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Rendlesham (LP + hand-numbered insert limited to 250 copies)
Cat: PY 160. Rel: 19 Jul 22
Ambient/Drone
Review: We do love a good back story, and Rendlesham has one of the best we've read in some time. The record is pegged as "an electronic instrumental album soundtracking arguably Britain's most remarkable UFO event", a description destined to win hearts and minds for its ability to capture the imagination while throwing in a disclaimer, in true Brit style, just in case anyone had experienced a more remarkable UFO event than the one that took place late on Christmas Day night and the early hours of Boxing Day, when an army sergeant received a binary code from a "craft of unknown origin".
Skip forward 42 years and what does that sound like? Well, imagine the introduction to a VHS release by Viacom, combined with a little Close Encounters, some Geiger counter noises, and a lot of stretched arpeggiated refrains. Then double all that and make it sound even more like a personal encounter with what may or may not have been a thing from another world. Got it? Well, that's almost what's here.
… Read moreSkip forward 42 years and what does that sound like? Well, imagine the introduction to a VHS release by Viacom, combined with a little Close Encounters, some Geiger counter noises, and a lot of stretched arpeggiated refrains. Then double all that and make it sound even more like a personal encounter with what may or may not have been a thing from another world. Got it? Well, that's almost what's here.
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Rainbow Islands (NG+) (translucent yellow vinyl LP limited to 300 copies)
Cat: PY 126. Rel: 25 May 21
Experimental/Electronic
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Music For Aircooled Motoring (hand-numbered LP + insert limited to 300 copies)
Cat: PY 40. Rel: 27 Jan 17
Coldwave/Synth
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Review: Not to be confused with Alexandre Bazin, the Scottish philosopher, psychologist, logician and educational reformist who founded Mind, the world's first journal of analytical philosophy and psychology, this Alexandre Bazin - member of Parisian collective GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) - returns to Polytechnic Youth to follow up 2017's Sun Dog Trail LP. And by that we mean another record of deeply textured soundscapes moulded using analogue synthesisers.
Utilising, among other things, an EMS Synthi, Buchla Music Easel, Prophet and Moog, as you would expect this creates a vast feeling and wild variety of timbre. At times things feel rooted in classic rock 'n' roll sensibilities - 'Red Ochre', for example. In other moments we're closer to Can territory ('Dubes'), while the highest sonic peaks are arguably at similar altitude to bands like Explosions In The Sky ('It Comes In Waves'). Definitely not a record you'll forget in a hurry.
… Read moreUtilising, among other things, an EMS Synthi, Buchla Music Easel, Prophet and Moog, as you would expect this creates a vast feeling and wild variety of timbre. At times things feel rooted in classic rock 'n' roll sensibilities - 'Red Ochre', for example. In other moments we're closer to Can territory ('Dubes'), while the highest sonic peaks are arguably at similar altitude to bands like Explosions In The Sky ('It Comes In Waves'). Definitely not a record you'll forget in a hurry.
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Red Ochre (hand-stamped hand-numbered gold vinyl 7" limited to 300 copies)
Cat: PY 102. Rel: 26 Nov 19
Coldwave/Synth
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Review: Charlie And The Oscillator return to Polytechnic Youth for a second outing here that comes in library tracing paper sleeves which nod to the BBC style of the 70s. The London pair once agin fuse breakbeats, synths and ambient with weird and wonderful samples to make for fascinating sounds that have drawn parallels with everyone from DJ Shadow to Death in Vegas. 'Big Unit' is all 70s sci-fi sounds and jumbled claps, detuned chords and hurried rhythms while 'Ruftop' is a more lo-fi affair with hymnal chords and clouds of dust swirling around the groove.
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In The Hospital Garden (hand-numbered 7" + sticker limited to 250 copies)
Cat: PY 65. Rel: 19 Mar 18
Coldwave/Synth
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Dead Horse Ghost (limited black & pink split coloured vinyl LP)
Cat: PY 103. Rel: 26 Nov 19
Indie/Alternative
Review: It's pretty easy to jump to conclusions, or at least make assumptions, when words like "nihilist existentialists" are applied to synth acts based in Neukolln, one of Berlin's most desirable non-conformist neighbourhoods. And what's here certainly sounds like it fits that setting - uptempo and highly accessible on the surface, but with dark, unnerving nuances. Electro pop with BDSM tendencies, perhaps. If that doesn't sound like your kind of thing, perhaps this may change your mind: The Detox Twins' latest is tight on production and heavy on the compelling, commanding and inescapable. The result meaning that after about two minutes of "Warschauerstrasse" you're likely to be locked in for the full album. Highlights including, but not limited to, the hypnotic bumbler "Einhorn Suicide" and the unsettlingly moody "In The Hospital Garden", although everything here is top quality eccentric party stuff.
