MELTING POINT

Les Mystères de Lorient

Night in Carnac

blow x deeeeeeefers
i own nothing. i am small and vulnerable and innocent

BLOWN OUT (kesha blow x against all logic deeeeeeefers)

Firefly

black light smoke "Screws In My Head"

A kaleidoscopic sonic riot, Nandakke? is the hotly anticipated debut album from Japanese-Belgian duo Aili. Featuring 10 tracks of surreal electro-pop, joyful electronica, house music and more, Nandakke? is a euphoric album that sees Aili Maruyama and Orson Wouters more than fulfil the promise of their acclaimed debut EP. https://soundcloud.com/ailimakesmusic

Recorded over the course of six months in Orson's studio, packed full of vintage synths, Nandakke? captures the spontaneous spirit and creativity of those sessions. Exchanging riffs and rhythms, bouncing sounds and samples off each other, Aili and Orson would let the music take them where it wanted. The result, an album full of wild ideas and bold, playful experimentation.

More than anything an exhilarating feeling of discovery courses through Nandakke?, leaving you never sure where it will go next. One minute a pulsing electro-pop number featuring Aili's dad discussing his takoyaki (battered octopus) recipe, the next an explosive high energy workout song like Up & Down.

Certainly Aili was surprised to find herself singing in her own unique version of Japanese again.

"I thought that I was done with that after our debut EP, but apparently not as I speak even more Japanese on the album!" said Maruyama. "Every time we were in the studio these words would just tumble out. It's a complicated language but I just love to play with it.

“In many ways I'm an outsider, I left Tokyo aged 7, so there's a lot I notice as someone who is not a native speaker and it doesn't always make sense, there’s a lot of mistakes in it. But in a way that sums up the whole philosophy of the album and how Orson and I work together.”

That notion of duality, a sense of belonging but feeling apart, of being between two worlds and inventing your own captures the spirit of Nandakke?, itself a Japanese word that roughly translates to "Well, what was it?".

"It's something you say when you're looking for a word, like you know it but have forgotten how to say it. That's literally how I communicate with my dad the whole time," Maruyama explains. "The main feeling I have when I go to Japan is that I know the language, I can speak it, but part of me still feels like it doesn't have all the vocabulary. There’s a gap there that nandakke has always filled for me. All the lyrics come from that place, that seven-year old trying to speak Japanese."

Whether Aili’s singing about the language she invented with her father over the years to bridge the gap between them (Nandakke?), the idiosyncratic Japanese relationship to fashion (Fashion) or riffing on children’s playground songs (Yubikiri) the result is a remarkable album that defies easy categorisation.

Bursting onto the Belgian scene in 2021 with their acclaimed debut EP, Dansu, its lead track spent 8 consecutive weeks at the #1 spot of Radio 1’s VOX list and saw the band nominated for Studio Brussel’s De Nieuwe Lichting (‘New Generation’) award. Since then Aili have appeared playing live on the Belgian TV show Roomies, been tipped by the likes of Rolling Stone, become regulars on tastemaker stations like KEXP and KCRW in the US and Nova in France, toured across Europe and, just recently, played their first sell out shows in Japan.

TRACKLIST 
1. Aili - Nandakke?
2. Aili - Babychan
3. Aili - Yubikiri
4. Aili - Fashion
5. Aili - Ichibansen
6. Aili - Takoyaki
7. Aili - Up & Down
8. Aili - Gari Gari
9. Aili - Oyasumi
10. Aili - 東京 2023

Nandakke?

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Aili - Oyasumi [Eskimo Recordings]

originally released february 2nd 2024, now on soundcloud (august 2025)

https://countrysideraveartprojectrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ossidi

For our first tape, the Icon of Sin presents to you 8 post-industrial society techno-electro tracks perfect for the Neo-Feudalist workhouse!

Undoubtably our bleakest release yet, they’ll really get you going (to work past a reasonable retirement age) in their grim and grey grooves, baby!

Futuristic and technologically led past the point of return, drowning in a muddy ancient river; the album conjures a world of firing pistons, frightened people and automated production lines.
The downtempo doomsday soundscapes are at once Detroit Electro, London Hardcore, Norwegian Black Metal and (dare I say it) Berlin Techno.

