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Artist: Andy Stott
Title Of Album: Faith in Strangers
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Modern Love / LOVE098
Genre: Experimental, Techno, Ambient, Electronic
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:53:55
Total Size: 123 mb

Tracklist:
01. Time Away
02. Violence
03. On Oath
04. Science & Industry
05. No Surrender
06. How It Was
07. Damage
08. Faith in Strangers
09. Missing

‘Faith In Strangers’ was written and produced between January 2013 and June 2014, and was edited and sequenced in late July this year. Making use of on an array of instruments, field recordings, found sounds and vocal treatments, it’s a largely analogue variant of hi-tech production styles arcing from the dissonant to the sublime. The first two tracks recorded during these early sessions bookend the release, the opener ‘Time Away’ featuring Euphonium played by Kim Holly Thorpe and last track ‘Missing’ a contribution by Stott’s occasional vocal collaborator Alison Skidmore who also appeared on 2012’s ‘Luxury Problems’. Between these two points ‘Faith In Strangers’ heads off from the sparse and infected ‘Violence’ to the broken, downcast pop of ‘On Oath’ and the motorik, driving melancholy of ‘Science & Industry’ – three vocal tracks built around that angular production style that imbues proceedings with both a pioneering spirit and a resonating sense of familiarity. Things take a sharp turn with ‘No Surrender’- a sparkling analogue jam making way for a tough, smudged rhythmic assault, while ‘How It Was’ refracts sweaty Warehouse signatures and ‘Damage’ finds the sweet spot between RZA’s classic ‘Ghost Dog’ and Terror Danjah at his most brutal. ‘Faith in Strangers’ is next and offers perhaps the most beautiful and open track here, its vocal hook and chiming melody bound to the rest of the album via the almost inaudible hum of Stott’s mixing desk. It provides a haze of warmth and nostalgia that ties the nine loose joints that make up the LP into the most memorable and oddly cohesive of Stott’s career to date, built and rendered in the spirit of those rare albums that straddle innovation and tradition through darkness and light.

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Label: Modern Love
Catalog#: LOVE096
Release date:2014
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 29 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Grime, Experimental

7 months on from TP#4, Demdike return with the 5th instalment in their ongoing research and development series – a double-headed monster split between gnarly reductions on the A-side, and industrial strength edits on the flip. ‘Procrastination’ edges through Grimey detritus and gunshot snares within a vast open space perfectly primed for that Demdike slow build. ‘Past Majesty’ on the flip offers up a feral take on some kind of cyber-industrial insanity, somewhere between Ministry and Powell – with a denouement which should probably come with a public health warning attached to it. All we’re saying is – watch yr eardrums.

Tracklist:

1. Procrastination
2. Past Majesty

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Label: Modern Love
Release date: 2014
Source: CD, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 98 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electronic, Techno

Tracklist:
1. GIF RIFF
2. Stay Ugly
3. Temper Tantrum
4. Spectral Source
5. Corrosive
6. Drop the Vowels
7. Back Down
8. Quay

Millie & Andrea have announced their debut album, Drop the Vowels.

Formerly an anonymous project, eventually revealed as Miles Whittaker and Andy Stott, Millie & Andrea released a series of 12″s for Modern Love sub-label Daphne between 2008 and 2010, drawing from hardcore, piano house, jungle, and more. The pair returned this year with a new release, ‘Stage 2,’ and will follow that with Drop the Vowels on March 31.

“Produced fast and loose through late 2013 / early 2014,” the record is described in its press release as “an album that recalls the strict and stripped funk of Anthony Shakir as much as it does Leila’s incredible debut ‘Like Weather,’ eschewing the dark aesthetic both producers are best known for in favour of something much more visceral. It’s an album borne from a love of both pop and club music, made to evoke an adrenalised, hedonistic, as well as an emotional response.”

Although most of the material on Drop the Vowels is new, it does include revisions of ‘Temper Tantrum’ and ‘Spectral Source,’ previously released on the Millie & Andrea 12″s.

