Browse by Label: MODERN LOVE (UK)

Artist:	BITSTREAM
Title:	One Third Standard Lux
Label:	MODERN LOVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	LOVE 002CD

"Bitstream is the brothers Steve and Dave Conner, born in the mid 70's in a small town in Northamptonshire, England. Compiling some of Bitstream's rarest material to date alongside their best known work, One Third Standard Lux is a perfect starting point from which to establish the importance the brothers Conner have had on the British electro scene over the last few years. Originally championed by the Autechre-related Skam label in Manchester and their pioneering DJ Rob Hall, Bitstream have been releasing innovative and complex electronic music to an ever-growing audience of dedicated followers. Their love of experimental music is also proudly on display, vocal treatments on the harrowing 'Lost Cluster' and 'Madame Resonance' showing this to most devastating effect, while the unadulterated crunchy euphoria of the classic 'Radiotherapy' acts as the perfect album opener. With a formidable catalogue of releases to date for labels like City Centre Offices and their own Pylon Recordings, Bitstream transcend the confines of the electronic dancefloor through to a much broader spectrum of sound. One Third Standard Lux is the definitive retrospective of that particular sound."

Artist:	TROUBLESHOOTER
Title:	Troubleshooter
Label:	MODERN LOVE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	LOVE 003EP

"There's a lot of excitement surrounding the debut material from this mysterious ex-Bitstream operator. The 6 tracks on board take us to over half an hour's worth of ruffage, emanating from the twisted mangled beat and bass mashup of opening track 'Freeform Render' to the classic late night IDM of 'Rotating Mass', the sparse synth-heavy electroid breakbeat of 'Micro-Dotz', heavy bass decimations on 'Nuclear Fusion', classic acidic spacious electro on 'Spacemission One' and the monstrous, rigid low-end magnetism of the closing 'Subversive Chasm V2'. There's a distinctive sound at play here that brings to mind all manner of electronic blueprints as defined by the likes of Afx, EOG and, of course, Bitstream, but there's a certain twist to the beats and the synths that you just won't hear anywhere else this year."

Artist:	DEEPCHORD PRESENTS: ECHOSPACE
Title:	The Coldest Season
Label:	MODERN LOVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	LOVE 033CD

Echospace is the collaborative venture of DeepChord's Rod Modell and Soultek's Steve Hitchell, and this is their first full-length release on the Modern Love label. Detroit's Rod Modell is one of the most noted producers operating in the dub-infused aftermath of the Basic Channel axis and all its myriad offshoots. His series of 12"s on his own eponymous imprint were released at the tail-end of the '90s and the beginning of the new century, and are considered by many as the natural progression from the effervescent, super-dense techno of Berlin's Chain Reaction. Following an extended hiatus, Rod Modell has re-wired his studio again and is once again receiving great acclaim for his low-end techno variations. Chicago's Steve Hitchell is a longtime DeepChord cohort and a noted producer in his own right -- most notably under the Soultek moniker. The Coldest Season was produced using nothing but vintage analog equipment: Roland Space Echo, Echoplex, Korg tape delay, vintage signal processors, noise generators, Sequential Circuits 8-bit samplers & numerous analog synthesizers. This project goes back to the heady days of Berlin-based proto dub/techno variations, recorded and produced in Detroit and Chicago. Three of the world's most important techno cities colliding to form a whole that perfectly bridges the gap between The Motor City's emotive arrangements, The Windy City's percussive robustness, and Berlin's life-altering Basic Channel continuum.

Artist:	CLARO INTELECTO
Title:	Metanarrative
Label:	MODERN LOVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	LOVE 038CD

This is Manchester-based Mark Stewart's second full-length release and first release for the Modern Love label as Claro Intelecto. Following the release of 2004's Neurofibro, Stewart decided to re-direct his attention away from the IDM and electro influences that shaped much of his early work. Mark made use of an astute line in reduction and a love of sonorous bass lines to develop the Warehouse Sessions, a series of EPs that carried the essence of Manchester's infamous club prototypes with a look towards the stripped aesthetic of Berlin and Cologne. With four years gone since the release of his debut, Mark has spent the last year piecing together Metanarrative, built around 8 tracks that provide the backbone and emotive arc for the grand narrative alluded to in the title. Gone are the uncompromising percussive arrangements of the Warehouse Sessions, instead the sound returns to a more melodic, quietly euphoric display of opposites: sweet melodies and heavily padded bass frequencies, introspective conceits and propulsive percussion, and populist arrangements built with a deviant sound palette. The opener "Operation" sums this process up perfectly, the arrangement building around a succession of chord progressions and shuffling percussion that develops sweet tension and momentum without ever breaking into the obvious. "Harsh Reality" tugs more openly at the heartstrings with an intro that gives you every reason to believe that what's to follow might be the most readily commercial material from this artist yet, but the eventual bass line inverts expectations and delivers something both moving and exhilarating. By the time the album ends with "Beautiful Death" a mere 40 minutes later, all that's left is a weathered bass pulse and long-forgotten memories that urge you to press "play" again. Short and perfectly formed, Metanarrative builds bridges between techno and pop, between minimalism and rich songwriting, between the memories of the past and the opening of new horizons.

