A retrospective of Darkstar83’s work.
ET132 An Etched Traumas release
December 2022
Various Artists – Echoes Of The Quadrature – Four (Insectorama148)
Echoes Of The Quadrature is the big year-end compilation. This is episode 4of 4 with the last 20 tracks by dubtechno artists from all over the world. Many thanks to all artists who make this compilation something very special with their Tracks. 140 minutes of echoes and delays that will take you on a journey into the deepest dub valleys. Relax and enjoy these timeless tracks fit for the cold season.
Tracklist:
01.tvsky – forest altar
02.Markus Masuhr – Athos
03.Noosa Sound System – MDM23
04.Stereo Split – Last Train to LDZ City
05.The Open Circle – After the Rain
06.Xyiz – Trapped in Prypjat
07.Zelde 743 – Endorphins (Narson Nelson Rmx)
08.special_zip – cydonia
09.silentwave – Perseus
10.Dott. Santafeo – ABA697
11.Markus Masuhr – Myrsini Beach
12.Bist – Silent Sun
13.kangurul – floating dub
14.ZELDE743 – EARTH QUAKE
15.Chord Fluencer – Lexikon
16.Monophaze – Zurich Roundtrip
17.Bethelina – Phantom Rain Clouds
18.Guzz (ARG) – 000038
19.Drfct – Defeat
20.SEMIMODULAR – Intenzioni Dub
Various Artists – Echoes Of The Quadrature – TWO (Insectorama146)
Echoes Of The Quadrature is the big year-end compilation. This is episode 2 of 4 with the next 23 tracks by dubtechno artists from all over the world. Many thanks to all artists who make this compilation something very special with their Tracks. 160 minutes of echoes and delays that will take you on a journey into the deepest dub valleys. Relax and enjoy these timeless tracks fit for the cold season.
Insectorama 146
Mastering and Artwork by Markus Masuhr
Tracklist:
01.Belugani – Teilchenwelle
02.773b – Late Summer Haze
03.A Mag – Zion
04.Markus Masuhr – Black Woods (Version2)
05.faKtor.ost – negation of the new path
06.Adam Carling and Nick De Voost – Unstoppable Force
07.Chokan – 114
08.Dub Portrait – Phantom Speaker
09.Davor Tosovic – Tunnel
10.Ajnkana – Opaque
11.KYO – Pond
12.Enchord – Ascent
13.moodeep – Digital Nature
14.LutchamaK – S!S
15.Kettenreaktion – Altstadt
16.Mjulev – IIII
17.Adria Duch – what it was
18.Cbdubs – Mimbrated [Rework]
19.BJIKA – BUGGED OUT
20.Ginkgo Lanugo – Can you feel
21.Dmytro Bobryk – Prirva
22.Gregi – Lost Change
23.Marc Pastco – Consumismo Modular
Various Artists – Echoes Of The Quadrature – One (Insectorama145)
Echoes Of The Quadrature is the big year-end compilation. This is episode 1 of 4 with the first 23 tracks by dubtechno artists from all over the world. Many thanks to all artists who make this compilation something very special with their Tracks. 160 minutes of echoes and delays that will take you on a journey into the deepest dub valleys. Relax and enjoy these timeless tracks fit for the cold season.
Insectorama 145
Mastering and Artwork by Markus Masuhr
Tracklist:
01.Twin Peetz – Natural State (Live Edit)
02.Roman Ridder – Through The Ocean
03.Matt Schulz – Herr Wassiljewski
04.SchulzAudio – Deadnettles
05.Coma Conscience – On Edge (Ember Handpans Remix)
06.Operandum – Exodus
07.Markus Masuhr – Kryfto Bay
08.imperfect – tundra
09.Retouched – Vanth
10.Faestos – Port Of Call
11.Insect O. – Drifting On Water
12.Lichi Flowers – The spring´s coming on
13.ZOA – one day
14.Essentia Sound – Slow Summer
15.DeepNorth – Sri Lanka
16.DubDude – Hablar Por Hablar
17.Spigl – 29012022
18.tvsky – twilight meadow
19.Davor Tosovic – Triangular
20.George Kostopoulos & CO2MIC – Ankaa
21.Liuos – Dyadic Rational
22.MemoriesOnLoop – 1989
23.Taction – upon waking
Adrià Duch – Unknown Protocol (Insectorama143)
Such a timeless and dirty, beautiful analog lofi dubtechno sound that Adria Duch presents to us with its new 5 tracks is definitely not from this world. So we embark with him on this journey of his very own definition of never-ending chords and echoes that completely cancel space and time and you have the feeling of having found long-lost sounds on an old dusty transistor radio.
