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SPCTR 020LP
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In Ciro Vitiello's debut album, personal memories are recognized as bouncy, as unreliable and tricky, moving up and away when approached, dipping into the haze of the subconscious. Dreams are thus given shape by memory itself. The Island Of Bouncy Memories is, for Vitiello, a place populated as much by reveries and hypnagogic impressions as by the marks of childhood experiences. A threshold between the comfortable embrace of nostalgia and the acceptance of adulthood. The album first grew out of a library of recordings of toys initially collected by Vitiello as a backdrop for his wide-weave synthetic fabric. Developing those initial sketches into what was then to become his debut album, the Naples-born artist intended these 13 tracks as a continuous flux of undeciphered impressions, with repeating motifs phasing in and out of its cloudy ambience, punctuating the inevitable waves of melancholy with delicate melodic structures. The contributions by vocalist Zimmy, vocalist/guitarist CRÆBABE, and guitarist Attilio Novellino were crucial not only in expanding the sonic palette of the album, but also in cultivating its themes and poetic scenarios through an intense and sincere exchange of personal experiences, recurring dreams and childhood remembrances with Vitiello. CRÆBABE's lyrics in particular feel like an adult counterpoint to the more childlike elements of the album; a map of murmured relics and epiphanies as she sits in conversation with herself. The emotional depth of the music makes the waters surrounding the Island feel like an ocean of pure sensitivity, their tides marking the passing of time, causing a drift through images and realities. At times, the island can be populated by surreal appearances like the talking animals that recur in Vitiello's dreams. In other occurrences, it can manifest as tragic real-world counterparts like the Island of Nisida, off the coast of Naples, host to an infamous youth detention center. The Island Of Bouncy Memories feels like a puzzling journey, a meditative reconnection with the past as viewed through a newer, more surreal perspective. It's a rework of the pain of growing up into blossoming hope. It also marks the first ever co-prodction between Hundebiss and Haunter Records, assembling two of the main actors in the Italian electronic and experimental scene into an unprecedented joining of forces.
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HR 029CD
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The Jutlandia Quartets offers immersive subversions of the classical music genre. The new album from the Copenhagen-based instrumental ensemble Boli Group, presented by Haunter Records, is a collection of monochromatic uneasy pieces that manifests the negative emotions of a bad homecoming. A non-forced power play with the institutions of "classical music".
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SPCTR 017LP
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Even The Chimera is the debut album by Wild Terrier Orchestra, a new project by Dimitris Papadatos, aka Jay Glass Dubs, based on interchangeability and open improvisation. A newer, freer incarnation of Papadatos's creative intent, the project acts more like an open container of disparate and idiosyncratic contributions from a mutable cast of musicians and artists. Often times not provided according to a pre-planned structure, these contributions are actually more likely to arrive in the form of free improvisations, unconnected musical segments and fragmented splinters of sound. This allows Papadatos to aggregate all the constituent parts according to an intuitive process that bridges between the detailed craft of electronic music production and surrealist techniques such as the cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse) and the cut-up. It's both a harmonization of contrasting tones and a research for commonality within difference, although none of the wild terriers are ever nearly tamed. Unsurprisingly, the main inspiration for this new chapter came from a pinnacle of avantgarde literature: poet Andreas Embirikos's, considered Greece's first surrealist and all-out paradoxical figure. Specifically, this release is guided and instigated by his poem "OKTANA", in which Embirikos inscribes a manifesto for a hedonistic utopia years ahead of any accelerationist theories, bursting with contradicting presences and mutating identities. Written in the aftermath of the Greek civil war, the poem calls for a time of eternal poetry and spiritual intoxication that can only be reached through a painful process of violent deconstruction. Thus, Even The Chimera was born: a culmination of Papadatos's decades long research on traditional Greek and Byzantine music, free jazz and free improvisation. Firmly spread between two side-long tracks, the contributions of American singer and musician Cruel Diagonals on vocal duties as well as Greek artist and musician Fotini Korre on ney suggest the existence of a filament that connects the west and the east through the creation of "possible musics". This happens in accordance to Papadatos's practice of a counterfactual approach to the process of what music history dictates. It is also directly shaped by the musician's frequent dwellings in the isle of Cyprus, a land in which the clash of worlds and culture has often taken both violent and beautiful shapes. The long drones, acoustic ghosts, and unbalanced choirs that form the album seem to call from the Mediterranean itself, not only from its history but also from its possible futures and unreal narrations, invoking it as a nexus of diversity and possibility.
