[TRIANGLE 21] FIS - Preparations Vinyl 2013

FIS ‎– Preparations
Label: Tri Angle ‎– TRIANGLE 21
Format: Vinyl, 12", EP, 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: 03 Dec 2013
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Dark Ambient, Drum n Bass, Experimental

Tracklist
A1         Magister Nunns     4:06
A2         DMT Usher     4:48
B1         Mildew Swoosh     5:52
B2         CE Visions     4:21

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/848378-fis-preparations

After a pair of real killer EP's last year (both of them making it to our top 100 singles of 2012), Tri Angle present the label debut from FIS on his 'Preparations' EP. FIS has evolved a unique mutation of core D&B electronics with a shocking sense of rhythm structure and abstract texturing resulting in those mind-blowing records for Exit and close Kiwi pals, Samurai Horo, in the last few years. For Tri Angle, he offers up a necessary reissue of his aerobic-mystic modern classic, 'DMT Usher' - which now fetches mad money 2nd hand - backed with three exclusive new forms: the crushing/crushed geometrics of 'Magister Nunns', the insectoid D&B ecology of 'Mildew Swoosh', and the in-organic mechanics of 'CE Visions'. Together they amount to a fascinating new development in rhythm programming and abstract, and should be strongly recommended to fans of forward thinking electronic music everywhere.

[PAN 45] Dalglish ‎– Niaiw Ot Vile LP (Album) 2013

Dalglish ‎– Niaiw Ot Vile
Label: Pan ‎– PAN45
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Germany
Released: 12 Dec 2013
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Experimental

Tracklist
A1         Venpin        
A2         Noscrlu        
A3         Viochlm        
A4         Out_Kutzk        
A5         Ciaradh        
B1         Donsfe        
B2         Seit Nuin        
B3         Sclunt        
B4         Mothlitz        
B5         Oidhche        

Mastered By – Rashad Becker

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/861103-dalglish-niaiw-ot-vile
**140g vinyl mastered and cut by Rashad at D&M. Housed in silk-screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Bill Kouligas** The prickly, Autechrian productions of Chris Douglas aka Dalglish find a sympathetic home on PAN with 'Niaiw Ot Vile'. Under myriad guises - Scald Rougish, Seaes, Rook Vallade, among others - Chris has forged a twenty year career as a self-imposed arch-outsider on the fringes of electronic music, finding recognition and respect from intrepid explorers for his persistence and uncompromising approach, all the while remaining an elusive presence. Most notably he's worked with Mad Mike and Drexciya in an unspecified capacity after moving to Detroit as a 17 year old and also appeared at Autechre's pivotal ATP festival in 2003. As with much of his catalogue, his PAN debut feels like a tribute to that influential Æ period circa LP5. It's far more obtuse, refusing the anticipatory gratification of rhythmic loops and more focussed on intricate harmonics and electro-acoustic spatial diffusion over its ten tracks. At its quietest, as with closer 'Oidhche', in the sorrow of 'Viochlm' and the haunted soundscape of 'Sclunt' his melodies remind us of Leyland Kirby.

[MIRA 005] Burma Camp ‎– Repulsion Vinyl 2013

Burma Camp ‎– Repulsion
Label: Mira ‎– MIRA 005
Format: Vinyl, 10"
Country: UK
Released: Sep 2013
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Drone, Techno, Experimental, Industrial

Tracklist
A1         Repulsion        
B1         Isa        
B2         Attraction        

Mastered At – Alchemy Mastering
Mastered By – Matt Colton

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/804770-burma-camp-the-kvb-repulsion
The KVB unveil their gloaming industro-goth alias, Burma Camp on Avian's Mira sublabel. Three tracks home in and expand on the more coruscating, abrasive side of The KVB's sound, isolating and tempering its most esoteric side. The noxious cloud of tortured vocals and jagged pulses in 'Repulsion' falls somewhere between the desolate black metal of Wold and Silent Servant's most blown-out post-punk techno, full of evil, pregnant suspense and 'marish intent. 'Isa' reminds more of Zhark Record's bleakest, thundering techno, but alloyed with stentorian, dystopian dungeon vocals, and 'Attraction' provides a fine counterpoint with opiated goth atmospheres recalling Tropic Of Cancer, but depressed to a dull, stygian thud.

