Interstellar Sounds new releases list

Ships Monday 20th September

Not many single releases can be labelled as events, especially not in the ever homogenised techno world, but the first single from Model 500 in eleven years, and the first recorded by the new band line up is most definitely an event.

It’s only fitting that this single is released on R&S Records, whose relationship with the man widely acknowledged as the originator of Detroit techno goes back seventeen years and who released the last Model 500 album back in 1999.

In 2007 Atkins partnered up with Mike Banks from Underground Resistance to form a Model 500 band. It wasn’t the first time they had played together as Model 500, but this time Atkins added Detroit DJ/producer DJ Skurge to the mix, along with longtime associate and established funk and techno producer Mark Taylor. As the “new” Model 500, they began performing as a band, debuting at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, and not too long later, performing at festivals in Europe and Japan. This single is the first music to come from sessions of the new line up, with Juan Atkins, Mike Banks and Mark Taylor sharing writing credits.

‘OFI’ is classic Model 500, the kind of insanely funky electro-techno that Juan Atkins pretty much invented with amazing vocals from Juan himself. Underground Resistance legend ‘Mad’ Mike Banks comes correct with a superb stripped down remix of ‘OFI’ in true UR style. Finally here, ‘Huesca’ is a perfect example of classic, deep Detroit techno featuring string arrangements that could have only come from the UR connection.

OFI OFI (Mad Mike remix) Huesca

Price: £5.95

The Finnish future wave funk returns to Abstract Forms! The first in a series of various artist EPs, Abstract Forms brings you the first Combined EP of 2010 and this time we bring you future wave funk from Finnish electro duo, Morphology alongside solo material from Michael Diekmann under his CRC guise.

An exciting concept, the EP is split into two halves:

Side A, Morphology – Showing hints of Kraftwerk, Drexciya and Dopplereffekt all bound together with a modern twist of acidic undercurrents and razor sharp electro beats. It’s gritty electro music with guts!

Side B, CRC – Deep futuristic excursions into the realms of simple electronic beats, warm pads and beautiful melodies. This is forward thinking electro music for the 21st century, the perfect tonic for the start of the winter months.

Morphology – Manmade Woman Morphology – Unimate Sequence CRC – Blind Species CRC – Traveller

Price: £7.50

Stunning new EP room the master of the true minimal groove. Infectious drum pads and an acidic twist render the title track unbeatable. Miss at your peril.

Power to Prophet Clash

Price: £7.95

An all-out Interstellar Sounds favourite this one! Absolutely stunning obscure Industrial Electro album from Germany, featuring some of the most outstanding work from Dystronic, who has also worked with Beta Evers and is founder of the now defunct, but still amazing, Kommando 6 imprint. For fans of Bunker, Kommando 6, Manasyt and the like. Limited copies.

Häuserschlucht Dystructive Fracts Eiswelt Vague Visions You Reap What You Sow Urban Society The Day Nature Took Control Acidcrust Past Industry

Price: £9.99

Shemale returns with a selection of seriously spooked and otherworldly electronics. Dark ambience and sinister synths are the rule-of-thumb. Absolutely mind-blowing and our release of the month. Limited edition cassette format of a mere 100 pieces. Act like you know how.

Crossing the Pentagram Summon the Sea Witch City of Pillars Opening the Astral Doors Horned God Ritual

Price: £8.99

Weird and wonderful atmospherics of a darker nature from Ian Martin. For fans of Bunker, Shemale and the like. Limited copies.

Introduction Rite Heparin Ambiansa Reflection Middle Water Intension Atmosphere

Price: £9.99

Brand new ambient-dub adventure from Anders Peterson. Cinematic masterpieces which really need to be heard loud and on a good system, to fully appreciate the multi-layered structures here. Totally sublime, as we have grown to expect from this quality imprint. Limited pressing.

Skyscaper – Skyshapes Skyscaper/Ekelon – Shaping the Sky

Price: £7.99

After a year and a half of work, these are the fruits of Milieu’s first real soundtracking job.

“Being the project that essentially reinvigorated my interest in making ambient music as Milieu, this commission is very significant for me. Initially named ‘Dyson’ when it was first created, ‘Eufloria’ is an ambient strategy game that has gone through a number of changes and has been nominated for several awards as well as winning some. I signed on to design sound effects and compose unique music for the game’s modern and surreal atmosphere. This album, containing two and a half hours of new music spread over two discs, is the result.”

Lovingly packaged in full-colour artwork from the game itself, and limited to 100 copies. This disc is sure to please longtime listeners as well as newcomers to the Milieu sound. Very limited copies.

CD1 Meander Pink Leaves Asteroid Beats Petal Pool Halfspeed Capsule Growth Euflorian Open Spheric Residuals CD2 Anterior Sweep Empty Space Burnt Dusk (Reduction) Ghost Signals Floral Piano Airjet Yellow Softwhite (reduction) One Hundred Fathoms

Price: £13.99

The first Coppice Halifax full-length recording since 2008’s tropical-overdose ‘Ocean Lion’, ‘Bedroom Carpet’ brings a much different vibe to the table. Largely ambient but not without some very beat-based tracks, Bedroom Carpet is very warm and humid with lots of sleepy-eyed melodies blipping across a thin line of tape hiss. Written and recorded using only two drum machines, an old Casio keyboard and a four-track tape deck, this is some of my most cozy, playful and analogue music ever made. Very heavily influenced by records like Cylob’s ‘Cylobian Sunset’, Aphex Twin’s ‘Selected Ambient Works II’ and the ‘Melodies From Mars’ album, as well as things like Kinesthesia, Bochum Welt and even friends of mine Thisket and EOD. Limited pressing.

