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Leisure Village is the most cohesive Run Dust album to date following his relocation to upstate New York. It's released on In Paradisum, the home of Mondkopf and Low Jack. Powerful songs of melodic electronica for lovers of early Aphex Twin. Luke Calzonetti's personal trajectory is as unconventional as his music is. He's gone from fashion model to grindcore jazz player, from New York to Germany and back. When he's not producing ten songs a week, he's working on paintings that share the qualities of his music -- at the crossroads of instinctive and energetic punk moves and evocative figures, all with an unescapable, irremediable oddness. Leisure Village follows the Serf Rash LP on In Paradisum (2015) which as one of the label's best success, gathered support Ben UFO and The Wire magazine, and was then followed-up by the mini-album Supermarché (2015). Both featured no-wave ingrained, dubbed-out electronic vignettes that went from classy bruitisme to eerie collages, from rhythmic eruptions of, as Noisey called it, "brutal tech-noir", to evanescent electronica meditations of what Boomkat called "biting clarity". Artwork by Albert Oehlen.
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New from In Paradisum, the home of Low Jack and December, They Fall, But You Don't is the most straight-forward and cohesive Mondkopf album to date due to his switch to analog synthesizers. They Fall was been recorded live in his room in Paris in the sadly memorable month of November 2016. The record has something familiar with Mondkopf's previous output with the raw textures and half-light atmospheres, but the rest is a radical change for him. The synth pads of They Fall are neither retro nor futuristic. In addition to Paul's fragile vocals, they exhale a distinct feeling of just being there. The tracks follow their own path by being focused and vital. They Fall, But You Don't is the singular manifesto of a relationship to electronic music that leaves out the ideas of innovation and genre and more resembles the language of a new folk music; deeply evocative, powerful and free.
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LP version. New from In Paradisum, the home of Low Jack and December, They Fall, But You Don't is the most straight-forward and cohesive Mondkopf album to date due to his switch to analog synthesizers. They Fall was been recorded live in his room in Paris in the sadly memorable month of November 2016. The record has something familiar with Mondkopf's previous output with the raw textures and half-light atmospheres, but the rest is a radical change for him. The synth pads of They Fall are neither retro nor futuristic. In addition to Paul's fragile vocals, they exhale a distinct feeling of just being there. The tracks follow their own path by being focused and vital. They Fall, But You Don't is the singular manifesto of a relationship to electronic music that leaves out the ideas of innovation and genre and more resembles the language of a new folk music; deeply evocative, powerful and free.
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"Toulousian's Romain Barbot and Gregory Buffier have produced more than a dozen tormented ambient-drone records under the name Saåad. Verdaillon is the fruit of a commission by the local Les Orgues festival, which gave them access to the Puget organ located in the Church of Notre-Dame de la Dalbade. Via dynamics of elevation, suspension and tension, Saåad's music aims for altered states. Consisting of thick patches of sound, it gathers powerful harmonies and buries them under the rustle of elusive, intimate, far-flung sampling. From the start, Saåad has been obsessed with in situ creation, field recording and acoustics, but also, more implicitly, with baroque music. So their encounter with the Dalbade organ seemed a propitious challenge. Even in the sparkling main themes, the organ seems unevenly tuned, at times granular, with a range of concrete, percussive and eolian expression. Sometimes the organ is played when it is off; a couple of tracks utilize spare old pipes, like flutes. Verdaillon eschews the easy lyricism of much ambient music, in favor of an extremely rare quality of dynamic and detail. The record's singular and discreet beauty is due to the organ in all of its most secular aspects, and to a certain 'something in the air' of that particular place, on those particular days... the breath of life itself."
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"Another brilliant set of pop-meets-pop rodgerings by De Murcia of no mercy, this time riding East for inspiration, following his notable Wasted House EP from last year. Five sharp and discombobulating detournements: funny, flatulent, sexual; knockabout, unpretentious and danceable. Ace."
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IP 019EP
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"In a world where oppressively dark techno is approaching mundanity, In Paradisum is a leading light, metaphorically speaking. Putting out blackened, downright evil music from the likes of Mondkopf, Somaticae and former metalhead Run Dust, the French label's techno takes influence from the darkest corners of other musical realms to give it an extra edge. Now they're launching a new series of split EPs called Half Cuts, meant to showcase artists who make music compatible with the label's aesthetic but aren't currently part of the family. The label brings together two Parisian acts for the first 12-inch. There's December, who has released bilious techno for Where To Now and Blackest Ever Black's A14 label, and there's the duo Kaumwald, who gave Opal Tapes a 12-inch of slow, shuddering drones in 2014. For Half Cuts, the two meet in the middle, delivering four molten flows of screeching synths and lumbering drums." --Resident Advisor
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"Charlie Janiaut opens up a third way between physical energy and experiments on sound textures. The producer originally from Franche Comté has dusted his fingers on battle scratch and his playing with computer is totally instinct driven. Playing techno from the viewpoint of rap music, Qoso's music is entirely based on samples and feeds on mistakes, frequency translation and a piling up of effects leaving space to randomness. The tracks on Printemps Ete were composed all at once and speak more to the body than the head - they're rhythm tracks as stated by Emotional, which opens the record where most electronic albums like to put a nice ambient track."
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"Luke Calzonetti, following up on the Zeckenentferner tape from Opal Tapes: eleven tracks ranging from proper songs to brutal techno, romantic melodic stuff to dystopian minimal. A unique feel for texture and storytelling holds it all together, infused with a melancholic, fragile wanderlust."
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"After finishing Hadès, I was thinking of doing a techno EP. But I was mostly listening to Brutal Truth, Assuck, Napalm Death, and Pig Destroyer at that time, so grindcore got me carried away and I went blast beat. This was a blast indeed -- I did this record in a week total, a big release for me."
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IP 017EP
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"Amédée De Murcia -- of Industrial heavyweights Somaticae -- slipping outside to play. He came across some dance records at his girlfriend's, says his label rather evasively, and set about wasting them good and proper. 'Very catchy and close to falling apart at the same time, a pretty special take on the ambiguity of the clubbing experience, the way it mixes euphoria and angst.. Uchronian dance music, like the memory of a party that never existed.' Like NHK'Koyxen playing the wrong house."
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"Noise quartet from Lyon, where they run the Echos festival, using monumental concrete amplifiers and natural Alpine acoustics. Keys, voice, cello, electronics. Mastered by James Plotkin, who is a fan."
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"Caustic, laconic, long-faced techno thumpers. Less single malt than paint-stripper (albeit expertly applied with a sex-machine)."
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"Rambunctious EP from hell, expertly threading libidinal house grooves through squalling drones, exhalations, feedback, and general bloody racket. Invigorating stuff from the Parisian, and an outstanding label, too."
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"After the joyful mess caused by Brandy on adventurous dancefloors, Qoso goes deeper with three subwoofer-friendly tracks mixing house, techno, and just enough sonic dirt. A friend of the label since its beginnings, Perc steps in as a remixer and takes advantage of our weakness for the wildest parts of club music."
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"Catharsis is a terrifying affair experimenting throughout ten disciplined and often brutal noise abstractions - primitive techno lost between petrifying epileptic atmospheres as well as intricately-layered drones - rumbling sonic investigations, wielding barbarous kick drums and rusted percussion to lacerate weakening flesh - blind lamentations of bone chilling voices and abrupt sounds - a sort of black mass supported by punishing percussion - alarming levels of feedback and distortions - a steep emotional breakdown turning in an emotional renewal."
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