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out now: Subjected – Zero [Vault Series]

Artist:
Subjected

Title:
Zero

Label:
Vault Series

Cat#:
VAULTCD001

Release Date:
17th April 2013

Format:
Cd, vinyl & digital

Tracklist:
01)
M

02)
VX800

03)
TG33

04)
Boom Boom

05)
Concept 3

06)
Tool 1

07)
Rancor

08)
Vault 101

09)
SD1

10)
The Throne

"Boom Boom", "Concept 3" and "TG33" are released on VAULT013.

Info:
Anonymity as function, without dressy mystique or the usual clutter of clichés. No makers hiding behind masks to escape celebrity, or past, or simple recognition. No purists. No activists. No no-nonsense. Just a quiet presence making strident, statement-free techno—because the dance floor is enough. This is Vault Series. Raw, powerful, punishing dance music delivered in covert—not for covert’s sake, unpolluted by tacked-on concepts or even track titles. This is distinct and deeply identifiable techno, conceived in the shadows to be consumed in the dark. A shared sound aesthetic, attained through individual routes. A collective. A label. Just music, and nothing more.

Relinquishing biographies and the usual promotional faff, Subjected and his two Vault Series cohorts Mørbeck and Sawlin have been steadily rising to prominence on the strength of their music alone. Since setting up Vault Series in 2010 as an independent platform for the trio’s shared sonic vision, the label has fast become a go-to for consistently gratifying basement-ready club music. Defined by its industrial hues, distorted edges, thundering basslines and a resolutely floor-focused disposition, the Vault Series sound is both unique and pertinent, separatist without introspect, and containing an awareness of context whilst following its own divergent trajectory. After twelve EPs that have continued to refine the message with an ever-widening bed of nuances, comes the first full-length release from the collective’s mastermind and chief Subjected.

Without compromising Vault Series ethics, ‘Zero’ is a concept-free and entirely frill-less dancefloor album that vends the label’s recognisable trademarks over ten advantageously assaulting tracks. Opening with swirling, ominous storm clouds on “M”, the album unfurls with signature Subjected textures and foreboding atmospheres, propelled by pistons and the steely functionality of solid industrial-facing frameworks. Resounding basslines growl throughout, reaching new depths on the dub-toned “Concept 3” and pealing “Rancor”, with clanging machinery and crushing distortion characterising tracks elsewhere, such as “SD1” and “VX800”. From warm up (“TG33”) to peak time (“Boom Boom”), hypnotic build (“Tool 1”) to broken technoid close, ‘Zero’ exhibits versatility and club-consciousness with design flair and intriguing craftsmanship. Welcome to the Vault.

Snippets:

Fulll Track Streaming:

Videos:
“Rancor”

“Concept 3”

“SD1”

Videos created by the29nov films.

Special:
“Reclaim Your City Podcast 006”

Recommendations:
“Vault Series 8.0” by Subjected
“Vault Series 11.0” including Subjected track

Buy:
Hardwax (vinyl 1)
Hardwax (vinyl 2)
deejay.de (vinyl 1)
deejay.de (vinyl 2)
decks.de (vinyl 1)
decks.de (vinyl 2)
djshop.de (vinyl 1)
djshop.de (vinyl 2)
Juno (vinyl 1)
Juno (vinyl 2)
Musicload (digital)
Juno (digital)
Beatport (digital)
WhatPeoplePlay (digital)
buy links of “VAULT SERIES 13.0”
more soon

Booking:
Outlined AM

Websites:
Subjected
Vault Series

[Mix]: Daniel Myer Mixes Depeche Mode

DJ:
Daniel Myer

Listen:
“Depeche Mode Mix for Electronic Beats 26-03-2013”

Websites:
Daniel Myer
Depeche Mode
Electronic Beats

[Special]: Electronic Beats presents “Depeche Moments” of several music people

Info:
Electronic Beats, international music magazine from Germany, started a series asking musicians and other music people about their “Depeche Moment”. So we put together a summary of the features.

New Depeche Mode album “Delta Machine” is out now. Click here for the release feature.

