Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/utter13bandcamp
Phonica: https://bit.ly/utter13phonica

Rejoice fiends, as this halloween Utter ventures into the darkness for its long-lost 13th release, a limited double LP by infamous electro sorcerer Labyrinthine.

'II-V' wrangles 11 daemonic invocations from the infernal vortex, cut loud at 45rpm on deep red vinyl and incarcerated within artwork by Alison Flora, painted in her own blood.

'II-V' is not for the faint of heart, as its cursed soundscapes have been known to intoxicate and overwhelm even the strongest and purest of minds. Listener beware!

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[UTTER 13] Labyrinthine - II-V

Utter presents the extraordinary audio-visual project 'SuperEverything*' by multi-media artists The Light Surgeons.

'SuperEverything*' is a live cinema performance piece that explores identity, ritual and place in relation to Malaysia’s past, present and future. Commissioned by The British Council in 2011, it was created in collaboration with a group of Malaysian audio and visual artists. Over the past decade, the project has toured to various film and new media arts festivals internationally.

'SuperEverything*' is a fusion of music, field recordings, documentary filmmaking and real-time moving image manipulation that together transports its audiences through a series of universal narratives; exploring themes of tradition and modernity, globalisation and development, race and national identity, to consumer culture and belief.

'SuperEverything*' surveys our human condition to reveal what unites and divides us. It weaves together a rich kaleidoscope of stories, sounds, images and smells live on stage. It is a truly immersive, cross disciplinary performative artwork that reflects on how our complex identities are formed through ritual in relation to our rapidly evolving physical and psychological environments.

'SuperEverything*' poses many questions about how people form a sense of identity in a world increasingly dominated by information networks and fast changing social and economic landscapes.

This limited edition vinyl and digital album features the nine original tracks that make up the musical score to this groundbreaking live cinema project, fusing traditional South East Asian instruments with field recordings, electronica and western classical string instruments.

Accompanying the record is a 24 page full colour booklet and double-sided poster, housed in a gatefold sleeve. The booklet contains quotes from the narrative interviewees whose voices are interwoven throughout the performance. These quotes accompany images from the production and performances to help illustrate the musical journey and allow you to contemplate the themes and ideas explored in this work. The poster design features a collection of filmstrips taken from the video material in the show with a single striking album image photo on the reverse.

The release is also accompanied by a previously unavailable film of the full live cinema performance recorded at Hackney Empire in collaboration with The Barbican in 2013. A wealth of information on the project is also available here: www.supereverything.net

[UTTER 15] The Light Surgeons - SuperEverything*

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Utter presents 'The Ritual EP' by Frank Rodas.

Frank Rodas is the elusive creator of 2019's 'The Sellout EP' (Optimo Music) and one of the brains behind the excellent 'Out The Flat' label. While his previous release deftly dipped into Electro, Industrial and EBM sonics, 'The Ritual EP' sees the versatile producer travel in another direction, taking the listener on an ethereal, acid-tinged Tribal voyage.

The visuals also complement the EP's cohesive deeper sound. Decadence comics co-founder Lando's immersive artwork draws us further into this imagined far-future world, with a vast flooded landscape dominating the front cover, any remnant of civilisation succumbing to nature. A large 50x70cm panoramic poster is included with every copy of the record.

'The Ritual EP' is available on recycled vinyl and digital formats. A limited edition of 100 randomly coloured 'eco jazz' vinyl copies are exclusive to Bandcamp and Phonica Records, while black vinyl is available elsewhere.

Mastered & cut by Anne Taegert at D&M.

Distributed by Rubadub (Vinyl) + Above Board (Digital).

[UTTER 17] Frank Rodas - Ritual EP

Bandcamp: bit.ly/utter16bandcamp
Phonica: bit.ly/utter16phonica

MARMO, a collaborative project between Christian Duka (Vādin / Amoenus) and Marco Maldarella (Sinestesie), was born out of friendship and shared passion for music-making. Starting off respectively as the electric guitarist and singer in a metal band nearly a decade ago, the pair have worked their way through various flavours of electronic music inhabiting someplace between ambient and dance music, arriving at their singular aesthetic on this, their second album and first for Utter.

'Epistolae' - Latin for 'written letters' - was created between London and Bologna during the COVID-19 pandemic, an ode to friendship and as a way to keep connected during a time of isolated separation. The album is conceived as one continuous musical experience, with each track flowing effortlessly into each other in sequence as is heard on the final cut you are listening to now. A veritable sonic journey, as one might say.

