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The second EP from Jack Dice sees a huge leap in ambition for the project, a 5 track session that’s more addictive, direct and heady than its predecessor.
‘Sip Paint’ centres around ‘Stash’s Theme’ featuring rapper and producer Stash Marina, a track that deploys crisp triplets and saturated production straddling mainstream signatures on the one hand and a world of analogue/deviant recording techniques on the other. It’s an odd, hyper-addictive track - available here in both vocal and instrumental versions.
‘Low Glo’, ‘Kerosene’ and ‘Radium Dial’ are more subdued and immersive; you could draw lines straight through the material here to a number of different projects Twells has been involved with through the last decade, though he seems to benefit immeasurably from Chambliss’ presence. The pair find a perfect balance between their respective disciplines, resulting in an EP that at different points throws stylistic references to everything from Prince’s Black Album to The Art of Noise, Drake, Philip Jeck and Evian Christ’s DUGA 3 sessions - without ever sounding overworked or too knowing, a feat in itself.

Stash's Theme (Feat. Stash Marina)

- taken from "Superimpositions" (BKEDIT010)

A3. Zeroth-Order Approximation

http://www.meditations.jp/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&products_id=15897

Kevin Drumm - Wrong Intersection (Excerpt)

Composed and written by Fragrance.
Mixed and mastered by Julien Hulard

Lyric video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvYkV_9T7lw&feature=youtu.be

Moons + Dust

Taken from Fragrance.'s debut EP "Dust & Disorders"
Out now : fragrancemusic.bandcamp.com/album/dust-disorders-ep

Composed and written by Fragrance.

Lyric video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPhr_IAz1tE
Premiere on Poule d'Or : http://www.pouledor.com/2016/06/21/premiere-du-jour-fragrance-lust-for-lights-video/
Featured on Beko Disques "Summer 2016" : https://beko.bandcamp.com/album/beko-summer-2016

Fragrance. on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/thisisfragrance/

Lust For Lights

Reissued in 2025 on Nina protocol with additional track Edges Unfold: https://www.ninaprotocol.com/releases/spr-tesselation-districts - bonus material includes video for Edges Unfold by visual artist Florian Schmuck and artwork sketches as well as final sleeve design for the original 12" record release by Lee Noble. 

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Debut release by SPR for The Weevil Neighbourhood.

Tesselation Districts is an extended player of four tracks that oscillate between comprehensible rhythmic patterns and their somewhat uncanny dissolution bridging aesthetics of Steven Porter's as well as Repetition/Distract's compositions for the label.

Black vinyl, limited edition, screenprinted outer sleeve with artwork by Lee Noble (No Kings Records/ Bathetic), mastering by LXC (Watta Sound/ Alphacut). First 100 copies come on white vinyl.


SPR - Out (Clip)

Debut single from The Beat Escape, due 21 October 2016 via Bella Union

Pre-order 12" vinyl: https://bellaunion.greedbag.com/buy/the-beat-escape-1/

The Beat Escape - Seeing Is Forgetting

Incidental Music for Invasion (i m i)
Oma333 No.31

Every now and then in my life I come across someone who's creative output I instinctively trust, to the point in which I can be pretty sure of being a fan of any music or art they feel like creating. Lotti Sollevi is one of those people and I've been crazy happy and proud to have never felt misguided with this presumption. 
From the vocal and rhythm cold-wave experiments she shared with Nini Maakestad as 29:90, to her and Julian Murray's genius Dadaist post-punk avant-pop project; Tv Dinner Education, she has been an inspiring force on the scene for everyone. 
Therefore a great deal of excitement has been built up over when we would finally get to hear recordings of her solo work under the name of Incidental Music for Invasion or i m i.

The lucky few of us have had the pleasure of enjoying glimpses of this music, via the few solo shows she's had as i m i , but they haven't happened for a while now and it seems she had turned her attentions towards getting some recordings down.

In early spring I received two 19 minute ish sides of i m i "collages/mixes of pieces and tracks" and they utterly floored me. "WOW THIS IS AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL MUSIC LOTTI!" was my first response sent as a text, which I followed swiftly with "It's perfect. Everything I've ever wanted music to sound like. A whole world of wonderful all wrapped up together! Shit! My jaw keeps gaping open in happy surprise" haha! 
Sounds dramatic I know but I meant every word and I think you'll hear why.

