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Back to the Reve ! Nelumbo is a long beautyfull tekno house tune, full of evolution and secrets, with a superb pan pipies playing an obsessing melody. I miss You is a progressive bassline acid techno tune, in the vibe of Circular Rainbow 03 best tune... As usual Mr Reve ends his Circular rainbow with one experimental bonus track.... soulfull realese from the man who was also realeasing the XTRX tunes far in the years before.

Blackest Ever Black's last release of 2013 comes from Secret Boyfriend, the solo project of North Carolina's Ryan Martin, who is also one half of Boyzone (not that Boyzone, unfortunately) and founder of the Hot Releases label - a catholic endeavour that has seen him release records from the cream of the contemporary N.C. underground as well as reissuing classic sides by the likes of Maurizio Bianchi, Ghedalia Tazartes and Ashrae Fax. To date, Secret Boyfriend's presence has been felt largely in the shape of live performances and short-run cassette releases (including Carved At Birth, Furnishing The Void and Skin On The Clock), as well as vinyl splits with Russian Tsarlag and Horaflora. This Is Always Where You've Lived is SB's first LP release and unquestionably his most potent, fully realised work to date. Twelve songs from under the floorboards: a heart-rending but hard-edged synthesis of downer folk, tape experiments, noise etudes and basement-mildewed pop for edgeland fuck-ups, loners and wanderers; recommended if you like Peter Jeffries, Flaming Tunes, Storm Bugs, etc. Arguably comes closer than any previous BEB release to articulating the 'mesmerised suburban daydreams of our youth".

Release of 300 12" handnumbered black label with xylographic printed cover in polyjacket. Release is featured by Tailored Communication promotion and will be covered by Airplays,Internet and Paper Reviews as well as a Video Teaser and a Music Video for one of the tracks, an internet site will be launched only for the video as art exhibition of GangOfDucks feat. Vaghe Stelle.

Airplays: Radio Orange, moun10;Bln.fm;Bart van Rijn;polska radio 4 kmag machina

Reviews: coming soon


Vice Noisey Italia will cast a review of HOPE EP with a bonus track from Vaghe Stelle(this track is not included in HOPE EP) in free download to support the release.


Vaghe Stelle is Daniele Mana (who is also one third of One Circle). Daniele is a Turin-based producer who could be considered an oddball by his peers. Vocaloid sounds for his bass lines and lead sounds, videos of cyber-wandering in Vatican's Saint-Peter church on Google Streetview, and DJ sets with Justin Timberlake tracks mixed with something that sounds like Cosmic Garage on acid, is just a glimpse of what you should expect from him.From synth-heavy Techno to lo-fi shenani-gans, he has mastered the concept of dream music and pushes it forward like a mad scien- tist. Having released his music on Margot Records, Shabu Recordings, Danse Noire, Astro:Dynamics, Monkeytown Records and Left Blank, and being remixed by established names such as Lukid, Peaking Lights, Nguzunguzu, Samoyed and BNJMN, it is safe to say that we will hear more of Vaghe Stelle's out of reality music, feeding the minds of the masses.

That old saw about dancing and architecture notwithstanding, I am like most people who make records in that I do not especially relish the task of writing about them. (Better to focus on putting one's pants on both legs at a time and using one's Sèvres china every day, if you ask me.) That's not to say that writing about records is a worthless or futile undertaking — far from it; however, as artists ideate in their media of choice, they implicitly challenge the assumption that the written word is the privileged medium of ideation — or at least they do so to the extent that their work succeeds. This truism aside, I seem to have drawn the proverbial short straw, and so it falls to me to tell you something useful about When We Were Eating Unripe Pears, a record which I recently completed, and which will be released shortly (perhaps by the time you read this, even) by Spectrum Spools.

