Tracklist
A1. Glower
A2. Radiants
A3. Oregon
B1. Today 6
B2. Kidsangls


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Soon after the release in 2022 of a triple album dedicated to electronic language, Principles of Geometry continues their orbiting journey that began exactly 20 years ago with "Penta," a Maxi composed of five electro-geometric vignettes that confirm what we already knew: the discreet French duo pilots one of the most underestimated projects in European IDM.

By returning just one year after a massive fifth album (26 tracks), Principles of Geometry makes a clear artistic move: shifting from electronic language unfolded on ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ to gesture, as one would associate intellect with manual, actions with words. On "Penta," to be visualized as the five fingers of a hand sketching the immediate and spontaneous pleasure of a hand pressing a chord, Guillaume Grosso and Jeremy Duval thus combine two essential concepts of their electronic music: the need to make the listener dance with their brains, and to touch with their mental images.

With nods to the godfathers of the genre (Autechre and Boards of Canada) or crossing paths with Aphex Twin in a Michael Mann film, "Penta" is therefore a beauty of gesture first conceived with the fingers, and without the need for words to evoke either the romance or the violence of a chord on a Roland Juno 60.

Mastered by the legend Noel Summerville (Boards of Canada, Kraftwerk, My Bloody Valentine) and designed by Ian Anderson of The Designers Republic (responsible for the graphics of the cult WipEout and many collaborations with the Warp label), this Maxi is therefore listened to as much as a recreational return to the future of the 90s as it is a concise summary of the equilateral career of Principles of Geometry; equally distant between pure emotion and the need to ponder the notes played in this very special ship.
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FORMAT 150 signed copies, vinyl only with special lenticular print, NO repress

VAGUELY RELATED TO Coil, Talaboman, Vox Populi, Carl Craig

TRACKLIST:
A1. Hippo Dance (Re-enchanted Mix)
A2. Gibbon Trance (There’s Water In My Boots Mix)
B1. Kepler-39 (Late Night Pond Mix)
B2. Blood Garden (Capitalocene Mix)


RELEASE INFO:
This is an appetizer : 4 “club” mixes of new tracks from Joakim’s forthcoming album Second Nature,
all re-mixed by the man himself, navigating between hypnotic Techno, trance-inducing Downtempo
and percussive New Beat.
This is probably Joakim’s most ambitious project so far. An album about our relationship to Nature to
make it short or how Western civilization disconnected Nature from Culture. Every song was born
using field recordings as a basis canvas, the sounds of Nature are the lead voice here. A nature that
is transformed, sublimized, questioning our ideas of what’s artificial, what’s the wilderness, the place
of humans in the age of the Anthropocene and painting a psychedelic landscape to open our ears and
our hearts.
The artwork features a lenticular print (2 images in 1) showing Naruto, a monkey who took a selfie
using a photographer’s camera who later tried to claim the copyright of that image. That claim raised
questions whether copyright can be extended to “non-humans” and was ultimately rejected by the
U.S. Copyright Office who specifically listed 'a photograph taken by a monkey' as an example of an
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Mini Album

Tracklist:

A1 – Lonely Stone
A2 – Dog Days
A3 – Born Again Jazzman
B1 – Nöpö (The White Cat)
B2 – The Way UR Far
B3 – It’s Too Late

"One of the hardest thing as a musician is to maintain this naive, almost utopian and emotional approach to our music. Especially when it comes to a highly codified genre like Electronic music which appeared in the late 80s/early 90s like a promise of a bright future for music, everything sounding so fresh and revolutionary. When Katerina sent me those demos I heard that freshness, that pure intention, something I remember from discovering melancholic Detroit tunes in the 90s or early Warp ‘artificial intelligence’ compilations, bridging the gap between techno and more intricate electronica. It’s been a while since I didn’t hear an EP so sincere - and not JUST nostalgic, that makes me want to dance alone in my living room and forget about everything else. It’s a subtle thing that makes the difference but that difference is everything, it’s Music."

- Joakim
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