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It’s 2120, it’s been 10 years since the WHO’s latest health guidelines signaled the end of music. Noises over 30 dB are no longer allowed, and global governments have imposed strict laws to ensure that these regulations are enforced. Noise detectors are now planted everywhere, and noise levels are subject to constant surveillance.
Talking is discouraged, yelling is a criminal offence, singing is now a foreign concept to younger generations. Courses designed to rid musicians and music lovers of their desire to sing or play instruments have been deemed a resounding success.

It must have been exciting for her to find this tape on a walk by the riverside, even though she had no idea what it was and how to use it. Many would have been tempted to discard it, probably rightly so, but Yolande Khouzam had been an Acoustics Researcher before the obsolescence of the entire discipline and this object seemed vaguely familiar to her.

We’re not sure if she managed to find a way to play it. If she did, it would’ve been badly mangled, the sounds at times completely indiscernible, especially towards the end of each side. We’re not sure if Arabic was one of the 4 remaining languages, if it was, she would be able to tell that these are songs from a completely different time, played with instruments that she hadn’t heard before. The music seemed to come from the same era, but as the mixtape progressed, the instrumentation, scales and sound seemed to gather a more western influence. Using whatever resources she could find, her research helped her trace most of the recordings and she dated them to the early 20th century, mostly between the 1920’s and 1940’s. She found that the change in sound, scales and instrumentation over the duration of the mixtape, with a more pronounced Western influence on the more recent songs could be attributed to a Congress of Arab Music that reportedly had been held in Cairo in 1932 under the patronage of King Fuad I. That remains only a guess for now.

While no legible writings were found on the cassette tape, she did find an archived online review of a mixtape released almost a century before her time which seemed to contain something very similar to the tape she found. The tape, titled Wujidat w as made by Egyptian musicians ABADIR and Pie Are Squared to experiment with dissecting and degrading traditional Egyptian songs by known and unknown artists. What Yolande might have assumed was a mixtape made to provoke nostalgia, was almost the exact opposite of that. What made it even more intriguing is that the mixtape she found had been intentionally made to sound broken and degraded.

Credits:
* Compiled and Processed by Pie Are Squared & ABADIR
* Mastered by Pie Are Squared
* Artwork design and Typography by Islam Shabana
* Special Thanks to Amira Elmasry
* Video by L'Aubaine

Format:
* Limited cassette edition with download card (100 only)
* Limited hand-numbered official CDr (50 only)
* Digital and streaming

© 2021 ABADIR & Pie Are Squared 
℗ 2021 Akuphone

AKU1032

Wujidat

الآنسة ملك - يا عم يا خالي Al - Anesa Malak - Ya Am Ya Khali - ABADIR & Pie Are Squared

At heart, Stas Sharifullin is a supporter. His label Klammklang (co-curated with Julia Sharifullina), his teaching work, his shape-shifting multi-disciplinary artistic practice and his other projects are all a testament to his unique ability to work alongside and lift others up. Perhaps that’s also part of why he has never released a full-length record under his HMOT moniker – until now, he’s been too busy helping others.

But his first ever full album – ‘This Music Greets Death’, written between 2014 and 2021 – is finally arriving. A grim-sounding title is accompanied by a soft watercolour painting of strange, gentle creatures and their unknown world. A curious juxtaposition. But all is clear to Stas Sharifullin, and everything is as it should be. “This is a record about the horizon of possibilities,” shares the Moscow-based sound artist. Here, death signifies a new beginning, a clean slate, a starting point of discussion. We’ve gotten this far and everything has gone wrong – where do we go from here?

In a sense, this is a record of extra-ordinary optimism, a record celebrating curiosity and hope, despite an opening track which could be interpreted as nothing but bleak. “What if the consensus is simply self-erasure?,” asks Rupert Clervaux in an almost matter...  more

https://soundcloud.com/hmotology
https://soundcloud.com/warmwintersltd

This Music Greets Death

Premiere: HMOT - Oneiropolis (feat. Zurkas Tepla)[Warm Winters Ltd]

Troth ‘Oak Corridor’ Album Out 1st of November 2021.

