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EDLX 058LP
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Impresario bone grinder, Justin K Broadrick, has prepared a new album for release on Speedy J's Electric Deluxe label as JK Flesh. Broadrick has resolutely inhabited some dark and punishing corners of the musical landscape in his three decades of music production. Whether as a songwriter, guitarist, drummer, label head, studio producer, or electronic alchemist, Broadrick has defined the sublime overlap of misanthropy, noise, and arson-spirited audio. Making his initial marks with grindcore and industrial bands Godflesh and Napalm Death beginning in the late '80s, Broadrick's musical career has arched from blast-beats to head-bobbing hypnosis. With a slew of recent releases from his JK Flesh moniker for Electric Deluxe, Hospital Productions, Downwards, Pi Electronics, and on AnD's Inner Surface, Broadrick has increasingly taken lo-fi cerebral sound exploration into techno's polluted ozone layer; drifting amongst violent collisions of rusty space junk and taking aim at the outmoded species below. JK Flesh's eight-track double-disc album for Electric Deluxe continues his assault on the failings and folly of humanity with a bludgeoning tour of dub influenced techno. A study in resolution, timber, and distortion, the album's tracks are diverse in mood and groove, but are united by the dark, porous, and undulating surface texture of rippling analog treatment. Contemplation of humanity's chances for extinction or evolution provided Broadrick with the mental scaffolding upon which the album's inky and caustic eruptions precipitate. Titles like "Different Species" and "Super Human" on the album's A side betray his interest in futurist's trans-humanist musings, while thumping garage baseline and searing interplanetary emergency sirens anchor the tracks in Broadrick's mastery of noise. The album is generally packed with full-form bass, percussion, and machine sounds. Though tracks like the B side's "External Transmission" juxtapose rubbery and wiry timbers, like the best of acid, over the low-end's boiling black cauldron. "Earlier Forms Of Life" and "Macromolecules" take morose side-long glances at the dancefloor, but primarily develop elegantly grime-filled grooves under the constricting spatial canopies of hyper-detailed delay and reverb. Surface detail and dusty timbers rake the listener's ear across the minimal composition of "The Next Stage". The albums closing track, "Homo Sapiens", drops you into the hopelessly gigantic hull of ship, echoing with sonar, heavy machinery and dulled low-frequencies as your iron tomb cuts across the dead oceans of our planet, or, as Broadrick has spent his musical pursuit, in search of a new one.
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EDLX 056LP
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The records stop four hundred years in the future, after the lines shut, and the corporation withdrew. What you know of how you got here is pieced together by the fragments of the rail maps and corporate orders that survive. After numerous waves of social collapse, Glasgow, a once prosperous city thriving off an industry of trade and shipbuilding, had run to waste in lawless ruin. The land passed into the hands of new owners; a German-speaking conglomerate, who incorporated it into a new civic entity: Neurealm. There were grand promises of a new age; a rail network, culture facilities, new life for the city. Neurealm never came to be. The violent indifference of the citizens to the new order saw to that. In its place a rats' nest of horror and gloom, the damp ruins punctuated by strobe lights, and the desperate, ecstatic violence of the gangs that rule it. Welcome to Neurealm, After The Fall. Ravaged and warped breakbeats haunted by wailing euphoric noise, vivid and graphic reflections of fractured post-industrial hardcore, moments of poetry flashing within a thick impending fog. This is our soundtrack. A unique and visionary achievement; a wholly original future of beauty and despair: brutal, gritty, alive and urgent, blooming in the ruins, spiraling and raw, howling with life. Embossed gatefold cover with printed inner sleeves.
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EDLX 057EP
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Ravaged and warped breakbeats haunted by wailing euphoric noise, vivid and graphic reflections of fractured post-industrial hardcore, moments of poetry flashing within a thick impending fog. This is our soundtrack. A unique and visionary achievement; a wholly original future of beauty and despair: brutal, gritty, alive and urgent, blooming in the ruins, spiraling and raw, howling with life. Embossed cover with printed inner sleeves.