Peachtree Bunkbeds Summer Park My Psychedelic Ceiling Braid II Quartz Everything Chimes Toybox Sleeping Neighborhood 1988 Loop

Price: £8.99

On the beatless side of things and recorded via a process that included distance-microphone setups, guitar playing with two (or no) strings, dying batteries in chained pedals and looping room noises – crumbled, dark and yet somehow warm and surreal – the deeper end of experimental drones.

Tonnage At forest’s edge, water laps over the rocks Bronze Mueum Crumbling Monochrome Towers Silver Horns (Head over Green Hills) Hallways Rippling Beehive Crown

Price: £8.99

A new 3″ CDR EP containing one long track from the recording sessions for a to-be-released Milieu album. Recorded in spring, left to settle on a cassette, then fixed up in summertime, this piece has lots of deep humming bass, raindrop-organ lines and sweeping dusky chords. Perfect for a cool nig…

Translucent Forestation

Price: £5.85

Following part one of this Milieu EP miniseries, Reverb Microcoma returns with even more ‘classic’ Milieu sounds, ready to go in your Spring travels. While the first EP was set more in the Colortone universe, this one could fit squarely into the realm of Swaying Palms. Tracks like ‘Archipelagos’ …

Bramblechord Blue Breeze Archipelagos Melted Radio Tape Micropsic Melodics

Price: £5.85

Kicking off a brand new catalog set is something of a new era of the Coppice Halifax sound. Entering for the first time into truly deep and dubby territory, this three track EP is the beginning of what will be the charted course for Coppice Halifax’s Analog Botany Series of releases. Taking hea…

Ganymede Icecaps Icecaps II

Price: £5.85

The second EP in the AB series, and even more stripped-down than Ganymede Icecaps. Pristine open spaces are filled with intricately placed rhythms and micro-melodies, off-white, clean and full of reflected fluorescent light. ‘Porcelain’ is the closest to the Berlin techno sound Coppice Halifax ha…

Porcelain Surfaces Surfaces II

Price: £5.85

The third installment of the ongoing AB series, Red Valerian brings you two deep, deep tracks of dubby hi-fi ambience.

“‘Red’ is quite possibly the most reggae-dub sounding track I’ve ever done, complete with delayed piccolo snares and thicker-than-honey atmospherics. An elastic bassline…

Red Valerian

Price: £5.85

The fourth installment in the Analog Botany catalogue. This time around we have a very bouncy, almost electro lead-off track with ‘Falling’, before the heart of the EP, two extended ambient tracks entitled ‘Ovals’. Bringing to mind the slightly degraded feel of the earlier Coppice Halifax catalog…

Falling Ovals Ovals II

Price: £5.85

Holding up the fifth leg of the ongoing Analog Botany series comes Southland Mirror, a three-track EP full of bouncy, slightly electro-tinged dub odyssies. ‘Southland’ is the deepest of the three with stretched out dubby synth stabs, and the first version of ‘Mirror’ gets super catchy with a pluc…

Southland Mirror Mirror II

Price: £5.85

Bringing it back with some beats and basslines is Analog Botany part six. Starting with two very melodic and bouncy dub-dance tracks, ‘Cinnamon’ and ‘Smoke’ conjure up influences of things like the ‘Modern’ EP by Gas, or some of Anders Ilar’s tracks before moving on to ‘Smoke II’ with some seriou…

Cinnamon Smoke Smoke II

Price: £5.85

Part seven conjures some lengthy, minimal vibes. ‘Pine’ breaks it down Maurizio-style with a funky beat and some rubbery basskicks rounding out the low end, while fluttery stabs assemble and dissipate all over the top like a colorful lightshow. ‘Yellow’ continues in this fashion as well, and the …

Pine Yellow Yellow (Loop)

Price: £5.85

Eighth in the Analog Botany series. Deep and dubby, which by now should be expected.

Sub Marine Green

Price: £5.85

Number nine in the series, and this time around things get a little more gritty yet more melodic than usual. Going back to the sound of earlier Coppice Halifax texturally, Blackforest Dirt brings a high level of sonic debris into the otherwise clean white audio space. The second track, ‘Forest’ d…

Black Forest Dirt

Price: £5.85

Named after a sound that David Tagg christened in 2006, AB10 brings more of the deep dubby minimal techno that the AB series has come to embody. Followers of the imprint may recognize some new elements introduced on this EP, such as Rhodes pianos, making it a truly ‘Beachy’ and ‘Glassy’ experience.

Beach Glass Glass (Repeat)

Price: £5.85

Two long tracks of super-warbly dub chords, soaked in the usual mile-long reverb and phased out to infinity. These two tracks show a marked slowdown from the pace of the previous EPs, sticking more to deep atmospherics and repetition to the point of near-hypnosis. Limited copies.

Dry Seasons

Price: £5.85

The last chapter of the Analog Botany excursion, bringing the total runtime of the 12-part series to a staggering four hours! The series concludes on a beatless note, providing some finality and contrast to the previous EPs. Think Rod Modell meets those Torsten Profrock releases on Chain Reactio…

Endless Dusk Dusk II

Price: £5.85

A bonus disc to accompany the AB series, this disc is the REAL sendoff. An hour of botanical bliss, featuring eight songs from throughout the year that, for one reason or another, were left off of the EPs proper. Three dub-rebuilds based off of source from Pat Benolkin (aka Eluder/Electricwest), …

Autumn Rebuild Halifaxian I Lux Overgrowth Sun Version Halifaxian II Endless Rebuild White Forest Seventh Dub

Price: £5.85