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»decadent yet depraved«, the debut album by belief defect, finds shelter and complicity in raster as home and label.
familiar with the underground music scene and how its skeptical nature can also be an obstacle to overcome, belief defect abandon any claim or credit in an attempt to transcend the limits authorship imposes, avoid the boundaries or expectations earned or self imposed and find the clearest, most direct path to their music for themselves and the listener.
at the core of the album is the music that inspired them, the conclusion of countless recordings listened to in their formative years that ultimately result in a life-long devotion to electronic music: from dance floor to primal anger and self-annihilating noise, to transcendental, ambient escapism and intense self-reflexive sonic layering.
the result is a soundtrack for this apocalyptic time, an uncompromising reflection on the state of mankind and its uncertain future - underscored by a sense of religious and secular demise referenced in track titles, samples, and soundscapes scattered throughout the album.
yet, more than a political statement »decadent yet depraved« is an introspective journey, turning each listener into a spiritual soul-seeker staring into the abyss, reaching for some kind of cathartic truthfulness.

Abrasive EBM led Acid Techno jams, insanely hard to get. Original cassette came out in 1990 in a limited edition of 200 copies.

All rhythms, synths, vocals, effect, tape and radio manipulations by RB. Recorded live at home April/May 1990. No mixing or editing afterwards, no samples, no stereo, no dolby.

"Play this analog dancecore very loud!!!!"

Sam Kerridge launches a major rethink of his style with the high-velocity tempos and razor-toothed bite of The Silence Between Us.
Toiling somewhere between Ueno Masaaki's Vortices for Raster-Noton, the pitching pelt of La Peste for Hangars Liquides, and the machine convulsions of Somatic Responses, he goes balls-to-the-wall with the breakneck momentum of Possession/Control, harnessing reverse-edited kicks, helter-skelter EBM bass and spectrographic noise ghouls in a surge of searing rave energy.
Flipside, those knotty, strobing pulses keen thru empty stomach inversions and bursts of tangled EBM synths on Ascension, which is effectively a snappier edit of the A-side, whilst Radical Possibilities of Pleasure sounds like a field recording from a french hardtek invaded by dildo dibble in choppers and riot gear railing lasers against any unlucky dancers.

Redeemer is the brutally seductive debut album by Phase Fatale, a key player in the recent charge of EBM and post punk-informed industrial techno infecting 'floors from his home city, NYC to his DJ residency at Berghain, Berlin. In Dominick Fernow's Hospital Productions, Phase Fatale finds a fitting home for his personalised brand of clinical, rictus rhythm programming and searing synth and guitar lines, adding a vital streak of black and blue electric energy to the legendary label in its 20th year of cultish operation.
In seven parts (and a trio of extended Silent Servant mixes due to come), Redeemer follows the direct, jagged lines of his 12's for Jealous God and Unterton to a deeply personal realisation of weaponised sonics, upholding a strong tradition of techno as a prophetic exercise or ritual to gird dancers and listeners for the onset of future war. It presents Phase Fatale as an ultimate emissary of electronic violence and domination in the process, steeling the limbic system and muscle memory thru a fine-tuned disciplinarian approach to pharmacokinetics and biomechanics.
Picking from the leather-bound cadaver of industrial dance music past, Phase Fatale reanimates his influences with pointillist precision and unapologetic force. Alloying muscular bass and metallic percussion with wire-combed 16th note synthlines and a barbed perimeter of guitar distortion, his sound can be heard as a metaphorical representation of holding your line against the attrition of a degenerated present.
Each track dances concisely around the 5 minute mark, unfolding a series of densely packed and subtly rendered minimalist/maximalist structures. The shuddering tension of Spoken Ashes opens with banks of rotted chorales against a coalface of hacking stabs, establishing a pent vibe that vacillates precariously thru the adrenalised battery of Operate Within, to the clenched funk of Human Shield and the bombed-out,
Alberich-alike Interference, seeming to resolve slightly with the supple roll of Order of Severity, before Beast bottoms out into immolating synth distortion, and Redeemer brings up the rear with a coolly-tempered, stoic form of industrial ecstasy.

Abstract Reality presents you an album by French artist Leonard Lampion. It gathers a one hour selection of cuts that explores several different musical landscapes. Harsh industrial tracks share the tape alongside dark drone ambient, tribal sounds and downtempo emo feelings. Side A is the more dancefloor oriented side, while side B explores more experimental paths.

Greek label and promoters Trial & Error present their first ever vinyl release Hollow Systems' by Bonebrokk - packed with a Jay Glass Dub version. A deeply personal record that's refuses to lay low, it's both tense and intimate with a driving percussive energy and empathetic hooks. Whilst the contemporary UK techno influence is easily defined, its real strength lies in its raw honesty.

With an insane first track of bassline techno with a singer in a very Gothic spirit. Big one ! Then after comes the tribe Berlin Invasion state of mind ! B side opens with a loud techno tune, dancefloor killer in a positive cheezy form, a bit in a Ixindamix style... Last track is an acid mental techno tune. A masterpiece from those Italians triberz removing to berlin... and invading the city !

Regis compiles a killer Downwards label survey for 2017 featuring excluisve new material from DVA Damas, Autumns, Grebenstein, Sefried and Layne, veering from dank EBM to collapsing industrial structures.

Downwards send their new vanguard on road with The Immortal Eye; the mood is intensely depressive and pessimistic throughout, but, in the classic sense of gothic industrial music, the impeccably maintained atmosphere conversely acts as comfort or redemption to those need it.