Mere Pts 1-3Recorded 91-92Originally released as part of Disengage by Staalplaat. Special thanks to Geert-Jan Hobijn and Frans de Waard for their years of support.
Trombone: Jeff CortazzoCello: Sue WolfShortwave: Michael PrimeVoice: Geoff Fontaine, Gretchen Wells, Matt Guerierri, Scott Shell
MerelyRecorded live at Depaul University 1991Percussion: Carrie Biolo
Remastered 2012 Steamroom TokyoThis one is for Billy F

Annie Hall's new LP Random Paraphilia on Detund™ explores these experiences through five original tracks with remixes by Richard Devine, Valance Drakes and ERP.

Setting the stage for this intense journey into experimental electronics is Annie Hall's track DSM-5 which when spliced and diced in the remix by rhythmic mutilation master Valance Drakes establishes an ache deep inside mind and body. Together they offer a bold introductory to Random Paraphilia. Annie's collaboration with Shadow Huntaz in Bandit 28930 adds a male vocal and sets the stage for release of the pent-up pressure, through a remix by none other than Richard Devine, who emerges after months incommunicado from his new Atlanta based studio with Bandit 28930 Remix -- a remix for which many around the world have been anxiously awaiting. Prepare yourself for new Richard Devine frequencies creating what we believe to be the most blissfully disturbed / re-aligned symphonic nerve rhythms of aural affect. Annie takes the reigns back pumping a frenetic, raw, experimental sound in Sada Abe. Tables are next given to Convextion aka E.R.P. who captures her snare for a mesmerizing effect in his gorgeous idm electro soul Sada Abe remix. Annie's voice and rhythm machines respond with breakbeat-style in Foihtreiu diversifying the set with what only a graceful feminine touch can produce. Rounding the set out is Symphora featuring new synced visual work by CPU Bryant Place, SF based Obscura digital artist, complementing the mystical journey with a visual experience unlike any other.

Record Sleeve and promo video are by DMAS3 who once again completes the audio-visual package with elegantly futuristic visual art appealing to our desire for journey far and wide. Annie Hall's Random Paraphilia is personal, intimate and political. It is a highly-charged and dynamic 8-track LP beckoning us to explore the world anew.

Wanda Group to release the 'OUTER ALSATIAN' EP on NOTOWN Recordings on November 25th

Wanda Group, aka Louis Johnstone, is the latest artist to release a record with Gold Panda's label, NOTOWN Recordings. An artist who 'creates beautiful, decayed landscapes of tape crackle, hiss and distortion' (The Quietus), the music of Wanda Group is an other-worldly collage of sounds that touch on musique concrete and other forms of oblique, densely beautiful sounds.

The release follows the appearance of his much discussed 'PISS FELL OUT LIKE SUNLIGHT' release on vinyl earlier this year after initially appearing in cassette form on Opal Records. Previously Wanda Group has released music on the likes of NNA Tapes, Further Records, Woetone and Vlek.

To showcase the exciting releases Young Turks had throughout 2013, the label released a series of uniquely artworked limited edition 12"s. Each vinyl features 2 tracks by artists affiliated with the label in 2013, such as Lost Scripts (John Talabot & Pional), Koreless, The xx, Sampha, Short Stories, and Pional. The entire collection is now getting a release on CD format with an extra two songs (FKA Twigs and SBTRKT) and individual artwork cards for each track featured. 

Young Turks was established in London in 2007 and has released records by SBTRKT, Chairlift, Holy Fuck, Sampha, The xx and many more.

C L N K is the latest musical incarnation of Silviu Badea a.k.a. Montgomery Clunk. Error Broadcast published two EPs with the enigmatic Romanian producer but following the release of 'Mondegreen' early in 2012 Badea went through a series of changes. We lost touch for a bit. Then, late in 2012, he re-appeared and out of the vacuum of his temporary exile Badea presented the full-length album you are about to witness as 'Black Ecstasy'.
C L N K, now, is different to what you might have heard from Montgomery Clunk. On 'Black Ecstasy' Badea explores the bat caves of techno. Primordial music for the jilted generation,
'Black Ecstasy' leans towards a variation of techno that stems from post punk and its electronic successors, that is, West Berlin rather than Detroit. After-hour cave man music
that reeks of unwashed skin and dirty fingernails. However C L N K must not be limited to
80's nostalgia. Badea spices his productions with shivers of acid house, rich ambient textures, and fathomless dub, making 'Black Ecstasy' a quintessential 2013 thing.

