FACT Magazine Tim Hecker, Deena Abdelwahed and Overmono added to MUTEK Montréal @ Musique Non Stop

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• Tim Hecker, Deena Abdelwahed and Overmono added to MUTEK Montréal
• Creamcake announces new concert series, Paradise Found
• Gamechanger Audio launches Indiegogo campaign for its wacky Motor Synth
• Ondness debuts on Holuzam with ‘dub-ska-industrial-techno’ mixtape
• Datach’i returns to Venetian Snares’ Timesig label with new album, Bones
• Lifted ensemble return to PAN for second album, 2
• Where To Now? to release debut EP from sound artist Akiko Haruna
• Luke Slater, Steve Bicknell and Function launch new label, LSD
• Ableton releases Live 10.1
• Block9 announces The Black Madonna, Laurel Halo and Mr. Fingers for Glastonbury 2019

Tim Hecker, Deena Abdelwahed and Overmono added to MUTEK Montréal Posted: 28 May 2019 10:14 AM PDT The festival has expanded the program for its 20th anniversary edition. Tim Hecker & Konoyo Ensemble, Deena Abdelwahed and Overmono are just some of the artists that have been added to the program for this year’s edition of MUTEK Montréal. They will join previously confirmed acts Beta Librae, Huerco S., Nkisi, Ash Koosha, Blawan, Call Super, GAIKA, Jan Jelinek and Jlin for the festival’s 20th anniversary edition. Additional highlights include performances from Rashad Becker & Ena, Drew McDowall & Florence To, D. Tiffany and Matmos. MUTEK Montréal takes over six days from August 20 – 25, tickets are available now. See below for a complete list of acts added to the program. Akiko Nakayama — Alive Painting (JP) Aquaventure (CA/QC) Auflassen (CA/QC) Bendik Giske (NO) Ben Shemie (CA/QC) BYZ (US/QC) Chloe Alexandra Thompson — Morié (CA/US) CMD (CA/QC) D.Tiffany — DJ set Deena Abdelwahed (TN/FR) Desert Bloom (CA/QC) Domenique Dumont (LV) Drew McDowall & Florence To — Time Machines (UK) Dust-e-1 (US/QC) Ensemble d’oscillateurs Errhead (CA/QC) Expansys (CA/QC) fuse* presents Dökk (IT) Gabriel Rei (CA/QC) Hugues Clément — The Colour of the Rain (CA/QC) Jonathan Scherk & Daniel Majer (CA) Joni Void & Sonya Stefan — Mise en Abyme (CA/QC) Kazuya Nagaya (JP) Khotin (CA) Lucas Paris — Emotional Synthesis (FR/QC) Matmos (US) Nelly-Eve Rajotte — Rückenfigur (CA/QC) Nueve Vidas & Rimiyoho — Organismos Oníricos (MX) Ohm Hourani — Jazz of the Machine (CA/QC) Organ Mood (CA/QC) Ouri (CA/QC) Overmono (UK) Persuasion (US/QC) Pick a Piper (CA) Pōe (CA/QC) Priori (CA/QC) Quan — Quanalog system 1.0 (VN/QC) Rashad Becker & Ena (DE+JP) Slim Media Player (CA) Stephanie Castonguay — Scanner Me, Darkly (CA/QC) Steve Bates & Michaela Grill — Black Seas (CA/QC+AT) Sutekh — DJ set (US) Tamayugé (CA/QC) The Quark Model (IR/QC) Tim Hecker & Konoyo Ensemble (CA+JP) Tortues Vapeur (CA/QC) Uji (AR) V.ictor — Boréal (CA/QC) Xavier Lebuis (CA/QC) Read next: MUTEK.MX 2018 – 7 highlights of Mexico's premier electronic music festival The post Tim Hecker, Deena Abdelwahed and Overmono added to MUTEK Montréal appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..

