Name: Chants, 'Burned All the Way Down' (2019). Courtesy Astral Plane Recordings, Los Angeles. by AQNB in weakly #9
Duration: 3 min 23 s
Description: See here for more info: https://www.aqnb.com/2019/08/16/chants-draws-big-band-beats-post-club-aesthetics-for-the-marimba-led-movement-of-burned-all-the-way-down/

weakly #9

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Mastering by @djgapdjgap
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Evita Manji - Body/Prison
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 136S
Format: DL
Release Date: 05 December 2022
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/Body_Prison

'Body/Prison' the first single of Evita Manji's forthcoming debut album 'Spandrel?' is out now.

In evolutionary biology, the term spandrel refers to the features of an organism that aren't developments for survival, and seemingly possess no obvious purpose. The word is taken from an architectural label for the triangular spaces in the corner of an arch: small aesthetic elements that provide symmetry and demarcate boundaries. Musician and vocalist Evita Manji asks an opaque question on their debut album, wondering in the face of immense loss what elements of ourselves might be for endurance, and what might just be decoration. Their tracks, pieced together from the vapors of contemporary club music, baroque pop, and experimental sound design, are a way for Manji to examine their relationship with the world at large and within, disassembling systems of control and highlighting interconnectedness.

Manji has been an ethereal presence on the scene for the last few years, collaborating with numerous artists as both a sound artist and a creative director. Last year, they launched their own platform myxoxym, where they debuted two singles from "Spandrel?" and assembled an ambitious fundraiser compilation featuring Rainy Miller, Palmistry, Cecile Believe and others, raising money for Greek wildlife fund ANIMA. Performing across the world at festivals such as Unsound, Lunchmeat, and Rhizom, Manji has also appeared at clubs in Berlin and London, and was picked to represent the Shape+ platform in 2022. These experiences teem through "Spandrel?", helping them weave a complex artistic tapestry that seeks to look far beneath the surface of existence, attempting to balance the doom of global climate meltdown with themes of self-actualization, love, and bodily autonomy.

The album opens on the title track, an introductory précis that prepares listeners for what they're about to hear. Manji's vocals hum with a plugged-in sense of cybernetic melancholia, filtering the world's barrage of rhythms and harmonic themes into lithe, clubwise pop that's buoyed by their advanced sonics. From there, we're wrenched into the sadness of atmospheric lament 'Pitch Black', a meditation on death that submerges deep bass beneath layers of choral bliss, evoking the church and the dancefloor without sacrificing the power of each polar element. Their darkness is pushed from the inside to the outside on 'Oil/Too Much’, a commentary on the oil industry from the perspective of the animal kingdom that doubles as a neon-hued expression of contemporary depression. But it's on 'Body/Prison’ where Manji sounds most naked, speaking honestly about their life's darkest moments and confessing their deepest feelings over searing trance-inspired synths and grotesque percussion.

"Spandrel?" is an album that takes time to unravel, and Manji's themes resonate through history that's older than pop music. It's tragic, romantic, and poetic, and resolutely refuses to turn away from the era's most urgent concerns.

Production, writing, composition: Evita Manji
Mix: Evita Manji
Master: Enyang Urbiks
Artwork: Spyros Droussiotis

Spandrel?

Evita Manji - Body/Prison (PAN 136S)

Our second holiday single as a little gift from us, to you.

We hope you enjoy warmth and coziness in circles that comfort you. If not, reach out to a friend, or us. You don't choose your families.

Love
Laura, Juul & Jonathan

épong - Hartig stuk plastiek

Title: PANSXL

MASTERED BY: SHIVANI DESAI

WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY: PHILTH HAUS

DESCRIPTION: PANSEXUAL SINGLE in ASSOCIATION WITH ALBUM REPSXL BY PHILTH HAUS. RELEASED BY AQNB. PERFORMING AT KW INSTITUTE, BERLIN MARCH 03. 

