For Böser Herbst, Thomas Fehlmann returns to the sediment of ages, drawing from a similar lexicon of sounds to that used on 2018’s 1929 – Das Jahr Babylon. Like that album, Böser Herbst was produced as the soundtrack to a documentary made by Matthias Luthardt, Herbst 1929, Schatten Über Babylon, which offers historical insight to the third season of the television series Babylon Berlin.
With his new album, Year Of The Living Dead, Vienna-born and LA-based producer John Tejada finds a blissful extended moment of balance between the new and the familiar. Anyone who’s followed his career to date, which has included four previous albums for Kompakt, outings for storied labels like Plug Research, Playhouse and Cocoon, and numerous remixes and collaborations – most recently, his Wajatta duo with actor and musician Reggie Watts – will immediately sense the warmth and eloquence that Tejada brings to his gilded, pliant techno and electro hybrids.
With RV8, the Osaka-based producer and musician Aoki Takamasa continues his longterm project that focuses on the modulation of rhythms and grooves, which began with his first EP Rhythm Variations in 2009, released as part three of the Unun-series. Besides his collaboration with Raster-Noton, he released records on several labels like Commmons, Progressive Form and Op.Disc, produced remixes for well-known musicians like Ryuichi Sakamoto or Yoshihiro Hanno and played performances at, for example, Elektra/Montreal and Club Transmediale/Berlin, all in all making him a renowned producer in Japan and beyond. Discover AOKI TAKAMASA | RV8 (Raster-Noton)
Solens Arc is Kangding Ray‘s fourth album on Raster-Noton and the follow-up to his The Pentaki Slopes EP. Taking the arc as the purpose, the twelve songs of the record are arranged/ presented in the form of four variations, constructed from disintegrated melodic textures and dismantled beats.
After their successful collaboration on <3, Atom™ and X1N are back, this time presenting the 4 track EP 0.9. It contains both the opening and closing tracks of <3 as well as their corresponding mutations. While 0.9 (Almost a Unit) was remixed by Esplendor Geométrico, Almost a Unit (0.9) got reworked by Peter van Hoesen.
Long-time AI associate Wolfgang Voigt returns to the London label with his next album – Rückverzauberung Exhibition. The Exhibition reimagines the concept with renewed purpose, opening the gates to deliver an arresting 60-minute journey into the underworld.
In 2019, ASC decided it was time to return to the music that he grew up on. With a gentle nudge from Presha, the breakbeats were back in the mix and a slew of mid 90’s-inspired drum & bass ensued. The majority of the heavier break-oriented and edit-ladened were set aside for projects with Samurai, however, there were a grip of tracks that were more at home with the older atmospheric / intelligent styles of drum & bass from the mid 90’s.
