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Label: Tronic
Catalog#: TR101
Release date: 18-02-2013
Source: WEB, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 361 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Tech house, Techno

Tracklist:
1. Elevation (3:15)
2. A Modern Ritual (7:53)
3. Black Unicorn (6:49)
4. Rooftop Party (1:28)
5. It Matters To Me (5:43)
6. From The Edge (6:40)
7. Vesier (7:20)
8. Android Lover (3:31)
9. Hicom (7:11)
10. Abstral (6:07)
11. Future Noir (5:34)
12. Nation (6:13)
13. The Choice Album (4:46)
14. Origin (6:40)
15. Origin Album [Continuous DJ Mix] (78:40)

Having spent much of the past year detouring with the gamut of his sound, Catalonian futurist Dosem has decided to execute his “lifelong conception project” and launch his album ‘Origin’ in 2013. Released as part of trilogy album series through Christian Smith’s Tronic label ‘Origin’ gives rise to a self-discovery project in which Dosem is seeking to craft a body of work that possess a timeless quality. The focus of the album is to demonstrate a past, present and future perspective on his sound through musical landscapes and inspired themes bringing to the musical cauldron his influences from film, art and life. ‘Origin’ is Dosem’s artist alleyway to highlighting this transformation in culture through his own musical expedition. A futuristic flirt for the most frenzied of souls.

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Label: Soul Candi Records
Catalog#: 6009701576252
Release date: 22-02-2013
Source: WEB, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 172 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Vocal House, Soulful House

Tracklist:
1. You Make Me (6:01)
2. Love Jones [Dr Mbee Recon Mix] (5:54)
3. The Light [Dr Mbee Old School Mix] (6:43)
4. Bebetheni (7:14)
5. I Found Love (6:34)
6. Your Love [Dr Mbee Deepmental] (6:26)
7. When Love Meets the Funk (7:40)
8. Mbuso’s Revenge (6:10)
9. Reminded (5:23)
10. Bye Bye (7:12)
11. Humm (6:46)
12. Woza (6:28)

Mbuso is one of the biggest names in South African house music . After taking the prime weekend dance slot on YFM Radio in early 2000 he teamed up with partner Harael Salkow and bought the Sugartrax vinyl store in Rosebank. So DJ Mbuso is a household name dating from way back. And now, DJ Mbuso is back!! For a while it seemed he had disappeared completely from the South African house music landscape… but really it seems that all he actually wanted to do was write music and produce his own beats, which is what his done here for this album, which is sure to cause a mad stir with hottest produced tracks this year. This will most defintely be a must get house album for the year.

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Label: Viva Recordings
Catalog#: VV9829
Release date: 18-02-2013
Source: WEB, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 139 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Deep House

Tracklist:
1. Summerside feat. Atnarko (7:24)
2. On My Mind (6:40)
3. Distance & Love (6:26)
4. Smiles In My Sleep feat. Phillip Charles (6:07)
5. Algonquin (5:57)
6. Breed (6:33)
7. Wet Sands feat. Andrew Grant (7:44)
8. Wes Pratt feat. Andrew Grant (7:10)
9. Dig (8:17)

Emerging from their 15 year celebration, Viva continues on strong with Afterhours, a 9-track album from Baltimore-based producer Lomez. This thing’s got as much range as it does depth with subtle yet sophisticated tracks, aimed at taking things deeper post bar-closing time and beyond. Starting with the jazzed-out and airy “Summerside feat. Atnarko”, things quickly enter deep and dark tech-house territory with “On My Mind”. From there we take a breather with the washed-out and atmospheric downtempo cut “Distance and Love” before picking up the tempo again and heading back into dancey and modern-retro vibes with “Smiles in My Sleep feat. Phillip Charles”. “Algonquin” takes us even further with a stabby bass line and stompy rhythm. “Breed” is the techiest cut on the album, hallmarked by its brooding bass work and robotic vocal line, an afterhours track if there ever was one. “Wet Sands feat. Andrew Grant” follows with a slow-burning house line. “Wes Pratt feat. Andrew Grant” keeps the energy levels up and the acid flowing before finally closing with the dubbed-out and dreamy disco cut “Dig”. Afterhours is set to be released on February 18th, 2013 through most digital outlets. Thanks for listening and as always, thanks for the support!

