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ARTIFICIAL 005
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Hypnobeat is a true product of the open-ended spirit of DIY music that proliferated in the 1980s. This latest collection for Artificial Dance comprises three freshly unearthed iterations. Long-form "Polychrome Desert" is a pure percussive exercise, programmed and recorded by JDB in 1986 with a chain of three 808s filling out a stereo panorama. "Spies In Malaysia" is a live recording from a concert Hypnobeat performed in 1985. Recorded in the same year, "Sumatra Railway" was the product of an impromptu session between JDB and Victor Sol.
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ARTIFICIAL 006
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Identified Patient and singer Hugo van Hejiningen (Red Light Radio) join forces on this four-track EP on Amsterdam's Artificial Dance. Stallion's Stud digs deep into their shared love of electronics, post-punk era experimentation, DIY music culture, and dubbed-out drum machine rhythms. "Promising Promises" sees Hugo's spoken vocals wrapped around ricocheting industrial dub rhythms and raw, delay-laden electronics. The delay trails to oblivion remain a force to be reckoned with on the cold-wave doom of "Instrumental Aria", while the throbbing and clanking "Unpredictable" and "The Voice Of No" ratchet up the intensity via end-of-days guitars, heavyweight bass and face-melting percussion."
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ARTIFICIAL 003
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To kick-start Artificial Dance's 2018 release program, the label has delved deep into the darkest corners of the Dutch electronic underground. The result is a debut solo EP from another future hero, Hague-based Pasiphae. Siphax EP, her first solo outing, is packed with mutant alien funk (the superb title track), horror-fired dancefloor dystopia (throbbing opener "Tachynons"), and skewed electronic soundscapes ("Vertical Rotation", which sounds like it could have been taken from the soundtrack of an early '80s art-house movie), the six tracks offer a neat summary of Pasiphae's unique musical world.
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