
ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ

Originally from Paju, South Korea, bela (they/them) is a Berlin-based musician and performance artist. They vigorously work towards embodying queerness and class consciousness by using laptop electronics and metal-inspired vocal techniques to actualise highly conceptual ideas into discrete sound-objects.

https://soundcloud.com/6314
https://6314.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/6_e_l_a/

🌿 ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ꜱᴏɴɪᴄ ᴀɢᴇɴᴄʏ

As we have always dealt with sound as a political category, our activism is based on listening and focuses on the revolutionary potential that is inherent in the sonic. Under the banner of Sonic Agency we want to enforce a sonic activism of opposition and resistance. The artists involved are advocating for social and political transformation. Their sounds lend themselves to global emancipatory struggles, and fights for freedom and equality. The featured sounds aren’t complicit in the silence that surrounds us. They are furious, desperate, crying, paralysed, compassionate and rebellious like us. There is a message in sound that cannot be negated.

Listening is not neutral.
Listening shapes the reality we live in.
Listening is shaped by ethics and politics and leads back to it.
Listening is directly linked to memory and identity.
Listening is as important as speaking.
Listening is an active act.

Read the full curatorial statement here
https://strumandiodine.com/article/sonic-agency/

SONIC AGENCY - BELA - "4 Years (Feudalist Capital)"

Whispers from Ancient Vessels

Listen in Full/Buy Here: https://damselelysium1.bandcamp.com/album/whispers-from-ancient-vessels

Artwork by Vasilisa Skasca
Creative Direction by Damsel Elysium
Styling by Nina Scott-Smith & Polina Osipova

Produced & Performed by Damsel Elysium
Mixed by Alex Faingold & Damsel Elysium
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux

Whispers From Ancient Vessels -Damsel Elysium

In an inspiring collaboration uniting artists from different corners of Europe and the Middle East, Palestine's Muqata'a, French-Irish Zoë Mc Pherson, and Lebanon's Rabih Beaini have merged their creative forces to remix the Belgian/Iraqi band Use Knife's influential album 'The Shedding Of Skin'.
'Peace Carnival', releasing on Berlin’s Morphine Records, challenges the narrative around peace through its percussion, glitches, distortions, and Muslimgauze-esque minimalism to critique and rethink perceptions of justice and freedom.
This year, Carnival's usual satire and mockery should be directed towards the so-called and one-sided 'peace'.

Use Knife is Stef Heeren, Kwinten Mordijck and Saif Al-Qaissy

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Graphic design by Jef Cuypers
Arabic lettering by Farah Fayyad
Distributed by Rush Hour
Morphine Records 2024, doser 045

Peace Carnival

Ptolemaic (Zoë Mc Pherson remix)

DJ DEEON - GO BANGG
TRAXMAN - Fri Dat Shit Up
Oak City Slums - Unreleased 
DjPjmadethistrack - DIP DOWN LOW
Oak City Slums - JAM-2424
Sonic D & DJ Clent - Talk About It
Oak City Slums - Unreleased
Oak City Slums & Liano - Unreleased
DjPjmadethistrack - BOUNCE THAT ASS
Avi Loud - IWANNAGOFAST
DJ DEEON - POP

SONIC SATISFACTION 05

Slagwerk w/ Basile3 @ Kiosk Radio 18.04.2024

ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ

Aho Ssan is the artist name of Paris based Niamké Désiré. After studying graphic design and cinema, he began to com-pose electronic music and create his own digital instruments. Shortly thereafter he went on to win the Foundation France television prize for his soundtrack to the film of Ingha Mago in 2015 and has worked on several projects related to IRCAM/GRM in France. His debut LP «Simulacrum» was released on the 7th of February 2020 via Subtext Recordings.Based on the concept of Jean Baudrillard, it navigates through society’s presentation of inclusivity and equality against my own experience of growing up black in France.

https://soundcloud.com/ahossan
https://ahossan.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.instagram.com/aho_ssan/