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EDLX 055LP
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Although there are hundreds of newer electronic music acts who wield heaviness and saturated sound as their primary weapons, AnD keeps finding bold new ways to separate themselves from the rank and file. The production duo of Andrew and Dimitri -- conduits for the industrial music legacy of Manchester -- excel at showing that aesthetic extremity does not have to equal monotony. Social Decay is simultaneously one of their most overwhelming and most innovative efforts. This visceral new release comes from the same hazardous, blasted terrain that informs the work of kindred spirits like Kerridge, Oake, and Justin Broadrick's many projects. Whereas AnD's previous album Cosmic Microwave Background (EDLX 038CD/LP) utilized the duo's intensity to pay homage to the enormity of the universe and the incomprehensibly violent processes involved in its creation, Social Decay takes things back to earth and right down to a "street view" more gritty and contentious than what Google Maps often reveals. Beginning with a feedback-drenched, shuddering premonition of things to come ("First Element"), each successive side of the album presents a new level of intensity, itself brought about by increasing levels of tempo and compositional coherence. The first suite of tracks, including "Corrupted Structures" and "Anarchic Rhapsody", is pure industrial music comprised of multi-layered noise collage, venomous and half-comprehensible whisperings, and rhythm structures that compel listeners to maintain an obedient posture rather than to ecstatically hit the dancefloor. Without completely abandoning this atmosphere, the next four or five tracks flirt more heavily with hip-hop inflected beats and an unmistakable sense of hyper-urban vigilance. Window-rattling tracks such as "Pandemonium" come across like urban audio camouflage meant to defend its users against surveillance by shadowy and invasive entities, while "Screaming Voices" adds infectious EBM sequences to the mix. Just as it seems like the duo is settling in to a groove, the mutant drum-and-bass rhythm and cinematic bombast of "Resisting Authority" strikes with explosive high-tempo energy. "Taking Control" and "Kepler" provide the effective aftershocks to this number, while "Disturbed Reality" closes out the album in an unexpected sense. While many would rely on a reflective, ambient "outro" to help fade listeners back into reality, AnD just keep continuing to deliver the crunching beats and looped warning cries, maybe hinting at the fact that reality is not far removed at all from this record's representation of it.
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EDLX 053EP
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HTID: Heaven-Sent Tekno Impakting Dancefloors, Or Hardcore Till I Die is Calum Macleod and Liam Robertson's third Electric Deluxe record. As was the case with Timeslip Roadmender (EDLX 046EP, 2016) and follow-up An Outrageous Fate Type (2016), HTID is a chomping, foaming, kinda nutty set of industrial techno-jungle half-breeds. They were happy party things once, a long time ago, but after decades festering in a petri dish, they turned mutant and multitudinous -- which is why there are twice as many of them this time. If a pummeling 4/4 is your thing, "Dinner At Skinja's" has you covered. "Quest Posse Wanted" meanwhile is bullet-riddled breakbeat, and "Fallout" is the sound of rave resurrected, rewound, and rolled back out again. "Rush In 2 Orbit (Skinnergate)" shows off the pair's abstract side, which a track like "Panosonics" lashes things down into something more club friendly. Stick "Knuckles' Heavy Vanguard" on to get the masses motivated, then drop "Base Damage" to show 'em you mean business. Once everyone's knees are good and swollen, float "Floatation Advice" as a peace offering, which actually is anything but. No fireworks, no dazzle, just techno at its finest.
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EDLX 051EP
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Dax J's Illusions Of Power is a militant, yet atmospherical dancefloor assault. In "Reign Of Terror", "Harry The Hatchet", "Zulu Nation" and "The Quest", Dax J flexes sinewy techno muscle in his rave-inciting idiom where the new and the old-school collide. Then in the angst-ridden "Cartagena Square" (built around field recordings from Cartagena in South America) and dreamy breakbeats of "Breaking Visions", Illusions of Power present two very different diversions from the dance. In one there is light and a sense of relief; in the other, shadowy omens of the world are massing.
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Clouds (Calum Macleod and Liam Robertson) grow more gnarled, savage, and formidable than ever with four scuzzy techno cuts full of rattling irreverence that settle in nicely between AnD's gunslinging and Sawlin & Subjected's heady, virulent soundscapes. "Maverick Scrabble" dives in without pausing for breath while "Castres Olympique" weaves together dramatic chords, rattles, bells, static noise, and industrial pangs for a densely packed and textural number. "Coast Range Arc" is like a blast from some cavernous subterranean workshop fathoms below the surface, leaving "Polgate Slamen" to close things on a tough, tight, and itchy tip.
