sloth congress

prius lover song

London label @tobago-tracks serving up a vital one as @lovefear1 makes his debut album proper

Big on detail, ‘Schema’ imagines symbiotic futures. A spooling suite of sonic sensitivity and dank, lysergic vision, complete with a cameo from Sydney Bass originator 3NDLESS. 

10 tracks found in a hazy interzone of downbeat-adjacent styles, and it’s woozy number ‘Mother Null’ getting the premiere treatment today.

Pre-order: https://lovefear.bandcamp.com/album/schema

Mother Null

Premiere: Lovefear - Mother Null [TT]

honoured to announce 'yearn' the debut ep from Kulowo Wawega, @thetares digitally available on bandcamp

https://ssair.bandcamp.com/album/yearn

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Kulowo Wawega has hidden experiments in sound across the internet since 2009. Tucked away across platforms and under a handful of aliases (the tares, no debts, esuna), Wawega’s music glimmers like an aluminum candy wrapper pressed into the pavement–worn in by passersby, but treasured by whoever finally stops to scratch at it, squinting as the sun glares off its edges. Yearn–the first EP under the name Kulowo Wawega–finds grace in the daily struggles, sacrifices and surrenders of the human experience.

yearn collects sounds from 2017 to 2023, spanning Wawega’s wide influences in worship music, minimal dubstep, drone, slow core, and RnB, and finds parallels in the revisited rhythms of the work and field songs of enslaved people. While yearn is particular to its maker in style–each delicate loop, spattered piano key, and granular shift in texture, is a marker of Wawega’s practiced ear–yearn longs for something unspecific and unresolved. The struggle towards desire becomes its resolution and the cycle repeats.

“I’m not in a rush. I’m not in a hurry. I’m there to be with whatever people are experiencing, and to watch the newness come forth after going through the mundane, the menial, and the suffering.

Words by Alphonse F.

Kulowo Wawega - poor in spirit

You’re blessed to be hearing the long-awaited Lovefear debut album, live and listenable courtesy of TT.

‘Schema’ is a work of deep focus, a slow-spiralling plunge into a zone of enhanced awareness. What unfolds is crisp yet hallucinatory, like the HD visions of some hyper-advanced biomechanical life form animated by psychotropic research chemicals.

‘Mother Null’ and ‘Red Thought’ render images of flickering holograms on gleaming glass architecture; 360° interfaces and synthetic neuro-inputs. There’s an air of gradually realised tension and unease, a sense of something uncanny at the core of the cybernetic sheen. But Sydney Bass honcho 3NDLES5 lays down a human touch, his impressionistic spoken word flow on ‘Inner’ conjuring smeared metropolitan light pollution and the romanticised blur of half-remembered late night transit.

And then there’s ‘Macro’ and ‘Swan Cross Antonym’. Flurries of accelerated consciousness, a mind operating on evolved firmware. These are aerodynamic flow-state tunes, cold-blooded bangers pulsing forward like quicksilver through veins. But ‘Economy of Ascent’ brings it all down to an introspective simmer — because for all its screen-mediated gloss, ‘Schema’ is deeply felt, not calculated.

Follow Lovefear:
@lovefear1
www.instagram.com/lovefear__

All tracks written, produced, and mixed by Lovefear
Track 1 ('Great Age') featuring additional production by Lia T
Track 6 ('Inner') featuring vocals and lyrics by 3NDLES5
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Mastering: DJ Pitch
Cover art: Josh Crumpler
Words: Madjestic Kasual
A&R: Madjestic Kasual

Lovefear - Habitation

@ity2000 - No Road No Problem
Format: Digital / CD
Release Date: June 8th, 2024
Mixed by Casper van der Lans
Mastered by @Go_Meee
Cover by Cathy Hu
SL+23
© Seedlink⁺ 2024

ity - Song For People

rice pillow

[UUA-052]
Elevation - BTTE
credits
released June 18, 2024

sequel to bound to this earth
ukiukiatama.bandcamp.com/album/bound-to-this-earth

music by Elevation

Art by Supply Chain Sigil

Elevation - It Is What It Is

taken from "nigdy nie jest dobrze (wojtek)"
https://bffmusicbffmusic.bandcamp.com/album/nigdy-nie-jest-dobrze-wojtek

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§ Ⅰ【260624_Julek】😭
ok, listen up. maybe you can’t be ur best friend. that’s okay i guess but plz think about it sometimes.
ehhh sry to start the bandcamp note like that but this album made me do it.
“nigdy nie jest dobrze (wojtek)” is made of mental health walk sounds, cognitive behavioral sound design, leave me alone atmospheres and high-passed lust for life.
it’s an in-between moment to try having a party within urself, to test some new ideas about urself, and finally to inhale some professional-amateur-cheese-consuming-basses.
heh
yeah
hahah
main tag : me-core♪


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§ ⅠI【240624_Domi】😰
The idea of deeply personal voyeurism is very tempting for me to explore but I find it rly hard to convey in a non-visual medium - it just always lacks somethin. “nigdy nie jest dobrze (wojtek)” somehow makes it work. Maybe because ehh hahah is an observer like me? Heh
With fire-prone snares, rims and stick sounds, he translates big narratives into small stories - stories that are poetic, stories that are introspective, and stories that are goofy. This album feels like a friend who makes my mundane life a bit more fun and helps to enjoy a day while it lasts.
When first hearing it, I had this image of opening a window during a sunny summer day, looking around, grasping all that is happening in my neighborhood.
I cherish that memory, as I cherish this album.

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§ ⅠII【160624_EhhHahah】🥲
this album is for sure a very personal one to me, in the sense that i was making it while discovering that I’m depressed and trying to deal with it - hence the strong melancholic background of the whole thing.
music is certainly an obvious way of expressing emotions for me, but what may be peculiar is that I made most of the songs very spontaneously and in short sessions, without spending too much time on them - it’s a more expressive approach that allows me to more accurately capture the momentary mood. Therefore, i can risk saying that it’s a form of therapy BUT I’d rather not use this term directly, so as not to depreciate real therapy.
The songs are ultimately selected to present a certain spectrum of different inspirations - ambient (“hen daleko rap”), nu-jazz, hip-hop, field recordings. there are also IDM moments, more danceable ones. it’s also a form of searching for one's place and I think the whole thing is about some loss and searching (which may never come, wojtek)

moodboard
「 🙂🙁🤲👂🗣🥒🎺⏳💰 」 

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〉music by ehh hahah
linktr.ee/ehhhahah

〉artwork by 000d1g1m0n
www.instagram.com/000d1g1m0n/

〉master by Fausto Mercier
linktr.ee/faustomercier

🎵°006

ehh hahah - wojtek

Starfrog Slipmoded

Starfrog (pingstar Blind Item #9 mix) [feat. Ben Bondy]

Monolake - Afterglow
Cedric Madden - Racer
Andrea - Liquid
Oli XL - Hesitate
Fwea Go Jit - All My Dawgs
Orca - My Eyes
Ecco2k - Time
Mark J - Aqueous
Naibu - Red Hand
ASC - Losing You

cover by Mica <3

4ne1 mix

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