Here's a blurb from the icon himself:

“I wrote this album over a short period of time (about one week) in 2021. At the time I was living in Hackney central, in a relatively small and cold flat next to the loud Mare Street. I was going through a particularly dark and hopeless period of time due to isolation and post lockdown depression.
The windows of the flat were paper thin, vibrating loudly, too often. I had a lots of sleepless nights, which resulted in this record. I worked in a bottling line at the time, the industrial and repetitive, almost dehumanising environment definitely influenced this album.

The music was written fully on my Octatrack (apart for the track “Benders” which was performed with my modular rack). Everything has been recorded in one take as it comes out from the machine, with minimal mixing and mastering and no post production.
The sonic palette features a couple eurorack modules, sampling from Italian television and whatnot; but most importantly a lot of field recording of machineries I found in the factory I was working at, as well as random captures of environments around me - including Hackney’s busy streets - all mangled and arranged in the Octatrack.

Enjoy!” - Matteo, 2024

C.R.A.P.013/C.R.A.P T.001 
credits
released February 2, 2024

The Icon of Sin - Bottom of the Sea

Travis Scott Type Beat _ We Are The Fallen _ Kanye West Type Beat

Unfathomable

Cabaret Nocturne - Dance or Die EP is his first for the label, and includes 3 original tracks of dark brooding menace - channeling new beat and 80's EBM sounds. This great EP has also includes a remix from up and coming Lithuanian producers Roe Deers. (words by WhyPeopleDance)

Stores:
Beatport - btprt.dj/2bICBSi
Juno - bit.ly/2bWjyju
Spotify - spoti.fi/2bQMtoF
iTunes - apple.co/2bgfBaP

Played, supported and loved by:
22Rockets / Alvaro Cabana (Rotten City) / Andrew Claristidge (Acid Washed) / Betoko / Bird of Paradise / Chris Massey (Sprechen) / Curses / Dave P (Making Time Radio) / daWad / Drvg Cvltvre / Did Virgo / Duncan Gray / Eric Duncan (Still Going - Rub n Tug - Dr Dunks) / Fairmont / Franz (Slow Motion) / Front de Cadeaux / Gabriel Ferreira / Justin (No Strings Attached) / Leri Ahel (Mutant Disco Radio Show) / Johnson / Justin Robertson / Local Suicide / LosBikini / Low Manuel / Mushrooms Project / Nathan (Cowboy Rhythmbox) / Paul (Cosmonauts) / Pete Herbert / Philippe (Club Bizarre) / Phred Noir (La Dame Noir - Slow Porn) / Psychemagik / Remain / Sonns (Split Secs) / The Hacker / Thomass Jackson / Two Mamarrachos / Undo / Yan Wagner …

Released by: Nein Records
Catalogue number: NEIN090
Release date: September 2, 2016
© 2016 Nein Records

Artwork by Chanic

Dance Or Die

Green Karma

Green Karma [preview]

Taken from Lepyong - 4fjke5ltb2nu1t [DMS018]
Out on June 8th

Pre-order here : https://tripalium.bandcamp.com/album/dms018-4fjke5ltb2nu1t

Hardware and synthetizer enthusiast, Lepyong plays with his TB-303 like a natural extension of his own body. Insipired by early rave 90s, video games and gabber's hallucinated hoovers, he delivers a dark and melodic acid techno, made for intimate listening but also giant dancefloors.

Passioné maladif de synthés et de hardware en général, Lepyong utilise la TB 303 comme si c'était le prolongement naturel de son corps, tirant son nom de scène des sonorités si particulières produites par le fameux synthétiseur. Inspiré par l'early rave 90s, les jeux vidéos et les hoovers hallucinés du gabber, il délivre une acid techno sombre et mélodique, calibrée aussi bien pour l'écoute intimiste que pour les dancefloors massifs.

TRACKLIST :
A1. qr2gpm4ab
A2. vs0i7ga2v
A3. akl2lpm471asr
B1. tnbv5a1
B2. lhqaz990iov

[TRIPALIUM CORP] - Digital Mutant Series 018

Lepyong - Qr2gpm4ab [DMS018]

early support from : Ben Sims, Slam, Oscar Mulero, Paula Cazenave, Ben Klock, Dimi Angelis, Amotik, Abstract Division, Etapp Kyle, Chris Liebing, Terence Fixmer, P.E.A.R.L, Advanced Human, Peter Van Hoesen, ARKVS, Fixon, Cari Lekebusch and many more!

www.beatport.com/track/proton-original-mix/10160657

Steve Parker - Proton

6 Tracks EP 45RPM 
Hand made artwork on disco bag
Limited to 200 copies numbered
released 15 Sept 2017

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