out now: Terence Fixmer – The Swarm EP [NovaMute]

 

Artist:
Terence Fixmer

 

Title:
The Swarm EP

 

Label:
NovaMute

 

Cat#:
NOMU186

 

Release Date:
24th May 2019 (vinyl)
21st June 2019 (digital)

 

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
A1.
The Swarm

A2.
FRF2

B1.
No Dreams

B2.
The Dawn

 

Press Info:
In a career that spans two entire decades, Terence Fixmer first reached worldwide recognition and praise with the release of his debut album “Muscle Machine” on DJ Hell ?s seminal International Deejay Gigolos imprint in 1999. The album opened a whole new genre, which combined Electro, Industrial, EBM and Techno into a more dance floor focused EBM style called “Techno Body Music”. Some of the album tracks like for example “Electrostatic”, “Body Pressure” or “Electric Vision” became massive hits and remain classics of today. Ever since the release of this groundbreaking debut long- player, the French producer and live act has consistently explored and redefined the boundaries of modern Techno and is showing no signs of slowing down.

Another genre-defining move took place in 2003 when he teamed up with Nitzer Ebb lead singer Douglas Mccarthy to form Fixmer/McCarthy. The partnership pushed the genre of Techno EBM to the maximum and resulted in two full-length albums, ‘Between The Devil’ (2004) and ‘Into The Night’ (2008). The duo has performed their energetic live sets at numerous renowned clubs and festivals all across the globe, functioning as a bridge between the Techno scene on one side, and the alternative EBM/Gothic scene on the other side. Apart from the trend-setting releases they also played many of the big Techno festivals such as “I Love Techno”, “Monegros Desert Festival”, as well as “Wave Gothic Treffen” or “Mera Luna” alongside Marilyn Manson. Fixmer/McCarthy earned loads of respect in the global scene for their unique way of creating truly pioneering sound fusions by elegantly blending the aggression of Techno Body Music and the sensuality of Electronica.

In the years to come, Fixmer experimented with increasingly deep and dubby atmospheres and finally re-invented himself with his fourth solo album on Speedy J ?s label Electric Deluxe in 2010. ‘Comedy of Menace’ is a true Techno album, dark, hypnotic and energetic, and received massive critical acclaim amongst his international peers and fans. Further releases on Electric Deluxe, Prologue, CLR, Deeply Rooted and his own label Planete Rouge have since followed, proving Fixmer’s continued relevance and restless drive to create simultaneously experimental, mind-bending, ruthless and unrelenting sounds, way beyond the musical mainstream. His productions frequently appear in the playlists of countless internationally respected colleagues and have been featured on several notable mix CDs and podcasts by some of the biggest players in the world of Electronic Music, such as Laurent Garnier, Ben Klock, Marcel Dettmann, Function, Agoria, Daniel Miller, Juan Atkins, Jon Hopkins, to name a few. He is currently playing the most happening venues worldwide and is continuously gaining new fans along the way.

It has often been quoted that Terence Fixmer’s music maintains musical depth and integrity, even in a club- or festival-context, and that it appeals as much to dancing feet, as it does to the searching soul. His upcoming fifth solo album, which will be released on CLR in early 2015, proves this claim with certainty and excellence.

 

Snippets:

 

Full Track Streaming:
“The Swarm”

“FRF2”

 

Special:
“Drowned in Sound Podcast”

 

Recommendations:
Terence Fixmer’s “Techno Body Archives 1998 – 2008” on Planete Rouge
Terence Fixmer’s album “Through The Cortex” on Ostgut Ton
Terence Fixmer’s EP “Force” on Ostgut Ton
Terence Fixmer’s EP “Beneath The Skin” on Ostgut Ton
all releases on NovaMute

 

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out now: Fixmer/McCarthy – Let it Begin EP [Planete Rouge Records]

 

Artist:
Fixmer/McCarthy

 

Title:
Let it Begin EP

 

Label:
Planete Rouge Records

 

Cat#:
PLR1901

 

Release Date:
05th April 2019

 

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
Let It Begin

02.
Let It Begin
(Phase Fatale Remix)

03.
The Crush

04.
Let It Begin
( Terence’s Force Mix)

 

Press Info:
The now legendary collaboration between producer Terence Fixmer and vocalist Douglas McCarthy continues with a new 4 track E.P. of blistering electronics and intense performance.

Long time fans will immediately recognise the strong tradition of EBM that Fixmer/McCarthy have held as their own for 15 years. ‘Let It Begin’ and ‘The Crush’ assault the listener with bruising bass lines, heavy insistent drums and mesmorising sound effects.

With a Phase Fatale remix bringing a brooding and menacing darkness to any dance floor.

The Force Mix of ‘The Crush’, harks back to the original power, energy and simplicity of how FM fans were first introduced to Terence and Douglas on their 2004 debut album ‘Between The Devil’.

The brutal love story continues!

