Glimmering medieval weaponry forged, polished and brandished, Zhenya Lavrinov arrives to take us back in time and beyond the stars. As LVRIN, he appeared opposite Maoupa Mazzochetti on a split EP for Arma – but one pockmark in a scattering of machine-powered ruminations for respected, proudly underground labels – and now he returns to wield a new alias across five tracks of ominous, night-creeping sonics.

The tracks making up Milky Way were recorded by Bryansk-based Lavrinov between 2013 and 2020, reflecting a side of his musical demanour not betrothed to the demands of the dancefloor. Golden Axe is far from ambient though – this is still resolutely rhythmic music spoken by specifically sculpted synths and powered by purposeful sequencers.

There’s a cosmic theme at play here, but ‘Moon Influence’ speaks as much to ancient rites and man’s obsession with lunar forces as any space-age sci-fi symbolism you might associate with gurgling electronic patterns. ‘Rhythmbox From Space’ may be brimming with analogue freakery, but it’s also locked into a rhythmic mantra which tracks back to the dawn of humanity. 

Cementing the philosophy of the record visually, Milky Way comes clothed in a striking artwork by Alina Vinogradova. Lavrinov’s Golden Axe seems to hail from this very space depicted on the cover, speaking through time-honoured tools and revelling in universal mysticism as it opens a new chapter in his darkly seductive, psychosomatic music.

Release  Date: 03 Dec 2021

B2. Golden Axe - Rhythmbox From Space

Черные Бояре - Black Boyars

Cassette available from Industrial Coast Big Cartel

Черные Бояре - ╨º╨æ (excerpt)

from the EP: Atrocities
Visit: www.savagegrounds.bandcamp.com

Atrocities

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LXRC30 - Savage Grounds - Voices

June Record’s latest compilation welcomes new artists on the label, the Australian newcomer Lbeeze, Raum-Zeit (Toni Quiroga & Eindkrak), Mannequin Records’ boss Alessandro Adriani, Morah (Phormix), Penelope’s Fiance and Outermost & Venus Volcanism.

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PREMIERE : Penelope's Fiance - She Asked For Fire But She Didn't Wanna Get Burned

LIES-130
Daniel Holt-Demonic City
from upcoming three track ep
to be released March 2018

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Daniel Holt-Demonic City (LIES-130)

From the Dangnabbit EP (TTT068) @bogdan-drazic

TTT at Honest Jon's

Bogdan Dražić – Jack Dat Wabbit

It's with extreme pleasure that we present you the next Lux Rec release. A compilation, split in two records, which gathers together Swiss active musicians working in those obscure territories that have been our playground for so long. Trostlosigkeit, Elend und Isolation. Ärger, Schwermut und Dunkelheit. It’s our statement to this country and it’s called Schwarze Schweiz. Inserts will include words by Bjørn Schaeffner (Bern), and pictures by Kleio Thomaïdes (Geneva), Max Zeckau and Dominik Schmid (Zürich).

Record 1 (out beginning of October):

Nicola Kazimir - Let Demons in - Zürich
808Hz - La Catharsis - Vevey
Trillion Tapeman - Identifikation - Bern
ELi LiNE - Free Jaguar - Zürich
Krankenzimmer 204 - Der böse Watz - Luzern
AM Khamsaa - Hollow Statue - Winterthur


Record 2 (out beginning of November):

Savage Grounds - Velocità - Zürich
Steinzeit - Horror Machine - Brunnen
E.S.P. - Accumulation City - Zürich
Sleep Forever - Due Diligence - Zürich
Neu Verboten - Ökonomie des Körpers - Zürich
H.I.V. - Blue Chicken - Fribourg

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LXRC39/40 - Schwarze Schweiz, Suisse Sombre, Svizzera Scura

The Title Track off Die Orangen's Sophomore album Zwei Orangen.
Zwei is their new collaboration with vocalist Hayley Morgan.

