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out now: Terence Fixmer – Paradox 2 [NovaMute]

Artist:
Terence Fixmer

Title:
Paradox 2

Label:
NovaMute

Cat#:
NOMU193

Release Date:
06th March 2024

Format:
download

Tracklist:
01.
Razor Sharp

02.
Void Machinery

Press Info:
PARADOX 2 is a dark and chilling electronic 2-track single from innovative producer, Terence Fixmer. This release is exclusively available on specialist DSPs via Daniel Miller’s NovaMute and features the deeply hypnotic tracks ‘Razor Sharp’ and ‘Void Machinery’, marking the second of three digital singles to be released.

The release PARADOX 2 shows Terence’s unparalleled ability to invoke varied emotional energies, offering a bold, no-compromises musical experience destined to captivate listeners who crave diversity in their auditory experiences and wish to delve into the intricate layers of his synthesizer work. It’s a meticulously crafted journey through the essence of electronic music, inviting audiences to explore the rich textures and profound depths of his musical vision. Terence’s adeptness in sonic manipulation shines through each track, establishing him as a singular force in the music industry, whose authentic craftsmanship and innovative approach set him apart as a true connoisseur of sound.

Terence Fixmer is one of France’s most illustrated characters of the techno scene, of which he has been at the forefront for over 20 successful years. Bringing his dark, atmospheric sound to prestigious dance floors that range from Berlin’s mecca of techno to Paris’ Rex club. Equally at ease in the club or at a pure techno festival, Terence reached this respected level, without ever succumbing to excessive promotion or subscribing to the mainstream.

Full Track Streaming:

Video:
“Razor Sharp”

Special:
“Live Series #041”

Recommendations:
Terence Fixmer’s “Corne De Brume (Version 2)” on Mute
Terence Fixmer’s “State Of Disorder EP” on Planete Rouge Records
Terence Fixmer’s “Shifting Signals” on Mute
Fixmer’s “Invasion EP” on Bite
Terence Fixmer’s EP “The Swarm” on NovaMute
Terence Fixmer’s “Electric Ghosts” on Planete Rouge Records
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
all stuff on Mute & sublabels that we featured

Buy Download:
Terence Fixmer @ Bandcamp
Beatport
Boomkat
Bleep
more soon

Booking:
Terence Fixmer

Websites:
Terence Fixmer
NovaMute
Mute
Mute @ Facebook
Mute Deutschland @ Facebook
Mute Deutschland @ Mastodon
Mute Deutschland @ Threads

out now: Nicolas Bougaïeff – EP2 [NovaMute]

Artist:
Nicolas Bougaïeff

Title:
EP2

Label:
NovaMute

Cat#:
NOMU190

Release Date:
02nd May 2024 (Beatport)
later in May (all other stores)

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Primal Funk

02.
Secret Room

03.
Shadow Plot

Press Info:
Picking things up where ‘EP1’ left off, Nicolas Bougaïeff unveils the next instalment in his EP series on Mute’s NovaMute branch. ‘EP2’. ‘Primal Funk’, the first track in this collection dropping throughout the first half of 2024, is a loopy, rolling track building on the feeling of last year’s ‘Primal Express’, only grittier.

As the trickling synths of ‘Primal Funk’ on Nicolas Bougaïeff’s ‘EP2’ subside, ‘Secret Room’ continues with weighty low-end and mysterious atmospheres, accompanied by sparse dream-like melodies before breaking out into tripped-out sequences. Last in line, ‘Shadow Plot’ is the darkest of the bunch, featuring low-slung grooves and foreboding sonics that build in intensity, joined at the hip with alien-like bursts of filtered acid.

A decades-long love of club music has compelled Nicolas Bougaïeff to challenge conventional wisdom, delivering genre-busting Berghain sets that expertly blend French-Canadian hip-hop with Tchaikovsky, moody techno and ambient. Launching his debut record as a producer in 2013, the Movements EP with Max Cooper, Bougaïeff has since put out a string of singles on labels including minimal techno imprint Trapez, working with NovaMute on various projects including ‘The Upward Spiral’ and accompanying remix album, ‘Higher Up the Spiral’, and parent-label Mute for his 2022 album ‘Begin Within’.

Outside his music adventures, Bougaïeff designed the controllers for Richie Hawtin’s Plastikman live tour, and in 2010 with Hawtin co-founded Liine, the software company behind the landmark used by astronaut Alexander Gerst on the International Space Station in a live jam with Kraftwerk. From his teaching – he founded the Berlin Academy of Electronic Music – to writing his PhD thesis on minimal techno, Bougaïeff is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of techno. Now, the Berlin-based Canadian Bougaïeff continues his series with another sublime selection of techno cuts.

