In regard of the 6th anniversary, Tecnotecsi Records release its last compilation in this year, with load of bangers. Keeping the approach, embracing the whole sound spectrum.



Atoms - Meditación sintética (original mix)

Functory 03 is the third compilation from FunctionLab will be released on August 5, 2019.

After the practice and introspection of the “localization of the vanguard scene” in the past two years, we proudly started from Hangzhou and have extended our tentacles to a farther geographical space; Collecting music from all over the world and converging into functionlab's own "smell”, self-centred yet separated from self-expression.

Functory 03 contains 12 tracks produced by Akito/ bela/ GG Lobster/ GUAN/ Kieran Loftus/ Laughing Ears/ Mice/ Mr.Pena/ XHANKONKON/ XOXO Miro/ Yikii/ Zean

The cover and MV are made by Hangzhou artists Zhou Yilun and Martin Goya Business & Cheng Ran respectively.

Tracklist/

Mr.Pena - X-Akii12 @mr-pena
GUAN - I Only Open My Mouth for Reading Disc @boyang-guan
bela - 玄武 Black Tortoise @6314
GG Lobster – Rivaldo Top 10 Goals @gglobster
Zean - Eyes @zeanmusic
Akito - Drown My Demons @akeytoe
XOXO Miro – 鼓一 Drum Studies 1 @xoxomiro
Kieran Loftus - Avoid as Teammate @iamahoe
Yikii - 蚀变 Alteration @yikii
Mice - 过肠 Intestinal Passer @inq7b4qx57vq
XHANKONKON - XXXME @xhankonkon
Laughing Ears - Polymorphic Reality @laughingears

Release Date 2019/8/5
Mastered by GUAN
Music Video by Martin Goya Business & Cheng Ran
Artwork by Zhou Yilun
Released by FunctionLab

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FunctionLab
Release date:
5 August 2019

Mice - 过肠 Intestinal Passer

Produced in Turku, Finland by sound artist Lukas Lunden.

YEURRGHH

@weight-less

Limited CD release. Out on YOUTH Thursday 15th August 2019.

L. Lund - Lo Tech - YOCD4

clocked pulse trains connected to resonant filters, and to NIM boxcar integrators, with added sine wave mixture
recorded in one direct track
c HK @ studio 1

Sound Of The Week August 5 2019

Racine - Quelque Chose Tombe
Cat. Nr: DN016
Format: LP / DL
Release Date: 21 February 2020

Hidden in plain sight, grinning through worry, living in insecurity – modern society has returned to a day-by-day race for survival. To be vulnerable is the new normal; afraid, a bare minimum. Something was bound to emerge from the quiet throngs of the new precariat, and Racine is such a voice, setting to music those modern lives defined by uncertainty.

Quelque Chose Tombe (‘Something Falls’) is a set of compositions that confronts demons both inner and outer head-on. Created during a period of necessary unemployment somewhere in Montreal – caring for one’s health can take precedence over work – the music is both a grotesque dance of the goblins and the gentle opiatic breath of the protectors. It’s a harrowing reflection of the prevalent vampiric hypochondria forcing a generation into fatigue.

The sounds crawling out of Racine speak with their own internal logic. Snippets of fractured tunes creak through perturbed post-digital soundscapes, blurred and fragmented along the way into haunting amorphous instrumentals. The two-part title track is multi-part sonic maze where raven-like pitch bent notes gather, a broken rave theme punctures its way through bass fog, and silence clefts the music in two, ushering in a coda of heartbroken ambience. As the album’s suite progresses, Racine shepherds mutant melodic themes in and out of earshot, like clear thoughts bringing temporary order to a state of emotional panic and withdrawal. A host of other sounds too – voices and birdsong, cybernetically deformed – populate Racine’s scarred productions.

Emerging from Quelque Chose Tombe’s constant darkness however, is a latent sense of hope. Racine is turning modern vulnerability into a strength, creating a singular aesthetic to reflect and confront an uncomfortable present.

