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In 2014, nearly three years after her acclaimed debut The Entire City (July 2011, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray), Gazelle Twin re-emerged in full force to stage and screen, gnashing her teeth and armed with pickings from her sophomore full length - UNFLESH - set for worldwide release on 22 September 2014, followed by the artist's first ever Tour in October. February's "bleak banger" (SPIN) single - 'Belly Of The Beast' and the 4-track EP 'Anti Body' in May, conjured intrigue from Dazed & Confused, I-D, Noisey, SPIN, The Fader, XLR8R, Q Mag, Radio 1 and a crop of well-established artists including Grimes, Chelsea Wolfe, Mira Calix and Tom Demac.
In UNFLESH the British artist/composer/producer - known on her ID cards as 'Elizabeth Bernholz' - explores a newfound, adrenalised-Pop style in greater depth - from the bone-chilling, Iggy Pop-inspired 'I Feel Blood', the stark choral lullaby of 'Premonition', to the Prince-meets-Sonic Youth influenced 'GUTS' and 'Still Life'. Far removed from the artist's former dreamscapes, UNFLESH presents a stripped down hyper-colour, hyperreality. Conceived in part, as a means of acting out vengeance on her antagonists (the list of which includes teenhood, recurring dreams, and her own body), Gazelle Twin's startling, electric-blue guise at once embodies the strife of her blighted younger self, and a kind of post-Pagan manifestation with superhuman potential - a concept that bears all the markings of an unwritten, cult Graphic Novel.But UNFLESH is not just an auto-biographical purging. Songs delve as candidly into themes as diverse as the history of European colonisation (I Feel Blood), Euthanasia (Good Death), children raised by animals (Human Touch), to gentle musings on miscarriage (Premonition). Despite this odd crop of topics, a 2 year exploration into science and medicine - the mutations, mysteries and liberations of the human mind and body - forms the spine of a courageous concept LP. A solo artist through and through, Bernholz rarely works out of her cloistered, digital home studio, but with the additional production and mixing artistry of Benge (one third of Wrangler, one half of John Foxx and The Maths, and internationally renowned analogue synthesiser hero), her new sound - crafted consciously from the analogue sounds of John Carpenter and Prince - is notably strengthened by the addition of museum-piece synthesisers such as the Moog Modular, the Linn-1, Formant Synth and the legendary CS80 - used by Vangelis' to create the soundtrack for Blade Runner. The LP's artwork (by the artist herself) features a Francis Bacon-inspired digital collage of the grimacing girl in blue, highlighting a clear obsession with the surreal and the visceral and confirming that Bernholz's all-encompassing creative output is every bit as startling as her recent critical acclaim suggests. Those who acquire the 12" LP or Digipak CD version of the UNFLESH album will encounter typography by Grammy award-winning British design agency, Barnbrook

As a member of Lumisokea, Andrea Taeggi shapes acoustic and electronic sound alongside Koenraad Ecker, into their singular take on bass music. Time signatures fold into themselves, volleying voluptuous percussions and sesimic synthscape. This seismic fixation extends beyond press hyperbole into aesthetic and philosophical study and on 'Aum' Taeggi presents the debut release of his Gondwana project. As Gondwana-land saw a pre-Pangaean unified land mass so Andreas solo mission is to draw all his influences together and mediate the whole. Opener 'A Gospel of Dirt' sets the scene with sparse sonic elements fused against a metallic backdrop. Sounds morph from liquid to solid shapes, melodies set to scales of a different time and place. 'Bootstrapping' tickles ears with it's off-coloured arpeggios backed up by a 9 legged gallop in the tesseract. Þingvellir open the b-side in majestic style, a paen to glaciation, of gargantuan movement unmeasurable in human time. Cast in bronze tones, fizzing with combs before it's deafening crescendo. Aum is a special record from a special musician and shows us a modern take on the cinema for the ear. Mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering.

