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Taken from SBKT049: Osheyack - Intimate Publics
Release date: 8th June 2022

Intimate Publics, Osheyack’s second album, is an homage to Shanghai, the city he has called home since 2012. Over the past ten years the producer has evolved from an avid club-goer to a key member of the vital soundscape that emerged from ALL Club and its predecessor, the now defunct club The Shelter. As hinted by the title, which draws on American social theorist Michael Warner’s work on publics and counterpublics, the album expresses a commitment to mining the utopian potential of club music, forging new worlds and generating future social relations, just as the artist bids farewell to the city at a moment of uncertain transition. While tracks like 'Edging' and 'Thrall' continue to present his signature collage of harder club music, the rest of the record reveals a shift to synthetic approximations of acoustic instruments. 'Still', the central track of the album, is a piece composed almost entirely of samples found on Vocaloid (a vocal synthesizer developed by Yamaha, commonly used to give voice to Japanese virtual idols). While echoing themes explored in previous projects, like the nature of realism and authenticity in a techno-mediated landscape, Intimate Publics is charged with an unexpected emotional candor and vulnerability, unveiling a personal side Osheyack is only beginning to explore.

Words by Alvin Li
Artwork by Xiaofei Qiu
Design by Luke Griffiths
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Intimate Publics

Osheyack - Thrall

Featured on VA Compilation Steel Genesis ver​.​3C3C1D11940 [M​.​A027] out on Magdalena's Apathy https://soundcloud.com/regrets_regrets

Artwork direction and curation by DJ Loser https://soundcloud.com/loser111

Mastering by Astytekk https://soundcloud.com/astytekk

Ice_Eyes - DARK UNIT

@tcvbln
@personalbrand

No more dystopias, please. The end of the world has been a prevailing theme of so much club music in recent years. On GLOBAL METANOIA, 10 artists choose instead to explore how an injection of hope might lead to something far more radical. 

From Beatrix Weapons’ cathartic mashing together of IDM, industrial, and breakcore, to SUTA’s bubbling experimental pop, to Die In Polar’s vocalising over a pounding high-speed tresillo, the producers featured here not only push club music deep into adventurous new terrains, but manage to do so with a genuine smile.

GLOBAL METANOIA

TCV x personalbrand - Cardiac Arrhythmia

idolatry [Cyanide system]

Made by Stolen Velour + Klahrk
Mastered by Dominic Clare @ Declared Sound
Design by Ziyiz

Klahrk & Stolen Velour - Fight Me

Plasma Sources is proud to present nosync’s Soundsystem Music, an EP which provides a fresh perspective on the high-fidelity and sci-fi influenced electronic music the imprint is known for.  

nosync’s (https://soundcloud.com/user-775234683) work sits in a truly unique space in the sound system/club music-o-sphere. This in large part is due to his heavy deployment of progressive metal instrumentation, from chugging walls of overdriven guitars to relentless double-time kick patterns. On paper, utilising this palette in a club-music context may seem like an impossible task. However, where others might see a chasm of disparity, nosync has deftly identified the bridge connecting these two genres, seeing in these two landscapes the same desired emotional state - despite the different methodologies used to achieve this.  

“This record attempts to make the case that the essence of what makes these sounds so obsessively loved are one and the same. Gripping dramatism and intensity are the overlapping themes that I have attempted to bring out here, through the record’s sound design and film-like structure.” 

Indeed Soundsystem Music as a whole feels wildly cinematic and is as much an exercise in atmosphere creation as music for sound systems, with nosync citing the video game Dead Space and its sequel as key influences for this body of work. From the claustrophobic, elasticated wind chamber of ‘Traced’ to the broken choir voices and FiS-esque ambient abyss of ‘Dead Land’, nosync has expertly matched the pace and atmosphere of these hugely iconic and utterly terrifying video games and channeled them into a purely sonic experience.  