Artist:	CLARO INTELECTO
Title:	Metanarrative
Label:	MODERN LOVE (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$23.50
Catalog #:	LOVE 038LP

Double LP version. This is Manchester-based Mark Stewart's second full-length release and first release for the Modern Love label as Claro Intelecto. With four years gone since the release of his debut, Mark has spent the last year piecing together Metanarrative, built around 8 tracks that provide the backbone and emotive arc for the grand narrative alluded to in the title. Gone are the uncompromising percussive arrangements of the Warehouse Sessions, instead the sound returns to a more melodic, quietly euphoric display of opposites: sweet melodies and heavily padded bass frequencies, introspective conceits and propulsive percussion, and populist arrangements built with a deviant sound palette.

Artist:	CLARO INTELECTO
Title:	Warehouse Sessions Volume 5
Label:	MODERN LOVE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	LOVE 044EP

The fifth and final installment in Claro Intelecto's Warehouse Sessions. "Hunt You Down" is a shocking Maurizio-styled dub workout in 4/4 that's sharp and deep, with stretched chords and metallic shards. Play this loud and you will absolutely terrify yourself. "Momento" is a clanky jacker that embodies the Warehouse aesthetic perfectly -- like a classic Chicago warehouse track modified for added low-end pressure. This series has ruled our world, and it comes to an end showing its strongest hand.

Artist:	MLZ
Title:	NewAnalogueCentury
Label:	MODERN LOVE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	LOVE 049EP

Devastating new heavyweight 2-tracker from DJ Miles, precision cut for maximum bass-weight by Berlin's Dubplates and Mastering. "NewAnalogueCentury" rides on frayed dub chords and a padded kickdrum, eventually tumbling into a mass of delayed stabs and skittering hi-hats coming across like the bastard child of Vainqueur, Maurizio and T++ : messed up and unbelievably HEAVY. "OneState" channels one colossal, beautifully padded kickdrum into an arrangement of bass, drums and endless space. Absolutely deadly, sick wares.

Artist:	STOTT, ANDY
Title:	Unknown Exception
Label:	MODERN LOVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	LOVE 050CD

Subtitled: Selected Tracks Vol. 1. This is the second CD release from Manchester's Andy Stott for the Modern Love label, since his 2005 debut, Merciless. This is the first-ever collection of some of Andy Stott's standout vinyl-only releases, remastered by Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin. Andy Stott has developed a unique sound since his debut on Modern Love -- his first demos for the label were heavily influenced by the square bass line techno variations of Claro Intelecto, a longtime friend, mentor, and eventually label-mate and collaborator. His first release, Replace featured a mixture of disciplines that took in elements of Detroit techno and Chicago house and fast found favor with the likes of Kompakt, De:Bug magazine and DJ Lawrence, who fell for Stott's intuitive, warm melodies and padded percussion. From that point on, Stott has continued to shift and adapt his sound to take in ever disparate influences, from the driving techno of Dave Clarke's Red series through to Basic Channel through to dubstep, garage and the minimalism of classic S�hk�. This chameleon-like quality has set Stott apart from his contemporaries, gaining him interest from all quarters of the electronic music scene, championed by Mary Anne Hobbs (recording two sessions for her show), and playing to increasingly large audiences (including several shows at Berghain's legendary Panorama Bar, the Sonar Festival, Bloc Weekend and countless others). His inspired shifts from traditional techno blueprints through to the bottom-heavy signatures of dubstep and the steppers arrangements of garage have also placed him at the forefront of the dubstep/techno hybrid sounds that have started to dominate the electronic music scene in 2008 alongside the likes of Martyn, Peverelist and T++. This compilation brings together selected tracks dating back to Andy Stott's debut in 2005 and reaches all the way to his most recent material in 2008. Tracks feature here from his most captivating EPs and stream through his fascination with deep, almost uncontainable bass lines and ever-inventive percussive shifts.

