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Group Modular – The Tunnel / Lonely Pylon [GM0NE]
Group Modular breaks the 3-year silence and launches a new series of 7inch releases, powered by Confused Machines and Delights labels. The first 45 features two familiar tunes, previously available only on short-run (and immediately sold-out) lathe-cut releases.
Mule Driver – Past Hits Back [GRTW018]
Gravitational Waves proudly welcomes Mule Driver for a special 808 Day release – celebrating the iconic Roland drum machine that changed electronic music forever. Now based in the Netherlands, Mule Driver is the head of Confuse Machine Records, known for his raw, hardware-driven sound. The tracks on this release were originally produced between 2016 and 2017, capturing a pure, unfiltered energy from his archives. Revived and re-contextualized, they carry the spirit of the 808 in its most rugged and rebellious form. Mule Driver is thrilled to join the Gravitational Waves family for this powerful sonic tribute. All tracks were recorded around 2016-17. The release closes with an excellent edit by GW head DJ Nephil.
Max Schreiber – Variations on Memory Vol. 2 [DM11]
Max Schreiber is the more introspective guise of Mule Driver, reserved for drifting into fragile and haunted sonic territories. Variations on Memory Vol.2 deepens Schreiber’s exploration of collective sound and personal distortion. This time, fragments of lullabies and children’s songs resurface along side memorial songs – distorted by time, memory, and a quiet sense of unease. Schreiber treats these melodies not as sacred relics, but as raw material: vulnerable to noise, decay, and reinterpretation. Recorded in intuitive, often single-take sessions, the album challenges the listener’s sense of nostalgia. Sentimentality collapses into abstraction, and familiar tunes unravel into drifting soundscapes – like half-remembered scenes from a film that never existed. Variations on Memory Vol. 2 is less about what these songs once meant, and more about what they might conceal.
Mule Driver – Trilobite / …And I Was There Too [CM26]
The term “Ides of March” refers to March 15th since the troubled days of the Roman Empire. But this year, more than ever, one might think these times of Calamity start on March 3rd, the annual TB-303 day, due to the boiling and dark tracks cooked by Mule Driver for this glorious day. Once you hear their lethal drop of electro-acid you can kiss the Roman empire goodbye – Mule Driver delivers the Roland Empire!
Mujahideen – Dead Language [CM-RE02 / NRR2]
As the world got even worse in the past ten years, Mujahideen’s songs from 2014 about greed, vengeance, culture slaves and the human factor are more relevant than ever in 2024, as it seems that the world is trapped in a vicious circle, which summons new dawn of Fascism. Therefore, Dead Language still sounds like a prophecy of wrath accompanied by a shivering crossover of post punk, dub and industrial, inspired by bands like Suicide, P.I.L, The Fall, Mark Stewart & The Maffia, Section 25, Psychic TV, The Young Gods and The Chameleons, which offers a captivating but desperate introspection into the abyss of humankind.
Mule Driver – Sequences to Activate Dormant Agents [CM24]
Confused Machines presents another 808 day release. 7 Electro cuts using Roland TR-808, Roland SH-09, Korg MS-20, Korg MS-2000, Verbos Electronics modules and a few FX processors.
Mule Driver – Cue of Danger [CM22]
Mule Driver’s annual 303-day treat presents a dirty, hard-rocking EP. The A-side, ‘What We’ve Become’ features a gloomy and gritty electro-acid track, while “Cues of Danger” provides a classic, stripped-down acid techno experience. As in recent years the 303 day EP will be released as a limited edition transparent lathe cut 7″ shipping starts in may, pre order is already on. All music was made using TB 303 alongside other machines.
Mule Driver live @ Intergalactic FM festival 2023
Max Schreiber – Discreet 808 Music [DM08]
Usually going under the moniker Mule Driver, Harel Schrieber has dedicated a great deal of his life’s work to studying and exploring the wonders of the Roland TR-808 drum machine, celebrating its’ rhythms to a large extent and since 2011 releasing exclusive material for the annual 808 day, which occurs every August 8th. For this years “808 birthday” Max Schreiber utilize and treat the 808 differently delivering two experimental and drone oriented works, creating an ambient soundscapes and atmosphere. Daniel Heidebrecht aka Swiss Arrow contributes a Masked-Cocoon dark ambient-drone remix for the B2 track which makes this release even more intriguing.
Mule Driver – Muladona
Mule Driver is a Tel Aviv based producer, sound artist, musician and DJ, Founder and Owner of Confused Machines label, bass player in the renounced industrial-punk band Mujahideen, and half of the library music duo Group Modular. Mule Driver’s music is a dark tribute to the sound of classic analogue machines and acid-house aesthetics, wrapped up in a unique live delivery.
“I’ve recently recorded a new project called Muladona, named after a book by the same name, about a cursed woman who turned into the devil’s mule. I started recording at the peak of the COVID pandemic here in israel, and wanted to convey the tense atmosphere of the book and of the times. In this project I’ve worked with less gear, and focused more on textures, to create an eerie, haunted and somewhat distorted sound. Every night, the Muladona, a doomed soul transformed into the Devil’s mule, visits Verge and forces him to listen to a horrific tale. Each night, as Verge huddles under his bed sheets, the monster’s supernatural tales tear his soul apart.”
Mule Driver – Blood Flowers [CM017]
“Blood flowers” is a heavy duty 4 tracker for the freaks. Electro, dungeon techno, slinky acid and tribal excursion – properly damaged party starters for lowlight dreams and nightmares. Over the last 10 years, Mule Driver has been making special 808 day releases. This latest set is his most convincing effort to date, jumping from idea to idea but retaining a solid guideline of sci-fi weirdness and collapsing body movements.
Mule Driver – PNKMIX-68
The Hipodrome Of Music 