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Label/Cat#: Macro Recordings – MACROM 34
Year: 18 November, 2013
Source: WEB, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 150 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno

Tracklist:
1. Feral (02:05)
2. Slowing Time (04:12)
3. African Wig (05:52)
4. Ruins (06:05)
5. Visitor (07:44)
6. Dusk (01:17)
7. Furniture (05:04)
8. Carcass (04:19)
9. Blood & Hair (03:25)
10. Missing In Action (04:38)
11. Floor (05:30)
12. Small Changes (08:04)
13. Fragments (01:11)
14. Summoning (05:52)

When Messiaen set out to transcribe birds’ songs and employ them as models for his compositions, he couldn’t have predicted that by the 1990s wild birds would have started to learn mobile phone ringtone patterns. For “A System of Objects”, RAUDIVE mirrors environments structured as by an invisible hand. He maps an obliquely constructed world through fictional field recordings in which you loose all certainty of what is nature and what is design. Raudive’s music celebrates dance and auditory scenes as rituals, employing our surroundings as sources of ahistorical found sound – primitive technologies used to reach magickal states.

If we can’t be sure any longer of distinctions between truth and manipulation, rituals guide our relations to all encounters. A drum machine and a wooden stick, a sawtooth-shaped electric current and a split rock, woven cloth and petroleum smear all turn into empirical objects of the same class, without a definite past or a predictable impact. We have become dependent on technology we don’t grasp beyond its display surface. Lost on reason, we are thrown back on the ritual to reveal the hidden relations of what surrounds us: the club as the emblematic center of the emancipated individual, longing to bond with equals, again.

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Label: Halo Cyan
Catalog#: PHC015
Release date: 21-05-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 53 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno

Tracklist:
01. Last (7:29)
02. Last (Al Tourettes & Appleblim Rmx) (7:41)
03. Dumb (6:10)
04. Dumb (Steve Moore Rmx) (7:04)

Raudive, the prolific DJ and producer also known as Oliver Ho, has been putting out a stylistically diverse range of music for nearly 20 years under these guises and various others, on a plethora of labels including Blueprint, Drumcode, Poker Flat, and his own Meta. For his “Last” EP on Halocyan, Raudive has delivered a pair of absolutely uncompromising electronic works. Although this is perhaps Halocyan’s most experimental release to date, the tracks all retain a dance sensibility.

Title track “Last” builds a fantastical techno narrative over beds of cold, precisely controlled reverb and insistent, crucially positioned percussion. A small set of sounds lock deftly into place in various formations, expertly building tension and intrigue as they coalesce into a surpsingly expressive journey. Al Tourettes and Appleblim take the original and add some
colorful techno bounce to their remix, twisting the original’s stern bassline into something more fluid and fun.

B-side “Dumb” operates on little more than a strict, pummeling 4/4 beat and subtle, metallic harmonies to create a deranged and acerbic techno lobotomy, with a pitched-down, barely decipherable voice lording over the proceedings. Steve Moore (of L.I.E.S., Zombi) takes “Dumb” and ramps up the darkness, crafting a John Carpenter worthy atmosphere of terror,
paranoia, and dread, custom-tailored for the dancefloor.

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Label: Running Back
Catalog#: RB038
Release date: 31-01-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 82 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno

Tracklist:
1. Traffic (07:33)
2. Psycho (05:08)
3. Relentless (07:14)
4. Beams (05:36)
5. Beams (alternative mix) (05:36)
6. Traffic (bonus beats) (04:34)

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