After a few years' hiatus, SHXCXCHCXSH are now opening up their label Rosten again with the EP "DO". Four tracks that resume their sound and approach to techno and club music. More

OUFOUFOF represents the beginning of a new turn for SHXCXCHCXSH, one born out of a fresh conceptual approach to rhythm. Having concentrated in recent years on music for more experimental scenes, SHXCXCHCXSH wanted to create music for the club, but not with the usual 4/4 approach. "...the main focus being our relationship with the dancers' minds and how we do our best to fuck with them". Stylistically, the project began with a discussion about rhythm, about what is interesting and what is not. The result is a conceptualized approach, one in which multiple sounds in each track are based around a single rhythmic pattern. This concept has been extended holistically, to track names and artwork. Ultimately, what began life as a series of records has evolved into an eight-track LP of twisted, polyrhythmic studies in pattern and texture. Fresh off the back of SHULULULU EP for Avian, OUFOUFOF, is the fourth studio long-player from the Swedish duo and will be released on their own label Rosten, November 5th. More

A year after their much-praised debut album STRGTHS, Avian's cryptic Swedish duo SHXCXCHCXSH are ready to present their second album, Linear S Decoded, this August. From the elegiac opener Entering The S-Cloud, the intensity of tracks such as Elocution and Rudimental Retreat, to the disorienting beauty of Wading Guise and aptly-titled closer Monolithic Conclusion, the LP deftly broadens the scope of SHXCXCHCXSH's singular aesthetic. Keeping their mystic aura has always been important to SHXCXCHCXSH - so important they didn’t want to take part in what they deemed 'the language game' until now. Their previous strict use of fragmented track titles illustrated an ideal of communication purely through music, to service the focus on sound via complete abstraction. Breaking the habit with Linear S Decoded doesn’t necessarily indicate a complete break with their approach, but an adjustment to the direction they have travelled since they first emerged two years ago. As Resident Advisor identified in a perceptive review of the previous LP, among SHXCXCHCXSH's key strengths is the imbuing of their productions with a narrative sense, a sonic progression that moves beyond techno's standard repetition - it's an element of their work that's heightened further on Linear S Decoded, pulling focus from the more grinding, brutalist elements of their distinct sound to reveal the more melodic, almost optimistic, elements that had previously remained in the shadows of the productions until now. The track titles themselves are evocative about the new record whilst revealing few specifics: no less intriguing than the clustered consonants of the prior release titles, hinting at deeper underlying narratives at play, possibly historically informed, or a fiction of the duo's own making. Either way, definitive answers will not be forthcoming: the mysteries that lay beneath SHXCXCHCXSH's approach to music making have long been an intrinsic part of their appeal. Linear S Decoded presents the opportunity for newcomers and those already au fait with the duo to employ their deciphering abilities, whilst simultaneously offering an expanded and ever more richly detailed landscape to traverse...

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Avian’s first release in 2014 comes from the enigmatic Swedish duo SHXCXCHCXSH. Following their highly acclaimed debut LP STRGTHS, released last summer, the duo now returns with their fourth release for the label. The EP collects three staggering techno workouts with fragmented track titles in familiar manner. The A-side starts off straightforward with VVVLLLLVVV’s stabbing kick drum alongside an eerie melody that works its way through to the flip site. MRRRWRRRDS first embraces the listener with a warm, murky bass before falling into the fluttering beat that drives the track forward. Closer MRRRCHNNNN brings no ease with a restless pounding defining the tone for Avian in 2014...
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Tracklisting
A1 Uun - Purity Test
A2 Uun - Never For the Ever
A3 Uun - Apocrypha
A4 Uun - Euclidean
A5 Uun - Geoglyph
B1 Uun - Truth and Absolution
B2 Uun - Nothing Ever Happens
B3 Uun - Chiaroscuro
B4 Uun - Vertigo
B5 Uun - Mtatsminda

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The dream unstitched,
we sew reality back up,
but the thread gets thin
at night.
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A1 Rumenige - Eka
A2 T A K A - Clenched Fists
B1 Jokasti & Nek - Kalam On
B2 NX1 - MRD1

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Limited amount of part 16 of the Herdersmat series available now. This vinyl was previously available only by purchasing the full MORDH003. Generic black sleeve. More

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C1 Cadans - Laag Water
C2 Uun - The Curse Of Avarice
D1 Razbibriga - Refined
D2 Cressida - God's Grace

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Limited amount of part 17 of the Herdersmat series available now. This vinyl was previously available only by purchasing the full MORDH003. Generic black sleeve. More

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E1 Keepsakes - Spit Exchange
E2 Liza Aikin - Le Visage
F1 Thanos Hana - 7683 7316 pt2
F2 MasCon - Gringo

