https://soundcloud.com/holy-strays - Spirals Ep [KTW012] 
W/ Frànçois Atlas, GLITTERڭليثر٥٥, Boubacar Cissokho & Stranded Horse
Mastered by Paulie Jan at Agit Prop Studio

'Spirals' is a series of electronic improvisations initiated by Sébastien Forrester in Essaouira late june 2019, while the Paris-based, Franco-British musician was performing with Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains and Maâlem Saïd Boulhimas as part of a residency at l'Institut Français. 
Deeply moved by the intensity and intricacy of the traditional Gnawa ritual, also known as lila, and the shady mystics surrounding its existence, Forrester tried to capture that special, stupendous energy with no other intention than archiving spontaneous sonic memories. 
It is only after Vincent Leibovitz, Kowtow Records' founder and curator, heard the sketches, that the idea of completing the pieces and releasing them properly first came to their mind.

Presented as pure sound impressions, the so-called 'Spirals' do not aim at mimicing Gnawa music in any sort of way, but try to draw from its complex and relentless rhythmic schemes as a tribute to its immense mediation power. Built on a dying laptop with nothing more than a pair of headphones, very often outside, alone at night, the seven tracks roll out as fugitive dreams, somewhere between frenetic trance-inducing soundscapes à la Lorenzo Senni and lush atmospherics, sometimes reminding of James Holden's Gnawa-infused modular experiments. FM synthesizers echo the guembri, hypnotic basslines meet ambient rave tropes and impromptu field recordings: most percussion sound were indeed made out of on-the-fly iPhone recordings of rock noises, claps and snaps...

Only afterwards were added vocal arrangements and instrumental contributions by super talented friends who all happen to have strong links with different forms traditional music: Frànçois Atlas drops his signature guitar sound and future folk vocal textures on 'Spiral Line', Paris-based Moroccan DJ and vocalist GLITTERڭليثر٥٥ reinvents a popular Gnawa chant on 'Spiral Column' while Dakar-based griot and renowned kora player Boubacar Cissokho and Normandy-based singer-songwriter Yann Tambour, also known as Stranded Horse, lay elegant and timeless kora lines on top of 'Spiral 34-52' and 'Spiral Motion'.

Mastered by Paulie Jan at Agit Prop Studio (Mind Records, PRR! PRR!, Gravats, Le Turc Mécanique...), 'Spirals' is out april 3rd on Kowtow Records.

Sébastien Forrester - Spirals Ep [KTW012]

KMSUTRA - HighHigh

Red Shift is a 130 BPM dark, hypnotic techno track built for the club.
Heavy kick, cosmic ambience and a slow-burning tension until the lift-off.

Free to repost / support in sets – tag @klixdj so I can check it out.

Recorded live from my hardware setup.

DJ Klix - Red Shift

Talked to you on the phone the other day—WhatsApp voice call—and I noticed the dissecting and unsettling silence fading in between each spoken word, like someone holding the breath or stopping time. Or a tap closed between each filling of a glass. It was a clean, cleansed, silence—one purified by the dullness of calculation, of automation, of regulation and optimisation.
I remember the feeling of talking with friends via landline connection—it felt like a direct channel opened up between our ears and tongues, an airiness of circulation. I could hear the other person breathing and the slight static noise of electricity hardwiring us. Now I don't hear the other person's breath anymore—the algorithmic sound detection for controlling the threshold of the microphone transmission seems to not register breath as a signal deemed necessary for communication.

Artwork by Robin Brass, Mastering by Amar Halilovic

Luxxuryproblems – Wounded Prototype

JEROME's Compilation Vague Culture 2 in 2019
Go and listen to whole compilation, lots of talented artists on it!

https://soundcloud.com/jeromeworldwide/sets/vague-culture-2

DL
https://jeromeworldwide.bandcamp.com/album/vague-culture-2

Vague Culture

Purpose Of Purposeless Beat - Jaeho Hwang

Marco Colocci is an Italian producer and sound engineer based in Berlin. Learning how to play the contrabass and music theory has initiated the growth of his interest in the techniques of field recording and sound design, as well as his overall passion for electronic music. After self-releasing music during his teens, and later producing for Taiwanese artist Sabiwa from Chinabot, under the moniker Queimada he now presents a debut record coming out on Gin&Platonic.

