@freddymn

Vertige II is the second compilation to be released on Abîme, gathering tracks from ten artists to explore the Vertige concept with a wider spectrum of intents.  

It features contributions from musicians all around the globe, each of them delivering an interpretation of this ambivalent sensation that could be equally seen as a positive or negative feeling if taken in its plurality of meanings.

Ranging from GIL’ dizzying textures in ‘Storm Petrel’ to the sweetness of Fauness’ guitars in ‘Am I ready’, Vertige II finds its coherence when seen as a progression, a back and forth between fear and love, with each track responding to the previous one by being its deforming mirror.

Vertige II puts the emphasis on vocal tracks, but again doesn’t limit itself to a one-sided approach, and that’s how Lil Asaf’s harsh Jordanian rap can be found coexisting with Flagalova’ anthemic pop and Ptwiggs’ shoegaze ‘Forever is not enough’. 

As the successor of our first compilation, this record can be seen as both a continuation and a rupture in comparison with it. The delicate sound palette of the original opus has exploded and expanded into an ecletic collection of pieces, sometimes frightening and overwhelming, and sometimes soothing and reassuring, as is the Vertige.

Slikback - SRT

2025: Club Diaries

Abssys - Mis Huesos Son De Colores En El Inframundo

track by @m1ssjay
mastering by @wimdehaen
artwork by Ver instagram.com/_nismo95

Nocturnal

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MISS JAY - FANTASY

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@personalbrand is a music producer and DJ based in Taipei, Taiwan. As he mentions in his Bandcamp bio, he is interested in "exploring sonic metamodernism"
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After the producer's hybrid-club debut on @wearetar we have the pleasure to premiere his innovative track "9Grand" where he uses a pointillist approach to grime to revisit the unsuccessful UK student tuition fee protests of 2010.
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[Swine Premiere] personalbrand - 9Grand

Dj set by the amazing LARASATI 07/08/2021.

LARASATI - Looking for the keyhole of time & space

Track Premiere: 'Ropes to Eternity Lead Nowhere' by @spraelle
Read More: https://paynomindtous.it/ropestoeternity-spraelle/
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Nathan Germain aka Sprælle ([Sprah-lé], he/him) is a 24-yo French musician, producer, and DJ based between Montreal, Canada, and NY City, US. His work collects stimuli from multiple musical and cultural references such as contemporary laptop electronics, ambient and experimental music, as well as mainstream pop and videogame soundtracks. These, in particular, had a role in inspiring his debut EP called CRUSH UP, appeared early last year on the Spanish label xenonyms, which enacted a lively confrontation between lo-fi components and sharp sonic bursts on the foreground of energetic and eventful progressions.

Other than releasing several single tracks from 2019 onward, Sprælle already appeared twice on the Montreal-based platform Audio Bambino, with the tracks Aïsha and Gravel on this 2nd and 7th compilations respectively. Also, the artist hosts monthly residencies on Montreal’s N10.AS and Tunis’ Ma3azef radios, called Bleed In The Underground and Rearranged Existence. On this occasion, we're happy to present you with a one-track single written and produced by Sprælle, a 20-minutes mammoth composition called Ropes To Eternity Lead Nowhere which has been reportedly designed to take the listener through multifaceted sceneries of abstract realities.

Engaging on the challenge of blurring the boundaries between genres via different compositional solutions and production techniques such as time-stretching, field recording manipulation, and digital saturation, just to name a few, Ropes To Eternity Lead Nowhere is a challenging, free-form yet well-conducted journey into Sprælle’s take on electronic music, delicate and impassioned at the same time. In the track, a mutable collage of sound and rhythmical components is patched together around a central theme of wonder and discovery, which is declined in distensive moments of relaxation, tense passages of agitation, and abrasive, emotional junctures. All the drives behind Sprælle’s creation process converge into an organic tale of an ever-changing life creature arising from a pond of scattered materials and manifesting itself in its diverse, unseizable shapes, until the final abrupt conclusion. You can stream the track in its entirety from the player below or directly on our SoundCloud channel, have fun!

Sprælle - Ropes To Eternity Lead Nowhere [PAYNOMINDTOUS Premiere]

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Imaabs, (2021) mix. Courtesy the artist.

Miss Jay, Xiao Quan, and WRACK explore the most underground sub-genres of club music on a joint EP: "The Link Up".

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PREMIERE: WRACK ft. Miss Jay - Siege Tank

JEROME Mixfile #810 - egoclub

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JEROME Mixfile #810 - egoclub

trngs on Ma3azef ft. online threat

I first really became aware of séverine last spring, and I'm probably not alone in that regard: their 'Look How Hard I'm Into You' blend twisting together Barker and Ariana Grande was immediately recognised for its gorgeousness, and soon it was everywhere. It still is everywhere actually, appearing in several Essential Mixes at this point. séverine is Christiane Øyen, a DJ, blend specialist and producer based in LA. She's founder of Xtended Release, a collective/label/platform whose manifesto is expressly progressively political; the group released a compilation in 2020 to support poor and unhoused tenants in their locality. Also, séverine co-runs the deejayaffirmations meme page. This is something I love about their approach as well as their mixes: dance is freeing and fun and beautiful and political all at once, just as their music combines hard techno and pop, consistently swerving and veering between extremes. You can read Scorpio traits into that if you like: determination, confrontation, but also an amazing, transformative capacity to make magic, to will miracles. We're honoured to have her share a mix with us this season, and blown away by the madness they've done within — stompin' clubby warpers, eyes-down garage, propulsive trance and hardness, breaks and Janet. Oh, and a ramp-up of the Barker and Ariana flip, of course.

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Imaabs, (2021) mix. Courtesy the artist.

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