Berlin's Jan Grebenstein remerges with Seefried on the tunnelling Wufferfraction only months after their excellent Strong Proud Stupid and Superior 12'. Imagine an anxious HTRK or ToC have just run out of downers and the technoid tension becomes palpable... before, the uncomfortably stark, empty-stomach concrète churn of Layne's Love will put you back face down again.

Autumns have flirted with Clan Destine and CF Records since their Downwards debut of eviscerated shoegaze in 2014, but they enter the B-side with a markedly different silhouette, framing spectral electronics and unheimlich voices in acres of negative, miasmic space before slipping into a pulsing techno trajectory, whilst LA's DVA Damas clear up with the erotic asphyxiation of Shortcut To X, which is effectively a crushing reduction of by now familiar sound...

Parrish Smith has quietly been making a name for himself over these last years with releases on Knekelhuis and Contort Yourself as well as with his projects Volition Immanent and Sige Bythos. We see him appear on L.I.E.S. in a strong fashion through four varied dense tracks. From slowbeat EBM to Belgium klang to classic Den Hague crushers this ep forges its own path taking these cues and putting Smith's unqiue spin on them. Heavy yet still possessing groove and hypnotic rhythm, damage will ensue if used correctly. Fresh stuff from this up and coming talent.

Social Decay expands on their intense approach to techno with nods to noise, industrial and drum & bass. The Manchester duo's second LP-a triple vinyl package-follows 2014's Cosmic Microwave Background, which also came out on Speedy J's label.

Although there are hundreds of newer electronic music acts who wield heaviness and saturated sound as their primary weapons, AnD keeps finding bold new ways to separate themselves from the rank and file. The production duo of Andrew and Dimitri - conduits for the industrial music legacy of Manchester - excels at showing that aesthetic extremity does not have to equal monotony, and that it can be applied to any number of song forms.

Their new Electric Deluxe LP, Social Decay, is simultaneously one of their most overwhelming and most innovative efforts. This visceral new release comes from the same hazardous, blasted terrain that informs the work of kindred spirits like Kerridge, Oake, and Justin Broadrick's many projects (Broadrick has incidentally remixed material from AnD's previous LP). However, there is lots of room to maneuver within this landscape of constant tension, and AnD brings a diversity and story arc to their overloaded attack that distinguishes them from their peers.

Whereas AnD's previous LP Cosmic Microwave Background utilized the duo's intensity to pay homage to the enormity of the universe and the incomprehensibly violent processes involved in its creation, Social Decay takes things back to earth and right down to a 'street view' more gritty and contentious than what Google Maps often reveals. While AnD could have easily made a topical album in the way that classic hiphop considered itself an alternative news source, they sidestep obviously current affairs in favor of broad concepts that could be applied to any point on the timeline of human struggle.

Beginning with a feedback-drenched, shuddering premonition of things to come ('The First Element'), each successive side of the album presents a new level of intensity, itself brought about by increasing levels of tempo and compositional coherence. The first suite of tracks, including 'Corrupted Structures' and 'Anarchic Rhapsody,' is pure industrial music comprised of multi-layered noise collage, venomous and halfcomprehensible whisperings, and rhythm structures that compel listeners to maintain an obedient posture rather than to ecstatically hit the dancefloor. Without completely abandoning this atmosphere, the next four or five tracks flirt more heavily with hip-hop inflected beats and an unmistakable sense of hyper-urban vigilance. Window-rattling tracks such as 'Pandemonium' come across like urban audio camouflage meant to defend its users against surveillance by shadowy and invasive entities, while 'Screaming Voices' adds infectious EBM sequences to the mix.

Just as it seems like the duo is settling in to a groove, the mutant drum-and-bass rhythm and cinematic bombast of 'Resisting Authority' strikes with explosive high-tempo energy. As carefully planned out as a well-choreographed, climactic sequence from a Hong Kong action thriller, this is one place where AnD's dedication to narrative really shines through. 'Taking Control' and 'Kepler' provide the effective aftershocks to this number, while 'Disturbed Reality' closes out the album in an unexpected sense. While many would rely on a reflective, ambient 'outro' to help fade listeners back into reality, AnD just keep continuing to deliver the crunching beats and looped warning cries, maybe hinting at the fact that reality is not far removed at all from this record's representation of it.

Inaugurating the New Magnus Opus series of limited edition vinyl EP's on Khemia Records are two dynamic producers at the vanguard of the future techno I Hate Models and Vittorio Di Mango.

* On the Solar Side I Hate Models delivers 'Cyanure Dance' an epic voyage of full emotional intensity with an insistent acid bass line, psychedelic punk wave distortion, stratospheric arpeggios and ethereal vocals courtesy of the artist himself.

* On the Lunar Side Vittorio Di Mango present 'Epilessia' aimed straight to the jugular, a peak-time dance-floor destroyer constructed with machine gun precision over crystalline snares and opiated vocal reverberations.

* Between them they form the Nigredo Edition.

