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Buchla Pulse

The test tubes were stacked high in the classroom. There was very little light in the dusty old space, the cabinets were bolted shut and who knew what remnants from old experiments lay inside. She looked around pensively taking in every detail of the room, she wondered what it must have been like to study here all those many years ago. This was long before the birth of acid, long before the wicked ways and the devilish potion had leaked into the very imprint of modern society. 

AAAA is a Mexican artist who is set to release a thunderous EP on the Omnidisc record label which is run by Danny Daze. He delivers four tracks of purposeful club driven heat.

Omnidisc

PREMIERE: AAAA - Acid Derrier [Omnidisc]

AJ007 due out on November 10th

pre-order available here! https://alienjams.bandcamp.com/album/wilted-woman-home-listener

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Wilted Woman- LKA

‘Drownscapes’ Out Now -
Brainfeeder / Stream / Download: https://locusttoybox.lnk.to/drownscapesSO

Taken from ‘Drownscapes’ released 30th October 2017 via Brainfeeder.

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Drownscapes

Locust Toybox - 'Saptiro'

A track from the new double LP of original 80s cassette music on Contort Yourself entitled '80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 1'

The 1980s. Neo-liberal excess. Crumbling communism. Military juntas ruling with an iron fist. And of course, freaked out music. Contort Yourself are turning back the clock and returning to an unholy fount of inspiration with "80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 1." A buffet of beaten up and brutalised tracks are on offer from unknown outfits and respected experimenters. Across two LPs expect to find noise reductions, post punk bitterness, no wave grunts, distortion soaked strings and vocals lost in a hail of pain. A road map into the weird and wild world of DIY back alley artists who, armed with only a tape and an idea, gave the established music norms a sharp fist to the throat.

TRACKLISTING:

A1. East End Butchers - Assassins
A2. Magthea - Magthea & Insanity (Extract)
A3. Missing Persons - Rotten To The Core
A4. Doxa Sinistra - The Other Stranger
A5. PCR - Myths Of Seduction & Betrayal (Extract)

B1. Urbain Autopsy & K... - Tribal Moment
B2. Human Flesh - Ancient Smiles
B3. Nocturnal Emissions - Fat Slimey Parasites
B4. Merzbow - D.D.T.
B5. DDV - If You're Looking For Trouble

C1. ALU - Fies Sein
C2. Menko - The First Kiss
C3. Die Klopferbande - Cadillac Im Ghetto
C4. Jacinthebox - Wipe The Church
C5. Cripure S.A. - Little Meat
C6. Software - Human Situation

D1. Felix Menkar - Buscando El Espacio Interior
D2. Blackhouse - Numerology
D3. Ende Shneafliet - Twistin' On The Tombstones
D4. Muziekkamer - Being Home Tonight
D5. Dead Tech - Catalavox

ALL TRACKS LICENSED DIRECTLY FROM THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS

Mastered at Optimum Mastering

FORMAT: Double vinyl LP with gatefold sleeve, printed inner sleeves and 2 inserts

OUT NOW: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/80s-underground-cassette-culture-volume-1/656123-01/

80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 1_MASTERS

Merzbow - D.D.T.  (from '80s Underground Cassette Culture Vol.1' LP) (Contort Yourself)

@yoshimi-hishida

Yoshimi
Japanese Ghosts II

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https://pyramidslabel.bandcamp.com/album/japanese-ghosts-ii

Yoshimi - They Cross The River

Chris Carter (Throbbing Gristle) TG-ONE - Solo Set - RTE 40th 1-11-2017

Celebrating a momentous decade of operation, Belgium's Token Records has rallied together some of its artists across the years that have helped curate the label's powerful sound for a nine-track compilation aptly titled 'Momentum (10 Years of Token)'.
The leading track comes from former ​Mixmag​ cover star and Berlin stalwart Rødhåd in collaboration with London-based Sigha. 'Bloom' is a statement all of its own, slow to blossom before rumbling into a booming demonstration of the command both producers have over their dance floors.
'Momentum' will be released on December 1.

Momentum (10 Years Of Token)

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Premiere: Rødhåd & Sigha 'Bloom'

Cluett: "My Own Thousand Shatterings is a one hour and fifteen minute composition consisting of three sections. It is a document of my obsession with rain, though it may not be immediately apparent as to how. I love how rain varies infinitely, how the totality of it is a drone, how (much like white-noise) when it reverberates in our architecture, it pulls pitches out of the air. I love how thunder dwarfs the sound of everything for a moment, and how its sustained echo rolls spatially around us. The third piece is a stereo field recording, the second is a stereo documentation of a performance, the first was recorded in a studio to a mono reel-to-reel.

SETH CLUETT from My Own Thousan Shatterings

from 'S/t' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den294
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/nanookofthenorth]

Following a stunning recent Boiler Room performance, Nanook of the North take a deep sonic and conceptual trip northbound on their enchanting, eponymous debut album, via Denovali Records.

