Tracklisting
A1 Lesser Of - I Absorb You
A2 Lesser Of - Biting My Skin
B1 Lesser Of - Your Voice In My Mouth
B2 Lesser Of - Double Heart More

Tracklisting:
A1 Lesser Of - Crude Manifestation Of Power
A2 Lesser Of - Within My Fragility
B1 Lesser Of - Masked
B2 Lesser Of - Our Descent
B3 Lesser Of - Masked (Reeko remix)

Sales Note
Having been deck slaying as near their London headquarters as Germany and as far as Canada, goth techno prodigy Lesser Of is steadily approaching double digit release count. With an established residence at queer x trans focused, revolutionary event series Subverted, their efforts have been welcomed to a formidable list of industrial electronic labels and remixed by a tidy sum of high profile scene icons.

Here at Depth.Request our sonars are attuned to emanant potential, and so we conscript Lesser Of to hammer out our fourth acetate offering to date. To this, harsh noise and drone music inspirations are declared, alongside an artistic secret of the trade: lights-off sessions in live room of a recording studio vibrating with the pulse of a bass guitar ran through a freeze pedal were what begot the tracks, and they are well intent on assaulting your headphones with noise. Reeko on the remix - yes, this record fucks.

Prolonged, ominous intro? Nah. Have a face full of Crude Manifestation Of Power instead, as an insatiable, 10-minute long opener braces your ears for a week of ringing with a sonic equivalent of metallic thrashing one could expect from being a sinful, rave-lusting scoundrel. On title-diverting continuation Within My Fragility the words "strength in fragility" are truly alliterated as the pace, abrasiveness and intensity of pummelling are all ramped up fiercely, with linear open hats thrown against them from time to time for good measure. Having reached 140 BPM and concrete mean, Masked proceeds in a well anticipated ra(n)ge: infernal atmosphere, sandy hats and layered tectonic tremors achieved with increasingly undefined low end consisting of a rumble line and rolling kick morphing into abrasive haze. Winding the tempo back a notch, a halftimearranged contemplation Our Descent grows in direct, hyperborean vector: glassy drones and sharp syncopulsation first - atonal reverberations, distorted arpeggios and punchy stabs endwise. Reeko's analog reinvention of Masked convolves the drum structure by borrowing from breakbeat narratives and authorizes the dystopian ambiance to rise and fall on more gradual, panning, confined terms; adding, however, more disorder to the mix with spectrum slicing, high-range chaos.

As you would have learned to expect from Depth.Request, Within My Fragility EP is not an easy listening five-tracker. If by the end of it you find yourself feeling as if you just stepped out of a pounding warehouse at 3AM and you don't know what day it is, you wouldn't have been experiencing this mindspace alone. More

Tracklisting:
A1 Silas - Intro
A2 Tullia Benedicta - Instinct To Run Away
A3 Otone - Helices
B1 Nnamael - Destructive Obedience
B2 Lesser Of feat. Pierre Berge-Cia - All Your Nightmares Are Obscured
C1 Fluid - Transmission
C2 Hybral - Disruptive Power
D1 Bermind - Queen Control
D2 Metaraph - Internal Flight
D3 3SBAT - Danse Macabre

Release Note:
SUBVERTED's second double vinyl release "The Collective Impact" features ten non-binary, trans and female identifying artists, presenting their craft in the field of industrial techno. From ambient to raw and impactful beats, ethereal atmospheres and fast hard hitting sounds, listeners are invited to a hopeful journey and a fight for a more just society. More

Tracklisting:
A1 Hybral - Echoed Entropy
A2 Hybral - Enby Existence
A3 Hybral - Eerie Dualities
B1 Hybral - Dismantle Systems Of Oppression
B2 Hybral - Overcoming Obstacles
C1 Lesser Of - Cut Up:Fragments
C2 Lesser Of - I Want You To Silence
D1 Lesser Of - We Become Obsolete
D2 Lesser Of - The Art Of Disappearance
D3 Lesser Of - Timeless Ghosts

Release Note:
Combining spectral atmospheres with ruthlessly combative rhythms, rough textures, and harsh industrial elements, Hybral and Lesser Of create a dark techno epos of the netherworld for their joint release "Split Identities". More