What are the differences and similarities between human and artificial sound, between oscillations generated by vocal cords and synthesizer voices, voltage amplified by speakers? On Silencio, his latest album for Tresor Records, Moritz von Oswald works with a 16-voice choir to explore this concept. 

Drawing from the ensemble works of long-standing inspirations Edgard Var&egrave;se, Gy&ouml;rgy Ligeti and Iannis Xenakis, von Oswald and Vocalconsort Berlin delve into the space between sounds, creating a deeply textured collection that shifts between light &amp; ethereal and dark &amp; dissonant. 

As masterfully demonstrated in the early work of von Oswald and Mark Ernestus' influential Basic Channel project, repetition and reduction are key elements here, much in the tradition of techno and minimalism. The vast dynamism of the human voice adds to the profound weight of electronics while offering up a rhythmic source and sonic noise palette unexplored in von Oswald's repertoire. In Silencio, von Oswald dredges a dank murk, pulling clouds over a distant pulse. It hangs, ready to take on new forms. 

The compositions were written in von Oswald's Berlin studio on classic synthesizers, such as the EMS VCS3 &amp; AKS, Prophet V, Oberheim 4-Voice and the Moog Model 15. These abstract recordings were transcribed to sheet music for choir by Berlin-based Finnish composer and pianist, Jarkko Riihim&auml;ki and performed by Vocalconsort Berlin in &Ouml;lberg church in the city's Kreuzberg district, only few metres down the road from where Dubplates &amp; Mastering and Hard Wax opened their doors for music enthusiasts for many years so long. 

The recordings of the choral versions were then incorporated into the synthesized parts of the album and brought into anew electronic context; in Silencio, the focus is not on using one means to imitate the other, but to sonically discuss the tensions and harmonies between the two worlds and create a dialogue between them. 

The relationship between von Oswald and Tresor Records goes back thirty years, all the way to Blake Baxter's Dream Sequence in 1991 - which von Oswald engineered alongside Thomas Fehlmann. The collaboration with Fehlmann lived on, seeing the duo team up as 3MB with Eddie Fowlkes or Juan Atkins. More recently, the Detroit-Berlin connection continued as Juan Atkins &amp; Moritz von Oswald present Borderland. 

For von Oswald, Tresor Records and also the participating guest musicians of the choir, this release brings together audiences from other musical areas, cross-pollinating; Silencio is an album that stands for itself beyond the musical genre boundaries.

BANDCAMP

Moritz von Oswald - Librarsi

Moritz von Oswald - Infinito

premiere of "Mechanical Moon" by Irakli 
taken from the album "Mechanical Moon", released soon on  Live At Robert Johnson

Album Details:
https://novafuture.blog/2023/09/14/irakli-mechanical-moon-live-at-robert-johnson/

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Artist: Irakli | @irakli
Label: Live At Robert Johnson | @live-at-robert-johnson

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Irakli - Mechanical Moon [PLAYRJC100 | Premiere]

Written & produced by DJ Varsovie
Mixdown by Paulie Jan at Agit Prop Studio
Mastering by Jeremy at LaVilla
Photography and Calligraphy by Ellie Chiang

DJ Varsovie - City Lights

Psychedelic intimate 2-deck vibes in my set at Space Deich Festival.  Perfect for those looking to relive the festival’s magic or dive into a slightly different sonic adventure from myself. This one is in total contrast of the recent recordings from Tresor and the Live PA. Deeper, slower and more heady vibes from many years of techno history :)

Ritual Cycles @ Space Deich Festival 2024

Relaxing sound to bring piece to your mind and soul.

Cherry Blossom Lullaby

My first setting of Fit_Realest's poem We Simply Exist,thanks for the chance to arrange it mate,music by me and read by me 

WE SIMPLY EXIST BY FIT REALEST

Antigone - Blue Note (Token)

Release date: 2nd of February 2018 (vinyl & digital format)

TRACKLIST
A -  Magma 
B -  Mantle

Token mainstay Inigo Kennedy had no fewer than three collaborative tracks on Momentum, the 3LP release put together to celebrate 10 years of the label’s output. As Token’s first ever releasing artist and now long recognised as an integral contributor to its distinctive sound, Kennedy continues to offer his part in shaping the label’s identity. 
 TOKEN79 feels conceptually complete as a record: The similarities between the tracks are almost as striking as their individual qualities. Each piece is titled in reference to planetary layers, each presenting another piece of the same world. 
 On the A-side is Magma, with a lead that’s refreshingly candid in its tenderness, soaked in reverb and sprawling with variations that gradually increase in complexity, carried by subharmonic pads it diffuses into the mix. Mantle is more percussion focused. Much of its movement is dictated by a pitch-bent woodiness that meanders in stereo while the composition rumbles on and opens up to a crescendo that’s powerful, yet measured in a way that’s characteristic of Kennedy’s control.

TOKEN79 - Inigo Kennedy – Magma / Mantle

'A Perpetual Race' from the starting gun to the finish line. Recorded in Berlin at 128 heartbeats per minute. Pulled back to to 113bpm for optimal sonic madness, dubplated at 45rpm, re-recorded and mastered at 33rpm and freshly squeezed onto 140gram black vinyl for SAFT 2…..

Out next week on @malka-tuti
https://malkatuti.bandcamp.com/album/saft-2
https://kompakt.fm/releases/saft_2

A1 Remix of 'Yaranabe' by Full Circle  (Alexis Le Tan & Joakim) 
Clarinet by Tarquin Manek
Mastered by Ma Spaventi

Die Orangen - A Perpetual Race [SAFT2 - Malka Tuti]

CHRONICLES OF DECAY [ Part 2 ]
Label : Nicz Records
Format : 12" / 200 copies
Distribution : readymade
Release Date : February 2020
[ NCZ010 ]

A1 : Myztical - Blood Under Car Garage 
A2 : Myztical - End Of The Brigade 
B1 : Myztical - China White 
B2 : Tower Of Skulls (SHXCXCHCXSH Remix)

B2 : Myztical - Tower Of Skulls (SHXCXCHCXSH remix)

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.

Moritz von Oswald - Infinito

Tresor Records

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