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Cat: PY 99. Rel: 30 Mar 20
Coldwave/Synth
Review: Polytechnic Youth are absolutely at the top of the contemporary synthwave game, thanks in no small part to artists like Dream Division. Following up last year's "Transcend" LP comes this tres cool 7", which pays tribute to seminal French animated sci-fi film "Le Planete Sauvage". As you would expect from Dream Division, the sound is full fat analogue brilliance with a nod to the French electronic disco pioneers like Cerrone and Bernard Fevre, with a shot of Goblin's Grand Guignol theatrics in there for good measure.
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Review: North London minimal synth label Polytechnic Youth looks to Brooklyn for their latest release with The Botanist & The Archaeologist, a collection of imaginary '80s film and vintage horror scores from Faten Kanaan. Some twelve tracks long, Kanaan's mastery of vintage synths is there to behold from the moment the epic "Viriditas" swoops into action, but there is also a real depth on display here too. Witness the spectral harmonies and soft focus chimes of "Spy Films" or the instrumental organ drift of "Coryphee." If you are sick of people banging on about the Stranger Things soundtrack, lay this tremendous album on their figurative doorstep and watch as their senses open to some truly wonderful synth music.
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Blissful Repetitions (clear vinyl LP limited to 300 copies)
Cat: PY 138. Rel: 09 May 22
Indie/Alternative
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Cosmic Motorik Adventures/Machine Language Music (clear vinyl 10" LP limited to 300 copies)
Cat: PY 114. Rel: 15 Oct 20
Coldwave/Synth
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Review: As part of the 2016 Ghent Film Festival, the first ever 'greatest hits' album for Ryuichi Sakamoto's soundtrack work was released. This retrospective LP compiles the best selections from the entirety of his career, from Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence to The Revenant. Now reissued 5 years later by Silva Screen, the album sees a wider, exclusive white vinyl edition, capturing the swelling pangs endemic to Sakamoto's music for screen.
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Cat: PY 92.
Experimental/Electronic
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Review: Israeli analogue synthesizer fetishists Group Modular could hardly be described as prolific, but the music they have released is rarely less than inspired. Time Masters, their long-promised second album (the first appeared eight years ago), builds on their undeniably intergalactic blueprint, offering a retro-futurist take on otherworldly electronic funk that combines modular synthesizer motifs and alien-sounding electronic textures with nods to 1970s krautrock, jazz, post-punk and obscure B-movie horror film soundtracks. It's an arresting and surprisingly loose-limbed concoction, with highlights including the Pierre Henry-esque 'The Big Hunt', the cacophonous and intense 'Ignition', the Stereolab-on-speed flex of 'Chatterbird' and the low-slung creepiness of 'Black Sphere'.
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Slow Ballet (7" limited to 250 copies)
Cat: PY 161. Rel: 17 Oct 22
Indie/Alternative
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Geometries Insensibles (pink vinyl 7" limited to 300 copies)
Cat: PY 115. Rel: 20 Jan 21
Coldwave/Synth
Review: Morgane Lhote aka Hologram Teen is back, after that great one a few months back on The Ransom Note, with more low slung nu-disco goodness on London's Polytechnic Youth on the Geometries Insensibles EP. From the bright like neon, slo-mo groove of 'Halogene Menthol' with is breezy disco retro-tinged vibe and airy synthesizers, to the noir-ish slow burning Italo of 'Robot Moses' and closing with the romantic French new wave of 'Amour Fission' - it certainly is all in the name. Lhote was formerly a member of outfits such as Stereolab and The Projects (with Mira Aroyo and Edward Ball).
