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AES 007LP
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RELEASE DATE: 6/6/2025
Double LP version. In celebration of its 10th anniversary, Aesthetical Records reissues Peau Froide, Léger Soleil, the groundbreaking collaboration between Finnish electronic music luminary Mika Vainio and French experimental music pioneer Franck Vigroux. Originally released in 2015, this new edition revives a work of unparalleled sonic intensity and textural exploration. This iconic album is the result of a three-year recording process that began after Vainio and Vigroux's first live performance in Paris in 2012. Their collaboration serves as an intricate balance of minimalist meditations and maximalist energy, pushing electronic music into radical new directions. Peau Froide, Léger Soleil is a journey through psychic resonance and spatial abstraction, constructed through Vainio's intense, brutalist grooves and Vigroux's explorations in tonal extremities. Spanning a total of nine tracks, the album unfolds like an odyssey, densely layered yet free from structural limitations, traversing vast emotional landscapes where each sound feels at once intimate and tectonic. Beginning with the ominous, bass-heavy textures of "Deux," Vainio and Vigroux establish a dynamic atmosphere, setting the stage for the intense soundscapes to follow. "Mémoire" introduces ghostly voices that weave through thick waves of sub-bass and distorted noise, while "Souffles" explores uncharted sonic territories with its microtonal landscapes and spectral ambiance. Vigroux's mastery over spatial abstraction comes to life in "Le Souterrain," adding an atmospheric weight reminiscent of Ennio Morricone's stark loneliness or Neil Young's Dead Man soundtrack. In contrast, tracks like "Parabole" and "Le crâne tambour" unleash fierce, maximalist grooves, making them some of the most aggressive and memorable moments in Vainio's discography. Peau Froide, Léger Soleil represents a landmark in its sonic identity, embodying a vision of uncompromising, avant-garde sound design. This anniversary reissue on Aesthetical honors that legacy while inviting new listeners into Vainio and Vigroux's collaborative universe -- a space where electronic music becomes both weapon and sanctuary.
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AES 007CD
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$13.50
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 6/6/2025
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, Aesthetical Records reissues Peau Froide, Léger Soleil, the groundbreaking collaboration between Finnish electronic music luminary Mika Vainio and French experimental music pioneer Franck Vigroux. Originally released in 2015, this new edition revives a work of unparalleled sonic intensity and textural exploration. This iconic album is the result of a three-year recording process that began after Vainio and Vigroux's first live performance in Paris in 2012. Their collaboration serves as an intricate balance of minimalist meditations and maximalist energy, pushing electronic music into radical new directions. Peau Froide, Léger Soleil is a journey through psychic resonance and spatial abstraction, constructed through Vainio's intense, brutalist grooves and Vigroux's explorations in tonal extremities. Spanning a total of nine tracks, the album unfolds like an odyssey, densely layered yet free from structural limitations, traversing vast emotional landscapes where each sound feels at once intimate and tectonic. Beginning with the ominous, bass-heavy textures of "Deux," Vainio and Vigroux establish a dynamic atmosphere, setting the stage for the intense soundscapes to follow. "Mémoire" introduces ghostly voices that weave through thick waves of sub-bass and distorted noise, while "Souffles" explores uncharted sonic territories with its microtonal landscapes and spectral ambiance. Vigroux's mastery over spatial abstraction comes to life in "Le Souterrain," adding an atmospheric weight reminiscent of Ennio Morricone's stark loneliness or Neil Young's Dead Man soundtrack. In contrast, tracks like "Parabole" and "Le crâne tambour" unleash fierce, maximalist grooves, making them some of the most aggressive and memorable moments in Vainio's discography. Peau Froide, Léger Soleil represents a landmark in its sonic identity, embodying a vision of uncompromising, avant-garde sound design. This anniversary reissue on Aesthetical honors that legacy while inviting new listeners into Vainio and Vigroux's collaborative universe -- a space where electronic music becomes both weapon and sanctuary.
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Following his highly acclaimed 2021 album Atotal (AES 004CD) and 2022's Magnetoscope (R-M 200CD), Franck Vigroux returns with eight heavyweight tracks composed in 2023 and 2024. Vigroux states about his current work: "I am not very talkative about my music unless I am specifically questioned, the immaterial dimension of music partly spares us from the major questions which are the prerogative of theatrical forms for which I am also very active, in this sense for me music is a real outlet where things are done intuitively, for pleasure." Always pushing forth and expanding his now classic rigidly cold analog sounds and rhythmic structures entwined with lush atmospheric synth compositions, Grand Bal is another milestone in his ever-growing discography.
