Down the rabbit hole

Album released by Time To Express on March 22nd 2010.  Buy it via http://petervanhoesen.bandcamp.com/album/entropic-city

Terminal

Release date (vinyl & digital): 14th of April

In March 2007, Inigo Kennedy put Token on the map with our first release ‘Identify Yourself’.
7 years & 10 releases later, he now releases his first full length on Token: ‘Vaudeville’, a project that feels like the culmination of all those years and all those records.
In true, theatrical manner, Vaudeville is a collection of differing themes - from the abstract and freakishly odd to the direct and resonant. And just as the Vaudevillian shares a common purpose with his co-stars as the 'voice of the city'('voix de ville'), there runs through the centre of this record a clear narrative for urban experience.

On 14 April we are releasing a single to portend the full show: 'Lullaby'/'Petrichor'. These two tracks will stand alone on a 12'' vinyl, with the rest of Vaudeville released as a 2xLP & CD on the 2nd June.

This was worth the wait, we promise.

TRACKLISTING
A Lullaby
AA Petrichor

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Vaudeville

Inigo Kennedy - Lullaby

Inigo Kennedy - Petrichor

Merix - Merixian Halls

Red Bull Elektropedia is proud to present -exclusively- the track Brother as featured on the new goldFFinch EP Unworthy.

Having already released a 12” on Ambivalent’s new Valence imprint and featured on the latest Innervisions ‘Secret Weapons’ compilation this year, Belgian duo GoldFFinch now return to Tiga’s Turbo Recordings with a new three track EP, ‘Unworthy’.

GoldFFinch - Unworthy EP [Turbo Recordings]
Released July 6th
Three tracks of tight, lean Techno that ranges from the ominous title track, all pulsing tones and drones and swirling arpeggios, through to the claustrophobic sub-aquatic Techno of ‘Brother’ and onto the martial kick drums and discordant bleeps of ‘Layers’. Meanwhile on the remix front, Sunju Hargun, fresh off his collab with Forrest on Twin Turbo, and Crosstown’s Fur Coat provide the big room reinforcements with new versions of 'Unworthy'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBsPjABzA2E

Having released critically acclaimed music on some of the best underground House and Techno labels around, including Numbers, Dirtybird, Black Butter, Innervisions and Turbo, GoldFFinch have proven themselves to be more than worthy to carry on the torch of Belgium’s rich history of electronic music.

@goldffinch
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@turborecordings
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RBExclusive: goldFFinch - Brother

Five years after his last album release Luke Slater returns to Ostgut Ton with a new Planetary Assault Systems longplayer, titled ‘Arc Angel’.

"Behind The Eyes" premiered at Billboard – find personal thoughts from P.A.S. on the behinds of the track at http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/dance/7495876/planetary-assault-systems-behind-the-eyes-premiere-dance

More information: http://ostgut.de/ton/record/180
Pre-order the album on
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/arc-angel/id1145730917?ls=1&app=itunes
Bandcamp: https://planetaryassaultsystems.bandcamp.com/album/arc-angel

After 22 light-years Luke Slater’s Planetary Assault Systems keeps exploring space and time with different musical means. Staying true to the project’s initial mission statement, Slater comments on the new yet familiar musical direction: “For me music has to go forward. I’d feel I was cheating by sticking to tried and tested formulas. There’s a valid use for these, but this album has its own agenda.” With ‘Arc Angel’, Planetary Assault Systems departs to new musical frontiers by focussing on melody, but staying rooted in the purist values of Techno that Slater shaped over his decades- and generations-spanning career.

Arc Angel

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Planetary Assault Systems – Behind The Eyes

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Alessandro Adriani - Enter The Fire
A1. He Who Harnesses The Souls
Release date: December 8th 2017
12" / Digital

It was probably only a matter of time until eclectic producer and Mannequin label founder Alessandro Adriani would join up with Stroboscopic Artefacts, since both are heavily invested in taking electronic music listeners outside of their comfort zone and into a world of unpredictable outcomes. Adriani’s debut EP for the label, Enter the Fire, is the first evidence of a new mutation in the Stroboscopic DNA, as can be seen by a shift in Ignazio Mortellaro’s design work for the label (it is in keeping with the previous horticultural theme of the records, but now features directly scanned objects - in this case a single leaf features on the cover). 