[BASH004] Best Available Technology ‎– Bangers & Ash Vinyl 2013

Best Available Technology ‎– Bangers & Ash
Label: Styles Upon Styles ‎– BASH004
Series: Bangers & Ash –
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: US
Released: 26 Aug 2013
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Experimental, Techno

Tracklist:
A1         Bulldozer Rituals     3:50    
A2         Vulgar Geometry     2:56    
A3         Venom, Pheromone and Phosphorus     3:58    
B1         Contrecoup     4:40    
B2         Tide Tunnels     6:18    

Mastered By – Rashad Becker

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/792028-best-available-technology-bangers-ash-bash004
**Given the DIY nature of these jacket designs (they are spray-painted, then screen-printed by hand), some of the sleeves are in varied condition. No two jackets are the same and all look a bit rough, but don't worry - that's the intended effect.** BAT kneads out three knuckled neck-snappers and a pair of warped techno-house aces for Brooklyn's Bangers & Ash label. The ghosted, bit-crushed slow bounce of 'Bulldozer Rituals' shares much in common with mutant gang-banger instrumentals 'Vulgar Geometry' and 'Venom, Pheromone, and Phosporus', coming off like some warped refractions of '93 Mobb Deep or RZA beats, whereas the sub-scooped 4/4 momentum of 'Contrecoup' and the lush suspense of 'Tide Tunnels' ramp up to throbbing techno-house tempos with a vibe somewhere between Huerco S and Phork. Aces.

[SP 011] No UFO's – Soft Coast LP (Album) 2011

No UFO's – Soft Coast
Label: Spectrum Spools – SP011
Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue, White
Country: Austria
Released: 15 Dec 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Noise, Experimental
Mastered By – Helmut Erler
Originally released as Nice Up Int'l NU001, April 2010
Mastered at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, August 2011.
First press on white vinyl, with subsequent ones on black vinyl.

Tracklist:
A1 Evidence / Century Park
A2 Vertigo (K. Alexi)
A3 Punx On The Promenade
A4 Broken Glass
A5 Freeze • Drift
A6 Untitled I
B1 Cajmere Dreams
B2 Archer Heights
B3 00/00/2010
B4 Duck Egg
B5 Fog In The Pavilion
B6 Soon Come Happy
B7 Why Be Something You're Not?

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/478176-no-ufo-s-soft-coast
Following that fine side for the UK's Public Information label, Konrad Jandavs No UFO's decamps to Spectrum Spools for a new vinyl edition of his debut cassette, 2010's Soft Coast. Though it has a clear and central debt to 1970s German electronic music, Jandavs pulls on various other influences - minimal synth, new age ambient, Detroit techno - to craft his hypnotic, pulsating synth-scapes. The weirdest tracks are the most rewarding: the beatless, almost Autechre-style techno of 'Cajmere Dreams' and the sly guitar drones of '00_00_2010', which makes us think of The Velvet Underground if they'd formed in '91 under the influence of E. For dedicated fans of reconfigured kraut and kosmische tropes, Soft Coast is beyond essential, but is singular and strange enough to deserve attention from the rest of you too.

[TO:42V] Chris Watson – El Tren Fantasma - The Signal Man's Mix Vinyl 2011

Chris Watson – El Tren Fantasma - The Signal Man's Mix
Label: Touch – TO:42V
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: 09 Nov 2011
Genre: Non-Music
Style: Field Recording

Tracklist:
A         El Divisadero - The Telegraph        
B         Veracruz - The Tunnel   

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/466770-chris-watson-el-tren-fantasma-the-signal-man-s-mix
Holy crap - Chris Watson on vinyl? Is it true? Well yeah, Touch are really treating us with this one, and veteran field recordist Watson has pulled out all the stops for this very special release. Whereas usually Watson's recordings are 'pure' representations of the subject matter, here we are presented with two 'mixes' of audio collected as he recorded for a BBC documentary. The difference in approach can be heard almost instantly as the train's engine forms rhythmic pulses beneath what sounds like manipulations of the train horn itself. This collision of drone and environmental sound is nothing new, but Watson does it with such skill that it's hard not to be totally taken aback by the sheer quality of the sounds. On the flipside, the harmonic elements are almost removed entirely to allow the crushing engine noise to take centre stage, bellowing and wheezing like the Wolf Eyes record you never heard. Sterling stuff as always from Watson then, and all the better for being on vinyl! Highly recommended.   

[GBX 015 LP] The Advisory Circle - As The Crow Flies LP (Album) 2011

Advisory Circle, The – As The Crow Flies
Label: Ghost Box – GBX015 LP
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 08 Jul 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Leftfield, Musique Concrète, Experimental, Ambient

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Belbury Music – 2011
Phonographic Copyright (p) – State51 Conspiracy, The – 2011
Copyright (c) – Ghost Box – 2011
Composed By, Mastered By – Jon Brooks
Cover [Design] – Julian House
Liner Notes – Ronald Hutton
Realised at New YattSounds.
"The Patchwork Explains" is dedicated to the memory of Trish Keenan.
Orders from the official web store come with a downloadable zip file including the full album in VBR MP3 or FLAC format (with the two extra tracks available on CD) plus the artwork in pdf.
Durations are taken from files.

