out now: SIWEI – Dawn Of Down EP [SIWEI Recordings]

 

Artist:
SIWEI

 

Title:
Dawn Of Down EP

 

Label:
SIWEI Recordings

 

Cat#:
SIWEI002

 

Release Date:
28th March 2019

 

Format:
vinyl & digital

 

Tracklist Vinyl:
A1.
Stay

A2.
Can Not Search

A3.
Dawn Of Down

B1.
5 Days Of Unkown Hapiness

B2.
Maybe One day

B3.
Fast Forward Flashback

 

Tracklist Digital:
01.
Can Not Search

02.
Dawn Of Down

03.
5 Days Of Unkown Hapiness

04.
Maybe One day

05.
Fast Forward Flashback

 

Press Info:
SIWEI is back on his SIWEI Recordings with a 6 track EP. This time with something completely different than with his first outing. A more cinematic take on things with these deeply beautiful and textured broken beats. The distant tones and echo’s lurk you into SIWEI’s world and show an elegant yet haunting look into the future.

 

Listen:

 

Full Track Streaming:
“Can Not Search”

“Dawn Of Down”

“5 Days Of Unkown Happiness”

 

Recommendations:
“IFLN (Part I-III)” on Siwei Recordings
“Mine I Series” on Siwei Recordings

 

Buy Vinyl:
Siwei @ Bandcamp
more soon

 

Buy Digital:
Siwei @ Bandcamp
more soon

 

Booking:
Form And Function

 

Websites:
SIWEI

 

out now: Non Reversible – UVCeti [NovaFuture Recordings]

 

Artist:
Non Reversible

 

Title:
UVCeti

 

Label:
NovaFuture Recordings

 

Cat#:
NOVAF001D

 

Release Date:
15th March 2019 (bandcamp)
13th November 2020 (all other stores)

 

Format:
download & streaming

 

Tracks:
01.
UVCeti

 

Press Info:
After ten years of playing with the idea of starting his own label, planning and preparing, the time finally felt right: Jürgen Mayer, known for running the well-established NovaFuture Blog, is kicking off NovaFuture Recordings. Building on his experience from working for labels such as Mute Germany, Ibadan Records, Mote-Evolver and Calyx Records and from co-running the Escapism label, NovaFuture Recordings will act as an extension of the NovaFuture Group.

Via digital releases of single tracks, NovaFuture Recordings will showcase the artists featured on the blog, providing a platform for new talent as well as putting out new music by established artists. Rather than representing a particular sound, the labels curation will reflect Jürgen’s diverse taste, refined through years of music-fandom and close involvement with the electronic music scene.

Each four digitally released tracks will be compiled and re-released as strictly limited collector vinyl.

For its first release, NovaFuture Recordings is happy to present the track “UVCeti” by Berlin’s Non Reversible. Through numerous previous releases on EarToGround, Apotek, Knotweed, Bipolar Disorder and many more, Non Reversible created his own brand of deep, uncompromising Techno. With UVCeti, he delivers a sparsely arranged, effective and straight forward Techno cut, driven by a distorted, boomy kick and a hypnotic lead synth line. The droning second synth and ambient layers create a melancholic, dark mood, characteristic to his productions.To keep up with our releases, check website http://www.novafuture-recordings.com, more to come soon!

 

Full Track Streaming:
“UVCeti”

 

Special:
“Oecus Podcast 134”

 

Recommendations:
Non Reversible’s “Open Cluster” on EarToGround Records
Non Reversible’s “Spectral Irradiance EP” on Anaøh
Non Reversible’s “Confusional State EP” on Knotweed Records
Non Reversible’s “Convergent Boundary EP” on Knotweed Records

 

Buy Download:
NovaFuture Recordings @ Bandcamp
JunoDownload
Beatport
TraxSource
iTunes
7Digital
Amazon
Clone Digital
more soon

 

Commercial Streaming Services:
Spotify
Tidal
Deezer

 

Booking:
Non Reversible

 

Websites:
Non Reversible
NovaFuture Recordings

 

out now: Various – Berghain 09 [Ostgut Ton]

 

Artist:
Various

 

Title:
Berghain 09

 

Label:
Ostgut Ton

 

Cat#:
O-TON 119

 

Release Date:
15th March 2019

 

Format:
12″ & digital

 

Tracklist:
A1.
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Ritual Music

A2.
Virile Games
Black Iron Prison

A3.
Los Angeles Death Cult
El Culto De Los Angeles De La Muerte

B1.
Ron Morelli
Colts Neck

B2.
Volvox
Becoming

C1.
JK Flesh
Decontrol

C2.
Alberich
Werkstatt

D1.
Ugandan Methods | Prurient
Venom Timetables

D2.
Merzbow
Loop 1

D3.
Merzbow
Loop 2

D4.
Merzbow
Loop 3

D4.
Merzbow
Loop 4

D6.
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
One Being, One Orientation, One Power

all tracks on D are locked grooves

 

Press Info (English):
Since becoming a Berghain resident in 2017, Dominick Fernow’s risk-taking hybrid live/DJ sets as Vatican Shadow have become conduits for infusing techno with contrasting musical ideas – from noise, industrial and ambient to distorted melodies and rhythms that push the club’s borders in unexpected ways.