Creamcake announces new concert series, Paradise Found Posted: 28 May 2019 09:41 AM PDT Featuring performances from Kara-Lis Coverdale, Cucina Povera, Shygirl and more. Berlin-based multi-disciplinary art platform Creamcake has announced a new concert series, Paradise Found. The series spans three separate dates (June 7, July 27 and August 17), each with three acts and three different headliners, including Kara-Lis Coverdale, Bendik Giske and Dorian Electra. Each concert will take place in the ruins of a medieval Franciscan monastery in the centre of Berlin. According to Creamcake, Paradise Found “responds to the extreme conditions of our current Age of Acceleration with a simple, though radical proposition—of nurturing talent and allowing it to develop at its own pace.” Each event will also feature installations on the themes of velocity and deceleration, concentration and contemplation and noise and silence. Paradise Found is part of Playground – for accepting your mortality, an artwork by Katrīna Neiburga and Andris Eglītis. For more information, check out the Facebook event. Check out the full Paradise Found program below. June 7: Kara-Lis Coverdale COOL FOR YOU Lamin Fofana Judith Sönnicken July 27: Bendik Giske Nile Koetting Cucina Povera Michelle Woods August 17: Dorian Electra i.Ruuu Shygirl Read next: Tremor festival 2019 – Boundary-busting experimental music on a volcanic island The post Creamcake announces new concert series, Paradise Found appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..

Gamechanger Audio launches Indiegogo campaign for its wacky Motor Synth Posted: 28 May 2019 09:04 AM PDT Half drone, half synth. Gamechanger Audio has launched an Indiegogo campaign for its latest piece of unconventional music hardware, a synth that uses eight electromotors to generate sound. Motor Synth, which was one of the most talked-about instruments of this year’s Superbooth expo in Berlin, uses the same type of motors that keep small drones in the air, boasts what the company says is an “industrial-sounding, over-the-top analogue tone”. Each motor fills the same kind of role as an oscillator would in a traditional synth, so Motor Synth is capable of four-voice polyphony with two voices per key played. The synth also has the kind of features you’d expect from a conventional synthesizer, such as envelopes, filters, arpeggiation, modulation, LFO and on-board sequencing. Gamchanger Audio is taking the crowdfunding route for Motor Synth with an Indiegogo campaign, open for 30 days. Early birds can get the device for $749 to $949, increasing to $1,299 for anyone who purchases it when it goes on general sale “around December 2019”. As always, discretion is advised when backing crowdfunding campaigns, but Gamechanger Audio has a good track record in this field – last year it launched its striking Plasma Pedal after a successful campaign on Indiegogo. Read next: Superbooth 2019 pushed synth culture forward in fresh and unexpected ways The post Gamechanger Audio launches Indiegogo campaign for its wacky Motor Synth appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..

Ondness debuts on Holuzam with ‘dub-ska-industrial-techno’ mixtape Posted: 28 May 2019 08:07 AM PDT Listen to a new track, ‘Sem Gente’, now. Ondness, one of the many musical aliases of producer Bruno Silva (Sabre, Serpente), arrives on Lisbon’s Holuzam with a new mixtape. Not Really Now Not Any More focuses on “the idea that we are constantly floating around unfinished ideas”, featuring 10 soundscapes that seem to be in a constant state of construction. Listen to a new track, ‘Sem Gente’, now. The tape takes its title from a piece of graffiti spotted by fantasy novelist Alan Garner that became a central influence on his book Red Shift, as well as Mark Fisher’s book The Weird And The Eerie. Last year José Moura, Márcio Matos and André Santos inaugurated the Holuzam imprint with the release of Telectu’s Belzebu and DWART’s Taipei Disco. Not Really Now Not Any More is out this Thursday (May 30) and is available to pre-order now. Check out the album artwork and tracklist below. Tracklist: 01. ‘Torre’ 02. ‘Sem Gente’ 03. ‘Pombos’ 04. ‘Ares Disto’ 05. ‘Esquina, Espera’ 06. ‘Casa Fora Fallout’ 07. ‘Ronda da Manhã’ 08. ‘Mau Vibe’ 09. ‘Lobos Da Capital’ 10. ‘Torre’ Read next: 20 under-the-radar club tracks you need to hear in May 2019 The post Ondness debuts on Holuzam with ‘dub-ska-industrial-techno’ mixtape appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..

Datach’i returns to Venetian Snares’ Timesig label with new album, Bones Posted: 28 May 2019 07:04 AM PDT A tribute to the LA-based artist’s late father. IDM veteran Datach'i will return to Venetian Snares' Timesig label (a sublabel of Planet Mu) with a new album on July 27. Bones is Joseph Fraioli’s second for the imprint after 2016’s System, and was once again recorded with the LA-based artist’s custom-built Eurorack modular system. The album was recorded shortly after the death of Fraioli’s father, who partially inspired the sound of the record. “Whilst he was sick with cancer I bought him a guitar as he wanted to learn how to play, just to have something to do while he was getting treated," Fraioli explains. "After he passed away my mother gave me the guitar to have as a sort of memory of him. I had the idea to record some sounds and music on the guitar and load it onto granular sample players on the modular synth so I could make new music from those sounds as a sort of tribute to my dad.” Bones will be available on vinyl, CD and digital formats, and the first 500 people to pre-order the record from Bandcamp will receive a 19-track bonus CD. Fraioli is also giving away the same type of Tiptop Audio One module together with a datacard with the samples he used on the album with one randomly selected pre-order. Listen to ‘Rockledge 3A below’. Tracklist: 01. ‘Akemies’ 02. ‘Rhys’ 03. ‘Motion In The Living Room’ 04. ‘Rockledge 3A’ 05. ‘Saiph’ 06. ‘Antumalal’ 07. ‘Undimension’ 08. ‘Drone Maze’ 09. ‘Wand’ 10. ‘4X1’ 11. ‘Saugerties Road’ 12. ‘Arrivals’ Read next: Richie Hawtin on his origins as F.U.S.E. and how he made techno in the early '90s The post Datach’i returns to Venetian Snares’ Timesig label with new album, <em>Bones</em> appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..

Lifted ensemble return to PAN for second album, 2 Posted: 28 May 2019 06:41 AM PDT Featuring contributions from Beatrice Dillon, Bass Clef, Jordan GCZ and more. Lifted, a collaborative musical ensemble featuring Future Times boss Max D, Matt Papich, aka Co La, Jeremy Hyman and Motion Graphics, will return to PAN for their second album, 2. The project sees the artists expanding on the experimental premise of the first Lifted album, which was released in 2015 and featured jazz-influenced improvisational excursions into ambient fusion and techno. The album features contributions from a variety of artists, including Jordan GCZ, Dawit Eklund, 1432r's Sami, NYC's Will DiMaggio, Sao Paulo's Repetentes 2008, Beatrice Dillon, Bass Clef, Aya, vocalist and bassist for Japanese experimental group OOIOO, and Martin Kasey, a friend of Papich with a background in Baltimore theatre. 2 arrives on June 7 and is available to pre-order now. Check out the cover art and tracklist below. Tracklist: 01. ‘Now More Than Ever’ 02. ‘Total Cure’ 03. ‘Mirror In My Room’ 04. ‘Blackpepper’ 05. ‘Purplelight Wish’ 06. ‘Rose 31’ 07. ‘Near Future’ Read next: All Play and No Work – How Moby's bestselling album damaged electronic music The post Lifted ensemble return to PAN for second album, <em>2</em> appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..

Where To Now? to release debut EP from sound artist Akiko Haruna Posted: 28 May 2019 04:28 AM PDT Delusion is out on June 28. Sound artist Akiko Haruna will debut on Where To Now? Records with Delusion. Taking cues from her background in visual art and dance, the EP blends snatches of choppy vocals with schizophrenic sound structures over four tracks. Listen to a chaotic new track, ‘Husband Established’, now. This will mark Haruna’s first release since she participated in last year’s edition of Red Bull Music Academy, which took place at Berlin’s Funkhaus. Delusion is out on June 28 and is available to pre-order now. Check out the cover art and tracklist below. Tracklist: 01. ‘A Mother’s Love’ 02. ‘Hetero’ 03. ‘Husband Established’ 04. ‘Ripheus Alley’ Read next: 20 under-the-radar club tracks you need to hear in May 2019 The post Where To Now? to release debut EP from sound artist Akiko Haruna appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..

