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KATAKOMBA is a mini album by Kyiv’s (now based in Berlin) musician Chaosy (@user-254987138). This release has been in store for almost exactly a year. We planned to announce KATAKOMBA on February 24, 2022, a day that also happened to be the first day of russia’s full-scale invasion. 

One year later, we finally feel ready to share this project that so much work and thought has gone into. Now it feels like something from a different lifetime, yet, somehow, these 6 tracks boldly fit with our feelings of the present.

Bogdan Temchenko aka Chaosy is a noteworthy representative of Kyiv underground’s young blood. Fully self-taught Bogdan joined his very first metal band at the age of 13. Then he started performing at places such as the sleazy (quintessential) local venue Barvy.

Bogdan’s upbringing in the grainy basements of Kyiv’s punk pubs found reflection in his ideology and his music. He is currently active in two bands: black metal formation Angel, where he plays drums and a post-punk project Lyrica, where he sings and plays guitar. 
 While devoted to analog sound, in recent years Bogdan has been finding it more and more difficult to get together with his bandmates, so he started experimenting with electronic music on his own. That’s how his solo project Chaosy came to life. 

Following his two ambitious self-released albums, Standard Deviation is proud to present  KATAKOMBA – a 6 track mini album that comes together as a meditative exercise on the subjects of mysticism and desolation. Choosy’s third album is an expressive and multifaceted work that weaves together a unique strain of black metal-post punk-electronics with a tenor of esotericism.

 ‘I spend a lot of time observing the world around me, and, for some reason, it’s the darkness of it all that inspires me most’ – says Bogdan. He describes writing music as a natural instinct, almost a need: 

‘Working on this album was sort of a trance-like experience. I just followed my intuition and, to be honest, I didn’t really think about the processes. When I was finished, everything just fell into place. It felt like coming back from a dark trip’.

KATAKOMBA offers a broad spectrum of influences that range from Electro and IDM (Joomangy In Da Hurashami) to Electro-infused Punk (Shaolean, BlackBoat, Wrestling of Sleeping Minds, Borderline) and Post-Punk (Solstice). The state of saudade, evoked by the bursts of fragile voice lines and electric guitars is present throughout the entire album and finds final manifestation in the epilogue track ‘Solstice’.
  
KATAKOMBA is aggressive, yet melancholic. It’s a heady experience into a previously unexplored direction for Standard Deviation, but just a glimpse into what the more gritty side of Kyiv’s underground has to offer.

The first single of the album, Shaolean, is out now. 
KATAKOMBA is out on March 8th.

https://fanlink.to/katakomba

Written, performed and produced by Chaosy 
Mixed by Chaosy
Mastered by UTC+16, Kyiv 
Artwork by Ormstick 
Art Direction & Design by RAM

Katakomba

Shaolean

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Chaosy - Shaolean (STDEV011S)

9beats lands on Cosmic Wave Records with a four track EP representative of his analog approach to deep, sci-fi sounding techno. The Katan EP masterfully weaves through space like textures, driving bass groves and syncopated percussion, inspired by recent scientific studies into black holes and parallel universes. 

Find the full read here: www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-9beats-quantum-fluctuations-valentino-mora-rephase

Katan will be out June 20th, 2023. Order a copy via  https://cosmicwaverecords.bandcamp.com/

Premiere: 9beats - Quantum Fluctuations (Valentino Mora Rephase)[CWRLTD001]

Tracklist:

1.	Andria - OR				
2.	J-Zbel - Bertrand au Mont d'Or	
3.	Jac Berrocal, David Fenech, Vincent Epplay - The Overload
4.	Basses Terres - Deliæ	
5.	Broken English Club vs Mark - Waves in Silver Yuppie (Mashup) 		
6.	Pandrama - Fatale Stunt		
7.	Shiken Hanzo - Oni	
8.	Andria - Intelligent Methods of Sacrifice 
9.	Lexis - Hypnotise (Autechre Remix)	
10.	Yogg & Pharaoh - OMPTI
11.	He Said Omala - Roaring Hat Seeds (Hartley & Huhta)	
12.	Zonal - Trench Town 	
13.	The_Empath - Home & Dry	
14.	Drew McDowall & Hiro Kone - Violence's Detour
15.	Demdike Stare - New Fakes

Andria For RLR X Drugstore @ Apgrade Festival, Belgrade 09 - 13 - 2019

With the first Phase Group Mix we introduce you to Andria - a young producer from Serbia who you may know through his output on the excellent YES label. Andria also works as our graphic designer and he's provided us with a mix of slow industrial breaks, dark IDM and otherworldly sound design that is representative of the sound he creates himself. The mix also includes some upcoming Phase Group material which we’re looking forward to sharing with you very soon. Enjoy.

