Botanik, the new album by Contium

Posted by The High Plains Drifter on June 12, 2018 Posted in Cassette, Dub Techno/Deep Techno, Non-Creative Commons Release Tagged Contium

Botanik by Contium is a trip through expansive aural scenery, which is as vast as it is vivid. Every track in this cassette functions distinctly as its own mood piece, while the music remains consistently immersive throughout. Tone, rhythm and atmosphere have been finely concocted to form this collection of ethereal musical specimens, simultaneously boundless and intimately rooted.

The canadian artist Twin Peetz, from ODrex Music remixed the track Monstera. With its thumping bassdrum and relentless percussion, the track is anchored by a dance-floor sensibility and yet its ambition is set on an spatial expansion of sound based upon dub and ambient music, beyond just making people dance.

With an event in Berlin on 16th June 2018, Contium presents the new album to the public. The album can be streamed and downloaded on BandCamp. This is the tracklist:
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Heavenchord – Timeless

Posted by The High Plains Drifter on January 26, 2018 Posted in Ambient, Cassette, Dub Techno/Deep Techno, Non-Creative Commons Release, Non-Creative Commons Release Tagged Heavenchord

Radiant Sound is a young label from Russia. On December 22 they released the album “Timeless” by Heavenchord released both digitally and physically in a run of 111 tapes. This is essential listening for an dub techno fans.
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Irammm – Les Deserts D’Irammm

Posted by The High Plains Drifter on January 4, 2018January 2, 2018 Posted in Ambient, Cassette, Dub Techno/Deep Techno, Non-Creative Commons Release, Non-Creative Commons Release Tagged Ambient, cassette, irammm

Irammm is a new alias from an artist who lands on the Shaded Explorations label with a full length entitled ‘Les Deserts D’Irammm’. The idea behind this new album is to invite you into the archives of Irammm. It is “a kind of a testimony of the life over here, alone in the desert, maybe buried, struggling for water amidst the illusion of an oasis” and was written as a cathartic exercise to release pain and find peace and sorrow in sound, and that is something all listeners will resonate with such is the evocative nature of all nine tracks.
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