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LP version. Following his highly acclaimed 2021 album Atotal (AES 004CD) and 2022's Magnetoscope (R-M 200CD), Franck Vigroux returns with eight heavyweight tracks composed in 2023 and 2024. Vigroux states about his current work: "I am not very talkative about my music unless I am specifically questioned, the immaterial dimension of music partly spares us from the major questions which are the prerogative of theatrical forms for which I am also very active, in this sense for me music is a real outlet where things are done intuitively, for pleasure." Always pushing forth and expanding his now classic rigidly cold analog sounds and rhythmic structures entwined with lush atmospheric synth compositions, Grand Bal is another milestone in his ever-growing discography.
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Italian audio/visual artist Camilla Pisani joins Aesthetical with her new album Phant[as]. Imagined as a lucid nightmare, fueled by her various inner struggles, it is a trip into the depths of imagination. The project is inspired by phantasmagoria, a form of theater that was most popular in Paris in the 18th century, in which images of skeletons, demons, and ghosts were projected onto walls and/or sheets. During these performances, there was a rapid succession of lights, smoke, illusions, ghosts, and specters that deceived and amazed the audience. The album then, revolves around the concept of "illusion" to be understood as a succession of images, sounds, colors, objects, actions that vividly affect the senses and imagination showing unreal and intangible figures, but still visible and paralyzing, just like our fears are. In fact, each track deals with my different turmoils, negative thoughts that have conditioned the last few years of her life and describe uneasy conditions shared by most of my peers (toxic relationships; job insecurity and exploitation; immateriality of the future, translated into frustration, exhaustion/desperation, claustrophobia and a desire to escape; anguish, panic and a sense of powerlessness towards nature and disease). The project is presented as a cathartic experience in which she exorcises her mental ghosts and confronts, challenges with the powerful and persuasive weapon that is sound, composed of obsessive rhythms and evanescent atmospheres. Finally, the reference to the Magic Lanterns is linked to her research in the field of audiovisuals, since they were the first performances in which an attempt was made, through the combination of motion graphics, light games and sound, to obtain greater sensorial and emotional involvement with the public. "Your Refusal is My Comfort Zone" features Vera di Lecce and Serena Dibiase.
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LP version. New full-length album of Franck Vigroux's uncompromising signature sound of colossal electronic music. Atotal gathers material from Franck's latest live A/V of the same name. Working with his longtime visual partner Antoine Schmitt, Atotal is an audiovisual performance aiming to reconstruct in order to better deconstruct the processes of imposition of will by repetition and absolute synchronism, to propose a breach to a potentially life-saving de-coincidence. The total work of art, when pushed to its paroxysm of absolute coincidence of the perceptions of a captive spectator, is similar to the techniques of mental manipulation of totalitarian regimes, proceeding by annihilation of the critical mind, repetitive semantic pounding, subliminal messages. The ideal of a deterministic universe of Newton in which everything rationally stems from its causes, in which everything is predictable like a totality for Laplace's daemon, where everything can be considered already written, has been undermined in the infinitely small of the uncertainties of Heisenberg which tell us that it is impossible to know everything about a particle, in the quantum mechanics of Schrödinger which reveals to us that the looker affects the looked-at, and in the infinitely abstract of Gödel's incompleteness which explains to us that certain things are literally unexplainable. The show Atotal slips into these flaws and, like a clinamen of Lucretia, deviates the visual and audio atoms from their destiny. Mastering by Denis Blackham. Artwork by Mostafa Khaled.
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New full-length album of Franck Vigroux's uncompromising signature sound of colossal electronic music. Atotal gathers material from Franck's latest live A/V of the same name. Working with his longtime visual partner Antoine Schmitt, Atotal is an audiovisual performance aiming to reconstruct in order to better deconstruct the processes of imposition of will by repetition and absolute synchronism, to propose a breach to a potentially life-saving de-coincidence. The total work of art, when pushed to its paroxysm of absolute coincidence of the perceptions of a captive spectator, is similar to the techniques of mental manipulation of totalitarian regimes, proceeding by annihilation of the critical mind, repetitive semantic pounding, subliminal messages. The ideal of a deterministic universe of Newton in which everything rationally stems from its causes, in which everything is predictable like a totality for Laplace's daemon, where everything can be considered already written, has been undermined in the infinitely small of the uncertainties of Heisenberg which tell us that it is impossible to know everything about a particle, in the quantum mechanics of Schrödinger which reveals to us that the looker affects the looked-at, and in the infinitely abstract of Gödel's incompleteness which explains to us that certain things are literally unexplainable. The show Atotal slips into these flaws and, like a clinamen of Lucretia, deviates the visual and audio atoms from their destiny. Mastering by Denis Blackham. Artwork by Mostafa Khaled.