Nineteen89 have switched things up since their last release from Crypt and provided a murkier vibe that will take you into the autumn months with a chill down your spine, once again proving that they are a record label without boundaries.


Scottish based producer Sebmann delivers two sub-heavy techno influenced records that are guaranteed to vibrate your chestplate. Title track 'Shtun' rolls on a journey into a realm of pure analogue sub pressure, laced with a slight 2-step groove that knocks the track straight into the centre of the dance floor.


On the flip, industrial percussion and a solid kick throughout stipulate the backbone of 'Kase-2', with a bassline reminiscent of early Ed Rush & Optical, complete with the ambience of the ghostly New York subway.


Remixes come from rising new school stars Lleska with his drum heavy version of 'Shtun' and Viers Techno rolling edit of 'Kase-2'.
"Warehouse Techno mixed with early UK Dubstep' - Attack Magazine

The final Bangers & Ash salvo for 2013 shudders into view on all hallows' eve, with two dangerously unhinged modular experiments from Brooklyn's Oliver Chapoy, akaCertain Creatures. Featuring a spine-chilling journey through the New York underworld narrated byIke Yard(Stuart Argabright /Black Rain), as well as a monstrous techno excursion punctuated by otherworldly synth malaise, Certain Creatures' debut 12" is a harrowing entry in the BASH canon.


For the Ash side, Ike Yard introduces a city haunted by the specter of crime and corruption. It's a journey helmed from improvised modular synthesizer techniques, relying on Argabright's vocals to provide a suitably creeping backdrop for Chapoy's steadily growing sense of panic and fear wrought from his machines. Pepper spray and flashlights would do a listener well.


The Bangers' "Bosch" morphs from a sub-bass pulse into careening shards of light and guttural bursts of electrons, ricocheting off one another into a rampaging beast of massive proportions. The chaos swells into an alarming array of rhythmic cadences, enveloping the composition in a barely-contained atmosphere of dread and fury.


Released as a limited run of 300 hand-stamped 12" records. Front cover design byBryan Collins, screen-printed by SUS and Certain Creatures at Bushwick Print Lab.

Void Coms is a label inspired by the work and theories of Yves Klein. Klein's work revolved around a Zen influenced concept he came
to describe as "le Vide" (the Void). Klein's Void is a nirvana-like state that is void of worldly influences; a neutral zone where one is
inspired to pay attention to ones own sensibilities, and to "reality" as opposed to "representation". We hope to apply these ideas to
the musical and identity approach of the label, letting powerful music speak above persuasive imagery & enticing embellishments.
Klein tried to make his audience experience a state where an idea could simultaneously be "felt" as well as "understood". In todays
musical market, we think the 'feeling' is being left behind in favour of the perception.
Void Coms celebrates it's inaugural audio transmission with one of todays true innovators. New Zealander Oliver Peryman aka Fis has
had just 3 releases to his credit so far, but has sent a whirlwind of intrigue across the entire electronic musical plain with these sound
sculptures. Fis has taken conventional musical composition and reformed it using an unexpected, but extremely rewarding method
that embeds itself in your psyche revealing new and unheard audio contortions with every listen. 'Homologous' takes the form of 3
compositions designed specifically for Void Coms, with Fis being heavily instrumental in the development of the ideology behind the
label, as well as spearheading it's musical direction.
VOIDCOMS001 has been mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy to be released on 12" Vinyl with a laser etching of original artwork by
Fis designed exclusively for the release.
Further transmissions to follow.

