Time Machine

Macho PM

Release date (vinyl & digital format): 14th of April 2017

The Ctrls class of inventive, inorganic techno is a mainstay of Token’s output. For his ninth solo EP, he takes a trip down a back alley to the spirit of some of his earlier releases on the label.

The Shortest Path starts with flitting high-end precision accompanied by a gracefully deviating tone that’s as close to the natural world as Ctrls is prone to handing over. It takes on new life with a sparse and ultra-synthetic groove.

Rush Hour is gripped by an acute yet almost-imagined drone that builds intensity before going all in. The oddball break takes it down and whips back around to shuddering effect.

Crash is a full-scale collision. Slamming into that Ctrls brand of strange and discordant percussive details, a fierce and perfectly unpleasant bass is teased by semi-conscious accents.

Highway comes in on a half-step, straightening up with a muted klaxon crescendo into hypnotic transit.

A first for Token, the Routing EP  includes two staggering, driving locked grooves crafted in the spirit of the rest of the record.

Tracklist:
A1 The Shortest Path
A2 Locked Groove 1
A3 Rush Hour
B1 Crash
B2 Locked Groove 2
B3 Highway

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BD002 Opuswerk - Forms Of Multiplicity EP
Release date: End of January 2018
triplevision.nl/release/BD002/

Geneva’s Opuswerk provides the second release on newly launched techno label Bipolar Disorder, with remixes from Inland (@counterchange-inland) and Antigone (@antigone).
Having appeared on Semantica and ARTS, as well as Dement3d (as HISS:1292 alongside François X), Swiss producer Opuswerk is a formidable name within today’s techno scene and has received regular support from names such as Dr Rubinstein, Daniel Avery, DVS1, Anthony Parasole, Peter Van Hoesen and Donato Dozzy.

Joining the release on remix duties, Counterchange founder Ed Davenport adopts his Inland guise alongside a separate outing from Parisian techno stalwart Antigone to form a solid four track techno package.

Syncopated drums and a rumbling low-end introduce the murky sounding ‘Extensum’ as scintillating synths increasingly permeate the mix. Inland reimagines it, introducing his recognisable polished percussion and deep atmospheric nuances. ‘Spatium’ uses otherworldly melodies and ominous effects for a mesmerising aesthetic from start to finish until Antigone’s energetic reinterpretation twists and distorts the original to conclude the release in style.

Tracklist:
A1. Extensum 
A2. Extensum (Inland Remix)
B1. Spatium
B2. Spatium (Antigone Remix)

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Mastered by: Push Up Audio 
Artwork: Daniel Hageman
Distributed by: Triple Vision

BD002 Opuswerk - Forms Of Multiplicity EP

..’Since you rejected what was good in order to get something bad, you better put up with it – or else something even worse might happen!’  
                                                                                                    Aesop
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For her third installment, Rabe delivers 2 original tracks with her indistinguishable haunting sound, driven by martial rhythmic structures in opposition to the fluid, evolving soundscapes that balance her music.

Equally thought out was the inclusion of remixes by Nur Jaber and Orphx whose rework of ‘Lucy’s Dream’ seamlessly incorporate that eerie undertone, a constant in Rabe’s work, that seems to lure the listener thru the haze that separates reality and the dream states.

 
Release Date: 21st of September

A1 and A2 written and produced by Denise Rabe
Remixes by Orphx and Nur Jaber
Cover handcrafted by Denise Rabe
Cover Picture: J Moyr Smith (1872)
Distribution by Triple Vision, NL
Mastering: Simon @ The Exchange
Cat. No. RABE003 – all rights reserved.
℗ & © RABE 2018

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Release date: 12th of October 2018 (vinyl & digital format)

A1.  Surrender
A2. The Informant
A3. Space Beacons
B1. Mathematical Language
B2. Visitors From The Stars
B3. Sagan's Implication

30drop debuts on Token with From Beyond The Unknown -- a six-track journey that evokes an excommunicative sense of splendor from the outer reaches of worlds beyond. Beginning with Surrender an immediacy pulsates from the outset and dances towards the playful exuberance of The Informant -- calibrating the gears for what frequencies are to be heard in the interim. Space Beacons delights with elegant pads and wry rhythmic evocations, while Mathematical Language bursts with energies that have been long dormant since the days of Jeff Mills' The Purpose Maker. In that same vein, Visitors From The Stars is an entropic message from above, seeking out a communicative line that's emotive and conductive -- leading towards the last track of this journey. Sagan's Implication is an adroit homage to the legendary astrophysicist; leaning into melodics that are both marvelous and mysterious all at once -- similar to finding the answers that lie above us. All in all, a journey that begins by looking past what's diegetic and looking for answers past the narrative presented.

