better back in the day?”. Well, in some ways it was but in many it wasn’t and 30 years later it feels as if perhaps ears are more open, or perhaps “Rejekto” was just ahead of its time?

From Germany, written and produced by Ra-Hen and Talla 2XLC, Robotiko Rejecto’s “Rejekto” was the inaugural release on the Techno Drome International label. With a powerful and seductive vocal sung in Romanian it has latterly been categorised as EBM / Techno but at the time didn’t really fit into any convenient genre. Twitch called it Electrobeat.

To celebrate this 30th release on Optimo Trax, the 12” comes in a  special sleeve designed by Katie Shambles and Andrew Beltran. As well as featuring the original classic “Perfekto” and “U.S. Dub” versions this reissue features a slo-mo cover version by long-time Twitch friend and ally, the mysterious Frenchbloke who was the only other person he knew back then who also loved this wonderful record. Robotiko!

Two track 12" (and digital) released on July 21st 2017. Distributed by Kompakt and Rub A Dub.

Optimo Trax 30 - Robotiko Rejekto - Rejekto! 12" (sampler)

Alaska in Winter covers Shawn Coleman's (adultswim, squidbillies) "Power Ballad" for valentines day 2012. Enjoy!

Power Ballad (Alaska in Winter cover)

Walk On By (Andrew Hung / Fuck Buttons Solitude Remix)

This track was created to illustrate Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of 'Eternal Return'. Listen through high-quality speakers and a subwoofer or don't listen at all.

Vocal samples are ripped from Librivox Audiobooks.  
Support the site: http://librivox.org/

MUSIC VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0KU-iJRmGY

Eternal Return

Styrofoam - Five-Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck) Yo La Tengo cover

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