Techno Новости

From the disputed border somewhere between Lancashire and Yorkshire, G..H. claims a no mans land where he is free to decimate distinctions between black metal and concrète techno by drawing upon an elusive, metaphysical force that's exclusively common to music rooted in that region; from Muslimgauze and Autechre thru Shackleton and Demdike Stare.
The inarguably mongrel Housebound Demigod is G.H.'s debut solo album, following the Ground EP(2011) and his involvement with the hexed Pendle Coven project & HATE, alongside Miles Whittakeand Andy Stott, respectively, between 2003 - 2009.
It sounds like nothing out there; the result of countless hours at the grindstone, using sound as tonal therapy and a purely expressive sculptural material to best render the feel of his bleak but extraordinarily beautiful surroundings with all the rugged texture and captivating aesthetic of some ancient cave graffiti.
The album unfolds as a treacherous topography of boggy drones, entrenched subbass and deforested, windswept feedback, strewn with the charred remains of black metal in opener Screaming Demon Pickups and the hollow-eyed stare down of Angels & Doormen, or prone to burthe senses with unpredictable slow techno mudslides in Mickey Cosmos or the subsidence of Packhorse.
He often underlines that physicality with a drily ambiguous wit; check the bitterly clipped narrative on Yorkshire Fog, or, equally, when he puts all his weight behind the stylus-troubling, bestial shudder of Devils Bit Scabious, and you can't shake the feeling that he's gurning like an eviloon behind the rotten torque of the album's titular parting shot.
While ostensibly monotone, overcast, the devil is found in the album's subtleties of timing and mixing detail; riddled with phantasms that lurk and lash out from the crevices of its granite slabs and pitch black ravines, all placed at oblique angles in his surreally folded, labyrinthine and unheimlich soundfield...

We are happy to announce the fourth ep on Echocord
one of our favorite producers, Stephan Laubner aka ST
Stephan is mostly known from his own very famous lab
Something'. He has also been releasing on labels like
Perlon, Sushitech, Styrax, Echospace and Smallville.
This new ep Message Of Sound - part 2' is the secon
part of 2, contains 3 original STL tracks and 2 loops.
We are happy to announce the fourth ep on Echocord
one of our favorite producers, Stephan Laubner aka ST
Stephan is mostly known from his own very famous lab
Something'. He has also been releasing on labels like
Perlon, Sushitech, Styrax, Echospace and Smallville.
This new ep Message Of Sound - part 2' is the secon
part of 2, contains 3 original STL tracks and 2 loops.

LTD copies ! vinyl only ! 180g

REPRESSED !!
Dutch collaborative label ESHU Records is back with more inventive techno, this time from Tom Liem and Ben Buitendijk on their 'Split 01 EP'. Liem has already released here as J&L (together with label co-founder Jocelyn Abell), and has also done so on one of the excellent Field Records compilations. Now he makes his solo proaction debut, and it is a fine one across two tracks, while Mosaic associate and Rotterdam producer Ben Buitendijk also serves up a fine solo contribution to complete another promosing release. Opener 'Equilibrium Two' from Buitendijk is a perfectly streamlined and serene bit of spaced out, hypnotic techno. Gentle synth pulses roam about the airwaves, left and right, up and down, as ethereal pads glow behind. It's heady dancing music, whilst Liem's 'Contact' is also perfectly aimed at both head and heel. It is full of lick synth pulses that bubble and boil as watery droplets and ticking hits also colour the most subliminal groove. Closer 'This Is All You Need' is a more textured, frazzled cut with frosty lines and rickety pads working you into a trance. Rich drums and clever bass filtration add dynamics and tension and so like everything else here the end result is hugely captivating.

RDV5 brings Dutchman Jamie Lie A Kwie to the black wax with his minimalistic approach to House. This Sound EP includes the track This Sound aptly named after the EP along with Sneakwow and On a Soul Trip. Niko & Kapper are his inspiration and later this year Jamie will support Tini & The Gang. Super stuff.

