On the occasion of the publication of her book “Los Sonidos del Éter” (“The Sounds of the Ether”), the artist Sandriuska Theremin releases a brief composition, just over four minutes long, paying sonic homage to this invention that originated electronic music and founded the alliance between music and sound throughout the 20th century.
A notable interpreter of the Theremin, Sandriuska offers us a small symphony of a gothic character, where a melodic phrase in a minor key produced by synthesizer glides progressively along with sonic oscillations from the Theremin, together capturing an atmosphere between the spectral and the dramatic, with ancestry and undulatory climates that evoke images of Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, with all the weight of its wars, confrontations, and the aesthetic urgencies of avant-garde art. This theme could have been the soundtrack of some German expressionist film, I am thinking specifically of “The Golem” by Paul Muni, or as a backdrop for the novels of the Austrian Gustav Meyrink, the last great European master of Gothic literature.
While Sandriuska offers a tribute to the Theremin that was already reflected in part through her book “Los Sonidos del Éter” (Marciano Ediciones, 2020), the novelty of this composition is that it does not create a historicist narrative or documentary demarcation: this work also alludes to the pop music movements that have used electronic instruments to support their styles, creations, and aesthetics since the 1960s. Hence, perhaps we are in the presence of a musical aftertaste from the early days of the German artists Tangerine Dream, or the dark pop of bands like England’s Bauhaus, or even smart techno groups like the English Cabaret Voltaire. In short, this homage dedicates its tribute to an era that began in 1920s and that continues on into the present century. Indeed, a hundred years after the appearance of the Theremin, this instrument still builds worlds and dimensions that liberate perception and lead us to a cosmic trance where magic, mind and body come together in a physical and spiritual communion that only music, and in this case electronic music, can create and provoke with its invocation of mystery.
A beautiful work by this artist who as a composer still has much more to offer.
Fabio Salas Zúñiga
Writer
(Santiago, March, 2021)
Thierry Arnal, musician/composer/remixer based in Lyon, France, is an artist of several aliases and began his journey into music in 2006 and has released quite a few albums and EPs since, as well as a movie soundtrack, under the project names fragment., AMANTRA, SEPL, THA, 2W on various labels around the world, such as Justin Broadrick’s label Avalanche Recordings, Ohm Resistance, KVITNU, M-TRONIC, Thisco Records, Pharmafabrick and others. The SEPL (short for SCORCHED EARTH POLICY LAB) adventure started in 2018 in the need to experiment in new territories.
In March 2021 SEPL debuts on Mahorka with the specially prepared for the label “QUASAR_VARIATION”, a recording directly connected to and based on the compounds of his previously self-released “QUASAR” 4 track collection of virtual electronic instruments improvisation recordings..
released March 13, 2021
“It’s all about physical perception.”
Pragmat018
Markus Masuhr – Structures of Emptiness
The Release is free as always, but you can pay what you want to support my Label!!!
This 11 track album takes you on a journey into the emptiness of the structures of endless loops and deep hypnonic patterns. Dystopian drone and surface elements condense the apparently empty structures into a dense whole and let you down into the deep uneasy soul of the sound.
Tracklist:
01.disclosure
02.revelation
03.knowledge
04.realization
05.contemplate
06.expound
07.different
08.regular
09.unrelieved
10.meridian
11.completion
Structures of Emptiness
Pragmat018
Mastering and Design by Markus Masuhr
Oriondrive combine generative music and voices, exploring what can be called organic and artificial. The only “human” involvement with creation here were mixing and effects, all other material(s), including cover artwork and texts, were generated using AI technologies.
Tones, Python Coding, Generative Atmospheres: Thomas Park
Generative Voices, Effects, Intentions, Mixing, Mastering: Linn Friberg
Samples in “Positive Self-Esteem” and “Healthy Growth”: Chris DeBry
released March 3, 2021
Todos los temas tocados y compuestos por Diego Funes en el tiempo llamado cuarentena, en home estudio Ra, Salsipuedes, Cordoba 2020, Argentina.
Diseño de tapa: Pau Lee (www.instagram.com/sheispaulee/)
Julio Kaegi, trompeta en DooM y El cielo en la tierra. Silvia Marco, coros en DooM.
Federico Disandro mezcla, producción y masterización en los temas Miller, DooM y El cielo en la tierra. Estudios 3db; Noviembre del 2020, Barcelona España.
En Rew se uso extracto de la obra “Onírico” del colectivo sonoro PH, Cordoba Argentina.
Mas&Delayer – Renaissance
NYB/EXT 029
01_Remind (Open)
02_Goofy
03_They said mix
04_Taccitua RMX (feat Microspore e Bud Lee)
05_SeeSide
06_More Love
07_Business M
08_NevaFoGiva (Close)
Mix e master By Angelino Bassound (TypeKonnection).
Cover art: Cristina Cammarata
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Instagram: @crsn_visual
Noisybeat Extended 029
www.noisybeat.altervista.org
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released March 2, 2021
The Electric Home is dedicated to LaGrande, USA which as far back as 1912, had homes using electric powered heating and lighting.
After the success of our previous co-op releases, here is the latest work from both 4T Thieves and Pandacetamol. Tracks and credits:
Produced by 4T Thieves: Cellotron Surprise, Equinoxious, Polished Metal, The Edison Complex, Waterfall. Sound design by Pandacetamol
Produced by Pandacetamol: Automated Systems Breach, Hot Fusebox, The Electric Home, The Hertz Lounge, Virtual Vistas, Wooden Nightmares. Sound design by 4T Thieves
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released March 5, 2021
released March 6, 2021
Music by csum and Optionica
One Twenty Twenty One is a single, continuous, audio suite featuring the following sections:
1 Taking Out The Wash
2 With Charity For All
3 Saint Madison Pray For Us
4 How Sweet
5 Rock Stars And Stripes Forever
6 For You And Me
7 The Flickering Beacon
8 We Stand For US
9 Imperfect Union
The Process:
On January 20th, 2021, C. Goff III interacted with the inauguration ceremony for American President Joseph R. Biden through a live electronic audio improvisation. As the ceremony aired through a portable radio in the Kansas City, Kansas, Taped Rugs studio, Goff reacted by creating an interpretive soundscape. This hour-long performance was taped on, and later mixed down from, a Tascam 424MKIII 4-Track Cassette Recorder.
Goff later edited out several portions of the hour-long improvisation, creating Sections 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 of “One Twenty Twenty One.” No effects nor overdubs were added to these edits.
Instrumentation:
Korg R3 Vocoder/Synthesizer, Korg Z1 Synthesizer, Micro Moog Analog Synthesizer, Billiard Man The Theremin, Voice, Ibanez DM 1000 Digital Delay, Boss RC 20X Loop Station Loop Duplicator
Several days after the inauguration ceremony, Goff reshaped brief edits from a recording of the ceremony’s radio broadcast to create Sections 2, 4, 6, and 8 of “One Twenty Twenty One.” Included in these sections are vocalizations from Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Garth Brooks, Amanda Gorman, and Leo J. O’Donovan III.
Computer Software:
Cool Edit Pro II, Audacity, Midisoft MIDI Scorewriter, Windows Media Player, Roxio 2011 Sound Recorder, Several Plug-In Audio Sound Effects
Goff mixed together the various edited sections to form the unified recording of “One Twenty Twenty One” on February 20th, 2021.
There is no officially authorized interpretation of this work.
Eterna – Organix EP
Insectorama 098
Welcome Eterna to insectorama with his incredibly relaxed track “Organix”. The perfect route for a red sunset in spring. Ekodust (Brian Pasmore) and Markus Masuhr each made a remix for the track and thus expanded the dense, deep atmosphere of this track. At the end there is also Ekodust’s track “Magnetic Drift”, which puts you in the effect of floating particles and the echoes make you forget space and time.
Tracklist:
1. Eterna – Organix
2. Eterna – Organix (Ekodust Remix)
3. Ekodust – Magnetic Drift
4. Eterna – Organix (Markus Masuhr Reinterpretation)
track 1-3 mastering by Wayne @ Obsessed Audio
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track 4 mastering by Markus Masuhr
design by Markus Masuhr
You lose yourself in a cloud of particles the other time.
You dive deeper into the unknown of being.
at night they come and take it with you.
in a way that was unknown to you, and you find yourself
in a state of perfect heat.
The silence that surrounds you.
There is no silence, there is the sound of the
heat under your skin. This is the poim.
1.redundaent – forgotten feelings
2.markus masuhr – trikitak
3.jonsson toll – svenka
4.patch#2 – indistinct
5.elizar brickmann – weather dub
6.substak – dubwize
7.audub – dub7
8.sensitiv – communication has been lost
9.img_02 – strength
10.triames – 43.252986,-2.946267
Adrià Duch is back on insectorama. After his track on the echoes compilation part 2 we present his new ep “Free Future”. Adrià takes you on his journey and dives into the vastness of dubtechno on 3 tracks. 3 warm deep tracks perfect for the cold season and to relax in the difficult time.
credits
Insectorama095
all tracks by Adrià Duch
mastering and design by Markus Masuhr
Long time ago, in the relatively small Black Sea coastal city of Varna, Julian Kalchev a.k.a. Virtually J became a kind of local pioneer and an inspiration for a whole generation, being the first to explore ways to compose and produce electronic music programmed, edited, played on a PC. He’s been important part of the scene since then, contributing, for example, to the essential VA series “Kokaku” on Jisatsuken. With his last LP released 20 years ago (yes, in 2001) and after having him contribute an outstanding remix for Autonomaton’s latest EP and a killer track on the “Eastern Depths IV” compilation last year, we are really excited to announce the release of his new album “Autocracy Mage” on Mahorka.
released February 28, 2021
Essentia Sound comes here with his new 6 track album and presents timeless beautiful dubtechno. Essentia Sound is from Vancouver and I am very happy to present his new album here. relax, lean back and enjoy this dubtechno journey from the other end of the world.
all tracks by Essentia Sound
Mastering + Design by Markus Masuhr
Insectorama094
The Process:
1) Isolated in their individual recording studios, each artist separately recorded several hours of improvised material.
2) From late January through early February, 2021, Goff performed a number of machinations to these recordings: splitting them apart, mixing pieces together, altering pitches, rhythms, timbres, tambors, etc. In some cases, MIDI and other computer programs were used to change the original recorded bits so dramatically that their antecedents became completely unrecognizable.
The Tools:
Goff:
Korg R3 Vocoder/Synthesizer, Korg Z1 Synthesizer, Billiard Man The Theremin, Five Below Modified Sound Generator, Boss RC 20X Loop Station Loop Duplicator, Cool Edit Pro II, Audacity, Midisoft MIDI Scorewriter, Windows Media Player, Roxio 2011 Sound Recorder, Several Plug-In Audio Sound Effects, Amazing MIDI Wave-To-MIDI, Polysoft MIDI to Mp3 Converter
LaGrega:
Korg 01R/W, Oberheim Xpander, Moog Matriarch, Alesis Andromeda, Kawai K5000W, Roland JD-800, Yamaha SY77, Arturia Emulator II VST, Omnisphere VST, E-MU PX-7 Command Station, Boss DR-880 Drum Machine, Martin OMC-18 Acoustic Guitar, Fourness Electric Violin
The necrophile hummingbird netlabel and HAMFUGGI Records present We Are The Intermorphs by rADio eNd, a tribute to John C. Lilly.
“Synchronicity Music for Related People”.
About the surface of the album :
Despite being release after Genesis Launch & Sound therapy this is the first album of rADio eNd, so you may think the goal was to design the sound of the project but it’s the opposite it’s because this sound was not fitting with any previous project that rADio eNd is born. That’s why there is no real influences despite perhaps it’s rooted to many previous netlabel’s projects with recent albums such as Junk DNA III or Shagreen Tape… or older ones like Hibakusha Jinx or Zvezda MIX.
Perhaps you can skin it out and find industrial Method, Trip Hop Rhythms, Avant Garde Turntablism… But you shall better turn off your reason, to walk with coincidences and take it as weird psychedelic trip.
About the depths of this album :
A dive into consciousness, including pressure stops with high risks of depths intoxication.
Light is such a mesmerising essence when it is watch from the abyss.
Featuring :
Amandine Prost on track 2
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ardleg on track 10
ardleg.bandcamp.com/
Studio 112 on tracks 1 & 8
studio112.bandcamp.com
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Free Download in Wav & Flac also here with an alternate version of 9 Conditions.
yoshiwaku.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-the-intermorphs
rADio eNd is a process more than a simple musical project…
More informations about rADio eNd on the official page
horsnorme.org/rADio_eNd/rADio_eNd_english.html
The idea to do a tribute to John C. Lilly came from Studio 112.
