Next month, Robin Rimbaud (a.k.a. Scanner) will return with Fibolae.
The album, titled Fibolae, follows a long catalog of commissions, film scores, and strange projects and will be Rimbaud’s first studio album since 2009’s Rockets, Unto The Edges of Edges. Since the release of Rockets…, Rimbaud lost his family and moved from London to live in a former textile factory in the UK to reinvent his life. Due to this, there’s a melancholic energy that runs throughout Fibolae, which is “both a rhetoric of mourning and a celebration of music to empower.”
Fibolae will drop via Anna von Hausswolff’s label Pomperipossa Records on December 1, and in the lead up to the release, Anna’s sister Maria von Hausswolff has directed a new video for album cut “Spirit Cluster,” which began form as a soundtrack for an unfinished film series that used hidden spaces beneath buildings in London. Maria explains the concept saying: ““The video is set in a recently burnt down apartment: a mysterious and uncanny world where energy is stuck in a loop of repetition and rituals.”
You can watch the video via the player above, with the album available for pre-order here.
On November 26, Fluxion‘s Vibrant Music will begin operations again with Accumulate, the first release from Deepchord & Fluxion’s Transformations project.
Accumulate will also preempt the duo’s new live act, which is set to premiere a week after the release at Gray Area, in San Francisco, California on December 8. The performance will showcase music from Accumulate, as well as a collection of unreleased tracks and upcoming scheduled releases. Musically, the new project plays out like a sonic road trip, as DeepChord and Fluxion explain:
“We are keeping the tempo and the excitement up, and at the same time we are making the music more visual. We want people to feel like we are watching a road movie where anything can happen. We want to indulge the audience making them a participant, an observant on how we can move on a linear form from one place to the next and slowly change the audio scenery, like it would have occurred on a road trip, where some things look familiar further into the trip and others have changed.”
Ahead of the release, you pre-order Accumulate here, with “Accumulate Pt. 1” streaming in full via the player below.
On November 26, Fluxion‘s Vibrant Music will begin operations again with Accumulate, the first release from Deepchord & Fluxion’s Transformations project.
Accumulate will also preempt the duo’s new live act, which is set to premiere a week after the release at Gray Area, in San Francisco, California on December 8. The performance will showcase music from Accumulate, as well as a collection of unreleased tracks and upcoming scheduled releases. Musically, the new project plays out like a sonic road trip, as DeepChord and Fluxion explain:
“We are keeping the tempo and the excitement up, and at the same time we are making the music more visual. We want people to feel like we are watching a road movie where anything can happen. We want to indulge the audience making them a participant, an observant on how we can move on a linear form from one place to the next and slowly change the audio scenery, like it would have occurred on a road trip, where some things look familiar further into the trip and others have changed.”
Ahead of the release, you pre-order Accumulate here, with “Accumulate Pt. 1” streaming in full via the player below.
Uzu Moon is an upcoming Dutch artist who just released his debut EP, Soft Kill. He describes his music as “introspective reflections.” There’s very little else known about him.
Marking the release, he’s offered up EP opener “Polm”; grab it now via the WeTransfer button below.
The three-track EP will be the Bucharest-based label’s fourth release, following on from three EPs from label owner Faster himself—the last of which included a Rhadoo remix.
Costin Rp is a Bucharest-based DJ-producer with previous releases on Pleasure Zone, Bleu Ciel, and Pressure Traxx.
Tracklisting
A1. Beller One Year B1. Subinc B2. Can You
Basic EP will land end of November, with clips streaming below.
Bibio has a long mane of hair that reaches below his shoulders, and a beard that splits the difference between scruffy and styled. He sometimes dresses in vaguely hippie-esque apparel, and possesses an intense look in his eyes. He describes his new album, Phantom Brickworks—his ninth overall, and sixth for the Warp label—not as a collection of tracks, but as “a mental portal into places and times.” The artwork on the vinyl version of the record is crafted with a hand-inked letterpress, with the veteran West Midlands artist (real name: Stephen Wilkinson) overseeing the process himself. In short, he seems to teeter perilously close to the nexus of pretension and rustic hipsterism. But once you let Phantom Brickworks’ electronic musings wash over you, any preconceived notions go out the window—its tracks are hugely evocative, full of both grand gestures and intimate explorations. It’s perhaps Wilkinson’s most affecting music yet.
Phantom Brickworks represents a hard turn in Bibio’s ever-evolving sound. His earliest releases, while hardly traditional, generally fit into the time-tested “pastoral songcraft with electronically-processed instrumentation and a touch of field recordings” mold—one of his earliest boosters was Boards of Canada‘s Marcus Eoin, and it’s easy to hear why. The work, varied in mood but uniformly excellent, was full of subdued emotion, but there was a crackling tension to it, as if Wilkinson couldn’t quite find the way to release those emotions. Later albums saw him leaning towards a poppier style: last year’s A Mineral Love, which saw him opting for a sun-dappled, wiggley R&B sound, was far from his heaviest release, yet it was a reflexively appealing addition to his discography. But Phantom Brickworks is a different album entirely—it’s a serious-minded foray into billowing ambience, drenched in atmosphere and bristling with texture.