Renegade ravers, Koehler and StabUdown Productions - a new alias of James Donadio (Prostitutes) - get loose and chaotic in a deadly stand-off for Diagonal, firing four barrels of belligerent electronic shrapnel and sawn-off techno following a slew of crushing solo 12"s spread around the wrongest rave houses over the last five years.
On Jim v Dan they offer a sort of snarky peer review of each other's tackle, with each producer offering an original cut to be sniffed, prodded and mauled by the other in an itchy, virulent process of rugged refinement. While it may be hard to tell who takes the points after four rounds, either way the rave comes out on top.
In round 1, Koehler makes the first move with Incoming Enemy, doling out a rictus tattoo of rail-gunning 'ardcore breaks and bleeps that bite down with the curled-lip attitude you'd expect from indulging any of his ramrods on Berceuse Heroique and Skudge White. In response, StabUdown's Jim Donadio gives back a sort of 2-stepped industrial shoulder barger nagged with gnashing breaks and dub-churned bass from the Valve playbook.
For round 2, Jimlad takes the first slap with a mighty twist of dancehall techno recalling the sick mutations of Demdike Stare's Wonderland LP, harnessing hardbody groove with sticky, stinging
electronics for one of the deadliest shots in his armoury, which Koehler duly hypnotises with a sort of drunken snakestyle inversion, diffusing its reticulated energy into a spaced-out reel of
bleeps and Uchronic AI techno - think B12 meets Orphan Drift.
Mad tings. Recommended to all mutant ravers!

Vanta Series is the new series for Killekill's dancefloor music. The releases come in series, every series comes with a theme and one artwork which is being split in several parts to go with each release. The first series is called "THE END IS NEAR" and features four records. It comes with an artwork by French visual artist Elzo Durt.
The second record is coming from KAMIKAZE SPACE PROGRAMME, who delivers three types of tracks:
Type 1 - a nervous piece of bells, percussion and bass Type 2 - a minimalistic techno night drive Type 3 - a spacious futuristic soundscape
Type 3 comes with a remix by JoeFarr, who added some drama to the original and therewith created a proper hit for the darker hours.

The result of a febrile fantasy cooked up after 2015's Moss Side Carnival, Prosthetics is the grim af first release nested by Croww, a bold new outlier from the edgelands of south Manchester.
Croww's debut for The Death of Rave features a pack of obscure, pre-Roadrunner Slipknot samples which have been painstakingly gerned beyond recognition, concatenated and uchronically folded into a fxcked-up session owing heavily to grindcore and '90s D&B and flashcore as much as modern, vantablack stripes of club music or rap instrumentals. It sounds like nothing out there right now, and, 20 years since Slipknot's emergence, can be heard as an unimaginably distant echo of what became a proper subcultural phenomena.
Harnessing detailed, flash-it blast beats and psychoacoustic shockwaves punctuated by samples from Iowa public access TV and visceral wretches nodding to Slipknot's dead crow-sniffing rituals, the uniquely brittle but mercurial Prosthetics (MechaMIx) and its four constituent digital Prosthetic parts, form a sort of stubborn study on the stifling nature of nostalgia.
Through a stoic process of parsing his sincere, formative obsession with Slipknot along with contemporaneous samples and other extreme forms of music which never entered the band's original equation, and then scrying the whole thing thru a hypermodern, street or bedroom level prism, Croww soberly inverts their source codes to extract a mutable expression of individuality from collective delirium in an era saturated by mimetic, populist clones trapped in an ever decreasing feedback noose of influence and reference.
It blurs distinctions between mixtape, imagined soundtrack and demonstrative showreel with an unflinching guile deliberately blinkered to melodic or percussive convention owing as much to the weightless inference of Total Freedom as the disciplined, shattering rage of Black Mecha, or the devilish metrics of La Peste's flashcore hyperstructures.
It's club music if you want it to be, or a portal for total, detached immersion and transcendence,
if that's your thing. Either way, it's a brutally uncompromising and compelling expression of cybernetic body horror and private ecstasy, nailing unique ground in the shifting sands of modern culture's temporal flux - ultimately as a record which could only really emerge in 2017.

Crafted between the years 2000-2008, 'Immerse' is a massive selection of some of the finest deep pulsating dark ambient tracks that we have ever heard. Together they create a journey through depth and darkness with a gripping emotional hook that almost stand unprecedented.


This is how Periskop described the advent of these enthralling pieces of music in a recent conversation:
'Immerse' is partly the subtle deep repetitive pulsations of the early dub techno scene and partly the dark ritual emotional/cathartic approach of the industrial soundscape movement of the 80s and 90s. I was compelled to combine the two approaches in a personal space or sound to overcome states of alienation and emptiness. The layer-on-layer compositions are a result of more or less meditative explorations of these states in symbiosis with the music making equipment. Some of the sounds are field recordings and vocals/voices/breathing and some of them are synths and sampled drum machines, but I have tried to blur the line between the two types of sources to avoid too many references to existing music or phenomena from normal human experiences.'


Antonio Vazquez: "The whole album is a dream!! Really fine sounds which makes you float in a calm and peaceful trip through the vacuum."
BLNDR: "Perfect release."
Cio D'Or: "Some amazing components fpr special moments!"
Deepbass: "Great sounds, feeling it"
Elle: "For me and for now probably the best listening of 2015."
Eomac: "Some lovely stuff on here. Thanks"
Eric Cloutier: "fantastic ambient excursions. really nice stuff."
Giorgio Gigli: "Immerse is AMAZING!!! I'll play and chart for sure, can't wait to play the vinyls Thanks for your music ;)"
Jonas Kopp: "it deserves a careful listen , sounds great. thanks."
Luigi Tozzi: "Probably one of the deepest work I listened lately. Totally in love with all the tracks, very hard to find a fav!"
Mattias Fridell: "Happy to see this massive project launched. Well done fellas"
Modvs: "Impossible to pick a favourite. 10/10"
Oscar Mulero: "Loved it. thx!"
Rasmus Hedlund: "Very submerged sounds, excellent trip!"
Samuli Kemppi: "Quite amazing sounds. Really like it. Thanks!"
Shaded Explorer: "This is one of the most beautiful and immersive music I ever heard, totally love it and into it!"
Skymn: "This album is going to be one of the best in 2015. No doubts. You have my full suport!"
Stephanice Sykes: "Very profound journey!"
Takaaki Itoh: "full of deepness. will play for first part of dj set. full support."