Dead Cert illuminate three unique and chilling electro-acoustic compositions by the
pioneering head of Belgium's Institute of Psychoacoustic and Electronic Music dating
between 1958-1971.
Born 1904, in Roeselare, Belgium, Louis De Meester was a self taught musician who, after
travelling widely as a professional player, professed himself an autodidactic composer
by 1945, proceeding to become 'Music Modulator' at The BRT (Belgian Radio and TV
broadcasting company) and later head producer and artistic director at IPEM in Ghent
between 1962-1969. His work, covering chamber music, lieder, cantatas and concertantes
has been subject of renewed focus recently thanks to reissues such as Metaphon's 50
year anniversary compilation of IPEM recordings, and now thanks to the efforts of Andy
Votel and Demdike Stare's Dead-Cert imprint, we're presented with three of his finest
pieces plucked from the archive of Alpha Brussels and carefully transferred from tape
with little to no further processing by Andy Popplewell.
They include 'Incantations' (1958) and the string-heavy piece, 'Spielerei' (1970), plus
a very necessary reissue of the outstanding 'Mimodrama' (1971), which was also
reissued by Keith Fullerton Whitman's Creel Pone in 2008 and was last available on vinyl
in 1974. 'Mimodrama' is the record's biggest attraction; a 26 minute composition for
magnetophone patching elements of previous works into a sort of biographical account
travelling from oneiric electronics to more defined concrète shapes and textures to
almost arcane Mittel European folk melodies and rhythms.

Morphine records continue to unearth recordings from Philadelphia's synth pioneer, Charles Cohen. Two beautiful drone/ambient/jazz pieces on this one (recorded live in 1989), exposing the sonic genius and dexterity of Cohen alongside the astounding possibilities of that highly desirable synthesizer of his!!! TIP!
Group Motion is a Dance Theater in Philadelphia founded by Manfred Fischbeck with whom Cohen collaborated and performed. The Group Motion Performance is a live recording with the dance company made on the Buchla Music Easel and the Buchla 700 series; the latter, one of the rarest synthesizers on earth. Generator was performed and recorded at the Generator Sound Art Gallery, NYC with the same instrument setup. Apparently these are the only known recordings using the Buchla 700 synthesizer to be formally released, making the Group Motion album the only living proof of this incredible sounding machine.

Issued in three parts - this vinyl series will culminate in a full CD release to be announced later this year.

With Up Up And Astray F.S. BLUMM proves that he doesn't opt for routine with his eighth full-length solo release:

Seit 15 Jahren veröffentlicht Frank Schültge als F.S. BLUMM seine melodiösen Experimente rund um die Konzertgitarre, die es immer wieder mühelos schaffen, in ihrer Reduktion mitten ins Herz zu treffen. - This man makes some damn charming music', meinte Pitchfork zum letzten Album. Auf Up Up And Astray zeigt uns F.S. BLUMM, dass er auch bei seinem achten Longplayer nicht auf Routine setzt. Sein unerschöpfliches Arsenal an akustischen Instrumenten und erlesenen Schaltkreisen formt sich zum energiegeladensten BLUMM-Sound, den wir bislang erleben durften.

Robot Koch and director Lukas Feigelfeld have teamed up to create a special collaboration project. After Lukas directed the video 'Autodreams' ('The Other Side', Project: Mooncircle) in 2011, they wanted to go a step further.
"The idea behind the release 'Unpaved' was to create a short film in which the music and the images are equally important. Imagine the old mystic character 'Pan', which represents nature, animalism and freedom, in a contemporary and realistic setting; becoming a modern vagabond, a drifter, living in the woods and roaming the lands, always accompanied by his friend, the dog. As his path leads him into the city of modern society, he is quickly confronted with its harsh reality - The conflict between living in an urban space and wanting to be at piece in a remote place in nature. Can we consider ourselves animals or have we already evolved into something too distanced from its natural enviroment and essence 'When I write music it's always very visual. I have images in my mind that put me in certain moods while I produce - oftentimes I make music to a film that hasn't been shot yet. This has been something I wanted to do for a long time: compose music for a film.' - Koch

