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Over the past four years, Hayden Payne aka Phase Fatale has earned a reputation as a techno innovator, both for the broad spectrum of dystopian electronics included in DJ sets as well as his deep understanding of synthesis and sound design in his own productions. Having previously released on labels such as Jealous God, Payne made his Unterton debut with last year’s Anubis EP. Since then he has settled into residences at both Berghain in Berlin and Khidi in Tbilisi, released his first LP on Hospital Productions and kicked off his own label BITE with a collaborative EP between himself and Silent Servant.

On his debut 4-track EP for Ostgut Ton, Reverse Fall, The New York native has sharpened the rhythmic contours of his productions, creating an imposing wall of sound within the techno framework. Inspired in part by Crash, J.G. Ballard's dystopian novel on the fetishization of car crashes, Reverse Fall is uncompromising motorized, cybernetic techno – infused with haunting soundtrack-like flourishes reminiscent of films by directors John Carpenter and Dario Argento.

A night drive accelerating at the pace of a dark, melodic bassline and distorted hi-hats. “Reverse Fall” is available across streaming platforms, as a single track and as an instant gratification download with the purchase of the full digital release.

Listen at
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/album/reverse-fall-ep/1394765995
Bandcamp: https://phasefatale.bandcamp.com/track/reverse-fall
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/de/album/66459102
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/42DjPohwGNsWkjnurRI1iz?si=P9S-wDG0S9yb__2L3l00Cw

Taken from the forthcoming Ostgut Ton EP: Phase Fatale | Reverse Fall [O-TON 113], out July 13, 2018.
Pre-order EP on 12" vinyl or in digital formats: https://phasefatale.bandcamp.com/album/reverse-fall

All info: http://ostgut.de/label/record/219
Artwork: Richard Söderberg, https://www.instagram.com/sabotage999 | Layout: Yusuf Etiman

Catch Phase Fatale on the road: https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/phasefatale/dates

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Tommy Four Seven’s „Veer“ glorifies techno with a brutal shock of energy and wisely-built industrial soundscapes.

Album Review 👉  https://secretthirteen.org/tommy-four-seven-veer-47/
Pre-order 👉 https://47x47.bandcamp.com/album/veer

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“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

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A3 - Marc Ash - Control Freak

You can listen to the EP in it's entirety here. Please buy if you like sonicgroove.bandcamp.com/album/senestre

After the release of two very well received EPs on Sonic Groove Records, French industrial techno artist Crystal Geometry returns to the label with a full length LP conceptualized as a rebellion against oppressive powers.

“Senestre” is an old French word that refers to the left of a pictured character, a side associated with sorcery, the negation of God and bad omens. It is the side of outcasts and agitators, but only from the perspective of the observer.

“Senestre” is not the left as it is seen, but where the left really is: progress, justice and the rejection of arbitrary rules. Pushing deeper into introspection, the album explores these early influences through a special blend of saturated guitars, mechanical basslines, hard beats and abrasive vocals that directly confront the subject matter.

Stepping back from recent musical trends, Crystal Geometry has delivered ten merciless tracks running through a single conceptual thread, waiting to be deciphered.
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‘Scanning Backwards’, @PhaseFatale’s second full-length album following his 2017 debut album for Hospital Productions, is music about control. Using the connection between weaponized sound and psychological manipulation as a conceptual foundation, Hayden Payne explores the ways in which music – and sub frequencies in particular – are used to influence thinking and to synchronize emotions and behavior: from military technology to sound systems and the physicality and sexuality of queer techno culture.

Taken from:  Phase Fatale | Scanning Backwards
out January 24, 2020 on Ostgut Ton [OSTGUTCD48/LP34]

Buy ‘Scanning Backwards’ as 2x12" LP, digipak CD or in digital formats: https://www.berghain.berlin/shop/releases/phase-fatale-scanning-backwards/

Listen at
Bandcamp: https://phasefatale.bandcamp.com/album/scanning-backwards
Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/scanning-backwards
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4Vszky1GAUnME7GqMJJVkB?si=eV6nkqn6RiW8aWAtQjwXyQ
YouTube: https://youtu.be/cfVE-Kz8dYc

Known for his innovative post-punk takes of dance music as featured on EPs for unterton and Ostgut Ton, the Berghain resident draws on his background as both a guitarist and sound engineer to create a heady mix of broken rhythms, noise-, and shoegaze-inflected techno, often at slower tempos. The result is music with space and pace to expand, highlighting the intense rushes of frequencies found in both sonic warfare and functional dance music. Over eight tracks named after a combination of historical and fictional narratives from literature and science fiction, Payne’s rhythmic excursions explore different manifestations of sound as power – specifically within the context of seeing Berghain as an instrument itself. This is also reflected in the album artwork, taken from an early flyer for the SNAX party series and an obvious ode to the fetishization of power dynamics.

In his own words: “All tracks on the album, no matter the style, were tailored to sound a certain way in Berghain – something I figured out through years of dancing in the middle of the floor, DJing as a resident and investigating what frequencies really penetrate the body. This includes speech and high-frequency, brain-penetrating instrumentation and drilling textures that I had not utilized so often before, but which I think also have an effect on thought and memory. It's especially true in a space where gay and fetish roots combine with music in unexpected ways, almost in a cultish manner. A musical and physical deprogramming and reprogramming, psychic driving and de-patterning, the erasing and replacing of memories.”

Ultimately, ‘Scanning Backwards’ surveys not only the manipulative properties of electronic music (mantras, loops, subliminal messages) but also how rhythm facilitates both moving and thinking in synchrony; a pulse of coordinated sound- and brainwaves.

Artwork: northor | Layout: Yusuf Etiman

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