"Mutant slow techno and Kevin Drumm records..." - A thread for Raime, Chasing Voices, Old Apparatus etc.

SR Mix #75: Konx-om-Pax [Display Copy]

http://sonicrouter.blogspot.com/2011/03/sr-mix-75-konx-om-pax-display-copy.html

1. Konx-om-Pax - 7th Dimension (Rustie Remix)
2. Team Brick - Track 3 (Klad Heist)
3. The Human League - Disco Disaster
4. Alexander Robotnick - Ar Stack 2
5. Konx-om-Pax - II
6. Bernard Parmegiani - Échos/mélopée
7. Carl Craig - Sound On Sound
8. Konx-om-Pax - Chevy Chase Mega Looper
9. James Ferraro - Untitled (Clear)
10. SPK - Stammheim Torturkammer
11. Synergy - Terminal Hotel
12. Oneohtrix Point Never - Gates of Sanct Vacui
13. Konx-om-Pax - Glacier Mountain Descent
14. Madhya - Thème Solennel de la Rédemption

The new Andy Stott LP Passed Me By is pretty staggering and fitting for this thread.

http://soundcloud.com/modernlove/sets/andy-stott-passed-me-by

will listen

fennesz / jeck / old apparatus is this friday too, there only a few tickets left

i find it really hard to pin down exactly why a lot of this stuff just makes me blahhhhhh whereas some of it is among my favourite music ever

Andy Stott chatted to us about all this slow business the other day: http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/05/andy-stotts-modern-love/

my raime 12"s have been on backorder at forced exposure for like two months :(

new Emptyset sounds exactly like the quote in thread title. completely insane low-slung sludge techno

http://www.junodownload.com/products/demiurge/1735661-02/?trackid=9

interesting that so much of this stuff is coming from the UK, and outside of London

oh yeah, Chris Carter mix of Perc also goes here

http://soundcloud.com/perc/perc-my-head-is-slowly-2

this dude called Antonym who has worked with Mick Harris and put stuff out on Downwards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imNL_UwwHLE&feature=player_embedded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpRku0nsu8g

Woah, thanks for the heads up on Emptyset.

Some interesting background here... http://bassmusicblog.com/the-return-of-subtext-emptyset-and-vexd-sort

"Emptyset have their new album 'Demiurge' due in a couple of weeks and hopefully we'll get to chat to Ginz about some of the work that went into making it - I know that at one point, they took everything they had made up to that point to an unfinished stately home, played it all though a massive PA, recorded the results through vintage microphones and then mixed that live reverb back into the original tracks, which is slightly more interesting than the usual 'yeah Kev came round with some 808 samples and I put a bassline from Massive over the top'."

Subtext looks like a label to watch:

"Bristol's experimental modern classical label"
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Subtext/124153327659415#!/pages/Subtext/124153327659415?sk=app_178091127385

Empty set are damn good, they did a mix for us a while back too: http://www.sonicrouter.com/2009/11/interview-emptyset-caravan/ more info on what they're about too.

new Emptyset reminds me more of Hecker or Pan Sonic than anything ppl can/would go out and dance to - I do like it but it's ~cold~

everything I've read abt the Andy Stott thing sounds like it's precision-tooled to blow me away, should really go buy it I guess

The Andy Stott thing is good, if bass heavy in a "you must have headphones or a home audio system that gets that deep bass" way. Then again, that's kind of an entry requirement for this thread.

Not too familiar with Emptyset yet, but I get to see them right before Mika Vainio next week. Yesssss.

I put together a compilation inspired by this thread which you can download here: http://bit.ly/lfHGJF

if you can catch old apparatus live/av/dvd/whatevs I strongly suggest you do, shivers down the spine synaesthesia

Holy shit this new Emptyset album. Mencap otm, first thing I thought of was Pan Sonic. The first song (after the intro) sounds like doom metal, the way the kick distorts and delays and reverberates - could be a Southern Lord band! Well, sorta. Anyway, this rules.

Those guys were really cool live, and friendly when I ran into them after their show.

I realized later that telling them that they played a "great set" when their name is Emptyset is kind of silly, but oh well.

The name Emptyset seems a bit silly because Pan Sonic's alias ø means empty set, right?

Yup! I think it's an homage.

Kind of funny that they played right before Mika Vainio at Mutek

aaand I just said that a few posts back. Whoops.

This is kinda mutant...

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/06/introducing-ghosting-season/

Ghosting Seasons are a sort of post-rock/techno project, kinda noisy but with a bright techy sort of pulse. We've got a Spatial remix to give away too which is pretty damn good.

Fits here better than the other dance-ish threads anyway.

