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Handmade Birds released Azar Swan Variations on Thu May 21 2015. The 2 track Techno release features Vatican Shadow, and Cut Hands. Handmade Birds has released vinyl by Prurient, Vatican Shadow, Cut Hands, Barren Harvest, and Vulgar Fashion. People who like Azar Swan Variations also listen to Pete Swanson, Raime, emptyset, Heatsick, Pye Corner Audio, Carter Tutti Void, Ekoplekz, Lee Gamble, Silent Servant, and patten.

Vatican Shadow began in 2010, with concrete percussion, luscious synths, and metallic drums created by separating stems onto cassettes, which were then re-layered and collaged live. Weaving the cassettes into each other like one would use turntables, the soaring strings and mysterious broken rhythms were first heard on the 100-copy, cassette-only Byzantine Private CIA. Ten more of these limited releases would follow between 2011 and 2012 on Hospital Productions. The first of these tapes pressed onto wax was Kneel Before Religious Icons, quickly followed by the Iraqi Praetorian Guard 12', which featured a masterful remix by Regis. Both received a rapturous reception, with critics and peers lauding Fernow’s attention to both death and the dance floor. After performing in Los Angeles with an uncompromising 6-tape deck setup and a debut European live show at Berghain, Vatican Shadow came into its own stepping outside the traditions of Techno while functioning within it. In the flesh Vatican Shadow brings a physicality and even celebratory energy rarely seen in Techno offsetting the hypnotic ambient melodies of his tracks to a thundering drum assault – a true expression of the fear and fearlessness that fuels the music.

Vatican Shadow

Bennett founded Whitehouse in 1980, with a mind to creating 'the most extreme music ever recorded'. They succeeded. The group remained at the forefront of the experimental and noise scenes over the next 27 years, invariably creating controversy and stimulating debate with their choice of violent and sexual subject matter, before eventually disbanding in 2007. A specialist in linguistics and unconscious communication, Bennett now helms the mass hypnosis experimental project, Extralinguistic Sequencing, which premiered at Tate Britain in 2010. For Cut Hands, rhythm is his chosen weapon; on recently released album Afro Noise I - eight years in the making - he utilises vaudou and Central African percussion in radical new ways, generating a sound unrivalled in its physical intensity.

Vatican Shadow / Cut Hands - Azar Swan Variations

Label: Handmade Birds

Format: Vinyl