"As I walk between the shadows I can see my full light" is the mantra and story Anna Vs June tells on "Ersi", her debut on Subject To Restrictions Discs. It is about personal thoughts and experiences on topics like faith and motherhood. Beginning with "As I Walk" as the clumsy state of any beginning, it continues with "Between The Shadows" where Anna relives her years as a teenager. Continuing the narrative with "I Can See", we listen to what it was like to grow up, finally ending with the yearning acceptance of the unknown on "My Full Light". Anna Vs June's musical language is based on her exploration of traditional Greek music, which she learns and whose characteristics she reinterprets in her own production. This album was produced in Anna's studio in Athens during the months of lockdown.

Anna Vs June is the solo project of Anna Papaioannou, a musician and producer who enjoys playing with machines in her room in the heart of Athens. Her sound aims to capture the balance between electronic and traditional music by also incorporating Eastern and Western music references. For her music production, she travelled to remote rural villages and recorded songs by locals while practising microtonal gestures with her own voice. Anna released her debut album Prosper Easter in 2020 and has been featured on compilations by labels such as Invisible Inc, Osàre! Editions as well as on the "Elsewhere" series curated by soFa.

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Written and Produced by Anna Papaioannou 
Tabla by Iro Iordanoglou on Between The Shadows
Mixing and additional production by Aggelos Baltas
Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann
Cover Picture by Tassilo Rüster
A&R by Dominik André
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Ersi

Anna Vs June - I Can See (Anatolian Weapons Remix)

The Athenian producer Aggelos Baltas alias Anatolian Weapons captures on the album Earth the feeling of an optimistic future that grows on the soil of the sweet bitterness of the present and the past.

Under his pseudonym Anatolian Weapons, Baltas combines polyrhythmic percussion and wailing tones of Greek folk music with a thrilling and open Krautrock attitude. The album Earth takes us on a mystical journey through the northern Greek highlands, backed by Baltas' unique machine-assisted folk, infused with psychedelic drones and exuding an aura that is neither then nor now, neither there nor here. Instead, it exists in a small pocket of its own cosmos. A crossroads of dimensions. A mystical offering to nature and the divinities.

Baltas has explored and reframed various Greek scenes of yesteryear in the past, such as with his Fantastikoi Hxoi project, which created Krautrock mutations from 60s and 70s pop, but Earth is an even more far-reaching expedition. It is a folk reckoning with ancient Greek musical traditions with a modern upgrade. The album reconstructs a sonic narrative of ancient traditions, enhanced with psychedelic and space-rock elements. In the reverb cycle, one hears a certain agrarian reinterpretation of the world, filled with harvest rituals and celestial incantations.

It is with great pleasure to welcome Anatolian Weapons to the label. During a longer stay in Athens, a friendship developed that led to a variety of musical projects and ideas. One of them is the release of the album Earth.

Aggelos Baltas has been producing music for more than 20 years. His projects such as Anatolian Weapons, Dream Weapons, and Fantastikoi Hxoi are praised locally and internationally for his bold blend of different styles and influences, covering a wide spectrum of psychedelic dance music. He is a resident DJ at Astron Bar and Bios in his hometown. He also regularly plays in European clubs and makes acclaimed mixes for platforms such as Digital Tsunami, Knekelhuis, Les Yeux Orange and Sameheads. He releases on renowned labels such as Beats In Space, Emotional Response, Dark Entries, Invisible Inc., Lurid Music and Kame House, to name a few.

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Written and produced by Aggelos Baltas
Mastered by Isabel Schröer at Scape Mastering
Lacquer Cut by Stefan Betke and Isabel Schröer at Scape Mastering
A&R & Graphics by Dominik André
Original Release by Subject To Restrictions Discs

Earth

Anatolian Weapons - Mountains

Saeko Killy, Jamie Paton, Andrei Rusu and Anastasia Zems remix "Kraus is the Limit" by the Zurich electronic-wave duo Dâdalus & Bikarus and take the original to new dimensions.