Adriani’s work has appeared at a time when, even as electronic music continues to expand into all kinds of new territories, many still associate its signature sounds (analog synthesis, quantized percussion etc.) exclusively with the time in which they first began to make a significant cultural impact. Fortunately, innovators like Adriani ignore this belief that sounds must remain harnessed to a specific point in human history: his attitude towards music making is that the changing circumstances of our environments always have the potential to put a fresh spin on the sounds associated with a previous time and place. In other words, he does not cater to any conceptions of “retro” or dreams of future past. His curriculum vitae as a producer, event organizer, and label owner all comes back to this ethos of getting beyond the “museum exhibit” mentality to music and keeping it vital in the here and now.

The music on Enter the Fire will not disappoint fans of the hard-edged, aerodynamic style that Adriani has perfected over the years: his skillful distillation of the most impactful elements from genres like EBM, acid, darkwave and industrial is on display the moment that the needle lands upon the grooves of the opening track “He Who Harnesses The Souls”. The track’s cycling sense of urgency builds as one hectic sequence is screened on top of the other, with the topmost layer providing a gorgeous melodic sheen to it all. This is followed up with “Rituals (707 EBM Version)” a tense martial stomp designed around a classically effective sequence of 16th notes and brusing kick drum. As these elements intensify the feeling of inhuman discipline through a series of flanging and filtering techniques, chilly phantom noises hint at a state of profound mental and physical exhaustion. 

The B-side shows that music with sheer bionic strength it isn’t the only card Adriani has to play, either within his repertoire as a whole or on this single slab of vinyl. It kicks off with a (relatively speaking!) more contemplative version of “Rituals,” a deviously designed mirage of shifting audio sands in which many different elements (i.e. some hesitant guitar figures, wordless vocalizations) come into view but remain tantalizingly out of reach. The program’s conclusion, “Astronomy”, evokes something more like the cultivated patience of a private investigator on a stakeout (one who is, of course, equipped with all necessary means of technological surveillance). Continuous high-frequency tones, magnified sections of surface noise, and a multitude of other encoded signals all descend on the listener and like a sort of dub music for the ‘peak information’ age.

Enter The Fire

A1 - Alessandro Adriani - He Who Harnesses The Souls [SA031]

Serena Butler returns to the fore with an EP for Stroboscopic Artefacts. “We Want Neither Clean Hands Nor Beautiful Souls” is a four track recording of Butler’s personal juncture with the Queerverse and his engagement in queer politics, an elaboration on the alternate freedoms and minimal politics of alienation introduced with her 2016 release on Eerie. By bringing her mission of inclusion and diversity to Lucy’s Berlin based imprint S>H/E has found a kindred spirit in the pursuit of, what SA describes as, “an incessant accretion of new ideas and new formal elements that must transcend any self-limiting expectations of genres or cliques”. This release embodies the shared revere that Butler and SA have for the subversive power of techno; or, as Butler says, “the explicit, organized effort to repurpose technologies for progressive gender political ends”.

The EP’s path begins with the opener “If Nature Is Unjust, Change Nature”, a shadowy crescendo of whispered rhythms and minimal-synth leitmotivs from alt-clones of Rrose and Second Woman grafted memories. “Globular Hymen” is the club supernova of the lot; an interstellar blizzard of layered arpeggios, which hit like the wrath of a pantheon of angry goddesses. “Science is not an expression but a suspension of gender” lays on the feel of afterlife, a dubbed-out lullaby between lo-fi drums and subtle interference patterns of noise. This is the sound of Butler getting between you and your ears; reminding you to step back from certainty and imperative judgments. Last but not least, “And with sexism came disparity” unleashes a vocal swarm of declaration and rebellion. Despite the straight-forward title, this is a true Demdikesterian mutant-techno stepper, with neither clean words nor a beautiful soul.

