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The long awaited split release from electro ninjas Cyan85 and Greenwald. Six fat tracks that will launch any dance floor to the space.

Cassette & Digital

Written and produced by Cyan85, Greenwald 
Mastered for digital by Anunak 
Mastered for tape by Aleksey Letko at Rollex records 
Manufactured at Go Tape 
Artwork by Irina Dobromyslova 
Executive producer — Stanislav Kalivasin 
Thanks to urwaxx crew

@cyan85 @greenwald32 @urwaxx

Buy: https://testfm.bandcamp.com/album/cyan85-greenwald-east-2-east

EAST 2 EAST

TSTFM005: CYAN85 / GREENWALD — EAST 2 EAST EP (sampler)

Artificial Dance is very happy to announce that we’ve spent a wealth of time going through the archived recordings of Richard Zeilstra, AKA Genetic Factor. Richard was a pivotal figure in the Amsterdam new wave and avant-garde pop music circles. Besides hosting the ever-influential Spleen and Radionome radio shows on the VPRO he also found time to conduct his own audible experiments. As a firm believer of music by non-musicians Richard has made the effort throughout the last decades to keep on recording in a variety of different guises on different parts of the planet. In these different times and places, the genetic factor was always there. We are happy to announce that we will release a limited edition sampler 12” vinyl before the end of the year. The sampler contains 2 songs from a forthcoming 2x12" full-length archival compilation and 2 exclusives. The archival compilation will see the day of light in 2022. Fully endorsed and in collaboration with Richard, compiled by Olf van Elden & Robert Bergman.

Genetic Factor - Sampler 12" (AD015)

With the belief that the underground music scene should always be a place of safety, mutual support, peace and equality, artists from the Russian underground music scene have united to raise attention and money for those who have suffered from military actions in Ukraine.
We think that everyone has to be heard, and the modern Russian youth has a lot of things to say. We’re glad that despite unprecedented pressure, they decided to come together and speak out to support those whose lives are in danger.

With the support of @malcolmaudio, London based DJ and Global Warming Records founder, and curation of @yssue, previously Moscow-based producer and member of Russian collective Esthetic Joys; this release brings together 22 artists, bands, producers and graphic designers with a broad genre palette and from all over the country.

100% of the sales will be sent directly to War Child’s emergency aid in Ukraine. War Child’s actions are: Supporting refugees in accommodation centers; Providing life-saving emergency psychosocial support and vital protection to vulnerable refugee children; Working with anti-trafficking organizations to prevent refugees from falling into the hands of traffickers; Ensure safeguarding of highly vulnerable children such as those with disabilities; and much more.

НЕТ МОЛЧАНИЮ (No Silence) - Russian Music for Peace 

Support ✌️🕊️

Koyil - Myrrh

Acoustic, no-age krautrock from Berlin releasing on Glasgow label, Phase Group. 

The next release on Phase Group unearths a truly unique project that has existed as an outlier in the Berlin underground since 2002. 

A stage decked out with xylophones, tambourines, timpani, wooden percussion, two drum kits, a cello, harmonicas, saxophones and pieces of scrap metal. Eight unassuming musicians playing repetitive, trance-inducing phrases, at times serene, fragile and dream-like and at others wild, primitive and driving. This isn’t a scene you might associate with hazy nights out in Berlin but it’s what you’d find if you ended up at a Kulku show.

Kulku's music is a hard to define blend of percussive minimalism, folk, krautrock, post-punk and no wave, almost exclusively derived from acoustic sound sources. Their debut album ‘Fahren' presents this unique sound-identity that they have been crafting for the best part of two decades. 

The A-side presents 3 tracks of percussive propulsion, minimalist xylophone motifs and repetitive drums alongside monotone organ, dramatic narration and woodwind instruments moving in and out of dissonant howls and melodic improvisation. The B-side is devoted to lighter tones, beginning with the glockenspiel minimalism of ‘Unterm Himmel’ and rounding the record out with trance inducing drone of the album’s title track which builds up into a cacophony of snare drums, dissonant accordion and melodica before fading out like dream.

All songs composed and recorded in Berlin by Wenzlovar, Gatis Silde, Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer, Johanna Riska, Cornelius Onitsch, Alexander Samuels and Maxfield Gassmann

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

‘Fahren’ is released in August 2022 on Phase Group Records. Distribution via Rubadub.

