Comments Off on Drone-028: Death In Vegas- COUM | Lightning Bolt – Live Versions
Release date // Dec 12th , 2025 Format // 12″, digital Catalog Nr // Drone 027 Purchase // 2LP, digital
Track listing: COUM – Live Version Lightning Bolt – Live Version
Death in Vegas return with a new 12” featuring two live tracks, both recorded at EartH Theatre in London.
On the A side is COUM, a laconic, sexy, dark wave track born out of a recording session for Black Acid, Richard Fearless’ New York psyche project, at Keyclub recording studio in Michigan. Fearless always felt that it belonged to the Death in Vegas camp, and he released a reworked version on DIV’s Trans Love Energies. Here, atmospheric, reversed synths drive the Linn drum beat, while new DIV collaborator Surgeon’s Girl’s ethereal synths float in and out sealing the magic. On the reverse, Death in Vegas summon the dead with a stunning ambient version of Lightning Bolt, another song off Trans-Love Energies, and one that catches Death in Vegas at their most fragile
Both songs were recorded live in 2025 at EartH Theatre in Dalston, London by Jamie Harley and later mixed by Nick Powell.
Comments Off on Drone-027: Death In Vegas- Death Mask
Release date // June 6th , 2025 Format // 2LP, digital Catalog Nr // Drone 027 Purchase // 2LP, digital
Track listing: Chingola Lovers While My Machines Gently Weep Hazel Roseville Róisín Dub(h) Robin’s Ghosts Your Love Death Mask
Death In Vegas return with new album ‘Death Mask’, where disintegration, overload and total sonic immersion tell a personal tale. With dirty circuitry and rough-hewn textures at the fore, this is gritty, unpolished techno; an audio outlier that’s full of personality, and a bold artistic statement. It’s closer in DNA to the grainy growl of sunn O))), or the searing intensity of Underground Resistance at their fiercest, and as far from generic influencer business as you could possibly get.
“I’ve been soaking in Ramleh’s ‘Hole In the Heart’, the machine funk of Terrence Dixon’s Population One, Jamal Moss’ psychedelic techno jams, the stunning minimalism of Mika Vanio’s Ø and Panasonic, the layered drones of LOOP, and drowning in the acid of TM 404”
Broader inspirations are weaved into the album’s fabric too; from his Thameside Metal Box studio and evocations of nautical ghosts, to lamentations for a broken world, to memories of a youthful Detroit pilgrimage, and the innocent fraternity of rave euphoria, there’s a lot going on, acting as a chronicle of moments, and locations.
Comments Off on Drone-027: Death In Vegas- Your Love
Release date // May 1st , 2025 Format // digital Catalog Nr // Drone 027 Purchase // 2LP, digital
Track listing: 1 Your Love
On June 6th Death In Vegas return with new album ‘Death Mask’, where disintegration, overload and total sonic immersion tell a personal tale.
A moment of intimacy and healing resolution on the album is its pivotal arc – ‘Your Love’ – where Fearless finds solace in the care from his partner, whose whispered vocals glide over nerve-tingling synths, which radiate an icy rapture, like stepping out of a rave at 6am, cold, frazzled, but beatific, still glowing in ecstasy.
Comments Off on Drone-026: Richard Fearless- Acid Rejects Volume 1
Release date // February 28, 2025 Format // 12″, digital Catalog Nr // Drone 026 Purchase // 12″, digital
Track listing: A: While My Machines Gently Weep B: Acid Rejects Volume 1 (Vinyl exclusive)
A total sonic violation yet bewitchingly beautiful, ‘While My Machines Gently Weep’ sits on the precipice of overload, with Orwellian echoes of humanity’s ugliness.
Acid Rejects Volume 1. A minimal sonic ritual which transcends into a sublime 303 and 909 duel.
Pressed on a ltd 12” with the Acid Rejects Vol 1. as a vinyl exclusive.
Release date // June 23, 2023 Format // 12″, digital Catalog Nr // Drone 025 Purchase // 12″, digital
Track listing: A1: Exhumed A2: Sotto Terra B1: Winter Sun B2: Luna Piena
Heart-wrenching ambient to cerebral techno: INVERNO is Carlo Maria’s debut on Drone.
‘Winter in the northern hemisphere is often seen as the season of death, a state of life so often negatively connoted. I see winter as an incubator of change, where life takes the time to free its potential again.
This record is a memory of past winters and a reminder that new ones will come. It celebrates the state of stillness as a necessary element of movement. It is an invitation to acceptance. The music itself might not necessarily express these ideas, but it acts as a trigger of memories and feelings of the times when these recordings were conceived. I like to see music recordings as pages of a diary.
This music was recorded in a time and space span of various years and locations. Exhumed was recorded at the end of October 2016 in Berlin; the other three tracks were recorded in Milan and performed live in various locations across Italy between in winter/spring 2021/2022.’
