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DRONE 025EP
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Heart-wrenching ambient to cerebral techno: Inverno is Carlo Maria's debut on Drone.
"Winter in the northern hemisphere is often seen as the season of death, a state of life so often negatively connoted. I see winter as an incubator of change, where life takes the time to free its potential again. This record is a memory of past winters and a reminder that new ones will come. It celebrates the state of stillness as a necessary element of movement. It is an invitation to acceptance. The music itself might not necessarily express these ideas, but it acts as a trigger of memories and feelings of the times when these recordings were conceived. I like to see music recordings as pages of a diary. This music was recorded in a time and space span of various years and locations. 'Exhumed' was recorded at the end of October 2016 in Berlin; the other three tracks were recorded in Milan and performed live in various locations across Italy between in winter/spring 2021/2022." --Carlo Maria
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DRONE 024EP
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Originally from Manchester now based in Lewes, Kalli co-runs the GODDEZZ parties and record label. Sonically, Kalli can't hold back when interconnecting the dots of hoover synths, electro, gritty rave and off-kilter weirdness. "Soft Play" is a primal techno beast with punk undertones and monstrous Hoover rave drop. "Gems Per Capita" shows Kalli in full club mode, unleashing a bass heavy electro-tinged track with a killer Acid break; a peak-time weapon. The memory of trying to naively connect to an identity, along with searching for daily eccentric enjoyment in a rural, rainy post-industrial town Kalli.
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DRONE 023LP
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Richard Fearless follows his critically acclaimed psycho-geographical techno masterpiece Deep Rave Memory (DRONE 020LP, 2019) with its companion album Future Rave Memory. Across titanium kosmische, industrial ambience, weightless acid and dark drone, this new record is an instrument of evocative wonder and heavy emotion. A dystopian ambient album and work of modernist meditation set firmly in an era when humanity is reckoning with its outsized place in the natural world, a process which may evoke humility, defiance, denial or despair.
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DRONE 022EP
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Container is the solo project of American-born, London-based musician Ren Schofield, who over the last decade has refined a signature sound combining his background in drumming and lo-fi noise with techno and rhythmic electronics, cementing himself as a distinctive and disorderly force in modern electronic music. "My intentions and goals for this record were to make it way more 'rock' oriented than 'techno', almost as if it could be a band or adapted by one (albeit a rather non-traditional one), and I wanted to incorporate some potentially awkward sounding time signatures, but do my best to disguise them as something digestible and not without a groove."
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DRONE 021LP
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Simian Mobile Disco's Jas Shaw and new talent Bas Grossfeldt present Klavier -- an album of haunted elegance, graceful poise, and cerebral depth, centered around the Yamaha Disklavier. Combining the prepared piano minimalism of Hauschka with Basic Channel style dub techno, the pairing is mirrored in the duo, where Shaw's formidable dance music experience synergizes with Grossfeldt's arts-based appreciation of contemporary composition.
