10 000 Black Seeds by Björn Torwellen

This work marks a welcome return for Torwellen after four years away. Before that, he established himself with a dark, dense, and introspective sound and headlined significant events around the world, from Nature One and Mayday to venues in Buenos Aires, Berlin, and everywhere in between. He also ran his own events and founded the e-learning platform SINEE while evolving his meticulous style.

Inspired by his enduring work with modular synths, the new album was made on a refined modular system, processed into a signature sample pack, and arranged in Ableton. The tracks were then mixed in analog to create an organic, coherent sound aesthetic, meaning that "10 000 Black Seeds" is more than club-ready music; it is a document of Torwellen's artistic development.

The title cut, "10 000 Black Seeds," opens up with drums so heavy they will rattle walls. Glitchy claps peel off the groove, and the atmosphere is brilliantly dark and moody. "World(t)error" is just as big and powerful with rolling percussion and gritty warehouse vibes, until "March Of The Transients" picks up the pace with quicker, banging drums and fizzing synths adding to the texture. There is eerie suspense in "Alone In The Womb" with its elastic bassline and tense synth pulses, "Under The Cloak Of Anger" has frosty static electricity running through the middle of the high-impact drums, and "All Those Who Wander" has more thumping kicks and mind-melting synth details racing along before "Children Of The Twilight" and "The Ghost Orchard Mythos" close out this stripped back but powerful techno album with two more fearsome cuts.

Björn Torwellen - 10 000 Black Seeds
Release Date April 2024
Label Nachtstrom Schallplatten

Tracklist
1. 10 000 Black Seeds
2. World(t)error
3. March Of The Transients
4. Alone In The Womb
5. Under The Cloak Of Anger
6. For Those Who Wander
7. Children Of The Twilight
8. The Ghost Orchard Mythos