All tracks (w)&(p) by 
Federico Cataldo u / Serena Butler ♀ 
Graphic concept by Ignazio Mortellaro [OA].
℗ & © Stroboscopic Artefacts 2018
Cat. No SA033 – all rights reserved.
www.stroboscopicartefacts.com
info@stroboscopicartefacts.com

B2 - Serena Butler - And With Fire Came Disparity [SA033]

The fresh Berlin-based @AuraDinamica releases its second EP, this time from the label boss Portrait (@PortraitAka). The three-tracker, as well as the labels general sound, can be described as modern techno with an atmospheric bent. 

Monument premieres the title track of the release, remixed by @Rhyw, half of the @Cassegrain duo. The Vitra EP is out in September.

MNMT Premiere: Portrait – Vitra (Rhyw Remix)

Gregor Tresher - Warpaint (Break New Soil, BNS034)

A: Warpaint (07:00) 
B: Warpaint (Kernel Key Remix) (06:38)

It"s been some time since label boss Gregor Tresher featured on Break New Soil. His and Karotte&#8217;s 2011 smash, &#8220;Sol&#8221;, was his last release, a track preceded by his excellent album &#8220;Lights From The Inside&#8221;. Since then, Gregor has concentrated on the A&amp;R&#8217;ing of the label whilst creating and releasing club hits with the likes of Ovum, Music Man and Drumcode. Today he returns home, riding the wave of support for his current Cocoon hit &#8220;About A Good Place&#8221; and enjoying his seemingly endless run of good form to present: &#8220;Warpaint.&#8221;

No camouflage here. &#8220;Warpaint&#8221; sees Gregor continue his run of bold arena rocking Techno releases. &#8220;I realised that its been well over a year since my last full release on the label and having really enjoyed moving back toward a tougher Techno sound with my Cocoon and Drumcode singles, I wanted to carry that sound into my latest for Break New Soil.&#8221; 

The original burns from the opening thump of the kick-drum. The ever-increasing intensity is fuelled by piercing single note synth riffs, shimmering hi-hats, Gong crashes and lazer shots. An epic concoction. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been working on &#8216;Warpaint&#8217; for quite some time, playing and refining it over the last few months&#8221; says Gregor. &#8220;It&#8217;s been one of the peak time records in my sets and does quite some damage everywhere I play it, hence the name.&#8221;

On the remix is an artist that has impressed Gregor with his recent releases, Kernel Key. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been a fan of all his music over the past months and on his &#8216;Warpaint&#8217; remix he adds his signature groove, which gives it a great twist!&#8221;

Gregor Tresher - Warpaint (Original Mix)

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“Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.”
~ Herbie Hancock ~

✰About✰                                                                                                                                                                             
Natte Haarie is an Amsterdam-based DJ. He started playing his groovy eclectic sound back in 2010 and has gradually been making underground waves ever since.                                               

He is a manic enthusiast and compulsive hoarder of anything oldskool and obscure: from deep Chicago and Detroit tracks, and wonky Acid and Rave bangers, to pure gems from the heyday of Disco and New-Wave. Only music with a heartbeat and plenty of rough edges stands a chance of passing by in his full-power sets.                 
                                                                                                                             
✰Bio✰                                                                                                                                                       
Born and raised in a suburb - a so-called ''Vinex-wijk'' - in the Amsterdam metropolitan area, he, as a young boy, sincerely enjoyed listening to his father playing the piano. This would eventually spark his true love for rhythm and melody, something he simply cannot do without today.

After moving (back) to Amsterdam, he soon discovered its very vibrant underground music scene. Instantly liking everything about - the tangible energy in its grimy warehouses and sweaty basements especially. This ultimately made him decide to start deejaying himself.

And in case you were wondering... His alias comes from ''Mata Hari'': an historical and notorious Dutch femme fatale from the turn of the twentieth century. As a matter of fact, Natte Haarie happens to be a distant relative - she was the aunt of my father's grandmother - of the real deal, something he only just found out recently! 
For more information read: 
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Besides sets and mixtapes/podcasts, Natte Haarie has selected his personal favourites, together with some truly scuzzy beats&pieces he randomly stumbled upon and really doesn’t want you to miss out on.

✰Bookings (or other musical enquiries)?✰
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