Kontrollverlust

This week we happily welcome Wosto to the Rubber Tijd series. You might know him as the other half of FALLBEIL (We had Kluentah on the show a few months back!?) and for his releases on labels like teerpappe and macadam mambo and many more. Wosto went fast and peppy with this vinyl only 140 bpm synthpop mix. 

In his own words: 
"Wosto was born in 1980 in Geseke (a small town near in „Wostfalia“) and he got no wife, no childen and no car. In the beginning of the 90ths he was a famous ice skater under the moniker RED FLAME. After an accident in 1995 and an identity crisis he started to collect records and began to work as a DJ for a fairground ride. Wosto and his gang G TOWN BEATS were discovered by the club owner Travolta Michele and they started to do DJ sets in the club KLIMBIM in Geseke. 19,994 of the 20,000 inhabitants of Geseke weren`t interested in the music of the gang and so in 2004 the boys escaped to Hamburg. In 2013 Wosto and his best friend Kluentah founded FALLBEIL. So far they released 10 vinyl records on different labels all over the world. In 2017 Wosto and the two members of NOSTAGIE ÉTERNELLE started the trio SAUERSTOFFF. Wosto is also releasing solo records and is running his own vinyl label - TEERPAPPE."

Sounds sick. Enjoy and stay flexible! 
XR.

RUBBER TIJD with Wosto

Amidst the dark confines of her room she surveyed the varying sized bottles on her bedside table. Each one was plastered with various instructions and recommended dosages; some promising effects that she swore were near to non-existent. Nothing really helped to solve or even mask the emotions that were clawing away at her. She knew she needed something stronger...

After notching up releases with the likes of brokntoys, Rotterdam Electronix and OMO Recordings, Czech producer Exhausted Modern returns to his own Endless Illusion imprint for the second time to release his debut album, The Year Of The Rat. Not claiming to have all the answers, but offering his perspective on these modern times, across the LP Exhausted Modern comments on the broken mechanics of society, capitalistic hierarchisation and the emotional frustration of those who fall victim to it.

PREMIERE: Exhausted Modern ft. NVST - Something Stronger [Endless Illusion]

Artist: Dona feat. Aloth 
Title: Mindscapes
Label: Mannequin
Format: 12" Vinyl, Digital
Release date: 28/08/20
Purchase: https://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-138-dona-feat-aloth-mindscapes

Consciousness is only the vanguard of human psychic existence. And behind it, behind the vanguard of consciousness, is a long tail of hesitations, weaknesses, complexes and prejudices.
Dona Aka Dj Plant Texture’s debut on Mannequin is the result of an effective true love for the early Chicago Acid and Jackbeat, mixed with textures of EBM and Cold Wave.
“Mindscapes”, featuring the haunted vocals of Aloth, represents a trip into states of consciousness and psychiatric diseases. Ispired by some reports describing America’s Mental health System during the latest 70’s, the EP is a blend of analog machines, forced to create the perfect jam session.

https://soundcloud.com/dona-sound
https://soundcloud.com/used451779299
https://soundcloud.com/mannequin-label

Mindscapes

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PREMIERE #1122 | Dona feat. Aloth - Mindscapes [Mannequin] 2020

PREMIERE COMME DES LARMES – CDL

Artist » Black Seed - https://soundcloud.com/blackseedacts
Ep Name » Перамен! A Compilation for Belarus 
Label » Radio Kapitał - https://radiokapital.pl/

Release date: September 19 2020 

BUY THERE: https://radiokapital.bandcamp.com/album/a-compilation-for-belarus

Peramen! A Compilation for Belarus

“Change! Our hearts demand it. Change! Our eyes demand it”, sings Kino’s Viktor Tsoi in “Peremen”. This song may now be heard on the streets of not just Minsk and Grodno, but also Babruysk, Brest, Gomel, Mogilev, Pinsk, Vitebsk and what – at least to a foreign onlooker – looks like countless Belarussian cities and towns engulfed in protest. Following years of Alexander Lukashenko’s rule, another rigged election, omnipresent violence perpetrated by the state apparatus, censorship and draconian laws, the people have taken to the streets en masse. This is not the first time the Belarusians are out to protest, but the scale of these disturbances is unprecedented. Also unprecedented is the fact the rallies are led by women, who head the peaceful marches that have spread onto the streets of Belarus. Workers, miners, teachers, employees of the media and the Minsk underground as well as artists from the Belarusian State Philharmonic have all joined the protests. They stand against lies, demand the transparency of public life, and access to power. As they rally against repression and torture, they expose themselves to the same.

