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The Red See

Scuba Death is Ricardo Donoso's alter ego. With more of a focus on analog sound, percussion, sampling, and location recordings, there is an organic undercurrent on Scuba Death recordings that isn't as prevalent in his solo work. This music is rich in atmosphere while still tethered to the deeper ideas that Donoso often explores in his work. Treatises on fear and death­anxiety, the underlining thematic framework for the project, run rampant throughout these claustrophobic electronic passages, and teeter on the edge of being oppressive. 

Nitrogen Narcosis marks the first full length and strongest statement in the Scuba Death repertoire after the privately issued, ruthless ‘Demon Seed’ twelve inch back in 2011. The album alternates between surprising lethargic dance inflections all nestled between 75 & 100 bpm, the normal resting heart rate for adults, and the more conceptual, numbness­inducing pieces like "50­-70 Meters" and "Nociception." Sequencing plays an integral role on Nitrogen Narcosis as the listener is suddenly thrust into the darkest reaches of the ocean after dark alley grooves are sucked into an aquatic abyss. 

For a project named after Donoso's near­drowning experience in the South Atlantic when he was younger, there's an impressive amount of reflection & vulnerability present – the field recordings that permeate throughout the album were captured at the same location the undertow caught hold of him that bright Summer day 20 years prior. An inner battle between paranoia and euphoria is played out in well­conceived, precision sonics on Nitrogen Narcosis as Donoso reminds us to look back, break through the surface and go deeper. 

Ricardo Donoso's solo work speaks for itself, but with this new chapter comes new questions and considerations. Scuba Death is enigmatic to a fault and all the better for it. 

Recorded At Vesica Pisces, September­-November 2012

Nociception

The most interesting, advanced electronic musicians create unique, hermetic soundworlds that seem to emanate from unknown realms. See/hear Aphex Twin, Autechre, Farmers Manual, Iannis Xenakis, and Bernard Parmegiani, among a handful of others. If Chloe Harris isn't quite in that echelon yet, she is quickly approaching it with Dose.(This album was originally issued on very ltd.-ed. cassette in 2012 and is now getting a vinyl release, mainly due to the urging of Italian techno magus Donato Dozzy.) A former globetrotting DJ, Harris has shelved that lifestyle and aesthetic for a more stable family life in the Seattle area and a more cerebral approach in the studio. With this collection of exploratory compositions, she decided to experiment with an array of synthesizers, mainly the Waldorf Q. Working on the eight tracks here in her home setup, Harris would “layer as much as I could or sometimes there was no layering at all. I tried to let the machines talk. I was trying to find my own voice. It was sad and melancholy because I stopped DJing and decided to try something new in my career.” This change had financial and creative risks, but Harris has transitioned boldly into this more adventurous musical mode. 

Each track on Dose is a distinctive foray into beatless sound design. There's too much happening here to describe this album as “ambient” or “chillout,” yet it's not typically academic-sounding, either. Harris lets her intuition guide her and those finely calibrated instincts lead to gripping pieces that subtly evolve over their three- to six-minute durations. A thrilling sense of otherworldliness becomes the norm on Dose. “Water Dragn” achieves an aquatic grandeur with its teeming drones beneath elastic pulsations, throbbing with the subliminal ominousness of mid-'70s Tangerine Dream. “Tiwie” is the most uptempo track here; marked by a wonky motif of what might be pitch-shifted seal utterances or some other sea life's emissions, it generates a woozy pattern that nudges you into a delirious reverie. “Couchfire Dron” is a deeply poignant and morose atmospheric work that suggests an infinite expanse of gloom, which is paradoxically exhilarating. Similarly, the dank, frigid auroras of “Skrt” are shot through with skittering rhythms not made by drums but rather what seem like rapid intakes of breath, its textures hitting the ear like frantically sweeping ice-scrapers on windshields. “Harchone” unspools a psychedelic mélange of tones and textures swirling in a chromium abyss, reminiscent of Nik Raicevic's mind-altering synthesizer abstractions recorded in the early '70s. When album-closer “Entrldam” blooms into earshot, its profound whorl of gray drones signifies a momentous conclusion to an opus that proves Harris has reached a new peak. 

