Morgue’s Last Choice – Hemofiilia

Remixta Label is proud to announce a brand new album Hemofiilia by Morgue’s Last Choice!

MLC is Estonian Dark Noise/Industrial duo which has been active since 2002. Constantly exploring new sounds with various equipment and means to produce noise. This one, like the previous one, is mainly based on improvisation. All tracks were played live with a keyboard, sampler, microphone and some effect units. It was recorded with a microphone placed in the room with artists in a single take to can the most authentic feeling we had while playing it.

Morgue’s Last Choice is a band that explores the darkest depths of our world and has been described by many as a horror music. Each of the releases carries a unifying concept, which have been coined by our keyboard player and vocalist Lunastaja (Kennet Kaare). As he was working in statistics while we were recording on our previous album 7511. As he processed the census data and categorized people by their jobs he noticed an interesting classification. 7511 – butchers and other people working in meat processing. In his twisted mind he formed an images of dystopian slaughterhouse and of people working there in different professions. The images were then transferred to music, and so this release came to be.

This time he decided to cut the chase, and explore one of his own pains. A disorder which he suffers from, known as hemophilia which stops blood from clotting. This disorder was well know for european royalty in early 20th century and one of the most known cases was the Tsarevich of Russia, Alexei. Our release HEMOFIILIA explores this disorder and related pains through both the eyes of Kennet Kaare as well as Alexei and Rasputin. Pains and hallucinations, dreams and fantasies and alcohol induced stupor and numbness…

You can purchase both the CD and digital version from here:  http://store.remixta.net

Hope you enjoy the trip!

If music isn’t enough for you, check out the microsite with the story and some additional visuals for more immersive experience. The four chapter short story explains a little bit of the background of this music. A story of alternative timeline where space travel is just a part of the everyday reality in year 2012.

The EP is available for purchase through Remixta Bandcamp store and soon will be available on other digital outlets. The download also includes the  PDF of the story.

Go check out the interactive microsite for the whole experience:

MARS.CLYSUVA.COM

FAQ

Q: When is the deadline?
A: No deadline (yet). But we will set one when we already have some good tracks.

Q: Can I submit more than one track?
A: Yes you can!

Q: Is genre X okay?
A: It’s not so much about genres as individual tracks. We are mostly aiming for a music listenable to a regular human being, so breakcore or extreme black metal may not be the best options. But we will see on track per track basis. So submit your track anyway.

Q: Will there be a cake?
A: Yes, there will be a cake.

Morgue’s Last Choice brings you 9 tracks filled with deep dark atmospheres. A journey not all of the people are willing to take, but those with an open mind, strong guts and interest in the darker side of the experimental music will definitely enjoy.

The album is available in two versions. Pure digital download, or professionally printed Jewelcase CD version with some additional artwork (also includes immediate digital download).

And the new Remixta show is up for your listening pleasure. Haven’t done one for quite a while, and it was quite a rollercoaster, we had a technical issue or two and the sound didn’t come out the best either, we will fix the issue for the next show. Anyway, check it out, we have plenty of good tracks here for your listening pleasure.

Tracklist

1. Pixel Tiger – Warriors
2. Stephen Forsyth - Soul Engineers
3. Ghost In The Static - Not Enough (Anarchy by Cyvergence)
4. Hoheitsgewaesser & Himmelsreichsfleisch - Gleisstoerung
5. SNSD - The Boys [Sunmix]
6. Garfferen - Abominable Snowman
7. Nick Levantis - Volunteer
8. Mister Electric Demon - In troubles
9. Darkhalo – Lost Memory
10. Celestial Mechanics - The Universe is in Us (demo)

Thanks for everyone for tuning in. It was a pleasure making the show. Thanks to all the great artists who made the tracks, they are fabulous! Also thanks to mxb, the renoise scripting wizard, for dusting off his old CDJ’s and spinning some nice dance music before the show. Special thanks to everyone from Renoise IRC for being a great audience, hope you all had great time!

Albums of Notablity

This time we had two excellent albums to play on the show. These are all free  to download and very much enjoyable.

