out now: Various – Sammelwerk I [Konflkt]

 

Artist:
Various

 

Title:
Sammelwerk I

 

Label:
Konflkt

 

Cat#:
K014CD

 

Release Date:
01st February 2018

 

Format:
Data CD, download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
Avoid
Script

02.
Boyd Schidt & Subex
Tropical Boosts

03.
Brothers Black
Now Memories

04.
Computer Numerical Control
502

05.
dotwav
Achse

06.
Gonzalo MD
Desintegration And Matter

07.
Gonzo MDF
Like A Mystery

08.
Kaiser & Ryogo Yamamori
Panorama

09.
Kill Ref
Hiss Sequenced

10.
Kitkatone
Rap Destroyed My Hands

11.
Kobold
Rock The Beat

12.
Mario Berger
Channel Condition

13.
Martyn Hare
Modulox

14.
Projekt Gestalten
Not Enemies

15.
Sept
Volatile

16.
Shkedul
Positivo

17.
Steinmetz
Silber

18.
Van der Meer
Snare Magenta

19.
Vertical Spectrum
Mind Fracture

 

Press Info:
To start 2018 off with a bang, we carefully selected tracks from friends and artists that inspired us throughout the past. The compilation Sammelwerk I is a perfect mix of KONFLKT regulars and new faces.

 

Listen:

 

Full Track Streaming:
Sept – “Volatile”

Kill Ref – “Hiss Sequenced”

 

Specials:
Boyd Schidt – “Invite’s Choice Podcast 424”

Brothers Black – “Boiler Room Berlin DJ Set”

Computer Numerical Control – “ErrorSessions 029”

dotwav – “Køsmos Podcast ø107”

Gonzalo MD – “Assault’s Podcast #014”

Gonzo MDF – “@ Rote Sonne 16-06-2017”

Kaiser – “Voxnox Podcast 009”

Ryogo Yamamori – “Grey Area Podcast 007”

Kill Ref – “Ep.II_13.12.2017 @ Rinse France”

Kitkatone – “BNKR Podcast 05”

Mario Berger – “sub_Vinyl.Series 0.11”

Martyn Hare – “45 Minutes of Techno”

Projekt Gestalten – “A-MIG #013”

Sept – “Lost in Ether | Origin Series”

Shkedul – “sub_Vinyl.Series 0.17”

Van Der Meer – “August Session 2016”

Vertical Spectrum – “Lost In Ether | Origin Series”

 

Recommendations:
Shkedul’s “Vicolo EP” on Konflkt
Mario Berger’s “Field Dominance” on Konflkt
Van Der Meer’s EP “Faust” on Konflkt
dotwav’s EP “Vilnius” on Konflkt
sampler “RTLS001VA” w/ Projekt Gestalten on Rituals Records
Sept’ EP “Direction” on Voxnox Records

 

Buy CD:
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Buy Download:
Konflkt @ Bandcamp
Beatport Classic
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Tidal
Deezer
Spotify
Youtube Music

 

Websites:
Konflkt

 

out for a while: Markus Suckut – SCKT05 [SCKT]

 

Artist:
Markus Suckut

 

Title:
SCKT05

 

Label:
SCKT

 

Cat#:
SCKT05

 

Release Date:
November 2017

 

Format:
vinyl

 

Tracklist:
A1)
Steam

B1)
Assembly

B2)
Melt

 

Press Info:

 

Listen:

 

Special:
“Odd Even presents: …”

 

Recommendations:
SCKT01
SCKT01R
SCKT02
SCKT02R
SCKT03
SCKT04

 

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decks.de
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Techno Import FR
Technique JP
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Booking:
Markus Suckut

 

Websites:
Markus Suckut
SCKT

 

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now

out now: Stanislav Tolkachev – Blue Mood / Absolute Limit [Intergalactic Research Institute For Sounds]

 

Artist:
Stanislav Tolkachev

 

Title:
Blue Mood / Absolute Limit

 

Label:
Intergalactic Research Institute For Sounds

 

Cat#:
IRIS002

 

Release Date:
18th January 2018

 

Format:
12″ & digital

 

Tracklist:
A.
Blue Mood

B.
Absolute Limit

 

Press Info:
After exploring Georgian soundscapes, the Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound is honored to reissue Stanislav Tolkachev’s Blue Mood.

First released on Aftertaste Recordings in 2008, this masterpiece is in the Institute’s opinion one of the most impressive work of the Ukrainian artist.

For the occasion, Stanislav created the artwork for the record in order to complement or maybe represent an idea behind the release. The Institute plans to ask artists to deliver also a visual on top of their sound communication on the label. Limited copies of Blue Mood will include a photography of Tolkachev’s artwork.

