Hajj - Death To Eternity 
Hajj - I Feel Good All Over The Flames
JJJacob & Hajj - Threnody 
Hajj - ???
Hajj - Where r u ?
Hajj - ???
Hajj - Don't Follow Me I'm Falling (Feat Chams)
Ronce - Sauvage (Feat Hajj)
Robert Miles - Childrens (Hajj's Xtrm Onction Edit)
Karal Abyan - ??? (Hajj remix)
Hajj - Rage Of Empire
Hajj - ???
Hajj - ???
Epsilove - Sea Snakes (Hajj's Schmirred pop rmx) 
Hajj - Purifying Water… It’s Your Blood (Screweed Version)
Hajj - ???
Hajj - ???
Schmirr Institut - U r My High
Hell Jammers - STE-017

SOUFFRANCE FM #40 / HAJJ (RUNNING IN LOVE, DYING IN MADNESS)

18 months since their last release, H2OP return with the “Pass Emotions” EP.

Like the calm play of shallow waters, there is a soothing elegance to the new designs of H2OP that disclose nature's most gentle side. The production feels lighter, and the sea the group travels is more at ease, but their fix on the horizon is as concentrated as ever.

“Pass Emotions” marks the first instalment in a series of EPs to follow from the trio.

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Pass Emotions

H2OP - Pass Emotions

Anne Imhof, Eliza Douglas, Billy Bultheel - SEX
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 116
Format: LP / DL
Release Date: 3 September 2021
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/SEX

‘SEX’ is the latest record from acclaimed contemporary artists Anne Imhof, Eliza Douglas and composer Billy Bultheel. It was composed during the development of Imhof’s art exhibition of the same name, previously exhibited at Tate Modern, London, The Art Institute of Chicago and Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea.

Music is core to Imhof’s work. It functions not only as a soundtrack to perform to, but rather that music itself, and the act of performing music, becomes a work of visual merit by its very nature. Imhof’s performance work, in collaboration with Douglas, is often described as visually being a futuristic, nihilist take on pop culture citing metal and grunge aesthetics while making connections to thematics of classical painting. The concert itself becomes a visual language in Imhof’s performative work which sits evenly placed with her painting and sculpture.

Imhof, Douglas and Bultheel adapted the songs from how they appeared in the exhibition ‘SEX’, with the result being a compelling record that can act as an imaginative accompaniment to the ‘SEX’ performances, as well as stand alone as a progressive collection of contemporary compositions.
‘SEX’ references punk, industrial and grunge, while boldly juxtaposing these forms with music of the classical and baroque period. ‘SEX’s compositions combine classical formals and orchestration with vocals that are rooted in subcultural traditions, thus beautifully overdrawing and overwriting these classical forms with the composer's own. Harpsichord and oboe are combined with distorted electric guitar, or exuberant string ensembles with heavy industrial drums.

The amalgamation of genres contained in the album was also integral to the choreography of the ‘SEX’ performance, where waltzes and tangos were contrasted with stage diving, slam dancing and moshpits. What resulted was a surreal ballroom, loaded with desire and aggression. In the same vein, the record fearlessly shapeshifts, blending genres and styles to evoke an impressive array of moods. The voices and instruments crush like operatic electric waves throughout wide rages, laughing, shouting, coming close and being far. Oscillating between fragility and flamboyance, Douglas and Imhof’s versatile voices reinvent themselves from one song to the next, while singing songs of love and hate.
The final song on ‘SEX’ ends with a lyric from the band LOW, “All you Pretty People, you’re all gonna die”. This ambiguous moment, a prophecy sung in Douglas’ vibrating baritone voice, rattles the listener despite the mundane truth of the statement. This complexity is reflected in the album itself, allowing for an unusual multiplicity of emotions and interpretations with impressive depth and dynamism.
The record’s release coincides with the final performance of ‘SEX’ at Castello di Rivoli in Turin in September 2021 and the opening of Imhof’s Carte Blanche exhibition ‘Nature Mortes’ currently on view at Palais de Tokyo, Paris through October 2021.

The album is mixed & engineered by Ville Haimala and mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring design by ZAK Group and photography by Nadine Fraczkowski.

Anne Imhof, Eliza Douglas, Billy Bultheel - Helmet Waltz (PAN 116)

H2OP returns with “Lose Composure” the last two track EP of three, to come out in 2021. This release concludes their move in a new direction. Like the river that changes course, and takes on every color of the objects it flows over, this release holds emotional highs and lows, from “Lose Composure” written and recorded in a manic elevated state to “Highest In The Room”. It’s total opposite materializing as a freestyle recorded  during a depressive episode, reciting the same dark forecast of ruining everything around you over and over again.
Perhaps this it what describes H2OP best. Still waters meet raging waves, the change and volume between them ever unpredictable.