"Kraus is the Limit (Remixes)” preserves the raw energy and emotion of Dâdalus & Bikarus' live performances while introducing new textures. It is not merely a collection of remixes but an intimate experience that invites listeners to rediscover the original tracks through the lenses of Saeko Killy, Jamie Paton, Andrei Rusu and Anastasia Zems.
Saeko Killy translates Voran into a mesmerizingly timeless journey that is even more kraut-y and space-y. Jamie Paton brings his distinctive style to the table by adding laidback and dubby vibes to Gone and Youri Gagarine. Andrei Rusu strippes down Tous Tes Mensonges, creating a sonic whirlwind that takes the listener on an thrilling and hypnotic ride. Anastasia Zems' take on Voran lets us wallow in the depths of an acid abyss. A tripped-out experience is guaranteed.

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Written by David Hänni & Benedikt Merz
A1 Remix by Saeko Killy, Mixed by Max Ferrer; A2 + A3 Remix by Jamie Paton
B1 Remix by Andrei Rusu; B2 Remix by Anastasia Zems
Mastered by Isabel Schröer at Scape Mastering
Lacquer Cut by Stefan Betke and Isabel Schröer at Scape Mastering
Graphics by Monelle Aimée Kanza
A&R by Dominik André
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Kraus is the Limit (Remixes)

Dâdalus & Bikarus - Voran (Anastasia Zems Remix)

Dâdalus & Bikarus - Voran (Saeko Killy Remix)

Excerpt. Night curated by Deniz Ahmet Saridaş and Joshua Gottmanns aka Sequence of Events 🥀

@nivenive & @dmnkandre

Nive & Dominik André - Live at Salon Des Amateurs, 08.11.2024

Don Kashew returns to Subject To Restrictions Discs with the album 'Bellows'. A haunting, melodic, maudlin affair, as one would expect from the Zurich-based producer, with a variety of 'breathing' instruments as a fulcrum, that challenges any physicality.

The compositions draw from the pool of New Age music and neo-folk of the 80s and 90s. But 'Bellows' stretches and looks at the future, deliberately blurring lines that were supposedly anchored. So, Don Kashew has begun a new phase in his musical expression; quivering, but grounded and interwoven in a rich arras of synth work and overlapping woodwind sounds.

Don Kashew is a sonic Dilletant, who is digging, compiling and composing music. Inspired by the DJ and sampling culture, his work focuses on recontextualising music to dissolve boundaries and create new connections between different eras, regions and genres. His musical style is raw, hypnotic and yearning at the same time.

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Written, Composed and Produced by Don Kashew
Co-Produced and Mixed by Tim Wettstein
Additional Drums and Percussion by Mario Hänni
Mastered and Lacquer Cut by Isabel Schröer at Scape Mastering
Graphics by Nevin Goetschmann
Photo by Runa Barbagelata
A&R by Dominik André
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Bellows

Don Kashew - Sadeness (Part III)

Don Kashew - Windy Outside

Don Kashew - Reibung II

Don Kashew - Ethereal Mechanics

Don Kashew - Pair of Bellows

Slow-moving finger-picked ambient folk straddling the synthetic and organic divide – that is "The Ending Was A Typical Part", the first album by the Zurich-based duo Gūsū. It combines the tradition of playing the guzheng with electronic instruments, allowing different yet harmonious worlds to collide.

The collaboration between Xueyan Chen and Nicolas Balmer alias Gūsū was born out of their shared musical explorations in 2022 and has evolved into a dialogue of sound. Chen's guzheng, an instrument deeply linked to Chinese history, resonates with improvised and self-composed melodies, freeing its pentatonic scale from its traditional bounds. Her playing is underscored with the cryptic hum of Balmer's modular synthesizers, the deep bass and layered textures that combine the organic with the electronic. Together they create a sonorous exploration of identity, displacement and unity.

