"Cold Crystal Timbres" recalls the immediate past. Hight-tech emotions and synthetic unnaturalness: When sonic hybridities were echoing early 2000s pop.

Once a haven for nerds and enthusiasts, the internet became accessible to many in the early 2010s. Utopias linked to the early internet, such as that of an anonymous and democratic cyberspace, are finally being displaced by a neoliberal Silicon Valley ideology that manifests itself in platforms like Facebook and Amazon.

Rebecca Fuxen and Martin Rovan’s mixtape "Cold Crystal Timbres" pays tribute to the music that emerged from this structural change and aesthetically relates to it. This hybrid music genre, which developed between 2010 and 2015, is characterized by both cold digital sounds and nostalgic pop references. It is embedded in collectives, loose associations, labels, events, or curatorial projects that network primarily through platforms such as SoundCloud and Myspace. Although this music takes place mostly in traditional club settings, it is transnational, digital networking practices that create political activism and solidarity: many collectives establish platforms for DJs, producers, and activists. They reclaim the white- and male-dominated club scene and emphasize the queer context of its genesis and the central role of BPoC within club music.

Listening to the digital, high-resolution sounds of the time one comes to grasp the intersections of digital everyday culture and music as well as the influence that technological developments have on the realities of the artists’ lives.


Credits:
Mixtape by Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan
fkoff1963 - everytime
Rabit - Hex [Tri Angle Records]
boygirl - YE SLOW
Celestial Trax - Secrets [Purple Tape Pedigree]
Blastah - Fica [Mäss]
Sami Baha - Chunk [Planet Mu]
Retina Set - I've Got Feelings Too
SOPHIE - Not Okay [Future Classic]
Lotic - PHLEGM (ZZ GOLOSO EDIT) [NAAFI]
Toxe - Let Me Thru [STAYCORE]
Resla - Nitro [STAYCORE]
Lechuga Zafiro - Agua y Puerta [NAAFI]
MikeQ - The Ha Dub Rewerk'd [Fade To Mind]
Mechatok - Placer [STAYCORE]
Dat Oven - Icy Lake (Total Freedom Remix) [Fade To Mind & Night Slugs]
Toxe x Aaliyah (v1984 edit) [BUILD]

Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan: Cold Crystal Timbres, Mixtape

VIBRACID 3 · BEYOND LOGIC

I Continue To Provoke

PHNTMZN - deep burn (prod. phntmzn bR)

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Can of Worms

angelicaa, 'Can Of Worms' (prod. Charles Verni) (2019). Courtesy Cherche Encore, London.

from the Binky s/t cassette: 

Speaker-wrecking hardcore acid-squelched techno & textured noise collaboration between Alene Marie of Liquid Asset & Tom Bennett of Tinnitustimulus, both world-class in the fields of euphoric hardware techno and harsh noise, respectively. Tripped-out pummeling perfect for a summer's day. 

Mastered by Rat Bastard
Art by Luciann Waldrup 

purchase here: https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/binky

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Binky - Liquid Mirror

“Windows View” by @amazonprim & @depakinmusik is the latest track from @paynomindtous 's debut compilation "WE NEVER WILL" out on the 17 of July

Pre-order: https://paynomindtous.bandcamp.com/album/we-never-will
Read more: soulfeederweb.com/premieres/premiere-amazon-prim-political_noize-windows-view

We Never Will

[Premiere] Amazon Prim & political_noize – Windows View

'Elisabetta' EP out now!
Music by @coreselfsavesyou

Artwork by @ptwiggs
Mastering by @inkmidget

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Core Self - The Reapers Are The Angels

Taken from SBKT037: Hyph11E - Aperture
2 x LP / Digital - October 16th 2020

Artwork by Wang Newone
Mixed by Raphael Valensi
Mastered by Miles Whittaker
Text by megakira✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧

Aperture is the debut album from Hyph11E.

Holes are ontologically parasitic - they are always within something else and cannot exist in isolation. Holes accompany us throughout our lives, dilative and devoured, fillable but indispensable. On one hand, they are the driven force for evolution, on the other hand, holes are also the layer of scab that signals growth. Without tearing, cutting and gluing, we cannot create or eliminate a hole. Topologists use the number of holes to distinguish geometric objects. In the same method, in the closed circuit of Encrust and Erosion, we became idiographic individuals.

In her new album, Hyph11E guides the light to travel within and through the hole, and it becomes Aperture.

Aperture

Hyph11E - Accretion

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Swan Meat with YOUR SICKLY SPIRIT - 12 November 2020

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Core Self - The Reapers Are The Angels

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