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Propaganda Moscow: Act VI

Blood Lust

Bandcamp: www.knowledgeimprint.bandcamp.com/album/mindscape-ep
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/mindscape-ep/2659751
Traxsource: https://www.traxsource.com/title/1178423/mindscape-ep

Knowledge is proud to welcome back one of its key artists for another full length EP. Filip Sreckovic aka Rèdacs has contributed to the label from its early days and has since had a string of high quality releases on various labels around the world. 

For his Mindscape EP, he presents four analog-driven tracks that combine dance-floor functionality with creative and peculiar sound design. Title track ‘Mindscape’ opens things up with an overdriven synth sequence that repeats hypnotically under frenetic drum-machine rhythms. Thereafter, ‘Night Dunes’ strips things back. With a simple 909 kick, hats and an evolving synth arpeggio, the track morphs through groovy rhythms whilst retaining a dark, haunting character. On the B-side, ‘Counteraction’ ramps up the pace with a thick low-end and rolling drums while the synths adopt a more cerebral character. With multiple builds, breaks and crescendos this one is guaranteed to liven up any dance-floor. Finally, closing out the EP is ‘Infinite Circle’, an off-kilter, synth-focused track that patiently ebbs and flows through muffled drums and strange atmospheres. Tailing off with lush, orchestral pads, this sets the perfect conclusion to the package.

Format: Vinyl & Digital
Releases August 13, 2019

All tracks written and produced by F. Sreckovic 
All tracks mixed by D. Jones 
Mastering: Mixroom (ZA)
© 2019 Knowledge Imprint

Rèdacs - Mindscape EP [K-I007] (Previews)

30drop's debut on Hayes shows up as an intense and epic journey with glimpses of psychedelia and a clever and well crafted sound architecture. 

"Likvidatori" EP induces the listener into a mental state purposed by elegant and hypnotic clean cuts with a clear sci-fi allusion with 30Drop’s characteristic sound and work ethos explicit on this EP. 

Here we can find a balanced blend between Detroit’s finest and Europe's darkest corners synthesised into a minimalistic and raw sound venture.

Tracklist:

30drop - 72hz
30drop - Calculating Tools
30drop - Hopeless Traveler
30drop - Maths
30drop - The Observer

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Premiere: 30drop "Calculating Tools" - Hayes

Artist: Irazu
Title: 'Solid'
Label: Stale
Cat. #: ST201
Format: Digital
Release: 20th February, 2020
Pre order: https://soulnotes.bandcamp.com/album/14015-st201

Sounds From NoWhere is pleased to premiere a new Irazu' gem on 'Stale'.
Irazu is back to Stale with his strongest EP so far, proving to have a strong musical indentity and a deep visual of electronic music.

140.15 EP comes after a period of more experimental and ambient work, Last Rays EP was released a few months ago, it was an ambient, techno focused record. After that i wanted to return to my previous techno works. For me, this means dry, futuristic and intense tracks with a noisy landscape to build the tension up. 

The thing that makes me happier is the technical side of the tracks, Stale, which is Kastil’s label it’s growing to approach to the best sound standards and because of this we made together most of the final mixes using hardware and software technics. 

Also, we tried to continue with the artworks from my last records using the art of Trudy Creen, people will never forget that amazing piece for Surgeon’s Breaking the Frame album.

Hope people will enjoy the record as i enjoyed creating it and learning in this process.

Thank for listening.

Irazu.

@irazu-1
@kastilmusic

Premiere: Irazu - Solid [Stale]

Cheap Edit of an awesome Track
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