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Mind Over Mirrors is the solitary reeling of American harmoniumist/ electronicist Jaime Fennelly. Utilizing an Indian pedal harmonium, oscillators, tape delays, and an assortment of synthesizing processors, Fennelly bends slowly-building, repetitive melodies into massive sonic mountains.

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 Voyager camp proudly presents their second release, this time packaged as a two part series with both editions crafted by the ever capable Troy Gunner. Undoubtedly one of the most talented producers rising through the ranks, the two part EP is a testament to his versatility while showcasing a diverse range of influences. Both tracks feature regular and well-known collaborators, Rowl and Synkro, and the record conveys an even deeper side to all parties involved, signifying a move away from the traditional arrangements seen today in favour of originality.
* The A side "Is This" features long time friend and collaborator Synkro, a name synonymous with class to followers of the deep and soulful spectrum. An epic 4 minute soundscape sets the tone for what is truly a mould-breaking sonic experience. Beautiful string arrangements held effortlessly within an electronic framework guide the track from its beatless reprise into a guided aural voyage that makes 10 minutes feel like a mere snapshot in time.
* The B side "Forgiving" calls on the services of the ever-faithful Rowl. He has notably caused a stir of late in light of his recently released 'Egipto EP' on The Crescent. To most listeners familiar with both artists, the track is a clear meeting point in the middle of both styles. Vocal mastery coupled with influence from dub techno and the UK bass scene should not come as a surprise to many, yet reformed within its 117 bpm framework, it shines a bright light on the honest artistic intent of the housemates.
* VYGR002A is due for release across both 12" Vinyl and Digital in October 2013, distributed by SRD

Something in the slum went rum-pa-pum-pum. This one is representing Thug's ghetto side as we welcome one of the truest soldiers in the game. Straight out of Norway, DJ Sotofett, co-owner of the ground breaking Sex Tags Mania / Wania & Sex Tags Amfibia labels.

Bumpin across the 12' E.P features 3 remixes and 1 interlude as well as custom label graphics by SO-PHAT aka DJ Sotofett. Recordings based on original versions by Nick Anthony Simoncino & Mark Rogers. Remix & devious production, drum programming, digital editing and dubs by DJ Sotofett. Casio VL-1, piano & MC-202 bassline in session by TAPES. Background vocals by PALEO. Recorded at 6th-EonMANIA-fract2 STD. Final production and mix at 6th-TransWania- fract2 STD, Santiago, Chile.

Limited edition on clear vinyl
Full picture sleeve comes with download voucher
New 8 track solo LP release from one half of Corporate Park

Horo' was a cloak attached to the back of armour worn by elite Samurai messengers in wartime. Capturing an elite tsukai-ban
messenger wearing a Horo was a coveted prize and in much the same way, a release on Horo is a prize, a reward for artists willing to
experiment, take risks and truly progress. This has been demonstrated by the fact we now have artists writing music specifically for
the Horo series.
Through the 9, vinyl only Horo releases up to this point, the label has proudly introduced the world to NZ artist Fis, and released some
of the most adventurous and truly forward thinking music in electronica from artists ASC, Sam KDC, Kiyoko, Indigo, Clarity &
Overlook. Horo gives true artists the freedom to represent the full extent of their talent and it is not often the cerebellum is truly
engaged with the genre we have grown from but 'music for the mind' is one of our over-arching ideals.
And so we come to 'Scope', the 10th release, a full length compilation spread over 5 vinyl 12's. Deviating somewhat from our vinyl
only position up to this point, given the scale and magnitude of this project Scope will also be released on CD & Digital, although
there will also be 5 vinyl only tracks by way of thanks to the vinyl buyers that have supported the label up to this point. 24 tracks of
uncompromising, innovative music from Horo mainstays and new artists alike, Scope represents where we have come from, but
moreover, where we will be going. This is just the beginning.

