A selection of tracks I wrote about in my Octoblog. Because when we as musicians think about networking, we should think about appreciation and support. And because my own music is created from many tiny samples of already existing music, I am naturally very interested in the fact that all this wonderful music flowing through the ether out there finds the light of attention.

https://octobird.org/category/reviews/

Read about it!

Tentacle Loot (Music I wrote about)

Society Pressure

Recorded August 23, 2024

Datawave - Interflow 
https://mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/aid-ep
@datawave

Isolated Material - Repatch
https://mindcontrolledrectifier.bandcamp.com/album/va001
@isolatedmaterial

SMPL SMPL - Thriller
https://www.beatport.com/release/fiction/3474799
@smpl-smpl

James Shinra - Isolate
https://jamesshinra.bandcamp.com/album/miscellaneous-acid-tracks
@jamesshinra

Ninechecker - A Very English Wind
https://brokntoys.bandcamp.com/album/a-very-english-wind
@ninechecker

Yaleesa Hall - Second Cullen
https://yaleesahall.bandcamp.com/album/cullen-ep-2
@yaleesa-hall

Karsten Pflum - Clu
https://sciencecult.bandcamp.com/album/doppelt
@karsten-von-pflum

illektrolab - Darkness Falling
https://illektrolab.bandcamp.com/track/darkness-falling-2
@illektrolab

Second Storey - Cross-Hatch
https://tronicmusic.bandcamp.com/album/more-than-machine
@second_storey

Syrte - Meat & Cheese
https://skyborg.bandcamp.com/album/electro-heaven-a-tribute-to-nexus-23
@syrteofficial

Synthetix - ac20
https://www.beatport.com/artist/synthetix/381097
@synthetix

LectrO cOd_E - What is Reality
https://lectrocode1.bandcamp.com/album/what-is-reality
@lectrocode

Univac - H Beat
https://www.beatport.com/artist/univac/563061
@univac-geistform

Atix - Downstairs
https://www.beatport.com/artist/atix/52007
@atix-f

Stenny - P-Zone
https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/itlp03-a-decade-ilian-tape
@stennyyy

Oscean - Blaster Imploder
https://tresorberlin.bandcamp.com/album/chronium-radiance
@oscean

Pye Corner Audio - Greenpoint Hangover (Morphology remix)
https://analogicalforce.bandcamp.com/album/af010-island-of-ghosts-ep
@pye-corner-audio
@morphology-electronics

Interviews & FR Fels - Drift
https://brokntoys.bandcamp.com/album/the-adventures-of-helmut-muten
@inter_views
@frfels

Recue - Aridity
https://analogicalforce.bandcamp.com/album/af055-paramnesia-ep
@recue

Morphology - Shadows From The Past
https://firescoperecords.bandcamp.com/album/horta-proxima-fs024
@morphology-electronics

Adrien d'Elzius - Battle of the shadows
https://arkada.bandcamp.com/album/arkada-004
@adriendelzius

Noroi - Sectorial
https://mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/heart-blade
@noroilatinx

No One Cares About Silence - 2024 Summer Electro Dj Mix

Video by Monica Stambrini: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO5fsjoicaI

https://biboandbeyond.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-you-wanted

Encoder

Tiklr

Our next offering comes from the Highlands of Scotland as Beira presents her debut, “Scry”.

Beira is a producer from Inverness that draws influence from occultism, mythology, paganism and Wicca.

The blueprint and construction of this release is a little different than usual….

Beira came up with the idea for the “Scry” project whilst doing a deep dive through the Bricolage catalogue looking for inspiration.

Her idea was to take stems/samples from eight different producers on the label and rework them into and alongside some of her own 'WIP' productions that she had been struggling to find further motivation for.

Adding these extra potions to an already simmering cauldron of her own sounds and breathing new life into what she describes as a "dormant elixir".

The result is a fascinating collections of disintegrated and mercurial soundscapes that conjure up all manner of moods but also leave room for the imagination. Atmosphere and woven textures take precedence in the process.

