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DRONE 023LP
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Richard Fearless follows his critically acclaimed psycho-geographical techno masterpiece Deep Rave Memory (DRONE 020LP, 2019) with its companion album Future Rave Memory. Across titanium kosmische, industrial ambience, weightless acid and dark drone, this new record is an instrument of evocative wonder and heavy emotion. A dystopian ambient album and work of modernist meditation set firmly in an era when humanity is reckoning with its outsized place in the natural world, a process which may evoke humility, defiance, denial or despair.
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DRONE 020LP
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A stunningly accomplished work, Deep Rave Memory is an insight into Richard Fearless's worlds --both metaphysical and geographical. Pulsating in unison with the heartbeat of a modern metropolis, it was recorded at the Metal Box -- his studio located on the peninsula of land where the River Lea meets the Thames. The haunting and wistful blue ambient "Vision of You" leads into the bracingly chilly "New Perspective", which evokes a heavy rush where perceptions are blurred and vision is freeze framed, via elements of techno-soul, Sheffield Bleep and Mika Vainio. A snarling beast of a track, the relentless machine funk of "Devil on Horseback" perfects the pure cathartic release of dark n' hot body music, whilst "Acid Angels" is a throbbing low-fi 303 requiem, which encapsulates that perfect dancefloor moment, when the first light breaks through the shutters. A future classic and the album's modus operandi, title track "Deep Rave Memory", features discordant filter passes sweeping across a hypnotic melody, communicating a deep sense of warm nostalgia and taking you on an epic journey -- stretching out a single riff over 12 minutes -- akin to the krautrock greats of which Fearless is so fond. "Atlas of Insanity" is big room techno with pounding kicks, death-whip metallic snares and head spinning, spiraling synth lines that drill into your core. This is raw, impulsive and frantic music that sizzles with electric effervescence. The Germanic kosmische idyll of "Driving with Roedelius" is a homage to one of Richards' heroes -- Hans-Joachim Roedelius -- and was inspired by his experience playing a set consisting solely of the electronic pioneer's music, at a festival celebrating his life and career. On the album's closer, Fearless recounts, "'Broken Beauty' is something I've always strived for in my art. It's inspired by Robert Frank, William Eggleston and the way they could take the most inane object a turn it into something of beauty. It's equally schooled by the aggressive simplicity of King Tubby's dubbing and the transcendence of Joy Division's 'Decades'. The sparse allure of the best dub and techno is something I'm always striving for; being able to conjure emotion with the fewest possible elements; to not fix what's broken, but to make it shine."
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DRONE 018EP
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Hand-stamped white label, album sampler for forthcoming Richard Fearless album of the same title. "Atlas Of Insanity" is reactionary, big room techno from Richard Fearless; a pounding kick, death whip snares, and synth lines that drill into your core. This is raw, impulsive electronic body music made to lose your mind. With "New Perspective", Fearless delivers pure techno soul. With sonic leanings towards the North's Bleep scene and minimalist techno pioneer Mika Vainio's Philius and Ø alias.
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DRONE 013EP
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Night Blind is Richard Fearless's second release on Drone's white label series. The title track coalesced in the early hours of the morning as diffuse, Turneresque lights glimmered across the Thames and the container was pounded by a storm. Unnerving and melancholic yet with a glimmer of light, this is Fearless at his best. With Xavier's spiritual acid head, Kenichi Iwasa, on percussion duties, "Cancan" is one for peak time body shaking. Recorded and mixed at the Metal Box by Chris Blakey; Produced by Richard Fearless. Stamped and numbered; edition of 300.
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DRONE 011EP
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The first release in Drone's vinyl-only series sees label founder Richard Fearless steering the sound toward house. "Sweet Venus", recorded in one take, traps a ray of light in troubled times. Using the 303 and 909, "Rex" draws on the sonic tapestry of metal dub. It is deep, uncompromising acid with a sound that is synonymous with Drone's studio, the Metal. Stamped and numbered; Edition of 300.
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DRONE 006EP
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Luke Hess and DJ Richard remix sides A and B of Richard Fearless's Overview Effect (DRONE 005EP, 2015). Luke Hess takes "Overview Effect," the dubbed-out, Detroit techno-infused title-track, and transposes its mood, breaking out the 303 and sampling the original strings to add an element of dazed hallucination for a peak-time acid track. DJ Richard brings crafted electro rhythms and swelling, dubbed-out horns to his remix of "Metal Dub," completely reimagining the stripped-down, metallic techno of the original.
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DRONE 005EP
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Richard Fearless delivers his third release on Drone, opening with "Overview Effect," a track of dubbed-out Detroit-esque techno with an epic two-and-a-half-minute string workout and a cognitive shift to pure Fearless magic. "Metal Dub" is stripped-down, metallic, hypnotic techno with haunting pads, and it's been smashing it in the darkest of rooms. A deep, heavy release on Drone. Precedes remixes by Luke Hess and DJ Richard.