We are really proud and honored to present ESPECTRUM, a year-long effort to put together a compilation of the best dub techno. The idea was simple, but ambitious: ask some of our favorite artists for one track to epitomize dub techno—the style of music we've loved and continued to develop since our birth as producers and a label. With a very precise idea of what we wanted to collect, the compilation was carefully built with hypnotic, obscure, dense, and magical sounds with an eternal hook. These are the kind of tracks that will never lose their appeal, because they go above and beyond labels, styles, and trends, resisting the passage of time. After the first tracks starting coming in, the idea grew more and more special, and the concept even stronger. We knew we were onto something really big. And, finally, here it is.

Here are no edges only night. The same dream again and again just a little bit different. In the future everything will be the present. No distance and no edges only light years. Large silver clouds inside the eyelids, glittering and electric because of the black space. Planets like eyeshine, things hide in the dark. Listen for what you can't see.

Atmospheric and ambient dub master Yagya serves up Stars and Dust, his seventh full length album and second on Delsin. It finds the Icelandic artist perfectly pair melody and minimalism to create ten more tender tracks that will sooth both body and mind with a range of very real emotions. Electronic but organic, it is another complete work that encourages you to lay back and get lost in sumptuous sound.

To celebrate Kontra-Musik Records hitting the ten-year mark, founder and label owner Ulf Eriksson has put together a collection of some of our finest releases. This has been a daunting task, for we are happy to announce that we could easily have made several very different compilations that we would have been equally contented with - there are so many superb tracks we had to leave out. This has, however, been a labour of love. Much like the label itself. Eclecticism has always been a lodestar for Ulf Eriksson, as we hope this collection gives testimony to. The label has always been moving freely between techno, house and more experimental sounds. Kontra-Musik intends to show different angels of perspective, not to convert you to a new Religion or Ideology. Being open to a broad variety of sounds and rhythms - judging them not solely by their functionality but rather by their personality - has been the Kontra-Musik way from day one. While it has been a crooked and sometimes exceedingly hard road to follow, we're hoping to carry on for several years to come. After 10 years, the label still feels meaningful and current to us - in short: it's still worth it. Kontra-Musik would like to thank everyone - from contributing artists to faithful friends of the label who have supported us all these years. None of this would have been possible without you.

We welcome YWF to the Baum family, with his first release on the label.
The style is raw Dub Techno with an edge. The B side contains a fantastic remix by no other than Sven Weisemann.

Over The Mountains is Segue's second album on Silent Season, a follow up to Pacifica which was released to much praise in 2013. Over The Mountains continues the course in true Segue fashion with an album full of dubbed out atmospheric grooves and deep organic structures. The sound is consumed by nature—immense, enveloping nature in Jordan Sauer's never-ending quest to capture the sublime. The record feels like a nostalgic dream swirling in melodies and buzzing with nature sounds. Over The Mountains is honourably another awe-inspiring album of lush landscapes by this Canadian artist.

When Tresor founder Dimitri Hegemann stumbled into a former bank vault in East Berlin on March 13th 1991, he had little idea that the space he had unlocked would fast become one of Berlin's most influential and enduring techno clubs. "We didn't know what would happen 10 months later," he says. "We signed a lease for a year. Which eventually got renewed for another three months, and another three months.."

As Tresor celebrates its 25th anniversary with this work of artists from the US, Germany, China, France, Austria, Italy and the UK, it is worth dwelling on how the cultural conditions that birthed Detroit techno - economic neglect and broken industry - were mirrored by the disused bunkers and impromptu parties of post-unification East Berlin, where techno found new, vigorous expression.

Today, though the boom and bust of globalised capitalism has filled the void that followed the Berlin Wall, and techno has become a worldwide industry, we face a new political chapter, one defined by populism, nationalism and mistrust. Contemporary creatives should take inspiration from Tresor's story, an extraordinary experiment born from improvisation, resourcefulness and social neglect that uplifted the spirits of inner city communities for a quarter-century.

