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Hainbach has dedicated much of his career to exploring rare and hard to find instruments, synthesisers and electronic equipment - bringing them back to the forefront of modern electronic production. On Breve, Hainbach turns the early 40s Ondioline inside out, a graceful showcase of pure vibrational electricity.

Especially for our Albums of the Year edition, we have an exclusive coloured vinyl pressing with an exclusive bonus digital track "Settle Into Depths".

After repurposing disused nuclear research equipment, and the early 60s Syn-Ket synthesiser in 2023, he turns his sights to an even earlier feat of engineering. His eighth release for Seil Records, Breve focuses on the Ondioline, a proto-synthesiser instrument created by Georges Jenny in 1939 and continuously developed until his death in 1975, and it's a marvellous merging of electronic eras.

The Ondioline has a storied history, used by the likes of composers Darius Milhaud and Angelo Badalamenti as well as Motown Records artists at the turn of the 60s. Its first enthusiast was Jean-Jacques Perrey, whose friendship with Wally de Backer AKA Gotye led to the instrument's 21st century revival. De Backer lent Hainbach an Ondioline, and rather than make a solo Ondioline album, Hainbach incorporated it into his rich analogue setup, where it shows off its true powers not just solitarily but interacting with other sounds in a celebration of voltage. As such, Breve is a powerful example of how even the earliest of devices can be used for innovative, contemporary compositions.

‘Sonores’ creeps in patiently and reliably, teasing out the Ondioline's range in ghostly, wispy swells and a resonant fullness, but getting further into the album reveals its talents: ‘Brushstrokes’ pulsates and revolves with percussive melodies in a sci-fi sense of drive, as echoing toy piano plucks add a delicately eerie quality. From here, the Ondioline and its partners are locked in a ballet of buzzes and zaps, deep bellowing thrums and sizzling saws, giving the impression of an ensemble of tesla coils singing in unison.

Hainbach turns the early 40s Ondioline inside out on Breve, a graceful showcase of pure vibrational electricity.

  • 286469
  • 286470
  • Artist
    Various Artists
    ReleaseProduct
    Top 10 Albums Of The Year 2024 Bundle
    Label
    Bleep
    Catalogue Number
    AOTYBDL24
    Release Date
    December 20, 2024
    • Bundle:

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      • SOPHIE SOPHIE Vinyl, 2×LP, Limited Coloured Crystal clear vinyl

      • Nala Sinephro Endlessness Vinyl, 2×LP

      • Hainbach Breve Vinyl, 1×LP, Limited Coloured Blue vinyl

      • KMRU, Kevin Richard Martin Disconnect Vinyl, 2×LP

      • Kim Gordon The Collective (Deluxe Edition) Vinyl, 2×LP, Limited Coloured + 7” Silver vinyl

      • Jlin Akoma Vinyl, 2×LP Gold vinyl

      • Still House Plants If I don't make it, I love u Vinyl, 1×LP, Limited Coloured Grey vinyl

      • Iglooghost Tidal Memory Exo Vinyl, 1×LP, Limited Coloured Sea glass green vinyl

      • Monolake Selected Monolake Tracks 1996 - 2024 Cassette Transparent blue cassette

      • Monolake Studio Vinyl, 2×LP, Limited Coloured Clear vinyl

      • Squarepusher Dostrotime Vinyl, 2×LP, Limited Coloured Mint colour vinyl

      Available: January 10, 2025

    Squarepusher - Dostrotime

    Whether composing Music For Robots with 78 fingers, performing with Shobaleader One, or exacting the drum and bass carnage his three decade career is prized for, Tom Jenkinson presents exhilarating experiments in a stoic yet playful manner. But as with any album bearing the “Made In Lockdown” tag, it's hard not to attribute emotionality to the latest Squarepusher offering, Dostrotime. Free from the schedule of his cancelled Be Up A Hello tour and the squall of human activity, Jenkinson spent the following 2020 in the studio brewing up some of his most intense material yet.

    Monolake - Studio

    The studio can be a site for many things: peace, chaos, intense focus, spur of the moment improvisation, experimentation, surprise. Techno visionary Robert Henke returns to his Monolake alias and Imbalance Computer Music label after four years with his creative space in mind, distilling all it contains into an absolute masterclass in mind bending, world building, cinematic sound design and electronica.