Consisting mainly of improvised compositions, the album’s theme is one of lush minimalism. Layers of whispering synths, some in muted orchestral shadings and others humming with electricity, ebb and flow. On opener “9:13” those synths delineate a hushed circular melody; on “Capel Celyn,” they affect a spectral choral chant; “Ivy Charcoal” feels like an aching recollection of a lost love, captured as the memory fades into the either. Many of the songs also incorporate meditative piano work. Sometimes it comes in the form of a skeletal lullaby-esque melody line, as on “Phantom Brickworks II,” or it can be rich and elegant, as on “Branch Line.”
There’s a widescreen vibe to these tracks; with their patient, sometimes nearly imperceptible cycles of accretion and subsidence, they feel as much like landscapes as they do music. But they’re vistas that have been internalized and made personal, and that process—along with the calm majesty of the songs—is the source of Phantom Brickworks emotional sweep. Perhaps Wilkinson’s assessment of the album as “a mental portal into places and times” isn’t so highfalutin after all—it may be the best way to describe this expressive set of tunes.
Tracklisting
01 9:13 02 Phantom Brickworks 03 Pantglas 04 Phantom Brickworks II 05 Capel Celyn 06 Phantom Brickworks III 07 Ivy Charcoal 08 Branch Line 09 Capel Bethania
Marcel Dettmann will release a new album called Marcel Dettmann presents RAUCH.
The record is said to be “in dialogue with” photos by contemporary German artist Friederike von Rauch, including architectural images of post-World War II European monasteries, including La Tourette by Le Corbusier, and Iannis Xenakis near Lyon, Roosenberg Abbey near Ghent, and Maria Regina Martyrum in Berlin.
It forms part an ongoing artistic collaboration between Marcel Dettmann and von Rauch, which includes 2011’s Ash installation and three photographic works for Dettmann releases on Ostgut Ton. Von Rauch’s work also appeared in Berghain’s 2014 exhibition “10,” as well as in the accompanying book “Berghain | Kunst im Klub” (Hatje Cantz, 2015).
The images will be exhibited together with the music on this LP as part of an installation for von Rauch’s solo show insgeheim, on from November 9 to January 11 at the Goethe-Institut Paris during the international Paris Photo art fair in November 2017.
RAUCH will be released on December 1 on vinyl and in digital formats via A-TON, a new platform of Berghain’s in-house imprint Ostgut Ton focussing on ambient, archive, and alternative music. The digital version presents the work as a single track, while the vinyl edition splits it over two sides of wax.
Tracklisting
A. Rauch 1 B. Rauch 2
Marcel Dettmann presents RAUCH is scheduled for December 1 release.
Ministerium Club opened in December 2012 in facilities previously occupied by the Portuguese Ministry of Finance. It has since become one of the main references in Lisbon for house and techno, hosting weekly events with names from the forefront of electronic music alongside underground local talent.
November 25 Solid Funk w/ Jane Fitz, Binh, Joao Maria, and Diogo Lacerda Jane Fitz Binh (Time Passages / Perlon) Joao Maria (Assemble Music ) Diogo Lacerda (LowMoneyMusicLove)
For more information on any of these events, click here.
The three-track release is the follow-up to the Belfast duo’s debut full-length, which landed earlier this year. The EP features two new tracks, “Metro” and “DLR,” both embodying the same throttling yet atmospheric tunes featured throughout the LP.
Inspired by the song’s homage to the rave era, the duo have also shared a video for “Glue” by Joe Wilson. It is a series of landscapes which revisit the sites once brought alive by now infamous raves but today sit desolate and empty, retreating back to their former state with little to show of their impact they had on UK music culture.
Niall Mannion (a.k.a Mano Le Tough) has released a new EP on Pampa, Ahsure.
The three-track EP is the Irish producer’s second release of the year, following Arganol ‘N’ All which landed via his own Maeve imprint. It’s said to “showcase his unique ability to combine dancefloor rhythms with visceral vocal-based songs.”
The A-side, “Your Heavy Head” is the most dancefloor focused track of the EP. Mano combines crisp, live sounding percussion with various intertwining synth lines and bell chimes, establishing a gentle yet pulsating groove. “Kitedub” on the flip settles neatly somewhere between modern house music and weirdo pop.
The title track rounds off the record. Penned just after the birth of his daughter, “Ahsure” hears Mano’s lyrics sit above swirling ambient sounds.
Tracklisting
01. Your Heavy Head 02. Kitedub 03. Ahsure
Ahsure is out now, with clips below, with clips of “Your Heavy Head” streaming below.
