Release Date:
February 2013 digital a few weeks later
Format:
12″ & digital
Tracklist: 01)
Bump And Run
02)
Teens On Fire
03)
Pleasure To Burn
04)
Numb It Down
Info:
“Code Is Law” was founded in 2013 by Mørbeck, member of the Vault Series crew. It offers a platform for Mørbeck and other artists to develop and release creative electronic music. The focus of the label is based on the unique and stand alone nature of the tracks. The music genre is not important, rather it is the raw and deep theme of the tracks that are paramount.
On the first label release Mørbeck combines his musical past with the sonorous present to a vigorous entity, that will set your sound system on fire. 4 rough techno tracks, intelligently crafted, merging influences like industrial, electro and groovy house to heavily dancefloor oriented soundscapes. | Every special track needs a special code. Code Is Law!
Listen:
Videos:
“Teens On Fire”
“Pleasure To Burn”
“Pleasure To Burn”
“Teens On Fire” by Kai Obenhaus, “Pleasure To Burn” & “Numb It Down” created by the29nov films.
Info:
The History Survivors EP is a fierce collaboration between two of electronic music’s most intriguing producers, Lucy & Silent Servant.
Entering the production process together Luca Mortellaro and Juan Mendez delved into a period of studio based research. On the trail of a hybrid sound they rendered their questions with both digital and analogue machines, synthesising their suspicions into existence and layering sounds until they took on unmistakeable form. Two tracks emerged and Mote-Evolver has pressed these dark tales onto each side of the Mote034 vinyl.
A-side Dormancy Survivors begins with a metallic rasp and opens out into a euphoric state. It’s as if a story that was long repressed is finally being retold. And this story is told in syncopated sentences that are punctuated with slanted snares. Odd bleeps rotate around the weight of the bass-line and strange atmospherics catch you brilliantly unawares. This is an industrial-strength peak-time track.
Victors History is expansive and hypnotic. Pulling you into its loops the track is littered with glimmering asides. Low frequencies tug at the undercarriage and heighten the damage that the bass is committing. If the A-side tells the tale that history neglects, the B-side asks you to question the narratives weaved by the winners.
Mote034 combines the expertise of two producers at the top of their games. Silent Servant’s expert handling of noise and distortion and Lucy’s ability to create narratives where you least expect them form a startling hybrid. History Survivors is an EP that will move your feet, your thoughts and most importantly your expectations.
Info (English):
Big Deal might have become synonymous with the structurally sparse yet emotionally stinging guitar pop as showcased on their critically acclaimed debut “Lights Out”, but get ready for a dramatic expansion of sound with their latest album “June Gloom”. The London based duo of Kacey Underwood and Alice Costelloe, aka Big Deal, are set to release the new album on Mute in Summer 2013.
Last year”s thunderous teaser “teradactol” track, with its monstrous riffs and galloping drums was no red herring: on “June Gloom” Underwood and Costelloe flesh out their delicate, nocturnal tones with the help of a full band. Drums and bass take their sound to deeper, darker and more intoxicating heights, courtesy of producer Rory Attwell (Veronica Falls, PAWS, Male Bonding).
As a result, the 11 other tracks here are an exploration of the newfound confidence of “teradactol”, with a refinement and bold directness in singing and songwriting. Here, you”ll find a re-imagination of the golden age of alternative-rock; crunching grunge pop anthems sitting neatly alongside shimmering love songs aching with weariness and longing. If Big Deal”s earlier tracks felt emotionally lacerating, this new body of work is noisy, boisterous, with a more than assured melodic hook.
This evolution is made defiantly clear in the opener “golden light”, which deliberately wrongfoots the listener by opening with some sweetly strummed chords and interlocking vocals before building to a rousing climax. Similarly, “dream machines” crests on a jagged undertow of pounding drums, and the sinister “pillow” gradually opens up to become something vast, scorched and desolate. The pair infuse the volume with their own inimitable, off-kilter take on angst-ridden emotional terrain; on the aptly titled “pristine”, they sing, “darkness wash over me, I let it in, it let me be”, while on the otherwise upbeat “call and i”ll come” Costelloe plaintively asks, “What if no one else compares/ what if no one else cares?”.
It all reaches a beautiful crescendo with the finale “close your eyes”, which explodes from an almost unbearably intimate confessional (“I won”t ask why/ if it was love/ we let it die”) into a coruscating maelstrom that is as indelibly affecting as it is thrilling. With “June Gloom”, Big Deal have expanded their sonic palette for sure, but they have certainly lost none of their potency.
Info (Deutsch):
Big Deal mögen seit ihrem gefeierten Debüt “Lights Out” als Synonym für sparsam arrangierten, aber emotional reichen Gitarrenpop gelten – doch das neuste Werk des Londoner Duos, Kacey Underwood und Alice Costelloe, “June Gloom”, erweitert ihr Klangspektrum nahezu dramatisch.
So gesehen war der Ende letzten Jahres veröffentlichte Vorabtrack “teradactol”, den es nun als freien Download gibt, mit seinen monströsen Noiseriff und galoppierendem Schlagzeug alles andere als ein Ablenkungsmannöver, im Gegenteil: Auf “June Gloom” erweitern Underwood und Costelloe ihren zarten, mitternächtlichen Sound mit Hilfe einer ganzen Band.
Schlagzeug und Bass führen in dunkle, berauschende Tiefen – was nicht zuletzt ihrem Produzenten Rory Attwell (Veronica Falls, PAWS, Male Bonding) zu verdanken ist. So verwundert es nicht, dass die hier versammelten 11 Stücke das neu entdeckte Selbstvertrauens von “teradactol” weiter ausbauen. Wir finden eine so noch nicht gehörte abgründige Direktheit in Gesang und Songwriting; eine Re-Imagination der goldenen Tage des Alternative Rocks, wenn man so will: krachende Grunge-Pop Hymnen neben funkelnden, sehnsuchtsvollen Liebesliedern. Dort, wo sich frühere Stücke emotional zerfleischten, stürmen Big Deal nun durch so krachige wie melodiöse Hooks.
Dieser Entwicklung zollt gleich das Eröffnungsstück Tribut: “golden light”, das den Hörer zunächst absichtlich auf eine falsch Fährte lockt. Süß geschlagene Akkorde und ineinander verschlungene Stimmen wachsen sich schließlich aus zu einem überschwänglichen, mächtigen Crescendo. “dream machines” erklimmt neue Höhen in einem Sturm aus hämmernden drums, und das finstere “pillow” führt allmählich in ein unermessliches, namenloses Niemandsland.
Big Deal füllen ihr Arsenal mit einem ureigenen, seltsam angstbeherrschtem, emotionalem Ausdruck, im treffend betitelten Stück “pristine” (makellos, unberührt) singen sie: “darkness wash over me, I let it in, it let me be”, in “call and i”ll come”, sonst eher upbeat, fragt Costelloe klagend: “What if no one else compares / what if no one else cares?”.
Im finalen “close your eyes” schließlich wird ein fast zu intimes Geständnis (“I won’t ask why / if it was love / we let it die”) zu einem funkelnden Mahlstrom.
Mit “June Gloom” ist Big Deal nicht nur ein brighten the corners gelungen, sie haben ihre sonischen Möglichkeiten um ein Vielfaches erweitert.