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Label: XL
Catalog#: XLDA583
Release date: 26-02-2013
Source: WEB, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 99 mb
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Experimental Rock, Indietronica

Tracklist:
01. Before Your Very Eyes (5:44)
02. Default (5:15)
03. Ingenue (4:27)
04. Dropped (4:34)
05. Unless (4:53)
06. Stuck Together Pieces (5:31)
07. Judge Jury and Executioner (3:29)
08. Reverse Running (4:58)
09. Amok (5:25)

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Label: Oh! Stockholm
Catalog#: OHRC 001
Release date: 20-02-2013
Source: WEB, Compilation
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 223 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Deep House

Tracklist:
1. Dana Bergquist & Peder G – Hubbabubba (Drop Out Orchestra remix) (06:54)
2. Dana Bergquist & Peder G – Hubbabubba (Sunshine Jones remix) (06:26)
3. Sachrias & Aslak – Lihasa (Dirt Crew remix) (06:19)
4. Sachrias & Aslak – Kassler Funk (Saalim remix) (07:04)
5. Daniel A Sollscher – To Get Her (Alain Ho Mental Beauty remix) (06:46)
6. Daniel A Sollscher – To Get Her (pothOles remix) (06:25)
7. Daniel A Sollscher – And We Drove (Tigerskin remix) (07:26)
8. pothOles – Poka (Alex Arnout remix) (07:24)
9. pothOles – Warthog (Dana Bergquist & Peder G remix) (06:26)
10. Luke Fair – There Is No Light (Soul Minority remix) (08:02)
11. Luke Fair – There Is No Light (Rhythm Operator remix) (07:47)
12. Rhythm Operator – The Struggle (Dana Bergquist & Peder G remix) (07:46)
13. Rhythm Operator – Like A Star (Eric Timpleton remix) (07:47)
14. Lee Webster – It Feels (Climbers remix) (05:55)
15. Lee Webster – It Feels (Jon Celius remix) (06:08)

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Label: Prime Numbers
Catalog#: PNLP03
Release date: 18-02-2013
Source: WEB, Albun
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 91 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Deep House

Tracklist:
01 – Hindsight
02 – Tes une pute
03 – I Want You
04 – Its Slow
05 – Moonlight Kiss
06 – Defunct
07 – Somebody
08 – Long Distance

Trus’me returns to his house roots four years since his soul dose, ‘In The Red’. ‘Treat Me Right’ serves eight tracks of lush, immaculate 4/4 with highlights in the electro-edged ‘Hindsight’, and the whirring, A Guy Called Gerald-esque tech flex of ‘I Want You’ on the first plate, plus the jacked-up throbber ‘Somebody’ or the dark-tinted, percolating groover ‘Moonlight Kiss’ on the 2nd. Strong stuff.

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Label: none
Catalog#: none
Release date: 20-01-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 61 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo, Trip-Hop

Tracklist:
1. All I Can Do 04:23
2. Last Call 05:20
3. DLGM 03:20
4. Lay Them Down 04:14
5. Different Field 05:02
6. Diphona 04:34

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Label: Hadra
Catalog#: 361015 2456265
Release date: 20-02-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 177 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dqwntempo, Ambient

Tracklist:
1. Violet Garden (08:36)
2. Rise Of Nature (09:36)
3. Indian Blues (07:17)
4. Arrow Wood (05:45)
5. Inside Lane (07:14)
6. Purple Bird (09:16)
7. Alone In The Night (08:04)
8. Ice Dream (08:44)
9. Morning Glory (05:22)
10. The End (06:29)

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Label: Rat Records UK
Catalog#: RAT001ALB
Source: WEB, Album (Unmixed)
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 296 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Breaks, Breakbeat

