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20 minute E.P. featuring two re-recorded  tracks taken from last years N' album. Since taking the material on their highly successful touring throughout 2014 the material mutated from kraut-rock to a more neo-techno feel. Nisennenmondai is the world's best-kept secret among noise rock enthusiasts. The vinyl of "N" consists of two tracks

after a break of 5 years, alva noto continues his xerrox series with »xerrox vol. 3«, entitled towards
space', a journey that started with »xerrox vol. 1«, referring to the old world', and »xerrox vol. 2«,
heading to the new world'.
using the process of copying as a basis, the xerrox series deals with the manipulation of data by
means of endless reproduction. due to the inherent vice of the procedure that becomes especially
visible when copies are made from copies, everyday sounds are so much altered that they can be
hardly associated with the source material anymore. as a result, entirely new sounds are created that,
being copies of originals, become originals themselves.
on »xerrox vol. 3«, a new aspect enters the scene. inspired by childhood film memories from the
1970s including tarkovsky's adaption of solaris' and la isla misteriosa y el capitán nemo' based on
jules verne's the mysterious island', the record shows alva noto's private side. with its very intimate
atmosphere, it is a personal reflection of dreams, an imaginary journey through emotional landscapes
or, as he himself puts it, a cinematographic emotion of a soundtrack to a film that actually does not
exist in reality.'
alvo noto himself further states, I see »xerrox vol. 3« as my most personal album so far. I have
to admit that this emotional output is a surprise even for myself. it remains exciting how the last two
albums of this series will sound like.'

Uncto's seminal 2013 release Pain was an uncompromising exercise in rhythmical brutality amidst a conflux of themes of suffering, industry, man, and machine.
The record now sees itself reinterpreted and reimagined under the auspices of some of the scene's most eminent and accomplished forerunners in what is perhaps, as it arrives on an opulent red double-vinyl format, the label's most ambitious addition to its catalog to date.

Long-time trailblazers Exium first take on 'Dirty Minds' as they apply their unequalled peak-time treatment. While retaining the driving force of the original, the Spanish duo transmute its somber sense of narrative into a singular and infective pattern that unrelentingly maintains its intensity throughout. In contrast, Frenchman Mondkopf's reconstruction is a radical departure from its progenitor, almost as if the merciless titular oppressor ('Schinder') has been injected with an empathogenic truth serum and made to face the toll of his deeds. Serving as his final penance, the resultant insuppressible melodic radiance gushes to the fore as powerfully as his remorse and tears.
Continuing on the second record, Canadians Orphx draw upon the immense and unwieldy cyclicality of 'Judas Cradle' as they deconstruct the torture device into a prolonged yet unfaltering dirge. Harnessing the raw power of the original, they adroitly fuel and layer the modular solemn synths of the drawn-out nine minute epic. Finally, the unequivocal master of industrial cannonry, Ancient Methods (DE), takes on and reins in the unyielding beast of 'It,' leaving the monster not only tamed but fully subjugated to his will. Now capable of executing the most inscrutable order, itsees itself violently degenerated to the barest of elements and recombined anew, with the cadence of its frame shifted and staggered to the striding rhythm of a being more machine than flesh. Providing solace and closure are Uncto themselves, as they complement the compositions with two droning interludes.

Mastered by CGB at Berlin's Dubplates & Mastering, Pain Remixes will be available at fine vinyl retailers

CNTRT001 marks the beginning of Samuel & Hayley Kerridge's record label Contort. Much like their renowned Berlin event series of the same name, the label will provide a platform for new & old talent, supporting artists to stand alone and to be individual. The first release comes from Kerridge, already establishing himself with critically acclaimed releases on labels Downwards, Blueprint, and Horizontal Ground. 'Always Offended Never Ashamed' is Samuel's most personal recording to date, spanning 7 tracks, his own vocals are prevalent throughout the LP. Thrashes of guitar sit alongside steely percussion, showing restraint and elegance in the process. Electric pulses wreak havoc on the senses, with earth shuddering bass & kicks providing the raw physicality which has become synonymous with his work