Tracklist:
A1 Logotone I - Decisions 0:15
A2 Now Ends The Beginning 3:28
A3 Here! In The Wychwoods 3:10
A4 The Patchwork Explains 2:54
A5 Everyday Hazards 2:50
A6 Ceridwen 1:16
A7 As The Crow Flies 4:27
A8 Innocence Elsewhere 1:31
A9 Logotone II - The New Traffic Signs 0:06
B1 Modern Through Movement 2:39
B2 Learning Owl Reappears 3:54
B3 Further Starry Wisdom 2:35
B4 We Cleanse This Space 2:37
B5 Beyond The Wychelm 4:35
B6 Logotone III - Eyes Inside You 0:09
B7 Route Along 18 Corners 2:52
B8 Wheel Of The Year 5:03

http://ghostbox.greedbag.com/buy/as-the-crow-flies-3/

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/423756-the-advisory-circle-as-the-crow-flies

The Advisory Circle's 2008 album Other Channels is one of the best things Ghost Box have ever released, and having kept himself busy since then with various releases on his own Cafe Kaput label, Jon Brooks is now back in AC mode to drop the eagerly awaited follow-up, As The Crow Flies - and what a fiendishly good record it is. As ever with this project, the primary inspiration is the sinister undertones of public information films and wyrd 70s TV broadcasting in general, but As The Crow Flies charts less obviously sample-based territory than its predecessor; this outing is a little less about those hauntological ambiences and paternal monologues (though they're still very much attendant), more about composition and songcraft, with elaborate synthesizer arrangements and elegant folky inflections aplenty. An agreeable psychedelic whimsy characterises the record, but it's not all library music twee; you never know when there's going to be a handbrake-turn into darkness, dissoluton and abstraction: see 'Modern Through Movement', which is proto-techno by way of Berlin school kosmische, and especially 'We Cleanse This Space', a truly eerie, inspired concoction of reverbed children's choir and limpid afro-dub percussion. Hell, closing number 'Lonely Signalman' is nothing short of vocodered pop. This is perhaps As The Crow Flies' greatest achievement: that it manages to adhere to the very specific rules and requirements of the Ghost Box universe while also representing a hefty artistic leap forward for its maker. Terrific stuff.

The Advisory Circle - As The Crow Flies (Clips) by Ghost Box

[ZORN 14] J.D. Emmanuel – Trance-Formations I: Ancient Minimal Meditations (1986) Vinyl 2011

J.D. Emmanuel – Trance-Formations I: Ancient Minimal Meditations
Label: Aguirre Records – ZORN14, North Star Productions – NSP-2004
Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition
Country: Belgium
Released: 18 May 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Minimal, Ambient
Composed By, Performer, Recorded By, Photography By – J.D. Emmanuel*
Recorded between 1981-1985.

Tracklist:
A1 Part I: Morning Worship 5:26
A2 Part II: Midday Attunement 12:33
B1 Part III: Evening Devotional 7:12
B2 Part IV: Midnight Meditation 10:27

in stock (aguirrecords)
http://boomkat.com/vinyl/436999-j-d-emmanuel-ancient-minimal-meditations
**Limited edition of 400. 160g vinyl housed in full colour thick card sleeve** A gorgeous, forgotten classic of new age synth introspection from '81-'85 excavated and reissued by Belgium's Aguirre imprint - home to the similarly reclined Lieven Martens. 'Trance-Formations I: Ancient Minimal Meditations' revolves around a conceptual cycle following the course of the day. Inevitably it starts at 'Morning Worship', brewing slow rhythmic patterns which radiate shimmering melodies, before the strolling pulses of 'Midday Attunement' meander under woozy, modulating tones seductively swirling in stereo formation. If that sounds a bit similar to lots of other synth music of the era, it's because it is, but there's an attuned grace and and deliciously squashed vibe individual to his sound here. However, matters become much more engrossing and distinguished on the other side. On 'Evening Devotional' a gurgling mass of tones beautifully bends just in-and-out of focus as melancholy keys gently ascend and descend, enveloping our ears in a molten Sequential Circuits Pro-One goop, and 'Midnight Meditation' sustains a lingering, quietly plangent resonance into the depths of the night. "Somewhere hidden in the deepest part of the Self is that special place where One can go within to the most ancient part of one's Self and connect with the origin of Self. Ancient Minimal Meditations reaches into that special place of creation of the Self and its Oneness with the Creator of All."

