Developer - Climate (by justeltech)
M_Rec Ltd 12 – Aiken - Balance
A1: First Balance (Original)
A2: Second Balance (Original)
B1: Second Balance (Regis Remix)
B2: Third Balance (Original Remix)
Release date: Monday 25 June 2012 (Vinyl)
The roots of proper Detroit techno are wrapped all around this new M_REC Ltd. release.
Madrid-based producer Aikan drops three new tracks on this 12”: ‘First Balance’ is basically a subdued dancefloor anthem, structured to surprise. There’s melody, kick and experimentation, delivering in every sense. ‘Second balance’ pays tribute to those hypnotic melodies that we all recognize as techno staples.
On the flip side, Regis (undoubtedly one of the most relevant techno acts of the last 20 years) re-interprets ‘Second Balance’ boosting its most sinister side, playfully manipulating industrial and acid elements. What comes out is an exciting, but contained apocalypse that makes all rooms vibrate. To close the EP, ‘Third Balance’ turns all acid elements to overdrive, celebrating the techno that plays late at night, where layers and layers are interlaced to drive things forward.
Balance is another chapter fitting M_Rec Ltd. idea of techno as a clearly defined school, but with boundaries meant to be pushed in all directions.
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Dominick Fernow might be best known for his industrial incantations under the Prurient moniker, but in recent months his attention has shifted towards a different outlet. Fernow’s interest in electronic music (from the clamorous grind of Muslimgauze to the recently defunct Sandwell District imprint) has been well documented, and it comes to a frothy head with his Vatican Shadow project. Revolving around themes gleaned from Iraq war propaganda and yellowing stacks of newspaper clippings, the tracks on ‘Kneel Before Religious Icons’ are a perfect representation of Fernow’s modus operandi. Behind a wall of tape hiss, drum machine rhythms beat out memories of early Ministry and AFX while sickly FM synthesizer pads crawl and heave into the abyss. Like much of Fernow’s output prior to this, the emphasis is on society’s darker crevices, but Vatican Shadow is steeped in an alarming mystery and sulfuric smoke that is sure to surprise recent converts.
There is a scene slowly rising to the surface with acts such as Demdike Stare, The Haxan Cloak and Raime renewing our interest in the darker side of industrial electronic music, and Fernow has created a sound with Vatican Shadow that acknowledges this while retaining faded and singular. ‘Kneel Before Religious Icons’ is electronic music fished from the troubled depths of militarized suspicion, and all the better for it.
Prologue Portefeuille Podcast 04 - Abdulla Rashim
Not much is known of the mysterious producer Abdulla Rashim. Being situated in Sweden and having released two records in 2011 on his own imprint, Abdulla Rashim Records, Abdulla keeps both his sound and himself below the surface. At least we know this guy is fantatsic and belongs to our Prologue Family.
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Here’s another great Lycaon Podcast. This time, selected and mixed by NX1.
If you like techno…
Tracklist:
- Counterpart - Another world (Intro) - M_Rec LTD 05
- Donor - Remainder - Stroboscopic Artefacts Monad II
- Ben Gibson - Stereoscope - M_Rec LTD 10
- Mika Vainio - Ionit - Sahko 002.5
- Unam Zetineb - Substance - Fluxus Digital 005
- Ness & Rasmus Hedlund - Verso Pohjois (Deepbass Remix) - Informa Records 04
- Scam - Reflex (Ness Lighs Off Remix) - C.R.S. Recordings 19
- Mika Vainio - Kolmas -Sahko 002.5
- Jeroen Search - Region 1 - Figure SPC A16
- Milton Bradley - Minus 126 in Berlin - Do Not Resist The Beat 01
- Jerome Sydenham & Function - Ilusion - Ibadan 1006
- Jeff Mills - Metaphysical Reaction - Axis
- Error Etica - The Saints Of Luxury (Paul Boex Remix) - Psychoskunk Recordings 06
- Radio Transmission - Inferometry - Alpha Signal Records 01
- Samot - 4 Hours to Sleep - M_Rec Digital 305
- Christian Wünch - Seismic Waves - Pole Records 12
- Mike Parker - Pulse Trader - Prologue 24
- Joey Beltram - Energy Flash - R&S Records 926
- Svreca - Vilna (Orphx Remix) - Semantica 33A
- Ness & Rasmus Hedlund - Punto Kokous (Edit Select Remix) - Informa Records 04
- Error Etica - Penincilin (Agony Forces Rework) - Psychoskunk Recordings 06
- D. Carbone - Untitled.1- Repitch 000.1
- Conrad Van Orton & Vilix - Transmission Belt - C.R.S. 16
- Phase - Binary Oposition - Token 20
- Robert Hood - The Family - M Plant
- NX1 - Upcoming
- Agony Forces - Atom Vanguard (Oscar Mulero Remix) - Lycaon 02