The artists featured on the Peramen! compilation also demand changes. While we cannot physically join the protesters on the streets of Belarus, we want to offer them at least this form of support. Our thoughts are with our friends – and with all the people who have been arrested, beaten, and humiliated. We join in the grief of families of all those murdered in the protests.

The compilation covers a broad selection of genres: from club music, through classical and experimental classical, to noise, ambient, and rock; from pieces that were composed to ones that were improvised or inspired by folk music. Its geographical scope is similarly broad, spanning Belarus, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, USA, Russia, and Hungary. 

All proceeds from Peramen! A Compilation for Belarus will go to #BY_help, a grassroots initiative offering aid to victims of repression, established on the wave of arrests that shook Belarus in March 2017. The funds will be used to pay fines, unlawful fees imposed for being held in detention, medical costs and lawyers.

The idea for the compilation was developed by Elena Sizova (@lectra), Minsk-based DJ and producer. Peramen! A Compilation for Belarus was prepared with the help of the Radio Kapitał collective.

Жыве Беларусь! Zhyve Belarus! Žyvie Biełaruś!

Mastering Engineering by Dr Rey | Uferlos Studios & more
Artwork by Zofia Kofta 

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Перамен! A Compilation for Belarus

PREMIERE CDL \\ Black Seed - The Big Lie [Radio Kapitał] (2020)

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Second opus of Olta Karawane's ugliest child "Punkish et Metallic", this time on vinyl format. 

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Ólta Karawane - PUNKISH ET METALLIC II [MRR017] // Extracts 12"

Dalmata Daniel‎ – DDS03
Intergalactic Gary & Pasiphae / SILF
[12" Vinyl / Digital]

Third number in the DDS split series after a pair of releases courtesy of Betonkust/Új Bála and DJ Overdose/Sematic4, ‘DDS03’ sees Budapest duo SILF (alias Farbwechsel chief-operators Alpár & S Olbricht) and Den Haag-based pair Intergalactic Gary and Pasiphae join forces on a quartet of elusive, unpigeonholeable power moves.

Four years after the drop of their debut joint EP on Biorhythm, ‘Made of Glass’, I-G and Pasiphae are back at it with two left-of-centre hybrids of futuristic techno on a whirring electro-industrial tip. An off-kilter jam percolating fine hints of spiritual elation and post-apocalyptic anxiety, ‘Microwaves’ gets the ball rolling on a dichotomous note. To slo-scudding flocks of loud, bouncy kicks supersede skeins of brittle chimes and rattling drums, all woven together by subtle tectonic shifts of moody pads.

A further hi-intensity affair, ‘Indistinct Chatter’ drives that essential heavenly/nightmarish duplicity to higher spheres of consciousness. Fusing lighthearted, daydreaming tonalities with brooding, cavernous onslaughts from the depths, the track has us navigating in a zone of its own, deftly oscillating betwixt moments of mystique-imbued euphoria and darkling introspection. A choice exponent of the Hague-based dyad’s capacity at busting antiquated patterns and limitations.

Having slept in the label’s vaults for a few seasons, the two tracks composing the B-side emerge from their slumber in all their time-proof bravura. An in-your-face trampler, the ten-minute long ‘Mono Miner’ takes no byway to get its point across, all set to smash basements and warehouses by the dozen with its electrifying compound of 909-emulated gut churn and spinning synth arpeggios circling like birds of prey over your sore, rhythm-enslaved carcass.

Closing the journey on a much softer, hazier vibe, ‘Aces’ steers us towards a realm of ambient wonder, where slo-drip cascades of tapping percussions and elegiac synth waters flow into warm, glimmering summer beds. A most contrasting, tranquillising finale to an EP defined by its propensity to change colours and intensity throughout. /Baptiste Girou/

A1 ‎– A2 Written & Recorded by ‎– @intergalactic_gary & @pasiphax in Den Haag, 2020
B1 ‎– B2 Written & Recorded by ‎– @s-i-l-f in Budapest, 2015

Art Direction‎ – Daniel Jani (Studio Jetski)
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Mastered by ‎– A.P (GS Mastering & Post)
www.ghostsounds.net

Dalmata Daniel: www.dalmatdaniel.com
Triple Vision Record Distribution: http://distribution.triplevision.nl

DDS03: Intergalactic Gary & Pasiphae / SILF [SNIPPETS]

