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

TRACKLIST:
01. Coby Sey - Dew Notes
02. Dasychira - Care's Room
03. Yikii - Cobalt Blue 鈷藍
04. GRASPS - 100000000 YEARS
05. Diego Navarro - Bara No Seidou
06. nunu - Rift
07. Alex Compton - Still Alive
08. Golin - forever x
09. svengali & a.b. thompson - salvo
10. GEWZER - MIRACLES
11. FAKETHIAS - Teeth
12. CECILIA - Neige
13. SCRAAATCH - blue light
14. ssaliva - Limp
15. Spirit Liberation Front - ILLUSION BREAK
16. Hyph11E - Spark
17. Cnámha - Rebirth To Fire
18. PTWIGGS x FALSE PRPHT - Wicked City
19. kittens in the bin - yellow snake

Cover by @lei.1.6 & @hilsth__
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta
Special thx to Vecteur Dissident & Underscope.

FAKETHIAS - Teeth

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

Taken from SBKT058: Nahash - A Snake In Your House
Release date: 21st June 2023

Nahash returns to SVBKVLT with ‘A Snake In Your House’, a 4-track club EP, including collaborations with XXLAB’s Elise Massoni and dOP’s JAW, and packaged with two deadly remixes from Tim Reaper and Brodinski.

‘’ A snake came into your house, he said it was just to talk. A snake always has an agenda, it’s never just to talk. He crawled around and criticized your art and your lifestyle. The snake brought an apple pie and didn’t share any. He talked of the days in Eden, the time of plenty. He talked of his time in the court of the emperor Davide IX. He shed his skin and overstayed his welcome. He came to steal your land and chase away your friends and family. When you invite a snake in your house keep a broom close, he might never leave’’

Artwork by Tina Blakeney
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Nahash - Illuminato

A Snake In Your House

Nahash - A Snake In Your House

After encountering a green-sounding sound in a leafy spring/autumn, I kept myself looking for it – losing it, and… wandering lost, and… then being surrounded by it, when I didn’t expect it – looking back over my path, I could see a four-pointed constellation cast up from four different bpm-ecosystems, and an ambient core that had rose up and held a sundown’s worth of its sound-citizens’s dreaming – and then the pink wind blew my hair in my face again.

- NM

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We are thrilled to welcome UK-based artist, DJ, and cultural practitioner, Nahi Mitti to the label for their second album, "Nahi Mitti and the City".

Lithe in their perpetual movement and fearless in their curiosity, these five tracks are sewn together with an organismic intuition. Threads of club structures bubble up through spiraling ambience–unfamiliar textures appear and reappear until revealing a patient songcraft.

“Nahi Mitti and the City” is a mesmerizing feat of sonic world-building. We invite you to find your own path through the City.

- SLINK

Nahi Mitti and the City

BANDCAMP

Nahi Mitti - City

@diessa1312 and @eyezauk serve up four supercharged tracks of Warhammer 40K-inspired breaks and bass on @infinite-machine

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-diessa-x-eyeza-nuns-guns

Premiere: Diessa x Eyeza ‘Nuns With Guns’

Listen to "Got 2 Know" by Pouty's Rage taken from 'Don't Hang In The Alley' out on 3rd May via Joog Music

Pre-order: https://joogmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dont-hang-in-the-alley

Links:
Pouty's Rage
soundcloud.com/poutysrage
Joog Music
https://soundcloud.com/dajoogmusic
https://joogmusic.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.instagram.com/joogmusic
www.instagram.com/poutysrage

Don't Hang In The Alley

pre-order / bandcamp

[Premiere] Pouty's Rage - Got 2 Know (Joog Music)

visuals | Rafael Costa Messias
https://rafaelcostamessias.com/

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hard like the enemy [TBFW (s)MASHUP]

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The End

Infinitefreefall - Ex-Friends #1
out now via Collected Recordings
Bandcamp: http://store.infinitefreefall.com/album/ex-friends-1
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/infiniteff/sets/ex-friends-1-out-6-24

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