Emika: DVA

Ninja Tune announced this week Emika's new album [ZEN199]. June 10th 2013 is the date and the formats will be LP, CD and digital.

The 16 track album can already be previewed on the label's site, and I'm sure fans will be delighted and impatient after visiting it. It appears to me as a more serious and mature sound and, by injecting her usual high bass dose (which never ends on an overdose) Emika shows us again her total control on sounds, mixing at her will synthetic and organic resources to captive listeners on every track.

There's also a free track available to download on the album micro-site (after a quick sign-up)...

One on the top of my to-attend-before-is-too-late shows list!!!

" Emika's forthcoming sophomore album, Dva, is a return to the music of her roots, a triumph of keenly felt and brilliantly expressed reflections of oppression and freedom, be it political, sexual or artistic. Dva is an exploration of self-expression and sound, taking dark dub pop, sound design inspirations and melding them with classical music of her upbringing, taking Emika's production a giant step forward. "

LIBER 1 – METEMPSYCHOSIS by The Hermit

Label. Broque
Artists. The Hermit
Title. Liber 1 – Metempsychosis
Format. Digital
Cat.Number. broque 088
Release Date. February 1st, 2013
Distributor. Beatport
Domain. http://www.broque.de/



It's been a very long time since I listened to such an original music. It reminds me the kind of sounds that hooked me to electronics for life. Some kind of evolution of that music we didn't know how to name two decades ago and nobody dares to classify into a single style nowadays...

I could not find many information about The Hermit, but it's obvious there's a deep work and a very special musician under this name. This release will see the light on February on Broque and this is the presentation letter I've received (thanks to Dina, Philipp and their team):

" The Hermit is Broque’s latest discovery, and is immersed in a fairly mystical aura, what extends as well to his new EP „Liber 1 – Metempsychosis“. As his music suggests, he is far from being a no-name and can look back already to a long and productive history in the Munich techno scene of the 90s. But for now, his past shall remain as mysterious as his music. After an extensive creative break throughout the past years, his recent EP marks not only a fresh start but also a complete turning point where everything that matters lies in the future, not in the past. “Liber 1” is filled with symbolism and transcendental references, most notably to occultism, kabbalah occultism and one of its most prominent masters, Aleister Crowley. At the same time it opens up a whole new musical microcosm formed out of dub, glitches, electronica and polyrhythmic hip hop. What sounds like an adventurous and mind-blowing combination of Adrian Sherwood, Autechre und King Tubby in fact surprises the listener with every single track. Still, the EP features a charming pop appeal, not least induced by a range of vocalists who bring in some indigenous grounding again. Each and every track tells its very own unfathomable yet engaging story and keeps revealing entirely new facets and storylines continuously. Luckily these stories did not come to an ending yet and we already are looking forward very much to their continuation as part of the upcoming “Liber 2 EP”. "

Jeremy Saunders: Lynched

It appears to me a very special energy combination when a special artist tries to make a tribute to a very special artist. It's important for me to see how the artist gets the tributed artist's essence and how that's reflected and offered to the rest of the mortals.

In this case, Jeremy Saunders, has made an amazing capture in my opinion. He's released a book with designs inspired by the full-length works of David Lynch, including two additional designs created especially for this pack: Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Industrial Symphony #1, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Mulholland Dr., and Inland Empire.

This edition is limited to only 100 copies worldwide and each is numbered and signed by the artist.

Great piece for collectionists.

BMB are back: Where Pail Limbs Lie

We all were waiting for this news from the first moment we heard this two techno legends decided to close their common project back in 2006, initially, in a deffinitive way. It was at the end of summer, when even the most stubborn had started to admit we could not see another release signed by BMB, that they announced they were working in some new stuff. Great news!

BMB's new single is titled "Where Pail Limbs Lie" and has been released by Mute's sub-label, Liberation Technologies. This two track EP proofs this duo maintain their own essence when working together. I love to see BMB's sound is back for all the techno heads, and I feel this is like some important part of techno history.