Tracklist:
1. Ed Solo, Deekline & Christina Nicola – Gloria Feat. Christina Nicola (3:38)
2. Ed Solo, Deekline & Top Cat – Bad Boys Feat. Top Cat (4:51)
3. Ed Solo, Deekline & Donna Dee – Always R.I.P Feat. Donna Dee (5:10)
4. Ed Solo, Deekline & Darrison – All Gravy Feat. Darrison (4:09)
5. Ed Solo, Deekline & Million Dan – Reload Feat. Million Dan (4:51)
6. Ed Solo, Deekline, Sporty-O & Christina Nicola – Hey Mr DJ Feat. Christina Nicola & Sporty-O (4:03)
7. Ed Solo, Deekline & Gala Orsborn – No No No Feat. Gala Orsborn (5:19)
8. Ed Solo, Deekline & Nu Jam – Countdown (4:35)
9. Ed Solo, Deekline & Gala Orsborn – Hold Your Head Up High Feat. Gala Orsborn (5:03)
10. Ed Solo, Deekline & Christina Nicola – Weekend Lover Feat. Christina Nicola (5:10)
11. Ed Solo, Deekline & Hardy Hard – Can’t Hide It (6:34)
12. Ed Solo, Deekline & AfroWhitey – Ridin (4:23)
13. Ed Solo, Deekline, Million Dan & Kidd Money – Champion Number 1 Feat. Million Dan & Kidd Money (4:33)
14. Ed Solo, Deekline, Darrison & Sweetsounds – Together Feat. Darrison (3:16)
15. Ed Solo & Deekline – You Can Be My Night (4:31)
16. Ed Solo, Deekline & Tenor Fly – Dancehall Tribute Feat. Tenor Fly (3:40)
17. Ed Solo, Deekline, Sporty-O & Dustin Hulton – I Like Girls Feat. Sporty-O (4:58)
18. Ed Solo, Deekline & Million Dan – Blaze It Up Feat. Million Dan (4:27)
19. Ed Solo & Deekline – Blowout (5:38)
20. Ed Solo, Deekline, Dustin Hulton & AfroWhitey – Stay The Night (6:03)
21. Ed Solo & Deekline – Shake The Pressure [Marten Horger Remix] (4:49)
22. Ed Solo, Deekline, Darrison & Rubi Dan – City To City Feat. Darrison & Rubi Dan (4:26)
23. Ed Solo, Deekline & DJ Assault – Gimme (A Piece Of That Booty) Feat. DJ Assault (5:05)
24. Ed Solo, Deekline & Gala Orsborn – Take It Feat. Gala Orsborn (4:52)
25. Ed Solo, Deekline & Shystie – Nu Style [Disco VIP Mix] (5:57)
26. Freefall Collective – Ganjaman [Deekline’s Swagger Jackin VIP Mix feat. Rubi Dan] (5:52)
27. Deekline & Tim Healey – Creeping [Ed Solo & Krafty Kuts Remix] (4:18)

Rifling through booty bass, jungle, soul, breaks, dubstep, drumstep and drum ‘n’ bass with the kind of assurance one might expect from DJs who have sent bodies flying round the room at club venues across the globe for more than a decade, the UK production duo drop a no-nonsense selection of bass music anthems to get your hands in the air as the low-end frequencies move your derriere. This one is the very definition of all killer, no filler: a boisterous, brazen and occasionally barmy trip into the world according to Deekline & Ed Solo. An antidote to chin-stroking hipster beats that are about as likely to get anyone on the dancefloor as Jesus is to be elected the next president of Switzerland.

First up, balearic-tinged opener Gloria, featuring Christina Nicola, is all girls’ night out energy: the perfect summer sizzler to keep you warm as the nights draw in. Next, Top Cat drops in on the frenetic jungle-flavoured Bad Boys, freshening up the famous reggae classic with serious aplomb. The gorgeous Always, with Keats on vocals, ventures into atmospheric dubstep territory, while All Gravy sees Brighton rapper Darrison taking over the mic for a dubby rudeboy breakbeat roller. Recent single Reload is a balls-to-the-wall booty club stormer with the mighty Million Dan blowing up the place, while Hey Mr DJ sees Nicola back in the vocal booth for another satin-smooth, sexygirl anthem with mic support from Florida rapper Sporty-O.

