Cruise (MAL001)

Ausschuss - Room1

Premiere release on Jon K @jon_k_mcr & Elle Andrews’ @SOUVENIRUK new label, MAL Recordings

This is the solo vinyl debut by Berlin-based hard drum mutant, Ausschuss @Ausschuss 'Proper dancefloor screwballs; decimating UKG, dembow and industrial dancehall styles in a playfully mutable volley of devilish club ballistics'

• Mastering by Nick Sinna at Hiddensounds.  Ltd edition of 300 
• Sleeves hand screened by Yas at Small Press. Design by Jon K.

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B1. PEAK 5

Premiere release on Jon K @jon_k_mcr & Elle Andrews’ @SOUVENIRUK new label, MAL Recordings

This is the solo vinyl debut by Berlin-based hard drum mutant, Ausschuss @Ausschuss  'Proper dancefloor screwballs; decimating UKG, dembow and industrial dancehall styles in a playfully mutable volley of devilish club ballistics'

• Mastering by Nick Sinna at Hiddensounds.  Ltd edition of 300 
• Sleeves hand screened by Yas at Small Press. Design by Jon K.

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A2. CRUISE

Buy via: https://boomkat.com

Celebrated DJs @jon_k_mcr and Elle Andrews (@souveniruk) mint their hugely promising new label, @mal-recordings with proper dancefloor screwballs by @ausschuss; decimating UKG, dembow and industrial dancehall styles in a playfully mutable volley of devilish club ballistics.

Launching MAL as a reaction to the sorry state of global affairs, the ‘Cruise’ EP epitomises the maddening flux of the matter with a strong reminder to dance in the face of it all. In fractal not fractional moves, Berlin-based sound designer Linus Nicholson aka Ausschuss outlines the label’s divergent co-ordinates with seven tracks that bend sound designer tekkers to structures that step in the cracks between styles, zig-zagging between crafty permutations of classic and up-to-the moment UK club music, and a world of influence from Angolan Kuduro to Latin dembow and Afro-Caribbean dub, or what is commonly known as hard drum.

No mistake, this is rudely countercultural business, colouring outside the lines of convention in a way that defies categorisation, but will be recognised by dedicated DJs and dancers.

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German  newcomer  Ausschus  debuts  on  Haunter  Records  with  a  6-track  offering,  throwing  in  elements  from  the  whole  spectrum  of  contemporary  experimental  music.  The  subtle  yet  intense  melodic  work,  put  in  a  place  of  dangerous  acoustic  creatures  (bit-crushed  drones,  metallic  clangs,  slow  hard  beats),  allows  him  to  explore  both  negative  and  positive  affections.  The  main  goal  is  dominance—or  rather,  positive  acceptance—of  melancholia,  using  harsh  frequencies  as  a  crucible  for  one’s  psyche,  teaching  how  to  stand  amidst  the  noise,  breathing  it,  accepting  it  as  nutrition.  It’s  not  a  matter  of  riffing  against  listeners,  but  of  accompanying  them  through  different  rooms,  different  states,  and  molding  them  according  to  their  will  and  sensibility.  Ausschuss’  use  of  space,  reverb  and  harmony  gives  solidity  to  the  sound,  creating  a  proper  environment  in  which  insight  and  growth  can  happen  freely.


All tracks written and produced by L. Nicholson
Additional Vocals by Stella Chung
Mixed by James Kelly and L. Nicholson
Mastered by Tapewave Mastering
Cover by Richard Frater
Design by Jack Kimberley
Original painting by Richard Bryant

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German  newcomer  Ausschuss  debuts  on  Haunter  Records  with  a  6-track  offering,  throwing  in  elements  from  the  whole  spectrum  of  contemporary  experimental  music.  The  subtle  yet  intense  melodic  work,  put  in  a  place  of  dangerous  acoustic  creatures  (bit-crushed  drones,  metallic  clangs,  slow  hard  beats),  allows  him  to  explore  both  negative  and  positive  affections.  The  main  goal  is  dominance—or  rather,  positive  acceptance—of  melancholia,  using  harsh  frequencies  as  a  crucible  for  one’s  psyche,  teaching  how  to  stand  amidst  the  noise,  breathing  it,  accepting  it  as  nutrition.  It’s  not  a  matter  of  riffing  against  listeners,  but  of  accompanying  them  through  different  rooms,  different  states,  and  molding  them  according  to  their  will  and  sensibility.  Ausschuss’  use  of  space,  reverb  and  harmony  gives  solidity  to  the  sound,  creating  a  proper  environment  in  which  insight  and  growth  can  happen  freely.


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Additional Vocals by Stella Chung
Mixed by James Kelly and L. Nicholson
Mastered by Tapewave Mastering
Cover by Richard Frater
Design by Jack Kimberley
Original painting by Richard Bryant

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Ausschuss - Yellow Sick Glow

Written by Berlin-based producer Linus Nicholson, aka Ausschuss, 'Room1' is a decidedly sci-fi take on electroacoustic experimentation — a grainy exodus into wistful neoclassical compositions and data-moshed found-sounds. At times the EP calls to mind Mica Levi’s Under The Skin soundtrack with its icy and foreboding soundscapes. Opener ‘Drown Later’ begins with caustic splashes of ambience, skittish percussion swaying to and fro lazily. Then there are tracks like ‘Blinding Partner’, a looming and sinister presence full of windswept drones and howling incantations.

With the release due on November 2nd, the Milan-based label generously offered up an exclusive preview of title track, a head-spinning mesh of granulated chimes, undulating low-end and gravelly atmospherics. 

Read more: http://straylandings.co.uk/news/premiere-ausschuss-haunter-records

Room1

Premiere: Ausschuss - Room1 [Haunter Records]

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