The Black Mask - SNTS debuts on Horo in the wake of his experimental leaning 'Losing Sight' LP. EP opener 'Origin Of Light' dazzles with it's shimmering waves of corrosive ambience, while 'Ancestral Reflection' and 'Figures In The Mist' are more familiar, vital SNTS dance-floor rituals, built with the inherent SNTS intoxication. 'Resurgence' notches up the intensity to close the EP with a grinding heave

* 12" vinyl, White Vinyl, Limited to 200 copies.
* Featuring 4 tracks, igniting 21 minutes into the world of techno and electro filled with acid and mystic grooves by the owners Beat Movement and D-Leria before hosting 2 bonus tracks by Umwelt and Endlec.

* DLBM Records is a household name on Truss's Rinse FM Podcast series and Sunil Sharpe's 'The Quarterly Crate show. Their tracks have been supported in 'Movement Festival' in Detroit by Detroit Techno Militia, 'Awakenings Festival' by Matrixxman, as well as Ben Sims, Blawan, Paula Temple, Zadig, Mad Alba, 2000 and One, Sleeparchive, Eric Cloutier and REKA.

Artwork by Giusy Amoroso.
Mastered at LRS Studio, Rome.





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Inner Surface Music are very proud to present the first album on the label from Grey Branches (Yves De Mey). Neuroclaps LP is a journey into the immersive world of Grey Branches, bringing together sounds and influences from techno, jungle, dub, experimental and ambient music.

´Arches´ opens with bass oscillations that swell and build into slow rhythmic patterns with machine grooves, teasing us for what lies ahead. ´Acrylic Hunger´ has stepping drums playing around swung baselines and modular synthesis layering into a pulsating dance floor pressure. ´Bevel´ builds around cavernous textures, laser like drums and analogue riffs. Killer sound design bringing elements of dub and techno together in its own form. ´Rushed Corrosion´ is built for dirty basement clubs, raw synth oscillations weave together creating a wave of tension with the driving power of techno with jungle ideology. ´Automatic Gallows´ slows down the tempo and enters the experimental realms, a slow undulating drum palette meets cosmic spaced out pads before collapsing into a black hole. ´Split Limb´ hits the floor hard with a wall of cold distorted bass, experimental kick drums and rugged rhythms. Syncopated experimental music by nature that remains direct and powerful for the dance floor. ´Rammed´ playful melodic sequences and atmospheric landscapes melt in harmony around broken kick drums and stripped percussion, pulling the listener closer to mesmerise you further. ´Unpaced´ is a short but intense piece of techno experimentation, sharp and delicate rhythms unfold around ethereal layers of noise and textures. ´Neuroclaps´ the title track is a perfect example of the Grey Branches sound. Hard in dynamics, while remaining funky and driving for the dance floor. The sound of early electronica with a unique feel of its own. ´Synthesis Swindle´ closes with deep otherworldly layers of bass, choral pads and sonic artefacts submerging the listener into a state of enchantment.

VOITAX returns with the label's ninth release - four cuts of stark, futuristic techno. Bringing together throbbing, hard-edged funk and tripped-out sound design, "run your mouth" is both a unique, and timeless take on the industrial techno sound, and one that is guaranteed to decimate the floor.