 

Snippets:

 

Recommendations:
Fixmer/McCarthy EP “Chemicals” on Sonic Groove Records
Fixmer/McCarthy EP “Many Lies” on Planete Rouge
Fixmer’s remix EP “Aktion Mekanik Theme (Versions)” on Ostgut Ton
Fixmer’s album “Through The Cortex” on Ostgut Ton
Terence Fixmer’s “Oppression EP” on Planete Rouge
Terence Fixmer’s “Techno Body Archives 1998 – 2008” on Planete Rouge
Douglas J. McCarthy’s album “Kill Your Friends” on Pylon Records | Shaboom Black
McCarthy + Cyrusrex’s EP “DJMREX EP1” on Fold Press

 

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Fixmer/McCarthy
Planete Rouge Records

 

out now: Terence Fixmer – Techno Body Archives 1998 – 2008 [Planete Rouge Records]

 

Artist:
Terence Fixmer

 

Title:
Techno Body Archives 1998​-​2008

 

Label:
Planete Rouge Records

 

Cat#:
none

 

Release Date:
22nd December 2018

 

Format:
digital

 

Tracklist:
01.
Electrostatic

02.
Out In the Space

03.
Always Through

04.
Body Pressure

05.
Electric Vision

06.
Armée Des Tenebres

07.
Rage

08.
Oops

09.
Red Section

10.
Hold Me

11.
Under Soul

12.
Cerveaux Sans Âmes

13.
Warm

14.
Danse Avec Les Ombres

15.
Watch This!

16.
Under The Rain

17.
Peplum

18.
Aktion Mekanik Theme

19.
Let’s Take A Ride

20.
Out Of My Head

21.
Passion

22.
Running After Time

23.
She Said Destroy

24.
Hypnose

25.
Impulsion

26.
Rupture

27.
Flex

28.
Kick! Kick! Kick!

29.
Talk To Me

 

Press Info:
Selection of Tracks made between by Terence Fixmer 1998 and 2008. Techno Body music oriented with some few unreleased tracks.

 

Full Track Streaming:

 

Special:
“Boiler Room”

 

Recommendations:
Terence Fixmer’s album “Through The Cortex” on Ostgut Ton
Terence Fixmer’s EP “Dance Of The Comets” on NovaMute
Terence Fixmer’s album “Depth Charged” on CLR

 

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out now: Terence Fixmer – Through The Cortex [Ostgut Ton]

 

Artist:
Terence Fixmer

 

Title:
Through The Cortex

 

Label:
Ostgut Ton

 

Cat#:
OSTGUTCD44 | OSTGUTLP30

 

Release Date:
12th October 2018

 

Format:
CD, LP & digital

 

Tracklist:
A1.
Something Invisible

A2.
Shout In A Black Hole

A3.
Event Horizon

A4.
Fury

B1.
Accelerate

B2.
Expedition

B3.
A Halo Somewhere

B4.
Phase Shift

 

Press Info (English):
Terence Fixmer’s path through the changing techno landscape of the past 20 years has been anything but direct. Indeed, the French born producer, musician and Planete Rouge label founder has long been influenced by the periphery of continental European dance music subgenres from electronic body music, new beat and acid, before combining them into his own pioneering hybrid of futuristic, EBM-inflected techno with classic releases such as 2001’s Muscle Machine or the collaborative Between The Devil LP with Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas McCarthy as Fixmer/McCarthy.

While the sound in recent years has been rediscovered and recast in diverse contexts by a new generation of producers, Through The Cortex sees Fixmer gravitating toward a different kind of industrial-tinged electronics, led as much (or more) by analogue sequencers, melodies and ultra-saturated sounds of synthesizers than drums and percussion. Across eight tracks at a compact but varied 40 minutes, the LP touches on an aesthetic hinted at in recent Ostgut Ton releases (2016’s Beneath The Skin EP and 2017’s Force EP), revealing a sonic narrative through noisy, screaming synth/vocal riffs with a jagged, guitar-like post-punk sensibility.

Through The Cortex is techno with a voice – or rather multiple voices – guiding listeners through hypnotic, space- and social-themed terrain as a kind of dark soundtrack to darker days. The result ranges from the slow John Carpenter-inspired Escape From Precinct 13 funk of “Expedition” and the patient yet muscular stomp of “Fury” to the mesmerizing Suicide-like pop of single “Accelerate”, where Fixmer, using his voice as an instrument, chants the track’s ambiguous title in an invocation of systemic change/collapse.

Elsewhere, the story is told with more abstract and wailing vocals like on “Shout in A Black Hole”, or in the warm, entrancing chords floating across the stereo image in ostensibly changing time-signatures on “A Halo Somewhere” – the LP’s uncharacteristically kosmische musik come-down. The track, and Through The Cortex as a whole, reflect what can be described as Fixmer’s idiosyncratic take on both techno subgenres as well as the larger pool of electronic music in general. This broad approach translates into a sound that is not only difficult to pin down, but also one that lends itself to multiple listens.

