Berlin Atonal is a Pandora’s box, bringing forth a wide array of expectations before it was even open. We were fortunate enough to attend the festival in Berlin Mitte and witness at first hand cutting-edge performances. Here’s our day-by-day report.
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Premiere: Sad City – Smoke
Gary Caruth’s debut solo album as Sad City, released on July 29th via Emotional Response and Meda Fury, makes for a particularly enticing journey into the producer’s elegiac post-urban universe, allowing his supple blends of ambient and breathable electronica to fully develop. Stream the brightly-hued ‘Smoke’ within.
Premiere: Pjoni – VVR Asylum
Exploring the fringes of listening ease and audio curves, Pjoni’s ‘Liminal Zones’ dares going in places few want to investigate nowadays. Don’t expect a proper rhythm, no groove, no mellifluous harmony. Stream the arrythmic ‘VVR Asylum’ in full within.
Unsound Toronto x Luminato Festival
A wave of furious, dusted-up and dishevelled splendour that came over the Hearn Generating Station in Toronto on the weekend June 10th – as the venerable festival institution Unsound was invited to curate two days worth of programming at a venue that came off as a vast, dystopian wonderland.
Bugaev: Sonm
Somn feels altogether more complete – building on Bugaev’s previous work with comprehensive excursions that nestle somewhere neatly between the peaceful and the compelling.
Premiere: Isorinne ‘Closing Window To The East’
After closing out Field Records excellent trilogy of EPs at the beginning of the year, D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. member Michel Isorinne makes a debut appearance on Armenian label Yerevan Tapes. Stream his new track ‘Closing Window To The East’.
Field Records ready dark ambient album from IORI
With the conclusion of their EP trilogy complete, Dutch imprint Field Records have moved back into the long player arena with a release from Japanese born but Berlin-based IORI.
Anthony Child: Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle Vol. 1
Anthony Child has created a record of modular synth experimentations, which resides in a world of sparse arpeggios, deep tone meditation and clashing saw and sine waves.
Steve Hauschildt: Where All Is Fled
“Where All is Fled” is an album that sounds like it has formed from months of intricate work, deep consideration and obsessive tweaking.
Premiere: Moon Zero ‘Expanding Into The Time We Have’
Today we’re premiering Moon Zero’s new track ‘Expanding into the Time We Have’, music more akin to interstellar space travel than the heat of the dance floor.
DJ Richard: Grind
A collection of kinetic electronica on the border between house and techno, its moods and rhythms in constant flux, the product of a mind that churns like the sea…this is narrative techno, and in typical artistic form, the narrative of conflict draws us inexorably towards reconciliation.
DJ Richard talks up “Grind” – his debut album on Dial
We spoke to DJ Richard to discover the finer details behind his debut album ‘Grind’ released next week on Dial. We’re also premiering DJ Richard’s new track ‘Savage Coast’.
Moon Zero to release self-titled album for Denovali Records this September
London based producer and composer Moon Zero, real name Tim Garratt, has announced the release of his debut self-titled album, scheduled for release on 26th September 2015 via Denovali Records.
Dial set to release DJ Richard’s debut album ‘Grind’ in September
Dial have finally announced the release of the White Material co-founder full-length ‘Grind’, scheduled for release on 7th September 2015.
D.A.R.F.D.H.S.: In The Wake Of The Dark Earth
Field Records stellar trilogy of albums gives rise to a potential “of the year” in the form of the exquisite ‘In Wake Of Dark Earth’ from Dard Å Ranj Från Det Hebbershålska Samfundet.
Disasterpeace’s score for David Robert Mitchell’s “It Follows” goes physical
Milan Records will release Disasterpeace’s film score for David Robert Mitchell’s considerably spooky looking horror flick “It Follows” on 180g vinyl.