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SPCTR 016LP
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LEGENDO is a work of sonic weird fiction. A pulp fantasy. A descent through the cracks in reality, punctuated by bizarre encounters and freaky transformations. It oozes an odd mixture of wonder and fear, a fascination with whatever might be lurking around the next unlit corner, met with relentless excitement and leading towards ghastly discoveries. Like a vision of a new mythological age, one that aims more at subverting and making fun of itself than educating towards any kind of morality. Or a self-conscious fantasy RPG turning into a full-on immersive experience. The author, Lubomir Grzelak AKA Lutto Lento, arranged this eccentric narrative as a follow up to his previous LP, the ominous Dark Secret World, while also settling out to subvert the atmosphere of that record. In his Haunter debut he embraces his own quirkier side, delving further into eerie derision and surreal trickery. He achieves that by remodeling his penchant for heavy bass and gloomy dub into a kind of otherworldly folk music, drawing in de-territorialized string instruments, cheeky digital sound design, Coil-ian horror synths, and drums that remind as much of heavy metal as of Hollywood neo-classicism. It is by pushing the envelope on the most contradictory elements that LEGENDO ascends to a form of mocking poetry. Many weird characters are encountered through the narrative: from the various musicians that contributed to the music (such as vocalist John Glacier, guitarist Adam Repucha and koto player Katarzyna Karpińska), but also many fringe fascinations that hail from Grzelak's native Poland: from the 1897 painting "Skarby Sezamu" by Stanislaw Wyspiański that inspired the track of the same name, to the delirious paganism of outsider artist Stanislaw Skukalski, to the lullaby referenced in "Iskiereczka". These entities all dwell inside LEGENDO and conduct its chapters, rendering the liminal dimension of its sound as real as it is in its creator's mind.
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SPCTR 015LP
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Haunter Records present Left My Brain @ Can Paixano (La Xampanyeria) OST, the follow-up to Jesse Osborne-Lanthier's As The Low Hanging Fruit Vulnerabilities Are More Likely To Have Already Turned Up (Halcyon Veil, 2016); Unalloyed, Unlicensed, All Night! (raster-noton, R-N 119EP), and Absolute Garbage EP (Haunter Records). A project five years in the making, unapologetically grandiose, dotted by contributions from dear friends Asaël Robitaille, v1984, and Marie Davidson; Left My Brain... is Osborne-Lanthier's most ambitious work to date. Musically, Osborne-Lanthier looks to the material composition techniques of grime, rap, modern classical, sound art, heavy metal, and more, to create something that is readily unique and oddly accessible in its singularity. Above all, Osborne-Lanthier maintains a taste for intensity as a tool for immersive engagement. The tracks on Left My Brain... are tactile and elastic, morphing rapidly from uncanny-valley EDM tropes to vast, sweeping expanses of sincere choral synths. The LP provides stark contrasts at every turn; sometimes heavily structured or freely fluid; symphonic or dissonant; minimal or intricate. Comes with double sided, silk-screened fold-out insert.
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HR 023CS
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Acolytes exists in the space between detailed sound craft and unruly sonic entropy. A place of unorthodoxy filled with the demolition of language, tropes, functions, machinery. In Stress II, his first Haunter release, London-based producer Denesh Shan creates a meme-like re-imagination of free improvisation through the lens of sample manipulation, drifting from bewildered percussion hits to utter tonal deflagration. This renders the tape a peculiar soup of electronic dirt in which vocal clippings of circle jerk online discourse and glitch-ridden discord mirror a headspace filled with hundreds of conflicting thoughts. Inspiration and sound sources re-trace the producer's personal history, while delving into low-grade internet folklore and transglobal dance music. The chaos generated by such a radical approach is but a folk song for the contemporary experience, a set of angular emotional vectors sublimated into borderline spiritual energy.
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SPCTR 014LP
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Giorgio Di Salvo signs a new chapter in his Advanced Audio Research: a blast of free-form jungle-ish mayhem, once more released in coproduction with Haunter Records. This time ripe with the furthest experimentations and most far-out cuts coming out of the AAR headquarters. That's right, we're dealing with some serious freakishness: using the same generative process and wicked arsenal of tools as his previous oblation, Di Salvo managed not only to top its rave-ready madness, but also to venture far beyond, arranging the gnarliest noises into wild, crooked beats and mocking melodies. AAR's music is still closely related to the heaviest dance music paradigms like breakcore and flashcore, though it maintains such a unique character and such a distinctive sonic palette that makes it stand within that musical world in a truly refreshing manner. RIYL: Metalheadz, Demdike Stare, Aphex Twin, ZULI, Muslimgauze, DJ Rashad.
