AWK003 - Various Artists

VA'S/Collabs/Remixes/Freebies

Apparently putting out records is just as addictive as putting on parties. Naturally, we are itching for more and it’s about time that we announce our next release. It’s one that we’re particularly looking forward to as for the first time we have the pleasure of curating a various artists EP - and we believe it turns out to be one that we have plenty of reasons to be excited about!   

From J.Wiltshire’s cinematic ambience to Yushh’s floating wobbles, from Pugilist’s sinister stepper to Lårry’s ghostly glitches, every artist on this EP brings their distinct style and adds to the general vibe and overall great harmony of this record.   

AWK003 is set for release on October 15th 2021. Much love to the artists contributing to this EP as well as to anyone supporting our continued record label endeavours!


Artwork by VOJD

Mastering by Andreas [LUPO] Lubich

Distribution by WAS/ Wordandsound


DJ support by: LCY, Clouds, DJ Fart In The Club, Cabasa, Dead Man’s Chest, Emerald, ZULI, Ronan, Silvia Kastel, ETCH, YAK, TASH LC, Rhyw, Mor Elian, Kouslin, Adam Pits, Ciel, Smokey, Sybil, Debonair, Red Rack’em, Katiusha, Formally Unknown,  Andrea (Ilian Tape), Madam X, Nikki Nair, Em Williams, Eich, Briain, DJ Mo City, Hooverian Blur, Ian DPM, Spektralsound, Second Storey, Kikelomo, Giant Swan, Jamiu, Re:ni, Danielle, Anthony Shake Shakir, Mixtress, Om Unit, Addison Groove and more to follow! =)

AWK003

AWK003 - Various Artists // Snippets

There was a chill in the air, the kind that preceded a sinister or unfortunate event. Now darkness arrived much earlier, the streets emptied leaving only the nightcrawlers to roam at their leisure. Under the veil of night, societal rules went out of the window. There was no longer any law enforcement patrolling these parts, they'd given up on that a long time ago, there was only so much that could be done to keep these creatures at bay.

Following releases from Lårry and Aroent, Berlin-based imprint Awkwardly Social are gearing up for their first ever VA, bringing together some of their favourite artists and label mates. A release that's given the label 'plenty to be excited about', the four tracks feature music from previous affiliate Lårry, Pugilist, J.Wiltshire and Yushh, all of whom bring different flavours with their originals: from ambient to glitch, electro and leftfield.

AWK003 

PREMIERE: Yushh - Periwink [Awkwardly Social]

@pugilistmusic's sinister Techno stepper 'Emanate'. Taken from @awkscl's first various artists release.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/pugilist-emanate

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Premiere: Pugilist - Emanate

Apparently putting out records is just as addictive as putting on parties. Naturally, we are itching for more and it’s about time that we announce our next release. It’s one that we’re particularly looking forward to as for the first time we have the pleasure of curating a various artists EP - and we believe it turns out to be one that we have plenty of reasons to be excited about!

From J.Wiltshire’s cinematic ambience to Yushh’s floating wobbles, from Pugilist’s sinister stepper to Lårry’s ghostly glitches, every artist on this EP brings their distinct style and adds to the general vibe and overall great harmony of this record.

@awkscl

Buy:
https://awkwardlysocial.bandcamp.com/album/awk003

PREMIERE: Lårry - Latz End [Orf] [Awkwardly Social]

Exclusive: J.Wiltshire - Living In The IDE

Berlin's not so socially awkward label Awkwardly Social drums up label affiliates for the third installment to deliver four artistically rich and diverse takes. Besides Lårry, who was responsible for the label's second release, the EP also features tracks from Yushh, Pugilist and Jacob Wiltshire. The UK-producer, who entered the scene with a release on Hypercolour, now (co-) runs not only his own label Super Hexagon, but can already look back at a release on MUSAR among others. With Living In The IDE Wiltshire musically remains true to himself as he comes up with a rather spheric almost cinematic ambient take whose power becomes evident if you let yourself in for this experience of sounds interacting with each other under the umbrella of a contemporary piece of musical art. Wiltshire perfectly and almost mosaic-like puzzles the sounds together to create the track title suggested IDE or rather makes the inner workings of it visible or hearable for an audience.

Awkwardly Social's V/A EP will be released on October 15th, 2021.

Buy the EP: https://awkwardlysocial.bandcamp.com/album/awk003

Artist & label information
J. Wiltshire: https://facebook.com/jwiltshireuk // @jacobwiltshire // https://instagram.com/jaowiltshire
Awkwardly Social: https://facebook.com/awkscl // @awkscl // https://instagram.com/awkwardlysocialberlin

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Living In The IDE

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EXCLUSIVE: J.Wiltshire - Living In The IDE [Awkwardly Social]

Control Freak co-founder Customer Service returns to the label with his second EP, Amygdala. As both a DJ and producer, Hong Kong-born, London-based Customer Service thrives in a genre-defying nether zone - rooted in familiar dancefloor grooves, but with a distinctive, off kilter sense of rhythm and melody that instantly mark his productions out.