Snippets:

Full Track Streaming:
“Secret Room”

“Shadow Plot”

Special:
“CLR Podcast 362”

Recommendations:
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s album “Recursive” on Denkfabrik
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s album “Begin Within” on Mute
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s “Higher Up The Spiral” on Mute
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s “Dust (Remixes)” on Mesh
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s “Dreamscape” on Denkfabrik
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s album “Deckalog” on Denkfabrik
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s album “Resilience Interlude” on Denkfabrik
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s album “Les Sauvageries” on Denkfabrik
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s album “Principles Of Newspeak” on Denkfabrik
all release on Mute & sublabels like NovaMute

Buy Download:
Nicolas Bougaïeff @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
Beatport
JunoDownload
iTunes
Boomkat
Bleep
more soon

Commercial Streaming Services:
Tidal
Qobuz
Spotify
Apple Music
Deezer
Youtube Music

Websites:
Nicolas Bougaïeff
NovaMute
Mute
Mute @ Facebook
Mute Deutschland @ Facebook
Mute Deutschland @ Mastodon

out now: Terence Fixmer – Paradox 1 [NovaMute]

Artist:
Terence Fixmer

Title:
Paradox 1

Label:
NovaMute

Cat#:
NOMU192

Release Date:
24th January 2024 (Beatport)
some time later (all other stores)

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Paroxysm

02.
Test Of The Times

Press Info:
PARADOX 1 is the dark brainwashing 2-track single from innovative producer, Techno Body Music pioneer, and Berghain regular, Terence Fixmer. This hypnotic club release is exclusively available on specialist DSPs via Daniel Miller’s NovaMute and marks the first of 3 digital hypnotic techno singles to be released.This follows Fixmer’s 2022 space-inspired album, Shifting Signal, released via Mute.

Snippets:

Full Track Streaming:
“Paroxysm”

Special:
“Groove Podcast 375”

Buy Download:
Terence Fixmer @ Bandcamp
Beatport
Bleep
Boomkat
more soon

Commercial Streaming Services:
soon

Booking:
Terence Fixmer

Websites:
Terence Fixmer
NovaMute
Mute
Mute @ Facebook
Mute Deutschland @ Facebook
Mute Deutschland @ Mastodon

out now: Plastikman – Sheet One (30th Anniversary Edition) [NovaMute]

Artist:
Plastikman

Title:
Sheet One (30th Anniversary Edition)

Label:
NovaMute

Cat#:
NOMU22VLP

Release Date:
01st December 2023

Format:
vinyl & digital

Tracklist:
01.
Drp
(2023 Remastered)

02.
Plasticity
(2023 Remastered)

03.
Gak
(2023 Remastered)

04.
Okx
(2023 Remastered)

05.
Helikopter
(2023 Remastered)

06.
Glob
(2023 Remastered)

07.
Plasticine
(2023 Remastered)

08.
Koma
(2023 Remastered)

09.
Vokx
(2023 Remastered)

10.
Smak
(2023 Remastered)

11.
Ovokx
(2023 Remastered)

Press Info:
Richie Hawtin and Mute are excited to announce the 30th Anniversary Edition of Plastikman’s groundbreaking debut album, Sheet One, set for release on BioVinyl, remastered from the original masters and available via sublabel NovaMute on double vinyl on 1 December 2003.

Plastikman is just one of Richie Hawtin’s alter egos, and Sheet One was the first in a series of releases that started a phenomenon with seismic influence – its stark production, quite unlike anything else on the electronic scene at that time, and an instantly recognisable and somewhat controversial acid-blotter CD cover introduced the world to his unique sound. The album was the beginning of a long creative relationship between Richie Hawtin and Mute, and soon took its place as a crucial classic electronic album. The release has also been remastered for digital re-release, courtesy of Manmade Mastering from Berlin.

With Plastikman, Richie Hawtin defined a time and place, expanding the dimensions of Detroit techno and redefining the possibilities of electronic dance music, evolving over six albums into one of contemporary electronic music’s most distinctive voices: minimalist, psychedelic, groove-laden, and transcendent.

