[NEWS] Vatican Shadow - Ornamented Walls

The third Vatican Shadow album, Ornamented Walls, will arrive next week on Manchester's Modern Love label. The techno-leaning project from Dominick Fernow, the New York-based Hospital Productions label head perhaps best known for his noise material as Prurient, has produced a string of cassette releases encased in provocative artwork, with headline-referencing titles like Washington Buries Al Qaeda Leader At Sea. Ornamented Walls will be one of only a handful of releases on a label other than his own. The first side is culled from material recorded during rehearsals for the live mix of Operation Neptune Spear, a cassette released earlier this year, while the second side features six all new tracks.

Tracklist:
01. Operation Neptune Spear Part 1 (Live Mix Rehearsal)
02. Operation Neptune Spear Part 2 (Live Mix Rehearsal)
03. Operation Neptune Spear Part 3 (Live Mix Rehearsal)
04. Cairo Is A Haunted City (Mythic Chords)
05. Nightforce Scopes
06. Yemeni Telephone Number
07. India Has Just Tested A Nuclear Device
08. Church Of All Images (Church Of The NSA)
09. Boxes Were Wired To Batteries Then loaded Into A Brown Toyota Cargo Truck

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[NEWS] Vatican Shadow Tour & Exclusive Track

Dominick Fernow’s militant techno project, Vatican Shadow has just confirmed new dates for the project’s first European tour (see flier above). Fernow combines hypnotic, machine like rhythms with lush, seductive and sinister melodies reminiscent of Aphex Twin and Mezzanine-era Massive Attack, set to the apocalyptic headline-esque titles and artwork dealing with fear, anxiety and current events.

As previously confirmed, Vatican Shadow will perform at the legendary Berghain club in Berlin, Germany as part of the Downwards Nacht, alongside Surgeon, Regis and Cut Hands. Further appearances include the highly anticipated and heavily curated Blackest Ever Black night at London’s Corsica Studio with a host of acts from the label’s roster, including Black Rain, Russell Haswell, and Source Direct, and Unsound Festival in Poland.

Two new dates have been announced in Helsinki, Finland with Tim Hecker and a performance at Nico Vascellari’s Codalunga in Vittorio Veneto, Italy. Further details will be added on the additional dates mentioned as they become “declassified”.

Source: 13:13

Here are the Tour Dates for easy viewing:

29 September Los Angeles, United States
02 October Berlin, Germany
03 October Barcelona, Spain
04 October Madrid, Spain
05 October Amsterdam, The Netherlands
06 October Vittorio Veneto, Italy
09 October TBC
10 October Hamburg, Germany
11 October TBC
12 October Helsinki, Finland
13 October London, England
15 October Krakow, Poland

The Complete Tour Information [September 28]

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[NEWS] Andy Stott - Numb

Here’s the first track to be unveiled from probably our most anticipated record left to be released in 2012, Andy Stott’s forthcoming Luxury Problems, out next month on Modern Love. The record has been described as falling “somewhere between Theo Parrish and Sade, but more fucked,” and gorgeous/ghostly album-opener “Numb” hints at a devastatingly beautiful (and relatively accessible) evolution of the imposing, future-primitive grind of his incredible Passed Me By / We Stay Together EPs from last year, thanks in part to the haunting vocals from Stott’s childhood piano teacher Alison Skidmore.

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[NEWS] RA.327 -Vessel

Vessel is poised to release one of the year's most intriguing full-lengths, Order of Noise, through Tri Angle, one of the year's most intriguing imprints.
What's got the young Bristol artist (given name Seb Gainsborough) to this point is an open mind. Leaving aside his various side projects—Panther Modern, Rei, Flexible Ape—his output as Vessel has yielded a bewildering volume of stylistic expressions over the last two years—very often within the same piece of music.
Source: RA

Tracklist:
1.1.1 Eli Keszler – Mired 1
1.1.2 Sebastian Gainsborough* – Nervous, Mechanum, Organum
1.1.3 Rudnick – Unknown
1.1.4 Akira Rabelais – 1382 Wyclif Gen. II. 7 And Spiride In To The Face Of Hym An Entre Of Breth Of Lijf.
1.2 Jabu (3) & Kahn (5) – Runaway Girl
1.3.1 Raime – Told & Collapsed
1.3.2 Cut Hands – ++++ (Four Crosses)
1.4 1991 (2) – Open To The Dark
1.5.1 Pelican Daughters – I Love You
1.5.2 Cut Hands – Impassion
1.6.1 Cut Hands – Impassion
1.6.2 Sam Kidel – String Loops
1.6.3 Aaliyah – If Your Girl Only Knew
1.6.4 Vessel (5) – Court Of Lions (6_1#03 Ambience)
1.7.1 Forest Swords – If Your Girl
1.7.2 Vessel (5) – Scarletta
1.8 Vessel (5) – Scarletta
1.9.1 Vatican Shadow – Conspiratorial Whispers
1.9.2 Jabu (3) – Flying
1.10.1 Kareem – Baku
1.10.2 Bernard Parmegiani – Ponomatop
1.11 I B M* – Limelight 80
1.12 Pete Swanson – A&Ox0
1.13.1 Hamza El Din – The Water Wheel
1.13.2 Nate Young – Stygian Faces
1.14 Haxan Cloak, The – Observatory
1.15 Vessel (5) – Misery Is A Communicable Disease
1.16 Howse – Old Tea
1.17 Evian Christ – Pilatus
1.18 Jabu (3) – Forgive


