sublogic corporation

prkl - variable ep

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:09:58 +0200

as you may or may not know, "prkl" is a shorthand for "perkele". and as you may or may not know, "perkele" is a finnish cussword - according to fins, the most powerful curse known in any language. obviously, most fins don't speak dutch. then again, the dutch take on cursing in the worst possible way is to verbally chuck diseases around, whereas "perkele" may mean "god damn", "devil" or anything in between. it's just a different approach. but enough of that.

to people closer to home, the creator of this release is known as petri laine, a (not surprisingly) finnish student currently located in the uk for study-related purposes. these purposes are partially repressed by the urge to create music and spin the wheels. prkl's debut release (called "first ep" in finnish) appeared on kamikaze records late last year, and now it's subco's turn to spread the noise.

the music in question fits the name behind it quite well. not that it attempts to tear up speakers or eardrums. not that it intends to instill hatred or agression. not that there is anything religious or anti-religious going on (at least, i wasn't told). but we are talking about techno in it's purest form: not necessarily hard, but crude, monotonic and relentless. and if adam beyer and marco carola and a whole bunch of other guys can get away with it on vinyl, than certainly can someone who has the chutzpah to call himself "gddmn" on the interweb.

lil' tidbits o' news

cadra@subco.org (cadra) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:48:31 +0200

let's see.

first off, subco is currently in the business of actively reviving itself. this means that we are open for new releases and new artists. if you've got something, just email it to me. if you're working on something, feel free to give an advance warning.

secondly, if you're on last.fm, i've started a group dedicated to this label. so feel free to join in and tell all your friends. while on the subject, all new releases have been provided (as full-length previews) to said website, as well as a bunch of old ones.

lastly, in a final attempt at stopping the spambots dead in their tracks, i've messed around with the posting code a bit, so if you're not logged in, you'll notice. if this doesn't work, that will spell the end of the open posting policy. luckily we still have an open joining policy. eh?

monopole - hoping we could meet

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:52:44 +0100

yes, we're back. back i tell you. and after a 1.5 year-long hiatus, sublogic returns to bring you one of its most experimental releases so far. no manner of comparison can truly be made, but this one manages to supersede 2GI's release in all it's oddness.

so are the works of richard sudney a.k.a. monopole. his procedure for musical creation involves such diverse elements as recording sounds in the field on the slightly frayed edges of civilization, manipulation of micro-samples, and abusing ancient equipment not originally intended for use in a music studio. monopole hails from the world techno capital, but has been influenced by more than just the music associated with his geographical position on the globe. all in all, this results in music that is barely describable as anything but indescribable, and simply has to be heard.

the first two tracks are the "floaty" ones: noises and voices in the distance, mixed with eerie strings, accompanied by a minimal electronic rhythm that can hardly keep itself together. it takes some time to get used to (unless of coarse, you listen to this kind of music all the time), but then picks you up and takes you along, borne on its apparent emptiness.

the latter couple are the reasons this release appears on routine instead of flow, as they introduce beats your head can follow. at least "here, once again" features something that resembles a more usual 4/4 pattern, or at least beats that are of equal length. "across the wire" drops this approach, but continues that flow (bad choice of words there, i know) in its own way, and eventually finds itself going silent.

the word "dub" probably ought to be used in this shred of text. so dub. there. dubbity dub. listen without distraction.

oh, and do leave a message, and let the world know what you got from it. also, do check back to see this place brought back to life; more new music is on its way here, hoping to be received with many, many open arms.

easily embarrassed - from sunset last night to sunrise this morning (i don't want to sleep)

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:37:40 +0200

with this here flw003, not only does subco bring you yet another mixed ep, it's also the longest title of a release ever (so long, in fact, that the database had to be tweaked to accomodate it).

"easily embarrassed" is the name given to this new project, and it's the joint effort of nick van der schilden and peter spaargaren (known for their plantbane project), in conjunction with nick's brother, jeffrey van der schilden, a.k.a. nekativ of dream wave project and trance-o-mania fame. with jeffrey, being the artist largely responsible for inspiring nick into making music, who in turn was largely responsible for inspiring peter into making music, now making his debut on subco together with -you know- nick and peter, things have come full circle in a way. a way spanning several years and a rather large full circle, that is. if you're not getting this, don't worry. it's just sprinkles of bonus info, wrapped into a nigh-incomprehensible sentence. sue me.

anyway, enough with the chatter. the crux of the easily embarrassed project is the forging of laidback, chilled-out ambient music with a strong psychedelic vibe and influences from anything you could think of. and this is what's taking place, here, on this sweet 4-track mixed ep. if you haven't started downloading yet, now's a good time to get to it, by the way.

outgate - mute city ep

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:03:56 +0200

it would seem jani rantanen is on a productive roll. under his outgate pseudonym, he treated us to the machinae ep back in january, and now he returns with more -though altogether different- intricate tech sounds.

