Name: Scanning Backwards
Brand: Phase Fatale

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OSTGUTCD48

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Limited edition

Release date

2020-01-24

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4250101412684

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Phase Fatale

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Techno / Electro

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Ostgut Ton

Ostgut Ton is the record label of Berlin's Berghain club. With a label code of LC 14600, Ostgut Ton has established itself as a leading force in the electronic music scene. Known for its diverse roster of talented artists and performers, the label consistently delivers high-quality releases across various genres such as techno, house, and experimental music.

Since its inception, Ostgut Ton has been at the forefront of pushing boundaries and exploring new sonic territories. The label's commitment to artistic integrity and innovation is evident in every release, making it a go-to destination for music enthusiasts seeking cutting-edge sounds.

With an authoritative presence in the industry, Ostgut Ton continues to curate exceptional releases that resonate with both underground aficionados and mainstream audiences alike. Whether you're a seasoned fan or just discovering electronic music, Ostgut Ton offers an unparalleled listening experience that will leave you captivated.

Phase Fatale is an industrial techno project created by Hayden Payne, a DJ and producer based in Berlin. Originally from New York, Payne started Phase Fatale in 2014. With his unique blend of dark and atmospheric sounds, Phase Fatale has quickly gained recognition in the electronic music scene.
Payne's passion for music began at a young age, and he honed his skills as a DJ while living in New York City. Inspired by the city's vibrant nightlife and underground scene, he developed a deep appreciation for techno music.
Moving to Berlin allowed Payne to fully immerse himself in the techno culture that thrives there. He found inspiration in the city's rich history of industrial music and its influence on contemporary electronic sounds.

Scanning Backwards, Phase Fatale’s second full-length album following his 2017 debut album for Hospital Productions, is music about control. Using the connection between weaponized sound and psychological manipulation as a conceptual foundation, Hayden Payne explores the ways in which music – and sub frequencies in particular – are used to influence thinking and to synchronize emotions and behavior: from military technology to sound systems and the physicality and sexuality of queer techno culture.

Known for his innovative post-punk takes of dance music as featured on EPs for unterton and Ostgut Ton, the Berghain resident draws on his background as both a guitarist and sound engineer to create a heady mix of broken rhythms, noise-, and shoegaze-inflected techno, often at slower tempos. The result is music with space and pace to expand, highlighting the intense rushes of frequencies found in both sonic warfare and functional dance music. Over eight tracks named after a combination of historical and fictional narratives from literature and science fiction, Payne’s rhythmic excursions explore different manifestations of sound as power – specifically within the context of seeing Berghain as an instrument itself. This is also reflected in the album artwork, taken from an early flyer for the Snax party series and an obvious ode to the fetishization of power dynamics. 

In his own words: “All tracks on the album, no matter the style, were tailored to sound a certain way in Berghain – something I figured out through years of dancing in the middle of the floor, DJing as a resident and investigating what frequencies really penetrate the body. This includes speech and high-frequency, brain-penetrating instrumentation and drilling textures that I had not utilized so often before, but which I think also have an effect on thought and memory. It's especially true in a space where gay and fetish roots combine with music in unexpected ways, almost in a cultish manner. A musical and physical deprogramming and reprogramming, psychic driving and de-patterning, the erasing and replacing of memories.” 

Ultimately, Scanning Backwards surveys not only the manipulative properties of electronic music (mantras, loops, subliminal messages) but also how rhythm facilitates both moving and thinking in synchrony; a pulse of coordinated sound- and brainwaves.

Scanning Backwards

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