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The first of two wonderful LPs for the tail end of November on Polytechnic Youth, this one sees a debut for the label from Alexandre Bazin.

Alexandre is a composer and a current member of GRM, based in Paris, France. He holds a master's degree in electronic music and composition from Conservatory in Bordeaux, France. His work considers 'the sonic experience' drawing on a rich mix of acoustic instrumentation and analogue synthesis along the way. As an experimentalist music researcher, Bazin's compositional projects are primarily concerned with a very personal seal on a music with emotional power. With Sun Dog Trail', Alex merged several inspirations, Firstly, the influence of experimental electronic music, and more specifically a tribute to Bernard Parmegiani. Secondly, the influence of the blues with musicians like John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters, (English drummer Tim Wellers (The Divine Comedy) guests on drums here).

The end result is the Sun Dog Trail', an experience that combines Bazin's usual musical fusions with experimental and blues forms, taking the listener on multiple adventurous journeys. For this album Alex used rarer instruments such as an EMS VCS3 synth, Buchla musical easel, Minimoog, and Cristal Baschet.

The LP's sleeve saw an ambitious attempt to use Franco Grignani's beautiful 1966 graphic masterpiece "Fenomeno Plastico-Chiaroscurale" as its centrepiece, and to all parties' delight, Franco's daughter Manuella willingly agreed to its use and is incorporated into a design by longterm PY ally Nick Taylor.

Like all PY releases this is expected to fly. Also like all PY output it is priced at a hugely attractive £5 per copy wholesale!

he Copenhagen based pop wonders Blaue Blume return with a new EP - 'Sobs'. The band formed around 6 years ago in a provincial Danish town, drawn to each other's love for rich, playful music. Blaue Blume (blue flower) is the epitome of a romantic band, their songs are brimming with love and yearning. Now 'Sobs', the follow up to their 'Syzygy' album in 2015, continues to build their reputation as a best kept secret, about to find a whole new audience of devotees. All four tracks for the EP were recorded in late 2016 in a three story villa, formerly owned by a religious cult. The band used the weird space away from the city to create a framework for the lyrics and the music. The band explains: 'Blaue Blume has been our band for about 6 years. In a bigger provincial town we started playing right out of highschool. At the moment we live in Copenhagen and every day we play, write and work on sounds. It's sort of become a life project. In our heads we make music that is playful, rich in detail and popish or somewhat smiling. For some beautifully inexplicable reason we ended up doing music together. In a way it seems sacred or at least meaningful. Macabre is a happy song about being afraid of dying. Some of us find that even the best life can be lonely sometimes. We found it interesting to address this taboo within the frame of a song that people could potentially dance or sing along to.

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Giant Claw is the sound project of visual artist and Orange Milk Records co-founder Keith Rankin. His new album Soft Channel builds on the intricate MIDI notation and sampling of previous works while blending dense high fidelity sound design with rich harmonic material to create an immersive composition.

Hidden Orchestra's 'Dawn Chorus Remixes' follows the illuminating 'Dawn Chorus' album, reworking producer and composer Joe Acheson's latest album of immersive field recordings and expansive soundscapes into an journey through electronica, deep house and ambient psychedelia. Fronted by Wingbeats (Max Cooper Remix)', 'Dawn Chorus Remixes' features reworkings from Max Cooper, Matthew Herbert, Throwing Snow, The Physics House Band, Nuage, Floex, Nostalgia 77, Wrongtom and Skalpel.

Built around a collection of birdsong and other field recordings captured over many years across diverse locations around the UK and abroad, the snapshots within 'Dawn Chorus' intertwine for a transporting listen. The 'Dawn Chorus Remixes' album revisits this vast source material, reinterpreting the structure of the tracks and uncovering new layers of hidden sounds and instruments for the listeners, sometimes unearthing entire musical progressions that bring the tracks into clearer focus.

Max Cooper provides his take on Wingbeats, focussing on the synchronised recordings of birds beating their wings, to reveal a beautiful chord structure hidden amongst the rhythms. Matthew Herbert applies intricate electronic components with a purist house beat on Stone' which follows into The Lizard', remixed by Polish duo Skalpel who were an early influence of Acheson's. Electronic producer Floex transforms 'Still' with layers of oscillating synths, while Wrongtom provides a dub remix and The Physics House Band deliver ambient and progressive sounds for their rework of Long Orchard'.

Key Marketing Points:
- Remixes from high profile acts such as Max Cooper, Matthew Herbert, Floex, Throwing Snow, The Physics House Band, Skalpel and more.
- Available on 2x LP, housed in reverse board sleeve with silver embossed foil title and printed inner-sleeves. Cover art comes from acclaimed artist and printmaker, Norman Ackroyd.
- European AV 'Dawn Chorus' Tour starts November 20th 2017.
- Radio support for 'Dawn Chorus' from Lauren Laverne (BBC 6Music), Nemone (6Music), Huey Morgan (BBC 6Music), Gideon Coe (BBC 6Music), Jamie Cullum (BBC R2) + more
- Previous press support from The Arts Desk, Clash, The Independent, The Guardian, Line Of Best Fit, Blues & Soul, Record Collector, DJ Mag

Praise for the original Dawn Chorus album
You could just listen to that forevermore, couldn't you' MARY ANNE HOBBS (BBC 6MUSIC)
Such a beautiful project' - LAUREN LAVERNE
Out of this world' - THE LINE OF BEST FIT
Gorgeous' - NEMONE (BBC 6MUSIC)

The latest offering in the ever so refined Gost Zvuk series is a full length album (2x12) by Russian master of all otherworldly sounds ''Nocow''.

''Ledyanoy Album'' is an ethereal feast containing orchastrated textures and thumping cuts alike. The winter theme of the album is easily recognized through the icey synth sounds and the beautifuly array of bells and fx which blend this LP to a cohesive collection of heart wrenching ambiances.

Ledyanoy Album will be available through all specialized retailers from mid April.

From 2015, SMG005 is one of Overlooks defining releases. Now repressed for 2017 on orange marbled vinyl.

Pressing of 300 on vinyl only

Next up and equally fabulous is the great, and hotly anticipated, new album from Polypores. The artist's third full length for the label following a private press style, mailorder release earlier the year and first album proper The Fialka Transmissions' in 2016.

Polypores aka Stephen James Buckley makes haunted space music using an ever-expanding mound of synthesizers, samplers, and old tape recorders. Bleak, icy drones give way to 1970's Sci-Fi synth lines, throbbing bass rumbles ominously beneath a psychedelic haze of wistful melody and disembodied voices.

The Impossibility' was inspired by the destruction of the planet Earth by the human race, the early works of JG Ballard, Tarkovsky's Stalker', conspiracy theories, and places where the rules of time and space are brought into question. It was written and recorded in January 2017.

A wonderful album, which comes dressed in a Nick Taylor designed sleeve looks certain to follow the trend set by all previous releases for both artist and label, and sell out instantly.

Limited European edition of 50 copies numbered.

"The Portland based trio of Alexander Wolfe (Vocals), Wolfgang Williams (Guitar), and Tim Iserman (Synth/Programming) cater to all your death disco needs, as Ritual Veil are well versed in the pleasures of synth & sin.

There's some serious nods to Depeche Mode embedded in their DNA, especially in the blackened sex appeal of Wolfe's rich Gahan-sian vocal styling, all while the arrangement bristles with taut energy.
Favorite Toy' is pure sexbeat of the highest order, as Williams and Iserman lay a fitting bed of club ready goth pop for Wolfe to vocally gyrate over.

Ritual Veil know their way around a perfect pop gem, one that pulls from sultry mechanics and dancefloor urgency, while deploying such gothly weapons as an echoed beat, pulsing synths, and cooled vocal exuberance..." Screaming For Years

Energetic and pure, Seba's return to his imprint is just class. With the ethereal vocal talents of Kirsty Hawkshaw fusing Seba's rolling beats tough bass growls with warm pads. Only Seba can do this to such perfection.

Bubbling up from his post-everything cesspit, $hit & $hine cups another killer album boff to the grill of Diagonal with Total $hit!, his second LP and 3rd full release for Powell and Jaime Williams' indomitable imprint.
A rancid ruck of rock 'n roll and industrial entrails squeezed for sustenance and sploshed with classic '80s disco, Total $hit! is nothing if not a definitive Craig Clouse record, insistently playful, scatty and demented in equal measures, but with a couldn't care less attitude that's always refreshing and welcome around these parts.
Following his grindcore lash Teardrops for Riot Season, this one is a return to the heavy truckin' styles last heard on Everybody's A Fuckin Expert with Mego and Good White Good Green for Glasgow's Heated Heads, depositing nine examples of his nonchalant style at its most distended, unsettling and, funnily enough, its most funked-up and effective.
He makes a big entrance with the blind-drunk swagger of Hot Shovel trammelling rabid tribal drums, grunts and pitched voices in a febrile hot mess, before Chklt Shk possibly betrays his no f**ks attitude with some of his canniest, adroit tweaks applied to what sounds like Anthony Shakir and MMM fighting over the last cubicle after a plate of bad seafood, then it's back to twisted smiles and buckie-sloshing skank with the acrid disco nip of Long Island City.
The record's longest, murkiest section follows with the Jacko-shampling Dodge Pot dispensing a slimy hot streak of flatulent mongrel boogie that perhaps outstays its welcome, hence the entrance of two squabbling lasses who tell it where to go, which leaves us with a version of the recumbent coke standard White Horse ready for the knacker's yard, plus a trio of saltier, off-the-wrist jags that only serve to agitate and infect the sore he's been prodding at 'til this point.
Let's be fair: Total $hit! is not big or clever but, it is messy and fun, like the soundtrack to a lock-in at a boozer exclusively full of mad c*nts who were chucked out of every other place.