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DRONE 020LP
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A stunningly accomplished work, Deep Rave Memory is an insight into Richard Fearless's worlds --both metaphysical and geographical. Pulsating in unison with the heartbeat of a modern metropolis, it was recorded at the Metal Box -- his studio located on the peninsula of land where the River Lea meets the Thames. The haunting and wistful blue ambient "Vision of You" leads into the bracingly chilly "New Perspective", which evokes a heavy rush where perceptions are blurred and vision is freeze framed, via elements of techno-soul, Sheffield Bleep and Mika Vainio. A snarling beast of a track, the relentless machine funk of "Devil on Horseback" perfects the pure cathartic release of dark n' hot body music, whilst "Acid Angels" is a throbbing low-fi 303 requiem, which encapsulates that perfect dancefloor moment, when the first light breaks through the shutters. A future classic and the album's modus operandi, title track "Deep Rave Memory", features discordant filter passes sweeping across a hypnotic melody, communicating a deep sense of warm nostalgia and taking you on an epic journey -- stretching out a single riff over 12 minutes -- akin to the krautrock greats of which Fearless is so fond. "Atlas of Insanity" is big room techno with pounding kicks, death-whip metallic snares and head spinning, spiraling synth lines that drill into your core. This is raw, impulsive and frantic music that sizzles with electric effervescence. The Germanic kosmische idyll of "Driving with Roedelius" is a homage to one of Richards' heroes -- Hans-Joachim Roedelius -- and was inspired by his experience playing a set consisting solely of the electronic pioneer's music, at a festival celebrating his life and career. On the album's closer, Fearless recounts, "'Broken Beauty' is something I've always strived for in my art. It's inspired by Robert Frank, William Eggleston and the way they could take the most inane object a turn it into something of beauty. It's equally schooled by the aggressive simplicity of King Tubby's dubbing and the transcendence of Joy Division's 'Decades'. The sparse allure of the best dub and techno is something I'm always striving for; being able to conjure emotion with the fewest possible elements; to not fix what's broken, but to make it shine."
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DRONE 019EP
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The ridiculously talented Christopher Rau goes a little harder than his normal sonic spectrum for his debut release on Drone, delivering two fantastic techno excursions with this strong double hitter. The tile track is "Beasts": harsh, dripping, and cold. Fans of Pan Sonic won't be disappointed. "Riggleysz" exposes Rau's deep house sensibilities with a percussive, DJ tool that breaks out into an infectious techno work out.
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DRONE 018EP
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Hand-stamped white label, album sampler for forthcoming Richard Fearless album of the same title. "Atlas Of Insanity" is reactionary, big room techno from Richard Fearless; a pounding kick, death whip snares, and synth lines that drill into your core. This is raw, impulsive electronic body music made to lose your mind. With "New Perspective", Fearless delivers pure techno soul. With sonic leanings towards the North's Bleep scene and minimalist techno pioneer Mika Vainio's Philius and Ø alias.
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DRONE 017EP
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Sheffield's Tommy Vicari Jnr delivers a study in contrasts for his first release on Drone. "Kept In" is a concordant, synthetic techno pop excursion that bursts into your head like a thought and ricochets throughout. The static and reverb harnessed by Vicari to create "Closing In" is a dub/techno assault, and inverse to the propulsive and glitchy rhythm of the A side.
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DRONE 016EP
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PSSU are Richard Fearless and Daniel Avery. Long-time friends, they first formed their relationship whilst working out of Andrew Weatherall's legendary Rotter's Golf Club where Fearless made Trans-Love Energies (2011) and Avery did a lot of Drone Logic (BEC 5161626/5161627, 2013). "307309" is pure electro soul and with "Fabricated From Steel", PSSU deliver a techno monster. Both tracks were forged at the Metal Box, Drone's studio in East London. Edition of 500 in black sleeve, each with a unique, experimental numbered screen print, 30 cm x 60 cm.
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DRONE 015EP
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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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DRONE 014EP
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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 013EP
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Night Blind is Richard Fearless's second release on Drone's white label series. The title track coalesced in the early hours of the morning as diffuse, Turneresque lights glimmered across the Thames and the container was pounded by a storm. Unnerving and melancholic yet with a glimmer of light, this is Fearless at his best. With Xavier's spiritual acid head, Kenichi Iwasa, on percussion duties, "Cancan" is one for peak time body shaking. Recorded and mixed at the Metal Box by Chris Blakey; Produced by Richard Fearless. Stamped and numbered; edition of 300.
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DRONE 012LP
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Drone pursues new resonant frequencies with its twelfth release, a tonal, penetrating, and experimental album, Von Haze's VII. VII was recorded by laying full takes of synthesizers and guitar feedback with repetitive melodies as a nod to the tradition of ragas. Each song was written for a specific power center in the body and to engage both active and passive effects of sustained and concentrated sound.
