Semantica Records | 10 Years Anniversary
Semantica Records marks 10 years with a worldwide tour and a 10 releases series in 2016.
The latest releases from the Techno/IDM label owned by Svreca are now available in our shop. Enjoy 
Semantica Records marks 10 years with a worldwide tour and a 10 releases series in 2016.
The latest releases from the Techno/IDM label owned by Svreca are now available in our shop. Enjoy
Imagine you are being invited to the studio of a visionary, and get to discover some brand new futuristic experiments along with tracks made 25 years ago that sound as if they’ve been made yesterday. Well that’s what the careful listener who plunges himself into Pink Flamingos from start to finish should feel like.
The intent in the beginning, was to focus on the more recent, experimental side of In Aeternam Vale‘s work, and to look at his work through an angle that would be complementary to some recent techno releases on Jealous God or 80’s gems on Minimal Wave. Only a few visits to his studio in Lyon were decisive. Imagine seeing the history of 30 years of electronic music flash through your ears, just in a few hours. IAV has been exploring new grounds and sometimes even pioneering new styles and subgenres several times, with literally hundreds of tracks to listen to. Words are not enough to describe this record’s digger absolute dream : the discovery of a secret parallel universe where so much music has been created and kept under the radar.
The latest release from VoxxoV Records is now available in our shop. Damian Valles presents Strand, his second release for the French label.
” Strand is a work of brilliance, blurring the boundaries between exceptionally bleak drone and haunted minimal industrial, with mind-numbing static electricity buzzing behind your eyes, motorik rhythms made from detritus tumbling around in empty oil drums, and deep low end generator thrum vibrating under the sound of hanging scythes clanking like windchimes, these are the sparse & ominous sounds of the heavy woes carried through life, the ones nobody sees but everybody endures, when you catch a glimpse of Death in your reflection, Valles’ music helps you dismiss it and just focus on the insanity at hand.” Justin Snow | Anti-Gravity Bunny
Discover Damian Valles | Strand
Brian Eno returns to Warp with his new solo recording The Ship.
An elegantly composed album split half in the vein of his Grammy nominated Warp album Lux and his early passage into background sound exploration, Ambient 1: Music For Airports and half in the more song-based experimentation first explored on his early albums Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) & Another Green World.
Mapped out over four parts, these delicately laid out songs slowly pass between discreet passages and more vocalised pop tunes that forty-three years after his debut solo album show that Brian Eno is (not that there was ever any doubt whatsoever) is one of the finest musicians to ever grace a piece of vinyl.
Standing at the intersection where techno meets classical music, Ólafur Arnalds directs the newest Late Night Tales.
“When I was asked to do the next installation of the Late Night Tales series I thought “This will be fun and easy, only a couple of days work. No problem!”. Six months later, I was still pulling my hair out in some kind of quest to make the perfect mix. As someone who has never really done mixes before, I learned a lot of things along the way and the whole experience was very inspiring. I decided to approach the mix in a similar way as I would one of my scores. This is the soundtrack of my life. I included songs from many of my friends and collaborators and tried to deliver a mix that represents who I am as an artist and where my influences are coming from – both personally and musically.”
Ólafur Arnalds, April 2016
Free Fall Galaxy is the ninth chapter of the Sleeper Wakes Sci-Fi series created by Jeff Mills.
The Free Fall Galaxy is what we would call a cosmic menace – a threat to all that it encounters. The album is a journey of survival to go through the unknown universe, which leads to look deep into ourselves for answers if there is a Future.
Shankra Festival offers you a 5 day experience in an uplifting natural ambience below the summer sky, to celebrate life connecting with people from all over the world.
Wednesday 20th July | MAIN FLOOR
18 :00 – 19 :30 > H.U.V.A. Network live – festival opening
19 :30 – 21 :00 > AES Dana live
21 :00 – 22 :30 > Solar Fields live
Thursday 21st July | SECOND FLOOR
08 :30 – 10 :30 > AES Dana DJ set
More info: http://www.shankrafestival.ch/
Come and join AES Dana, Scann-Tec and Cygna alongside many international artists for a sunlight celebration in a beautiful green valley of the Cserhát mountains in North Hungary.
The program features some of the best artists from the Goa scene with many workshops, visual candy, organic foods, healing area and a Nature loving atmosphere.
Twelve years have passed since Editions Mego boss Peter Rehberg released his last full length release Get Off on the Hapna label. After a surprise return to live performance in 2015 we are now presented with Pita‘s new full length document under the banner of Get In.
Get in is a beautiful, engaging and unsettling listen. A multi-headed hydra presented as the ultimate dystopian sonic journey.
Non Standard Productions is the label of Tobias Freund founded in 2006. The releases are collaborations between Tobias and colleges. As the name itself suggests the idea of the label is to be a platform in witch anything non standard can be released. We can say that the label is orientated to eclectic experimentations, going from the frequency interpretations of MFP to the beat studies of NSI., passing through the freeform rhythms of Margaret Dygas to the uneven scales of Odd Machine.
Recent Arts present a collection of 10 songs produced by Tobias Freund that were inspired by the video work of Valentina Berthelon and vice versa.
Founded in late 2013, No. is a platform for audio adventures curated by Atom™ & Material Object, focused on Ambient, Techno and Experimental. We invite you to discover their latest releases from No. Inc, Garry Bradburry and Atom™.
French composer and Ondes Martenot virtuoso, Christine Ott releases her first full-length album since 2009 and her debut record for Gizeh Records. Only Silence Remains is beautifully melodic and filled with mystery, seeing multi-instrumentalist Ott performing on a variety of different instruments throughout the record. Available on LP & CD.
