Appendix.files [APPX:]

Moneda

APPX:01_02

info: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/pba-katatonic-silentio
https://katatonicsilentio.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/katatonicsilentio

Katatonic Silentio

PBA – Katatonic Silentio

end of the year thoughts and intentions
in a self-release "survivors kit" by @perila
https://perilazone.bandcamp.com/album/survivors-kit

we can’t control what’s happening outside but we can take care of the inside so the outside feels better.

perila – barefeeter

APPX:08

Reinartz – Sequences

Tracklist:
01 C1
02 C2
03 D1
04 D2

All profits to be donated to www.rainforesttrust.org

Written & Produced by @rreinartz
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Digital art by Amos Turner

Released by:
APPX: (Appendix.files) subsidiary of INDEX:Records

Contact:
indexrecords@cyborgorgy.com

digis & lathes

APPX:08 – Reinartz – Sequences (previews)

For its 7th release, Moneda is proud to announce Cathedral, a work by Mihalis Shammas. It features a unique string instrument: the Lyraei, which Shammas designed, engineered and fabricated over the last two years.

The album is comprised of five longform drone compositions, captured over a series of one-take improvisations. They were recorded during isolation, in a period when Shammas, like many other artists, were unable to perform live. In a sense, the recordings capture the intention of those live performances that have been suspended indefinitely, droning away. Hence, our decision to share this work with some restrictions that serve not as a paywall, but as an invitation to enter through the walls of sound and experience the work in its totality, as an imaginary performance would have been.

The ‘Lyraei’ is an eight-string walnut instrument, featuring deconstructed and redesigned string exciters that oscillate according to the waveforms of analog signals; that is, the movements found in traditional analog synthesizers is transposed to the oscillating vibrations that resonate the metallic strings, to create different electric-dependent harmonics. This quality alone sets it miles apart from the more conventional layering of e-bowed guitar strings drone music. Especially, when one considers that the instrument features tuners that can be adjusted in real-time to explore microtonal dissonances and an eight-channel mixer to blend the signals of each string.

It is tempting to keep disseminating the instrument, but as the recordings of the performances reveal, Mihalis Shammas pays equal attention to expression. Already known as a well-versed live performer, in Cathedral, Shammas’ affinity to detail and nuance, make him unavoidably a master of the instrument.

For the artwork, Mihalis’ brother and frequent collaborator Demetris Shammas, takes the fabrication 3d drawings of this instrument a step further and reconceives it as an architectural structure of an imaginary cathedral, faintly reminding us of Lyonel Feininger’s cathedral woodcut on the Bauhaus manifesto, where Walter Gropius called artists to return to craft in the service of a metaphorical cathedral of the future.

In many ways, we think Cathedral pays tribute to that often-forgotten communal ethos found in early Bauhaus theory, one in which art is made in the workshop, with other fellow craftspeople, and, more importantly, for the people. An overarching ethos that Shammas’ work encapsulates where design, craftmanship, artistic expression and engineering, do not stampede for the recognition institutions impose but instead move freely between artist and artisan, architect and engineer, to offer a glimpse of what that ‘cathedral of the future’ might be. 

Released March 17, 2022

Performed, recorded, and mixed by Mihalis Shammas
Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi
Artwork and design by Demetris Shammas
Artistic direction by Emiddio Vasquez

For more information on the instrument and Mihalis Shammas' work: mihalisshammas.com/Lyraei

Support

Mihalis Shammas - Ascending (MON007)

APPX:09

XENIA REAPER – Plain

Tracklist:
01 DREH03
02 GEEEG
03 Stereo Dipole
04 HTZEE M
05 OMNNM1
06 CONTINUATION SHAPE

All profits to be donated to the APPX:Fund

Written & Produced by @user-951049725-782254964
Mastered by @ikezwanikken
Digital art by @amos-turner

Released by:
APPX: (Appendix.files) subsidiary of INDEX:Records

Contact:
indexrecords@cyborgorgy.com

Plain

APPX:09 – XENIA REAPER – Plain (previews)

APPX:10

Cypher – Glasgow

(Cypher is @aradacid @exael @mutate3k & @specialguest-dj)

Tracklist:
01 ground
02 fold
03 give
04 fall in

All profits to be donated to the APPX:Fund.

