Never Sleep introduce Zoo into the fold with much effect and verbosity.
unsuspecting world, pre Minimal Violence project of Ash Luk.
￼//ZOO hailing from Vancouver unleashes the single Soft Deceit which was lost in demo tapes from the early 2010s and now is let loose on the
Simplistic in its narrative yet the song is a barrage of chanting vocals,
catacomb guitar and those drums just demand the dancefloors attention.
Remix package is on point with Aasthma delivering an unsettling, dark, stripped back mix that ushers you into a hypnotic state while JASSS heading in the other direction just blows the whole thing wide open with a remix that deploys huge sonics to elaborate on the physicality of the
original in new and unexpected ways.
The original, heralding the hazy days of punk and sounding like a
bedroom party on xtc, is also not to be missed.
￼//ZOO full band made up of Ash Luk alongside Luna N (Champion Lawnmower, Other Jesus) and Corey Lee (Cowards) and Soft Deceit
was recorded at Otic Sound in Vancouver
"Lydia Lunch eats lunch with Johnny Jewel inside Tresor."
www.neversleep.life Releases April 30, 2021 Cat. NSR004

Soft Deceit

Soft Deceit (JASSS purple mix)

ZOO - Soft Deceit (JASSS Purple Mix)

Partly distant BPM’s orbit the subconscious memory; how does one move singularly, idiosyncratically, when the tempo becomes a static force? Washed over by violent algorithmic nudges that generate new content for a niche market hellscape, compulsive LED scrolling habits, and “pristine” maximalism In composition and fidelity, where does one find a stream to mirror back their image these days? Perhaps what stares back is being avoided for a reason.

NAPE hails from London, England and offers 8 crucially crude recordings for Psychic Liberation under the title “TEN TONNE ANGEL”. Dusty headbanger loops filtered through nebulous memories of wall-flowery, inebriated party listening. Which party? Which songs? Harder to identify yet, it all feels like a blur at this point. Think of a sweet spot somewhere between the minimalist electro leanings of Frak at their best, the urgency and tactility of early Unit Moebius, and the more recent live documentation of tour sets by Enrique and Nick Klein. NAPE continues a trajectory of challenging music for a club setting, even though most don’t understand what the challenge really is.

TEN TONNE ANGEL

PURCHA$E

NAPE - B1. VOICE ACTOR (PLIB019)

Container - "Peppered"

"How To Swallow A Sword"

4. HOW TO SWALLOW A SWORD

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Wilted Woman - Warmer

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BNK-011
Wetware - Salpinx
Track - Fuck Them All

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Salpinx

Fuck Them All

Wetware - Fuck Them All (BNK-011)

First release from CAF? with the work of Flammkuch, ARIS 1201, Tissu, FSS, lks, Morizio Lemano, 909 Hz, Mystic V, lks & Tissu.

IR-90

Tissu - how many guns do you own

FALLEN ANGEL BACK TATTOO
THOUSANDS OF DEAD GODS
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Track from NE66 E-Saggila – My World My Way LP
Out on vinyl and digital August 2nd.

The wicked intensity of Toronto's E-Saggila takes on novel limits for her new album for Northern Electronics. Constructed out of her live works, there's a lack of restraint on 'My World My Way' that could only be forged in the moment.

Following on from last year's album for BANK Records NYC, E-Saggila has put together something that addresses the club and the headphones in equal measure. Taking the approach of a documentarian of our virtual landscape, there's a deep motive that underpins the heavy digital signal processing. With plenty of storming mechanical rhythms that embark from gabber's chaotic neighborhood, the samples of voices, conversations, and phone calls, all wind the listener around the desperation that's embedded in the digital world's seamless mediation of our lives. Owing as much to power violence and industrial as to Rotterdam, E-Saggila's affinity for the extremes is as conceptually critical as it is stylistically present. Riding the BPMs high, and binding this all together with ambient music's sensibilities, 'My World My Way' moves in sharp strides between a political statement and a dancefloor assault.

Recorded by Rita Mikhael in Toronto, Canada 2018.
Art by Ivan Chebotarev.
Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome

My World My Way

E-Saggila – Pattern Obligation

Saint Abdullah // “In God’s Image” // 2xCD on Psychic Liberation // 
Release date: August 21, 2020

Saint Abdullah, composed of Tehran-born brothers Mohammad and Mehdi, have fine-tuned their vision of conceptual, blown-out dub and free jazz with “In God’s Image,” an ambitious twenty-song double CD on Psychic Liberation. The opus by the two Iranians living in New York, is full of mourning and rage, but these affects only scratch the surface of the work’s emotional and formal heterogeneity. 

Like the image gracing its cover—a tiny, dusty peykan, its roof fitted with an image of Ruhollah Khomeini and cone speakers—Saint Abdullah uses DIY minimalism to deliver maximal messaging. On “Problem,” distorted percussion, Shia oration, and a sample of the late Nipsy Hussle meld into a cathartic club burner, while the rhythms and lifted string arpeggiations on “Potion for sorrow” induce hazy cinematics, the duo’s attempt at Persian stoner boom bap. 

Elsewhere are instances of improvised jamming, melancholic twinkling, and pensive restraint. The powerfully eclectic statement by Saint Abdullah includes appearances by saxophonist Travis Laplante, who blows a spiralling noir line over feedbacking cacophony. On another track, Moor Mother delivers a poetic lashing on Western imperialists who rain missiles on hospitals, grieves the bodies piling up as capital gets sucked from the Earth. 

The sample work on “In God’s Image” draws heavily from Iranian documentaries, and includes the brothers’ field recordings from Tehran and New York. Heretical combinations collide senses of antiquity and contemporaneity, resisting the many orientalist reads on Iranian culture and politics. In this struggle, Saint Abdullah conveys many emotional registers, from exhausted depression to righteous indignation. 

Among many things, the image of Khomeini on the cover, which often scandalizes American audiences, represents the overthrow of a 2,500-year-long monarchy. All forms of dehumanization receive the sonic snakebite of Saint Abdullah, and “In God’s Image” resuscitates the revolutionary potential of music that pulls from the traditions of oppressed peoples in both the East and West. 

Psychic Liberation, in operation since 2018, is an experimental music label started in Brooklyn, New York, currently based in The Hague, Netherlands. The label is distributed in North America by Fantastique, and in EU/UK by Boomkat.
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña 
credits
releases August 21, 2020

www.psychicliberation.net

Audio by Saint Abdullah
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña

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