Join us at the record shop this Thursday from 6pm for the Before of the last ATOME parties organised by PARTICULES with special performances by De Santi and Lacroix
More info on this event (en Français!)
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst is out now with a soundtrack composed by Solar Fields.
If you’re not familiar with the game, it is a first-person action-adventure in which the player takes control of Faith Connors as she progresses through a futuristic city named Glass. Similar to the original Mirror’s Edge, players traverse the city using aspects of urban exploration and parkour movements to complete missions and evade or fight enemies.
Solar Fields is launching his new website at the same time and will be performing on 18th June for the game release party. Keep an eye on www.facebook.com/solarfields If all goes well Magnus will try to setup a live stream from the gig.
The Original Sountrack will be released this summer, more to be announced soon..
The “Icebergs” project is an exploration, a new way of perceiving and living music through an 8 hidden speakers installation in the Garden of Les Dominicains de Haute Alsace, each speaker broadcasting its own channel. Either walking or quietly sitting down in any part of the garden, one will be immersed in a wide-spread acoustic experience, far from our usual stereo / frontal approach. This 50 minutes vegetal infused musical work develops a game of harmonies, as a question / answer type of rebound, at times imperceptible, playful, sometimes introspective.
The music de-composition and re-structuration is based upon 4 works by Dutch composer Martin Van Rossum aka Martin Nonstatic, “Albedo Effect / Granite / Liquid Air / Out Of Silence” published by Bine Music and Ultimae. Each individual sound was separated and put aside to create wide-spread brand new remixes with one purpose in mind : redefine the harmonious focus and plant its seeds in the Garden.
A research on the theme of liquids operates to bind the diverse mixed chapters. Special microphones (hydrophones) were placed in the well of the convent to seize the liquid soul of the places. Personal recordings of diverse seas and beaches were filtered and slowed down to create the illusion of glaciers slowly colliding. Some sequences extracted from Arctic documentaries were also used. Being very attentive, one could even hear storks slamming their beaks during a lunch break on the ice floe: a purely Alsacian wink to these icy lands! Hopefully this installation will play your senses – in this redefined space and on-ice time.
Vincent Villuis | May 2016
Following collaborations with The Future Sound of London, Mark Morgan, working as Audio director for NIVAL, a Russian game developer and composing music for various TV Series, Vladislav Isaev, music composer and sound sculptor from Moscow, known as Scann-Tec releases his third opus Unyt on Ultimae.
We’re delighted to announce that the album will be available on Thursday 16th June, not only in an outstanding packaging but also digitally and for the first time in our release history in 5.1 format.
Pre-orders start now, listen to the extracts and support the artist!
Nietzsche once said: ‘I would only believe in a God who could dance’. The 2nd The Gods Planet LP, simply titled LP2, is ample proof that you can trust in Claudio PRC and Ness to make you dance. Built upon pieces of music purposely made for a live presentation at Paris´ well-regarded Concrete club, it sees the Italian duo of techno producers applying a willingness for inner and outer discovery, and a more human outlook to the brand of thoughtful, detailed, yet emotional and powerful productions, which they have built their name upon. New machines, techniques and skills are dexterously applied to the foundations displayed on the 1st album, from 2013, making it more direct and overtly danceable, not as experimental but certainly as explorative as before. It is the sound of two artists further more at ease with their standing in the scene, taking stock of their surroundings, before further ventures into the unknown, but still as interested and skilled as ever in telling stories. And what´s presented here is a compelling story of self-discovery woven into Claudio and Ness´s vision of techno and house music.
It is about accepting your darkness and light, past and present. Dreams, wishes, prayers and poetry created years back are now finally released so that new flowers can blossom inside the heart and soul. Spreading seeds that will grow into still unseen creations.
Swedish composer Fjäder present her first album Shades Of Light on Emanuele Pertoldi‘s imprint, Shaded Explorations.
Recorded partly in Senegal with local musicians playing traditional instruments, Landscapes Of The Unfinished is Piano Interrupted‘s 3rd album for German experimental label Denovali.
This album sees pianist Tom Hodge and “electronician” Franz Kirmann explore a more introspective approach to their sound. The sonorities and recordings the pair brought back from West Africa are deconstructed, mangled and texturised, turned into a pointillist landscape until only a faint and distant souvenir remains. These beds of pulsating soundscapes and earthy textures serve as base for Hodge’s delicate piano phrases and intricate compositions, interlaced with long-time collaborator Tim Fairhall‘s fluid double bass playing. Harsher territories are also visited during the 9 tracks that compose the LP; fuzzy Senegalese radio voices and the distant memory of African percussion collide with distorted bass and buzzing drones or screaming textures battle with screeching double bass sounds and tortured piano strings. The overall tone of the album reflects the duo’s desire to musically translate the experience of the Dakar trip (where Franz Kirmann grew up), but also to break away from the first two albums’ intricate programming and editing and instead go towards a writing and recording experience directly inspired by their live experience. Hodge’s clarinet, an important facet of the Piano Interrupted live show, is captured on record for the first time.
Discover PIANO INTERRUPTED | Landscapes Of The Unfinished (Denovali)
Tiny Birds is the new work by Marc Ostermeier. A resident of Baltimore, Maryland, Marc works as a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He also happens to be the co-founder of Words On Music and the Tench record label.
He defines much of his music as being ‘skeletal piano melodies’ which seems pretty accurate given the sparse nature of ‘Tiny Birds’. Yet, amongst the gorgeous little melodies at play here, there is a careful depth of sound design from a variety of found sounds and field recordings. Apart from the simplicity of his piano structures, there is a tellingly beautiful contribution from violinist Christoph Berg (Field Rotation). It is just the kind of album we love around these parts: namely, a work that takes its time to develop as it sees fit, without any need to rush to its restrained conclusion.