Incl LoVil Remix! LoVil are Max Loderbauer& Ricardo Villalobos! Earlier this year, the 21yearold Valentin Stip unveiled his debut album on Nicolas Jaar's Other People Records. On 'Sigh', Stip presented classical piano, lightly sputtering grooves and intimate found sounds into an album of compositional grace and emotional honesty. Now comes reinterpretations from LoVil who are the combined talents of Max Loderbauer and Ricardo Villalobos, creating an elegant and organic movement that takes the static fizzes of'Pendule'†to new heights. Additionally an equally bold and experimental rework of 'Tableaux II' comes courtesy of Oren Ratowsky & Solpara. Valentin Stip emigrated to New York City in middle school and immediately fell in with a creative crowd including then fledgling producer and future Other People label head, Nicolas Jaar. Upon learning the ins and outs of electronic production, Stip discovered a new, personal way of interpreting the darkly shaded piano music he'd been writing. He soon released a string of melancholy, beatbased EPs on Nicolas Jaar's Clown & Sunset label, Anytime†Will†Do†(2011) and Angst†(2013), and toured alongside Jaar, all while he was still in college. Paul Sara AKA Solpara is part of Valentin Stip's label collective, Booma. He is also half of Pavla & Noura with Valentin who have previously released on Jaar's Clown & Sunset label on the Don't Break My Love Compilation and has forthcominh material coming up as an EP for OtherPeople in 2015. Nicolas Jaar's Other People is a serial label. L

Downliners Sekt zählen zu den bemerkenswertesten Künstlern der brodelnden Electronic-Szene Barcelonas. Auf ihrem dritten Longplayer "Silent Ascent" fesseln sie den Hörer mit einer überzeugenden Mixtur aus Post-Dubstep, Berliner Techno-Dub und Leftfield-Hip Hop. Ihr deeper Sound ist inspiriert von der Wissenschaft von Autechre, den Geisterechos des Basic Channel-Sublabels Burial Mix und dem Shoegaze von My Bloody Valentine. Zu ihren Fans zählen solch gestandene Kollegen wie Mount Kimbie, John Talabot, Kevin "The Bug" Martin oder Mary Anne Hobbs. Deshalb wundert es nicht, dass sie für die Produktion von "Silent Ascent" die Berliner Produzentenlegende Rashad Becker gewinnen konnten, der maßgeblich am Basic Channel-Sound beteiligt war.

Don't just think about Jellphonic tonight, pick up the phone and call. If you're lonely, confused, or just need a friend. He's been waiting, waiting to hear from you. Hot, private and live 24 hours a day for adults only. It seems like 12 years since Jellphonic put out a 12'', but this release proves that he is still the baddest man in the whole damn town. 5 low brow cuts that celebrate the finer things in life, analog synths, minimal production and mindless funk. All on his own imaginary label too, Bon appetit!

Black vinyl edition of previously released album on tape. Tracks recorded in 2013 in London. 200 copies pressed!

Jean Bach aka Leprozid Pfarrhaus aka Bidol Cath and in real life to be known as Sascha Schierloh set up his first pseudo-compilation "Little Brutal Rave Bastards" long time ago on legendary labels like Dhyana or simply his own imprint. After a very long time he now releases the 5th volume as grey 7" vinyl in an extremely limited series of less than 100(!) pieces. If you like dead cable noise, harsh IDM or good old noisy techno, this is your perfect sunday afternoon record! Grab your copy until it's sold out!

13 Jahre nach seinem letzten Longplayer "Drukqs" (2001) veröffentlicht Aphex Twin sein mit Spannung erwartetes neues Album "Syro", das mit einer fantasievollen Outdoor- und Online-Teaserkampagne häppchenweise kommuniziert wird. Musikalisch bietet der Aphex Twin elektronische Abstraktion in Perfektion. Glasklarer, präziser Sound, technisch auf dem neuesten Niveau, teils superfunky, immer hochintensiv. Es folgt dem Überraschungsrelease des bislang unveröffentlichten Albums "Caustic Window", das dieses Jahr Millionen von Klicks und über 100.000 US-Dollar per Crowdfunding und Auktion einsammeln konnte.