The more ambient numbers that begin the EP bring a raw and abstract tension before the pace picks up and we're introduced to some dark and dubby, bass driven, rhythmic tracks. Hacked apart beats that get stitched back together and swirled around. The surreal and otherworldly tension remains in the second half but now with a late night fire burning and an invitation to dance around it.

There's a strong nod to feminism and Scottish mythology throughout that tells a tale of Witchcraft and days gone by. The perfect soundtrack for the Halloween season.

"Scry" melts, bubbles, froths and crackles. It's a beguiling record from a nascent producer that gives us a peek into the potential that's yet to come. Into the future. Into oneself. Thus, to scry.

https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/scry-bc088

Scry

Beira - Spiral Dance (from the "Scry" EP)

Blue Moon

Artist: Oortfunk
Title: The last jam of your era
Year: 2022
Mastered by: Paul Mac
Buy: aztronouth.bandcamp.com

*Interested in one of my tracks, PM*

The last jam of your era

Dead Mans Bells

IndaMix @ 130BPM, Techno, Acid, House, Electro, Room 420
With Tracks from:

Fuse
B12
Exquisite Corpse
Eat Static
Stephen Brown
Susumo Yokota
808 State
UR
Dust of Basement
Haujobb
Mark Broom & Dave Hill & A. C. 
Conceiled Project
Quazar
GF
Biftek
Nitrogen
Glitch
Sex Voltage 
Science Wonder

Und so weiter......
Danke für euer Interesse!

Tools Of Tomorrow 11

ENERI- Drede & Senmove

From 'Complete Earthworks' out now on Cassette and Digi

Complete Earthworks

FICKLE SYSTEMS

Taken from the compilation 'Musik der Sterne Vol. 1', out on Per Musica Ad Astra as limited cassette and digital release.

Get it here: https://permusicaadastra.bandcamp.com/album/musik-der-sterne-vol-1

 A1. Funsize Jonny - Long Shore Drift
A2. Antares Destiny - Offworld Solutions
A3. Mick Clarke - Can You Feel Me
A4. Vertical67 - Orbit
B1. Celestial Mechanics - Forgotten Time
B2. Celestial Mechanics - Starfield
B3. Ian Shield - GLS
B4. 4-D Traveller - Stormclouds

Per Musica Ad Astra on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/per-musica-ad-astra

Musik Der Sterne Vol. 1

Bandcamp

Orbit

lessness

https://jensmasimov.bandcamp.com/album/exhaustive-portal-ep-2

JHM - My Mouth Tastes Like Battery Acid

"Ah, cassette #4-- a split release by two very dear NYC friends whom I've known for years via my involvement with the International Winners Collective. Each side is a single piece of music, each being distinctly different.

Side A is a solo piece for grand piano by Gabe Raines' Suncastle project. Historically, Gabe's work involves immersive, sitting performances centered around sublime drones with trance-inducing visuals and lights. It came as a much-welcomed surprise when I went to see Gabe perform at the Park Church Co-Op in the Winter of 2019. He enlisted the help of a large orchestra/ensemble for a performance of two new works. The piece on this tape, "Tonal Rainstorm", was the first of the two-- serene and percussive, with a very dynamic trajectory."

https://soundcloud.com/kaphaselections
https://soundcloud.com/sssuunncccaaasstttllee
https://soundcloud.com/international-winners

Buy via: https://kaphaselections.bandcamp.com/album/sun-castle-keso-ks04

Premiere: Sun Castle - Tonal Rainstorm [Kapha Selections]

I make some electronic music. 
I am also co-running https://soundcloud.com/vortex-traks.

Octobird is a Pro-Jockey, Discjuicer and Music Lover born and based in Berlin, Germany. Someone who’s not necessarily looking for yet unknown sounds in electronic music rather than putting already archived sounds of a long-forgotten future into a new context. Trying to blur your brain’s reception of connotation and curiosity.

Working with sound fragments from old vinyl recordings and films is certainly not a completely new approach, but Octobird archieved to develop his own language from this heritage of Hip Hop and House Music. Strongly modulated microsamples, a handful of drum computers and hardware synths, and jams as raw as possible glue his musical output together.

Get in contact via 
octobird[at]various-vegetables.org

Orbit

Vertical67

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