The Endless Now by Wouter Veldhuis out now on Organic-Industries!

Andre Gansebohm aka Bored Man Ganesh launches his own label, Organic Industries, with a first release by Wouter Veldhuis, made of tape manipulations...

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little reminder: the first four of the highly recommended serie Ante Algo Azul by Nicholas Szczepanik are out

So the first four pieces in the massive Ante Algo Azul project are now finished. It seems as if I was still paying attention to the transition from piece to piece, even though they are all separate works, therefore I've decided to stream the first four pieces in full for the next week or two. A big, sincere thank you goes out to the subscribers of the project and their support. If one is still interested in subscribing, you would receive the first four pieces in the project up to this point, plus all of the eight new upcoming pieces. To subscribe, please click here.

The first four pieces can be listened on soundcloud by clicking here.

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Christoph Limbach - begin_if_ if _(2) (Modisti, 2011)

1 begin_ if _ (2) 58:23

begin_ if _ (2) is the second release of a series of soundworks under the name begin_ if _(). mixed and mastered 2010 @ emitter19 in Berlin

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Jason Kahn - Plurabelle (Cut, 2001)

1 Untitled 7:56
2 Untitled 5:04
3 Untitled 12:37
4 Untitled 4:23
5 Untitled 11:07
6 Untitled 6:08
7 Untitled 5:10

Jason Kahn's third solo recording.
seven compositions for percussion and electronics.

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François-Emmanuel Fodéré - Cochin (Impulsive Habitat, 2011)

1 Cochin

Recorded in November of 2009 by François-Emmanuel Fodéré on Kochi (India).
Thanks to Allamprabhu & his family, Julien, Louise, Shivu.
- François-Emmanuel Fodéré

"Cochin" was the colonial name for the city of Kochi and it is also the title of the first of two releases to be published this year on IH of phonographic works recorded in India. We would like to welcome sound artists and documentarists from all nationalities to continue sending us their phonographic works from different spots on the planet as publishing them is one of the main reasons why we are here for.
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VACVVM - Peaceful Atom (Test Tube, 2011)

01 Peaceful Atom 6'27''
02 Pylons 5'49''
03 SCRAM 0'49''
04 Lava Flow 1'33''
05 Oka 4'23''
06 Yenisei 6'04''
07 Leaving Pripyat
08 Work Wood Forest 6'43''
09 Radiologos 4'20''
10 Ignalina's Sunset 3'51''

«When it was born in the mind of italian musician Guglielmo Cherchi, 'Peaceful Atom' was intended to be a concept work about the Chernobyl disaster, and as a result of this some tracks are ideally connected to that topic: the title track (referring to the name of the first RBMK - Reactor Bolshoy Moshchnosty Kanalny - reactor), SCRAM (the emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor), Lava Flow (the melted material erupted from the reactor after the explosion), Leaving Pripyat (the evacuation of the nearest city to the powerplant), Worm Wood Forest (the dead trees killed by the radiations) and Ignalina's Sunset (Ignalina was the last nuclear powerplant to use a RBMK reactor, the same model involved in the Chernobyl disaster, which was only shut down in 2009).
The other songs don't belong to this concept but are related to the environment pollution problem in Russia: Oka and Yenisei are the two most polluted rivers in the planet; Pylons refers to the Shukhov towers (featured on the cover artwork), which were electricity pylons on the banks of the Oka river. The remaining track, Radiologos, is a stand-alone song, but features an original jingle aired in Soviet Russia's radio stations.

'Peaceful Atom' was entirely built from scratch using laptop-based synthesizers and electric guitar, with the exception of a few samples. On 'Worm Wood Forest': Arboretum Bad Grund by Inchadney at The Free Sound Project, on 'Radiologos': Soviet jingle and radio recordings taken with an old military tubes HF radio and on 'Leaving Pripyat': electrostatic hiss taken from an old Kenwood amplifier dating from the eighties at high volume.

Enjoy this release.»
- Test Tube (based on Guglielmo's description)

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John Hudak - Experimental_Intermedia (self release, 2011)

1 EI_1 11:49
2 EI_2 08:52
3 EI_3 07:45

On a cool Wednesday evening in December, pasta e fagioli...

credits
released 02 March 2011
Video imaging during the performace was done by Bruce Tovsky (album image taken from video for the first piece)

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Jérémie Mathes - Gjöll out soon on Basses Fréquences!

