Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, ambient, minimal wave, pye corner audio, pye corner audio transcription services, synth pop, the head technician
Right then, our Head Technician has sworn that he will have the next instalment of Black Mills Tapes ready for us by the end of January. Volume 3: All Pathways Open comprises a further twelve tracks lovingly transferred from those now fabled 1/4″ and cassette tapes. The Advisory Circle kindly lent a hand and retransferred ‘Electronic Rhythm Number Eighteen’ for which we are very grateful. Our Head Technician tells us this particular segment had been giving him a fair bit of trouble, so the help was appreciated.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, ambient, dominick fernow, experimental, industrial, leftfield, techno, type, vatican shadow
Dominick Fernow might be best known for his industrial incantations under the Prurient moniker, but in recent months his attention has shifted towards a different outlet. Fernow’s interest in electronic music (from the clamorous grind of Muslimgauze to the recently defunct Sandwell District imprint) has been well documented, and it comes to a frothy head with his Vatican Shadow project. Revolving around themes gleaned from Iraq war propaganda and yellowing stacks of newspaper clippings, the tracks on ‘Kneel Before Religious Icons’ are a perfect representation of Fernow’s modus operandi. Behind a wall of tape hiss, drum machine rhythms beat out memories of early Ministry and AFX while sickly FM synthesizer pads crawl and heave into the abyss. Like much of Fernow’s output prior to this, the emphasis is on society’s darker crevices, but Vatican Shadow is steeped in an alarming mystery and sulfuric smoke that is sure to surprise recent converts.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: actress, album, ambient, darren cunningham, electronic, honest jon's
South London producer Darren Cunningham’s new album, R.I.P, underlines Actress’s reputation as one of the most eloquent voices to emerge from the sub-bass nexus of London dance music. His intuitive and original grasp of beats, textures and rhythm puts him on a parallel path to dance music innovators such as Drexciya, T++, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Burial and Basic Channel. Absolutely essential release by one of the most exciting producers of the 21st century.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, ambient, aura fresh, confineless records, dub techno
The third limited edition CD album on Confineless Recordings, this time by Aura Fresh.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, ambient, djorvin clain, dub techno, silent season
Pattern Of Thought speaks a believers language. It was created and processed with care. We experience time and our conscious emotions in a most individual space of mind. Our thoughts are formed by what we feel. Our own personal diary, the mind and heart guides us through. All tracks and sounds where recorded in Belgium with the use of hardware instruments and several recording techniques, from field recordings to reel to reel tape. The sounds of the album are kept authentically as possible, away from what was happening in the music world around me, it is a deepest personal reflection.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: ambient, blackest ever black, dominick fernow, industrial, regis, techno, vatican shadow
Blackest Ever Black presents a much needed vinyl pressing of two tracks from Vatican Shadow’s debut cassette release, backed with Regis remix. For anyone familiar with the original 2010 tape or mp3 release, we should say this record sounds radically different, thanks in no small part to a pedigree mastering to vinyl by Matt Colton at London’s Air facilities. The haunting synth washes, grinding bass distortion and chopper blades of ‘Cairo Sword Unsheathed’, and the subharmonic bass of ‘Gunmen With Silencer’ are illuminated with a cold hard light, while their physical shape feels viscerally intimated. Regis transforms ‘Church Of All Images’ from Vatican Shadow’s ‘Kneel Before Religious Icons’ LP, adding another vividly compelling episode to his important cache.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: ambient, compilation, cv313, deepchord, detroit, dub techno, echospace, intrusions, rod modell, steve hitchell, variant
Limited edition label compilation from Echospace, Detroit featuring unreleased material from cv313, Deepchord, Echospace, Intrusion & Variant. 4 x 12” 160 gram mixed colored vinyl with full color gatefold jacket with poly lined inserts.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, ambient, experimental, imbalance computer music, monolake, robert henke, techno
Two years after Monolake’s ‘Silence’ release, Robert Henke is back with a new Monolake album entitled ‘Ghosts’. Dark and colorful, with haunting and deep excursions into magic worlds of sound and grooves, held together by a fragmentary story as part of the artwork that indicates a continuation of themes present on ‘Silence’: Precisely crafted earthshaking beats, rough dirty noises, wide lush soundscapes and little sonic creatures inhabiting a fascinating planet in which a lot of things go badly wrong and nothing is taken for granted. Music that augments reality when listening to whilst commuting, music to get lost in when experienced loud in a club. There is nothing minimal in that music, it is bass heavy and full of detail. The 2x vinyl version (gatefold sleeve) includes 11 tracks plus a bonus CD with all tracks in digital format.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: actual taped voices, ambient, atv records, dubstep, phantom whistle, techno