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Triple LP version in three-panel gatefold sleeve. LP "Ø" is single-sided. Limited to 350 copies; not to be repressed. Giorgio Gigli presents his debut album, exploring sophisticated ambient layers as much as obsessive and hypnotic techno landscapes. After spending time working on his own Zooloft label and crafting an evolved sound reflected in his DJ sets, Gigli presents his first full-length sonic movie, The Right Place Where Not to Be. It emerges from the depths of his soul and properly filters every musical input he's developed over the years. The album imagines a scenario in which all human and animal lifeforms have perished and only plants and minerals have survived. Gigli performs that concept by writing an ultra-detailed soundtrack to an imaginary movie, using rich textures that reveal new acoustics enhanced by alienating atmospheres that captivate the listener. The album is focused on obsessive rhythms cut on low frequencies, a persistent motion, and a stable tremor. The sky is darkened by laden clouds and stratified sonics that electrify the sound of space. Blooming sensations that cover a wide spectrum alternate from a feverish tension to the lightness of faith. Confines are rejected and techno meets ambient, purging our body of consciousness. A sonic bubble from a faraway era; a timeless atmosphere. The album brilliantly depicts a surreal concept without losing tension. The experience of the music is enhanced by the intricate artwork that expresses Gigli's concept. The black and white photographs were taken in the Dolomites mountain range with an old Hasselblad camera by Marcello and Alessandro Gianvenuti, and subsequently enhanced with watercolor-painted textures. The whole graphical project was curated by Studio Lord Z.
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Giorgio Gigli presents his debut album, exploring sophisticated ambient layers as much as obsessive and hypnotic techno landscapes. After spending time working on his own Zooloft label and crafting an evolved sound reflected in his DJ sets, Gigli presents his first full-length sonic movie, The Right Place Where Not to Be. It emerges from the depths of his soul and properly filters every musical input he's developed over the years. The album imagines a scenario in which all human and animal lifeforms have perished and only plants and minerals have survived. Gigli performs that concept by writing an ultra-detailed soundtrack to an imaginary movie, using rich textures that reveal new acoustics enhanced by alienating atmospheres that captivate the listener. The album is focused on obsessive rhythms cut on low frequencies, a persistent motion, and a stable tremor. The sky is darkened by laden clouds and stratified sonics that electrify the sound of space. Blooming sensations that cover a wide spectrum alternate from a feverish tension to the lightness of faith. Confines are rejected and techno meets ambient, purging our body of consciousness. A sonic bubble from a faraway era; a timeless atmosphere. The album brilliantly depicts a surreal concept without losing tension. The experience of the music is enhanced by the intricate artwork that expresses Gigli's concept. The black and white photographs were taken in the Dolomites mountain range with an old Hasselblad camera by Marcello and Alessandro Gianvenuti, and subsequently enhanced with watercolor-painted textures. The whole graphical project was curated by Studio Lord Z.
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With 2014's Cosmic Microwave Background (EDLX 038CD/LP), AnD delivered a record that fidgeted restlessly between a bleeding dancefloor and more airy machinist musings. This is the first part of a two-part remix EP (preceding EDLX 044EP) featuring a carefully curated cast from techno's outer rim. Speedy J and Lucy as Zeitgeber turn in a polar rework of the album's eerie, soothing closer, "The Surface of Last Scattering." Sleeparchive and O/H (the union of David Foster of Huren and Teste and Orphx's Richard Oddie) both plump for "Power Spectrum," one of AnD's typical sledgehammer works.
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With 2014's Cosmic Microwave Background (EDLX 038CD/LP), AnD delivered a record that fidgeted restlessly between a bleeding dancefloor and more airy machinist musings. This is the second part of a two-part remix EP (following EDLX 043EP) featuring a carefully curated cast from techno's outer rim. Black Rain turn in a polar rework of the album's eerie, soothing closer, "The Surface of Last Scattering," and deliver an overhaul of "Galactic Motion." The multifaceted Justin Broadrick of Godflesh, Techno Animal, Pale Sketcher, and more turns his heavyweight JK Flesh alias on "Non Sky Signal Noise," with ruinous effect.
