I have taken the power back I’m never giving it to you again. Know this I lie in darkness waiting for my vessel to cease firing. No rescue, no escape, no annals of time, no wormholes, I await my fate in this realm in this time. I am the master of my fate. I wish to cease May that be the message sent to the realms.

Tresor

Paranoid London 'State Of That' out now on digital & Streaming services lnk.to/PDON011D

Taken From The EP 'Annihilate The World & Start All Over EP'
lnk.to/_PDON011   Released on vinyl & digital 28th May 2021

Paranoid London’s 303 broke in lockdown & they couldn’t find anybody that would repair it, so they got on & made the new EP without any trademark Acid tracks. The 4 EP tracks range from Liaisons Dangereuses inspired white noise percussion to banging sine wave techno, euphoric festival destroyers, to deep warped k-hole house, featuring a vocal contribution from Chicago’s Paris Brightledge.

PARANOID LONDON -THE STATE OF THAT

Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald Present Borderland: Transport

Merkur

Harnessed the Storm

Lake Haze

To speak to Luca Daniel Schwarz aka LDS about his music is to be enthusiastically guided into a complex world of his own creation: clean and powerful techno which pulses with life from the textured patterns and drum sequences that have fills and accents that would make anyone who's picked up a set of drumsticks envious.

Yet this ecosystem of noise is deceptive; Schwarz's process for making music is very different to how a live drummer would create the same subtlety of performance. Forever researching new technology, Luca got deeply interested in different programming languages, and created a series of probability based music tools for manoeuvring sounds and sequencing.

Manipulating those probabilities takes a skillful alchemy, needing understanding of both musical structure and how the tools he devised work. To return to the drummer analogy, if the drummer is focussed and intentional in the moment of playing, then the method used in LDS tracks is almost diametrically opposed, with all of the intention coming in the assembly of the instruments, potential paths, and gateways; once play is pressed the music flows, following all the rules that were set in advance, not unlike a domino run or Rube Goldberg machine.

And like a domino run, the results are fascinating and, ultimately, fun: staccato vocals pop in and out in 'zipp prompt'; laser-like synths pulse; background noises sweep across the aural plane of the dub techno of 'diff, blockmix' and 'pow' adding texture that brings vitality all-too-easily missed out when complex mathematical processes become entwined with music creation. The high sensitivity to texture and rhythmic detail in Stadion Progg is multiplied further on Jean Redondo's remix - whose track, Hypersonic, was the backbone of 2023's 'yet' compilation on Tresor.

The balance between technology and a sense of fun might also come from the maker; it's not easy to overstate Schwarz's passion for what is now his favourite way to make music, "it never gets boring. There's always a moment of anticipation to see what actually emerges." And the true "power of 2" comes into play when the resulting music can be fed back through the system again and again, potentiating the music in exponential ways.

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LDS - pow

PREMIERE: LDS - diff, block mix

PREMIERE: LDS - zipp prompt

PREMIERE: LDS - stadion progg

PREMIERE: LDS - stadion progg, jean redondo remix

Controlled Astral Drift - part TWO

D-Bahn

Abstrackt

Drexciya - Sea Snake

Released - 24/11/2017 (vinyl only)
https://robertleiner.bandcamp.com/album/aqua-viva-2017-re-master
AMB1711 - Robert Leiner - Aqua Viva

A - Aqua Viva (2017 re-master)
B - Aqua Viva (Edward Desert Edit)

An all time classic originally released on the Visions Of The Past album (Apollo 1994). http://smarturl.it/visionsofthepast

Released on 12” single for the first time.  Re-mastered by Matt Colton.
Includes a superb new remix/edit from Edward.

Original master of Aqua Viva is available to download in the 'Visions Of The Past' album.  If you've never heard the album then make sure to listen in full. http://smarturl.it/visionsofthepast

Drexciya - Wavejumper

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