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Olan Monk - Auto Life
Format: Digital (EP)
Cat. No: CANVAS011
Release Date: 1st October 2021

Watch the video for 'Fameless': https://youtu.be/-xndTe8uWrc

Pre-order Auto Life (EP): canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/auto-life

‘A farewell to idolatry, where culture is absorbed into nature, like a body back into the fertile soil. Written as a 27 club survivor, lamenting the young dead, no longer young and celebrating the spectral presence of iconised peers. Reflexive and self-aware of the problem of over-identifying with the fictional performance of the solo act in various guises or archetypes: the rockstar or trapstar. Auto Life is a practical attempt at a weird re-hybridisation of otherwise seemingly divergent strands of popular music, conflating stylisations usually segregated by genre.

Auto Life was written as a collection of songs for eventual live performance. Recording music is absurd—an act in which you initially perform to no-one. The inclusion of a sample of crowd noise in ‘Fameless’ is the music studio equivalent of a laugh track being added to the soundtrack of a sitcom—unable to give up on disappearing horizons completely and imagining another context for performance in which an actual audience beyond the performer is present.

Autotune Punk—as a music of antagonism that resists from within, bending the lanes of a machine that flattens out the vocal performance to a given scale. I can still express feeling—even angst—but the machine doesn’t care. Refusing its own funeral, emulating the dead—it’s a Rock simulacrum. A renewably performed myth. I broke the spell. I just heard it as it was. The sacred framing of presence makes the pop idol always-already-dead by turning them into a symbol and an image—undead, un-ageing and endlessly reproducible within a commercialist visual culture.

The music which I would grow up listening to would later become a tool towards first facing, maybe later dismantling—or at least bending—the structures in which music was still being written, performed and recorded into existence. My emulation of and interest in pop—and popular—music is not in irony. I love this music—yet I question the context and conditions through which it has come to exist and continues to change shape. Opening up the horizon of pop to a new kind of strangeness, where the familiarity of the pop song disappears into blissful distortions and mixed signifiers towards a world in-between, otherwise unknown’.

— @olanmonk

Written, performed and recorded by Olan Monk

‘Bruised Fruit’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City, additional production and vocals written and performed by Elvin Brandhi
‘Burnout’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City

Tracks 01–07 mastered by Ali Najafi
Tracks 08 and 09 mastered by Jam City

Artwork by Ewa Awe

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Auto Life

Olan Monk - Fameless

Iney - oqbqbo

The second single from “Remember Rainbow Bridge” is out now.

'Remember Rainbow Bridge’, the new album by Croatian Amor, is a homage to youth and the delicate metamorphosis that occurs as childhood trips into maturity. Focused on this tender flux, the songs on 'Remember Rainbow Bridge' are infused with the restless energy of adolescence and a dawning sense of mortality. From the sun-kissed title track, to the night burn and wet pavement of ‘Paper Birds’, monumental highs are shuffled with great lows that we perhaps feel most clearly and earnestly in those formative years.

Since the earliest collages committed to tape under the name of Croatian Amor, Loke Rahbek's alias has at every step gravitated towards constant discovery and experimentation. The sound collages are still present while the unity of each song's construction now often conceals the juxtapositions and overlapping edges. Employing a medley of diffuse electronic music traditions, fantastical synthetic worlds are evoked and while ‘Remember Rainbow Bridge’ heavily relies on rhythmic structures to propel the compositions, Croatian Amor continues to tend a highly textured field in his own inimitable way.

'Remember Rainbow Bridge' is a celebration of the liminal space between phases of life, the chrysalis of youth. It is a record about coming to terms with our ever-changing place in the world, its title urging us to see the world with a child’s eye, to never forget the miraculous at play only an arm’s-length away.