Horo' was a cloak attached to the back of armour worn by elite Samurai messengers in wartime. Capturing an elite tsukai-ban
messenger wearing a Horo was a coveted prize and in much the same way, a release on Horo is a prize, a reward for artists willing to
experiment, take risks and truly progress. This has been demonstrated by the fact we now have artists writing music specifically for
the Horo series.
Through the 9, vinyl only Horo releases up to this point, the label has proudly introduced the world to NZ artist Fis, and released some
of the most adventurous and truly forward thinking music in electronica from artists ASC, Sam KDC, Kiyoko, Indigo, Clarity &
Overlook. Horo gives true artists the freedom to represent the full extent of their talent and it is not often the cerebellum is truly
engaged with the genre we have grown from but 'music for the mind' is one of our over-arching ideals.
And so we come to 'Scope', the 10th release, a full length compilation spread over 5 vinyl 12's. Deviating somewhat from our vinyl
only position up to this point, given the scale and magnitude of this project Scope will also be released on CD & Digital, although
there will also be 5 vinyl only tracks by way of thanks to the vinyl buyers that have supported the label up to this point. 24 tracks of
uncompromising, innovative music from Horo mainstays and new artists alike, Scope represents where we have come from, but
moreover, where we will be going. This is just the beginning.

Westov Temple is the creative endeavor of Great Circles label founder Justin Gibbon, who last appeared in 2012 on a Digitalis Limited cassette release (with RJ Valeo). Messiah Drugs is his debut release under the Westov Temple moniker and follows the Great Circles continuum of scuffed and shifty Techno, Electro and House.



Review by Rory Gibb in the September 2013 issue of The Wire Magazine:


Metasplice's recent emergence cast light onto Philadelphia's electronic underground, whose forays into Techno, Noise and improvisation glitter dark and hard, like seams of unrefined ore. Great Circles has released music by Metasplice side project _moonraker, and Westov Temple is label boss Justin Gibbon's project. Its foue traks are texturally akin to his labelmates, hinting at channels of creative feedback between Gibbon and his fellow city dwellers (either that or, as Metasplice's V Hold joked in an interview with The Wire, Philadelphia's harsh nature instilling a shared taste for fibrous electronic noise).

"Messiah Drums" teems with treacherously sharp edges, like tiptoeing through a grotto of razor-sharp stalagmites, while "Messiah Drugs" is spiny, springloaded electo. The surface of Geiger Memorial is etched with acidic fizz, so its core pulse registers as rhythmic pressure from the deep beneath. They're extraordinarily vibrant, evidence that club music's interface with the Noise world remains loaded with potential.

We kick off in fine style with the first official full length album from Vatican Shadow (aka Dominick Fernow from Prurient/Cold Cave) after over a dozen cassette and vinyl only releases and reissues, and the first to be released on 12" format.




- Includes additional production assistance from Juan Mendez (Silent Servant)
- Vatican Shadow is currently touring in Europe including shows at Sonar,Fabric, Richie Hawtin's 'Enter' Ibiza, Roskilde Festival, Berlin Atonal and more
- Vatican Shadow was featured on the recent Sandwell District mix CD forFabric
- Fernow's other alias Prurient will be touring the USA in October as main support for Godflesh
- 'When You Are Crawling' - An EP of additional material and extended mixes will be available later in the year

*'Remember Your Black Day' is the debut album proper from Vatican Shadow, the first material conceived and produced as a full length by Dominick Fernow for the project following almost a dozen tapes (mostly released on Hospital Productions) and vinyl editions (released by the likes of Blackest Ever Black, Modern Love and Type) over the last three years. None of the 8 tracks included have been released before on any other format.
*At a time when the scene is saturated with 'Noise Techno' the album is almost celebratory by contrast, balancing caustic licks of distortion and oppressive bass with cleanly mixed synth tones and ricocheting claps in a shell-shocked, surreal soundsphere.*WIth production assistance from Juan Mendez (Silent Servant), the album includes the most direct and propulsive Vatican Shadow material yet, continuing an evolutionary shift awayfrom the complex, collage-based narrative of those cassette releases into more visibly direct contact with the listener. There is a functional connection to dance music here, honing in on the human element embedded within a subject matter so fraught with inhumanity.






