Sanna Mun debuts on her imprint with Katabasis EP. The artist is an interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Her approach to production is inspired by her work as an archaeologist, using digital modeling and field recordings of ancient sites to extract their psychoacoustics. Katabasis started as an experimental techno event at Sameheads in Neukölln, Berlin in collaboration with local musicians and visual artists. The vision behind the project is to springboard underrepresented artists reinventing minimal, hypnotic, and early techno. Monument premieres "Chiaroscuro" track that will be out on the 9th of September.

In addition, please enjoy the interview with the sensational Sanna Mun.

Interview: https://mnmt.no/magazine/2022/09/07/interview-sanna-mun-releases-her-debut-ep-katabasis

Buylink: https://katabasisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/katabasis-001

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@sannamun

INTERVIEW

MNMT Premiere: Sanna Mun - Chiaroscuro

We are very excited to present Eramo's track "Forest" upcoming his next EP release out on Subsequence out on the 24th August.

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https://eramo.bandcamp.com

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https://www.instagram.com/eramo.music/

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PREMIERE: Eramo - Forest [SUBDGTL006]

The Inaugural VA Series
In this groundbreaking album, we unveil our inaugural Various Artists series, introducing you to the hypnotic techno grooves of artists like Any Mello, Jacom, Müzmin, Egotot and Carlotta Jacobi, as well as the intricate IDM soundscapes of Giordano and the mind-bending breaks from Endrew.

Prepare to embark on a musical journey that transcends genres and redefines the very essence of electronic music. "REVERSE: Transcending Boundaries with Sonic Innovation" is an invitation to experience the future of sound.

All tracks Mastered by Patrick Skoog, All rights reserved

Ebass - Oblique

Datashader emerges from the shadows with a striking breaks- and bass-heavy debut release that challenges the fabric of our digital existence. Replete with a Dopplereffekt remix, it nods to the legacy of revered anonymous acts such as Scopex, Drexciya and Underground Resistance, pushing the boundaries of both electronic music exploration and its conceptual underpinnings. As a critique of the erosion of genuine human connection in the digital age, Datashader delivers a barrage of billowing subs, infectious electro, recontextualized jungle, and techno, serving as a poignant counterbalance to current dance floor-centric norms. It's a contemporary anti-soundtrack that offers a haunting mirror to the societal costs of technological convenience. 

In a world engulfed by the digital realm, where social media platforms thrive and dominate every aspect of our lives, the enigmatic project known as Datashader was founded to reflect on the pervasive erosion of authentic human connection through various virtual realities.

Artistically, Datashader seeks to critique the impact of technology on human identity and relationships, breaking with an archetype of digital conformity and expressing a profound disillusionment with the superficiality of online interactions through music. Genuine human connection and art cannot be quantified by likes, comments, or followers but rather thrives in the visceral realm of shared sonic experience and human emotion. This idea is at the core idea of Datashader, whose artistic expression ranges from avant-garde composition and electronic experimentations to art, installation, film and more.

Expressed within the varied contexts of diverse artistic mediums, Datashader explores the concept of "technological gentrification", which describes the gradual displacement of human interaction by technology. Just as gentrification alters the urban landscape, driving out communities and cultures, digital gentrification transforms the social landscape, replacing genuine connection with curated online personas. 

Musically, Datashader's practice confronts this dystopian reality, highlighting the alarming consequence of people becoming mere nodes in a network, reduced to a collection of data points. This is manifested sonically by a blistering assault of breaks, recontextualized IDM, abstract electronics and otherworldly synthscapes, conceived as the aesthetic counterbalance to much of contemporary electronic music's dancefloor focus. 

Datashader dives deep into genres and influences which stand for a form of sonic resistance: A contemporary anti- soundtrack &ndash; a sonic mirror of the price we pay for convenience and instant gratification. A self-image in constant flux. No false technological idols.

