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Track Premiere: 'Pixelated Dream' by @julialouisknifefist (prod. by @circular_square) [INERTIA EP, @lieftuig]
Read more: https://www.paynomindtous.it/pixelateddreams-jlk/
Pre-order: https://julialouiseknifefist.bandcamp.com/album/inertia
Album Art by Julia Louise Knifefist & Aisling Phelan
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Julia Louise KnifeFist is a 22-yo producer and lyricist based in Dublin, Ireland which has been active since the late 2010s. Their music is a dense, noise-imbued manipulation of dance music styles that are beaten to a pulp to form bloody pools of distorted kicks, overwhelming feedback, and truculent vocals. In the recent past, they started investing effort into the newborn, thriving Irish collective called Bitten Twice, focused on promoting experimental rave outputs and unconventional sounds. When it comes to their solo work, JLK is reportedly out to turn the listener's insides on the outside, and they do that via an exciting mixture of genres taking shape in something that could be aptly referred to as "rave rap", as nicely demonstrated in their first live appearance https://youtu.be/uYI-rjVlV7I.

Late last year, JLK's path met with the Ghent-based record label lieftuig, closely related to the Belgian Grid crew, on which young artists such as Moses, Neocitrus, and Knechtjong already appeared over the course of the past months. INERTIA EP is the final outing stemming from the encounter and the following interactions between the two parts: a four-tracker record, spanning just a little over 11 minutes, where JLK's harsh vocal style and energetic production skills join with the vision of three other producers (namely Circular Square, who also curated the mastering of the release, and the aforementioned Neocitrus and Knechtjong).

With INERTIA EP, JLK's variegated and unrestrained creative drive, already crystallized in previous singles such as 328, Synthetic Drip, and Bite Marks, brought them to the next level of inspiration, where chaos is unleashed by means of high-spirited, inflamed compositions, and catharsis is reached via entrancing rhythms. Today, we're glad to be premiering the second track in the lotto, called Pixelated Dreams, and produced by Circular Square who also curated the video clip due next month together with Aisling Phelan.

When asked about the track, JLK refers that Pixelated Dreams is a "frustrated response to the idea of digitizing the human experience", as they believe "many parts of the experience can’t be recreated, and the advancement of technology in this way feels absurd when unsustainable structures might make the planet uninhabitable and any human experience impossible". Inspired by early dubstep and grime, the piece is a 150-second impressive run on which the bassline and the syncopated drums intertwine with the vocals, chanting detached lyrics that reflect on the feelings of rage, isolation, and disconnection ("Feeling Love and disgust / Spit and dirt in an open cut / Thousand miles between my blade and they neck / I’m dying to connect / All I see is pixelated dreams"). We're sure you'll be thrilled to stream the track via the player here below, as well as the entire EP that will be out on August 6th. Enjoy!

Julia Louise Knifefist - Pixelated Dreams [PAYNOMINDTOUS Premiere / lieftuig]

"King Taker (Endgame Remix)" by @therealendgame is the latest track from @dahjyn 's upcoming EP out on the 27th of August for @mostdismalswamp

Pre-Order: https://mostdismalswamp.bandcamp.com/album/the-gall
Read More: https://soulfeederweb.com/premieres/premiere-dahjyn-king-taker-endgame-remix/

The Gall

[Premiere] Dahjyn – King Taker (Endgame Remix)

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Scintii, 'Deux (Skyshaker Dawn Edition)' (2021). Courtesy SVBKVLT, Shanghai.

Disembodied vocal, breakbeat abstraction and ambient texture coalesce as x/o transgresses gender binaries.

'Chaos Butterfly' is out April 4th on Precious Metals.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3K2ygpp

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Premiere: x/o - Initiation Relic [Precious Metals]

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Track Premiere: CLL by @1shayu [@exiles-electronics]
Read More: https://paynomindtous.it/premiere-shayu-exiles
Pre-order: https://exiles-electronics.bandcamp.com/album/sirens
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Based in Budapest, Hungary, EXILES is among the finest record labels in the field of experimental electronics which has been releasing music of outstanding quality as far back as 2017. After a crazy amount of stunning outings (we counted 18 in 2020 only!), the Hungarian hub is already at its second one for 2021 keeping on with their prolific and essential productions. We're talking about Sirens, the latest various artists compilation focusing on intense compositions of thick, inventive, and vocal-rich sound experiments, or, as to put it in the label's own words, on the "sonic exploration of maritime fantasies".

The album, out later this week, is composed of twenty enticing, vaporous yet explosive tracks gathered in the output of limited-edition tapes featuring artwork by Melinda Doktor (object), Adrienn Császár (typing), and Iza Nagy (photography), with the cassette/digital mastering respectively curated by István Tanka (Direct) and Roland Nagy (Fausto Mercier). The Sirens comp includes the contributions of some of the finest contemporary producers and sound designers in the scene, such as Yuryung Sound Corp co-founder Arexibo, modular synths master Evil Medvěd, extraordinary composer and insanely skilled visual artist DIGITONICA, and Chinabot-affiliated Sabiwa, among others.

Today, we're glad to be premiering the piece called CLL by Shayu (she/her), appearing on the first side of the tape. Coming on the scenes in 2018 with her debut EP 'Liang' on Files Rec, followed the next year by the five-tracker EP 'All The Way Through' on the London-based Coyote Records, Shayu is an experimental musician and multimedia artist currently based in Zurich who is reportedly interested in investigating ways of juxtaposing, merging, and morphing abstract sound paintings with concrete soundscapes and a percussive drive.

Shayu's highly dynamic piece combines a wide range of sounds such as reverberated vocals, piercing percussions, and shattered kickdrums, arrayed in rich textures that craft a complex sound artifact standing somewhere between analog synth ambiance, baroque music, and bass-infused, club-oriented outbursts. In particular, her main inspiration comes from grime's production techniques which over the years have brought up and developed the unprejudiced taste for layered compositions of various audio sources.

Sirens, out this Sunday (January 24th) is already available for pre-order on Exiles' Bandcamp. Please consider contributing by donating to get this amazing comp; in case you'd need an extra reason to do that, you should know that all digital purchases will be donated to The Women For Women Together Against Violence Association (NANE), a non-profit, non-governmental org established in 1994 with the aim to combat individual, social, and community violence against women and children. Enjoy!

Check out Shayu also on Soundcloud and Bandcamp. Also, you can find EXILES on SoundCloud and Instagram, together with their entire catalog.

Shayu - CLL [PAYNOMINDTOUS Premiere / EXILES]

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