Tracklist:
1.No One
2.Not Against
3.Unknown Protocol
4.Why Me
5.Without You
Insectorama 143
all tracks by Adria Duch
Mastering and Artwork by Markus Masuhr
DubDude – Conformacion Del Ser (Insectorama142)
Here, space and time are offset to such an extent that there is a fusion of dense echoes and chords. The harmony and balance between relaxation and the rhythm accompany us through the night so that we forget everything around us. Dub melodies snatch you from reality and find their way through the loop of space.
Tracklist:
1.Cuando Y Como
2.El Por Que Del Como
3.La Consecuencia De La Verdad
4.Ilanto
5.Conformacion Del Ser
Insectorama 142
all tracks by DubDude
Mastering and Artwork by Markus Masuhr
Compilation album with collaborations tracks between Humanfobia duo from Chile & Mean Flow from Greece.
All tracks composed by Mean Flow & Humanfobia.
artwork collage, vocals only in track 7: Sábila Orbe.
model in artwork, vocals in tracks 1, 5 & 9: Mist Spectra.
Mean Flow is an experimental, minimalistic, noise composer from Thessaloniki, Greece. links:
https://meanflow.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@teotsteo
Humanfobia is a dark experimental, witch house duo from Rancagua, Chile. links:
https://humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/
https://archive.org/details/fav-mist_spectra
A Tape Full of Mistakes is The Hathaway Family Plot and Rrrrrose Azerty
chezmonplaisir.bandcamp.com
released December 5, 2022
¿Qué cambiaría si la percepción del tiempo fuera diferente?
¿Qué cambiaría si la muerte no fuese inminente?
¿Qué cambiaría si los sueños no acabasen?
“La vida nos ofrece estos momentos de alegría a pesar de todo”
released December 5, 2022
W&P por Ignacio Fernández aka ignaigna
Producción adicional en Caducifolio por Agustín Altamirano aka Hemu
Producción adicional en Realimentación por Yni Liz aka Blxssxmy
Fotos por Mica Zeni
Diseño de tapa por Pau Lee (www.instagram.com/sheispaulee/)
Ready… start… go! But – make sure you stay on track. Going goes faster when you’re working with physics, not against it.
This quasi-soundtrack for an imagined racing game features instruments (sax, brass, drums, and more) sampled from SNES and other video game consoles.
released November 25, 2022
All music and artwork by Cialyn (cc) A.Pachins 2022. Recorded during 2022.
Since 2002, far away from the classic formats, Grosso Gadgetto puts his mark in contemporary indie hip-hop, the music of movies, contemporary shows and video games. He voluntarily destabilizes the listener by these sound deluges, under a fire nourished of scary atmospheres, drone layers, pervert breakbeats, metal guitars and catchy and addicting melodies, perfect soundtracks for a sick and claustrophobic science fiction movie that John Carpenter would probably not deny.
20 years on in Grosso Gadgetto’s extraordinary artistic endeavours, we are delighted and proud to present his Mahorka debut “Come with me”, coming out also as beautiful limited edition cassette, as a notable addition to his impressive discography.
Released November 19, 2022
Written, recorded and mixed by Grosso Gadgetto in Villeurbanne, France during June 2022
Mastered by Stazma the Junglechrist
Cover photo by Max Guy-Joseph
Sleeve design by Angel Draganov
“Irreparable Damage” is the debut album of Asshole Galaxy – a band of two angry artists really mad at all the assholes ruining the world, channelling some music through.
“You’re wrong […] I said quietly. “I’d love to have access to all this shit you believe. I’d love to be able to summon someone who’s responsible for this fuck-up of a creation. Because then I’d be able to kill them. Slowly.”
–Richard Morgan
Angry artist #1: Weldroid. The 8-bit emulation of an electrical engineer, a cgi artist and a coffee connoisseur merged into one person and left alone in the middle of a forest in the middle of a forgotten peninsula built of discarded and ancient electronic devices and lots of copper wire. Those little robotic things living in the forest tend to like the noises he makes…
Angry artist #2: Jeremy Rice. Boston-area lover of synthesizers and synth music, striving to make his own electronic music with a curious sense of introspection and mystery. As Abdicant and Curious Inversions he has notable releases on Kahvi Collective and Mahorka. Also in Cognition Delay with Paul Alexander (Pandacetamol, Fluffy Inside) on Rednetic and in The Hive Projectwith Anthony Paul Kerby (The Circular Ruins) on DataObscura.
