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[News]: Mute launches new sublabel “Liberation Technologies”

Mute just announced a new sublabel called “Liberation Technologies”.

Following on from Mute’s long tradition of working with innovative artists, Liberation Technologies plans to extend that freedom and vision. Within this remit the label will work with highly distinctive and pioneering electronic musicians, some established, some new.

Citing reference from Mute’s original and continuing statement of intent, the label exists to give space to and encourage artists to experiment and challenge themselves, anonymously if they choose.

Liberation Technologies is headed by A & R man Patrick O’Neill, whose list of associates previous to joining Mute include Actress, T++, Moritz Von Oswald, Joy Orbison, Darkstar and Zomby. As important as the music itself, will be statement design, a commitment to vinyl product and inventive methods of releasing each work. There are also plans to branch out into live happenings in 2012.

The first release on the new label will be the ‘Spring EP’ by King Felix, a producer from Ann Arbor, Michigan who lives in Brooklyn and has also released music as Laurel Halo. ‘Spring EP’ is released on download and vinyl on 19 March 2012.

Says Daniel Miller, “Electronic music is part of Mute’s DNA and history, and this label is the latest expression of that.”

About Mute:

Mute was founded by Daniel Miller in 1978, and since then has signed and developed some of the world’s most influential recording artists – including Depeche Mode, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Yazoo, Goldfrapp and Erasure – and become home to a crop of emerging talent and recent signings including Apparat and S.C.U.M.

Whilst maintaining a firmly eclectic roster, from the earliest days of The Normal, Fad Gadget and DAF through to the techno era with artists such as Plastikman / Richie Hawtin and Speedy J, and to the present day with hybrid electronic artists such as Yeasayer and Liars.

Mute also looks after a catalogue of seminal artists such as Can and Cabaret Voltaire.

Websites:
Liberation Technologies
Mute
Mute @ Facebook
Mute Germany @ Facebook

out now: VCMG – EP 2 / Single Blip [Mute]

Artist:
VCMG

Title:
EP 2 / Single Blip

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
MUTE476

Release Date:
20th February 2012 (Beatport)
27th February 2012

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist 12″:
01)
Single Blip

02)
Single Blip
(Byetone Remix)

03)
Single Blip
(Mathew Jonson Remix)

Tracklist Digital:
01)
Single Blip

02)
Single Blip
(Mathew Jonson Remix)

03)
Single Blip
(Terence Fixmer Remix)

04)
Single Blip
(Byetone Remix)

05)
Single Blip
(Wolfgang Voigt Auramix)

Press Info:
EP2 / Single Blip – from Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore’s highly anticipated collaboration, VCMG – rears its head on 27 February 2012, with remixes from Byetone and Mathew Jonson.

A pounding motorik beat heralds the start of this minimal electronic tour de force. With primal drums and puckering bleeps, it’s an industrial battle cry of the darkest proportions, setting teeth on edge with nails-across-blackboard screeching, ominous synths and spiraling rhythms.

EP2 / Single Blip remixes come courtesy of sparce electronic artist Byetone, aka Berliner Olaf Bender, co-founder and the man responsible for the iconic design output at Raster-Noton. His 2011 album Symeta featured in Fact and The Quietus’ end of year polls, and previous remix credits inc Modeselektor and eLan.

Alongside is a remix from Mathew Jonson, co-founder of Wagon Repair label and key member of electronic improvisers Cobblestone Jazz. Canadian born Jonson has previously remixed the likes of Plastikman, Tiga and Chemical Brothers to great acclaim.

‘SSSS’ – the debut album by VCMG – is out on 12 March 2012 and boasts ten tracks of the same Teutonic turn-ons. Written and produced by Clarke and Gore, the album was mixed by Timothy “Q” Wiles and recorded and engineered by Sie Medway Smith and Clarke.

Mastered by Stefan Betke (aka Pole), the album demonstrates Clarke and Gore’s shared love of electronic music and marks the arrival proper of this enigmatic duo who have teamed up again after thirty years.

Speaking to MOJO this month, Clarke says the collaborative process was “really about exchanging colours… like two people doing a painting in a different room,” and Gore confessed his preference for “anything that’s a bit darker…with a driving rhythm.”

Full Track Streaming:

Trailer:

Related Release:
VCMG’s album “SSSS” on Mute

Recommendations:
VCMG’s “EP 3 / Aftermaths” on Mute
VCMG’s “EP 1 / Spock” on Mute

Buy Vinyl:
Mutebank
Erasure Shop
PopOnaut
decks.de
Juno
deejay.de
Amazon GER
Amazon UK
Bleep
more soon

Buy Download:
JunoDownload
Qobuz
Bleep
Clone Digital
iTunes
more soon

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

Websites:
VCMG
VCMG Fanpage
Mute
Mute @ Facebook
Mute Germany @ Facebook

out now: Emmanuel Top – Le Sous Sol [Planete Rouge]

Artist:
Emmanuel Top

Title:
Le Sous Sol

Label:
Planete Rouge

Cat#:
PLR1202

Release Date:
12th February 2012

Format:
12″ & digital

Tracklist:
01)
Le Sous Sol

Info:
A new Planete Rouge Release. This time with Emmanuel Top on the buttons. He plays with deep and heavy analog sounds which drift around your head and let this one track EP become a hypnotic journey on the dancefloor. The EP will be released in limited colored vinyl. For those who will miss their chance there is still the digital release on Planete Rouge online.

Listen:

Video:

Buy:
decks.de (vinyl)
JunoDownload (digital)
Beatport (digital)
boomkat.com (digital)
more soon

Websites:
Emmanuel Top
Planete Rouge

out now: MK | The 7th Plain – The MKappella | Lost [Delsin Records]

Artist:
MK | The 7th Plain

Title:
The MKappella | Lost

Label:
Delsin Records

Cat#:
X-DSR2

Release Date:
30th January 2012

Format:
12″ & digital

Tracklist:
01)
MK
The MKappella

02)
The 7th Plain
Lost

Info:
Second release in the Delsin X-DSR series containing re-issues of personal favourites… MK’s The MKappella was originally a track on the b-side of the very original version of his huge Burning EP on the Area 10 label. The MKappella is some original innocent deep sunset house. Other side contains the adventurous ‘Lost’ by The 7th Plain aka Luke Slater, taken from his debut album ‘The 4 Cornered Room” way back from 1994, the high days of the UK Techno scene, with lot of hints towards the original Detroit sound.

Listen:
The 7th Plain – “Lost”

or all at Delsin Records

Buy:
Delsin Records (vinyl)
Delsin Records (digital)
Delsin Records (vinyl)
deejay.de (vinyl)
decks.de (vinyl)
djshop.de (vinyl)
Zero-Inch (digital)
iTunes (digital)
Beatport (digital)
JunoDowload (digital)
more soon

Websites:
The 7th Plain aka Luke Slater
Delsin Records

out now: Shifted | Samuli Kemppi – Parallel Series 2 [Mote-Evolver]

Artist:
Shifted | Samuli Kemppi

Title:
Parallel Series 2

Label:
Mote-Evolver

Cat#:
MOTE028

Release Date:
20th February 2012

Format:
12″ & digital

Tracklist:
01)
Shifted
Gates

02)
Shifted
Spire

03)
Samuli Kemppi
Trans Neptunian

04)
Samuli Kemppi
Detached Object

Info:
After launching in fine fashion with Luke Slater wielding his L.B. Dub Corp alias against textured cuts from ASC, the second instalment of Mote-Evolver’s Parallel Series presents more forward-thinking sets this time from Shifted and Finish vanguard Samuli Kemppi.

2011 witnessed an exciting renaissance for UK techno, Shifted being one of several British acts to ascend to prominence. His Mote021 Drained and Mote024 Control EP’s, introduced and cemented the Briton’s taut production capabilities, marked by hypnotic rhythms and a rich bassy pallet.Connected to his much anticipated debut album in April, Shifted’s tracks on the Parallel Series surge over a sunken heartbeat, but where searing hats steer “Gates” into an entrancing floor workout, “Spire” knits industrial resonances into a penetrating auralapocalypse.

This is Samuli Kemmpi’s third outing on Mote-Evolver, having released a couplet of stand-out 12″s—Dark Matter / Wormhole and Quantum Mechanics EP—back in 2010. “Trans Neptunian” matches a tough and punchy pulse to cheeky hat hisses, laden with urgent piano stabs to deliver a perpetual piece of techno, as anxious as it is infectious. “Detached Object” on the other hand is more progressive. Here a choppy, tumultuous melody gathers momentum over a deep and rolling sub before gentle crashes carry it into a bass-heavy descent.

Listen: