SHIFTED - Under A Single Banner LR - Bed Of Nails

It’s been a busy couple of years for the producer behind the Shifted project. On top of an extremely well received album for the Mote Evolver label, the producer has edged further out into the fringes of electronic music under a number of aliases, taking in noise/ambient variants as ‘Covered in Sand’, as well as more distorted, technofied productions under the Alexander Lewis moniker, a sound described by the Blackest Ever Black label as “S-M Techno”.
His new album as Shifted, ‘Under a Single Banner’ finds the producer converging these strands into a lucid re- imagining of Techno, starting off from the toughened, purist templates honed down by the likes of Sandwell District and Marcel Dettmann, and stretching out into more textured, sometimes noisy, often introverted and melancholy signatures.
It’s a perfect fit for Bed of Nails, a label that’s given a platform for the more direct dance-floor mutations of Dominick Fernow’s own productions as Vatican Shadow, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement and Christian Cosmos, as well as familiar Hospital Productions affiliates such as Kris Lapke under the ‘Bronze Age’ guise.
There’s a rich and earthy warmth to ‘Under a Single Banner’ that’s perhaps at odds with the puerile fixation on all things noisey at the fringes of Techno these days, but for the most part, the tension and momentum keeps the album definitively aimed at the floor without ever resting on its laurels.


Tracklist:

01. Core Of Stone
02. Chrome, Canopy & Bursting Heart
03. Suspended Inside
04. Under A Single Banner
05. Burning Tyres
06. Pulse Incomplete
07. Contract 0
08. Story Of Aurea
09. Wash Over Me

SANDWELL DISTRICT - Fabric 69 - Fabric Records

Sandwell District sono responsabili dell' aver compilato il nuovo Fabric 69 e di aver destabilizzato e disarmato  tutte le strutture che imbavagliano la libera espressione musicale da più di dieci anni.
Regis e Function hanno svolto un ruolo fondamentale per ampliare il legame tra i principi dell'elettrocnica e il post punk con la moderna scena techno dando vita ad un progetto che si identifica in un suono, in una label e in un percorso artistico.
Sandwell District significa questo e questo mix lo dimostra; un vero e proprio manufatto, un segno della loro presenza, della loro esistenza distorta, un tesoro ed un patrimonio appartenente alla scena techno moderna.

FUNCTION - Incubation - Ostgut Ton

 

Il discepolo della famiglia Sandwell District David Sumner aka Function, annuncia l'uscita del suo album di debutto "Incubation" su Ostgut Ton.

Colonna sonora di un thriller Techno, racconto retro futurista di un viaggio moderno attraverso stati d'animo ricchi di suspance e pieni di temperamento musicale.
Una spirale di toni caldi ed arpeggi di synth, apre dimensioni alternative dove pattern di batteria prendono forma, dove il basso modulante spinge in avanti verso precise caratteristiche Techno, dove i suoni acidi e metallici esaltano la tensione.