OW2 Yuki Matsumura - An

For Omen Wapta’s second release, Japanese producer Yuki Matsumura turns in four tracks of glitchy, experimental techno on his new EP, An. Born and raised in Kochi, Yuki began exploring PC and software production in 2007. His labyrinthine sound design is created through heavy processing and audio editing, resulting in an abstract and textural take on techno with a distinctive rhythmic edge.

Yuki released his debut album Without a Break via Moph Records in 2015, followed by 2016’s Edge for Artificial Domain, both of which demonstrated his balance of bass-heavy breaks and more introspective sounds. On his An EP, Yuki continues to develop his avant-glitch approach, pursuing an even more sparse and insular sound across its four tracks.

AI. An
AII. Desk
BI. Front
BII. After That 

Released March 15, 2022 
Buy: https://omenwapta.bandcamp.com/album/yuki-matsumura-an

Written and produced by Yuki Matsumura 
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering 
Front ornament by Petra Popangelova & Ani Kehayova 
Artwork by Woody 's-Gravemade 
Biography by Selim Bulut 

Distributed by Clone Records Rotterdam 
Digital and vinyl via Omen Wapta Bandcamp

© Omen Wapta
Delft, The Netherlands est. 2021

www.omenwapta.com

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𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Octo Åeterna - Wa'ya [RDG04]

Streams and currents fostering a synergy that reminds our collective drive and intent.

In this collection, the balance blends the rhythms of the deep, enhancing subtle intersections between sounds.

compiling sounds from Javier Marimon, Ver, Formant Value, Owl, Simone Bauer, Octo Åeterna, Artos Eleven, Sindh, Atoloi, Paul Rêve and Estrato Aurora.
mastered by Vincent Villuis at Ultimae studios.
collage by Alicia Carrera.

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Buy & Support: https://virtualforestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sentient-model

Virtual Forest Records are proud to introduce their next two releases : an 8-track double EP by label co-founder 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐦𝐚.

While 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 condenses elements of deep techno and downtempo, 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 delves into the abstract depths of ambient and IDM. Two universes connected, as the horizon links up sky and sea, for a peaceful and psychedelic trip under the blue evening sun ✧

w&p by Antoine Salmona aka Solma
Mastered by Cédric IFA Oléon at IFL3 Studios
Artwork by ad93il

Distributed by Sequence
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Sentient Model

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Katatonic Silentio - Mantis 11 - Delsin Records - DSR/MTS11

vinyl: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/7726/katatonic-silentio/mantis-11
digital: https://katatonicsilentio.bandcamp.com/album/mantis-11

a1. Themes
a2. To
b1. Hide
b2. From

Deepening the sound well of the Mantis series’ explorations in subliminal club music, Katatonic Silentio (@katatonicsilentio) arrives with four tracks of spatial, subtle and elegant electronics. Milan-based Mariachiara Troianiello’s approach to soundsystem-oriented music has evolved over time, moving from hyperkinetic, breakcore-tinted post-rave music to patient, sound design-rich tapestries on her latest Les Chemins De L’inconnu LP for Ilian Tape.

On Mantis 11 she continues her established leftfield approach while also tapping into a particularly restrained, meditative mode which aligns with the loose ethos orbiting Mantis. Snaking, crooked rhythms plot a course through artfully sculpted reverb and delay - a skeletal, dub-informed sonic stamp shot through with especially expressive production, primed for dancehalls prepared to journey further in pursuit of full immersion.

Artwork by Bernie van Vlijmen.

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Katatonic Silentio - Mantis 11 (DSR/MTS11)

Four new deep, rhythmic works from Lyon producer Vardae inaugurate new London imprint OODA, co-curated by Forest Drive West and localhost.  The Kaipos EP drifts from ritualistic half tempo drums into deep warping techno and tripped out drones, illustrating Vardae’s unique genre-breaking approach to crafting powerful percussive entrancers for headphones and dancefloor.