Artist:	CLARO INTELECTO
Title:	Warehouse Sessions
Label:	MODERN LOVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	LOVE 052CD

Manchester-based Mark Stewart (aka Claro Intelecto) presents all five of his acclaimed Warehouse Sessions series 12"s compiled on CD, including a bonus track. Designed, honed and tweaked for the floor, the Warehouse Sessions began in 2006 and shifted focus to Claro's darker edge: minimally-constructed, full-bodied, deviant 4/4 variations with the headier end of the warehouse in mind. "Thieves" opened the series with a full-bodied assault on midnight -- a dark clunk of deep, padded techno underpinning impossibly widescreen emissions, a relentless attack formation guided by soulful machinery executed through the tightest production imaginable. "New Dawn" rotated on a heavy slug of post-industrial genius, taking the metallic clunk of Monolake slowed right down and married with the faint ghost of Rhythm & Sound. "Trial And Error" opened volume two with a filthy modification of house presets re-wired with a crushed square bass line turned into something positively sleazy. "Signals" applied the same contaminated aesthetic to a more robust techno pattern -- a rolling tumble of kickdrum and snare, mutilated by a metallic screen that squashed the track into a very dark corner, only to be illuminated by patient, distant keys. "X" dominated volume three and is perhaps the best-known track in the series -- a gargantuan blast through a barely-contained 4/4 spasm, underpinned by distorted stabs and thumping kick-drums. A live session of warbling dub stabs are fed through a widescreen echo-chamber, making for a low-end psychosis that's just devastating. "Only Yesterday" was written in homage to Mr Fingers, a slow, deep, pulsating house classic, utilizing a sick, padded bass progression, caressed by pristine hi-hats and very little else. "Instinct" opened volume four with a percussive spine so crisp and spacious, it astounded all who heard it upon first listen. Meanwhile, "Post" pushed it deeper with sparkling keys and an endlessly cavernous bass line, venturing into a classic breakdown that brought those keys back. The fifth and final installment opened with "Hunt You Down," a shocking Maurizio-style dub workout in 4/4 with a relentlessly sharp and deep signature, accompanied by stretched chords and metallic shards. "Momento" ended the series with metallic stabs and an impossibly weighty bass drum, like a classic Chicago warehouse track modified with added low-end pressure -- a slow, slinky, fitting end to the series. The final edit included on the compilation, "W6," is an excerpt from a longer track taken from the same sessions, available only on this format.

Artist:	PENDLE COVEN
Title:	Self Assessment
Label:	MODERN LOVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	LOVE 053CD

Manchester's Pendle Coven are Miles Whittaker (aka DJ Miles/MLZ) and Gary Howell, and this is their long-awaited debut full-length release. Pendle have been amassing a substantial archive of material since their debut release came out back in 2003. In the intervening years, they have released seven EPs for Modern Love before finally compiling Self Assessment. Within their body of work, Pendle Coven have explored areas of techno and electronic music as diverse as their interests, taking in early '90s-style hardcore, drone, Basic-Channelisms, Drexciyan electro- and warehouse minimalism along the way. This album is compiled from a number of tracks previously released on the �100 A Metre, Marriage Of Convenience, Hex and Iamnoman 12" EPs, and includes 6 previously-unreleased tracks from the archives, spanning the last 5 years. The album opens with the disembodied guitar treatment of "Aged Drone," paving the way for the stripped menace of "Iamnoman." From there, we drop in on the staggered proto-dubstep of "Unit 6," an alternate string-driven version of the airy stepper "Uncivil Engineering," the classic padded bass techno of "Modern Mode" and, finally, the towering chord crescendos of the Berlin-inspired "Exigen."

Artist:	CLARO INTELECTO
Title:	When The Time Is Right
Label:	MODERN LOVE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	LOVE 054EP

A killer 12" from Mark Stewart with "When The Time Is Right" -- all sumptuous pads and midnight chords capturing that intangible thread between narcotic house and Berlin dub. Over almost 9 minutes, the textures gradually shift until it ends with shimmering keys. "Round & Round" is a gargantuan square bass line jacker built on multi-layered percussion and a wall of chords that drop away, leaving nothing but a spacious arrangement of snares and bass to topple the dance.

Artist:	MLZ
Title:	One Cycle EP
Label:	MODERN LOVE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LOVE 056EP

Every new record from MLZ doesn't quite fit in with the one that preceded it, something that's doubly true for this release. "One Cycle" is probably the most fierce, stripped and relentless thing ever released by Modern Love, a classic reduction that rotates into a frenzied crescendo of panning stabs and a washed-out, chugging backbone that doesn't let up. MLZ's remix of DJ Ghosthunter offers up a dank, obliterated house configuration guided by the spirit of Theo Parrish and KDJ.