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DRONE 011EP
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The first release in Drone's vinyl-only series sees label founder Richard Fearless steering the sound toward house. "Sweet Venus", recorded in one take, traps a ray of light in troubled times. Using the 303 and 909, "Rex" draws on the sonic tapestry of metal dub. It is deep, uncompromising acid with a sound that is synonymous with Drone's studio, the Metal. Stamped and numbered; Edition of 300.
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DRONE 010EP
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D'Marc Cantu's second release on Drone is an introspective, emotive piece of electro. With its deep pads, "Omega Red" provides the soundtrack to a trek through the snowy wastes, never letting up and calling through the night. In contrast, under his Rival alias, Cantu delivers "Sustain", a ferocious track with monotonous drum lines that slowly takes you into the night. Rival has, since its inception, been about exploring the limitations of a single, one-take session. Taking the principles of a live set and applying them with gear that would ordinarily be left in the studio adds an uncertainty and urgency.
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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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DRONE 006EP
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Luke Hess and DJ Richard remix sides A and B of Richard Fearless's Overview Effect (DRONE 005EP, 2015). Luke Hess takes "Overview Effect," the dubbed-out, Detroit techno-infused title-track, and transposes its mood, breaking out the 303 and sampling the original strings to add an element of dazed hallucination for a peak-time acid track. DJ Richard brings crafted electro rhythms and swelling, dubbed-out horns to his remix of "Metal Dub," completely reimagining the stripped-down, metallic techno of the original.
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DRONE 005EP
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Richard Fearless delivers his third release on Drone, opening with "Overview Effect," a track of dubbed-out Detroit-esque techno with an epic two-and-a-half-minute string workout and a cognitive shift to pure Fearless magic. "Metal Dub" is stripped-down, metallic, hypnotic techno with haunting pads, and it's been smashing it in the darkest of rooms. A deep, heavy release on Drone. Precedes remixes by Luke Hess and DJ Richard.
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DRONE 004EP
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Rhythm originator and founder of Factory Floor Gabe Gurnsey bangs out his debut solo single, "Falling Phase." This track is an eight-minute aural patrol of sheer analog pulse and rhythm, flooded with Gurnsey's drum computer bank, Nik Void's ethereal vocal splices, and an electrifying bassline. Gurnsey explores "humanizing machines and electronics" within his very own contorted dance template, taking the dancefloor out of its four walls and reinstalling it somewhere along the Pacific Coast Highway. This record travels. On the B-side, Gurnsey drops "Partaloa," a killer synth funk workout built with his signature rhythms.
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DRONE 003EP
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Machine funk with a top line like steel drums on acid and a hook like a punch in the face with a velvet glove. "Sonically I'm reminded of old home videos, a lower quality presentation of a memory. 'Decay' has that quality to it that reminds of a time gone but stills feels familiar and comforting... 'Rival' was the first experiment of my first alias, Rival. It was recorded with a Volca drum machine the first day I got it, no effects and no edits, as is the basis of the alias, unedited analog sessions. One take." --D'Marc Cantu
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DRONE 002EP
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One-sided release. Richard Fearless unleashes his shamanic cosmic trip with "Gamma Ray," an obsessively crafted techno track of the highest order. Stark minimal analog magic. Dutch master Legowelt delivers a stunning remix; the depth, texture and atmosphere he injects into the track completes an exceptional second release from Drone.
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DRONE 001EP
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Drone is a London-based label founded by producer, artist and Death In Vegas guiding light Richard Fearless, an outlet for dancefloor distortion and other musical explorations. Created in the Metal Box, Drone will release oscillations in many forms. For this, the debut outing, Richard Fearless lays the mandate in the form of higher electronic states -- proto-techno, peak-time acid. Analog electronics and horror strings underpinned with drums to blow apart any floor. This is music made for very dark, smoke-filled rooms with absurd lazers. D'Marc Cantu picks up remix duties, toning things down in tempo but certainly not in tension.
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