Voin Oruwu “Crisis In The Jungle”

Back in May, Private Persons release the debut EP from Kiev-based producer Dmitriy Avksentiev’s Voin Oruwu project, titled Big Space Adventure.

The album, an 11-track odyssey through icy ambience, bent downtempo, textural rhythm tracks, and deep, slow-burning techno, was inspired by “his own post-apocalyptic story,” which the album provides the soundtrack for. A visual thinker, Dmitriy infuses his music with engrossing cinematic qualities that engulf the listener with immense force and power. Take “Forest Theme,” for example, which evokes misty scenes of a rider galloping through snow-covered trees; or “Crisis In The Jungle,” a tense and foreboding track that beautifully disorientates with its alien-like sound design.  

Big Space Adventure is out now and can be picked up here, with “Crisis In The Jungle” available to download below.

Due to temporary issues regarding the GDPR, EU readers can download the track here.

Ross From Friends Shares Video for New Track “Pale Blue Dot”

Felix Clary Weatherall (a.k.a Ross From Friends) has shared a new track from Family Portrait, his upcoming debut album, scheduled for July 27 release via Brainfeeder. 

Family Portrait is the culmination of almost two years of intense studio time, working 20 hour days, and often spending months perfecting just one aspect of a track. “I tried to be careful with every single sound,” Felix explains, “Trying new things, making a bit more of an explosive sound”. The album also finds Clary Weatherall recording his own voice for the first time, with the resulting tracks acting as snapshots of his personal life while recording. “Every time I went to make music the things which would really grab me are the emotional things, and while I’’m in that place I felt I could really focus on the track. That was a massive part of this album, tapping into my emotions… into my emotional instability.”

Tracklist:

1. Happy Birthday Nick

2. Thank God I’m A Lizard

3. Wear Me Down

4. The Knife

5. Project Cybersyn

6. Family Portrait

7. Pale Blue Dot

8. Back Into Space

9. Parallel Sequence

10. R.A.T.S.

11. Don’t Wake Dad

12. The Beginning

Family Portrait will land on vinyl, CD, and digitally via Brainfeeder on July 27, with “Pale Blue Dot” streaming in full via the play below—or here for EU readers due to temporary GDPR restrictions. 

Photo credit: Fabrice Bourgelle 

Jlin Scores Soundtrack for Renowned British Choreographer Wayne McGregor

Jlin has written a score for renowned British choreographer Wayne McGregor‘s Autobiography, landing in September via Planet Mu. 

Autobiography follows on from Jlin’s Black Origami, one of the most critically lauded albums of last year. This isn’t technically her third album—that’s due for 2019 or 2020—but it’s said to “flow with all the emotional peaks and troughs of a good LP,” the label explains. 

We’re told that making music for dance is the fulfilment of one of Jlin’s lifelong dreams. She describes the process of working with Wayne: “We first met face to face in October 2016 in a downtown Chicago hotel, talking for about a solid two hours. Immediately, I saw Wayne was very friendly and energetic. He’s brilliant, witty, and knows exactly what he wants; an absolute gem to work with. Before I even started composing for Autobiography, Wayne told me so gently that he trusts me completely with my direction of creating the score. That was the best feeling in the world. I would wake up at two in the morning and work until six in the evening until I completed all the pieces. We were both very happy with the outcome. Creating the score for an impeccable piece of work such as Autobiography changed my life as an artist.”

The soundtrack is said to stand up on its own but it takes on new dimensions with the performance. Instead of reading descriptions of the individual tracks, it’s best to hear them for yourself, or better still, see one of the performances. Jlin will be touring with Company Wayne McGregor performing Autobiography this year into next, with dates below. 

Autobiography will land on September 28 via Planet Mu, with “The Abyss Of Doubt” streaming in full below. 

Autobiography Performances by Company Wayne McGregor:

Sadler’s Wells, London, UK: 26-28 July (with Jlin performing live) 

Edinburgh International Festival, UK: 11-13 August 

Tanz im August, Berlin, Germany: 17-19 August 

Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany: 22-25 August 

Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe, UK: 19 September 

Northcott Theatre, Exeter, UK: 21 September 

The Music Center, Los Angeles, USA: 5-7 October 2018 (with Jlin performing live) 

Unsound Festival, Krakow, Poland: 12-13 October 2018 (with Jlin performing live) 

Carolina Performing Arts at UNC, Chapel Hill, USA: 25 October 

Pavilion Noir, France: 15-16 January 

Bonn Opera House, Germany: 31 January 

The Arts Center NYU, Abu Dhabi, UAE: 7-8 February 2019 (with Jlin performing live) 

Seattle Theatre Group, USA: 22 February

Premiere: Hear an Inventive Dub Track From Conforce’s Silent Harbour Project

Next month, Dutch producer Boris Bunnik will return to his Silent Harbour project with Noctiluca, a six-track mini-LP for Copenhagen label Echocord.

