Name: Chem Lab by tommymono
Duration: 10 min 7 s
Description: 2nd live recording using Ciat-Lonbarde Peterlin and modular rack. Chaos ensues!

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Lyonel Bauchet Tractatus Lyra-Organismus DiN79

Release date 16th June 2023
Limited to 300 copies Digipak CD

Film and media composer Lyonel Bauchet is best known in the electronic music world for his mastery of the Buchla modular synthesiser. Indeed this is the instrument that was in the foreground for his previous two DiN releases, The Secret Society (DiNDDL11) and The Diver (DiN68). However for his third album on the DiN imprint he has eschewed this familiar territory and instead focused on a collection of analogue gear from Soma Laboratory. Their most famous instrument, the Lyra-8, is described by them as an Organismic Synthesiser and certainly has an experimental edge to it. Along with other Soma creations as well as more traditional keyboards and orchestral string textures Bauchet has created a unique and compelling sound world unlike anything you’ve ever heard before.

Taking his inspiration from the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by the 20th century Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bauchet has morphed the title of this inspirational work into a play on synth words. The titles of the album are taken from sentences in the French translation relating to the seven main aphorisms in the book.

Musically this astonishing album marries the experimental nature of the Soma synths with their grungy lo-fi percussion grooves and swarming, scintillating clouds of texture with the filmic, cinematic world that Bauchet often composes in for his library music work. Delicate piano motifs lead to orchestral crescendos accompanied by a mystical atmosphere of swirling drones and deep soundscapes. This is a true headphone album in that listening via this method will reveal the myriad details and beautiful complicity of this unique album.

Another great release from the DiN label released in a beautiful Digipak CD edition showcasing new and refreshingly different electronic music.
 
01 Tout ce qui a lieu   10:17
02 Le grand miroir   08:42
03 L’ordre à priori des choses   07:11
04 Le nombre des noms   03:41
05 Une seule et même réalité   08:52
06 Égalité des signes   03:33
07 Sur ce dont on ne peut parler   06:03

Total Time :  48:17

Tractatus Lyra-Organismus

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Tractatus Lyra-Organismus by Lyonel Bauchet (DiN79) Demo Mix

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Polypores Multizonal Mindscramble DiN81

Release date 15th September 2023
Limited to 300 copies 180g Vinyl / 300 copies Digipak CD

Stephen James Buckley aka Polypores returns for his second full album on the DiN imprint following on from his 2022 debut “Hyperincandescent” (DiN71).

Though we’ve come to know a wide range of sounds from Polypores, it’s here on “Multizonal Mindscramble” that we get plunged into the outer reaches of the inner psyche. Flickering insectoid transmissions are laid atop slowly shifting walls of drifting oscillators, barely discernible chirps and static-encrusted filter sweeps. There are moments of undeniable melodic bliss amongst the warm, weightless transmissions though, with soaring arpeggios and covert counter-melodies emerging from the fog and coalescing into perfect harmony before fading once again into the ether. The slow intricate weaving of sounds and timbres has become a Polypores trademark, and once again the fluidity and ease with which Buckley moves between sound-worlds is evident on this new album. The organic textures morph and grow, from a syncopated glitching oscillator through to slow swells of synth and spacey, cavernous reverb. Like a languid walk through the forest, while you gradually melt through the earth and into the soil. 

A perfectly balanced textural odyssey, and a stunning example of the depth and breadth of the Polypores sound “Multizonal Mindscramble” is released both as a 180g Vinyl edition and a Digipak CD with stunning artwork from Wendy Carroll that matches the music perfectly.

01 The Dream Incubator   03:30
02 Foam   03:01
03 Machine Elves   05:58
04 Can Non-Player Characters Experience Love?   02:58
05 Diverging Reality Tunnels   03:29
06 Retrocausal   03:05
07 Hyperdata   00:59
08 Until You Observe It, It Isn’t There   04:30
09 Compute Gnosis   02:56
10 Hexagram   03:18
11 Strangels   04:04
12 The Green-Screen Beneath It All    02:09
13 Adventures In The Super-Spectrum   02:59
14 Butterflies   01:08

Total Time :  44:02

Multizonal Mindscramble

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Benge The View From Vega DiN82

Release date 17th November 2023
Limited to 300 copies 180g Vinyl / 300 copies Digipak CD

Ben Edwards, better known by his pseudonym Benge, has been exploring the sonic possibilities of electronic instruments since he was a young boy, in the1970s.  After graduating from art school in 1990 he set up his own music studio and started recording his unique blend of experimental electronica, culminating in his debut album "Electro-Orgoustic Music" and the formation of Expanding Records in 1995. Since then he has released dozens of albums as Benge, as well as collaborating with various luminaries from the electronic music world on many other album projects. He has formed several notable and ongoing bands such as John Foxx & The Maths, Wrangler (with Stephen Mallinder / Cabaret Voltaire and Phil Winter / Tunng), Fader (with Neil Arthur / Blancmange), and his most recent project Creep Show (Wrangler + John Grant). Benge's creative output now centres around his Memetune Studio Complex, located in one of the UKs remotest moorland locations, writing and producing his various music projects as well as making video art and TV programmes about his activities.