Mister Electric Demon – In Troubles

A nice chillout/idm release from totally awesome Renoise producer Mister Electric Demon. 7 tracks of dreamy textures and relaxed soundscapes with some occasional more experimental sounds thrown in here and there.

Totally a release worth to check out. It’s available on bandcamp on pay-what-you-want basis. Yes, you can pay 0 as well, and get the release for free, but sure we appreciate his music enough to throw him few bucks for his efforts!

Darkhalo – A Million Drops

Other great chillout release comes from Darkhalo. This one is specially amazing. Lot of beautiful amtospheres and soundscapes mixed with beats and awesome basslines. The release packs 13 tracks of truely great music.

This one is available for completely free. Go listen to it in soundcloud. Or directly download the 320 kbps mp3s from here.

The year just started, and we already have so good releases available for free download. All the artists will have really high bar set up for them to get anywhere near the Album of The Year title from me.

Hoheitsgewaesser & Himmelreichsfleisch – Gleisstoerung EP

Released just a few hours after the show aired I present the Hoheitsgewaesser & Himmelreichsfleisch – Gleisstoerung EP, also known as EP That Nobody Can Pronounce Unless German™.

This is what the label says about this one: After years of producing underground for private music partys, Hoheitsgewaesser & Himmelreichsfleisch unleashes a beast. Rhytmic madness and a sweet amount of deepness keep your feet dry while you brake the speed of sound. Under Water.

Also available for free under WDRSTND label.

In other news, we are also preparing to air another show of Remixta this weekend. Possibly at this Sunday 16:00 GMT as usual. The details on how to tune in, will follow shortly.

In the mean time, you can still send me songs. I have a pretty good selection already waiting for our listeners, but who knows what gems are still waiting to be discovered, so please feel free to drop me a message with your new tunes using the regular methods… Or post them directly to the brand new Facebook page.

In the end we decided to do both.  And the show we did can be heard in here! The selection of tracks is done entirely by organic_io, great thanks to him!

If you want to enjoy the smooth DJ mix of 38 minutes of SDC goodness, then click on the album cover, which will take you to SDC bandcamp, which has been specially created for this occasion.

If you would prefer to listen to us chatting about the nature of the tracks played, history of SDC in a familiar  Remixta podcast format, then feel free to listen to this podcast.

If you feel like checking out how all those amazing tracks have been made, then click on the track name in the track listing. This will take you to the SDC page where you can download the original XRNS file.

Tracklisting

1. Chotoro – SCA Type 2 (SDC #14, March 2007)
2. Sonicade – Reon Kadence (SDC #1, April 2006)
3. Tenfour – Chinese Identity Conflict (SDC #21, November, 2007)
4. ambtax1 – Nowhere (SDC #53, November 2010)
5. Kalachnikov – You wanna Rock (SDC #39, June 2009)
6. Mick Rippon & Mr. Mark Dollin – Freedom (SDC #25, April 2008)
7. Juolac – One single Pattern (SDC #50, September, 2010)
8. Knetter – Waiting for the water to Rise (SDC #52, September 2010)
9. Groovyone – 80′s State of Mind (SDC #3, May 2006)
10. Keith303 – Due Midnight (SDC #17, July 2007)
11. NT – Background Music for a splatter Movie (SDC #53, November 2010)

(Backtrack during chat is m0d – Inert State)

Check out the excellent anniversary DJ mix by organic_io:
http://sdcompo.bandcamp.com/track/sdcompo-5th-anniversary-mix (No chatting in here, just some good music in a fluent mix)

Visit the Sound Devotion Competition, and join the next round: http://www.sdcompo.com

Listen to the XRNS radio, by flight aka prom aka f7 aka p7 aka pilot aka promnesia aka GuyWithTooManyNames: http://www.xrns.org (Thanks dude for lending us airtime!)

Another month has passed and it’s time for Remixta Episode #11. This time we are bringing you lots of different music from all over the world. Keith303 starts the show with his above great House music. Lot more rhythmic dance music by Noby, Amok, Tarek-FM who keep the tempo up. Some really evil Zombiecore by Dead By Silence. Really excellent IDM from a newly found act Aech Rom, that picture in the header is also connected to his music, it really sounds like the picture, doesn’t it? (Picture itself is made by excellent concept artist Bastien Grivet).

