This revives memories of me  driving a 45 minutes to work in the very early hours of sacramento half awake, sleep deprived, still drinking my first cup of coffee. Listening to this track, Perfection.

I discovered this track while riding the red line metro train in washington dc to go pick up a polyend tracker that i bought off of reverb. didnt even realize the title is literally the red line until now

TASCAM DR-40

at Casa Montjuic, Barcelona (3 September 2023)

Meta is a syllabic abbreviation of two words: "Metallophone" and "Tape."
Metallophone and tape music by Nikolaienko.

"It’s an album where I’ve limited myself to using only two instruments – a metallophone and a four-track tape recorder. Explorations of the metallophone and tape sounds, deconstructed and reintegrated into tracks with cassette loops. This release is part of this year’s series, dedicated not to electronic but to electro-acoustic music with a focus on analog recording and production"
Taken from the Shape platform interview (March 2024)

Side A:
1. Meta VI 
2. Meta IV 
3. Meta V

Side B:
1. Meta III 
2. Meta II 
3. Meta VII 
4. Meta I

Recorded at Telemaja, Tallinn, Summer 2023
Composed, produced, metallophone, tape loops, artwork: Dmytro Nikolaienko 
Saxophone on A3 by Mykola Lebed
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi 
Design by Day Night 
Typeface by KTF

Catalogue: Muscut 33C
Format: Cassette, C40, Digital
File under: ambient, experimental, acoustic
Release date: June 24, 2024

Meta VI

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In a forgotten and remote world, the haunting echoes of a mysterious past linger in the abandoned streets. Once filled with life, these streets are now consumed by fear, as inhabitants retreat into their hidden identities, wearing masks that have become their permanent shield against an invisible threat. The atmosphere is heavy with paranoia, and the air vibrates with the relentless pulse of techno music—an eerie soundtrack to a world in isolation. This music, both a source of comfort and unease, becomes the rhythm of survival in a place where faces remain concealed, and souls drift in solitude. In "SHADOWED MASKS | Music Techno Album," the pounding beats of techno pull the masked figures into a hypnotic trance, blurring the lines between reality and fear, and transforming the streets into a dreamscape of shadows.

O-Zone is an experimental profile dedicated to exploring the deep, hypnotic realms of techno music. All tracks in this mix are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution and are available for personal use only, with commercial usage prohibited in respect of the artists and producers who created these sounds. The visuals accompanying this video are the product of a collaboration between imagination and technology, utilizing AI tools like Midjourney PRO or Flux Pro to bring the haunting theme to life.

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**Tracklist:**

BEATS iN FOG  
BREATHE THE BEAT  
CONCEALED iDENTiTY  
CONTAGiOUS BEATS  
DREADFUL iSOLATiON  
ECHOES iN SHADOWS  
FRACTURED iSOLATiON  
LOST iN PARANOiA  
LURK iN SiLENCE  
PHOBiA ESCALATiON  
SPECTRAL BEATS  
TUNNEL OF MASKS  
SYNTHETiC PARANOiA  
ViRUS OF SOUND  
DEADLY SiLENCE  
FALLEN SOUNDS  
PHANTOM TRANSiT  
iSOLATED FREQUENCY  
MYSTERY MASKS  
PULSE OF THE UNKNOWN  
VEILED TRANSiT  
MASKED EXiSTENCE  
RETROGRADED MASK  
FACES OF THE FEARFUL  
GHOST OF THE BEAT  
HIDDEN REFLECTiONS  
SHADOWED MASKS  
MASK OF THE UNKNOWN  

All tracks are available for listening and personal download

VEILED TRANSiT

Berlin resident Anastasia Vtorova aka Machine Woman follows up her ‘For Sweden’ 12” on Peder Mannerfelt with two new cuts for Where To Now? Records, accompanied by an expansive and sprawling remix from Kassem Mosse.

Machine Woman is beginning to cement herself as a rather unique figure in the world of Techno. Her music is undoubtedly brutalist, functional, industrial, and stripped back for the most basic of heads down body movement, but there’s a persistent seductive, soulful, and human element to her work which is in a state of constant interplay with this idea of the ‘Machine Woman’ - an approach which is undoubtedly inspired by the pioneers of man vs. machine music - Kraftwerk.

‘Genau House’ opens with the 11 minute ‘I can mend your broken heart’. Shuffling percussion struts alongside a myriad of synthesized melodies and the sound of data processing. For Anastasia, the track is inspired by unsuccessful Tinder dates, and the yearning lyrical content of the tracks certainly laments the implications of this perhaps often mechanical and rigid love seeking world against an honest and seeking heart – A Machine Music space to explore the increasingly common impact of disposable Computer Love colliding head on with a legitimate longing and want for lasting human connection.

‘Friday Night’ encompasses a similar vocal mantra but here the focus is not so much on the intricacies of the human heart, but rather the seduction, enthrallment, and sometimes unfortunate exclusivity inherent in sectors of the Berlin nightlife. Undoubtedly a track aimed towards the pitch-black nightclub ‘Friday Night’ is stricter in its intention, with less space for romanticism. An unrelenting Techno thud grinds with the mechanical shifting of gears and movement to create the desired hypnotic state whilst Anastasia’s heavily treated vocals plume the melody into even darker recesses of the dancefloor.

Kassem Mosse makes an appearance to close the record with his own incredible interpretation of ‘I can mend your broken heart’. To call this a remix is a discredit to Kassem’s ability to completely transform a work into his own whilst staying respectful to the original artists intention. Much like his interpretation of Simone White’s ‘Flowers in May’ (Honest Jons, 2015) Kassem takes the vocal line of the original and sets it against a deep, sprawling, immersive soundscape of his own. Over it’s 10+ minutes a Deepchord style dubwise basin of echo and melody lingers behind the deepest Trip-Hop style palette of slow, churning, and intricately evolving percussion.

“Machine Woman draws upon her foundations in ‘90s Leningrad and the hardest edge of her new home city’s industrial scene to forge a raw, buzzing, and brutalist style working on the cusp of dance functionality and avant-garde, tonal exploration. – Boomkat.” 
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released May 13, 2016

Genau House

Machine Woman - Genau House -  I Can Mend Your Broken Heart

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Shinichi Atobe - The Red Line

anno-002

Loidis - The Floating World (& All Its Pleasures)

Full length cassette and free download at https://terekke.bandcamp.com/

Live At Bimhaus *EXCERPT*

ISLA 25 - Project from Unknown Mobile and NAP. Five suites of warm, deep, and luminous tones to invoke crepuscular light. Originally tracked in 2017 in Vancouver BC at Deep Blue Studios and finished in Montreal in 2019.

Digital release available June 4th. Pre-order:
https://isla.bandcamp.com/album/o-s-s-open-sound-system

Artwork by Nick Howe

O.S.S - Open Sound System

Taken from ‘Sketch for Winter: Perlita’ - out now on Geographic North.

Shinichi Atobe - The Red Line

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