[PUBINF 001] ADR – Solitary Pursuits Vinyl (Mini-Album) 2011

ADR – Solitary Pursuits
Label: Public Information – PUBINF001
Format: Vinyl, Mini-Album, Limited Edition
Country: UK
Released: 18 Sep 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: New Age, Abstract, Drone, Ambient

Composed By – Aaron David Ross
Design – Aaron David Ross, Remote Location
Photography By, Artwork – Mike Vallera
Recorded By – Aaron David Ross
Written-By – Aaron David Ross
Recorded at home during winter2010-11, using a Sequential Circuits Pro One, Roland SH-101, Roland Juno, Sequential Circuits Multitrak, 4-track Cassette & Computer. Vox on "Post PC" sampled from "Einzelganger"

Tracklist:
A1 Codex
A2 Jupiter Rising
A3 Sand Timer
A4 Post PC
B1 Sidewinder
B2 Univox
B3 Mercury Retrograde
B4 Solitary Pursuits

http://www.discogs.com/ADR-Solitary-Pursuits/release/3133121    http://boomkat.com/vinyl/451280-adr-solitary-pursuits
Already spoken about in excitable tones, 'Solitary Pursuits' is the opening gambit on a very promising new label - Public Information, "A survey of electronics... noise... psych... industrial... house... dub... wyrd-pop... library... techno... art+design from the last seven decades..." Well, they evidently know the right buttons to push and the people who push them, selecting Aaron David Ross (ADR), a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist best known as half of Fright/Merok's Gatekeeper for their first excellent release. His sound here has a lot of parallels with the Ghost Box label, a similar feel for wide-eyed yet pensive sci-fi wonderment and the sort of evocative vignettes only known to hunters of the choicest library wax. It nods to the kind of music you'd imagine Drexciya would have drawn inspiration from as a kid, and subliminally seduced an entire generation who've grown up in front of the TV/Celluloid fantasy and its sonic associations. There's some heartbreakingly lush moments in here - we urge you to investigate.

ADR- Solitary Pursuits by Public Information

[faitiche 05 lp] Ursula Bogner – Sonne = Black Box (Album) 2011

Ursula Bogner – Sonne = Black Box
Label: Faitiche – faitiche 05lp
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition
Country: Germany
Released: 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Experimental
Design [Graphikdesign] – Jens Reitemeyer
Mastered By – Kassian Troyer
Limited edition of 500 copies.

Tracklist:
A1 Sonne = Black Box (1972)
A2 Jubiläum (1984)
A3 Nach Europa (1977)
A4 Trabant ( 1970)
A5 Or Dor Melanor (1981)
A6 Uranotypie (1978)
B1 Strahlungen (1974)
B2 Der Chor Der Oktaven (1975)
B3 Illusorische Planeten (1974)
B4 Permutationen (1982)
B5 Shepard Monde (1971)
B6 Signalfluss (1980)
B7 Homöostat (1985)
B8 Refrain Für Einen Formanten (1972)

B9 De Planetarum Influxu (1976)

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/457053-ursula-bogner-sonne-blackbox     http://hardwax.com/64271/

Germany's answer to Daphne Oram or Raymond Scott - or more likely an elaborate wind-up perpetrated by Jan Jelinek, on whose Faitiche label her "archive" recordings sporadically appear - Ursula Bogner is back. Whether or not it's Jelinek behind the Bogner corpus (and I think by now we know the answer to that), there's no disputing the consistently brittle beauty, dizzying complexity and easy charm of her radiophonic constructions. You certainly get a lot of Bogner for your buck on Sonne = Blackbox, with 15 tracks showcasing her brand of primitive electronic composition and tape manipulation. On 'Or Dor Melanor', 'Shepard Monde' and the title track, Broadcast and Stereolab immediately come to mind, while the eerie synthetic ramble of 'Trabant' is like the Ghost Box crew relocated from Belbury to Berlin. There are killers throughout: 'Signalfluss' and particularly 'Uranotypie' with its combo of droning, minimal electronics and Teutonic spoken voice, sound like vital cold wave (cold war?) artefacts, while the playful, impish quality of 'Der Chor Der Oktaven' and 'Permutationen' (before it lapses into a kind of slanted techno groove) invoke the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's John Baker and Delia Derbyshire. If there's a dead giveaway that this is Jelinek's work through and through, it's the heaviness of the sub-bass and the attendant dub-head's sense of space, both hard to imagine in late 60s and early 70s Germany. Whatever you want to believe, make no mistake, this is a truly delightful collection of off-kilter electronic music and quite simply a must for all dedicated heads.

