Constantine Skourlis is no stranger to long works that inspire violence and darkness in the mind. As reflections of the sociopolitical climate, the ongoing human rights struggles we witness, and the suffering so many endure, Skourlis follows the theme of his highly acclaimed debut album Hades with distinct, thematic strength; a dualistic nature of beauty and of violence. Seeking balance and peace with abhorrent horror and inescapable strife, his sound is reflective of his mission statement.

Gorgeous, unique vocal and electronic music with the decisive addition of the legendary Halldorophone clash with the decimating percussion by Serapheim G. of legendary Greek heavy rock band Planet Of Zeus evoking moments of both lucidity and discomfort. Be that of hopeful outcomes or unfettered doom, the motion is there. Loops cascade in on themselves, implode, get lost in frequencies, and reemerge. Every work that Skourlis makes is oceanic in scale. Deep, cold sensations from sub-bass butt up against sunbaked heat from high-pitched string ensembles.

Although adjacent to neoclassical composition, Skourlis finds the permutations between past musicalities and creates a new, distinct invention. It's a sound that could as well come from deep in...  more
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All music written, produced and performed by CONSTANTINE SKOURLIS at various locations in Greece, during 2017 and 2020.

halldorophone, cello KONSTANTINOS CHINIS
percussion, unheard sounds SERAFEIM GIANNAKOPOULOS
soprano MAIRA MILOLIDAKI
clarinet, bass clarinet KOSTAS TZEKOS
recording, mixing CONSTANTINE SKOURLIS
assisting engineers MICHALIS MOSCHOUTIS, NICHOLAS KAZAZIS
additional recording by NIKOS LAVDAS
additional production and sound design by SPR
additional mixing on 'Elegy' by NICHOLAS KAZAZIS
additional arrangements by CHRISTOS SAKELLARIDIS
mastered by MATT COLTON at METROPOLIS
executive producer IAKOVOS GURULIAN
artistic direction SALEM RASHID SKOURLIS
all tracks published by BEDOUIN RECORDS
design by TAKASHI MAKABE
artwork “Prison Faces” by VANGELIS RINAS
photographs by MYRTO GRIGORIOU

Efi Birba, Pierre de Mûelenaere, David Coccagna, Theresa Baumgartner, Maria Vasariotou, Christos Sakellaridis, Rafika Chawishe, Georgia Arvaniti, the Bedouin Records Tribe, Halldór Úlfarsson, Stefanos Levidis, Georg Gatsas, Marlene Kaminsky, Tasos Nousias, Panos Alexiadis, Everyone at Secret Thirteen, Everyone at Headphone Commute, Everyone at A Closer Listen, Nikolas Piperas, Spiros Panagopoulos, Aris Servetalis, Antonia Economou, Alexandros Vardaksoglou, Danae Dimitriadi, Dionysios Alamanos, Galaxias Spanos, Michalis Agelidis, Roubini Stagouraki, Orfeas Moraitis, Michalis Baboussis, Marc Jacobs, Adda DotFlac, Chris Zaldua, Martijn Comes - thank you all

Special thanks to Salem Rashid, Dafin Antoniadou, Iakovos Gurulian, Stephan Richter, Jordan Davidson without whom this album would have been near impossible to make. Thank you for your ongoing inspiration and critique.

2020, Bedouin Records

Constantine Skourlis | Reality Cancelled

“In the closed circuit screen glow with the hand scripting the events of two people staring from a long distance for a matter of moments that seemed endless, vast, the pen takes to paper and senses apprehension in the author. Leaving things out from the self, the self knows the truth is well-guarded, security and a large key ring with one thumb-drive filled with secrets carefully placed beneath a granite prism, buried in brain cells and matter. Everything left unsaid is sacred and that sacrament is gold-leafed and stoic, crackling voicemail recording leaves out details, nearly telegrammed, a post-it’s worth of vital information. We keep secrets to ourselves so tightly that we hide the secret from the self. Speak the truth, the closed circuit surveillance will manage the details.”

Ryo Murakami | Town

Barely stuck to the ass of a partially blind bee. In a resin-soaked wasteland that's not sweet or melodious - butchered ecology tells a really bad joke. Is there a room left on the station? A corner of the shelter? A rapturous t u l i p ?

Gaul Plus | Soiled Ether

The cascading hollowness of Japanese producer Mars89's latest album 'Visions' for Bedouin Records evokes a hypnotising atmosphere that takes the listener on a cinematic journey through what is best described as a post-apocalyptic daydream. In its entirety, this album is a political act against capitalism and urban infrastructure as a whole, paying homage to those who endure the various ways in which capitalists and authoritarian governments attempt to infiltrate and control their lives, and all that surrounds them.

