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RICARDO VILLALOBOS | Vasco (Perlon) – Back in stock

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This is minimal master Ricardo Villalobos‘ second full-length release for the Perlon label.

Following the last two 12″ Vasco releases featuring “Minimoonstar,” “Electonic Water” & “Amazordum” (containing remixes on the B-sides by Shackleton, San Proper & Baby Ford), this CD contains the full-session mix of “Minimoonstar” (32 minutes long!) as well as a CD-exclusive bonus track entitled “Skinfummel“.

This is quite possibly Villalobos‘ most experimental dance music to date, driving home his ever-widening philosophy that when styles have fallen into oblivion, when dance is subliminal, when positions don’t matter, when discussions have faded, when every substance has been dropped, when everyone is free of inert mass, when the set-up is cleared of significance, then mindset and music will float freely. There’s enough space to place countless seeds of sense, causing the joint communication between the players of the jam to flower out. The players of these jams are the many spirits of Ricardo Villalobos. His philosophy of the flow of absolute sound is in full evolution here, and this is 70 minutes worth of pure bliss.

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DARTRIIX | Flying One Hand (Op.Disc)

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Dartriix is a sporadic but permanent collaborative project between two of Op.Disc‘s label heads, Fumiya Tanaka and Yoshihiro Hanno aka Radiq. After 6 years of absence, Dartriix finally makes their return with this intensive double pack LP Flying One Hand, which is a good surprise to us.

During recent years, Berlin-based Fumiya Tanaka has established himself as one of the most impressive figure in Europe’s minimal scene after successive releases from Perlon. His tireless DJ touring rewarded in the form of impassioned supports from audiences in Germany, UK, France, Italy and Romania. On the other hand, with a number of quality releases like Eastern Hemispheres EPs on Euro-Moroccan imprint Cosmo Records and highly acclaimed 2013 double pack Vida Noir on Op.Disc, Yoshihiro Hanno aka Radiq have made reputation as a master of carefully arranged, funk-infused minimal.

6 years of break seems fairly enough for them to re-mature perspectives on their collaboration project. Between Paris and Berlin, they exchange ideas and basis of tracks to elaborate their images on respective tracks. In consequence, those countless interchanges made this Flying One Hand album a deep yet intricate piece of work. Simply put, his album offers up an indivisibly-united ideas and techniques from two of most illustrious producers of Japan’s modern minimal music.

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ROLY PORTER | Third Law (Tri Angle Records)

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As one half of the pioneering duo Vex’d (alongside Jamie Teasdale aka Kuedo), Roly Porter was intrinsic in the development of what would come to be known as dubstep. When Vex’d decided to go their separate ways in the mid 00s Roly pursued a solo career in an attempt to escape the genre constraints he felt had become a restriction.

With two solo albums behind him (Aftertime and Life Cycle Of A Massive Star), Roly‘s output has primarily been fuelled by a desire to write beatless music, something Roly is keen to specify he doesn’t view as being the same as ambient music. Roly‘s music isn’t about ‘day to day’ life. Instead it’s an opportunity for him to contemplate ideas outside his personal experience which in turn has had a profound impact on how Roly is able to see his own life and that of others around him.

Third Law is about combining everything Roly has loved and missed about producing sound-system music, with the compositional ideas he began to explore in his solo work. While Third Law is related to his past, for Roly this album represents a coming to terms with his goal of leaving dance music as it is, free to explore ideas of rhythm, bass and sound design within his own world without having to shape any of these elements to fit preconceived ideas or rules.

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DEATHPROD and BIOSPHERE | Stator

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In 1998, Biosphere and Deathprod – Geir Jenssen and Helge Sten, respectively – released Nordheim Transformed: a split album where both artists transformed the original experimental music of (fellow Norwegian) Anne Nordheim’s Electric (1974) almost beyond recognition. It’s not completely clear whether Geir and Helge actually worked together on this album – it’s a split, where different tracks are each credited to one of the two artists – but from its coherence it’s clear that they at least influenced each other greatly in producing this album. Nordheim Transformed is a landmark album in both artists’ catalogue – as well as for the ambient music genre in general.

Seventeen years – and quite a lot of releases – later, Geir and Helge return to this split-album formula to release Stator, built on the same principles: each delivering individual tracks (three tracks contributed by Biosphere, and four tracks by Deathprod). A project that was commissioned by Tape to Zero for their 2014 festival, “presenting both familiar and unfamiliar faces on the same stage, with fresh projects and a unique musical expression.”