Nanook of the North are Stefan Wesołowski and Piotr Kaliński (also known as Hatti Vatti) - two acclaimed Polish musicians whose simpatico merging of compositional roles are blended as seamlessly as their use of acoustic and electronic sounds. Recording sessions broadly found Stefan playing violin and piano parts with additional synth touches and Piotr taking care of electronics, more synths and the final mix.

Upon being invited by the Sopot Film Festival next to their hometown of Gdansk to perform an improvised score to a film screening, the duo chose Robert J. Flaherty’s classic 1922 silent movie of the same name - ‘Nanook of the North’. Keen to maintain and nurture the initial ambient essence of the film, the duo travelled to Iceland where they recorded the album in Reykjavík and later mixed it in Greenland.

Despite the icy expansive isolation captured from the movie, the album is also transferrable in scenario and evocation, equally omitting the dangerous allure of dystopian cityscapes, or even the 80s sci-fi horror menace of Maurice Jarre, Howare Shore and Jay Chattaway.
 
‘Nanook of the North’ runs the gamut of images, scenarios and atmosphere akin to scenes in a film. Opening with a window into the unknown, the mood carries from the darkly foreboding, ‘Siulleq’ into the dank, dread-filled kosmische of ‘Tulleq’ over the slow nocturnal drive through a techno metropolis of ‘Afternat’ to the gargantuan foreboding awe of ‘Qulingat’, which seems to suggest the story is far from over.

Stefan Wesołowski is a violinist and composer best known for work with Jacaszek, his score to the BAFTA-nominated, Oscar-shortlisted Marlon Brando docu-film ‘Listen To Me Marlon’ and for his rapturous, critically acclaimed album ‘Rite of the End’.

Piotr Kaliński (also known as Hatti Vatti) - is one of the Polish underground's most vital figures. Renowned for for his analogue-focused sounds, this experimenter/explorer has been on a decade long excursion through vast and heterogeneous modern electronic realms.

Previous praise for Stefan Wesolowski:

        “Haunted, cavernous and horribly satisfying” Uncut

        “Awe-inspiring music that soars through dread, sorrow, joy and every emotion in between. A stunning and poignant inward journey” XLR8R

        “Instrumental evocations of loss and Decay, and monumental progressions through cavernous spaces. Wilting melodies are hemmed in by resonant menace, dissipated through drifting clouds of bowed tones or punctuated by ominous percussive thuds” The Wire

        “This is spiritual music; we hear this in the deliberate pacing, the yearning of the violins, the harmonic highs - but also in the droning lows, the earthly electronics, the tactile immediacy of the interface between heaven and earth” A Closer Listen


Previous praise for Hatti Vatti:

        "The record sees the producer combining a vast array of samples with his set-up of hardware and other tools, creating a record that covers numerous sounds, operating at times between ambient and bass-heavy genres such as footwork and juke” The Quietus

        “Hatti Vatti is an underground hero amongst an intricate scene. A musician with fine tact and attention to detail, pared back to its barest essentials. Well-crafted and listenable" The Ransom Note

Nanook of the North

Nanook of the North - Arfernat

Produced by: @Eindkrak
Label: @UnknownPrecept
Release date: 08.01.2018
Buy:  http://bit.ly/EindkrakBrullendStaal

Brullend Staal

Eindkrak - Deine Kuh

RAM - X-11 - A2 - Mor Elian - Gamma Gulch

Swiss artist and veteran producer Ripperton contacted the ESP Institute out of the blue mid-2017 to share a gorgeous mix of self-produced material, a collection of pieces made without any agenda outside of representing the self, not geared toward the dancefloor or a specific environment but simply a bi-product of introspective exploration. We were floored, the mix was on constant repeat in our world for weeks, then was subsequently pulled apart into separate titles to form this beautiful double LP, Ripperton’s debut with the label. The title 'Sight Seeing' speaks of someone stepping outside their current reality to look in the mirror, as if to ground themselves and keep sight of who they are in a world of extreme highs and lows. Inspired greatly by expansive landscapes and views from airplane windows (imagine your commute flying over the Alps every weekend), Ripperton describes this collection as postcards to himself, messages from his subconscious recorded on tape (both conceptually and literally), melancholy soundtracks to the Mondays that follow weekend journeys. While musical genres tend to cycle through bandwagon moments, the ESP Institute strives to operate independently of these, and while 'Sight Seeing' is undoubtably an Ambient album, we’re simply proud to revel in the chance moment where an esteemed artist such as Ripperton spreads his wings in a beautifully unexpected mode of expression.

[ESP072] Sight Seeing

[ESP072] RIPPERTON - B1 - Eloigné

The noise in the industrial estate echoed loudly in the morning, the grey sky which hung above the compound was eerie and cast a menacing tone upon the day. The Aras factory had long since closed its doors but that didn't stop the building from rattling and creaking beneath the strain of the wind like before. Walking through the concrete sprawl he wondered if there might ever be new life in this place or whether it was doomed to the tragic end as a ghost town. 

Piska Power is the musical alias of Stefan Junge, a German producer operating out of Berlin under the cover of darkness. By day a medical student, at night a musical mogul. He delivers the fifth release on the Power Station label run by Kris Baha.

PREMIERE: Piska Power - Aras [Power Station]

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