BUY VINYL:  https://grouprhoda.bandcamp.com/album/passing-shades
Group Rhoda, the solo project of Mara Barenbaum, returns to Dark Entries with ‘Passing Shades’. An integral member of the Oakland electronic music scene, Barenbaum has been writing, performing, and plunging into oneiric depths as Group Rhoda since 2009. This is the project’s fourth LP, and the third time Barenbaum has collaborated with Dark Entries; previously on the Max & Mara LP ‘Less Ness’ in 2013 and the Group Rhoda LP ‘Wilderless’ in 2017.
	Passing Shades is an investigation of the metaphysics of loss and the transitory nature of the material world. But it is not a grim collection; over 8 songs, Group Rhoda diverges through synthesizer-laden symphonics, four-to-the-floor inflections, and cosmic musings. Barenbaum’s striking voice and singular songcraft guide us through this labyrinth. Arpeggiated waltz “Flow” channels wisdom sought through martial arts; “Earthly Ark” sets a Margaret Atwood poem from the God Gardener’s Hymn Book to somber electronics. The vocoded canticle “Nevermore” is dedicated to the memory of a beloved cat. ‘Passing Shades’ is both mystifying and revelatory. Folk forms are echoed only to detour into the alien. Each song functions as both a fragment of a larger puzzle and a koan unto itself.
	‘Passing Shades’ was mastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. The sleeve was designed by Eloise Leigh, and features a hazy, clouded sky. The back cover uses a photograph by Harry Crofton. A postcard featuring a poem by Barenbaum is included, as well as a digital download.

Passing Shades

Group Rhoda - Passing Shades SNIPS

The (in)famous ice skater Wosto, after his solo EP, returns on Raw Culture, this time, bringing reinforcements with him: NOSTALGIE ÉTERNELLE (Inox Kapell and Dieter Mauson) . SAUERSTOFFF (oxygen / one F for every freak as they say) is the name of their band.
We choose the track "Kinskis", simultaneously embracing the emerging post-punk/ industrial strain with a stripped down gothdub approach and showcases a unique take on electronic-infused post-rock. The arrangements are imbued spaciousness,  trebly, splintering smudged highs, minimalist twanging surf guitar  and unusually dreamy vocal achieve it with poise and flair preserving the project’s aura.

Artist: Sauerstofff
Title: Für Alle EP
Label: @raw-culture-recordings
Format: 150 Limited Handstamped 7’’
Release date: 2nd November 2020
Pre-order: https://rawculture.bandcamp.com/album/fu-r-alle-ep

Tracklist:
A1 Sauerstofff - Der Trompeter
A2 Sauerstofff - Sie kommen
B1 Sauerstofff - Kinskis

Premiere #117 Sauerstofff - Kinskis [RWCLTR015]

A new Phase group Mix from Moscow made for us by Región Salvaje, a revived alias of Russian experimental sound enthusiast Dima Gerasimov aka Jan Fietser.  

Dima is the guy behind the excellent 'Muzak for Cycling' radio show on St Petersburg's Test FM. He has also released music on Towlie's Käften label under the Jan Fietser moniker. Following a recent move from St Pete to Moscow, Dima is focusing his energies these days on recording new music with his band Argonauts. 

This mix was recorded in March on the first day of Lockdowns in Russia, when Dima decided to spend his time digitising the tapes and vinyls from the most unpredictable purchases that he had made in the last few year. What results is an hour of charming and intriguing cassette-world oddities, DIY home recordings and lo-fi Groovebox experiments. Thanks Dima! 

@argonaut_s

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Región Salvaje

Since moving in she'd felt unsettled in this big old house, as if it wasn't really her own. As if it belonged to somebody else. She tried not to clutter her mind with troubled thoughts or let the creaking floorboards and cold draught bother her, but it was becoming increasingly difficult. There was an unwelcome energy here, an unwanted presence that needed to be exorcised.

Chilean artist Tomás Ruiz is gearing up for the release of his first long player under the name Russell on local label Halcxn. No Estamos Solos, which marks the label's sixth release this year, follows an active period of productions from the Ruiz camp, but with the name change comes a more direct approach, and a focus on a solid and clear sound. Prioritising freedom above anything when it comes to production, Ruiz's outings as Russell will be be navigated by influences in electro, downtempo and breakbeat, which come through on the album in the broken sounds, deep rhythms and atmospheric textures.

No Estamos Solos

PREMIERE: Russell - No Estamos Solos [Halcxn]

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