“Tick tock tick. Time trickles away softly and time flows off hard, steadfast as ever. Time travel might make you dream off but you cannot stop time or turn back, even if that is your dearest wish. The hourglass is running, at that steady pass, water is flowing, an ongoing stream, and everything we do or did is in the past. Time is ticking and will not stop, not for anyone, not ever …”

Unlike on his debut EP on Mahorka – a trip through abstract territories, blending dissonants and rough waves of emotion rumbling, here on this 9 track album Brainquake explores common songstructures and sounds. Overtones, dissonants and layers still provide that emotional layer but with a softness uncommon for his works. There is even some optimism in the sound palette and melodies? In sound it kind of reminds of those great 90’s electronica/ambient/idm albums we all grew up with but adding that minimal touch and rhythms and some more contemporary production. As a whole this album evolves presenting a changing approach to a constant, common sequence. Variations on a theme but quite diverse. All tracks are at 110 beats per minute and as the ongoing sequence flows on, it showcases the different interplay of underlays and thrifty build up.

As most albums this one is best listened to in full but that doesn’t minimalize the vigour of the compositions by themselves. Take your time and use the strength of repetition. Sleep, snooze, listen, dance to it, it’s ambient, idm, experimental, leftfield, pop and endzeit emotronica as much as it is not.

released October 25, 2020

All tracks composed 2018-2020, compiled and recorded for Mahorka, autumn 2020 by Marc Ceulemans at Hemel Centraal (Belgium)

Cover artwork by Marc Ceulemans

More than four years ago, in 2016, Mahorka released the Eastern Depths Vol.3 compilation, that took us on a dark and trippy electronica adventure through a good part of the deepest depths of the Bulgarian underground electronic music scene. And now, in 2020, EASTERN DEPTHS IV is unleashed onto the world!

This new edition is more omnipresent than ever, presenting most of the active, many iconic Bulgarian electronic producers with tracks exclusively produced/selected for this mesmerizing sonic experience, featuring SuB, Mr.SMiFF, RoboKnob, Markov, U-stók, Hypnos, Scav, Autonomaton, NIANDRAZ & XI-N, Second Body, Cyberian, Dayin, Ivan Shopov, Protuberance, Recidivist, Virtually J, E23N42SF, MBA, MO. (remixed by Second Body), Trohi, Kliment, Erased Memories (remixed by Cinnamint), Mloski, Kanz, Polygon Ring, The Science, Shamanez, Goro, BHE, Warm Aquarelle, Esem.

Released September 20, 2020

Compiled and executed by: Stanislav Genadiev, Ivelin Iliev, Ivo Petrov

Final mastering touches by: Stanislav Genadiev

Artwork by Angel Draganov
using photography by Iavor Kolev