Category: Techno/House/Trance

Artist:
Various

Title:
Envisioned Disorder

Label:
Abyss Recordings

Cat#:
ABYSS001

Release Date:
02nd March 2018

Format:
12"

Tracklist Vinyl:
A1.
Rommek
Surrender Yourself

A2.
Yuji Kondo
Tonal Disturbance

B1.
Snitch
Mechanical Waves

B2.
Michal Jablonski
Wrath

Press Info:
It’s early 2018 and we’re itching to pull the trigger.

If I’m totally honest we’ve felt this way since January 2016, when our desire to launch our vinyl catalog reared it’s head for the 3rd or 4th time. We’d made a point to each other of not rushing into it, not for fear’s sake but because as a team, we place great importance on an essential combination of creativity and project planning.

Combining these 2 keys factors has always served us well, right from our digital catalog through to ABYSS | FEATURES and now into our vinyl catalog too, this setup facilitates the creative flexibility to curate and design releases that work both audibly and aesthetically.

Over the last 24 months we’ve focused vast amounts of time and invested a small fortune into creating a truly unique vinyl experience, covering all bases including mastering by professional mastering engineer Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering in London, distribution by TripleVision Distribution and 4 expertly crafted contributions to our new vinyl catalog from renowned techno artists; Rommek, Yuji Kondo, Snitch and Michal Jablonski.

The creative process started out like any other creative project, a minefield of ideas and contributions from the whole team swirled and spooled as we generated concept after concept, some were well formed and others not so but ultimately they were all leading in the same direction.

As the first few months of 2016 ticked by our eagerness to get moving with the vinyl catalog was looming ominously in the background, we had deduced from our idea generation that we were seeking a thick and atmospheric yet balanced sound palette for the release, but we were yet to decide on potential artists.

By this point we had all of the ‘necessaries’ thought out, which left us in a slight dilemma, having already agreed on a solid sound and having planned the majority of the release without the tracklist meant we were on the look out for a very specific collection of music.

Text by Jack Vanstone

Listen:

Specials:
Rommek – “Abyss presents….AP003”

Yuji Kondo – “Coma Hole Podcast 3”

Michal Jablonski – “Oecus Podcast 086”

Snitch – “45 Minutes of Techno”

Recommendation:
sampler “Demise” on Abyss Recordings

Buy Vinyl:
Deejay
Hardwax
Juno
Red Eye Records
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Websites:
Abyss Recordings

Artist:
Echoplex

Title:
Murder In Affekt EP

Label:
Affekt Recordings

Cat#:
AFKLTD004

Release Date:
25th March 2019

Format:
vinyl & digital

Tracklist Vinyl:
A1.
The Riot Shield

B1.
Future

B2.
Murder In Affekt

Tracklist Digital:
01.
The Riot Shield

02.
Future

03.
Murder In Affekt

04.
Realità

Press Info:
After long time stop, we came back with our limited vinyl series. We celbrate this with Polish Maestro Echoplex. Almost twenty years experience with label appearances across the world like Arts,Synewave,The Solar Experience, IMF just a few. He delivers an amazing EP with hypnotic grooves who will burn dancefloor and melodies that will capture your soul.

Listen:

Full Track Streaming:
“Murder In Affekt”

Special:
“#SlamRadio 224”

Recommendations:
Echoplex’ “The Soft Reaction EP” on Index Marcel Fengler
Echoplex’ “Entering The Sky” on Sungate Records
sampler “VA 01” on Affekt Recordings

Buy Vinyl:
Affekt Recordings @ Bandcamp
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Buy Download:
Qobuz
Affekt Recordings @ Bandcamp
JunoDownload
Beatport
iTunes
TraxSource
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Commercial Streaming Services:
Tidal
Qobuz
Anghami
Apple Music
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Websites:
Echoplex
Affekt Recordings

Artist:
Tarek Soltani | Elle

Title:
ACCENTAPE004

Label:
Accents Records

Cat#:
ACCENTAPE004

Release Date:
01st March 2018 (tape)
07th March 2018 (digital)

Format:
cassette & digital

Tracklist:
A1.
Tarek Soltani
Arewe

A2.
Tarek Soltani
Avowal

A3.
Tarek Soltani
Sigma

A4.
Tarek Soltani
Veer

B1.
Elle
Falling Apart

B2.
Elle
Breathe In The Tunnel

B3.
Elle
Opening Light

B4.
Elle
Pneumatic

B5.
Elle
Our Love

Press Info:
Hi world!
We are proud to present you the first release of 2018
And the fourth physical opus of the catalog!

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Side A is written by TAREK SOLTANI from Berlin,
He has already contributed for VA for Lett Records and Label-Deceased.
Theses four tracks invite you into a completely introspective and contemplative world.
This is a masterpiece of emotional ambient music, with a perfect balance in colors and emotions.
A pure trip into icy landscapes and into your mind, tinted by winter emotions.

Side B is written by ELLE from Italy,
His is well know for his opuses on Annuled Music, Hypnus, Black String Records, and Cenotaph.
His music is constantly progressive and hypnotic, he take us into a mind trip oscillating between tribal percussions, 808’s straight techno drums, off-time leads, cerebral subs, immaterial textures.

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A side – Tarek Soltani – Avowal

* AREWE introduce the opus with a kind of « Twin Peaks » flavor, something cold and strange, mysterious also. Long reverberated keys combined with grain textures, like snow falling behind the fog.

* AVOWAL continue in this winter mood, this track drop the listener into a slow trip into these own feelings and memories, thinking about white plains derivated along a cold river.

* SIGMA is more distant and narrative also, a soft kick side-chained hit like earth pulsations; it let see an imaginary windy outland.

* VEER is an underwater vision, a pure contemplation of life movements, aquatic species and icebergs drifting.

B side – Elle – Opening Light

* FALLING APART introduce the B side with kaleidoscopic pads and flanging synths, this track is growing more and more in a crescendo spiral, disturbing balance and spatiality.

* BREATH IN THE TUNNEL is a beautiful piece of deep hypnotic techno, rhythmical elements progressively coming coupled with a kind of inverted bell which is shinning like a lighthouse hit by a storm.

* OPENING LIGHT is axed on a continually moving percussion, straight kick drum smash a colored delayed noise , and polyrhyhtmical elements push the listener into a deeper listening.

* PNEUMATIC is thrilling around a weird sub bass, a magma of textures floating over this 4×4 structure, spatial bongos turning around, full-time shamanic and weird experience of music.

* OUR LOVE is ending the opus like it started, on a mysterious ambient piece, weird and strange drones, like to say nothing never really ends and everything is an eternal return .

Listen:

Full Track Streaming:
Tarek Soltani – “Veer”

Elle – “Breathe In The Tunnel”

Special:
Tarek Soltani – “Oslated Mix Episode 27”

Buy Cassette:
Accents Records @ Bandcamp
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Buy Digital:
Accents Records @ Bandcamp
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Websites:
Tarek Soltani
Elle
Accents Records