The Factory
T.I.M.E.

Highpath Records welcomes London based producer, Nick Gynn (Superlux Records) with his dynamic Pull Up EP.The A side opens with Pull Up - Rough And Ready Acid Mix that features energy drum machine rhythms and early British acid taste. Next Bumpin And Gurnin switches things up gracefully to some brilliant bass antics and rolling dancefloor flows. B Side starts with Pull Up - Lover Erotica Mix this version brings dimensional groove and coloured fusion of rave chords. Finally Acid Drops settles up the trips into a minimalist club gem.

The 17th sonic tale on Childhood Intelligence is Written, Produced & Mastered by German Electro artist E-Control. The Debut album entitled “D.N.E.”, presents a lifetime legacy compilation of Traxx, which were written and programmed throughout various years, ranging from 1996 - 2010. Inspired by the passion for 80s Electro, early Bleep, Techno and House - E-Control transforms sounds and rhythms into his own sequence - his own powerful & mystic D.N.A. engineered to the future.

Deeper life and worlds within worlds; one is many which is many more.Under micro and even inner, we’re threaded through another one – to speak without knowledge in secret electric, key to the great flow. Dig down in the dirt, our joints pivot and split to turn the earth, scrambling all to rest as one. We crawl to the pulse and see other ways – growth under ground and movement. Marry the buds to bring new light, glide we beyond process – this is ancient and essential.Structure and system, raw number demands perspective - up close, and even closer still. Written fine in the grain, focus now to see another one, entire, whole, hidden deep in our own. Now feel the gaze fall on your thread, where do we sit in the balance? Maybe it's we inside another, the biggest curl in the helix.New vital truth from our Mirror Zone – Taxa is brought; the precious, tight rhythms draw vibrant life and complex energy - psychic drama, frenetic/war cry and high charged. Detailed ancestral rhythm written deep in our bones and carried on, the colours primary; we’re given hard rolling threads in mystic Goa and tribal, psytrance, tekno – Inner Light, shades of Day Glo, and other biospheres and sacred grooves.

Voor Harmonium by HellveteIn his essay ‘The Meaning of My Avant-Garde Hillbilly and Blues Music’, Henry Flynt talks about how his music should be analysed as an intellectual tribute to the music of the autochtone, setting aside plain folk references, but adopting academic insights to mold the music one makes as a folk creature. Much of Flynt’s discourse applies to the music of Glen Steenkiste’s Hellvete. Over the past twenty years he has been thoroughly investigating both the ethnic musical language of various regions as well as the contemporary pioneers that preceded him as a drone musician, internalizing concepts such as e.g. deep listening or just intonation. Casting off any redundant ideas or sounds, and stripping down the focus to develop singular concepts, his working method lead to pieces such as ‘Droomharmonium’, in which he shapes the endless variations on a theme, emphasizing detail and nuance rather than multitude. The Indian harmonium here serves as the main device to worship ancient ghosts and masters, and to preserve a continuum in a tradition that touches both folk and avant-garde culture. The materialisations are sustained tone compositions which become a means of appreciation of the people and cultures that paved the way for forms of mutual escapism. This might well be the core of what Hellvete’s music is about. As much as it is a form of self-entertainment – like folk music in the old days – it also invites the listener to a shared experience of sonic reverie, it is a casual gift to the community. This is certainly true for the pieces presented on this album. They were first presented in a smoke filled and darkened art space in Ghent, Steenkiste surrounded by only a couple of candles and just enough stage light to see him erratically moving to the rhythm of the piece, occasionally twiddling the knobs of a Doepfer synth that processed the prerecorded harmonium tracks. Unlike most of his other performances this piece embraced the audience in a trance that was similar to that of an old-school rave club. Flynt writes: ‘The music should be intellectually fascinating because the listener can perceive and participate in its rhythmic and melodic intricacies, audacity of organization, etc. At the same time, the music should be kinesthetic, that is, it should encourage dancing.’ ‘Voor Harmonium’ does exactly that; it builds on the artistic ideas that have long been established in Hellvete’s oeuvre, but the ecstatic nature of these pieces merges the usual spiritual transcendence with one of determined physical bliss. It encourages both mind and body to step into the sound, to be enraptured, to celebrate.