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The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new track from Phase Fatale & Reka. Tbilisi's KHIDI announces a series of three VA EPs with tracks from its residents and artists closely affiliated with the club, which will be released over the course of summer and autumn on KHIDI's label. Today we present the enigmatic electro heater "No Esperes Más" from the first EP of the series.

The first compilation  "A minute of music quelled a whole life of noise"  will be released on July 26th and features tracks from James Ruskin, Tensal, Yanamaste and Phase Fatale & Reka. The second EP "Two thorns together, a hundred tears apart"  is out in September with tracks from club's close friend Silent Servant and three track collabs between the club residents Ancient Methods & OTHR, Unhuman & Vulkanski and Roman & Boyd Schidt. Last but not least, the final EP "Music is like fire, without it, sheer darkness and cold" will be released in October with tracks from Matrixxman vs Espen Lauritzen, Inigo Kennedy, Deano and club resident Christoph Faust.

Available digitally + vinyl on Bandcamp. Pre-order here now: https://khidi.bandcamp.com/album/6-years-of-khidi-i

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@rebeca
@phasefatale

PREMIERE: Phase Fatale & Reka - No Esperes Más [KHIDIANIV001]

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BITE is pleased to announce the solo debut of the label boss himself – Hayden Payne aka Phase Fatale – with his first EP in 5 years.

The New York native and Berlin-based BITE label founder has long made a name for himself as one of the main players on the heavy electronics arena. Berghain and Khidi resident with releases on labels like Jealous God, Ostgut Ton and unterton under his belt, Payne also is ½ of the Soft Crash duo with Pablo Bozzi.

‘Nailed To The Net’ is Phase Fatale’s first solo work on the label. The EP consists of five tracks canonical to Payne’s signature futuristic industrial style, including a remix by the interdisciplinary artist Rrose. Not deprived of romantic sensibility, and yet with punchy groove and heavy hitting arpeggiations, the record comes together as a flavourful mix of sci-fi-like electro, unsettling vocals, powerful industrial techno, and atmospheric guitar driven wave.

Nailed To The Net

Phase Fatale - Desecrating Vows (BITE025)

"I've always loved mistakes; it's the hidden beauty in all art" - Andrew Weatherall

Transparent Sound are the original dons of UK electro, not exactly household names yet an act with so many under-repped classics that once you dive into their catalogue you might end up emptying your bank account on Discogs. 

To save you going down this calamitous path as well as to finally, raise TS to the level of notoriety they deserve, Tresor Records is very proud to announce the release of Accidents 1994-2023.

Formed by Orson Bramley and Martin Brown in Bognor Regis in 1994, Transparent Sound have managed to create 30 years' worth of some of the best electro from the British Isles, despite claiming to not know what they were doing nor how their instruments work. 

It's likely that it's this lack of knowledge that led to the quality and longevity of their output - the pair experiment and tinker with the machines until something pleasing appears then follow that sound down whatever path seems fruitful: "the confidence of ignorance" as a slightly more-famous Orson, Orson Welles, once put it. 

This tactic has paid off well and found them stumbling into many notable adventures, from remixing The Cure to performing during an intermission between two halves of a lecture - none of which they understood as it was in Spanish.

The compilation collects a lucky-for-you 13 of their most glorious electrical accidents on a three-disc set including the dancefloor hits Punk Mother Fucker (a mainstay of Villalobos sets at the time of release), and No Call From New York (as heard on Helena Hauff's perfect 2017 Essential Mix).

The package also comes with 'Windows To Your Sole' from the unreleased white label Transparent Sound 007, other unreleased tracks, and special 2023 edits as well as six digital bonus tracks.

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PREMIERE: Transparent Sound - Remanisance

PREMIERE: Transparent Sound - No Call From New York (Acid Mix)

PREMIERE: Transparent Sound - Mistakes Happen

PREMIERE: Transparent Sound - Punk Mother Fucker

Juan Mendez aka Silent Servant is a figure in techno history that needs little introduction. As a member of the Sandwell District collective and the label's art director he collaborated on works that were responsible for a global focal shift in the genre as their label adapted and challenged the paradigm of minimal techno, taking influence from other sources such as dub, post-punk, and even classical minimalism.

But Mendez's relationship with music goes back much further than these seminal releases. With In Memoriam, Silent Servant's latest release on Tresor Records, Mendez writes a deeply personal memoir of a 30-plus year career spent exploring and absorbing the shadowy side of music; a carefully crafted elegy to people, places, and times past and the lasting effect they have on the present.

