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Made by @smog_0
Mastered by Dominic Clare @ Declared Sound, Leeds
Art, game and concept by Ziyiz

Out April 10th 2021

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Taken from SBKT054: Gorgonn - Six Paths
Release date: 31st January

Artwork and layout by Akihide Monna
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

In Japanese Buddhism, it's believed that when someone dies they are ushered down one of six paths depending on the karma accumulated during their previous lives. A being might end up in the world of humans, animals, demigods, or celestials, but it's also possible to end up reborn as a pitiable hungry ghost, doomed to an existence of insatiable desire, or even worse - be sent to hell, or jigoku. Ruled over by the Japanese lord of death Emma-ō, this hell isn't quite like the Christian hell, it's closer to purgatory, and cleansing the karma can take hundreds of millions of years of excruciating torture in extreme cold or immense fire. Japanese bass alchemist Gorgonn takes these themes as the basis of his debut album "Six Paths", assembling a spiritually weighty set of futurist dubs that consider the possibility that our mortal domain might be closer to hell than we realize.

Gorgonn describes himself as a Japalien exile. He left the country of his birth almost two decades ago, and since then has been working tirelessly to formulate Jamaican dub, noise, techno, and no-wave into a sound he calls "sci-fi steppas". If you've not come across his name before, there's a good chance you've heard his reverberations. An established sound tech who's worked with The Bug, Hype Williams, Seefeel and others, he's part of G36 with Kevin Martin, Dokkebi Q with Kiki Hitomi, and a former member of Devilman with DJ Scotch Egg and Bo Ningen's Taigen Kawabe. Just last year he released the acclaimed "Disentegration Dubs" full-length alongside JK Flesh, the veteran producer who's best known for masterminding Godflesh. All this experience blesses Gorgonn's productions with remarkable sonic force, and "Six Paths" is his most crushing display yet, smelting cannonball bass and osmium beats into sharp-edged soundsystem weapons.

Look no further than opener 'Abyss' for evidence of this: psychedelic synths draw the mind away from the mortal realm, while tangled, distorted beats push us back down to earth, our faces crushed into the grit and gravel. Using tweaked sub bass and unsettling drones, Gorgonn lays out a cinematic backdrop for the album, drawing us into a world that's terrifying, viscous, and nauseatingly familiar. There's a militaristic roll to 'Without Beginning and End', a track that juxtaposes spacey halfstep thrusts with death metal distortion, footwork polyrhythms, and unearthly pads that addresses the crushing endlessness of jigoku. On 'Invisible' meanwhile, Gorgonn torches the skeletal remains of D&B, abstracting familiar rhythmic patterns into fuzzy, ritualistic cycles that sound both ancient and humming with prospective technology. But on the closing track 'Life as a Beast', it sounds as if Gorgonn has come to a conclusion, and in a flurry of acid squelches and doomy foghorn bass blasts, he seems to have accepted that being reincarnated as an animal might be the best anyone can hope for. Who knows, you might end up as a cat.

Six Paths

Gorgonn - Acid Body [Digital Bonus Track]

from canceled future footnotes
fanged into acéphale
by visceral reverb-drenched barrage
thousand dead gods

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The third vinyl commences with Rotterdam-based duo Animistic Beliefs’ ‘Vú Sữa Là Gì?’. The atmospheric track begins with menacing synths that are soon after enmeshed with vogue, gqom and percussive vocal chops that build towards a rewarding, melodic breakbeat cadence at its close.

ORDER HERE:
https://boudicarecords.bandcamp.com/album/boudica-va03-dark-as-it-gets

https://soundcloud.com/animisticbeliefs
https://soundcloud.com/samanthatogni
https://soundcloud.com/boudicaofficial

PREMIERE: Animistic Beliefs - Vú Sữa Là Gì? [ BOUDICA ]

A2 - Isabella - Penchant - PMIK001

READ > inverted-audio.com/smog-announces-debut-album-sequel70-on-oqko

Berlin-based producer and sound artist @smog_0 has announced the release of his debut album in May, through his own record label @oqko. Ahead of release, we are delighted to share a first listen of "Abschluss SCAN" - a breakneck exploration of jungle and abstract electronics. Fans of Lee Gamble 'Diversions 1994-1996' EP take note.

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Smog - Abschluss SCAN [oqko]

FAKETHIAS, Akiko Haruna

Recorded at the 2018 Red Bull Music Academy in Berlin.

Various Assets — Not For Sale: Red Bull Music Academy Berlin 2018

FAKETHIAS, Akiko Haruna - Functional Nerd

Following their last  "Thirst Ep" released on Instrument of Discipline in 2019, the duo Diasiva (Monolog and Swarm Intelligence) returns with a five tracks work on the Berlin Imprint Arboretum.

While addressing the environmental issue of the human impact on natural ecosystems, Microplastic Ep seems to embark upon a journey of deconstruction of Techno, IDM and Bass Music towards futuristic paradigms. 


Here, gritty broken-beats, wisely mixed with titanic basslines, an ominous dystopic temper seems to simulate the contemporary unrelenting strain, fading at time either into kaleidoscopic-visionary synthlines archetypes or cinematic rarefied epilogues for a comforting utopia. 

Format: 12"Vinyl 

SIDE A

A1.  Taligrade 
A2. Microplastic

SIDE B

B1.  Detiest
B2. Orcus
B3. Defiance

All tracks written and produced by 
Monolog and Swarm Intelligence 
Mastered at Dadub Studio (Berlin) by Daniele Antezza
Artwork by Andrea Familari 
(p)&(c)Arboretum 2020

Microplastic EP

Diasiva - Microplastic EP - Previews

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-ofk-frustration/

Berlin based label @Arboretum-Rec tap OFK (aka half of the R&S-released act Unknown Archetype) for the 'Erratic Behaviour' EP, featuring a collaboration with Rell and a thundering remix from Cocktail Party Effect.

OFK - Frustration [Arboretum]

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere "Incubate" by OFK. Debuting on Arboretum, OFK is the brand new alias of the electronic producer Oliver Kucera, also known as the half-mind behind “Unknown Archetype”, duo signed on R&S. Stretching his techno-industrial dialectic towards more uncharted idioms, Kucera brings  together a sci-fi landscape of uncanny melodies, haunted distortions and deep, low-end broken kick-drums. 

Moreover the idiosyncratic collaboration track with Rell, takes over with a massive, yet tamed feedback apocalypse, shaping a timeless narrative
outstandingly de-constructed by Cocktail Party Effect.

The release is out on November 18th digitally + tape on Bandcamp: https://arboretumrec.bandcamp.com/album/erratic-behaviour

@Arboretum-Rec
@oliverkucera

Erratic Behaviour EP

OFK - Incubate (ARBT002)

Arboretum is a Berlin based record label focused on Contemporary Electronic Music.

www.inarboretum.com

Diasiva - Microplastic EP - Previews

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