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Journey at the End of the Brain is the second release by @Pushlock after his debut album released last year on cassette, Healing Process. 
A promenade across Pushlock’s brain synapsis showing his multi-genre sonic architecture across echoes of UK oriented electronic music.

ltd run of 200 copies / transparent clear 180 gr 12" vinyl 
Distributed by Honest Jon's
Mastered and cut by Marco Pellegrino at Analogcut Mastering
Design by Linkin Bios

out on May 17th

tracklist:

A1 Ghosting
A2 Chaotic Neutral
A3 Purple Leaf
A4 Skyline
B1 Hexacomb
B2 Urania
B3 Cannonball
B4 Common Ground

Pushlock — Journey At The End of The Brain LP | XM005

@realitycheck-4 fits into this new generation of DJs and producers of a hybrid kind of music, his influences drawing from a large spectrum of electronic music and beyond. The quest of a unique mix of sounds, textures and rhythms constitutes the essence of his work as a DJ.

Catch Realitycheck every 1st Thursday of the month, from 08pm to 09pm [CET] on rinse.fr

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Realitycheck invite Porter Brook : 100% unreleased productions mix - 19 Janvier 2022

Release date : April 29th
Pre-order : gridrecords.bandcamp.com/album/more-good-than-bad-ep

Grid 6th release is a unique one from Londoner Joe Arthur AKA Kincaid, comprising of six completely mind-blowing tracks, brimming with sublime sound design.

With everything from foley and footsteps, to tempo changes and analogue synthesis, there is a complete spectrum that is fully apparent here. Many styles that Kincaid has already demonstrated via labels like Well Street Records, Banoffee Pies & Accidental Meeting.

This release has a slightly deeper, introspective feel to it though. All the tracks were written within a week in February last year, deep in a lockdown. “It was a particularly difficult time for me, and the record reflects that, each track representing a catharsis with different issues”

It culminates into an incredibly personal and beautiful release, with frequent samples of memories featuring family & friends that relate to specific places and moments for Joe.

Welcome in the Cotswolds, near Bristol.

Tracklist :
01 Sudden Shifts In Perspective
02 Stretching Distance
03 Slowly Breaking Away
04 Fall On Your Sword
05 Dripping Back
06 More Good Than Bad

All tracks produced and mixed by Joe Arthur.
Artwork by Unité Studio.
Mastered by Krikor Kouchian.

Supported by : Ame, Antoine, Asok, Azu Tiwaline, Bake, Breaka, Ciel, D.Tiffany, Danielle, De Grandi, DJ Autumn, DJ Tess, Etapp Kyle, Gigsta, Grand River, Henzo, Huerco S, Ido Plumes, Jurango, Kaval, Martha, Marylou, Mish, Miss Jay, Nazira, Nico, Om Unit, Oceanic, re:ni, Resom, Roi Perez, Romy Mats, Ronan, Scott Young, Solid Blake, Synkro, Syz, Unperson, Upsammy, Wordcolour, Wrong Assessment, Yushh and more.

Kincaid - More Good Than Bad EP [GRID006] previews

One hour of hybrid club music for @noodsradio

Tracklist : https://noodsradio.com/shows/slowglide-31st-march-22

Slowglide - Noods Radio - 31/03/22

Yeeeessss 👽

The Slug Farm returns for the 8th episode of the residency.  🦠

No guests this month just MISH for the full 2 hours. Expect the usual sounds, blissful downtempo styles to start and then pushing onto some darker, low tempo sludgy chuggers. Downtempo trance, trip-hop, illbient, techno, dub, idm, industrial & more 

Tracklist: 

Command D & gi - Align 
sofa - fux me up
REQ - Blimpot 
Vision of 1994 - Sundown Cruisin
RED - Goodfun
Stone - Pink Orange 
Love Spirals Downwards - Psyche 
Ingleton Falls - High 
Angel Hunt & Lou Venturini
Seefeel - Time To Find Me (AFX Slow Mix) 
downstairs J - Viewing Space
John T. Gast - Blue 
Hajj - Reverse Catharsis 
Rico Casazza - Sequenza 
Synaesthesia - Ambience 
Space Drum Meditation - Müde Augen 
Tamburi Neri - Le porte d’incanto 
Eiger Drums Propaganda - Megalos Technicolor 
Roza Terenzi & jd - Geysers 
Tammo Hesselink - Now Attempt 
bambinodj - Complex Retreat
Katatonic Silentio - Down In Tempo
Objekt - Bad Apples 
Low Khey - Drowned Into A Bath Of Tears 
Driftmachine - Trance 4 
Tamburi Neri - This Is The End 
Strapontin - Family Diner 
Jacques Satre - Port Chastel 
Terrain - Mode 
Vision of 1994 - Drowning 
Fun Da Mental - Sliced Lead 
Spectre - Wipe Out 
Dame Area - La Doble Luna 
NVST - This Room Has No Windows (Problem Version) 
Om Unit - Liberation 
Metal Komplex - Aliv3 

