Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, experimental, jahiliyya fields, l.i.e.s., leftfield, long island electrical systems
Very strong double LP of beautifully executed synth explorations. Moving further into territories of experimental electronics comes debut album from this Brooklyn artist, Jahiliyya Fields. This double lp evokes emotions of equal pain, passion, beauty and disgust as it delves into areas of the psyche many are afraid to come in contact with. Read between the lines, close your eyes and listen. Not unlike new age music of the past meeting the harsh textures of the early industrial pioneers, this music serves as another narrative to our quickly deteriorating Western societal structure. Outsider music for those of us pushed to the side and living on the fringe.
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: 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: electronic, experimental, hinge finger, house, madteo, techno
Coming from Workshop associate Madteo, the first release from Joy Orbison and Will Bankhead’s Hinge Finger doesn’t disappoint. Aesthetically, the grainy, Bankhead designed sleeve is typically beautiful, whilst sonically has all the appeal of the aforementioned German imprint, oozing the foggy atmosphere of Amber-era Autechre, filtered through the lens of Detroit beatdown.. On “Bugler Gold” for instance, a languorous bassline drips between a barely-there kickdrum; it couldn’t be more different than “(Biz R Us (Whore Powers Resolution)” which follows it, a clunking rhythmic machine that maintains a thunderous forward momentum despite its sharper edges being coated in a soporific blanket of Chloroformed cotton wool. The B-Side delivers a further surprise in the library music inspired oddity of “Scream Seq”. “Xtra Loose Change (2010 refix)” meanwhile, is the sort of relentlessly deep house that is held together with little more than rhythm and pure atmosphere, each percussive micro-element perfectly balanced with a bass which is almost beyond the limit of human hearing.
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Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, blueprint records, experimental, james ruskin, mark broom, techno, the fear ratio
‘Light Box’ is the first artist album to bear fruit from the recent studio partnership of James Ruskin and Mark Broom – aka The Fear Ratio. As The Fear Ratio, Broom and Ruskin delve into the hinterland of contemporary music. A space where cold atmospheres meet lush melody and tough, yet clipped pulsating beats. From the warm polyrhythmic funk of ‘Ax’ to the deep spatial reverb of ‘Guv 1’, the dub induced strains of ‘Pinhead’ and melancholic refrain of ‘Morning Blues’ Ruskin and Broom deliver their new artistic agenda.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, alex cortex, experimental, house, pomelo, techno
Pomelo presents Alex Cortex’ third album. ’Kihon’ is a very personal effort, as suggested by the self-portrait on the cover. The carefully elaborated design of this gatefold double LP speaks as a whole and in true minimalist fashion about the passing of time, without ever declaring nostalgia to be a means for itself. In 11 nameless tracks, ‘Kihon’ takes us on a journey through organic worlds of sound that invites us to flow with the music and connect with the feelings contained in it. Concentrating on the bare essentials, the music begins to speak, turning the album into a harmonic whole. ‘Kihon’ therefore is also a return to listening, away from a utilitarian perception of music as a background sound.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, andy stott, experimental, modern love, techno
‘We Stay Together’ is a brand new doublepack from Andy Stott, a companion piece of sorts to the radical inversions of the ‘Passed Me By’ EP released earlier this year. These six tracks, produced in its wake, amp the pressure to throttling degrees. Entering the digital compression chamber of ‘Submission’ you become a willing participant, before the lights are cut and you’re forced to adjust to the humid atmosphere and bruising, muscle-contracting darkroom throb of ‘Posers’. Suitably initiated, the EP’s fearless centrepiece ‘Bad Wires’ plunges into full on mud-party mode, dropping the tempo while intensifying the kinaesthetic funk with slow, clusterf*cked syncopation until you’re drowning in synthesized oil and crushed-glass textures. Fully submerged by ‘We Stay Together (Part One)’ time becomes elasticated like worn VHS tape, calling to mind Jamal Moss and James Ferraro soundtracking a rave in a sodden, flooded sauna, before inescapably tumbling into the sheer black hole of ‘Cherry Eye’ and left to the slompy jack of ‘Cracked’.
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: chicago, experimental, house, iamthatiam, jamal moss, mathematics recordings
“Time 4 Harmony In This World EP” from Jamal Moss opens with the title track that is a 15 minute ride of percussive elements, atmospheric synths and melodies. “Resonant” on the flip is a exquisite piece of experimentation & “A Day Trip Thru Divination” rounds off the EP with a slow tempo’d basement track.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, axis records, detroit, experimental, jeff mills, techno
Detroit heavyweight Jeff Mills has always been one of techno’s visionaries, prone to translating great concepts into near-cinematic soundscapes. Given techno’s roots, it’s no surprise that many of these concepts have been inspired by science fiction, and in particular obscure sci-fi films. Inspired by Franklin Adreon’s 1966 film Cyborg 2087, “2087″ offers a dark and uneasy but at times brilliant mix of intense dancefloor techno, creepy electronica, woozy ambience and clunking IDM – all designed to mirror the cloying futurist horror of the original film.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, experimental, nutation records, task kreed, techno
The Romanian label Nutation Records proudly presents the first album release, “Nonexistent People 001″ by label owner Task Kreed! Four years of work, four years of promoting the underground techno phenomenon in Romania and now, on June, the moment has come for Task Kreed to finally release his first album.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: dub, experimental, house, laid, palisade, redshape
Redshape presents his a new project Palisade, with a debut single “So What?” on Dial’s House sublabel Laid. Expect some deepness cuts diving into sounds like a storm-unique, deep and raw.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: arcanoid, electro, experimental, sowing paranoia, techno, the transhumans, transhuman records
TransHuman presents their second release “Axiom” in a mini Lp 12”. The TransHumans and Arcanoid present 5 new tracks, that transmit perfectly tension, abstraction and Techno quality, giving the necessary axioms to make a hopeful journey of transgression between classic sounds and new mutations with IDM influences, broken rhythms, cyclic and hypnotic bass, contrast of textures and trapping melancholic melodies. Sowing Paranoia presents their first work for this label, with a track that combines the influences of European Techno-Dub, with epic melodies, developing into a cosmic journey.
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.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, axis records, experimental, jeff mills, techno
The Sleeper Wakes saga continues… We arrive at a crucial point where the integration back into Earth’s Culture becomes difficult and the drift towards a different type of isolation begins. Traveling four years throughout the Universe in search of discoveries has taken its mental toll and the price of an intervention is high. This album demonstrates the process of a person who gradually loses their sense of belonging. Obscure illusions brought on by an unique ability to control Electricity contracted in “The Occurrence” chapter creates a unwarranted threat to the worlds International Security. Severe detachments evolve that pushes the mind beyond acceptable limits.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, ambient, andreas tilliander, drone, experimental, kontra musik, mokira
“Time Axis Manipulation” is the eight full-length album from Swedish experimental dub/drone act Mokira. You can call this album and the music of Mokira electronic kraut, harsh ambient or the deepest dub. On the album “Time Axis Manipulation” Mokira again focuses on the beauty of sound. Sounds beautiful enough in their own right. Together as songs, Mokira brings rain to your summer.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: dub techno, experimental, not from earth, prologue
The first release from Italian duo Not from Earth. Is a new project on Prologue with more deep ambient sounds.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: dub techno, experimental, freund der familie, phidias, sven weisemann
“Black Street” is a nice spherical dubby techno track from Freund Der Familie & Phidias. The EP comes with a Sven Weisemann remix.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: acid, acido records, chicago, dynamo dreesen, experimental, svn
Mini album from original raw Chicago house to atmospheric chilled electronics – with kind of Sahko style minimalistic approach.
