Taken from SBKT039: Osheyack & Nahash - Club Apathy
Release date: 2nd April 2021

‘Club Apathy’ is a new collaborative EP from Osheyack and Nahash. 4 club-ready tracks, with remixes from DJ Marcelle and Nkisi.

Cover photo: Dre Romero
Layout & Design: Luke Griffiths
Handstyles: Orron Fearon
Makeup: Freya Ni
Hair: 柯维涛
Model: Ary
Mastering: Raphael Valensi

Club Apathy

Osheyack & Nahash - Pegged

track by @m1ssjay
mastering by @wimdehaen
artwork by Ver instagram.com/_nismo95

Nocturnal

BANDCAMP

MISS JAY - WISH (INTERLUDE)

Artwork: Wang Newone
Design: VXXII
Mixing & Mastering: Raphael Valensi

NXE Remixes

DJ Narciso & Endgame - CUT (lilbabysal Remix)

Sydney based producer and DJ @Jikuroux returns to DECISIONS with four lucid tracks exhibiting her signature combo of glittering melodies and crushing drums. Citing a "reimagining [of] anxiety as something beautiful" as the core concept of the EP, Jikuroux forges a complex emotional journey in which dialectics of soft/hard, dark/light, clear/murky are repeatedly blurred and inverted.
'Cracked' opens the EP, sending plucked leads tumbling over a volcanic topography of bass and pads. Broody chords and a tough, low slung rhythm drive the anthemic 'Cradle Bay', while 'Themed Break' sees Jikuroux weave an elastic array of rhythmic and harmonic movements around a single recursive rnb "ooh". 'Hollow Grin' closes the EP with flutes and bells illuminating a bilious fog replete with ghoulish hisses and growling bass.
Terse, lithe and ornately HD, Cradle Bay is built to gently devastate both inside and outside the club. It drops on Friday 16 June (the morning after DECISIONS’ showcase with Polymorphism at Berghain, Berlin).

Mastered by Sam John at Precise. Artwork photography by Jarred Beeler, edited by Oliver van der Lugt.

Jikuroux - Themed Break

Taken from the 'Drum Fission' EP: www.smarturl.it/drumfission

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Massacooramaan - Hyper Garrote

Houston-based duo Santa Muerte is about to release their first album called Diluvio, read more on CxC: couvrexchefs.com/en/santa-muerte-diluvio-lp-lao-nnoa

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Diluvio

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Artist: Xiao Quan
Title: Connection
Mix & Master: Xiao Quan
Artwork: Gabriel Massan
Label: FunctionLab & Indieworks

The name Xiao Quan sparks a question mark and confuses tons of listeners. His nationality, cultural background and behaviour are topics that everyone who knows him for the first time want to talk about. Those are also the themes he is more than happy to play with in his music. In fact, he has lived in Shenzhen, China for two years, when Oil Club wasn‘t even open.

Cultural symbols from Asia and Africa have appeared more and more frequently in world’s art scenes in recent years, although the status of self-consumption in content and consumption by the Western world is still unchangeable in a short time. As a producer from São Paulo, Xiao Quan’s "Connection" EP uses a generalized and concrete way to create cultural symbols as he operates them and make them sound normal and casual, which is impossible for many original creators of culture, especially in mainland China, which is almost derailed from its tradition now. Xiao Quan is just like us (Chinese people and producers), absorbing and using a large amount of information from around the world.

"Connection" EP is undoubtedly based on the Xiao Quan-style black humor, and the connection with the Asian and African culture he deeply loves. Unlike in the past, he really participated as a member of Asian culture through FunctionLab this time. From the first sound of "Rolling Barrel”, like the sound of a dragon coming out of the fog, drums from Asia and Africa came through and wore it to the end, warm and obscure. Does the rough Chinese vocal sample appearing in the track puzzle you? This is the voice that Xiao Quan doesn't understand very much but crazy in love with. The fun is self-evident. As for elaborate arrangements and superb production techniques, these have never been the case for Xiao Quan.

Welcome to the wild and lovely dancing world of Xiao Quan.

5 Xiao Quan - Comora In Check

ESP
“SIGO ANDANDO LOS CAMINOS QUE RECOMIENDO MI ESTRELLA”
 JOSÉ LARRALDE

La refulgencia de un lucero puede devolvernos nuestro reflejo con la misma lejana certeza que el resplandor trémulo de un móvil en una pista de baile sofocante y copiosa. Esta imagen tópica es la que brinda aliento a este primer trabajo de Fauste, donde la espesura de la noche encuentra reparo en la decisión de no olvidar su opuesto. Sin encandilar ni obturar, la obra cobra vida en la penumbra. 
Arrancado de la tierra donde nació, y arrojado a la ceguera blancura de la ciudad, Fauste recoge los fragmentos de sus fantasías prematuras como la brújula astral de su camino aún sin recorrer.

