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WL//WH - AUGUST 2023 // Electronica - Techno - Industrial - EBM - Breaks - Electro

augastop 2023

You Never Come Back

Buy: https://kassiansound.bandcamp.com/album/phase-two

Within the transformations of their meticulous processes, London duo Kassian become a vessel for alchemy: filtering and distilling scores of stems, samples and layers until something richer and more complex than the sum of its parts emerges.

Since their debut release in 2018, Kassian have drifted leftwards into heavier, more abstract territory, harnessing their individual skills for working in the small pockets and painting the whole cloth of the canvas. In their first outing for !K7, Phase Two EP, the Roland System 1 synth is the throughline as they painstakingly piece together sketches, turning high hats into kick drums, capturing the resonance of percussion and drift further into each other’s heavy-hitting sonic realms.

 The EP’s final track “Patterns” was inspired by Kassian’s earliest incarnations of live performances, and it unashamedly captures the peaks of communal moments, rounding out the EP with an epic take on deep and techy house.

PREMIERE: Kassian - Patterns [!K7 Records]

Berlin-based Curses brings a romantic edge to the dance floor, blending 80's New Wave, the darker side of Italo-Disco and flashes of EBM with his own ghostly vocals. Always riding the fine line between post punk and wave of live music and hard hitting club sounds of the body music acid and beyond.

Curses continues to bring a romantic and punk energy to the club with a new single ‘’Tornado Warning’’. An ode to early 80s Valencia club sounds and proto-techno Belgium new beat bangers. A single whose title translates exactly what it is - straight, simple and dead to the point.

 « This is a tornado warning ». Time to get down.

BUY HERE

Curses - Tornado Warning

Manchester band RSL reform and release their award-winning vinyl album ‘Every Preston Guild’ digitally for the first time! RSL got together 20 years ago and was founded by bassist Joe Botham, keys player Martin Almond and drummer Chas Morrison, after meeting mid-90s during the explosion of house, hip hop, and drum & bass. Despite spending most of their time locked away in a studio, they dipped into the eclectic club life of post-indie Manchester. Both Joe and Martin studied music and orchestration at Salford University while Chas’ musical career started early, signing to Tony Wilson’s Factory Records. The music they created was something you would more likely expect to hear coming out of Southern Spain or Spanish Harlem, combining jazz sensibilities with uplifting driving beats, heavy percussion, soaring vocals, dark brass, and touches of deep flamenco brought together with classic vintage production. 
Fast forward to 2023, RSL digitally release their 2003 album – only ever out on vinyl before - that includes the spiritual house anthem ‘Wesley Music’ on its 20th Anniversary. The track was voted ‘Track of The Year’ by listeners of Gilles Peterson's 2003 Worldwide Show on Radio 1. The followup single ‘The Mast’ was also an underground hit, being licensed around the world for multiple compilations, including Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide series, Village Records and Dave Lee’s - In the House. 
On Friday 14th July - ahead of the full digital album release on 4th August - the band will make the single ‘The Mast’ available to stream and download. The single will be released exclusively on Bandcamp as a remix package, with all its component parts provided. Fans or producers alike will be able to download and remix or re-edit the track as they wish, whether that be for fun, or as a DJ tool. In addition, the original 8piece line-up is playing at We Out Here Festival, Blues Kitchen, Manchester, and the Jazz café.  Finally, back in time some hefty remixes were done of ‘The Mast’ and ‘Wesley Music’ by the mighty King Britt & Danny Krivit. We have included them in your promo package!

Every Preston Guild

BUY on BANDCAMP

PREMIERE : RSL - Every Preston Guild (Part 1)

We are delighted to announce the return of Damon Jee and Darlyn Vlys on Polaris

We start with ’Late Dance’, an energizing track that takes listeners on a tribute to the 90s with its raw synths and rave bass.
Its impeccable performance and infectious stamina make an indispensable acquisition for your music collection.

We continue with 'Leaving Earth', another timeless and vibrant track that will get things moving, a rocking bass line and unexpected sounds once again lead you into an epic breakdown and a tuneful main drop.

Enjoy!

Distribution by Muting the Noise
Artwork by Olivier Laude

Late Dance

Leaving Earth

Damon Jee, Darlyn Vlys - Leaving Earth

Premiere of the track "Malice" by the industrial/grind band from Southend, Essex Sonic Violence, remixed by Scannoir & Sneaker aka GOTT, taken from the upcoming EP on Mattoni Pazzi Studios.
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Artist: Sonic Violence
Track: : "Malice"
Remix by GOTT [@scannoir + @sneakerdj]
Title: "Mutatio"
Label: Mattoni Pazzi Studios
Format: Vinyl 
Release date: September 1, 2023
Pre-order: bordelloaparigi.com/shop/vinyl/gott-mutatio-12/

Mastered by Sneaker, Reel to reel transfer by Jacob Korn at TailOut Studios.