[G] 7.Not The Son Of Desert Storm, But The Child Of Chechnya

Limited Edition, Clear Clouded
Gewaltig ist das erste Adjektiv, dass mir in den Kopf schießt, als ich »Ask The Dust« gehört habe. Aber da ist noch etwas anderes. Sein drittes Album ist nicht mehr so roh. Die Soundgewalt aus Hip Hop-Beats, Industrial und Techno hat jetzt auch etwas, ja, Anmutiges. Mit Lorns Album verhält es sich so, als würde eine Dampfwalze über kleine Blechhütten hinwegfegen, würde dabei aber von zarten Feen gelenkt. Man sieht die grazilen Gestalten in der Fahrerkabine erst nicht; zu beeindruckend ist die Walze. Die Walze auf »Ask The Dust« bezogen sind die Drums, die sich oft anhören, als würde eine Peitsche auf Sand schnalzen. Die Walze sind die knatternden Basslines, die hallenden Synthies. So entsteht eine kantige, dunkle Soundfassade. Sieht man das jedoch nicht als Hindernis, sondern erkennt das Faszinierende daran, dann offenbaren sich dahinter immer wieder helle Flecken. Dass Lorn inzwischen seine eigene Stimme einsetzt trägt dazu bei; aber auch minimale Frequenzverschiebungen der Synthies, oder Passagen ohne Drums öffnen die teils brachialen Strukturen. Das ist auch das Konzept des Album-Highlights »Diamonds«. Es ist ein Ritt durch die Unterwelt, der an einem surreal hellen Ort endet. Die hetzenden Streicher, die klagende Sirene und der brutale Bass: Es ist mit der einnehmenste Song, den ich 2012 erlebt habe. An diese Qualität reichen bei weitem nicht alle Tracks; Lorns bestes Album ist es nichtsdestotrotz.

96wrld is young Miša Skalskis. Ever since 2011, the Lithuanian producer had a couple of singles with Renegades of Bump and Monday Jazz that introduced him to fans of playful, neon-coloured electronica and bass-heavy hip hop.


In 2013, 96wrld finally debuts with a collection of eight tunes that showcase his potential as a producer and songwriter. On 'Private Language', Skalskis embraces both hip hop and juke tempi, typically in a single tune. His arrangements are complex and give away all details only on repeated listen. However, tracks like 'Slave', 'Eschatology', or 'Satta' can put any club to pieces easily.


96wrld infuses just the right amount of melody and carefully balances acid-tinged synth bells, chopped vocals, and the obvious snare rolls. The title track features vocals of Markas Palubenka and is a prime example that Skalskis' production works in a more pop-oriented context as well.


'Private Language' is perfect with an euphoric remix by Moscow's DZA that clocks over six minutes and feels like 3:33.

Re-issue of classic Katharsis LP
Limited vinyl copies in stock on red vinyl
Comes in a copy of the original printed sleeve with download voucher




KATHARSIS was a band from San Francisco, formed by Daniel Malson, Jano Sanguine, Mary Andre and Tim Vickers (from 1988). Daniel Malson also had a side project: Bast, that released a tape through The Happiest Place on Earth.

KATHARSIS was an industrial band with punk attitude, with power electronics touches. Their sound was about the fatness of the noise sound, the thickness, about the low frequencies... After a few cassette releases, they released their sole album in 1989 on highly influential label RRRecords in collaboration with industrial / avant-garde label SSS Productions. After the harsh sound of their cassette releases, Suspension Of Belief opens new sound perspectives. It mixed industrial sounds with more rock structures, not dissimilar to Nine Inch Nails meeting Swans, but retained the experimental and atmospheric sounds the band was known for.

Suspension Of Belief has been entirely remastered and is now reissued for the first time. Available on desire with the original artwork and insert, the first pressing of 300 copies is pressed on red vinyl...

Public Information search the West Coast skies to Los Angeles, to find Katie Gately, still in the throes of academe, playing at new pop forms. This record in July bloom is a bold and exciting taster of what is in store, around the corner. Six tracks of frightening ambition. A prime distillation in computer-music-pop. More alarming - this is her debut release, she has been making organised sound for just over a year.


