Continuing the series of reissues from the Tresor catalogue, Tresor Records announces an updated version of the classic Regis and Female long-player, Againstnature.

Originally released in the year 2000, the album represents a pivotal moment in the emergence of the “Birmingham Sound”; a stripped-back sub-genre of Techno, pioneered around this time in the English hub by artists such as Regis, Female, and Surgeon.

Influenced more by Industrial, Music Concrete, and EBM than from the melodic sounds of its Detroit predecessor, Regis later described the music as being made with a fractured pop sensibility which created a sound that may be faceless but by design loses none of the soul of its American counterpart.

Nowhere is this sonic changing of the guard more apparent than in opening track, Washing My Hands, which sets the stage with a vignette of field recordings: arc welders, water boilers and other sounds reminiscent of industrial workshops reframe your senses, placing your mind into a familiar yet unsettling dreamlike space. From this soundscape emerges a high-pitched, vitreous noise heralding the jarring introduction of Let Them Bleed, the first of several trance-inducing tracks on the album such as Join Us In Paradise, and Guiltless, which layer percussive and sampled loops creating what Peter Sutton (aka Female) described as exotic hypnotics.

This remastered edition of Againstnature also features the additional track, Theme From Streetwalker, previously only available on Volume 6 of the Tresor Compilation series. Collected together the album is a key work in the progression of this sub-genre to the dominant form of Techno heard in clubs in Berlin and around the world today.

Againstnature

Let Them Bleed

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PREMIERE: Regis / Female - Let Them Bleed

Listen to the exclusive GROOVE-Premiere of „Notorious Dub (Markus Suckut Deep Mix)". Release Date: 20.04.2022

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Label: Micro.fon
Catalogue No.: MF077
Format: digital

Notorious Smokers

DJ Emerson - Notorious Dub (Markus Suckut Deep Mix)

Decoder & Jay York debut their vinyl label "Toca" with their first collaborative EP "Idols". Timelessness, minimalism, and the duo's cultural roots are themes at the forefront of this release. Through these ideas, they seek to prioritize the quality over the quantity, and put forth more experimental shades of techno on the label.

Tracklist:
A1. Decoder & Jay York - Awake
A2. Decoder & Jay York - Mynus
B1. Decoder & Jay York - Merk
B2. Decoder & Jay York - Marching

Release Date: July 27, 2023
Distributed by: Triple Vision
Mastered by: Nicolas Vogler @ Vogler Mastering

Decoder & Jay York - Idols [TC01]

This is the track I donated to the BPM Japan Charity album - njoi. 
I wrote this track in 1996 whilst working on the Drone Sector album. 
It was too "light" for the album, quite rightly so and never found a home until now with all the proceeds and contributions of 60 different artists being donated to the Red Cross Japan.

https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/362359/bpm-japan-charity-album-volume-1

Planetary Assault Systems - BPM Japan Charity - Radiance (Unreleased 1996 Drone Sector track)

MOTE050 :: Planetary Assault Systems - Deep Heet Vol. 4

Since 2006, the Deep Heet series of recordings has shown the public an especially distinctive side of the production work of Planetary Assault Systems. With a unique ‘engine room’ ambience and a focus upon maintaining a continual surge of pure energy, each volume in the Deep Heet collection has lived up to that title, subtly suggesting the kind of sustained and voluntary temperature rise that has traditionally given way to spiritual or visionary experiences. Just check out tracks such as “Flat Tire” from Volume 3, with its hard percussive edge accompanied by a pervasive hiss like boiling matter changing into gas. P.A.S. helmsman Luke Slater also thinks highly enough of this series to re-work tracks like “Whistle Viper” in recent live sets, or to offer up others (e.g. “Raid”) for remixing by Mote-Evolver allies. 
It’s only appropriate, then, that the 50th overall release on Mote-Evolver should also be the fourth overall volume of Deep Heet. In keeping with Slater’s recent forward-thinking self-assessments like the “Planetary Funk” anniversary series, this is simultaneously a summary of past successes and another new evolution in style and content.  This new set of four highly concentrated cuts shows how effective Planetary Assault Systems can be at fueling the imagination by fusing together rhythmic and incidental elements into a unified, animated meshwork, without even a prominent melody to help out. For example, on the compelling track “Lazer Organical,” listeners will find themselves in the midst of a testing range where thick arcs of coherent plasma ricochet off of the walls. 

Deep Heet Vol. 4 also showcases Slater’s aptitude for choosing just the right moments to deviate from a steady groove: on the mesmerizing bubblebath of “Random Kingdom,” he allows listeners to sink into the rising sonic foam before interjecting with some sharp metallic hits. The leadoff track “Desert Races” proceeds in similar fashion, weaving a web of luminous sequencer patterns around the listener before and cutting in with sudden fluctuations or distortions that function like a hypnotist’s suggestions after an entranced patient has become fully responsive. “Life Rhythm,” on the other hand, is a total immersion session in which Slater’s presence seems to recede into the background and listeners themselves may begin imagining overtones and sonic ephemera that weren’t programmed into the original track.

MOTE050 :: Planetary Assault Systems - Random Kingdom B1

Dasha Rush at Reaktor ADE - NDSM Warehouse

Mastering by Bishop.
Artwork by Mariangela Levita, Bloom.

Domenico Crisci - From The Hell - Free Download

Work That Mother Fucker (DJ Hell Edit II)

TRACKLIST:

1- ADIEL - Vibra
2- Wata Igarashi - Arachnoid
3- Dustin Zahn - Submit Yourself
4- Maan - L1
5- Jonas Kopp - Nibirus
6- Truncate - 10th
7- Trevino - Desecrate
8- Takaaki Itoh - Revise (Kvest remix)
9- Jay Clarke - Mirage
10- Thomas Hoffknecht - Gravity (Jeroen Search mutation)
11- Re:Axis - Rise Within
12- Phil Berg - Void
13- Tensal - Saga IV
14- Rene WIse - Spirit Molecule
15- Leiras - Neopagan
16- Adriana Lopez - Between Thoughts
17- Takaaki Itoh - Anagrammer
18- TWR72 - Ultraviolet
19- Kaan Pirecioglu - Erratic
20- Danny Isola - To Excel ft. Alina
21- Takaaki Itoh - Dusker

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