Features:

Gudrun Gut
owner of the label Monika Enterprises, producer of electronica, co-founder of the 1980s band Malaria!

Thomas Fehlmann
member of avantgarde band Palais Schaumburg, remixed several Depeche Mode tracks

Carsten Nicolai
best known for his project alva noto, co-owner of the label Raster-Noton, member of Diamond Version. DV will support DM on tour in Eastern Europe

Justus Köhncke
Kompakt artist, remixed Depeche Mode song “Peace”

Daniel Miller
founder of legendary label Mute, discovered Depeche Mode

Stefan Hantel aka Shantel
German DJ and producer, best known for his project Bucovina Club

Pole
German Dub producer, Mute artist and mastering engineer, remixed “Comatose” (unreleased)

Simon Reynolds
music journalist & author of such books as “Retromania”, “Rip It Up and Start Again” and “Energy Flash”

Douglas J. McCarthy
frontman/lead singer of EBM legend Nitzer Ebb. former label mates and tour support of Depeche Mode. Douglas will also support DM on tour

Tim Simenon
man behind the project “Bomb The Bass”, producer of the DM album “Ultra” and remixer of several tracks

Websites:
Gudrun Gut
Thomas Fehlmann
Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto
Justus Köhncke
Daniel Miller’s label Mute
Shantel
Pole
Simon Reynolds
Douglas J. McCarthy
Tim Simenon aka Bomb The Bass
Depeche Mode
Electronic Beats

out now: Black Asteroid – Black Acid (Remixes) [Electric Deluxe]

Artist:
Black Asteroid

Title:
Black Acid (Remixes)

Label:
Electric Deluxe

Cat#:
EDLX.029

Release Date:
18th April 2013

Format:
vinyl & digital

Tracklist:
A1)
Black Acid
(Perc Remix)

A2)
Black Acid
(Alva Noto Remodel)

B1)
Pressure
(Len Faki Re-Pressure)

B2)
Hydrogen
(DJ Emerson & Angel Costa Remix)

Info:
Raw analogue alchemies delivered with all the sleek and polish of its black-on-black casing made Bryan Black’s EDLX debut last year as blackasteroid a truly memorable one, consolidating all of the Motor man’s proven Paisley Park-honed engineering capabilities into a succinct and forward-facing EP. Defined by its gritty textures, fizzy white noisemanipulations and a signature mechanical hum throughout, ‘Black Acid’ achieved a uniquely tactile sound quality, reaffirming Bryan Black as a formidable one to watch under his revised blackasteroid guise.

Recently Perc, Alva Noto, Len Faki, Angel Costa and DJ Emerson presented a series of pithy reinventions of the EP’s three lead tracks: “Black Acid”, “Hydrogen” and “Pressure”, turning in a thoroughly versatile remix package complete with fresh nuances ranging from peak time basement material to more pensive headphone moments. A recomposed body of original ‘Black Acid’ sonic material, once more sheathed in stunning minimalistic design—this time in reverse: white on white, with contrasting materials (matte laminate on the cover and a high gloss UV varnish in the detail) providing the sole differentiating factor.

This particularly considered art direction was the result of a creative collaboration between Bryan Black (a designer himself and responsible for the bulk of Motor’s artwork), Jochem Paap and EDLX designer Jan Willem van den Ban from Enchilada. Choosing to diversify from the usual colourfulness and moiré structures of EDLX, the monotone colour palette and minimal aesthetic sets these pieces apart as highly collectable art objects, meanwhile rendering the blackasteroid project in a very physical, very personal way—thoughtful design in both sleeve and sound.

In Jan Willem’s words: “To mimic the dark and powerful tracks with sounds emerging and submerging, the sleeveshows all the shades of black possible. The design of the ‘Remix EP’ has a similar visual parallel with the music; in the way the remixes are deconstructed and reassembled from the source material, the artwork reworks the same variables and puts them together in a different mixture. The result is a minimal and monolithic object, that reflects differently from every angle and forms a logical and rock solid pair of releases.

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