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out now: Mad Maex – Chaos [NewKids Records]

Artist:
Mad Maex

Title:
Chaos

Label:
NewKids Records

Cat#:
tba

Release Date:
25th November 2022 (Bandcamp only)

Format:
download

Tracklist:
01.
Chaos

Press Info:
As a thank you for your support, you can get the track ”Chaos” by Mad Maex as a free download exclusively on Bandcamp!

Full Track Streaming:
“Chaos”

Special:
“NovaFuture Blog Mix September 2022”

Recommendations:
all stuff on NewKids Records

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NewKids Records @ Bandcamp

Websites:
Mad Maex
NewKids Records

out now: Introversion – Hush EP [ARTS Records]

Artist:
Introversion

Title:
Hush EP

Label:
ARTS Records

Cat#:
ARTSCORE018

Release Date:
18th November 2022 (vinyl)
09th December 2022 (digital)

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
A1.
Memories

A2.
Heavy Heart

B1.
Hush

B2.
Error

Press Info:
….

Snippets:
@ Deejay

Full Track Streaming:
“Hush”

Video:
“Hush”

Special:
“Fast Forward Audio Series #78”

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Introversion
ARTS Records

out now: Daniel Avery – Ultra Truth [Phantasy | Mute]

Artist:
Daniel Avery

Title:
Ultra Truth

Label:
Phantasy | Mute

Cat#:
PHLP19 | tba

Release Date:
04th November 2022

Format:
CD, cassette, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracks:
01.
New Faith

02.
Ultra Truth

03.
Wall Of Sleep

04.
The Slow Bullet

05.
Devotion

06.
Only

07.
Spider

08.
Near Perfect

09.
Higher

10.
Ache

11.
Collapsing Sky

12.
Lone Swordsman

13.
Overflowing With Escape

14.
Chaos Energy

15.
Heavy Rain

Press Info:
Revered producer and composer Daniel Avery today announces his most ambitious and accomplished studio album to date, Ultra Truth, due for release on 4th November 2022 via Phantasy Sound. To celebrate the announcement, Daniel has shared a brand new track from the record called ‘Chaos Energy’, which lands alongside a neo-futuristic video created using AI technology by close-collaborator Claudia Rafael.

Alongside the record, Avery launches his new live show this month debuting at Nuits Sonores in Lyon on 27th May, the biggest outing for the project since touring America with Nine Inch Nails in 2018.

Ultra Truth offers a very different listening experience to any of Avery’s previous records. It inhabits its own world of sound, a construct built in Avery’s Thames side studio with collaborative help from a host of friends: the production touch of Ghost Culture and Manni Dee, the vocals of HAAi, Jonnine Standish (HTRK), AK Paul and the voices of Marie Davidson, Kelly Lee Owens, Sherelle and James Massiah.

“Ultra Truth finds me in a different place to where I’ve been before. My previous albums have all focused on the idea of music being an escape or a distraction from the world but that’s not the case this time. For me this album is about looking directly into the darkness, not running away from it. There’s a way through these times but it involves keeping the important people in your life close to you and navigating the noise together. This is an intentionally heavy and dense album, the hooks often hidden in dusty corners. I’m no longer dealing in a misty-eyed euphoria. Ultra Truth is a distorted fever dream of a record: riled, determined and alive.”

In creating Ultra Truth, Avery went back to many of the things that had inspired him to first make music as a teenager – pensive, emotive records by Deftones, Portishead, Nick Cave or Mogwai, the exquisite darkness of David Lynch’s movies and – on tracks like Devotion and Higher – the thunderous energy of leftfield rave music.

“I’m working with an entirely new world of sound on this record. Every single influence from the last decade spent on the road plays a part. Things that have been in the back of my mind forever, warped, distorted and pushed to a new place.”

Elsewhere, a counterpoint to Ultra Truth’s juggernaut breakbeats comes in the form of Avery’s elegiac tribute to the late Andrew Weatherall. Lone Swordsman feels like it’s been created from the same DNA as some of Weatherall’s most sublime moments.

“Andrew was an enormously important figure in my life. It’s been said about him so many times, but Andrew was someone who did things entirely on his own terms, an outsider through and through. He was a punk rocker as much as he was a techno DJ. I’ve always held on to what he taught me which was to offer a true expression of who you are at all times. That’s the ultimate goal. If this record sounds like it comes from a more shadowy place, that’s what it is and that’s who I am.”

Ultra Truth is just that. It’s the ultimate musical truth of one of the country’s most innovative, boundary-pushing electronic producers. And the truth is, this is a record to give you a burning sense of hope.

Full Track Streaming:

Videos:
“Chaos Energy”

“Higher”

Special:
“@ The Lot Radio 09 – 23 – 2022”

Recommendations:
Daniel Avery’s album “Love + Light” on Phantasy / Mute
Daniel Avery’s album “Together In Static” on Phantasy / Mute
“Illusion Of Time” by Daniel Avery + Alessandro Cortini on Phantasy / Mute
Daniel Avery’s album “Song For Alpha” on Phantasy / Mute
Daniel Avery’s “Song For Alpha (B-Sides & Remixes)” on Phantasy / Mute
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out for a while: JakoJako – Lux EP [Leisure System]

Artist:
JakoJako

Title:
Lux EP

Label:
Leisure System

Cat#:
LSR025

Release Date:
30th July 2021 (digital)
27th August 2021 (vinyl)

Format:
vinyl & download

Tracklist:
A1.
Viridis

A2.
Sublividus

B1.
Eos

B2.
Ochros

Press Info:
JakoJako returns to Leisure System with Lux, an EP designed for diverse sonic needs, spanning rhythmic tranquillisers to potent dancefloor mood enhancers.

Building on the live and spontaneous process behind the success of her debut Aequilibration, Lux sees JakoJako further refine her playful and experimental approach in the studio. Present throughout is the sound of machines only just under control, which has come to characterise her productions.

Opener ‘Viridis’ began as part of a live set, revolving around an acid line processed to the limits of recognition, with driving percussion punctuated by structural twists and turns. The pace slows with ‘Sublividus’, evoking a moment of intense longing crystallised in time, like the distant horn of a ship fading into the mist.

‘Eos’ serves to release the tension. A distorted broken beat underpins the rhythm while clouds of harmony float behind a polymetric hook. In the closing minutes, ‘Ochros’ brings a single melody slowly to the boil, expanding in waves of increasing intensity, before bursting and coming gently to rest.

A strong colour-sound connection informs her use of contrast; the balance of light and dark. She explains: “The German word for timbre is ‘Klangfarbe’, which translates directly as ‘sound colour’. I like to think about synthesis in this sense, with basic waveforms being primary colours that blend together to make new ones, which can be shaped into something like an image, that has a meaning or a story to tell.”

Snippets: