Out now and soon vinyl too on July 10th is the album “Mood – WSNWGBTZ001” by Rødhåd aka producer Mike Bierbach. ‘WSNWGBTZ001’ stands for ‘WSNWG – Back to zero’ in case you wondered, WSNWG being the label this album was released on. It’s Bierbach’s first ambient experimentalist release, comprised of his own solo archival material mostly from 2017/2018.

You’ll discover field recordings, droning loops and soundscapes on this 18-track album. You can check it out below. Good stuff.

From techno to ambient

Known in contemporary Techno circles, Mike Bierbach has been DJing as a relatively unnoted local in Berlin for 10 years before launching his party-series-turned-label Dystopian in 2009. Dystopian has hosted most of his releases, but in 2018 he founded a new label WSNWG that serves as a home for collaborative productions, excavated in sessions at his East-Berlin studio with his peers such as Lucy, Alex.Do, & Antigone.

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Genre/Influences: Dark-techno.

Background/Info: Antonin Jeanson aka Antigonez is a French techno producer. After multiple EP’s released over the past 7-8 years “Rising” is the debut full length by Antigone.

Content: The album takes off in a rather ambient way, but rapidly moves into techno fields. Sometime pretty groovy, but mainly driven by dark-techno treatments this album has been progressively built up. I noticed some tribal inspiration running through “Dume”. The work finally ends the way it all started, in an explicit ambient way.

+ + + : The progression of the tracklist is interesting. The album this way progressively moves towards a climax on “Infinite Limit”.  The already mentioned “Dume” is another fascinating cut. I especially like the darker passages supporting the album.

– – – : “Infinite Limit” is the single apotheosis from the album. It all sounds like easy listening techno music, but it’s not exactly what I would call a groundbreaking work.

Conclusion: “Rising” is a pleasant listening, but not exactly the kind of work I’ll keep in mind.

Best songs: “”Infinite Limit”, “Dume”, “Out There”.

Rate: (6).

Artist: www.facebook.com/AntigoneDJ

Label: www.tokenrecords.bigcartel.com / www.facebook.com/tokenrecords

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