BANDCAMP

Datashader - Sub Osc

Bandcamp: https://artsrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/constrains

Dawn Razor & Confluence - Constrains (ARTSX044)

Urquiaga is the techno music oriented project of Jose Urquiaga, a Chilean artist based in Santiago de Chile. His music is mainly conformed by enveloping sequences, percussive elements and atmospheres that induce to the trip.

Satori is an EP that seeks to capture a moment of introspection on the dance floor based on a set of minimalist elements.

Immerse yourself in a sonic journey, @urquiaga_ carefully designs drum rhythm patterns, synths and atmospheres that will dive deep into your unconsciousness.

Urquiaga - Satori (Sinistermind Remix)

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

Possibly not. If they’re anything like us, they barely sleep at all.

Lucky for us, Linear System has concocted the perfect combination of tracks to soundtrack these midnight wormholes. 5 tracks that navigate the realms of dark, brooding Techno, aided by resonant textures, chirping foley and ultimately a cavernous groove administered with surgical precision.

This release wouldn’t be complete without @Atisbomusic take on “Permanent Marker”. Our young resident crafts a remix comprised of broken techno that sounds like plastic melting under the hot martian sun, with solvent fumes emanating in clouds of sonic swathe.

If, much like us, you’re on the lookout for music that feels like the walls are closing in on you, with every pulse rumbling through a building's foundations, GTX18 is for you, replicant.

Art by fausto.jpg
Mastered by @schrzo

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Linear System - Positron [GTX018]

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sinister.nexus (AИGL remix)

Nightfall

Gummy Clusters

On June 14, Rod Modell AKA Deepchord will release his new album Captagon on Berlin’s Tresor label. The record is 9 tracks of crystalline and ethereal sound design underpinned by seismic sub-sonics from a master of techno. Today on Peak Time, we premiered the track "Tracer." 

@rodmodell
@tresorberlin

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Captagon

Rod Modell "Tracer" [Peak Time Premiere]

At midnight, on March 13th 1991, a basement door opened at Leipziger Strasse 126, Berlin. Through this door, many passed, on their way to defining new terrains in electronic music. There they found a dance floor in the vaults of a closed-down department store, with a unique sound bound to dense fog, building night after night a history that was also a vision of the future. 

This history has seen in Jeff Mills’ first sets on three turntables, Underground Resistance's first live appearances in Europe, grandiose Tresor Park parties, to various chapters of the Loveparade with Sven Väth in the 90s and since then countless generation-spanning parties. These moments represent the highlights of infinite personal clubbing experiences. It is the manifestation of the Berlin spirit, emerging from its considerable strife. This history is not without its complications - from temporary closure by the authorities and several raids in the early years to closure and demolition of the old location in 2005. What followed was years of wandering in exile and, finally, resurrection in the new home in Kraftwerk Berlin.

These stories, conversations and shared experiences within our walls forge a resilience that drives towards a shared ideal, the Tresor sound: community, resistance, and the world to come. This was observed in the newly re-unified German youth, who danced and celebrated together from the club’s inception, and into the present day through ongoing community work in Detroit. 

Tresor Records was founded in the same year and began to serve as a platform for exporting the new sounds associated with Tresor all around the world. Emergent musicians from Michigan, such as Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance and Drexciya, were pivotal in shaping these early years. Their visits to Berlin would kick-start dialogue between the youth movement in Europe and these musicians. This story is one of friendship and community-building, inextricably linked with cities like Detroit, Birmingham or Edinburgh, where like-minded friends built something truly special, where revelatory rhythms soundtrack decaying industry in corrupted metropoles. 

Tresor Records has been the fertile soil for dozens upon dozens of creative minds, from the very luminaries of the scene who developed electronic music over the last three decades through to contemporary protagonists who are currently defining the sound of the future -  A more than 300 strong catalogue displays an unmistakable identity - the Tresor spirit.

To those that have danced before, and to those that will dance in the future: the light at the end of the long Tresor tunnel is a signal. A flicker amidst the fog. This is our future. This is our place.