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Artist:	EMPTYSET
Title:	Doxa EP
Label:	CARAVAN (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	CVAN 003EP

"The third release from fledgling minimal tech imprint Caravan outta Bristol brings us two wicked floor burners from Emptyset. Many of you will know these guys from the two 12"s on Future Days that absolutely blew our nuts with the meanest blend of Sleeparchive-styled minimalism and dubstep shaped subs that just creams it on any system. The Doxa EP separates the styles over two sides, with 'Endoxa' functioning as a wicked minimal techno track similar to Marcel Dettman's first EP for MDR, with a shifted groove reduction hinging on a grinding bass driven rhythm while 'Episteme' really turns on the sub pressure with some sick tones and shapes really driving the track into abyssal techno territory. Fans of Dettmann, Sleeparchive, October, XDB and all your other favorite reduction technicians will be all over this beauty. Mean." --Boomkat

Artist:	EMPTYSET
Title:	Emptyset
Label:	CARAVAN (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CVAN 002CD

This is the debut full-length release by Bristol, UK production duo, Emptyset. An empty set is an empty box or an empty bag. It's not the same as nothingness. Aesthetically, it implies structure without content; absolute potential without manifestation. This works as a template for listening to the record: it sounds like dance music with the guts ripped out; the vengeful ghost of a techno future generated entirely from noise and sine waves. There are no melodic lines on which to hitch a free ride; your attention is required at all times to safeguard against total disorientation. Emptyset is a Brutalist structure, a foreign universe born out of a void, becoming sentient and condemned to await demolition. You need not have studied Jung or harbor any particular psycho-geographical leanings to recognize that a drawn-out process of smashing a city's urban heart to pieces might influence its art. With the extensive reconstruction of its city center, at one point the biggest building site in Europe, Bristol has been a site of dereliction and mass demolition for the last decade. This upheaval, which has seen tons of girders, beams and aggregates destroyed, is just another episode in the city's tradition of lo-frequency exploration. Mass slavery, bass culture, tape hiss in the lo-fi bedsit tradition, Georgian splendor bombed to smithereens in WWII; all these dehumanized visions subsequently informed everything from the building of an extensive network of underground slave tunnels to the creation of tower block living rooms; lo-frequencies shook the earth and noise filled the air. Bass is the tool, the machine-head used to explore cracks, find spaces, open them up and fill them with noise. As a direct consequence, Bristol is the only city that could produce this album. With its dialogues in play between techno, dubstep, drone and avant-garde electronics, the environment of grassroots cultural cooperation serves to destabilize the boundaries between the grammars of individual genres.

Artist:	EMPTYSET
Title:	Acuphase EP
Label:	FUTURE DAYS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	DAY 002EP

"We're back in the factory with Future Days once again, and this twelve reflects the confluence of several viral spreads. if you can imagine the sleek design and impeccable minimalism of Sleeparchive and Sähkö, then apply ruffer British bassline values and view it all through the openness of the Berlin sound, as perceived by t++ and his erosion output, you might get somewhere close to the impact made here by the reclusive Emptyset. Jacking music that sounds as fresh as if it had just been invented."

Artist:	EMPTYSET
Title:	Demiurge
Label:	SUBTEXT (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	SUB 001CD

Emptyset, the pioneering project from Multiverse boss James Ginzburg aka Ginz and the DJ and curator Paul Purgas, return with their second album Demiurge. Following their recent collaborative release with Underground Resistance vocalist Cornelius Harris, the album continues directly on from where their 2009 Caravan Recordings eponymous debut long player left off, pursuing the duo's exploration of the legacy of sound system culture and the possibilities for experimental bass-driven music. Heavily inspired by Bristol's lineage of dub and system-shaking sonics, Demiurge continues the project's deconstruction of the club experience and the magnification of the unplanned and unexpected textures that emerge from amplified sound. The resulting album is born from this investigative metamorphic process, the spine of rhythm scraped and exposed to extreme sonic pressure, bass music squeezed to its limits. Demiurge takes the form of a tyrannical force, an uncontainable creature of extremes, scouring the earth with shuddering footsteps.

Artist:	EMPTYSET
Title:	Demiurge
Label:	SUBTEXT (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SUBTEXT 003EP

Emptyset is the pioneering project from Multiverse boss James Ginzburg aka Ginz, and the DJ and curator Paul Purgas. Heavily inspired by Bristol's lineage of dub and system-shaking sonics, Demiurge continues the project's deconstruction of the club experience and the magnification of the unplanned and unexpected textures that emerge from amplified sound. The resulting music is born from this investigative metamorphic process, the spine of rhythm scraped and exposed to extreme sonic pressure -- bass music squeezed to its limits.

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