@androan97

Phase Group Mix -  Andria

Daniele Cosmo (Lux Rec // Zurich)
@luxrec

Illustration:
@steviewhisper

Mixes

Daniele Cosmo says Yes.

April 2020

Preorder: https://bit.ly/3cVeITx
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/Cleveland-Gamma/release/14887533

A staple element of high-profile labels such as Hivern Discs and ESP Institute, Brussels-based producer Andrea Mancini alias Cleveland (@clevelandmusicpage) has built something of an impressive reputation over the last few years, establishing a sound signature both convincingly unique and daringly game-changing, as well as setting up a distinctly fresh musical grammar that invites the listener to see under the surface of the standstill techno/house dichotomy through more complex but just as effortlessly enjoyable architectonics.

Complete with a choice duo of remixes courtesy of Beta Librae (@blibrae) and  Piezo(@piezopz), Cleveland's debut EP for Kalahari Oyster Cult sits straight in line with the recreated organic lushness and widescreen vista of his previous installments. Seemingly a straightforward broken-beat affair at first glance, 'Gamma' seamlessly slides towards sun-dazed weirdo house terrains with its dripping honey-like melange of dubbed-out synth ripples, distorted machine talk, and foot-shuffling drum work.

A further Arpanet-friendly slab of shapeless electronics, 'Ora' levitates in a zone of its own, subtly oscillating betwixt chimey oneirism and crystal-like, arpeggiated brittleness. On the flip, 'Gamma' gets a double treat. Turning the track into a proper floor-ready weapon, Pezio alternates sequences of hypnotic melodic shimmer with a stealthily squelchy but dynamic percussive momentum. Adding her trademark playful get-up-and-go whilst retaining the original's textural quirk, Brooklyn's Beta Librae explores even further the cheeky vibrancy of Cleveland's non-formulaic audio semantics to brush a vividly trippy tableau of sorts.

Cleveland - Gamma 12" w/ Beta Librae & Piezo Remixes (OYSTER24 - Snippets)

Ishome  —  раз-два

Out in June on Kalahari Oyster Cult.

Vinyl & digital: https://bit.ly/2ynBFj6
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/Reptant-Phasic-Reflex/release/15240504

A1  Phasic Reflex [08:10 - 132 BPM]
A2 MS Plenty [05:00 - 132 BPM]
B1 A Realist's Realistic Reality [05:44 - 134 BPM]
B2 A Realist's Realistic Reality (Roza Terenzi's Realism Remix) [07:01 - 112 BPM]

Expert in trippy joints and knee-buckling bounce, OZ-based producer @reptant_the_lizard is back with a vengeance after an array of choice outings on the likes of Salt Mines, Planet Euphorique and Craigie Knowes. No warm-up lap needed, 'Phasic Reflex' may start as a tycho-esque daydream, what's bred in the bone comes out in the flesh. A pure adrenaline rush of vogue-ing 303, hi-voltage electro and intricate drum programming, this one has dancefloor ripper written all over it.

Keeping the tension up to hazardous levels, 'MS Plenty' zones out to a Detroit-style elixir of arpeggiated seesaws and pong-indebted, body-jacking pep. As its title suggests - or not, the B-side opener 'A Realist's Realistic Reality' clearly lies closer to a cyphered Dick-ian parallel world full of binary bleepin' and swirlin', post-kosmische infused riffs and tentacular Arpanet-style modularity, which @roza-terenzi alters into a lo-pressure dub expedition - better tasted at sunrise, feet buried deep in the sand and your hazy mind draped in the cosy folds of a cheerful seaside sloth with friends.

https://bit.ly/2ynBFj6

Reptant - Phasic Reflex 12" w/ Roza Terenzi Remix (OYSTER25 - Snippets)

PREMIERE : SW. - TheENERGY Slow

Even a historical pandemic couldn't take summer hits away from our hearts. Exceptional circumstances means extraordinary compilation.