No-No 5 starts off with a deep clanking off-stepper pending from sub heavy bass rolling to spaceously round acid. B1 & B2 remixes by Norways techno old-schoolers Subtil: an ambient take first, then a tunneling & whirling techno remix. 4 track signature EP with versatile but very typical Club No-No sound!

On Kings Chambers sixth release Samo DJ brings his cheap Streetboxx sampler to Hidden Operators studio and they team up for some dancehall beat making and live mixing under the (obvious) name Streetboxxer.

Samo DJs releases on labels like L.I.E.S, The Trilogy Tapes, and of course his own Born Free label. But this ragga infused EP will not come as a surprise for those who have heard his excellent dancehall mix for Red Light Radio earlier this year.

Visible Cloaks' Lex proposes a utopian dream language and its accompanying sound, a limitless, delicate space developed by fluid musical techniques and subconscious voices. The six pieces comprising Lex simulate a more peaceful future, their mysteries telling a new tale in an unknown but imaginable melodic language. Visible Cloaks are the Portland-based musicians Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile. Utilizing software-based composition rooted in randomization, MIDI-translation and chance operations, the duo has established an improbable humanist mode of music from esoteric processes. Following their self-titled debut album, Visible Cloaks offered Reassemblage, an album simultaneously honoring the post-Yellow Magic Orchestra school of avant musical adventure and diverging from it. Veering from the paths cleared by Japanese and Italian electronic pop and ambient artists of the mid-80s / early-90s, Reassemblage established Visible Cloaks' own camp in a forest of deep sound canopied by trees grown from synthetic seeds.The sound represented on Lex is webbed with sculptural arrangements and interpolated by the sounds of alien speech. These strange and serene utterances were created by Doran feeding a chain of multiple dialects and accents through a language translation software to create an auditory poetry of an evolved place and time.

Lex features both the final version of this process and earlier, simplified experiments with it ( Keys'). The idea - building on 'fourth world' or 'global village' type concepts - was to create a projected language that was a fusion of many,' Doran explains. The result was a very disorienting form of non-language that amplifies the lapses in meaning that occur with the inaccuracy of auto-translation software.'

Permutate Lex, a companion short film to Lex made by Visible Cloaks in collaboration with artist Brenna Murphy (who also created the artwork for Reassemblage and several virtualist videos for the album), is an integral counterpart, both visualizing an aesthetic alive with human form and guiding the sonic experience of the first five pieces: Wheel,' Frame,' Transient,' Keys,' and title track Lex.' World,' the longest piece presented on Lex, is redrawn from a generative composition originally produced for an installation Doran made with Murphy.

The original work incorporates LFOs and randomized MIDI-information, and was intended to variate indefinitely. In this 'fixed' version, World' provides a more conclusive view into the impossible musical environments Visible Cloaks make real. Longer than any track on
Reassemblage, World' expresses the deepening, patient intimations suggested by Lex.

Doran says the Lex attempts to communicate the essence of a world distant enough that it can't be captured or comprehended from the present, appearing only surreal and inscrutable.' The statement reveals a broader musical philosophy fueling this new moment, an awakened voice woven through complex melodic shapes and phrases establishes communication between listeners and the unknown, here presented by Visible Cloaks as sounds coloring the very edge of the envisionable.

ORO 004 - IVVVO - When I Feel You Wet 12" Vinyl + Digital Release date: October 2015 Mastered by Sam @ Precise Distributed by Kudos Press Enquiries: Jack@hemlockrecordings.co.uk A: When I Feel You Wet The second ORO vinyl release this autumn comes from London based techno producer IVVVO. Following the album 'All Shades of White' on Opal tapes the enigmatic artist has maintained a steady release schedule issuing several well received EPs on Crème Organisation, Public Information, Danse Noir and Fourth Wave.

Appearing on a limited vinyl run (with first copies shipping in a vinyl outer sleeve) IVVVO beams thirteen minutes of brooding doom techno around the darker corners of the dancefloor.

This recording of Jane Weaver re-scored by Suzanne Ciani, Andy Votel and Sean Canty aka Neotantrik has been described by Andy Votel as the incidental music' counterpart to The Silver Globe's conceptual soundtrack. Invoking and refracting Jane Weaver's hugely acclaimed, 'The Silver Globe' in one engrossing session recorded in Bergen as part of an installation at the end of last year, we hear Jane's original material dissected, atomised and diffused into a side of mercurial, open-ended electronics and mechanical process. Her sylvan vocal and pop chimes are received from a well detached perspective, one where her melodies, harmonies and vibes are scrambled, extruded and smeared so that we hear their morphing aspects in a swirling lightshow strafing from windswept ambience thru nebulous synth space, garrotting string tension and siren-like drone-pop to a screw-twisting denouement. The album is also notable for featuring Suzanne Ciani making use of some specially comissioned Buchla modules, some of the first new pieces produced by Don Buchla in years, plus a Nagoya Harp played through a fuzz pedal and Dulcimer fed through a space echo. It's totally absorbing and is perhaps one of thee strongest recordings we've heard from the trio's one-of-a-kind setup, given an added dimension by Weaver's hugely evocative voice.

Having carefully honed an inimitable sound that caresses the left-facing corners of techno
and house, this release marks a special milestone for a true music lover and producer
wizard from Austria, who is in the game for more than a decade. After release
contributions to Various Artists EP's on comfortzone, One step back ahead and sama
recordings (sama001, samadigi001) Laminat aka Kobermann steps up with his first ever
solo EP showcasing his unique desire to fuse body and soul into its preternatural
harmony, layer after layer after layer.
A1 Grand Central
The opener of Laminat's first ever artist EP seduces with delicate athmospheres, etheral
pad sounds and crispy drums, which were recorded seperatly on a 4 track Tascam
tapedeck. All field recordings for this track were done in New York - at Grand Central
Station, on the way to Conny Island and directly at the seashore at Conny Island.
A2 Windy Backyard
As the horizon darkens, human souls realize that they are not only dominated by
machines, but also by nature. In this tape-saturated, organic live jam every element is
carefully mixed and harmonically balanced: MFB 522 Drums, Microkorg XL and selected
samples are accompanied by field-recordings of hurricane sirens in Chicago.
A3 Eaves Gutter Drip
This moody little ambient piece with beautiful string sounds is based on vocals which
were recorded by the artist itself on a drive from Brooklyn to the airport. It marks the
transition to the B side by Laminat's second alter ego 'Kobermann'.
B1 Emphasis Chorus
With slighly distorted kick drums and gently arranged claps laid down on a mysterious
synth tapestry, Korg's ER 1 Drummachine is dominating this edgy track. A palette of
strange NASA sounds is giving this track its special deep space vibe. Surely you have
recognized the heavily treated voice samples of somebody speaking about her TV set.
B2 Blood Red Sunrise Behind My Back
Once again the ER-1 drum machine is in the focus of this laid back afterhours jam
session recorded directly on tape. The deconstructed vocal samples, where a well
respected american composer and theorist talks about his personal approach to sound
and space, award this track a certain psychedelic feeling. One for the deep moments.
B3 Cubbyhole
A table lamp was connected to the same circuit as the audio equipment. Consequenting
background noises enrich this outro piece with a dark and haunting atmosphere.
Feedback:
Dynamodyse (One step back ahead, GER)
'Drowning! Very grown up and adult tracks. Timeless classics from now on.
Windy Backyard + Grand Central are my faves. Respect. 5/5'
Oliver Haferbauer (Live At Robert Johnson, GER)
'Platte ist top. Finde Grand Central und Emphasis Chorus sind super.'
Lt.Dan (freaktion, Tel Aviv)
'wow - very experimental shit. the spirit of helena hauff is all around the record. very
good stuff man. my favorites are grand central, windy backyard & emphasis chorus.
love the drums, the drama & the claps. so uplifting, will play for sure all three!
grand central is like the viennese willie burns made it - love it! machines with emotions -
so good.'
Dan Lodig (Pomelo, Vienna)
'Ich mag Windy Backyard und Blood Red Sunrise Behind My Back sehr.'

A collection of prev. unreleased cuts from ANDREI's early hip hop days (2003-8). Some big bad sample tracks with chunky hip hop beats. Two rap remixes of MF DOOM and SUPASTITION and two cuts more in the vein of CUT CHEMIST or RUCKUS ROBOTICUS full of movie samples. GAMM fans should dig this. Out on March 4 from GLENVIEW. Seriously dope. Don't sleep on this!

Based on the worldwide success of Max Richter's groundbreaking eight-hour work SLEEP, his personal lullaby for a breathless world' - and the one-hour extraction from SLEEP, a series of remixes produced by a selection of well-known musicians and young artists. Vinyl release on March 4. (USA: March 25) The legendary Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, known for its special feel when remix of works by other artists, transforms Max Richter dreamy Path 5 in a darkly throbbing track, marked by snare drum and complemented by haunting guitar soundscapes and cool, arpeggiated synthesizer , In Remix Electronic Artist Clark (Warp Records) is from Max Richter Path 5 a sequence of three different, highly insistent musical scenes that send the listener on a heady trip - in Clarks words by Danny Elfman on Popol Vuh to Slint, merged in a planet of music.

The third release from Stand Firm Hi-Fi showcases Rumbleton. 2 cuts of raw drum & bass Junglism, crafted in the traditional breakbeat form, presented on limited edition 12' vinyl.

