When Red X dropped on Blackest Ever Black last year, it felt like a truly exciting cementing of the promise Ossia had been showing in his actions within the Bristol music scene up until that point. From his Young Echo dalliances (not least his deadpan mic ramblings during their radio shows and club nights) to his own Peng Sound! dances and on to the No Corner label and Rwd Fwd online store, expectations were always going to be high for such a figure’s debut release. Red X, in its creeping, seething malaise, was a startling debut that quite simply nailed the notion of a next step in that iffy Bristol Sound concept.
Stream the Young Echo artist’s new double pack for Berceuse Heroique.
Antonio Marini opens up about the jazz-influenced sample art he makes as Healing Force Project.
The Berceuse Heroique sublabel rolls back into action with its first two releases of 2016.
The Athens producer and DJ will make his long-awaited debut on Berceuse Heroique later this month.
Jeroen Warmenhoven will debut on Berceuse Heroique next month with a 12″ featuring an OB Ignitt remix.
The Düsseldorf musician squares up with Dresvn on the Gammellan 12″ due next month.
Given the intensity and robust nature of much of Berceuse Heroique’s output – think post-apocalyptic techno, drenched in analogue hiss, seemingly aimed at confirmed misanthropes – their occasional forays into re-edit territory seem deliciously out of place. This was particular apparent on the first two Brasserie Heroique Edits 12” singles, which dropped simultaneously last September. The first featured gritty, chopped-up reworks of a Caribbean disco classic from Duster Valentine and Jamal Moss (the latter under the Members Only guise). While the grainy, off kilter aesthetic showcased on both reworks was in keeping with the Berceuse Heroique ethos, they still seemed a little out of place.
The Bristol upstart has a new three-track single ready to unleash.
The Honest Jon’s staffer turns his attention to more edits for Berceuse Heroique.
The fifteen-minute track from the Bristol-based producer comes backed with a Specter remix.
This month’s column features records from The Trilogy Tapes, Planet Mu, Berceuse Heroique, Nous, meandyou. and more.
Stream the sound of the Italian producer’s Introspettivo EP.
Rightly or wrongly, Liverpool DJ and producer Mark Forshaw has toiled in the shadows of his peer and occasional collaborator John Heckle. That situation looks likely to change with the release of The Fuck. While Forshaw has put out a small body of work on labels like Mathematics and Tabernacle, it is not hard to imagine his debut on Berceuse Heroique turning heads. This has nothing to do with Forshaw suddenly becoming the latest in vogue producer and everything to do with the radical approach he explores on this record.
Yet again Berceuse Heroique can take credit as a champion of the obscure and weird. Apart from supporting the brilliant Ekman, who at times sounds like Gesloten Cirkel on industrial strength steroids, the London label has now delved into the vaults of Danny ‘Legowelt’ Wolfers’ back catalogue to reissue The Age of Candy Candy. Recorded under his Smackos name and released on the Dutch producer’s own Strange Life CD-R label back in 2004, Berceuse Heroique is now putting it out on vinyl for the first time.
The forthcoming HERSKULL001 pairs up a new production by Kowton with two tracks from Marshallito & Underground Resistance artist Bileebob .
Berceuse Heroique founder Gizmo opens up about his past, influences and the freedom of running a small label.
Preview the label’s 20th release which pairs the Liverpudlian producer with an I.B.M. remix from the Mathematics boss.
Berceuse Heroique is one of the few contemporary electronic music labels that fully understands what it means to be an underground operation. From the abrasive sound that it propagates to its guerilla tactics – unexpectedly and with little notice putting out rare Loefah material, using controversial, situationist artwork – Berceuse cuts an individualistic shape in a world of blokey sameness. The fact that the music they release is flawed and imperfect, gives off the sense the producers involved are just getting to grips with their machines, makes it all the more attractive.
While the grimy acid and electro of Ekman’s Panzerkreuz release was one of 2014’s best records, last year also saw the Dutch producer strengthen his ties with Berceuse Heroique, the UK label that he had provided the debut release for. It seems that after years of working and preparing, it has all paid off for Roel Dijks, and he now finds himself in the enviable situation of being able to pick and choose whom he releases for.