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BH 069LP
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"A new album by one half of the mighty Pilotwings crew. Guillaume Lespinasse convenes a sublimely alluring, ambient seance, invoking the spirits of Jon Hassell and Terry Riley, and befitting the soundtrack of a dreamt Jacques Rivette movie. Imagine an impossible, questing collaboration between Les Disques Du Crepuscule and deep ECM. Imagine the long-awaited return of Berceuse Heroique and pinch yourself."
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BH 063EP
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Om Unit meets Seekers International on Berceuse Heroique.
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BH 067EP
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"A ceremony that invokes ancient spirits like the Dom & Roland productions, the early raw sound of RZA and the bleakness of the Birmingham techno scene in the '90s. A cinematic trip of film noir aesthetics mixed with an eastern European sci fi sensibility. Touch Of Evil meets Zulawski's On The Silver Globe. Pessimist runs the voodoo down for the first time on Berceuse Heroique and we are proud to release some of his most honest work."
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BH 065LP
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"Imagine the opposite of a snake shedding its skin: a body slithering among the debris of 21st-century music; a porous, viscid body, its skin an adhesive, lodging onto itself bits and pieces along the way. Some are scraps, rusted, discarded parts. Some are the jewels of crowns, unglued and fallen from grace, now re-attached on this makeshift contraption. Where does a body end? Does it end where these prostheses begin? Jay Glass Dubs' Soma ('body' in Greek) is a palimpsest. Look closely and you can find all sorts of DNA microarrays on the body's skin -- Bristol voices, Detroit electro hums, the amen break, the all-encompassing dub haze -- but, as with all palimpsests, they are simultaneously one and a multitude. The body lives, its prostheses live. The body moves."
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BH 061EP
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'Jay Glass Dubs is back on Berceuse Heroique after his inaugural release and this time he is going straight for the jugular. Jay Glass took a small break from the 80's experimental pop of The Safest Dub and he invoked the spirits of German Kosmische Musik and the studio insanity of African Head Charge. Film Noir vibes are mixed with the greek ancient tragedies, leaving the Apollonian aesthetics of his last release and going for a darker, denser and completely Dionysian approach for this one. Medea meets Touch Of Evil. Harmonia and young Adrian Sherwood are getting loose on some pentatonic Greek Traditional music from Epirus. Jay did it again and we are very happy to release this one."
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BH 060EP
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"Logos leaves the weightless sound for a minute and cooks up a stew with ingredients as tasty as the Bloom era Aardvarck white labels, Shed as Panamax Project and Wormhole era Ed Rush & Optical sound design. Ossia delivers one of the heaviest remixes of the year, taking the ice-cold grime sensibilities of Eska and infusing them with the militant sound of early Aba Shanti I on that Jah Lightning album. Soundsystem music at its best."
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BH 062EP
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"The third part of our 'Ode To The Soundsystem' is here and the abstract sound of the last Ossia album is no longer evident. The influence of the early Disciples 12"s shows up for the first time, with a Drexciyan connection happening on the b-side, creating one of the most lethal and militant 12"s that we have ever released. Ossia is back on Berceuse Heroique and we are very happy about it."
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BH 059EP
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"Berceuse Heroique is very proud to announce that one of our biggest heroes is going to be our next release for this year. Pinch, one of the seminal members of the Bristol scene, is kickstarting a trilogy of 12"s that we call 'an ode to sound system culture', trying to invoke the long lost spirits of pure, heavyweight, hardcore hedonism that stems from a lot of sub genres of British dance music culture. 'Border Control' fuses the industrial aesthetics of Birmingham techno and the jungle techno pressure of the early 90's and in the end it sounds like a fight anthem against Brexit. 'Fortune Teller' will test any soundsystem with that Dillinja-esque bassline and Loose Cables could easily be the younger brother of one of Pinch's most underrated tunes, 'The Attack Of The Killer Robot Spiders'. Pinch runs the voodoo down one more time and he sounds pissed off and more fresh than ever."