The album’s meaty mid-section belongs to Garla Osborn, who provides driving, confident vocals on the ravey, deep and atmospheric Take It, steps in for the legendary Dawn Penn on dubby drum ‘n’ bass party-starter No No No and finishes with the piano-fuelled breakbeat killer Hold Head. Sandwiched in between, Countdown shows off Deekline and Ed Solo’s ability to flex garage-style with the badboy hype coming from legendary old skool 2-step MC combo Nu Jam.

Wipe the brow. Have yourself a glug of ice cold water, because after all that firepower in the space of just 10 songs, you definitely deserve a break from the fyah. What’s that you say? We’re only half way through. Okay deep breath and on to part two.

First up, Dancehall Tribute takes things in a deep and dubwise direction, with the legendary Tenor Fly reminiscing over supremely funky breakbeats on a track that recalls his chart-topping mid-90s period with The Freestylers. Christina Nicola returns for the classy, lush dubstep number Weekend Lover, and there’s more half-time roughness with rapper Hardy Hard sending down a p-funk flavoured vocal on the tough and rolling Ridin’. Million Dan, Kidd Money and MC Flipside combine forces for the garagey dub-house of Champion Number One, before Sweetsounds turns up to rock the mic on the synthy, disco-tinged Together. You Can Be My Night is a piano-fuelled d ‘n’ b roller with a heavy jump up influence, while I Like Girls, featuring Sporty-O and Vic Bynoe, is a straight-up electro breakbeat booty killer about the joys of dem ladeez. Blaze It Up, featuring Million Dan, sends ballearic guitar over fearsome d ‘n’ b beats and the dirtiest of basslines, while Gimme a Piece of that Booty, with vocals from the legendary Assault, is another roughhouse booty bass anthem.

Rounding out the album, City to City employs the vocal talents of Darrison and Rubi Dan, blowing up the dancefloor with tearing jungle flavours for a track that takes no prisoners. Finally, Shake the Pressure (Martin Horger remix) sends us off into the night with a blinding tech-fuelled booty destroyer.

A spectacular achievement, and an album likely to join the pantheon of great dance music long players, Bounce and Shake is a rare beast in these times of throwaway singles, a 24-track double album that bears repeated listens and works just as well in the home as in the club.

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Label: Hymen Germany
Catalog#: Y 806
Release date: 19-02-2013
Source: WEB, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 155 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental, Ambient, Electronic

Tracklist:
1. Sleepwald 4 (05:23)
2. Diggers (05:03)
3. Vere (02:45)
4. FM Sleep (02:45)
5. C52 (02:22)
6. Plim Mill Wall (06:33)
7. Sleepwald 6 (05:24)
8. Sleepwald 3 (06:33)
9. Dopplereffect (04:40)
10. Bat Magick (03:31)
11. Bare Demon (04:24)
12. Crazy Law (04:54)
13. Ubaad Ramp (08:14)
14. Perfects Creek (05:11)

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Label: Moving Shadow
Catalog#: ASHADOW22CD
Country: UK
Release date: 28-02-2000
Source: CD, Album, Compilation
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 163 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Breakbeat

Tracklist:
1. Battlestar (Corduroy Remix) (5:23)
2. Sonix (Sketch Remix) (6:12)
3. Supernatural (K Remix) (5:30)
4. The Stalker (Timecode Remix) (7:30)
5. Manmade Symphony (Mr Scruff Remix) (6:38)
6. Suspekt Device (The Hightower Set Remix) (6:17)
7. Bodyshock (Aquasky Remix) (7:45)
8. Agitator (Remix) (6:09)
9. Rebirth (London Elektricity Remix) (7:36)
10. Zero Tolerance (Remix) (5:57)
11. Bodyshock (Adam Freeland Remix) (6:24)