 

Press Info (German):
Terence Fixmers zwei Dekaden-umfassende Karriere innerhalb der sich wandelnden Geschichte von Techno war vieles, aber nicht geradlinig. Der französische Produzent, Musiker und Planete Rouge- Labelbetreiber zeigte sich schon immer beeinflusst von der Peripherie kontinentaleuropäischer Dance Music. Subgenres wie Electronic Body Music, New Beat und Acid verinnerlichte er, bevor er sie schließlich in seinen eigenen, wegweisenden Hybrid – futuristischer EBM-informierter Techno – überführte. Am Ende standen moderne Klassiker wie das 2001er Muscle Machine-Album und die kollaborative Fixmer/McCarthy-LP Between The Devil (mit Nitzer Ebbs Douglas McCarthy).

Waährend dieser Sound in den letzten Jahren seitens einer neuen Generation an Producern wiederentdeckt und in diversen Kontexten weitergedreht wurde, wirkt Fixmer auf Through The Cortex von festen Formeln befreit und interessiert an einer anderen Art Industrial-gefärbter Electronics, die ebenso stark (wenn nicht gar mehr) von analogen Sequenzern, Melodien und ultrasaturierten Synthesizersounds angetrieben wird, wie von Drums und Percussion. Mit acht Stücken uüber kompakte doch vielfältige 40 Minuten knüpft das Album an Ästhetiken von Fixmers juüngeren Ostgut Ton-Veröffentlichungen – Beneath The Skin EP (2016) und Force EP (2017) – an, ohne diese zu wiederholen. Fixmer spinnt eine klangliche Narrative an noisigen, schreienden Synth/Vocal-Riffs mit zackiger, gitarrenhafter Post Punk-Sensibilität.

Through The Cortex ist Techno mit Erzählerstimme, die Hörer durch hypnotisches, space- und sozialthematisches Terrain geleitend – eine Art düsterer Soundtrack für pechschwarze Tage. Musikalisch reicht das Album vom langsamen John Carpenter-inspirierten Escape From Precinct 13-Funk in „Expedition“ über das muskulöse Stampfen von „Fury“ bis hin zum hypnotisierenden Suicide-erinnernden Pop der Single „Accelerate“ – auf der Fixmer, seine Stimme als Instrument einsetzend, den mehrdeutigen Titel als Beschwörung von Systemwechsel/-kollaps skandiert.

Andernorts verläuft die Narrative in abstrakter Form: mit klagenden Vocals wie in „Shout In A Black Hole“, oder mit den warmen, verzückenden Akkorden in „A Halo Somewhere“, die in scheinbar changierenden Metren über das gesamte Klangbild wischen – das uncharakteristischste Stück der LP, aber ein entruückendes Runterkommen zu Kosmische Musik. Jenes Stuück, wie auch Through The Cortex als Ganzes, reflektiert Fixmers idiosynkratische Herangehensweise an sowohl Subgenres von Techno als auch den größeren Pool elektronischer Musiken an sich. Dieser breitgefasste Ansatz übersetzt sich in einen Klang, der nicht nur schwer zu fassen ist, sondern vielmehr zum genauen Hinhören auffordert.

 

Listen:

 

Full Track Streaming:
“Accelerate”

 

Special:
“Container Podcast [26]”

 

Recommendations:
“Oppression EP” on Planete Rouge Records
“Force EP” on Ostgut Ton
“Dance Of The Comets” on NovaMute
“Beneath The Skin EP” on Ostgut Ton
Remix EP “Aktion Mekanik” on Ostgut Ton
album “Depth Charged” on CLR
“Relapse Vol. 1” on Planete Rouge Records
“A Journey To Uncharted Destinations EP” on Planete Rouge Records
“Pyschik II” on CLR

 

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out now: Terence Fixmer – Oppression EP [Planete Rouge Records]

 

Artist:
Terence Fixmer

 

Title:
Oppression EP

 

Label:
Planete Rouge Records

 

Cat#:
PLR1801

 

Release Date:
02nd July 2018

 

Format:
12″ & digital

 

Tracklist:
01.
Oppression

02.
Ton Espoir

03.
Warm Leatherette

04.
The Weight of the World

 

Info:
During the recent years, Terence Fixmer kept on being prolific by producing and releasing his music output on well esteemed quality labels such as Ostgut Ton, Novamute, Jealous God and recently on Aufnahme+Wiedergabe. Following a constant workflow, Fixmer decided it is now time to restart his label Planete Rouge which he launched back in 1998 already but has always been irregular in terms of releases. The label will relaunch after a 4-year hiatus with his new 12”.

Terence Fixmer’s ‘Oppression’ EP is a great resume of his unique sound design signature, delivering a collection of four energetic tracks that speaks to the soul.

On top of it, as an homage to one of his all time favourite tracks of ‘The Normal / Warm Leatherette’ from 1978, Fixmer decided to rewrite this 40 year old tune from Daniel Miller as a a personal pleasure and fun. By using as well the Mini Korg 700 S Terence Fixmer recreated nearly the original sound, keeping a track that is loyal to his own sound as well as its original spirit.

 

Listen:

 

Special:
“Dekmantel Podcast 162”

 

Recommendations:
“Force EP” on Ostgut Ton
“Dance Of The Comets” on NovaMute
“Beneath The Skin EP” on Ostgut Ton
“Relapse Vol. 1” on Planete Rouge Records
“A Journey To Uncharted Destinations EP” on Planete Rouge Records
“Pyschik II” on CLR

 

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