Born in Oxfordshire, Hawtin’s family moved to Canada when he was nine and, growing up he was heavily influenced by both his father’s diverse record collection and his own acute curiosity for everything electronic, watching from an early age as his father dismantled various electronic devices, rebuilding and modifying them in front of his son’s eyes. It was inevitable that his passions for music, technology and computers would be finally drawn together, and upon hearing the early sounds of Detroit Techno and Chicago Acid House on Jeff Mills’ late 80’s Detroit radio show, he found his direction. Travelling between his home town of Windsor, Ontario (Canada) and Detroit, Plastikman helmed some of the most intense, mind-bending parties underground electronic music has ever known.

2023 is also the anniversary of Dimension Intrusion by his alter ego F.U.S.E. for the Artificial Intelligence series on WARP (which gets a reissue on 10 November), another incredible milestone for Richie Hawtin whose award winning prolific career to date has seen him become one of the most important techno DJs globally; a technological wizard with decades of innovations behind him; label head for both Plus 8, with John Acquaviva and M_nus; the PLAYdifferently mixer / technology company; as well as a growing career in the sake industry with his ENTER.Sake brand and the Sake 36 emporium in Berlin. Over the last thirty years, and often as Plastikman, Hawtin has collaborated with some of the cultural world’s leading creative figures including Raf Simons, Anish Kapoor, Andreas Gursky and John Gerrard.

A series of Plastikman vinyl reissues will continue in 2024.

Richie Hawtin aka Plastikman states: “After a few years of experimenting with equipment and techniques, I slowly started to find my own unique direction and sound by digging deep into the possibilities of the Roland TB303. The first crucial steps were the F.U.S.E. tracks ‘F.U.’ and ‘Substance Abuse,’ both throbbing dancefloor inspired physical work-outs. That led to my idea of taking the sound of my style of Acid deeper into a more cerebral long-form experiment that became the foundation of ‘Sheet One.’ Recorded mostly over an intense 48 hour period, the album came alive as I paired the Roland TR606 drum machine to the TB303 for my first time, which opened the doorway into this unique Hawtin trip! ”

Daniel Miller from Mute states: “Pure electronic music innovator!”

Full Track Streaming:

Related Release:
remastered CD version

Buy Vinyl:
MuteBank
Plastikman @ Bandcamp
PIAS store
Rough Trade
Juno
Norman Records
Crash Records
Piccadilly Records
Boomkat
Amazon
Hardwax
more soon

Buy CD:
feature for the 2012 remastered CD version

Buy Download:
Plastikman @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
Hardwax
Clone Digital
iTunes
JunoDownload
Beatport
TraxSource
Bleep
Hardwax

Commercial Streaming Services:
Tidal
Qobuz
Spotify
Deezer
Napster
Apple Music
Youtube Music

Websites:
Plastikman
NovaMute
Mute
Mute @ Facebook
Mute Germany @ Facebook
Mute @ Twitter
Mute Germany @ Twitter
Mute Germany @ Mastodon

out now: Nicolas Bougaïeff – EP1 [NovaMute]

Artist:
Nicolas Bougaïeff

Title:
EP1

Label:
NovaMute

Cat#:
NOMU189

Release Date:
28th December 2023 (Beatport)
11th January 2024 (all other stores)

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Primal Express

02.
Obviate Thought

03.
Concrete Love

Press Info:
First up in Nicolas Bougaïeff’s ‘EP1’ is ‘Primal Express’, in which he returns to NovaMute for their next wave of releases with layers of elastic synth lines and rolling drum funk. It’s the first instalment in a three-part series on the Mute offshoot and is a dark but enticing work of heady minimalism featuring enchanting synths darting like cosmic rays into otherworldly dimensions. The psychedelic ‘Obviate Thought’ then boasts tight and punchy drums overlaid with haunting sounds that pan throughout the mix in tripped-out fashion. Last of all is ‘Concrete Love,’ a gritty and glitchy techno pumper with mind-melting loops and scratchy synth textures peeling off its percussion as the whole track powers on unrelentingly.

Berlin Academy of Electronic Music founder Nicolas Bougaïeff is not only a DJ who has played institutions such as fabric and Berghain, and a producer who has regularly released on Mute and NovaMute, but also someone involved in music technology. He designed the controllers for Richie Hawtin’s Plastikman Live tour, and in 2010 with Hawtin, he co-founded Liine, the company behind the landmark music app Lemur. Now, the Berlin-based Canadian Bougaïeff drops another artfully crafted and hugely potent techno EP with ‘EP1’, setting the tone for the stellar releases that will follow.

Nicolas Bougïeff ‘EP1’ releases via NovaMute 11th January 2024, with ‘Concrete Love’ dropping 19th October and ‘Obviate Thought’ 30th November 2023.

Full Track Streaming: