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out now: VII Circle – Every End Is A New Beginning EP [Rapid Eye Movement]

Artist:
VII Circle

Title:
Every End Is A New Beginning EP

Label:
Rapid Eye Movement

Cat#:
REM007

Release Date:
15th November 2019

Format:
vinyl & digital

Tracklist:
01.
Hope & Fear

02.
Why You Should Want To Find The Light?

03.
To The Core

04.
Breath Fire

05.
Lost

Press Info:
After two years of critically acclaimed releases, Rapid Eye Movement comes to a close with one last release from label co-founders VII Circle.

Always dealing in music for mind and body, Rapid Eye Movement’s sound has been carefully curated and decidedly cutting edge. Known for releases on HEX Recordings and Illegal Alien Records, VII Circle have been behind most releases on REM and now serve up five more stunning soundscapes. They are inspired by industrial and take techno in a prodigious new direction.

The journey commences with the intense ambiance of ‘Hope & Fear’ which offsets heavy, sustained chords with thinner, more pixelated pads. It’s a great mix of light and dark while ‘Why Should You Want to Find The Light’ is a cantering techno track with edgy trance chords bringing real suspense. Keeping you on your toes throughout, the pressure is only upped with the buzz saw synths and hammering gabber drums of hellacious banger ‘To The Core.’ The driving ‘Breath Fire’ is pure warehouse techno with paranoid synths dancing above more frazzled chords. This excellently enthralling EP closes with the white knuckle ride that is ‘Lost.’ Heavy kicks, sheet metal synths and a real sense of foreboding all make this another standout track.

Each of these pieces very much have their own personality: they are powerful and hypnotising and, say VII Circle, “to be savoured on the dance floor or on the battlefield.” It is a fittingly epic end to what has been a fascinating label.

Listen:
@ Deejay

Full Track Streaming:
“To The Core”

“Lost”

“Breath Fire”

“Why You Should Want To Find The Light”

Special:
“Tapage Nocturne Liveset #20”

Recommendations:
VII Circle’s “From the Depths” on HEX Recordings
all stuff on Rapid Eye Movement
more soon

Buy Vinyl:
Juno
Deejay
Decks
Red Eye Records
Hardwax
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Buy Digital:
soon

Booking:
Vaulted Agency for VII Circle

Websites:
VII Circle
Rapid Eye Movement

out now: Memorial Home – World [Rapid Eye Movement]

Artist:
Memorial Home

Title:
World

Label:
Rapid Eye Movement

Cat#:
REM006

Release Date:
15th February 2019 (vinyl)
04th March 2019 (digital)

Format:
vinyl & digital

Tracklist:
01.
World

02.
America

03.
Pressure

04.
Does It Matter
[feat. Tika Balanchine]

05.
I Keep

06.
Pop Fink

07.
Radio Static

08.
Society & Solitude

09.
Train

10.
Nada Cambia

11.
Cohiba Cigar

12.
Conversation

13.
Motor

14.
Hold

15.
Glasgow

16.
Fade Out

17.
Children

18.
Family Portrait

19.
Truman

20.
The End

Press Info:
‘World’ is the debut album dreamt up by Barcelona based DJ / Production duo Memorial Home. Comprising of Paul Roux (France) and Jeremy Pinchasi (Belgium), ‘World’ is the exciting result of their shared desire to push the limits of their own brilliant musical foresight. It’s an ambitious 20 track longplayer which effortlessly showcases the incomparable sonic space shared between both musical masterminds.

Sitting somewhere just to the left of Nicolas Jaar, Radiohead, Massive Attack, Mike Dehnert and Ostgut Ton, Memorial Home has managed to craft an album absolutely unique to their sound, impossible to categorise and sure to catch the attention of music lovers of all shapes and sizes. Techno without a dancefloor, experimental electronica fit for the warehouse raves. It’s an exciting, perfectly confusing album which simply works wonderfully.

Heavily textured in incredible atmospherics, dub effects and crisp, clear percussion, ‘World’ spreads over an excellent array of individual tracks full of groundbreaking musical magic. Incorporating a stunning fusion of live instrumentation and electronic craftsmanship, ‘World’ is an audio adventure into emotive soundscapes, with a clear focus on the subtle saturation of melancholy. It’s a soundtrack for a dystopian film yet to be written. A sonic painting for the coming winter months where the trees are all but dead and frozen; and the ground a thick layer of glowing white snow.

Memorial Home are the founders of the independent label Rapid Eye Movement, which has seen a breadth of incredible EPs riding the balance between experimental Techno and introspective electronica. They first met by random chance in their newly adopted home of Barcelona, Spain. This unexpected encounter quickly developed into a full-fledged musical kinship through their shared interest in crafting cinematic, experimental techno music. Each release from the label and duo showcase their clear passion to unearthing sounds beyond the expected. With their debut LP about to drop, the future is looking certain for the duo, the label, and the changing face of modern day electronic music.

Listen:
@ Deejay

Special:
“FMS 004”

Recommendations:
all stuff on Rapid Eye Movement

Buy Vinyl:
Deejay
Juno
Decks
Red Eye Records
HHV
more soon

Buy Digital:
Beatport Classic
TraxSource
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Websites:
Memorial Home
Rapid Eye Movement

out now: VII Circle | Memorial Home – Split EP (Remixes) [Rapid Eye Movement]

Artist:
VII Circle | Memorial Home

Title:
Split EP (Remixes)

Label:
Rapid Eye Movement

Cat#:
REM005

Release Date:
12th October 2018 (vinyl)
29th October 2018 (digital)

Format:
vinyl & digital

Tracklist:
01.
VII Circle
Metaphysical Functions
(Nur Jaber Remix)

02.
VII Circle
Dogma
(Wrong Assessment Remix)

03.
Memorial Home
Second Floor
(Edit Select Remix)

04.
Memorial Home
Ampere
(Reggy Van Oers Remix)

Press Info:
Nur Jaber, Wrong Assessment, Edit Select & Reggy Van Oers remix Rapid Eye Movement label cofounders VII Circle and Memorial Home’s ‘Split EP’ from earlier this year.

Launched last year, the Spanish label has released music by Kas:st, Phara & Border One and Manent on various artist packages, not to mention remixes from Farrago, Keith Carnal and AWB. Rapid Eye Movement now invites four techno stalwarts to remix tracks from VII Circle and Memorial Home’s ‘Split EP’, including Staub resident and OSF producer Nur Jaber, Clergy and Planet Rhythm’s Wrong Assessment, Soma artist Edit Select and Affin regular Reggy Van Oers. With this the label confirms that quality and free-minded artistry are the key pillars of the platform’s curation philosophy.

First up, Nur Jaber delivers trance-inducing modulations and esoteric atmospheres through uplifting leadlines and euphoric 303 synth sounds in her remix of ‘Metaphysical Functions’. Wrong Assessment provides a tougher four to the floor techno rendition of ‘Dogma’ – filled with emphatic drums and captivating, fastpitched shrills soaring over.

Edit Select then provides an enchanting ambience in his remix of ‘Second Floor’, through angelic melodies and undulating emotiveness neatly layered over the polished drum loop. Lastly Reggy Van Oers maintains the inspiriting mood with esoteric, experimental sound design in his rehash of ‘Ampere’, balancing compelling, reverberating percussion with heavenly elements giving it an overall hypnotic effect.

Listen:
@ Deejay

Full Track Streaming:
VII Circle – “Metaphysicial Functions (Nur Jaber Remix)”

Memorial Home – “Second Floor (Edit Select Remix)”

Special:
VII Circle – “RVV Podcast 015”

Memorial Home – “Form and Function Podcast 003”

Recommendations:
split EP by VII Circle | Memorial Home on Rapid Eye Movement
sampler “REM003” on Rapid Eye Movement
Memorial Home’s “Somewhere EP” on Rapid Eye Movement
VII Circle’s “Archetype EP” on Rapid Eye Movement