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Cat: PY 53. Rel: 03 Oct 17
Coldwave/Synth
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That Summer (hand-numbered 7" limited to 250 copies + insert)
Cat: PY 36. Rel: 20 Dec 16
Coldwave/Synth
Review: Since launching back in 2014, Dom Martin's Polytechnic Youth label has become a trusted outlet for those seeking "electronic experiments in kosmiche". The label's final release of 2016 comes from returning hero Martin Holm, who presents his first material as The Home Current for well over a year. On the A-side you'll find the bubbly humidity of "That Summer", which layers rising and falling synthesizer melodies atop buzzing chords and gently undulating drums. Flipside "Gelb", which sits somewhere between Boards of Canada and DMX Krew's deeper moments, is similarly sunny, with alternately dreamy and chiming melody lines clustering around a tasty synth bassline.
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Cat: PY 57. Rel: 04 Apr 18
Coldwave/Synth
Review: Since debuting on the label back in 2014, The Home Current's Martin Holm has become one of Polytechnic Youth's most reliable artists. It's perhaps for this reason that the imprint is enthusiastically releasing his long-awaited debut album. Another Way of Falling Apart is moody, atmospheric and often melancholic, delivering a range of ear-catching compositions that veer from clandestine, Autechre-influenced synth-pop and pitch-black ambient, to post-industrial sludge-pop (see the gritty-but-sparkling "The Devil Finds Things For Idle Hands To Dwell On"), symphonic synthesizer soundscapes ("You Were Right About The Stars") and deep space acid ("Cloud Visitors"). On occasions, such as the foreboding and out-there closer "Rooftop Nights", he also pushes the experimental envelope further than you'd expect. Excellent stuff, all told.
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Not Our Kind Of Vertigo (clear vinyl LP limited to 300 copies)
Cat: PY 85. Rel: 11 Feb 21
Coldwave/Synth
Review: Luxembourg based, Danish DJ and musician Martin Jensen is very productive, just as creative and always on point. This latest album may be his best yet however. It's a collation of music he said he has made specifically with this label in mind and is inspired by a love of private pressing electronic LPs from the '70s. "I wanted to create something immediate, sparse and functional," he says, and he has done just that across the eight immersive tunes. They are chilly yet absorbing, with icy synths and cold wave sounds stretching out over a range of rhythms - some sooth and seductive, some more wonky and manic.
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Forget The Lessons Of The Past! (LP limited to 300 copies)
Cat: PY 136. Rel: 09 May 22
Experimental/Electronic
Review: Formerly known as Aerie, David Gate and Robert Andrews formed The Land Of Yrx in Shrewsbury in 1982, and were unquestionably light years ahead of their time. Apart from anything else, some of what we have here might be labelled chip music, owing much to video game soundtracks, the only problem being video games at that point didn't actually have soundtracks per se.
The pair would put out a slew of tapes between 1983 and 1993, before moving to self-released CD-Rs. This vinyl release compiles work from across that history and makes it clear more people should be aware of their efforts. Tacks like 'Annus Mirabilis 1984', for example, are staggeringly beautiful and inventive, 'And Damn The Consequences' could be proto-acid house, while 'The Crucial Suss Composition' is a blend of ambient drone resplendent with this subtly spiralling and emotive electronic symphony.
… Read moreThe pair would put out a slew of tapes between 1983 and 1993, before moving to self-released CD-Rs. This vinyl release compiles work from across that history and makes it clear more people should be aware of their efforts. Tacks like 'Annus Mirabilis 1984', for example, are staggeringly beautiful and inventive, 'And Damn The Consequences' could be proto-acid house, while 'The Crucial Suss Composition' is a blend of ambient drone resplendent with this subtly spiralling and emotive electronic symphony.
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Review: Packing shades of formative era Cabaret Voltaire, Neural Circus, and Fad Gadget, among others, the opening, title track to Le Cliche's latest long form is everything you want in cold synth wave. It's fun and packed with the energy of a factory floor, but at the same time saturated in a kind of sinister broodiness, never fully committing to the party it will so clearly set off. Elsewhere things get more exploratory still. 'Thin White Sheets' is a downtempo menace, 'Francophilia' is broken electro sex at its finest and most-loin-arousing, 'All This Silence' is all about muted waves of harmony and a big room feeling. 'Tara It's Getting Late' feels like we're approaching the chaotic culmination of a dance floor session. Make no mistake, this is benchmark for the genre.
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