Artwork by 👑 @noushy__g (on insta)

Noods Radio | The Slug Farm w/ MISH | 09.09.22

The second EP from Jack Dice sees a huge leap in ambition for the project, a 5 track session that’s more addictive, direct and heady than its predecessor.
‘Sip Paint’ centres around ‘Stash’s Theme’ featuring rapper and producer Stash Marina, a track that deploys crisp triplets and saturated production straddling mainstream signatures on the one hand and a world of analogue/deviant recording techniques on the other. It’s an odd, hyper-addictive track - available here in both vocal and instrumental versions.
‘Low Glo’, ‘Kerosene’ and ‘Radium Dial’ are more subdued and immersive; you could draw lines straight through the material here to a number of different projects Twells has been involved with through the last decade, though he seems to benefit immeasurably from Chambliss’ presence. The pair find a perfect balance between their respective disciplines, resulting in an EP that at different points throws stylistic references to everything from Prince’s Black Album to The Art of Noise, Drake, Philip Jeck and Evian Christ’s DUGA 3 sessions - without ever sounding overworked or too knowing, a feat in itself.

Stash's Theme (Feat. Stash Marina)

@djstrawberrymusic, or rather Emre Öztürk, is a Turkish sound artist, representing Algorave Istanbul. He debuted with the track 'Hafif Müzik' on the compilation album “grids” released by outlines. The album “Cycles”, which is the artist's full-length debut, is the third release in the catalogue of guides, a sub-label of the outlines label.

Side A of the cassette opens with 'Motion', an extremely spacious and ambient composition in which individual sounds gradually reveal a vast cosmic landscape. DJ Strawberry's next track, 'Dance/Music', floats in a similar sounding atmosphere, but is enriched by vocal samples, which in the initial phase of the track are repeated single words. In the central part of the recording, the author of the spoken words is revealed – he is one of the most important representatives of Chicago Footwork, DJ Spinn, who is joined after a while by his legendary friend DJ Rashad. Excerpts from their conversation are taken from a 2012 French TV interview. In it, Rashad and Spinn talked about the origins of footwork and it is this part of the conversation that is placed by Strawberry at the climax of the piece. The modern and futuristic footwork sound is combined here in a surprising way with the story of two Chicago legends. 'Variation' is the third number on the A-side, which calms the atmosphere after the extremely exciting and dynamic 'Dance/Music'. We find ourselves in a dub-ambient space, watching the spectacular ethereal images shift. Concluding the A-side, 'Fast Track' is a composition in which one can hear inspiration from the Japanese footwork minimalism of DJ Fulltono and CRZKNY from their joint project Theater1. A clear rhythmic pulse is surrounded by delicate micro-drops.

The B-side of the cassette is a consistent development of DJ Strawberry's created sound world. 'Acelem Var' presents a subdued liquid variation of ambient dub. 'Acelem Yok', on the other hand, is the most monumental track and its dramatic layer is as spectacular as the final section of 'Dance/Music'. The concluding B-side of “Cycles”, 'Mono Ton', is like an extended complement to the last track from the A-side, 'Fast Track'. Here, too, you can hear the scattered particles floating in rhythmic space against an underwater, impressionistic and ambient background.

DJ Strawberry's album “Cycles” is an extremely mature offering. Different genre traditions intermingle here: ambient, minimalism, dub techno, clicks and cuts and Chicago Footwork. Strawberry builds his songs with great sensitivity, combining the modern with the classic Chicago sound. An excellent example of this is 'Dance/Music', in which the producer seems to be drawing attention to the prevailing trend in recent times where music and DJs have become more important than the people on the dance floor. Emphasising this problem by referring to the foundations of the dancer/DJ relationship in footwork culture is a treatment that puts things back into perspective. In turn, the fusion of the unique beauty of ambient with footwork and a tempo of 160bpm moves the “Cycles” album towards illustrative music, which could be the perfect soundtrack to accompany the new discoveries of Webb's telescope. It's also not hard to imagine these tracks sounding from the radio of a space-traversing Tesla.

Artwork: Iwona Jarosz / Yes in Progress
Mastered by: Mateusz Wysocki

Cycles

DJ Strawberry - Cycles

This week our Rhythmic Culture podcast series sees a killer mix from Nostro Hood System chief Galtier. Galtier's productions are essentially 'Blade Runner soundtrack with Drums' utilising impactful, theatrical melodic qualities and borrowing heavily from Techno, UK Bass, Percussive Rhythms, Drum & Bass, Dancehall and Ambient, to name but a few. After last year's excellent album 'Pulchra Es Elementis' on Mexican label Infinite Machine, we're more than excited to welcome the Bristol-producer for a 60-minute captivating ride.