Kings Chamber' is a journey into drums, with 2 choice 70's breaks carrying the brunt of the work. Warm pads take you away into a smokey atmosphere of percussion & bleeps. A running commentary of soundsystem wisdom flows with the track and proclaims Junglist virtues over top of a sub bass that rumbles your structure down to the molecule.

I Like You' - An off-world soundscape lays the foundation for a storming assault of Amens, on fire off the shoulder of Orion, pads like glittering C-beams, and sub weight that could either be a benefit or a hazard to humanity.

Support from Equinox, Double 0, Mantra, Loxy & Ink, Threshold, Djinn, Stretch, Greenleaf, Flowah, MartianMan, Phuture-T, Charlie Turbo, Ruffhouse, Overlook, Gremlinz.

Enjoy makes his debut on AKO Beatz with a beautiful 12
Enjoy aka Alessandro Corsini

A1) Just A Vibe
Summer vibes to taste with a Mojito on a beach at sunset!
Smooth beats, warm keys and that oldskool feel you always need on a dancefloor.

B1) Fragile
'Yes...but she's more fragile than she seems...she needs your help...and your love!'
That's what this tune is all about:
the fragility of us all, as we look like we're strong and independent but we actually need each other to live free and in harmony.
Unity makes us citizens of the universe, be kind and open minded.

'Music is the basis of all our lives...celebrate life!'
Alessandro 'Enjoy' Corsini

And his new single proves his point. With his third album Comic just around the corner, these three tracks introduce you to Moritz Friedrichs latest electronic action adventure. The single edit of - Comic' teases the laid-back rave vibes of the album, while - Always Du' is an all too beautiful combination of weird synth grooves and divine piano playing. Same goes for - Where Was I', but here Friedrich takes the track to truly surrealist realms. Yep, quite sophisticated, but also a shit load of fun.

*Limited Edition - 300 copies*

Improv hypnotist Aaron Dilloway induces a mind-bending session for Copenhagen's Cejero label with a steeply mesmerising suite of mechanical loops unspooling from an elusive axis. Where 'The Gag File', issued earlier this year on NYC's Dais, incorporated sickly pop elements, there's less of that frivolity here as he grinds down to a seasick and interminably funky sort of rhythmic noise.
In case you're new to Dilloway's oeuvre, he's essentially one of the North American noise scene's most distinguished operators. His track record of over 100 releases for almost as many labels connects everyone from his old band, Wolf Eyes, to Kevin Drumm and Robert Turman, defiantly going with and against the grain of American counterculture with a stomach for the most nauseating yet compelling sounds.
Switches is a strong demonstration of Dilloway at his most uncompromising and discomfiting.
Like a swim thru the bubbling belly acid of American culture, he pursues the original extremities of NON and Turman along his own parallel narrative, using subtly morphing repetition and abrasive attrition as tactics to seduce and beguile even the most hard-headed listeners.
The A-side yields a full spectrum of his style ranging from palpitating, palsied loops and tonal abrasion in Switch 2, to something like an American take on The Caretaker's current descent into oblivion with the wilting, elusive phrases buried in Switch 17, while Switch 15 resembles some kind of burnt-out doom dub.
Meanwhile the B-side catches Dilloway at his most obtuse/playful with the snagged loops of Switch 11/12, which, once you get over the urge to nudge the needle out of its rut, seeps in with a viscerally psychedelic effect for its cranky, lurching duration, before Switch 1 locks off something like DJ Screw or Indignant Senility, with half a bar of f*ck-knows-what loping into a brambly haze around its progressively melting axis...'

New long player from Manchester's Claro Intelecto. Entitled 'Exhilarator', the 13 track album marks a return to action for the esteemed producer. A cinematic album of icy techno, weighty bass and poignant melody. From plaintive keys and slow motion drums awash with melody to corrugated industrial drums that don't let up, this is a diverse album in both mood and texture. Moments of ambient celestial beauty exist next to breezy and summery grooves while skewed and sludgy acid sits next to serene underwater dub. Stewart's mission to step outside his usual self has resulted in another landmark electronic album. Killer release!!!

finally repressed! back in stock soon!!

Dan Snaith aka Caribou's new label!

Always a firm favourite round these parts. COULDWORK is semi-compilation album, featuring some old and some new sounds that summarize Foodman's path leading into 2015. It straddles the lines between experimental footwork, vapor-collage music, and modern minimal electronics.

Giant Claw is the sound project of visual artist and Orange Milk Records co-founder Keith Rankin. His new album Soft Channel builds on the intricate MIDI notation and sampling of previous works while blending dense high fidelity sound design with rich harmonic material to create an immersive composition.

Spazio Disponibile welcomes yet another new artist to their realm. This time the label welcomes producer Grand River for its 11th release, and one that marks something of a new direction where ambient and experimental music will sit next to more dance floor fare. It's a direction already hinted at with Marco Shuttles full album earlier this year, and is now realised once more by Aimee Portioli. She is a multi instrumentalist, soundtrack composer and known for her deep and atmospheric sound and debuts on Donato Dozzy and Neel's label with four lush ambient explorations. Across the course of the tracks, fizzing, grainy ambiance makes way for dark atmospheres, then brighter synths arrive late on to bring some light to the shadows. Elsewhere, undulating rhythms sway down low as muted keys and strings ripple in the distance. It makes for a cavernous world that keeps you in blissful suspense and overall this EP is a trip through a dark underground cavern with a spring day high up above. As well as this brilliantly cerebral EP, the future will also bring more Spazio label nights across the world starting in 2018.

HEADGEAR solo EP after his track with Threshold on AKOB007 -

Planet03
One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time. We are one planet.' - Carl Sagan

Dem Deh
Guaranteed to mash up any dance and born from an impending sound clash - 'Dem Deh' was produced to battle friendly rival Threshold at a clash in HEADGEAR's home town of Birmingham. Where the Birmingham cru Dem Deh

Reach Out
HEADGEAR's militant take on a track originally released by Goosensei & Krytikal on Dubs Alive Records. While keeping the dubbed out vibe of the original, this mix switches up its attitude, making this version a different dance floor beast entirely.

Orange Milk has championed some of the wild electronics coming from Japan's underground, and now present Koeosaeme, aka Ryu Yoshikawa, who perfectly encapsulates this frenetic hybrid sound.

It's complex music that evolves with each listen without feeling overstuffed or unnecessarily burdened by too many notes - a difficult balance to achieve. The music is rhythmic and features tenuous footwork connections, but to call it dance or club music would be misleading, it's an exciting hybrid that's still finding a place in the world.

Besides finishing three albums in 2009: Hadouken's 'For the Masses', Krause's 'No Guts, No Glory', and their own album 'Split the
Atom', Noisia have also started a new label: 'Invisible Recordings'. Invisible is intended as an outlet for Noisia's deeper and more
experimental productions. It will also release tracks from other producers. The first release, in production now, has a scheduled
release date early March and will feature tracks from Noisia & Phace, Subterra & Dekko, Icicle and Engage.

from Nosia's label Invisible. If you don't know about Invisible, it's a label Nosia are using to release some of their more experimental tracks, as well as showcasing other artists.

from Nosia's label Invisible. If you don't know about Invisible, it's a label Nosia are using to release some of their more experimental tracks, as well as showcasing other artists.

Third tape run of Kate Shilonosova's highly popular meeting of electronic music and J-pop, recently released on wax by Mind Records
(also available from T.A.D.)

Over the last twenty five years Robin Rimbaud - Scanner has traversed the experimental terrain between sound, space and image, connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres - a partial list would include sound design, film scores, computer music, avant garde, contemporary composition, large-scale multimedia performances, product design, architecture, fashion design, rock music and jazz. Today he announces his first studio album since 2009, 'Fibolae', set for release on December 1st 2017 via the independent label run by Anna von Hausswolff, Pomperipossa Records.. With a catalogue busy with commissions, soundtracks and strange projects this is the first studio album since 2009's Rockets, 'Unto the Edge of Rockets' (Bine Music). In this time much has changed - he lost his entire family and left the comfort of a familiar city, London, to live in a former textile factory in the UK to re-invent his life. 'Fibolae' offers up a world that splinters between melancholia and penetrating energy. Combining digital technologies, software and live instrumentation it is both a rhetoric of mourning and a celebration of music to empower. Warm, organic, sensual, passionate and frequently angry, it's an album that radiates with possibilities. As to the meaning of the title, 'Fibolae' There is none. It was a word that appeared to Scanner in a dream, at a time of great challenges in his life. The fact that his unconscious mind could conjure up such inventions that offer no history and context was appealing and yet it was suggestive, playful and open.

INC. ROUTE 94 REMIX

Consistently unearthing a hotbed of new talent, Hot Creations next release is Back To The Music from DJ and producer Sooney. The release features two original tracks and a stellar remix from one of the biggest names in dance music, Route 94.
Title track Back To The Music is an exhilarating record shaped through melodic synths and keys alongside a sharp bassline. Route 94 strips back his remix to the bare groove. While the chugging beats of Afraid Of The Dark bring the release to an accomplished close.
London based Sooney fell in love with house, hardcore & jungle in the early 90's. In 2015 he set up his own label, Take Control Records, gaining support from the likes of Shadow Child, Jamie Jones and Gorgon City to name a few. Since being discovered by the Hot Creations family, Sooney's sights are firmly set on big things for 2017.
Fellow UK artist Route 94 shot into the limelight in 2012 with chart success and has since gone on to appear on labels including Virgin, Defected and Crosstown Rebels, and work with major names like Katy B and Jess Glynne.