Fahren

Kulku - Fahren (Preview)

from the "Good, You're Here, It's Time" CS (SILK135)
100% Silk / 2022

YOU'RE HERE:
https://malasso.bandcamp.com/album/good-youre-here-its-time
https://midheaven.com/item/malasso/good-youre-here-its-time

MALASSO - PRIVATE (SILK135)

Artist: Die Gesunden (Frey & Otter Dive)https://soundcloud.com/freybenedikt https://soundcloud.com/philipp-otterbach
Track: Filmmusik
Cat: SETR008 
Label: Serious Trouble https://soundcloud.com/serioustrouble
Release date: 14 Oct 22
Format: 12“ + Digital
Preorder: https://serioustrouble.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-setr008

DT PREMIERE: Die Gesunden - Filmmusik (Frey & Otter Dive) [Serious Trouble] (2022)

"TESTFM: How would you describe it? 

KIKOK: For me, this album is like a state... a feeling of being and the world around you during a fast riding on a bike, in a hurry you suddenly fall somewhere, you experience instant fear and pain, but then you get up, get back on the bike and realize that there is no need to hurry. And the pain is replaced by a pleasant feeling of life..." 

Read full interview: testfm.online/interview-with-kikok/ 

Fan's video on track "Waterpark": youtu.be/knr_4RCXMBM
credits
released June 22, 2022

Waterpark

TSTFM008: KIKOK — Waterpark (excerpts)

Let's listen to one of the most interesting records in our collection - a live act by the artist of the Arma label Evgeny Lavrinov going under the Golden Axe alias. 

A musical canvas comparable to a rock concert in a club damp with human sweat. This kind of music probably wouldn't be found in a music store a month after the release - collectors won't let it. Arrays of percussions and animated textures and pure electricity, in which the hand and the ears of a living person are felt, skillfully handling the 303rd. Slowly, aggressively, but not angrily, the absolute maximum performance with a minimum of means. 

The recording was made in Moscow's Mutabor some time ago and, like a favorite photocard, it takes its place in the Right FM mix catalog.

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Приступим к прослушиванию одной из интереснейших записей в нашей коллекции — лайв-акту артиста лейбла Arma Евгения Лавринова под алиасом Golden Axe. 

Музыкальное полотно, сравнимое с рок-концертом в отсыревшем от человеческого пота клубе. Такую музыку, вероятно, не найти в музыкальном магазине уже через месяц после релиза — коллекционеры не позволят. Массивы перкуссий и одушевлённые текстуры и чистое электричество, в котором слышится рука и чувствуются уши живого человека, умело обращающегося с 303-им. Медленно, напористо, но не сердито, абсолютный максимум при минимуме средств. 

Запись была сделана в московском Мутаборе некоторое время назад и, как любимая фотокарточка, занимает своё место в каталоге миксов Right FM.

@lvrin-1
@armalabel
@mutabormoscow

RR002 — Golden Axe

ptuchiy huch

Poeli For Melody P.M. Radio Show

https://soundcloud.com/kikok_audio
https://soundcloud.com/garcontaupe
https://soundcloud.com/testfm_radio
🛒 https://testfm.bandcamp.com/album/kikok-hot-pink-remixes
🔊 https://youtu.be/mY7Hw5eOlP0

When I first heard the original version of Hot Pink track, its melody deeply hooked me.  The track with its atmosphere reminded me of shots from the third season of the TV series Twin Peaks, when at the end of some episodes the characters are sitting in a bar while a local band is playing on the scene. The idea of remixes came about because I just wanted to listen to more interpretations of this simple but catchy melody. 

~ Stanislav Kalivasin, TESTFM's curator.

Tracklist:

Hot Pink (Original) 
Hot Pink (Garcon Taupe Remix)
Hot Pink (Lyudmila Severtseva Remix) 
Hot Pink (Gnoomes Remix)
Hot Pink (Concepcion Huerta Remix)
Hot Pink (Settima Tacca 10000 % Rework)

PREMIERE: KIKOK — Hot Pink (Garcon Taupe Remix) [TESTFM]

«snatches of memory covered by a warm blanket of yesteryear 
we idealise the past and remember what we wish we could remember 
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones 
i know i'm just filthy water, impure, i'm trash 
you will never sorry me and that’s alright» 

scraps of memories from the sick summer of 2020 and many personal revelations mixed in with dub and analogue experiments by lutin

full release: https://testfm.bandcamp.com/album/lutin-gradual-change-of-pleasure

Written & produced by lutin (@losthelmet)
Mastering by Alexey Letko

released April 16, 2023

Bandcamp

TSTFM012: lutin "gradual change of pleasure" (excerpts)

1. Sa — Spiny / @levmas00
2. X.Y.R. — Lost Cities / @x-y-r
3. Ayan Joy — spa / @ayanjoy
4. qwqwqwqwa — emergency loop / @qwqwqwqwa
5. Denis Riabov — Macadami / @denisriabov
6. X.Y.R. — Despair / @x-y-r
7. Digital Je — Fio Digital / @user-451619367
8. Luch — Change (You Need That) 
9. Dear Stream, — a manerie de Focualt / @dearstream
10. Krayeved — Gatechoir / @krayeved
11. ft x Tsyo x Victoria Gorskaya — Jam#0 / @tsyo

A part of the earnings will go to charity. We can't name the fund because of some participated artists are still in Russia and that's really dangerous for their freedom.