Screech, crumble, gurgle, crack.... the opening track 'Ice' a storm of cluster tones and sequenced-bursts sets the standard. Then, to a potential Top10 smasher... gone mutant. 'Last Day' is the first time we hear Katie's voice, first looped and torn, then glowing, euphoric and beaming from deep inside a crashing-banging-beat system.


Similar patterns follow across this half-dozen. Fractured vocalisations, bittersweet harmonies, freaked alien voices all living, breathing in deep fried motherboards of acute computer programming and field sound. 'Dead Referee' finds Katie on a post-apocalypse basketball court, destroying waves of squeaks and crunches and cuts with a vocal refrain of high beauty, it knifes through the noise.
Then, to 'Left Half' the haunting reverb-calm before storm.... "I'm gonna sew your face to my heart", she whispers... 'Stems' closes the record in a riot of tone and interference and alien acappella.

Stray Dogs' 'Wasteland' is the fourth release for the Ghent-based partnership between Icarus Records & Vynilla Vinyl. The album will be available from September 16th 2013, and the band will present the album on the same date at the Icarus Night @ DOK Ghent, with Greg Haines, Poppy Ackroyd and Sankt Otten completing the line up.

Icarus Records is a platform for music that defies musical boundaries. 'Wasteland' is the label's fourth release, following Echo Beatty's highly acclaimed debut album 'Tidal Motions' and Record Store Day 2013 single 'Dirty Beaches-Ravel Ravel' and Ecila's full album 'The Sofa Managements'. Once again Icarus Records releases the album in cooperation with Vynilla Vinyl, the label of Ghent-based record store Vynilla Records.

Stray Dogs

Stray Dogs aka Koenraad Ecker (cello, guitar, electronics) and Frederik Meulyzer (percussion, electronics) have been on an exciting musical journey ever since their debut album 'Intangible States' (2010). Balancing between electronica, dub and experimental music, they've constructed their own sound universe, in which attention for detail and texture is combined with a physical intensity that you not only need to hear but feel as well. Stray Dogs take you along on a menacing post-apocalyptic trip through a disintegrating no man's land.

'Wasteland'

'Wasteland' was recorded in a desacralised church in Antwerp (Belgium), making it more strippeddown, industrial and ritualistic than 'Intangible States'. The acoustics of this space were exploited to a maximum, after which all elements were merged in the recording studio. Percussion, cello, guitars and analogue hardware lead to a sonic result situated at the crossroads of ritual drums, dubby reverberating echoes and disintegrating orchestras. 'Wasteland' will be released on a limited edition of 250 vinyl copies.Later on in 2013 other work by members of Stray Dogs (also involved in Lumisokea) will be released on the Digitalis, Opal Tapes and Eat Concrete labels.

Diametric. is pleased to welcome Imugem Orihasam to the rooster of artists. Having released for labels such as Sistrum, Statik Entertainment and Nsyde amongst others, the Japanese producer has built a strong reputation amongst lovers for fine, well thought out and interesting electronic music, ranging from house to techno. His first release for diametric. adds another facet to his portfolio as these three tracks are harsh industrial-infused dark and funky techno cuts, with an experimental edge.
For this release Detroit based producer and member of Aux 88 Keith Tucker aka Optic Nerve has blessed us with a remix and delivered a stunning funky dj friendly remix of 'Grain'. Deep futuristic melodic Detroit techno. 300 hand-numbered limited vinyl copies only. No digital distribution.

Avowed Nate Young fiends Demdike Stare have trapped the Wolf Eyes lynchpin's stunning 3rd 'Regression' volume for a necessary vinyl edition on their eponymous label. 'Other Days' represents the Wolf Eyes lynchpin's most labyrinthine incursion to the nether zone between waking life and 'marish, cryptographic
noise.