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A new Vereker side-project — techno, rooted in Noise and Industrial, but spurring all three bloody and yabbering — with an LP in the pipeline for Berceuse Heroique sister-label Kemal.

'All Under', the companion release to 'All Over' compiles soundtracks to films, installations and a self penned short story. This is familiar terrain for Lewis who, along with Bruce Gilbert produced the early interactive audio-visual installation 'MZUI' at London's Waterloo Gallery in 1981. Since this period Lewis as been involved in countless soundtracks to all manner of cultural artefacts. The haunting score to Gunilla Leander's 2003 short film 'All Under' was improvised in real time with a sampler and FX processing and recorded on to mini disc. The results are a viscous ambience of swirls, feedback and distortion. This material was then adapted for an immersive 3 screen installation of the same visual material which features combinations of 6 nude bodies (4 men, 2 women) fighting and wrestling, filmed underwater

Albanese's compositions are airy and cinematic, blending classical music, electronics and psychedelia. Federico started studying piano and clarinet as a child before becoming fascinated by rock music. As a teenager he studied bass and became a self-taught guitarist and soon became one of the leading figures of Milan's underground scene, performing in several bands. Influenced by black music, folk, electronic, modern and contemporary classical music his skills as a composer soon emerged. In February 2014, Federico Albanese released his debut album entitled ""THE HOUSEBOAT AND THE MOON"" on Denovali Records. He recorded all of the piano parts with a 1969 German tape recorder, the Uher Royal Deluxe, which allowed him to catch all of the tiny hidden shades, the imperfections, the noises of the piano and its surrounding space. Federico melted this rarefied sound with electronics, live recordings, strings, and homemade instruments. The result was a combination of contrasts and colors with a variety of atmospheres that wonderfully represented Federico's musical universe. The idea to release an EP with reworks of songs from ""The Houseboat and the Moon"" took shape in Federico's mind already while he was recording the album. He was fascinated by the idea of re-exploring the pieces, to put them in a different context, to give them to artists he loves and to see what would emerge from this. The result is a striking compilation of four reworks by Albanese's fellow labelmates JOHN LEMKE, FRANZ KIRMANN of PIANO INTERRUPTED, SAFFRONKEIRA as well as by subliminal techno masterminds CASSEGRAIN, exploring a wide range of the spectrum of electronic music. ""Through Denovali I had the chance to discover lots of very good artists and producers, with whom I thought it would have been great to collaborate." It's been an honor to collaborate with all these great artists." Vinyl: thick sleeves + thick printed inner sleeves, 180g vinyl, different vinyl colours, free download.

Given the positive reception that led Maoupa Mazzocchetti's debut EP for Unknown Precept, we have decided to put on tape some of the tracks that were not released on his vinyl. Call it what you will, this vicious industrial terror for when the dance-floor turns ugly sees Maoupa going a little further in the experimentation, giving sex-appeal to discomfort through these four oxidized cuts.

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The 1st EP by Moon Zero (London-based Tim Garratt) 'TOMBS' is, especially for a debut, a bold and confident musical statement, which reimagines the possibilities of processed organ and vocal sounds in a live context. The opener 'Dalyan' builds from slowly wavering layers of sound into a crumbling, decaying wall of fuzzed-out, peaking noise, which in turn builds again into ever-moving blocks of chopped loops and feedback, absorbing the listener completely into Moon Zero's musical space. A remarkable listen.