Mastered by Beau Thomas
Design by Niels Wehrspann

@julienracine

Quelque Chose Tombe

Racine - Désordre Baroque

Inspirée du mouvement cyberpunk initié par Gardner R. Dozois, cette superposition d'ambiances se présente comme une bande-sonore contemporaine et imaginative d’une vision engluée d’un avenir postmoderne où se mêlent humanité, autorité et technologie prononçant une vision chaotique du "néo-futurisme".
Un endroit capable de numériser, partager les sensations et souvenirs qui deviendront valeurs marchandes, empêchant les populations les plus démunies de rêver ou se remémorer..
La créativité serait le catalyseur de cette vision fantomatique, creux, remplit de vide et d’interactions.

by @promenadeverticale

Tracklist :
System Shocks 2 quotes
Yves Tumor - Porto Novo
S43 - 0​-​Hai
Sabiwa - Wo de Shijian
Luxxuryproblems - fluence, granulate, opaque (bio-neon)
Shapednoise - Intriguing (In The End) feat. Mhysa
Iron Sight - So wrong
Arca - La Chiqui feat.Sophie
SITOI - Ytimeni
Aho Ssan - Simulacrum III
Cheng Daoyuan - 如縊 Strangle to Survive
Lemna - Spring Night a Hazy Crescent Moon
ARS WAS TAKEN - SNEAKIN
HIDE - 999
Lensk - Strained (FRKTL Manifold remix)
Lara Sarkissian - The Girl, Leopard and Trees
migu - Scivery
Himukalt - In every stage of this opression
FARWARMTH - To Heft The Weight Of Memory
Austin Wintory - Journey OST - I was born for this

Promenade Verticale - Self Isolation In A Submersive Dystopia

Sébastien Forrester, 'Spiral Line (feat. Frànçois Atlas)' (2020). Courtesy KOWTOW Records, Paris.

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The Secret Weapon by @mycruelty OUT NOW via Genot Centre // tape & digital
Get it now // genot.bandcamp.com/album/the-secret-weapon

"Imagine Mark Fell crossed with "Avril 14th" and you're not far off. But in spite of the generative feel of the composition, it never feels academic or stuffy, instead lilting, inviting and a bit mischievous." (@resident-advisor)

"My Cruelty’s music is the expression of an incredible array of influences coming not only from the musical world going from Jean Cocteau to Björk and is able to build up a uniquely hypnotic sound made of emotions and feelings." (@soul_feeder)

"The Secret Weapon revolves around an icy, minimalistic echo of the piano. A unique and explorative sound that fuses experimental and dance music." (@avyss)

The Secret Weapon (GEN040) by @mycruelty is a tapestry of ambiguous harmony, rolling synth stabs and sparse, syncopated drum patterns. With endless and never tiring reinforcement, slow - or phantom? - template shifts undergo sudden phase transitions: icy house piano phrases undergo a process of mini counterpoint, later on even complemented by acidic permutations. As the boundaries between tracks dissolve, a dance floor ready scintillating grid illusion unveils itself.

Mastered by @fausto_mercier
Cover design by BESSA illustration.

@mycruelty about the album:
"My purpose - to create a hypnotic sound, music full of feelings, that gives you a sense. I create my own mythology. You come inside and feel the silence, endure the pain. But it’s not depressive or sad, this pain opens a new door in life, this pain clears and changes, makes stronger. My album is an ode to the love of music, life. Never stop to live. Music is life, this is movement, this is energy, this is dance.
I am a pure stream, I am an open infinity. I see dreams and go to meet them. I see my reflection, the phantom / ephemeral nature of my soul. I transform so quickly that I do not have time to capture my image. I see myself and at that moment disappear, become something else and look at myself again to see who I am.”

BESSA illustration about the cover design
"I am playing with shapes and fragments in different layers floating around the basis - smiley face. These forms exist together and separately at the same time. They are continuously moving and creating certain tension which gives you ephemeral feeling. Because movement is the basis of our life, nature and universe itself.”

The Secret Weapon

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My Cruelty - unfinished dreams

Parable of the Sower, a novel by Octavia E.Butler 
voiced by ghalas, sound work by Mighty

Parable of the Sower - chapter one

Uña & Mugre #2 w/ Mirjam Wirz (07.02.2021)

—Published across visual art, music & critical thought from 2012-2022
—Other discrete projects, as and when

Sébastien Forrester, 'Spiral Line (feat. Frànçois Atlas)' (2020). Courtesy KOWTOW Records, Paris.

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