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AES 003LP
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Aesthetical in collaboration with Sync presents Detect by Marco Monfardini. Originally developed as an audio/video live performance, Marco Monfardini based his research for Detect on the decoding of inaudible sounds, sound generated by electromagnetic emissions left from electronic devices and inaudible to the human ear. By using various electro-smog detectors Marco Monfardini creates a sort of detection mapping where electromagnetic emissions are the starting point for the sonorous development of each single composition. A path that creates a parallel with our lives by questioning how much these emissions affect unconsciously our choices, tastes and perceptions, seeking a relationship between the massive use of technology in everyday life and our emotional state. The album Detect is developed in 15 tracks in continuous play, an imperfect, faulty mosaic inhabited by invisible beings manifesting themselves in the form of sound streams, mutable entities that find a definitive form in the pattern of the compositional structure. The album opens with "a[R1] detection", sounds of pure detection place themselves in the sound space giving the initial coordinates for the exploration of unconscious parallel areas. The boundaries transform and gradually expand until they flow into the structure of "kernel variations", a growing rhythmic pattern decodes the impulses projecting a perspective that dissolves in the unstable and fluctuating electromagnetic emissions of the subsequent "[a]3020t detection", "binary defect" and "core[2]". "[A.box]emission" confronts the use of sound downloaded random from internet sample banks and the emissions generated during the download itself. The first part ends with the short "[sa]6030" and "[det]x1a", absence and presence provide an alternation of movements, inaudible and elusive signals all trying to establish a contact with our perception. "det : scan" opens the second part of Detect, a sort of scanning, leaving EMF (electromagnetic field) textures, a static multilayer that progressively expands until it dissolves into the rhythmic emissions of a common smartphone "[4s]detection". The track "[rs]zone" is pushing itself deeper, two minutes of sound speleology that reveal the existence of sound artifacts that seem to vanish getting in contact with the light accented by the bass drum of "[det] 0100+" a constant, rhythmic pumping, a luminous pulsation that reveals an apparent void, which seems to subside entering in the winding and waving atmosphere of "conductive [area]" and "[s3] microfunktion". Detect comes to the end with "[emf]terminal" a mirror of the technological acceleration intercepting the flow of data that feeds the system of communication. Edition of 300.
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New release by one of Berlin's most unique and longstanding producers. Patrick Stottrop's activities are at the heart and foundation of Berlin's techno sound, active since 1996 and founder of Zhark Recordings, he's been pushing and challenging the definition of dance music since its inception. On this release the title track "Legeia" as well as the tracks "Die Erwartung" and "Richmond" were taken from The Garden of Time LP recording session from 2019. These three tracks set the prevailing mood for two subsequent cuts, "Horus" and "Sorcerer". While Richmond follows a more andante direction "Legeia" presents a unique combination of drones engulfed in a wild and hectic technoid percussive inferno. "Die Erwartung" on the other hand might resemble in its overall mood the Rheingold Prelude (in a higher register) with its drone like strings layer build up. While "Horus" and "Sorcere" are recent tracks form Kareem's current live set and were recently arranged to fit into the EP format. Both tracks build on static percussive hostility and climax towards their middle parts to an overall acoustic orgy of reverberating string strikes and high-pitched drone oscillations. An overall grand addition to his continuously growing and ecstatic catalog.
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Double LP version. Matte laminated gatefold sleeve; Edition of 500. Aesthetical present Totem, the new full-length album by France's most singular contemporary composer, Franck Vigroux. Reflecting on ancient culture's use and reverence for emblematic monuments which most often represent myths and stories, the album's narrative has been infused with such symbolic and depicts an envisioned mythology, unfolding through its ten aural pieces. Franck Vigroux's music is unique and comprised of tectonic tension, pulsating rhythms, and abrasive analog textures like few can produce. Applying his own calculated personal signature in his sonic explorations his distinctiveness comes not only by his unique approach to sound but also by his incorporation of new media practices and performing arts into his A/V work. Mastered by Denis Blackham.
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AESCD 001CD
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Aesthetical present Totem, the new full-length album by France's most singular contemporary composer, Franck Vigroux. Reflecting on ancient culture's use and reverence for emblematic monuments which most often represent myths and stories, the album's narrative has been infused with such symbolic and depicts an envisioned mythology, unfolding through its ten aural pieces. Franck Vigroux's music is unique and comprised of tectonic tension, pulsating rhythms, and abrasive analog textures like few can produce. Applying his own calculated personal signature in his sonic explorations his distinctiveness comes not only by his unique approach to sound but also by his incorporation of new media practices and performing arts into his A/V work. Mastered by Denis Blackham. CD version comes in a four-panel digipak; edition of 500.
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