Reclaim Your City 284 | Orphx by Reclaim Your City

Reclaim Your City 284 | Orphx (Hamilton, Ontario)

One of the most highly respected acts in both techno and industrial circles, Orphx have been developing their signature fusion of hypnotic rhythms and experimental noise for the past twenty four years. Using modular and analog synthesizers, software, location recordings and feedback circuits, Rich Oddie and Christina Sealey draw upon the darker, psychedelic fringes of electronic dance music and combine these elements with the experimental aesthetics and themes of early industrial music.

Orphx has gained an international following as one of the pioneering acts within the European ‘rhythmic noise’ scene and more recently came to prominence among techno fans through a series of acclaimed 12"s on Adam X’s Sonic Groove label, along with standout remixes for artists like Oscar Mulero, Perc, Drumcell, Svreca, and Conrad Schnitzler.

Oddie and Sealey have performed around the world at celebrated venues like Berghain and Tresor, and international festivals such as Atonal, Labyrinth, Movement, Mutek, and Unsound. They are renowned for delivering improvised performances that combine software with modular synthesizer and other hardware.

Orphx have released numerous albums and singles on vinyl, CD, and cassette that have had a significant influence on many artists in the present wave of industrial techno. Their most recent album, Pitch Black Mirror, has received critical acclaim for its unique fusion of techno, industrial, EBM and post-punk elements. Building on a sprawling back catalogue that stretches across genre divisions, Orphx are both pioneers and innovators in the fusion of rhythm and noise.

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01. Pact Infernal - Circle VI (Heresy) - Samurai Horo
02. Kaltes and Nene H - Persist (Christina Sealey remix) - Eotrax
03. Sept - Astral Spirits (Headless Horseman remix) - Voxnox
04. Eschaton - Deus Irae - Token
05. Talker - (Gold) Standard - Standards & Practices
06. Years of Denial - We Operate on Each Other - Death & Leisure
07. Sleeparchive - Five Cubes on Twenty Five Squares - Subspecies Label
08. Rhyw - Sylvan - Avian
09. Kangding Ray - Rubi - Stroboscopic Artefacts
10. DsorDNE - Aria (Phase Fatale remix) - Blacksilk Records
11. The Hacker - Waves of Darkness - Rave Or Die
12. JK Flesh - Wasplike - Innersurface Music
13. Realmz - Incursion - Sonic Groove
14. Matter - Curvature (Orphx remix) - Concrete Records
15. Post Scriptum - You Won’t Find Me - Sonic Groove
16. Maenad Veyl - Paint The Ossuary - Death & Leisure
17. Kondaktor - Fokionos Negri - Abstract Reality
18. Vofa - Anakatosoura - Vanilla
19. O/H - Worthless Scam - Leyla Records
20. Teste - The Box Man - BITE
21. Irazu - Refused To Be Found - Stale
22. Denise Rabe - First Impression - RABE
23. Ontal - PI02.1 (Orphx remix) - Pi Electronics
24. Blush Response - Infinite Dread - Sonic Groove
25. Rhys Fulber - Truncheon - Sonic Groove
26. Schwefelgelb - Balancier Dich - Fleisch
27. Tense - Disconnect Myself - Mannequin
28. Boris Barksdale - Sentier - Eye For An Eye Recordings
29. Front 242 - W.Y.H.I.W.Y.G. - No Future Records
30. Mønic - Blood Hound - Osiris Music
31 Pessimist - Peter Hitchens - Blackest Ever Black
32. Lot.te - Ultra Vires - New York Trax
33. Karenn - Pace Yourself - Token
34. Geistform - Cyclotron - Hands Productions
35. Matter - Range - Ant-Zen
36. Esplendor Geométrico - Regeneración - Geometría
37. Hypnoskull - Über Die Brutalität - Ant-Zen
38. LCEDP - Sponsored Urbanicide (Orphx remix) - Angle Rec, 2005
39. Christian Wunsch - Bleeding Walls (Orphx remix) - Tsunami Records
40. Umwelt - Gravitational Lens - Killekill