Also we are playing some Hip Hop, ambient, and lots of other stuff. So, enjoy the show, keep sending us great music and see you next time in Remixta episode 12!

Track list

1. 00:00 :: Keith303 – Devil in Disguise (evoke’10 cut)
2. 03:37 :: Noby – Monophonique
3. 07:02 :: in_tense – Minus Touch
4. 13:12 :: Amok – POP-IT!
5. 21:03 :: Simon Harris – Ecstasy – The Sheer Fun of It
6. 22:11 :: Dead by Silence – Invisible Zombie
7. 25:26 :: Tarek-FM – Mindbender
8. 30:19 :: Aech Rom – Sick Duck
9. 33:31 :: KOTR – Brain On Drugs (Production by dtunez)
10. 38:09 :: Void Pointer – Tuesday
11. 41:50 :: Bad Bandwidth – On The Edge Of The Bandwidths

During the show we had fun on Renoise IRC. Some people thought IDM is pretty cool genre, but the name sucks. People started think new meanings for the acronym. Some of those were, “Intellectually Decadent Mess”, “I Dig Modulations”, “I Drink Milk”. Also someone mentioned that Zombiecore is a dead musical genre…

This year saw a birth to an album Swimé by Makunouchi Bento which has been declared to be one of the best netlabel releases this year. No argument from me. The sound production is excellent, and there is lots of magic packed inside this 8 track release.

I already played a track from the album in last Remixta Episode #10, but I needed more. So, I contacted the guys from Makunouchi Bento, Felix “Waka X” Petrescu (on the left) and Valentin “Qewza” Toma (right) on twitter, and asked them for an interview. This is what we came up with.

Tell a little about the history of the project, how did it all came to be?

Valentin Toma: It started at the end of 2000, with my IDM remix for an old unreleased Amiga song made by Felix which I had accidentally found. At first labeled as Qewza’s (my solo project) remix for Urban Experience (Felix’s band), it became Makunouchi Bento’s first song as we decided to dive a bit more into the experimental and IDM waters and create our long-term project in early 2001.

There are actually “older” Makunouchi Bento songs, but again, these are Qewza’s and Waka’s previously unreleased work that seemed to fit in the Makunouchi Bento sound.

Makunouchi Bento, who came up with this name and how, what it represents?

Felix Petrescu: A good friend (G-Man) was showing me an interesting article about japanese cousine and the japanese art of Bento. We found it so proper and so comprehensive – that’s how our name was chosen. We use the following text as presentation “The Makunouchi Bento, or traditional japanese lunchbox, is a highly lacquered wooden box divided into quadrants, each of which contains different delicacies. It is also one of the most familiar images of Japan’s domestic environment. Reading the box as both an object and a metaphor, Felix Petrescu (Waka X) and Valentin Toma (Qewza) founded this experimental / electronica project back in 2001.”

The new album, Swimé, what is it all about?

FP: Imagine that you swim in a lake full of sound waves. But there is more to it. The ineffable. That was expressed in the puzzling “é“ added to Swim. Every adventure (and our adventure in sound is no different) has many layers besides the physical obvious one. That’s what we tried to show in this album.

When we were kids and even now from time to time, we were capable of having wonderful and complex imaginary adventures just triggered by a book, a pack of cards, a poster, some small cheap plastic toys or a very pixelated and archaic computer game. We remembered all these adventures and wanted to create one of our own. An album different from the rest, an album that triggers adventures in listener’s head and in ours, every time it’s touched. All ingredients are there, I won’t name them! Just discover them for yourself!

This sort of music paints landscapes and scenes in front of listeners eyes. Are they intentional (you imagine picture, and try to put it into sound) or accidental, you just experiment and improve on the results?