After a first release on Mystery Sea, sound artist Jeremie Mathes presents us with his second album. ”Gjöll“ is a timeless navigation into foggy unknown waters and subterranean passages inspired by scandinavian mythology. Dense evolving drones from acoustic sounds and micro-structured patterns are slowly drained like submerged organic debris in the flow of current. Extracting fragments of his surrounding environment, Jeremie succeeds at transforming matter into metaphorical visions and mesmerizing soundscapes that lead blindly into a serene world…

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Daughter Of The Industrial Revolution - Path Of Least Resistance (Ono, 2008)

1 Little Did You Know About The Coming Storm 7:20
2 Opening Night 19-12-07 6:40
3 A Concise History Of The Last 50 Years Of Anger And Betrayal 7:28

Something of a departure from the Ono label's series of avant-garde mixtapes, this release features original material recorded by label founder Michael Holland with Miles Whittaker of MLZ and Modern Love notoriety. With a little further assistance from a number of friends, these two have carved out three freeform electronic narratives, calling upon a veritable laboratory of vintage instruments, including such rare treats as the ETI Vocoder, the Waldorf 4-Pole and Crumar Multiman. The subsequent compositions shift from the drone complexities offered by the first piece, overflowing with rich synth string textures and obscure signal twitches to a darker, more primitive configuration on the second, which dabbles in industrial textures and metallic, early-electronic timbres, coated in bleak, filtered echo. Finally, a third piece brings the aesthetic right up to date, taking on a kind of organic techno persona not entirely dissimilar to some of Vadislav Delay's more experimental moments. There's a clear dub influence, but none of this sounds like some rigid, sequenced production, instead there's an organic, naturally evolving quality to the rhythmic pulsations on show, keeping the music well within the bounds of an experimental mindset. A host of collaborators are credited with having got involved with the recordings, although there's no too-many-cooks issues on show here; this music comes across as supremely disciplined and strictly realised, with a keen, exploratory ear navigating the project. Excellent.
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James Wyness - Music Born Of Solitude (Con-V, 2011)

1 Music Born Of Solitude

… for four hand-made (e)bowed zithers tuned to the Eikosany, a 20-tone just intonation structure devised by American theorist Erv Wilson.

The four parts were recorded individually, then the work was assembled digitally according to a conceptual score, most unlike a conventional musical score An offset digitally reversed version of the original created a retrograde canon, a device favoured by early choral composers. Apart from that no digital effects or processes were necessary - what the listener hears is the sound of a justly intoned quartet of acoustic instruments.
James Wyness

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Philippe Petit Nyctalopia (Electronic Musik, 2011)

1 Nyctalopia 1
2 Nyctalopia 2
3 Nyctalopia 3
4 Nyctalopia 4
5 Nyctalopia 5
6 Nyctalopia 6

This is the first release on Electronic Musik from Philippe Petit


PHILIPPE PETIT is interested in soundtracks; even if he creates original music he'd rather be introduced as a "musical travel agent" than a composer.

PETIT uses a Cymbalum, an Electric Psalterion, computer and synths to build up electronic layers, process acoustic and field recordings. To second the machines he likes to move various glasses, or percussive objects, and take advantage of vinyl material to fondle released sounds.

A journalist for various magazines and radio as well as a musical activist, PETIT has celebrated his 25th year of sharing his musical passions as the man behind the cult labels Pandemonium Rdz. and BiP_HOp.

PETIT has assembled what people call a dream-team of collaborators, working with: Lydia Lunch, Foetus, Kumo, Scott McCloud (Girls Against Boys), Cosey Fanni Tutti, My Brightest Diamond, Sybarite, Pantaleimon, Graham Lewis (Wire), Barry Adamson, Scanner, Mira Calix, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Guapo, Leafcutter John, Simon Fisher Turner, Justin Broadrick and many more...
Aside his solo works, PETIT is active in Strings Of Consciousness, does a duo with Lydia Lunch, and his collab with James Johnston (Gallon Drunk/Bad Seeds/Faust) just appeared on Dirter Promotions.


