Detroit Techno  - part 2

Naarm alchemists Sleep D’s revelatory new synthetic ‘Electronic Arts’ is ready for circulation. 

Having released 4 EPs of mind-altering club tackle since 2019’s ‘Rebel Force’, the duo overcome second album syndrome, boiling down their chaos with a more developed sense of songwriting. Never banging one drum, ‘Electronic Arts’ mirrors the anything goes mania of their DJ sets, tactfully shifting through different sounds and styles. Tempos intensify and decelerate, at times pushing the threshold to 150 bpm from docile canine dreamscapes to full tilt Space Invaders in AR mind games. 

Largely built on road tested material from their live performances, the album is a tangible Butter Sessions gathering, busting out the gate with Martian rave initiation Planet Waves, Outdoor System’s polyrhythmic beatdown and the Orb-like hero dose affirmations of Sunrise In The Crater (I Exist). While ‘Electronic Arts’ is otherwise a self-dependent effort, Punch Drunk is brewed ever more potent by the hypnagogic vocals and lucid trumpet cycles of former futsal team member YL Hooi. Their unified energy incidentally manifests a profound matrix of ambient techno, motorik, Don Cherry and Everything But the Girl. 

Also touching on apocalyptic doof and minimal, the album is not exclusively peak time with Maryos Syawish and Corey Kikos’ specialty curveballs also playing their part. From Village To Empire finds the duo rooting down in Syawish’s heritage with a tapestry of purposefully deployed Iraqi and Syrian ethnographic samples and field recordings, dubbed within range of Muslimgauze and On-U Sound. As minimal techno finale Textile trails off into footsteps wandering back to base camp with a satisfied exhale, one wonders where Sleep D’s existential pathfinding could possibly take us next? 

Artwork – GGT 
Mixing – Corey Kikos 
Mastering – Nik Kozub 
Album notes – Michael Kucyk

B2 - Strange Sounds

Biospore Farmers

Sunrise On Moss Landing Platform 5

THE TRIP - ENTER THE BLACK HOLE

Hole

Il Ritorno

D-Bahn

POWER STEP 2.0

A constantly morphing soundscape of bell-like tones and driving rhythm. Melancholic, galactic, and hypnotic.

Credits:
Produced, Mixed & Mastered by TCH
Artwork: amigobusiness.ch

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Eternal

Depth Charge 4

Re-synthesize

Over the course of the past five years, Amsterdam based label Indigo Aera has evolved in to one of the most trustworthy and respected contemporary Detroit techno labels around.

In October 2016, @IndigoAera embarks on their biggest release to date: a limited edition 5 LP box-set. The Lost Archives Special consists of unreleased tracks from absolute legends, to music that has never been released in a physical form before, to fresh compositions of techno’s most talented contemporary artists. This is the premiere of 500 Models (demo mix) by Joris Voorn.


@Joris-Voorn on "500 models"
"I made this track on an MPC and Juno 106 in 2001. It was recorded in one live take in my student room in Rotterdam. It never got released as I wasn’t sure about the track, but it was picked up by Indigo Aera years later when I put an mp3 on my website.’’

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