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What on god's grey earth are Efficient Refineries? Far from being some post truth, fake nude, Chinese hoax, alt Reich Republican boy band, they are indeed the dark union of previous No. label acolyte Siegmar Fricke (Pharmakustik) and his Spanish wet nurse co-conspiritor Miguel Angel Ruiz. Siegmar is fondly remembered for his efforts on various No. releases including his most recent Pulsed Lavage (NO 306CD, 2017) alongside his solo material and collaborative work with the infamous German artist Conrad Schnitzler. Miguel Angel Ruiz has distinguished himself as one of the pioneers of Hispanic electronic music with his output since the early '80s and together these dark minds have been defiling sound systems since 1995. They appear here for the first time in an unholy trinity with No. together, the two parents unite as laboratory partners utilizing forbidden science and as yet unapproved future medicinal magicks to give birth to new life, in the classic Frankensteinian sense of the word. The behavioral and cognitive characteristics of each parent have been clearly imprinted onto the problem child to whom they gave birth and her early childhood development coach has described him as the sonic equivalent of the discovery of a new species from a far away, undiscovered territory, thought to be a hoax constructed by the devil from parts of lesser beasts. Terahertz is not for the faint of heart and it might just make your heart faint.
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NO 917CD
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Atom TM returns to No. with Texturen III, the third chapter of his Texturen series, following 2016's second volume (NO 912CD). Continuing in the vein of that release, Texturen III is a long-form singular 54-minute slice of audio output picking up where he left off. The music is at once familiar and feels at home as part of the series, yet Atom TM massages his own mold and pushes things further into your future, resulting in an album that goes light years beyond what might lazily be labeled as "drone" or "ambient". Rather, Texturen III weaves and winds through landscapes of the mind that touch on all points of the emotional spectrum, from caustic to convivial, all with the inimitable standard of production and mathematical superiority we've come to expect from Atom TM.
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NO 916CD
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No. welcomes Canadian France Jobin to the label. The Montreal based artist release her ninth album on No., Intrication. With Intrication, she grapples with some truly cosmic concepts involving Quantum Entanglement (go on, Google it) amongst other truly magical ideas which physics tend to invent these days. Musically the release can be described as "microsound ambient" but we think it's much larger than that. It is at once comprised of microscopic sonic particles yet combines that with the warmth we know and love from the "ambient" cosmos. Whilst the sub atomic particles of noise bounce around your mind, the total work weaves a warm blanket of audio enjoyment on both the micro and macroscopic levels revealing a world at once both too tiny to comprehend and too large to grasp. Presented here as No. 916 for your scientific scrutiny.
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NO 915CD
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Material Object, presents his first true (if such a term exists) live performance. True in the sense of being generated instinctively in the moment from resampled chunks of previous output sandwiched between unheard waveforms from a distant future whilst underwritten by voltage controlled rumblings from actual synthesizers than can be seen and touched and wrecked by roadies. Traversing known knowns and unknown knowns from drone to drone. Harvesting new and slightly less new artifacts of the digitaux variety and crash landing in the ghetto of the lysergic jungles visited by G@ng5tas of yesteryear, all for your personal enjoyment. Performed live at the Red Rattler in Sydney, Australia on April 16th, 2017 for the Strange Signals / House of Mince crews, the performance is slightly more than just the insane ejaculations of an unhinged mind, but a true insight into one of the Internet's least popular Twitter accounts.
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NO 003CD
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No., the disorganization founded by Atom TM and Material Object in 2013 to advance the cause of faceless audio output by No. one in particular, are cataloging their third year of existence with No. III. No. III continues the centuries long tradition, invented by the label masterminds in 2013 of remixing the very concept of a "compilation" by slicing, remixing, auto-tuning, and YouTube-ing the entire year of the label's output into the blender for a completely new cocktail that goes beyond merely re-packaging previously released product. Although 2016 was a relatively light year for No. in terms of hours of audio output, a famous German philosopher once wrote "a samurai's life is not measured in length" and the mix features two previously unreleased works by the label owners: "Still D/A" by Atom TM and "III" by Material Object. No. III successfully represents the material released on the label between May 2016-May 2017 as well as some now declassified transcripts of past communications and unreleased excerpts from future efforts, stitched together with Frankensteinian precision and brought to life on the operating table with a blast of atomic energy. Also features Pharmakustik and Raw C.
