Releases from BNJMN, Noface and House Of Black Lanterns are primed on the new sublabel which will “expand the bandwith” of Crème.
The Berlin artist will break free with his own platform launching next month.
Oli Warwick instigates a three-way discussion between BNJMN and Best Available Technology, seeking out the facts behind their new, collaborative album.
Astro:Dynamics will issue De/Re-Constructions from the transatlantic pairing next month.
We quiz Manni Dee about the compilation he’s curated that revolves around ambient and noise music and features tracks from WANDA GROUP, BNJMN, Lotide, Shelley Parker and more.
The Berlin-based producerwill release the six-track Coil EP through Delsin next month.
Both artists have compiled a disc’s worth of selections for the label’s fourth release.
The Berlin-based producer is set to return with a new 12″ for the South London label – stream “Arc” from the forthcoming record here.
Like that other Dutch label with ‘field’ in its name, Photic Fields’ latest release features contributions from a group of artists rather than one producer. Another similarity with the Field Records split series is Fields of Light focus does feature Dutch talent in the shape of Aroy Dee and Metropolis, but this release also looks to artists from the UK and Ireland. This is no surprise as Photic Fields’ back catalogue features releases from Leonid, Lerosa, Automatic Tasty and Perseus Traxx. Unsurprisingly then, the Anglo-Irish connection is strong on Fields Of Light.
Forthcoming 12″ from the UK producer also features a remix from Legowelt and Xosar’s Xamiga.
London-based party Make Me will be hosting an evening with Roman Flügel and BNJMN next month, and we have a pair of tickets to give away.
We have a pair of tickets to give away to the forthcoming Electric Minds outdoor summer session in London featuring Âme, Sven Weisemann, Kowton and BNJMN.
Introducing an artist to the world via a set of remixes of material not yet heard is a risky and rarely used method, but it can work. Back when Skudge were cloaked in all manner of faceless mystique, a brilliant Aardvarck remix of their then-unreleased track “Convolution” made for an instant mental entry on this writer’s internal notepad, as it probably did for many others, and possibly made a lot of people wonder who they were.
Svetlana Industries have announced details of their next release, from erstwhile DC Recordings artist Kelpe.
Hivern Discs have announced details of plans to release their first artist album, with the decidedly mysterious Barcelona based musician Mistakes Are OK granted the honour.
We’ll save you the usual rhetoric that surrounds these lists – that of it being hard to translate electronic music into the traditional long player format – and we won’t bother dissecting the argument that the modern consumption of music lessens the importance of albums; for our money there’s still nothing more rewarding that settling in and listening to an LP in its glorious entirety.
What we have done, however, is hand pick our 20 favourite albums from the past 12 months. Those of you who traverse these pages on a regular basis will see a liberal sprinkling of the artists and labels we’ve supported all year (and hopefully a couple of surprises too).
We have endeavored only to select albums that have truly moved us, ones that we find ourselves returning to again and again. In our minds 2011 was a vintage year for albums – the wondrous breadth of style and substance in our top 20 testifies to that – and we’ve included detailed descriptions of each release in our list for your reading pleasure.
Rush Hour have posted this teaser mix of what to expect from their young prodigy BNJMN‘s forthcoming mini album Black Square.
If you ignore his vowel-free stage name, it would appear that there is little to connect Ben Thomas to recent developments in electronic music. Thomas’s debut earlier this year on Rush Hour’s Direct Current sub-label and now this follow-up have nothing in common with mnml or the new school jack of the Chicago paeans. Thomas does appear to inhabit a different world, one populated by half-heard melodies and dreamy textures, as if the soul of Detroit techno were to be re-imagined by a Gothic novelist.
However on closer inspection it’s clear that Thomas does not live in a vacuum and is indeed in touch with current sounds. Despite his interest in the more ethereal end of techno’s mood spectrum, most of the tracks on 141 have a surprisingly modern(ist) feeling. “One Sea” for example, sounds like John Roberts pushed to the outer limits of abstraction, its dreamy chords underscored by the mournful pitter-patter of broken, fragile beats.
“We Are The Weather” meanwhile is a beautifully atmospheric piece, but is powered by a robust bass. “Inout” also shows that Thomas is deeply interested in both the recent past and the present as break beats halfway between drum’n’bass and techno tempos are fused with the kind of spooky techno melodies that Convextion specialises in. BNJMN has mapped out his own enclave in the techno continuum – to join him, just dial 141.
Richard Brophy