Garbage Boy - Tenchun, is amalgamated sound slop representing a conscious blob who is painfully trickling down the stairs as it oozes to its death. As the blob shrieks its final words and accepts death a beautiful computerized ominous soundtrack emerges.

qwizzzz - suuuun Four - The aliens show up to pick up the dead oozing blob that just died. A discussion occurs, and they celebrate the death of the ooze with a rave on the alien ship, the rave ceremony concludes with a song from their leader.

Released by Butter Sessions and Noise In My Head who are also known for their offshoot Efficient Space (Sky Girl, etc) - All Exclusive Tracks! Scratching the surface of Australia's independent electronic massive, Butter Sessions and Noise In My Head finally compile the second volume of Domestic Documents. Featuring all exclusive tracks, Perth godfather Ewan Jansen joins new WA blood Phil Stroud and Senate, respectively making hectic percussion tracks and hell bent techno, as Newcastle transplant Roman Nails emerges with his squelching one take tape experiments. Meanwhile in Melbourne, Fia Fiell's ambient mind maze and Butter Sessions alumni Booshank target the cerebral cortex, Hotrod goes full turbo and live/DJ wingmen Miris and Norachi share the same side of their vinyl debuts (alongside the freakishly underrated Colours of Infinity - aka Kloke). Kangaroo Skull and Cale Sexton fly the flag for Temporal Cast, the latter on a calming club collab with Sleep D. - Liner notes from Ivan Smagghe and artwork from Misha Hollenbach (Perks and Mini) - Features many rarities reissued for the first time ever (Karen Marks' most wanted Australian cold wave single last sold for 290€ while Once traded for 170€) - All tracks officially licensed, sourcing original masters when available - Includes digital download

The next installment on Invisible Recordings features tracks by Cause for Concern, Zero T & FD, Sabre, Stray & Halogenyx and a remix of 'Floating Zero' by Icicle.

Mellow Waves, Cornelius' first album in over 11 years will be available in a limited deluxe edition pop-up gatefold vinyl (including phenakistoscope animation insert), standard package on 180g, CD and cassette format on January 26, 2018. The album, released July 21, 2017, was previously a digital only release. Pre-orders for these formats are available now.

Cornelius announced eight North American tour dates for March 2018, including shows in Mexico City for the NRMAL Festival, New York's Irving Plaza, the Carnegie Music Hall at Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum, and LA's Fonda Theater.

Filmed live at his record release shows at Tokyo's Liquid Room, Helix / Spiral' captures the Cornelius live experience, with its Kraftwerk-esque roboticism and immersive visuals meticulously synchronized with the performance from The Cornelius Group.

For the uninitiated, Cornelius is the brainchild of Japanese multi-instrumentalist Keigo Oyamada. A performing musician since his teens, Oyamada created his creative alter-ego (the name is an homage to the Planet of the Apes), in the early 1990s from the ashes of his previous project, Flipper's Guitar.

With the 1997 release of Fantasma, Cornelius gained international recognition for his cut and paste style reminiscent of American counterparts Beck and The Beastie Boys and was released internationally by Matador Records. Being called a "modern day Brian Wilson" for his orchestral-style arrangements and production techniques, Cornelius subsequently became one of the most sought after producer/remixers in the world, working with a wide range of artists including Blur, Beck, Bloc Party, MGMT, and James Brown.

With 2002's Point, Cornelius' music took a quantum shift, going from sampling found sounds' to looping organic elements and creating lush soundscapes. Using water drops as the rhythmic backbone of Drop' on his vocoder-infused cover of Brazil', the album dazed and amazed fans and set the path for the next phase of his career.

2007 brought this philosophy to an even higher level with the release of Sensuous. Cornelius' live shows are known around the world for spectacular visuals (all perfectly synchronized to the performance), custom lighting that doesn't simply augment the performance, but becomes another instrument within it, and a full band of equally talented and diverse players.

The companion piece to the album Sensurround + B Sides, earned the nomination for Best Surround Sound Album' at the 2009 GRAMMY Awards.

The summer of 2016 saw the release of Fantasma Remastered, on Lefse Records. The package, a 2LP reissue of his classic album, also included 4 additional outtakes and earned Pitchfork's Best New Reissue'.

Cornelius has recorded music for Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, scored the anime mega-film Ghost in the Shell Arise, performed as the backbone of Yoko Ono's reformed Plastic Ono Band, played the Hollywood Bowl with Yellow Magic Orchestra, and co-wrote and produced the Japanese artist salyu x salyu.

Mellow Waves, Cornelius' first album in over 11 years will be available in a limited deluxe edition pop-up gatefold vinyl (including phenakistoscope animation insert), standard package on 180g, CD and cassette format on January 26, 2018. The album, released July 21, 2017, was previously a digital only release. Pre-orders for these formats are available now.

Cornelius announced eight North American tour dates for March 2018, including shows in Mexico City for the NRMAL Festival, New York's Irving Plaza, the Carnegie Music Hall at Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum, and LA's Fonda Theater.

Filmed live at his record release shows at Tokyo's Liquid Room, Helix / Spiral' captures the Cornelius live experience, with its Kraftwerk-esque roboticism and immersive visuals meticulously synchronized with the performance from The Cornelius Group.

For the uninitiated, Cornelius is the brainchild of Japanese multi-instrumentalist Keigo Oyamada. A performing musician since his teens, Oyamada created his creative alter-ego (the name is an homage to the Planet of the Apes), in the early 1990s from the ashes of his previous project, Flipper's Guitar.

With the 1997 release of Fantasma, Cornelius gained international recognition for his cut and paste style reminiscent of American counterparts Beck and The Beastie Boys and was released internationally by Matador Records. Being called a "modern day Brian Wilson" for his orchestral-style arrangements and production techniques, Cornelius subsequently became one of the most sought after producer/remixers in the world, working with a wide range of artists including Blur, Beck, Bloc Party, MGMT, and James Brown.

With 2002's Point, Cornelius' music took a quantum shift, going from sampling found sounds' to looping organic elements and creating lush soundscapes. Using water drops as the rhythmic backbone of Drop' on his vocoder-infused cover of Brazil', the album dazed and amazed fans and set the path for the next phase of his career.

2007 brought this philosophy to an even higher level with the release of Sensuous. Cornelius' live shows are known around the world for spectacular visuals (all perfectly synchronized to the performance), custom lighting that doesn't simply augment the performance, but becomes another instrument within it, and a full band of equally talented and diverse players.

The companion piece to the album Sensurround + B Sides, earned the nomination for Best Surround Sound Album' at the 2009 GRAMMY Awards.

The summer of 2016 saw the release of Fantasma Remastered, on Lefse Records. The package, a 2LP reissue of his classic album, also included 4 additional outtakes and earned Pitchfork's Best New Reissue'.

Cornelius has recorded music for Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, scored the anime mega-film Ghost in the Shell Arise, performed as the backbone of Yoko Ono's reformed Plastic Ono Band, played the Hollywood Bowl with Yellow Magic Orchestra, and co-wrote and produced the Japanese artist salyu x salyu.

Debut release from Dust Witch. A 5-piece synth outfit that recall the heyday of 70's prog rock. Their sound is tight, complex and densely layered - recalling Goblin at their most fluid, and Yes during their most wigged out moments. What sets them apart from their current synth wave contemporaries is not only their exceptional song writing skills but the addition of live drums & guitar which gives their dense sound an extra kick, and a very human element missing from most current synth acts operating today. This 7-Inch single, pressed on 140g vinyl features artwork by Daniel Danger.

First ever reissue and first time on vinyl for this unique Flying Saucer Attack live album, expanded with additional material and a new side four mix from Jim O'Rourke. Produced in collaboration with Dave Pearce / FSA and Bruce Russell (compiler of the original CD release for his Corpus Hermeticum label), featuring new artwork by Bruce Russell as well.

While rightly known for the folk-influenced songs and spacey instrumentals of their proper albums, the briefly active live version of FSA unexpectedly delivered a blistering wave of electric sound. Recorded at various shows in 1994, In Search Of Spaces heaves with long passages of feedback guitar racket, broken up by sections of surging rock music. The live band focused almost exclusively on visceral, trebly guitar noise—which, while always a key element in their sound, was greeted by audiences with total mystification (and often disapproval). Following a few brief attempts to settle a lineup and play songs from their records, Dave Pearce / FSA abandoned live performance altogether, leaving behind this album (and the barely available P. A. Blues CDR) as the sole document of his in-person delivery.

Originally compiled and released in 1996, this reissue adds several minutes of music back to the original program that had been edited out by FSA for being too rock.' For side four, Jim O'Rourke revisited the original 1994 live tapes and has made a spooky and brooding new mix of music exclusive to this release.

Konstruktivists is nevertheless than Codex Empire ... this Industrial band is his originas...and the one from a bunch of other surprising things... like mebers of Whitehouse, Founders of Third Eye Foundation or publishers of Impulse... 80's Indsutrial mafia baby ! But still active. Record comes in a printed sleeve and poster and inserts etc... BIG UP !

Olfactory Nerve is a recent moniker of Thessaloniki-based artist Photis Houliaras, who's been actively conducting experiments and releasing albums on tape under his mysterious guise Le Fonte Son. Influenced primarily by synth electronic music and psychedelic mysticism, the Greek electronic composer is injecting new ideas into something in the ballpark of the unknown rarities from the underground cassette scene.
'Orfeo', his first album for Details Sound, offers a diverse range of original and magnetic output with a naive experimental heart.