Buy: https://testfm.bandcamp.com/album/various-artist-2

TSTFM013: Various Artists vol. 2 (excerpts)

The cassette "clay tablets" was produced by the resident of the radio Thelonious Bong, the author of the program "The Evening Bong", which some of you may remember thanks to the beautiful artworks and music.

The album includes 10 tracks collected around some metaphysical images in art — Andrey refers to the movies of Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkovsky and very clearly describes his feelings from the references as "longing for the immense and mysterious and a huge interest that grows into desire to speak out."

This desire, familiar to many people, was sublimated into atmospheric and cinematic music, recorded in a happy period, when the consciousness is pure, and creativity is given easily and naturally.

The title of the album refers to the era when people were just learning to write and sharing the most basic messages with each other through the simple drawings on clay — without losing the sense behind the form.  Simplicity and reality as it is is the world that the author of the release got into while writing the album, and the world that is easy to get into as a listener as well.

Recorded with Roland SP-404SX, Critter & Guitari Organelle, guitar and bass.  If you listen carefully, you will hear Vangelis and Eduard Artemyev are sitting by the fire and writing their new soundtrack to Stalker.

The release is available digital on Bandcamp TESTFM Records and on cassettes, which can be purchased via private messages: https://testfm.bandcamp.com/album/thelonious-bong-clay-tablets


Written and produced by Thelonious Bong
Mastered by Aleksey Letko at Rollex Records
Manufactured at Go Tape
Artwork by Vitalic Ten @herblstempls
Executive producer — Stanislav Kalivasin

TSTFM002: THELONIOUS BONG "clay tablets" (excerpts)

35th Gost Zvuk episode on NTS w/ @m-rble
Photo by Michael Voropaev

1. A F R - Exodus 
2. Echotourist Sound System - Kazachki Intro 
3. Koyil - Sloboja 
4. Indian Field 
5. Misha Sultan - Kaleidoscope 
6. Mårble - Rasta Fazer (Moto Voc.) 
7. Пурпурный Дядя - Lao Dub 
8. Minereed - In The Morning 
9. Jaaba - Muzikalny Dom  
10. Echotourist Sound System - Royal 
11. Koyil - Vāg 
12. Dyad and the Sleepers Club  - 2020 October 
13.  Psee - Iisusse 
14. Minereed - Oidípous Týrannos 
15. Dyad - Untitled br 1  
16. A F R - Communication 
17. Mårble - Joki  
18. Пурпурный Дядя - Miri Baht

GOST ZVUK x NTS monthly show #35 w/ Mårble

"I have always loved the unfamiliar places. I was once in a desert, it made a deep impression on me. When I started my solo project and got down to the album, I decided to create a soundtrack about a lost oasis city called Zerzura. The legend goes that once upon a time a camel rider lost his camel in a desert and while searching for it, he got lost himself. Tall people with fair hair and blue eyes found him and brought him to an oasis city. A city as white as a dove, guarded by black giants, abound with unusual birds, plants and springs, a queen and a king. No one knows what had happened in between, only that the camel rider ran away stealing the royal’s ring. 
The lost city of Zerzura has never been found since." — Andra Ljos 

Tracklist:

1. black giants 
2. the key in the beak
3. the oasis of little birds
4. white as dove
5. sleeping king and queen 
6. elusive paradise (in palms with spring)

Written and produced by Andra Evseeva @andra-ljos
Mastered by Aleksey Letko at Rollex Records
Manufactured at Go Tape
Artwork by Oksana Svitova
Co-executive producer — Dmitry Zvezdin
Executive producer — Stanislav Kalivasin


Will be released web and cassettes on December 18,  2020.  
Pre-order on Bandcamp is now: https://testfm.bandcamp.com/album/andra-ljos-the-oasis-of-little-birds

the oasis of little birds

TSTFM003: Andra Ljos "the oasis of little birds"  (excerpts)

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TSTFM008: KIKOK — Waterpark (excerpts)

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