Varg & Michel Isorinne’s collaboration and Abdulla Rashim’s industrial ambient project will release albums on the Swedish label.
Listen to a tense slab of oppressive drones and post-punk vocals from the Northern Electronics camp.
Northern Electronics have edged out a double dose of forthcoming material from the labels boss’ A Shell Of Speed.
Lying dormant for the better part of 23 years, Berlin Atonal returned in 2013 to rather high expectations. Once a much revered festival locally, it presented a curious array of seminal and transgressive artists over its eight year run at Kreuzberg’s legendary SO36. Atonal’s importance is undisputed; paramount for the Berlin alternative art and music scene of the time; a true Zeitgeist of an era. Likewise, Atonal Records had around three dozen releases to date. It featured the likes of French avant-jazz collective Art Zoyd and multi instrumentalists Elliot Sharp and Thierry Zaboitzeff. More specifically, there were two compilations of Berlin Atonal, both released in 1984 and presenting what was to be the new project for ex Throbbing Gristle members Genesis P-Orridge and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson as Psychic TV, New York multidisciplinary artist Z’ev and local punk outfit La Loora. Their guitarist, Achim Mennicken would later go on to form The Boom Operators and Latz and collaborate with Raymond Watts and J.G. Thirlwell on the PIG project. Sadly, he passed away early last year.
Music from Cabaret Voltaire, Miles Whittaker, Abdulla Rashim and Fis features on the new triple pack.
Mike Parker, Abdulla Rashim, Eomac, Headless Horseman and Etapp Kyle headline a serious night of techno at Corsica Studios and we have tickets to the event and a copy of Mike Parker’s Subterranean Liquid 12″ to give away.
For a relative newcomer on the scene, Sweden’s Abdullah Rashim has certainly managed to issue forth a hefty amount of work to be digested. Much of that has been done on his own terms through a self-titled label, the ultimate autonomous creative outlet, but there have also been a fair few dalliances with Semantica as well as a somewhat surprising appearance on Studio Barnhus. Rashim’s other, more communally minded label Northern Electronics is the outlet for Unanimity, the producer’s first full length work, and it makes for a logical combination considering the context of submerged techno that Rashim is exploring, the label largely deals in, and the album format lends itself to.
Matthew Kent dials up Abdulla Rashim to discuss the Swedish producer’s music, the growing relationship between the labels he’s involved with and his approach to identity.
After the seismic splash created by the full-length Donato Dozzy remix package, it’s little wonder that Chris Madak is keen to return his Bee Mask creation to the hands of remixers to see what other results might arise. So it is that he launches Pear Growers’ Series, an “irregular private press 12-inch series” that commences proceedings with remixes from a sizable pair of producers to set out the standard the label intends to operate at.
Speaking to this writer last year, Mike Parker said “I think the word ‘drone’ or ‘droning’ can be interpreted as being a negative term – as in droning is boring.” Being the authoritative figure on the subject he is, Mike Parker has a point. A lot of droney-techno is boring. So what makes droney-techno that’s not drone, not boring? The answer: Abdulla Rashim. It was in 2011 that the mysterious Swede first surfaced on the ready-made Abdulla Rashim Records, which he then followed up with an EP on drone-synonymous imprint Prologue.
Studio Barnhus have called on a raft of producers to remake and remix tracks from their Radioactive Orchestra project, with Âme and Jonsson/Alter among those involved.