Artist:	CLARO INTELECTO
Title:	Chadderton EP
Label:	MODERN LOVE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LOVE 057EP

Mark Stewart aka Claro Intelecto presents three new tracks recorded in early 2009. "Chadderton" is an astonishing slice of deep and woozy midnight house, complete with sleazy chords and a frayed spine that's primed for peak-time narcosis. "Above" features relentless chords and a shuffling percussive line that never lets up, while "Great Day" closes the EP with a cathartic spell that ends almost as soon as it begins, letting in rays of sunshine through the dense thicket of sound.

Artist:	DEMDIKE STARE
Title:	Symbiosis
Label:	MODERN LOVE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	LOVE 059CD

Demdike Stare is a long-in-the-making hook-up between two shady characters operating at the fringes of Manchester's fragmented music scene: Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty. Miles has been a long-time affiliate of Modern Love as one half of Pendle Coven and under his own MLZ alias, while Canty is one of the city's most recognizable vinyl collectors, carrying an obsession with everything from obscure Nordic Doom records to Anatolian funk albums, fuelled by his day job helping out at the Finders Keepers label. The project is named after Pendle's most famous witch: Elizabeth Southerns, aka Demdike. The tracks on Symbiosis are drawn from elements of Turkish, Indian, Iranian, African and West Indian film soundtracks alongside Norwegian drone records, classic house templates, punctured dub, modified techno and the Arctic noise perfected by Mika Vainio. Original sources and dense analog experiments weave around each other with little care for convention or stylistic expectation, instead throwing the pair's extensive musical knowledge into a set of tracks that, quite brilliantly, defy categorization. The album opens with "Suspicious Drone," a dense, 6-minute opening that chugs along like a malfunctioning mechanical beast, honing in on Lancashire's dark industrial landscapes before moving onto more exotic, balmy territory. "Haxan Dub" (named after the film narrated by William Burroughs about witchcraft) deploys fragmented dub echoes infused with displaced horns and African signatures, taking its time with one of the jerkiest rhythms you'll have the pleasure of hearing, before "Jannisary" tangles in and out of an Iranian hook and a squashed Congolese rhythm that creates an asymmetric, geniusly-constructed dancefloor killer. By the time the album comes to a close with "Ghostly Hardware" an hour later, the cycle is complete with a return to icy tundras and chugging machinations steeped in the traditions of Scandinavian machine music and pure analog frequencies, expertly handled by those masterful technicians over at Berlin's Dubplates & Mastering.

Artist:	DEMDIKE STARE
Title:	Tryptych
Label:	MODERN LOVE (UK)
Format:	3CD
Price:	$25.50
Catalog #:	LOVE 067CD

2011 sees the release of Demdike Stare's Tryptych, a lavish triple CD production that brings together three albums that have previously only been available on vinyl (Forest Of Evil, Liberation Through Hearing, Voices Of Dust), plus an extra 40 minutes of bonus material recorded during the same sessions. Demdike Stare is a project made up of two insatiable vinyl collectors based in the north of England: Sean Canty (who works for the esteemed Finders Keepers label) and Miles Whittaker (a long-time producer and DJ who has released music under the MLZ moniker and as part of Pendle Coven) The music Demdike Stare make is hard to pin down, based largely around archival musical sources ranging from obscure library records to long-forgotten jazz, early electronic, and industrial recordings, alongside an array of Iranian, Pakistani, Turkish and Eastern European material largely unknown in the Western world. Demdike Stare absorb and re-align these found sounds via their ever-expanding array of analog machines, ending with something that is in part plunderphonic, but ultimately completely new. Their music has sometimes been lumped in with the hypnagogic, hauntological and, most recently, "witch house" movements, but ultimately, Demdike Stare should appeal to anyone with an interest in everything from classic KPM Library records through to the music of Basic Channel and all the way to the smudged, altered-realities of James Ferraro and The Caretaker. That is, at least until the next record, when the frames of reference might just change up and take them somewhere completely different. Housed in a beautiful triple gatefold fold-out profile pack. Mastered at Berlin's D&M. Artwork by Andy Votel.

Artist:	STOTT, ANDY
Title:	Passed Me By/We Stay Together
Label:	MODERN LOVE (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	LOVE 070CD

Repressed. Two acclaimed albums from Andy Stott available for the first time on CD format, including four bonus tracks. Produced slowly and meticulously, these two EPs were originally released on vinyl during 2011 and have become the most widely-admired productions yet from Manchester-based Andy Stott. Taking influence from an array of seemingly incoherent noises, from the indefinable and unforgettable mind-tricks of Arthur Russell to the slow house of Kassem Mosse, from the alternate VHS realities of James Ferraro and Jamal Moss to the Linn Drum classics of the vintage Prince-era -- these tracks create their own pace and agenda, largely shying away from the dancefloor in favor of something more complex and hard to define. 2CD edition packaged in a deluxe oversized gatefold digifile. Mastered at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.

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