@galtier

Rhythmic Culture Mix - Galtier

RC:104 Galtier

@2lanes
@jonah-baseball

2lanes is happy to announce the evolution of his digital label 'AUTO SHOP' into the physical world with the debut release from OVERTONE SERIES, a collaboration between Detroit based 2lanes and Jonah Baseball.  

Standing Waves (Bullfrog Mix) strips down the original track and recontextualizes the tunes' themes into a swampy amphibian-esque bass heavy fever dream.  This is a digital bonus track only available on bandcamp

https://2lanessoundsystems.bandcamp.com/album/standing-waves-ep

Overtone Series - Standing Waves (Bullfrog Mix)

Noria Lilt

The wait is finally over and we are beyond thrilled to have our next artist on the series; enter Noria Lilt (*1994, Fribourg, Switzerland). She has been immersed in a musical and cultural environment since her earliest years. Growing up in a musician family and first training as a multimedia designer, she later graduated from the Bern University of the Arts with a Bachelor of Sound Arts.

Heavily influenced by dance music and rave culture, Noria Lilt combines a bursting mix of the most heterogeneous electronic inspirations. From clubs to art centers and other live scenes, her practice oscillates between djing, live, composition and production, audiovisual installations, and multichannel pieces. Her production and composition process tends towards acousmatic and experimental music, with a delicate and unique sound design.
All of these experiences and carefully weighted nuances are on display on her brilliant debut EP “The Insiders of the In-Between” including remixes by MSJY and Atrice on strecke records. 

TRNSTN RADIO co-founder, Kapitel Bollwerk resident DJ, SMEM coordinator: she is an important figure and an active member of Switzerland's cultural, nightlife, and musical scenes. In all her facets, she presents powerful messages and we are ecstatic to find out what is next on her journey.


SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/norialilt

Tracklist
Paracusia - Am I real enough for you
 O.M.Theorem - Lemma2
 Granule - Choppy Juke  
Magugu x Le Motel - On Topper
Toma Kami - Lil Dieter 
LCY - SACRED
SPACEFACE - Hypertone  
nl.DEFRAQ - Credits 
DAVE N.A. - Signal (forthcoming YUKU) 
 Sha Ru - Not Fluctuating (Walton Remix)
Ziyiz - Engineered Vessels
Tomás Urquieta - 32 Balas (Rhyw's Double Dribble remix)
GG Lobster - 動亂星 Stars of Turmoil
French II - Frequency (Silver Mix)
Giulia Tess - Iene  
Noria Lilt - unreleased  
Dayzero - Ace
 Jdotbalance - Whippet
Evelyn - the vision and the clarity
Circular Square - 3-HT-(Xon)
Sam Link - Little-o
Mathias Ruffing - Ultranova

DUSK254 By Noria Lilt

Big Hands returns with three deep-tripping, extended geometric gyrations, in his own inimitable style. 

https://blankmindlabel.bandcamp.com/album/a-square-a-circle

@big-hands-1

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Big Hands - A square, a circle EP clips (BLNK020)

- taken from "Superimpositions" (BKEDIT010)

A3. Zeroth-Order Approximation

Reissued in 2025 on Nina protocol with additional track Edges Unfold: https://www.ninaprotocol.com/releases/spr-tesselation-districts - bonus material includes video for Edges Unfold by visual artist Florian Schmuck and artwork sketches as well as final sleeve design for the original 12" record release by Lee Noble. 

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Debut release by SPR for The Weevil Neighbourhood.

Tesselation Districts is an extended player of four tracks that oscillate between comprehensible rhythmic patterns and their somewhat uncanny dissolution bridging aesthetics of Steven Porter's as well as Repetition/Distract's compositions for the label.

Black vinyl, limited edition, screenprinted outer sleeve with artwork by Lee Noble (No Kings Records/ Bathetic), mastering by LXC (Watta Sound/ Alphacut). First 100 copies come on white vinyl.


SPR - Out (Clip)

Melodiesinfonie - Lo Pop Fi (feat. Kyoundso)

feat. Laurel Halo, Kuljit Bhamra, Jonny Lam, Verity Susman, Untold

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No: PAN 106
Release Date: 07 February 2020
Purchase: bit.ly/33ISoYr

‘Workaround’ is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythmobsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN. It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro- Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.

Recorded over 2017-2019 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14 bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play.

