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BDN 004LP
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"'Goth-trad formed new unit Eartaker with Diesuck (vocal) and Masayuki Imanishi (noise) in 2017. Their doomful and dissonant sound with Diesuck's low scream feels like music that can be heard from the gap between end of the world and the new world. It is hard to categorize to any genre. This is the unit's first LP."
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BDNX 002LP
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"At the crux of American-born, Shanghai-based producer Eli Osheyack's debut album, Sadomodernism, is a question of agency. Borrowed from film theory, the album title was originally coined by writer Moira Weigel to describe a waning European art house tradition that vehemently rejects 'naïve pleasure' - the tranquilizing comfort of conventional cinematic narrative, like mainstream Hollywood - and opts for violence and pain, with the aim of shaking audiences out of cinematic manipulation and into their own position vis-à-vis the malaise of contemporary life. Echoing the work of sadomodernist auteurs, Osheyacks's Sadomodernism is a deeply political project with critical ambitions. The smashing and blending of genres, from techno, industrial, noise and gabber to ballroom and metal, even opera, and spontaneous percussion arrangements, sometimes mixed with distorted spoken word, do not mean to please, but provoke through disorder and chaos. Laden with Brechtian alienation affects, Sadomodernism interrogates the notion of autonomy in contemporary music, club culture, and social-political life."
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BDN 021EP
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"A futuristic, post-internet mini-album from Japanese multi instrumentalist Jigga, stacking static noise, ferocious drums and warped echoes into 7 unconventionally abstract club tracks."
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BDN 020EP
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"Dez Williams returns to Bedouin with a 100% solid EP. Against Your Will is a call to a wild dance ceremony. High definition sound waves and a reference to the Drexciyan world, through timeless electro beats. A sci-fi dip into our subconscious and back to the surface, where everything seems to be untouched but it will never be the same again."
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BDN 019EP
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"Jacking industrial knees-up meets formal idiosyncrasy in this banging collaboration between Deapmash and Aquarian, with massive kicks, quaking breakbeats and soaring atmospherics."
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BDN 017EP
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"Dara Smith from Lakker in brilliant form: six vividly evocative, dramatically uneven soundscapes, ranging tonally from beseeching tenderness to thumping, bad-minded bass, guaranteed to rock the house."
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BDN 018EP
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"Ekman returns to Bedouin Records with Tangent, a four-track episode of grungy club-shaking electro experiments. Conjuring up images of run down 20XX cityscapes, gloomy and rained-in. Ekman is the lightning in the rain, bringing in kick drums like thunder amid brazen and dizzying metallic synth lines fused to confrontational lo-fi hats. Recommended for the nighttime urban explorer."
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BDN 016EP
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"Shanghai/Taipei-based producer Tzusing returns with 一瞬千擊 (In a Moment a Thousand Hits), continuing his exploration of the seamier side of life, his music mutates from industrial and EBM roots into stranger territories. Like the titular martial arts master of his recent LP 東方不敗, who can only achieve invincibility by denying his own masculinity, 一瞬千擊 asks if obsessive pursuit of a specific identity can only lead to its negation, the opposite of the intended image. Amidst the malevolent throat singing samples, suona-like drones, and occasional shouts and howls in Taiwanese, the music's slamming percussive weight nods towards the most reviled forms of mainstream dance music. Treating every available tool as valid, Tzusing interrogates taste, constructed identity, and the desire for power through five tracks of destabilised funk and thundering processions."
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BDN 015EP
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"Bestie Aydin under the name Nene Hatun: a Turkish Berliner, crossing 'psychedelic-anatolian techno-pop' and 'dark drone wave music'. Field recordings and samples -- choral chants in church, du'a' from a mosque, small girls singing in the street -- are layered with a piano prepared by placing various metals on the strings, and played by plucking or striking, often in the traditional rhythms of darbuka and davul. 'The A-Side is more classical in its form,' says Bestie, 'but the ideas are more unnoticeable. It's more technical, with a lot of small details and samples. The B-Side on the other hand is more obvious in ideas but the form is obscure, with my approach just to play on the gear and make something impulsive, and analyze after.' "
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BDN 014EP
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Restocked. "Inspired by life on the touring circuit, this EP takes its name from a night the producer spent in Sliema, Malta. Produced to mirror the frenetic movement of (night)life on the road, the album jumps violently between poles of darkness, familiarity, paranoia and comfort in the club."
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BDN 003LP
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"The expression of two years' field recording on the Greek islands of Kalymnos and Lesbos -- deep inside a network of caves, and in the teeth of torrential winter storms -- with added strings, grand piano, live drumming and orchestral percussion, in its confluence of 'modern classical, metallic drone, dark ambient, and fuzz'. Guided by Steve Reich, Mika Vainio and Henri Bergson; haunted and spurred by the refugee crisis."
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BDN 012EP
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"Pounding, distorted electro frighteners - inspired by ancient Islamic mysticism - juggling introspection and rebellion, mesmerism and dancefloor fire."
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BDN 002LP
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"Eleven, deft, darkly-lit, sometimes despairing soundscapes by the Osaka-based producer, for his third album. 'The thoughts of a rebellious spirit are always accompanied by music,' he says. Esto, existence."
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BDN 008EP
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"Four labyrinthine excursions in psychedelic techno, from Antonio Marini. Take a step back... move to the side, just a touch... there... acid, dub and free jazz, focalising like heat blisters, then healed in a flash. Wayward Flow, for example, with the ghosts of double bass and bongos swirling in from the margins. Entheogenic freak-outs, with the left profile of Robert Hood, the right profile of Vangelis."
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BDN 006EP
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"Elegies-in-waiting to the monotonous dread of exploitative labour, dosed with elliptical distortion, industrial noise and ear-crushing bass. in the lineage of Pan Sonic, Sunn O))), and the more gruelling Scott Walker productions. Vex'd veteran Roly Porter drops by with a sci-fi reinvention of Council Flat, trading in IF's mogadon footwork and megaton polyrhythms for a less apocalyptic, more introspective blend of modern classical, dark ambient and dirty stinking breakbeat."
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BDN 001LP
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"Tripped out dune electronics incorporating organic drone and layers of noise with a rhythmic urgency. Washed out guitars and synths bursting in and out of the foreground. It is hard to define what is 'real' and what is 'synthetic' in this beautifully immersive space created by Ryo Murakami, and that it was makes his debut album for Bedouin worthy of many repeated forays into his world."
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BDN 002EP
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"Raucous, volatile, crackling brilliance from North Japan, testing the monster-infested electric fencing between techno and noise. Plus some witching, spasming, dancefloor Eomac to polish you off."
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