His first solo album 'Henry: The Iron Man' was released thru Beta Lactam Ring Records, second one 'Silk-screened' is published on Trace Recordings and upcoming is 'A Scent Of Garmambrosia' CD on Aagoo + a picture-disc single with Cosey Fanni Tutti on Dirter Promotions. In the works are collabs with Murcof, Simon Fisher Turner, ASVA, Vultures and "Cordophony" gathering music whose sound comes from the vibrations of one or several strings.
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Psychiatric Challenge with Lol Coxhill - It's Just Noise (Electronic Musik, 2011)

1 It's Just Noise 30:31

Ian Simpson - prepared guitar
Harry Gallimore - electronics
Neil Packer - guitar
Lewis Gill - guitar
Misha Gray - percussion
Tim Lyons - trumpet / voice
Ollie Brice - double bass
Dave Jackson - sax
Lol Coxhill - soprano sax


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Classwar Karaoke - 0013 Survey (Classwar Karaoke, 2011)

01. 6 or 7 - また電話するね (mata denwa surune) (03:06)
02. Ambient Fabric - The Path (06:34)
03. Bloem - Triple fragmentation (09:46)
04. Cagey House - (Don't Want to Hear) Nothing Bad About Lester (03:50)
05. Caroline Ono - The bugged, the gagged and the ugly (03:12)
06. Cezary Gapik - #0436 (04:34)
07. Clutter - Lanternhouse II (07:54)
08. Collectif Sin - test rec clip object 2 (06:37)
09. Crank Sturgeon - Hrandaei (03:12)
10. Crash Duo - Inside a Movement (08:04)
11. Donovan/Montag/Pearson - Faro H Wind H Christ Manwatcher
12. FluiD - D pr (04:12)
13. Frédéric D. Oberland - For whatever we lose... (05:21)
14. Graham Dunning - British Steam (06:17)
15. Gurdonark - Library (03:12)
16. Hal McGee - no-input mixer for Classwar Karaoke Survey 0013
17. Ian Linter - Vurn in Mir'Ias (05:03)
18. Igor's Roomy Lab Coat: - OWNSELF (03:18)
19. John Hyatt - A Thousand Thank Yous (04:50)
20. Juca Pimentel and Anton Mobin - Supolitanas Marítimas
21. Kalistongue - Goodbye July (05:40)
22. Lezet - Depressed, Saturated, Walled (04:07)
23. Lux P0G0 - Lux slerpy sterpy (03:24)
24. MaCu - Frozen (07:44)
25. Noise Research and Richard Knight - unified theory edit
26. PAS with Big Brother on Acid - Drinking the Ocean's Secrets (06:10)
27. Pixyblink - Orange Orchid (07:43)
28. Planetaldol & Ayato - Planetaldol & Ayato (09:59)
29. Qkcofse - Havocilinear (01:17)
30. Reve Steich - Music for 18 Dishes (04:06)
31. Shield Your Eyes Pray For Death - Ars moriendi (05:10)
32. Sinus Buds - Hexadecimals (03:19)
33. Sound Inhaler - Rights and privileges (03:23)
34. Thanato Twist with Oleg's Sound System - The funky side of life
35. Thomas Fernier - Paranoiaques (09:18)
36. Zilmrah - Sharpen All Sides (09:21)

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Daughter Of The Industrial Revolution - Variable Resistance (Parts 001-003) (Cotton Goods, 2009)

Variable Resistance, (Part 1)
CD1.1 Legislation For The Nation 6:47
CD1.2 Transistor Blues 5:57
CD1.3 Urban Myth 4:19
Variable Resistance, (Part 2)
CD2.1 Shape 4 5:25
CD2.2 Photon Shopping 7:54
Variable Resistance, (Part 3)
CD3.1 Nutrient Flush 11:29
CD3.2 The Folding Of Paper 8:15

