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Originally released in spring 2021 by US label L.I.E.S. on vinyl, Anthony Di Franco of Ramleh returns to Fourth Dimension Records with a timely and well-deserved reissue. Featuring three additional tracks to the original six, Avalanche Zone is a weighty and abrasive follow-up to 2018's Weapon Design that's propelled by cranium-crunching bass, icy and portentous textures, battlefield rhythms and just the faintest nod to Anthony's love of both old school noise and more contemporary electronic music which refuses to compromise. If you have been paying attention to JFK especially during more recent years you won't be disappointed. Remixes by Klaska.
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FD 128CD
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Note: "In Cuba, the term 'nganga' refers to a certain creation made with an iron cauldron into which several items (such as bones and sticks) are placed. It also refers to the spirit of the dead that resides there. In Palo, it refers to an iron cauldron used to imprison evil spirits using chains, padlocks, knives, etc., which can be used for black magic." Reissue of this great album by Anthony Di Franco of Ramleh's longstanding JFK project. Originally released in 2017 by US label Chondritic Sound as a limited run vinyl LP, this reissue features two bonus tracks ("Tenebrae" and "Star Killer II") that only otherwise appeared on a very limited lathe-cut 7" and catches JFK in a more direct mode than subsequent work, with serrated electronics owing more to earlier excursions jostling for attention next to battlefield beats and a malfunctioning heart rate monitor. If anything bridges the gap between power electronics and the sound of the mightiest Tresor releases from their own height it's JFK, although this perhaps understates the attention to detail also carefully sewn into the proceedings. A true master of the stealth n' bludgeon approach to contemporary electronic music only the strongest of painklllers will help. It shouldn't need saying but play loud.
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CD reissue of the last album from Ramleh's Anthony Di Franco, whose long-running solo JFK project has been dedicated to the kind of concrete mixed rhythmic pummel countless others would almost kill for since the cassette network culture of the 1980s. Between then and now, JFK has had several albums released featuring either archive or his latest works at that particular time. These have been endorsed by labels such as Harbinger Sound, Peripheral, Chondritic Sound, and others plus, more importantly, have signaled a consistency in Anthony's dedication to exploring those spaces where vast blocks of sound crumble into heavily polluted rivers of anger, despair, and frustration. It's an immersive sound that, naturally, shares a little common ground with Ramleh yet emphasizes the monstrous chasms that can be drawn from a sturdy combo of bass-churn and galvanized beats primed from a nightmarish dancefloor. The CD version of Weapon Design presents ten devastating tracks, two of which did not appear on the acclaimed vinyl version from 2018 and are exclusive to this version. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy, London.
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The very latest from Ramleh's Anthony Di Franco, whose long-running solo JFK project has been dedicated to the kind of concrete-mixed rhythmic pummel countless others would almost kill for since the cassette network culture of the 1980s. It's an immersive sound that, naturally, shares a little common ground with Ramleh yet emphasizes the monstrous chasms that can be drawn from a sturdy combo of bass-churn and galvanized beats. Whilst the labyrinthine textures beamed in from steelworks remain very much suggestive of a charred psychedelia twisted way beyond any stupid hippie dream, JFK's work remains hewn with a distinctive edge at once uncompromising and agile enough to pull you in without the slightest hint of a protest. Music perfect for the age always hinted at when younger by pessimistic sci-fi films that we sometimes appear to be living in... Eight devastating tracks mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy, London.
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JFK is the project of British rock and electronic musician Anthony Di Franco (Ramleh, Skullflower, Ethnic Acid). Originally active between 1987 and 1992, JFK was conceived as an experimental rock band that could create "a total music, absorbing all possibilities." This exclusive CD compiles rare and previously-unreleased tracks, including the Temple of Set/Sexodus 7" (previously-released by Fourth Dimension in 1992). The JFK sound is a brain-melting clash of electronic rhythms, blazing guitar riffs, warped vocals and walls of feedback. This retrospective collection features nine cuts by Anthony Di Franco, who has formed a valuable pillar in some of the best music to have furrowed post-industrial music's sprawl into the kind of distorto-heavy psychedelia where something entirely more menacing is the order of the day.
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