Category: Techno/House/Trance

Artist:
Go Hiyama | I/Y

Title:
Ink #2

Label:
Inkblots Records

Cat#:
INK002

Release Date:
24th November 2014

Format:
12″

Tracklist:
A1)
Go Hiyama
Recur

A2)
Go Hiyama
Prop

B1)
I/Y
Thesys 0000.001

B2)
I/Y
Thesys 0000.003

Press Info:
The second release of Inkblots involves three great artists deeply active into the international techno scene: the japanese Go Hiyama and the Berlin based duo I/Y.

On Side A, Go Hiyama’s first track ‘Recur’ delivers sinister atmospheres matched with a tough kick and industrial bleepy elements. Slow and paranoic drones get in and out contributing to enlarge the sound perception. The second track ‘Prop’ introduces elegant hi-hats and strident synths. A captivating kick perfectly embraces the shrill synths waving together with the sharp drum; what remains of the first side is just tense ambients, forewarning the journey is not over.

Side B smells like a dark club firing up, indeed I/Y’s aim is not different at all. ’Thesys 0000.001’ debuts with a thin bassline and distorted grave surroundings. The track evolves with clean slap hats sound in an empty echo chamber. Deep timbres rise and fall, turning the entire route gently aggressive. The second track is an IDM experiment which keeps a trippy approach and the clarity of claps and hi-hats. Solid as the first one, ‘Thesys 0000.003’ sets itself as an hypnotic but pleasant moment where suspicious fragments quickly appear and disappear: a sparkled trip to be enjoyed anytime but not by anyone.

Listen:

Specials:
Go Hiyama – “Erratic Podcast 77”

I/Y – “Invite’s Choice Podcast 197”

Recommendations:
I/Y002 on I/Y Music
I/Y001 on I/Y Music
“0000.030” on Fracture

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Booking:
Bonissimo Productions for Go Hiyama
Unbroken Booking for I/Y

Websites:
Go Hiyama
I/Y
Inkblots

Artist:
Function + Vatican Shadow

Title:
Games Have Rules

Label:
Hospital Productions

Cat#:
HOS-425

Release Date:
22th September 2014

Format:
CD, vinyl & digital

Tracklist CD:
01.
Things Known

02.
Things Unknown

03.
The Nemesis Flower

04.
A Year Has Passed

05.
A Year Has Gone By

06.
Red Opium

07.
Bejeweled Body

Press Info:
Function and Vatican Shadow have combined forces on ‘Games Have Rules’ for Hospital Productions, simultaneously stripping back each producer’s more prevalent production elements – the dancefloor-focused techno structures of Function; the experimental cassette-roots of Vatican Shadow – to create an album of dynamic electronic ambient music, equal parts rhythmic and atmospheric.

As befitting what began life as an ’emotional acid’ album best suited for an after-hours home listening experience, Games Have Rules was created in the early hours at New York’s Hospital Productions and Berlin’s Inanimate Objects studios, helping imbue the record with a sense of night turning into day, and the shifting contrasts of dark and light the music evokes.

Although not created as the result of improvisation the album retains an effortless, free-flowing structure, while simultaneously introducing the traditional techno drum kit over the course of the record, deconstructing the ever-changing, looming presence of New York City’s skyline.

Ambient in the most traditional sense, Games Have Rules omits the top-heavy reverb saturation of so many modern releases and builds from the ground up with an arsenal hi-fi and lo-fi production techniques/equipment with a cinematic sequence over the arc of the record.

But whereas New York City has so often been depicted in film as a prison, Games Have Rules is an embracement of the city’s endless possibilities: the LP’s gatefold black and white image of The Empire State Building lit up at night from the inside; the ongoing stories of rise and decline lived out at it’s base.

Listen:
@ deejay.de

Video:
“Things Unknown”

Video created by the29nov films.

Listen:
Function – “Live @ Kozzmozz”

Vatican Shadow – “Live @ Boiler Room”

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Booking:
Radiate Booking for Function
Vatican Shadow via Hospital Productions

Websites:
Function
Vatican Shadow
Hospital Productions

Artist:
Leiras

Title:
These Ancestral Bones

Label:
The Ownlife

Cat#:
OWN002

Release Date:
20th October 2014

Format:
vinyl & digital

Tracklist:
A1)
These Bones

A2)
Diagram

B1)
These Bones
(Peter Van Hoesen Remix)

Press Info:
“This ancestral bones” – title of the second release of the Berlin-based label Ownlife. It features two original tracks of Leiras and a remix by one of the key-names in the electronic music-scene, the multifaceted Peter Van Hoesen.

The record opens with a direct weapon. “These Bones” combines the classic sound of techno with the actual vision of dance oriented music. Metallic sound melts over its gloomy atmosphere to a true profit for a dark clubsound.

“Diagram” is the ideal example for the characteristic, hypnotic sound of the label – with a hard-hitting rhythm, keeping the driving sound.

The B side completes the record with the remix of Van Hoesen. The different sounds of the original track intervene in a repetitive way, creating an incredible groove. The belgian producer illuminates the release, with a dreamy pad to an eigth minute long trip, what is the perfect end to this EP.

Snippets:

Recommendation:
first release on The OwnLife

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Websites:
Leiras
The Ownlife