The dark arts of Miles Whittaker (aka MLZ, and part of the Demdike Stare, Pendle Coven and several other covert projects) have been casting their spell over listeners for the better half of this decade. His peerless record collection and associated vinyl addiction have largely informed his ouevre, roving from the blackest doom metal to glacial nordic electronics, layered drones, shuffled House, Berlin dub and Detroit techniques. His uber-dark new project Daughter Of The Industrial Revolution is the place where he can indulge those passions in solo mode over three 3" CDs for the bespoke Cotton Goods label. We've only got a slight clue what the title alludes to, but we can tell you that 'Legislation For The Nation' opens the set with a hazy piece of ambience recalling the overloaded-but-subdued ferric tones of Kevin Drumm, while 'Transistor Blues' sounds like the residue of an analogue MLZ session, where the machines have been left to their own devices, creating spectral impressions of Berlin dub. 'Shape 4' follows with a grey slate-and-sandstone toned slab of doomy atmospherics, while the acid reflux of 'Photon Shopping' coats the ears in an abstracted 303 residue. The lengthy 'Nutrient Flush' is the album's centrepiece, paying tribute to the isolationist bleeps of Mika Vainio with potent tones patiently given time to seep through the system to achieve the required results. As usual the amazingly packaged discs are housed in bespoke handmade sleeves inside customised microfilm boxes that have been individually numbered. Totally amazing music - blink and you'll miss out forever.
Boomkat

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Coldstream - Drown/Lights (Rural Colours, 2011)

1 Drown/Lights
2 Medium Aisle

Coldstream is a London-based musician and sound artist Dan Mumford who creates his music using guitars, melodica, piano, old tape recordings, synths, percussion and field recordings. To date Dan has releases out on Under the Spire, Audio Gourmet, Aether Everywhere & Vikomt.

Drown/Lights ep contains two tracks both recorded from the same session which are based around treated guitar and bass guitar, but also incorporate some old synths, piano and organ. What makes these tracks interesting is the field recordings that are woven into them; these were recorded during a trip through the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific North West of America and are recordings of forests, wildlife and AM radio broadcasts from the area.
Rural Colours

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undRess Beton - Porcelain Smiles (suRRism-Phonoethics, 2011)

1 Porcelain Smiles

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Stalaktos - Diplura (suRRism-Phonoethics, 2011)

1 Acetylene
2 Marl
3 Sand Pipe
4 Hexapoda
5 Daylight Hole
6 Havara
7 Eolianite
8 Bathyphreatic
9 Katavothron

Carlos Fierro | e-bass
Marco Fierro | synth & d-synth

Recorded, Mixed And Mastered: 7 December, 2010, Mexico City.

'if then fletched tongues crossed the street by as natural noise can get...'
-undRess Béton

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Electronic Phantom Orchestra - The Mystical Album (suRRism-Phonoethics, 2011)

1 Quiet Room
2 2'27''
3 Brothers and Sisters shut up
4 Cavalleria Rusticana
5 No Noise in the Soul
6 The Reverend invites to the prayer
7 Unknown Napoli

Electronic Phantoms are:

Hal McGee (USA)
Ben Presto (I-D)
Albrecht-D (D)
Reverend Man Manly (USA-D)
Splithead (D)

Recorded live in the ether
Munich, Germany, Dec. 2010

Very special thanks to LollyPope + Siemers (Sturclub, Stuttgart)
Play it random


'first property mechanics
then spack at their particles'
-undRess Béton

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Ophir Ilzetzki - Still Life with Riots (suRRism-Phonoethics, 2011)

1 Still Life with Riots (2008 version)
2 ATM (2006)
3 Point counter Point (2005_6)
4 Dance Music (2004_5)
5 Seed (2007)
6 Ambiance (2008)
7 Free (2003_4)
8 (2003) זמן שעובר לא שב
9 Still Life Israel
10 Long Live the Gathering (2010)


Cover photo by Adam Weisser
ATM & Dance Music recorded & produced by Lot Lievaart for Pergamon Recordings

Long Live the Gathering was composed for the Synesthesia Project;
recorded & produced by Sagie Zakosky

Electronic manipulation for track 8, and live electronics for tracks 4 & 7
designed by Gilad Woltsovitch -

Electronic manipulation for track 10 designed by Federico Reuben


Many thanks to all the wonderful musicians who gave so willingly of themselves
in order to allow the realization of these beautiful performances.
Ophir Ilzetzki

'less wave with independently smiling at the momentum'
-undRess Béton

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The 17 Sons of Abraxas - Dual Face 204 (17 Sons Records, 2011)

1 South Face 12:54
2 North Face 07:55

//north face//the darkest one//slowly evolving drone for theta brainwaves resonance research//=+=//south face//shiny but glitchy//background noises pops clicks amplification//
The 17 Sons of Abraxas

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