A new compilation of Hany Mehanna’s work, called Music For Airplanes – A collection of instrumental showpieces and scores for Egyptian films and TV-series (1973-1980), is being released by Souma Records this December.
While Mehanna began his career playing accordion, organ, and synths in backing orchestras, he later pivoted to working as a successful composer and arranger.
Though Mehanna scored 93 films and 38 TV series across his career, he only published one full length album —The Miracles of the Seven Dances
Music For Airplanes collects music he created during ’73-’80, remastered from Mehanna’s personal reel-to-reel archive.
TRACKLISTING:
A1. Hanady A2. Haya Ha’ira A3. Al Qina’ Al Za’ef A4. Reem A5. Ta’er Al Layl B1. Rehala B2. Walad Wa Bint B3. Ayni Betrif B4. Less Al Thulatha C1. Rehla C2. Shahr Al Assal C3. Sympathique C4. Baya D1. Ayam Al Marah D2. Al Nil D3. Daa Al Omr Ya Walady D4. Al Dawama (opening theme) D5. Damat Alam D6. Dawama (end theme)
Souma Records will release Music For Airplanes on December 3rd, 2021
Stream the Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV founding member’s 2007 solo album FormGrows Rampant
Musique Pour La Danse has reissued Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV founding member Peter Christopherson‘s first solo project The Threshold HouseBoys Choir. Form Grows Rampant is the soundtrack of a film shot by Christopherson (a video capture at the GinJae Vegetarian Festival in the south of Thailand), and his first major musical project since the tragic death of John Balance and the subsequent demise of Coil.
The music is a suite of lenghty dense
atmospherics that combine shuddering electronics with sampled vocals, eerie
digitalia, buried melodies and sinister undercurrents hinting at a gleaming
heart of darkness, with a joyful melodic progression that sounds positively
triumphant towards the end of the disc. It’s both Coil-esque and quite
different, and undoubtedly is the worthy successor of the legendary group that
Christopherson created with his partner John Balance.
Released in 2007 as a CD/DVD set, this reissue has been mastered from the original files by Sidney Claire Meyer at former Deutsche Grammophon studios Emil Berliner in Berlin, using the half speed mastering process, and pressed on vinyl for the first time.
Listen to Form Grows Rampant below
Tracklist:
A1. Part One: A Time Of Happening A2. Part Two: Intimations Of Spring B. Part Three: So Young It Knows No Maturing C. Part Four: So Free It Knows No End D. Part Five: As Doors Open Into Space
Musique Pour La Danse will release Form Grows Rampant on February 18, 2022.
You might think that Robert Hood is an artist who is content with the successes he’s achieved via his solo work and those alongside daughter, Lyric (as Floorplan) but this is not a man who easily rests on his laurels so after a long-time in the planning he is set to regenerate his much-loved Monobox alias with a new EP in October followed by an artist album in November.
Originally launched in 1996 his Monobox sound spanned a trio of EPs on his own M-Plant label, culminating in more releases including the Molecule album (in 2003) for French label Logistic, which later spawned a series of remixes including those of Ricardo Villalobos and Matthew Dear. A brief return came in 2014 as part of M-Plant’s 20th anniversary celebrations, which saw the release of a new Monobox 12″, Film / Rectangle. Speaking to RBMA that year for one of their Fireside Chat interviews, Robert said: “Monobox was an alien project. I read this book when I was probably around 13 or 14. It was this ominous black box that came from some other universe, and it was just sort of hovering over the planet, over a cornfield somewhere.”
In Robert’s mind the idea for the new EP and album is that this vessel has been lying dormant for 40 or 50 years and is now beginning to rise up again, or regenerate. Robert’s approach to Monobox was to create techno minimalism, but from an alien futuristic perspective. Returning to the moniker, his forthcoming EP and album encapsulates this raw, bristling and sci-fi tinged techno sound.
M-Plant will release Regenerate on November 26th, 2021
“Improvisational electronic jazz the way only Detroit can produce.”
Jeff Mills and multi-instrumentalist Rafael Leafar are releasing a new collaborative album, titled The Override Switch, via Mills’ own Axis Records imprint this October.
Aiming to adopt the boundary-pushing approach of artists like John Coltrane, J Dilla, and Kraftwerk, Mills and Leafar crafted an album of “improvisational electronic jazz in the way only Detroit can produce,” as Mills explains.
“The Override Switch reflects on the precise moment people decide in their minds that the only way to improve a situation is to act – to change the scenario and deal with the consequences as they develop to work for a better outcome.”
It follows Mills’ contributions to Tresor’s 30th anniversary compilation Tresor 30, which will be released this October.
TRACKLISTING
A1. Homage A2. The River Runs Five Ways B1. Infinite Voyage B2. Crashing B3. Soul Filter Buffet C. The Sun King D1. Soul Filter (The Dancer) D2. Trigger Happy (With Safety Off)
Axis Records will release The Override Switch on October 15, 2021.
Luke Slater will release his seventh Planetary Assault Systems album on Token Records this October.
The iconic British producer, whose last LP arrived via Ostgut Ton in 2016, follows up this year’s Say It Loud on Token with a full length featuring a wealth of brand new material.
A figure who needs little introduction to fans of the genre, but whose consistency in the studio and on the road has repeatedly marked him out as true pioneer of sound design and performance with a singular vision, Slater first minted the PAS alias in ’93. Since then, a slew of singles and LP’s from the industrious artist have made sure Planetary Assault Systems has become a byword for hypnotic, funk-heavy Techno in a purist tradition. Toeing the line between heady, psychedelic material and all out main room fare – Slater’s work as PAS captures the very best facets of the genre, with economically selected parts exquisitely arranged and engineered with a shrewd and uncompromising ear for what really makes people move.
On the new LP, Slater draws on studio material but also components recorded during the PAS live show – and he’s keen to let fans know the focus is well and truly on the dance floor with this one: Sky Scraping is a loud and unabashed celebration of the formative and familiar environments so loved by the electronic music community, the dark clubs and festivals made special by their unique ability to bring like minded people together.
Previews are online for ‘Sky Scraping’, the new album by Planetary Assault Systems.
Token Records will release Sky Scraping on October 15th, 2021.
Stephan Bodzin has announced Boavista, his third album, by releasing its lead single on Afterlife.
Recorded during the pandemic, Boavista is a result of the lockdown period. Without being able to travel, Bodzin had the chance to look back on the vast archives of music he has recorded but never finished. So while spending time in Brazil, he picked his 25 favourites and finished them properly, with the best 17 making up the album. His aim was to tell a story with each track, “to paint musical pictures that conjure up very real emotions in the listener.
Boavista is another exquisitely crafted album of rich, synth-heavy electronic music that takes you into new worlds of emotion and leaves you in awe.
Stream the lead single below:
Herzblut Recordings will release Boavista on October 11th, 2021
