Sigha returns to his OCS imprint for his first solo ep in over two years. 'Move To Speed' leans on the heady electronics and stylistic freedom of his Faugust project, pushing the approach into more club ready territory. Wrapping shifting sound design around frame works of thrumming rhythm and bass heft, the result is a set of tracks that nod explicitly towards the hardcore continuum as much as they take in the artists' exploration of contemporary Techno.

A1. Sigha - Collapse
A2. Sigha - Plastic
B1. Sigha - Alpha
B2. Sigha - Contact

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After the celebrated Metabolism LP from last year, Sigha is back with an untitled 4-track cut for TOKEN84.


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(Function, Wata Igarashi & Marco Shuttle Remixes) Sigha's lauded Metabolism album is further commended with a remix EP for Token 77. With three highly qualified label newcomers enlisted to the task of reimagining aspects of the album, the music is reworked into a new context to powerful effect.


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(180 gr vinyl incl. cd) Token is pleased to announce the sophomore album from Sigha. Metabolism represents an arrival: the artist offers his definitive statement on a production aesthetic that has been in development over the last few years.



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Blueprint are pleased to announce 'Pluralism', the latest EP from Berlin based techno protagonist and Blueprint affiliate Sigha. Sigha is a name that has become synonymous with forward thinking techno and electronic music. His interest in immersive sound design and experimentation combined with a staunchly British take on the genre have helped him carve a unique path through a densely populated field. Having first cut his teeth on acclaimed imprint Hotflush Recordings as well as his own branded label Our Circula Sound, Sigha then fomented a relationship with Blueprint since his 2011 EP I Am Apathy, I Am Submission. Now 2015 sees a return to Blueprint with ‘Pluralism’. Opening track, ‘Pluralism’ is rife with melodic glitches and punchy bass. Beautifully dark, immersive and hypnotic, ‘Desire’ hits the middle ground where techno meets drone, and ‘Demonstration’ is geared towards the final assault on the dancefloor, when techno feels like the only coherent medium of communication.

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This April James Shaw follows last years caustic A Vision of Love project with a debut release as Sigha for Avian, blurring the lines between the dance floor and the ritual chamber. Over the course of six tracks scuffed rhythm and analogue bleed blend together, combining a techno aesthetic with something more primal. The tracks both lean on club tradition and abandon it, veering away from standard structure in places, in favour of fragmentation and prolonged repetition.


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After an outstanding pack of 12-inches for Scuba's Hotflush Recordings, London DJ and producer Sigha a.k.a James Shaw confidently returns to the label with his heavily anticipated debut LP, 'Living WIth Ghosts'. For this offering he presents twelve impressive techno and ambient productions and fuses his love of classic UK techno with the contemporary sound that currently pulses through Berlin’s Berghain. Since his 2009 debut on the label, Sigha has organically shifted further and further into the straight 4/4 realm of techno, embracing the subterranean, darker soundscapes of his new production homebase, Berlin. However, hiding under all that bass, one can still hear the whisper of many long forgotten shoegaze numbers - My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth and Slowdive, some of Sigha's heaviest influences, vibrate throughout. Years of playing guitar in London bands defined Sigha's musical start and gave him an ear for the emotive. He was able to merge both worlds after quite literally stumbling across techno by chance, igniting his love of electronic music. Ever since, he's expertly navigated the halls of UK Garage and dub,
releasing on Hotflush, Blueprint and his own fledgling imprint, Our Circular Sound....
Tracklisting:
A1 Mirror
A2 Dressing For Pleasure (Ideal)
A3 She Kills In Ecstasy
B1 Puritan
B2 Dressing For Pleasure (Extract)
B3 Suspension
C1 Translate
C2 Delicate
D1 Aokigahara

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After an outstanding pack of 12-inches for Scuba's Hotflush Recordings, London DJ and producer Sigha a.k.a James Shaw confidently returns to the label with his heavily anticipated debut LP, 'Living WIth Ghosts'. For this offering he presents twelve impressive techno and ambient productions and fuses his love of classic UK techno with the contemporary sound that currently pulses through Berlin’s Berghain. Since his 2009 debut on the label, Sigha has organically shifted further and further into the straight 4/4 realm of techno, embracing the subterranean, darker soundscapes of his new production homebase, Berlin. However, hiding under all that bass, one can still hear the whisper of many long forgotten shoegaze numbers - My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth and Slowdive, some of Sigha's heaviest influences, vibrate throughout. Years of playing guitar in London bands defined Sigha's musical start and gave him an ear for the emotive. He was able to merge both worlds after quite literally stumbling across techno by chance, igniting his love of electronic music. Ever since, he's expertly navigated the halls of UK Garage and dub,
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1 Mirror
2 Ascension
3 Puritan
4 Scene Couple
5 Translate
6 Suspension
7 Dressing For Pleasure (Ideal)
8 Faith And Labour
9 Delicate
10 Dressing For Pleasure (Extract)
11 She Kills in Ecstasy
12 Aokigahara

