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A collaborative effort from ANTI-MASS residents; @turkana_ss , @authenticallyplastic and @nsasi_ug. DOXA emerged from a year of group experiments & listening sessions between the three artists. It reflects their common interest in shaking up traditional forms, techniques & palettes; exploring them in all directions, discovering new tensions in familiar methods, always with an eye towards the alien & disorienting. The opening track “Galiba” takes its inspiration from “Kadodi”, the male circumcision ritual from Eastern Uganda, and “Baksimba”, a royal dance from the Buganda region, and reconstructs them through a decidedly perverse lens.

A newfound affinity for the music of the Diaspora also serves as a motor for these collaborative experiments. Authentically Plastic recently spoke to Borshch Magazine about:

“discovering the ghost of one genre in the other…all the industrial potentials of Gqom waiting to be actualised, and all those 'Gqom tendencies' in Industrial & Noise that usually go unnoticed. It has nothing to do with merging, or combining, but gliding; drawing a line between the two that is an expression in its own right."

The lead single “Diesel Femme” draws from Turkana & Authentically Plastic’s interest in Techno, Industrial & Gqom; making connections between these disparate worlds. Nsasi’s playful solo track brings to mind the loose arrangements of Chicago House, just as much as it does the polyrhythmic percussion of their culture. There’s an undeniable joy here, that comes from assembling sounds or phenomena that have nothing to do with each other, stacking them, stretching them, distorting them; sometimes beyond recognition, and other times accidentally arriving at something vaguely familiar. This openness to unpredictability is generally fuelled by Kampala’s young, but thriving underground music scene; as well as the resilient, queer friendships that have emerged from this small collective; its ethics of care & mutual support.

DOXA

Single by Turkana & Authentically plastic, off forthcoming Split EP "DOXA".

As a collaborative effort from ANTI-MASS residents; Turkana, Nsasi, & Authentically Plastic, DOXA emerged from a year of group experiments & listening sessions between the three artists. It reflects their common interest in shaking up traditional forms, techniques & palettes; making them leak in all directions, discovering new tensions in familiar methods, always with an eye towards the alien & disorienting. The opening track / video “Galiba” takes its inspiration from “Kadodi”, the male circumcision ritual from Eastern Uganda, and “Baksimba”, a royal dance from the Buganda region, and reconstructs them through a decidedly perverse lens. 

A newfound affinity for the music of the Diaspora also serves as a motor for these collaborative experiments. Authentically Plastic recently spoke to Borshch Magazine about: 

“discovering the ghost of one genre in the other…all the industrial potentials of Gqom waiting to be actualised, and all those 'Gqom tendencies' in Industrial & Noise that usually go unnoticed. It has nothing to do with merging, or combining, but gliding; drawing a line between the two that is an expression in its own right."

The lead single “Diesel Femme” draws from Turkana & Authentically Plastic’s interest in Techno, Industrial & Gqom; making connections between these disparate worlds. Nsasi’s playful solo track brings to mind the loose arrangements of Chicago House in the vein of Hieroglyphic Being, or Mutant Beat Dance, just as much as it does the polyrhythmic percussion of his local culture. There’s an undeniable joy here, that comes from assembling sounds or phenomena that have nothing to do with each other, stacking them, stretching them, distorting them; sometimes beyond recognition, and other times accidentally arriving at something vaguely familiar. This openness to unpredictability is generally fuelled by Kampala’s young, but thriving underground music scene; as well as the resilient, queer friendships that have emerged from this small collective; its ethics of care & mutual support.

Turkana & Authentically Plastic - Diesel Femme

Nsasi & Turkana - Binia Yei

Turkana - Influencer Convention

Nsasi - Grind

Authentically Plastic & Nsasi - Galiba

Since “Narimasu” EP released last year by label USI KUVO (Tokyo), Tokyo based producer DJ/Producer WRACK has been seeking to make Japanese-style club music. As for the first release on the label, WRACK combines genres like GQOM and GORGE with this 4-track EP album ”Hotto Kotto”, which is also keeping his Japanese scale style and iconic sound on club music description.

WRACK had released many bangers by albums/V.A with labels in recent years, such as NAAFI, Eco Futurism Corporation, Club Late Music, Oxyorange, Absurd TRAX, CyberSonicLA, Babel Records. He also organized club party CHEMICAL MONSTERS in Tokyo which invited NAAFI's Imaabs, Lao, Zutzut, Fausto Bahia, Mexican Jihad, STAYCORE's Dinamarca, Mechatok, Intruder Alert's B.YHZZ etc.

Pre-order via: https://overmybody.bandcamp.com/album/hotto-kotto

https://soundcloud.com/overmybodytw
https://soundcloud.com/wrack90

Pre-order

Premiere: WRACK - Gustom [Over My Body]

Taken from SBKT050: ABADIR - Mutate
Release date: 22nd July 2022

Marking the 50th release-proper on SVBKVLT, we are excited to present ‘Mutate’, a new album by ABADIR.