You can Pre/Order the album here:

https://dieorangen.bandcamp.com/album/zwei-orangen

Die Orangen - Zwei (feat. Hayley Morgan)

Taken from Gavilán Rayna Russom - The Envoy LP/Download [ELP047]

• Solo debut album of pulsing, beat-less urges by NYC transdisciplary artist Gavilán Rayna Russom
• Includes guest appearance by industrial and downtown figures Cosey Fanni Tutti and Peter Zummo 
• Cut at D&M, Berlin

Transdisciplinary NYC artist Gavilán Rayna Russom beautifully comes into her own with a distinguished solo debut album statement including the voice of Cosey Fanni Tutti and brass arrangements by downtown legend Peter Zummo

After decades exploring her sonic personality in various projects inspired by her deep immersion in NYC’s club and avant-garde scenes, Rayna uses ‘The Envoy’ as a vessel to firm up and convey her personal conclusions on intersections of gender and electronic music. Enriched with complex human experience and key influence from sci-fi writer Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel ’The Left Hand of Darkness’ - a book that strongly resonated with her due to its descriptions of an alien race with multiple sexual characteristics - the album is intended to realign misconceptions of Russom’s prescient early work such as 2005’s ‘The Days of Mars’ LP for DFA, which arguably foreshadowed a rise of beat-less and more ambiguous urges that are now commonplace in contemporary dance music, yet were at the time lumped in with retro-fetishist trends. With ‘The Envoy’ Russom returns to a 2019 music scene that’s better prepared with the politics of an emerging new world, and thus readied for her ideas to take hold in the public consciousness.

Entwining Russom’s perspectives on gender, the occult, and spirituality, and how they relate to the body and music’s healing properties, ‘The Envoy’ clearly yet ambiguously expresses the artist’s concerns in nine interrelated parts. Practically devoid of percussion, but full of body-moving polyrhythmic pattern, the pieces spill out of the lines of any typically imposed “grid”. Within this loose context, porous to the chaos of noise, Russom smudges a blend of analogue and digital synths to connote an elusive sense of self, encouraging the listener to navigate the music’s curves and silhouettes by instinct. 

Employing the fluid potential of electronic music at its most fundamental in a way that loops right back to the glyding suspense of her prized early work, even literally incorporating elements of long form solo recordings made in the late ‘90s in the wake of Russom’s psych/noise band Soma.

Unanchored by kicks, yet pulsing in its own ways, the album flows with an underlying elegance from Cosey Fanni Tutti’s spellbinding recital of Russom’s text in ‘Kemmer’, set to an organic, orgiastic writhe of arps and stressed noise, and on thru the free-floating organ scape of ‘Envoy’, to acknowledge more grimly industrial impulses with ‘Strength out of the Dark’ and also a towering highlight of the album in ‘Discipline of Presence’, where Russom’s throbbing mass is hauntingly illuminated by plangent brass arrangement from Peter Zummo (key Arthur Russell collaborator). The 10 minute ‘Winter’ then wraps it all up under a titular reference to Ursula K Le Guin’s novel, placing Russom as a filament of solo piano-playing light within the cold expanse of NYC.

Gavilán Rayna Russom - Kemmer (w/ Cosey Fanni Tutti)[ELP047]

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Obergman - Clockwerk Multiverse

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/panoptique
Track: Slippery
Label: https://soundcloud.com/macadam-mambo
Format: 12" Vinyl, Digital, LP
Release date: 12/03/21
Purchase: https://macadammambo.bandcamp.com/album/mmlp9009-panoptique-how-did-you-find-me

Long time friend and collaborator of the label, Theo Delaunay aka Panoptique aka Constance Chlore, releases his first solo album on Lyon's finest Macadam Mambo. Head of the Simple Music Experience label (dedicated to release punk experiment on tape), member of Violent Quand On Aime, Succhiamo, Simplists, Ono Omen and United Assholes, he had previously been part of the “Danzas Electricas” volumes 1 and 3, released a little single in 2019 and curated the “Simple Music Experience Vol.2” compilation in the house. 
Panoptique stick to what he knows to do the best, to present his stories, singing spoken words, gogolitos deliriums, whispers and rough voices on Minimal Synth Wave ballads or Drexciyan’s Electro bangers, it’s brut, mental, sometimes brutal and so so groovy in the meanwhile. Special mention to his guest Fiesta En El Vacio for her ‘caliente’ featuring on “Menta Y Regaliz”. Now you know how you find him!

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