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[NEWS] FACT Mix 343 - Old Apparatus

The London-based group debuted in 2010, with a release on Mala (of Digital Mystikz fame)’s Deep Medi Musik label. As FACT’s Richard Rossiter explained in said interview, “the fact that it came courtesy of Deep Medi suggested an allegiance to dubstep, but the EP’s four tracks roamed far wider than that, with elements of blunted hip-hop, ghostly R&B, noise, industrial, techno and even post-rock.”
Now, the group have launched their own label, Sullen Tone. As they told FACT, they’re a group that “like to be involved with every part of the process”, and that perfectionist nature shines through not just in their music, artwork and slow emergence from anonymity, but in their mix for FACT, a carefully staggered session of slow guitars, breathless pop, synthesiser experiments and the darker end of dance music. Forest Swords, Belong and more feature.

Tracklist:
01. Old Apparatus – Cauliroot (forthcoming Sullen Tone)
02. Forest Swords – Miarches
03. Belong – A Walk
04. Morphosis – Kawn
05. Likhan’ – Daoine Sidhe
06. Edward Williams – Fish Of The Sea – Shoals And Loners On The Reef
07. Old Apparatus – Derren (Derren Ep – Sullen Tone)
08. Django Reinhardt – When Day Is Done
09. Fever Ray – Keep The Streets Empty For Me
10. Dancers of Bali – Legong : Lagu Condong – Pengipuk – Garuda
11. Iannis Xenakis – Taurhiphanie
12. Josephine Foster – My Life Had Stood A Loaded Gun


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[NEWS] Evian Christ - Duga-three Mix

Excellent new mix of haunting original ambient music by UK producer Evian Christ, inspired by the Soviet Duga-3 transmitter. Via Dummy:
“Duga-three is a four-part piece of music I wrote after reading about a Soviet signal transmitter of the same name. it was characterised by the repetitive tapping sound it broadcast, which was sufficiently powerful enough to intercept transitions across the world. After 28 years of transmission, the Duga-3 array was abandoned as mysteriously and unexpectedly as it had appeared.”

Dummy Mix 130 // Evian Christ by Dummymag on Mixcloud

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[NEWS] Holy Other - Held

Here’s the sprawling/glowing title track from Holy Other’s excellent forthcoming LP, out next month on Tri Angle. The last two minutes are particularly hopeful and great. Held is out August 28.

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[NEWS] Tame Impala – “Apocalypse Dreams”

Modular just posted up “Apocalypse Dreams,” the first track to surface from Tame Impala’s new album Lonerism, due this October. Download it for the price of an email address below:


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[NEWS] Planningtorock "Patriarchy Over and Out"

On August 1, Planningtorock's Janine Rostron plays the Southbank Centre in London as part of Antony's Meltdown Festival. The line-up represents Anthony's "Future Feminism" approach, in which he and the group of New York City artists with whom he associates himself "reject patriarchy in its myriad virulent and apocalyptic manifestations, [advocating] for a fundamental shift towards feminism in all our systems and structures of governance." Rostron's new single, "Patriarchy Over and Out", is the epitome of the beat to which Antony marches. And what a beat: the first single to be released on Rostron's DFA imprint, Human Level, initially sticks so tightly to the grid that it's as if someone sent an electronic charge up a pristine chickenwire fence, crackling, hissing and buzzing in threatening fashion. It's militantly precise, and Rostron's masculine, operatic demands are cold and mantra-like: "I don't want to wait/ Patriarchal life, you're out of date/ Patriarchal life, get out of the way." Three-quarters of the way through the song, the grid melts away to a rueful glow, and Rostron's vocals become more emotional, more human and imploring. It's as if the song strips away a common perception of feminism-- exacting and militant-- to show the basic human cry for equality beneath. A deeply persuasive, beautiful single.
Source: Pitchfork
Patriarchy over & out - Planningtorock
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[NEWS] Inga Copeland – “B.M.W.”

Inga Copeland returns with a new solo track, apparently taken from a forthcoming 12″: “B.M.W.” is a cleaner, more accessible (relatively speaking) pop jam than we’re used to from the confounding Hype Williams crew, although shades of Black Is Beautiful’s haunting and hypnotic mutant bass/dub/reggae/soul still lurk in the shadows. Look for Copeland’s Faith 12″, “out soon.”

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[NEWS] Oneohtrix Point Never x Quadrotors

“A troupe of 16 quadrotors (flying robots) dance to and manipulate sound and light at the Saacthi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase 2012.” [show directors: Marshmallow Laser Feast / sound design by Oneohtrix Point Never]



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[NEWS] John Maus - Bennington Track

Here’s another mostly unheard, slightly ominous/obsessive love song from Maus, taken from his forthcoming collection of rarities and previously unreleased material, titled A Collection of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material.



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[NEWS] Holy Other - Love Some1 by TriAngleRecords

Listen to Holy Other - Love Some1 from upcoming full-length debut, Held, to be released on TriAngle Records on August 28 2012.
Holy Other - Love Some1 by TriAngleRecords
Release Date: August 28 2012
Holy Other's full-length debut, Held to be released August 28 via TriAngle Records.
Tracklist:
01 (W)here
02 Tense Past
03 Inpouring
04 Love Some1
05 U Now
06 In Difference
07 Past Tension
08 Held
09 Nothing Here

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