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Cat-No: F//008
Kontravoid - Undone

One can imagine, listening to Kontravoid’s latest release, an alternate reality in which the cold-war played out to the background of drum machines and spectrographs, sinister audio technology manipulating a hidden frequency of the world’s unfoldings. Cameron Findlay returns to his masked alias for the first Kontravoid release since his debut self-titled album, years in the studio reap their rewards as the production on ‘Undone’ effortlessly cuts its way through hypnotic dance floor compositions.

‘Hold Nothing’ implements perfect song structure, with precise breaks, ferocious snare builds and simple repeated vocal phrases enveloping the main groove in symbiosis. A playful criminality sets the mood of the record here, one for pouted lips and furrowed brows on bunker, basement dance-floors.

‘The Last Thing’ is a straight forward dance floor stomper, arpeggiated synths batter the listener like blunt instruments, locking the body in a rhythmic cell, dissonant, steam whistle drones contrast with gurgling, radio transmission synths to shift the balance of the parts from uplifting wooze to downcast dance automaton.

‘Not Your Dream’ opens with a moment of primitive, science-lab techno, echo laden vocal jabs open the door to new-beat territory while the synth lines swing between pure rhythm and hypnogogic, alley-chase sound track, clocking in at seven and a half minutes, this is another track destined for synth-wave, dance floor greatness.

‘Undone’, the self-titled track from the release focuses on softer-synths and pads, still motivated by driving drums and percussion, the vision of a lone, masked figure emerges, cutting a path through mud and snow, factories half submerged in some destroyed, industrial miasma. Muttered vocals set a strict grounding to the piece, keeping the track from escaping into sentimentality, layers of cold synth melodies artfully weave between percussive crescendos as radio static crackles distantly.

As a natural companion to the record Schwefelgelb close with a remix of ‘Hold Nothing’, where the percussion is stripped back to its bare necessities and the synth parts are sliced down into even more pointed arpeggiations.

With his concrete approach to song writing and bear-trap grasp of dance floor composition, Kontravoid cements his reputation as one of the stand out voices in the current new-beat, synth wave scene.

Tracklist:
A1 - Hold Nothing
A2 - The Last Thing
B1 - Not Your Dream
B2 - Undone
B3 - Hold Nothing (Schwefelgelb Remix)

B3 Kontravoid - Hold Nothing (Schwefelgelb Remix)

A2 Kontravoid - The Last Thing

A3 - Kontravoid - So It Seems (Version 2)

A4 - Kontravoid - Too Deep

B1 - Kontravoid -  Never Alone

B2 - Kontravoid - Cost Of Life

B3 - Kontravoid - Distress

B4 - Kontravoid - 10,000 Voices

Cat-No: F//018
Zanias - Extinction

Co-founder and label custodian Zanias makes her debut on Fleisch with a journey through climate catastrophe. Composed in Berlin and mixed in Queensland with the smell of bushfire smoke in the air, she addresses the primary anxiety of our time with four tracks designed to draw the body into movement and the mind into action. Body music elements are wrought with mournful melodies and studded with samples recorded from the fast-disappearing natural world, while her voice guides the way through the darkness.

Tracklist:

A1 - Extinction
A2 - Carbon
B1 - Endling
B2 - (There Is No) Mothership

All tracks written and produced by Alison Lewis at Fleisch HQ, Berlin
‘Endling’ co-written with Alex Akers at Blak Studios, Perth
Photography by Dovile Shurpo and Alison Lewis
Mastered by Alain Paul

A1 - Zanias - Extinction

Cat-No: F//017

“Mirror Glaze Lavish” is Marc’s latest effort in trying to depict his cynical and disillusioned view of the present-day music scene, seen through a sonic magnifier that emphasizes its greatest controversies, by juxtaposing different electronic languages as a challenge to the current levelling artistic trends. The artist personality is nullified, standardized to a state of placid non-critical thinking. Everyday’s emptiness emerges as the structure of reality and only the cracks in it still lead to life. “Great souls suffer in silence”, once said Friedrich Schiller, but what if silence becomes an audible, danceable image? As if all these electro cuts, differently permeated with a balanced mix of playful darkness, were populated by eerie animals that cannot find peace with their habitat and keep dancing relentlessly until the very end of their miserable existence. Seen in this context, each of Marc’s tracks must be interpreted as an irreverent and poignant act of self-assertion vis-à-vis his contemporaries. Morah’s reinterpretation of “Celexxa” adds value to the original track, taking us for a dirty ride on a psycho-electro-charged rollercoaster.

Tracklist: 

A1 - Don't Fuck With Schiller
A2 - Celexxa
A3 - Control Freak
B1 - Dugivrat
B2 - Stenography
B3 - Celexxa (Morah Remix)

All tracks written and produced by Marc Ash
Mastered by Alain Paul
Artwork by Marc Ash

Mirror Glaze Lavish

B3 - Marc Ash - Celexxa (Morah Remix)

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A3 - Marc Ash - Control Freak

Buy 2x 12" vinyl + digital release: mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/simulation

Los Angeles-based Inhalt assemble a strikingly unique selection of 10 producers across generations, styles and musical backgrounds, to remix and simulate Inhalt’s 2018 Commerce EP.

On a backdrop of EBM, techno, electro, industrial and more, these new remixes vigorously intensify Inhalt’s examination of neo-liberal capitalism and identity. Through this process, a new alluring narrative of the tensions of 2020 is born.

The digital release of Simulation includes 19 tracks: originals, instrumentals, vinyl remixes and digital-only bonus remixes by Kontravoid and Liebknecht aka. Daniel Myer.

A1 Alles (Timothy J Fairplay Remix)
A2 Language (Rhys Fulber Remix)
B1 Schwarz (Black Merlin Remix)
B2 Commerce (Lokier Remix)
C1 Alles (Kris Baha Remix)
C2 Language (John Fryer Remix)
D1 Schwarz (Ulrich Schnauss Remix)
D2 Commerce (David Harrow Remix)

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Inhalt - Simulation

BUY VINYL & DIGITAL LP

Inhalt - Alles (Kris Baha Remix) [MTRON019]

Inhalt - Schwarz (Black Merlin Remix) [MTRON019]

Inhalt - Commerce (Liebknecht Remix A) [MTRON019]

Inhalt - Alles (Timothy J Fairplay Remix) [MTRON019]

Inhalt - Language (John Fryer Remix) [MTRON019]

Inhalt - Schwarz (Ulrich Schnauss Remix) [MTRON019]

Inhalt - Commerce (Lokier Remix) [MTRON019]

Cat-No: F//019
Halv Drøm - Slum Vatic

In his debut LP on the imprint, Fleisch collective co-founder and resident Halv Drøm crafts esoteric body music inspired by loss, nostalgia and ego-dissolution. With groove, finesse and nothing to prove, he processes his past and future through an arcane haze of post-punk guitars and industrial field recordings.

Tracklist:
A1 - Spitting Magically
A2 - Slum Vatic
A3 - Gut Instincts
A4 - Powders & Dust
B1 - Oozing
B2 - Nostalgia Drowning
B3 - Future Alternatives
B4 - Psyops

All tracks mixed & produced by Saxon Jörgensen
Mastered by Alain Paul
Photography by Saxon Jörgensen
Artwork by Kongregant

A2 - Halv Drøm - Slum Vatic

A1 - Halv Drøm - Spitting Magically

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