Xquisite Releases is excited to present the debut release by KYYBERWALL, ‘GOLDEN LION’ @kyyberwall

Through 4 tracks KYYBERWALL knits his own percussive language.

For the first time xquisite is happy to present an experiment into physical archives through the creation of a usb edition housing these tracks.

we like that this object can live on through its useful nature, staying with you through any task you see fit of it.

Mastering - Christian Piers
Additional Post Production - Al Green
Artwork - Kyybers Mum + Ratty Slay Johnson

KYYBERWALL - CANTTESTRIDER

@nozagam is a solo project by French experimental-club producer Etienne Zastko who takes a bleak view of a destructive Anthropocene Epoch, in which “utopias can’t exist and we’ve lost our way in our blind devotion to technology”. The album pieces together a chronology of catastrophic events. A fictionalized soundtrack to humankind’s end-cycle. The abrasive textures and suffocating atmosphere immerse us into a total universe where everything that could have gone wrong has. Affirmations and tech bro optimism didn’t quite cut it. And if those disembodied voices that sporadically reach out are the survivors, that’s not good news.

The visual aesthetic of Zagam is one of fusion, a medieval plague doctor mask with a 23rd-century twist. “Anthropocene” mines a similarly disparate set of influences, spanning an evermore hybridized clubspace. Gqom, grime, industrial techno, footwork: everything is fair game. The rich musical background and hard sonic palette of Zagam make for a perfect match for the hybrid electronics approach of Unizone.
credits

Anthropocene is coming out on May 4, 2023 as a digital and physical release (50 limited edition cassettes available via label‘s Bandcamp page).

original tracks by Zagam
remix tracks by Miedo Total, Wulffluw XCIV, personalbrand & B E N N
mastered by Wim Dehaen
artwork & visuals by Erranth
tape design by Mr. Maquerelle
text by Thomas Romana

Bandcamp + Cassette

ZAGAM - NO MESSING

ONE WINGED ANGEL ft ALPARR, MATT TECSON, THEGN

@jjjacob @xclairx
The 42nd release of katharsis is the collaborative album “Soft Space” by label founder jjjacob and various other artists from around the world, coming out on May 31st. The album works as a sequel to his previous full-length release "Brutal Nature" from 2022, both in terms of the collaborational dogma in production but also in the thematic connection and contrast between the brutality of nature and the softness of space. All tracks emerged as infantile jjjacob sketches, then taking more form and gaining inspirational matter from the collaborating artists' conduct and care, before finally being concluded by the final touches of jjjacob again.

The result is as the title suggests smooth and gentle at most times, but it does though have more wicked and harsh moments and aspects throughout the album. The emotional journey of the album keeps pendulating between the pleasant floating sensations of celestial emptiness and the brute mysticality of the unknown. At times it feels aerodynamic or dissolving, at others it tastes crispy and anthemic, but the overall output is definitely ethereal and cosmic.

releases May 31, 2024
artwork & mastering by jjjacob

Soft Space

Drifting Days (feat. Clair X)

jjjacob & Clair X - Drifting Days

All proceeds raised from the sales of the compilation will be donated to funding Palestinian e-SIMs via gazaesims.com (@connectinghumanity_).

Connecting Humanity is an organisation that provides eSIMs to connect people in Gaza to the internet, giving a voice to journalists, medical professionals, aid workers, families and people documenting the genocide, allowing people in Gaza to stay connected to the world.

Contributing artists: Ship Sket, Crimson Chaos, Apu Nanu, exmantera, aDeAD, xeccute, novasdemise, Golce, h4S, Preost, Capiuz, Misha Faulty, EvaneH, Tommy Ryoma, optionlist, bod [包家巷], Bianca Scout, vorem ipsum, Shast, Silv-o, Tailtiu, Mongleaux, TCV, incel-x, Hellsing, Azrel and Charlie Osborne.

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EvaneH - SeaofNOise

Kiss the Future

Kiss The Future (feat. Special Guest DJ & Ben Bondy)

piano 4 (bonus)

The haiku that guided this;

Winter waterfall
a rock untouched
by sunrise or sunset
(Naviar haiku challenge 607, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge ),

has an obvious staring point, "Winter Waterfall" the track has finished up quite experimental.


