Pre-order : https://ar-fm.bandcamp.com/album/stakhanov
Release date: June 2, 2021

One year and a half after Jaroska’s ’Red Room Offering’ release, Lyon-based AR/FM label is back with the fourth imprint of its catalog, due for June 2021.
Following the label’s aim of exploring a widened techno spectrum while working with and promoting unsung talented friends, AR/FM is about to provide another beautiful piece of music, this time from ephemeral trio Stakhanov.

This eponymous LP offers 55 minutes of dense, fluctuant electronic experimentations, taking inspirations in the relentless Soviet worker myth. Its frantic and industrial overall atmosphere, set by sharp yet harsh paces, is eventually pulled to pieces by murky and hallucinated ambient acts, depicting a way darker story than the one told by the USSR propaganda.  
Thus, one rhetorical question remains: Could this unhealthy man-a-machine glorification come to any different end than madness?

Based upon Hugo Charpentier’s drawings, that can be found both on inner and outer sleeves, the 7-track album definitely takes advantage of its visual dimension, resulting in an elegant double-12” black-&-white gatefold layout. 

Releasing Stakhanov was also for AR/FM a way to pay tribute to the golden era of Lyon alternative electronic scene around 2013-2016, of which the project-members were three of the many faces. 
Through their different collectives and labels (CLFT Militia, SILO, Palma…) amongst others, all the instigators of this creative craze considerably contributed to the constitution of a new generation of Lyon-scene protagonists, AR/FM being one of them.

Release Infos:
Date of announcement: Monday, May 17, 2021 
Date of release: Wednesday, June 2, 2021.
Styles: Deep Techno, Dub Techno, Ambient, Industrial, Acid, Downtempo, Drone
Limited-edition of 150 double-12” Gatefold vinyls, including download code and 30*30cm insert by Hugo Charpentier.
Public price: 26 € + shipping.

Credits:
Music: Mathieu Reynaud, Léo Paillard & Fabien Ainardi 
Mastering: Lorenzo Targhetta
Artworks & Design: Hugo Charpentier 

AR/FM Links:
Bandcamp: https://ar-fm.bandcamp.com
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/aroomfmuzik 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ARoomFMuzik
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/fr/label/1457939-ARFM 
Contact: contact.arfm@gmail.com

AR/FM#004 - Stakhanov LP - Previews (OUT JUNE 2, 2021)

система | system presents “Profonda Oscurità“ EP by Turin-based artist XIV Orchestral.

~ ‘’Profonda Oscurità’’ in English ''Deep Darkness'' was conceived in a difficult year of pandemic where moods of discouragement, bewilderment but also hope were the order of the day.
The EP contains 6 ambient drone tracks influenced by the emotions and sensations of the artist who wanted to express his mood through dark and deep atmospheres by recreating mystical soundscapes.
In this release XIV Orchestral wants to tell a story made of personal moments that don't find a happy ending but that for better or for worse cannot be forgotten...
They have been used Korg ms-20 mini and Elektron Analog Four for most of the low frequencies, Massive VST for atmospheres and noise textures, some field recordings from Zoom h4n.
Main fx plugins: Valhalla VintageVerb, FreqEcho and Tal Chorus Lx.
All written in midi on Ableton Live 10." ~ XIV Orchestral aka Claudio Gasparini.

All tracks are composed, recorded, mastered by XIV Orchestral aka Claudio Gasparini.

Artwork by E. Braun.

Profonda Oscurità

XIV Orchestral - Il Ponte Di Una Notte

"An EP of Occult beat music I made to stay sane.
I love you."
- Lvers

Produced and mixed by LVERS

SC : soundcloud.com/lvers
IG : www.instagram.com/l.ver.s

Artwork : T. Strochnis
www.instagram.com/te_strochnis

Mastering : Declared Sound (Dominic Clare)
www.instagram.com/d.glare/

Duplication : Phil Tremble (Nantes)

BANDCAMP

4 LIMBIC GATE - COMA MOB

From the e.p. Opia, releases May 7 here: https://dimensionsinshadow.bandcamp.com/album/opia

Ariette

Zincirli was recorded in one take in December 2020 in Cevdet’s home using a davul. 

Zincir means chain or series/successions in Turkish, while zincirli means chained or locked. It takes its cue from the small ball chain fixed at the rim of one of the skins of the double-skinned drum. The performance in this recording is solely based on the dialogue between the bass skin that’s hit by a mallet and the other skin which is continuously moving in sympathy with it. The drum is rotated into different positions in order to control or liberate the movement of the chain in response to the second drum skin. 

Since the 2017 Subtext release of Erek’s album “Davul” a series of performances occurred in contexts such as Berghain as part of CTM festival, in Hamburger Bahnhof Museum as part of Cevdet’s 2020 solo show “Bergama Stereo,” an ancient stadium amongst Messene in Greece’s Peloponnese region and underground venues in Istanbul. This recording was originally commissioned by Outernational for a concert that was supposed to take place in Berlin’s Radial System December 15th, 2020. The concert was cancelled due to the pandemic and the plan changed, becoming a streamed concert with pre-filmed and recorded performances. 

Cevdet was commissioned to do a 6-8 minute piece but kept on playing for almost a half hour. 

This performance that comprises Zincirli happened in the context of lockdown in Istanbul, while he and family were caring for his mother and mourning the loss of his father. 

Observing how amongst the succession of indistinguishable days and nights his life force reacted to the repetition of routines and gestures, Cevdet sees parallels in how the small changes in the rotation of the drum amongst a regular beat created macroscopic changes of emotional expression while performing. 

Zincirli is a study on moving in confined space while being fixed from one side to an essential and vital location. 
credits
released June 18, 2021 

performed and recorded by: cevdet erek 
mixed by: james ginzburg 
mastered by: Joker 

photo: cevdet erek

Zincirli

Original Soundtrack to the psychological visual novel «PRIVET. ETO NE BOL'NO».
This album is more than background music - it is the emotional core of the story. The OST captures the surreal atmosphere of blinding light, fragmented memories, and the constant return to "Her," the mysterious presence known as Katrina.

Each track mirrors the fragile perception of the protagonist, balancing between tension, fear, and fleeting comfort. The music is designed to immerse you in the same unsettling world as the game: a reality where trauma, repetition, and human fragility intertwine.

Through ambient soundscapes, experimental textures, and sudden bursts of intensity, the soundtrack carries you into the psychological depth of the narrative. Listening outside the game, the album becomes a standalone journey - a fragmented diary of emotions and lost moments.

Created by artists from AREYOULUVME¿ - botylez & emetyy - together with sever4user from [shi o kiku].
Released under AREYOULUVME¿, an independent label and creative collective that unites underground musicians, visual artists, and storytellers worldwide. This project reflects their shared vision: to merge music, art, and interactive media into works without boundaries

Play: s.team/a/3913290
Listen: areyouluvme.band.link/penb

dialogue

it gets ugly

Rainlight

``Kan Jij Goed Overweg Met Een Mooie Single Vrouw Uit Local Area?``



― Naughty Date

Local Area

Ep. 38 with https://soundcloud.com/markvernon as guest
> short mix of his releases + 46 min of original material (12 tracks made together)

check out his other works ≈ http://meagreresource.com/

16.06
lyl radio

MARK VERNON & Elen Huynh

#SupportOddz

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/support-oddz

STREAM RADIO FLOUKA

Howl - 20/12/2020

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.