taken from Jana Rush - "Painful Enlightenment" (ZIQ428 out August 13th 2021 on Planet Mu)

https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/224365-jana-rush-painful-enlightenment

Chicago's Jana Rush returns with "Painful Enlightenment", an intense emotional rollercoaster of disfigured samples, quivering electronics and vagrant percussion. As implied by the title, the album is a document of her own personal growth through struggles with depression and suicidal thoughts, a glimpse into a dark period of her life amid learning the art of letting go. Her debut for Planet Mu is the follow-up to her twisted "Pariah" LP on Objects Limited. It's euphonic and uplifting, even blissful, yet equally chilling, and at times a difficult listening experience. Jana says "This album is not a footwork album. It's more like dark experimental listening music, an opportunity to be myself without judgement!"

The album opens up with the pessimistic "Moanin’", its gorgeous, blazing sax solo pulled back and forth like it was being played through a possessed tape recorder. Baneful bass pulsates over dozens of maniacal vocal samples on "Suicidal Ideation", an absolutely mesmerizing collage of beauty and terror with a runtime of nine minutes. Moody guitar plucks cry over an intricate bed of micropercussion and erratic low-end blasts on the title track, one of the more sombre moments of the album. At the halfway mark, the record takes a dark, twisted turn, as "Disorientation" well, disorients, with its thick layers of untraceable alien sounds unfolding and contracting back into themselves. Thick layers of time-stretched textures and bewildering rhythms meet masterfully placed snares on "Intergalactic Battle", featuring Teklife’s DJ Paypal. On "Drivin’ Me Insane", Jana and collaborator Nancy Fortune stretch three words back and forth and inside-out over the course of three minutes, using every last gasp and sibilance possible. The album closes with Paypal making his second appearance. "Just a Taste" is an encore featuring many of the fundamental sonics that make up the LP, haunting horns and paranoid voices struggle to speak over fluctuating low-end harmonics. 

An established veteran from the world of ghetto house and juke who cut her teeth on Dance Mania records in the late nineties, Jana has the stripes, so to call her an outsider would be fictitious, yet she is a true unicorn within the history of that realm and becomes more and more alienated from formulas and trends on each new record she creates. "Painful Enlightenment" is full of dense, intricate abstractions, paired with rapidly moving structures and is unlikely to sound the same twice, as every listen exposes new layers of its vibrant, transcendental details.

Painful Enlightenment (mp3s)

Jana Rush - Mynd Fuc

This track is about meeting a sexy woman at a party...I started spittin’ “game”.


2nd synth = woman’s talking to me
Sub bass = me talking to the woman


Use ur imagination!!!

JR

Game

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.

B1. PEAK 5

RA:005 - VA001

laced - Starclip (@lacedetail)

all profits to be donated to www.musichelps.org.nz

Releases on cassette and digital on 19/11/2021

Mastered by Ike Zwanniken
Cover Art by Mas Guerrero
Digital Design by Molly McLennan
Cassette Layout by Grace Verweij

RA:005 - VA001

laced - Starclip

Taken from PLASMODIUM I released on MYXOXYM, a compilation featuring:

Ice Eyes
Acre & Rainy Miller
Yakovlev & Xot33
Cecile Believe
Minais B
Palmistry
Evita Manji & Seba
Corin
Lyra Valenza
Van Boom & Oldyungmayn

All proceeds will be collected and transferred to ANIMA, a non-profit association active in the field of natural environment, with its main activity being the nursing and rehabilitation of wild animals in their natural environment.
www.wild-anima.gr/en/profile/

PLASMODIUM I

Acre & Rainy Miller - Spur

Bristol-based producer QGB returns their second album ‘A RECKONING’ out on the 8th April via their PRESENT TENSE imprint. The album was recorded over a three year period, with another year to get it together to release it. 

As mentioned to Accidental Meetings recently, GQB said of the album, “it’s aggy and a bit broken but I hope there’s also grooves and danceable sections in there and it’s not all heady self indulgent nonsense. I guess each track was its own little process but a lot of what inspired me at the time was working with more generative techniques, basic chance/randomness not wanting it to be academic and dry but making it feel a bit alive and unpredictable.”

This is their first release on the label since 2018’s release of ‘Hornet’ - a record which was supported by the likes of Truants, Call Super, and Resident Advisor to name a few. Slowly becoming a go-to producer for your favourite DJs, we’re super excited to share one of, ‘PIGS’ from the album - one of the most in-your-face, all encompassing tracks on there.

@qgb

A RECKONING???

Premiere: qgb - PIGS [PRESENT TENSE]

UUMPHFF label is back with the release of the single ‘omen indeed’ by abji_hypersun

it’s their first official single since “doset daram (midooni?)” released 2021.
omen indeed exists in many different versions, as they say: “everytime i play live, i play it in a new way, sometimes it even feels like it’s the only song i ever made. so wierd to bounce it out and look at it as this linear progression with a beginning and an end - when actually it’s not.”
It’s a song about magical thinking and love and the hook is more like a chant or a sample traveling through different eras in time. The song will probably be transitioning and evolving forever, and we are happy to present a snapshot of it to you, omen indeed 2023.

abji_hypersun is the moniker of Simin Stine Ramezanali, a visual artist and drummer, who is based in Copenhagen. Known from the trio SLIM0 and co-founder of the music platform and label UUMPHFF-music. 
abji_hypersun mixes fragments of d’n’b, breaks, shoe-gaze and narrative story-telling. Untuning Persian classical instruments, multiple voices and beats they move in between feelings of beauty, the funny, the scary, the loud (something in between nightmares and dreams). Through this, they tour the notion of sounds out of tune.
 
Their music has extracts tropes drawn from the operatic and theatrical. New interpretations of the love song, hyper-gratitude, anger and mourning XXL are central subjects in their composition and lyrics.
 
This experimental approach in composition comes from a drive for giving life a soundtrack, and a belief in music being the most precise language to use for this. 
credits
released March 30, 2023
composed, mixed and mastered by Simin Stine Ramezanali

omen indeed

abji_hypersun - omen indeed

Low jack - Riddims du Lieu-Dit (BZH001 - Les Disques de la Bretagne)

Low Jack - Les Riddims Du Lieu - Dit - 03 They Rule

Pho Beat Bazar embodies the classical atmosphere you breathe in a jumbled stand where who is patient enough to root around can find the oddiest gears.
 It's a shared virtual place where we want to get close our favourite artists, welcome to Pho Beat Bazar vol. 3!

Pho Beat Bazar Vol. 3

Vina Konda - Watch Scales

Tadleeh - Ego Will Collapse [YGK006]

1. Kalix
2. Virgo?
3. Ego Will Collapse
4. Believe Me I'm Lying
5. Love Comes To Its Conclusion
6. White Flames On Black Embers

Format: Digital/EP
Release Date: June 26, 2019
Cover: Pietro Agostoni
Mastered by: Alexis Chan

Tadleeh -  Virgo? [YGK006]

From ANM053 Patiño Actually Laughing Out Loud
Release October 30th, 2020

Acre & Rainy Miller - Spur

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