“Paper Ruins” is a dramatic and melancholic debut from Sozorie, an up-and-coming producer from Minsk, Belarus. Beautiful experimental ambient and arty electronica inspired by “visionary architecture,” the kind of architecture that is not realistic and only exists on paper.

Nikolay Steshitz, the person behind Sozorie, is really enjoying creating what he calls “controlled aggression” in his sound. Indeed, even the lushest moments of “Paper Ruins” possess a certain tension, buried underneath the elusive melodies and the rubbery beats.

The album showcases a rich production palette. Some synth work here sounds “classic,” repurposing the classic IDM/electronica/downtempo canon. But then everything changes, and we get more penetrative, siren-like hyperboles that clash against glitches, kick drums, and distorted clangs shaping rhythmic passages not dissimilar to early Amnesia Scanner. Sozorie ties all of these broad influences into a knot and carefully places them inside a narrative, and it does feel like a scaled paper model of a brilliant, strange building. Steshitz comes up with a fresh vision and an excellent record equal parts a home listening trip and great material for the more adventurous DJs.

released March 25, 2021

Music: Nikolay Steshitz
Mixing & Mastering: Nikolay Steshitz
Artwork: Nikolay Steshitz

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lavender, fake gold, salt is an ambient sound piece addressing the spaces, rituals, and sounds that surround my relationship with self-care and healing. Thinking about my connection to sound on an embodied, intimate level, I consider the sonic accumulation that exists in the everyday spaces I inhabit. Traditional Middle Eastern instruments are distorted and stretched, collapsing into drones, synths, and the sounds of jewelry being rustled around. How do we wear the spaces we pass through like adornments?

Originally commissioned for SF MOMA's Open Space in March 2018

lavender, fake gold, salt

​​Early June 2019 Frankfurt based Label MMODEMM unleashes DRUMS, their second vinyl release after MDM01 (feat. Privacy, Chinaski, Dj Slyngshot, Nick Klein, Umberto) and several different cassette formats such as Machine Woman’s residency tape (conclusion of a series of 3 weeks studioresidencies at Mousonturm Frankfurt) or their "cassingle box“ edition of five 5 minute tapes MDM A - MDM J.
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​​DRUMS is the first of a series of compilations following the concept of signature sounds – an hommage to soundlibraries, a deconstruction of your favorite preset soundgroups. It is to be complemented by the later releases BELLS , VOICES and SLAPBASS.
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​​DRUMS is featuring a proggy composition by Macadam Mambo´s EVA GEIST, a jacking hi hat inferno with agitating spanish lyrics by CIENFUEGOS, known thru his releases on L.I.E.S., a dancefloor drumsolo straight out of >Ireland by LUMIGRAPH, who was already featured on MMODEMMs MDM E box and should be known from his Opal Tapes and Mr. Saturday Night releases a few years ago. PEDER MANNERFELT delivers a trippy, drunk masterclass drumlesson, taking house apart with his "Dumb Drums".

DRUMS

Peder Mannerfelt - Dumb Drums

As you fall into the 'Preying Well ' enter through a deep murky portal into a world of low chopped metallic slabs , menacing baritone saxophones +  oozing jungle sludge . This all original 45 mix cassette assembled in a 2 week period in Nov 2019  primes you for the forth coming full LP + art project Metal Preyers released in feb 2020 .

The Preying Well

METAL PREYERS: THE PREYING WELL (preview)

Berlin-based producer, Yre Den, joins Melbourne-based imprint DECISIONS with four tracks of colourful club sonics. Hear the effervescent synths and playful percussion on A1, 'Blind U', now

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Premiere: Yre Den 'Blind U'

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