It’s an idiosyncratic approach to techno rooted not only in Fernow’s 25-plus years as an experimental and noise musician under more than a dozen aliases (e.g. Prurient, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement) but also in his role as founder of the vital New York-based Hospital Productions, whose discography exceeds some 500 releases. The label – which in 2017 celebrated its 20-year anniversary – is also home to the majority of Vatican Shadow output to date.

Under that alias, Fernow’s numerous albums and 12”s (including 2017’s Rubbish Of The Floodwaters on Ostgut Ton) oscillate between ominous, distorted machine-funk, techno and ambient electronics; equal parts noise, melody and rhythm. Since 2011, the project’s intentionally ambiguous visual identity has been defined by War on Terror-related imagery and track titles – and the media’s role therein.

Both the Berghain 09 mix and accompanying exclusive 12”s – featuring exclusive tracks by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Virile Games, Los Angeles Death Cult, Ron Morelli, Volvox, JK Flesh, Alberich, Ugandan Methods | Prurient and Merzbow – reflect Vatican Shadow’s composite musical influences and relationship to Berghain as a club. Stylistically, the two vinyls are divided between clubbier and experimental electronics, with vocal samples of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge acting as a bridge between the two. All tracks on Side D end in locked grooves.

As Fernow describes in his own words:

“My interest in DJing developed naturally out of industrial music traditions such as mail art, tape trading, and sound collage. While this mix, of course, does not solely focus on cassettes, they were used as the bridge between the seemingly disparate areas and cross-sections of underground electronic edits you will find sewn together from diverse factions to create a sonic ‘cut up’. Accordingly, the artists featured with exclusive tracks span several continents and generations of electronic music subculture, from the birth of industrial in the UK and the rhythmic loops of Japanese noise, to the raw collision of genres found in the NYC underground. Berghain 09 is a tribute to the techno mixtapes that influenced me during my introduction to raves and dance music in the 90s.”

 

Press Info (German):
Spätestens mit Beginn seiner Berghain-Residency vor zwei Jahren haben die risikofreudigen DJ/Live-Set-Hybride von Dominick Fernow Techno mit kontrastierenden muskalischen Ideen aufgeladen. Mittels Noise, Industrial, Ambient, verzerrten Melodien und Rhythmen reizt er unter seinem Vatican Shadow-Alter Ego die Grenzen des Klubklangs auf unerwartete Weise aus.

Es ist eine eigensinnige Herangehensweise an Techno, verwurzelt nicht nur in Fernows mehr als 25 Jahren als Experimental- und Noise-Musiker mit nicht weniger als einem Dutzend Alter Egos (z.B. Prurient, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement) – auch Dank seiner Rolle als Gründer des wichtigen New Yorker Labels Hospital Productions, dessen Diskografie heute um die 500 Veröffentlichungen fasst. 2017 feierte die Plattform 20-jähriges Bestehen, dort ist bis heute der Großteil an Musik von Vatican Shadow erschienen.

Unter jenem Alias hat Fernow zahlreiche Alben und 12”s veröffentlicht (wie auch die EP Rubbish Of The Floodwaters, Ostgut Ton, 2017), die zwischen ominösem, verzerrten Maschinen-Funk, Techno und Ambient Electronics oszillieren; gleichermaßen Noise, Melodie und Rhythmus. Seit 2011 wurde die bewusst mehrdeutige Visual Identity des Vatican Shadow-Projekts definiert von War on Terror-bezogenen Grafiken und Tracktiteln – als auch der Rolle der Medien zum Themenkomplex.

Sowohl der Berghain 09-Mix als auch die begleitenden 12”s – mit exklusiven Stücken von Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Virile Games, Los Angeles Death Cult, Ron Morelli, Volvox, JK Flesh, Alberich, Ugandan Methods | Prurient und Merzbow – reflektieren Vatican Shadows vermischte musikalische Einflüsse und seine Beziehung zum Berghain als Klub. Stilistisch finden sich auf den beiden Vinyl klublastige als auch experimentelle Electronics, mit Vocal-Samples von Genesis Breyer P-Orridge als Klammer für beides. Alle Stücke der D-Seite enden in der Endlosrille.

