Lots of news this time around!
i. Censor live video online
ii. New reviews
iii Exclipsect / Kaebin Yield - Symbiosis
iv. Manufactura - Domination US Tour
v. Tekniq - Shazbut
vi. v/a - FUCK
vii. Duncan Avoid - Metaphysics
viii. Hive Records Anniversary Party in Dallas.TX.usa
ix. New Hive website
i. + A video of Censor's performance this past April in New York City with
Needle Sharing and Larvae is online now! Check it out:
http://www.hiverecords.com/april3rd_censor.wmv
tracks include:
Grey Line Reality
Cambodia
Silence
Untitled [from forthcoming new solo album]
total running time: 19m : 37s
ii. + New reviews of Censor's "Empire Holds Down" and Manufactura's
"Precognitive Dissonance" on the Hive website.
"The clever thing and high quality of this cd is that the various style
elements are combined very naturally and this results in a cd with extremely
beautiful electronics and dancable heavy pieces of music in well balanced
proportions so its equally enjoyable at home as it is in club environments.
This cd has a remarkably grown up sound for a debut cd. " [excerpt of Empire
Holds Down review]
"this album is intense fucking electro noise beats that are so heavy you will
shit yourself in fear and ejaculate in excitement simultaneously. Yeah that is
what I meant to say!" [excerpt of Precognitive Dissonance review]
You can read the entire reviews on the hive site: www.hiverecords.com
iii. + Exclipsect / Kaebin Yield - Symbiosis split CD
This release brings together the boundless talent of Mason Yarnell [aka
Exclipsect] and the fervent creativity of Nico De Gols of Duncan Avoid [aka
Kaebin Yield] onto a single recording. The first half of the album finds
Exclipsect moving in a fuller, more organic direction - hard and trancey
rhythms slide through thick liquid atmopsheres which only fleetingly reveal
hidden glitchy artifacts of sound. Kaebin Yield bring to the table an
impossibly tangled mesh of breakcore spasms and jittery electronics, the final
whirring moments of technology before a great, deafening silence. As a
precursor to the upcoming full length albums on Hive [Exclipsect's "Phantom
Optics" and Duncan Avoid's "Metaphysics"], we believe this release will stand
on its own as one of our best offerings to date.
This CD ships on Monday! The disc comes packaged in a metal tin, and is
limited to only 200 copies. These are almost all sold out, so grab one now if
you want to make sure you get one.
iv. + Manufactura is currently on tour with Sister Machine Gun and Christ
Analogue as part of the "DOMINATION TOUR". These guys will be hitting about
50 dates across the US and Canada, so there is a very good chance you'll get
to see them in your hometown. Reports so far from the tour suggest that
theyre tearing shit up - don't miss them!
You can get more info, including downloadable flyers and posters, merchandise,
streaming audio, tour blog [a good read], a list of tour dates and venues, etc
here at the website:
www.dominationtour.com
v. + Tekniq - Shazbut CD
Coming soon is the 2nd album by the immensely talented Tekniq. One of the
most exciting surprises we recieved here at the Hive Control Facilities was an
amazing demo from Canadian musician Mike Savelli, under the moniker Tekniq.
The richness of the melodies and construction of the cut up beats, backed by
an amazing sense of production made this demo stand out as something really
special.
On his second release [the first album Compuglobalhypermeganet was released on
Rudy Ratzinger's IDM/etc label Fliesskoma to much critical acclaim], Mike
Savelli imparts even greater attention to the fluid soundtrack elements and
hones the precision broken rhythms into microscopically engineered shimmering
textures. This album has the unique ability to simultaneously challenge the
attentive ear, and bliss-out the passing listener. Artwork for the release was
done by Dsplcr, with mastering provided by 5-25.
This album is a reaffirmation of the belief that electronic music can produce
a lush convergence of sound capable of producing an emotional response
unattainable by other forms of music. Gorgeous, fragile and essential.
Official release date coming shortly.
vi. + Various Artists - FUCK CD / Ltd. 2CD Set
Hive Records' second compilation release, FUCK brings together some of the
best dark rhythm and experimental knob-twistery in electronic music today.
While the songs collected here could almost all be tearing tendons on a
dancefloor, each is also more than that - these songs were collected with the
music lover in mind, and each track is a work dually suited to listening and
moving.
Hive Records wants you to fuck. Fuck mediocre electronica. Fuck immature
scenesters. Fuck censorship. Fuck sitting still, get up and break something.
The first 100 copies come packaged in a double slim DVD case and feature a
special bonus CD with extra tracks. Photography by Lithium Picnic Studios.
Artists contributing are Pneumatic Detach, Converter, Larvae, Censor, Unter
Null, Railgun, End, Concrete Cookie vs Incredibad, Muted Logic, Manufactura vs
Kate Mosh, Lapsed, Iszoloscope, Ou Moins, HIV+, Exclipsect, Mago, Asche, The
Maggot Farmer, Terrorfakt, Prospero, Tekniq, Kaebin Yield, Idyl, Lament
Configuration, Synth-Etik, Bitsplitter, Unitcode:Machine, and Rudra Vena.
Possibly more to come...
Look for this comp to drop sometime this summer.
vii. + Duncan Avoid - Metaphysics CD
The first official release of this acclaimed Belgian duo. Industrial and
punchy breakcore freneticism coiled tightly around endlessly twisted ambience
and hectic experimental sound sculpture. A landmark in the evolution of noisey
and challenging music, Metaphysics is an album which is destined to become a
sleeper-hit among fans of complex, dark, broken, harsh experimentalism.
The collaborative project of Kaebin Yield and Undacova/Erratic, Duncan Avoid
bring to the table a deliberately challenging mélange of twisted ambience,
impossibly broad pallets of moody and often agressive sounds, and
sledge-shattered noisey breakcore. Dually challenging and rewarding, absorbing
Metaphysics is like acclimating to a new dialect - familiar elements are
sometimes present in the sound, but the result is also wholly different,
disorienting and exciting.
Expect to be enthralled - this duo from Belgium are expert sculptors of sound
and architects of rhythm. This CD will also be out this summer in conjunction
with FUCK.
viii. + Hive will be celebrating our one-year anniversary on May 22nd at
the grapevine bar in Dallas, TX. Free admission, free fajitas [mmm!], drink
specials, video projections, and terrifying and sensual sounds provided by
Hive DJs :insect and Caustic, as well as long-time collaborator DJ Emptyx.
More info and the flyer at the Hive website.
ix. + Hive Records home on the web has been updated - you'll find a more
comprehensive 'news' section [with live pics from Manufactura and Pneumatic
Detach], new sound files, an updated mailorder section, new reviews, new
graphics, and other very necessary goodies.
Indulge us: www.hiverecords.com
+ Thanks for reading, and thanks for all of your support!
.d.
davyd c pittman // dj :insect
+ www.hiverecords.com // hive records
industrial.triphop.ambient.powernoise.experimental
+ www.metawerks.org/insect // insect aesthetic design
grand works & pixel engineering of the swarm
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