Listen to 'Balancing Arc':
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Music video by Amelia Besseny & Cooper Bowman, recorded in the area of Newcastle, Australia.
© + ℗ 2021 Knekelhuis, under exclusive licence to Knekelhuis Records.

Oak Corridor

Balancing Arc

A1 - Troth - Balancing Arc

Forest Kelley's debut album, Silt, is the culmination of a decade-long sonic realization of a singular vision: nematoda, annelida, and other abyssal worms inhabiting the aphotic depths, sensing each other without light. Living and cavorting amongst a carpet of compressed dust and organic matter, as unaware of our existence as we are of theirs. To create this 'soundscape ecology', Kelley began developing custom software in 2018. It allows for sounds to function as organisms: to be born, express themselves, change through friction with their world, and then dissipate, transcend, or die. Silt represents a snapshot of this world; the raw material for this particular instance includes guitar-based recordings dating from 2004 in collaboration with Jacob Uretsky. Through Kelley's exacting and intuitive selection of the results, we are presented with an ever-evolving selection of sounds. On their surface perhaps intersecting with ambient dub techno tropes, but Silt draws the listener ever deeper into the zone with its organically shifting textures and events.

Forest Kelley is an artist, electronic musician, and experimental composer based in Lexington, Kentucky. In 2018, he contributed music to the score for the Academy Award-nominated and Criterion Collection-selected documentary 'Hale County This Morning, This Evening ' along with composers Alex Somers and Scott Alario.


Limited 125 copies
Holographic silver foil print on metallic paper
Recycled cassette shells and cases 
credits
releases March 29, 2022

Composed, recorded, and mastered by Forest Kelley in 2021.
Source guitar by Jacob Uretsky.
Audio finalized for cassette tape by Glyn Maier.
Design by RJM Vanderheyden.

SILT

"SILT" CASSETTE

ENXPL13 - FOREST KELLEY- SIDE B EXCERPT FROM "SILT"

Confidences


Je dis que l'avenir se souviendra de nous.

Je désire et je brûle.

À nouveau, l'Amour, le briseur de membres,
Me tourmente, doux et amer.
Il est insaisissable, il rampe.
À nouveau l'amour a mon cœur battu,
Pareil au vent qui, des hauteurs,
Sur les chênes s'est abattu.

Tu es venue, tu as bien fait:
J'avais envie de toi.
Dans mon cœur tu as allumé
Un feu qui flamboie.

Je ne sais ce que je dois faire,
Et je sens deux âmes en moi.

Je ne sais quel désir me garde possédée
De mourir, et de voir les rives
Des lotus, dessous la rosée.

Et moi, tu m'as oubliée. 

— Sappho

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image: “‘a hymn to the love that dares not speak its name.’ not for all eyes but just for those women who have walked soft in the dark dark light. i give you my praise - a song of many textures and moods.”

from the cover of pointblank times: a lesbian/feminist publication, vol. 2 no. 5, june 1976

Emma Thalia - Dessous la Rosée

Heavy revisit of Heimat - Unterwegs track,  by UVB76 

Teenage menopause strikes again releasing Heimat - REMIXES.
Following two manifesto-albums, which quickly became an influence of marginal musics in France, Olivier Demeaux & Armelle Oberlé asked artists whose directions they share to revisit some of the flagship titles of their catalog.

"We thus find there the priest of the English pysché Sonic Boom? the cantor of slow techno Toloose Low Trax, the experimenter of the modular_synths Le Crabe or Zohar, UVB76, PlimPlim and many others."
 