“The View From Vega”, his debut solo album on the DiN imprint, is primarily an ambient suite of tracks inspired by the space-music typically produced in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It uses a selection of vintage synthesisers, sequencers and FX units to provide a fertile sonic landscape to explore. The idea was to use simple sequences (using both analogue and digital units), sustained synthesiser pads and electronic piano improvisations, alongside various ancient delay, flange and reverb units. The beautiful, warm quality of the tones that exude from such instruments are very evident on the six tracks that slowly unfold their oscillations in organic, melodic soundscapes.

An unashamedly vintage sounding album in all its analogue glory, “The View From Vega” is released both as a 180g Vinyl edition and a Digipak CD with stunning artwork from Wendy Carroll that matches the music perfectly.



01 The View From Vega (Part I)   06:44
02 The View From Vega (Part II)   05:07
03 The View From Vega (Part III)   06:14
01 The View From Vega (Part IV)   06:54
02 The View From Vega (Part V)   05:21
03 The View From Vega (Part VI)   07:32

Total Time :  37:54

The View From Vega

The View From Vega by Benge (DiN82) Demo Mix

2nd live recording using Ciat-Lonbarde Peterlin and modular rack. Chaos ensues!

Chem Lab

Burning Down the House

Various Artists Tone Science Module No.9 Theories and Conjectures DiN:TS09

Release date 19th April 2024
Limited to 500 copies. Digipak CD format

Tone Science sub-label, from DiN records, continues to explore the world of modular synth music.

Following the success and critical acclaim of the first eight Tone Science compilation albums,  DiN label boss Ian Boddy has collated another nine tracks from musicians of varying backgrounds  working in the realms of modular synthesis.

As the Tone Science journey continues it never ceases to amaze just how varied and individualistic  each musicians work can be. Whilst the hardware is technologically based each artist teases out a reflection of their own musical personality.

This volume kicks off with two pointillistic compositions from Loula Yorke and State Azure with intertwining sequencer patterns flowing and coiling around to create ever changing soundscapes.

After this energetic start the next pair of tracks from Theda Electronic Music and Swansither enter calmer, ambient territory where careful sculpting of synthesiser voices creates room for expression and atmosphere.

The mid-point of the album sees Sulk Rooms take us into darker territory with a drone based piece that slowly climbs from the undergrowth like some great creature arising from its slumber.

The next three tracks from Tomorrow The Cure, JacqNoise and Alex Ball are rhythmically based and showcase just how different the feel and energy of music made with modular synths can be with pure tones, deep bass and transient blips respectively. 

Finally Michael J. York leads us gently into the distance with a beautiful, shimmering cocoon of  blissful sound to close out the album.

“Tone Science Module No.9 Theories and Conjectures” continues the journey down the rabbit hole of possibilities and sound worlds inhabited by artists and musicians working in this ever fascinating and varied musical field.

01 Eala by Loula Yorke   7:44
02 Scanner by State Azure   8:23
03 Per-Bast by Theda Electronic Music   7:24
04 Muad’Dib by Swansither   7:04
05 Grasping The Eye Of The Duck by Sulk Rooms   6:43
06 Minimum by Tomorrow The Cure   6:18
07 Lono by JacqNoise   5:51
08 Adaption by Alex Ball   6:23
09 And They Shall Have Stars by Michael J. York   6:20

Total Time: 62:28

Tone Science Module No.9 Theories and Conjectures

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David Byrne Does Hard Times

Side 2 opener of the first ever 'best of' collection from the maestro of vintage electronica: Stefan Bachmeier.

This collection curated by Stephen Buckley, who also records as Polypores.

Released on numbered, limited edition 'tentacle red' vinyl on Spun Out Of Control

Stefan Bachmeier - The Strange Worlds Of Stefan Bachmeier - Destroying The Bridge

Musician, a graduate of IAR audio engineering. Music available: https://tommymono.bandcamp.com https://relaxationsphere.bandcamp.com 
I also drum and sing in By George!, Thousand Mile Stare and The Flemtones. All photos by tommymono.

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