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T.otal R.ealization A.bout N.othing C.ept E.mptiness

Taken from SBKT046: Rilla - Yugeki / 遊撃 EP

Cover Design: Tianyi
Mastering: Raphael Valensi
Release Date: 21st January 2022

For our first release of 2022 we are excited to welcome Fukuoka born, Kyoto based producer RILLA to the SVBKVLT roster with ‘Yugeki / 遊撃’, the first in a series of EPs for the label.

Featuring 5 thunderous original tracks, and packaged with equally fierce remixes from Howie Lee, Osheyack and Hyph11E, the title ‘Yugeki’ translates to ‘attacking the enemy or assisting allies as the opportunity arises’, a ‘search-and-destroy mission’ or a military action without a predetermined target. Tianyi’s artwork encompasses this concept perfectly with a cloaked combatant, bow drawn, prepared for action.

Rilla

Rilla has been active in the Japanese music scene for almost 25 years, starting as a DJ in Tokyo in 1997 and a buyer for Cisco Records since 2002. His event ‘Almadella’ with Keihin and Yusaku Shigeyasu presented and toured artists such as Shackleton, Peverelist, Scuba, Goth-Trad and Karafuto aka Fumiya Tanaka, with Rilla himself playing over 50 events a year. Since 2012 he has been based in Kyoto, and in 2020 released his first EP ‘SFTM002’ on Torei’s ‘Set Fire To Me’ label. His SVBKVLT debut ‘Yugeki / 遊撃’ sees Rilla expand outside of Japan for the first time, with a second EP set for release later in 2022

Yugeki / 遊撃 EP

Rilla - Get Up Eight (Howie Lee Remix)

@Itoa returns to @exitrecords with a suite of fast, funky and acid-dipped genre fusionism

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-itoa-wet-brain

Premiere: Itoa ‘Wet Brain’

7 Weapons Series

无由颂 The Unreasonable Song

Teaser

Train One

Eddie Beatz - Bong(Howie Lee Edit)

the return of QUAVIS. the collaborative project between Klahrk & Viour (fka Roxas) resurfaces as they release their first material in over 3 years.

Artwork by Ludwig Wandinger

Layers

Purchase on Bandcamp ⬎

Quavis – Stanzyk

The Seven Line Prayer To Guru Rinpoche 莲师七句祈请文

Prelude Of The Seven is a melacholic, dreamlike-heavy trance expressed through drumless/ambient soundscapes and DJ mixtape-esque vocals.

Kenta is set to release a new project in 2024 featuring collaborations from artists such as Ninajirachi & Harvest with this single being a “Prelude” of the sounds & styles he has evolved into.

Stream & Download: push.fm/fl/kentaprelude

Written, Mixed & Produced by @kenta204
Vocal Drop by @shadoehaze
Additional Vocals by @spr1te_one
Artwork by John You (@johnyou.info.au), Michael Liavas (@liav.des) and Dot Lab (@dot___lab)
Mastering By @dj_ghepard

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Kenta204 - Prelude Of The Seven

LAUNDRY ROOMS

Mantra of Buddha Amitayus

Mantra of Buddha Amitayus 长寿佛心咒

Out now via my Beijing label Do Hits volume 1 along side other 4 beatmakers from China. 
Check out the whole EP here:
https://soundcloud.com/dohits/sets/do-hits-vol1
Premiered on Noisey: http://www.vice.cn/read/do-hits-released-their-first-collection
Radio played by Lefto: https://www.mixcloud.com/LeFtOoO/show626-new-mick-jenkins-tenderlonious-jamie-xx-dan-shake-medlar-freddie-gibbs/

Art by Veeeky


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只要你一摸我就大叫

轮奸范冰冰！ Do Hits vol.3 out mid Nov feature Howie Lee , Jason Hou, Soulspeak, Guzz , Linfeng , Rgry , Zhi 16 , Sonia Calico and more !

婚前性行为是情网 (ft. 狠毒男孩，3Bangz，Bloodzboi & 张学友

尼日利亚

New Single Out Now on D9
Artwork by Teom Chen

Tomorrow Cannot Be Waited 明日不可待

Download SCV III for free :
https://howielee.bandcamp.com

古代英雄箫给给（Prod. Alex Wang&W.Y.Huang)

https://youtu.be/LJYid2F8iDk

MERCH: https://everpress.com/strast-5-year-anniversary-1-1

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Howie Lee - Island Birdy
Taken from the album Birdy Island, out now
LP/CD/Digital - Mais Um (MAIS042)

"At once fine-grained and expansive, Lee’s work combines traditional Chinese music and historical references with wild electronic experimentation" 
7.6 in PITCHFORK 
"Birdy Island is Lee's most organic work" RESIDENT ADVISOR
Swirling layers of OST-style sound design, dreamy choir vocals and traditional Chinese folk combine across eight dynamic and transportive tracks on Birdy Island, the latest album by Beijing-based producer/artist, Howie Lee, due out in April 2021 on Mais Um. 

Howie’s latest offering is as enchanting as it is boundlessly imaginative. “I’ve always had this concept in my mind about making an album based around an island”. Loosely based around Lee’s own long-formed concept of a floating Sicilian theme park, co-inhabited by both birds and ancestral spirits, Howie remarks: "Birdy Island to me is a palace in the clouds and the birds are worshipped like Gods. Not like a western God though.” Reminiscent of Hayao Miyazaki’s Laputa (in the 1986 film Castle In The Sky), Lee’s Birdy Island has been built by a Chinese investment company seeking to re-sync our relationship with the spiritual and natural world after years of economic collapse and degradation, and who invite Howie to compose the park’s soundtrack. 

On the album’s 2nd single Island Birdy, Lee’s intricate brand of traditional pan-asian exploration meet experimental bass weight sound resurfaces with stripped-back UK Grime sonics and ceremonial taoist music at it’s centrepiece, fusing to create a sound world like no other. Reminiscent of movie or video game soundtracks of decades previous, Island Birdy feels intimate, yet refreshingly unfamiliar. 

From Daoist scripture to 1970s martial arts-themed wuxia novels, Howie’s myriad strands of musical and visual output have often enveloped themes circling modern and ancient Chinese history. Lee’s Socialism Core Value EP series and the dystopian-horror 3D animation for 2017 single Bankers (created and directed by Howie himself), as well as his work with visual artist and video game designer, Teom Chen (the pair have gone on to tour their collaborations across China as part of Lee’s live show), offer a glimpse into the broad social and cultural questions intrinsically entwined throughout his discography.  

Arranged and mixed by Howie Lee
All instruments by Howie Lee (keyboard & prepared piano, yang qin, guitar, bass, drums. percussion, accordion, flute, guan zi + digital instruments)
Choir vocals by Howie Lee, Yehaiyahan, Fishdoll and West by West
Artwork by Coldass @coldass.zhou

www.maisumdiscos.com
www.maisumdiscos.bandcamp.com

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