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DRONE 027LP
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$35.50
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RELEASE DATE: 6/6/2025
Death In Vegas returns with new album Death Mask, where disintegration, overload and total sonic immersion tell a personal tale. With dirty circuitry and rough-hewn textures at the fore, this is gritty, unpolished techno; an audio outlier that's full of personality, and a bold artistic statement. It's closer in DNA to the grainy growl of sunn O))), or the searing intensity of Underground Resistance at their fiercest, and as far from generic influencer business as you could possibly get. "I've been soaking in Ramleh's 'Hole In the Heart', the machine funk of Terrence Dixon's Population One, Jamal Moss' psychedelic techno jams, the stunning minimalism of Mika Vanio's Ø and Panasonic, the layered drones of LOOP, and drowning in the acid of TM 404." Broader inspirations are weaved into the album's fabric too; from his Thameside Metal Box studio and evocations of nautical ghosts, to lamentations for a broken world, to memories of a youthful Detroit pilgrimage, and the innocent fraternity of rave euphoria, there's a lot going on, acting as a chronicle of moments, and locations.
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DRONE 026EP
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A total sonic violation yet bewitchingly beautiful, "While My Machines Gently Weep" sits on the precipice of overload, with Orwellian echoes of humanity's ugliness. "Acid Rejects Volume 1" is a minimal sonic ritual which transcends into a sublime 303 and 909 duel. Pressed on a limited 12" with the Acid Rejects Vol 1. as a vinyl exclusive. Mastered by Rashad Becker. Released on Drone.
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Death In Vegas return with the single Honey, its second collaboration with Sasha Grey. "Honey" is a slow, seductive serenade, with an organic, psychedelic tone: dreamy and dripping with intensity. The B side features "Witchdance Dub", Richard Fearless's long-held remix of "Witchdance" off Trans-Love Energies (2011), featuring the haunting vocals of Katie Stelmanis from Austra. Fearless cut three dubplates of "Witchdance Dub" after he mixed this track. DJ Harvey has one, Prosumer the other, and Fearless kept the third: delicate acetates that have been played out sparingly but with electric effect.
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Following Death in Vegas's Transmission (DRONE 007CD/LP, 2016), are three unique remixes by Silent Servant and Rudolf Klorzeiger. Silent Servant delivers two stunning mixes of "You Disco I Freak": In the first, he elevates the discordant melody and adds a sense of menace with a new sequence. With his second version, he takes the heat up a notch with a brutal workout. Rudolf Klorzeiger chooses to "reproduce" "Metal Box", keeping certain elements of the original field recordings; the sounds of a steel factory, the incessant drones of planes landing, and dial tones, all layered over with his own sonic tapestry.
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DRONE 009EP
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United over a love of Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey, Richard Fearless partners with artist and writer Sasha Grey on Consequences Of Love, the second single from Death In Vegas's album, Transmission (DRONE 007CD/LP, 2016). Consequences Of Love includes a remix by iconic electronic pioneers Chris & Cosey. "After listening to the stems we could sense a kind of 'October (Love Song)' vibe in there so - so that's kind of what we aimed for. We really enjoyed doing it. There was lots of dancing around the studio while we worked on it." -- Chris Carter.
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DRONE 007LP
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Gatefold 3LP version on 180 gram vinyl. Includes download code. Death in Vegas returns with Transmission, the sixth release from the project begun by Richard Fearless nearly two decades ago. This album forges new miles on the path Fearless carved with Satan's Circus and Trans-Love Energies, and is born of his desire for an ever more raw, refined sound. United over a love of Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey, Fearless partners with artist and writer Sasha Grey, whose lyrics resonate across the soundscape of visceral techno and unsettling, discordant drones, weaving into a state of dreamlike euphoria. Field recordings of the constant drone of air traffic and incessant noise from the steel factory opposite Fearless' Metal Box studio, as well as the Ballardian landscape in which it's set, all exert their pull on the record, searching for light in the dark.
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Death in Vegas returns with Transmission, the sixth release from the project begun by Richard Fearless nearly two decades ago. This album forges new miles on the path Fearless carved with Satan's Circus and Trans-Love Energies, and is born of his desire for an ever more raw, refined sound. United over a love of Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey, Fearless partners with artist and writer Sasha Grey, whose lyrics resonate across the soundscape of visceral techno and unsettling, discordant drones, weaving into a state of dreamlike euphoria. Field recordings of the constant drone of air traffic and incessant noise from the steel factory opposite Fearless' Metal Box studio, as well as the Ballardian landscape in which it's set, all exert their pull on the record, searching for light in the dark.
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