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SPCTR 006EP
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2017 release. Tregua, Petit Singe's debut on Haunter Records, was released in 2014. The five tracks that compose Akash Ganga construct a sonic scenario that brings Hazina Francia's mix of post-club sensibilities, and reminiscences of her native India directly into space, injecting her tabla-led polyrhythms with cinematic sound design. Francia's talent for gracious meditative moments is here constantly mutating into unprecedented heavier tones, letting the moments of melodic reverie and those of sheer percussive intensity strengthen each other.
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SPCTR 013EP
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Samuel "S S S S" Savenberg is one of the earliest members of the Haunter Records crew, presenting his project through 2014's Administration Of Fear. Since 2015's Just Dead Stars For Dead Eyes though (HG 1702LP), Haunter has become the home for his most experimental releases. Absence ventures even further into those same lands: traversed by telluric bass phenomena, over-scaled waves of sound and kinetically charged breakbeats (ripe with processed 808 drums) or crumble into digitized bits. Fellow Swiss producer Gil provides with a remix, combining a slowed-down dembow beat with the doomy electronics of the original.
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SPCTR 012LP
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AAR is a project by Milan-based producer, DJ and designer Giorgio di Salvo. First Grade is his first record under this name, self-released in collaboration with Haunter Records, the first chapter in a new series dedicated to tonal and rhythmic experimentation. Advanced Audio Research is the ironic definition of this new music course of his, a nod to the large amount of esoteric studio gear accumulated and (ab)used during the years. The project itself is the result of years of study and experimentation with generative music matrices, based on the application of a three-dimensional array of variables and unknowns to algorithmic pattern creation. The result is punishing, close to the most radical exploits in ear-wrenching breakcore, footwork and jungle, albeit with a sonic and structural finesse that reveals the producer's manic dedication. Track A-4 is produced in collaboration with Somec and B-01 in collaboration with Heith, channeling abstract and melancholic vibes into the project. Vinyl edition of 100, each wrapped in unique hand-printed folder.
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SPCTR 011EP
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Haunter Records co-founder and former member of Cage Suburbia, Daniele Guerrini delivers a new release as Heith. Heith hands in three tracks of meditative beauty, each one conceived as a build-up of layers and variations around a different theme. The track "Maria", also features longtime collaborator Matthias Girardi AKA Weightausend, adding facets and nuances to the tune's design. "Laguna" is a polychrome electronic dreamscape, in which the ritualistic character that undergoes all of Heith's production assumes new forms. Lacerating the texture of consciousness into a different realm, held together by idiosyncratic laws of physics.
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SPCTR 010EP
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Zuli's new offering Trigger Finger is a game of shadows, bass weight, and outworked tension. A kind of extremization of Zuli's own roots as a beatmaker for the Cairo rap scene, tinged with the urbanism of grime and darkside jungle. But the dark and crusty sonic palette does not limit the possibility for the tracks to display various layers of emotional content. It is Zuli's most cohesive, complex and original work to date, exhibiting his constant growth as an artist.
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SPCTR 009EP
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On his first release for Milan's Haunter Records, Berlin-based producer Broshuda generates simple yet complex emotional vignettes. Evading all definitions, he makes use of an array of tools and techniques akin to those of classic dub and contemporary sound design on obscure/random equipment, drawing from a limited pool of sound sources while paying a lot of attention to detail in the construction of sound. His post-rave power ambient poems coalesce with a pronounced melodic element, giving the release a profoundly introspective and earthy character, blurring and masquerading different layers of sound into new forms and shapes. "Goscha" features Vuptes.
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SPCTR 008EP
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Four remixes of Petit Singe's Akash Ganga (2017) curated by members and friends of the Haunter Records extended family. Danse Noire boss and spiritual explorer Aisha Devi combined elements from all tracks of the album with her own production to assemble "Necromedia". Haunter veteran Weightausend delivers a psycho-dub version of the frantic "OXO", while Zuli (VENT, UIQ) deconstructs the same track turning into a kind of post-human and post-colonial beat he labeled "Astrogangsta". The final track is an alteration of "27.09.87" by Canadian experimenter Jesse Osborne-Lanthier, who let it mutate like a self-sufficient bio-digital organism.
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SPCTR 007LP
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sold out; back vinyl repress forthcoming.... John T. Gast's Inna Babalon was originally published as a cassette on Gast's 5 Gate Temple in 2016. An important offering in the British producer's output. Revitalizing Anglo-Saxon folklore through bassy dub magic. Haunter Records is now remedying the physical unavailability of the album by giving it renewed life as a limited double-LP.
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