In Fernows eigenen Worten:

„Mein Interesse am DJing hat sich natürlich entwickelt, aus Industrial Music-Traditionen wie Mail Art, Mixkassettentausch und Klangkollagen. Dieser Mix fokussiert sich nicht nur auf Kassetten, klar, aber wurden diese doch als Brücke zwischen den scheinbar disparaten Ecken und Kreuzungen von Underground Electronic-Edits genutzt, verwebt aus verschiedenen Lagern, um ein klangliches Cut-up zu schaffen. Demgemäß umfassen die Künstler der exklusiven Stücke verschiedene Kontinente und Generationen elektronischer Musiksubkultur, von der Geburt des Industrial in UK und den rhythmischen Loops japanischen Noise, bis zur rohen Kollision der Genres im New Yorker Untergrund. Berghain 09 ist eine Huldigung an Technomixtapes, die mich während meinen ersten Begegnungen mit Rave und Dance Music der 90er Jahre beeinflussten.“

 

Listen:

 

Related Release:
mix “Berghain 09” by Vatican Shadow , feature coming soon

 

Recommendation:
“Games Have Rules” by Function + Vatican Shadow on Hospital Productions
all Ostgut Ton / Unterton / A-Ton stuff

 

Buy Vinyl:
Ostgut Ton Shop
Juno
Deejay
Decks
more soon

 

Buy Digital:
Ostgut Ton @ Bandcamp
more soon

 

Booking:
Ostgut Booking for Vatican Shadow

 

Websites:
Vatican Shadow
Ostgut Ton

 

© Phhoto By Sven Marquardt

out now: Inland – Time Leak EP [Figure]

 

Artist:
Inland

 

Title:
Time Leak EP

 

Label:
Figure

 

Cat#:
FIGUREX05

 

Release Date:
18th March 2019

 

Format:
vinyl & digital

 

Tracks Vinyl:
A1.
Stainless

A2.
Swerv

B.
Time Leak

 

Tracks Digital:
01.
Stainless

02.
Swerv

03.
Time Leak

04.
Time Leak
(Crystalised Tool)

 

Press Info:
After having appeared twice on the Figure SPC series, Inland (aka Ed Davenport) now arrives on Figure, providing a trio of well-honed, first-grade club-material. Out the gate comes ‘Stainless’ – an electrifying piece of machine-power which, already bursting with energy, still manages to turn it up a few notches.

Next up, the seasoned producer turns in a powerful chord-rooted tool: ‘Swerv’ is driven by tides of shimmering beauty along a sea of pounding drums. One to behold is the epic B-side, which amounts to a trance-inducing, enveloping synthetic vortex of sound. A long journey that is deeply rewarding.

 

Listen:

 

Full Track Streaming:
“Swerv”

 

Special:
“Ankali #006”

 

Recommendations:
album “An Invitation To Disappear” by Inland & Julian Charrière on A-Ton
Inland’s “Metatlantic” on Black Crow Records
Inland’s “Coriolis” on Counterchange Recordings
“Pitch Black EP” by Matrixxman x Setaoc Mass on Figure
Markus Suckut’s album “DNA” on Figure

 

Buy Vinyl:
Figure @ Bandcamp
Deejay
Juno
Decks
more soon

 

Buy Digital:
Figure @ Bandcamp
Beatport Classic
more soon

 

Booking:
Sweatlodge Agency

 

Websites:
Inland
Figure

 

© Photo By Ben Palhov

out now: Psyk – A Moment Before [Tresor Records]

 

Artist:
Psyk

 

Title:
A Moment Before

 

Label:
Tresor Records

 

Cat#:
Tresor.308

 

Release Date:
22nd March 2019

 

Format:
2xLP & digital

 

Tracklist:
A1.
Untitled


A2.
A Moment Before


A3.
Grain


B1.
Deep Breath


B2.
Waves


C1.
Acid Test


C2.
Panic Attack


D1.
Peace Of Mind


D2.
Artemis

 

Press Info:
Tresor Records celebrates the return of Psyk on its catalogue, with his new album “A Moment Before”. This is Psyk’s first long player since his debut “Time Foundation” on Luke Slater’s Mote Evolver imprint.

The Spanish producer released his first single for Tresor, “Works” in 2015. Four years later, the production of “A Moment Before” comes as natural progression, within the cosmos of the Berlin techno mothership for Psyk.

The album is undoubtedly Psyk’s most advanced piece of work to date. It dialogs with practices in reduced forms of techno, as originated by artists like Robert Hood, through the recently re-released “Internal Empire” on Tresor.

 

Listen:

 

Full Track Streaming:
“Artemis”

 

Special:
“Blocaus Podcast 45”

 

Recommendations:
EP “Silent Witness” on Mote-Evolver
EP “Works” on Tresor Records
EP “First Contact EP” on Fuse Music
EP “Human” on Mote-Evolver
album “Time Foundation” on Mote-Evolver
EP “NON004” on Non Series
EP “Distane” on Mote-Evolver

 

Buy Vinyl:
deejay.de
decks.de
WOM
Juno
Phonica Records
Clone
Boomkat
Bleep
more soon

 

Buy Download:
soon

 

Commercial Streaming Services:
soon

 

Booking
Psyk

 

Websites:
Psyk
Tresor Records