2 tracks recorded by copeland and John T. Gast in Stroomi Rand, summer 2013. Available on 12 inch 180g limited edition vinyl. TIP

Limited 368 copy one-time press, left-field experimental/ambient EP. Recorded and Mixed on the Greek Island of Evia, Winter 2012/13

Chris Pell is having a busy year. In between illustrating label art and making the gulliest of bassline as DJ Sharda, he has seen his Murlo alias gather breakneck momentum thanks to his diverse array of leftfield grime-centred instrumentals. Murlo keeps the vibe varied, infusing his tracks with elements from soca, funky and R&B to create a unique sound that has received support from some of the games heaviest selectors including Blackdown, Oneman, Brackles and Slackk.

Most excitingly, Murlo has linked up with Glacial Sound to deliver their imminent second record on November 25th, the much anticipated 'Last Dance' EP. You may have seen Chris's own Last Dance video doing the rounds, a backdrop of regal opulence to suit the quirkiness of the track; sparse handclap percussion and punchy kicks beneath ornate snyth trills and broad violin strokes, like some kind of sleek dancefloor-aimed grime banger from the Baroque era.

If you have caught Oneman lately, you will have heard him battering the living daylights out of 'Robes', using its buoyant carnival rhythms to deadly effect. 'Velvet Wall' is built in a similar vein, with Murlo flipping the eski sound and packing it with snappy rhythms and gliding melodies to form a heavy orchestral-edged cut. To round off the EP, Glacial Sound have enlisted Slackk to twist Velvet Wall into a woozy, sino-grime flavoured beat with a similar aesthetic to some of his recent Minor Triads material, and Robes receives a rough, bassline lead 4x4 treatment from Manchester's excellent Swing Ting outfit.

A demo tape, sent to Capitol Records by The Trash Company in the early 90's, garnered this curt response from then President of the R&B Division, Joy Bailey: "Some music was never meant to be heard."

Thug Records returns with one of the most intriguing releases to grace the catalogue so far. Not restricted by any one scene, Max Monroe of The Trash Company produces a hypnotic medley of original hard edge rhythm & blues, soul dance and classic psychedelic punk wave textures.

Armed with a condition known as Synesthesia (meaning he perceives sounds, words and letters in terms of color) and a 4 track cassette recorder, The Trash Company has spent the last 30 years as a bedroom recording genius.

It wasn't until recently that the magnitude and quality of his unreleased collection of tape recordings were discovered. Unearthed by The Scorpio Brothers - Troy Hurt and Marty Key, 2 record collectors from Richmond VA. They discovered a copy of "Come to Me Softy"; a 45 by The Trash Company recorded and released in 1979 at the former Broad Street recording studio (Alpha Audio). The record was discovered in a second hand singles box at a tiny record store called Carrington's Music in Petersburg VA.

Inspired by this weird record, Troy Hurt hunted Max down using various crate digger methods and eventually found he had local contact details. After getting in touch, Max sent across a number of tracks that had been collecting dust in his closet for the last couple of decades. The Scorpio Brothers were blown away... this led to the release of the Trash Company's now critically acclaimed 2nd album, 'The Earle Hotel Tapes 1979 - 1993', which is a collection of music written in Room 111 of The Earle from that period.

Presented here on Modern Love and in vinyl format on Thug Records are 6 new unreleased gems. The Trash Company's recordings are starkly honest, deeply personal and ahead of their time. Future Techno.

Too Hot To Handle

supercodex is the final album of the Ryoji Ikeda's trilogy on raster-noton since 2005

supercodex is the fnal album of the Ryoji Ikeda's trilogy on raster-noton since 2005 (1st: dataplex r-n068, 2nd: test pattern r-n093) that has been exploring the potentials between - data of sound' and - sound of data'. Ikeda integrated, differentiated and re/de/meta-constructed the music of previous 2 albums and that of his other art installations/projects. supercodex is also inter-related with Ikeda's new long-term project - superposition' since 2012 that focuses on quantum information. It consists of performance piece (2 performers on stage) and forthcoming installation works in the future. The new live set of supercodex will be premiered in Tokyo in November 2013 and will be toured internationally after then.