A fitting prelude to the OODA project, conceived to explore polyrhythmic techno, bass and ambient experiments in all forms.

Observe-Orient-Decide-Act.

https://ooda.bandcamp.com/

Vardae - The Kaipos EP

Label: Midnight Shift
Catalog number: MNSXLP006
Artist name: Rivet
LP name: L+P-2
Date of physical release: 06 Oct 2023

A1. Tilt To Turn 1
A2. Tilt To Turn 3
B1. Ten Blind Doors
B2. Sarcoma
B3. Rōsh
C1. Le Kland
C2. Tilt To Turn 4
D1. Lilo's Lullaby
D2. Hukat (feat. L.T. Fisk)
Bandcamp only: Tilt To Turn (Live for Intonal Festival) 

L+P-2 is Rivet's second album following his acclaimed debut, On Feather and Wire, released on Editions Mego in 2020. The wheels were already in motion for a subsequent album on the same label, but tragedy struck. Peter "Pita" Rehberg, the legendary owner of Editions Mego, suddenly passed away at only 53 years old, leaving the experimental electronic music community in a state of pitch-black grief. Rivet was among the many deeply affected by this loss. The inspiration and support from Rehberg had propelled Rivet to create at a level he himself was uncertain he had mastered. For Rivet, Rehberg's death felt like the death of music.

However, that brooding sentiment was abruptly shattered when Rivet's beloved dog and companion, Lilo, was diagnosed with incurable cancer just a couple of months later. They were inseparable, and now they would be separated nonetheless. The only way Rivet could cope with this double blow was to compose—for Lilo, for Pita, for his own sanity. L+P-2 is the result.

While the album naturally emerges from a place of despair, it's remarkably comforting. Partly, this stems from Rivet's singular ability to make machines not only sound human but also act human—sincere and warm, yet flawed. In more than one track on L+P-2, you'll encounter a distinctive melody and a gnarly bassline dancing hand in hand with Rivet's eccentric and captivating drum patterns. Then, seemingly on a whim, the melody takes off on its own, leaving the faithful bassline behind—much like a dear friend that suddenly vanishes from your life without warning. Yet life goes on, and so does the music. But never unchanged. Never.

L+P-2 is an album of lamentation, yet also of resolve—a dedication to those who go through life losing more than their share because they always carry too much.

har jag hukat 
så länge 
att allt blivit skevt 
att allt blivit skört
//
have I hunched down 
for so long 
that everything has become askew 
that everything has become brittle


Written and produced by Mika Hallbäck Vuorenpää
Post-production and mixing by Oscar Mulero at Dead Souls Studio Gijón
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu
Vocals, lyrics and piano on track 9 by Johan & Leonard Andersson
Photo by Sandra Hallbäck Svensson
Artwork by Takashi Makabe
Tracks 1,2,7 commissioned by Intonal Festival 2021 for the 'Tilt To Turn' dance piece with Frédéric Gies (available on Youtube)
Track 10 recorded live at Kornheddinge Kvarn in april 2021 and mastered by Måns Öjbrandt Wikenmo
Running order by Björn Jumme and Andreas Andersson

L+P-2

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MNSXLP006 - Rivet - L+P-2

https://0207carrier.bandcamp.com/album/neither-curve-nor-edge

Carrier - Neither Curve nor Edge
Cat # CRRR001
Label : Carrier
release - 22/09/23

A1 - Into the Habit
A2 - Shading
B1 - Still So
B2 - The Motions

Carrier is the new project from Guy Brewer, the producer behind projects like Shifted, Covered in Sand and Alexander Lewis. Brewer has been responsible for some of the most confrontational dancefloor music of the past decade. Never one to linger though, he returns with a new sound, a new ethos and a new gamut of feeling and colour.

Throughout his career, Brewer has ducked and dived through the tangled web of classification, often unexpected yet always evasive. He is at his most deadly though at the inception of a new project. A futurist at heart, in the traditional sense, he relishes new beginnings.

