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 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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Tracklisting
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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Tracklisting
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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Tracklisting:
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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Tracklisting
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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Tracklist:
A1 Bas Mooy & Jeroen Liebregts - Shelf Life
A2 MasCon - Nenner
B1 Exium - Dark Voids
B2 Quelza - Argumentum Ad Ignorantiam


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Limited amount of part 34 of the Herdersmat series available now. This vinyl was previously available only by purchasing the full MORDBOX004. Generic black sleeve. More

Tracklist:
A1 Nørbak - Hereditario
A2 Rebecca Delle Piane - Throw A Fit
A3 Dimi Angélis - Poisoned Cocktail
B1 Izan Hesse - Blue Room
B2 Antony Doria - Uprite


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Limited amount of part 34 of the Herdersmat series available now. This vinyl was previously available only by purchasing the full MORDBOX004. Generic black sleeve. More

Tracklist:
A1 Alexander Johansson & Mattias Fridell - Folkskygg
A2 Vinicius Honorio - Fearless
B1 Johannes Volk - Nightmare Orchestra
B2 Jaraossa - Drive


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Limited amount of part 36 of the Herdersmat series available now. This vinyl was previously available only by purchasing the full MORDBOX004. Generic black sleeve. More

Tracklist:
A1 Roll Dann - Suffrage Of Souls
A2 Surit & Katran - Reconnect
A3 Kaiser - Esco
B1 Operator - Metal Moon
B2 Takaaki Itoh - Implement

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Limited amount of part 37 of the Herdersmat series available now. This vinyl was previously available only by purchasing the full MORDBOX004. Generic black sleeve. More

Tracklist:
A1 UVB - HDMT
A2 ASEC - Guilt Can't Shape The Future
B1 Rommek - Caustic Waves
B2 Piska Power - Unbenanntererer

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Limited amount of part 38 of the Herdersmat series available now. This vinyl was previously available only by purchasing the full MORDBOX004. Generic black sleeve. More

Tracklist:
A1 Ritzi Lee - Ants On Steroidz
A2 Lewis Fautzi - 141021
A3 Casual Treatment - It Doesn't Matter (Just Listen)
B1 Bazalt - Ogas
B2 Jokasti & Nek - Gains

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Limited amount of part 39 of the Herdersmat series available now. This vinyl was previously available only by purchasing the full MORDBOX004. Generic black sleeve. More

Tracklisting
A1 Lewis Fautzi - Irrational Fear Of Failure
A2 Lewis Fautzi - Danger Or Threat
B1 Lewis Fautzi - Confused
B2 Lewis Fautzi - Unprincipled

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practice, read, arrive,
tempt, sparkle, requiem,
wink, strive, melt,
surround, sneer, rush,
obtain, hit, contain.
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Tracklisting
A1 Patrik Carrera - Profusion
A2 Patrik Carrera - Benefits & Uses
A3 Patrik Carrera - Lost In Series
A4 Patrik Carrera - IonSton
A5 Patrik Carrera - Water Overhead
A6 Patrik Carrera - Isolating Reality
B1 Patrik Carrera - Memory Seven
B2 Patrik Carrera - Overabundance
B3 Patrik Carrera - Runglr6
B4 Patrik Carrera - Ana¨sthesie
B5 Patrik Carrera - Watercourse Way
B6 Patrik Carrera - Rough Paper
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We sat there
smoking cigarettes
at 5 in the morning.
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Tracklisting
A1 Oliver Rosemann - The Disappearing Act
A2 Oliver Rosemann - The Grand Illusion
B1 Oliver Rosemann - The Pledge and the Turn
B2 Oliver Rosemann - The Human Cannonball
B3 Oliver Rosemann - Smoke and Mirror

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when the phone rings
I too would like to hear words
that might ease
some of this.
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Tracklisting
01 Metapattern - Cleansing
02 Metapattern - Artificial Awareness
03 Metapattern - Assimilation
04 Metapattern - Miasma
05 Metapattern - Made In Plastic
06 Metapattern - Descent Into Oblivion
07 Metapattern - Construct of Impurity
08 Metapattern - Empty Embrace
09 Metapattern - Triangulation
10 Metapattern - Blinded By Safety
11 Metapattern - Red Star

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Silicone cell,
silicone cage.
Silicone soul,
silicone rage.
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Tracklisting
A1 PWCCA - Conscious sedation
A2 PWCCA - Asleep
A3 PWCCA - Sedative process
B1 PWCCA - Blood stream
B2 PWCCA - Inert condition
C1 PWCCA - Depressed level
C2 PWCCA - Surgical procedure
D1 PWCCA - Review phase
D2 PWCCA - Slow conversation
D3 PWCCA - Complex replacement

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the whole world is caught
in her glance
and at last
the universe is
magnificent.
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Tracklisting:
A1 Mathys Lenne - Blow
A2 Mathys Lenne - The Jungle
B1 Mathys Lenne - Kubrick Tool
B2 Mathys Lenne - Blind
C1 Mathys Lenne - Burning Sand
C2 Mathys Lenne - Tanzen
D1 Mathys Lenne - Benzo
D2 Mathys Lenne - Rush Hour

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Yet I'm glad, somehow,
that I threw my words in the air:
confetti, celebrating nothing.
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