‘Mutate’ started when I was trying out Maqsoum loops at high bpm blended with Jungle tracks during one of my DJ sets. I noticed that the Maqsoum rhythm complements the Amen break in a refreshing way. The first time I actually tried integrating both in my productions using “call and response” was when Ice_Eyes asked me to remix one of their tracks. The result was the closest to what I had always imagined to be my own club sound.

I set out to make an album using the same technique with some of my favorite club genres. My aim was to mutate those genres, collecting different types of Arabic rhythms and cooking them with Jungle, Jersey Club, Reggaeton, Footwork, etc. It’s an irreversible equation, like a chemical reaction, where the output is a melted piece which cannot be broken down into its separate inputs. Instead of ‘deconstructing’ or generally looking beyond club music, I made some fatty, straight up dance floor music.’ – ABADIR

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AِBADIR (Rami Abadir) is a music producer and sound designer born in Cairo, Egypt. His work focuses on experimental, club, glitch and ambient music, and he’s one half of the duo 0N4B. .

Artwork: Luke Griffiths
Photograph: Omar Elkafrawy
Mastering: Raphael Valensi
Special thanks to Amira Elmasry

Mutate

ABADIR - Blame it on SUTRA

Taken from SBKT051: Swimful - Rushlight
Artwork: Luke Griffiths
Mastering: Raphael Valensi
Release Date: 14th September 2022

Returning for his 5th release on SVBKVLT, we are excited to present ‘Rushlight’, a 5 track EP by Swimful, with remixes from Hyperdub’s Ikonika and Nyege Nyege’s Phelimuncasi, and artwork by Luke Griffiths.

Rushlight

Swimful - Viatica

Este podría ser el el lanzamiento más profundo, suave y un poco triste, que Viiaan nos ofrece. Se trata de estar presente y permanecer en el momento, se trata de pensar en las personas que ya no están.

This is a deeper release, mellow and kind of sad, from Viiaan. It's about being present and staying in the moment, it's about thinking about the people that are not around anymore.

Feb 3th vía https://viiaan.bandcamp.com

Master: Lauro Robles aka Lao

PREMIERE #40 Viiaan - Asfodelo

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Heavy-duty Indian soundsystem carnage by its leading proponent DJ Smiley Bobby, on Uganda’s immense NNT - unmissable for anyone wowed by recent videos of Indian sound clashes, priming the label for incoming heat by DJ TSR.

A proper mazza from Maharashtra State in Western India, DJ Smiley Bobby’s ‘Dhol Tasha Drum Exercises’ presents nearly an hour of up-to-the-second, electronic re-interpretations of ceremonial drums. It’s a full-frontal example of the rave energies in BRIC countries currently catching fire internationally, paralleling innovative mutations of Baile funk in Brazil or from the Svbkvlt lot in China with a ruthlessly rough brand of dancefloor discipline that sharply bends tradition into the hot present. Yr ears will not deceive you - DJ Smiley Bobby’s gear is frankly some of the sickest we’ve heard in a minute and we expect this introduction to be prized by any ravers unsatisfied with Western club music’s increasing tendencies to imitate-not-innovate.

First formed by the late Shri Appasaheb Pendse in the ‘60s, Dhol Tasha Drum exercises were originally performed on a sort of acoustic kettle drum but became electronically adapted in recent years thanks to the likes of DJ Smiley Bobby and peers including DJ Aasif, DJ Ammy, and DJ TSR, the latter of whom is due to drop an album with NNT this year. DJ Smiley Bobby’s introductory session finds the sound at its stripped down and breathless best with a ceaseless battery of drums and percussive madness that truly puts willing bodies thru their paces as the mixtape steps from side A’s 90-110bpm workout to its 150bpm ‘Hard Drum Sound System’ on the flip.

Also kinda mirroring the way DJ Plead has flipped Arabic drum styles, how Bilou XIV have transposed Senegalese mbalax drum patterns onto machine grids, or DJ Diaki’s Malian balani knee-ups, we’re certain this one will light up the pleasure centres of proper dancers everywhere, and dovetail with the sort of thing Beatrice Dillon makes, or anyone who’s been scouting zones where Indian bhangra and UK rave music bump fists, a la Mick St. Clair’s remixes of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

Un-fucking-missable!!!

DJ SMILEY BOBBY - Dhol Tasha Drum Exercises from Maharashtra (sampler)

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Following guest shows on NTS and Radio Bonita, Philadelphia based artist and producer Kat Nzingha joins TT to present their debut EP, Angeltribe.

Mixing and mastering - Kat Nzingha
Artwork - Josh Crumpler
www.katnzingha.com
soundcloud.com/katnzingha

Angeltribe

Kat Nzingha - Antinomianism

easy... cop over at boomkat. big up to the don henzo..

Henzo - Not Like That, Not Like You (Worldwide Unlimited 022) Previews

Off the "Coast to Coast" EP
Out now on Growth in Decay

Mastered by Ben Hixon
Artwork by Julian C. Duron

Authentically Plastic & Nsasi - Galiba

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