Dalglish: http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/06/sr-mix-89-dalglish-highpoint-lowlife/

Fits here a treat.

barnaby, you are awesome

i think the first emptyset album is a lot better than the second

i guess the difference is the first sounds a lot like the quiet, chilly mika vainio of yore whereas to my ears the second is much more "pan sonic"

To be honest, I just picked up the most recent one and not their first. I'll have to do so now.

I love me some pan sonic, though.

me too but i think metri / olenta / tulkinta are sort of next-level compared to the rest of the discography

Visiting London next week - what's a good shop to find these sorts of things? Also, minimal techno in general?

Phonica on Poland Street, Soho, is worth checking out.

Did anyone check out the Boomkat dl - Thanet to Jodrell Bank? Lots of this kinda thing there. Very good.

Thanks Kraudive! Will check it out...kinda hard to get some of this stuff in the states...

There are a lot of record shops in the area - have a wander. Sister Ray on Berwick St and Sounds of The Universe on Broadwick St are both within half a mile of Phonica and are great. 3 of the UK's best record shops within a very short distance.

hey barnaby what kind of file is that? what would i open it with

a lot of the stuff on this thread a little too timid for me. wish it were gloomier. or more dystopian. i did like that last emptyset album since someone mentioned emptyset. emptyset was supposed to be some extreme example of dubstep? or maybe i am confusing them with someone else. i will check this thread from time to time though.

i like justin's stuff in this vein, but i also kinda feel like he can smoke a joint and crank this shit out in his sleep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0mtwEtZlYk&feature=related

maybe i'm just more of a "dark ambient" fan. though i love beats too of course. just feel like the dubstep/avant techno stuff i hear doesn't hit as hard as i'd like it too. if you do like deep dark stuff, this is a great mix:

Xela & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love Is The Beginning
Tholen - Skeletons of Steel
Visions - Summoning the Void
Yui Onodera & Celer - The Street of a Rainy, Gray Day
John Chowning - Phoné
Per Nørgård - Iris
Fire in the Head - I'm Not Here to Coexist, I'm Here to Win
Sky Burial - Chroma Polaris
Jean-Claude Risset - Avel
Blood Box - Mother of Dust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zs5gUor3PI&feature=related

barnaby, you are awesome

― tipper gore (nakhchivan), Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Ha, no problem.

hey barnaby what kind of file is that? what would i open it with

― flopson, Thursday, June 23, 2011

It's just a .zip file, so something free like Stuffit Expander will open those for you.

Visiting London next week - what's a good shop to find these sorts of things? Also, minimal techno in general?

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, June 22, 2011

For the more ambient and/or noisier end of this stuff I would recommend Second Layer Records in Highgate.

Thanks for the recommendations everybody. Will try to hit all four of the ones mentioned.

<3 your posts scott!

I'd agree that there are very few spots where the stuff this thread has kicked off with really gets the dread/noise factor that dark ambient, noise, or even the drone/doom metal stuff does. I think that at points, the Sandwell District/Downwards label stuff goes in that direction, but is still dancefloor-oriented.

Has anyone else listened to the new Andy Stott record? It's right in this vein and I've been listening to it quite a bit.

Love the new Andy Stott.

weird my computer doesnt recognize it as a .zip file & i have unzipped like six .zip/.rar files today wonder whats up

the dark ambient connection w/ this stuff is Lull aka Mike Harris. he has strong ties to the Downwards/Sandwell District crew

but I'm not sure the stuff in this thread is really aiming for the same level of darkness as doom metal or whatever. i think particularly the UK guys are purposely placing themselves in the lineage of old school industrial stuff (in the same way that Panasonic and Porter Ricks and Noto were in the 90s/early 00s). see also the design aesthetic -- bleak imagery, xeroxed fanzine style

that Kevin Gormand Weiland 7" on Downwards is less techno/dub more noise. kinda sounds like early Cabs

this came out last year on Modern Love, I think, quite minimal but sick nonetheless, esp if you're into those Mika Vainio recs that Vahid mentioned upthread

http://youtu.be/xNXtrG4J_B8

http://youtu.be/GQbN1aXoGkY

actually discogs said it came out on Young Americans which is a Modern Love sub label. they put out a dope looking Daphne Oram boxset!

weird my computer doesnt recognize it as a .zip file & i have unzipped like six .zip/.rar files today wonder whats up

Are you on Windows? I couldn't unzip it with the Windows built-in "zip folders" extractor because the directory inside the zip has a " in its name and that's not a valid character in a Windows filename, but Winrar extracted it OK (gave me a bunch of error messages but all the files were there).

Thanks for the mix, Barnaby. Hadn't heard "Acidbathory" before and dug it, had an entertaining morning of listening to all the Mixcloud tracks which included it afterwards too thanks to their artist search thing.

I re-uploaded barnaby's mix in what might be more Windows-friendly form. Hope that's ok, barnaby.

dear mods, if barnaby requests this post be removed, please do so

My, my... I really like all this stuff on paper but I can't tear myself away from the Bear Family Gene Vincent boxed set.

lol "Mike" Harris. Mick

I spend hours convincing myself that I don't need everything on Modern Love and its sublabels, then you have to post that Suum Cuique thing!

thank you!

I re-uploaded barnaby's mix in what might be more Windows-friendly form. Hope that's ok, barnaby.

dear mods, if barnaby requests this post be removed, please do so

― sambal dalek (a passing spacecadet), Friday, June 24, 2011

Thanks very much for doing this!

Loving the first track linked. shit, I fear ILM is making me disappear down rabbitholes again.

https://soundcloud.com/kalligrammofon/death-and-vanilla-vampyr-side

streaming off of that Lescalleet track, another thing that reminds me of "This Foundry"

so, how about this Grebenstein release?
https://boomkat.com/products/stong-proud-stupid-and-superior

I like Grebenstein. I'm not too sure about this new Raime, though, it sounds like a tribute to Photek circa The Hidden Camera. In fact it just makes me want to listen to The Hidden Camera.

i've been loving the raime album so much this winter (after initially dismissing it). play it almost every morning

It's one of those albums where every track sounds the same but in a good way

I loved the EPs & Quarter Turn to distraction, but somehow didn't engage with Tooth. I need to go back to it.

I think I posted this Rorqual album on another thread, but it's probably worth sharing here for it's creeping, oozy ambience with occasional leaden beats.

http://woodbetweenworlds.bandcamp.com/album/sei-ci

It kind of reminds me of the electronic stuff on Sigma Editions (Parmentier and Minit specifically) through a darker lens.

this Contort Yourself label is really cool, lots of bangin industrial techno

https://www.discogs.com/label/770902-Contort-Yourself

i really like this Finding The Floor album by Profligate from a few years back.. moody industrial stuff
https://www.discogs.com/Profligate-Finding-The-Floor/master/787275

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXuvx7fDe0Q

New Kevin Drumm album is also very nice. https://kevindrumm.bandcamp.com/album/october-early-warning

i really want that new contort yourself 80's tape comp! but i can't be buying stuff right now. worth it just for this track alone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLqCqOZkuAw

this tv show on TNT, Good Behavior, keeps using Raime music as ominous soundtrack music and it’s passed cognitive dissonance into nodding to dark grooves

Listening to old Hecate EPs and when she wasn't going 300 bpm breakcore she kinda had a proto-this-thread thing happening. On "The Payback" w/Kareem the track "Medusal" has that clanging drums and dubby reverb thing happening.

man I should read my posts before I click it looks like I know six words

There's a lot of stuff on Kareem's Zhark label worth checking out, actually, if you like crunchy beats, dark ambient or harder industrial techno.

Kinda love this and don’t know where to put it

https://youtu.be/EtFFpznPmbI

Oooh, that's nice. Seems like it fits in here!

So really, does anyone know who Chasing Voices is?

― matt2, Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:13 PM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nick Klein is maybe more beat-y but

https://summerisle.bandcamp.com/album/id-rather-sit-alone

cold vocals and noisy abstract industrial

https://chondriticsound.bandcamp.com/album/embodiment-2

Am I the only one who cares about this?

https://pitchfork.com/news/blackest-ever-black-shuts-down-issues-final-album/

(also, great graphic accompanying the piece)

No reason is given for ending the label, but I guess we can speculate

I had no idea! What a bummer, I loved that label.

That's a shame. They've put out some cracking stuff.

Favourite BEB release anyone?

I'd probably go for the Flaming Tunes album

It'd be Quarter Turns Over A Living Line for me. A beast of a record.

So, farewell then Blackest Ever Black. As the label is no more I thought I'd out the fact I had a secret project on there & released a 10" & an album under the alias Tomorrow The Rain Will Fall Upwards a few years ago. I'm going to make it available as a free download next month.

— Optimo (Espacio) (@JDTwitch) November 21, 2019

Well I'll be darned

xp Quarter Turns was so good. Lately I've been listening to a lot of Carla dal Forno and the most recent Bremen album. And they reissued that Caroline K album a while back. I'm one of the few people who liked Jabu I guess.

And this!

https://blackesteverblack.bandcamp.com/album/sekundenschlaf

I guess BEB slowly morphed into Low Company: https://www.lowcompany.co.uk

The shop is killer and the weekly mailouts are highly recommended.

Very strong output on the house imprint also. Particularly that Brannten Schnüre LP:
https://www.discogs.com/label/1450606-Low-Company

http://alteredtapedstates.bandcamp.com/album/flickering-lyghte-in-campsite