ENG
“I KEEP WALKING THE ROADS MY STAR TELLS ME TO”
JOSÉ LARRALDE

The brilliance of a star can return our reflection with the same distant certainty as the tremulous glow of a mobile phone on a suffocating and abundant dance floor. This thematic image is the one which acompanies the first work by Fauste, where the thicket of the night finds refuge in the decision not to forget its opposite. Without dazzling or shutting, the work comes to life in the dim light.
Ripped from the land where they were born, and thrown into the blinding city, Fauste picks up the fragments of their premature fantasies like the astral compass of a path to be followed.

All tracks composed and produced by Fauste
Artwork by Jusomor
Master by Imaabs
© 2020 Hiedrah

Granizo

https://band.link/burntheempire

Public Service Announcement:

Do. Not. Hyper-politicize. Every. Womxn*. Artist’s. Work.

After making her debut into the world of dark, deconstructed club music on Infinite Machine in late 2017, Ani Klang is releasing her latest hard-hitting, genre-blending EP on Russian label, Hyperboloid Records to round out a busy year of releases in 2020.

‘BURN THE EMPIRE’ is a powerful statement piece seeking to disprove the pervasive belief that womxn and queer people are primarily working and creating music to “empower others.”

After growing frustrated with commentators deeming every bold piece of womxn-made art as an “outspoken feminist act” and forcing political causes on female/non-binary compositions when none are intended, Klang has challenged this trend and created a piece of work that is emphatically not an “empowering anthem for womxn everywhere.”

Armed with frustration, pain, and a little irony, Klang has built her own empire on the outskirts of genre, and all who are open are invited. She is releasing this record with hopes to begin dismantling the notion that womxn’s music is only meant to serve as a political weapon to fight misogyny. There must be something more meaningful womxn have to say to each other besides ‘you can do it too.’

She began grappling with this idea several years ago, when she felt pressured by the underground club community to be “outspoken” to have her music heard. In a 2018 Instagram post, she explained her frustrations as follows:

“I feel like being ‘outspoken’ is almost a prerequisite for being a successful woman at anything these days.It’s not enough to just be an artist who happens to be female – you have to empower women somehow and put your political opinions at the forefront of your art to be considered ‘relevant’. To be completely honest, I find it frustrating as hell. […] I want women to feel empowered but there are so many other creative ways to do this than just talking about feminism. We should be allowed to just BE artists who make records about death, masturbation, chocolate cake, or whatever the hell we want!”

‘BURN THE EMPIRE’ journeys from 145-160 BPM and showcases punchy, fluttery, footwork-inspired kick patterns, layers of heavily manipulated industrial textures and ironically political self-recorded samples (i.e. feminist podcasts, orgasms, and ex-girlfriends crying and singing) bound together by a rave-friendly mentality. Featuring scorching remixes by formidable artists like A.Fruit, Daniel Ruane, and Pixelord, ‘BURN THE EMPIRE’ is an intense sonic excursion through the mind and body of a female artist, eager to set the underground club scene on fire.

With match in hand, Ani Klang urges listeners to fully understand the following before organizing a livid mob armed with extinguishers on her front lawn:

“I am not intending to belittle or invalidate any collective or artist whose primary premise and passion is to empower others. Rather, I am encouraging commentators and listeners to understand and appreciate our unique concepts and technological capabilities before lazily assuming our artistic motivations.

It’s time we Burn the Empire of exhausted empowerment and construct our own domain, fortified by authenticity, legitimacy and resiliency. We’re are not examples, we are exasperated, and we’re gonna burn shit.”

* ‘womxn’ inclusively refers to any female-bodied or non-binary individual, queer or an otherwise unique human who deviates from standard cisgender identities.

BURN THE EMPIRE

DIGITAL / CASSETTE

ANI KLANG - BURN THE EMPIRE (DANIEL RUANE RELAPSE)

▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ █ ▋▌I have the neck interconnected to your arteries. our blood has to become the endless stream of confusion. no one will love us stronger than the uncertain. we're undoing all the knots and I'm going to become everything we don't want but need?¿?¿ hahahahaha I'm here but no, downstairs our mind  continues to splash with the simple misery. who wants heaven with me? ^^ tools for the final flight will be illuminated and deconstructed. everything is coming*************************************************

FLY W ME

‘Altar’ is MAGA’s EP released by Salviatek, a mystical-artistic voyage presented in five acts that together make a free and experimental electronic-organic whole. Glitches and harmonies in constant interlacing, convey dreamy atmospheres that transmit true emotion throughout this piece of work; produced from the global south as an identity manifesto. 

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‘Altar’ es el EP de MAGA por Salviatek, un viaje místico-artístico presentado en cinco capítulos musicales que unidos hacen a una totalidad electrónico-orgánica experimental y libre. El glitch y las armonías, en constante entrelazado, crean atmósferas de ensueño que transmiten una verdadera emoción a lo largo de este trabajo producido desde el sur global como manifiesto de identidad.

Producción musical / Mezcla: MAGA
Mastering: Sky Parnes
Cover: Abril Sepúlveda 

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