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Label: Random Soul
Catalog#: RSR025
Release date: 04-03-2013
Source: WEB, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 174 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Soulful House / House / Nu-Disco

Tracklist:
1 Another Day (Feat. Chuck Love) [5:09]
2 I Live For The Moment (Feat. Kristen Pearson) [4:50]
3 Hooked Upon Your Love [4:24]
4 Are We (Feat. Kyla Sexton) [4:00]
5 One Night Love [5:16]
6 Hard To Love Me (Feat. Kristen Pearson) [5:40]
7 Mysterious [5:10]
8 Problems In Strength [4:43]
9 Falling Away (Feat. Natalie Conway) [4:43]
10 Time To Funk (Feat. Joshua Heath) [4:38]
11 Tribute (Feat. Louis Hale) [4:18]
12 For All Seasons [5:22]
13 Gravity [5:30]
14 Different Personalities [5:10]
15 A Gentle Sea [5:08]

‘Live For The Moment’ is the debut album from Random Soul, the Australian house duo of Yogi & Husky. The duo have made a big impression in recent years with releases for labels including Strictly Rhythm, Bargrooves, Salted and Large. The album, released on their own label, Random Soul Recordings, presents an effortless journey through 15 tracks that cement their position amongst the most established names in Deep and Soulful House circles, while also showcasing their talent in creating Soul, Jazz and Funk gems.

‘Live For The Moment’ incorporates everything from floating vocals and laid-back soulful grooves riddled with live instrumentation, through to bumping, funky club tracks. The album also highlights their talent as songwriters with a string of captivating vocals featuring strong hooks, often performed by Yogi. Six vocal collaborators include well-known West Coast USA artists Chuck Love and Joshua Heath, as well as Natalie Conway, Kristen Pearson, Kyla Sexton and Louis Hale. All are close friends of Yogi & Husky, and the chemistry of the relationships shines through: “Working with friends always makes the job seem more fun too, so doing tracks with people like Joshua Heath and Chuck Love, usually meant more jokes and laughing than ‘work’ per say. We enjoy getting other people in the studio as it creates such a different dynamic”

Listening to these collaborations and the album in full, it’s clear to hear where many of Random Soul’s influences lie, with the house sounds of Miguel Migs, Joey Negro, Grant Nelson and Groove Armada providing a strong focus, alongside funk and soul artists such as Rae & Christian and Smoove & Turrell.

Since 2005, Sydney-based Yogi & Husky have become two of the city’s most well known DJ/Producer exports. Combining their production skills, varied musical talents and their mutual love of Soul, Jazz, Funk, Motown, Disco and everything in-between, they have brought the Random Soul sound alive in clubs, bars and festivals around the world, and delivered hit after hit in house music circles. Their distinct studio sound is typified by Yogi’s keyboards and vocals, and Husky’s jumping bass-lines and driving drums – a sound that has given them a worldwide following and seen them command on-going positions at the top of download store sales charts, while picking up countless licenses of their music to international compilation series’.

The first single taken from the album is ‘Mysterious’ and will feature a Richard Earnshaw remix to be released late January/February 2013.

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Label: Absolute Truth Press
Catalog#: ATPCD-001
Country: Finland
Release date: 1998
Source: CD, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 155 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Drum & Bass

Tracklist:
1. Setting The Scene (1:03)
2. Material Atmosphere (6:41)
3. Meditation (6:45)
4. Descended (8:49)
5. From Shadow (8:49)
6. Substance (7:38)
7. Raga (6:32)
8. Beyond (25:47)

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Label: none
Catalog#: none
Release date: 11-02-2013
Source: WEB, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 84 mb
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Post Rock, Ambient, Shoegaze, Electronic