“This world as we see it is passing away” Posh Isolation 270
Tracklist :

1. 5:00 am Fountain (03:51)
2. Remember Rainbow Bridge (06:17)
3. Young Adult, Common Nettle (04:08)
4. Paper Birds (04:09)
5. Worthy Contender (04:39)
6. Cup of Humanity (03:16)
7. Alabaster (03:59)
8. So Long Morningstar (05:02)

Credits :

All Music by Croatian Amor
Recorded 2020-2021.
2, 4, 5 Vocals by Maria Leth Schütze
4, 8 Cello by Cæcilie Trier
8 based on a composition by Tobias Elof
Mix, mastering & production assistance Malthe Fischer
Photos made in collaboration with Mikkel Ulriksen & Skjold Rambow Released 2022 with support from Koda Kultur
Croatian Amor is 1989
Posh Isolation 270

Remember Rainbow Bridge

Paper Birds

Croatian Amor - Paper Birds

Taken from the new Ben Frost EP -
'V A R I A N T' - out on vinyl and download on 8 December 2014 through Mute / Bedroom Community.

The limited edition EP features remixes of tracks taken from the latest album A U R O R A  by British producer Evian Christ (following his critically acclaimed Waterfall EP and work with Kanye West); Downward label boss and techno producer Regis (previous remix credits inc. VCMG, Terence Fixmer), Good by Air affiliated experimental artist Dutch E Germ (previous remix credits inc. Fatima Al Qadiri and Mas Ysa); Australian duo HTRK and raster-noton recording artist Kangding Ray.

Get A U R O R A here: iTunes - http://smarturl.it/auroraiTunes
CD - http://smarturl.it/auroraCD
Standard Vinyl - http://smarturl.it/auroraLP
Coloured Limited Edition Vinyl Boomkat - http://boomkat.com/vinyl/969946
Rough Trade - http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/81850

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Ben Frost :: 'Venter' (Evian Christ TF 12" Mix)

original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E935Od_J4fw

Physically Sick

My Sorrow Is Luminous

For this compilation, original recordings and stems of “The Idealist”, a song on Soho Rezanejad’s recent full-length album Six Archetypes, were sent to friends and collaborators. What resulted are 25 wildly variant remixes by a community of artists.

The Idealist Compilation:
https://siliconerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-idealist-compilation

The Idealist music video:
https://youtu.be/A8bn3zPrzrs

“The Idealist Compilation” by Various Artists was mastered by Miccel Mohr and released on Silicone Records, 2018.

The Idealist Compilation

SKY H1 & Soho Rezanejad - The Idealist

Tunes For Solitary Spots EP

Under The Tree

Flagalova - Under The Tree

Exitloop

Ethereal voices and melodies floating through razor-sharp beats. French producer @Ytem has carved out his signature in the music community and continues to broaden his, and our, horizons. With the experience of playing shows from London to Shanghai this mix promises nothing but professional craftsmanship and new audible experiences. Enjoy! 

Tracklist:
Ytem - Choir Intro (demo)
Max Richter - Path 5 (Ytem MMM outro + more vocals edit)
Lorn - Acid Rain 'piano cover' (Ytem Remake + Edit)
Ytem - Masse v2
Ytem - 240920_2
Christopher Larkin - City of Tears (Ytem vocal edit)
Ytem - Fuschia (Ambient Mix) + vocals
Ytem - 030920 piano experiment
Ytem - Eco_3 LOUD

Cover art by @michelebry
Lay out by Oliva Rawlings

Valley Radio 047 - Ytem

First single from @avastarr's EP "Angels In the Sand" forthcoming 05/02/21 on @slagwerk.

Mastering: @jesseosbornelanthier
Artwork: @amalcrossing

Angels In the Sand

PREMIERE: ava* - Return to Shore [SLA07]

ccontrary pits angular club structures against yearning woodwind on Mun Sing's Illegal Data imprint.

'Illegal Data Compilation #2' is out February 26th.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2ZpwAQR

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@illegaldata

Ben Frost :: 'Venter' (Evian Christ TF 12" Mix)

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