routine number five is called the mute city ep, and it's a mixed release in a fashion much like yasahi's when earth fell on the moon ep (flw002). having described the whole as "a deep, ambient like dip into tech land", jani starts off at "central" with clicks, pads and noises, and takes us along from there, for a ride that touches down at all points of the compass. like being lost in the helsinki subway system, a 117 bpm laidback urban tech journey ensues.

presuming you have a pulse, you should be checking it out. go ride the tube for a while.

something white

cadra@subco.org (cadra) — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:08:11 +0200

hi.
improved once again, you can now say hello to the new sublogic website - the result of several months of webbuidling effort. the old one was satiated for too long already, so this was about time. and i'm satisfied. of coarse, otherwise you wouldn't be looking at it right now.

some things you might be interested to know about it:
it's become something of a netlabel/weblog hybrid. this news post is an entry just as much as a release is, and you can post comments on either and anything else that qualifies as such. as a result, i decided to drop the "feedback" section.
the forum is now... a forum. i mean, one forum. it's just a bunch of threads, not divided into multiple sections. the forums were never used that intensely since the last site update, and what with all the blog-like functionality, i don't think it'll ever become too chaotic.
there is a new rss feed that will expell new releases -er, entries- and have playlist data enclosed when music is present. users of winamp/shoutcast live (and probably others that support rss with enclosures) will be able to stream the files directly into their favourite media player. isn't that neat? the old "talk" rss feed is currently defunct, but may see a replacement some day soon.
oh. you should start using the firefox browser just about now. this site uses some of the neat tricks that CSS2 offers, and IE6 doesn't support those (actually, IE6 has enough trouble properly rendering CSS1 as it is). so if you're using IE and think this site looks messy or is hard to read or whatever, then that's not because i'm a bad web designer (i'm not, you see, and this site is 100% standard compliant), but because the people at microsoft can't code. i didn't test this site with the IE7 beta, because, well, it's a beta, and it incorporates so many ideas copied directly from firefox (tabbed browsing, anyone?) that i simply refuse to take it into account until windows installs it on my machine without asking (which will probably happen when it's through the beta phase). the sad story is that people unaware of firefox (of which there are still way too many) are actually going to believe this was microsoft's idea, and they will get down on their bare knees and thank them for giving them this great feature. to make a long story short: firefox rocks and IE, pretty much by definition, does not. so use firefox.

anyhow, i should stop ranting. go forth enjoy the newness. new releases are coming your way, albeit very, very slowly.

oh, and you may start posting your thoughts on the new site below.

2GI - su c�rmelo bene

Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:52:10 +0200

at last some new sounds have arrived. routine release number 4 is this EP from italian duo 2GI, who have elected this spot to release their newest works instead of either of their previous release venues for reasons of this music not "fitting their roster". apparently, these tracks were deemed "too normal" for acedia and inv3rno.

no, but in all honesty. what you will be exposed to upon downloading this release, is impossible to define with one word, or one sentence, or one paragraph. to save myself a lot of trouble, i could go with the first single word that comes to mind: chaos.

all four tracks are heavily electro-influenced and indeed quite chaotic. the first two are full of acid noise next to that, while the latter two are -surprisingly enough- full of guitar noise. providing anything more descriptive would be a waste of time and effort. i might add that this may remind you of jerzz' music, in being part music and part anti-music, and kicking all that is regular in the nuts. i might add a warning, stating that even though subco has something of an undergound legacy to honour, this is "seriously off-beat", to say the least. i might add that there is a decent chance you may not even enjoy this release, but that you'd have to hear it first in order to find out.

i am fairly confident that in putting forth these tracks, subco has once more managed to provide an interesting listen to all of you, whilst pushing the boundaries another notch further into uncharted sonic territories. i dare you to expose yourself to su c�rmelo bene.

melenick session 019

cadra@subco.org (cadra) — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 18:17:56 +0100

as previously indicated, dj l'embrouille played his mix on livesets.com radio, and has now made it freely available on the archive. yes, it features two tracks from outgate's still excellent machinae ep, as well as plenty of techno music from various reputable netlabels (rohformat, avionix, stadtgruen, zimmer...)
since it doesn't have a spot on any particular site other than the archive, what follows is a direct link. you can get this mix here.

enter the archive

cadra@subco.org (cadra) — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:01:53 +0100

all middle age and newer releases are currently present on the servers of the internet archive. for those of you who prefer to download releases as one zip file, you now can, albeit from a slower server. links to these zip files have been added to all releases starting with #104; you'll find them in the "related web" box.

slightly and very late news

cadra@subco.org (cadra) — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:03:27 +0100

hey again.
yesterday, rtn003 got released. a tenfold huzzah for outgate and his minimal hypnotechno! this is the stuff that we like.
in other news, two more dj mixes have surfaced featuring material from sublogic releases. first off is harald walker's firecracker mix, released on the dutch sonic walker blog/label, which involves two tracks from forcesupreme's stylewar ep: "warpsig" and "cuntmustash".
then, there is another mix by dj l'embrouille, this time released on the avionix netlabel: his netlabel mix week 51 includes another track from cadra's last ep. these mixes are worth their download time. even if you're on dialup.

