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UTON 014EP
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Mark releases a new EP called Integriert Euch Nicht. "Fucking Sick Of Myself Since Day One (Hot Desk Mix)" and "Hats Off To Herr. F" were first performed at Mark's 2018 Berghain live set during Ostgut Ton Nacht. The former is a breakcore-adjacent call to arms for the self-loathing, the latter an Antarctic shiver of predator-mode IDM-illektro. "Integriert Euch Nicht (Commercial Jump Up Mix)" features singing from Blackest Ever Black alum Silvia Kastel and sax-like sounds from Wilted Woman playing the aerophone, an electronic woodwind instrument. Otherwise, it's Mark's most deliberately straight-ahead drum & bass track to date.
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UTON 013EP
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On her Unterton debut, Their Specters, Borusiade offers four different takes on atmospheric, industrial electronics and chopped rhythms. "Forewarned Is Forearmed" sets the tone as a massive drum march, stomping forward between rolling snares, clanging metal percussion, and guttural drones, while evolution-themed "Common Ancestor" is a tribal head-nodder, with booming sustained kicks offset by overdriven snare brushes and fluttering synths. On "Doublethink" wailing synths and stuttering rhythms vie for dominance in a storm of off-kilter techno, while the mammoth, slow melodic closer "Atlas" moves to the pace of waves crashing and hypnotic, detuned, interwoven melodies.
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UTON 012EP
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Unterton presents three tracks of high-octane electronics by Mark. 0-160 BPM in 15 minutes. On his Unterton debut, Mark continues further down a path of dark and psychedelic beat science. At times tranquil and hypnotic, other times charging forward between cracked whips and whiplash left-turns.
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UTON 011EP
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Berlin-based New Yorker Phase Fatale debuts on Unterton with Anubis. "Hollow Flesh" starts with an oppressive, regimented beat sequence reminiscent of angst-ridden, sci-fi scenarios. "Anubis" opens with an atmospheric intro until a kick sets the tone for a more straightforward, hypnotic, and cold techno cut -- heady and gloomy. "Wound" ignites some harassing fire: what abruptly starts off like a classic techno-meets-sizzling-noise track soon alters to a more tribal, snare-led industrial cut. "The Size Of God" stands out with a more introverted, slow, broken rhythm structure, looped drones, opaque-distorted voice transmissions, and swelling synth melodies.
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UTON 010EP
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Berlin producer Somewhen presents his Null EP. The techno cut "Inward" a pounding kick drum with percussive elements adding a rich layer of bleeps and clicks. "Grit" resets the tempo using of hypnotically slow-picked bass, shimmering synth melodies from far spaces and a ruptured rhythm progression. "Null Drift" picks up the pace and kick again and keeps relentlessly going throughout its six minutes, adding swelling then decaying synth pads, while drones and acute percussion cater for relief. "Diskret" closes with a targeted and straight rhythm, lashing claps, meandering melodies and protruding drum machine slaps.
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UTON 009EP
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Nitam presents Cancellate EP taking a similar line as his debut Retold EP. Nitam outlines once again his interest in dance music from the late '80s and early '90s, without limiting himself to a restricted pallet of styles. "Keen Insight" has an almost romantic, dreamy and hazy vibe. "Perception" is a more functional and club-enabled cut, taking shape with an acid-informed bassline and moaning synth pads. "Influx" features a springy, muffled yet muscular kick alongside a rising synth line. "Cancellate" has an almost dubstep-like, placid rhythm progression and drive while being dominated by ceremonial synth pads and keyboard speckles.