Written & Produced by Cypher
Additional mixing by Amos Turner & Ike Zwanikken
Mastered by @ikezwanikken
Digital art by @amos-turner

Released by:
APPX: (Appendix.files) subsidiary of INDEX:Records

Contact:
indexrecords@cyborgorgy.com

Glasgow

APPX:10 – Cypher – Glasgow (previews)

APPX:11 by @djbirdbath

Tracklist:
01 Fall
02 Clasp
03 Wish
04 To See
05 Spec
06 Leaves In Water

All profits to be donated to the APPX:Fund.

Written & Produced by Ian Baxter
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Digital art by Amos Turner

Released by:
APPX: (Appendix.files) subsidiary of INDEX:Records

Contact:
indexrecords@cyborgorgy.com

releases March 24, 2023

Blue Tear

APPX:11 – DJ Birdbath – Blue Tear (previews)

APPX:12 by @corellmusic

Tracklist:
01 Under The Surface
02 Fragility
03 G7
04 Melts Into Air
05 Collides (feat. Igor Dyachenko)
06 Open Air

All profits to be donated to the APPX:Fund.

Written & Produced by Roman Kutnov
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Digital art by Amos Turner

Released by:
APPX: (Appendix.files) subsidiary of INDEX:Records

Contact:
indexrecords@cyborgorgy.com
credits
releases March 24, 2023

Melts Into Air

APPX:12 – Corell – Melts Into Air (previews)

Russian sonic marauders Flaty & OL serve up the second edition of their SERWED project for West Mineral. 

Distributed by Boomkat
Vinyl & Digital out MARCH 2020


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Initial 2                  (2:29)
Plastm                   (4:29)
Save vs. Spell       (3:24)
Grip                       (3:56)
In Spare                (2:40)
••
Lima                      (2:31)
Shade Lyra           (4:49)
Live Cut 01.06.19 (1:35)
Plane                     (4:54)
Promises               (4:11)


www.westmineral.ltd
www.serwed.com
OL www.soundcloud.com/moneyisagas
Flaty www.soundcloud.com/producedbyflaty

Serwed – Serwed II (OUEST093) [Preview]

APPX:02

Artist: @vasesound
Album/EP: Variations

Tracklist:
01 Striph
02 Three Trees
03 Gemelos
04 Teser

Music written & produced by Jorge Camacho
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Design by Amos Turner & Ike Zwanikken
Release date: 28/09/2020

Released by: APPX: (Appendix.files) subsidiary of INDEX:Records

Contact: indexrecords@cyborgorgy.com

APPX:02 - Vase - Variations (previews)

APPX01:

Artist: @uasmi-nasser
Album/EP: Distributed Systems

Tracklist:
01 Introduction to Threads
02 Feedback Control Model
03 Differential
04 Factory 89

Music written & produced by Uasmi Nasser
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Design by Amos Turner & Ike Zwanikken
Release date: 28/09/2020

Released by: APPX: (Appendix.files) subsidiary of INDEX:Records

Contact: indexrecords@cyborgorgy.com

APPX:01 - Uasmi Nasser - Distributed Systems (previews)

NTS SHOW 

https://www.nts.live/shows/pandoras-jukebox/episodes/pandora-s-jukebox-7th-september-2020

art: Superstudio 1969

STORY N*43 NTS 7920

Lukas Danys, Lithuanian DJ and visual artist based in Copenhagen.

Lukas Danys [04.11.2020]

APPX:03

@nueen - Form

Tracklist:
01 Sharp Grey
02 Thek
03 Nodes
04 V444V

All profits to be donated to www.rainforest-alliance.org

releases February 1, 2021

Written & Produced by Nacho Blanco Pezzati
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Design by Amos Turner & Ike Zwanikken

Released by:
APPX: (Appendix.files) subsidiary of INDEX:Records

Contact:
indexrecords@cyborgorgy.com

Form

APPX:03 – Nueen - Form (previews)

@aradacid
@sodagong

https://sodagong.bandcamp.com/album/flowered-knife-shadows

flowered knife shadows

arad acid - koch metish (exael remix)

A mix of chance impressions and coincident piano sequences.

Her Digital Body - Mix

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