PANSEXUALITY IS AN ATTRACTION TO ALL GENDERS. 

See here for more info: https://bit.ly/PANSXL

PHILTH HAUS, "PANSXL" (2023). Courtesy AQNB, London.

Surrender Remix

No Heroes (Estoc & Miedo Total Remix)

10_r3n - larvae first vibrations 蛰虫始振

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estoc - GROUND TO THE BONE, A SOUL LAID BARE (HVMIX022)

Edits oh my edits
DL - https://www.dropbox.com/s/spuhfzylujypfa7/ATTACCO%20MIXTAPE.zip?dl=0
bonus track in zip file


Thank you,
Alexis Chan for mastering
Sophia Kuhn for the artwork

ATTACCO MIXTAPE - YANTAN MINISTRY

NEVER ALONE (Yantan Ministry edit)

See here for more info: https://www.aqnb.com/2019/08/16/chants-draws-big-band-beats-post-club-aesthetics-for-the-marimba-led-movement-of-burned-all-the-way-down/

Seven Spheres

Chants, 'Burned All the Way Down' (2019). Courtesy Astral Plane Recordings, Los Angeles.

From 'MMXX Leap' compilation 

ceadcead.bandcamp.com/album/mmxx-leap

Karima F - Emma

Using their lockdown time wisely the More Rice camp are back with their most ambitious project yet. “Harvest001” a 14 track compilation featuring old and new friends from across Asia.

Pre-Order: TBA
Release Date: 15th September 2020

The Hernandez Bros & Lustbass - At The End Of Time (Original Mix)

An ambitious 6 track EP spanning a diverse range of emotions, styles and influences, the result of by a meandering nomadic upbringing,  from an exciting new talent.

The vinyl release, designed by Boot Boyz Biz, includes a poster featuring inspirational images and words from James.

B1 The Diffuser

buy / listen in full: www.janushoved.bandcamp.com/album/showing-you-things

Piag3t - Showing You Things

Artist: @yilanmusic
Catalogue Number: IM085
Album: Suddenly I Am Falling
Release Date: January 29th, 2021
Format: Digital

Emerging for his second release on Infinite Machine following his highly acclaimed 'Regression' EP with Amazondotcom and Superfície, Leeds - based producer Yilan returns for 'Suddenly I Am Falling'.

The title track opens with polyrhythmic kicks, electric hats and cataclysmic atmospheres that are set to send the dancefloor into a frenzy.

'Static Void' is an authentic Techno Dancehall masterclass with a sharp snare dancing around the syncopated pulse of the track.

Collaborating with Ren for third track, 'Niffler', sees the duo lurking into 90BPM territory for an unstoppable groove with razor-sharp percussive brutality and a masterclass in futuristic sound-design that expands across the entire audio spectrum.

Track four, 'Underwater Construction', is a halftime roller with ramped up distorted hits that emanate from an abandoned warehouse, like machinery exhaling.

'AFADS', featuring collaborator Ebb, launches things back into a rolling abyss like a ticking time bomb of kick drums that poke and play around paranoid lazer stabs and an astounding middle section that will leave you gulping in shock.

Closing the record out with an ambient work 'Lost Signals' portrays softer timbres of birdsong and synthesised windchimes, allowing time to reflect on what is one of the most inspiring talents to come out of the UK underground.

Tracklist:

1. Suddenly I Am Falling
2. Static Void
3. Niffler (with Ren)
4. Underwater Construction
5. AFADS (with Ebb)
6. Lost Signals

Mastered by Fausto Mercier
Artwork by Benfika

Suddenly I Am Falling

Yilan - Static Void (IM085)

version of cover by sega bodega & lafawndah:
https://soundcloud.com/segabodega/teardrop-ft-lafawndah

teardrop

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Chants, 'Burned All the Way Down' (2019). Courtesy Astral Plane Recordings, Los Angeles.

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