Ambient/ Electro/ Experimental.. For fans of Tim Hecker, Fennesz, Hans-Joachim Roedelius. "The Silver Chimney Club / Wat Tyler comprises two long form tracks written between between ""Onkalo"" and the latest Petrels album ""Mima"". Originally released for a short while in digital format they're now presented here in re-mastered form with new artwork for this release. Asked about the background of the two tracks, Petrels' Oliver Barrett comments: ""The Silver Chimney Club was written to mark the death of my grandfather, Ernest Barrett, who passed away at the end of last year. A civil engineer during his working life, The Silver Chimney Club was the name of the name of a group formed of fellow work colleagues who would meet up on a semi-regular basis - I suspect more for social than professional reasons. As a tribute I'm not sure what he would have made of it but I wanted to create something that combined the industry he was a part of with his love of music that was passed on down to me. My grandfather was a socialist and Labour supporter (by which I mean the original post-war, pre-Blair party) - another thing I inherited from him, and which ties with the second piece on this release. Wat Tyler is named after the leader of the Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381. Ostensibly a revolt against the poll tax, the movement was built on an undercurrent of a desire for social change and a demand for an end to the stiflingly limiting social structures of the time. Initially successful, the rebellion was abruptly cut short when Wat Tyler was murdered by the Mayor of London after Tyler supposedly insulted the young kind of England, Richard II during a parley. Over six centuries on, a lot less has changed in the world than those involved in the Peasants' Revolt might have hoped." Since releasing his debut ""Haeligewielle"" in 2011, Petrels has toured across Europe and shared a stage with the likes of Tim Hecker, FIRE!, Nate Young (Wolf Eyes), Trouble Books, Fennesz, Nadja, and Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster). Having also collaborated with and provided remixes for artists as varied as Duane Pitre, Brassica, Talvihorros and Max Cooper, Petrels' output is proving to be thrillingly eclectic and unpredictable. CDdigipak / Vinyl: thick covers + thick printed inner sleeves, 180g vinyl, different vinyl colours, free download.

'RIVEN' by ULLI BOMANS comes straight from the heart of SHITKATAPULT, both personally and musically. As Schieres and Shrubbn!! (with T.Raumschmiere), ULLI BOMANS has been releasing uncompromising electronic music since the day the Berlin Label was founded. But BOMANS' main work is actually as a visual artist in Hamburg (and Bremen), which is also how the cover of RIVEN originated - an illustration of his work 'MISSING SHIPS' from his last exhibition ('SPOILPARK') in Bremen. His work consists mostly of large-scale collages, which are aptly referred to as urban sampling and are closely related to his music production. So it seemed more than logical for a late debut album to forgo the alias and come with an authentic author's album as this

With Breathing Statues, Young Magic's series of audio experimentations coalesce into a new holographic landscape, showing a band progressing with ambition towards a sound uniquely their own. Young Magic is the sonic pairing between Indonesian vocalist, Melati Malay and Australian producer, Isaac Emmanuel. Although currently based in New York, the eclectic outfit has recorded music whilst traversing the four corners of the earth

Coming as transparent vinyl in a screenprinted limited edition of 200 pieces. This release contains 7 tracks by grmmsk from helsinki / finland. stretched in time haunted voices from the caribbian diaspora tumbling through misty and wet streets of baltic shores. drones of wire spring reverbs meet halftimed doom dub. beside unreleased tracks there are some versions of tracks released before on grmmsk own imprint totes format on cassette. Pressed on transparent vinyl in a hand printed translucent cover, it conceptualizes the album's title 'ONE WORLD - nowhere to hide'. When the idea of UNITY has failed with the result of a world that is increasingly ruled by a hegemony of fear and control, escape into something J.G. Ballard has been calling INNER SPACE, seems imminent. But what happens there Here's what: DOOMDUB! Dystopian versions of a sound, that has been associated with glaring sunshine of the caribbean before, is now dragged through the dirty snow flanking the ring-highway circling hellsinki.

Beat Spacek is the latest project from UK vocalist / producer Steve Spacek, a man who should really need no introduction. With boundless abilities, his work transcends genre and style - instead focusing more on swing, melody, vibe and atmosphere. From his legendary output with the band Spacek - 'Curvatia' (2001), 'Vintage Hi-Tech' (2003); solo work on the cult Sound In Color imprint and collaborations with the late, great J.Dilla; to his under-the-radar Black Pocket project for dBridge's Exit Records and his most recent work with Mark Pritchard as one half of Africa HiTech, his fearless approach to creation has always been progressive and highly original.