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NO 307CD
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Cristobal Rawlins, aka Raw C, returns to No. on his third appearance for the label with his debut album Antebellum. Furthering the audio niche he's chainsawed out for himself in his tin shack studio deep in the ghettos of Santiago De Chile. The influence of his decaying urban surrounding is plain to hear in his definitively Raw productions. Channeling the chaotic noise of the bustling cityscape into an aggressive groove to combat the daily torment of the outside world. Raw C presents seven tracks of funk-filled fury with which to blast sound systems and subdue Barrios from Santiago to St. Tropez.
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NO 306CD
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Pharmakustik, aka Siegmar Fricke, who previously graced the No. catalog in collaboration with Chile's Raw C with Anamorph Specimens (NO 304CD, 2015), presents his debut full-length album in the guise of Pulsed Lavage. According to Pharmakustik, Pulsed Lavage is an audio-surgical album. In its original medical context, the term means "removal of necrotic tissues in wounds by pressurized hydro-solutions." Pulsed Lavage expertly maneuvers the multiple stylistic themes within, from opiate-induced, narcotic bliss through to hammer-and-nail, dancefloor techno. Pulsed Lavage is as raw as it is beautiful, zig-zagging between moods almost like the automated surgical tools of its namesake. Pulsed Lavage, fun for all the Manson family.
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NO 910CD
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The No. label, a platform for audio adventures curated by Atom TM and Material Object, presents the first collaboration between Material Object and prolific rural British soundsmith Ishq. Invisible Light is a rejuvenating stroll at interstellar velocities through an unfamiliar landscape populated by unknown plants, strange creatures, and bizarre illuminations. Patiently evolving beneath a lush canopy of light and shade, echoing ecosystems of drone interleave themselves with crunching rhythmic passages, all culminating on a euphoric plane in a mossy and arboreal slew that induces a full flowering of the third eye. Presented here as No. 910, the 18th release on the No. label and its third limited-edition compact disc, for your enjoyment. All tracks written and produced by Material Object and Ishq. Mastered by Atom TM.
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No., founded by Atom TM and Material Object in 2014, celebrate their second birthday in style with No. II. No. II is a collage, a readymade, an assemblage, a synthesis, in short: a spectrum (or "mix") of elements refracted through the prism of the label's output between May 1st, 2015 to May 1st, 2016. Over the 79 minutes, the "mix" traverses a wild landscape of material. A dose here from the lysergic adventures in the concrete jungle of No. Inc.'s G@ng5ta (NO 911CD), a stroll there over the bubbly terrain of Material Object + Ishq's Invisible Light (NO 910CD), the air punctuated by the haunted soundscapes of former member of Severed Heads, Garry Bradbury with Yakovlevian Torque (NO 305CD). Slather on top of that a caustic beat from Raw C + Pharmakustik's Anamorph Specimens (NO 304CD) and then under-grid it all with the morbidly obese frequencies of Atom TM's Texturen series and you have yourself some kind of interdimensional feast. So, welcome to our second birthday party. The cake is burnt, the balloon animals are deformed into impossible and terrifying shapes, the CIA have spiked the punch and you're the clown. Are you invited? No.
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NO 912CD
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Part two of Atom TM's minimalist, ambient magnum opus, Texturen, airdrops you into a void of undulating sonic modulation with nothing but the dream of silent huskies for company. Uwe Schmidt has always been a maestro of harnessing non-repetitive repetition and on Texturen II he takes that to a psychedelic extreme, constructing a smooth, digital crystal within the stereo field. Almost imperceptible sheets of binary sleet superimpose themselves on flows of deep, glacial pulse-width gestures. The ensemble is minimal but ever-fluctuating, expansive but hyper-detailed. A frozen mirage. Here, the vistas are endless, the peaks illusory, the troughs few and the symmetries pure. Eat your rations, try to keep moving and don't go snow blind. Available on limited edition compact disc.