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releases October 27, 2021

Lose Composure

H2OP - Highest In The Room

Mes amis! Happy boxing day!

I'm excited to share with you a surprise and impromptu album before the actual release of Amitiés on January 21st, 2022. 

"Meilleurs vœux" is a collection of unreleased outtakes and live pieces created over the past years. This album is free or pay what you can. Anything is appreciated.

Thanks to Jesse Osborne-Lanthier for the incredible artwork.

Infinite love to all of you and stay safe!

xoxox Julien

Migraineux

цццц - время уходит.. . .

Yangze - Hold Your Horses

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All In The Same Breath

Croatian Amor, 'The River That Flows In You Also Flows In Me' (2020). Courtesy Posh Isolation.

As featured on AQNB's 'Between two stars' art & music mini-compendium.

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Between two stars

Tadleeh, 'Life Is A Draft, Don't Kid Yourself' (2020). Courtesy the artist.

dj celes - sleep test 65 slow

@celes11235

Edited Arts is launching Serotonin, the second in a new series of charity fundraising compilations.

Serotonin features contributions by some long-lasting friends and new found collaborators ; Dane Law, DIDA, dj celes, Eye Measure, FARWARMTH, Felisha Ledesma, Georgie McVicar, hogobogobogo, IVVVO, KMRU, Lauren Duffus, Lenticloud, Monofee, mu tate, Nexcyia, onybdy, Shit Creek, SPECIMENS and 空蟬(Cicada Shell)

Cherubic voices, sparkling drums, and drones on their way back home from an all-nighter set the scene for this compilation. 19 artists have made sonic references to the hormone that acts to regulate our wellbeing. This is the second release from a series that is musically themed on psycho-sensory states of happiness, or the lack thereof.

Profits from this release will go to the Black Cultural Archives and Raw Music Media. 2 Brixton based organisations / charities.

Mastered by Colin Moir/ Moir Air
Artwork by Eliza

We appreciate your support and hope you enjoy the music. Thank you for listening.

dj celes - sleep test 65 slow

Food, sex, glory to God; in which order? Do you first eat, and then pray to thank Them? Or perhaps coupling takes the top spot for you. 

Each of these three fundamentals is about service. What is your way of serving others while you’re in this world? And will we keep doing it ever after? In heaven—if we’ll make it there—will W serve us their mass of resonating frequencies and clipping digital ornaments? 

A new release by W is here to go alongside our feasts, orgies, and other acts of devotion. Yes, it’s suited for all kinds of services. You must try it on fried fish, living bodies, or celestial ones. 

From right to left and back again from left to right; W spins the middle frequencies into a ritual that helps us to forget ourselves. For a while, heaven and earth exist on the horizon, instead of the vertical. 

The sonic horizon reminds us of the beauty of the plain from which nothing arises to compete with God. What's more, the panning offers an exercise in humility: everything is around you, but you’re not the center. 

The distorting of those sweet basslines tells you that what you’re hearing is growth and rot, crop and compost, both at the same instance. The distortion invites you to go medieval—think Ars moriendi, the art of dying. Learn from these sounds by reflecting on how they’re ready—but not willing—to leave this plane at any moment. 

The sounds that make up Maanpinna follow neither a linear understanding of time, nor a hierarchical understanding of bodies, but an instantaneous one of both. You could call it quantum music, but then why would you do so when you can call it a service? 

Of the three acts of services mentioned, sex and God demand the most trust. Can you trust these sounds? You could learn to do so by listening to them on repeat. No: forget the idea of being able to know music, forget beginnings and ends; try living with these sounds forever, always unearthing new aspects. 

Commit to the sounds, because why else would they trust you? Touch the wobbly melodies and feel them touching you like nothing has ever done before. 

Apart from the sea of sine waves, Maanpinna sometimes gives you bursts, pops, and washes of filtered white noise. They are gestures of good faith made by the music itself towards you. If you didn't trust the sounds before, perhaps now you will. 

Those bursts are not pure noise, but cut down to a serving size by W. The modified noise tells you what the dead always tell the living: ‘What I am, you will become.’ The art, in life and audio, is in learning to lose. It’s a lesson that reverberates deep in the bare soundscape of Maanpinna. 

It is music made from very few elements. And while reduction has always formed the basis for aural worship, on the hands of W, sounds are never reduced to the level of blasphemy: there's always the noise and the distortion. 

- Kaino Wennerstrand 

Produced by Eero Pulkkinen (@susiovet). 
Vocals in 'Half-Mast' by Elatu Nessa.
Mastering by Jaakko Viitalähde. 
Artwork by Carmine Laurenza. 
AFN005 - A Flooded Need, 2021.

Maanpinna

W - Half-Mast

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—Other discrete projects, as and when