out now: A.Mochi – Black Phantom EP [Figure]

 

Artist:
A.Mochi

 

Title:
Black Phantom EP

 

Label:
Figure

 

Cat#:
FIGURE38

 

Release Date:
18th January 2012

 

Format:
vinyl & digital

 

Tracklist:
01)
Black Reigns

02)
Stray

03)
Phantom

 

Info:
Our Japanese master of the dark arts returns, with his next single following the excellent ‘C2M’ earlier this year. A.Mochi is a maverick in the techno world, pushing harder and darker with his super-defined trademark rolling bass.

The A Side shows Mochi at his most focused, with ‘Black Reigns’. A driving, devilishly monotonous techno pump is interspersed with snappy snare fills as a wave of sound fills the spectrum. Highintensity builds follow as the thunderous moment in peak time techno takes its course.

Mochi takes us into more cerebral zones with ‘Stray’ – snaking percussion leading our minds to a deeper place as his casually deadly bassline works the sub-aural zones.

Finally ‘Phantom’ looks back at A.Mochi’s more twisted past, as a heavily syncopated monster appears amidst the smoke of the dancefloor. Static hiss, crisp metallic rides and lusty energy drive this percussive killer.

 

Listen:

 

Buy:
Hardwax (vinyl)
Juno (vinyl)
decks.de (vinyl)
deejay.de (vinyl)
web-records.com (vinyl)
technique.co.jp (vinyl)
jetsetrecords.net (vinyl)
Beatport (digital)
more soon

 

Websites:
A.Mochi
A.Mochi @ Facebook
Figure

 

3rd December 2011: Dystopian @ Horst Krzbrg, Berlin

 

Event:
Dystopian

Dates & Time:
3rd December 2011 at 11.59pm

Line-up:
Sigha (Blueprint, Hotflush)
Abdulla Rashim live (Abdulla Rashim Records)
Alex.Do & GUESTS (Dystopian)

Location:
Horst Krzbrg, Berlin (Germany)

Entrance fee:
about 10 euro

Info (German only):
Eine technologisierte Gesellschaft, eine maschinelle Gegenwart, ein industrielles Zeitalter… Lange dunkle Nächte, Industriehallen, Heizkraftwerke, Lärm.

Welche Musik passt zu diesem Rhythmus westlicher Zivilisation besser als Technomusik?!
Elektronisch erzeugt von Maschinen, Computern, Plattenspielern…

DYSTOPIAN will die raue, melancholische, düstere Seite von elektronischer Tanzmusik beleuchten, will Personen, Dinge und Musik miteinander verknüpfen und als loses Netzwerk fungieren, als Label, Veranstalter und Motor.
Regelmäßige Klubabende machen hier den Anfang, um für eine Nacht dystopischen Techno den nötigen Raum zur Entfaltung zu geben.

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Nur wenige Wochen nach unser dystopischen Geburtstagssauße geht es nun im intimeren Rahmen weiter, aber nicht minder dystopisch:
Der Engländer SIGHA wird schon jetzt als der zweite ROBERT HOOD gehandelt. Obwohl noch recht jung, sind seine Fähigkeiten im Umgang mit Vinyl und sein ausgeprägter Musikgeschmack nicht von der Hand zu weisen. Dies bemerkte unlängst auch JAMES RUSKIN, der SIGHA auf sein eigenes Kultlabel BLUEPRINT signte. Leider viel zu selten ein Gast in Berlin, wird heute SIGHA die Tanzfläche mit Techno erfüllen.
Ebenfalls Techno der düsteren Art spielt heute Live der Schwede ABDULLA RASHIM. Viel mehr weiß man momentan noch nicht über ihn, er versteckt sich hinter dem gewählten Pseudonym und lässt die wenigen Releases sprechen. Diese aber dafür mit deutlicher Sprache. Kein anderer Produzent dieses Jahr klang so konsequent und gleichzeitig nebelig-melancholisch wie er. Sein erster Berlin-Gig und somit eine Freude, in exklusiv bei Dystopian begrüßen zu dürfen.
Abgerundet wird der Abend von Resident Alex.Do, der gekonnt sich zwischen den Welten Detroit-Techno und dunklen Berghain-Sounds bewegt.
Und der ein oder andere Überraschungsgast hat sich für den Abend auch noch angekündigt.
Früh kommen, spät gehen ist also die Devise.
event @ Resident Advisor
Facebook event

Listen:
Sigha

Abdulla Rashim

Alex.Do

Videos:
Sigha – “Early Morning Lights (Marcel Dettmann Remix)”

Abdulla Rashim – “Asayita 1”

Video for Sigha created by the29nov films.

Websites:
Horst Krzbrg
Dystopian

out now: VCMG – EP 1 / Spock [Mute]

 

Artist:
VCMG

 

Title:
EP 1 / Spock

 

Label:
Mute

 

Cat#:
MUTE475

 

Release Date:
30th November 2011 (digital on Beatport)
12th December 2011 (digital all stores)
19th December 2011 (vinyl)

 

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

 

Tracklist Vinyl:
A1)
Spock
(Album version)

A2)
Spock
(Edit Select Remix)

B1)
Spock
(Regis Remix)

B2)
Spock
(XOQ Remix)

 

Tracklist Digital:
01)
Spock
(Album version)

02)
Spock
(Edit Select Remix)

03)
Spock
(Regis Remix)

04)
Spock
(DVS1 Voyage Home Remix)

05)
Spock
(XOQ Remix)

 

Press Info:
After 30 years working on their respective ongoing music projects, Vince Clarke (Erasure / Yazoo / Depeche Mode) and Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode) come together for the first time since 1981 as VCMG to release a brand new album preceded by a series of EPs.

