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Premiere: QOW »Bano« [Genot Centre]

Artist: @xiaoquanxiaoquanxiaoquan
Catalogue Number: IM090
Album: A Taste of Revenge
Release Date: May 28th, 2021
Format: Digital

Having spent the latter half of 2020 pushing out a string of intense bootlegs via SoundCloud and taking up remix duties for acts like Ice_Eyes, São Paulo’s Xiao Quan is readying some original productions for his debut release on Infinite Machine, entitled A Taste of Revenge. These frantic, drum-heavy compositions see the artist push further into a liminal space where techno and hybrid club sounds blend - and continues a stylized nod to Xiao Quan’s muse, The Crying Freeman manga series.

The record opens with Chakram Intel Bulletins; one of the EP’s more measured moments but one that remains as tense and claustrophobic as the rest of Taste of Revenge. The layers of crunching analogue synthesis and the deluge of drum hits which seem to trip over each other are hypnotic; creating strange and disorienting effects on the ear. The end result has more than an air of the cyberpunk about it - as if Vatican Shadow tried his hand re-soundtracking Ghost In The Shell.

Xiao Quan notches up the dread and suspense on the following title track of the EP. Airy sustained tones and an unrelenting mass of polyrhythms push up against each other, vying for your attention before a piercing 2-tone melody cuts through the mix like a hot knife through butter.

With the next track, Shades of Death, the creeping suspense and claustrophobia of the previous two compositions is swapped out for unadulterated rhythmic chaos. Underpinned by an oscillating bass pulse, countless samples and drum lines are arranged in a frenetic audio-collage. A solid showcase of Xiao Quan’s skillful combining of sounds from across the globe.

The EP rounds off with The Crying Freeman, a track named after the manga that underpins many elements of the Xiao Quan project. The most melodic production of the release, the track’s mournful synth line glides over rushing, mechanistic drum patterns. This blend of the emotional and the machinic distinctly mirrors the situation of the manga’s protagonist; an assassin hypnotically programmed to kill on his master’s demand who sheds tears at the fate of his victims.

Even a passing glance at panels of The Crying Freeman manga clearly shows that Xiao Quan has done his homework on his source material. The producer masterfully channels the uneasy and shadowy world of the manga series and translates it into the sonic experience that is A Taste of Revenge EP.

Tracklist:

1. Chakram Intel Bulletins
2. A Taste of Revenge
3. Shades of Death
4. Crying Freeman
5. The Dragon from Russia (Bandcamp bonus track)

Artwork by Danny Hell
Mastered by Fausto Mercier

A Taste of Revenge

Xiao Quan - Chakram Intel Bulletins (IM090)

Hiro Kone Tracklist
Mediteranos - We Remember What You Will Not Forget
Dakn داكنْ - Loiler
Hiro Kone - Feed My Ancestors
Daboor & Shabjdeed - Inn Ann - إن أن
Speaker Music - Techno is a Liberation Technology (ft. AceMo)
Ghassan Kanafani Interview (excerpt)
Al Nather - Abu Bakr
Muqata'a -Ma Wara' مَا وَراء
Makimakkuk - Tartaqa
Asifeh - Sawt al Ard - صوت الارض
Bint7alal - 3awaj (feat. El Waili)
Hiro Kone - Stom
Alrafiq - Last Breath
Mahmoud Darwish - Homage to Edward Said (excerpt)
Dakn داكنْ - line break مدخل

Via App Tracklist
Abul-Loul the Singer and the Hole - Nar El Ghera نار الغيرة
Dreamcrusher - Another Country (Excerpt)
Saint Abdullah - 3. Zoom_28_Track_8_Edited_MM
Cienfuegos - Southern Black Widow
Moor Mother - Act 4 - No More Wires
madam data & savan depaul - daybreak
Senyawa - Istana (Prophän Remix)
2nd Gen - And/Or
Nazar - RAW
Bashar Suleiman - 6afi ho
Sarah Haras - Wish That I
Duma - Omni
Denna Abdelwahed - Saratan
Mariam Rezaei - COT
Brandon Juhans - Floating in Traffic
1.8.7. - Wake Up
Muqata'a - Bilharf Alwahad بالحَرف الواحَد
AMANI + KING VISION ULTRA - Hell Juice
Divide and Dissolve - Resistance
Hanin Elias - Outback
bergsonist - EMOTIONAL