Indigo aera is extremely excited to release these precious gems from Kirk Degiorgio's personal archive. Kirk found the tracks by accident going through his DAT tapes from 1991-1992. No Repress! limited amount of handnumbered copies!

In the Spring of 2012 Yot teamed up with Scottish born vocalist Soom T (Renegade Masters). The product of this recording session The first track on Yot 4; the moody epic funk shuffle beat banger 'The Cure'. Rising synths, tough beats and heaps of squelch all pushed up against Soom T's unmistakable flow. A sure shot was born.

As well as vocal and instrumental versions of 'The Cure' Yot 4 features the grinding slow tempo burner 'Day Won' and hypnotic ballad 'G.I.M.P'. To record the EP the core four piece signed up a fifth member, multi-instrumentalist Markus Pyorala. It follows up last years 'Bitch Bender', which Mixmag made Album of the Month, and drops on Harmonia and Losonofono.

Das Quartett Hejira besteht aus etablierten Musikern wie Sam Beste, Rahel Debebe-Dessalegne, Alexis Nunez & Alex Reeve und gehört neben Acts wie Kwes., Micachu, The Invicible oder Gwilym Gold zur Avant-Pop-Szene Londons. Das von Matthew Herbert produzierte Album "Prayer Before Birth" ist eine symphonische Orchestrierung mit Elementen aus Electronica, Folk, Klassik und Avantgarde, mit ausdrücklicher Empfehlung des Mercury Prize-Komittes.

The shadowy UK techno artist, A Sagittariun, releases his debut album this November, to coincide with the Sagittarius zodiac period.

Original soundtrack from Nicolas Winding Refn 's movie : Valhalla Rising

Dutch producer Marcellis' output has been sporadic at best since his debut on Black Label in 2004, but his masterful outing on Berlin's Workshop stable last year, seems to have marked a turning point in his output. The six-track I Am Woman EP, released on Millions of Moments represents his most extensive work to date, and it proves to be just as deep as that Workshop 12". "Wanderland" and "Dang Me" provide more of those idiosyncratic downbeat beats Marcellis is known for, while "Speakeasy" proves a sumptuous trip through classic piano-led Chicago house. Really though, this is an EP of outstanding vocal house, with Fabian and Dexter's contributions elevating this EP into another league entirely.

Recorded in Berlin at Studio Schwedenstrasse one day in June 2010. Recording Engineer: Marco Paschke. Mixed and Mastered by Daniel Karlsson in Stockholm at Elektronmusikstudion. Mika Vainio - Electric Guitar, Processing, Metallic Percussion. Joachim Nordwall - Electronics, Electric Bass Guitar, Metal Objects, Hammond Organ, Vibraphone.


Mika Vainio was a member of the legendary minimal electronic duo Pan Sonic. Emerging from the Finnish industrial and rave music scene in the early 90's, they became one of the most important electronic music acts. Vainio's solo works goes from abstract drone to minimal and experimental techno, under his own name or as Ø for labels like Touch, Raster Noton, Sähkö and Editions Mego. He has worked with Alan Vega, Keiji Haino and many others. His music is always extremely physical and present. Mika Vainio lives and works in Berlin. Joachim Nordwall runs the iDEAL Recordings label since 1998, releasing intense electronic music of various kinds and organizing club nights and festivals around the globe. He started making electronic music as a teenager in the late 80's in the psychedelic drone duo Alvars Orkester (Ash International), drifted off to sweaty avant garde punk rock with Kid Commando in the late 90s and formed the ritual rock and electronic drone group The Skull Defekts in 2005. He is also recording solo works under his own name and works with Mats Gustafsson, The Gagmen (with Aaron Dilloway and Nate Young), Mark Wastell and The Sons of God. Nordwall is based in Stockholm. "Monstrance" is their first album together and is released June 2013 and consist of drone works and pulsating electronic minimalism but also guitar, acoustic elements, organs and metal percussion. It was recorded in Einstürzende Neubauten's Berlin studio during an intense session in early summer of 2010. "Monstrance" is a place where Vainio's and Nordwall's backgrounds as musicians and composers meet, and something new and extremely powerful is born. Something deep, raw and direct...