🌿 ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ꜱᴏɴɪᴄ ᴀɢᴇɴᴄʏ

Spurred on by the acuteness of current global events, we are raising our voices in solidarity with the oppressed, the tortured, the silenced, and the unheard. While humanity is at stake, and our values are on trial, in moments of despair, rage and endless grief, acts of solidarity are needed more than ever. The events that shake Palestine and Israel are resulting in an ever-tighter spiral of violence and desperation. They are a horrific wake-up call that brutally brings the precarious situation on our planet to the fore. The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, and Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians are intolerable. On top of that, the military actions threaten the lives of the remaining hostages in the Gaza-Strip, and even more innocent people in Gaza.

…being together, in community

Read the full curatorial statement here
strumandiodine.com/article/sonic-agency/

SONIC AGENCY - AHO SSAN - "EBi (Patch Improvisation)"

Alec Pace - Spherae
Label: Infinite Machine
CAT#: IM110
Format: Digital
Release Date: May 3, 2024

‘Spherae’ marks the return to scenes of Turin-based producer and DJ Alec Pace landing now on Infinite Machine with a mind-melter EP aimed for the club.

Following a 2-year long hiatus from his latest original work ‘Future Now?’ and previous releases on acclaimed labels such as All Centre and Nous Disques, the Italian producer delivers a new psychedelic blend of post-grime and experimental-bass condensed into a powerful club-ready 4-tracker.

Opening track ‘Preemah’ is a dance-floor heater which plays with the alternation of perpetual crescendos and heavy kick-drops, the rhythmic session is based on a glitchy jersey-club beat while the melodic elements work with uplifting synthesizers and heavy manipulated field recordings.

The explorations continues into title track ‘Spherae’, a peak-time ‘ode to speed’ which twists elements and a rhythmic session borrowed from the D’n’B scene while mangling them with ‘pointillistic’ synthesizers and hyper-effected spooky vocals.

‘Khroma’ follows next, a dark and psychedelic roller which will bring the listener into more obscure sound landscapes which delivers robotic GQOM-inspired beats with overdriven-glitchy synthesizers and tribalesque chants.

The alien-shaped beats of ‘Qubo’ closes-down the release with its glitchy-old-skool-electro vibe, combining a rhythmic session which borrows elements from the old-skool electro with analog generated percussions and field recordings.

While touching GQOM-esque and post-grime atmospheres and both pushing BPM-speed limits forwards, ‘Spherae’ explores further into experimental-territories yet remaining true to its club nature

Alec Pace - Qubo

BLK SPLLS 2

Darkness

Idea Love vol.4 : Not_So_Desperate_Housewives


Idea Love vol.4 : Not_So_Desperate_Housewives w/ Musique Chienne (10/05/24)

Listen to "Random Love" by Raumskaya taken from VA "Entropy & Power Tools" out on 17th May via RESEARCHCORE

Pre-order: https://researchcore.bandcamp.com/album/researchcore-entropy-power-tools

Entropy is on the rise, and with it comes chaos, workplace safety measures and the intensity of sound in our compilations.
Introducing Entropy & Power Tools - the third part of a compilation-tetralogy in which the participants share their tools for entropy control in a club reading. Percussion clicks like hydraulic pistons, bass-ratchets of eighth magnitude or ozone-saturated air of trance melodies? Each participant has his own approach - we invite you to explore each one!

Links:
Raumskaya
https://soundcloud.com/raumskaya
https://www.youtube.com/raumskaya
https://raumskaya.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/raumskaya
RESEARCHCORE
https://soundcloud.com/researchcore
https://researchcore.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/researchcore_hub

RESEARCHCORE

Entropy & Power Tools

pre-order / bandcamp

[Premiere] Raumskaya - Random Love (RESEARCHCORE)

ARCA X JOHN OBJECT X HAROLD BUDD & ROBIN GUTHRIE

small edit by me and @slyenk featured on last mix for @user-13625422

What it feels like for a girl?

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