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In a few weeks I’ll be releasing a new album of ambient pieces on 3BS Records. The album will be called Strata. Here are some previews.

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LISTEN TO ASHFIELD PARK & PRE-ORDER STRATA - THE NEW ALBUM FROM HENCE THEREFORE

https://3bsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/strata

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- Hence Therefore is the techno project of Simon Unwin and on his latest tape, Machine For Destroying Value, he’s got a distinctive take on the well-worn style. The beats are clearly restrained, efficient and minimal, but what you hear is far from bloodless eurodance. No, it’s big and full of power, like taut muscle was stretched over the metallic frame of the beats. He achieves this through ominous, ambient synths washing across the background, generous doses of reverb and even more generous effusions of bass.

...an attempt to navigate an uncertain reality where nature is at the same time all-encompassing, inescapable but also weird, alien and threatening. The echoes of this in Machine For Destroying Value become, kind of instinctively obvious: the libidinal pulse of the bass locked together with the clinical, machine-like beat; the disembodied creation of digital music inseparable from the sweaty pound of the dancefloor; the hedonistic pleasure of music inspired by the knowledge of imminent environmental catastrophe... this is a more interesting take on the idea than most; closer to a minimal techno version of Ben Frost.

Machine For Destroying Value is a “4ZZZ Pick” this week! Thankyou Brisbane babes.

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sink yr ears into this @3bsrecords mixtape featuring previously unheard & soon-to-be-released music from me & a bunch of m8s. Originally broadcast on FBi Radio’s excellent program Ears Have Ears: Unexplored Territories In Sound.

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