Luke Slater, Steve Bicknell and Function launch new label, LSD Posted: 28 May 2019 03:08 AM PDT An exploration into the psychedelic side of techno. LSD is the techno supergroup made up of Luke Slater, Steve Bicknell and David Sumner, aka Function. Today (May 28) the trio have announced the launch of a new, self-titled imprint. First up is Second Process, a six-track double pack of propulsive, lysergic techno. Listen to ‘Process 7’ now. The project follows the group’s first EP Process, which was released on Ostgut Ton in 2017. Second Process arrives on June 28 and is available to pre-order now. Check out the cover art and tracklist below. Tracklist: 01. ‘Process 4’ 02. ‘Process 5’ 03. ‘Process 6’ 04. ‘Process 7’ 05. ‘Process 8’ 06. ‘Process 9’ Read next: Deep Inside – May 2019's must-hear house and techno playlist The post Luke Slater, Steve Bicknell and Function launch new label, LSD appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..

Ableton releases Live 10.1 Posted: 28 May 2019 02:40 AM PDT With user wavetables, new devices and more. Ableton has released Live 10.1. Ableton’s first major update to Live 10 arrives 15 months after its initial release, adding a number of requested features such as user wavetables for its new Wavetable instrument and fresh automation features. Live 10.1 also adds a few handy new devices, including an equalizer plugin called Channel EQ and a simplified delay tool that combines the existing Simple Delay and Ping Pong Delay devices. Improvements to Live 10’s automation include pre-drawn envelopes and the detection of C and S shapes in freehand mode. A number of improvements have also been made to zooming and scrolling, with ‘pinch to zoom’ gestures now supported on compatible Mac trackpads. Live 10.1 is also compatible with VST3 plugins and lets you freeze tracks that contain sidechain routing. Owners of Live 10.1 Suite also have access to a new set of tools for controlling modular synths and CV-enabled hardware, allowing anyone with a compatible audio interface to modulate synth voices, control tempo or set Live to follow the modular system clock, among other functions. Live 10.1 is free for owners of Live 10 and can be downloaded from the Ableton website. Read next: Superbooth 2019 pushed synth culture forward in fresh and unexpected ways The post Ableton releases Live 10.1 appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..

Block9 announces The Black Madonna, Laurel Halo and Mr. Fingers for Glastonbury 2019 Posted: 28 May 2019 02:14 AM PDT The lineups for NYC Downlow, Genosys and a new audiovisual surround sound venue, IICON, have been revealed. Block9 will return to this year’s edition of Glastonbury with an expanded program that spans three stages and two fields. IICON, a new audiovisual surround sound venue that will take the form of “a colossal, anonymised head”, will host a variety of FACT favorites, including Larry Heard, Laurel Halo, Kode9, Moor Mother, Demdike Stare and Okzharp & Manthe Ribane. In addition, the space will host an audiovisual “translation” of Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet For The End Of Time each night of the festival. After Glastonbury, IICON will embark on a global tour throughout 2020, featuring an expanded program which will include an immersive interior show. Block9 will also feature revamped versions of their NYC Downlow and Genosys stages. This year’s instalment of NYC Downlow brings Tony Humphries, Mr Fingers (Live), The Black Madonna, Midland and more to the temporary club space. In addition, the Meat Rack stage includes sets from Luke Solomon & Rob Mello, Deptford Northern Social Club and Discosodoma. Genosys will take place in a scaled-up arena, featuring appearances from Anthony Parasole, Josh Wink, HAAi, Honcho, Hannah Holland, Randomer and Leeon. In other Glastonbury news, Arcadia has announced that it will replace its iconic Spider with a new stage, Pangea. The new stage will feature a 50-meter tall structure built from a decommissioned dock crane and a repurposed Cold War-era radome. The Black Madonna, Daniel Avery and Four Tet are just some the acts set to perform. Check out a video about the making of the stage below. Glastonbury Festival takes place on June 26 – 30 at Worthy Farm, Pilton. Last month the Silver Hayes dance lineup for 2019 was revealed, including Ben UFO, Jayda G, Daniel Avery, Peach and Swing Ting. Read next: Rewire 2019 rewrote the blueprint for a festival performance The post Block9 announces The Black Madonna, Laurel Halo and Mr. Fingers for Glastonbury 2019 appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..