DRIFT - Black Devotion

Black Devotion is the debut release by new London‐based act DRIFT.

Already founding member of the synth/wave trio Phosphor and currently in the shoegaze duo Leave The Planet, young and talented Nathalia Bruno started her own solo project once the band split up after the Youth and Immortality LP back in 2013.

Listening to DRIFT one can tell now how much Nathalia influenced Phosphor back then and at the same time a personal evolution is clearly in full sight. Needless to say Depeche Mode and HTRK, Slowdive and Cocteau Twins exercise some influence here, but Nathalia is shaping her own way to those sounds that bands as Tropic Of Cancer and Northern Electronics’ Född Död have also been pursuing.
There’s a brighter component to DRIFT’s music visible both in shiny tracks like Grave and Hard to Accept as in the more ethereal Dreams in Silkscreen and Say it Right. Featuring six songs, Black Devotion marks the birth of what Nathalia herself calls devotional synth. Purity in drifting.

Listen and order here.

Posted on January 18th, 2016 under Releases, ,

Paradox Obscur - Anacrusis

Peripheral Minimal is proud to announce the forthcoming, Paradox Obscur album. ‘Anacrusis’ – now available for pre-order. This is their second album and their first on a full-length LP.

‘Anacrusis’ is a massive dark monument full of analog tendencies to conquer the dancefloor… an album of complex Coldwave and Minimal Synth. Rapidly becoming a cult act, this album will surely become a classic of it’s genre, and will hopefully please new and current fans of the band. Another milestone for Rhodes’ finest.

Paradox Obscur use only hardware synthesizers and everything is performed and recorded in real time without the use of software.

Limited edition of 300 copies.

Posted on January 16th, 2016 under Releases, ,

Bézier - Telomeres EP

Dark Entries is proud to release the sophomore EP from Bézier entitled “Telomeres.” Bézier is the moniker of local SF musician Robert Yang, who also is part of the illustrious Honey Soundsystem crew. “Telomeres” is the follow up to Bézier’s debut EP “Ensconced”, released in 2013. The title relates to themes of time, science, analytics and procedures. Bézier integrates the refrains of Spanish new wave and Italo disco with the attitude and aggression of underground styles like synth-punk and industrial. These six tracks were written, produced and mixed by Bézier at his home studio in San Francisco between 2014 and 2015, and feature the debut of his own vocals.

All songs have been mixed by Mark Pistel (of Meat Beat Manifesto fame) at Room 5, San Francisco and EQed for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. The vinyl comes housed in a jacket featuring an illustration by in-house designer Eloise Leigh riffing on early 80s computer graphics. The matted sleeve is meant to resemble the side panels of early computing instruments like Macintoshes or the Commodore 64. Each LP includes a postcard with a photograph of actual telomeres captured by a microscope camera by the Blackburn Lab at UCSF. “Telomeres” are life’s building blocks, changing the lengths of chromosomes to determine lifespan. This music is an investigation of a future in which time elongates as well as contracts.

Listen here and order here.

Posted on January 14th, 2016 under Releases, ,

Scratch Massive

Here’s the latest release from Scratch Massive, a duo from the west of France and active since 1999.

Limited edition of 300 copies hand numbered on 180 gr. high quality lacquered pressed solid black vinyl.

Posted on January 12th, 2016 under Releases, ,
Posted on January 10th, 2016 under Releases,