From upcoming "Affixt Enactivist" Box Set.
Coming Out November 8th 2022.

ANM050 Faithful — Thought Is A Forever - Self - Catching - Fall

Giant Bell, Wishing Instrument

@bonebrokk - In Between Two Worlds
Label: Infinite Machine
CAT#: IM107
Format: Digital
Release: November 24th, 2023

From the very start of Bonebrokk’s debut album, we are plunged into a downward spiral of industrial percussion and distorted voices. ‘Altered Realities’ builds a terrifying maelstrom out of what sounds like an engine in a deep tunnel, a seismic alarm, and a hype MC calling for help through a busted intercom. Soon a galloping kick appears and we are off to the races. From there, the record rarely lets up.

The sonic palette remains fairly consistent throughout, but the album covers a lot of ground rhythmically and stylistically, touching on deformed dancehall, hyperfuture dnb (Vassilina’s guest spot provides one of the few moments of relative tenderness), and loads of mutant, latin-inflected techno rollers. Two beatless interludes provide breathers—‘Timelines Melt’ and ‘Valey of Wolves’— although, as the titles might suggest, even these are steeped in dread.

Bonebrokk has crafted ‘In Between Two Worlds’ as a bridge into an imagined world that he can escape to, a respite from the banality of day jobs and our mundane everyday existence that club music can provide for us all.

bonebrokk - Altered Realities

Raheem 2

Raheem 2 (feat. Acre)

Taken from @saintabdullah & @eomac new album Light meteors crashing around you will not confuse you, out April 4, 2024, via @drownedbylocals.

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Saint Abdullah & Eomac rekindle their longstanding collaboration in this fiery new release sourced from the multiple cultural references and personal stories of its producers.

In their third installment entitled “Light meteors crashing around you will not confuse you”, the New York-based Iranian-Canadian siblings Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani-Yeganeh aka Saint Abdullah & Wicklow-based Irish producer Ian McDonnell aka Eomac continue their exploration of sounds and rhythms through an expansive use of sampling and heavy distorted beats. Passionately curious about diverse vocal and musical cultures as well as their own, the trio began their long-distance collaboration in 2019, releasing their first two albums, “Patience of a Traitor ” (Other People) and “Chasing Stateless” (Planet Mu) in 2022 and 2023 respectively.

The trio recorded the album as the world witnessed the genocide on Gaza, Mohammad notes that all tracks were “recorded within a few weeks in October after the war broke out as we tried to keep our heads above water.” The sound of Saint Abdullah is characterized by a keen interest to challenge cultural perceptions and expectations of diasporic narratives, by foregrounding sounds, field recordings, and sacred and profane music from the multiple worlds they belong to. They pay homage to the distinct influences, however sonically and culturally disparate, that have permeated their records and musical process so far. Together with Eomac, they continue a conversation shaped by their ever-growing sonic heritage and shared musical affinities. The inclusion of field recordings for example, often personal ones, are not ornamental but are integral parts of the whole album in which vocal samples are both used in moments of release or through thrusts of heavy beats, continually mirroring a state of unease.…

Reflecting on the recording process, Eomac notes that: “There is a strong influence and inspiration from hip-hop culture here. The beat-tape in particular. It’s rough, raw; rhythms are direct and not overthought. The beats are heavy and distorted for the most part, often shifting and changing throughout a single track. This brings an intentional “ungroundedness” to the record and a sense of tension.” Echoing this state of unsteadiness, Mohammad writes in a poem during the recording: “Those in the diaspora, are those that have left their home, by force, by will, somewhere in between. Are we the connective tissue that makes things more interesting?” Tracks like 'Bitch, I am Islam’ and ‘Rocknrallah’ relieve some of the sense of disorientation but are no less poignant. In the former, 'Bitch, I am Islam', Mohammad uses old personal recordings of his sisters reciting the Quran or repeating Iranian revolutionary chants like “War war, until victory”, an acknowledgment of the worlds they left behind and the ones that need building. In ‘Rocknrallah’ Abdel Ja7eem Hafeth sings a rendition of the 1933 American standard tune ‘Smoke gets in your eyes’ only to evoke the smoke coming out of Gaza.