"Scannoir & Sneaker, aka "GOTT", explore, transform and mutate. This unique collaboration embodies the perfect symbiosis of passion. "Die Deutsch-Schweizerische Freundschaft" is still profound and continues to have an effect. Now the two exceptional artists present their latest work: GOTT – MUTATIO on the Zurich based label Mattoni Pazzi.
“Alles wird gut" was the motto of the occupied Wohlgroth-Areal in Zurich in 1993, where Sonic Violence was invited to the concert of their "Transfixion" album tour. Industrial beats, dark samples, guitar riffs and moshing punks dominated the scene. At the ticket booth there were CDs to take away: "Sonic Violence - Transfixion"!
A template that now, 30 years later, adorns this memory with the selected track “Malice” in a new guise. GOTT mutates the original into a dark hell ride."

Premiere: Sonic Violence - Malice (GOTT Mutatio)[MPS002]

https://soundcloud.com/freybenedikt
https://soundcloud.com/esp-institute
🛒 https://freybenedikt.bandcamp.com/album/fastlane
🔊 https://youtu.be/nVzU6dgMxek

Close your eyes and merge into Benedikt Frey’s 'Fastlane'. Imagine sitting in the driver’s seat of a an automobile, one with exceptional horsepower and torque, as you stare out the windshield at the red light, warping in fata-morgana a mile down the road. It’s a straight-away, a black top with two lanes, and against your better judgment you decide to floor the gas. No hesitation in your muscle, your ankle or the ball of your foot, which you now realize is some kind of universal pivot, the first point of contact fusing your body with the will of machine. In this moment you’re in awe that you, a human, an animal, grew from pond scum into something so advanced as to engineer this thing, a mechanical beast capable of overwhelming power and exhilaration. But you also feel a seductive dread, an outside force diverting you from caution toward a dangling carrot of curiosity, asking yourself, ‘How far can I take this thing?’ The dread, now a constant, is numbed, equalized by an adverse intoxicating gratification. You feel both sensations in real time, however, rather than take responsibility for yourself, friends, family and innocent bystanders, you cement your foot to the floor and lean your head back. Noise around you fades to mute. Smell the benzene-scented air, feel the wind on your face, the menacing vibration of the vessel you control beneath you and every grain of asphalt under its tires. This mile has now lasted an eternity and you’ve left your body for some objective view, as if watching climax of a film. Past the point of no return, you embrace abandon and lean into fate. The film becomes slow motion, a crawling pace so mesmerizing you convince yourself of an option to eject yourself from this madness, but as you finally let go of your last morsel of fear, you run the red light head-on into the nucleus of a fantastic glistening sculpture of torn metal, glass, oil, broken dreams and heartache. 'Fastlane' may be just drum machines and synthesizers if you’re timid, but listen harder and know the catastrophic reality of existence, a wreckage so gruesome we dare not rubberneck, but afterall it is our nature to stare.

PREMIERE: Benedikt Frey - Crank [ESP Institute]

Bandcamp

Francois Dillinger   - Agitated Particles

Written and Produced by Rory McPike
Best Effort Records 2023
Artwork by Jack Hewitt
Mastered and cut by Analogcut

Rings Around Saturn - Lansky's Vision

Mind Modified

The Austrian DJ/producer duo Wiener Planquadrat (@wienerplanquadrat) consisting of Michael Weiler and Maximilian Atteneder are the first to feature on Iptamenos Discos’ new single series with ‘Ein Weites Feld’, a powerful single that presents a fusion of sounds from dark disco, electro, acid and house.

Showcasing a wide variety of analogue sounds and synths, the track builds an euphoric and futuristic atmosphere, featuring striking percussion that gives the track a feeling of weight as well as utilising a vocal that blurs the line between human and robot. The song continuously builds up the energy with a flurry of arpeggiators, sweeping pads and acid basslines, giving the listener the sense that they are breaking free from the atmosphere and launching off into space, as if they are floating away in zero gravity.

Wiener Planquadrat has built their sound over a variety of successful releases including their debut hit single ‘Stillstand’ and the follow up EP ‘Dschungel‘, as well as many remixes and collaborations with artists such as Local Suicide, You Man, Kalipo, Dina Summer, Oberst & Buchner & Ali X. In recent times they have been DJing and playing live shows in Berlin, Paris, Thessaloniki, and Vienna as well as focusing on the production of their debut album.

‘Ein Weites Feld’ will release via Iptamenos Discos on digital and streaming platforms on August 8th, 2023 and will feature the original mix, a radio edit and an instrumental mix.

Ein Weites Feld

Download / Stream

Wiener Planquadrat - Ein Weites Feld (Radio Edit)

WhyPeopleWar Fundraiser for Ukraine: https://whypeopledance.bandcamp.com/

The Why people dance question was asked for the first time in Lithuania back in 2013 but it gained a worldwide echo in its 8 years of existence. Run by @pauliuskamblevicius with the help of @experimentsserial and a network of collaborators, the online electronic music platform and label keeps its heart open for new friends and treasure finds but its filter tight and deep underground. Tune into WPD channels on Soundcloud, YouTube and Bandcamp.