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UTON 008EP
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Ukraine-born, Berlin-based producer and DJ Etapp Kyle follows his contribution to the 2015 Ostgut Ton | Zehn compilation and two 12"s on Ben Klock's Klockworks label with his debut on Unterton. The fazing bleeps, synths, and subdued claps of the atmospheric "Opto" precede "Ahora," which builds upon this vibe with more asynchronous drum patterns, well-placed drips of melody, distant pulses, mesmerizing pads, and hints of rattles. "Continuum" counteracts industrial hammer jabs and reduced, puzzling synth pads with a steady, stubborn kick. "Limb" contrasts unconventional pulsating, hypnotic synth tones with sharp claps and snare sounds, rounding off this 12" of futurist techno.
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UTON 007EP
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Berlin-based collective Σ (pronounced "summe") offers some hyper-textural and -percussive music. "These tracks should be regarded as an invitation. We would like to approach change, the new, and unknown with an open mind in order to challenge our perception of union and normality. We understand this music as a consolidation of communicative events which intends to interlink and encourage appreciation of complex differences through friction, interference, and beat instead of renouncing them by establishing perfect harmony... we focus on a joint musical and physical experience which also intends to make the impossible feasible." --Σ, Berlin, January 2015
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UTON 006EP
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Berlin-born and -based Nitam's first release as a producer immediately gives a clear impression of his versatile production style. Whereas the record as a whole gauges dark, vibrating spaces, its subtle details bristle with musicality, be it the gradually building layers of melody ("Retold"), the strikingly euphoric vocal snippets ("Value Time"), the chilled synth lines ("Exiam"), or the meandering sound pads ("Neotyp"). With modulating rhythmic structures, dry percussion slaps, straightforward milling bass drums, and late '80s- and early 90's-inspired house elements, the Retold EP does not follow a single, rigid master-plan and should please techno and breaks devotees alike.
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UTON 005EP
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The fifth release on Ostgut Ton's sister label, Unterton, is an obscurely-titled EP from Kobosil. After a self-released debut, his second EP places him somewhere between noise, techno and the verve for sobriety. . The opening track merely insinuates futurism; through its cadence with analog connotations, "Contact" places itself firmly between years past and tomorrow. Both the throbbing, psychedelic sci-fi theme of "Aggregate" and the emphatic, steadily-rising synth-line of "Osmium" may be called purist techno. The EP concludes with "Herschel" and underlines what constitutes Kobosil's music: singularity.
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UTON 004EP
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The Black Dog presents a new sound somewhere between house and techno that they call Darkhaus. The original version of "Council Flat Emptiness" is a futuristic, disco-tinged version of a progressive dancefloor workout bathed in strings, mellow melancholia and heavy bass. This is preceded by a stripped-down version that multiplies the hypnotic elements of the original. On the B-side, a nine-minute remix from Luke Slater's L.B.Dub Corp project drives the original into classic Slater territory where techno and groove marry and electrify each other.
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UTON 003EP
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The third U-Ton release enters the merry world of post-disco and proto-house, mirrorball fantasies, baby powder dreams and rays of sunshine. Manhooker are Guiddo (music) and Mavin (vocals) who were brought to the attention of Ostgut Ton by nd_baumecker. "Wheels in Motion" and "Club Anonymous" both got the club remix treatment by Rotciv (The Rimshooters, Mister Mistery) who delivers clever and respectful dancefloor adaptations without destroying their peppy pop appeal.
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UTON 002EP
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Gerd Janson (head of Running Back) and Phillip Lauer (DJ, producer and 50% Arto Mwambe) step out of remix mode and release their first 12" of original tracks as Tuff City Kids. The EP is released as a hand-stamped yellow label in a green generic paper sleeve and is the second release on Ostgut Ton's new sub-label, Unterton.
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UTON 001EP
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Ostgut Ton launches a sub-label that will feature remixes of tracks that have been released on the mother-label Ostgut Ton. Unterton will also release other Ostgut Ton-related or befriended artists and one-off projects. The releases are presented as stamped white labels with track details only. Tobias. starts the remix series with two tracks from his album Leaning Over Backwards (OSTGUT 018CD/009LP). Efdemin remixes the title-track and Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer give "Girts" the remix treatment.
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