Waterfall = white noise.
So I started with a noise source in Voltage Modular and created an evolving sequence that processed the noise output through a spectral filter bank using two instances of the WC-96 Spectral Processor from DMT Audio. I then created a rhythmic element by feeding that output through an LFO controlled envelope, passing the output on to Quadelay from Waverley Instruments. 

With the noise elements in place I added some pulses using basic VM modules then moved on. Having used a couple of tweaked Dreamsynth presets last week I decided it was time to take the deep dive and learn how to patch Dreamsynth from scratch. Dreamsynth (https://cherryaudio.com/products/dreamsynth) is deep, almost modular. I made a patch for the chord sequence; yes I know it's a bit weird but I liked it in isolation while developing the DS patch so kept it all be it sequenced, converted to MIDI and passed out from VM. While experimenting I found that if I played in a low register I got a rumbly semi random texture so I split that off and tweaked it a bit to represent the rock, triggered by a separate sequence in VM. The final element is a drone layer made from DMT Audio's "West Coast" modules (Uncertainty and Harmonic Oscillator), left over from an early experiment and passed through a band pass filter modulated by reused control, voltages from the noise sequencing. 

With all the elements in place I made two changes before recording, I added a small amount of ShimmerVerb from Eventide to the chord sequence and replaced the pure white noise that I'd planned to use at the beginning with a sample of a real waterfall from freesound (Staying close to waterfall by trader_one -- https://freesound.org/s/670515/ -- License: Creative Commons 0), because I wanted a touch of gurgling water.

With everything in place; opening waterfall, mapped physical controls, multitrack recording and no real plan. I hit record and improvised, one take, longer than I'd expected.
I'll own up to doing a lot of mastering to make the dispirit elements gel but didn't add anything significant.

Winter Waterfall - (naviarhaiku - 607)

The sixth Frozen Monolith album 'Beyond The Silver Globe' delves into retro medieval sci-fi soundscapes, in a tribute to Andrzej Żuławski's unfinished Polish sci-fi epic On The Silver Globe. Recorded live in one take using a mini-korg, yamaha psr220, akai drum machine, behringer pro 1 and a pedal rack.

Into The Caves

Dark Ambient Music inspired by the writings of HP Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos cult. Be scared and enjoy!

CTHULHU MYTHOS - TENEBROUS

"First, Second, and Third Exposure”
Cruel Intentions [LP, Ascetic House, 202]

release date [LP]: November 24, 2020
available at http://ascetic.house and http://ascetichouse.com

“A rough-hewn pendulum, Cruel Intentions swings between Shredded Nerve’s previous LP and this year's Acts of Betrayal, vacillating between the noisy and the serene through crude loops and environmentally-specific recordings, driven by hope for the future and exhaustion of the day's burden. Like an apartment building collapsing inwards, no listener is safe from the debris of glass, metal, wood and electricity Shredded Nerve employs. While previous works have focused on blunt repetition, Lakes embraces his sounds' desire to sprawl out and infect each other throughout these five pieces. The opener ("Burning Arrival") brings the same sort of twisted backward violin sound found on the Butthole Surfers' "Creep in the Cellar" but manages to further elucidate this terror with discreet scrapings and the gathering of small objects before lumbering up the stairs, arms full of white hot static interference. The errant crackling through heavy tones and cheap, ringing steel, synthesized warping and vitric ritualistic knocks serve to take us further out of ourselves, looking through a thick window as we slowly age. Tension and dread are at this end, but what awaits on the other side?”
— Greh Holger (Hive Mind/Chondritic Sound)

Shredded Nerve is the primary output of multimedia artist Justin Lakes. Drawing from a palette of found sound, electroacoustic amplification, and analog synthesis, his work is composed through the
use of handmade cassette loops which have come to be known as his signature. Originally based in Cincinnati, Lakes has operated out of Brooklyn since 2014 where he co-founded the record store Thousands of Dead Gods and subsequent tape label Dead Gods. In addition to publishing printed materials of collages and flyers, he also runs the limited edition CDr imprint Small Mercies. Cruel Intentions is Shredded Nerve's 2nd LP, a follow up to 2016's In The Shadow Of What Never Was.

Shredded Nerve "First, Second, and Third Exposure" [LP, Ascetic House, 2020]

A∴H∴ (Ascetic House)