The metal influences nosync brings to the table slice through the entire corpus of Soundsystem Music, although the linkage is perhaps at its most clear on ‘Airlock’, which features a full-on death-metal guitar chugging through the first half. In perhaps the most surprising switch-up of the entire EP, things suddenly twist into a guttural underwater club track a third of the way through.  

nosync’s love for the vast ecosystem of club/soundsystem music also comes through loud and clear on this release, from the grime-inflected leads and hyper-detailed polyrhythmic noise workouts of ‘Unregistered Hypercam’ to the reverberated metal clangs of ‘Kauket’s Arena’ which feels like witch-house on steroids - the soundtrack to some final boss battle with some type of nightmare-demon-entity.  

nosync has achieved something unique with Soundsystem Music. By drawing together a hugely disparate corpus of influences and pummelling them into a noise-fuelled apocalyptic aberration, he has created a sound which feels consistent, fully his own, and in many places, utterly dread-inducing. 
credits
releases February 13, 2024 

Written, Produced & Mixed by Nikolas Babić 
Mastered by Hypna 
Artwork by Joh000 // Jose Hernández 


© & ℗ 2023 Plasma Sources.

Soundsystem Music

unearth - Aberrations

Xenotools for the nest! 

A fourth addition to our UNITED series, which for each EP, one member of the GUN community collaborates freely with other artists of their choice. After opening in 2019 with Interbeings, we follow up with :

Griigg - multimedia landcrafter and CLM x GUN admin

And a gathering of GUN members, featuring texture makers and rhythm choppers :

1.5L, Alice Anyway, Bademjan & Sha Sha Kimbo

For 
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Scorobee

a collective laboratory playing with alien fiction, UFO culture, and their power to imagine vibrant ecosystems, intriguing creatures and new ways to be with the world. 
Like an insectoid genetic pool, it combines otherworldly textures with abrasive vocals, corrosive percussions, and crawling synths, turning the club into a spaceship to the sublime Void.

++ TRACKLIST ++

01. Griigg - I, Swarm
02. Griigg & Bademjan - Headcrabs On My Face
03. Griigg & Sha Sha Kimbo - ayy lmao
04. Griigg & 1.5L - Chestburster
05. Griigg & Alice Anyway - KW Doom

++ CREDITS ++ 

Tracks produced by Griigg in collaboration with 1.5L, Alice Anyway, Bademjan & Sha Sha Kimbo
https://soundcloud.com/griigg
https://soundcloud.com/1virgule5litre
https://soundcloud.com/aliceanyway
https://soundcloud.com/bademjan
https://soundcloud.com/shashakimbo

Cover & visual works by MYEN
https://www.instagram.com/myen_000/

Mastering by Bademjan

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Griigg & Sha Sha Kimbo - ayy lmao

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Felis Silvestris Catus

The divine oven was there. They weren't following us, they were following the cube...

Presave

FROZEN WIND

Breaksy, sparse rhythms. 

More: https://ins-rt.net

Crawl & Dwell

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Jan 6 - Mejan, Bali 
Jan 12 - Krapela, Jarkarta w/ Post Party Syndroma 
Jan 19 - YenTown Saigon  
Jan 26 - Abandon radio, Chiangmai 
July 12 - La Station, Paris w/  @RadioFlouka
July 18 - le_sample_bagnolet, Paris w/ illegal tapes
July 20 - kwia.berlin 
July 20 - Panke Culture, Berlin
July 26 - Bukolika, Přelouč 
Aug 3 - 宀 Club, HK w/VNWave 
Sept 5 - BIGSOUND 2024, Brisbane
Sept 6 - Tivoli Brisbane, Brisbane
Sept 7 - Sydney Fringe:ASIA POP!, Sydney
Sept 7 - burdekinhotel, Sydney
Dec 28 - Space Tokyo

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Jan 3 Space Tokyo
Jan 11 Yakuzen Bar Nagoya
Mar 15 𝐋𝐀𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄 Saigon
Mar 21 BLAQ LYTE ROVER Bangkok
June 6  Pillbox Beijing
June 13 ATP Club Xiamen 
July 5 EXIT Shanghai
July 9 工GONG Chengdu
July 13 postpost Beijing
Aug 8 Livehaus Tokyo
Aug 9 Yakuzen Bar Nagoya
Aug 12 Enter Club Tokyo

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