[DIGIV 006] Ricardo Donoso – Progress Chance LP 2011

Ricardo Donoso – Progress Chance
Label: Digitalis Recordings – DIGIV006
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: Sep 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Drone, Noise, Experimental

Mastered At – Dubplates & Mastering
Distributed By – Boomkat
Design, Layout – Lee Tindall
Mastered By [Vinyl Cut] – Loop-o
Written-By – Ricardo Donoso
All sound made with Korg MS2000R, Radius, MS1, Yamaha DX7, Nord Lead 3, Voice.

Tracklist:
A1 Chrome Decadence
A2 Klatu
A3 Baiting Disappointment
A4 The Deck Of An Ancient Ship
B1 Morning Criminal
B2 The North Quadrant (Ascension)
B3 Conditional Formatting (Descent)

http://www.digitalisindustries.com/digiv006.html
*Limited vinyl pressing of this excellent album where the retro-futurism of Leyland Kirby's "Intrigue & Stuff" series meets classic John Carpenter and the kind of squashed arpeggiated electronics Emeralds are so loved for. Initial copies come on gorgeous transparent green vinyl* The electronic obsessions of the U.S. underground follow the current somewhere darker and literally tranced-out on the first full length album of synth music by Brazilian ex-pat Ricardo Donoso. A background in jazz drumming and as member of avant-metal outfit Ehnare give little indication of what Ricardo has been up to in his own time, which probably couldn't be any further from those disparate styles. 'Progress Chance' is based on the "morning dance music" of raves which Ricardo visited as a youth, namely the Goan and Scandinavian strains of heavily gated and arpeggiated dance music, but he's removed the unwieldy rhythms to leave lushly pulsating patterns and the all-important chord changes which carried all the emotive weight, resulting in something quite unexpected and brilliant. Using only the choicest parts of what for most is simply a "cheesy" genre, Donoso manages to reminded us of Leyland Kirby's opaque approach with the 'Intrigue & Stuff' series or the psychedelic lather of loops in Diamond Catalog's 'Magnified Palette'. boomkat

RICARDO DONOSO - Conditional Formatting (Descent) from Moduli TV on Vimeo.

[GBX 706] Jonny Trunk – Ghost Box Study Series 06: Animation And Interpretation 7" Vinyl 2011

Jonny Trunk – Ghost Box Study Series 06: Animation And Interpretation
Label: Ghost Box – GBX706
Format: Vinyl, 7", Single, 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: 08 Apr 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Experimental
Design [Cover] – Julian House
Cotton wool steam clouds billow, pipe cleaner trees sway and newspaper pigeons take flight as Le Train Fantôme chuffs its way into the curious animated world of Jonny Trunk. Outside the station climb aboard a shoe box taxi and take a trip through the soggy streets of Cardboard Boxford.
And back home again in time for bed.
Pressed on thick heavy vinyl.

Tracklist:
A Le Train Fantôme 3:20
B Cardboard Boxford 3:56

Another tiny package of joy from the proper on-form Ghost Box label, and this time around we find Trunk boss Jonny Trunk on the dials, eking the kind of sounds you’d expect to have found in 1963 on early episodes of Doctor Who from his jaw-dropping cache of samples. You already know that when you get your hands on anything from Trunk it’s gonna be special, but the gritty rhythmic pulse and discordant twang of ‘Le Train Fantome’ is instantly up there with the best the label have thrown out to date. Blending the light-hearted electronic experimentations of Delia Derbyshire with a near concrete sense of sample-laced weirdness that could place it alongside the fabled GRM studios, there’s not enough I can do to recommend that you hear this one LOUD. Flip the record over and we’ve got ‘Cardboard Boxford’, a woozy pizzicato strings ‘n rhythms cut that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Moondog record. Seriously good, seriously strange, seriously limited. Don’t sleep on this one, will ya.

  Jonny Trunk - Le Train Fantôme (Clips) by Ghost Box

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[FUR 037] Conrad Schnitzler aka CON – Live '72 2LP 2011

Conrad Schnitzler aka CON – Live '72
Label: Further Records
Catalog#: FUR 037
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition
Country: US
Released: 06 Jun 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Krautrock, Experimental

Mastered By – CGB*
Limited to 500 copies in total; 100 copies on white vinyl and 400 copies on black vinyl (this). Gatefold jacket on french paper. Mastered at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.