outgate - machinae ep

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:18:42 +0100

the third instalment on routine comes from our finnish friend jani rantanen a.k.a. outgate, who returns after a break with more machinated techno material in a style similar to that of his rtn001 contribution "take me back". like said track, the musics on this ep revolve around a similar theme: start with a plain beat, break it down, add wondrous little sounds, make a lot of promises, and cut right back to the plain beat. in spite of what you may be thinking: it works wonders in practice.

first off, "our way" starts with an almost clicky kick that takes a few steps to transform into something a little more robust. the bassline comes along in a similar fashion. the track hypnotises you as it drags you along into the break, in which aforementioned wondrous little sounds are added: a sweet dreamy melody... that ends as the beat reinstates itself.

"less sugarless" is a little less minimal in its approach, starting with pulsating lead bass sounds and and introducing a quasi-melodic drum rhythm before long. however, it is similar to its predecessor as far as its hypnotizing qualities are concerned. and of coarse, the same break structure (this time with a nice ethnic vocal) pops up.

the last track has a slight acid tendency. of all three, "camouflage" has the most pronouncedly melodical main loop (which is, nonetheless, repeated endlessly and relentlessly). moreover, it doesn't really have a break with the absence of a kick drum.

on the whole, this ep is one minimal, yet big, hypnotic trip into outgate's personal twist on machinated music. and once more, it has "routine" written all over it. best played loud, and in complete darkness.

zerinnerung features rtn002

cadra@subco.org (cadra) — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:33:41 +0200

you may have already noticed the release of rtn002 and flw002 on this label. a new bit is that french dj l'embrouille has featured two tracks from cadra's artificial untelligence ep in his latest dj-mix entitled "m�l�nick session vol. 3", which has been released on the zerinnerung dj mix netlabel. this mix consists of nearly 80 minutes of techno, from releases on a wide variety of netlabels, e.g. rohformat, heavy industries, epsilonlab and more.
l'embrouille is also said to seriously rock the house down every wednesday night at 10pm when he mixes live on the livesets.com netradio.

yasahi - when earth fell on the moon ep

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:25:49 +0200

the second instalment on the flow sublabel is brought to us by our very own yasahi. an ep release in one piece, in this case, comprising 5 tracks (or perhaps "movements" is a better word for it) which flow gently into one another and form a unity. you'd have to listen intently and pay attention to truly notice the transitions.

the first and last parts are (how logically) entitled "departure" and "return". in between them is a 17-minute long journey through the yasahi universe. breaking rhythms, remarkable sounds, fuzzy strings, and even some shreds of industrial noise and a pure electro (!) movement make this trip worth every second it takes.

have at, and enjoy.

cadra - artificial untelligence ep

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:33:52 +0200

the second release for the routine sublabel features 4 hard-kicking acidish techno tracks, all produced by cadra. 23 minutes of madness follow.

starting off on the a-side, "we've got forever" takes a wobbling acid loop with a pounding beat as a start and slowly builds up tension. cadra's put the compressor to good work, judging by the pounding feel of the bassdrum. the first half of the track is the warming up, after that we're in for some aggressive action, as the wobbling acid loop slowly evolves into a mean juno-like riff.

"talking about" is a true techno-acid hybrid. it is quite monotone and minimalistic in nature, but continues to flow due to the tight percussion lines and good breaks. though i can't really pinpoint why, it has a bit of a haunting mood over it.

the b-side, which gives the ep its name, contains two tracks named "artificial" and "untelligence". they are exactly equal in length, but explore the whole acid-techno thing in different directions. while the first track tends a bit towards ripping acid noise, the second track is taking the 'classic' 303 sound to new levels. both tracks are blunt and minimalistic in their approach, which suits the theme 'artificial untelligence' just fine.

cadra's excursion into the realms of acid-techno (i'll stop using that phrase now) will take a heavy toll on your speakers. not only the production, but also the postprocessing (i.e. mastering) sounds superb.

go check it out and be amazed!

(this description was written by tripwire)

flow one and some rss

cadra@subco.org (cadra) — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 01:36:01 +0200

yes, it has been delayed for a month and a half, but FLW001 is here now. luckily, i'm not about making apologies, so just start enjoying it and you'll forget about how late it came in soon enough. however, due to aforementioned delay, other new releases have been piling up behind it for some time now, so new material will be arriving soon (of course, i had to have all three "001" releases out in the open before anything else - that's the perfectionist i am).
what's also new is the rss feed. firefox users should note the small orange icon in the bottom right corner; those of you who use another browser may need to find the orange button that says "RSS" to start making use of this great new feature. well, right now "great" means it contains the same releases as the "home" page - the last of each sublabel - but it can grow still. for now, you can use it to rest assured you'll know when a new release arrives. what a comfort!