    Iglooghost - Tidal Memory Exo

    No one builds a world like Iglooghost. Tapping into the history of UK raves and pirate radio stations, his third full length album Tidal Memory Exo conjures the image of a free party held in grimy overcast shoals populated by fossilised false gods. Moving on from the entity-summoning laptop folk of Lei Line Eon, Iglooghost assumes the form of an MC broadcasting illegal tunes from a rusted oil rig, stepping ever so confidently into grimy rap and alluvial flows in these seafaring pirate transmissions.

    Still House Plants - If I don't make it, I love u

    After a decade of friendship, and finally writing music in the same room together, Still House Plants are completely locked in on their third album If I don’t make it, I love u. It’s as if they’re cerebrally connected, never faltering through accelerating stop start rhythms and decelerating molten, elastic tempos. That level of synergy is the result of years spent honing and rehearsing their performances: following the band's earlier tapes on Scottish label GLARC, Long Play stretched its limbs as the trio felt out the LP format, before breaking all of its rules with the innovative Fast Edit.

    Jlin - Akoma

    Seven years since her last full length, Bleep’s 2017 album of the year Black Origami, Jlin is back to melt minds with her latest batch of dextrous compositions. That fateful ‘Erotic Heat’ drop on Bangs & Works Vol. 2 set up over a decade of innovation in the name of footwork, followed by a score for Wayne McGregor’s Autobiography, AI collaborations with Holly Herndon, and Pulitzer shortlisted compositions for Third Coast Percussion, but on her third album Akoma, Jlin pushes far beyond genre with her most significantly evolved and staggeringly impressive work to date.

    Kim Gordon - The Collective

    Kim Gordon has watched very closely where the spirit of punk has moved over the decades since first harnessing it in the 80s with Sonic Youth, and has morphed accordingly on her second solo album The Collective, folding bass-worshipping trap rhythms into her overdriven guitar palettes. Rock and hip hop have a historic relationship, all the way back to the early days of Run-DMC, and as Sonic Youth collaborated with the likes of Cypress Hill and Chuck D of Public Enemy, it seems an almost blindingly obvious decision for Kim Gordon to bring hip hop's modern sounds back into her foray thirty year later.

    KMRU, Kevin Richard Martin - Disconnect

    Both ever prolific and having skirted each other’s realms of ambience, drone, and heavily textured sound design, Kevin Richard Martin and Joseph Kamaru seem like the perfect pair. Their first collaborative work and first release for both in 2024, Disconnect synthesises their abilities in “a powerful study of dread, hope, and profound sonics” stretched across three “core moments”. Martin’s dark dub-infused soundscapes and eroded textures meet Kamaru’s penchant for creating liminal space from field recordings and sonic experimentation, with Kamaru’s own voice awash in the dense soundscapes.

    Hainbach - Breve

    Hainbach has dedicated much of his career to exploring rare and hard to find instruments, synthesisers and electronic equipment - bringing them back to the forefront of modern electronic production. After repurposing disused nuclear research equipment, and the early 60s Syn-Ket synthesiser in 2023, he turns his sights to an even earlier feat of engineering. His eighth release for Seil Records, Breve focuses on the Ondioline, a proto-synthesiser instrument created by Georges Jenny in 1939 and continuously developed until his death in 1975, and it's a marvellous merging of electronic eras.

    Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

    Endlessness is a deep dive into the cycle of existence. The 45-minute album delicately spans 10 tracks with a continuous arpeggio playing throughout, creating an expansive, mesmerizing celebration of life cycles and rebirth. Following Nala Sinephro’s critically acclaimed debut album Space 1.8, Endlessness further elevates Sinephro as a transcendent and multi-dimensional composer, beautifully morphing jazz, orchestral, and electronic music.

    Sophia - SOPHIE

    Six years after her landmark debut album Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides, and three years after her tragic passing, SOPHIE's triumphant legacy is crystallised in her surprise self-titled second album. It's far from an exaggeration to say SOPHIE's inimitable approach to sound design and constructing dance pop smash hits has revolutionised modern music, and with this album close to completion before her passing, we get an exciting glimpse of evolution from an artist who revitalised the electronic landscape.

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