Tracklist:
A1 Untitled
A2 Untitled
A3 Untitled
B1 Untitled
B2 Untitled
B3 Untitled
C1 Untitled
C2 Untitled
C3 Untitled
D1 Untitled
D2 Untitled
D3 Untitled

discogs
Conrad Schnitzler is without a doubt one of the most important figures in 20th century electronic music. His CV includes a prominent role initiating the seminal Zodiak Free Arts Lab in Berlin circa 1967, essentially creating the nucleus of what would become known as the Kosmische movement. From this he became a founder member of Kluster and collaborated with the likes of Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream, laying the foundations for future generations of Techno and Ambient electronic musicians. It's not often that unreleased material of his comes to the surface, but Further Records have somehow gained access to this 1972 live session, salvaged from cheap old tapes. Considering the time frame, this stuff is just incredible, spanning twelve tracks of signature metallic pulses and starry synth plumes framing his beautifully restrained melodic arrangements. What separates Con from the rest of the crowd, and makes him so important to the development of electronic music and Techno in particular, is that intuitive and engrossing element of restraint and repetition, especially when coupled with his knack for darker, moodier melodies and that brooding sense of space. No hyperbole intended, this is a genuinely exceptional piece of work, easily one of the very best reissues we've encountered in the recent deluge. Mastered by CGB at D&M, Berlin



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Mark Fell – Manitutshu LP (Album) 2011

Mark Fell – Manitutshu
Label: Editions Mego
Catalog#: Editions Mego 116
Format: 2 × Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: Austria
Released: May 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Minimal, Experimental
Mastered By – Andreas 'Lupo' Lubich*
Photography – Mark Fell

Tracklist:
A1 Acids In The... Thin Razor, Attack Noise Hat, Linn 2:29
A2 Acids In The... Primes Version 0:51
A3 Manitutshu (New Algorithm)... LatelyBass And NewElectro, Attack Pulse Hat 5:42
B1 Acids In The... Razor Experiment 0:51
B2 Manitutshu... Parameter Set 2, Linn Hi Tom, JazzOrg, Vortex Study Performance Overdub, And Synthesis Reminiscent Of Duet Emmo 6:23
B3 Acids In The... Stochastic Energy Pause With Thin Razor, Attack Noise Hat, Linn 1:47
C1 Manitutshu... First Algorithm Test 3:41
C2 Occultation Of... Razor Simple Acid Pause Version With LFO To Cutoff 1:47
C3 'Materialisation' Epic Razor Chord And LatelyBass With Found Voice 3:26
D Occultation Of... Mat Steel Extended Remix 14:57
Remix – Mat Steel

Following last year's devasting UL8 set, Mark Fell returns to Editions Mego for a 2x12" excursion into advanced rhythm mechanics. Back in January 2011, the SND man was invited by Erik 'Errorsmith' Wiegand to create some presets for the Native Instruments soft-synth he was building. In the end, NI rejected Fell's sounds, but their loss is our gain: he's further developed the pattern-Generating systems he used for UL8 and connected them to sounds produced in Wiegand's synthesizer with a result so tantalising you're almost reminded of Wiegand's own classic MMM production 'Donna'. Fell is just at his ballistic best, delivering nine tracks that manage to sound at once coolly scientific whilst also suggesting a kind of mutant, angular rave music. 'Acids In The... thin razor, attack noise hat, Linn' in particular is possessed of an itchy funk that is just completely addictive, while 'Manitutshu' is electro fit to soundtrack a 2045 block party, and 'Manitutshu... parameter set 2, Linn HI Tom, JazzOrg...' pays homage to Duet Emmo (the seminal 80s collaboration between Daniel Miller and Wire's Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis) in a morse code techno style. Don't get us wrong: though playful, this album isn't exactly an easy ride, but for the more adventurous ears out there the rewards are enormous. The set ends with an industrial-strength remix from Fell's SND partner Mat Steel, taking on 'Occultation', a track which in is original form sounds like Richard D. James' Cornish acid focussed into a single, searing laser beam. If you need further incentive, know that Manitutshu was mastered by Lupo at Dubplates and Mastering and is packaged with a A1 full colour poster. Most artists pay lip service to the future, Mark Fell is busy making it happen. Highly recommended.

eMEGO (LP)  |  boomkat (digital)

[senufoeditionfourteen] Alessandro Brivio – Associazioni Poro LP 2011

Alessandro Brivio – Associazioni Poro
Label: Senufo Editions
Catalog#: senufoeditionfourteen
Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Clear
Country: Italy
Released: 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Rhythmic Noise, Experimental

Numbered edition of 200 copies. Transparent vinyl. Silkscreened cover (black on black carboard), with small insert.