Absolute Limit, which finds itself on the B side, is a brand new track by Tolkachev. As usual he delves deeper into abstract and distorted techno, delivering a truly mental cut.

Limited copies of Vinyl inc. original Photography by Stanislav Tolkachev will be available at the bandcamp shop.

 

Listen:

 

Video:
“Blue Mood”

Video by the29nov

 

Special:
“EnjoytheSound Podcast #3”

 

Recommendations:
“Moments 2” w/ Stanislav Tolkachev track on I/Y Music
“Sounds from Georgia” on Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound

 

Buy Vinyl:
Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound @ Bandcamp
Deejay
Decks
Juno
Hardwax
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Buy Digital:
Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound @ Bandcamp

 

Booking:
Potnia Theron

 

Websites:
Stanislav Tolkachev
Intergalactic Research Institute For Sounds

 

out now: Various – Various Artists (Vinyl 1) [Format]

 

Artist:
Various

 

Title:
Various Artists (Vinyl 1)

 

Label:
Format

 

Cat#:
FR012.1

 

Release Date:
29th January 2018

 

Format:
vinyl

 

Tracklist:
A1.
Mike Parker
Necklace Dancer

A2.
Inter Gritty
112

B1.
TWR72
EXP19

B2.
Mark Groot
Plan D

 

Press Info:
Following 11 hotly tipped EPs, Format now delivers its first compilation release, packed to the brim with bomb cuts from both veterans as new faces.

This first Format compilation is a prime example of the label’s signature sound. Featuring an impressive variety of musical perspectives, it’s a mint snapshot of Format’s ever adventurous view on techno.

Format lays down an impressive array of minimal-tinged and powerful dance floor techno laced with depth and atmosphere. There’s quite a lot to enjoy here to say the least; a very special appearance is made by legendary NY-producer Mike Parker, whose off-beat ‘Necklace Dancer’ perfectly reflects Format’s penchant for abstract techno. It nestles well among chunky four-to-the-floor material from various trusted label associates: ROD delivers a raw house-flavored banger on ‘Acine’, while TWR72’s ‘EXP19’ explores techno’s darker territories. Label curator, Juan Sanchez, also steps up to the game with ‘Warthog’, a high-octane piece of fiery techno that captures the man’s highly anticipated sound. Topping off, new label signees such as Mark Groot and Optics deliver intense cuts that already make us look forward to more of their studio output.

Format V.A. will be released on two separate vinyl releases, followed by a digital release featuring all nine tracks. The first 200 vinyl releases will be made available in transparent vinyl.

The release features artwork by DEFRAME, and is based on the refraction of light. It is meant to represent the illusion of a tiny hypnotic multiverse, where each plane exists in a different time and space.

This is the first part of the vinyl edition.

 

Snippets:

 

Full Track Streaming:
Mark Groot – “Plan D”

 

Specials:
Mike Parker – “WAYS | 29.08.2015”

Inter Gritty – “Parabel Podcast #28”

TWR72 – “HYSPODCAST 018”

Mark Groot – ” Music & Interview [NovaFuture Blog Exclusive Mix]”

 

Related Releases:
“Various Artists (Digital Edition)”
“Various Artists Part 2”

 

Recommendations:
Mike Parker’s EP “Spitting Electricity” on Mote-Evolver
Mark Groot’s self-released EP “IC149”
Mark Groot’s self-released EP “Influence”
Juan Sanchez’ EP “Despite …” on Format
Juan Sanchez’ EP “Qualia” on Format

 

Buy Vinyl:
Delsin Record Store
Juno
Decks
Red Eye Records
Deejay
TechnoImport FR
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Websites:
Mike Parker
Inter Gritty
TWR72
Mark Groot
Format

 

out now: Answer Code Request – Gens [Ostgut Ton]

 

Artist:
Answer Code Request

 

Title:
Gens

 

Label:
Ostgut Ton

 

Cat#:
OSTGUTCD42 | OSTGUTLP28

 

Release Date:
23rd February 2018

 

Format:
CD, LP & digital

 

Tracklist:
01.
Gens

02.
Sphera

03.
Ab Intus

04.
Sensa

05.
knbn2

06.
Orarum

07.
Mora

08.
Cicadae

09.
Res

10.
Audax

11.
Tu

12.
An Unattainable Distance

 

Press Info (English):
Answer Code Request returns with his sophomore album Gens on Ostgut Ton, entering darker but equally bass-heavy territory.