So how to describe it? This music doesn't automatically call up an obvious list of comparisons so thats a very difficult task. It makes me think of the best music genre there is; "future music from the past" and by that I mean the BBC Radiophonic Orchestra work of Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire etc and also the lineage they helped create via bands like Broadcast, and especially the album they did with The Focus Group. I also feel an influence, if only with inspiration and similar working methods of Finnish musicians like Islaja, Jan Anderzen and the Fonal Records crew, and of the vital production work of the The Flying Lizards genius, David Cunningham in his solo album Grey Scale and his work with the debut of This Heat. Belgian electronic minimal wave is also worth mentioning here, especially Bene Gesserit, as well as influences from the Japanese music and arts scene.

Oh and I just realised that this tape means that she'll be the first person to have a trio of releases on Oma333. As well as the Tvde 10" record she also made an amazing mix tape under the name of DJ Thi-Lot called "*blip* soundtrack [on]" way back. Seems so suitable that she's been released thrice!

100 black and white "piano" tapes are available from today, with black body printing designed by i m i, as well as all the cover art design. This tape will also be the first to include a unique download code slipped in with the tapes.

ORDER THE TAPE HERE http://oma333.com/product/no31-incidental-music-for-invasion-i-m-i-st

"It's not a joke I'm lyin" by i m i from her self titled debut on Oma333

Melodiesinfonie - Lo Pop Fi (feat. Kyoundso)

appelez la police

Appelez la police

PRE ORDER: RELEASED 3 AUGUST 2018
http://smarturl.it/GG_Physical

Gabe Gurnsey will release his 14 track debut solo album, 'Physical' via @phantasysound, on double vinyl, CD and digital.

If you want to know what Gabe Gurnsey’s debut LP sounds like, the first thing you should do is put aside Factory Floor, the group he co-founded 13 years ago. Gone are the cold, lengthy, stripped back deconstructions of no wave electronica and industrial techno, abandoned in favour of something altogether warmer, torrid and succinct.

“It’s a real departure from Factory Floor” he says. “What I wanted to get into with Physical had more to do with exploring songwriting and structure. The album is very escapist in one sense even though I don’t want to escape from Factory Floor but what I do on my own has to be separate and it has to explore new avenues.”

The album features additional production and was mixed by Erol Alkan. 

Ultra Clear Sound
You Can
Temazzy
Harder Rhythm
Sweet Heat
New Kind
Heavy Rubber
In States
I Get
Version
Eyes Over
AM Crystal
Night Track
The Last Channel

Follow Gabe Gurnsey:
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http://www.instagram.com/gabegurnsey/
http://www.soundcloud.com/gabe-gurnsey/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1tZeQ8pR2cJc1nFtaFeCdu?si=tXENM78nSQq4unrRxjp6ogsi=XRRckRs3TCiGdWtBKrxTpg

Physical 

Ultra Clear Sound

Second release on VEYL. An Experiment in Noise & Body Music. 

Maenad Veyl returns with six tracks of relentless electro-influenced heat full of broken 808s, AI-generated polyrhythms and indecipherable vocals.

No Irony

The new Hante. album, "FIERCE" will be released on January 18 through Metropolis Records for North-America and Synth Religion for the rest of the world
It features 11 tracks including 4 collaborations with Sólveig Matthildur, Marble Slave & Fragrance., Ætervader and Box von Düe + 2 bonus tracks

Nobody's Watching (feat. Marble Slave & Fragrance.)

"Reiterations" by First Tone from "Reactions" 2xLP/Digital due out October 2019.

"Reiterations" by First Tone

web of lies

Artwork By Gabrielle Nehrybecki

Mastered By Calum Kenihan

Shortest Possible Distance (w/ Third Space)

feat. Laurel Halo, Kuljit Bhamra, Jonny Lam, Verity Susman, Untold

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No: PAN 106
Release Date: 07 February 2020
Purchase: bit.ly/33ISoYr

‘Workaround’ is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythmobsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN. It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro- Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.

Recorded over 2017-2019 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14 bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play.

‘Workaround’ evolves Dillon’s notions in a coolly unfolding manner that speaks directly to the album’s literary and visual inspirations, ranging from James P. Carse’s book ‘Finite And Infinite Games’ to the abstract drawings of Tomma Abts or Jorinde Voigt as well as painter Bridget Riley’s essays on grids and colour. Operating inside this rooted but mutable theoretical wireframe, Dillon’s ideas come to life as interrelated, efficient patterns in a self-sufficient system.