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BH 057LP
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"Pavel Milyakov aka Buttechno is mostly known for his brilliant take on dance music, but we're also big fans of his avant-garde ambient material. This LP combines the amorphous electronic soundscapes of Artemiev with the strangeness of Chiastic-Slide Autechre and the beautiful expansiveness of Pete Kember's best work. It could be a spiked film noir soundtrack... and it's also great because it sounds like a late-night walk around Moscow (at least to us)." Gatefold sleeve by Will Bankhead.
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BH 058EP
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"Hodge has said that each time he puts out a new release, it turns out to be the one he's felt most happy with. It could be a marker of consistent progress, but with such a diverse catalogue of productions, perhaps it's a stretch to compare one release to the next. Where 2017 saw four solo EPs from the Bristol artist, he began and now ends 2018 with an EP on Berceuse Heroique, bookending a year that also featured collaborations with Gramrcy and Ishan Sound. He also soundtracked the trailer for Believer, a Korean crime film, with 'Sunlight On A Broken Column', and produced an EP for Livity Sound with Laurel Halo. Exogenesis is the hypothesis that life originated elsewhere in the universe. The extra-terrestrial title carries over from Beneath Two Moons, his EP for Berceuse Heroique earlier this year. On 'Raptors' and 'Xenomorph,' which takes its name from the Alien franchise, percussive textures accompany rattling vocals and piercing synths. 'Night Run' is a polyrhythmic workout with bright melodies and a rolling bassline, while 'Bam' ambles with a hypnotic groove. Hodge has said he's focused on tension in his music, aiming to create moments that feel like 'anything could happen'. Exogenesis does this with infinite crescendos, feverish chord progressions and layers of thumping percussion." --Resident Advisor
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BH 056EP
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"One of Japan's deepest diggers slaps together a healthy smorgasbord of gems. 'Cheeks', 'Half Body', 'Mirage', 'Plateau', and other things you couldn't dream of."
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BH 050EP
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"The first release from Berceuse Heroique arrived at the Honest Jon's basement the 21st of April, we didn't sell it until the next day, though, 'cause we don't like all that RSD bullshit. This April we wanted to celebrate 5 years since that day, with our 50th release, but manufacturing records is becoming a very weird place where time and deadlines don't exist. So, today we are releasing 3 new tunes by our dear friend Florian aka Don't DJ and a remix from one of our favourite artists ever, Mr. Newworldaquarium. It's properly cut on two 12"s (180g vinyl as always) and properly mastered by our favourite mastering engineer, CGB of the D & M crew."
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BH 047EP
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"Out briefly on Berceuse, Zibaldone III Of CVX is the third in a series of releases from London-via-Mallorca based artist Rupert Clervaux, after two instalments issued via London's Laura Lies In -- both available in the form of custom-made dubplates. Inspired by the unique format and flow of 'zibaldone' -- the Italian equivalent to commonplace books made famous by Giacomo Leopardi's eponymous masterpiece, Clervaux's multi-angle audio mosaics merge fragments from various fields such as literature, philosophy, poetry, psychology, history, politics and more."
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BH 048EP
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"An intense psychedelic trip inside the world of a producer who expresses the loneliness of working in a studio, without any ambition. Honest music with a huge amount of emotional intensity."
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BH 051EP
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"Monrella, aka Mick Harris, the man that invented the blast beat and one of the most crucial members of the seminal band Napalm Death. He experimented with a lot of styles of music afterwards (notably, Scorn, Lull and Fret) but back 1996 he took the template of Detroit techno, added some Birmingham grit and Monrella was born. Proper Birmingham motor funk straight from the House Of God (seminal Birmingham club night) school of debauchery. Remastered and ready to continue its journey, slaying dancefloors."
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BH 042-5EP
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Black Merlin is back. Follows his Proto World EP (2017). Two 180 gram 12-inches, mastered by Gordon Pohl.