Worst Records' hall of fame welcomes new faces around the pool for a 13-stages enlightened drama. You'll meet again with the top 3 podium made of A Strange Wedding, Jacques Satre and Christian Coiffure, all rensponsible for our first three releases, building up a mesmerizing, out of season mental workout. Extending the dimension of trance towards Saint-Etienne, Del.Duc brings on a curious yet serene astral travel, and we can also count on the distant reinforcements from the Toulouse Gouffre Club crew with Jan Loup and her glitch spangled hazy dub from far futures and the new trance comer from Bordeaux, Lazuli.
Special friends are also gathering here, as Myako is sewing on thin fabric a vaporous dub in shades of grey, the one-and-only master touki Théo Muller delivers a cinematic remedy to confinement.
Liberation through hearing, it is, as borders explode with the presence of many : Yin Yang Audio in a transatlantic IDM/break jump, Forest on Stasys (aka Mental Resonance) and his tough shamanic dance, Clemens Friedrich slowing down all senses at once and JEANS, boss of Oracle Bones, speeding us up in the hyperloop.
Finally, as teamwork means a lot, we have given the pleasure to open this compilation to the four-headed Lausanne/Freiberg hydra 4POTR and their cryptic transdimensional message, and the honor of closing this pool party to the 404 trio gem from Candoblé with a fine piece of wonder.

Not exactly your usual summer compilation, nor the hits you could imagine, but surely the music you'll need under the hot sun of 2020.

Free download on Bandcamp : bit.ly/2YJz0e1 🌀

Design by Elie Pesqué
Words by Alexandre Richet
 Mastered by Jules Payen
Selection by Les Fils de Jacob

Download on Bandcamp

Yin Yang Audio - Empathy

Exclusive: RVDS - Moon Operator

After the forced pandemic break with most people falling into a valley of sorrows for many reasons, Dresden-based label Uncanny Valley finally returns with the next edition around their 50th release festivities. Simply called Purple and of course coming with a sleeve in the same color, the Florence on the Elbe-boys Albrecht, Conrad, Carl and Philipp invited label affiliates Chino, Johannes Albert, Lake People and RVDS to contribute a track to the EP. The latter is a Hamburg based DJ and producer operating from the infamous Pudel Club in Hanseatic city, where he already celebrated the release of his track Moon Operator with label heads Carl and Philipp before Purple had to be postponed. However, the final release of Moon Operator does not lessen the joy as the track has already been supported by artists such as Oskar Offermann. Moon Operator starts with deep and melo pads before a clap is introduced and accompanied by a backgroundish almost tripple bass beat. In this emotional construct that already soaks the listener deep into its virtue an Acid-line is implemented taking the tune on a whole new level, musically and emotionally, and just as both, the initially introduced pads and the Acid-line harmonize smoothly with each other, RVDS pushes even more forward adding a proper bass line taking you to the moon and back and making one long for those coopting club nights.

Uncanny Valley 50: Purple will be released on Uncanny Valley on May 11th, 2020.

Buy the EP
Bandcamp: uncannyvalleyrec.bandcamp.com/album/purple-chino-johannes-albert-lake-people-rvds

Artist & label information
RVDS: www.facebook.com/rvdsrvd // @rvds // www.instagram.com/richardv.d.schulenburg
Uncanny Valley: www.facebook.com/uncannyvalleyrecs // @uncanny-valley-dresden // www.instagram.com/uncannyvalley.de

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Uncanny Valley 50 PURPLE

Moon Operator

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EXCLUSIVE: RVDS - Moon Operator [Uncanny Valley]

Taken from the 21st edition of XLR8R+, a special edition curated by Answer Code Request and featuring tracks by Adlas, Ryan James Ford, and a sample pack and track from the man himself.

Get the package: https://bit.ly/XLR8Rplus_021

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XLR8R+021: Answer Code Request - Insist [Snippet]

Mr TC, aka Thomas Lea Clarke, DJ and producer based in Glasgow. Co-founder of Phase Group Records. He has released music on Optimo Music, Neubau and Mustesna Records amongst others and appears on the latest Danzas Electricas compilation as part of Service.

Mr TC [Macadam Mambo Takeover]

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Run by @lesfilsdejacob

Worst Records is born during an obscure weekend in Italy a few years ago. Long-awaited, time to mature ideas with the hope of endless tomorrows.

contact : contact @ positiveeducation.fr