Limited to 300 hand screen printed copies.
Louis Johnston aka Wanda Group flits to Brighton's Where To Now label with a couple of spellbinding, submerged trips. Paying tribute to his father and grandfather, 'Masculinity Is A Wonderful Thing' is, in his own words, "ABOUT HOW I LEARNED OR TRIED TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO BE A MAN ON THIS EARTH." In two parts he sets immersive spectral atmospheres fizzing with para-dimensional crackle and embedded with crude, cryptic and mystifying sonic signifiers. In 'We Held Our Balance' he juxtaposes finely layered worlds of hi-frequency modulation and field recording textures opening a beguiling, psychedelic space between, whilst in 'Gorgeous Lucio' he perfuses that metaphysical space with gorgeous Fairlight-like synth pads and empty house creaks. RIYL Francisco Lopez, The Caretaker, Christina Kubisch, Mika Vainio

Krake 001 is a CD/LP compilation that features tracks by artists who played in 2012 for us. A few of them have been released on other labels before, but the bigger part of the material is exclusive. Some of the tracks were even recorded live at our festival. There are dark atmospheric drones by the likes of Thomas Köner, Shrubbn!!, Cassegrain and Dadub, sweet melodic pieces by Ulrich Schnauss, Bersarin Quartett, Kid606 and Barker, a bass heavy live recorded jam session by Tim Exile, mechanical grooves by Perc and Swarm Intelligence, melancholic epics by Goner, Alex Smoke and Lakker, and last but not least a sweet minimalistic dub track by grandmaster Pole.

Sam KDC presents a four track EP for his first appearance on the main Auxiliary label. Since we signed him up and started to push
his music, he's slowly but surely started to garner more attention and respect for his craft. This EP will further cement the talent he
has for composing his unique style of 170bpm music with no genre classifications attached.

Not long after Panta Rhei gives birth to its first work, She will arise, not only to admonish, but to reign in white splendour: white, like the geese on Capitoline Hill, as white as Carrara marble, white, like Cliffs of Dover, like herself: Iuno.
Panta Rhei 001 is strictly limited to 101 white-coloured 7"-Vinyl & will not be released digitally.

Babe, Terror:
I lived 6 months in England, years earlier I recorded a tape with sounds in a apartment i used to share with a girl. U meets girl, in London

Girl gives tape
Year after, with a copy of the tape, I made the music, inserting some beats. Years after, U remixed the other tape the girl has given
We met at phantasy. We discovered the plots. We went like "whow". U remixed all the things retransforming everything again (3 rd time)
U:
I met a girl in London. She took me for a ride in her car on the north circular. There was a tape playing in the car, the tape was old but I liked it.
She gave it to me and told me it had a hidden meaning, so I studied it for a long time. I did experiments with the tape but couldn't find out.
Years after, BT reveals the mystery to me

No-Neck Blues Band's Pat Murano's rigorous & freewheeling cavalcade of bizarre sound events baffle & beguile. 21-min A-side is a fungal, fractured, dream-fever soundtrack. 20-min flip starts like a minimal techno banger & morphs into ruptured ambiance.

Delving further into the Brenda Ray/Naffi multiverse, following Em's releases of Brenda Ray's Walatta and her work with Naffi on D'ya Hear Me!: Naffi Years, here is

Hoochie Pooch/Space Alligator. This release focuses on contributions from Freddie Viaduct to the delightfully strange world of the variously named Naffi Sandwich/Naffi, the former being the earlier incarnation of the group as a trio, the latter a duo. Less vocal driven than the poppier D'Ya Hear Me! tracks, these mainly instrumental pieces emphasize the group's spontaneity, allied with the creative freedoms offered by the band's ever growing mastery of their Naffi HQ recording studio. The influence of funk plus Jamaican roots music is clearly felt in Viaduct's forceful and spacious bass playing, reverb, echo and effects. Captain Catchpole's drums and Ray's multi-instrumental work fill out the trio sound, resulting in a vast aural territory, with the aforementioned elements blending with

Euro-improv, free jazz and post punk viruses to create a subtly mind-bending, rhythmically compelling, and texturally varied DIY hybrid. Originally released on cassette and vinyl and extremely rare, the tracks have been compiled here, along with two previously unissued full-length versions as Hoochie Pooch/Space Alligator and are presented with two extra tracks on the CD.

Haswell's improvised modular synth recordings are given the radical remix treatment.