“When you feel terrible about the unnecessary loss of life, value and sanity: get together with a friend, establish a band, make some noise. Somehow turn that murderous frustration into waveforms. […] not the last time you hear from us.” –Weldroid
Released 22.11.22 as free (cc) download and special digipak CD edition.
Composed and produced by Abdicant and Weldroid
Cover artwork graphics by Weldroid
The sonorities of these eleven tracks are polymorphic, in paths that cross and converge in the use of technologies applied to sound creation, enhanced by experimentation in search of other channels of expression and communication.
This compilation is the result of “100PIES” (or more) that have marked the path of this label on the net. From the contribution of all those who have been involved by collaborating either with their music and arts, in releases or events and even the act of sharing and disseminating from their locations, connecting with their antennas and generating resilience.
Composed, recorded and mixed by Jacopo Buda between October and December 2021.
Jacopo Buda: modular synth, efx, voice.
Mastered by M.qr at RagnoStudio, Italy.
photos by Jacopo Buda
design by EMERGE
The album is a journey to the discovery of light through the exclusive use of modular synth and effects – this time the trumpet is absent.
I am personally fond of this work, its realization has only been possible through a deep meditative process that manifested itself during the effects manipulation game. This is where the silence appeases the mind that instinctively connects and roams to the listening of the present moment.
In February 2021, we released Christophe Bailleau’s EP “Persistance”, a collection of collaborations, including one with his own duet PRISM on the saturated “Paaattchheeffff”. About 15 references later, it is this project that gets the spotlight today, and associated with Billy Hasni on electric guitars, percussions and guttural vocals, the Belgian musician trades his shapeshifing and stellar electronica for some more abrasive and noisy inspiration, either psychedelic and tribal (“Trip Ritual”), ambient and insidious (“Top Budget”) or pulsating and radical (“Eat Heat Hit”), at the crossroads of industrial music, harsh noise and experimental metal. If you love this kind of exploration as extreme as it is immersive and capable of putting sound aggression at the service of atmosphere, you will certainly find in this album what you might admire in Throbbing Gristle, Wolf Eyes and more recently Duma or the fascinating futuristic noise of the Pharmafabrik label (Ontervjabbit, Cadlag …) : an organic and mutant universe of impressive density (“Usine”), and a taste for magnetic crescendos merging toxic shrillness, hypnotic larsens, obsessive synthetic pulsations and threatening guitar riffs to build the kind of narrative progressions that draw the listeners in their anxiety-provoking logic and take them to unknown territories, without mercy for the darkest folds of their imagination, like “Dinosaure” and its crushing 11 minutes of noise epic.
released November 14, 2022
Recorded at Budget Lab (Huy) during the Covid-19 period.
Christophe Bailleau : programmations, synthesizers, percussions, flute, voice, noises.
Billy Hasni : electric guitars, screaming, percussions, synth on “Top Budget”.
Artwork :
Photo : Chris Farrell
Design : Konejo
PRISM logo : James Duncan
“Ave Migratoria” (Migrating Bird) by Francisco Pinto keeps you attentive to every track and as a whole, from micro to macro aspects. Always authentic, it takes you by surprise, grabbing you, starting with IDM, drum & bass, and saturated breaks; referencing house music on several tracks, completely experimenting with beats on others. All of this is tied by synth-made arrangements and melody layers.
“Cabalgando balas” (Riding Bullets), the first track, didn’t play on VLC, but on my drive folder, since I have no memory on my PC. The intro sounds lively and theatrical, the beat plays hide-and-seek, catching you up immediately to the full release, which makes you imagine the live performance and set-up, mostly analog, I guess. An admirable, complex and unknown feat for us, coming from the digital world.
“Cabalgando balas” generated a response in my head, moving to the sound, willing to immerse myself in writing already. I watched the video, perfect to be shared in a social meeting, turning the TV on, showing video clips and leaving.
I fix myself a cup of coffee and look out to the sea. You can identify with it, feeling a connection with the concept of the album, closing the context circle of yours with a flourish.