ADAM X: Navigational Shortcut

One of my favourite labels has released this month a two tracker EP produced by its owner, Adam X. Two weeks ago, the digital version saw hte light while the 12" is coming out next week. I think this is the label's fifth release this year.

A year where classic sounds are becoming futuristic and this is a good proof of it. Both, Sonic Groove and Adam X are an important part of techno history from the very early 90's until today, that's a matter of fact.

This two tracks are a very good representation of Sonic Groove's main style during the last years. Both are pure techno stuff, where the beats and rythmic elements are enough to put an enormous amount of pressure that could blow anyone's mind out in the dancefloor.

Stroboscopic Artefacts: Bundle SA001 to SA015

Almost two months with no entry... this is too much. But I'd need 30 hrs a day to keep posting weekly (as I would like to do) about dark artistic expressions...

Anyway, I think this is a good reason to stop by and leave leave a little message in my personal "time capsule". I think StroboscopicArtefacts deserves this and much more, so let me show my love to this great label.

Mr. Mortellaro is making it again: you can now buy the whole 15 references SA catalogue a very reasonable price. In my case, I already have all of them except the last one but, hey! if you still didn't let the most hard working techno bee sting you, go and do it... well, if you didn't let it happen yey, maybe you won't understand what I want to mean with that phrase...

Artists like Xhin, Jonas Kopp, Perc, Dadub, Tommy Four Seven, James Ruskin, (shall I continue???) are already part of this particular swarm... pure class darkness with an always well dosed dub flavour. A cult label in my honest opinion with several projects going on (SA, Monad, Stellate,, etc)... 

It's nice to see people focused on a project, believe in it, do their thing professionally without making too much noise... Full respect and Strobolove!!!

Momentvm Records

It's been too long since my last entry in the blog but summer activity and some other private circumstances didn't left time enough to spend in here... But good techno and dark stuff keeps coming out so I still want to reflect all those inspirational slices in my little dark board book.

It's been a long time too since I met Mr. Wouter de Witte the owner of Momentvm Records. Momentvm is a Dutch digital techno label serving fresh dancefloor stuff since February 2012. So it was a pleasure for me when he asked me to record a miniset for his monthly podcast. I included on the recording Wouter's extraordinary remix of Nomad Spectrum's "Colour of Granite". This is the rest of the tracklist of my set, feel free to listen to the full show because Wouter's sets are always pure fun:

01.- Amon Tobin – Piece Of Paper (Extra Interpretation By Matthew Bourne & Sam Hobbs) [Ninja Tune] 

02.- Unam Zetineb - Transmissions [CRS] 

03.- Mike Dehnert – Umlaut2 [CBS] 

04.- Patrick Krieger - Beyond [GYNOID] 

05.- Ø [Phase] ‎– Binary Opposition (Ben Klock Process) [Token] 

06.- Nomad Spectrum - Colour of Granite (Wouter de Witte remix) [Momentvm Records] 

07.- Roman Lindau - Under Pressure [Fachwerk] 

08.- Perc – Kater [Stroboscopic Artefacts] 

09.- The Hundred In The Hands ‎– Red Night [WARP] 

10.- Trus'me ‎– In The Red [Fat City] 

11.- Brendon Moeller - Shuttle To Oblivion [Electric Deluxe] 

12.- Brendon Moeller - Adjust To The Fading Light (Ben Klock 'Just In Time' Remix)[Electric Deluxe] 

13.- 2562 - Narita [Tectonic] 

14.- Martyn ‎– Seventy Four (Redshape Mix) [3024] 

15.- Monoloc & Pfirter ‎– Session 3 [CLR] 

16.- The Subliminal Kid - That's A Lot Of Bait (Delta Funktionen's Dark Funk Mix) [Ann Aimee] 

17.- Donato Dozzy & DJ Say - Tutto Negativo [Mental Groove Records] 

18.- Deep's Edayar - Thiza [Ballistic]