Tracklist:
A Untitled
B Untitled

Alessandro Brivio’s new record is another collection of complex and obsessive rhythmic tracks, reflecting his studies and passion for african aesthetics. The title is an homage to the Senufo secret society (the Poro) and to the Associazione Poro, a foundation of africanists founded by the great italian collector Carlo Monzino.

Numbered edition of 200 copies. Transparent vinyl (cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin) with printed labels. Silkscreened cover (black on black carboard), with small insert. 15 euro + shipping costs.

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[YoungAm 002] Suum Cuique – Midden LP (Album) 2010

Suum Cuique – Midden
Label: Young Americans
Catalog#: YoungAm002
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition
Country: UK
Released: Aug 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Drone, Minimal, Ambient
Limited to 400 copies

Tracklist:
A1 Lithic Reduction 4:19
A2 Red Binary 4:34
A3 Entropy 8:16
B1 Cyclic Redundancy 5:41
B2 Frontogenesis 7:50
B3 Even In Death 8:06
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*Immense, dark and unbelievably heavy analogue productions somewhere between Eleh, Pan Sonic and Eliane Radigue on this limited edition vinyl pressing. It doesn't really matter when this music was made or by whom, all you need to know is that only 400 copies have been made for the world, housed in a suitably anonymous white-on-white embossed sleeve* Suum Cuique (pronouned Soom Kwi-Kwe, Latin for "To Each His Own") follows the remit of Young Americans to explore uncharted, experimental, and personal synthscapes, guided by the hand of intuition with an entirely analogue array of machines. There's a confidence and ability to these productions which elevates them above the masses of lo-fi synth meanderings currently murmuring in the underground, occupying the tantalising space between Eliane Radigue and James Ferraro, or Thomas Köner and Daphne Oram, creating a dialogue between their shared and opposing aesthetics to give an emotional response with deeply chilling and engrossing results. In 'Lithic Reduction' concrète textures grind like a millstone to release powdery clouds of analog dust, settling only to be dispersed by gusts of blackened distortion, whereas 'Red Binary' is distinctly electronic, revolving around muted radar bleeps like the resonance from SAW II soundtracking a speckly pill experience that's starting to go west. The album's centrepiece, the aptly titled 'Entropy' nods to the sublimely stoic work of Eleh, radiating microtonal bass shifts while a bitter northerly wind builds in intensity. Brilliantly out of place, 'Cyclic Redundancy' opens the flipside with a majestically submerged slab of completely obliterated and submerged 4/4, like an unholy collusion between Mika Vainio, Sandwell and Bernard Parmegiani soundtracking a trade union rave in the 1950's, before 'Even In Death...' conjures imagery of a eulogy given by a Mongolian throat singer with crows circling overhead. Strictly limited copies, catch it while you can.

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[TYPE 088V] Ezekiel Honig – Folding In On Itself LP (Album) 2011

Ezekiel Honig – Folding In On Itself
Label: Type
Catalog#: TYPE088V
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Blue
Country: UK
Released: 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Minimal, Ambient

Artwork By – Ezekiel Honig

Guitar – Mark Templeton (tracks: 6), Nicola Ratti (tracks: 7,8,10)

Mastered By – Loop-o

Written-By, Producer – Ezekiel Honig

Edition of 100 copies on blue vinyl. All subsequent copies were pressed on black vinyl.

℗ & © Type Recordings LLC 2011

Tracklist:
A1 Material Wrinkle
A2 Subverting The Memory Of Your Surroundings
A3 Between Bridges
A4 Drafting Foresight
A5 Folding Us In On Itselft
B1 High & Low
B2 A Closed Loop That Opens Everywhere
B3 Ancestry Revisiting Each Other
B4 Tradition Is The Illusion Of Permanence
B5 Distant Breakfast Highway

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*Strictly limited pressing, initial copies on clear blue vinyl* Manhattan's Ezekiel Honig makes a welcome appearance on Type with the beautifully melancholy 'Folding In On Itself'. The frayed, spectral layers of ambient sound and dusty pulses within recall the works of jan Jelinek, The Remote Viewer or even elements of the first MvO Trio LP, but his serene, almost sorrowful palette of tones comes from somewhere more private and personal. While those artists are all defined by a sense of intimacy in wide open space, Ezekiel's location in one of the most densely populated areas on the planet perhaps gives it a more introverted insularity, as though he's cosily enveloped by his memories while the world scurries about on the outside. Those memories and their corruption or decay are at the core of this record, like the overlaid family photos on the sleeve, capturing a sense of entropy in his quickly disintegrating city. Locally made field recordings are placed as rhythmic and textural clues to the shape of his environment, and when they happen to fall in sync with his instrumentation the effect is lush, creating and effortless illusion of everyday aleatory syncopation. This beautifully measured sense of drifting, stigmergic arrangement with programmed elements makes for a captivating narrative as varied as a walk through the city itself, but subtly enhanced like some sort of moody augmented reality app or wandering blindfolded through some vivid sound art installation. If anything, it's as softly spoken and moving as anything Type have put out to date, so handle with care.