Answer Code Request’s 2014 debut LP Code was an exciting moment for electronic music in Berlin – one that offered a break from the eternal hall and monolithic 4/4 kicks that ruled the city’s club landscape. As a hybrid gesture, the album’s spirit recalled an especially fruitful era in the German capital from the mid-90s to early 2000s, when dub and pad-driven Detroit techno cross-pollinated with Berlin’s industrial aesthetic to create one of the city’s most exciting musical chapters.

Today the musical vision offered by Berghain resident Answer Code Request, real name Patrick Gräser, has proved far-sighted. While at first glance electronic music in 2018 seems increasingly balkanized, borders between genres have once again become fuzzier. Now, on his follow up LP Gens, Gräser looks beyond the bass euphoria of Code toward darker horizons and a desolate atmosphere befitting of current global circumstances.

In a sense, Gens (Latin for tribe or lineage) reverses the notion of the hardcore continuum as proposed by music journalist Simon Reynolds: embedded in a tradition of US and continental European techno, Gräser seeks its disruption through hardcore outgrowths, from ambient jungle to later variations of British bass music and IDM. It’s an interesting twist when seen in the larger biographical context of Gräser who, born and raised outside of Berlin in early 1980s, jumped from East German youth radio DT64 to American hip-hop, acid and early UK hardcore – a radical shift of musical interest born of a radical shift in political circumstances.

On Gens, the unsettling atmosphere is established early on with the fading rave opener of the album’s synonymous title track, and continues through the scrambled military communications and post dubstep rhythms of “Sphera”. From there, sci-fi pads, heavy phasing and alien syncopation lead explorative third track “Ab Intus” out into space. A glimmer of otherworldly positivity arrives with the warm, distorted breakbeats and interwoven synth melodies of album standout “knbn2”, while Gräser’s most dancefloor- oriented melds jungle and techno, Amen and 4/4 kicks, on “Cicadae”.

Beatless moments of ambient melancholy lay a foundation for the second half of album, where soon the faster, more hectic stereo delays, broken rhythms and heavy bassweight of “Audax” and “Tu” shift the focus back and forth between double and half-time. The hyper- distorted bassline, synthesized ember crackling and contemplative melody of heavy album closer “An Unattainable Distance” provides perhaps the most otherworldly moment on Gens. Here, Gräser’s massive sound trudges away from the dancefloor with a slow, resounding kick drum, pounding off in the distance and into an electronic abyss.

“For me, the album was a way of finding myself again without relying on other music – even to distance myself from other music,“ Gräser explains. “The more shadowy mood comes from a place of experimentation, and from my desire to go deeper into the sounds of synths and instruments I’ve been using, and even faster speeds of around 160 bpm. But in a way the instruments were a kind of medium to abstractly conduct what was happening around me and the world.”

On Gens, Gräser continues to offer an alternative, bass-heavy, and groove-based path forward for techno – one that both challenges listeners and leads them through a sonic narrative. It’s electronic music free from genre constraints – one where a broad palette of broken rhythms, varying speeds, different colors and sound design draws listeners into a synthesized world of its own.

 

Press Info (German):
Answer Code Request veröffentlicht sein zweites Album Gens auf Ostgut Ton und betritt damit dunkleres aber ebenso Bass-lastiges Terrain.

Answer Code Requests Debütalbum Code (2014) erschien zu einem aufregenden Zeitpunkt innerhalb elektronischer Musik in Berlin – es stellte einen Bruch mit dem immerwährenden Nachhall der monolithischen 4/4-Kicks dar, die zu jener Zeit die Clublandschaft der Stadt prägten. Als hybride Haltung erinnerte der Geist von Code an eine besonders fruchtbare ära der Hauptstadt ab Mitte der Neunziger bis Anfang der Nuller Jahre, als Dub und flächendominierter Detroit Techno sich mit der Berliner Industrial-ästhetik gegenseitig befruchteten und eines der spannendsten musikalischen Kapitel der lokalen Szene markierten.

Rückblickend erwies sich die musikalische Vision des Berghain-Residents Answer Code Request, bürgerlich Patrick Gräser, als Vorahnung. Wirkt elektronische Musik 2018 prima vista zunehmend tribalistisch, so sind die früher starren Grenzen zwischen Genres doch zunehmend durchlässig geworden. Mit seiner neuen 2xLP Gens blickt Gräser über die Bass-Euphorie von Code hinaus, in Richtung dunkler Horizonte und einer desolaten Atmosphäre, ganz im Sinne der heutigen globalen Verhältnisse.

