"intricate drums beautifully absorb gleaming, vapour-like soundscapes"

thru

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first track from my new album on Theory Therapy

"Glasgow-based producer and INDEX:Records co-owner Conna Haraway unveils his debut solo release on Theory Therapy – 8 tracks of luminous electronics and restless textures too amorphous to be neatly categorised into a particular genre. Over 40+ minutes, the co:clear founder fuses dubbed-out illbient abstractions, voluminous low end and aquatic gurgles into unconventional analgesic soundscapes. The overall result is something immersive, visceral, and psychedelic – a fully-fledged sound that sits somewhere between delirium and bliss.

Lusidiq features 3 remixes by Seoul duo Salamanda, Philadelphia-based DJ and producer Opheliaxz, and Adam Dove, best known as sound artist Nexcyia."

Written and produced by Conna Haraway
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Artwork by Conna Haraway

Lusidiq

tapes & digis

Fractals

Far Away Dub

bandcamp

chaser

What happens when dubby drum & bass meets Dischord’s post-punk colossus Black Eyes? “Break” is the new EP from NY’s Relaxer, the long running alias of Daniel Martin-McCormick (Black Eyes, Ital and co-founder of Dripping), and it signals a decisive shift in his music. 

Prompted by friends to write a drum & bass live set just as Black Eyes was reuniting, the results didn’t quite fit the d&b genre. But it felt right. Quick, nimble, with room for the ferocity of his favorite post punk and some of the spaciousness of dub. Evergreen vibes, really, but seen from a fresh perspective.
 
Honed over a period of two years, the five tracks on “Break” fuse Relaxer’s careening, technoid sounds with free jazz-tinted drum programming, snarling sound design and spacious echo trails. It’s a perfect fit for 29 Speedway’s future-facing, exploratory anti-genre approach to electronics. The tape features two remixes by the singular DJ Marcelle and mastering by Dubplates & Mastering. Daniel tells his side of the story below:

“Two years ago my friends who run the drum ‘n’ bass party Headznite asked me to write a live set for a Ukraine fundraiser they were putting on. Right at the same time, my punk band Black Eyes was having our first practices in 20 years, which meant I was re-training my body to scream at top volume and high registers and to lay into my guitar at full force. In those same months, Dripping was forming and ideas were flying for crazy, boundary-pushing lineups. I had just finished writing the meditative composition suite “In Softening Air” and was feeling the call; it was time to let it rip. 

Everything poured into that live set for Headznite, and a new style was born. Relaxer had begun as a decisively techno project, but pushing the BPMs and working in drum breaks tweaked the formula enough to cut any lingering ties with that ethos. 

Over the next two years I kept on it, writing more, recording, pushing the technique and exploring the sound. “Break” is the first time any of this work has been made public. Sometimes a  detour can hack your brain. My first dance 12” as Ital was supposed to be a one-off side project to my punk band and it ended up taking over my life. Now punk music is calling asking for the debt to be repaid. Fuck it.”


Burning Spear

'Ozon Dub', from Andriy K. - LMNL002 - 'Poetry of the Vanished Territories'

Visualiser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVJjhwK7qXU

Preorder: oscillasound.bandcamp.com/album/lmnl002-poetry-of-the-vanished-territories




Andriy K. - Ozon Dub

XENIA REAPER returns to INDEX:Records with ‘Gambling’ – a requiem to noughties trance-euphoria, with a contemporary ambient twist. A collection of nine deep, emotionally-explosive tracks that wrench your heart, as much as your gut.

Exclusive to this edition is a made-to-order transparent 12” LP lathe, cut by Disc Archive in Berlin – super limited though, so get your pre-order in ASAP if you’d like a piece.

Written & Produced by XENIA REAPER
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Artwork by Lucas Dupuy

Gambling

XENIA REAPER – You Really [INDEX:019]

NIGHT VISION

MANIFEST

A real hard and nasty breakbeat track designed to erupt a dance floor.

thru – nos [APPX:05]

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