Music made out of Vintages musical instruments & Neighborhood samples

Experimental Dancefloor music, unformated and still ... exploring sweet and sour... First tune, called Oppression is a Revered techno kick Doom tune. Secodn track is a sweet shy volumed kick at 220 BPM still...And third A side track, Lobotomie Croissante is an obsessional Industrial broke npsychedelic track, a bit in the Olschool little 7'' witch i cant remember the name of^^ B side opens on Mutation, a 170 BPM speed techno/trie dark tune very new wavy ambiance... Special and precise ! Then comes an ambient dark indus tune called Ondes Robotiques. Terminal is a break electronica hard tune, in a AFX Ant-zenized style. Terminal is the name... good anme to close this EP. A record in a rare style nawadays , offering a real variety of unformated sounds, not so hard but still hard enough to be dancefloor ! MASTERPIECE !!

* The first Technimatic release since their breathtaking 'Better Perspective' sophomore album of last year, 'Technimatic Remixed' is a collection of some their greatest work to date brought kicking into 2017 by some of Pete & Andy's favourite producers of now. Break, Alix Perez, Fracture, Was A Be and LSB all feature giving their own personal takes on some already seminal Technimatic moments.

* We have never had a remix project of our work so this is a really fun one for us. You kind of get scared but excited at the same time as you wait for each track to come back! But all the guys on this project are guys we admire and respect greatly so we knew they would deliver the goods. 'Bristol' was just made for Break to do, we'd actually earmarked that one a couple of years ago for him. LSB is just on fire with his work at the moment, Alix we've loved since before we joined Shogun, Fracture was our only choice on 'Trigger Warning' as he's just the don for that sound and we've been really impressed by new Shogun family members Was A Be.

* Also we felt we'd like to contribute something to the project so we picked one of our favourite tunes with Lucy Kitchen and gave it a little sprucing up. The 'Night Vision VIP' has been doing damage in our sets for months now so we felt it rounded the EP off nicely. We hope you guys enjoy it as much as we have been!' Technimatic

Radio
14th Aug - Friction - BBC Radio 1 - World Premiere & Friction Fire: Bristol (Break Remix)
21st Aug - Friction - BBC Radio 1 - World Premiere: Parallel ft. Zara Kershaw (LSB Remix)
28th Aug - Friction - BBC Radio 1 - World Premiere: Hold On A While ft. Jono McCleery (Alix Perez Remix)
*More TBC*

Comprehensive promo campaign to seek specialist radio including but not limited to, Friction, Eddy Temple Morris, Annie Mac, Zane Lowe, Julie Adunega, Phil Taggart, Mistajam, Hospital Records Podcast, D&BA Podcast and many more.

* Print
*More TBC*

* Online
21st Aug - UKF - Online World Premiere: Parallel ft. Zara Kershaw (LSB Remix)
28th Aug - XLR8R - Online World Premiere: Hold On A While ft. Jono McCleery (Alix Perez Remix)
*More TBC*

Full online service to further targets: Mixmag, Liquicity, DJ Mag,Hyponik, Hit The Floor, Inverted, Less Than 3, Beatport, Mixmag Brazil, Magnetic Mag, Ninja Ninja, DnB HQ, D&B Dojo, Broken Culture, BassOrDeath, Phuture Labs, Sky TV (Soccer AM etc), EDM Chicago, House Of Coxhead, In Reach, Your EDM

* Club / DJ Support
10th Aug - VIP mail out
17th Aug - General club mail out
Target to over 400 key DJs and tastemakers on the Shogun Audio mailing list including but not limited to Shy FX, London Electricity, Andy C, Goldie, Calyx & Teebee, Friction, Alix Perez, SpectraSoul, Rockwell, Technimatic, Bailey, Breakage, Danny Byrd, Roni Size, LTJ Bukem, Fabio & Grooverider, High Contrast, Lenzman, Camo & Krooked, Skream, Sub Focus, Zinc plus many others

The debut release by The Slowest Lift (Sophie Cooper and Julian Bradley) presents a new chapter in the long-running tradition of radical English music duos. Originally formed via a commission from the Supernormal Festival, Cooper (an accomplished solo performer and collaborator) and Bradley (from frequent VHF delinquents Vibracathedral Orchestra) play a kind of gentle post-industrial psychedelia, with Cooper's lovely vocals floating over a collage of live and electronic performances. The songs are a blend of straightforward performance and eccentric bricolage, with rude electronic interjections sitting comfortably alongside delicate guitar and keyboard melodies. Zoviet France-like low-fi atmospherics compete with Cooper's voice for air on tracks like Crystal Fracture' and Hi From The Skyline Swim,' while the duo's surprising cover of Duran Duran's The Chauffeur' deep on side two sneaks in perfectly, a mini-pop music drama reimagined as pure hallucination.

Soul Deep Recordings and Blade are pleased to present the Blackbird EP. The EP features 2 richly crafted rollers that will rock the dance floor. The title track, "Blackbird", has received support from LTJ Bukem and many other top deejays around the world. The song starts off with a heavy amen break and light background atmospherics. At each turn, the break seems to get heavier as layers are added to the mix. When the bassline drops, the groove is undeniable, and will have your head nodding in approval. The song chugs along and builds to a crescendo with it's epic pads and tasteful atmospherics. "Bella l'amour", is the second offering, and it shows a different side to Blade's diverse productions. The track begins with a light break, airy efx, and chiming keys, that set the backdrop for this tight production. At the drop, the drums fill in nicely and the warm 808 bassline punch through the mix. Overall, Blade delivers big on this release, and will surely satisfy his fans with this slice of D&B heaven.

We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records is honored to announce the reissue of extraterrestrial cult classic THE SOUND OF THE UFOs, a collaborative effort between Swiss jazz and electronic music icon Bruno Spoerri and innovative drummer extraordinaire Reto Weber, available on vinyl for the first time since 1978, housed in a 350g jacket and packed with all new liner notes.

Recorded live in Zurich in March 1978, THE SOUND OF THE UFOs finds Bruno & Reto improvising with a vast array of classic and customized synths and percussions from all corners of the globe (and the galaxy!). It's cosmic free jazz in audio gear heaven with a heavy dose of ambient, krautrock, primitive proto-techno vibes, and experimental space disco with a musique concrète mentality - anything's possible when a jazzman and a percussionist obsessed with finding new sounds collide and explore uncharted sonic territories! This groundbreaking gem is the ideal companion piece to Bruno Spoerri's highly coveted VOICE OF TAURUS LP.

Still very active recording, touring and collaborating (Julian Sartorius, Franz Treichler of Young Gods, Marco Repetto of Grauzone, Roger Girod...), Bruno Spoerri is an award-winning mythical figure of Swiss music, whose career started in the 1950s and covers jazz, electronic music, film and tv work, and everything in between. Improvisational maestro and synthesizer mega-connoisseur, Mr. Spoerri has influenced an entire generation of producers and musicians - hell, even Jay-Z sampled him!

Everyday Is Kill is the first new material from Damon Baxter (aka Deadly Avenger) in 8 years. Having previously released records on the legendary D.C Recordings & Wall Of Sound imprints, we here at Death Waltz Originals are thrilled to be releasing this brand new LP. You will have heard Deadly Avenger even if you don't own any of his records - Over the last few years he has supplied music for trailers such as Ant Man, The Avengers & John Wick. He has created a neon-drenched nightmare of a record that can stand shoulder to shoulder alongside current synth wave heavyweights such as Le Matos, Carpenter Brut, Perturbator or composers such as Steve Moore and Cliff Martinez. It's an assured mix of speaker crunching synth bangers and more contemplative tracks.

re-press due in White Vinyl

A deep cut 7' non-skip ultra-pitch scratch tool with the best samples from vol. 1 and vol. 2 remixed. The A side at 83bpm and the B side at 100bpm.

The press, cut and production is the best yet and will certainly be the 'to go to' 7' whilst on the move.

A new standard has been set.

The band project Drums Off Chaos was one of the central and on-going projects of the recently deceased drummer Jaki Liebezeit (who is normally associated first and foremost with the Cologne-based band CAN). In the early 1980s he had initiated an - at first - loose collective of drummers, who created a rhythmic concept on the basis of simple, strictly binding codes that enabled expansive improvisations.

Over the years the ensemble became smaller and refined its collaboration marked by repetitive patterns and their variation. You have to play monotonous,' a membr of the audience had already told Liebezeit in the 1960s. He took this to heart and there was hardly any other formation where he could bring this concept to life as regularly and with as much inspiration as in Drums Off Chaos.
During a development spanning more than three decades, this extra-ordinary band, which never saw itself as such, made numerous recordings but rarely any releases. However, in the last few months of his life Jaki Liebezeit, with colleagues Reiner Linke, Maf Retter and Manos Tsangaris, earmarked some tracks for imminent release on vinyl and CD - on different compilations. Liebezeit's death is all the more reason to go ahead with this plan.

Goldie delivers a 3LP set of high quality drum and bass that ticks numerous boxes - dancefloor darkness, jungle revivalism, liquid funk warmth - with a string of suitably impressive collaborators (Ulterior Motive, Swindle, Jose James, Natalie Williams, Terri Walker) swinging by to ensure the set oozes soul

"A CELEBRATION OF 5 YEARS INDIGO ÆRA"

Over the course of the past five years, Amsterdam based label Indigo Aera has evolved in to one of the most trustworthy and respected contemporary Detroit techno labels around.

Apart from new music that's mostly analog based and highly energetic, head honchos Maarten Mittendorff en Jasper Wolff decent to the vaults of early day, soul-searching techno regularly, digging up forgotten gems to re-issue them with modern quality standards. Esteemed artists like Stephen Brown, Skudge, Steve Rachmad, Antigone, Louis Haiman and Kirk DeGiorgio all contributed to Indigo Aera, and there's more to come.

The Lost Archives Special consists of unreleased tracks from absolute legends, to music that has never been released in a physical form before, to fresh compositions of techno's most talented contemporary artists.