Links -
https://mediteranos.bandcamp.com/album/meds-recordings-akitu
https://bilnaes.bandcamp.com/album/too-low-too-far
https://hirokone.bandcamp.com/album/a-fossil-begins-to-bray
https://bltnm.bandcamp.com/album/el-gad3ana-ep
https://speakermusic.bandcamp.com/album/black-nationalist-sonic-weaponry
https://bltnm.bandcamp.com/track/abu-bakr
https://muqataa.bandcamp.com/album/kamil-manqus
https://makimakkuk.bandcamp.com/track/tartaqa-original-mix
https://asifeh.bandcamp.com/album/datura
https://music.apple.com/us/album/3awaj-feat-el-waili/1552926412?i=1552926414
https://soundcloud.com/alrafiq/last-breath
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https://avonterrorcorps.bandcamp.com/album/resist-to-exist
https://dreamcrusher.bandcamp.com/album/another-country-3
[unreleased] https://saintabdullah.bandcamp.com/
https://cienfuegos666.bandcamp.com/album/adios
https://moormother.bandcamp.com/album/circuit-city
https://madamdata.bandcamp.com/album/slug-savior
https://drownedbylocals.com/album/dbl-edition
http://www.2ndgen.net/
https://nazar.bandcamp.com/album/244-ep
https://hizzme.bandcamp.com/album/kombile-001
https://chinabot.bandcamp.com/album/mirage
https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/duma
https://deenabdelwahed.bandcamp.com/album/khonnar
https://mariamrezaei.bandcamp.com/album/dam-2
https://brandonjuhans.bandcamp.com/album/essential-dread
https://jordanaofficial.bandcamp.com/
https://muqataa.bandcamp.com/album/kamil-manqus
https://purpletapepedigree.bandcamp.com/album/an-unknown-infinite
https://divideanddissolve.bandcamp.com/album/abomination
https://haninelias.bandcamp.com/
https://bergsonist.bandcamp.com/album/emotional

Hiro Kone + Via App // Sonic Liberation Front // Radio Alhara // Bethlehem, Palestine

Glass asked to their favorite artists of the experimental electronic scene to deconstruct and destroy their album ‘Anxiety Prime’.

This various, built around classic and recognizable Glass fragments, redefines the album in a totally new way and gives it a fresh ambient and club touch.
This is the soundtrack to another stressful & violent world.
 
We cannot thanks enough the artists involved : Aho Ssan, Apollo Noir, Christian Coiffure, CNDSD, KMRU, Low Khey, More Eaze, Zero Crossing Point & ZULI.
And of course Glass who also included a brand new live version of their iconic track ’Skin Transfer’.

Mastered by Lorenzo Targhetta
Artwork by Cestainsi & Virgile Flores based on original artwork by Sara Bastai & Ines Maestre

Glass - Hybrid Thinking (Aho Ssan remix)

@baytee_baytak

Mastering: Joe Farr
Album photograph: Natalie Naccache
Album photo editing: Sofia Elian

Baytee Baytak - 4 Hour Power

NTS 074 [10th May 2022] Nile Sessions Vol XVI Ft Ashrar & Rama B2b Tor5y

Baytee Baytak's debut radio mix for @ma3azef. Peppered with breakbeat from the likes of @zulimusic and @fiestasoundsystem, this fast-paced and chaotic mix showcases his recent LP, Electric*té Du Liban (released by Cairo-based record label, @Hizz).

Trade IDs:

Baytee Baytak - KAHRABA
ZULI - 3ankaboot
Baytee Baytak - Four Hour Power
Fiesta Soundsystem - Tear Down the Walls
ZULI - Tany
Baytee Baytak - 1,500 Lira
Baytee Baytak - Electric*té Du Liban
ZULI - Where Do You Go
Baytee Baytak - NIZAM
ZULI - Keen Demag
DJ Ali - Khazen
ZULI - Penicillin Duck
Skenghis Kahn - Alive With Pleasure
Skenghis Kahn - Drunch Punk

Ma3azef Radio – Baytee Baytak – 08.06.22

Ancestral Vision (@ancestralvision) is a Prague-based producer, DJ, sound designer & co-founder of hybrid club label and radio show Unizone (@unizonelabel). He is often shifting gears between genres, rhythms, tempos and moods, sometimes even within a single track. Both his music and mixes is a deep melting pot of hybridized club forms, self-collected field recordings and both alien and organic textural sound design.

