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WCEC 014EP
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New York based artist and musician Rose Kallal presents her debut album Perseus. Taking its title from the Greek mythological constellation, the collection creates a hypnotic and evolving flow of sound layered with rhythmic tones and primordial texture. Developed in her Brooklyn studio using a modular system and effects, each track further takes its title from an individual star of mythological origin, with the material invoking an expansive and collapsing sense of space and time. Perseus continues alongside Kallal's practice with 16mm film and sound, employing repeating patterns and motifs and creating a merger of antiquated and modern technologies.
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WCEC 013CD
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Portuguese sound artist Vasco Alves presents a collection of new material developed through his work with homemade AM transmitters and transistor radios broadcasting and manipulating reduced sine wave compositions. The project continues Alves's ongoing research into the structural behaviors of electronics and the points of resistance and malleability present within these technologies. Across the recordings Alves works with a characteristically focused production process, using two sine waves with variable frequencies broadcast to two panned transistor radios. The simple signal chain generates a dynamic paired field of textural noise, resulting from the combination of the signal volatility, overdriving, frequency modulation and its consequent harmonics all interacting with the innate analog tendencies of the short wave ether. Together the production method creates untamed sonics and pulsing noise that is uncompromising in its raw articulation of sound as material. Currently based in Lisbon, Alves's interests lie in the investigation of unstable electronics through the use of radio and both customized and malfunctioning devices. His work explores processes that are often volatile in nature with the outcomes being subjected to strict live processing techniques.
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WCEC 012LP
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New lower pricing. First complete vinyl release of the 1989 debut album by Detroit industrial techno group Final Cut, produced by Jeff Mills and Anthony Srock. Recorded prior to Mills's departure from the project, Deep into the Cut marks a significant moment in the convergence of the classic industrial aesthetic and the emerging sound of Detroit techno. This reissue serves as a window into this unique moment, evoking both the transgressive spirit of European industrial music and the raw militant power of early Underground Resistance. The album declaims a message of sonic urgency across its 11 tracks, and still stands as a landmark statement of the industrial techno sound. Remastered in Berlin by Rashad Becker, this edition presents the full album as a double vinyl release for the first time.
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WCEC 006EP
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2012 release. Come Closer brings together a collection of Peder Mannerfelt's percussive modular synth and noise experiments recorded live in his Stockholm studio. The EP exposes Mannerfelt's wider sonic interests and improvised approach outside of the production work for which he is more readily known (Roll the Dice, Fever Ray, The Subliminal Kid). These four improvised, hypnotic recordings cross the spectrum from industrial rhythms and arpeggiated modular cycles into angular ritualism and Sähköesque reduction. Raw, vintage futurism crafted from purist sonics and detailed percussion; tonal precision and immersive electronics molded with an array of analog hardware.
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WCEC 003EP
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2011 release. New York musician and filmmaker Rose Kallal's "Vermillion Vortex" is the title-track from John Russell's 2010 film commissioned by Art Review. Kallal provides the driving score to Russell's mindbending visual essay on capital, media, and faith. Her background in New York's film and experimental metal scene soaks through in the muscular drones and cataclysmic percussion that form the bedrock for British artist and curator Mark Beasley's prophetic vocals. With his remix, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Lichens) incorporates his trademark modular synth aesthetic and pulsating tones. Includes exclusive John Russell artist print from the film. Pressed on white vinyl. Edition of 200.
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WCEC 009EP
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2013 release. A collaborative record between New York sonic artist and filmmaker Rose Kallal and Mark O Pilkington, the founder of London's cult esoterica resource Strange Attractor. The recording is an extract from a live, improvised session using modular synth and effects setups. It was produced as the soundtrack to Kallal's hypnotic 16mm film Implicate Explicate, exhibited during the 2012 Glasgow International art fair. This 12" includes remixes by Bristol-based Ekoplekz, Glasgow's TVO, and Emptyset's Paul Purgas.
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WCEC 005EP
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2012 release. Dual Capacity is the first recorded output by the duo of London-based artist Shelley Parker and curator and electronic musician Paul Purgas. The project acts as a meeting point for Parker's background in sound installation and digital technology with Purgas's exploration of customized hardware and analog modes of production. The EP explores the potential for dense, rigid percussive structures to operate as a framework for non-grid-based electronics, and investigates aspects of texture and tonality alongside ritualistic approaches to sound. The material reflects the energy and immersive tension of their live performances, acknowledging such influences as minimal avant-techno, abstract drone, and industrial noise.
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WCEC 011LP
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Following his 2014 releases as Bass Clef for PAN and Alter, London-based musician Ralph Cumbers presents Bliss Abyss, a double-LP of new material under his Some Truths alter ego. Bringing together strands of house, techno, fractured rhythm, and anthemic modular synthesis, the album demonstrates Cumbers' vision as one of experimental music's most singular voices. As he adeptly distills strands of the familiar and abstract into a series of tonal and percussive collages, Cumbers effortlessly navigates the balance between stark, functional electronics and playful, psychedelic humor, molding contorted, evolving structures and tense shards of rhythm into oscillating synthetics and expansive dubbed-out comas. Bliss Abyss highlights Cumbers' position as an artist embedded in the lineage of British pioneering synthesis, while filtering these technological and esoteric histories through a razor-sharp dancefloor sensibility and a defiant ear for intricate construction and dynamics. At the center of the production process for Bliss Abyss is the rhythmic vista opened up by a Eurorack modular system and a repaired Roland TR606 drum machine. Using this combination, Cumbers recorded onto 25 tapes and then repeatedly recorded over them, creating imperfect palimpsests as sound leaked through from layers of previous recordings. This sits as the percussive bedrock for an exploration of acoustic modelling, and the uncanny potential for synthesis to both mimic and depart from the real.
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WCEC 010LP
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We Can Elude Control presents the debut album from London-based electronic musician Roberto Crippa. Reverse brings together a body of work that draws influence from the worlds of noise, electroacoustic composition and musique concrète, forming a powerful and ritualistic study of sonic structure and material. Within the sculptural engineering of silence, space and raw electronics, Crippa employs a variety of sources ranging from wood, metal, drum skin and amplified concrete, constructing an innovative narrative exploration of sonic depth and contrast. The album reflects Crippa's work as one of London's key performers within the noise and improvised music scene, crafting a refined expansion of his full frequency live shows presented at the likes of Noise=Noise and Café OTO as well as Industria Superstudio in his native city of Milan. Reverse forms Crippa's landmark statement connecting the dots between his immersive gallery-based installations and visceral performances, shedding light on one of London's most unique underground electronic artists. Artwork and design by Roberto Crippa.
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