**Mastered by Matt "The Alchemist" Colton and sleeved in Diagonal disco 'jak-it'** Japanese techno tearaway Kouhei Matsunaga aka NHK gets lively on a killer, 5-track, 26 minute debut for Diagonal. Viewing classic dance tropes askance, 'Hallucinogenic Doom Steppy Verbs' follows his trio of 'Dance Classics' volumes for PAN thanks to a keener, almost aggressive thrust/lust for the 'floor, chucking up buckled variants of tech-step, acid, and garage-techno in the process. Making up for lost time since his last releases in 2013, he warms up with a spot of fractured tech-step before going hard with a febrile, 12-minute 2-step techno roller coming off like Grain and Lory D chewed-up by Haswell. Flipside, London-based ne'er-do-well and mutual maniac, XenoglossiX aka XiX vocals the strapping, squawking acid lash of '932' and a severely twysted, Gescom-like body-scrambler, '953', beside the scratchy wreckage of a dank rhythmic noise trip. They're all exactly the kind of mutant bombs Powell tends to lob in his celebrated DJ sets, requiring your attention quicksharp.

Since 18 years now electronic duo Klangwart occupy self-confidently their very own niche between Avantgarde and Pop. Markus Detmer and Timo Reuber, the two 'elder statesmen' of neo-Krautrock, are since regarded as the most authentic heirs to the psychedelic sound gurus of the '70s. Nine tracks of otherworldly beauty - energetic, organic, unpredictable

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

Format: Black Vinyl LP 33rpm. Edition: 250. "Object Subject To Change" (iDEAL109) is Henrik Rylander's fourth album for iDEAL but the first since 2009. Rylander is king of hypnotizing, focused feedback drone with razorsharp noise and monotonous pulse. Music that feels as comfortable in academic worlds as in filthy basements. Henrik Rylander was the drummer of the provocative, sweaty and chaotic garage rock band Union Carbide Productions (1987-1993). After a few years focusing on his visual art (photography) he started experimenting in sound and especially with feedback and static rhythms. In 1998 his first solo album was released but it was not until 2003 with the massive 'Formation' album for Leif Elggren's Firework label he had found the recepy of intensity that he is known for today. In 2004 the 'Traditional Arrengements of Feedback' CD was released on iDEAL which led to a worldwide focus on Rylander's work. In 2005 he formed the monotonous avant rock group The Skull Defekts together with Joachim Nordwall. Henrik Rylander is also active exhibiting his sound- and visual art. He is no doubt one of the sharpest, heaviest and most conceptual Swedish artists around today.

Maoupa Mazzocchetti's industrial-esque debut for Unknown Precept questions the primary inconstancy of music through five slices of proto-techno experiments; ranging from pile-driving kicks to rumbling bass, Maoupa's boiling mental activity vibrating and twitching in a very specific manner resulted in the live recording of 'A-Tranquility', which we could define as an EBM-styled extended-play browsing random directions while exploring muscular deconstructed grooves as well as metallic stodgy rhytms and noisy-atmospheric synth lines.

People strive for stability, however nature constantly creates instabilties. From the beginning to the end, you stay in the extreme. You have the opposite direction in the ordinary life. Close your eyes. The place where you have gone was your field.

Freitag's latest slab of vinyl, The Truth :

a personal, straight from the heart EP from Dead Sound & Videohead, joined by a notoriously brilliant singer-composer and remixer , the Horrorist.

Techno, reminiscent of the Industrial Techno emerging in the UK in the '80s and '90s , and EBM, a genre that includes live performances, vocals, and analog synthesizers.

It's a sexy, tactile subgenre with full of possibilities.

The 'Rough Time in Life ' Ep was created in a basement studio that provided the perfect ambience for working through the 'no program , no agenda' dark stuff and leaded to

Techno with a Punk aesthetic: 'The Truth' .

'I guess if you were going to murder someone, you'd want that track as background music'. (Dead Sound)



A highly influential artist: The Horrorist, the remixer of 'The Truth' has been working on an EBM version of the original , by holding the Techno flair to it. He used the Eurorack modular system that he'd built on his own , as well his Noise Engineering Ataraxic Translatron digital module for the bassline and his beloved Ensoniq ESQ-1 for the pad sounds, as a homage to New Beat. For various fills and effects the vocals went through a Make Noise Phonogene.



This special blend of Industrial Techno and EBM are not just a flash in the pan but rather the direction where Freitag wishes to pursue in future recordings.