The first two tracks are D&B, IDM, with grabbing distorted breaks; modern style and analog sound at the same time.
Track three returns to more classic palettes: a house/pop sound, calm energy and psychedelic voices traveling through your stereo headphones. “Volaremos de aquí” (We will fly away from here), states the chorus, a sentence plugging the ground cable, the migration concept explored by the album.
Fourth track is housey, too, lo-fi and more energetic, keeping classic drums style on the one hand, talking to bars of rhythmic and timbral explorations on others; together they take you into the chorus, where standards and idiosyncrasies become one.
“Arrhythmia”: a high quality, surprising electro-style piece, containing drops that satisfy your mind, clean, well-balanced sounding, keeping whoever is experiencing the album attentive.
“Tortuguita” (Little tortoise) took me to a more 90s IDM, Planet Mu reminiscences. Later, synths show up with filter games, tilted frequencies, like an ice cream house, making me wonder about the moment those knobs were turned. A synth started this whole romp, joined afterwards by a carnival of filter envelopes, cut frequencies, boosting resonances, delay and reverb placing you right at the universe these sounds take place, down into timbres character and superb unfolding. When it comes down to relaxing; we relax, too. I realized how high I was when I got off. It was great.
“La sequía” (The Drought): melancholic intervals, synth colors filled with exciting harmonics and rhythmic dance floor patterns. A track to dance while crying.
I took a break like watching movies, an intermission in the middle of the film, to fix myself another coffee and reconnect.
A still blue sunset makes an easy entry into track 08. No extra aid needed, since it builds on you, and, as soon as the chosen synth takes off, it successfully sends kinetic signals to my body.
“Yungay Station” is modern and danceable, several layers taking you to synthwave realms, but not missing its housey foundation.
Deep drums, defined and designed with a special touch, open the way to track 10. The unique, authentic mix by Francisco Pinto suddenly opens the spectrum up with sounds filled with character. I’m also able to identify video game samples, and a three-dimensional echo, making you feel like a ball crashing into pinball walls.
The last track arrived. It is interesting to listen to an extended version of the first one, not a frequent move in itself. Since the album runs smoothly, a return to the beginning from another perspective is highly appreciated, as getting to know a deeper version of what Francisco thought when composing this track and this album. I recommend playing “Ave Migratoria” all the way through.
Simone Corbalán aka Ochi
DJ, Productora / DJ, Producer.
(Santiago, Chile, noviembre / November 2022)
When reality fails to meet the system’s requirements for existence, it gets neglected and removed as an input. The system is designed to analyze reality using its units of measurements, but now it can only quantize the noise from the observer. Lack of standard units drives the whole reality-observer-intermedium-system circus insane, continuing the feedback loop of madness, trying to find its own quantization noise drenched in an unpredictable fluctuation from the observer itself.
Lengthy progression of monotonous chaotic structures with only subtle hints of repetition, glued using reverb on things barely reaching the idea of understanding the function of notes.
Wenn man ständig betonen muss, wie sehr „punk’s not dead“ ist, muss Punk ja zumindest im Sterben liegen. Kein Wunder, ist ja auch echt alt mittlerweile. Und wie lange kann man einfach genau so weitermachen, bis man selbst zur Spießer*in wird?
Dafür dass dieses Release nicht mal 30 Minuten geht, ist es erstaunlich vielseitig. Wir haben lange Gespräche geführt und viel herumprobiert, um uns endlich wieder ein bisschen neu erfinden zu können. Wir haben tatsächlich einige Dinge gefunden, die wir noch nie ausprobiert haben. Immerhin, Stillstand ist Tod, und die Rebellion frisst ihre Kinder.
Ob wir es schaffen, nicht wie WIZO zu werden – wir werden sehen. Für jetzt leben wir im Moment. Resignation ist ja auch nicht die Antwort.
released October 17, 2022
Wenn es euch nicht gefällt, verändert es einfach, bis es euch gefällt: weil Kunst frei, für alle verfügbar, und veränderbar sein sollte, gibt es dieses Album inklusive der Lyrics unter einer Creative-Commons-Lizenz (CC BY 4.0). Inklusive der grandiosen Cover Art von Adena Sead und Dall-E.
3 free WAV tracks of deep minimal techno for monoKraK netlabel (www.monokrak.net)
mastering by Pheek (audioservices.studio)