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[Sagittarius A-Star 06] Conrad Schnitzler – Slow Motion LP 2010

Conrad Schnitzler – Slow Motion
Label: Sagittarius A-Star
Catalog#: Sagittarius A-Star 06
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition
Country: Italy
Released: 2010
Genre: Classical, Electronic
Style: Abstract, Minimal, Experimental

Limited edition of 26 copies, 3-sided LP, black vinyls (heavy wax, around 160/170gr).
Different Cover Photo than the 200 Copy Edition.
Unreleased soundtrack to an underground movie made in 1972. Classic Schnitzler (recorded same year as the electronic masterpiece "Rot").

Tracklist:
A Untitled
B Untitled
C Untitled

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"deeper into... Schnitzler's discography (the missing link, finally !): the unreleased soundtrack to an underground movie made in 1972. classic Schnitzler (rec. same year as the electronic masterpiece Rot) and for sure among the most fascinating music ever received from Con... so long ! ah, and don't worry if you'll have the illusion of being an illusion ,while listening... it's just a maya." ep


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[iDEAL065] Mokira – Bias Line Vinyl 2010

Mokira – Bias Line
Label: iDEAL Recordings
Catalog#: iDEAL065
Format: Vinyl, 7", White
Country: Sweden
Released: Oct 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Experimental, Ambient
Credits: Artwork By – Nullvoid
Notes: Limited edition of 200 copies. Plain, white handstamped labels.

Tracklist:
A Bias Line
B Godstar

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Swedish super-producer Andreas Tilliander follows that killer Kondens 12" a couple a months back with two gruffly experimental conceptions for iDEAL. Frontside, 'Bias Line' is like some glacially melting acid bashment track, gradually shedding layers of icy, electric blue distortion around a masticated acid bassline. Flipside, the tumultuous 'Godstar' wreaks havoc with expertly managed layers of electronic distortion cloaking a hulking halfstep swing rhythm. F**king aces all round. Limited to 200 copies on plain, white hand-stamped labels. You need this one!!!

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[AS 007] Mist - Glowing Net LP 2010

Mist - Glowing Net
Label: Amethyst Sunset
Catalog#: AS007
Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition
Country: US
Released: 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Drone

Limited edition of 500 copies on black vinyl

Tracklist:
A1 A.M.
A2 Sky High
A3 Mist Stream
B1 Soaring Yellow / Glowing Net
B2 Mist Refrain

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*Emeralds' John Elliot and Radio People's Sam Goldberg on a killer, dense and tripped out synth adventure - already sold out at source* Sam Goldberg (Radio People) and John Elliott (Emeralds/Imaginary Softwoods) embark on their latest vision quest as Mist with a dazzling album of untethered interzonal synth exploration. 'Glowing Net' previously appeared as a cassette on Goldberg's Pizza Night label but it's clearly one of those sessions that just had to end up on wax, ready to soundtrack the light show behind your eyelids. 'Glowing Net' takes the sounds of their previous 'Mist' LP one step further, affording a 360º panoramic view of totally classic sci-fi soundscapes. From the outset of 'A.M.' there's a sure adjustment of reverb settings, expanding their sound to the peripheries of perception and allowing glimpses of previously unseen/heard galactic disturbances deep in the distance. The effect carries into 'Sky High' where a deceptively mixed distant clang more than once made us think some workmen were repairing a shuttle outside the office, itself creating a magically transcendent space enhanced by the flurry of chromatic synth shapes. From the dominant, titanic emotions of 'Mist Stream' onwards, the other side encounters the vast shapes of 'Soaring Yellow/Glowing Net' and the breathtaking, near-symphonic scenery of 'Mist Refrain', both as close as you'll get to a contemporary equivalent of classic '70s/'80s sci-fi soundtracks. The effect of all this is surely enhanced by the remastering for vinyl by James Plotkin and a vinyl lacquer cut at Berlin's alchemical D&M. Highly recommended indeed.


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