Built around a concept proposed by Harvard professor E.O. Wilson, Eremocene depicts a future state of miserable epoch into which human species is slowly but steadily accelerating. Characterized by the existential & material isolation that comes from having calamitously extinguishing other forms of life on Earth while intrepidly fulfilling our immediate needs, the future labeled as The Age of Loneliness sees our identity completely transformed.
On the record, Queimada explores precisely the conflict between the tempting ease and a pang of unconfessed guilt in an attempt to capture the ironical relationship they epitomize. The album represents an encounter between different techniques of granular synthesis and field recording. The encounter between the unstoppable and destructive, altogether resulting in a disruptive anthem of the intensifying burden of the postmodern times.

Produced by @queimada77
Mastered by Wim Dehaen
Artwork by Jiri Macku

📉

Queimada - Reveal

"The most negative emotions are neither grief nor anger that cannot be suppressed, but shame.

Shame is the disease of the soul. It is one of the most heartbreaking experiences. Shame is the wound inside. It separates us from ourselves and also separates us from others.

In shame, one's self-consciousness is 'split' - imagine that when we are in the eyes of another person - the self-consciousness of people in shame will have such a split, themselves Always in your own eyes.

Shame is the first and most essential cause of all violence (whether for individual violence or for specific groups of people). Anger, assault, and violence are all coping strategies for shame.

Using seemingly powerful anger to mask the powerless shame. In order to cope with shame, the individual externalizes the internal blame on the self to the outside world and others, and then angers and attacks the outside world and others. This feeling is better to endure than pure shame.

Unlike most emotions, shame does not disappear with time, it lurks in us. It is the least easily recognized and released emotion, it is the most secretive emotion. ”

SHAME by Laughing Ears will be released on FunctionLab on November 19, 2019. Shame, To Cover, Self-loathing, Keep in the dark, combines the four emotions into one EP, showing Laughing Ears' most hidden and bare personal feelings.

Track List:

5.Shame 羞耻 
6.To Cover 遮蔽 
7.Self-loathing 自我厌恶 
8.Keep in the dark 隐瞒

Release date: November 19, 2019
Mixing & Mastering: GUAN
Artwork: Melt Joshua (ig: @melt_j)
Design: GG Lobster
Catalog: FL012

Laughing Ears - To Cover 遮掩

Spiral

Sebastien Forrester - Spiral Shriek

Sebastien Forrester - Spiral 34 - 52

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

Joanna nous propose un mix non binaire pour rester vif de corps et d'esprit avant l'annihilation totale.
https://soundcloud.com/joanna-oj

my sword — forever in your arms ft. Philip Ullman (unreleased alternative version)
Ase Manual - Toxic ass
Logic 1000 - Derriere
DJ MELL G - I fcck as I live
Yilan - Regression
Megan Thee Stallion - Sex Talk 
Bloodstains -Ken
Lil Euphon - R8 
Yates X jordnmoody - Play Something
Orrin - Pull Up (Prod. Warren Wolfe)
Palmistry - Lil Gem
Aix Max 97 - Xhrinicibles
Get Face - Sexual Commas
COBRAH - DEBUT
Doc Sleep - Your ruiling planet
Laylow & Wit. - Action Men (SHALT Edit)
Saint Caboclo - Baddygirl
Stas - When you listen to this track an American Becomes Abducted By Aliens (feat. Fausto Mercier)
nunu - ballad pierre bourne ntp edit
Junior XL - Cruel
? - Salive
M-O-R-S-E - Dual (feat. SWAN MEAT)
Quay Dash - U really want it
B1txx3$k⍰llah - Non binary Human
Sevdaliza - Human

Joanna OJ 26/03/20

AREA OF EFFECT
a mix brought to u by @riedelchristoff
artwork by Alexander Turovsky

including:

Yem Gel - Sheld; C'Gate
Trauma - Bažina zrození
Asfast - Prime Prison
Lensk - Collision
Dj Deejay & Tomtom Tom - Cellophan
SWARMM - OMEGA_STREET$
Mang - SwarM
Whiterose - ravX
Concrete Fantasies - reach the current / can't recognize it [synergy]
Bungalovv - A quema ropa
Lil Keed – WALL 2 WALL (AUTOBOUNCER620 EDIT)
Stert - Body Language ***UNRELEASED***
FaxerBeatz - Serio
Moa Pillar - Leftovers
MRTRY - REVENANT TWINGE DESPAIR
Hydropsyche - Darius
Yre Den - Ilk Of Geist
Staysia - Escalada
DJ MATHEUS HENRIQUE - BEBE VEM ME PROCURAR , DIA DE TBT
XIAO QUAN - Undisputed Truth (sanctuary)
KoiFin - Melo
El Alfa x WWWINGS ft. SVENGALI - Active Lo Denial Tenemo System II [hunnid splice]
JLZ ft. Goro - No Name
Anita Kirppis X Pavillon - SOMOS LAS NIETAS
GAGSMILE - I Cant Process Without You
hecthepunisher - Dominican Justin Bieber
Howe - EMPTY CHORUS
Migu - Inera
Peak Sinner FKA Drippin - Devastating Hits
Yikii - Lilac Butterfly Soup (Dasychira Cauldron Pot Twist)
aeoi - Root Scent
Odete - MOM, IM NOT EATING
Mark Luva - Amaieratik
TENDRE AEL & S280F - ,- 161218 (ft. 011668)
Function Level Marker - Interzone 22 (Christoff Riedel Remix) ***UNRELEASED***
syloid - terminal
Dj Deejay - ***UNRELEASED***
Tomtom Tom - ***UNRELEASED***
dj shshunj - Kairi
Here Now - Vib Bodz

big thank u to @howe1, @deejayfaxer1, @syloid, @xiaoquanxiaoquanxiaoquan, @realstert, @djdeeejay, @tomtom_tom, @functionlevelmarker, @luxxuryproblems, @pinkfatbuddha & alexander turovsky

76666 IDEALS/13 CHRISTOFF RIEDEL

Read more about Sébastien Forrester's forthcoming EP 'Spirals', on CxC: couvrexchefs.com/sebastien-forrester-spiral-column-glitter-kowtow

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[PREMIERE] Sébastien Forrester - Spiral Column (feat. GLITTERڭليثر٥٥) [Kowtow Records]

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After a trilogy of percussive club-ready EP’s on his own label Afraa Productions last year, Paris-based Franco-British composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Sébastien Forrester is back with a new project on Kowtow Records. Heavily inspired by the intricacy and unique energy of the Gwana ritual, Sébastien explores a new intersection between contemporary electronic music and the ancestral rhythms of traditional Gnawa chants on his ‘SPIRALS’ EP. 

Equally at ease making club music as he is building tense, misty soundscapes or producing for rappers and pop artists, Sébastien Forrester has always held a deep passion and appreciation for traditional folk music. His very first encounter with music and percussion as a child, whilst living with his family in Gabon, was indeed the Bwiti ritual drums. Feeling deeply moved by the intensity of the traditional Gnawa ritual and the shady mystics surrounding its existence, Sébastien has sought to capture the special, stupendous energy of the ritual across the forthcoming EP. 

Recorded during his trip to Essaouira and Agadir, Morocco last year, whilst performing as part of a residency with l'Institut Français, alongside Frànçois Atlas and Maâlem Saïd Boulhimas, ‘SPIRALS’ EP forms a sonic travel diary that brings together a series of electronic improvisations initiated by Sébastien. Across the EP, Sébastien does not seek to mimic Gnawa music, but instead draws from its complex and relentless rhythmic patterns as a tribute to its immense meditational power. Put together on a dying laptop, very often outside in the open air, with nothing more than a pair of headphones, the seven tracks roll out as fugitive dreams. 

Sitting somewhere between frenetic trance-inducing soundscapes and lush atmospherics, across the EP, we find a marriage of hypnotic basslines and ambient rave elements. FM synthesizers echo the sound of the Guembri string instrument, whilst impromptu field recordings form most of the percussive sounds with on-the-fly iPhone recordings of claps, snaps and rocks thrown together. 

Teaming up with talented friends who also have strong links with different forms of traditional music, we find added vocal arrangements and instrumental contributions from Frànçois Atlas (of Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains) who drops his signature guitar sound and future folk vocal textures on ‘Spiral Line’. Alongside, Paris-based Moroccan DJ and vocalist GLITTER, reinvents a popular Gnawa chant on ‘Spiral Column’ whilst Dakar-based griot and renowned kora player, Boubacar Cissokho and the Normandy-based Boubacar Cissokho, lay elegant and timeless kora lines on ‘Spiral 34-52’ and ‘Spiral Motion’.
 
Altogether, ‘SPIRALS’ EP is the natural convergence of two distant worlds, reconnected through the vision, passion and respect of Sébastien Forrester. A singular musical experience that sees contemporary electronics meet the flux and waving rhythms of the Gnawa ritual. The unique syncopation and constant movement of rhythm across the EP proves both eminently soothing and dancefloor-friendly.

Spirals

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PREMIERE : Sébastien Forrester - Spiral 17-22

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

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