Released May 21st 2013. "Les Géométries Souterraines" 12'' vinyl split release with Fusiller on Tanzprocesz, tzplp08. One metallic pantone offset printing on 300gr. of UV coated Superfine paper + insert. Fusiller side / france. electronic passion. electronic romance. lowered fist. Balinese Beast side / Greece. electric wires. cartoon saxophone. feedback loops. dead mixtable. secret rhythms.

Fusiller / Side A / Part 04



Released May 21st 2013. "Les Géométries Souterraines" 12'' vinyl split release with Fusiller on Tanzprocesz, tzplp08. One metallic pantone offset printing on 300gr. of UV coated Superfine paper + insert. Fusiller side / france. electronic passion. electronic romance. lowered fist. Balinese Beast side / Greece. electric wires. cartoon saxophone. feedback loops. dead mixtable. secret rhythms.


Fusiller / Side A / Part 03

A long time in the works, we finally drop off a true early 2010's Athens underground artifact. Two of the most active Greek bands, Balinese Beast (the cut-up stomp-punch destruction duo of Ilan Manouach and Giorgos Axiotis) and Wham Jah (the free-form rambunctious electrical mayhem of Pavlos Gkousios, Kostadis Michail and Panagiotis Spoulos) deliver two sides of an eye-sparkling platter filled w/ energy, persistence, baffle and soothing noise.

Two entirely different approaches, one strong heart endorsing in musical poodle-like affection.

Edition of 300 copies w/ stamped labels, offset covers and offset obi-strips housed in a heavy duty poly sleeve. 

Wham Jah / Hip Dysplasia / Side B / PREVIEW

A long time in the works, we finally drop off a true early 2010's Athens underground artifact. Two of the most active Greek bands, Balinese Beast (the cut-up stomp-punch destruction duo of Ilan Manouach and Giorgos Axiotis) and Wham Jah (the free-form rambunctious electrical mayhem of Pavlos Gkousios, Kostadis Michail and Panagiotis Spoulos) deliver two sides of an eye-sparkling platter filled w/ energy, persistence, baffle and soothing noise.

Two entirely different approaches, one strong heart endorsing in musical poodle-like affection.

Edition of 300 copies w/ stamped labels, offset covers and offset obi-strips housed in a heavy duty poly sleeve.

Balinese Beast / Side A / PREVIEW

SCHENGENSHENZEN has just been dropped off and, oh boy, did this took quite a good deal of effort to come out as it not only assembles two of the most intriguing European noise/imrpov duos, namely ARNAUD RIVIÈRE / MARIO GABOLA & BALINESE BEAST, it was also co-released under the aegis of three different labels, Athenian weirdo outlets PHASE! and MORE MARS and Mario's own venture into improvised music, VIANDE RECORDS.

The flip side, moving closer to the harsher end of the spectrum, is dedicated to the documentation of a live collaboration from 2011 between Parisian turntable mutilator Arnaud Rivière who's using reconstructed phonographs and prepared mixing boards and Mario Gabola from Naples who is one half of Aspec(t) and one third of A Spirale - for the purposes of this recording he provides feedback and resonance by self-made instruments and percussion. The opening track, FRAGMENT is a really hard-edged but neat assortment of hisses, distortion, percussive patterns, silence and feedback failures adorned towards the end by spastic crashes, howls and turntable onslaught. IT IS QUITE COMPLICATE on the other hand is a way more solid artifact whose radio fragments of the first seconds give way to an avalanche of textured noise and monumental eruptions. THIS IS NO SAX SONG briefly closes the side with fast-paced flops, metallic clangs, chopped feedback and tiny pauses. 

Released 26 September 2014 

Edition of 300 copies w/ stamped labels, one color screen print cover & one color offset inlet. 

Arnaud Rivière on turntable & mixer, Mario Gabola on feedback, resonance. Recorded Live In Paris at Trashvortex 15.12.2011. Mixed & Edited by Mario Gabola. Mastered by Sec_. 

Giorgos Axiotis, Ilan Manouach / feedbacks, saxophones, samplers, drum machines. Performed & mixed during 2013 by Balinese Beast. Mastered by Giuseppe Lelasi. 

Cover artwork By Vincent Mauger, inlet artwork & layout by Bend, Printed by Gianluigi "Bomboletta" Prencipe at Arabolaserilab in Naples. 

Co-released by Arnaud Riviere, Balinese Beast, More Mars, Phase!, Viande Records.

www.balinesebeast.com

Arnaud Rivière & Mario Gabola / Side B / PREVIEW

SCHENGENSHENZEN has just been dropped off and, oh boy, did this took quite a good deal of effort to come out as it not only assembles two of the most intriguing European noise/imrpov duos, namely ARNAUD RIVIÈRE / MARIO GABOLA & BALINESE BEAST, it was also co-released under the aegis of three different labels, Athenian weirdo outlets PHASE! and MORE MARS and Mario's own venture into improvised music, VIANDE RECORDS.

Athenian charmers Balinese Beast (Giorgos Axiotis and Ilan Manouach), counting more than ten releases over the past four years, attempt here a shift from their usual frenzied and hyper-active cut-up style towards somehow longer structures - despite the fact that once again they succeed to pack five tracks in less than 18 minutes using their routine gadgetry of samplers, drum machines, no input mixers and free saxophones. Still, their material is hard to pin down. The opening track PRONOUNCE features a really superb upright bass sample that acts as a nexus that holds the piece together and is occasionally decorated by sparse drum machine patterns and exquisite reed blowing. The static that opens COLCANNON NIGHT is held together by a constant metallic hum, gradually sliced by noises and sampled jazz tracks, ending with some sweet sax playfulness, while MIDI MARKET features some oriental pipe patterns, overwhelmed by some Euro-dance sounding raw synth build-ups. THANKS MOM is a typical Balinese smart cut-up and rearrangement celebration but one of the highlights is the closing track LA DÉPÊCHE DE TAHITI, a true slow burner with an elegiac opening, a few slow moving layers of mournful sax and some delicate gestures on top of spiraling synth lines. 
Released 26 September 2014

Edition of 300 copies w/ stamped labels, one color screen print cover & one color offset inlet.

Arnaud Rivière on turntable & mixer, Mario Gabola on feedback, resonance. Recorded Live In Paris at Trashvortex 15.12.2011. Mixed & Edited by Mario Gabola. Mastered by Sec_.

Giorgos Axiotis, Ilan Manouach / feedbacks, saxophones, samplers, drum machines. Performed & mixed during 2013 by Balinese Beast. Mastered by Giuseppe Lelasi.

Cover artwork By Vincent Mauger, inlet artwork & layout by Bend, Printed by Gianluigi "Bomboletta" Prencipe at Arabolaserilab in Naples.

Co-released by Arnaud Riviere, Balinese Beast, More Mars, Phase!, Viande Records.

www.balinesebeast.com

Released on November 2011. Self-released, three tracks of frenetic cut-up action, with intense chopped up rhythms coming from analogue treated feedbacks and overdrived saxophones. 4 color offset cover, 2 different b&w offset inlets in 2-color stock paper. Edition of 287. Recorded live at "Olga's Laundry" Athens, Greece. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin.

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Giorgos Axiotis, Ilan Manouach. Babel Beats / Real time Saxophones / No-Input Hi-fi home system feedbacks / Short cut-ups / Field recordings / Long drones / Athens / Greece. 
Active collaborations with Regular Rules, Holefold, Turbo Teeth, Free Piece Of Tape, Tom Cruisin'.

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