Ravage is proud to present the Hyperborean Land EP by the upcoming French duo As Patria. This release marks the third instalment in their White Series label. The A1 and B1 contain two sensitive and mesmerizing productions, portraying the distinctive As Patria sound. The A2 and B2 consist of two mind-bending versions, presented by French wave producer In Aeternam Vale. These versions are quite similar, but are both a piece of art in their own way. DJ FEEDBACK early support from Behzad & Amarou: DOPE !!! Full Support 4 my homies. Svreca / Semantica: Solid 12". Original tracks and both versions from In Aeternam Vale are nice. Full support. Remco Beekwilder: Fantastic deep and mental stuff ! Ness: Great one, really enjoyed! Thank you.
Void / L'ombre sur la mesure: Perfectly executed Ambient-infused analog Techno excursions.
Opuswerk: Excellent EP. Hard to pick a favorite, but maybe Scheria Coast stands out best for me.
A.Mochi: Hyperborean is amazing! Thanks.
Quail / Soma: Cool tracks! Nice deep & dark vibes. Thanks.
GoldFFinch: Really into A1, moody and powerful ! Thanks.
30drop: Nice pack! Specially the original tracks. Thanks for the music!
John Osborn / TANSTAAFL: The V1 remix is KILLER.
Volte-Face: Right up my strasse. The remixes are great.
Marco Bailey: Will check and play.
Kristian / Ame: Thanks.
Thomas Hessler: Nice one! Thank you!
Orde Meikle / Soma + Slam: Great tunes.
Pacou / Tresor: Very good job, thanks.
Leghau: Great release, both original tracks are massive, thanks.
Truncate: Trippy.
Ctrls: Super classy. In Aeternam Vale versions and Scheria Coast for me. Thanks!
Joseph Capriati: Downloading for Joseph Capriati, thanks!
Ancient Methods: Strong In Aeternam Vale versions, will play V2 for sure.
Takaaki Itoh: All tracks are great.
Arnaud Le Texier: Hyperborean original for me. Thx.
Donor: Really into all of these. Playing for sure.
Sigha: Absolutely wonderful release, many thanks!
Adam X: Aeternam Vale mix is for me.
Mark Henning: Digging the 1st remix!
Emma Blake / Apeiron Crew: Great remixes.
Richie Hawtin: Downloaded for Richie Hawtin.
Kwartz: The whole EP is amazing, thanks!
BNJMN: Impressive stuff, thanks.
Z.I.P.P.O: Nice work, I'm really into both original tracks + V1!
Marcel Heese: Great trips. Thanks!
Mr. Jones II: Like the vibe and groove in Scheria Coast.
Benjamin Damage: Very nice.
Henning Baer: Scheria Coast for me!
Norman Nodge: Great tracks! Have a slight preference for V2.
Ilario Alicante: Downloading for Ilario Alicante, thanks for the music!
Matrixxman: Gorgeous.
Antonio De Angelis: THANK YOU !
Dave Miller / Abstract Division: Thanks, nice release!!
Tensal: Nice stuff, original tracks favs here, thx!
Sandrien / De School: Oui! Like the whole EP, thanks.
Artefakt: Originals really stand out, solid EP.
Etapp Kyle: Thanks.
Post Scriptum: Will play this thanks.
Deepbass: Quality release, love it.
Doka: Ace!! Very sick EP. Thank you guys.
Jeff Rushin: Great guys!
Limo: Will sure play A side thanks.
Robert Lamart: Scheria Coast & Hyperborean (In Aeternam Vale V2) my favs here. Support! Thx.
South London Ordnance: Dope.
Joachim Spieth: Will try the original versions.
Exium / Kessell: Good stuff, thanks.
Denise Rabe: Good work! :)
Chris Liebing: Thanks!
Samuli Kemppi: Scheria Coast for me! Brilliant.
Angel Molina: Will play Hyperborean original, not really into the other 3 tracks, thanks anyway.
IORI: Very nice!
REKA / TRESOR: I like Hyperborean original and remix. Cool deep trip!
Radio Slave: Hypo-viber!
Distant Echoes: Great release, all tracks are good.
Aiken / Timeline / Non Series / Semantica: So good this EP!!
P.E.A.R.L.: Scheria Coast for me, thx!
Ben Gibson / Dyad: Scheria Coast is amazing - thank you.
Chris Stanford: In Aeternam Vale V2 for me!
Francois X: Quelle Famille Bordeaux Lyon La sainte Patrie Full Support.
Hydergine: Solid and hallucinatory tracks. Thanks!
Tommy Four Seven: Dope.
Yac / I/Y: Will def play, solid all around.
Press: Matt Unicomb / Resident Advisor: Thx

Hot on the heels of the massive Tinfoil 4 (which gave us one of 2016's standout tracks "Foil 23"), Sunil Sharpe and DeFeKT return with the fifth installment of their ongoing collaborative project. This time christening most of the tracks with names rather than numbers, the pair continue to display their versatility over this fresh new 4-tracker. "Twerp", "Booyaah", "Leave Your Body" and "Foil 30" visit various areas of Tinfoil's repertoire from their trademark modular snarling techno to hypnotic DJ tools, to the weird, vocal-laced concoctions that they make with apparent ease. Another hugely original, and straight-up rocking EP from Tinfoil.

* New from Stonedwave (founded by Chip Tronic), who has lately been active for both the kugkmusique and the oyabun labels comes a collection of powerful dark wonky techno tracks who have been created for freaking out on the dancefloor while still creating pictures in the listeners mind . The tunes have been selected and tested by Dj Wotta Mess. The latter has been doing the Warm Up for Dont radio show which is a regular internet event before Jerome Hill´s London based events.

* Dj Wotta Mess selected his favourite tunes by Chip Tronic to test them on a dubplate (like in the UK Jungle scene in the 90's ). The results can be found are on this 12 inch which has a 95% green, 5% black color, thus being dark but shimmering in the sunlight like an evil artefact. Thus it reflects the mai topic of the record: the fight between hell and heaven, or between the artist and the machines. The tracks were recorded in several studio live sessions.

* The artist was deeply influenced by some urban fantasy novels dealing with this topic but also by classic novels like Dante´s Inferno or ancient stories.

* The record starts with 'Tanz im Bannkreis' a kind of pagan dance in a witch circle, consisting of a repetitive rhythm , jumping back and forth on a crunchy bassline which is accompanied by rocket like whistles which finally hypnotize the listener / dancer and culminate in an ancient hymn for modern dancefloors.
'Dante' has a powerful swing, hell´s bass and again: glitch, funk, tech & roll.
'Michael Wins' tells an ancient story about a fight between the archangel Michael and the duke of greece and is one of the longtest tracks on this ep, with longer breaks, again lot of shuffles, glitches and syncopated breaks and the reece basslines
'Alphalegion' might be the most straightforward tune on the ep with a friendlier undertone, telling the story of an Astartes Legion in the Warhammer40 k universe.

* Perc & Truss rework two key cuts, taken from Mumdance & Logos' debut album 'Proto' and deliver us a pair of hard-as-nails techno bangers.