Fellow Midlander, REGIS, delivers a beat driven techno noise mulch classic, then, the legendary WHITEHOUSE founding member, and
more recently CUT HANDS, William Bennett, has spatialized the original mono source into a stereo head fucking, brain floss session. The
entire B side of this EP is given over to Chicago's experimental music master, Kevin Drumm, who expands the chosen track into
a striking 8 minute noise/ambient conundrum.

The long awaited return of Syncom Data on their own label. Four excellent spaced out, dubby techno-electro hybrid tracks. Titletrack Supercell takes a halftempo shufflebeat as a grooving foundation for a constant changing, vibrating and pulsating dub-techno excursion. The Supercell Dub takes the original into a more though techno direction in the best The Hague tradition. On the b-side Syncom Data start with Lullaby: a soothing melody, a shuffled beat and some deep bass kicks create a seemingly sweet electro-dubby song. Final track Cruise To Sunflower is a beatless deep space synth trip of more than 8 minutes. Great comeback of these Dutch masters of spacetechno.

Invada Records (owned by Geoff Barrow/Portishead) are proud to announce the vinyl release of the critically acclaimed, Drive - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on 28th May 2012. Released in full colour gatefold sleeves on 180 gram heavyweight vinyl and is available as a double LP black vinyl / double LP pink vinyl and a limited edition 2LP picture disc The soundtrack features original music by Cliff Martinez (The Lincoln Lawyer, Traffic) with Eurosynthstyled songs by Kavinsky & Lovefoxxx ('Nightcall'), The Chromatics('Tick of the Clock'), Desire ('Under Your Spell'), College featuring Electric Youth ('A Real Hero'), and Riziero Ortolani featuring Katyna Ranieri ('Oh My Love'). Rolling Stone Magazine named Drive the No. 1 movie of 2011. In Variety, Laura Ferreiro wrote,'while a synthetic electronica score may seem an unusual choice for a cerebral action thriller, it plays a pivotal role in setting Drive apart from other heist-gone-awry films, and arguably helped it become one of this year's critical darlings.' The Drive soundtrack raced to the top of the iTunes album charts, hitting No. 4 within a week of its digital release and peaking at No. 35 on the Billboard Top 200. The soundtrack re-entered the charts in February 2012 when the film was released on DVD.

The alias of Welsh-born, California-based Brian Williams, Lustmord first emerged as an associate of SPK in the early '80s, before embarking on a solo career that has yielded such classics as Heresy (1990), The Place Where The Black Stars Hang (1994) and (with Robert Rich) Stalker (1995). Lustmord has also contributed to numerous Hollywood films as music and sound designer, and collaborated with the likes of Clock DVA, Chris & Cosey, Geir Jenssen, The Melvins, Tool, Aaron Turner, Monte Cazazza and Coil's Jhon Balance. Often seen to epitomize 'dark ambient', it would be more accurate to say that his work simply goes deeper, further, than conventional ambient dares, or is able, to go. Half a decade in the making, The Word As Power is his new studio album and an exploration of ritual music without dogma. For the first time in his 33-year career Lustmord places vocals at the centre of his abyssal ambient creations, coaxing incantatory performances out of Aina Skinnes Olsen, Jarboe (ex-Swans), Maynard James Keenan (Tool) and Soriah. Those looking to properly decode the subject matter of the album are advised to study Simon Fowler's fiendishly elaborate, double-spread cover illustration. Suffice it to say here that it concerns "the word" as written - signs, ciphers, symbology, semantics, etymology - and as spoken - myths, mantras, chants, invocation and evocation. Of course it's also about the unwritten, the unspoken; that which exists beyond the reach of language. Sonically, The Word As Power is even more detailed, expansive and consuming than Lustmord's followers have come to expect, with voices, electronics, immense sub-bass, field recordings and other acoustic phenomena harnessed and arranged to stimulate feelings of dread and desolation, certainly, but also escape, renewal and rebirth.

LP version of the KIKA Dvd issued in 2012... Solid musical Orchestration there !