With the present four tracks compilation of exclusive Techno productions, Rebekah delivers the third and last part of CLR's new format, which consists of an hour and a half dj mix and two subsequent EPs. Once more, Rebekah has chosen a mixture of tracks by fellow CLR players and other colleagues she admires for their cutting edge, quality production style. Long-time CLR artist and mastering technician Brian Sanhaji contributed 'Gyre", the first track of the release and a truly mesmerizing, acidic journey, which fulfills the usual, extremely high sonic standard the experienced producer is known for. The second track 'Berkel' was produced by Dualit and is characterized by a comparatively laid-back vibe with a gently driving rhythm, irresistibly haunting atmospheres and sequences. It closes the A-side of the vinyl and leaves you with the urge to turn it around and keep listening. The B-side contains two more tracks by Bas Mooy and by Rebekah herself. Bas Mooy´s 'Exile' is another good example of minimalistic, driving and hypnotic Techno with an extraordinary rhythm and a diversified structure, while Rebekah manifests with 'Zero Point' what she is best known for: straight-forward, full on, banging Techno with heaps of positive energy from the relentless side of the genre. Her second 'Mind Sets' effort is a thoughtful selection, a dignified continuation of the first part of the sampler and should be enjoyed loud on top-notch sound systems. Rebekah completes the first edition of CLR's brand-new vinyl/digital venture and once more recommends herself as a tasteful advocate of uncompromising, undying Techno.90460

4 bloody tune, 3 Speedcore ultraspeedcore and one experimental Ambient core... Superb sleeve as well.

Rotator and Ruby My Dear... Breakcore powerfull raving stuff revival... bringing some Drill My Dear And Some Raggatator !

Powell's killer, comprehensive singles collection 11-14 makes his club-breaking series of 12' singles available on 2CD for the first time.

It charts the uncompromising development of one of this decade's most ruthless
new artists thru 18 original tracks taken from five EPs for three different labels — including his own, Diagonal and features a searing collaboration with national n0!se treasure, Russell Haswell.

Syncing the muscle memory of dancing to late '90s D&B and techno with a kink for the tuffest '80s Industrial and bleeding-edge electronics, Powell's music has emerged as a virile antidote to the conservatism of current dance music.

With his first pair of self-released singles, 'The Ongoing Significance Of Steel & Flesh' (DIAG001, 2011) and the
'Body Music' EP (DIAG002, 2012), he established an ascetic, bare-bones approach which resonated with the original No Wave mantra — 'rip it up and start again' — in a bare-faced challenge to what was then deemed acceptable on the 'floor. Precedent set, the controversial 4-track 'Untitled' EP (RAVE002, 2013) revealed a more optimised, muscular take on his rollicking torque and freeform, caustic electronics at the cusp of the analog/ digital schism — resulting in the anthemic 'Oh No New York' on the flip.

Late 2013 saw the coiled hard-step of 'Fizz' (LTECH004) and his most explicit alloys of motorik jungle-tekno, before the 'Club Music' EP (DIAG009, 2014) combined all of these influences and exploded with spectacular, unpredictable brilliance, dosing a whole rave's worth of overloaded sensation into three brutally edited constructions, including the notorious 'Maniac' starring label-mate and hardwave peer, Russell Haswell.

Central to it all, from the swaggering stomp of 'Body Music' and 'Oh No New York' to the deadly jag of 'No U Turn', is a tensile, insatiable sense of urgency and a healthy disregard for convention, which translates directly to mad-'eds across the world.

Solar One Music is proud to present a very special project. Arne Weinberg (Valanx) and Robert Witschakowski (The Exaltics) join forces as "Val_Ex" and present their first album. Dark and deep tracks are featured on both sides of this album, the intention and atmosphere is undeniably pure darkness. The common goal of achieving this is audible each second of this record. The music ranges from ambient to electro, industrial and electronica. CD Album with bonus tracks

01. Sacrifice
02. Metacognition
03. Atom
04. Dying Embers
05. The Xecutioner
06. Fall Back
07. Territories
08. You_ve Never Been Right
09. Val_Ex-3 10 Val_Ex-7 (Crushed)

We're pleased to announce the return of the two Japanese artists behind the Ten Label and Steven Porter project (Weevil Neighbourhood, Semantica Records, Bitta, Vacu Sessions)

These guys always know how to grab your attention with their stark, brooding electronics and they put that to use with great effect once again here by splitting their latest EP in half to showcase their individual talents - very limited copies

Keep an eye out for another stunning 4 track compilation as Ten004EP soon...

Collection of 6 short Grind electronic super hard tunes !

Fantastic Realese... Pure sound and powerfull dancefloor.