Ressonus Records

ambient – glitch – experimental electronic music since 2006

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Selectone – Transition

With the new EP ‘Transition’, Selectone leaves behind the realms of hypnotic drones and vinyl plunderphonics. Soaked with techno-industrial influences, the new sound comes with an analog veil, though this time the minimalist form moves its focus from dirty microsample loops towards more straightforward synth grooves, dub echoes and caustic beats.

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Grid861 – Journey, from EP “For Rest Delivery”, out now on Ressonus Records. 

Download here: https://ressonus.bandcamp.com/album/for-rest-delivery

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Grid861 – For Rest Delivery

Grid861 is an audio-visual project, initiated by motion designer Evaldas Jucevicius from Lithuania. His exploration in sounds and visuals, driven by intuitive experiments with software and composition takes you to another space with its own rules. Ressonus Records presents Grid861's debut EP ‘For Rest Delivery’.

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Flaub – Forgotten Droids

Somnolent automatons driven by foreign minds ruled one day the world. But now they look from afar at a desolate landscape, where waste mountains from another time stack together. Astonished from inside the heavenly city they see the ruins, knowing that in a remote past all that extravagant shapes were inspired by them. Somehow resisting to death, somewhere to get heard.

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Aleff – Selected Punishments

"Selected Punishments" is an album, which in its own way illustrates the human rudeness. Symbolically shows the branches of intoxicating human astray on the paths of inner human conscience. Eight times to stop at the crossroads where the path of man's own soul can fall so deep, where there is a gateway to the point of no return back. 

With "Selected Punishments" the author closes the circle of one decade of creation, which continues his introspective industrial electronics from concept double album ElectroErotica / ElectroErrorticon from the years 2004 and 2005.

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Lunacybot – Cogito Ergo Sum

Ian Fleming is an Irish-born composer of electronic music. As Lunacybot, Ian produces a variety of styles ranging from electroacoustic pieces, ambient electronica, glitch and techno. In March 2013, he had a tape piece premiered in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, as part of the Contemporary Music Centre's New Music Week. Since then, he has made his debut as a live performer, opening the inaugural Sonic Arts Waterford festival. He is regularly featured on Lyric FM's award-winning show Nova, Ireland's national programme for contemporary music. 

‘Cogito Ergo Sum’ is Ian's debut album, released on Ressonus Records in October 2014.

"I think, therefore I am" is the translation of the title, but you knew that already, as it's one of those Latin things everybody knows – hopefully. 

"It's the soundtrack for any post apocalyptic scenery in which computer data and cities play an important role." 

"Forcefull and present music, bouncing with dark rhythm and likewise textures. Perfect for the early dark autumn evening." 

(Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly)

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Selectone – Dead Grooves

"Dead Grooves" represents one stage of work by the Czech experimental project Selectone. The project's distinctively intuitive approach to minimalism gives birth to hypnotic compositions, mostly built from sonic elements gnawed away by the ravages of time. With the clarity of a retired turntable needle riding the grooves clogged with dust, Selectone carries you away as if passing an atmospheric storm in a haze of altered consciousness. 

Most of the album's material was recorded in isolation in a small town on the Czech-Polish border, heightening the introspective character of the tracks. The key to these "Dead Grooves" is circular motion; the album's sound is shaped by the endless spinning of heavily worn shellac records and tapes, forming hypnotically pulsating tracks, masked with crackling and sparkling repetitions.

"The music is throughout a bit dark but it is also quite nice, full of small variations and lots of rotations. Everything seems to be in full swing here, repeating and repeating. Rust and dust music, with an ancient ghost singing on 'Dead Swan'. There is more to this than just some found sounds from old records; the material seems to be more composed with and doesn't act as just a bunch of sounds. Especially a piece like 'Dead Swan' shows there is more to that then just some sounds. Here Selectone actually creates a beautiful intense piece of music, haunting and sparse, but with a fine bass end. 'Positive Einstellung' does perhaps the same, but then through an uplifting rhythm, sampled voices, eerie electronics and with a ghostly undercurrent too. The jazzy 'Solaris' evokes a sighting of a smokey nightclub in the fifties. These pieces are the best on this release I think, but all six are equally nice, I think. A fine release." 

(Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly)

"Do popředí zde ale vystupuje ještě jedna hranice, totiž jemné blíženectví „uzavřených“ smyček a mýtů s necyklickými prvky, jako je hostující vokál Miriam Ingram v Dead Swan nebo dubová rytmizace prostoru v Positive Einstellung. Fascinace vedlejšími efekty a mikrozvukovou texturou, která projekt provází od jeho začátků, jako by zahalovala celou desku do konstantní clony deště nebo do praskotu ohně – podle toho, která substance je bližší vašemu vědomí." 

(Ondřej Parus, A2)

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The Agromaniac – AM

The Agromaniac's stunning industrial/ambient techno album, loosely inspired by Harlan Ellison's short story "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream".

"80% of the sounds on this record were created using a human voice", which is quite interesting, as the results do not sound like that. That's great: expectations are shattered. Once you know this, you start to note these things in the strong, heavy beat oriented material. It's part techno, part industrial and it's no wonder this release comes with black print on black paper – nice, but difficult to read. The Pan Sonic inspired heaviness of the music is only part of their trade. Maybe half, maybe a little bit more. The other half, more or less, is created with the same voice material melted down to icy plains of ambient atmospheres – cold, stale wind of vast icey masses on the Northpole. The Agromaniac combines this quite cleverly and it makes a highly varied album. In both the rhythm pieces as well as the ambient pieces the voice plays a bigger role. Cut short to make a rhythm, stretched out to make a drone, either way works fine. I am not sure if this is music one could easily dance too, but on a gothic dance party some of these pieces could go down very well." 

(Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly)

"Nečekejte temné písně, ani hlasový ekvilibrismus, album AM je záhrobní diskotéka, ochraptělé a rozvrzané techno vycpané skřípáním zpětných vazeb a funěním a chrápáním nějakých monster z temné budoucnosti. Pokud máte rádi temnotu, je AM album pro vás. Agromaniac svou hudbu ničím nezdobí, nahrávka je radikální a sveřepá, dusící se ve vlastní šťávě chlupatých zkreslení a kompresorů. Husté pomalé beaty jsou ořezané na samou kost a dobře vyladěné, zvuk evokuje tisíckrát přehranou kazetu – tu poslední, kterou si z ruky do ruky předávají postapokalyptičtí DJové. Z horní části spektra zbyly jen cáry, na výšky se tu nehraje, hlavní jsou hutné, dobře saturované basy. Beaty nejsou strojově přesné, chvílemi jsou zvláštně klopotné, což působí spíše příjemně a podporuje “rukodělný” dojem..." 

(Tomáš Procházka, HIS Voice) 

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Selectone – Positive Einstellung

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