Buy Vinyl:
Deejay
Decks
Juno
Red Eye Records
more soon

Buy Digital:
JunoDownload
Boomkat
Beatport Classic
TraxSource
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Websites:
Memorial Home
VII Circle
Rapid Eye Movement

out now: VII Circle | Memorial Home – Split EP [Rapid Eye Movement]

Artist:
VII Circle | Memorial Home

Title:
Split EP

Label:
Rapid Eye Movement

Cat#:
REM004

Release Date:
25th May 2018 (vinyl)
11th June 2018 (digital)

Format:
12″ & digital

Tracklist:
01.
VII Circle
Metaphysical Functions

02.
VII Circle
Dogma

03.
Memorial Home
Second Floor

04.
Memorial Home
Ampere

Press Info:
Rapid Eye Movement co-founders VII Circle and Memorial Home team up for a split release featuring four atmospheric techno cuts entitled ‘Split EP’.

Launched in 2017, Rapid Eye Movement is based in Barcelona and co-owned by VII Circle, an Italian duo comprised of Andrea Vallisneri and Andrea Casari, and Memorial Home, who is French artist Paul Roux and Belgium’s Jeremy Pinchasi. Both label owners provided Rapid Eye Movement’s first and second release before introducing artists like Phara & Border One, Manent and Kas:st in a various artist package earlier this year. They now partner up for the label’s fourth outing.

VII Circle inaugurates the package with ‘Metaphysical Functions’, an ominous production incorporating murky drones and skittering hats. Next is ‘Dogma’, with its rumbling drums, echoing melodies and fizzy nuances before Memorial Home takes over on the flip, beginning with the syncopated drums and celestial harmonies of ‘Second Floor’. The duo then concludes the release with the skipping percussion, tantalising synths and crystalline chords of ‘Ampere’.

Listen:
@ Deejay

Full Track Streaming:
VII Circle – “Metaphysical Functions”

Memorial Home – “Ampere”

Specials:
Memorial Home – “Form and Function Podcast 003”

VII Circle – “StemPod009”

Recommendations:
sampler “REM003” on Rapid Eye Movement
Memorial Home’s “Somewhere EP” on Rapid Eye Movement
VII Circle’s “Archetype EP” on Rapid Eye Movement

Buy Vinyl:
Deejay
Decks
Red Eye Records
Juno
HHV
Hardwax
more soon

Buy Digital:
Juno
Beatport Classic
TraxSource
Hardwax
more soon

Websites:
Memorial Home
VII Circle
Rapid Eye Movement

out now: Various – REM003 [Rapid Eye Movement]

Artist:
Various

Title:
REM003

Label:
Rapid Eye Movement

Cat#:
REM003

Release Date:
09th April 2018

Format:
12″ & digital

Tracklist:
A1.
Phara & Border One
Rack Rash

A2.
Memorial Home
About Her

A3.
Manent
Another Wasted Night

B1.
Kas:st
What I Like About You Is What I Imagine

B2.
VII Circle
Eternal

Press Info:
For its third release, Rapid Eye Movement conveys various artists to propose another stunning odyssey into the fields of forward-thinking deep and dark techno. Following the industrial acid and rave spirited rocket « Rack rash » launched by Phara & Border One, Memorial Home drives the space shift to trigger with « About Her » our neuronal and emotional crazytivity with a subliminal dogged rhythm driven theme which combines frantic and syncopated beats with highly suggestive atmospheric sound waves. If « Another Wasted Night » by Manent slows down the pace, it is to provide a sublime artistic statement of intense cinematic and contemplative techno moods. This is just to announce the gem provided by Kas:st merging hypnotic layers of UFO-like sounds with an awesome melodic main theme rocking or soothing our souls such as in a Kubrickian travel to the outer space. Closing the journey or rather opening our mind towards infinite and undefined horizons, « Eternal » by VII Circle is another demonstration of these talented producers’ ability to craft highly emotional tunes, this time by merging industrial techno groove with haunting trippy trance synth textures.

Listen:
@ Deejay

Specials:
Phara – “Invite’s Choice Podcast 462”