* 'Move Your Body' is mutated from the hardcore-referencing original into a searing industrial belter. Perc & Truss' version makes use of distorted 808 drums and rising machine noise to ramp up the tension before eventually dropping out to the 'move your body' vocal sample and unleashing a terrorising acid line. Dancefloor killer.

* Flip for 'Hall Of Mirrors' which sees the pair re-route Mumdance & Logos' original into a 4/4 roller, peppered with metallic percussive hits and and a robotic bass riff. Hard, uncompromising techno built just the way it should be.

Repress - Originally released in August 2011.

Parts 2 & 3 merge loping HipHop into quickstepping Juke momentum with swirling atmospheres, kinda like Blue Daisy jacked up on meth. 'Turiya' is sweeter cool-out 2-step joint with textured Burial-esque finish applied to crisp, classic-referencing 2-step Rave.'

Limited to 200 copies on yellow, labelless vinyl is the latest release on Leipzig's Minor Label, fusing the creative forces of the two artists that have been responsible for a main part of the labels output throughout the past two years. Whilst Yvat fuses heavy distortion, beat twisting and melodious Electronica in a kind of Aphex Twin-manner on the A-side we see Tlic explore cold, grinding, sci-fi'ish soundspheres based on a slow, pounding 4/4 foundation on his B1 tune "Digital Kautschuk" whilst things are speeding up with "Homeo Sapiens" on B2 to a not less grinding effect. Frosty.

Hand-Numbered Edition of 200 black/white label, full colour folder sleeve in heavy PVC outer with download code.

Aurora Borealis is proud to unleash Orphan Swords' License To Desire Remixes' LP on limited edition vinyl on Aurora Borealis on May 15th, alongside the reissue of License To Desire'.

The sonic tangle and entheogenic orgy of the demonically inspired Asmoday' and the tranced-out Hooker', are given workovers by Helm, Icon Template, Black Rain, Prostitutes and Svengalisghost.

This is remix as rite of destruction, the tracks being disfigured rather than beautified for commodification. Awkward, uncomfortable listening rubs shoulders with pounding bass, post-techno hiss squall prevails. And then there's the superbly dirty fever-dream lope of the Black Rain remix.


Bio: Formed in 2013, Orphan Swords is a Belgian electronic duo. Their music, described as a brutal hypnosis' by Ransom Note, has been released on Desire Records, Clan Destine and Idiosyncratics. Idiosyncratic is indeed a description that perfectly fits both their releases and live performances. Recently back from the US, they have shared bills with acts as diverse as Oathbreaker, Andy Stott and Vatican Shadow.

Their new collaborative side project Black Swords with Stuart Argabright of Black Rain (Blackest Ever Black) was released on Vienna's Noiztank label. "The ten-minute Marchosias'...builds into a droning blur with surging drums, echoed, incomprehensible vocals and all sorts of sharp edges. "Asmoday" conjures its own mass of screeching, cackling distortion, but adds an icy sense of melody through a few sustained synth riffs, and fixes everything to a rolling kick. "Hooker" is the most subdued thing yet from Orphan Swords, but it's no less potent. Its steady bass thrums and light, hazy swirls of harmonized noise make for a supremely soothing comedown." - Resident Advisor

The new album of Toulouse based producer Verset Zero : a scary and tortured release with black metal influences. The original tracks are accompanied by three remixes (Blush Response, Violet Poison and Huren).

This is the first project of a series of vinyl, which aim is to explore the deep link between man and analogic machines. Every track is sampled by analogic hardware machines in order to keep the unique, distorted, boiling sound like only these instruments are able to do. This four-track release is the result of a dogged industrial groove fixed by the deepest techno side of the drum. It mesmerizes with the electric pulse of its eclectic riffs and the power of its raving sound.

* Khemia Records the new imprint from Kaos London announces its third limited edition split vinyl release:
'The Autumn Equinox Edition' featuring Volte-Face and 3.14

On the Solar Side prolific London based producer Volte-Face delivers The Otherwise Central Zone

noise opening
cathedral speeches
a bombing starting
cosmic bleeps punctuate static field
resonant reverberations
propulsive rhythms burn psychotropic tunnels
acid barb
entropic dissolution

On the Lunar side Berlin based Athenian producer 3.14 contributes Ironas

an industrial animal in the forest
ritual
alarm
destruction
seek and destroy
intense ballad of the beast
thunderbolt
mechanical scream
reflect, destroy, rebuild
nature
existence
rebirth

Mastered by Andrea Merlini
Produced by Khemia Records, London
Artwork; "The Transformation of Darkness Into Light" courtesy of Daniel Martin Diaz
Design by Jaime Gil Larios

Lucindo returns for his 2nd release on 3TH Records which he runs with Ascion and D. Carbone.
Alien Rebellion enters with atmospheric textures and strings rising from the abyss into a new world of deep tension and emotion. Once the dust has settled, we enter full out attack with industrial rhythms, ruffled percussion and acidic lazer beams. The journey continues along paths unknown, dark underlying elements of the alien attack is upon us, Insanity and anxiety enter the inner dimensions of the mind. The chase is on and battle commences as we feel the power and the energy of the sonic weaponry. As we make it through the other side we feel cosmic clouds of waveforms encapsulate us, as we make our homeward journey

Uncanny, fervid music from fire-walking rituals, recorded in the village of Agia Eleni, Serres, Greece, in 1979 (and originally released in a tiny edition by the redoubtable Editions Zero and Echomusic), alongside killer new invocations - excoriated, dread, ecstatic, driven - summoning the saints their own way.