The outcome is an undulating collage carrying emotion as its common thread, with rich ambient textures giving way to bursts of percussion, simmering with shrouded whispers and spoken word, embossed with rhythms and borrowing influences from downtempo, dub, breaks, techno and tribal electronica.

'Epistolae' is available on limited vinyl and digital formats, mastered & Cut by Anne Taegert at D&M. Artwork by Marco Maldarella. Distributed by Rubadub (Vinyl) + Above Board (Digital).

[UTTER 16] MARMO - Epistolae

Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/utter19bandcamp
Phonica: https://bit.ly/utter19phonica

Utter (in collaboration with 3XL @triplexlarge) presents @mu_tate's second album 'they're with you always', featuring Joshua Inyang (@space-afrika), Nikolay Kozlov, Desirèe Monique, Igor Dyachenko and Mathilde.

Available on limited vinyl housed in a high-gloss sleeve artworked by Lucas Dupuy and Art Crime. Mastered by Ike Zwanikken then transferred and cut by Anne Taegert at D&M.

they're with you always
inspired by a true story

[UTTER 19] mu tate - they're with you always

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Utter presents the second full-length album by enigmatic duo Vādin - a collaboration between sound artists and performers Christian Duka and Lucie Štepánková (aka Avsluta). “Black Tortoise” is a voyage accompanied by the uncanny, the shadow-dwelling specters and arcane symbolism derived from ancient Chinese astronomy.

“Astrologia” opens the album with an eerie torrent of droning voices and glassy, percussive interventions, leading into the patiently unfolding opening of the “The Presence” with it’s ominous narrative riding the swelling, thunderous rhythms culminating in swarms of hallucinatory chaos. The doom of “Calliope” follows, infused with cavernous, beastly vocalisations which lure the listener into “The Furnace”, a drowsy kaleidoscope of rhythms weaved together with Štepánková’s mother-tongue narration. And further on still, into the make-believe world conjured up by the buzzing and swarming objects overheard on “Plateau”.

Available on limited vinyl and digital formats. A special fold-out pamphlet is included with physical copies.

Spoken word by Lucie Štepánková. Mixed at SAE Institute by Christian Duka and mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk. Transferred and cut by Helmut Erler at D&M.

Artwork designed by Marco Maldarella.

Black Tortoise

A3. Calliope

A2. The Presence

D3. Nematode [PREVIEW]

D2. Phthiraptera [PREVIEW]

D1. Delirium Tremens [PREVIEW]

C2. Daemonium Cithara [PREVIEW]

C1. Oculos Tenebrarum [PREVIEW]

B3. Bondye [PREVIEW]

B2. Diptera [PREVIEW]

B1. Integumento Labyrinthum [PREVIEW]

A3. Ebola [PREVIEW]

A2. Diogenes Syndrome [PREVIEW]

A1. Coleoptera [PREVIEW]

A5. The Marketplace Of Belonging [PREVIEW]

A4. A Global Village [PREVIEW]

A3. History Begins Here [PREVIEW]

A2. The Sin Of Forgetting [PREVIEW]

A1. Hiding In The Light [PREVIEW]

Latvian producer mu tate (@mutate3k) joins Utter with the ‘Faded’ EP, a collection of five mesmerising ambient electronica pieces.

mu tate - real name Artur Strekalov - has been diligently and unceremoniously weaving his musical magic for the past half-decade. ‘Faded’ walks the same spectral path as his feted album ‘Let Me Put Myself Together’ (Experiences Ltd, 2020), which introduced many to Strekalov’s highly atmospheric, blissed-out sonic explorations. The EP glides along, each track enveloping the listener in a cocoon of undulating frequencies and ghostly rhythm, softly contained yet stretching out beyond into wide open space. Delicate, crackling sparks fizz in and out of perception above.

It’s a trip alright!

‘Faded’ is available on limited vinyl and digital formats, mastered and cut by Anne Taegert at D&M. Artwork by AS, laid out by Alex Egan. A special insert designed by Art Crime is also included with physical copies.