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With Inevitable Collapse, FAR rejects templates and dancefloor patterns, turning in four works of spontaneous techno contemplations. "Hypocrite" opens with billowy synths weaved into a desolate sci-fi landscape. "Ignite" then wields hand drums and sparse electronic meditations akin to early Shackleton-meets-Aphex Twin through a Polygon Window. "Carrier" is as chugging techno as it gets, albeit haunted by a deconstructive FAR presence. Finally, "Smash the Walls" concludes in rolling waves of unpredictable surf. Recorded in long single takes and produced with solicitous mix-downs, Inevitable Collapse is an intriguing debut for those more peripherally inclined.
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After teaming up with Sawlin to deliver a series of spacy "Texture" works on Foreign Awake Part 1 (EDLX 033LTD-EP) and Pt. 2 (EDLX 035EP), Subjected returns to Electric Deluxe. Known for his thundering, no-holds-barred basement style, Subjected polishes smooth his industrial edges in this rotund and rolling three-track EP. "Krupp" opens in typical rumbling fashion and builds into a gargled mechanical reprieve. "Dolor" applies Subjected's rusted signature to a groovy subzero bassline and blue-note melody, the EP's peak-time lead. "Wute" delivers the venomous hypnotism followers of Electric Deluxe know and love, albeit with a more scuffed and tarnished appeal.
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EDLX 040EP
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Arad is the solo guise of Dara Smith. As half of the duo Lakker with Ian McDonell (Eomac), Smith has released on Blueprint, Stroboscopic Artefacts, and R&S Records. That project, along with his day job as a motion graphics designer, kept Smith fully occupied until now. Haon, Smith's debut release as Arad, fuses years of experience into a veritable feast of intriguing composition. Opening with aptly titled roller "Basswave," the EP ranges through the screwed-up sounds of "Fourty Four" to the staccato march of "Gedup Awa Dat" to warped closer "NCS" -- a record for the headphones and the dancefloor.
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EDLX 039EP
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The sound of DJ Red's Electric Deluxe debut, Duality, is dark and sensual; light yet intoxicating. Simona Calvani's penchant for sultry, minimalist techno, honed over her 15 years of experience as a resident DJ at Rome's renowned Goa Club, is on full display in this three-track EP. Duality displays the command of subtle yet potent timbres that has defined Calvani's career so far. The title track opens with charged and edgy pads before breaking out into a deeply groovy saunter. "Double Vision" rolls grumbling bass through a fog of building atmospherics before "Destiny" concludes on an ambient IDM tip.
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Having honed a clear and uncompromising sound, which has been flexed across all manner of tempos, AnD return to Electric Deluxe with their first full body of work: a sonic contemplation of the cosmos, woven with all their industrial tropes intact. The venomous hats and cavernous rumblings on "Power Spectrum," the caustic squeals of "Acoustic Oscillations" and the anxious pistons in "Gravitational Waves," for example, should instantly resonate with fans of the duo's wanton dancefloor works. But another cataclysmic compilation this is not. Cosmic Microwave Background is a far more composed and calculated affair, which sees the AnD sound assiduously recast into album format. The analog bleeps of "Particle" and grainy textures in "The Epoch of Recombination" are some of the fluctuations that temper AnD's debut album into a solid listening experience, meanwhile exposing some of the pair's fluid and intuitive working process -- with themselves as much as with their machines. Juxtaposing production precision with more freeform composition, Cosmic Microwave Background as an opus is as intriguing and unexpected in its entirety as its individual parts. Not that the album is quite so black and white. There are anomalies such as "Non-Sky Signal Noise" which tread the velveteen grey area in between, with truly rewarding results. On Cosmic Microwave Background AnD have found their door between worlds, and flung it wide open. The sleeve artwork has been created from a series of paintings by AnD themselves, reinterpreted here by EDLX's own in-house designer Jan Willem van de Baan into a set of industrial-evoking pieces inspired by the sound and aesthetics of the album.
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EDLX 038EP
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After a cataclysmic entry into the Electric Deluxe fold, AnD present more pummeling dancefloor works. Melding steely industrial sentiment with their own toolkit of analog-fashioned tropes, AnD have crafted a signature which has allowed them to freewheel through techno's many tomes --and beyond -- without ever straying too far from the mark. "Cosmic Strings" is as delirious as any stone-cold Tresor classic. Then on the flip, "Photon Visibility Function" coils dark and brooding atmospherics round the most malevolent concoction of AnD-isms. This one has been made to split the club right open.
