Artwork credits:

Installation - Rebecca Ackroyd
Photo - Stephen White & Co and c/o Lockup International

Mastered by Maximillian Kritsch

United Rust is a collaboration between Italian electronic musicians Nicola Zolin (vise.) and Alexander Comana (Miedo Total). The project emerged after the pair met while carrying out a master in Sonic Arts at Goldsmiths University, London. They found common ground in black metal theory, ecology and sound design, and sought to create work which incorporates these elements. 

The result of this collaboration is Stillmother, initially conceived as a multimedia project involving performance, live sound, and dance. Reconfigured due to the global pandemic, the 8-track EP is an assemblage of pieces that mine elements from black metal and club culture, both of which are simultaneously embedded in notions of collectiveness and separation. The opposing forces of these elements interact, developing into viscous distortion and low-frequency kick blasts,  side-chaining gabber percussions with raw and obscure guitar riffs, driving cruel metallic clashes with acidic and digital textures.

Stillmother is inspired in part by the concept of dépense, coined by Georges Bataille, a term that describes the surplus of offerings made by ancient populations to their deities; an excess that is left to rot or burn. Stillmother combines this idea with the theory of Flat Ontology by Manuel DeLanda, as well as the notion of Deep Ecology. By charging each element in the piece with excessive processing, their musical context is flattened and remodelled; the individual components become more relevant than their totality: the final result is metal from a flattened perspective. Music under pressure from the excessive force of its individual parts.

Stillmother is a study of excess: the ferocious, machinegun-like blast beat of drums that surges to the forefront, pushing everything else into the background, the overwhelming wall of distorted noise that smothers every object, even itself, like black smoke billowing from an industrial chimney, in the full range of the frequency spectrum; a blind space surrounded by an inhuman blackness.

Cleared Cherub

Lorelei

Måla - Shiver

e҉n҉t҉e҉r҉/҉:҉o҉u҉t҉

Sara Persico_ Mix 3_Radio Alhara Residency w/ Ludwig Wandinger (takeover)



Ziúr - Blur
Trisicloplox - Accursed Limbs
deli girls - barriers to love feat. LEYA
Low - Tempest
QOW - Sorry
Nazar - Bunker feat Shannen SP
Slikback - SLIKBACK X BRODINSKI - CLUTCH
Space Afrika - B£E ft. Blackhaine (aya wavefold)
Kai Whiston - Take ya Breath
KAVARI - M.I.A. - Steppin' Up (KAVARI -ˈvɪʃəs- Mix)
Ludwig Wandinger - ID
Eprom - 666-ACID
Ship Sket - Autumn
S280F - FLIES
John Object - 53 6 Femme (Live) (2018)
CITYTRONIX - Rihanna 'Needed Me' (CITYTRONIX Remix)
Elysia Crampton - Homeless (Q’ara)
Bungalovv - Acid Arrows
John Glacier - Platoon
Ludwig Wandinger - Motionless Air

Radio Alhara w/ Ludwig Wandinger

OrangeTone's debut album 'Lightmixer' out now!

noumenalloom.bandcamp.com/album/lightmixer-2

Lightmixer

OrangeTone - Glow

the genius of the void

Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Boundr.

2 Have 1

PTP's Dis Fig wrote this 13-minute composition as partial score to Chinese performance artist Tianzhuo Chen's latest piece, 'An Atypical Brain Damage.'

"This (music) is taken from the piece’s most suspenseful climax, where a psychological twist turns into a violent murder scene. The main character sings a final love song to her husband before she slaughters him, over and over again, until he is finally destroyed and her mind can rest in the bloodbath." 

'An Atypical Brain Damage' is the latest 90-minute performance piece by China's Tianzhuo Chen, in which a delusive world is created through the fusion of techno culture, queer aesthetics, and social media horror stories to surrealist folk-stories by Chinese avant-garde fiction writer, Can Xue. These tales play with communist ideology while referencing American living and dreaming, all within themes of existential struggle.

Mastered: Joni Juden
Artwork: Peiyu Shen
Cat. No.: PTPhell001

Dis Fig - Excerpt From An Atypical Brain Damage [PTPhell001]

Bad Enuff

Anne Imhof - Faust
Format: 2xLP / CD / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 98
Release Date: 13 September 2019
Purchase: bit.ly/2NCegzC / bit.ly/2zo1bRY

Deriving from the acclaimed performance and exhibition—staged by Anne Imhof at the 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia and awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation— the album Faust is part documentation and part elaboration, the sonic capture and extrapolation of the gestures, intensities, and durations of the live event.
Serving as the dramatic backbone of a several-hour long performance seen by thousands over the course of the Biennial, the soundtrack was a product of the collective and its individuals, animating and organising the performers while immersing the audience in the potent images of power and paradise. The music for Faust was written in a band-like process by Imhof and her close collaborators Billy Bultheel, Eliza Douglas, and Franziska Aigner during the months leading up to its premiere at the opening of the German Pavilion in Venice. From the chaos of the performative, the album is constructed out of live recordings and original arrangements, teasing out the most potent strands and weaving them into a new composition of brutal feeling and baroque intricacy, each track a testament to the energy that brought it into being.

Faust is anchored around three pieces—Medusa’s Song, O.W.E.N., and Queen Song—written and sung by performers Eliza Douglas and Franziska Aigner, whose sonorous and elegiac voices imbue the work as a whole with their crushing depths and dolorous moods. Between these urgent vocal interventions march and twist the winding fugues and electronic abstractions of Billy Bultheel, who has dismantled and reassembled the sonic landscapes of the pavilion, crafting new arrangements that couple the forcefulness of the physical encounter with the artifice of the studio. Throughout the album and culminating in its closing act—the brutal chorus of Douglas’ Faust’s Last Song, a pulsing canon of looped and layered voice pierced by black metal screams—the record admits the listener into the inner space of Imhof’s dramatic vision of power, complicity, and vulnerability.

Shifting hypnotically between times and spaces, between cries and calls, between polyphonic antiquity and polyrhythmic complexity, Faust is the record of a lost event and the promise of a new creation. The release of Faust illustrates the centrality of music to Imhof’s artistic practice. Her musical collaborations with Bultheel began in 2013, and this generative constellation expanded to include the contributions of Douglas and Aigner, together scoring Imhof’s Angst (2016) and recently her performance trilogy Sex (2019).

The album comes with an expansive booklet of photography by Nadine Fraczkowski, another long-standing collaborator of Imhof and a prolific photographer, whose images of the performance and portraits of its cast offer intimate views of the work far beyond documentation.

It was mixed by Nanni Johansson at Hansa Studios and Ville Haimala, mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, and designed by Zak Group featuring artwork conceived by Imhof together with Douglas and Fraczkowski. Co-published with German Pavilion 2017 and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin / Cologne / New York.

http://p-a-n.org

Faust 

Billy Bultheel - Of Love (Hraah) (PAN 98)

Pandora (Instrumental) by @Dasychira

dasychira.bandcamp.com/album/xdream-deluxe-edition

http://xdre.am

Mastering by @jesseosbornelanthier

Album Artwork and Website by Spencer Sherk

xDream (Deluxe Edition)

Pandora (Instrumental)

https://nadarecs.bandcamp.com/album/asymmetry

Asymmetry is the result of an ecosystem created and nourished by the artist.

released February 5, 2021

Music and Artwork by Sebastian Camens
Remixes by {arsonist} and Forces
Mastered by Calum Gunn

Cleared Cherub

AMEN

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