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/heimatmusic/
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/heimatofficiel

https://soundcloud.com/uvbsoixanteseize

Teenage Menopause Records 
 
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/rp2RUj6VcnSH9Vek6
https://instagram.com/teenage_menopause_records
https://www.facebook.com/teenagemenopauserds/
https://teenagemenopause.bandcamp.com

format : vinyl and digital
release date : 25th of november 2022

buy here : 
https://meineheimat.bandcamp.com/album/remixes

[PREMIERE] Heimat - Unterwegs - UVB76 Remix [Teenage Menopause records]

PREMIERE COMME DES LARMES – CDL

PREMIERE CDL || Helen Island - (;´༎ຶٹ༎ຶ`)[Unrealistic Expectations] (2023)

Artist »  Helen Island - https://soundcloud.com/violentquandonaime

                                       https://soundcloud.com/hyppydj

                                       https://triggermoral.bandcamp.com/

Ep Name »   Devil Dancers 

Label » Unrealistic Expectations - https://soundcloud.com/unrealexpect

Format: CASSETE and Digital

Release date: April 12, 2023

BUY HERE   >>>  https://unrealexpect.bandcamp.com/album/devil-dancers

Devil Dancers is a 20 track storytelling compilation of experimental minimal wave and punk electronics.

The title is a tribute to one of our favourite tracks by Oppenheimer Analysis (OA - Andy Oppenheimer and Martin Lloyd) that was originally self-released in 1982 on a cassette entitled "New Mexico" recorded at the height of the Cold War and home-taping boom.

A deep exploration through experimental and industrial fields featuring a lot of new and well known faces: Devil Dancers goes further in the label references, while Alan Harman, Panoptique, Helen Island (Violent Quand on Aime) and Le Matin show that the future is also bright for minimal synth.

Experimental music by Bound by Endogamy, Religius Order, Legion 808 and LostSoundBytes to set what is cool in industrial music.-

𝔖𝔴𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔰𝔴𝔢𝔯

Cover Illustration by: Zaskorski
Description: Martayak
Tapes: Camerom (Tutamen) 

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Art/Designer CDL by Rennst

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Devil Dancers

PREMIERE CDL || Helen Island - (;´༎ຶٹ༎ຶ`)[Unrealistic Expectations] (2023)

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Metamorphoses

excerpt from Frnk Hurrican's Pymp World LP

Frank Hurricane excerpt

https://12thisle.bandcamp.com/album/on-nature

We've decided to take a brief traipse away from our typical release schedule to present this digital exclusive from Athens based multi-instrumentalist Christos Chondropoulos. We're currently crossing the t's and dotting the i's on a forthcoming double LP, but such is the quality and quantity of his archive we opted to release these 9 recordings with a coinciding riso print from Crud* for you to do with as you please. Strictly available via Bandcamp, releases August 25th. From Christos:

"Philosophically you can regard this music as a fresh view of the ideas of Ferdinand de Saussure - Structuralism and Deconstruction. It is a new approach when it comes to linguistics, the traditional music of the area, where Greece stands as a crossroads and future intelligences. I was interested to hide a fundamental philosophical question in music which would have the same qualities and immediacy as the authentic local music of the area."

*Slow-to-cop chumps beware: The prints are a one-off run. Once they're gone, they're gone.

On Nature (12th Isle Masters)

Christos Chrondropoulos - On Nature (ISLE-DR01)

off-key cover of I`m so tired* by Fugazi

``out here, I can barely breathe,
surrounded by jealousy and greed.
I can`t be reached, only had one call,
trapped underneath, separate from you all.

this time i lost my return,
in spite of what i learned.
I hid my tracks, spit out all my air,
slipped into cracks, stripped of all my cares.

I`m so tired. sheep are counting me.
no more struggle, no more energy,
no more patient, you can write that down.
it`s all too crazy. I won`t stick around.``

*with slight lyrics adjustments, because of dyslexia, speech impediment and because why not;


**I was too tired to rerecord so just added another layer that was done with both the volca and vocoder set in slightly different pitches, hence it`s extremely off-key, but kinda fun in a way somehow imh0

my nye mantra (recording of a live performance for my cat from my couch)

Everything in between label founded in 2015 by @Cheb-Gero

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الآنسة ملك - يا عم يا خالي Al - Anesa Malak - Ya Am Ya Khali - ABADIR & Pie Are Squared

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