Tracklist:
1. Looking Back (2:39)
2. Shoreline (3:44)
3. Purpose (2:58)
4. Searching the Sky (4:14)
5. Contact (5:12)
6. Fear Decides (3:45)
7. Come and Go (4:03)
8. Under the Starlit Sky (4:08)
9. No, We Never Had To (5:02)

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Label: Thrill Jockey
Catalog#: Thrill 316
Release date: 19-02-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 115 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental / Vocal / IDM

Tracklist:
1. You (7:02)
2. Very Large Green Triangles (4:43)
3. Mental Radio (3:39)
4. Ross Transcript (2:37)
5. Teen Paranormal Romance (4:47)
6. Tunnel (5:40)
7. In Search Of A Lost Faculty (6:11)
8. Aetheric Vehicle (7:14)
9. E.S.P. (8:03)
10. Ganzfield (∞)

*Excerpts from the album. Now available from Experimedia.net.* *CD version in deluxe digipack with 24 page booklet.* As always, the first Matmos album in five years doesn’t begin with the music itself. It starts with an specific approach, a conceptual framework, and a bold endeavor. Each of the nine tracks that comprise “The Marriage of True Minds” began with Matmos attempting to communicate the methods of their new album to test subjects who were deprived of both sight and sound. It’s a take on the Ganzfeld experiment, of which the Baltimore duo’s last EP was named after. The inspirations proved to be wildly singular: some came in the form of a hummed vocal fragment that was looped and warped, others in a visual depiction that intimated a musical structure to follow.

In translating these sources to song, “Marriage” is often playful and exuberant, exaggerating a voice snippet into an electronic symphony (“Very Large Green Triangles”) or matching what sounds like a Latin marching band with sirens and fire engines (“Mental Radio”). So much sonic material is placed into the album that highlights abound, but “Tunnel” may be Matmos’ crowning achievement on this double LP. The track, which features fellow Baltimore mainstay Dan Deacon, begins with stray scratches of raw guitar that is soon matched by a booming techno beat worthy of a night club dancefloor. “Tunnel” expertly accelerates and slows the swarm of hyperactive sound with a unique swagger until it closes unexpectedly in a fit of coughing.

Yet, for a pop album as varied as “Marriage,” the album is entirely listenable. The styles – ranging from the skittering pulse of tap dancing to the blackened churn of doom metal – are of course eccentric, but they are layered into tight, discernible shapes that are both meticulous and adventurous in a way that electronic pop rarely is. – Ryan Potts, Experimedia

Expanding upon the ambitious premise of their recently released The Ganzfeld EP, Baltimore-based electronic duo Matmos (Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt) are now releasing their first new full-length album in five years : The Marriage of True Minds.

Matmos are known for making toe-tapping rhythmic pop out of odd and unusual sound sources. They have always worn genre loosely, but it’s safe to say that this is the first electronic album to start with tap dancing and end with doom metal, and the only album on which members of Nautical Almanac and the Arditti String Quartet rub shoulders. Comprising stomping techno, eerie synth jams, musique concrete, Latin rhythms, and Ethiopian music, at once at home in the academy, the art gallery, the nightclub and the noise warehouse, the dizzyingly diverse assemblage which is “The Marriage of True Minds” is driven by a tightly unified conceptual agenda: telepathy.

For the past four years the band have been conducting parapsychological experiments based upon the classic Ganzfeld (“total field”) experiment, but with a twist: instead of sending and receiving simple graphic patterns, test subjects were put into a state of sensory deprivation by covering their eyes and listening to white noise on headphones, and then Matmos member Drew Daniel attempted to transmit “the concept of the new Matmos record” directly into their minds. During videotaped psychic experiments conducted at home in Baltimore and at Oxford University, test subjects were asked to describe out loud anything they saw or heard within their minds as Drew attempted transmission. The resulting transcripts became poetic and conceptual scores used by Matmos to generate the nine songs on this album. If a subject hummed something, that became a melody; passing visual images suggested arrangement ideas, instruments, or raw materials for a collage; if a subject described an action, then the band members had to act out that out and make music out of the noises generated in the process of the re-enactment. “The Marriage of True Minds” boasts a promiscuous cast of guest musicians, an array of sonic tactics, and a broad swathe of musical styles, but this diversity is joined together with a common purpose: the translation of this archive of psychic experiments into a delirious hybrid of conceptual noise and electronic pop.

