Dirty Epic welcomes aboard its resident @thefifthstigma for its twelfth episode of Amplify Series.

American born, now living in Paris, France, The Fifth Stigma is an esoteric musical project.

Tired with the direction of contemporary techno, The Fifth Stigma aims to craft a slow, heavy, and raw metallic techno, influenced by history, emotions and obscure world music, driven by a blend of several genres in times where everything seems to go faster and look alike.

Production wise, he refuses to conform to one genre, always exploring new sounds from different horizons, from liturgical to techno, from noise to punk electronics like body music, transporting you in landscapes of desolation and agony with EPs released on cassettes and CDs.

His works received support from many influent artists all over the world and is played by renowed artists such as Rommek, Tommy Four Seven and French duo Imperial Black Unit.

LINKS:

THE FIFTH STIGMA: 
Soundcloud: @thefifthstigma
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefifthstigma
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_fifth_stigma/

DIRTY EPIC:
Website: www.dirty-epic.com
Merch: shopby6am.com/collections/dirty-epic-collection
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DirtyepicLA
Twitter: twitter.com/dirtyepicla 
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Amplify Series 012 - The Fifth Stigma

VūMantra Records presents:

ØPERAT [Vūdcast_004]

Øperat, an experimental industrial project born by the Italian duo in 2013. Always passionate about electronic music, they approached the world of live and production right away. Suggesting a completely modular set up. Their sound is characterized by dark environments with dynamic bass lines and rhythms, aggressive and sharp sounds. After several years spent in a studio they had the opportunity to play live shows at one of the main clubs in the area"Hyper" (VI). In which they had several opportunities to perform with international artists. Last year they recorded some DJ sets for Sehnsucht Kollektiv, The Slave,Untreated and Brutal Forms.In February 2019 they have their first release in a various artist on Kloster recordings and December 2020 TEMPLER (Area Z). Øperat is a strong and solid project in continuous evolution created by two old childhood friends.

ØPERAT [Vūdcast_004]

12" vinyl and digital download
Buy here: shorturl.at/ozWZ6

The clandescent Federico Sutera and Laurent Schmidhäusler form the insidious duo Rotkeller, known for their excursions into ponderous and maundering interpretations of electronic music. Their last release on Thrènes was an experimental and perplexing delight that perpetuated their virtuosity. The Swiss pair has returned to release a pressing technoid sound on the Thrènes imprint entitled Antimatter.

The project kicks off the track 'Antimatter'. It has distinctive and emphatic patterned percussions and a wandering pad that wistfully saunders in and out. There are clever uses of claps, crisp hats and insisted clicks. The track lays the foundation of the sound to expect from the EP with comprehensive yet wonderous beats.

'DipK' follows the opening track, which has a bit more body and sways. It was made for the waning hours of a club when it might be getting bright outside, but the crowd doesn't want to leave. It has a captivating synth that runs throughout and an infectious bassline; the sound allows the mind to roam free but rhythmic drums, hits and snares make the body move.

Midway through is the Kangding Ray remix of 'Tetra4'. The French-born but Berlin-based artist is known for his mastery in blurring the lines between techno and experimental, and this track is a testament to his talents. The cut has a classic underground club feel as it simply keeps up the tempo. The oscillating synth is compounded with spacy fluttering stabs with a kick drum that adds resounding velocity to the track.

The penultimate track, 'Skpp Skpp', features B.Skupin. It has an enchanting heavy breath prominent throughout the cut, accompanied by ethereal choir chants and a deep repetitive voice before being replaced by a siren-like synth. The beats fluctuate by dropping in and out, enhanced by the catalyst of deep drums and luring drops.

The final cut is the original mix of 'Tetra4', which keeps the same modus operandi of the remix. The telling differences come in the pensive drops and ability to slow tempo momentarily with hypnotic synths and drifting rhythms.

Antimatter will be the first release under the Thrènes in the new year and will be released on vinyl and digital. Expect this EP from Rotkeller to be released on June 10, 2022.

Soundcloud Rotkeller: @rotkeller
Soundcloud Kangding Ray: @kangding-ray

Antimatter

Rotkeller - Antimatter EP

Founded in 2021, Antibody is a label from Brussels that is run by DJ and producer Raum aka Yannick Franck, an Industrial / EBM musician rooted in noise music and sound art. Aside from his solo searches as Raum, he plays in projects Orphan Swords and Figure Section and has released music on many labels such as Aufnahme+Wiedergabe, Instruments of Discipline, Desire Records, Aurora Borealis or Sub Rosa. His work with Antibody label focuses on abrasive electronics, left field techno and everything post-punk / wave. It is not organized around a defined niche, but rather asserts an adventurous spirit, wild beats and unalduterated sonic experiments.

Antibody w/ 6SISS @ Kiosk Radio 03.03.2023

✝ Temple.Prayer ✝
@ra_in

Aleksandr Rain began play techno as dj at late '90s. In 2000 together with Krankiss he launched promo-group Art of Music which first in Saint-Petersburg (Russia) started organize regular hard techno parties. From 2006 Aleksandr played as hardware live-project Mental Distortion. In 2009 he joined as electronic part to ethno-electronic project Kamennoe More.  In 2012 Rain leave Russia and went to Asia where he residence at present days (currently in Vietnam).
Artist prefer more hardest substyles of techno with offbeat rhythms and IDM elements.

Find out more about artist and his projects: 
https://www.facebook.com/rain.techno 
https://www.mixcloud.com/ra_in/
https://ra.co/dj/aleksandrrain

Check more prayers at:
soundcloud.com/templerec/sets/temple-prayer
www.templerec.com

Temple.Prayer #120 Rain

Several Diagnosis - Paliestra / D.E.M.E.N.T.I.A.L. RECORDS.

 Several Diagnosis 

SNTS - Oblivion (Polar Inertia Remix)

PoleGroup 52
Exium 
Non-Cellular Life EP
Vinyl & Digital

A1 - Non-Cellular Life
A2 – Inner Mind
B1 – Immune Response
B2 – Host Range



Exium can be considered with no doubt pioneers in the spanish techno scene, almost two decades of devotion, passion and work on behalf of what we know as serious and militant music. In their vast career the have released countless vinyls in labels from all over the globe and have spreaded their live sets throught the most respected clubs and festivals all over the place. 

They decide what their pulsations are, can be minimalistic, complex, broken, layered or tooly and precisely, this is the case in this four tracker.

Noncellular life opens fire, and obsessive effected synth line lies over a profound kick and is slowly filled with percussive layers, drums comes in and out while the main hook persists and changes in timbre and texture. A genuine mixing tool. 

Inner mind relies on reverberated toms and sharp percussive elements with the only aid of occasional white noise sweeps, as always a dynamic arrangement made things busy.

On the flip side Inmune response is based on a linear raw sequence soon followed by distorted semi industrial layers while Host range gives us the broken beat dose that they master since ages. Over the complex beats succesive washes and drones fly over, evoquing darkness and pressure.

No jokes in this slice of plastic, aimed for the proper selectors out there.

Rotkeller - Antimatter EP

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