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PM 003LP
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Fever Ray producer Peder Mannerfelt plays into the widest angles of his "power ambient" sound on Daily Routine, a killer study into the way rave music intersects domestic life. The ten tracks range from decade-old productions to hyper new cut-ups of his brother's records, bought in London in summer '88, but all betray an increasing embrace of complexity and layered, asymmetric design that will keep his ever-growing mob of followers fascinated at every turn. The preceding single track "Temporary Psychosis (VIP)" is a definitive highlight, riding the finest line between deadly rave function and pranging unpredictability, while other dance floor highlights come on strong in the pointillist rave puncture of "Sissel & Bass", featuring a killer vocal by Sissel Wincent, and the rabid churn of "This Machine Shares Memes". But that would be to neglect the album's central psychedelic nature and the way it will be used, at home, in prosaic domesticity, where the far-flung and undulating topography of pieces such as the sardonic "Introductions & Aspiration", the darkside creep of "Cigarettes (Eurofierceness Mix)", and the exasperated rave of "How Was Your Day? (Numb)" will likely induce listeners to laugh, bruk out, curl up, and climb the walls in their own personal space. RIYL: Autechre, Marie Davidson, Aphex Twin, Fever Ray. Edition of 300, includes a hand-painted insert made by Peder and his kids.
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LZYTPS 003EP
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Cera Khin's Lazy Tapes unleashes a 12" from Peder Mannerfelt. "Shining Beacons Of Light" works a flexible-contortion of rhythmic elements against a high-intensity layer of pitched-up strings and signature vocal loops with a counter-weight bassline. "The Toad" takes the feeling of those strings from the title track and distills it into something exotic and dreamy. Peder kicks up the pace again with "Every Day Had A Number", taking in a collateral chop of drum breaks that breathe and gasp alongside '90s-flavored jungle/hardcore pads.
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PM 005EP
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Peder Mannerfelt, one of techno's most prominent prism pushers, follows work on Fever Ray's Plunge album (2017) to open 2018 with The 3D Printed Songbook, dispatched through his Stockholm-based personal imprint. Mannerfelt pursues a signature blend of raved-up smarts with cutting-edge sound design on The 3D Printed Songbook. Mannerfelt gets into gear with a pendulous but stuttering, sleek and jagged deep house/dancehall curl to open, before circling through recoiling slow techno, heavy-lidded yet visceral ambient tones, to stripes of Viking acid jack and the kind of depth charge dub techno that keeps Mika Vainio's memory in earshot.
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HINF 8678EP
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2024 restock, last copies. "Long rumored entry into the Hinge Finger crew from Peder Mannerfelt, following his mind-bending Controlling Body LP a few months back. Having knocked us sideways with his recent output, Peder's HF debut collects four tracks of cross-genre dynamic dynamite. 'Cry To Your Soul' blends some helter-skelter style rave trax with a raw gabba bounce, before 'Clear Eyes, Full Heart' brings in some utterly sick 4x4 bassline tribal flex. Flip side 'Savvy' builds a robotic-eski click to the front while 'The Great Attractor' coats the 12" in some rave slime EVOL style. Truly sick 12" in every sense of the word!" --Bleep, 2016.
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ATONAL 002EP
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Berlin Atonal Recordings present live cuts from Peder Mannerfelt. Mannerfelt supplies four jams, fashioned out of his own exceptional live show at the Berlin Atonal Festival in 2015. Raw, unsoftened, brutely analog sound from an EMS Synthi AKS punctures space in an oddly futuristic rhythmic experiment, gesturing at a brand new way of thinking about electronic music. The cuts are also packaged in a special 12" featuring artwork based on his own breathtaking live audio- visual show.
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AICD 004CD
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This adventurous album finds its roots in a very obscure 78 rpm record put together by Belgian filmmaker Armand Denis, who was one of the first Europeans to capture the incredible sounds of Central Congo. These recordings were published in 1950 as The Belgian Congo Records. When Peder Mannerfelt came across this record he was immediately intrigued by its sonic complexity. His initial idea was to use the original album as a sample source, but this concept was quickly abandoned and Mannerfelt decided to recreate the album using only synthesizers. By re-sculpting the album, and reshaping its original musicality into a wild electronic universe of his own, Mannerfelt pays tribute to the traditional folkloric meanings of the dances. The nature of this tribal music pushed Mannerfelt to further explore the unique sense of rhythm he's known for as a member of Roll the Dice and as a solo artist.
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WCEC 006EP
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2012 release. Come Closer brings together a collection of Peder Mannerfelt's percussive modular synth and noise experiments recorded live in his Stockholm studio. The EP exposes Mannerfelt's wider sonic interests and improvised approach outside of the production work for which he is more readily known (Roll the Dice, Fever Ray, The Subliminal Kid). These four improvised, hypnotic recordings cross the spectrum from industrial rhythms and arpeggiated modular cycles into angular ritualism and Sähköesque reduction. Raw, vintage futurism crafted from purist sonics and detailed percussion; tonal precision and immersive electronics molded with an array of analog hardware.
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DIGI 066LP
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Over the past year as Peder Mannerfelt has shed the skin of The Subliminal Kid, we've only had small samples to taste of his new brand of musical sorcery. Lines Describing Circles changes all of that. Ten tracks deep, this is not so much an album as it is a declaration. From the opening, harrowing crackle of "Collapsion," Mannerfelt's intent is to crush the listener into a perfect metal cube. Lines Describing Circles displays the sound of a man fully in control of his machines. Throughout the album, though, there are respites: the title-track settles into a hypnotic groove while a simple, infectious melody repeat into darkness, while "In Place of Once Was" has a melody lurking, too, but it's constantly overwhelmed by sub-bass nihilism. "Gulo Gulo Caesitas" is the pinnacle of the firestorm: cacophonous beats pummel you into submission while feedback and seemingly endless layers of aural mayhem pour down like sonic acid rain. As the computerized voice repeats "barren" over and over on "Evening Redness in the West," there is no horizon left to long for. Peder Mannerfelt's transformation complete, he is off to find new trails to blaze as the melancholic pads of "Rotterdam Anagram" are obscured by distorted filth. Mastered and cut by Stefan Betke. 500 copies only, comes in a spot gloss sleeve.
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