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Hotflush presents the return of Sigha with a new EP entitled ?Abstractions I-IV?, his sixth on the label. On this release he reaches into darker territory, beginning with a beatless, ambient suspension, drawing the listener in his submerged sonic sphere before dropping into a series of chilling compositions that seem to seethe and smolder at sub-zero temperatures, adorned with haunting electronic blips and synthetic machinations throughout. Having already gathered support from many figures in the electronic world over the last year including Marcel Dettmann, Brendon Moeller and Francois K, as well as making appearances on Scuba?s recent DJ-KICKS mix compilation with ?Where I Come To Forget? amongst others, James Shaw continues to make his mark with ?Abstractions?.

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Hotflush presents its fifth release from rising producer Sigha. This EP continues his progression into subterranean techno hauntings. Since his debut on the imprint in early 2009, Sigha has accumulated support from DJs across the electronic sphere such as Francois K, Brendon Moeller, Marcel Dettmann, Ben Klock, Peter van Hoesen, James Ruskin, and many others. With this release he takes a more direct approach that maintains the cavernous atmosphere and spatial tension of his previous work on Hotflush and his own label Our Circula Sound, resulting in a collection of club tracks that evolve and sizzle with burning tenacity, ultimately bursting into the beatless closer that echoes about in an otherworldly space

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Back to normal releases now for Blueprint after the final instalment of Regis and Ruskin's Post-Traumatic Son project. Emerging from the more experimental side of the Dubstep scene in late 2008 with a number of releases on the much lauded Hotflush Recordings imprint, Sigha’s sound has evolved into a deep, dark, introspective take on Techno. He has also worked with Echocord, Metalheadz and Immerse among others and runs the ‘Our Circula Sound’ label.



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Reeko returns to Avian. Juan Rico follows up his 2017 debut on the label with a fresh brace of wrought iron recordings.

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British producer Pris preps his sophomore EP for Avian. Love, Labour, Loss marks the Berlin-based producer’s second outing on Guy Brewer’s Avian label, and a further refinement of a production aesthetic that pitches caustic, heads down tool Techno & greyscale IDM against more meditative Ambient & Drone recordings. AVN026 tackles familiar themes, and the same low slung, deep-seated sense of unease found on earlier offerings, released via both Avian itself & Unbeknown To Us - the producer’s own outlet, winds its way in and amongst the work. There’s a lightness of touch to this most recent effort though, and experimentation with more overtly musical sequences proves fruitful, drawing on a previously untapped energy to great effect. The same goes for forays into more complex rhythmic structures - taught, processed percussion sits bright in the mix, working to generate an anxiety that is fast becoming a hallmark of the artist’s work. Whilst the material maintains a keen focus on the crushed, droning sonics that have come to characterise the label’s output, Love Labour Loss, is an impressive development - offering at once both a new dimension to the artist’s work, but also a congruent, streamlined addition to the Pris discography.



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Avian's first release since absorbing its sister label Mira comes from Chicago based musician Connor Camburn under the alias Litüus, with an entirely beatless collection that well establishes Avian as the home for the kind of searching electronic experimentation that would have been found on the ten-inch focused imprint that Shifted recently announced would merge with its parent label. The EP follows previous cassette releases under the Litüus name for Brave Mysteries, Notice Recordings and Mazurka Editions and comprised entirely of real time single-take recordings on hardware instrumentation. Shorn of percussive elements yet not without their own rhythmic structures, Camburn's six compositions are free of immediate electronic genre influences and instead draw primarily on non-musical inspiration in addition to various other contextual reference points, as he sought to express ideas of the unraveling or "de-composition" of musical or architectural spaces through musical forms imagined as inverted contours and negative spaces.



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Peder Mannerfelt is known as ‘The Subliminal Kid’ and as part of ‘Roll The Dice’ alongside his own releases on Digitalis, We Can Elude Control and Stockholm LTD. Here we find him collaborating with Simon Haydo (also well established on DEM) for their first Avian appearance with five intense, unnerving and varied tracks… Mastered By Matt Colton at Alchemy, London


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Guy Brewer returns to his Avian label with a a two-part EP, Arrangements In Monochrome - his first Shifted releases since last year's Hospital Productions album 'Under A Single Banner'. Although not conceived as an album project, Arrangements In Monochrome's two EPs can be viewed together as a single entity - the result of Brewer's continuing exploration of textured noise excursions and muscular techno of considerable drive and heft, all the while retaining a cinematic quality within its quieter moments. The simultaneous release of the two EPs arrives in December, bringing to a close a year that has seen Avian release the sophomore album of Swedish duo SHXCXCHCXSH and EPs from Sigha and Alessandro Cortini's Skarn alias.



