Remember Thy Name

Taken from EP II, released by ESP Institute in May 2016

Recorded using Modular Synthesiser, Tx802, Acidlab Miami, Linndrum and Buchla modular synthesiser.

Buchla 200 synthesiser recorded at EMS Studio, Stockholm.

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/vactrol-park-ii/609495-01/

Probe Into Static

never known

As excitement builds for this year's Convenanza Festival, the event curated by Bernie Fabre and Andrew Weatherall, Höga Nord get set to release a compilation celebrating the artists performing at this years . Among the performers are Komodo Kolektif.  Having been featured on Weatherall's NTS show Music's not for Everyone the Glasgow collective are heading out to Carcasonne to woo the crowds with their unique brand of Cosmic live instrumentation and no doubt the centrepiece will be Daratan Ceremony, a track which straddles the line between Etnofunk and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Tabla sounding drums underpin distorted wind chimes, growling thick bass in a track which in another dimension would be the theme for a warped wildlife documentary series about humans, no doubt being watched by ants or some other dominant technologically advanced species.  Members of the band have released solo on Optimo and Invisible, Inc. and along with several other sometime members have melded live instrumentation with machinery musically in the same way that body horror director David Kronenburg has on film.
Höga Nord's association with Andrew Weatherall continues to be fruitful with this fantastic sampler heading into the weirder and slightly more Cosmic edges of electronic music.

https://soundcloud.com/hoga-nord-rekords
https://convenanzafestival.com/

PREMIERE | Komodo Kolektif - Daratan Ceremony [Höga Nord Rekords] 2018

https://tursiops.bandcamp.com/album/echo-locations

Habibi (Echo Locations / Tursiops)

There was a great sense of loss in the room, an unspoken tension that hung in the air. Around the church small groups huddled, elsewhere individuals sat alone, cautiously looking over their shoulders. They had vowed not to be speculative, to keep their minds open and be vulnerable to whatever may come their way. Today they would contact their loved ones, lost ones, and give themselves up to the unknown and the unexpected. 

Keys is a new collaborative project from German native Benedikt Frey and producer Chris Cox, who have joined forces for eight tracks that hypnotise and intrigue. In the words of Berlin-based label R.i.O. who bring this moody release direct to your ears, "allow Keys to seal you in their infinite vacuum of flirtatious melancholia."

PREMIERE: Keys - Keys [Rio]

There was a low end rumble as the music began to trickle downstairs and into the basement. Gathered in the cellar there was a small crowd, amidst the fog and dust they began to dance in time with the flurries of percussion and the twinge of electronics which echoed deep into the night. They would be here for a long time, a unit inspired by the deep, sophisticated roar of each element. Their feet would move in time, back and forth, again and again. 

Flippen Disks is a new record label to emerge from Amsterdam, the imprint is run by Monty who also appears on the debut EP. He delivers one solo track and one collaborative effort alongside PTDD for a release which is distinguished and intelligent. The EP features forward thinking percussion and danceable material whilst is also hugely listenable and unique. 

This one is special. 

@flippendisks
@posttraumaticdrumdisorder
@montymixes

PREMIERE: PTDD & MONTY - Tamboe [Flippen Disks]

Cape Perpetua is a thing of beauty.

Sordid Sound System has taken his unique, raw, dub-infused sonic vision to a new level. With 'Cape Perpetua' we travel dem spaceways to a place that seems to grow more beautiful by the second; a textured, melodic, blissful interplanetary landscape where further words fail. From here Sascha Funke manages to take the controls and steer the mission on a futuristic space odyssey that's as urgent as it is blissful. Faint background signals of the original remain but are violently ejected from the airlock by the most synthetic, syncopated sounds the human ear has ever been exposed to. Flip over and we're straight into 'It's About Time'. This one is equally high octane ..... but this time of the afro-tinted psychedelic surf punk variety. If you aren't dancing to this you're probably dead. No rest for the wicked, however....because before we manage to get our precise bearings and a firm grasp of what just happened the acid techno space rock of 'Pneumonia Gulch' kicks in and takes us to places Hawkwind could only have dreamed of. Respite soon follows when the seductive voice of Eva Geist transports us to yet another beautiful paradise. Slowly it dawns on us that we're now in a dimension elsewhere entirely. Mind boggling. Nothing comes close. If you were to take a cockatil of mandrake, opium, LSD, ecstasy and a variety of amphetamines in the company of the heavenly host, the cosmic machine elves and a group of your best human friends with access to every instrument you ever wanted you would only know the half of it. This takes a very twisted, talented, mystic mind to come up with. I'm sure of it.

Let's open the doors to a whole new world.

A new world where the bastard love child of Tangerine Dream, Hardfloor, Sun Ra and The Gun Club rules supreme.

https://soundcloud.com/sordid-sound-system
https://soundcloud.com/invisible-inc

PRÈMIÉRE: Sordid Sound System - See You On The Other Side Feat. Eva Geist [Invisible Inc]

Artist: Smagghe & Cross 
Title: 1819
Label: Offen Music 
Release date: 27.01.2020 
Format: 12“ LP

This second Lp on Offen is an ajar window overlooking the phantasmagoric world of Smagghe & Cross, a remembrance of days that never were. The music is sparse, the past is forever : ghosts of industries are conjured through the English countryside, fading memories play static with an idea of romance, the sun breaks through the iron clouds. A record free of uncouth nostalgia but laced with ethereal melancholia.

1819

A1 Monody - OFFEN 012

Berlin based Dame Bonnet makes music influenced by post punk and cold wave and with a primitive and reverb-drenched production he creates a tragic dream for the listener to sink in to. The music has a sentimental feel to it but the pretentions are avoided thanks to the direct sound and the unremitting drums which contributes to give the tracks a forward momentum instead of a stuck in place-feeling.

Dame Bonnet makes sad club music with traces from the early eighties In England, a society ravaged by the cold individualism as a result to neo conservative politics - a time that resembles ours, where people gets categorized out of prejudice and the social welfare systems are uninstalled bit by bit in front of a sparser crowd of woke people. In Europe, now in the 2020s, a supposed dead ultraconservative monster is coming alive again and Dame Bonnets music makes the soundtrack to that process.

This release, Dame Bonnets first on Höga Nord Rekords, captures, though the songs are all instrumental, an unpleasant atmosphere in our time. The music has its roots in 1980s England but it fits perfect also for the cold present of 2020.

https://soundcloud.com/hoga-nord-rekords
https://soundcloud.com/damebonnet

Pre order

PRÈMIÉRE: Dame Bonnet - Portamento [Höga Nord Rekords]

Vactrol Park are Kyle Martin and Guido Zen playing synthesisers and drum machines.
They have released music on ESP Institute and Malka Tuti.