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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.

Discover FIELD ROTATION Fatalist: the repetition of history
Discover FIELD ROTATION Regenzeit
Discover FIELD ROTATION Why Things are different

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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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ROSS MANNING | Interlacing (Room40)

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Over the past half decade, Manning has been behind a series of increasingly profound explorations into light and movement. These installation works seek to reveal spectrum and frequency in patterns that often go unrecognised.

With Interlacing, his first LP for Room40, Manning showcases his deeply personal sonic works. Having been an active experimentalist for much of the 00s across Australia, with projects such as 4 Layers Of Nine, Sky Needle and Faber Castell, Manning has amassed a collection of work that draws on broken electronics, hand made instruments and custom electronics.

“Japan is where I first started getting interested in making electronics,” Ross explains of his first experiments conducted whilst he was living and teaching in Japan, “I would go into Akihabara and all the electronics stalls. Japan is where I saw all this amazing music and art and also got the chance to start building and experimenting.”

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MAX WÜRDEN | Transit (Bine Music)

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Max Würden invites to Transit, an intense ambient trip through lush sonic felds as well as dark sound tunnels. Atmospheric feld recordings invite their listeners to stay a while – right before the dub beats reliably push the tempo. So get in, take a seat and let yourself go. Your journey begins here.

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RAFAEL ANTON IRISSARI | A Fragile Geography (Room40)

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Rafael Anton Irisarri’s A Fragile Geography is a record cast in a climate of unsteadiness and transition, reflecting upon the current state of everyday living.

Recorded over the past two years, the record bares the marks of difficult terrains – personal, political, social and cultural. It tips its hat to the complex and unpredictable dynamics of the contemporary world, correlating concerns both macro and micro. Compositionally the music mirrors the tensions of contemporary America, contrasting passages of great beauty and calm with harrowing waves of density and pressure.

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FLUXION | Bipolar Defect ( Subwax) | Vinyl & CD

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Widely considered one of the hallmarks of dub-infused electronic music, as well as an endless resource of inspiration and awe for generations of electronic music artists and enthusiasts, Vibrant Forms II by Fluxion is now being reissued by Subwax Bcn. Originally released on Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald’s revered Chain Reaction label in 2000, the many calls for a reissue of this cavernous masterpiece has finally been answered by the Barcelona imprint.

FLUXION | Bipolar Defect ( Subwax) | Double CD Format

FLUXION | Bipolar Defect ( Subwax) | Double Vinyl Format

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AES DANA feat. MIKTEK | Far & Off (Ultimae) | Out Now

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AES DANA and MIKTEK‘s full length album “Far & Off” is officially out today on Ultimae.
Packages have been sent to all aficionados and record shops worldwide. While the digital version is available from us, it may take another few weeks before you see it on mainstream platforms such as iTunes and co. Check out the links below for direct access to our shops and discover the music.

AES DANA feat MIKTEK Far & Off on Ultimae Shop

AES DANA feat MIKTEK Far & Off on Ultimae Bandcamp

AES DANA feat. MIKTEK | Far & Off / The Unexpected Hours

AES DANA feat. MIKTEK | Far & Off / The Unexpected Hours – Coming soon

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We have the extreme pleasure to announce the upcoming release of AES Dana and MIKTEK‘s collaborative works, the third vinyl EP “The Unexpected Hours” and full length album “Far & Off“.

The trilogy is now complete for all of you to enjoy in your favourite format.
Check out the direct links below, pre-orders start now…

– Far & Off | CD and DIGITAL

– The Unexpected Hours | VINYL and DIGITAL

– Far & Off | The Wax Pack (3 Vinyls EP)

– Far & Off | The Full Pack (CD + 3 Vinyls EP)

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PETRE INSPIRESCU | Vin Ploile | Mule Musiq

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Since his first EP on Luciano‘s label Cadenza in 2007 producer and dj Petre Inspirescu emerged into one of the key figures of the Romanian electronic music scene.

For his latest album Vin Ploile the man that originally comes from the eastern Romanian town Braila stepped away from his former experiments of melting classical spheres with electronic music. Instead the 36-years old man from Bucharest only used some piano, string and wind instrument elements and analogue electronics to arrange a gracefully deep ocean of sound. All slow grooving tracks spread the atmosphere of live improvised sessions that are edited, tweaked and mixed to perfection. In-the-moment moods of strange and unusual analogue synth sounds groove in a fluid quality with subliminal bass shapes, Latinate percussions, jazz rhythms and acoustic melodies. Together they create a gaseous kinetic atmosphere full of tangible rhythm patterns, delicate chords and ghostly modular synth pads – all mixed subtle to create space for the tones between the tones.

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SKEE MASK | Shred | Ilian Tape

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Shred, the second album on Ilian Tape comes again out of Munich city. Skee Mask doesn’t spend a day without making music and the dedication, attention to detail and architectural approach really make this album an absolute trip to listen to. It’s the sound of a peaceful and energetic place. It’s smoky and cosy. It’s where Skee Mask spends most of his time. He lives for the music and we are really happy that this freak became a core member of the Ilian Tape family. This album is made for true lovers and hustlers. Turn it up loud!

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