Beat Spacek sees him once again take the reigns as a solo artist creating a record that is as much a love letter to the future as it is an ode to the past. Created largely using iPhone and iPad apps, the album once again finds Steve liberated through new technologies, excited by the prospects of 'the new' whilst expressing notions of the past. It's a journey through the evolution of modern Britain from a futurist perspective.

Framed against a particular period in the 1980s when Steve was growing up as a young man in New Cross, South East London, 'Modern Streets' is rooted in the duality of the past and the future. Flim-Flams was the club where he first experienced the clash of sounds and styles that characterised South London's racial, ethnic and cultural melting pot. A spot where punks, soul heads, new romantics, dread locks and skinheads all converged brought together through a love of music and new sounds.

From the paranoid, post-punk, sleng teng musings of "I Wanna Know" to the new wave pop-powered love song "Inflight Wave", 'Modern Streets' is a direct reflection of that experience, envisioned through the mind of a 21st Century rudeboy. Ghanaian highlife is re-imagined in digital form on "Tonight"; "Stand Firm" tips its hat to the dancehall with a futuristic rinse; whilst the sub-bass powered anthem "Alone in Da Sun" draws on the finest elements of dubstep's sonic vocabulary and reworks them into a loose, new age club jam, brimming with soul and charisma.

The release number 12 on Giegling is a product of four individual tags of memories. Growing up in the same city Hannover the four producers Vril, Prince of Denmark, Leafar Legov and Herr Koreander share some part of a collective mind which led to this EP.

Object Relations is a very promising new 7' label curated by Mark Fell focusing on
collaborations between diverse artistic practices.
Recorded in Milan, 2014, the label's inaugural edition establishes its remit in a unique
combination of Fell's crafty drum programming with the adroit, keening cello
improvisation of trained cellist and composer Sandro Mussida, following their meeting
and performance in Tuscany at the International Encounters in Sound event.
On both sides, Fell's elliptical microtemporal Linndrum arrangements are matched
and coloured with compelling streaks and wooden strikes from Mussida in a tussle of
crooked time signatures and rhythmelodic cadence resolving and dispersing at oblique
yet somehow elegant angles.
The first results of this collaboration sees a departure from the purely electronic
asceticism of Fell's widely known work for Editions Mego or Raster Noton, and perhaps
best compared with the minimalist, downtown early '80s experiments of Peter Zummo
and Arthur Russell, albeit effectively shorn of that duo's more melodic affectations.

In 1925 Hugo Gernsback invents the "Isolator", an elusive helmet that can cloister oneself away. Now 89 years later Lockertmatik puts on the helmet ...

3rd release of Downbeat black label, the sublabel of Downbeat. The owners of the label, Jose Rico, Urtzi and F-on present us two long slow motion tracks with field recordings, whirring melodies and voices from beyond the grave. Two dense experiments which show us the less kind side of Downbeat and continue along the path opened up by "Solaris". Only 200 copies pressed

These tracks are largely shying away from the dancefloor in favour of something more complex.

Bells Jam is stand-and-deliver improvisation, alive and rocking, with minimal editing; Split Guest is dense, multi-faceted, hypnotic music by Matthew Mullane, from Princeton, NJ, and Spectrum Spools; label co-founder Sam Lewis aka Herron returns with the time-shifting rhythmic complexity of 33 Weeks; Nick Lapien from Sequencias and Field Records makes a long ascent as Metropolis.

