- downloaded between 01/2021 and 03/2021
- except for (older):
. . - Mercury Plaza "Planet 5 Rhythm"(#1): 5 months,
. . - e☓ner "1 aufbruch (Augenmerk / e☓ner)"(#17): 5 months.

HK_Minimal_tracks_24

calm and trancey

система | system presents "DFT Zero-Padding" EP by Odessa-based artist Andrey Kostyukov.
~ "DFT Zero-Padding is an album by Andrei Kostyukov, a Digital Himalayas member (collaboration with Emil Asadov, Odessa city). This 4-track release is a mixture of melodic crystalline ambient attached to the tech-house.
Based on the field record and daw Ableton, the author made an airy glitchy sound of a dance-contemplative nature." ~ Andrey Kostyukov.
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~ "DFT Zero-Padding - альбом Андрея Костюкова, так же участника группы Digital Himalayas (коллаборация с Эмилем Асадовым, город Одесса). Этот 4-ех трековый релиз - смесь мелодично-кристаллического эмбиента, придабленного тех-хауса.
Взяв за основу филд рекординг и daw Ableton - автор произвел воздушно глитчевое звучание танцевально-созерцательного характера." ~ Andrey Kostyukov.

DFT Zero-Padding

Andrey Kostyukov - Regression Autistics

@pepullipulsumz

watching 'Love Parade Berlin 1995 - Peace On Earth' on youtube and having an intense longing for a time and a place you will never get to experience.mp3

- electrotete - shark
- underground resistance - a thousand questions
- bochum welt - omicron
- phenomyna - earthfall (nuron mix)
- the arc - something wonderful
- electrotete - i love you
- 69 - microlovr
- phenomyna - got the urge (stasis mix)
- quadrant - infinition
- carl craig - a wonderful life
- gus gus - anthem
- humate - curious (inquisitive remix by paul van dyk)
- vapourspace - gravitational arch of 10 (telepathic gravitation v2.1)
- oxygen - brain appell
- energy 52 - cafe del mar (cosmic baby's impression)
- the visions of shiva - how much can you take? (emotional)
- vernon's wonderland - vernon's wonderland (wake up mix)
- drax - amphetamine
- phuture child - hallunications
- sabotage - transabotage

Pulsum - watching 'Love Parade Berlin 1995 - Peace On Earth' on youtube...

@pillow-queen
@d-tiffany 
@vani_t
@ex-terrestrial

For its second release, Radiant Love sticks to family values. Paying homage to the party and label’s co-director and resident Byron Yeates, Byron’s Theme comes from the likes of Vani-T (one half of Berlin’s forceful, femme party Climax) and D. Tiffany (who threw down a ruthless remix on the label’s first release by Fio Fa). Together, they take the name of Pillow Queen – a semi-pejorative term for the kind of sub who expects to receive pleasure like a well catches rainwater. No reciprocation, just a reign of sexual passivity.



Their tracks, however, give plenty. “Byron’s Theme” presents a rich palette in its 2-minute buildup: a dry trance hook, high-end synths buzzing and wavering, pitch-shifted voice samples and a pan-flute ran through with tremolo. Throbbing, the 303 bassline picks up after a breakdown at the 4-minute mark, and only then does one realise the song’s still building. There’s still room in the last 40 seconds for some percussion modeled on a breakbeat loop – which is to say, the track is incredibly cheeky and hard-hitting – all that I would hope for in any lover.



While the EP’s first track feels wide, rangy, “Estrel Nights” opens the EP’s B-side in a much closer, tighter space. The build is percussive: bongo taps, claps, cowbell; then a hi-hat snaps things into shape, and in lopes the kick drum. And rhythm remains the central player here. It’s not until 3 minutes in that the percussion finds a melodic backdrop – a dreamy, detuned pad, choral, like a moan.