Xueyan Chen has been playing the Guzheng since her early childhood. With her moving to Zurich, Switzerland she started reimagining its historical identity through improvisation and self-composed melodies. With this approach, Chen emancipates the instrument from its classical heritage, weaving a contemporary and deeply personal narrative. Nicolas Balmer meanwhile brings a contrasting yet complementary dimension with modular synthesizers, bass guitar, and electronic textures. His layered soundscapes amplify and distort the Guzheng's pentatonic timbres, enveloping them in mysterious tones and expansive harmonics.

Gūsū is a transcultural music project born from the confluence of two distinct artistic voices: Xueyan Chen and Nicolas Balmer. Together, they create a complex dialogue of sound that bridges the ancient and the modern, exploring the liminal spaces between tradition and experimentation. Gūsū's inception was serendipitous, sparked by a shared stage in late 2022. What began as spontaneous improvisations has since evolved into a profound collaboration. The duo has performed under various monikers, finding their ultimate identity in the name Gūsū, a nod to both heritage and transformation.

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Written and Composed by Xueyan Chen & Nicolas Balmer
Produced by Nicolas Balmer
Vocals and Lyrics by Xueyan Chen
Mastered and Lacquer Cut by Isabel Schröer at Scape Mastering
Graphics by Emilie Meyer
A&R by Dominik André
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The Ending Was A Typical Part

Gūsū - 镜子后面的幽灵

Gūsū - Did You Ever Tried To Write

Gūsū - Standing Cross Water

Gūsū - 垂柳戏水

Gūsū - 兰亭春

Gūsū - Rural

Gūsū - Resist

Gūsū - Liúyì Wǒde Xūqiú

Emerging from the fertile chaos of Düsseldorf’s Salon des Amateurs scene, Sequence of Events, the collaborative project of Deniz Saridas and Joshua Gottmanns, presents The Art of Memory, an album that feels both intimate and ungraspable, like recalling a dream that fades upon waking.

Rooted in the post-industrial landscapes of West Germany, The Art of Memory channels the bleak resilience of these environments into its sound. It’s a collage of kraut-infused electronics, shoegaze textures, and industrial pulses, filtered through a lens of introspective psychedelia. “We don't consciously break down or combine genres,” they explain. “Everything is interwoven, like chemistry. Some reactions happen immediately, others take years under pressure.”

From the opening track TAR, with its stoic vocals and drum-heavy propulsion, to the robotic Meagre Gardens, where autotuned chants coil around unconventional drum programming, the album moves like a fever dream through fragmented memories. Soul Divider unfolds like a cinematic journey through yearning and desire, its repetitive pulses echoing the ache of unfulfilled longing, while Nature Hates Life distills pop music through the eyes of a killjoy: “Kurt Cobain on an AKAI MPC2000,” as the band describes it. Even moments of...  more
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Music written and produced by Deniz Ahmet Saridas and Joshua Gottmanns
Lyrics by Joshua Gottmanns
Recorded in Düsseldorf and Berlin
Additional recordings with Alexander Fuchs at Hotel Viktoria in Meersburg
Mixed by Deniz Ahmet Saridas
Mastered and Lacquer Cut by Isabel Schröer at Scape Mastering
Cover and inner sleeve by Deniz Ahmet Saridas, concept by Joshua Gottmanns
Liner Notes: Caroline Whiteley
A&R by Dominik André & Nevesthika Muralitharan
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Sequence Of Events - A Hollow Drum

Sequence Of Events - Becomings

Sequence Of Events - Nature Hates Life

Sequence Of Events - Closed Circuit

Sequence Of Events - Snakes Behind The Cushions

Sequence Of Events - OC

Sequence Of Events - TAR

Sequence Of Events - Meagre Gardens

Sequence Of Events - Something In Your Touch

Sequence Of Events - Soul Divider

Sequence Of Events - Tame

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