Another long lost gem is back from the archives to bring pleasure to a new generation of electronic music fans. Originally released in 2000 the - VOTUM EP' has been the frist ever vinyl release of ROTOR, a Hamburg-based producer later making waves under the name of ROTORIK on labels like Mutter, Len Faki's former Feis-imprint, Mosquito, Semi-Automatic or Acido Records and also produced some heavy EBM Techno as TET - Traveilleur En Trance.

His now rediscovered debut - VOTUM EP' sees ROTOR dealing with abstract, metallic Minimal Techno as well as Acid-referring sequences and totally tripping Highspeed Techno.

Unique acoustic project where Eller van Buuren takes on Armin's hits!

01. Feels so good - Eller van Buuren - ft Nadia Ali
02. Shivers - Eller van Buuren - ft Susana
03. Neon hero - Eller van Buuren - ft Christian Burns
04. Suddenly summer - Eller van Buuren - ft Ana Criado
05. Going wrong - Eller van Buuren - ft Chris Jones
06. Broken tonight - Eller van Buuren -
07. Burned with desire - Eller van Buuren - ft Leonie Meijer
08. Unforgivable - Eller van Buuren - ft Jaren
09. Drowning - Eller van Buuren - ft Laura V
10. Youtopia - Eller van Buuren - ft Adam Young (Owl City)
11. Not giving up on love - Eller van Buuren -
12. In and out of love - Eller van Buuren - ft Christon (RIGBY)
13. Cereal - Eller van Buuren -

Following a trio of hard-to-obtain releases for his own Cotton Goods CD imprint, Craig Tattersal (The Boats /
Remote Viewer / Hood) returns with his first ever vinyl transmission as The Humble Bee.
The project makes subtle use of field recordings and analog overlays in a manner that anyone familiar
with Tattersal's work over the years will know and love. On 'Henrietta' recordings made in Cornwall during
November 2011 are enhanced by the warm fuzz of a vinyl pressing, in places reminding us of Pole's seminal
first album with its loose adherence to broken fidelity. Sharply contrasting with Other Ideas' relatively radical
aces from The Mistys and The Boats, it offers quieter, more contemplative sentiments, capturing and playing
around with the autumnal atmosphere of rural Cornwall. Scuffed, sepia-toned field recordings are filtered
through Tattersall's patented fuzz boxes and rubbed like leaf drawings against music box tinkles and keys that
dapple the surface like fading, late afternoon November light on a fresh puddle.
If Bellows came from Lancashire and holidayed in the south west, we'd imagine this is the sort of music they
might make; haptic, melancholic, just-out-of-focus, like hearing musical composting in action.

In its history throughout millennia it is fair to say the Gamelan has never had an encounter quite like this. 'Marriage of Metals' is a devastating extension of the harmonic properties found in the instruments of Indonesia. Menche was granted access to a remarkable Gamelan studio where he was given full privilege to record any and all of these rare and ancient gongs. Most notably the gigantic 'Gong Ageng' that's contains the deepest of deep of acoustic bass. Daniel Menche took the raw source material from this Gamelan gong session and launches into a heavily processed yet surprisingly sympathetic 21st Century take on this unique instrument. 'Marriage of Metals' comprises two side long works where the purity of the sound source exists amongst the entire din. Metallic rhythms bounce alongside synthetic pops swaying from reality to fantasy, from pure acoustic tonality to fuzzed out distorted clatter. A distant feedback squall is teased amongst the foreground creating a clamorous din.
Equal parts curious, engaging and groundbreaking. Menche, like Philip Corner before him extends the language of the Gamelan into brave new worlds. Out of the extensive discography of Daniel Menche 'Marriage of Metals' stands out as his most elegant and graceful recordings yet still staying within the grit and grime of his sonic garden.
This recording would not exist without the generosity of THE VENERABLE SHOWERS OF BEAUTY Gamelan ensemble located at Lewis and Clark College, Portland Oregon.