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RAPOON | Songs From the End of the World

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Robin Storey otherwise known as Rapoon, and ex member and co-founder of legendary northern group Zoviet France, comes back in the frozen lands of Glacial Movements after his vision of an Europe covered by ice in Time Frost (2007). The English artist this time faces a theme recently discovered, and that could dramatically change the destiny of our planet.

Evoking visions of mad scientists, French researchers are set to revive a mega-virus dormant for 30,000 years that they discovered in the permafrost of the Russian Arctic. The researchers, from the French National Center for Scientific Research, say they will take precautions to revive the specimen under safe laboratory conditions. They published a paper detailing their research in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The group of researchers is headed by Jean-Michel Claverie, who runs a laboratory at the French center.

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8th May 2016 | WRONGPAD | Athens

8th May 2016 | WRONGPAD | Athens

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Four electronic music producers Subheim + Miktek + Poordream + Талос intersect on stage with four visual artists, guests of the Athenian music Collective WRONGPAD. In this unique meeting, beats, melodies and live projections will be in constant interaction, transforming the gig space of six d.o.g.s in a constantly evolving audiovisual canvas.

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6-8 Avramiotou Street, Monastiraki, 105 51 Athens, Greece
8 May 2016 | 20:00 | Entrance: 6 €

SUBHEIM LIVE
Real-time visuals : Constantine Nissidis

MIKTEK LIVE
Live visuals : Dimitris Sakkas

POORDREAM LIVE
VJing : Stavros Kostidakis

TALOS LIVE
Graphics and Visuals of the band managed by : Layer based human activities

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BRAVE TIMBERS | Hope (Gyzeh records)

BRAVE TIMBERS | Hope (Gizeh records)

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Hope is the new album by Newcastle-based Brave Timbers, originally the solo-project of multi-instrumentalist Sarah Kemp. This is their second album following 2010’s For Every Day You Lost, which quickly sold out its limited pressing. Sarah is joined on this album by Andrew Scrogham and together they recorded Hope in a Victorian concert hall in Salford, UK. Their music has also been featured on Second Language‘s Minute Papillon and Music & Migration compilations alongside Peter Broderick, Vashti Bunyan, Hauschka and Dustin O’Halloran.

Hope is a reflective, pastoral album that carefully builds its ambient landscapes. These eleven instrumental compositions demonstrate the minimal clarity of Brave Timbers, the piano and violin circling one another, creating a sense of space and terrain. There’s also dreamy timelessness within the music’s flow and weave, from Swimming in the Isar‘s gauzy atmospheres to the brittle warmth of The Well Worn Path. Hope has a purity and a simplicity which Brave Timbers bathe in a golden, spectral light.

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Electronic Recordings From Maui Jungle Vol 1

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Melting our minds for over two decades with his beat-based productions, this time renowned techno-producer Anthony Child aka Surgeon is putting the fundamental components of electronic sound production to the fore. Focussing on the development of timbre and texture, Child creates exquisite drones, that give an insight in his improvisatory sensibility and dig deep into the potentials of modular synthesis, As the title already indicates, it’s a very special setting that he has chosen for this endeavour: The jungle of Maui seems to have acted as a stimulus for this exercise in concentration and trance.

The intertwining of the electronic instrument that meets the sublime sounds of nature, opens up an intimate resonant chamber. Birds, insects and raindrops are allowed to break through, while you can sense the thick, humid air and deep colours of the surrounding resonating in the pastose synth lines. Some tracks offer beautifully built overtone-drones, others are structured by playful arpeggios that create a shining bright texture and seduce us into a state of disintegration. At the same time Child gives priority to the graininess of the instrument to emphasise the haptic quality and inner tension of the sounds themselves. In the end these minimalist procedures have been compiled to an unpretentious collection of sonic and atmospheric micro-jewels, inviting us to give ourselves over entirely and exclusively to listening.

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KERRIDGE | Fatal Light Attraction (Downwards)

KERRIDGE | Fatal Light Attraction (Downwards)

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Kerridge returns to Downwards in 2016 with the custom-built electronics of Fatal Light Attraction following last year’s incursions on his own Contort label.

The project premiered at Berlin’s Atonal 2015 edition, featuring Kerridge working alongside Andrej Boleslavsky & Maria Júdová to create an intense, kinetic shadowplay synched as an illusive counterpart to the music and performance. As Kerridge‘s 3rd long player, it marks a more fluid, or effluent, refinement of his sound, blurring the boundaries between organic audio sources and custom-constructed synths to flooding the senses with waves of bristling, oxidising industrial tones and coruscating texturhythm seemingly intent on separating flesh from bone. It’s evil stuff, all seven tracks of it, forming a closed feedback system of guttural, choking frequencies and cardiac arrhythymatics.