Amir Abbey follows up Secret Pyramid's last album, Movements of Night (Students of Decay), with Two Shadows Collide, an ever deeper exploration of the sounds between consciousness and transcendence. Carefully built and fluidly performed, the record deepens Abbey's relationship with modern composition and abstract songcraft. Songs have an exploratory immensity fueled by cosmic awe, basking in a dreamlike presence. Abbey's works move slow, building substantive monolithic odes of awe which shift and morph into fully fleshed paeans of possibility.

"Possession" yields inspiration from György Ligeti's string works combined with field recordings, while the Badalamenti-esque "In Wind" provides a cinematic aural homage to the Pacific Northwest. You can hear the singular Ondes Martenot float and glide through several tracks, including the hazy and beautiful title track. Each song's main inspiration comes from the notion behind the album title, the intersection and attraction of forces and worlds, clashing of sounds, and the dualities within our lives. That such a meditative release is built upon conflict is ironic, but therein lies the perfect way to listen.

Parisian veteran Dj Deep and Romain Poncet (well known for his Traumer allias) released their first Sergie Rezza album on Desire records in 2015, the album received heavy support from Dixon, Laurent Garnier, Hunee, Antal to name a few. They now decided to start Sergie Rezza's own imprint. Sergie Rezza's sound is heavilly influenced by Ambient, Electronica, Dub, Jazz, Industrial, Funk, and also Techno and House roots. This is the second release on their newly created imprint.

Manchmal gibt es sie ja doch, frische Acts, die das gesamte Spektrum zeitgenössischen Pops mit ganz neuer Spielfreude und der nötigen Portion Eigenwilligkeit auf den Punkt bringen. 2017 dürften das Superorganism sein. In ihrer Musik reichen sich Zukunft und Vergangenheit eines ganzes Lebensgefühls intuitiv die Hände und lassen neue ansteckende, ja, berauschende Sound-Bündnisse entstehen.

Die Geburtsstunde dieses 8-köpfigen Newcomer-Kollektivs mit Mitgliedern aus Großbritannien, Japan, Australien und Neuseeland lag im Januar 2017. Aus dem gemeinsamen Hausprojekt im Osten Londons heraus schickte die Gruppe ihrer 17-jährigen, japanischen Freundin Orono eine Audiospur nach Maine, New England, zu der sie die Vocals aufnahm und zurückschickte. Was dabei zusammenkam, war der aufregende Track - Something For Your M.I.N.D. . Im klassischen DIY-Verfahren fertiggestellt, ließ man ihn kurzerhand auf die Außenwelt los. Es folgte die Doppel-AA Single - It's All Good und - Nobody Cares . Und schon bald spielten ihre frisch getauften Fans Frank Ocean und Vampire Weekends Ezra Koenig Superorganism Songs in ihren Radio Sendungen und der Deal mit Domino Records war unterschrieben.

Keyfacts: Limitierte schwarze 7' Vinyl mit Etching auf B-Seite inklusive MP3-Downloadkarte

7th Storey Projects is pleased to welcome back the Myor Massiv head honcho for his 3rd release on our label.

Earlier this year, Coco Bryce travelled to Tokyo and Osaka for a small series of gigs. Thoroughly impressed by his experiences there, upon returning home, he immediately took to crafting a slew of jungle and hip hop tracks, heavily influenced by everything he'd seen, heard, felt and tasted in the Land of the Rising Sun.

The ep kicks off with its title track, Ayakashi. Dark, fierce and mysterious like the mythical creatures it was named after, it builds up slowly, utilizing a combination of chopped up Japanese percussion, haunting flutes and Hot Pants breaks, before switching to full on Amen assault mode halfway through the tune.

Shinjuku is one of Tokyo's most well known wards, and also the place where Coco found the records from which the samples were sourced to construct this number: a turntablism beat/scratch album, and a compilation of traditional work songs, this particular one originating from the gold mines of the island of Hokkaido.

On the B1 track, Kaguya, he takes a more gentle approach: sweet, yet melancholic, like the Miyazaki movie of the same name.

The ep is rounded off with Hotaru, which borrows from an entirely different source of inspiration, namely DJ Krush's abstract take on boom bap hip hop. Shards of mid-90s Mo Wax are blended with anime samples, making for a solid two and a half minutes of Golden Era-esque head nodding.

Fushara aka Thushara Goonewardene is a London based electronic musician working with breakbeats, samples and synthesiser. A constant theme for his music is urban decay. From the late 90's Fushara has been involved with the London scene as a raver, DJ, and Producer. He has produced experimental work for labels such as Pineconemoonshine, MJAZZ and more recently Scientific Recordings. In 2015 he set up an imprint Lone Foundation to showcase experimental bass music collaborating with DAAT and others. More recently he has made a return to work with breakbeat collaborating with Infest for one of his tracks on his debut on Criterion Records and has signed to Flex Recordings for a forthcoming EP.

Here he makes his bow on 7th Storey Projects with two amen-driven monsters - The A side features 'Ascension', an epic roller with industrial atmospherics and haunting vocal snatches.

This is backed up with 'Nerve' on the B Side, a nine and a half minute militant amenistic assault that hits hard, just the way we like it!

We're delighted to welcome Fushara to our roster of talent, we are sure you will be hearing plenty more from the man going forward!

1x white + 1x black vinyl !
Ligovksoi's new EP with remixes by Peder Mannerfelt, Abdulla Rashim, Polar Inertia and HBT. The duo Ligovskoi, between Bruxelles and Paris, has come up with five new pieces, bringing their craft to a whole new level. Their condensed and moving soundscapes are now heightened by narrative compositions and constructions. (Cross and Lethe for instance, will drag you down several routes...) Their hybrid sound-design and detuned, infra-thin arpeggios now also integrate free improvisations and breathtaking, melodramatic moments. (take a shot at Aures for example) Enjoy

Superb, expert neo-minimalism from the retiring Berliner — veteran of collaborations like Vilod (with Ricardo Villalobos), the Moritz Von Oswald Trio, NSI and Sun Electric — making a rare, treasurable solo foray. Six tracks ranging from oscillatory steppers to eerie hauntings. Beautifully sleeved, too.

Route 8 back to his techno project Q3A dropping some heavy grooving tracks! A year after his last release on Delsin, the talented Hungarian producer is back with four more cuts of techno and electro excellence, club tracks that ooze atmosphere and intriguing details. The Nameless Place kicks off with a tense and tangled techno track that is urgent and slick as is hurries on through damp underground caverns. The Very End of You completely flips the script and is a slow motion bit of dub. With only sparse kick drums, the focus is on the cavernous pads that smear in huge arcs as watery droplets and heavenly chords add to the brain soothing effect. Temple of Retribution is back to techno, this time with loose, jumbled percussion and clipped drums cantering along at high speed. Again it's roomy stuff with no real edge, the Deva Station drops into house mode, wriggling drums and distant vocal cries finished off with some classic Detroit keys. It's a high tech, soulful track that closes out a diverse and devastating EP.

At the third New Interplanetary Melodies' astral journey stopover, it was mandatory to catch an Italian project deeply inspired by the Sun Ra visionary realm, expressing contemporary trials of hybridising jazz with artful electronica. So Ra Toth and The Brigantes' Orchestra landed on vinyl grooves for the label, after having previously appeared on the likes of Mathematics and Berceuse Heroique. Behind the sound, we find the elusive and unpredictable genius of the well-respected producer Marcello Napoletano. NIM received the distorted sound signal from Napoletano taken over by the Egyptian deity born from the lips of Ra. Who knows if those noises were coming from a parallel dimension, outer space, or some otherworldly sphere... Submerged in dark bottom waters, the stormy waves of the 'Acid Sea' are made of convulsive afro-flavoured percussion with sharp synths looming out like the ivories of some freakish abyssal creatures.

Following some new gems on the great Waxtefacts imprint, Strip Steve delivers a beautifully crafted cosmic EP as the second release on Berlin based label Man Band. With sounds ranging from ambient to raw, galactic workouts, this 5 tracker is a must have for listening just as much as dancing. 'Deep within the distant galaxy, a spaceship cruised under the glow of exotic stars. It's metallic frame glimmered beneath the shimmering light as it surged forwards through time and space. It was embarking upon a spectacularly perilous odyssey, a journey into the abyss. It's passengers sat eagerly watching their planet vanish out of sight through bubble windows. They made jokes amongst one another, cracking a smile as appropriate, but they were scared.' - Words by The Ransom Note, inspired by the track 'Odyssey'. Vital Sales Points: - Played by Alex from Tokyo at Rex club, Paris and Cocktail d'Amore, Berlin. Track 'Odyssey' Premiered by The Ransom Note

AB2088 aka Andy Brown emerged from the shadows earlier this year with his critically acclaimed debut album 'Sagittarius' on Computer Club. TX0 follows up in the form of a mini LP and 7" single on CPU.

Brown has already shown his knack for crafting beautiful red planet-esque techno and this album galvanises his reputation. A number of different tempos and dystopian soundscapes can be found throughout, all held together with jacking TR style sequences.