B3. Benz (with Santebela) [PREVIEW]

MARMO, a collaborative project between Christian Duka (Vādin / Amoenus) and Marco Maldarella (Sinestesie), was born out of friendship and shared passion for music-making. Starting off respectively as the electric guitarist and singer in a metal band nearly a decade ago, the pair have worked their way through various flavours of electronic music inhabiting someplace between ambient and dance music, arriving at their singular aesthetic on this, their second album and first for Utter.

'Epistolae' - Latin for 'written letters' - was created between London and Bologna during the COVID-19 pandemic, an ode to friendship and as a way to keep connected during a time of isolated separation. The album is conceived as one continuous musical experience, with each track flowing effortlessly into each other in sequence as is heard on the final cut you are listening to now. A veritable sonic journey, as one might say.

The outcome is an undulating collage carrying emotion as its common thread, with rich ambient textures giving way to bursts of percussion, simmering with shrouded whispers and spoken word, embossed with rhythms and borrowing influences from downtempo, dub, breaks, techno and tribal electronica.

'Epistolae' is available on limited vinyl and digital formats, mastered & Cut by Anne Taegert at D&M. Artwork by Marco Maldarella. Distributed by Rubadub (Vinyl) + Above Board (Digital).

C2. Demetra [PREVIEW]

C1. Traveling Without Moving [PREVIEW]

B3. Gotta Light? [PREVIEW]

B2. Semiotica [PREVIEW]

B1. Fenomenologia Del Giudizio [PREVIEW]

A3. Respiro [PREVIEW]

A2. Sacrificio Quotidiano [PREVIEW]

A1. Introduzione [PREVIEW]

Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/utter19bandcamp
Phonica: https://bit.ly/utter19phonica

Utter (in collaboration with 3XL) presents mu tate's second album 'they're with you always', featuring Joshua Inyang (Space Afrika), Nikolay Kozlov, Desirèe Monique, Igor Dyachenko and Mathilde.

Available on limited vinyl housed in a high-gloss sleeve artworked by Lucas Dupuy and Art Crime. Mastered by Ike Zwanikken then transferred and cut by Anne Taegert at D&M.

they're with you always
inspired by a true story

they're with you always

B5. they're with you always (feat. Igor Dyachenko & Mathilde) [PREVIEW]

B2. was it holy (feat. Desirèe Monique) [PREVIEW]

B1. ∞∞ (feat. Space Afrika) [PREVIEW]

A3. all night drip (feat. Nikolay Kozlov) [PREVIEW]

A2. frank's hublots [PREVIEW]

A1. cicada break [PREVIEW]

Ritual EP

Ritual [PREVIEW]

Forest Dance [PREVIEW]

Lemuria [PREVIEW]

Glacial Motion [PREVIEW]

Xenofauna [PREVIEW]

Insect-Talk

O Yuki Conjugate - Insect-Talk (Tolouse Low Trax Remix) (PREVIEW)

O Yuki Conjugate - Insect-Talk (O Yuki Conjugate 2018 Version) (PREVIEW)

De Originele Filmmuziek Van Schaduw Horizon

A2. Verlaten Dierentuin Wassenaar [PREVIEW]

A1. Radar Bol (Main Theme) [PREVIEW]

The ever-prolific Ed Upton aka DMX Krew is up next on Utter with 'Turn It On', a four-track EP of Level 42 cover versions. Yes, you read that right... as if 2020 couldn't get any stranger!

This is no exercise in irony though. This record is a true labour of love for Ed, a sincere tribute to a band he adored as a youngster. The original Level 42 tracks he has covered - 'Turn It On', 'Love Games' and '43' - all appeared on their acclaimed self-titled debut album way back in 1981, which also featured the talents of a young Wally Badarou and Atmosfear's Leroy Williams.

Ed has stayed faithful to the tracks' excellent arrangements, swapping out live instruments for drum machines and synths, vocals for vocoders.

The result is a record that retains the original material's brit-funk charm but with that unmistakable DMX Krew electro-funk and boogie flavour. It breathes new life into these classic tracks without deviating from what made them so catchy and fun in the first place. We hope they put a smile on your face too.

Limited 12" in fluorescent green sleeve.

Dedicated to Rowland 'Boon' Gould (1955-2019).

Turn It On

B2. DMX Krew - "43" [PREVIEW]

B1. DMX Krew - Love Games [PREVIEW]

A2. DMX Krew - Turn It On (Dub) [PREVIEW]

A1. DMX Krew - Turn It On [PREVIEW]

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Sub-label 'Quoth' run with @Mike-Smaczylo.
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