After opening ripples of piano and percussion, the voice of Carly Ptak (Nautical Almanac) whispers lyrics that announce the theme of the album as a whole: “Telepathy / We want to know . . .” The song is a deconstructed cover of “You”, originally written by Leslie Weiner and Holger Hiller (of post-punk legends Palais Schaumberg). A sultry and cryptic ode to the mystery of interpersonal communication, “You” exhibits the odd sound design which is a Matmos trademark: the bassline is an amplified rubber band played by Jason Willett (Half Japanese), and the spiky beats are actually the manipulated sound of a tap dancer shuffling on a stone floor. Joining chamber music to tech-house, “You” acts as a primer for the album as a whole that follows it: a promiscuous cast of musicians from incongruous backgrounds all go under the digital editing knife as they are chopped into tight, surprisingly listenable songs which—for the first time in Matmos’ work- prominently feature vocalists and voices.

Already featured on the “Ganzfeld EP”, “Very Large Green Triangles” is an attention-grabbing slice of Gothic pop that overlays a psychedelic vision of geometrical apocalypse onto a stomping Baltimore club beat. The album version is longer and stranger than the EP version, with a free improv honky tonk piano solo preceding the beat drop. The song is based upon a psychic session with the oddball crooner Ed Schrader (Ed Schrader’s Music Beat), who was convinced to re-sing snippets of his own psychic session to build the song’s lyrical and conceptual hook (the song also boasts a lavish animated video which was much celebrated on the blogosphere).

As the album progresses, each song takes a different transcript as a musical launchpad. “Mental Radio” synchs jubilant Latin percussion onto the jostling and sloshing of water in a bucket, only to collapse into near silence until the ringing of a triangle cues an eruption of boisterous free jazz horns, which are joined by fire engines and a berserk synth invasion. Mirroring the free associative switchbacks within a particularly fevered psychic session, “Ross Transcript” is an exercise in the band’s most beloved musical form, musique-concrete, complete with jarring edits of heavily manipulated voices, cut-up plunderphonic noises, and field recordings. Blowing hot and cold, “Teen Paranormal Romance” drizzles melancholic synths onto booming bass-jeep drops and a gnarled modular bassline played by longtime Matmos collaborator Jay Lesser. Spiked with groans and mutters from noise bro DJ Dog Dick and eerie backing vocals by Dominque Leone, the song is at once fast and slow, at once heart-on-sleeve and ludicrous, not unlike the genre of popular occult fiction for which it is named. (It’s based on DJ Dog Dick’s wordless psychic session.)

A patchwork from multiple sessions, “Tunnel” begins with throat singing from Dan Deacon, whose growls and groans give birth to a relentless techno stomp on which Owen Gardner (from up and coming Baltimore band Horse Lords) plays manic, scrabbling Bo Diddley-esque guitar figures. After breaking down for the whispered delivery of one of the more cryptic utterances from the psychic archive (“there a light at the end of the tunnel . . . but it isn’t daylight”), handclaps and tambourines tighten the groove, which climaxes in a vertiginous synth solo, before the whole thing falls apart in a fit of coughing (Sabbath’s “Sweet Leaf” in reverse?).

“In Search of a Lost Faculty” offers the most dramatic, even disturbing evidence for the pronounced similarity of many of the experimental sessions: over and over, whether male or female, British or American, young or old, the psychic test subjects saw, heard or imagined the presence of triangles. The song gathers every reference to triangles experienced throughout four years of experimentation into a sonic archive of collective imagination, punctuating spoken testimonies about this recurring figure with ominous organ, timpani, and violin played by Ashot Sarkissjan of the Arditti String Quartet. “Faculty” ends with a celestial cloud of vocals by Angel Deradoorian of the Dirty Projects and Clodagh Simonds of Fovea Hex, amid processed swirls of bagpipe. Is this song evidence for the reality of telepathy? Is this song evidence that triangles were kind of trendy four years ago? Listen and judge for yourself.