Tracklist:

AM Hi:

Emma DJ & Toma Kami – Julia Bashmore
PVSSY, Entranas – Delirio
Laksa – Fire Kit
Le Motel – Sueños
Josi Devil – Breathe Easy
ROSALÍA – SAKURA
Safa – Hydrobenediction
Galtier - Exhalation of Blood
33EMYBW – Microcosmic
Penelope’s Fiance – Anxiety
Sophie – Bipp
BFTT – feelins2
Sister Zo – Don’t Test Me
Joy O & Ben Vince – Systems Align
PVSSY,Entranas – Mania
Capiuz – Pantera
Hedo Hydr8 – Mass Bleach
Farsight – Flash Flood
Le Dom – Water Coaster
PheliMuncasi, Dj Nhlekzin – I Don’t Feel My Legs
Leonce – Sex Siren
Phrixus – BMORE…>STAND UP!!
Sébastien Forrester & Ehua – Typhoon
Le Motel – Wonteeda (feat. Bryte)
Hassan Abou Alam – Mawkif
Batu – Inner Space


Ancestral Vision:

IVAN SKORYNA - CHEAP GAS, CHEAP BLOOD [SELF-RELEASED]
LCY - GARDEN OF E10 [SZNS7N]
HUNA - WHAT U SAY [ECLIPSE TRIBEZ]
HYPNA - DRM_BLL [PLASMA SOURCES]
K WATA - BONE TAGS [SLINK NYC]
DRUMMY - DOUBLE STOP [KINDERGARTEN]
ENTRAÑAS, PVSSY - CALOR (DJ RANKNG REMIX) [HYPERSONICS]
KRONOM - BREG FT. DJ SORRY [LARMES]
BFTT - DISP [TT]
JESZA - HUMANITY [PELICAN FLY]
MAX DAHLHAUS - STYMIED CYCLE (T5UMUT5UMU REMIX) [UNIZONE]
GLASS - CRY (KLAHRK REMIX) [OOH-SOUNDS]
APU NANU - CLOUDNEST [SELF-RELEASED]
DJ DOUBLE OH! - BURST [ALL CENTRE]
ATRICE - GR. IMPACT [ILIAN TAPE]
KLAHRK - SHARP SET (KAVARI REMIX) [GENOT CENTRE]
D-NITE - TRUE FORCE [FLY BY NIGHT]
TEAM GB - SHATTERED [4NC¥]
WORDCOLOUR - BLUSTER (DJRUM REMIX) [HOUNDSTOOTH]
ALADAR - JUMP [BLDS.MX]
WALTON - SIRENS [LITH DOLINA]

B.R.O. Vol. 13 AM Hi W Ancestral Vision

Two years after Martyr ظلم, Caïn و Muchi are back with a 5-tracker EP. Warda وردة, develops the dramatic storyline in their collaboration, a direct result of vocal experiments and cross-genre instrumentals.

Vanda explore the struggle of self-determination through their writing style, breaking negative cyclical patterns and facing inner chaos. This complex emotional speech mirrors a dialogue about our current societies through a humanist perspective, which as with Madhi.

« I wrote Madhi based on Cherish Menzo’s last performance, Dark Matter (2022), which is inspired by the work of Drexciya. It takes place in a new world where all past beliefs have been rejected. First wandering and having second thoughts, then realizing that new values can be set in this arena, the character is trapped in a coil of doubts, a maze, always asking - since we struggle to trust ourselves - what’s good and what’s bad? Which road is there to take? »

The EP weaves through contemporary hip-hop, bass, experimental and ambient-shifting textures, inventive sound design and percussive rhythms. Space is created and propelled by the vocal work, and intensity lingers through to climax. From classical rap exercises performed in Warda or Hustler to more grandiose cinematic orchestration in Hawa and Madhi, Warda وردة draws listeners even deeper into Caïn و Muchi’s sonic universe.
Having evolved from previous releases with the club in mind, this is an outspoken, visceral and reclaimed piece of work.

releases February 3, 2023

Music by Caïn و Muchi
Lyrics by Vanda
Mastering by Victor Malvoti

Hustler حصلة

TAKSEER with ltfll - 24/05/2023

Ali Asfour - Mutant Tiblisi - يا روح الروح

A safe space for pink pickles & sonic hemorrhoids. USE A BIDET💩⚠️

2024 releases:

- Single (Seed of Anna) with Delhi-based label @AntarikshRecords

- Single (Hasbara//Maskhara) with London-based @ViefRecords

2023 releases:

- Single (KASSARO) with labels @Hizz and @ViefRecords.

2022 releases:

- Debut LP, Electric*té Du Liban, with Cairo-based record label @hizzme.

- Debut EP, Shadows of Beyrouth, with @Geotact. 

- Singles on London-based labels @Shubzin and @Vief.

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DM or email me for any bookings. 

2023 gigs:

Beirut's Frequent Defect - 28.12

2022 gigs:

Beirut's Ballroom Blitz - 23.12
London's Boat Live - 25.11
Tbilisi's Dust - 22.10
Beirut's Midane/Ballroom Blitz - 16.7

Ma3azef Radio – Baytee Baytak – 08.06.22

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