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PMCW 001EP
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Adventurous, abstract, and deeply up-for-it rave music from Code Walk, a young Danish duo picked up for Peder Mannerfelt Produktion's first release of 2019 with Distance. They're most thrilling when they go fast, far-out, and near-weightless, as with the mercurial flow of opener "Distance", and with the scudding ghetto-tech bounce of "Red", and their smudged power ambient ace, "The Same As Me". The other tracks are perhaps more conventionally 'floor-focused, from the flinty breakbeat and noise jag of "Touch", to the soggy bass drum march and sci-fi synth strokes of "Streak", and the squared-off, cranky, Surgeon-esque buck of "Monitor".
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PM 003LP
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Fever Ray producer Peder Mannerfelt plays into the widest angles of his "power ambient" sound on Daily Routine, a killer study into the way rave music intersects domestic life. The ten tracks range from decade-old productions to hyper new cut-ups of his brother's records, bought in London in summer '88, but all betray an increasing embrace of complexity and layered, asymmetric design that will keep his ever-growing mob of followers fascinated at every turn. The preceding single track "Temporary Psychosis (VIP)" is a definitive highlight, riding the finest line between deadly rave function and pranging unpredictability, while other dance floor highlights come on strong in the pointillist rave puncture of "Sissel & Bass", featuring a killer vocal by Sissel Wincent, and the rabid churn of "This Machine Shares Memes". But that would be to neglect the album's central psychedelic nature and the way it will be used, at home, in prosaic domesticity, where the far-flung and undulating topography of pieces such as the sardonic "Introductions & Aspiration", the darkside creep of "Cigarettes (Eurofierceness Mix)", and the exasperated rave of "How Was Your Day? (Numb)" will likely induce listeners to laugh, bruk out, curl up, and climb the walls in their own personal space. RIYL: Autechre, Marie Davidson, Aphex Twin, Fever Ray. Edition of 300, includes a hand-painted insert made by Peder and his kids.
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PMIK 001EP
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Boston's Isabella Koen debuts on Peder Mannerfelt Produktion with Whistle, a personalized batch of power ambient aces, following the lead of Sissel Wincent with five curious explorations of high-velocity techno and queered electronic atmospheres. Slipping snugly and frictionally into Peder Mannerfelt's label, Isabella plays out a rudely jagged sound strung out between ostensibly opposing yet complementary poles of banging dance music and introspective tonal arrangements.
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PMSW 002EP
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Inspirational Quotes is Stockholm-based Sissel Wincent's killer second charge of buzzing techno. It follows her remix of Fever Ray's "Wanna Sip". "Ponytails" starts with roving kicks scanned by searchlight synths and an ice-cold melody, while "Cynical" holds that glaring sound in clenched suspense with a push-and-pull of jarring atonalities. On "Yellow Lines" Sissel swerves closer in effect to the primitivist bangers of Frak with unflinching style, but an element of trippy emotive pathos creeps in with the curdled synths smeared over militant steppers' ballistics on "Still Undetermined", before "Distance As Distance" holds her anti-banger stance with bruising, abrasive force.
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PMSH 001LP
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Crack shot wiry techno from Stockholm's Simon Haydo, putting his trusted Korg MS-20 through its paces for Peder Mannerfelt Produktion after showcasing the semi-modular synth's myriad permutations on Avian, Hivern Discs, and Studio Barnhus in recent years. Working shades away from Peder Mannerfelt's less-is-more style, Haydo becomes the latest in a line of producers stretching from Suicide through Fad Gadget and Powell to fetishize and utilize Korg's classic, tactile little box for everything from kick drums to melodies and anything between. However, The Illusion of an Alternative Choice would simply be an academic exercise in asceticism if it weren't for the remarkable diversity of sounds Haydo generates from his chosen bit of kit. Like Lorenzo Senni with his Roland JP-8080, or Mark Fell with the Yamaha DX7, Haydo reveals a wealth of variation from the Korg MS-20, reveling in its textured gradients and tweaky integers between the pulsating, viscous morph and off-kilter dissonance of "Let Know" to the search-and-destroy 'ardcore mentasm-style licks of "Not For You?", through the dry, blocky roller "The Go!", to the sharp-cut jack-beat of "Parade Of Unhappy" and unstable cosmic fuss of "Out". In effect, by proving you can create a whole record with lots of variation, but only using one synth, Haydo also cocks a cool snook at those n00b producers with expensive banks of kit who produce the most prosaic, tepid and gridlocked house -- basically proving that it's not what you've got, but how you use it. Edition of 300.
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PM 005EP
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Peder Mannerfelt, one of techno's most prominent prism pushers, follows work on Fever Ray's Plunge album (2017) to open 2018 with The 3D Printed Songbook, dispatched through his Stockholm-based personal imprint. Mannerfelt pursues a signature blend of raved-up smarts with cutting-edge sound design on The 3D Printed Songbook. Mannerfelt gets into gear with a pendulous but stuttering, sleek and jagged deep house/dancehall curl to open, before circling through recoiling slow techno, heavy-lidded yet visceral ambient tones, to stripes of Viking acid jack and the kind of depth charge dub techno that keeps Mika Vainio's memory in earshot.
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