Thanks a lot to the providers of the genium’s sources.
In loving memory of Peter & Lizzie and all the dolphins sacrifice in John C. Lilly experiments.
We hope this album will help to focus on the animal rights problems.
We are responsable of our choices.
We think one fine way to change the world is to be aware of the power of our acts.
There is no life without Consciousness.
Lilly also wrote that there are nine conditions that should be followed by people who seek to experience coincidence in their own lives:
You must know/assume/simulate our existence in E.C.C.O.
You must be willing to accept our responsibility for control of your coincidences.
You must exert your best capabilities for your survival programs and your own development as an advancing/advanced member of E.C.C.O.’s earthside corps of controlled coincidence workers. You are expected to use your best intelligence in this service.
You are expected to expect the unexpected every minute, every hour of every day and of every night.
You must be able to maintain conscious/thinking/reasoning no matter what events we arrange to happen to you. Some of these events will seem cataclysmic/catastrophic/overwhelming: remember stay aware, no matter what happens/apparently happens to you.
You are in our training program for life: there is no escape from it. We (not you) control the long-term coincidences; you (not we) control the shorter-term coincidences by your own efforts.
Your major mission on earth is to discover/create that which we do to control the long-term coincidence patterns: you are being trained on Earth to do this job.
When your mission on planet Earth is completed, you will no longer be required to remain/return there.
Remember the motto passed to us (from G.C.C. via S.S.C.U.): “Cosmic Love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/dislike them or not.
Also Go With It or Never Walk was create first for Field Mice ESVB Vol. 3 Tape was not planned to be in the album, but after many listen seems it’s better to include it. radiomulot.bandcamp.com/
Why dNe oiDAr ?
First we planned to create this tribute with PIRATE Tapes…
But after listening the album it was obviously more sounding like the mutant child of TKno BeurK and A Symbiotic Experience.
What about rADio eNd ?
While I wrote this I’ve got an advertissement for nasty amazon music service on my phonecell. It was tricky to share our free music after the record compagnies did their best to erase the peer2peer softwares. It was more tricky after deezer and spotify make hardly possible to the free music to be available to their listeners. Could sound weird but they keep them jail in a bubble ^^. The example of Netflix for films and series in my opinion was not that much a problem because cinema need bigger funds than music and hollywood is not doing cinema but entertrainement, so I enjoy the idea that indie directors can create films with more freedom. But for the music I can’t imagine a world where nearly all the audience is lockdown on amazon music. First because each one do not need all the music of the world, indeed a simple real radio could be more enjoyable than tones of garbage muzak. And more accurate to the actual use of music. Halas they probably have got already an algorhythm to get your own radio based on your own tastes, including the possibility to enlarge that tastes… So the eNd for the muzik as we know it ? Perhaps it’s like organic versus industrial, few listeners understand that the vibe, energie, spirit of the music include by some way our being, if someone create some music to share it free whatever how it sounds it will never feed your soul the same way than the music create to make profit. So happy to bring you this very open project.
You may notice that the name of this project is in straight line of post situationist industrial culture detournement. Obviously a name squatting of Radiohead. Copythief Attitude. This music is free, usually in the capitalist system this would be consider for most of the listeners as something without value. Junk. Indeed it’s the opposite, actually in this upside down world nothing is more valuable than anything really free. Take Care to Keep the Free Culture Alive. Let’s share.
Video Art Clips here www.bitchute.com/channel/mixuptv/
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Daryl Robinson aimed for that 90’s to early 2000’s IDM sound. Solemn Grandeur marks his first solo release as material of commendable style and character. Expect a journey through sweeping pads, glitched beat patterns and melodies saturated in fragile beauty.
released February 23, 2021
All tracks produced by Daryl Robinson
Mastering by Matt Colton
Artwork by moiCflo
If unconventional 2020 had a soundtrack, this album would be a perfect match. Passeio no Parque sounds like a lighthearted invitation made out of levity, but the 15 songs that the album entails, share the same exasperated sound that leaves little or no room for casual.
With an extremely visual hearing, it strikes all five senses. As the first note hits, we are engulfed by the feeling that we are standing on the precipice of something extraordinary. As if a cinematic filter was applied to our daily lives, adding a profound meaning to the most common situation.
Cheat Code: we recommend listening to it with your eyes closed and following – without hesitation – the tour to another dimension that insists on giving us.