Across the four tracks, Mendez pays tribute to the earliest Detroit techno and electro, the Belgian EBM movement and the wave music that followed, the monumental dub techno sound from Berlin, and the harder, abrasive sound of the UK at the turn of the last millennium; exploring and referencing the genres that informed his later work. Each track name gives a hint to the timeframe he is revisiting and re-contextualising as the E.P. repurposes the styles that exerted an influence on him.

This E.P. represents a pure distillation of Mendez's memories whilst also cementing his place in the current and future sound of 21st century techno; aware of where we came from but focused on where we are heading.

Silent Servant - M-87

Years of Denial is the project of French musician Jerome Tcherneyan, in former times drummer of cult British band Piano Magic and music producer since 1997, and Czech performance & music artist, songwriter, and poet Barkosina Hanusova.

Active since 2016, the duo has become known across the globe for their well-crafted sharp productions and electrifying live performances.

ORDER HERE:http://gwimyeonrecords.b7ndc7mp.com

https://soundcloud.com/yearsofdenial
https://soundcloud.com/volnost
https://soundcloud.com/rangelova
https://soundcloud.com/comarobot

PREMIERE: Years Of Denial - Sensory Box [ GWI MYEON RECORDS ‘⻤面 ]

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Buy link: https://rapture-wav.bandcamp.com/album/mors-atra-va

Like the Black Death that ravaged the old continent in the 14th century, Rapture's new album portrays the spread across Europe of a shadow in the form of sound waves.

The compilation will feature the presence of two Khidi residents, OTHR and Unhuman, as well as Incendie and Notausgang from France and the Portuguese EMMA.

Artist: OTHR
Track: Haunt
Label: Rapture
Catalog Number: RPT002
Release Date: 11th November 2024
Format: Digital
Mastering: João Rodrigues @ Tema Mastering
Artwork: Serafim Mendes

Artist links: 
https://soundcloud.com/othrmsc
https://www.instagram.com/othr.msc/

Label links: 
https://linktr.ee/rapture.wav
https://www.instagram.com/rapture.wav/
https://soundcloud.com/rapture-wav
https://www.facebook.com/rapture.wavv/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsENEgT_VVkKSE_5xcrmrOg

Premiere: OTHR - Haunt [RPT002]

Phase Fatale - Velvet Imprints

CORPPO - Colocada

Critical thinking

Taken from Missiles 12" EP
Available on January 22th on all the records stores and all the digital platforms.
https://bombtrap-records.bandcamp.com/album/delectro-missiles-ep
Missiles the new EP of the colombian artist Delectro is an exploration between methallic sounds, EBM basslines, Industrial Techno and dark and dense electro combined with a post apocalyptic view of the future of the world, armamentism and war. This release includes three original tracks and a brutal remix by Al Ferox. Side A Missiles and Electro Phase. Side B Mass Destruction track previously released on I-Traxx Red Editions and a remix by Al Ferox for Coldness.

Bombtrap Records:
https://soundcloud.com/bombtraprecords
https://bombtrap-records.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BombtrapRecords/

Missiles

Delectro - Missiles

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere “Spritzkrieg”  by Soft Crash, the new music collaboration formed by Hayden Payne, aka Berghain resident Phase Fatale and Pablo Bozzi of Imperial Black Unit. Attempting to throw off the dark and authoritative stereotypes of the current music scene they helped foster, Payne and Bozzi look to their core influences of synthwave, disco, and early techno to carve a new path as italo body music pioneers. 

The Spritzkrieg EP presents 3 tracks serving as just a bite of what will follow in their full length album for 2021. Each song serves as a view into the pool of subgeneres that they are exploring: from Frankfurt prototrance and techno to driving italo disco and new beat to drowned out electro on the verge of 90s Warp-alike ambient. Both trained musicians, Soft Crash brings melody back into the fold, creating intelligent, melancholic hooks combined with sensual, pulsating rhythm. It can convey the artists’ emotions in a picturesque way that just words themselves cannot. Music that would fit perfectly in the largest concrete techno halls as well as the sleaziest lab disco nights.

To mark this great release we also present a Q&A with the artists about the project: https://thebrvtalist.com/

The release is out November 27th digitally + vinyl on BITE. Pre-order now on Bandcamp: https://biterecords.bandcamp.com/album/spritzkrieg

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@pablo-bozzi

Spritzkrieg

Soft Crash - Spritzkrieg (BITE016.5)

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.

Silent Servant - M-87

Tresor Records

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