Introducing AIR LQD unsheathing his debut EP following a notable appearance last year with a seven inches on the lowkey (but nonetheless excellent) Perfekt Funktion, Ltd. label out of Brussels. Forthright, razor sharp techno tracks running at a neck-breaking pace that will leave you breathless, Remain Neutral is all about the urgency and the purposely crafted indiscipline meant to make you twist your body in every directions. Spoke throughout the feral scratches of overworked drum machines and the whiff distorted vocal samples taken from a tape found by chance, France via Belgium's Mehdi Kernachi carries on with his exploration of the danger notion in electronic music — borrowing as much to the slower, noisier industrial music of yesteryear as the speeded basement hysteria of rave culture — applying the scorched-earth policy throughout his tracks. There is a term to summarize this, cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Atomnation co-founder Pascal Terstappen presents 'For', his fourth longplayer as Applescal to date and a redefinition of his coveted sound. If you've been following this producer's output over the years, you're likely to be aware of his meticulously built tracks and remixes in which
playful percussion structures and otherworldly melodies fuse into compositions that float somewhere between the sofa and the dancefloor. Applescal's previous album 'Dreaming In Key' found excellent support in the press (Pitchfork 7,6, Xlr8r 7,5, Drowned In Sound 7) and got played
by DJ's such as Gilles Peterson, Laurent Garnier & Daniel Avery.
'For's' content, the new album, still transmits that organic and careless sound of Applescal's earlier work, but this time round things seem to
be dipping more frequently into deeper and darker waters. Many will recognize Applescal's signature sound in tracks such as 'Like You Do', 'Matter' and 'Overseas', with dreamscape synthesizers and sparkling grooves being the main ingredients, but 'For' also sees the producer drawing from a new sound palette, an even more mature one perhaps, bravely redefining his sound while staying true to the roots of his earlier work.

The second vinyl only release from this impeccable label presents textures of true deep house with 'Vapour Rises' and the mysterious 'Beings Beyond Comprehension', a spoken word 'Dedication to The Light' from a leading authority in the Sound Healing Field, a call for us to find the higher purpose, particularly relevant in these changing times and finally 'Chant of Antara (meaning 'Within' in Sanskrit) a blissful ambient piece created by layers of throat singing and ethereal effects.
Vapour Rises is beautiful, melancholy, meditative, deep house following on from the classics like Fingers Inc who created the genre so many moons ago. The Celestial Vocoder vocal version notes our 'Searching for meaning, Looking into little light boxes (our phones, computer screens and TVs)'
Celestial Being talking about Vapour Rises:
Vapour Rises was composed in Chicago. I was looking out of a hotel window on the fourth floor, looking out over the roof tops. It was very cold outside and as I remember almost in Black and White, probably twilight time. I saw people as dark shapes against the snow, and the odd car..but that just kind of went on and I was transfixed watching the smoke above the buildings going up into the sky. I felt in a very deep medative state making the track, as I considered Frankie Knuckles recent passing, in this city where the Underground Culture of Unity and House was his legacy. I had met him and spent time with him. He was a sweet, sincere and very positive human being. I considered my own death, of our short time here on this earth, how necessary it is for us to be genuine, honest, authentic, true. Watching the vapours rising from the buildings was like watch seeing souls rising up to divinity.
'So many lonely souls in the city as the snow settles, everybody looking into little light boxes, as the system powers down, So many golden souls in the city as the snow settles..looking into little light boxes trying to find their way back home...'

Nach den euphorischen Wellen, die sein 2013 veröffentlichtes Debüt "Life After Defo" geschlagen hat, gefolgt von unzähligen Live-Shows, kommt Daniel Wollhouse aka Deptford Goth nun mit seinem intensiven, zweiten Album "Songs" zurück. Dies ist die Folgeversion zum bereits veröffentlichten farbigen Vinyl, nun in schwarz.

Finally a sign of life and a new full length by the German trio after five years of silence. Already formed in the late nineties in Berlin, Dictaphone was born by Brussels-bred multi-instrumentalist Oliver Doerell. In 2000 Oliver Doerell found a partner in Berlin's Roger Döring, who shares Doerell's love for the Brussels-based music of the eighties. In the following years the duo and several guest musicians (e.g. Stephan Wöhrmann (SWOD) , Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact) & more) released the critically highly acclaimed "m.= addiction" (2002), the "Nacht" EP (2004) and "Vertigo II" (2006) via the City Centres Offices label of Thaddeus Herrmann and Shlom Sviri (Boomkat, Modern Love). In 2009 the violin player Alex Stolze joined the band. During their two decades of existence Dictaphone played shows in more than 20 countries with festival appearances at Mutek, Transmediale, Unsound, Benicassim & more. Their latest release "Poems from a rooftop" from 2012 came as a very limited edition through the Berlin-based boutique label Sonic Pieces. The new album "APR 70" is the first Denovali release of Dictaphone. The label will also reissue the past repertoire of the trio.

The new album features the three Dictaphone core members Oliver Doerell (electronics, bass, guitar), Roger Döring (saxophone, clarinet) and Alex Stolze (violins) and has been composed and produced over the course of three years. While the vibraphone and the more easily distinguishable guitar among other things gave a certain presence to the tracks on the previous album "Poems from a rooftop", "APR 70" leaves the listener with a much more muffled impression. It feels as if each of the uncountable layers of which the intricate arrangements are made has just the right amount of contrast to be visible, but there are only very few moments where one of the elements noticeably dominates the others. The cool jazz bits, analogue flourishes, hypnotic rhythms and refined electronics feed a dark serpent-like creature meandering in ever-changing morphologies through shapeless landscapes. "APR 70" is the perfect cocoon for the hazy days and the serene nights. A new incarnation, maybe even definition, of purity. Dictaphone never make music for the sake of it, they always want to create something which was missing before. And they did.

Approaching double figures in our Dispatch Dubplate series, #9 features DLR, Script & SCAR. Following countless ID requests, the long wait is over for This Is Bristol... , another classic DLR & Script collab and a coveted dubplate held by a select few over the past few years. Script also returns as SCAR along with Survival the duo first formed on Dispatch revisit their debut release, shaking the foundations with the mechanical lashings of Burnside VIP .

A limited run of 400 hand stamped, signed and numbered heavyweight vinyl copies are available; featuring an exclusive DLR track Antisocial which will not be retailed digitally.

Urpa i musell (Snout and claw in Catalan) is a record label that was conceived almost unconsciously throughout years of long lunchtime conversations at Discos Paradiso, a record store in Barcelona.The label begins their journey with the reissue of El Sueño de Hyparco's Ambientes Hormonales, originally released in 1990 on the Spanish label Hyades Arts.Drawing on the Berlin School, particularly Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream, as a main musical reference, and having emerged from the cassette movement, Ambientes Hormonales represents the missing link between the 80s New Music movement in Madrid and the beginnings in the 90s of contemporary electronic music in Spain.
First edition of 500, in original artwork, with new insert with liner notes by Antonio Dyaz aka Klaus Böhlmann

Durban's 23 year-old producer Emo Kid has announced he is to release eight-track debut EP, 'Gqomtera', through Gqom Oh! on September 22nd. Although titled 'Gqomtera', which Emo Kid explains is a slang term he and others use for the music, the record actually explores Sgubhu — another strain of South African dance music that shares many stylistic parallels with Gqom, though is always written with a 4x4 beat. Like DJ Lag before him, an artist widely considered the king of Gqom, Emo Kid is also considered a pioneer in Durban; 'Some people call me the Sgubhu king, but I'm just happy they're enjoying my music', he says. Based in Inanda, in the Etafuleni area township in Durban, Emo Kid's house looks out over an area called Isandlwana — the spot where the Zulu army famously defeated the British Army in the Battle Of Isandlwana in 1879. It is from this backdrop that he has written the majority of his music over the last few years, including new record 'Gqomtera'. At eight tracks long, 'Gqomtera' provides a comprehensive overview of the Sgubhu sound, with the aim of taking the listener on their own 'Durban Journey'. 'I wanted to show the uniqueness of my own style which I would describe as more musical', Emo Kid explains, 'you can feel the music when you listen but it still hits hard with that Gqom flavour.' That Gqom flavour, powered by hard, fast, uncompromising drums, provides a solid core from which everything else functions. Bright, shimmering trance synths feature on 'Futuristic Gqom', while on 'Enkwarini' — 'another word for a party or fantastic get together' — vocalist Fawell skips over light, playful Sgubhu rhythms. There's also space for harder, deeper cuts like 'Ground Shaker', cut with a twinkling melody line, the charging pace and power of 'Insimbi Yase Dubane' and the anthemic 'Asbambeki' featuring local crew TLC Fam, translating loosely to being unstoppable; 'It means you can't catch us basically', Emo Kid says proudly, 'On the dance floor, you can't touch us, we're on fire.' Capturing the raw, street sounds of his city, Emo Kid is the latest Durban artist to take the music global and with 'Gqomtera', put Sgubhu firmly on the map.

Welcomes Astrophonica's own Fracture to the Metalheadz camp with an incredible Limited Edition 12', featuring the tracks Better than Tomorrow', and Gangbusters' ." 

We would usually sum up the 12' in our own words but we believe Goldie's own comments to Fracture upon first listen OG the lead track probably do the release far more justice than we could!

Whilst sat on a plane to Australia last year Goldie immediately fired off the following comments to Fracture himself to express his overwhelming approval of the Music ....

I'm pulling out my teeth wanting to beat the guy next to me with a Snare and 10' dubplate !!!! This is one of the most original things I've heard in a long while! I HAVE to have this on Headz!!' - Goldie

* Fred V & Grafix bring a breath of fresh air with their long-awaited second album 'Oxygen'. The 15-track venture strips away any uniformity, opening up into dreamy, synthesized waves of drum & bass, elements of elegant electro-pop, down-tempo beats, unsuspecting instrumentation and everything in between.

* Their progression is clear from the off, the gorgeous 'Ignite' details infectious guitar and heartfelt harmonies from Fred V himself and their newest top-line finding, Amy J Price. She also appears on vocal led tracks 'Altitude' and 'Electrify' that push the pair even further into songwriter territory. They've spent months working with close friend Tudor Davies - whose vocal leads on romantic slow-mover 'One Of A Kind' - to create expressive, honest lyrics and enticing melodies throughout the LP.