Scandinavia’s ATV serving 4 slow paced, atmospheric electronic cuts that are perfect for headphone listening, yet also have the right energy for playing them out loud.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: 50 weapons, ambient, dubstep, shed, techno
Shed’s 50Weapons debut. He’s created something completely unique; rather than boom, the rhythm of “The Praetorian” pulsates, taking a metronomic, sand-dry snare and combining it with an undulating pad melody with a distinctly dreamy quality. “RQ-170″ meanwhile ticks along with the head-nodding rhythm of dubstep, utilising bass frequencies almost below the range of hearing, while a snarling rasp burrows through the track’s centre.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, ambient, donato dozzy, neel, prologue, techno, voices from the lake
Voices from the Lake is an intensely personal project borne out of the long-standing friendship between two Italian DJ/producers, Donato Dozzy and Neel. The project extends and deepens their explorations of ambient techno, with an emphasis firmly placed on the ‘techno’ component. Listening to Voices from the Lake is an immersive experience, as the textured beats and carefully crafted rhythms have a deeply hypnotic effect. The open, fluid structure of the music gives it an organic, natural feel, transporting you to more peaceful surroundings. With the music of Voices from the Lake there is a completely natural progression and flow, nothing is forced or hurried. The sounds develop and unfold at their own pace, creating a powerful sense of tranquility.The genesis of the Voices from the Lake album can be found in the mountains of Japan, where they made their live debut at The Labyrinth festival in 2011.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: albert van abbe, ambient, conforce, dub techno, no comment
No comment is a platform focused on sharing channeled auditive and synaesthetic/ multi sensory perceptions. The concept was conceived to help the energy levels rise towards the transcendence of spacetime, entering the multiverse. The message is in the music, this is your last call.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: albert van abbe, alteria percepsyne, ambient, bubbling swamp, compilation, deep techno, dub techno, mr. cloudy, other heights
Other Heights presents “As We Are”, a compilation of remixes. The release includes the original and seven remixes by As We Are Mr. Cloudy, Soulsonic, Bubbling Swamp, Herbstlaub, Alteria Percepsyne, Spaceci and Albert Van Abbe.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: 154, ambient, claro intelecto, damon lamar, deep techno, lowtec, styrax records
New release on the Styrax Records Special series, with four tracks from 154, Damon Lamar, Claro Intelecto and Lowtec.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: ambient, deep techno, fauxpas muzik, phidias
Fauxpas Musik presents the 8th release with the catalogue number 007. It’s a three track EP produced by Phidias. He created three brilliant tracks as a tribute to Convextion aka Gerard Hanson.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: ambient, andreas tilliander, kondens, kontra musik, mokira, stefan thor, substance, techno
Kondens is collaboration between Swedish electronic music veterans Andreas Tilliander aka Mokira and Stefan Thor aka Folie. The sound is a hybrid of techy dubstep with a twist and banging dub-influenced techno. Pure peak time bliss without losing the love for dub and tape delays. This is their ‘Second Coming’ and is supported by a breathtakingly beautiful Substance remix.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, ambient, cosmic disco, electronica, house, jorge velez, l.i.e.s., long island electrical systems, marcos cabral, professor genius, steve moore, steve summers, synth
Composing an entire electronic album around the notorious 15th Century Cult Of Assassins, New Jersey based producer Jorge Velez, better known as Professor Genius, has created a unique and ambitious piece of work, under the guise of “Hassan”. Largely based around layered atmospheric Arabic-styled synth work and sparse percussion throughout, Hassan employs an entirely electronic palette to bring listeners into a secret world filled with darkness, drama, triumph and chaotic dissonance. The release includes also remixes by Steve Moore, Marcos Cabral and Steve Summers.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: ambient, detroit techno, john beltran, styrax records
John Beltran presents 3 new ambient electronica tracks on Styrax Records. Beautifully produced, generously melodic work of one of techno’s unsung heroes.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: ambient, donor, drone, experimental, perc trax, techno, truss
Transatlantic duo Donor / Truss return on Perc Trax, with a four tracks release. ‘Endo’ represents a new peak for the Donor / Truss sound with each individual section working as both a self-contained track and a quarter of the entire Endo experience. Together the 4 parts join together to make a complete piece of music, stretching across 23 minutes and 2 sides of vinyl.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, ambient, electronica, jeff mills, minimal techno, ozamu tezuka, soundtrack, techno
New double CD inspired by the motion picture “Fantastic Voyage” (1966) and artist Osamu Tezuka. The soundtrack was initially made for the cinemix event at Cite de la Musique in Paris in May 2011. Composed and produced by Jeff Mills.