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BH 046EP
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"With a host of great 12" singles already attributed to this moniker, the Bristol based producer nails his third effort for Berceuse Heroique, again demonstrating the broad palette and eclectic approach to genre that keeps his techno explorations varied and compelling. As adept in building and pushing the pulse, as he is in letting it dissolve amidst more ambient pieces, this is definitely a name for techno heads to keep on their radar." --Vinyl Factory.
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BH 044EP
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" 'Japonaiserie was the term the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh used to express the influence of Japanese art. Artists including Manet, Degas and Monet, followed by Van Gogh, began to collect the cheap colour wood-block prints called ukiyo-e prints.' A mini LP by Benoit B, the boss of Banlieue Records, on which he creates a futuristic environment influenced by the Japanese electronics of the '80s. A musical 'Japanaiserie' that can melt your cold cold heart."
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BH 045LP
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"The industrial project of Oliver Ho and Tommy Gillard at its most subversive and evocative, with two preoccupations threaded throughout: Middle-Eastern percussion, most vivid in the chimes of 'Casting' and the driving doumbek rhythms of 'Burning' and 'The Sands'; and the structural iteration of chaos, underlying a collage of wild left-turns, scornful of repetitive hooks and other musical routines. Early birds bag a 7" by Ho's 'Desert Burials', evoking classic punk/funk hybrids like Cabaret Voltaire."
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BH 042EP
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"This deadly Berlin-New Jersey nexus back in action, reinforced by the mighty Shifted. 'F Planet' itself is an in-for-the-kill stomper, husky and frantic, its sizzling bass and clanky hats inexorably dissolving in a sulphuric alarm of distortion and haywire bleeps. 'Astral Pilot' ties you into a swirl of frequencies, rhythms and mechanical growling, before finally disentangling itself into some kind of cosmic lift-off. On the flip, grimly tightening the bolts, setting the controls inwards, and darkening and thickening its atmospheres into a kind of gut-churning possession, Shifted makes F Planet all his own."
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BH 039EP
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"Some insane electro and techno excursions and two very difficult titles for every person that doesn't have a good grasp of the German language. Mastering by CGB of the mighty Dubplates and Mastering clan. 180 gram vinyl cut and some beautiful artwork by Sandhya."
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BH 038EP
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"Up from down under, following crucial releases on his own Body Language imprint, LJ shifts gears and steers his intricate sound-world -- torn between house and ambient, with Larry Heard's Alien LP coursing through -- into deeper, more techno-infused waters. Watch out for 'The Centre Of Time', evoking over its twenty minutes both the arctic vapour of 'Vletrmx21'-vintage Autechre and the expansiveness of Vangelis in full flight. Next-level stuff from Berceuse Heroique."
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BH 034EP
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"The recording debut of a collaboration between Jordan 'Jordache' Czamanski and Ilya Ziblat Shay. Three freestyling chunks of hallucinatory electronica and freaking jazz; plus a sublime remix by Parisian maestro I:Cube, with MT's wild keyboard lines, distant bells and general insobriety threading a tactile, sunrise-friendly house groove. Tropical jazz-funk for the synthesizer generation. Call it Balearic and die."
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BH 032EP
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"'Baby Whale' doses a cross between classic Chicago house and E2-E4 with a no-prisoners boogie bassline and piano chords glistering in from Rimini. JV's signature spaced-out production assures a head-turning dancefloor banger for the 4am crew. 'Adam & Eve' is an intriguing mix of exotica and Arthur Russell. 'The sound of Matisse,' says the label."
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BH 027EP
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"Morah's first release came from Helena Hauff's Return To Disorder label and this time the Athenian producer takes the same techno and electro sound and goes completely berserk for Berceuse Heroique. Morah creates some huge waves of feedback on ?Anarchy', which sounds like a techno version of Metal Machine Music, then he takes the old school Viewlexx sound and makes it even more confrontational, on 'You Said No' and 'Impasse'. 'Looking Back' is a beautiful, melancholic - but still very dysfunctional - version of the death of a rave. One of the strongest points of this new producer is that his music sounds like the city of Athens right now: Raw energy mixed with manic depression and pessimism."
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