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TEMPA 024LP
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Double LP version. A veteran of UK electronic music operating incognito, Nomine, by the time his debut was released in 2012, had already established the defining hallmarks of his sound -- an atmosphere of mingled dread and blissful calm, pulpy Eastern melodies, and tidal waves of sub-bass. Deep and meditative yet murder on a soundsystem, his tracks were vital firepower for a rejuvenated dubstep scene, and become regular secret weapons in figurehead Youngsta's record bag. This led to a string of 12"s on Tempa with which Nomine refined and expanded his aesthetic, keeping dubstep's bass-'n'-space ethos at the core while pushing far beyond its structural limits. Inside Nomine is the much-anticipated debut album from Nomine. It finds the enigmatic producer travelling beyond his acclaimed, soundsystem-demolishing 12"s to explore the deepest reaches of inner space. A reflection on the power of sound to reshape how we experience reality, it's a remarkable, immersive soundworld of an album -- delicate and contemplative, fleet-footed yet overwhelmingly forceful. Inside Nomine feels like the culmination of these musical voyages. As a former student and lecturer of sound design and advanced music technology, he draws upon a fascination with the psychologically-affecting qualities of sound. Although retaining a sonic kinship with dubstep, Inside Nomine occupies a genuinely self-defined musical space in which oceanic half-step riddims like "Shockwaves" and "Zen Force" collide with the thrillingly-exploratory broken techno of "Stickman" and "Menacer." Elsewhere, he leaves any notions of the dancefloor behind entirely; the eerie voiceover of "Nomine's Ego" coils through free space amid gorgeous harmonies and airlock hiss. At the album's heart is Nomine's astonishing command of space and atmosphere. On "Blind Man" and "Reticent Shadow," he matches simmering martial-arts-movie dialogue with music that bristles with Zen-like discipline and focus, while "84600" and "Hide & Seek" wield silence like a weapon, dropping pinprick melodies and percussion into the echo-chamber and remolding the air around them. The spaghetti-western freakout of "Dark Is the Night," meanwhile, recalls the haunting visual psychedelia of Alejandro Jodorowsky's cult 1970 film El Topo. Finally, the spine-snap drum 'n' bass of closer "Confusion" abruptly jolts the listener back to the club, bruised and elated -- a fitting return to physical reality at the end of an album that takes joy in subverting it at every turn.
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TEMPA 024CD
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A veteran of UK electronic music operating incognito, Nomine, by the time his debut was released in 2012, had already established the defining hallmarks of his sound -- an atmosphere of mingled dread and blissful calm, pulpy Eastern melodies, and tidal waves of sub-bass. Deep and meditative yet murder on a soundsystem, his tracks were vital firepower for a rejuvenated dubstep scene, and become regular secret weapons in figurehead Youngsta's record bag. This led to a string of 12"s on Tempa with which Nomine refined and expanded his aesthetic, keeping dubstep's bass-'n'-space ethos at the core while pushing far beyond its structural limits. Inside Nomine is the much-anticipated debut album from Nomine. It finds the enigmatic producer travelling beyond his acclaimed, soundsystem-demolishing 12"s to explore the deepest reaches of inner space. A reflection on the power of sound to reshape how we experience reality, it's a remarkable, immersive soundworld of an album -- delicate and contemplative, fleet-footed yet overwhelmingly forceful. Inside Nomine feels like the culmination of these musical voyages. As a former student and lecturer of sound design and advanced music technology, he draws upon a fascination with the psychologically-affecting qualities of sound. Although retaining a sonic kinship with dubstep, Inside Nomine occupies a genuinely self-defined musical space in which oceanic half-step riddims like "Shockwaves" and "Zen Force" collide with the thrillingly-exploratory broken techno of "Stickman" and "Menacer." Elsewhere, he leaves any notions of the dancefloor behind entirely; the eerie voiceover of "Nomine's Ego" coils through free space amid gorgeous harmonies and airlock hiss. At the album's heart is Nomine's astonishing command of space and atmosphere. On "Blind Man" and "Reticent Shadow," he matches simmering martial-arts-movie dialogue with music that bristles with Zen-like discipline and focus, while "84600" and "Hide & Seek" wield silence like a weapon, dropping pinprick melodies and percussion into the echo-chamber and remolding the air around them. The spaghetti-western freakout of "Dark Is the Night," meanwhile, recalls the haunting visual psychedelia of Alejandro Jodorowsky's cult 1970 film El Topo. Finally, the spine-snap drum 'n' bass of closer "Confusion" abruptly jolts the listener back to the club, bruised and elated -- a fitting return to physical reality at the end of an album that takes joy in subverting it at every turn.
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TEMPA 099EP
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Blind Man, Nomine's fifth 12" for Tempa, offers his most atmospheric and immersive music to date. The gently plucked strings and trickling water of "Blind Man" summon up a meditative warmth mingled with inescapable creeping anxiety, all underpinned by seething sub-bass. "To the Sky" is a beautiful, vast abyss of a track; Iustina's vocals drift amid reedy drones and environmental sound, in an unlikely nexus between Coil and the rugged sound-system intensity of Digital Mystikz. "Nomine's Robot" is a sleek, broken techno slow-burner with an entire echo chamber's worth of reverberating drums; hypnotic dancefloor manna for the very early hours.
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TEMPA 093EP
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Shadowy producer Nomine's latest 12″ for Tempa gathers three more of his hypnotic sound system tracks, brimming with fragmentary melodies and subliminal detail, honed for immersion on the dancefloor. Drawing upon his love of dubstep, dub and experimental music, Nomine's tracks carve out vast spaces for mind and body to wander through. "Nomine's Chant" is his most meditative transmission to date; its vocal mantra drifts gracefully through open space. The bamboo flutes of peak-time roller "Ninjah" echo eerily outwards into the void, and the EP is rounded out with "Syncopator," a deftly-swung club track that finds Nomine dropping the pace to find an atmospheric mid-point between two-step and techno.
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TEMPA 089EP
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Nomine's third release on Tempa contains his most expansive and exploratory music to date, pushing his already intricate and varied sound to new depths of atmosphere and intensity. As their titles attest, the three tracks here are intense meditations as much as they are club fire-power. "Enma" blasts from the tracks in flurries of metallic drums and plucked sino-grime-esque melodies, an atmosphere heightened further on "Zen Circle," whose reedy pipe motifs stalk through the mist like figures through a haunted forest. "Mindfulness" rounds the EP out with shadowy, delay-cloaked digital dub, riding out atop clustered kickdrums and roughly-effected drums.
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TEMPA 078EP
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The mysterious Nomine's debut 12" for Tempa takes dubstep into altogether more tropical territories. The fluid textures and East Asian melodies of its two tracks conjure up images of a future London fried by global warming, where rising sea levels are sinking the city below the waves. The paranoiac bass and claustrophobic melodies of "Anxiety Tribe" are aptly suited to the name, while the languid closing track "128.1" trots along a full 10 beats per minute slower than most dubstep tracks.
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TEMPA 071EP
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The mysterious Nomine's debut 12" for Tempa takes dubstep into altogether more tropical territories. The fluid textures and east Asian melodies of its two tracks conjure up images of a future London fried by global warming. "Searching" opens with chimes like drops falling on water, before being consumed by an oily sea of sub-bass. On "Nomine's Sound," the bass lands in pulses, building in intensity before falling away again, while disembodied voices sing in the distance. Support from Youngsta and J. Kenzo. 300 copies only.
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