With a naturally fractal-not-fractional logic, Dillon’s rhythms unfold between unresolved 5/4 tresillo patterns, complex tabla strokes and spark-jumping tics in a fluid, tactile dance of dynamic contrasts between strong/light, sudden/restrained, and bound/free made in reference to the notational instructions of choreographer Rudolf Laban. Working in and around the beat and philosophy, the album’s freehand physics contract and expand between the lissom rolls of Bhamra’s tabla in the first, to a harmonious balance of hard drum angles and swooping FM synth cadence featuring additional synth and vocal from Laurel Halo in ‘Workaround Two’, while the extruded strings of Lucy Railton create a sublime tension at the album’s palatecleansing denouement, triggering a scintillating run of technoid pieces that riff on the kind of swung physics found in Artwork’s seminal ‘Basic G’, or Rian Treanor’s disruptive flux with a singularly tight yet loose motion and infectious joy.

Crucially, the album sees Dillon focus on dub music’s pliable emptiness, rather than the moody dematerialisation of reverb and echo. The substance of her music is rematerialised in supple, concise emotional curves and soberly freed to enact its ideas in balletic plies, rugged parries and sweeping, capoeira-like floor action. Applying deeply canny insight drawn from her years of practice as sound designer, musician and hugely knowledgable/intuitive DJ, ‘Workaround’ can be heard as Dillon’s ingenious solution or key to unlocking to perceptions of stiffness, darkness or grid-locked rigidity in electronic music. And as such it speaks to an ideal of rhythm-based and experimental music ranging from the hypnotic senegalese mbalax of Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, through SND and, more currently, the hard drum torque of DJ Plead; to adroitly exert the sensation of weightlessness and freedom in the dance and personal headspace.

The album is mixed by James Rand and mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Thomas Ruff, layout by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

Workaround

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround Two (PAN 106)

‘El Desespere’ comes after Undefined Pattern’s debut on the Disque Discos DISCORROR IX compilation and is inspired by the stress and paranoia of living in Mexico. It features three intensely atmospheric tracks with remixes by Damon Jee and Jenia Tarsol.

‘Intenxa Salida’ offers a sparser and eerier track, with dystopian, searching synths and melodic details off in the distance that suggest human life amongst a late night urban landscape.

https://soundcloud.com/durolabel
https://soundcloud.com/undefinedpattern

El Desespere (inc. Damon Jee & Jenia Tarsol remixes)

PRÈMIÉRE: Undefined Pattern - Intenxa Salida [Duro]

Following on from a pair of Extended Players released in 2011 ("Passed Me By" / "We Stay Together") Andy Stott returns to Modern Love with 'Luxury Problems', an 8 track album of new material recorded over the last 12 months. Five of the tracks on the album feature the voice of Alison Skidmore, Andy's onetime Piano teacher whom he hadnt seen since he was a teenager back in 1996. There was no grand gesture in mind, it just sort of happened - but after almost a year of studio work the result is really quite unlike anything you'll have heard from him before. 'Numb' opens the album with Alison's voice; layered and looped but essentially left bare and exposed, tumbling into a dense shuffle, sort of somewhere between Theo Parrish and Sade, but more f*cked. 'Lost and Found' follows and deploys a growling rave bassline and a disturbed vocal, the beat assembling itself around a squashed Linndrum like a submerged Prince/Cameo production, haunted and impenetrable, but full of funk. 'Sleepless' started life as an African drum edit that sooner or later succumbed to Stott's intense rhythmic shifts. It's a sound that's been imitated countless times since the release of 'Passed Me By', here re-tooled and re-built for its next evolutionary phase. 'Hatch The Plan' ends the first half of the album with some heavily treated location recordings and a low end grind that probably doesnt quite prepare you for the vocal arrangements that follow - it's just a beautifuly inverted pop song. The second half opens with 'Expecting', the most recognisably 'Stott' moment on the album: a wrecked, deliriously knocked-out 4/4 shuffle deployed at halfspeed; those heavy kickdrums sucking in everything around them. 'Luxury Problems' is next and offers up the album's most quietly euphoric and open 5 minutes; conventional arrangements and drumloops disrupted by sharp disco bursts that mess with what you know: it's straight and beautiful and unbalanced and damaged, somehow all at once. "Up the box" switches up the narrative and goes somewhere else entirely, an extended intro that seems to build continuously for 3 minutes before breaking off into a slowed-down Amen edit, creating a kind of narcotic Jungle variant that fragments everything and ends just at the point you think it's going to go off, before "Leaving" finishes the album with an almost unbareably beautiful arrangement of voice and synth and a final key-change that takes you from joyful to forlorn in an instant.

01-Numb

Preview of Rabih Beaini new album "Albidaya" on Annihaya label, Lebanon / Limited numbered CD issue / Limited Numbered LP issue / Distributed by Cargo UK / official release date april 2013

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