Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: drone, orphx, semantica records, svreca, techno
Semantica drops a new release with Svreca’s two-tracker “Vilna/Hagagatan”. By title sounding like a tribute to the Baltic Sea region, its A-side features a galvanized treatment of “Vilna” by Orphx, an industrial-rooted collective knowing no mercy. This is honest techno with echoing thunder and distortion-coated bass, in Spanish-Canadian collaboration. Dark rhythm and noise exposure also in “Hagagatan”, which takes to the throat of a foundry with all exit doors blocked.
Bill Youngman has become one of the most important parts of the Killekill family. This record displays his wide range of interests: from dark techno in Shadent he crosses over to drone monster alert in Wespe to his very own style of melodic electro in Centrumcircuit.
The second EP of Cassegrain on Prologue shows how extraordinary talented Alex and Hüseyin are and which wide range of electronic music both definitely cover. After their first release on Prologue the Coptic EP shows again the perfect range between experimental techno, proper sound research and deepest trails in electronic music.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: aw/ss, drone, karl o’connor, katsunori sawa, marcel dettmann, peter sutton, richard harvey, semantica records, steven porter, svreca, techno, yuji kondo
Spanish label Semantica have been exploring the shadowy nether zones of techno for five years now, and this 12″ sees them reach number five of their 5 Years Compilation, featuring original contributions from some of the most important names in techno. The 12″ opens with “Public Beheading”, a collaboration between Karl O’Connor (aka Regis), Peter Sutton (aka Female) and Richard Harvey; as the name suggests, its ominous tones and cinematic atmospherics paint a grim picture. The bleak tone is carried through on AW/SS’s “Nonnative”, where a solitary kick breaks the through vinyl crackle, with only wintry drones for company. The B-Side meanwhile features Ostgut Ton’s finest, Marcel Dettmann, remixing Svereca’s “Obscur”. In keeping with the tone of the EP, the beats are shuffling and suggestive rather than heaving slabs of concrete, with particular attention paid to the creaking reverb hanging over the modulating sub bass. The record finishes with Yuji Kondo, Katsunori Sawa and Steven Porter’s “Moonlight Graham”, a shadowy warehouse jam whose myriad textures bubble beneath its rough surface. In short, four reasons why Semantica is one of the most interesting techno labels in the world.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: do not resist the beat, drone, milton bradley, techno
Outstanding, completely alienated and dark sounding Techno from Milton Bradley on his own label Don Not Resist The Beat.
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Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: cio d'or, drone, mike parker, prologue, techno
Mike Parker comes back on Prologue, with four deepest energetic driving tracks, monster baselines and loaded with hypotonic.
Filed under: 010.Interviews, 100.Sessions | Tags: drone, giorgio gigli, interview, obtane, podcast, resident advisor, techno
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: drone, experimental, imf, index marcel fengler, marcel fengler, techno
Marcel Fengler launches his own label – IMF (Index Marcel Fengler) with a rich, experimental and varied 3 track EP.
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: ambient, cio d'or, drone, prologue, techno
There’s a variety of ways to produce Techno and Cio creates always a unique world of deep, clear, transparent sound architectures. Even with this new Magnetfluss EP our grande madame of Techno show us a new interpretation of her own musical world. All tracks are deeply emotional designed and bare a picture of modern electronic music.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: ambient, drone, horizontal ground, skirt, techno
Horizontal Ground presents release no. 10, featuring some advanced electronic tracks from techno to drone, wave/punk electronica rooted tunes and a remix of Itmuts by Skirt.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: blackest ever black, drone, karl o’connor, mick harris, regis, scorn, techno
“I A Syrian Tongue” is Karl O’Connor’s first solo EP as Regis in ten years. Across these three tracks, Regis showcases a sound that delivers the industrial intensity of his vintage Downwards work, the elegance and swing of his Sandwell District contributions, and a seemingly new ingredient: something powerfully, irreducibly Blackest Ever Black.
Dino Sabatino presents two tripping drone techno tracks on the new label Outis Music. “Modulation A” is a dense, tense ride into a liquid atmosphere of a techno playground. “Modulation B”it brings the dancefloor into an evanescent state of ghostly fog.
New release from Mike Parker on his Bandcamp, featuring 3 industrial drone techno tracks.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: ambient, drone, giorgio gigli, m_rec limited, techno, terence fixmer
M_Rec Ltd presents two original tracks by Giorgio Gigli and a remix from Terence Fixmer. Together, their approach creates something special and unique. In its original track Giorgio Gigli delivers the best of its hypnotic and psychedelic techno. A great atmosphere, where the ambient pads meet the dark bass sound. The side closes with an ambient session; a drone of pure electronic,dark synth, making the idea of the state of mind of his own individual unconscious. Terence Fixmer’s version is decidedly more rough, stripped of certain atmospheres, highlighting a more hypnotic and repetitive attitude.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: drone, giorgio gigli, milton bradley, obtane, techno, zooloft records
The A side is a powerful techno machine with Zooloft’s trademark, a compound of solid and precise rhythms driven by a dangerous deep bass. It digs a mindblowing path with contribution from drones and effects. B1 is from Milton Bradley, who delivers a dark techno track in his own pure style. Sinister echoes move forward and backward into a tunnel, trying to escape from claustrophobic beats and surreal atmosphere. The EP is closed by a Zooloft remix of Milton Bradley’s track.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: donato dozzy, drone, neel, prologue, techno, voices from the lake
Donato Dozzy and Neel present their first teamwork on Prologue, under the name Voices From The Lake. As the name suggests, the project is dedicated to a lake in Italy. Their first release consists of 4 tracks experimental minimalistic techno and drone.
Strong dubby influenced tracks on the reliable Horizontal Grounds label. Nice drone as bonus cut on the b2.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: abstract, blackest ever black, camella lobo, drone, john mendez, new wave, post punk, tropic of cancer
A new release by Tropic of Cancer, the LA-based duo of Camella Lobo and Juan Mendez (aka Silent Servant). They make make raw, visceral music in the loose tradition of minimal synth, post-punk, industrial and goth, produced with authority and a supremely evolved grasp of spatial arrangement. Superb experimental edged & punk drone-rock infected cuts.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, andy stott, drone, dub, experimental, modern love, techno
New mini album from UK’s Andy Stott, with 7 tracks on Modern Love. This album is an uncompromising and hugely absorbing work, by turns brutal and beautiful, from one of the UK’s most talented and criminally underrated producers.
