After much work and toiling the Io Records launch is finally here. Hibernating quietly for over 8 years Io is back with a vengeance, with 4 releases in the first two months. We opted for a lowkey minimal website to begin with and will fill it out as time goes by. There is no secret who releases on this label, and there is no secret as to how to get in touch with the label owner.

First up on Io is Richard J Valeo with ‘The Hardware Excursions Volume One”. Boomkat says…

“Returning under his own name after recent activity as Isomer Transition, Type’s very excellent RJ Valeo resumes more experimental duties, momentarily setting aside his preoccupations with techno formats. Hardware Excursions Vol. 1 finds the New York producer exploring deep and extended freeform synthesizer explorations, at time bordering on drone or even outright noise. You can hear a bit of a sci-fi influence creeping into the music, with combining elements of low frequency, motor-like oscillations and higher pitched, modulated bird-like timbres making up the largest part of Valeo’s minimalist sound palette. Structurally these pieces are very liberated, unburdening themselves from anything that might be termed ‘form’ right up until the distorted industrial rhythm that fires up towards the end of ‘Excursion Two’. The result is 16 minutes of dense, surprising and immersive electronic music of the highest order. Very highly recommended.”

Fucking awesome. :)