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BB 184CD
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Bureau B sees itself as a platform for exciting varieties of electronic, free-spirited music, ranging from pop to avant-garde. The label has amassed an impressive catalog of reissues and new productions, including electronic music classics from the 1970s and early 1980s popularly classified as krautrock (Cluster, Roedelius, Moebius, Plank, Schnitzler), alongside new recordings by such formative artists as Faust, Kreidler, Roedelius, Tietchens, and Moebius, to name just a few. To provide an overview of the various musical styles in which Bureau B specializes, the label has created the Kollektion series. Kollektion 04 is curated by Richard Fearless, who listened his way through the label's entire (!) archive and now presents his own very personal selection from the catalog. Richard Fearless is best known as the leader and founder of British band Death in Vegas. German electronic music can be heard as an influence on many of his albums; indeed, even in his song titles, like "Sons of Rother." Richard Fearless has worked with Iggy Pop, Bobby Gillespie, Paul Weller, Liam Gallagher, and Hope Sandoval and has developed into a successful producer and remixer. "To me the bands and labels in the Bureau B archive, current and past, were looking to distant lands, their own 'Neuland,' whether in the future with bands like You and Riechmann, or from a more remote past, like medieval folk band Ougenweide. They were creating something radical and experimental, something that didn't draw on the same rhythm and blues, Anglo-American rock that was saturating the airwaves at the time. They were pioneers in every sense of the word. With all due respect for the music that forged these paths, it was on hearing the mental guitar on Faust's 'Herbstimmung' that I knew to look not only at the so-called golden years of this era, but to look at what these artists were doing later, as well as the new bands that were emerging from those schools. Artists who are still creating, still innovating. I hope you enjoy the journey" --Richard Fearless. Includes tracks by Phantom Band, Günter Schickert, Faust, Ougenweide, Riechmann, Asmus Tietchens, 39 Clocks, Der Plan, You, Sølyst, Moebius Plank Neumeier, Moebius & Beerbohm, Thomas Dinger, Moebius, Gregor Schnitzler, Kreidler, Cluster, Roedelius, Qluster, Pyrolator, Automat feat. Lydia Lunch, and Moebius & Renziehausen. Twenty-five tracks available as a double CD or spread across three separate LPs.
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Part 1 of 3 LP versions. Tracks by: Phantom Band, Günter Schickert, Faust, Ougenweide, Riechmann, Asmus Tietchens, 39 Clocks, Der Plan, You, Sølyst, and Moebius Plank Neumeier. Bureau B sees itself as a platform for exciting varieties of electronic, free-spirited music, ranging from pop to avant-garde. The label has amassed an impressive catalog of reissues and new productions, including electronic music classics from the 1970s and early 1980s popularly classified as krautrock (Cluster, Roedelius, Moebius, Plank, Schnitzler), alongside new recordings by such formative artists as Faust, Kreidler, Roedelius, Tietchens, and Moebius, to name just a few. To provide an overview of the various musical styles in which Bureau B specializes, the label has created the Kollektion series. Kollektion 04 is curated by Richard Fearless, who listened his way through the label's entire (!) archive and now presents his own very personal selection from the catalog. Richard Fearless is best known as the leader and founder of British band Death in Vegas. German electronic music can be heard as an influence on many of his albums; indeed, even in his song titles, like "Sons of Rother." Richard Fearless has worked with Iggy Pop, Bobby Gillespie, Paul Weller, Liam Gallagher, and Hope Sandoval and has developed into a successful producer and remixer. "To me the bands and labels in the Bureau B archive, current and past, were looking to distant lands, their own 'Neuland,' whether in the future with bands like You and Riechmann, or from a more remote past, like medieval folk band Ougenweide. They were creating something radical and experimental, something that didn't draw on the same rhythm and blues, Anglo-American rock that was saturating the airwaves at the time. They were pioneers in every sense of the word. With all due respect for the music that forged these paths, it was on hearing the mental guitar on Faust's 'Herbstimmung' that I knew to look not only at the so-called golden years of this era, but to look at what these artists were doing later, as well as the new bands that were emerging from those schools.
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BB 184-2LP
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Part 2 of 3 LP versions. Tracks by: Moebius & Beerbohm, Thomas Dinger, Moebius, Gregor Schnitzler, and Kreidler.
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Part 3 of 3 LP versions. Tracks by Cluster, Roedelius, Qluster, Phantom Band, Pyrolator, Automat, Roedelius, Moebius & Renziehausen, and Faust.
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DRONE 002EP
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One-sided release. Richard Fearless unleashes his shamanic cosmic trip with "Gamma Ray," an obsessively crafted techno track of the highest order. Stark minimal analog magic. Dutch master Legowelt delivers a stunning remix; the depth, texture and atmosphere he injects into the track completes an exceptional second release from Drone.
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DRONE 001EP
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Drone is a London-based label founded by producer, artist and Death In Vegas guiding light Richard Fearless, an outlet for dancefloor distortion and other musical explorations. Created in the Metal Box, Drone will release oscillations in many forms. For this, the debut outing, Richard Fearless lays the mandate in the form of higher electronic states -- proto-techno, peak-time acid. Analog electronics and horror strings underpinned with drums to blow apart any floor. This is music made for very dark, smoke-filled rooms with absurd lazers. D'Marc Cantu picks up remix duties, toning things down in tempo but certainly not in tension.
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