frank bretschneider's new project SINN + FORM (MEANING AND FORM) is based on the idea of a fundamentally chaotic world as we know it from mathematical or physical theories and models (dynamical systems, probability theory, stochastic systems), and the constant attempt of man to recognize and
to describe, predict, control and change this world.musically, this system is simulated electronically using a modular synthesizer
system. various modules produce a constant fow of randomly generated data that modulate the decisive musical parameters (pitch, note length, volume, tone). the attempt of SINN + FORM in this context is to transform this stream of events into a musically relevant system of chaos and order, dynamics and statics, content and form by means of an improvised but deliberate process of constant control and infuence.aesthetically, the project recalls the electronic music of the mid 20th century: studios such as the IRCAM in paris, stockholm's EMS (elektronmusikstudion), the WDR »studio for electronic music« in cologne, or new york's columbia princeton electronic music center. SINN + FORM also captures the dynamics and energy of a spontaneous improvisation, last but not least as a reaction to a complex world, a world in permanent crisis.the material was recorded in july 2014 at EMS, stockholm, using the buchla and serge analog synthesizer systems.

Crafty, full range, minimalist to EBM leaning Techno set

lse Marie Pade's Electronic Works 1958-1995 is a heavy duty three LP set which was restored, mastered and cut at Dubplates in Berlin under the watchful ears of curator Jacob Kirkegaard. These monumental works are presented, for the first time, pressed on audiophile grade heavy duty vinyl where they belong. 3LP is pressed in an edition of 500 copies. "The sounds outside became concrete music, and in the evening I could imagine that the stars and the moon and the sky uttered sounds and those turned into electronic music." Else Marie Pade Else Marie Pade (born 1924 in Aarhus, Denmark; currently living in Copenhagen) is a precious golden gem in the world of contemporary electro-acoustic music. She is a true pioneer of Musique Concrete and electronic music recorded on tape. She is Denmarks first lady of electronic music and her piece Syc Cirkler (Seven Circles) became Denmark's first electronic piece to be performed on the radio. EMP's search for sound began in early childhood when she was isolated in her bed for long periods of time due to illness. There she would lie and listen to the sounds around her just as she did years later when she was imprisoned for spying on Nazi compounds in Arhus. Once released from prison she became a piano student at the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen but chose to instead pursue the nuances of her inner sound world after hearing Pierre Schaeffer in 1952. She began studying with him not too soon thereafter. Her first electronic composition premiered in 1955. Illustrationer

Cities of Light is F.E. Dennings vinyl debut and it is his best work to date. The compositions aswell as the emotions are more complex than before and with his signature of endless pools of synth drones and melodies cascading on each other, he draws out a perfectly paranoid image of a modern metropolis. The equal measures of beauty and horror that occupy the modern sleepless machine cities, is presented in a blurred narrative over the records five pieces. Cities of Light feels neither for or against the concept of mega city that it displays, the record feels more like someone accepting the state of things, accepting that soon the sunrise will be broadcasted on billboards because of smog layers. Accepting that even with millions and millions of people there are no familiar faces appearing in the masses. That the city has become an organism of its own and that any fighting against it has already been intergrated in its system. Cities of Light is a beautiful and cinematic drone record, a new level for the work of F. E. Denning and a very precise portray of how it feels to be alone with millions around you.

Following on from the first release (Neph / Phi) on his label Tanum last year, Klaus releases two more dark, earth rocking pieces to shake down babylon.
45rpm 12" cuts by Matt Colton at Alchemy, pressed by Optimal, no bullshit, no digital

Photay is the solo musical endeavor of Evan Shornstein, a 21-year-old hailing from the lush and peaceful evergreen valley of Woodstock, NY.

Having been introduced to Aphex Twin at the tender age of 9, he quickly began to embrace music in all of its forms. This early inspiration provided a foundation for his musical growth in drumming, turntablism and eventually composition. Drawing on a wide range of global influences, he dove headfirst into the world of audio experimentation, initially through mixes recorded using his turntables, and later on through the use of digital audio software.

After an eye-opening trip to Guinea, West Africa, Photay was born. Combining his newly acquired knowledge of polyrhythmic percussion and years of experimenting with sampling and field recordings, he went on to create and self-release his first project under the alias. Seamlessly combining a variety of audio sources and techniques, Photay's sound is a balancing act of analog and digital, of natural and synthetic. It is not designed exclusively for headphones nor for the dancefloor, but is genuinely at home in both contexts.

