Saturday, June 27, 2020

Diabarha, Eater of Sheep & Lysergide - Tritone Paradox [ERGN04]



Three artists, three styles, one paradoxical Extratone collaboration! Rejected by several cutting-studios for risking damage to equipment, this is one of the hardest records you will ever hear. Too much for conventional lacquer, the master-disc had to be forged in copper to avoid blowing things up!

Diabarha kicks things off with haunting melodies, one of the greatest build-ups in Extratone history, and then unleashing the monster! Tones so feral they sound less like music and more like an animal!

In the middle, starting Side B, there's some crunchy rhythmic Extratone from Eater of Sheep, familiar tracks delicately refined for a much richer sound, and little bursts of Supertones here and there.

Finally, Lysergide drops two profoundly melodic tracks of a dizzyingly high standard. For 'Great Red Dragon', Lysergide conjures up a bewilderingly complex blend of sound and emotion: so captivating that even your neighbours won't mind braving the drum-storms.

Huge huge huge thanks to Lysergide for mastering (and endlessly remastering) the tracks, and to Neil of Guttercvnt for helping us through some tough technical issues. This would not have been possible without you!

A free digital version of the album will come out in the future if and when enough copies have been sold to break even.

Friday, June 12, 2020

DZKYIN - Experimentatone 2.0 [ERGN-NET06]





The two tracks that stand out here are 'Extratone Sample Experiment', for its ferocity, and 'New World Extratone', for its vocals and flexes packed neatly into the overall rhythm. Filling in the gaps, we have two ultra-minimalist tracks, 'Drilling My Head' and 'Experimentatone 2.0'. At the other end of the scale is the lengthy 'Cerebral Dysfunction', noisy yet ambient.

Monday, June 1, 2020

Phuture Extratone Episode 11 (by Cryptokid & W.T.F.)


New month! New podcast! New co-host!
First, Cryptokid brings his cold, twisted mind-melting frequencies and then Speedsick Lunatic and Tonegenerator come back with an absolutely ferocious XTRTN mix as WTF: the World Tone Federation. Two absolutely incredible mixes well worth waiting for! As if that weren't enough, I am joined by a co-host, Flyswatter!