Ex-Terrestrial’s remix of “Byron’s Theme” repositions some of the elements and ratchets up the tempo of the original, but maintains its respiration: the energy and erotics flow into a different structure, closer to traditional trance, with sharp hi-hats and loopy arpeggios that phase in and out of syncopation, measure to measure. Diagonal, we incline to a climax that dizzily plateaus at 6 minutes, de-escalates and breaks down over the next 2, glows until it’s just a kick drum, slower, slower still; we’re catching our breath.

PILLOW QUEEN
Title: BYRON'S THEME
Cat: RADIANTLOVE001
Format: 12”
Distributed: RUBADUB
Artwork: YENNY JRANT 
Text: NAT MARCUS
Release date: 16.03.20

PILLOW QUEEN - BYRON'S THEME

ORDER:
https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/hacking-the-planet-ep
https://radiantlove.bandcamp.com/album/bliss-inc-hacking-the-planet

@bliss_inc
@sunnysibar

There is not much information to be found online about Bliss Inc., whose Hacking the Planet EP comes out on Radiant Love this summer. Beyond the fact they’re named Alexander and hail from Saint Petersburg, the project is cryptic – somehow this is fitting for a set of songs that could’ve fallen out of an obscure 1994 catalogue. This is the year of Robert Leiner’s Visions of the Past, Opus III’s Guru Mother, and Paul Oakenfold’s BBC-1 Essential Mix: an aesthetic region in which tech and new age spirituality braid together, a time before this synthesis reached Silicon Valley; while it still lingered in the rave, incredibly sincere, everything sounded kind of wet, and the efficiency of spirit was means to no end but a state of bliss.

What keeps Hacking the Planet from falling into pure nostalgia is its tuning – the palette of 1994 has been lifted and run through a delicate sensibility. The title track is a piece of buoyant, airy trance, with orbiting filters and a set of loopy, very vocal synths. It bumps along at 130 BPM, but feels slower because of the ease and clarity with which the track progresses. “Infinite” has got the aquatic motifs and soft, panning cymbals of a set-opener, or a comedown jam. The break that swings in after a minute-thirty feels less like a punctuation than another stream of sonics joining the flow. Picking up the pace a little, “Transitions” opens with a whir that could issue from a field of crickets or a stack of hardware. The entrance of the bassline was the first moment in this EP one could call nasty. But its drive and weight is also tempered, played against by a clever drum break, a run of piano keys, and the ethereal reverb-washed vocal sample we expect in a piece of classic mid-90’s trance – absent, however, is any kind of signalling to Goa, “exoticism” or indigenous aesthetics. (1994 was also the year of Jean Paul Gaultier’s Les Tatouages collection, which, for all its romantic nomadism and deft tailoring and syncretic spirit, has no need of a 2020 update).

Bliss Inc.’s songs stream, rather than track – one gets a sense that the elements flow in and out rather than ride a structure. Sansibar, who provides a remix of “Hacking the Planet” to round out the EP, is solidly a producer of tracks: often electro-derived ass-shaking material that hits, and hits in recognisable sections that progress serially. His version of the title cut brings in a hefty acid baseline, jungle-style stretched vocals, and kicks out of the 4/4 grid. But let there be no mistake, this is a producer also quite capable of coaxing delicacy out of hardware. The chimes of the lullaby-like breakdown halfway through the remix sound like nothing but a ghost in the machine.

BLISS INC.
Title: HACKING THE PLANET
Cat: RADIANTLOVE002
Format: 12”
Distributed: RUBADUB
Artwork: BYRON YEATES
Text: NAT MARCUS
Release date: 24.08.20

BLISS INC. - HACKING THE PLANET

Preorder digital & vinyl: https://kalaharioystercult.bandcamp.com/album/eversines-plooi-w-oceanic-remix

Discogs: 
https://www.discogs.com/Eversines-RDS-Plooi-12/release/15420267

2019 was the year of breakthrough for Amsterdam-based talent and De Lichting staple Eversines. Continuing on his ascension, we’re chuffed to welcome him to the fold with ‘Plooi’ – a stupendous mini sonic odyssey of sorts, taking us from vaporous skylines to brightly hued seascapes. Both captivatingly melodic and kinetic to the full, the four tracks composing the backbone to Eversines’ new jaunt into elegiac dance territories work their magic in the gap betwixt zen-like atmospherics, velveteen acid, sun-bleached electro and chiseled breaks that step up to the plate.