VT: Painting landscapes and scenes is intentional. However, every listener will probably create his own scenario and “see” something different – we like to leave their imagination free to wander through the Makunouchi Bento realm. As for how we do it, well… sometimes, we start by imagining a picture – other times, we just experiment with sounds and melodies, and let these inspire us to build the landscape.

FP: Most of the sounds/music I do is cinematic by it’s nature and what we want to achieve is something like the opposite of the silent movies – movies compressed in a song/soundscape, movies that don’t need visuals to be complete, songs that unfold intricate visual realms in the listener’s mind. I start with a small story/image/mood and I describe it in sounds. Imagine a theatre scene where all sounds are actors and I am the director / screen writer / props man and stage pimp.

How does the creative process happen, in studio or over the internet? Who does what?

VT: We don’t have a proper studio to work together, we prefer the intimacy of our own bedroom “studios”. Then we transfer our bits over the internet. There are a few songs made by only one of us, but usually we work together. Basically we can both do anything, but Felix is maybe better with interesting themes and melodies, while I’m more patient to do all the arrangements and fine tunings – or rhythm and percussion, where there is any. The ancient art of ping-pong.

Which kind of software and hardware do you use?

FP: I use Renoise and Reaper mostly + a ton of free apps and plugins. I also build plugins in Synthedit. (I released a few a long time ago.) Also we earn a lot of plugins/apps by betatesting them / helping the developers (latest example is http://www.densitygs.com).

Speaking of hardware, we don’t use much hardware actually. We both have laptops with modest M-Audio soundcards and we field record with a Zoom H4 & Olympus LS-10.

And I forgot to add some MIDI controllers we use: M-Audio Keystation, M-Audio Trigger Finger and Novation Launchpad.

What is the live setup, how does the magic happen?

VT: When playing our songs, I use a laptop with Ableton Live to play, modify, “destroy” and filter diffrerent audio tracks, while Felix adds percussion, sound effects and synth from his Zoom ST-224 sampler, Nintendo DS and Korg Kaossilator. Now and then, he also adds some weird flute, kazoo or vocal mumblings. If we’re up to experimental improvisational music… well, you can expect anything.

Do you have any other projects. Which are those?

VT: My solo project, Qewza is idle for many years now, and will probably stay that way – I only used this moniker for a few mixes (you might want to check my “Unu Mai” trilogy: 3 releases summing 7 mixes of Romanian music of all genres).

As for Urban Experience, Felix (as Waka X) and his old mate G-Man are still available for (dance-oriented) DJ acts from time to time – however, they’ve stopped producing music almost 10 years ago.

Makunouchi Bento was also part of Jebel Chamber Orchestra – probably a one-release project based on crazy improvised acoustic music together with some friends from USA (John Fisher AKA Ricemutt, Patrick Sheng and Justin Lazarus). Me and Felix might play with dance beats again soon, expect us to show up as Mac Bentley. That’s about it for now.

Renoise! What new features would you like to see in it? How does it work for you so far?

FP: Well, I was in Renoise boat since the Arguru started the early project, helping him with a homepage for the ancestor of Renoise. So I’m really happy with new Renoise. The actual development team is doing wonders and they are coding fast and solid, and the most important aspect for me – they listen to users. There are actually just 2 audio apps that I praise nowdays : Renoise and Reaper. The rest … well … you can judge for yourself.

In the next Renoise builds I really want to see (even) more live / improv oriented features. Actually – Renoise looks quite complete in v2.6 – now that it has LUA scripting and everybody could code it’s own crazy ideas. So the final answer is “waiting for v2.6 to end its beta trials!“.

Any movies, albums, artists or other art which has influenced your music?

VT: We couldn’t name any particular piece of art that influenced our music. Unwittingly, we probably pick up bits of everything that surrounds us, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t sound like anything we’ve ever heard or seen.

Anything else to add?

FP: Yep. “The End” banner. And the BzZzzzZzzt sound.