Artwork for Marriage of Metals was created from renowned artist/musician: Faith Coloccia.

Challenging the perceptual boundaries between noise+music and the potential for technology + architecture

after successful ep collapsed (r-n116) the bristol based project strikes back
with a full length album on raster-noton. once more james ginzburg & paul purgas challenge the perceptual boundaries between noise and music and the potential for both technology and architecture to embed and codify themselves within sound.recur is presented as emptyset's third studio album, continuing on from their work with demiurge the material examines the central themes of time, structure and recursion, through the analysis of scale and the interaction of both formal and fractured sonics. the album furthers the project's exploration of rhythm, dislocation and feedback within the framework of full frequency sound, structural abstraction and analogue processing. the work examines how notions of time interact with both experience and form, and the resulting modes through which this affects sound through compression and rarefaction and the forcing of signal thresholds to their critical point.

Challenging the perceptual boundaries between noise+music and the potential for technology + architecture


after successful ep collapsed (r-n116) the bristol based project strikes back
with a full length album on raster-noton. once more james ginzburg & paul purgas challenge the perceptual boundaries between noise and music and the potential for both technology and architecture to embed and codify themselves within sound.recur is presented as emptyset's third studio album, continuing on from their work with demiurge the material examines the central themes of time, structure and recursion, through the analysis of scale and the interaction of both formal and fractured sonics. the album furthers the project's exploration of rhythm, dislocation and feedback within the framework of full frequency sound, structural abstraction and analogue processing. the work examines how notions of time interact with both experience and form, and the resulting modes through which this affects sound through compression and rarefaction and the forcing of signal thresholds to their critical point.

It's a dream album for the label: perhaps the most ambitious of Kirby's career so far.


Polymath James Leyland Kirby must surely have one of the most confounding CV's in the business: he spent
years taking the piss out of the music industry with anthems rallying against the (VV)MCPS, he notoriously
fell out with various well known record labels for reasons you'll just have to google, goaded Aphex Twin with
a series of 'tributes' and channelled his love of everything from Falco (Rock Me Amadeus), Chris De Burgh,
Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Stockport karaoke nights into a stream of increasingly bizzare 7's back in the
early noughties.






07 Grey Day Drift

PAN is honored to present one of its boldest releases yet, a 4LP edition of a 3-hour set from the legendary Japanese group, ARGINAL CONSORT, recorded live at Arika's INSTAL 08 festival at The Arches, Glasgow. The current issue of The Wire magazine has a 6 page feature on Marginal Consort 4LP mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M and pressed on 4x 140g vinyls which themselves are housed in a silk screened PVC sleeve.
Features liner notes by Barry Esson, extended photo documentation by Bryony McIntyre and artwork by Bill Kouligas.

Limited Blue Vinyl Pressing!

'Redemption Forest' is the beguiling debut album of recombinant pop from Andrew Hargreaves (The Boats/
Tape Loop Orchestra) and Beth Roberts' new duo, The Mistys

Polymath James Leyland Kirby must surely have one of the most confounding CV's in the business: he spent
years taking the piss out of the music industry with anthems rallying against the (VV)MCPS, he notoriously
fell out with various well known record labels for reasons you'll just have to google, goaded Aphex Twin with
a series of 'tributes' and channelled his love of everything from Falco (Rock Me Amadeus), Chris De Burgh,
Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Stockport karaoke nights into a stream of increasingly bizzare 7's back in the
early noughties.