Acid Test Records

22/08/2023

https://inverted-audio.com/tin-man-hidden-acid/

Johannes Auvinen, the 303 master known as Tin Man, is no stranger to straight up acid techno burners. Across a vast discography, from singles to lengthy

02/12/2022

"Stefan Wust uses this album to invite you to step out of the algorithm and let his human-curated experience bring you deeper into his psychedelic blendContinue Reading

02/12/2022

John Frusciante .I: & ::II. Avenue 66 Feb 3rd 2023

After a year and a half writing and recording rock music, I needed to clear my head. I listened to and made music where things generally happen gradually rather than suddenly. I would set up patches on a Monomachine or Analog Four and listen to them, hearing one sound morph into others, making changes to a patch only after having listened for quite a while, gradually adding elements, and finally manipulating the sounds on the fly. All tracks were recorded live to CD burner, with no overdubs, and executed on one or two machines.

While I was almost exclusively listening to artists such as Chris Watson, Peter Rehberg, Bernard Parmegiani, CM Von Hausswolff, Jana Winderen, Oren Ambarchi, Hazard, Bruce Gilbert, Klara Lewis, Ryoji Ikeda, and so on, I was also inspired by my mental image of John Lennon’s tape and mellotron experiments he made at home during his time in the Beatles, as well as events like the first minute of Bowie’s Station To Station, ...And The Gods Made Love by Jimi Hendrix, the synths in the song Mass Production by Iggy Pop, and the general idea of Eno’s initial concept of Ambient music.

Music being a solitary sculpture in sonic space was the main motivating thought. I was looking at pictures of sculptures and trying to make music that simultaneously conveyed both movement and stillness. I refrained from sudden musical changes, especially avoiding sequences of notes and rhythms. In fact, this music was made from sequences which never exceed a single note, many of these pieces being made on a single pattern. The movement which a good sculptor conveys when the shape of his medium meets the eyes of the viewer who walks around the piece, or the sun changes its position, are the kinds of movement which it was the role of the synth patches to communicate. I was using sound to create what I saw as being a physical structure.

- John Frusciante

Read the full press release and preorder the vinyl and cd at Bandcamp - link in bio

01/11/2022

News Alert❗️

The elusive SW. returns to Avenue 66 with okALGORYTHM.

Released on double vinyl and inspired by all night electronic radio shows of the ‘90s, the okALGORYTHM pulses with rich imagination and a sense of purposeful meandering. Speaking in cryptic fragments, the artist hints at elusive reminiscences “back then on the autobahn, to Berlin, with friends” while also noting that some recollections are “of things that didn’t happen that way.”

Out November 28th 2022

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13/09/2022

"... On Circuits, he reaches a rarefied air occupied by the only the finest and most influential of ambient techno artists."

Moiré steps away from the knackered house to make a truly beautiful downtempo record.

02/09/2022

Moiré - Circuits out today on Avenue 66

19/07/2022

Today we’re happy to announce the new album from Moiré. His new single, Circuit 8 is out now. The forthcoming album for Avenue 66 is a massive creative leap that fully breaks with the strictures of “conventional" dance music.

While there are still nods to the low-slung, slow house style Moiré's perfected in the past ("Circuit 1"), as well as the looming shadow of hardcore ("Circuit 8), Moiré's style now billows into a liminal, cinematic zone that recalls the canonical SAW albums, BOC or even Seefeel's enduring, genre-free experiments. Rhythms come and go at all tempos, from Hauntological four-on-the-floor to flickering downtempo and ambient house approximations. But the emphasis lies with the melodies. From the queasy orchestral style of "Circuits 1" to the glacial, "end credits"-style synths that close out the album, these motifs bear an uncanny familiarity, as though they always existed. You recognize them, not from a previous listen, but rather, some half-remembered dream, or, perhaps, a previous lifetime .

Circuits is out September 2nd 2022

Available for preorder on Bandcamp, link in bio.

11/07/2022

Ten years ago we released On Acid, the debut album from Recondite. To mark the occasion we have made a 2022 repress edition available in shops now.

17/06/2022

Out today💥 Lerosa’s fourth full-length, Catena, is also his second for Acid Test. It sees the Dublin-based producer once again draw deeply on his diverse influences – dub, industrial, electro, trance, funk, IDM – and transform them into a sound signature that has always been uniquely his own.

One Catena, what comes through is a sound that speaks of Lerosa’s love for the studio, for the tangible substance of an audio frequency – analogue and digital, raw and processed, pure and saturated – and the intangible, indeed bewitching mystery of how these frequencies can transport us to other places.

17/05/2022

Lerosa’s fourth full-length, Catena, is also his second for Acid Test. It sees the Dublin-based producer once again draw deeply on his diverse influences – dub, industrial, electro, trance, funk, IDM – and transform them into a sound signature that has always been uniquely his own.

This alchemy is no accident. Rather it is driven by Lerosa’s ongoing pursuit of the fundamental meaning of dance music: to immerse ourselves in sound to the point where our only desire is to move and feel in the moment. Hence how, on Catena, the slow and sensual sway of a cavernous bit of dub can sit side-by-side with hands-up trance-like ecstasy, and all still sound like Lerosa.

This achievement is the result of a dedicated daily studio practice. Each track starts from a dynamic studio jam in which Lerosa plays drum machines and synthesisers live and then overdubs them with further modulated layers. He uses looping techniques to build up the density of certain instruments while mixing the layers on-the-fly, using something as unassuming as an iPad. This imbues each track with a spontaneous shifting quality that defines the entire album.
What comes through is a sound that speaks of Lerosa’s love for the studio, for the tangible substance of an audio frequency – analogue and digital, raw and processed, pure and saturated – and the intangible, indeed bewitching mystery of how these frequencies can transport us to other places.

Accompanying the cassette album of Lerosa’s fourth full-length, Catena, this heavyweight 12” features two originals from the album and two remixes from familiar faces: childhood friend Donato Dozzy and long-time fellow traveller Jordan Gcz (of Juju & Jordash). Album closer ‘Suite De Paris’ places pitch-bent liquid acid over a huge skanking bassline, the perfect material for Dozzy to make hay with his simmering techno take. Meanwhile, album opener ‘Apollo’ churns with industrial fervour, before Jordan GCZ reduces it down to its acid techno essence, leaving little space for us to catch our breath.

Out June 17th 2022

12/04/2022

Avenue 66 take over this weekend at 💥 Lowtec & Moiré all night long. 2G+ rules still in effect. Come early, stay late

03/12/2021

Come join us for Girth Soup with the Idjut Boys tomorrow night 04.12 at Paloma. Last chance to dance before the dancing ban in Berlin begins.