[12-DIAM] FBK – Untithesis EP

FBK – Antithesis EP
Label: Diametric
Catalog#: 12-DIAM
Format: 12″ Vinyl (limited, handnumbered 300 copies)
Country: Glasgow
Released: 18 June 2012

Tracklist:
A1. Where The World Was Once
A2. Joy Is A Belief In Pain
B1. Slip And The Lock
B2. Forget The Shame

Credits:
 After the successful release of “the expert escapist” 12” on diametric. in late 2010 and the inclusion of the track “nanomal” on last years Music Man Mix CD by Marcel Dettmann, our purveyor of straight no nonsense techno Mr. Kevin M. Kennedy returns with four new slices of dancefloor techno. If you like your techno edgy and direct in your face, this is the record for you. Hailing from Columbus, Ohio, USA, Kevin has already released on Shake’s Frictional label and on the Detroit based Xplor label (as Sleep Engineer) and others, and is a very welcome part of the diametric. family now. 
300 handnumbered limited vinyl copies only. No digital distribution.

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[SMALLVILLELP05] Smallpeople – Salty Days (2LP)

Smallpeople – Salty Days
Label: Small Ville
Catalog#: SMALLVILLELP05
Format: 2xLP, 12″ Vinyl
Country: Hamburg
Released: 18 Jun 2012

Tracklist:
A1: The Loons Groove
A2: And You And You
B1: Salty Days
B2: Say What You Want To Say
C1: Move With Your Vision
C2: Beauclair
D1: Down Over Me
D2: When Its There

Credits:
The debut album of these two young lads with baseball hats not only honours and delves into a sound that already peaked some fifteen years ago, it also hones and elevates it, without ever falling into the Reynoldsmania trap (please see Retromania for further reference) or being old gold retold. And this is all oh-so-clear from the very start: the fine flutes of >When Its There< go straight to your heart and they do so without any self-mockery or hipster smiles as much as the gasping 303-sounds, chirping birds and healing DX-like bass sounds a few tracks later do. >Salty Days< – an allusion not to grim times, but to a certain members adoration for the crystalline mineral – is blessed with a coherence that isnt samey, with tradition that isnt leaden and a feeling that is pure.

[HJRCD/LP67] Mortiz Von Oswald Trio – Fetch

Moritz Von Oswald Trio – Fetch
Label: Honest Jons Records
Catalog#: HJRCD/LP67
Format: 12″ Vinyl, CD, Album
Country: London
Released: 18 June 2012

Tracklist:
1. Jam
2. Dark
3. Club
4. Yangissa

Credits:
The Moritz Von Oswald Trio operates at the bleeding edges where musical lineages collide. Feeling for the shared heartbeat that pulses through dub, techno and jazz, it seeks out points of contact before exploding them outward into hypnotic explorations of rhythm, texture and tone. After two previous studio albums and one live album through Honest Jon’s, the Trio — Moritz von Oswald, Max Loderbauer (NSI / Sun Electric) and Sasu Ripatti (Vladislav Delay / Luomo) — returns with Fetch, their most fully‐realized voyage yet into these in‐between worlds.

At once umbilically connected to and completely distinct from all the musics that they draw from, the Trio’s subliminal musings on the connections between musical forms are expressed by Fetch as a series of beguiling contradictions. Rigid vs. fluid; playful vs. deadly serious; machine vs. human; sensual vs. austere: all of these seemingly opposing forces are allowed to intermingle across four longform tracks, sometimes played off against one another, occasionally brought together in tense unison before springing apart once again. This is crackling, charged music — electronica performed live, the players’ neural impulses flowing into their instruments. Fetch further cements the Moritz Von Oswald Trio’s status as a unique voice in modern electronic music — as supple, intuitive and alive as the most exploratory of jazz.

Recorded in August 2011, Fetch finds von Oswald, Loderbauer and Ripatti in a darker and more driving mood than on previous albums. Joined by ECM’s Marc Muellbauer on bass (from second album Horizontal Structures) and Tobias Freund (for the first time since debut Vertical Ascent), to add live effects in real time, they laid down the foundations swiftly, with the entire recording completed in around four hours. Later, instrumental overdubs were added by Jonas Schoen (flute, bass clarinet, saxophone) and trumpeter Sebastian Studnitzky.

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