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Limited amount of part 18 of the Herdersmat series available now. This vinyl was previously available only by purchasing the full MORDH003. Generic black sleeve. More

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A1 SHXCXCHCXSH - EAUOAI
A2 Jokasti & Nek - Dromos
B1 Temudo & Ribe - Rite
B2 Tapefeed - Unshackle

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Limited amount of part 30 of the Herdersmat series available now. This vinyl was previously available only by purchasing the full MORDH005. Generic black sleeve. More

Tracklisting
C1 Cristian Varela - Eighth
C2 Certa Ratio - 002 0026
D1 Razbibriga - Cicada
D2 Kaiser - And Yet Again
D3 Go Hiyama - Unchance Operation

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Limited amount of part 31 of the Herdersmat series available now. This vinyl was previously available only by purchasing the full MORDH005. Generic black sleeve. More

Tracklisting
E1 Tensal - Aquelarre
E2 Dimi Angelis - Deconstruction
F1 DJ ANGELDU$t - Green Glockz
F2 Diabla Diezco - Window
F3 Antony Doria - Confusion

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Limited amount of part 32 of the Herdersmat series available now. This vinyl was previously available only by purchasing the full MORDH005. Generic black sleeve. More

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G1 Sciahri & Desroi - Jupiter's Gravity is Jealous
G2 Jaraossa - VCA
H1 Operator - Moving On
H2 Jamaica Suk - 4th Dimension

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Limited amount of part 33 of the Herdersmat series available now. This vinyl was previously available only by purchasing the full MORDH005. Generic black sleeve. More

Tracklisting
A1 Oxygeno - Hide The Sun
A2 Oxygeno - Redemption
A3 Oxygeno - Popular Enemy
B1 Oxygeno - Run Far Away
B2 Oxygeno - Disolving Into The Ground
B3 Oxygeno - Body Of Divinity

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it dies
it demands
it will not say no.
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A1 The Advent - TK421
A2 The Advent - Clap Trap
B1 The Advent - Bad Transfer
B2 The Advent - Mugger Scum

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The place is now
let us accept the time forever
and you'll wear your silver shoes.
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Tracklisting
A1 Viels - Wujhca
A2 Viels - Effetto Bilaterale
B1 Viels - Pensieri Ricorrenti
B2 Viels - Magnete Permanente

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we will wait
and
wait
in that space.
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Tracklisting
A1 NWHR - Hereje
A2 NWHR - Sangre desperdiciada
B1 NWHR - El juicio del escorpion
B2 NWHR - Sombra del destino
B3 NWHR - Sombra del camino

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in this room
the hours of despair
still make shadows
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A1 DJ Shufflemaster & Go Hiyama - Salasa Geometric
A2 Bartig Move - Asistencia
B1 Tensal - Esbar
B2 Aöcram - Dreams in NYC
C1 Casual Treatment - The Eye Begins to See
C2 Lakej - Paranoid Influence
D1 Oxygeno - Dilemma
D2 Bas Mooy - Doolhof
D3 Ricardo Garduno - Reincarnation
E1 Nørbak - Stared Too Long Into The Sun
E2 Filip Xavi - Black Hole Stories
F1 Roll Dann - The Mouth
F2 Jamaica Suk - Yesterday's Tomorrow
G1 Mathys Lenne - Burton
G2 Dynamic Forces - Sentience
H1 Hurtado - Self Therapy
H2 Uun - Thelema

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Mord.
Morderstwo.
Rotterdam.
Herdersmat.
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A1 Tensal - Sonic Particle Rain
A2 Tensal - Ethos
B1 Tensal - Perpetual Survivor
B2 Tensal - Nemesis

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what you were
will not happen again.
the tigers have found me
and I do not care.
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A1 Perfo - Smoke Machine
A2 Perfo - All Hope Abandon
A3 Perfo - Tunnel Vision
A4 Perfo - Opera Vertical
A5 Perfo - The Queen Ant_s Walk
A6 Perfo - Oh (If You Like)
B1 Perfo - Morning Love (But No Strobe)
B2 Perfo - High On The Right Side
B3 Perfo - Just Bad Manners
B4 Perfo - Are You Here To Kill Me
B5 Perfo - Fox
B6 Perfo - Grand Final (Full Portrait)

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I entered the world
once more,
drove down the hill,
past the houses,
full and empty
of people.
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A1 Mist Gasp - The Await
A2 Mist Gasp - Nocturnal Pulse
B1 Mist Gasp - The Season
B2 Mist Gasp - Engage

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stay with me, everything bad,
madmen in wooden houses
without windows,
lost words.
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