‘Workaround’ evolves Dillon’s notions in a coolly unfolding manner that speaks directly to the album’s literary and visual inspirations, ranging from James P. Carse’s book ‘Finite And Infinite Games’ to the abstract drawings of Tomma Abts or Jorinde Voigt as well as painter Bridget Riley’s essays on grids and colour. Operating inside this rooted but mutable theoretical wireframe, Dillon’s ideas come to life as interrelated, efficient patterns in a self-sufficient system.

With a naturally fractal-not-fractional logic, Dillon’s rhythms unfold between unresolved 5/4 tresillo patterns, complex tabla strokes and spark-jumping tics in a fluid, tactile dance of dynamic contrasts between strong/light, sudden/restrained, and bound/free made in reference to the notational instructions of choreographer Rudolf Laban. Working in and around the beat and philosophy, the album’s freehand physics contract and expand between the lissom rolls of Bhamra’s tabla in the first, to a harmonious balance of hard drum angles and swooping FM synth cadence featuring additional synth and vocal from Laurel Halo in ‘Workaround Two’, while the extruded strings of Lucy Railton create a sublime tension at the album’s palatecleansing denouement, triggering a scintillating run of technoid pieces that riff on the kind of swung physics found in Artwork’s seminal ‘Basic G’, or Rian Treanor’s disruptive flux with a singularly tight yet loose motion and infectious joy.

Crucially, the album sees Dillon focus on dub music’s pliable emptiness, rather than the moody dematerialisation of reverb and echo. The substance of her music is rematerialised in supple, concise emotional curves and soberly freed to enact its ideas in balletic plies, rugged parries and sweeping, capoeira-like floor action. Applying deeply canny insight drawn from her years of practice as sound designer, musician and hugely knowledgable/intuitive DJ, ‘Workaround’ can be heard as Dillon’s ingenious solution or key to unlocking to perceptions of stiffness, darkness or grid-locked rigidity in electronic music. And as such it speaks to an ideal of rhythm-based and experimental music ranging from the hypnotic senegalese mbalax of Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, through SND and, more currently, the hard drum torque of DJ Plead; to adroitly exert the sensation of weightlessness and freedom in the dance and personal headspace.

The album is mixed by James Rand and mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Thomas Ruff, layout by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

Workaround

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround Two (PAN 106)

Following on from a pair of Extended Players released in 2011 ("Passed Me By" / "We Stay Together") Andy Stott returns to Modern Love with 'Luxury Problems', an 8 track album of new material recorded over the last 12 months. Five of the tracks on the album feature the voice of Alison Skidmore, Andy's onetime Piano teacher whom he hadnt seen since he was a teenager back in 1996. There was no grand gesture in mind, it just sort of happened - but after almost a year of studio work the result is really quite unlike anything you'll have heard from him before. 'Numb' opens the album with Alison's voice; layered and looped but essentially left bare and exposed, tumbling into a dense shuffle, sort of somewhere between Theo Parrish and Sade, but more f*cked. 'Lost and Found' follows and deploys a growling rave bassline and a disturbed vocal, the beat assembling itself around a squashed Linndrum like a submerged Prince/Cameo production, haunted and impenetrable, but full of funk. 'Sleepless' started life as an African drum edit that sooner or later succumbed to Stott's intense rhythmic shifts. It's a sound that's been imitated countless times since the release of 'Passed Me By', here re-tooled and re-built for its next evolutionary phase. 'Hatch The Plan' ends the first half of the album with some heavily treated location recordings and a low end grind that probably doesnt quite prepare you for the vocal arrangements that follow - it's just a beautifuly inverted pop song. The second half opens with 'Expecting', the most recognisably 'Stott' moment on the album: a wrecked, deliriously knocked-out 4/4 shuffle deployed at halfspeed; those heavy kickdrums sucking in everything around them. 'Luxury Problems' is next and offers up the album's most quietly euphoric and open 5 minutes; conventional arrangements and drumloops disrupted by sharp disco bursts that mess with what you know: it's straight and beautiful and unbalanced and damaged, somehow all at once. "Up the box" switches up the narrative and goes somewhere else entirely, an extended intro that seems to build continuously for 3 minutes before breaking off into a slowed-down Amen edit, creating a kind of narcotic Jungle variant that fragments everything and ends just at the point you think it's going to go off, before "Leaving" finishes the album with an almost unbareably beautiful arrangement of voice and synth and a final key-change that takes you from joyful to forlorn in an instant.

01-Numb

Weevil Neighbourhood is a habitat for the unorthodox in sound, music and beyond. Initiated in 2010 by Martin Heinze, contributing artists include Anthone, Bokeh, Lee Noble, Katsunori Sawa, Repetition/Distract, SPR, Steven Porter and Torimimasataka.

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