The first release in an eponymous series under his new guise is his sharpest to date. Widescreen, immersive, driven by a new gait and less bloody-minded in his timing, he appears more at home and also more adventurous in his new garb. Across four gothic, stepping patterns he states his intent to explore the electronic music axis not as it was, but as it is.

Carrier - Neither Curve Nor Edge - CRRR001 clips

VC-118A - Waves of Change - Delsin Records - 157dsr

vinyl: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/7731
digital: https://chaindata.bandcamp.com/album/waves-of-change

a1. Heat
a2. The Deep
a3. Stream
b1. Glub
b2. Motherboard
c1. You
c2. Replace Image
c3. Echo Drop
d1. Elektri
d2. Ufonic

On his fifth album as VC-118A, Samuel van Dijk is using his evolved electro practice to explore the notion of change - a universal constant which keeps us barrelling towards unknown futures.

With 2021’s Spiritual Machines, Van Dijk presented a new approach which took his established (and celebrated) sound into downtempo and experimental pastures. Now the Dutch artist builds on that premise with a clear-sighted focus on the idea of change, as forces and factors in our present moment accelerate the states of flux within our lives.

Crooked machine rhythms remain the driving force behind VC-118A, but it’s the treatment of the drums and the richly developed layers around them which tell the story. The sources are largely analogue, from a trusted bank of outboard tools ranging from 606s and 101s to ample modern and vintage effects and various modular systems, but these sounds are carefully sequenced and shaped with digital processes to create the nuanced tones and textures which envelop Waves of Change. Crucial to the spatial immersion of the album is the subtle drop in tempo, widening the rhythms and leaving room for the atmospheric sound design to have a greater impact.

The fluid synthesis and sound design which permeates tracks like ‘The Deep’, ‘You’ and ‘Replace Image’ might well be considered a sonic metaphor for the ever-shifting state of the universe, while the reliably crisp rhythmic structures applied to the likes of ‘Heat’, ‘Club’ and ’Elektri’ have a metronomic quality as steadfast as time itself.

It’s the extended immersion of ‘Motherboard’ which offers the most complete summation of the album’s qualities at the midway point, coursing through subtly vivid soundscapes guided by elegant, constantly probing drums. The snatches of voices which emerge through the mix are those of Van Dijk’s parents, sampled from a discovered box of tapes from the mid-80s when they were both sound artists. Thematically, the samples also embody the sense of change Van Dijk was striving for making this album, capturing a moment in time for his now-separated parents when their lives were very different.

Balancing the disciplines of machine-powered sequencing and hand-shaped sound to render his ideas in sonic form, the continued evolution of VC-118A results in another mesmerising record steeped in craft and loaded with intention.

VC-118A - Waves Of Change (157DSR)

A1 Track of my latest record for Berlin based @nummer .
This one is really new actually, just done last year. Most of the drum sounds are synthesized which I'm quite happy about...otherwise what can I say, it's an Amphibian lair kind of vibe, hope you dig it. (:

Available on 12" and Digital

5D Worlds

Caldera - Amphibian Dance (Nummer)

https://soundcloud.com/tammohesselink Tammo Hesselink's latest single "Work Work Work" is out today on all digital platforms! It serves as a preview for his upcoming EP by the same name, set to be released in the beginning of December via Midgar. "Work Work Work" is showcasing 5 techno cuts in Tammo's distinct stripped-down style, where he expertly links the dots within mesmerizing drum grooves, tied together by subtle imperfections. Wonky rhythms layered with loads of sub and razor sharp twitches could be seen as a blueprint for Hesselink's productions. Excellent percussive club tools for playful DJ sets, where tools as we know them could be flat and loopy, in these jams there's a whole lot more to explore.

Release : 8th December 2023
Mastering by Neel at Enisslab in Rome
Pressed by AFG Manufacturing in Rome
Distributed by Ready Made
Artwork & Design by Severja

Work Work Work

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