Meet The Church of Synth. This German artist has worn a lot of hats — ex-techno producer, synth guru, psychological therapy student — and his latest project is a patchwork of the lot. It’s the sort of musical kismet that sparks only when you least expect it; as the story goes, TCoS created the bones of his upcoming release in one fitful night, weighted by both troubled patients and a hometown techno scene he felt was growing stale. What started as blowing off steam burgeoned into a roiling, seething new sound — and suddenly, The Church was established.

Marked by heavy trance atmospheres and an ethereal, sometimes romantic, sense of melody, TCoS obviously worships at the altar of synthesizers. Rather than latch onto sounds that are either emotionally impactful or technically stunning, this self-proclaimed “sound researcher” finds the sweet-spot between the two: a noisy wash of overblown sawtooth, say, that doesn’t overwhelm the sweeping theremin behind it. The meandering “Der Fall Von Leviathan” is a perfect example (and the visuals are a pretty impeccable complement).

And TCoS’s newer tracks just keep getting better. His pop- and techno-honed intuition for structure totally explodes on the semi-ambient “Weiße Rosen” — think Apparat tasked with an evil trance jam — while “Geh ins Licht” howls like a sickly, breakbeat-inflected extension of it. There’s a serious fluidity to TCoS’s work, an internal stream-of-consciousness floating from depressive to manic and back, and it’s sure to make his Robot Elephant release all the more intense.

Pre-order the CD or vinyl from Robot Elephant’s shop — it’ll also feature bonus downloadable remixes by Burial Hex, Ourbubonic Plague and The Haxan Cloak — and check some unmastered tracks at the TCoS Soundcloud. Trust me, this is one church worthy of a devoted congregation; the producer’s many hats have served him seriously well.

Weiße Rosen by The Church of Synth (┼┼┼)

Geh ins Licht by The Church of Synth (┼┼┼)

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