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NO 305CD
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No. return with a new addition to the abstract "300" series by one-time member of the influential Australian electronic project Severed Heads: Garry Bradbury. Sydney-based Bradbury is known for his boundary-bending audio-collage and analog synthesis outbursts and has a career spanning three decades that is still blazing well into the 21st century. Here he presents his fifth solo album for No. Yakovlevian Torque might be the most diverse No. release to date, combining audio sources such as traditional "found sound" TV samples and analog and digital synthesis. Always on the verge of being slightly humorous, silly, or deadly serious, Bradbury balances moods and emotions, making this album not just a journey into his own mind. Yakovlevian Torque is a 13-track workout worthy of your attention deficit disorder. All tracks written by Garry Bradbury. Mastered by Atom TM. Artwork by Garry Bradbury.
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NO 911CD
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No. Inc. are Material Object and Atom TM. With their second album, titled G@ng5ta, they deliver a trippier version of ambient music, triggered by an unexpected genre collision appropriately numbered No. 911. Mixing arguably two of the most opposed ends of the musical spectrum -- traditional electronic ambient and gangster rap -- the artists create an urban soundscape for lysergic adventures in the concrete jungle. Starting off with a frozen gunshot sound, the album continues exploring where No. Inc. began their first album, Early Reflections (No. 900, 2014): floating textures and drones that create a dense journey through, in this case, the subconscious landscape of a West Coast gang member. With slightly less synthetic elements, such as the track "Street Texture 911" (which incorporates US police radio recordings and pays tribute to the works of Tetsu Inoue) G@ng5ta expands ambient music into truly unexpected realms. Grand Theft Autonomy of your audio senses in this album-length No. adventure. Enjoy it all without leaving the comfort of your own head.
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NO 304CD
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Limited edition of 200. If there is anyone left with a sci-fi vision of the future, it's Raw C and Pharmakustik. The pair, both of whom released solo work on No. in 2014 and '15, decided to collaborate on a full-length album titled Anamorph Specimens. The 50-minute masterpiece joins both artists' sonic universes in a perfect manner. Its six tracks are strange and dark, each pulsating in its own funky frequency. The artists state: "Anamorph Specimens focusses on the interaction between propulsive rhythms and organic ambient compounds morphing by realtime sound-processing. The wide screen-pictures appearing in the listener's mind constantly change and thus can be described as anamorph torsions of audio sculptures. All rhythms and ambient sections have been altered by various tools like notch-filtering, frequency-shifting and timestretching. Multidimensional textures from high to low in which sound events appear and disappear, animate the listener to perceive the tracks through different 'lenses'." All tracks written and produced by Cristobal Rawlins and Siegmar Fricke. Mastered by Atom TM. Artwork by Material Object.
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NO 905EP
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No. proudly presents its third 12" release, No. 905: No. Inc.'s Early Reflections II EP. No. Inc. is Material Object and Atom TM, the duo who launched No. in early 2014 with the Early Reflections album. Early Reflections II continues No. Inc.'s practice of releasing a track from that album, previously only available digitally, alongside a new techno cut forged from refractions of the original theme. The A track explores ambient psychedelic regions while the AA dives into bass-heavy, cavernous techno. Presented in a special die cut sleeve with cutout No. triangle. Limited to 450 copies.
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Sagittarius A is a bright and very compact astronomical radio source at the center of the Milky Way, near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius. It is part of a larger astronomical feature also known as Sagittarius A. Sagittarius A is also believed to be the location of a supermassive black hole. As a consequence, the artist behind Sagittarius A's Omega Point EP, wishes to remain anonymous. The EP's main title "Omega Point" can be described as a blend of stripped-down techno/acid and deep ambient textures, and provides full dancefloor functionality while remaining in a sphere of its own. Remixed by Material Object.
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No. Inc. are Material Object and AtomTM. Both artists launch their No. label imprint here with a taste of their forthcoming full-length Early Reflection. The tracks featured on this EP are the ambient piece "Early Reflection Part I" and the technoid "Refraction I." While side A explores the realms of textures and soundscapes, side AA, which is exclusively released here, expands into rhythmical codes and thereby outlines possible horizons both artists are envisioning for their No. platform. Housed in a special sleeve (cut out No. triangle), pressed on 180 gram vinyl and limited to 300 copies.
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