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EDLX 037EP
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Jeff Derringer presents his first solo effort for Electric Deluxe -- a solid two-tracker of rigorous dancefloor material. The EP opens with spitting hats and chugging intent before space-blips, ticks and typical Derringer-charged atmospherics storm in. EDLX mainstay Giorgio Gigli then ups the ante on his variation, with swirling, foreboding strings and muted mutant clicks, turning "Beat to Quarters" into a menacing epic. Jeff goes in weirder with "The Stranger" -- full of itchy claps, crashes, and deep space tones, there's plenty here to keep you busy. The EP concludes with a cool and creeping remix from Voices From The Lake.
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EDLX 036EP
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Bryan Black aka Black Asteroid returns to Electric Deluxe with his most precise and daring invention yet. "Metal" picks up from where the Black Acid EP left off with more sonic alchemies sounding unlike anything else. The former Prince engineer turned Motor front man turned galvanic techno DJ, producer and performer has had an incredible run in his latest guise. Black gets even more contained on the masterfully metronomic "Turbine." Luis Flores and Pinion (Bobby Dowell) then split "Metal" off into its opposing sectors. Flores takes things straight the dancefloor, while Pinion ramps up the noise.
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EDLX 035EP
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The second part of Sawlin & Subjected's Foreign Awake picks up the pace with three more "Textures" halfway between part one's ethereal wanderings and the pair's deeper Vault Series offerings. "Texture 1.1" and "Texture 1.2" wrap typical Vault tropes with acid-washed melodies and grainy distorted pads, turning two rusty, hydraulic workouts into weirder and warmer dancefloor reliefs. "Texture 5" concludes with more yin and yang experiments, pooling Foreign Awake's gentler, dream-like sentiments together with punishing bass, splices of hats and mechanical modulations that keep the reverie in check. Housed in a die-cut sleeve.
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It's clear there's little out of AnD's reach, and they're certainly not bowing down to anyone. Kundalini then, AnD's debut EP for Electric Deluxe, is not something to be taken lightly. The EP opens with a trio of patented AnD-style monsters, cataclysmic techno siblings all venomous and rusted through. It's a dark and unforgiving trail with these guys as drill sergeant, until "IcDbYc," that is. Not quite the calm before the storm, here we have AnD pull back from the bloody onslaught to turn a cleaner, more calculated sort of weapon. Cool and tactical shadow-skulking, trimmed with IDM. This one is just as deadly.
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EDLX 033LTD-EP
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Packaged in a special multicolored art sleeve. Forged in the pitch-black recesses of underground Berlin, Sawlin and Subjected have been making bold, distinct and largely faceless techno from the cloisters of their Vault Series home. Now comes the first in a two-part EP for Electric Deluxe, titled Foreign Awake, a much broodier, spacey homage than we've yet heard from the pair. Swapping their usual gung-ho floor artillery for swirling, atmospheric vistas, subtle tones and cavernous empty spaces, Foreign Awake Part 1 sees Sawlin and Subjected paint chilling, post-apocalypse landscapes in three parts. Deep, dark and dangerously hypnotic, this is Sawlin and Subjected at their most compelling.
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The young Glaswegian is back with more heavy-hitting slabs of his no-nonsense type of techno. Hans Bouffmyhre, real name Stephen Gorrie, has released a frightening number of records for labels like Perc Trax, Viva Music, Soma, and 8 Sided Dice; all the while keeping abreast of a busy gig schedule and manning his just as prolific Sleaze Records. On Catapult, Gorrie plays to his strengths, turning in four blends of tension-building techno crafted with poise and subtlety. "Catapult" is the EP's teasing opener before Gorrie plunges ever further into the aching, growling belly of the beast. "Mesmeric" is as its name suggests -- heady hypnotism in its wildest form. "Pulsing" slams Catapult into sweaty peak-time with pistons and alarm bells, leaving "Secret Strobe" to keep this dystopic party marching well past dawn.
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This is the fifth stand-alone EP from Terence Fixmer for Electric Deluxe, offering three more exquisite samples of what the techno veteran does best. Bells is an homage to the pitch-black dancefloors of the night, with all his hypnotism and industrial hues in place. "Bells" opens with alarm knells and viscous vapors swirling round a lasso-loop. "In Chains" is just as dark, unsettled, and riled with analog sounds. But as midnight begins to dip into eternity, closer "Subspace Two" offers up a lasting sunny reprieve.
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