Whilst the OG version of ‘Plooi’ eases us into a shape-shifting environment, swinging the pendulum between nu-age infused / Sino-flavoured harmonics, lysergic bass phrasing and muscular breaks straight out the UK rave scene’s heyday, the remix from De School resident DJ Oceanic alters the original into a subaquatic dub weapon, navigating its way across frothing and bubbling synth lines to emerge in geysers of thermal bleeping and rhythmic outbursts. A more jacking affair, ‘Efbol’ carves out a lane of its own in between angular techno and playful, retro-laced electronica a la KLF meets James Holden in his ’Idiots Are Winning’ days. Completing the set on a more understated note, ‘Missing’ in collaboration with RDS promises to fill your headspace with thoughts of beauty and quiet. Merging FX-dipped piano chords, laid-back junglism and heavily verbed-out envelopes to form a well unique piece of ambient lushness, Eversines ushers us into a world of vibrant musical rapture, nestling away from standardized tropes and patterned behaviours.

Mastered by Rashad Becker.
Cut at The Exchange.

Eversines - Plooi w/ Oceanic Remix (OYSTER27 - Snippets)

X’trapolis is under threat... 

Word is spreading fast that the powerful and long-feared Agamid lizard known by many as Reptilius has been sighted building a dangerous army on the outskirts of Squamata, exhausting the forests natural resources and leaving previously thriving, culturally significant and beautiful areas decrepit and lifeless in a greedy, capitalistic move to gain control. 

Completely unaware of this, Reptant returns home to X’trapolis after spending 5 years conducting extensive research on Earth’s unique analogue technology. 

With his esteemed Lizard Tech Militia stuck back on Earth, Reptant finds himself alone and must seek help from the infamous Gecko Force if he wishes to succeed in protecting his home. 

The Gecko Force are a lounge of superior prehistoric native Gecko’s rumoured to have been some of the only survivors from the brutal Agamid colonisation of X’trapolis which occurred many generations ago. 

With their power and extensive knowledge of X’trapolis, the planet and all of its delicate and precious lifeforms just might stand a chance... 

Return To Planet X’trapolis was written, recorded and mixed by Reppi T. Lizrd AKA Reptant at Squamata Studios, X’trapolis 2019-2020. 

@reptant_the_lizard
Mastered by Alden Tyrell (@aldentyrell)
Cut by Marco Pellegrino at Analog Cut. (@marco-pellegrino)
Pressed at Record Industry.
Distributed by One Eye Witness. 

LKR Records, 2020, Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. 

“Dedicated to all the Lacertilia in the galaxy, May your forests remain untouched and liberated”

Pre-Order the Vinyl:
Bandcamp: tinyurl.com/LKR010-Bandcamp-PreOrder
One Eye Witness (Distributor): tinyurl.com/LKR010-OneEyeWitness

Return To Planet X'trapolis

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Reptant 'Return To Planet X'trapolis' // Album Previews // LKR010

Planet 5 Rhythm

Cloud,River,Fence and Birds(Training to travel)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuGnhjMVMuY&t=1s

Birds in Pleocene

Shadow Gaze - Cyborg Remix - 123 Bpm

Serious Disturbances

International digital Music Label and Live Cast serie, Art and music events organizer/in situ projects conceptor working on the relationship between architecture and live music. Odesa-UA based project, active worldwide. We work against the GATEKEEPERS in the music scene and industry and give space to newcomers, unheard and forward thinking music.