https://trialnerror.bandcamp.com/album/athens-uhd
Greek label and promoters Trial & Error present their first compilation, Athens UHD, curated by Marios 'bonebrokk' Naris.

Athens UHD is a deep dive into the contemporary Greek club scene featuring 15 tracks that clearly depict the modern Athenian club landscape. Featuring razor-sharp broken beats, eastern percussion and cutting edge textures, the compilation proves why Athens is one of the most interesting rising capitals for club sonics.

Made for future thinking music lovers worldwide, TNE003 is notably a 100% Greek product, featuring artwork from Greek artist Inhalt and mastering by the Athenian, Stefan Konstantinidis.

Complemantary words about the release, Athens and some of her problems: http://www.untitled909.com/the-lowdown-bonebrokk/ .
releases April 3, 2020

Art by Inhalt
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Mastering by Stefan Konstantinidis at Fabrika Music Studio www.facebook.com/stefankonsta
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AM: Let’s start with your album! Had such a whirl listening to it, how long was it in the making? What was the the concept behind it & what does your set up look like?

G: Thank you for the kind words! The album was around a 2-year project in total from the inception of the concept to finally being put through production ready for release. The concept originated from the beginnings of a personal spiritual journey that started 2 years prior to when I first started writing it, where I began to delve into philosophy from various periods of time, mostly being the Hellenistic period of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Buddhism and 1920’s Existential Philosophy to name the most predominant things I explored, along with the incredible world of psychology. Through making attempts to understand myself I began to make a connection with something greater than me – a kind of unifying bond that brings all of us and everything together as one, which the album title ‘Pulchra Es Elementis’ alludes to, translating roughly to ‘Elements Are Beautiful’ in Latin, where the elements are essentially what makes us who we are and everything else around us. The general mood of the album is quite uplifting, almost melancholic, which I think reflects the way life is most of the time; an underlying pessimistic, realistic perspective that I have learnt has allowed me to truly understand how beautiful the world can really be. We all experience some form of suffering, and I think that this is an important thing to consider about the human race; we are all bound together by this fact I think, and in a way I feel a powerful beauty around this idea that enriches my experience with the world. The setup during the production of the album was incredibly simple – an Akai MIDI Keyboard, monitors, and interface, my ancient Macbook Pro and Ableton Live 9. A lot of the production techniques I used on the album were sample-heavy, but I did use a specific set of VSTs, including Massive and Zebralette.

AM: Tell us a little about the mix, how and where did you record it? Did ya enjoy it? 

I recorded the mix at home in my studio (my bedroom) using a MIDI Mixer given to me by some friends (Thanks Neil and Jodie!) using Traktor on a sunny afternoon. I absolutely love recording mixes and taking the listener on a journey so the experience was great! When I record mixes I try to make each one different to the last, and this mix was centred around the more slower tracks on the LP, which are all featured throughout. I am a huge fan of slower tempos between 90 and 120 BPM for their more hypnotic, flowing nature and so I drew for a selection of tracks that followed suit with this energy, as the tracks off the album are made to capture this same force. There are a mix of older and newer tracks inside and it is cool to hear how different periods of music history from the last 10 years meld together so brilliantly! It is chuggy, meditative, warped and full of dense low end.


AM: We’re big fans of your label NHS too, it’s quite varied and all the releases are great. Was there a specific idea with it to start with?

Thank you! I had initially wanted to start a label when I still lived in Australia and cycled through a range of idea that didn’t stick. Nostro Hood System finally came to be when I considered my long-term love for Science Fiction and Fantasy. I imagined what it would be like to receive an audio artefact from an alternate galaxy; what would that music sound like? By this time I was deeply interested in the left-field realm of electronic music and it seemed fitting to take NHS down the thematic route. So Nostro Hood System is essentially the name of the alternate system much like our Solar System that occupies the universe and the records are the sounds that come from it. The team that interprets the sound files are Xenologists on earth who receive and transmit the audio into comprehensible sounds that our ears can comprehend.

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Coming in heavy for February’s edition of our mix series is @ruffkaval, France’s 👑 of hard drum, with a 100% unreleased production mix.

Drawing inspiration from genres such as gqom and UK funky as well as the deeper percussive cuts of dancehall, the Toulouse-based DJ and producer reps @egreg-re collective and @riddims-supplies whilst securing his own releases spanning from Portugal to Poland.

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Following a short break, Virtual Forest Records are back with a 6-track EP by Fluid Matter (@fluidmatter), one of the three label founders.
Located on the more bassy side of their universe, Fluid Matter operates here between territories of leftfield bass, post-dubstep, and electro with hints of techno and UK Funky. A release definitely darker than most, deeply rooted in club aesthetics and dedicated to showing specks of light shining in the murkiest night.

Tracklist:
- Glowworms
- I Can Hear Your Voice
- Slug On My Chair
- Looping Thoughts 
- Looping Thoughts (Qant Remix)
- Glowworms (Solma Remix) 

All tracks written and produced by Fluid Matter
Remixes by Qant and Solma

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Mixing by Solma
Mastering by Cédric iFa Oléon at IFL3Studios

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Next to co-founding Ghent-based collectives Grid and Nooit Meer Naar Huis, Vers has a genuine ear for obscure sounds and delicately experimental club tunes, he delivers carefully selected mixes that are both intriguing and vigorous. Mostly exploring a heavily bass-centered sound, grime, dubstep and drill, it's really hard to pin him down. What's easy though, is that he has developed a signature sound that he can call his own. 

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Bristol-based producer QGB returns their second album ‘A RECKONING’ out on the 8th April via their PRESENT TENSE imprint. The album was recorded over a three year period, with another year to get it together to release it. 

As mentioned to Accidental Meetings recently, GQB said of the album, “it’s aggy and a bit broken but I hope there’s also grooves and danceable sections in there and it’s not all heady self indulgent nonsense. I guess each track was its own little process but a lot of what inspired me at the time was working with more generative techniques, basic chance/randomness not wanting it to be academic and dry but making it feel a bit alive and unpredictable.”

This is their first release on the label since 2018’s release of ‘Hornet’ - a record which was supported by the likes of Truants, Call Super, and Resident Advisor to name a few. Slowly becoming a go-to producer for your favourite DJs, we’re super excited to share one of, ‘PIGS’ from the album - one of the most in-your-face, all encompassing tracks on there.

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5. ΑΣΤΥΤΕΚΚ - Meta Leak

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The sun had fallen below the trees but the heat remained during the darkness. A thick blanket of humidity hung low over the city, forcing jackets and coats to be stripped off and slung over shoulders. The streets were alive with chatter and distant melodies that floated through the air; swathes of friends walked their different paths, trying to find a suitable destination for their evening. Perhaps this wasn't the time to be descending into a sweaty basement, but the shaking walls and reverberating whoops and cheers that worked their way up from the depths made it all the more enticing... 

To shed some light on the sounds coming out of his home city of Athens, Trial & Error label boss Marios 'bonebrokk' Naris has curated a compilation that depicts the Greek capital's contemporary club landscape. Athens UHD features 15 artists who are regularly soundtracking the city's clubs, and showcases their distinct style through complex broken drum patterns, harsh textures and Eastern percussion. Our pick of the bunch comes from Thessaloniki-born DJ and producer Aroent, who brings a blend of forward-thinking techno and broken rhythms smothered in harsh industrial reverb.

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