Made with : Doepfer Energy + Dark Time, Waldorf Pulse+, Waldorf Q, samples and love.

Entrldam

Skrt

Harchone

Couchfire Dron

Watr Dragn

Slep_Non

Tiwie

Satmor

Sea Glass

Exit The Acropolis

interview and mix for femmecult.com.

Playlist:
Annie Martin - relaxation: songs for city dwellers 01
Andrea Parker + David Morley - Frogspawn
Umfang - Vast
Certain Creatures - Passages (Stefan Jós Remix)
K-Hand - Dusty
Moerbeck - Bittersweet
Gesloten Cirkel - Charming
Anthony Rother - Truthmaker
Transmit - Counter-Attack
Donna Neda - Brainbug
Ø ﻿[﻿Phase﻿]﻿ - Remote
Shinedoe - Different_Faces
Malory - Dah
Basic Soul Unit - Landlocked
Andrew Duke - Lumen
Birds of Prey - Six Different Colors of Black
Pom Pom - Untitled 

Femmecult 011

Simic - Tree

@decoy_deejay

This month wrapping up towards the big volume 20 we have an incredible and mesmerizing set from producer Decoy, a fellow northwest resident from the evergreen state of Washington brings one of the most rawest and elaborate mixes featuring a huge amount of his own production along with a handful of classic house, techno and swaying into ghettotech and ghetto house tracks from artists you're more than likely familar with. Catch my man Decoy radio hosting for his local Olympia station KAOS 89.3 fm and lastly go ahead and check out his soundcloud to hear a large sum of his own work that may or may not be featured in this set. Good Talk.
 
1. Paul Johnson- Baby wants to ride
2. Decoy- Acid Freqk 
3. Decoy-???
4. Levon Vincent - Love Technique
5. Todd Terry - Love Acid
6. Ron Trent - Sweet Chocolate 
7. Deep Sensation - Get Together 
8. Rodiewhite - Color Mind
9. Groove Selecta - Somewhere in NY
10. Decoy - ???
11. DJ Deeon - Hoodrat
12. Decoy - ???
13. Decoy - ???
14. Robert Armani - Lap
15. DJ Hyperactive - Wide Open
16. DJ Bark Lee - Walk 4 Me
17. DJ Deeon - Rubber Track
18. Decoy - ???

Mix Series Volume 20 by Decoy

slug life

PRE ORDERS ARE UP BBY! http://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/79162-e-beamz004-dj-boring-winona

about a girl

You (E-BEAMZ004)

STIGMATES #2 (Vinyl & Digital) featuring 12 exclusives and unreleased tracks from Etienne Jaumet, Claude, Mike Theis, Molecule, The Populists, Arnaud Rebotini, Automat, Andrew Claristidge and many more...

SHOP : https://lc.cx/o52i

Sippin- Extracted from STIGMATES #2 Compilation

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https://soundcloud.com/djdickwolf

POUND//PUMPY

live recording from the gonima ep release party

CMD live at the plant 11.18.2016

Synthesizers, loops and abstract beats.  These are a few of my favorite things?  I am a strange breed, other worldly, and a super freak.   Cold wave, minimal techno, electro abstract, avant- hard, hardcore techno, break core, IDM, EBM, Death Rock, punk Rock, New Wave,Dark Wave, Ambient, MiamiBootyBase, SpeedBase, Dub, RagaMuffin, Dubstep, Industrial, Noise, Experimental, world beat...did I forget anything?  Neophyte, for sure, and these are all my newly found treasures, that I have dug up from around the world.  One day I will produce some tracks again, until then, I will spend every minute listening to all the newly found gems!

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