Breaking musical boundaries in the creation of what is considered to be a new genre of Japanese street music, Mars89 draws on a wide range of influences –such as sci-fi films– to conjure an eerie dystopian scene, inviting the listener to imagine a world on the brink of collapse as a tyrannical authority stands by idly. Embedded in the back cover of the album, Mars89 pays tribute to the working-class resistance; 'This album is dedicated to the city dwellers who live with the rats and crows in the gaps of the city where the giant capital tries to control everything'.

Opening the album with 'They made me do it', Mars89 manages to convey an uneasy welcoming party that tempts you to stay longer with flickering distorted explosions of sounds, then further captivates us with 'Tete Apotre' by using a series of vivid, and energising hushed tones that are somewhat opaque and abstract, making it difficult to identify the echoes as human or not. Accompanied by hollering alarms overhead and hurried echoes, the standout track 'Dick Laurent is dead' emits a dark, pulsating soundscape through the repetition of a distant voice stating; 'Listen up, told you once told you twice; You know I'm in this'. Signalling what could be perceived as the brink of frustration, or a looming warning.

Through a combination of incessant bells and rhythmic distorted drums across the ten tracks, a building sense of urgency before a life-altering decision must be done begins to form in the listener. With its shuddering rhythms, abrasive whirring, and ominous chimes contributing to the ways in which the sounds break down into hisses and stark fluctuations between texture and volume; the surreal nature of this experimental album will enthral you.
 With every riveting listen, we are offered a glimpse into something inconceivable through a plethora of celestial sounds. 'Visions' concludes with 'LA1937', a chilling 5 minutes track that suggests the end of a chase has been reached, bringing everything to a breath-taking closure.

"Don't dream the past. Remember the future." - Mars89

Mars89 | LA1937

Taken from Ryo Murakami 'Deist' LP

Released in 2015 on Bedouin Records

Ryo Murakami | Deist

Taken from Eomac 'Bedouin Trax' double LP

Released in 2016 on Bedouin Records

Eomac | Same Heart, Same Breath, Same Life, Same Death

Taken from 'A Satin Sight' by Pan Daijing

Released in 2017 on Bedouin Records

Pan Daijing | A Season In Hell

Taken from the debut Constantine LP 'Hades'

Released in 2017 on Bedouin Records

Constantine | Erebus

Shanghai/Taipei-based producer Tzusing returns with  一瞬千擊 (In a Moment a Thousand Hits), continuing his exploration of the seamier side of life as his music mutates from industrial and EBM roots into stranger territories. Like the titular martial arts master of his recent LP 東方不敗, who can only achieve invincibility by denying  his own masculinity,  一瞬千擊 asks if obsessive pursuit of a specific identity can only lead to its negation, the opposite of the intended image. Amidst the malevolent throat singing samples, suona-like drones, and occasional shouts and howls in Taiwanese, the music’s slamming percussive weight nods towards the most reviled forms of mainstream dance music. Treating every available tool as valid, Tzusing interrogates taste, constructed identity, and the desire for power through five tracks of destabilized funk and thundering processions.

TRACKLISTING:
A1 Flow State ft. Illsee 
A2 Shame 
B1 風雲再起 
B2 地心引力抓不住你 
B3 得意先生

Digital: https://bedouinrecords.bandcamp.com
Vinyl :http://honestjons.com/shop/label/Bedouin_Records

Tzusing | 一瞬千撃 (Snippets)

Aquarian and Deapmash debut on Bedouin records with their first collaborative EP, "Aegis" as  "AQXDM". Despite living on two separate continents and having never met in person, they bonded over a love for breakbeat techno, grime, jungle, breakcore, and immediately wrote their first EP. Merging Deapmash's high energy, industrial grooves with Aquarian's idiosyncratic, genre-blending approach, the result is highly effective peak time techno infused with massive kick drums, spastic breakbeats and soaring atmospherics.

TRACKLISTING:
A1 Aegis
A2 Ballad 002
B1 Roam

Digital: http://bedouinrecords.bandcamp.com
Vinyl: honestjons.com/shop/label/Bedouin_Records

AQXDM | Aegis (Snippets)

Bedouin Records line up their next release from Japanese multi instrumentalist 'Jigga'. A futuristic, post-internet mini-album that stacks static noise, ferocious drums and warped echoes into 7 unconventionally abstract club tracks.

TRACKLISTING:
A1 Atyatabhava 
A2 Anyonyabhava 
A3 Pradhvamsabhava 
B1 Nitya 
B2 Aemaeth 
B3 Oragabhava 
B4 Amudami

Digital: http://bedouinrecords.bandcamp.com
Vinyl: honestjons.com/shop/label/Bedouin_Records

Jigga | lillllill (Snippets)

GOTH-TRAD formed new unit “EARTAKER” with Diesuck(vocal) and Masayuki Imanishi(noise) in 2017. 

Their doomful & dissonant sound with Diesuck’s low scream feels like music that can be heard from the gap between the end of the world and the new world. It is hard to categorize to any genre.
Their debut album "Harmonics" will be coming out on Bedouin Records in the Fall of 2018.