Release date // March 31, 2023 Format // 12″, digital Catalog Nr // Drone 024 Purchase // 12″, digital
Track listing: A: Soft Play B: Gems Per Capita
Originally from Manchester now based in Lewes, Kalli co-runs the GODDEZZ parties and record label.
Sonically, Kalli can’t hold back when interconnecting the dots of hoover synths, electro, gritty rave and off-kilter weirdness. Soft Play is a primal techno beast with punk undertones and monstrous hoover rave drop. Gems Per Capita shows Kalli in full club mode, unleashing a bass heavy electro tinged track with a killer Acid break; a peak time weapon.
The memory of trying to naively connect to an identity, along with searching for daily eccentric enjoyment in a rural, rainy post-industrial town’ Kalli.
Richard Fearless follows his critically acclaimed psycho-geographical techno masterpiece ‘Deep Rave Memory’ with its companion album ‘Future Rave Memory’.
Across titanium kosmische, industrial ambience, weightless acid and dark drone, this new record is an instrument of evocative wonder and heavy emotion. A dystopian ambient album and work of modernist meditation set firmly in an era when humanity is reckoning with its outsized place in the natural world, a process which may evoke humility, defiance, denial or despair.
Container is the solo project of American-born, London-based musician Ren Schofield, who has refined a signature sound over the last decade. Combining his background in drumming and lo-fi noise with techno and rhythmic electronics, Container has cemented himself as a distinctive and disorderly force in modern electronic music.
‘My intentions and goals for this record were to make it way more ‘rock’ oriented than ‘techno’, almost as if it could be a band or adapted by one (albeit a rather non-traditional one), and I wanted to incorporate some potentially awkward sounding time signatures, but do my best to disguise them as something digestible and not without a groove.’
Simian Mobile Disco’s Jas Shaw and new talent Bas Grossfeldt present ‘Klavier’ – an album of haunted elegance, graceful poise and cerebral depth, which is centred around the Yamaha Disklavier. Combining the prepared piano minimalism of Hauschka with Basic Channel style dub techno, the pairing is mirrored in the duo, where Shaw’s formidable dance music experience synergises with Grossfeldt’s arts-based appreciation of contemporary composition.
Comments Off on Drone-020: Richard Fearless – Deep Rave Memory
Release date // November 22, 2019
Format // 12″, digital
Catalog Nr // Drone 020
Purchase // 12″ sold out, buy digital here
Tracklisting:
A1: Vision of You
A2: New Perspective
B1: Devil on Horseback
B2: Acid Angels
C1: Deep Rave Memory
C2: Atlas of Insanity
D1: Driving with Roedelius
D2: Broken Beauty
A stunningly accomplished work, ‘Deep Rave Memory’ is an insight into Fearless’ worlds – both metaphysical and geographical. Pulsating in unison with the heartbeat of a modern metropolis, it was recorded at the Metal Box’ – his studio located on the peninsula of land where the River Lea meets the Thames.
The haunting and wistful blue ambient ‘Vision of You’ leads into the bracingly chilly ‘New Perspective’, which evokes a heavy rush where perceptions are blurred and vision is freeze framed, via elements of techno-soul, Sheffield Bleep and Mika Vainio.
A snarling beast of a track, the relentless machine funk of ‘Devil on Horseback’ perfects the pure cathartic release of dark ‘n’ hot body music, whilst ‘Acid Angels’ is a throbbing low-fi 303 requiem, which encapsulates that perfect dancefloor moment, when the first light breaks through the shutters.
A future classic and the album’s modus operandi, title track ‘Deep Rave Memory’’s discordant filter passes sweep across a hypnotic melody, communicating a deep sense of warm nostalgia and taking you on an epic journey – stretching out a single riff over 12 minutes – akin to the krautrock greats of which Fearless is so fond.
‘Atlas of Insanity’ is big room techno with pounding kicks, death-whip metallic snares and head spinning, spiralling synth lines that drill into your core. This is raw, impulsive and frantic music that sizzles with electric effervescence.
The Germanic kosmische idyll of ‘Driving with Roedelius’ is a homage to one of Richards’ heroes – Hans-Joachim Roedelius – and was inspired by his experience playing a set consisting solely of the electronic pioneer’s music, at a festival celebrating his life and career.
On the album’s closer, Fearless recounts, “‘Broken Beauty’ is something I’ve always strived for in my art. It’s inspired by Robert Frank, William Eggleston and the way they could take the most inane object a turn it into something of beauty. It’s equally schooled by the aggressive simplicity of King Tubby’s dubbing and the transcendence of Joy Division’s ‘Decades’. The sparse allure of the best dub and techno is something I’m always striving for; being able to conjure emotion with the fewest possible elements; to not fix what’s broken, but to make it shine.”