Baby Woodrose (free download!!)

Available on cassette at https://causalchain.bandcamp.com/album/oko

oko is laced’s sophomore EP under her new moniker, which takes a new path compared to her previous noise explorations. Drawing inspiration from ambient music, dreampop, video game and anime soundtracks, breakbeat and IDM, the music conveys a dream world where the artist tends to escape in. The EP was produced over the course of 2021 since laced’s 2020 MUTEK performance in Montreal, taking a melodic approach in contrast to her more percussive productions. oko is best consumed under a pile of warm blankets or under the rain, its energy being one of catharsis, contemplation, healing and dreaming.

Music by laced (@lacedetail)
Mixed and mastered by SIM
Remixes by dybbuk (@disk-wraith), Xen Model (@xenmodel), SIM (@sim_mtl) & Gobekli (@gobekli)
Album art by Bruno Lauzon Tanzi (@bruno-lauzon-tanzi)
Texture generated by Andrew Nowacki

laced - Silkscreen

Ruhail Qaisar - Fatima 
Cat. Nr: DN019
Format: DL + 48 page photography & text publication (Urdu / English) 
Release Date: January 27, 2023
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/fatima

Ruhail Qaisar’s Fatima is a requiem for a dead future. The debut album release by the self-taught artist and producer screams with the trauma and decay of life in his hometown of Leh—a high-altitude plateau region in the contested Ladakh area, extending from the Himalayan to the Kunlun Ranges. Qaisar absorbs this external condition of perpetual conflict between nation states into his internal life and resulting compositions, crossing sound art, noise music and experimental filmmaking. Hauntological drones, power electronics and convulsive post-industrial dissonance create an unnerving sense of fear, anger, and alienation. A broken transistor with a knob tuned to the abyss is bombarded with the cries and bitter laughter of a city’s inhabitants tyrannized, not only by military occupation but the soft-power subjugation of the tourism industry.
 
Following 2016’s Ltalam EP—released under Qaisar’s now-defunct Sister moniker—Fatima serves to transmit memories carried through the events, local mythos and personal recollections of growing up between the remote agrarian villages of Ladakh and the urban center of its joint capital—Leh. The album was mixed between that area, and a DIY home studio in New Delhi, where the artist amalgamates his collected found sounds and field recordings into unrecognizable hybrids. Discordant pads and atmospherics on the dark ambient of “Daily Hunger” is disrupted by a crashing, pounding reverb, while contributor Elvin Brandhi shrieks towards its horrifying conclusion in the squelching, scratching sound of something soft being chewed.
 
An anti-lingual conjuring of metaphysical totems in music, Fatima is a seething chronicle of experience through the dynamics of riots, violence, colonization, unemployment, PTSD, and self-abuse. The cycling tumult of “Namgang” hosts a menacing whisper that echoes the hissing fury of something like Einstürzende Neubauten and Lydia Lunch’s “Thirsty Animal,” while a trouncing distorted bass line on “Fatima’s Poplar” circles a voice that barks, "The Western Civilization Show has been discontinued."

The Bunker, New Delhi
Choglamsar Village, Ladakh

Mastering by Rashad Becker
Mixing by Julien Racine 
Photography by Rana Ghose 
Design by Niels Wehrspann

Fatima

buy / stream

Ruhail Qaisar - Namgang

PM RADIO - NTS ENDGAME & ENTRAÑAS (8.11.23)

xart61413524 Central Cee - Cold Shoulder (Remix Ξ&Λ)

Fakethias – Excess

L'équipe Garage 83C poursuit sa conquête des basses fréquences dans ce monde encore plus chaotique ! On est trop content.e.s d'accueillir Dougie Jones (@trajectoiremusic_), bass-queen qu'on a rencontré dans la cave du CCL et sur les ondes des copaines de Ruffcast. Ce mois-ci, avalanche de vrombissements et drifts ondulants skrrrrr...Dougie Jones mode Turbo Teuf !


https://www.instagram.com/dougiejon3s?igsh=MTF6bGV4NHE3ajBzYw==

https://on.soundcloud.com/mzVTU

Garage 83-C invite Dougie Jones ~ 12.06.2024

Y002

First full-length project by MISIA.

Hot Wet Earth

1More

From the album ciquaL: https://aedact.bandcamp.com/album/ciqual

set to impulse

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Oroboro, 'Ever Wandering' (2020). Courtesy TAR, Los Angeles.

Qeniled is out now at https://aedact.bandcamp.com/album/qeniled

Italian electronic music project based in Naples, South Italy. Dario Capasso (born 1992) is a composer, producer, sound and visual artist. He has studied New Technologies at the Academy of Fine Art of Naples and graduated in Electroacoustic Music at the conservatory S.Pietro of Majella.  

All my music is dedicated to my father, Erminio Capasso.

All artworks are authentic.

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set to impulse

Aedact