2017年、GOTH-TRADがDiesuck(vocal)とMasayuki Imanishi(noise)とともに始めた新ユニット”EARTAKER”。
Diesuckのロースクリーミングが絡む、 彼らの不穏・不協なサウンドは、まるで世界の終焉と新世界の狭間から聴こえてくる音楽ようだ。 それはどのジャンルにもカテゴリーし難い。
U.A.E.の気鋭レーベル”Bedouin Records”より1stデビューアルバムのリリースを控える。

Eartaker | Iron Trivet

Taken from the forthcoming Xosar LP 'The Possessor Possesses Nothing'

Xosar | Vibration Acceleration

THE DEAD WERE CLEANSED IN ORDER TO PASS ONTO DUAT.

A vibrating sensuality within the scope of an insistent staccato. An interplay between impulsiveness and violent positivity. A dialogue on the raw, the distant and the mantric. 

With 'Onto Duat' Maenad Veyl constitutes a radical cancellation of the smooth. Displaying the very quality of instincts and paying tribute to Dark Eroticism. 

'Onto Duat' is an EP that will be released on Bedouin Records  in late September. It includes 4 tracks.

TRACKLISTING:
A1 Change Your Mind
A2 Onto Duat
B1 Take Nothing With You
B2 Riot Patrol

Maenad Veyl | Onto Duat (Snippets)

Aquarian - The Snake That Eats Itself

Canadian born, Berlin based producer @Aquarian makes his full length album debut The Snake That Eats Itself on Bedouin Records. This record follows his collaborative EPs with Deapmash as 'AQXDM" and is his first solo release since his 2016 experimental mixtape for Quiet Time.

Nearly five years in the making,The Snake That Eats Itself is Aquarian's most complex, diverse and emotive work to date, plunging his trademark UK sound-system / techno hybrids into a self-contained, cinematic universe streaked with heavy influences from industrial, IDM, drone and dark pop music. Written in Brooklyn, New York, in a deeply transitional, yet seemingly endless period preceding his relocation to Berlin,the title of the album refers to the Ouroboros, a mythological serpent symbolizing the cycle of birth and death and infinity itself.

The Snake That Eats Itself pits Aquarian's most abrasive and brutal moments next to his most wistful and introspective. Viscerally thick layers of tape saturation envelop the album as sludgy synths ooze against brittle atmospheres; breakbeats fragment, explode and disintegrate into swarms of delay and noise; scorched, metallic percussion - sampled from a year-long demolition and construction project next to his apartment - forge the rhythmic backbone of the album. These elements, however, seamlessly make way to startlingly crystalline and shimmering ambient passages, offering a sense of reprieve and balance.

Tracklist:
01. End Credits
02. Blood Sugar
03. Sketch 2 (Song for D.O.U.G.)
04. Ouroboros
05. Tarp2
06. New York, An Eternity
07. Hate Is A Strong Word (Part 1)
08. Hate is A Strong Word (Bruxist Part 2) 09. Letting Go At Arm's Length
10. 365 Days And Counting

The Snake That Eats Itself​ is accompanied by art direction and a collaborative live A/V show by acclaimed artist and researcher Sougwen Chung.
Early support from Aphex Twin
Artwork by Sougwen Chung
All tracks written, produced and engineered by Aquarian unless otherwise noted. Tracks 4, 7, 8 & 10 mixed by Dean Grenier
Additional engineering by Dean Grenier on tracks 7 & 8.
Mastered by Goth Trad

'Hate Is a Strong Word, Pt. 1' taken from Aquarian's debut album titled 'The Snake That Eats Itself' that will be released on Bedouin Records on February 14th 2020.

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Aquarian | Hate Is a Strong Word, Pt. 1

she luv it - S/T

In the deepest hour of nightfall, an explosion occurs on

the horizon. An explosion so bright that daylight shows,

just for a moment. For the brief second, the landscape

is exposed, vulnerable, like the alb of a high priest.

4 figures stand on a stand of gold leaf, staring out

into a slow sea of crude oil. Invoke a violence from

the sea, they say. The light goes out, and stays out.


She Luv It carries in them an energy similar to a ritual of violence

that can be heard in the music of Northern Europe as well.

The recording quality is bright with vocals that chug through an

almost cassette-like sound. Bent notes harken back to Northern

European scenery of "woods" and "darkness",

but where they waded into shit politics rather than better

music, She Luv It begins on a sturdy foundation of technical

skill and intentional sound. Invoke the violence in yourself,

stare into the black sea, and scream until your throat

bleeds. This is She Luv It.

Tracklist:
01. Candy
02. Self Discipline
03. Wartime
04. Argument
05. I.C.E

'Wartime' taken from She Luv It's debut album titled 'S/T' that is being released as a re-mastered version on Bedouin Records on March 27th 2020. CD Published by Mouse (Osaka,JP).

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