With previous music supported from the likes of Ben UFO, upsammy & Oceanic, Tom Ravenscroft, Solid Blake, dBridge, re:ni and more, this record follows the thread of previous Customer Service releases, exploring deep, trippy and murky textures rooted in techno & electro soundscapes. Rounding off the record, @pugilistmusic remixes Lean Forward, adding a murky, broken groove to the detailed fabric of the original, and Customer Service collaborates with CF cofounder @finnaman on a similarly richly-textured closing track, Useless Knowledge.

Customer Service 
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/customerdjservice
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willbradbugram/

Pugilist
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/pugilistmusic
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pugilistmusic/

Control Freak Recordings
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/controlfreakrecordings
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/controlfreakrecordings
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/controlfreakrecordings/

PREMIERE: Customer Service - Lean Forward (Pugilist remix) (Control Freak Recordings)

Sub Basics debut album releasing digitally on Temple of Sound

1. Sub Basics - Internet Explorer
2. Sub Basics - Encryption
3. Sub Basics - Bandwidth
4. Sub Basics - Configuration
5. Sub Basics - Database
6. Sub Basics - Firewall
7. Sub Basics & Pugilist - Integer
8. Sub Basics - Mainframe 
9. Sub Basics - Network
10. Sub Basics - Sentient Machines
11. Sub Basics - Binary Code
12. Sub Basics - Nodes

Release Date 15/12/2023

Pre-Order: https://templeofsound.bandcamp.com/album/sub-basics-sentient-machines

Sub Basics - Sentient Machines (Showreel)

Pre-order: https://ofparadise.bandcamp.com/album/found

Explorative bass meets hypermodern techno and hypnotic dubstep explorations on 'Found', the latest V/A from @ofparadiserecords.

'Found' brings together a cluster of artists across eight new tracks, including this pristine club cut from @pugilistmusic, 'Sinkhole'.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Pugilist 'Sinkhole'

A vibey lil beat that has been sitting on my HD for a min. Thought I would give it away as a freebie as a thank you for all the support recently!

Pugilist - Support Request (Free D/L)

AN ATLAS OF LOSS

Do minerals dream of becoming semiconductors? Do they yearn to carry charges, amplify, switch, and convert energy into emotions comprehensible to humans? And what if, from the darkness of the underground, they had been listening to us sing in caves before the emergence of the first flute? Could they have guided us, through the course of history, to find them, extract them, and create new sounds through sinusoidal waves, to form valves and bend circuits?


If so, minerals would transition from what philosopher Eugene Thacker defines as the ‘planet’—that virginal and unreachable realm for humans that we study through geology, paleontology, and environmental sciences—to the ‘world,’ the space we inhabit, interpret, and synthesise in our daily lives. Sadly, we only remember the world when it erupts violently, through climate catastrophes or when a new virus emerges. Sometimes a tsunami collides with a nuclear plant, or viruses are cultivated as biological weapons in high-security laboratories, provoking a deep biological anxiety, hard to quell, which we all feel beneath our skin.

There exists a third realm, disconnected from both the world and the planet: the ‘earth’, an immense, dense rock floating in space alongside other planets, situated in the cosmological dimension. Relating to the earth is so complex that we only do so through theoretical speculations of a scientific nature or through science fiction, interweaving until one becomes the prophecy of the other, in an infinite, pendular dance. Beyond the darkness of space and Lovecraft’s cosmic horror, the fantasy of human extinction is the most recurrent: to reach a collapse so devastating that we do not survive it, even though the earth does, without us.

In a world where we quantify everything through body sensors, financial algorithms, nanometre-scale robots, and surveillance drones—a world in which everything that can be domesticated and controlled can also be commodified—a superior artificial intelligence would survive the collapse of the species (some speculate it might even cause it) and learn from our mistakes, thanks to our obsessive gathering of data.

Long after our voices fade, minerals will persist in the darkness of screens, in the silicon of chips, and in their pure form, still unexploited underground. Over the millennia, this intelligence might piece together fragments of our reasoning, as if an alien civilization finally connected with one of our spacecrafts loaded with messages cast into the void. It would sort through endless streams of data, unable to grasp the depths of emotion behind what it quantified, recreating simulations of our past, stripped of the nuance that once defined us and conducting experiments in sandboxes.

Some remnants of our existence—faint echoes of forgotten beauty—would be pieced together in an atlas of loss, buried beneath layers of numbers, decayed bots, and corroded hard drives. What will follow? Perhaps bison will once again roam—trotting to the strange pulse of techno, their ancient forms framed by the ruins of our cities. Buildings will crumble, slowly dissolving under the soft touch of ambient music, and a thousand flowers will bloom with that ancient music created through electrical signals and computation.

7 songs for a future both improbable and inevitable—a final message from a world lost to itself, from planet Earth to planet Earth.
A1 by Alex Dickson, Joe Baker.
A2 by Olivier van der Lugt.
A3 by Andre Lira.
B1 by Flore Morfin.
B2 by Jdotbalance.
B3 by Charlie “Eric” Baldwin.
B4 by J. Coles, P. Tipler.


Mastered by Pedro Pina.
Artwork by Aleix Font.
CEEXYZ05.
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Pugilist & Forest Drive West - Polygon [CEEXYZ05]

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