Despite the watery divide between them, Brooklyn-bound Greg Schappert and London-based Tom Russell have fostered a production partnership as Donor / Truss for the last six years, emerging today as one of techno's more robust and hardworking duos. As solo artists they've racked up notable releases between them on labels like Stroboscopic Artefacts, Perc Trax and Our Circula Sound, outside of Schappert's own Miniscule imprint. Meanwhile Russell has been stepping out as the acid-charged MPIA3, lately flexing a 'less is more' approach with outings on Avian and R&S.
For Grey Series 05 they don the Donor / Truss moniker once again after a spell apart, proving themselves as accomplished and unpredictable as ever with the fully formed 'Aber'. On the A-side swampy techno is bruised with house in 'Spacial', turning soupy on the sluggish and barely rippling 'Beneath'. Fidgety 'Ease' then does an about turn on the B-side before plunging headlong into swollen substrata stuff on the close.

Disconcerting, questing brilliance from Rabih Beaini: two sick, nervy techno killers (including an Ethio homage), stalking the corrosive perimeters of noise; and deep, long excerpts from his engrossing soundtrack to Dreyer's Vampyr, with contributions from the Upperground crew, and Sun Ra in its marrow, alternately driving and motorik, off-the-wall, lost in space.

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Tokyo electronic artist Nobuyuki Sakuma began her JESSE RUINS project a couple of years back along the way releasing songs for compilations, a single for Double Denim Records and then an EP for Captured Tracks last year. Garnering the assistance of multi-instrumentalist Nah and most recently drummer Yosuke Tuchida, JESSE RUINS is now a fully fledged trio and are set to release their debut album, A Film. It's a diverse affair, powerfully beat driven yet contemplative, starry eyed yet washed out. First single, Laura Is Fading is a perfect example of this. A four four beat and pumping bass propels the track along as peculiar, almost abyss like synths provide a melody from, seemingly, another world.

Nihjgt Feelings is a record label currently based in Bozcaada, Turkey and run by oOoOO with a couple of local gravediggers. They release heartbroken night music. In June 2013 they will present oOoOO's debut LP.
Without Your Love is the long awaited debut LP from oOoOO (https://www.facebook.com/ oOoOOsounds). The LP further develops - in sometimes very unexpected ways - the sounds oOoOO has become known for through previous releases with Tri Angle Records. The LP will be the first release from oOoOO's own label Nihjgt Feelings.

Once again Waajeed AKA Jeedo has assembled a cast of sonic masters under one of his many monikers, Electric Street Orchestra. Including UR's Mad Mike, DJ Skurge, Ray 7 and newcomers Tiny Hearts.

Bunker I-III is an artefactual statement. The band TAP909 deals with this fact and creates some striking material in their live shows. The songs from this EP are taken from one of these indecent moments, which are radical, noisy and unscripted - searching for an answer between all these analogue machine sounds. An answer made out of technology which technology cannot give. Against the society of selfish dreamers and spine- less fools.
A: This is one of your ongoing nightmares, which is never-ending, taking you back to that horrible dream of sound and distortion. While listening, you will never expect that you can go home some days, but from moment to moment you will wake up in your past dream; only if you are lucky.
B: Step after step. Step after step. It leads you to a hypnotic condition. You will grow up in a toothless field and realizing that the end is close, you start to run but only to notice that you cannot get out of this. Afraid to fight you will see all the memories you have close, right in front of your eyes. It blows you away and the show is over but you are still alive and you don't know why.

An addendum of sorts to his recent 'Faint Hearted' album, Miles' returns with a half-hour EP of new material more squarely aimed at the floor with four darkened, robust variants.
'Blatant Statement' is up first, slowly emerging from a rough alignment of metallic percussion and abrasive stabs not a million miles removed from the kind of racket you'd most likely associate with Vatican Shadow, before the almost-clipped rub of those super-warm bass stabs shifts the perspective to a different kind of environment altogether.
'Technocracy' delivers an oozing House deconstruction, slowed down and inebriated, while 'Infinite Jest' revolves around an industrial cacophony harnessed into a rhythmic anomaly situated somewhere between technofied Pete Swanson and a sweaty Kassem Mosse. 'Plutocracy' ends the set with a bleached-out warehouse chug, slowed down and menacing, surrounded by a submerged choral arrangement and more of that toughened hammered-metal sound that runs through the EP.