This unique and confident young voice is in full effect on his debut self-titled release for Astro Nautico. Restlessly playful, Photay's unique range of compositional skills is immediately apparent, with tempos and moods spontaneously emerging and evolving organically. Fusing catchy melodies with unusual textures, this is invigorating music that speaks an ancient language. It is vibrant, dynamic and beautifully unexpected. It will move you.

"Bang, nine, automatic... Do you think the truth shall make you free" - Amen Andrews
"But when me read the news, me read it different!" - Amen Andrews
"Fuck all y'all" - Amen Andrews
"And we can ride the boogie..." - Amen Andrews
- Limited vinyl!!! --
4 $ cuts on a single disc. This junglist moniker, reserved for Luke Vibert's toughest of tunes, first appeared on Rephlex Records in the mid oughts and returns now with his first new Amen Andrews material in almost a decade.
Vinyl cut straight from the audio source using a special technique of firing a Tek 9 automatic in the mastering suite.

The highly promising Loopy opens its account with a double dose of disorientating, hypnotic botheration from NZ-er Oliver Peryman, ex of labels like Samurai Horo, Tri Angle and Exit. Both cuts are curtly compelling: SS is darting and hyper; Knecht more haunted, percussive.
On the flip, Kassem Mosse contributes some elastic, bubbling funk, with characteristic panache; and Oren Ambarchi settles in for twelve minutes of the frighteners.
An excellent EP. Watch out for Loopy.

Takes you both deep into the microcosmos & out to the furthest reaches of the solar system. Its 11 tracks are eventful conflagrations of bizarre tones moving in unpredictable patterns, inducing a thrilling & upsetting vertigo. Screen printed cover LTD 300

I was heavily inspired by Chris Marker's film Sans Soleil (Sunless) just before I began recording the EP. He talks about remembering and memories; we preserve our recollections through photographs, films, literature and in my particular case, music. Each track on the EP is essentially a memory preserved.

The EP deals with ennui or just the overlying feeling of listlessness that usually props up when one thinks life is futile. Again, like my last release, this EP is quite melancholic in nature except the themes are more mature. I've focused on the artificial gratifications such as drugs, sex and what these temporary distractions can do to you and the relationships around you.

Design a Wave aka Tom Hirst has been making music since the late 90s, via bedroom synth, dictaphone collages and coldwave guitar textures. Since then, he has released music on Luke Younger's Alter Label as well as Rush Hour's No Label, developing his distinctive blend of experimental synth-wave.

This latest EP, International Journey of Synthetic Emotion, comprises of three tracks, introduced by experimental synths and drum patterns of track I. The EP delves into electro dance territory with track II, moving towards off-kilter house on the B-side.

Limited Clear Vinyl Pressing!
Record opens one a donwtempo techno electronica experimentation, with a deep House On Mars sound feeling. Then turns more electronica experimental, grounding creeping electric sounds. Drilling the ambientish noises with a dark glitch precision. Cutting feets.

Gunnar Haslam is a long-time regular at The Mister. By day he's a scholar of particle physics and signal processing, and by night he makes very heady music, some of which has made its way onto their very first ten-inch release.

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." A modern-day revenge tragedy in four parts. Symmetrical, finespun, almost courtly; but quick-tempered with it, and far from blood-shy. A picture emerges: domestic disturbance, pissing on the compost heap, noise complaints from hateful neighbours. Sulking, pouting, goading. Cold leaves and Christmas. Body-clocks betrayed, seasonal adjustment disorders. Collecting bottles to smash in the carpark across the road. Marijuana and make-believe. A flaming bower of unbliss. Recommended for fans of AC Marias, Brenda Ray, General Strike, The Poems, Robert Storey and other master purveyors of shut-in, fitfully serene dub dysfunction. Created by C. dal Forno and T. Manek. Mastered by Dan Elleson and cut by Matt Colton. Edition of 300.