This highly anticipated release by Los Angeles based artist, AXKAN, delivers a powerful message to the techno underground, letting everyone know this record hasn't come to this point by mistake. With powerful remixes by Luis Flores, Pinion and RolandoHödar to support, AXKAN delivers a strong statement with 'Tension', a techno masterpiece with broken industrial rhythms that is bound to shake floors, and crack the surface. He masterfully creates some true and raw emotion, with his dark, sinister and gritty sounds that is guaranteed to grab attention from the beginning. Axkan's self-confident creativity, however didn't come alone. Techno heavyweight Luis Flores provided a remix that is nothing short of spectacular. He encapsulates Axkan's raw, dark noises, and completely manipulates them into a gnarled and twisted rendition. Pinion's remix perfectly complements the release in a cohesive way to get the dance floor moving. His unique characteristics include a deadly vicious groove with glitchy vocals combined with deep melodies. Aerotek founder, RolandoHödar, had to get his hands in there, with his industrial techno breaks remix to add to this ferocious ride. With all tracks united together, this EP is rooted with serious energy and will undoubtedly tear speakers apart. It exploits experimental to traditional 4X4 percussion workouts and is definitely worth listening.

Roll the Dice are back with a new full length album, 'Born to Ruin'. The Swedish duo, consists of Malcolm Pardon and Peder Mannerfelt, both established musicians in their own right.
Pardon's background producing scores for film and television is reflected in Roll The Dice's cinematic aesthetic., while Mannerfelt's acclaimed third solo album 'Controlling Body' landed in 2016 and follows on from his acclaimed work as producer for Fever Ray.
In 2013 the pair contributed to the Blanck Mass-curated score for the Belgian horror movie 'The Strange Colour ofYour Body's Tears', while last year they composed part of the score and end
credit theme for the drama series 'The Last Panthers'. The duo have performed live at Sonar,
Unsound, Primavera, ATP, Mutek, Norberg, Roskilde and Semibreve festivals as well as alongside an exclusive orchestral setting at Norrlands Opera.
Compared to the epic, sweeping compositions of the duo's earlier records, Born To Ruin is stripped to the bone - a collection of concise, sharply evocative, jazz-infused music that's more smoky
basement than orchestral hall.
Following the stately orchestral explorations of 2014's Until Silence, the music here is lithe, hollow and furious, evoking a fractured world of economic and political instability.

Perc (aka London based Ali Wells) returns with 'Bitter Music', his third album following 'Wicker & Steel' (2011) and 'The Power And The Glory' (2014). As before the album will see a release on his own Perc Trax imprint, giving Perc the complete creative control needed to realise his vision of what should be a milestone release for both himself and Perc Trax.

Originally a very inward looking album when work started on it in March 2016 the extensive political change happening in both the UK and around the world forced the album to widen its perspective. By the time the album was finished in December, it was clear that the sentiment of tracks such as 'Look What Your Love Has Done To Me' was as equally applicable to the micro-politics of person relationships as it was to concerns for the future of a country in a state of flux.

Pre-production for the album begun at Eve Studios, a residential studio just outside of Manchester, UK which specialises in collecting and restoring equipment salvaged from the sadly defunct BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The palette of sounds created during these sessions lends the album the sound of early electro-acoustic experimentation, especially evident on tracks such as 'Wax Apple'. Live instrumentation also plays a larger role on this album than on any previous Perc releases with Wells playing piano on many tracks and Ian East's flute playing featuring on 'Chatter'. The album also features a number of vocal collaborations including one with Gazelle Twin. Post-production, mixing and arranging was done at Perc's North London studio before the album was mastered by Perc Trax's regular mastering engineer Matt Colton.

Sonically the album takes in everything from strung out vocal treatments to the type of warehouse rabble rousers Perc has made his own since his very first releases. More dance floor focussed than his previous albums yet pulling from a wider range of sounds 'Bitter Music' shows a development and maturing of Wells' music that could not have been foreseen just a few years ago.

Delicately balancing the personal and the political, 'Bitter Music' stands apart from most recent techno albums as it continually pushes outwards rather than concerning itself with the microscopic refinement of already established sounds. It is an album unafraid to take chances from an artist continually looking for his next step forwards.

DJ feedback so far::

Ben Klock (Klockworks) - "The thought that counts for me 4/5"
Tommy Four Seven (47) - "I'm loving those fucked up soundscape moments. Classy album. Big up Ali!"
Dax J (EDLX) - "Whole album is fantastic!"
Logos (Different Circles) - "Raw!"
Paula Temple (R&S) - "Looking forward to playing a few of these this weekend."
Clouds (EDLX) - "Nice work Ali"
Ivan Smagghe (Blackstrobe) - "Absolutely love the more experimental tracks."
Xhin (Stroboscopic Artefacts) - "Nice one, thanks!"
2000 And One (100% Pure) - "Oh yes, superb sounds in here, thank you!"
Bas Mooy (Mord) - "Wicked! Great stuff Ali, really like it!"
Kwartz (Pole Group) - "Heavy stuff as always, love it. Thanks."
Exium (Pole Group) - "Good stuff, thanks"
Ansome (Mord /Perc Trax) - "Amazing work Ali'
Gary Beck (Bek Audio) - "Some outstanding tracks here, After Ball and Unelected in particular. Will give a good thorough listen over the weekend, thanks Ali!!"
Kriz (Token) - "Will give this some decent listening time thanks will def play 'The Thought'"
Lag (Mord) - "Loving this, especially Spit!
VSK (Power Vacumm / Planet Rhythm) - "It is just amazing, Spit and Unelected are dance floor killer, and love After Ball and Wax Apple also... Thank You very much for the Great Music!!!"
Thomas Heckmann (AFU) - "This time more into the experimental realm, but interesting and I like it"
Alex Bau (Credo) - "Strong album. Has got a clear focus but is still versatile. Really good!"
Mondkopf (In Paradisum) - "Ali's music is always a step ahead."
Kyle Geiger (Cubera / Drumcode) - " Great stuff! A true album that plays like an album instead of a collection of tracks! Gonna listen to this full through numerous times!"
Joe Farr (UX) - "Very engaging, but also banging. Lovely."
Mr Jones (Unsubscribe) - "I Have the honor the play this one for a while now, And "Look What Your Love Has Done To Me" just killed the floor every time ;-)"