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Artist: Rainer Veil
Title Of Album: New Brutalism
Year Of Release: jan 2014
Label: Modern Love / LOVE092
Genre: Bass, Future Garage, Techno, Electronic
Quality: Flac (tracks)
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 00:31:41
Total Size: 171 mb

*35-minute EP, initial copies pressed on coloured vinyl, mastered and cut by Matt Colton, pressed at Pallas* One year on from their debut, Rainer Veil explore deep, brittle rave variants on their 2nd EP for Modern Love. The five tracks of ‘New Brutalism’ are a product of their Northern environment, making pointed reference to the kind of deep-rooted rave heritage documented in Mark Leckey’s ‘Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore’ soundtrack through a prism of angular, vulnerable club music. Conceptually, it adopts a similar perspective on British nightlife to Burial or Lee Gamble, surveying the ‘floor as if during an out-of-body experience or through closed eyes from a corner of the club at 5am. Opening track, ‘UK Will Not Survive’ captures that sensation beautifully with its tape-saturated layers of wistful vocal, woody 2-step, and daubs of Reese bass, whilst ‘Three Day Jag’ isolates that curious blend of hedonism and introspection innate to early UK ‘ardcore, albeit without the narco-sweats. Closing number ‘Run Out’ doffs a cap to grey building sites and strobe-lit clubs alike, channeling diffuse field recordings and half-heard breakbeats with a bleary-eyed, tired, and emotional quality.

Tracklist:
1. UK Will Not Survive 5:42
2. Negative Space 5:25
3. Three Day Jag 7:54
4. Strangers 5:48
5. Run Out 6:49

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Artist: Demdike Stare
Title Of Album: Testpressing#004
Year Of Release: dec 2013
Label: Modern Love / LOVE089
Genre: Experimental, Techno
Quality: Flac
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 00:16:07
Total Size: 110 mb

Tracklist:
01 Fail
02 Null Results

Fourth instalment in this ongoing series* Searing, tormented darkside f**kery from Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty’s Demdike Stare on their rinse and run Testpressing series. On the A-side ‘Fail’ is a slowly descending panic attack of pealing hi-end frequencies and impending bass doom reaching a pit of noisy no return. On the flip, ‘Null Results’ bruks loose with a scything jungle attack; frantic 16th note hi-hats and cone-crumpling subs laced with a rudeboy mentasm to incite warehouse capoeira. Come test.

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Label: Modern Love
Catalog#: Love087
Release date: 04-06-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 39 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, House

Tracklist:
1 Eulogy
2 Dyslogy

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Label: Modern Love
Catalog#: Love084
Release date: 09-05-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 67 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, Experimental

Tracklist:
01 Blatant Statement
02 Technocracy
03 Infinite Jest
04 Plutocracy

An addendum of sorts to his recent ‘Faint Hearted’ album, Miles’ returns with a half-hour EP more squarely aimed at the floor with four darkened, robust variants. ‘Blatant Statement’ is up first, slowly emerging from a rough alignment of metallic percussion and abrasive stabs not a million miles removed from the kind of racket you’d most likely associate with Vatican Shadow, before the almost-clipped rub of those super-warm bass stabs shifts the perspective to a different kind of environment altogether. ‘Technocracy’ delivers an oozing House deconstruction, slowed down and inebriated, while ‘Infinite Jest’ revolves around an industrial cacophony harnessed into a rhythmic anomaly situated somewhere between a technofied Pete Swanson and a sweaty Kassem Mosse. ‘Plutocracy’ ends the set with a bleached-out warehouse chug, slowed down and menacing, surrounded by a submerged choral arrangement and more of that toughened hammered-metal sound that runs through the EP.

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Label: Modern Love
Catalog#: LOVE081
Release date: 27-03-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 114 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, Experimental

Tracklist:
1 Lebensform 4:26
2 Irreligious 6:54
3 Status Narcissism 7:07
4 Sense Data 6:52
5 Rejoice 7:06
6 Archaic Thought Pattern 1 6:08
7 Queuing 1:57
8 Loran Dreams 8:38

Miles – Faint Hearted by modernlove

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Label: Modern Love
Catalog#: LOVE085
Country: UK
Release date: 20-03-2013
Source: Vinyl, 12″, Limited Edition
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 36 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Drum & Bass, Experimental

Tracklist:
A – Collision
B – Misappropriation

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