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Guy Brewer returns to his Avian label with a a two-part EP, Arrangements In Monochrome - his first Shifted releases since last year's Hospital Productions album 'Under A Single Banner'. Although not conceived as an album project, Arrangements In Monochrome's two EPs can be viewed together as a single entity - the result of Brewer's continuing exploration of textured noise excursions and muscular techno of considerable drive and heft, all the while retaining a cinematic quality within its quieter moments. The simultaneous release of the two EPs arrives in December, bringing to a close a year that has seen Avian release the sophomore album of Swedish duo SHXCXCHCXSH and EPs from Sigha and Alessandro Cortini's Skarn alias.



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Avian's 16th release is coming from Alessandro Cortini under the name Skarn. Best known for his work with Trent Reznor both in Nine Inch Nails and How To Destroy Angels, the Italian producer just recently made his debut on Hospital Productions with the hugely acclaimed ‘Sonno’ LP. His new project Skarn sees Cortini take a turn into more technoid driving soundscapes, which makes Shifted’s Avian label the perfect fit for it. The EP features three tube driven noise workouts with a precise minimalism and a hypnotic drum pattern, which leads the way through the release.



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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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Originally released on Hospital Productions as a limited cassette edition of 42 copies, Avian is now proud to announce a vinyl reissue of Dual Action’s Auto Body. Behind Dual Action stands Mathew Folden from K.P., who presented his first solo cassette release for Dominick Fernow’s label in 2012. Dual Action combines the eerie atmospheric sound collage of crowded chinatown streets with the deafening silence of a new apartment and the hard industrial beats of subways and freeways. A dynamic, physical autonomism. Body complete


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This April James Shaw follows last years caustic A Vision of Love project with a debut release as Sigha for Avian, blurring the lines between the dance floor and the ritual chamber. Over the course of six tracks scuffed rhythm and analogue bleed blend together, combining a techno aesthetic with something more primal. The tracks both lean on club tradition and abandon it, veering away from standard structure in places, in favour of fragmentation and prolonged repetition.


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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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Avian presents the second part of the Lessons In Hate series from the enigmatic techno act 'A Vision Of Love'. Two stripped down and hard-hitting techno tracks expose the series’ basic themes of SM, vintage gear and a passion for classic second wave Detroit music. With the relentless and dashing beats of 'A Modern Romance' on the A-side, accompanied by the relapsing cries of 'An Education' on the flip side, the release follows the aesthetics of the first instalment issued earlier this year...


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With a broad range of prior musical projects to his name – including Vapauteen, Civil duty, Further Reductions and Led Er Est – Shawn O’Sullivan is one of electronic music’s most restlessly creative and ambitious contemporary artists. Following previous releases on The Corner and L.I.E.S., the New York based producer now readies his debut on Avian under a new moniker, 400ppm. The EP, out mid-October, offers 6 tracks of stark, rattling techno moving from the drones of shimmering opener 'Non Nocere' to a brooding beat that charts its course through the tracks following, before closer 'Evitandus' rounds it up with a glacial melody...

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Avian010 sees the first instalment in a series of SM techno tools from London based archivist and profligate 'A Vision Of Love'. Fusing analogue gear and a passion for classic, second wave detroit music, with found sounds and degraded film & radio excerpts, the series leans on contemporary culture as much as the current techno landscape.



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With part one still doing the rounds we present the second of this two part series from Shifted - his first outing on Avian since the brilliantly received AVN001 ! Following the recent success of 'Sickness By Means Of Clairvoyance' on Sigha's own 'Our Circula Sound' label (OCS005), these two tracks tread a formidable if slightly deeper path... Expect the usual support for this great artist

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The first of a two part series from Shifted - his first outing on Avian since the brilliantly received AVN001 !Following the recent success of 'Sickness By Means Of Clairvoyance' on Sigha's own 'Our Circula Sound' label (OCS005), these two tracks tread a formidable if slightly deeper path...



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After gaining lots of traction recently with a slew of hard-edged acid releases, Avian tread an ever-so-slightly deeper path with a brilliant Techno EP from mystery Swedish artist Shxcxchcxsh. After first class productions for Semantica and their own HEM imprint, the swedish duo have now turned out 4 cuts of raw, uncompromising Techno for Avian. Another must buy package features slightly marbled purple wax with another A5 insert packed in a clear, poly sleeve Expect support from Sigha, Luke Slater, Silent Servant, Marcel Fengler & Shifted et al...


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