See also:

http://makunouchibento.bandcamp.com
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Makunouchi_Bento/
http://www.facebook.com/makunouchibento
http://www.myspace.com/makunouchibento
http://www.twitter.com/bentomakunouchi
http://twitter.com/waka_x
http://www.youtube.com/bentomakunouchi
http://localrec.ro/?category_name=makunouchi-bento
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=makunouchi%20bento

Show begins with a track by Renoise technical music guru It-Alien who may not be called Eye-Tea Alien, because his name does not come from Impulse Tracker nor Information Technology (nor Internet Things for that matter), but is a pun on word “Italian”.

Next, we play lots of different electronic music introduce couple of amazing albums and talk about the brand new release under Remixta netlabel.

Tracklist

1. It-Alien – A Comet Passing By
2. Amok – Sea Of Tears
3. S-Wrong – Captain Hastings
4. Braintwister – Blockade Runner
5. Hitori Tori – Cold As Fuck
6. Binärpilot – Underground
7. The Hooligan – Viper mk2 Closing the Spacestation
8. Braintwister – Calculus
9. D Fast – Consideration
10. Slippycurb – Chlorine
11. Ashkan Asgary aka ashy!mpala – Lower Back Tattoo
12. Braintwister – Structure
13. Makunouchi Bento – Rain Dragon, Hidden Genius
14. keith303 – From My Halcyon Heart

Braintwister – Identity Matrix

The same day as this show was broadcast, Remixta netlabel released an album by Braintwister. The album contains four tracks of quite original Drum and Bass with lots of sub bass and mathematical rhythms.

I received the material quite long time ago and I was planning for a grandiose release, but I found myself short of time to do all the stuff required, so the release was postponed several months until I finally decided to just release it on bandcamp and let the music do the talking.

Great release nevertheless, and thanks to everyone who helped us to get it on the internet. If you enjoy it, show some love to Braintwister (kasmo) on renoise forums: http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php?showtopic=27228

Hitori Tori – Kinematics

“This collection of songs evokes the disorienting feeling of daily commutes on high speed trains in the Kansai region of Japan. The view out of the cabin window was an endless blur of bobbing telephone wires and slanted trees.”

In 1998 Julian La Brooy’s four track recorder was tragically destroyed. A sound tracker completely changed everything and Hitori Tori was born. Agitated breaks became combined with tweaked arpeggiated synth lines, and a few lugubrious tones were thrown into the background for good measure.

Early releases included tracks as part of the electronic duo Finch on the Sugarmonk Omniscience Complilation in 1999, followed by several electroacoustic tracks out on Luumu recordings. Fasp, another musical incarnation, released an album on the Nishi net-label in 2002. In 2010, Hitori Tori continues with his meticulously detailed productions releasing series of 8 digital singles on Balanced Records.

Having played shows in Japan and Canada, Hitori Tori currently performs and resides in Vancouver.

(Description taken from: http://www.notype.com/drones/cat.e/pan_047/)

Hitori Tori is also one of the well known Renoise artists and is specially notable because of his amazing Renoise live skills using LividIndustry Ohm64. Read more about this and watch a video at Renoise In:Depth.

Makunouchi Bento – Swimé

Probably one of the best Renoise related albums from this year.  One of the most interesting Ambient albums of all time. Filled with atmospheric textures and strange sounds from very wide spectrum of superb acoustics.

Strange melodies mixed with animal voices, sounds of nature and city into psychotic composition with amazingly clear sound image which won’t leave anyones emotions untouched.

Definitely an album worth getting, and you can get it for free on Bandcamp:

http://makunouchibento.bandcamp.com/

Binärpilot – Nordland

Not really a Renoise album, but Binärpilot does use Renoise from time to time, and I just find his music great enough.

Binärpilot comes with a brand new album Nordland. Another 10 tracks of chiptune inspired dance music that just makes your feet move.

“Due to our symbiotic state, the memories of my host have begun seeping through. It comes to me in vivid fragments, saturated with the hopes and ideas of human adolescence. How beautiful it is to aspire, how delicate a process it is to construct an identity through pieces of idolatry and inspiration. Now, these are all memories I am happy to share. Reflections on abandonment, opposition, but most of all joy. Don’t forget to dance.”

The album is available in several different formats, some of them free, go check out the options at http://binaerpilot.no/