Premiere: rkss – Tryouts

Soak up a dizzying techno cut from the Berlin-based producer’s forthcoming cassette release for Reject and Fade.

Overseen by 2013 Opal Tapes alumnus Rejections, aka Teesider Michael Hann, the Reject and Fade label has been operating as a low key outlet for the producer’s own explorations of doom-laden sonics for the past few years. After a brief hiatus, the label is embracing the future with a sense of renewed vigour, with several new releases planned over the coming months. The first comes from Berlin-based Bandcamp producer rkss (pictured above) and takes the form of Tunnel, a seven-track cassette release consisting of random YouTube samples, mangled and processed into strange new forms.

Due for release in the crawlspace between August and September, Tunnel will arrive with artwork courtesy of Unknown Precept don Jules Peter (a regular in our Best Record Sleeves column), as well as a zine featuring short stories, articles and poetry which re-imagine and reinterpret the themes and ideas behind the release. As a taste of what to expect, the label have offered up a full stream of B-side track “Tryouts,” whose harsh and foreboding introduction proves a false prophecy for what follows.