* Fred V & Grafix's soundtrack style stands up tall in 'Nearly There' and 'Our Story' adding surprise collaboration with Bloc Party front-man Kele to the mix. Both tracks encapsulate the epic, 'hands in the air' euphoria that Fred V & Grafix deliver to devoted crowds worldwide. Their drum & bass dancefloor roots remain strong with tracks 'Stay Here' and 'Together We're Lost' picking up the pace.

* In the debut album 'Recognise' we got a taste for their skills as live musicians. In take two we get even more from Grafix guitars, to drums, keys and Fred V's own vocals, every element is faultlessly infused with title track 'Oxygen' as the perfect example.

* Also included are previously released tracks 'Ultraviolet', 'Comb Funk' and future summer anthem 'Like The Sun'. With this fantastic follow-up the duo have truly come into their own, an unrivalled pair balancing between drum & bass foundations and future electronic sounds. Fill your lungs and surround your ears with Fred V & Grafix's breathtaking long-player, 'Oxygen'.

* Fred V & Grafix will be kicking off a busy summer season joining the highly prestigious Essential Mix series with Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1 following previous support for Radio 1 playlist hit 'Forest Fires' as well as Annie Mac favourites 'Major Happy' and 'Constellations'. Their busy schedule includes a return to Glastonbury Festival, sets on Reading and Leeds BBC Radio 1 Dance Stage as well as high profile slots at Let It Roll, NASS Festival and the premiere Hospitality In The Park.

A quick split between H.J. and A.N. One freaky-deaky drum tool that operates on it own wave in space and time on the A, and the other side - a snappy, hazy ode(s) to the Rhodes.

Crash Worship meets The Residents with alumni from the Extra Action Marching Band! Follows up 2009's Burn The Navigator. Captures sonically the apocalyptic spectacle of their well known live shows. If one hasn't experienced the disorienting power of this throbbing fifty-piece troupe of masked chaos, this is another chance to join the apocalyptic party that is Itchy-O. Infamous from Colorado to Tasmania for astounding unsuspecting audiences with their aural and visual insanity, the band returns to unleash a fresh new album to add to their legendary live spectacle. They are the most unique band Jello Biafra has signed to Alternative Tentacles in many years! Based in Denver, Colorado, their percussion-centered electronic performance hive-mind has declared war on today's predictable mediocrity and blindsided fans with their unique music and astonishing performances since forming in 2009. From The Overflowing is the follow-up to their full-length debut Burn The Navigator which was released in 2014. This new album is charged with the same sonic fury of their live shows delivered by a driving drum corps battery and taiko drummers along side Spaghetti Western guitar licks, snake-charming bass lines, and a rich arsenal of dark electronics including synthesizers, theremin, and vocoders. The troupe completely engulfs and immerses the listener from every angle in a pounding electric bog of music and ephemera.

Descending is a composition consisting of two movements for room resonance, triangles, shakers and horns. The recording was made in August 2015, performed by the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra. Descending is Løkkegaard's and Kirkegaard's first collaboration.

The sound artists and composers Jacob Kirkegaard and Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard are both renowned for their ability to convert sound into a form with the character of an artwork and a bodily dimension that can be experienced by more than the ears alone. In his art, Jacob Kirkegaard uses acoustic phenomena that are usually either overheard or inaudible to the human ear. Using a range of sensors and recording methods, the material unfolds in compositions and spatial, visual and sound works. Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard's art focuses on the multiplication of sound, extending it beyond its usual boundaries to re-emerge in new forms, as well as on the creation of imaginary musical works that the listener has to envisage before their inner ear.

Jacob Kirkegaard (b. 1975) graduated from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne in 2006. His sound works are published by Touch (UK), Posh Isolation (DK), Von Archives (F) and Important Records (USA). Kirkegaard's works have been presented at a wide range of renowned exhibition platforms, festivals and conferences worldwide, including MoMA and Issue Project Room & The Stone in NYC, KW & Transmediale in Berlin, Mori Art Museum and Aichi Triennale in Japan, as well as Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark.

Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard (b. 1979) studied at Denmark's Rhythmic Music Conservatory and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' School of Architecture. He has created a wide range of works operating at the intersection of experimental music and sound art, including the soundtrack for MoMA's René Magritte exhibition The Mystery of the Ordinary in 2013. More recently he has created the critically acclaimed series SOUND X SOUND. Lyhne Løkkegaard is also the founder of the curatorial non-event Curatorium - a sound festival that never takes place.

FIRST EVER VINYL PRESSING OF JOHANN'S 2006 ALBUM - DELUXE GATEFOLD SLEEVE, 2 x CLEAR LP - TWO BONUS TRACKS, DOWNLOAD CODE INCLUDED

Never before pressed on vinyl, IBM 1401, A User's Manual, is one of Jóhann Jóhannsson's most loved works. Released in 2006, the decade since its release has seen Jóhann establish himself as one of the most important composers in the World today, most notably scoring movies such as Arrival, Sicario and The Theory of Everything.
Inspired by the work his father did in the sixties when chief maintenance engineer of one of Iceland's first computers, Jóhann originally wrote IBM 1401, A User's Manual to accompany a dance piece by long-standing collaborator and friend, Erna Ómarsdóttir. For this album release, he rewrote it for a sixty-piece string orchestra, with a new final movement (built around a poem by Dorothy Parker) and incorporating both electronics, and reel-to-reel recordings made by his father and friends in 1971 of an enormous IBM 1401 mainframe computer singing the hymn Ísland Ögrum Skorið by Sigvaldi Kaldalóns as it was being decommissioned.
The first ever pressing of IBM 1401, A User's Manual comes in a deluxe gatefold sleeve, having been reworked by Chris Bigg (v23) from his original design. Pressed on clear vinyl, two album tracks recorded in 2010 with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra at the Rudolfinum, Dvorák Hall in Prague have also been added and are exclusive to this release.

From 1974, the legendary debut album by Canterbury Scene pivotal figure, performance poet, painter and experimental musician June Campbell Cramer, better known as LADY JUNE. Produced by KEVIN AYERS, who also plays on the album along with BRIAN ENO, PIP PYLE (Gong, Hatfield and the North) and DAVID VORHAUS (White Noise).

Originally released by Virgin's budget imprint Caroline (home also of artist like Faust & Tony Conrad, Gong, Lol Coxhill, etc), Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy' is a surreal, eccentric, psychedelic oddity of interest to fans of the Soft Machine-Gong-Canterbury family as well to experimental / sound poetry / art-rock explorers.


*First vinyl reissue of this cult album, included on the legendary Nurse With Wound list.

*Remastered sound.

Sublabel of Vienna based Leap Records.

The first set of new Moon Zero cuts in two years, 'Relationships Between Inner & Outer Space' is a product of fevered displacement that nonetheless achieves a temple-like sense of calm, proportion and permanence. Scheduled for release in October 2017 on Denovali, the record is carpeted in traces of the settings that producer and composer Tim Garratt has found himself since we last heard from him, from Reykjavík to Leipzig with anything from a Dictaphone up to a studio to hand - it bears sounds from a vast number of different spaces, instruments and machines across its four colossal tracks. Paying attention to these rich patterns, they move and wind you in, producing a deep and rewarding catatonia.

While touring the first LP 'Moon Zero' (2015) Garratt lost his studio and flat, a relationship came to an end and he briefly moved back to his parents' in the Midlands. An emotional parabola familiar to anyone experiencing an economically-adrift, prolonged adolescence, it was heavy fuel for the melancholic sound world of Moon Zero. You can make out the origins of the record at the bottom of its multi-story wedges of sound, through dancing, duelling blocks of frequencies. And you can follow (somewhat obliquely, filling in the gaps) the inflections of different processes that these textures and melodic ideas have undergone, as Garratt moves them from machine to machine, speed to speed, room to room, through different combinations of effects. This churning celestial chaos, built painstakingly from detuned instruments, mono synths, field recordings and tape loops, is then meticulously ordered in the editing room.

The first side is in two tracks, each divided into two sweeping musical gestures, ordered by tone into a sequence of light-dark-dark-light and ending in a crescendo pulse with a 'Loveless'-like shimmer. The flip is also in two long tracks, each one a continuously-building, monolithic tranche. The change at the opening of the third number, 'Erwood Araf' is signalled with the entry of an unthreaded melody that repeats and gradually distorts while other caverns of sound open underneath and around it. Then, again on the halfway point, the idea dissolves and a minor key swell aches into frame before breeze block low end is deployed. One of Moon Zero's go-to sounds, an alloy of bowed cymbal, tape delay and who-knows, invokes the sound and disembodying feel of a train pulling into a station, if that moment could be elasticated and dragged far out. Emitting a chrome-sheen continental modernity, it's probably the emotional centre of the record and calls to mind Kraftwerk's 'Trans-Europe Express' and 'Radio-Activity' albums. Towards its end, on the nine-minute mark, in rides a soaring melody that surely has its roots in Garratt's Eastern European travels.

Each expansion of the Moon Zero universe has felt like a logical progression along lines set before, becoming ever more inventively structured and ambitious with its sonic palette but never straying from its nucleus of menacing, meditative drone. Fresh from playing Ruhrtriennale Festival alongside Actress, Demdike Stare and Ricardo Donoso amongst others, 'Relationships between Inner and Outer Space' is due to be released in October and Moon Zero will be announcing further shows in due course. This latest installation is the most profoundly affecting Moon Zero work to date, an unparalleled piece of infrasonic, atmospheric manipulation.