Bunnik is most known under his Conforce alias, under which he has delivered five albums and over 20 EPs on labels such as regular home Delsin, Clone, Rush Hour, Bright Sounds, and his own Transcendent—Bunnik also releases as Versalife, Hexagon, and Vernon Felicity.

His latest under the Silent Harbour guise follows 2015’s Hinterland on Deep Sound Channel and the self-tilted launch of the project in 2012 on Echocord with six immersive dub tracks that range from droning ambient (“Riparian”) to drowned techno (“Noctiluca”), wind-swept synth work (“Dwelling”), and classic dub techno (“Peridinum”). Noctiluca is expansive in its scope and provides an inventive addition to the dub techno universe. 

Noctiluca is set to drop on Echocord on August 17. You can stream the hypnotic title track below. 

Serena Butler Debuts on Stroboscopic Artefacts

Serena Butler will debut on Lucy’s Stroboscopic Artefacts with We Want Neither Clean Hands Nor Beautiful Souls, a four-track EP scheduled for July 20 release. 

The EP is described as a record of Butler’s personal juncture with the Queerverse and his engagement in queer politics, and follows 2016’s Gynoids Dryads Swim Alone on Eerie. It’s supposed to embody the shared revere that Butler and SA have for the subversive power of techno—or, as Butler says, “the explicit, organized effort to repurpose technologies for progressive gender political ends.” 

Stroboscopic Artefacts was launched in September 2009 aiming to showcase adventures into electronic music from artists across the world. The label, as the name suggests, acts like a strobe light illuminating pioneering club sounds with each release. This will be the label’s 33rd release. 

Tracklisting

A1 / 1. If Nature Is Unjust, Change Nature

A2 / 2. Globular Hymen

B1 / 3. Science Is Not An Expression But A Suspension Of Gender

B2 / 4. And With Fire Came Disparity

We Want Neither Clean Hands Nor Beautiful Souls will arrive on July 20, with clips streaming below. 

   

Seltron 400 “Oo”

Earlier this month, Seltron 400 returned to MOST with the Trans i Bas EP.

Trans i Bas is the second part of a trilogy on MOST, following the first EP in the series, Zabawa Trwa, which dropped in July last year. The new EP follows a new live show, which in turn fed into the production process of the new tracks, lending a raw and freewheeling feel to the release. The three original cuts on the EP—there’s also a drum version of the title track—fuse elements of trance, classic house, and bass music into inventive dancefloor cuts full of swinging grooves and head-scratching synth lines.

You can pick up the record here, with EP cut “Oo” available as a free download below.

Due to temporary issues regarding the GDPR, EU readers can download the track here.

Nicola Kazimir Details Debut Album, ‘Post-Heretic Dracula X Chronicles’

Nicola Kazimir will release his debut solo album in August, titled Post-Heretic Dracula X Chronicles.

We’re told to expect “30 minutes full of diverse, rough, evil, melancholic electronic music compositions either partly sampled out of important melodies in his life or fully produced by him.” The album draws from contemporary and past cultural references evolving around institutional-critique, occultism and dividualism, and manifests those via meta tags or sonic compositions.

Kazimir is a part of the collective Les Points based in Zürich, Switzerland. 
His art/music draws from ’90s rave utopias, decentralized and dividual thought, institutional-critique, occultism, and progressive and accessible frameworks as showcased at the collective’s Mikro space, a physical room open 24/7 making it available to all social layers. 
His record label Les Points appropriates these ideas and transfers them to the distribution channels of electronic music.
 Kazimir, he says, refuses genre-stigmas and Post-Heretic Dracula X Chronicles is described as an example of that diversity.

The album is pressed onto one single record to “make it more intense and not dragged out too long.” It will be Les Points’ 12th release.

Tracklisting LP: 

A1. The Witches You Weren’t Able To Burn

A2. X6 (Dividual Walkthrough)

A3. Continuously Growling Underground-Myths 

A4. Vampire (Capitalist-Accumulation) Killer Theme

A5. 666 luoS = 1 Btc (Pump Dump Trade Burn) 

B1. X Chants

B2. Dungeon Of Shadows

B3. Angel Of Light Saturday Appropriation Acid Mix 

B4. The Well Of Post-Terminology 

B5. Super Sad But True Labour-Story


Tracklist Digital:



01. The Witches You Weren’t Able To Burn

02. X6 (Dividual Walkthrough)

03. Continuously Growling Underground-Myths 

04. Vampire (Capitalist-Accumulation) Killer Theme

05. 666 luoS = 1 Btc (Pump Dump Trade Burn) 

06. X Chants

07. Dungeon Of Shadows

08. The Well Of Post-Terminology 

09. Angel Of Light Saturday Appropriation Acid Mix 

10. Super Sad But True Labour-Story

11. Digital Bonus IIII
 

Studio Gear Used:

Yamaha DX7IIFD

Roland TR-909

Roland TR-808

Roland TR-606 Drumatix

Roland Juno-60

Roland System 100 Model 101

Roland TB-303 Bass Line

Roland SBF-323 Stereo Flanger

Mackie 32/08/02 Mixing Console

Universal Audio – Apollo 16 

2x E-RM Multiclock

Logic Pro X

Sugarbytes Looperator VST

Sugarbytes Thesys VST

Valhalla Freq Echo VST

Univeral Audio Oxide Tape VST

Samples Used:

A1. The Occult Experience

A2. Kazuhiko Uehara “Character Select” (TMNT)

A4. Tomoya Tomita, Masanari Iwata, Harumi Ueko, Masahiko Kimura – Vampire Killer

B1. The Occult Experience

B2. Konji Kondo “Dungeons Of Shadows”

B4. Konji Kondo “Ancient Ruins, The Occult Experience”

Post-Heretic Dracula X Chronicles LP will arrive on August 24, with a full stream available below. 

Paula Temple Next Up in Ask the Experts; Send Her Your Questions Now

Paula Temple is up next in our Ask the Experts series, following on from Len Faki whose answers were published just recently. The answers of Moby, Surgeon, and Daedelus are in the works and will be shared soon. 

Paula Temple has been pursuing her own musical path for over 15 years.  As a self-confessed “noisician,” she specializes in a noisy, phantasmagoric techno sound, where every moment of silence seems deafening. Such refreshing high voltage music has placed Temple at the forefront of contemporary techno.

Temple first appeared in 2002 with her The Speck of the Future EP via Chris McCormack’s Materials label—from which Jeff Mills lifted “Contact” for his Exhibitionist release. She then took time away from the studio for some time—during which she spent time teaching music tech to underprivileged kids—before  R&S Records put out her 2013 Colonized EP and 2014’s Deathvox EP. The legendary Belgian label also released Temple’s remixes for The Prodigy in 2015, just after she had founded her Noise Manifesto label. It was here that she released “Gegen,” a techno favorite typically rich in sound design, and launched her Decon/Recon collaboration series. Elsewhere, Temple contributed “Oscillate” to the final split series of Modeselektor’s 50 Weapons label in October 2015 and has also remixed Perera Elsewhere, The Knife, Peaches, and Planningtorock. 

In 2001, Temple also co-developed an innovative live performance MIDI controller called the MXF8, one of the first of its kind for music technology that ultimately shaped her current style of hybrid live/DJ performances. Blurring the lines between producer, remixer, and DJ, Temple layers between her own live pieces, edits, and tracks, building powerful, driving sets. This year she curated A Day With at Lyon’s Nuits Sonores and has been confirmed for Timewarp, Neopop, Montreux Jazz, Dimensions, and returning to Awakenings, among others.  

Temple is also currently producing her debut album, aiming for release at the end of the year. 

Whether it be DJing, production, playing live, label management or anything else, all questions should be sent to [email protected] with “Paula Temple” as the subject line. We’ll pass them along to Temple who will then select her favorites, and soon we’ll publish her answers.

Movement Torino Details 2018 Plans

Movement Torino has confirmed its 2018 plans, taking place October 12 and 13, and featuring the likes of Jon Hopkins (live), Nina Kraviz, Levon Vincent, and more. 

This 2018 edition will again take place in Torino, hosted in a vast building that’s like a conference center-come-aircraft hangar.  Scheduled to perform this year are returning favourites like Transmat boss Derrick May, as well as DJ Bone, and Underground Resistance presents Depth Charge featuring Mark Flash and Mike Banks. Levon Vincent will also play, as will Charlotte de Witte, Amelie Lens, KiNK, and Francesco Tristano—with more names to come. 

This year’s edition takes place on October 12 and 13 in Torino, Italy, with more information here. 

Lineup 

Amelie Lens

Charlotte de Witte

Cosmo (live)

Derrick May

DJ Bone

Francesco Tristano live

Ilario Alicante

Jon Hopkins live

Joseph Capriati

Kink live

Levon Vincent

Nina Kraviz

Underground Resistance pres. Depth Charge (Mark Flash & Mike Banks)

The Martinez Brothers

More TBC 

Han Duo “Blurred”

Hamburg-based producer Vincent Beckmann has shared a free download as Han Duo. Being a jazz-trained drummer, we’re told that he is especially interested in rhythmic patterns, which made him use a live jam by his good friend Maximiilian Schuller as one instrument in the track. “Blurred” was inspired by that particular hypnotic jam and some old vinyl samples of South American percussion.

Vincent has just started his own imprint Enbeezee. On this, he will release vinyl-only records from himself and friends as well as throw parties in Hamburg.

EU readers can download here due to temporary GDPR restrictions

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