7 Shadows and Iron Lungs

by Bryan Chapman

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

£8 GBP or more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
exclusive to Bandcamp, a very Limited Edition Promo Edition Compact Disc of Bryan Chapman's debut album 7 Shadows and Iron Lungs. Named the Mixmag Techno Album of the Month for October 2018 and in Mixmag's top 50 albums of 2018. Artwork by Bryan Chapman

Includes unlimited streaming of 7 Shadows and Iron Lungs via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 5 days

edition of 30

Purchasable with gift card

£8 GBP or more

1.	Primal 06:54	buy track
2.	Cylon 07:54	buy track
3.	Subconsciousness Breaking Out of Your Face 08:05	buy track
4.	Carcosa 05:05	buy track
5.	Sand 01:41	buy track
6.	Black 14:43	buy track
7.	7 06:25	buy track
8.	I Don’t Know What My Mothers Feet Look Like 06:34	buy track
9.	Bryan Chapman - Cut the Kids in Half 06:08	buy track
10.	Embers 07:15	buy track
11.	Dead Shadows 05:15	buy track

about

Mixmag Techno Album of the Month, October 2018. Named in Mixmag's top 50 albums of 2018.

After releasing four EPs over the last year in his story of a traveller’s journey to enlightenment series, Bryan Chapman delivers his debut album, ‘7 Shadows And Iron Lungs’ on his own label, Monotony.

Living in seclusion in southern England, Bryan Chapman is part of the conveyor of talent that hails from this ever growing, under current of modern techno found on the shores of the south coast. Now an established name amongst the new breed of producers breaking through, Bryan has earned a reputation for making no-nonsense, heavy-weight tracks that have seen his music supported by taste-makers across the techno scene including Luke Slater, Adam Beyer, Slam, Laurent Garnier, Chris Liebing and many more.

He has previously released on labels like Cari Lekebusch’s H-Productions, Alan Fitzpatrick’s 8 Sided Dice, Dustin Zahn’s Enemy, Joachim Spieth’s Affin and Butch’s Bouq. Now with his own label, Bryan’s aim for Monotony is “to create psychedelic and monotonous techno”, which should not be seen as self-deprecating. Instead think stripped-down, hypnotic, repetitive, linear, dark techno loops that intertwine around each other with subtle yet devastating effects, creating a style of techno reminiscent of times long since passed merged with modern forward thinking electronics.

The concept of ‘7 Shadows and Iron Lungs’ is about finding serenity in the acceptance of death. “It’s better to be a shadow that fades in the wind than live in an iron lung prolonging the inevitable”. Tracks like the deeply hypnotic and shifting ‘Cylon’ take us to a place where Jaki Liebezeit plays electronic modal slo-mo drum workouts from the heavens above whilst ‘Carcosa’ brings a subtle electro-swing to Bryan’s deep and evolving motorik groove. ‘Black’ perhaps the album’s cornerstone, anchors a near 15 minute opus of exquisite shuffling, psychedelic techno into a dystopian, atonal vision of ‘E2-E4’ (Jóhann Jóhannsson’s binned vision of Bladerunner 2049).

The aptly named track ‘7’ builds into a desolate soundscape of brooding menace whilst the far more direct techno pulse of ‘I Don’t Know What My Mother’s Feet Look Like’ is, considering the title, the albums most straight-forward club workout. Finally ‘Embers’ builds into a towering wall of electronic sound before the album’s closing track, ‘Dead Shadows’ embraces the cold kiss of death with ephemeral recognition.

Fusing future sound design aesthetics with minimalist techno principles, ‘7 Shadows & Iron Lungs’ is as an accomplished debut techno album you are likely to hear this year.

credits

released September 24, 2018

license

about

Bryan Chapman UK

contact / help

Contact Bryan Chapman

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Bryan Chapman, you may also like:

Headspin (BP022)
by Syz

Hypertextural club music made for massive soundsystems and headphones alike from Syz, on Banoffee Pies Records. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 21, 2023
go to album
Third Culture LP
by Michael Diamond

Diamond's debut concept album brings together the sounds of jazz, electronic, ambient, and techno. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 24, 2022
go to album
Cattiva II / Nightmare
by Giulia Tess

Italian producer DJ Tess shows off her versatility on two peak time bangers. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 19, 2020
go to album
Onomatopoeia
by Delay Grounds

Bubbly, bass-heavy, club-ready UK techno from Delay Grounds, an up-and-coming young talent on the Bristol scene. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 10, 2020
go to album
Away From The Reign EP
by Ido Plumes

featured on Bandcamp Radio May 5, 2020
go to album
Access E.P.
by Two Shell

featured on Bandcamp Radio Oct 29, 2019
go to album
Electro Music Union, Sinoesin & Xonox Works 1993 - 1994
by E.M.U.

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jul 2, 2019
go to album