Suction Records: Lowfish – Hypersensitivity

Lowfish - Hypersensitivity

Lowfish is back! The electro veteran, who’s been programming 808s since the early ‘90s, returns to Suction Records, the label he co-founded and debuted on in 1997, for his first release since 2011. This is suction046 – the “Hypersensitivity” EP. It’s been a while, but as the sprinkling of Lowfish compilation appearances – on labels like Analogical Force and Fundamental Records – over the intervening years have shown, Lowfish isn’t interested in radical changes; it’s all about quality and consistency. Flawlessly produced 808 drums, meticulously processed for maximum slam, combine with Lowfish’s trademark synthesizer melodies and heavily-manipulated dialogue samples… best heard on standout cuts “Apr294ms” – a melodic techno/electro dancefloor killer – and “Favourable Reports” – a slice of 808 synthpop with melodic nods to vintage OMD and Gary Numan.

EP / Digital Album

Posted on July 28th, 2018 under Releases, ,

AVANT! Records: SDH – Semiotics Department Of Heteronyms

SDH - Semiotics Department Of Heteronyms

SDH (Semiotics Department of Heteronyms) is the new project of two key figures of the synth-wave/industrial scene of Barcelona. Andrea P. Latorre and Sergi Algiz, founders of the Cønjuntø Vacíø label and also in the post-punk band Wind Atlas, unveil a new act more oriented towards pop music.

SDH is change, alteration, distortion, metamorphosis.
Their synth-pop songs, sprinkled with EBM and techno, are mysterious, obtuse and suggestive.
The project seems to revolve around the idea of fiction.
What is the language of feigned personalities? What is fiction? An individual is one and another, is liquid. It is physical.
Incarnating someone is doing it in a corporeal way: making it flesh. Conceive: everything is real: reality does not exist. How is a fiction embodied?
With only two songs published, they have already supported artists such as Marie Davidson and Merchandise and performed at the Swedish festival Kalabalik På Tyrolen, one of the reference festivals of the darkwave scene.

LP / Digital Album

Posted on July 26th, 2018 under Releases, ,

Clandestine Records: Acid Vatican – Never Forget How To Bear

Acid Vatican - Never Forget How To Bear

Rad full album ov Synthwave/Dark Synth from thee guys behind Giallo Disco Records.

Cassette / Digital Album

Posted on July 24th, 2018 under Releases, ,

Tonn Recordings: Nova Guardia – Escapism

Nova Guardia - Escapism

Recorded in Crimea, here’s the first release from Nova Guardia, a solo project from Moscow, Russia.

CD / Digital Album

Posted on July 22nd, 2018 under Releases, ,

Cut Surface: Tom Wu – All You Want

Tom Wu - All You Want

Tom Wu shows should take place in basements – exclusively. Basement clubs, that you need to descend unto, like a submergence into the abysmal depths of our minds. There where there is no light, like a dive into the bleakest corners of our thoughts. Basement clubs with no light, except that of a stroboscope, which reveals images of people thwarted in ecstasy, all chopped up into snapshots. It is exactly this imagery that sums up the Munich-based drummer and singer best: A trip into the unconscious, like the blackest of black nights on (slightly too) hard drugs.

LP / Digital Album

Posted on July 20th, 2018 under Releases, ,