Gewissermaßen verkehrt Gens (Latein für Sippe oder Abstammung) den Gedanken des Hardcore Continuums wie von Musikjournalist Simon Reynolds beschrieben: eingebettet in eine Tradition von US- und kontinentaleuropäischen Techno sucht Gräser dessen Disruption durch Hybride von Hardcore: von Ambient Jungle zu späteren Variationen britischer Bassmusik und IDM. Interessant im Kontext Gräsers Biografie, der, geboren und aufgewachsen außerhalb Berlins im Brandenburg der 1980er, ausgehend vom DDR-Jugendradio DT64 bald auf amerikanischen HipHop, Acid und frühen UK Hardcore aufmerksam wurde. Die Wende und die damit einhergehenden politischen Umstände stießen einen radikalen Wechsel seiner musikalischen Interessen an. Zum Zeitpunkt des Erscheinens dieses Albums ist der Mauerfall länger vergangen, als die Mauer tatsächlich stand.

Auf Gens wird gleich zu Beginn mit dem welkenden Rave-Opener und gleichnamigen Titelstück eine verstörende Atmosphäre geschaffen, die sich mit der chiffrierten, militärischen Funkkomunikation und Post Dubstep-Rhythmik von „Sphera” fortsetzt. Ab da erforschen flächige Sci-Fi-Klänge, schwere Phasenverschiebungen und außerweltliche Synkopen die Weite des Raums in „Ab Intus”, während nach Luft schnappende Basslines und insektizid-bedrohliches Zirpen in „Sensa” den Blick auf die Makroebene lenken. Ein Schimmer andersweltlicher Positivität kommt mit den warmen, verzerrten Breakbeats und verbogenen Synth-Melodien von „knbn2” hinzu.

Die beatlosen Momente ambienter Melancholie von „Orarum” und „Mora” legen die Basis für die zweite Hälfte des Albums, wo Gräsers Dancefloor-orientiertes Stück „Cicadae” Elemente von Jungle und Techno, Amen-Breaks und 4/4-Kicks verschmilzt. Auf den dumpfen Puls von „Res” mit seinen Cowbell-Meditationen und einer bittersüßen, schwellenden Melodie folgen die schnelleren, hektischeren Stereodelays, gebrochenen Rhythmen und das schwere Bassweight der Stücke „Audax“ und „Tu“. Die hyperhalllastige Bassline, das synthetisch-knisternde Ascheglühen und die kontemplative Melodie des Albumclosers „An Unattainable Distance“ sorgt für den wohl außerweltlichsten Moment auf Gens. Gräsers massiver Klang schleppt sich hier fernab des Dancefloors mit einer langsamen, widerhallenden Kickdrum, in der Ferne in Richtung des elektronischen Abyssus mahlend.

„Für mich war das Album eine Art Selbstfindung, ohne mich auf andere Musik zu verlassen – mich sogar von anderer Musik zu distanzieren“, erklärt Gräser. „Die schattenhaftige Stimmung kommt von einem Ort des Experiments, aus meinem Verlangen, tiefer in den Klang von mir verwendeter Synths und Instrumente einzutauchen – und auch schnellere Tempi von bis zu 160 BpM anzugehen. Meine Instrumente benutzte ich als Medium um abstrakt zu dirigieren, was um mich herum und in der Welt passiert.“

Mit Gens verlängert Gräser einen anderen, basslastigen und groovebasierten Pfad seiner Vision von Techno – einer, der sowohl herausfordert als auch durch eine sonische Narrative führt. Elektronische Musik frei von Genrezwängen, mit einer breiten Palette an gebrochenen Rhythmen, unterschiedlicher Farben und einem Sounddesign, das den Hörer in eine synthetisierte, eine eigene Welt geleitet.

 

Listen:

 

Video Teaser:

 

Video:
Answer Code Request – “Cicadae”

Video by the29nov films

 

Ful Track Streaming:
“knbn2”

“Ab Intus”

 

Special:
“@ Soenda Festival 20-05-2017”

 

Recommendations:
EP “Neume” on Ostgut Ton
“Calm Down” on Marcel Dettmann Records
“Subway Into” on his own label
“Crack City EP” on his own label
“Breathe EP” on Ostgut Ton
album “Code” on Ostgut Ton

 

Buy CD:
Ostgut Ton Shop
Decks
Juno
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Buy Vinyl:
Ostgut Ton Shop
Deejay
Hardwax
Decks
Juno
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Buy Digital:
>Answer Code Request @ Bandcamp
Hardwax
Junodownload
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Booking:
Elite Music Management for Answer Code Request

 

Websites:
Answer Code Request
Ostgut Ton

 

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