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CHEVEL Blurse (Stroboscopic Artefacts)

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Having already proven that he is capable of maintaining sonic quality and distinction over the course of a full original program, Chevel (a.k.a. Dario Tronchin) now makes his debut LP Blurse for Stroboscopic Artefacts.

His other Stroboscopic Artefacts contributions have already hinted that a more complete exposition of his unique inner world would surface, and here it is at last. Over the course of his young career, Chevel has gained a mastery over several compositional elements: Polaroid-like slow melodic fades, sharp ricocheting beats, and simply making one’s headphones feel like a viable means of physical transportation. All of these elements come into play shortly after the needle hits the grooves of ‘Comb’ a euphoric introductory track marked by a spectral panning sequence and by beats chopped with a culinary expert’s sense of elegance.

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SASHA: SCENE DELETE (3X Vinyl & CD)

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Scene Delete is the first Late Night Tales release of 2016,  a very special project by Sasha. Imagine listening to music inspired by Frahm, Richter and Steve Reich, but made by one of the UK’s leading house and techno DJs. Away from the hubbub of the club, the craziness of Ibiza, there’s a contemplative side to everybody. Forget the beats and the sweat and the billowing anthems; this quiet, undulating, at times pastoral piece is less about songs and anthems and more about texture and atmosphere. Scene Delete is a side of Sasha you’ve never heard before.

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GIORGIO GIGLI | The Right Place Where Not To Be

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Giorgio Gigli achieves his debut album after a personal path grown with his work on Zooloft Records. In the same way his dj sets reflect the spirit of that evolution. He explores sophisticated ambient layers as much as obsessive and hypnotic techno landscapes.

The Right Place Where Not To Be is the title of this first full-length sonic movie, a work emerging from the depth of his soul that filters, in a proper way, every musical input he developed over the years. A scenario where human and animal life-form perished and only plants and minerals survived. Giorgio performs that concept writing an ultra-detailed soundtrack, using rich textures that hide secret acoustics, nhanced by alienating atmosphere that captivate the listener.

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FIELD ROTATION – Vinyls & CD (Denovali)

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Field Rotation was founded 2008 by the electronic music composer and producer Christoph Berg in Kiel, Northern Germany. Experimenting with electronic and classical elements this project combines floating soundscapes with electroacoustic colours to create minimalistic soundtracks renouncing of visualisation but interacting with the listeners emotions and feelings. As a violinist and pianist Christoph combines the synthetic sound engineering with natural sounds to communicate his short acoustic tales and impressions.

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OCOEUR | Reversed (n5MD) | Vinyl & CD

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Reversed is the fourth album from French composer/sound designer Franck Zaragoza and his ever-expressive Ocoeur nom de plume. The opening swell and passionate piano that precedes it sets the tone for what could very well be Zaragoza‘s most personally ardent set of compositions to date. Zaragoza thoughtfully augments his modern solo piano compositions with creative, some might even say organic, sound design and meticulous melancholic string harmonies. Reversed is without a doubt a truly personal listening experience meant to be absorbed again and again.

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MAPS AND DIAGRAMS | Delta (VoxxoV Records) - CD

MAPS AND DIAGRAMS | Delta (VoxxoV Records) – CD

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Once again, Maps and Diagrams produces another harmonic long-player; Delta this time for VoxxoV Records, with 12 tracks of hazy-flavoured electronics and defined acoustic distinctions. Conjuring-up found sound and aquatic, multi-coloured melodies, Maps and Diagrams takes us on a journey combining darkness and discordance with illumination and tonality. Limited to 250 copies.

Mastered by Vincent Villuis at Ultimae Studio.
Graphics & Design by Paskine.

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5-9 April 2016 | RÊVES ET ILLUSIONS FESTIVAL | Switzerland

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AES DANA dj & live (Ultimae), MAHIANE dj set (Ultimae) will be performing in Geneva (Switzerland) for Rêves et Illusions Festival with other artists .Repo, Ave Eva and Diffusion of Perpetual of Robert Rich.

Fonderie Kugler
Avenue  de la Jonction 19
1205 Geneva

Schedule of the Festival
Tuesday 5th April 2016 : Bamba Triste DJ Set Drone
Wednesday 6th April 2016 : .Repo (CH)
Tursday 7th April 2016 : Ave Eva (CH)
Friday 8th 2016 : Perpetual, Robert Rich (Diffusion)
Saturday 9th April 2016 : AES DANA (Ultimae, FR), MAHIANE (Ultimae, FR)

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