Orphan Swords see the reissue of their License To Desire' LP on limited edition vinyl on Aurora Borealis on May 15th. The Belgian duo bring a heady, fog shrouded sonic maelstrom to the label, perfect for the post-truth era.

What sort of music is this What genre do we file it under Hard to say. It sounds like a record that Aurora Borealis should release. There's chaos, there's unhallowed chanting, there's some fierce rhythm and there's undeniably some abuse of electronic equipment. We'll leave the definitions up to the listener, but with titles referencing demons of Goetia and the world's oldest profession we'll let the good times roll.

Formed in 2013, Orphan Swords is a Belgian electronic duo. Their music, described as a brutal hypnosis' by Ransom Note, has been released on Desire Records, Clan Destine and Idiosyncratics. Idiosyncratic is indeed a description that perfectly fits both their releases and live performances. Recently back from the US, they have shared bills with acts as diverse as Oathbreaker, Andy Stott and Vatican Shadow.

Their new collaborative side project Black Swords with Stuart Argabright of Black Rain (Blackest Ever Black) was released on Vienna's Noiztank label. "The ten-minute Marchosias'...builds into a droning blur with surging drums, echoed, incomprehensible vocals and all sorts of sharp edges. "Asmoday" conjures its own mass of screeching, cackling distortion, but adds an icy sense of melody through a few sustained synth riffs, and fixes everything to a rolling kick. "Hooker" is the most subdued thing yet from Orphan Swords, but it's no less potent. Its steady bass thrums and light, hazy swirls of harmonized noise make for a supremely soothing comedown." - ResidentAdvisor

Ultra-rare D.I.Y minimal / synth-pop / industrial / darkwave album from 1986!

Kozmonaut was the personal project of a young & talented Canadian musician called Michael Gutierrez, who moved to San Francisco in the early 80s. Influenced by Kraftwerk and German culture / electronic music, Michael recorded the Flieg' album all by himself at his garage studio, using the pseudonym of Hans Schiller'.

1000 copies were pressed on his own label, Vier Productions Inc, but they were never distributed or sold at the time, with virtually the entire pressing being discarded, as Michael, a perfectionist, was not satisfied with the spelling mistakes on the cover, among other things. In 1989, Michael, along with Pieter Ziegelmeier, formed the famous industrial / electronic band Kode IV.

Sadly, Michael contracted AIDS and passed away in 1994. All the contents of his garage (tapes, albums, synths and recording equipment) were sold for cheap or ended up in the street.

Fast forward to 2010: An adventurous record hunter (Christian Peintner) finds a copy of the Flieg' album at a thrift shop in San Francisco. At first, he thinks it's a German album but after some investigation, he discovers the name of Michael Gutierrez which leads him to Kode IV and then to Peter Ziegelmeier. He visits Peter who tells him the real story of Michael Gutierrez aka Hans Schiller and Kozmonaut.

Flieg' is an excellent album, a crossover of a wide range of styles from early Industrial (paving the way for Michael's later sounds with Kode IV), to Synth-Pop, Experimental Electronics, ambient and Dark Wave. Michael uses the vocoder very effectively and in one of the songs, Tidal Meditation', he recorded the Golden Gate Bridge fog horn to use it as a sample.

*Original artwork with spelling mistakes corrected.

*Insert with liner notes

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Artik becomes the second artist involved in the COUMSC serie. Distorted crushed beats, rawness and some driving soundscapes behind this five track EP inspired on the Asimov's trilogy "Foundation".
Hand stamped and hand numbered black vinyl limited edition of 100 copies, lacquer mastering plus exclusive digital download.

In the CAST tradition, includes 4 far reaching and artist signature tracks from Axkan, Pinion, Dolgener and iFormat.

// Axkan delivers a highly experimental and punishing work for CAST. A dark environment is developed through the use of analog machines droning and screaming in the background whilst the beats tease the listener by never pushing over the edge of anticipation. Great builder to open with.

// Pinion delivers us back in time with his CAST. Classic sound, acid drenched, broken beat madness with a timeless approach. There isn't much more to say besides expect to find this tune popping up in a warehouse near you.

// Dolgener delivers a peak time floor smasher with his CAST. Relentless and unforgiving in every sense. Top notch distortion and noise atop heavy pummeling beats lead to a breakdown and build which will ensure the dance floor turns into a riot.

// iFormat delivers a dark brooding basement track for his CAST. This grungy piece contains syncopated hooks, dusty drums and stomping bass drums which create a type of hypnosis for the dance floor.