The record also features fellow Iranian artists in the diaspora, musician and sound artist based in Paris Cinna Peyghamy and club experimentalist Aria Rostami. Ian Bruner, who worked on the album’s artwork, created a composite of the different elements and motifs that form the album, an image of arduous travel towards the mirage of Americana. In this historic period of grief and anger, ‘Light meteors crashing around you will not confuse you’ musically and conceptually engages world systems and beliefs through the experiences and stories of its producers.

Artwork by Ian Bruner

Mastered by Rashad Becker

Released by Drowned By Locals

Premiere: Saint Abdullah & Eomac - Overexposure will kill a pornstar [Drowned By Locals]

Petr Bursa is a waxing moon in the Prague experimental electronic scene. His debut EP Heart's Halo lures the listener into an eerie, fog-cloaked landscape, drawing us with a siren-like spell, a beckoning from the sonorous darkness that brings a momentary bewilderment only to wash it away in rushes of tenderness and awe. An ephemeral, yet pressing whisper guides the listener through a liminal journey into the whirl of dizzyingly looped synthesizers, erupting into vocals as tempestuous as frail. The image of being swallowed by mists and swayed by stormy seas is not a mere poetic association, but comprises the very core of Bursa's synaesthetic imaginary. It is an image both frightening and familiar, as universal as it is intimate, expressing sharply the intense reality of a windswept present that feels increasingly impossible to navigate. Bursa’s debut offers us a frosty, melodic consolation that the hardships of self-discovery are shared, and that while the planes of waves appear endless, we never sail them alone.


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released 19 May, 2024

Mastered by Wim Dehaen

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Heart's Halo

Imaginé comme une balade au pied d'un volcan, ce mix vient puiser dans la musique électronique pour y trouver des nappes et textures donnant l'impression d'un sol prêt à s'ébranler sous nos pieds. Une atmosphère douceureuse qui devient dangereuse puis finit par exploser avant de s'apaiser à nouveau. @pistacheofficielle @ACT RIGHT

Meanwhile - Caroline Polachek
Iliad - Malibu
A Study in Vastness - Ana Roxanne
Atmospheres Touch - Lucrecia Dalt
No Place Like Paphos - Spivak
shaolin mantis - Marina Herlop
Celestial Ether - Kedr Livanskiy
Fantas - Caterina Barbieri
Birth - Holly Herndon
Everything is unreal (Valentina Magaletti Edit) - Astrid Sonne
Elastica II - Mabe Fratti
Nausea - Rachika Nayar
Veil of Darkness - yeule
Meadow Corpse - Flora Yin-Wong
Extrait du documentaire Fire of Love de Sara Dosa - volcan entrant en éruption
gully creepa - Klein
CCTV - underscores
Drunk Walk Home - Mitski

ACT RIGHT Invite Pistache

OBSERVE A PACK vol.1

Birthday Beat 3

High Score Arcade

Short excerpt from a composition made through a recurrent neural network that I trained to simulate my voice, and then I trained my voice to simulate the neural network
للبعد وحده أسماء
نعيد ونكرّر وما
زال الصوت حركة
لا تمحوالأشياء
ولا تعيدها 
إلى مكانها
كخلاء متخيل
أسأله عن
إسمي 
وأسأله 
وأتعب 
من العبارة
فأحلم أن 
اختفي في عالم
حيث المسافة لا
تردّني الى
قربٍ يتوقف
يحلم أن يراني
خلسةً
كخبرٍ يختبئ 
في صورتي
اقتفي الأثر فلا
اكفي خطر
الاكتناف من قبل
اشياء تنظر
ولا تراني
في الأسماء
سمٍّ صغيرٍ
يجمعنا بعيداً
للبعض وحدهم أسماء
ها هي معركتي
وها أنا أصوت
دمّروا اللغة مع صديقات
وحيوانات (ربما
كالموسيقى) خفيّةs

ANM050 Faithful — Thought Is A Forever - Self - Catching - Fall

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