VCMG is the fruit of initially tentative discussion and subsequent enthused collaboration where Vince and Martin, both influential as pioneers in electronic music, get to exercise their lifelong love of the genre as the techno inspired VCMG.

As Vince explains: “I’ve been getting into and listening to a lot of minimal dance music and I got really intrigued by all the sounds… I realised I needed a collaborator… so it occurred to me to talk to Martin.”

Says Gore: “Out of the blue I got an e-mail from Vince just saying, ‘I’m interested in making a techno album. Are you interested in collaborating?’ This was maybe a year ago. He said, ‘No pressure, no deadlines,’ so I said, ‘OK’.”

The writing and recording of the album was done in a typically unique way with the pair working alone in their respective studios, communicating only via email, exchanging files until the album was ready. It was in May 2011 that the pair met for the first time to discuss the project when they both performed at Short Circuit presents Mute festival in London.

The album (title to be announced soon) was produced by Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore and mixed by the influential Californian electronic artist Überzone / Q and will be released in the spring of 2012.

The first release is an EP entitled Spock. EP1 / SPOCK will feature remixes from Edit-Select, aka Tony Scott, the UK DJ / producer and founder of EditSelect Records whose previous remix credits include Speedy J, Death In Vegas and Gary Beck; Regis, British techno musician Karl O’Connor (member of the Sandwell District collective and co-founder of Downwards Records); DVS1, Brooklyn based producer Zak Khutoretsky; plus XOQ, the alter ego of Überzone / Q, who mixed the VCMG album.

EP1/SPOCK will be available initially as a global exclusive on Beatport on 30 November, and then on all DSPs from 12 December with the 12” release following on 19 December 2011.

 

Snippets:

 

Full Track Streaming:
“Spock”

“Spock (Edit Select Remix)”

“Spock (Regis Remix)”

“Spock (DVS1 Voyage Home Remix)”

 

Trailer:

 

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

 

Recommendations:
VCMG’s “EP 3 / Aftermaths” on Mute
VCMG’s “EP 2 / Single Blip” on Mute

 

Buy Vinyl:
MuteBank
Erasure Shop
Juno
deejay.de
more soon

 

Buy Download:
JunoDownload
Qobuz
Clone Digital
Bleep
iTunes
more soon

 

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

 

Websites:
VCMG
VCMG fanpage
Vince Clarke
Martin Gore
Mute
Mute @ Facebook
Mute Germany @ Facebook

 

out now: Marcel Fengler – Sphinx EP [Index Marcel Fengler]

 

Artist:
Marcel Fengler

 

Title:
Sphinx EP

 

Label:
Index Marcel Fengler

 

Cat#:
IMF01

 

Release Date:
October 2011

 

Format:
12″ & digital

 

Tracklist:
01)
Knavish

02)
Hidden Empire

03)
Sphinx

 

Info:
Marcel Fengler launches his own label – IMF (Index Marcel Fengler) with a rich, experimental and varied 3 track EP.

Through his numerous releases for Ostgut Ton and Mote-Evolver, or remixes for artists like Skudge or Perc, Fengler has built his own distinct modern techno sound.

Introducing the EP , setting the tone and announcing its intentions, ‘Knavish‘ is a thick, textural and spacious piece of sound design that careers across the audio spectrum with stunning fluidity. Like a seductive opening chapter, it draws us in, yet leaves much for our burning curiosity to discover.

Moving on further off-centre, the churning ten minute adventure of ‘Hidden Empire‘ begins its rumbling ascent in the paranoid depths of Fengler’s more subversive electronic language. Fusing the attitude of punk with the metallic ring of industry, its lively synth play and heavy forward stomp make this a challenging and indeed rewarding find.

Featured on his new ‘Berghain 05‘ mix, ‘Sphinx‘ takes a straighter path into the kind of sensory techno that Marcel is well known for presenting on the Berghain floor. Funky, playfully aggressive, heavily defined and certainly cosmic, a concerto of outer-space tones, static and filtered waves join the racing percussion in tense unison.

 

Listen:

 

Video:

Video created by the29nov films.

 

Buy Vinyl:
Juno
deejay.de
djshop.de
more soon

 

Buy Digital:
JunoDownload
Beatport
Amazon
iTunes
Google Play
eMusic
more soon

 

Booking:
Paramount Artists

 

Websites:
Marcel Fengler
Index Marcel Fengler

 

[News]: New MOTOR album on CLR (feat. Martin Gore and more)

Chris Liebing’s label Create Learn Realize (often shorten to CLR) will release the upcoming MOTOR album which featured great artists like Gary Numan, Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas McCarthy, Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore and many more.

There is also a teaser for "Man Made Machine", first single taken from the album and the song that features Mr. Gore. Btw the cat# will be “MOTORBONG1” which refers to the way Mute Records numbered the Depeche Mode singles using “BONG”.

Update 12/2011: For full infos, previews and the video of the single click here

Update 02/2012: For full infos of the album click here

Downloads:
Depeche Mode – Precious (Motor Dub) not any longer available
Motor – 1X1 (Phil Kieran Beatport Mix) not any longer available

Recommendations:
Bryan Black aka Black Asteriod who is a member of MOTOR already released a great EP on CLR plus a remix EP.

Websites:
Motor
Create Learn Realize