This record marks the spirit of those 25 years of creativity, a paean to the psychedelic music of Dimitri's youth. From the signature magnetic soundscapes of Vainqueur to the dark textures of upcoming Beijing producer Shao; from Jon Hassell's slow epicurean volutes, to the ritual auras of Marcelus and Claudia Anderson's contributions; from the dub-infused pioneering programming of Juan Atkins and Moritz von Oswald, to Mønic's enthralling cadences, it represents some of the old and new names that continually epitomise Tresor's perennial spirit of ingenuity. "We were space pioneers," says Dimitri.

The East Berlin of 1991 may have disappeared to gentrification, with Tresor's lonely vanguard joined by an army of venues catering to an international array of clubbers benefiting from low cost travel, many of whom settle in the city for good. Berlin is Europe's economic engine, headquarters to global industry and sole traders alike, where Polish, Kurdish and English are as likely to be spoken as German. That range of influences is felt in all areas of life, not least in the city's music.

"Without Tresor, Berlin would not be what it is today," concludes Dimitri. "Even though it sounds a bit pretentious, it is true. Tresor was the prototype for an extraordinary club. It was only possible as a combination of the right time, the right place, the right content and determined people."
Excerpt of liner notes, by Rob Sharp - November 2016.

A side bring a good techno kick. Minimal and textures. B side goes more ambient bass style... Hynpotik side.

With ETUILTD005 'Translucent Tracks' we are presenting 4 new tracks from the deeper side of techno. We also welcome 3 new and established artists to our vinyl series. Echo Inspectors' Parable' opens the ep. With a great selection of warm
sound elements and an analogue drum set, the Melbourne based duo made a fusion of Dub and Detroit Techno. It´s the sound we love from their releases on their own Primary (Colours) imprint as well as from our Etui Winter Camp Compilation.
Dub Techno genius Quantec, who already released on labels such as Echochord or Styrax, delivered a more down stripped track. His 'Analogue Effusion' is based on delayed synth chords which get deeply modulated over a handful dry drums. When the bass kicks in, this turns into a dancefloor mover.
The b side starts with 'The Clouds Above Us' by Etui Records label head Insect O. Filtered chords and short pads create a dreamy sound scape and built up the tension step by step. Shaped drums are giving the track that drive to work well on the dancefloor.Frank Hellmond´s 'True Lines' offers a deep house groove made of analogue drums and sweet synth loops. Rare vocal snippets are bringing in a kind Dub Techno feeling. The nice atmosphere of the track rounds it up.

Spring Theory alumni Sage Caswell returns to the San Francisco-based label to deliver his debut album Hoop Earring. It's an enigmatic record that comes from the producer's own movement through personal transformation. It follows 2015's 'Sleep Quarters', Caswell's introspective label debut, and offers 10 tracks spread out across two 12"s. Hoop Earring is heavily informed by surrealist visions and archetypal images from Caswell's past that have crystallized within the context of this longplay album. Hoop Earring successfully paints images with broad brushstrokes and allegorical song titles that allows one to fill in fine details of a landscape built within the framework ten songs. Ray Of Light 95'' alludes to a moment in time that smartly places you alongside an adolescent Caswell while songs like Here We Guard Upon The Soul' land locks squarely in the middle with a poignant, nail-on-the-head statement. "Zora Scales (Step 1)" provides a focal reference to the fantasy world that this album might be the soundtrack to.

Calibre's new album - Grow for Craig Richards' label The Nothing Special.
12 tracks on a limited edition CD.
All music written and produced by Calibre. All artwork by Craig Richards.
Mastered by Lewis Hopkin at Star Delta Mastering.

Inaugurating a new chapter for Horo, Liam Blackburn continues his journey as Ancestral Voices. Following on from the 'Night Of Visions' LP for Samurai Horo and his recent 'Old Earth Voodoo' EP for Samurai Music, 'Yantra' is 4 soaring creations that further develop his caustic ambience. Euphoric touches that hint at his work as Indigo are added into the mix, but the hazy sonic atmosphere initiated with 'Night Of Visions' dominates throughout, refined here into a meditative form that whispers renewal and rediscovery.