Based upon the transcript of the psychic session of modular guru Keith Fullerton Whitman, “Aetheric Vehicle” is the last transcript-specific song on the album, and offers a hazy, funky variant on the kind of melodies found in Ethiopian music. Over a cascade of meandering synth played by M. C. Schmidt and intricate rhythms made out of the sampled sounds of Chinese checkers and handcuffs, a kind of mutant hybrid of African music and R & B crystallizes. This heady mix is capped with the smoky, wordless wails and moans of Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak, Flock of Dimes), who ends the song in an aviary of whistling, rattles and bells.

Ending with another cover which returns us full circle to the beginning of the record, Matmos save their wildest provocation for last: a polyglot deconstruction of The Buzzcock’s “E.S.P,” which gearshifts across multiple genres over eight minutes, testing the limits of how different styles and moods can flow and fold into each other. “Do you believe in E.S.P.? / I do and I’m trying to get through to you” growls Gerry Mak of Brooklyn experimental doom metal band Bloody Panda in a withering Cookie Monster voice. Heavy doom metal riffs play punk chords at a funereal crawl, until military snare rolls pick the pace up to a black metal blur (played by members of Baltimore occult crust band Pleasure Wizard). This gives way to a shimmering, sunny interlude of cyclic guitar and synth figures that recalls the Matmos of “The Civil War” and “The West” until, audaciously, a drum roll hits and the whole band erupts into something which has always been pretty much unthinkable in Matmos’ work: full on, no apologies riff rock. Connecting the latent family resemblance between surf rock and black metal, the Buzzcocks song plays out until, for the first time in twenty years as a band, M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel sing together, harmonizing the words “If you’re picking up on me, then you’ll know just what to do . . .” Abruptly switching off this romantic closure (Daniel and Schmidt are a couple who recently celebrated their 20th anniversary), the song cuts to dead silence as Schmidt delivers the final phrase of the record: “So . . . think.” It’s an emotionally naked and risky ending to one of the strangest records you will hear this year, and a fittingly open-ended conclusion to a sonic experiment in the possibility of purely mental connection.

The album was recorded and mixed at home in Baltimore and at Snow Ghost Studio in Montana, and was mastered in San Francisco by Thomas DiMuzio. Designed by Rex Ray, the album’s packaging presents in the liner notes the complete texts of the psychic transcripts which generated each individual song, along with photographs that document the Ganzfeld sessions. The vinyl version of the release also contains a bonus locked groove of white noise so that the home listener can put on the eye-coverings and headphones which accompanied the deluxe edition of “The Ganzfeld EP” and complete the re-enactment of the experimental conditions that created the songs. The result is an artifact which is both an art object, a scientific report, a practical joke and a daring pop record.

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Label: N5MD
Catalog#: MD207
Release date: 25-02-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 129 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM / Ambient / Cinematic

Tracklist:
01. Wake (5:22)
02. The Rising Tide (8:58)
03. Vision Blur (4:54)
04. .Through (Feat. Anklebiter) (7:36)
05. Arc (5:03)
06. What Awaits (6:29)
07. Shadow Fall (3:48)
08. Waning Light (6:13)
09. Set (3:52)
10. The Rising Tide (Radio Edit) (4:30)

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Label: Rephlex
Catalog#: EOD 219 CD
Release date: 04-02-2013
Source: CD, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 124 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro, Acid

Tracklist:
1 Matter (4:21)
2 Travellax Acid (5:58)
3 Zinking (8:32)
4 Innsmouth (4:22)
5 I Hear 3 (5:18)
6 Arrow (3:48)
7 Return To Star Base Zero (4:36)
8 Beyond The Corridors (3:35)
9 The Color Out Of Space (4:41)
10 Retcho (11:37)

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