Track: Muse
Album Name: Matter
Artist(s): Isabel Soto

Label: NYXII
Catalog: NYXIIVA002
Format: CD + Digital
Genre: #Electronic
Style: #Techno
Release date: January 11, 2024
Mastering: Pulso
Artwork: Mawv

Artist:
IG : instagram.com/_isabelsoto
SC: @isabelsoto

Label:
SC: @nyxiirecords
IG : www.instagram.com/nyxiirecords

PREMIERE: Isabel Soto - Muse [NYXIIVA002]

Datashader emerges from the shadows with a striking breaks- and bass-heavy debut release that challenges the fabric of our digital existence. Replete with a Dopplereffekt remix, it nods to the legacy of revered anonymous acts such as Scopex, Drexciya and Underground Resistance, pushing the boundaries of both electronic music exploration and its conceptual underpinnings. As a critique of the erosion of genuine human connection in the digital age, Datashader delivers a barrage of billowing subs, infectious electro, recontextualized jungle, and techno, serving as a poignant counterbalance to current dance floor-centric norms. It's a contemporary anti-soundtrack that offers a haunting mirror to the societal costs of technological convenience. 

In a world engulfed by the digital realm, where social media platforms thrive and dominate every aspect of our lives, the enigmatic project known as Datashader was founded to reflect on the pervasive erosion of authentic human connection through various virtual realities.

Artistically, Datashader seeks to critique the impact of technology on human identity and relationships, breaking with an archetype of digital conformity and expressing a profound disillusionment with the superficiality of online interactions through music. Genuine human connection and art cannot be quantified by likes, comments, or followers but rather thrives in the visceral realm of shared sonic experience and human emotion. This idea is at the core idea of Datashader, whose artistic expression ranges from avant-garde composition and electronic experimentations to art, installation, film and more.

Expressed within the varied contexts of diverse artistic mediums, Datashader explores the concept of "technological gentrification", which describes the gradual displacement of human interaction by technology. Just as gentrification alters the urban landscape, driving out communities and cultures, digital gentrification transforms the social landscape, replacing genuine connection with curated online personas. 

Musically, Datashader's practice confronts this dystopian reality, highlighting the alarming consequence of people becoming mere nodes in a network, reduced to a collection of data points. This is manifested sonically by a blistering assault of breaks, recontextualized IDM, abstract electronics and otherworldly synthscapes, conceived as the aesthetic counterbalance to much of contemporary electronic music's dancefloor focus. 

Datashader dives deep into genres and influences which stand for a form of sonic resistance: A contemporary anti- soundtrack &ndash; a sonic mirror of the price we pay for convenience and instant gratification. A self-image in constant flux. No false technological idols.

BANDCAMP

Datashader - Sub Osc

Datashader - Breath Controller

Artist: James Harbrecht
Release: Mothership
Label: Schimmer Records
Sublabel: Liquid One
Catalog: LQD020

Tracklist:
1. James Harbrecht – Mothership
2. James Harbrecht – Step by Step
3. James Harbrecht – Eye of the Beholder
4. James Harbrecht – Subject Matter
5. James Harbrecht – Mothership (Franz Jäger Remix)
6. James Harbrecht – Mothership (Morgenstern Remix)

Artwork: Nico Rinker
Mastering: SYXT Mastering

Follow James Harbrecht:
@jamesharbrecht

Follow Schimmer Records:
https://schimmerstuttgart.bandcamp.com/music

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CV Premiere I James Harbrecht - Step By Step

Ecstasy

Damon Valez - Hypnotic Season (Original Mix) | NEXA 020 | Pre - Listening

In the Dark

Montreal

Drum Computer

OLYMPIAN 13
by Vinicius Honorio

December 4, 2020 (Scheduled Release date )
Olympian™ is a product of Modularz® 
Mastered by Xergio @ Eternal Midnight.
Global Digital Distribution by EPM Netherlands.

OLYMPIAN 13 - VINICIUS HONORIO

JLTZ’s proposal latches onto the mind and vaporises our notion of sound architecture with absolute consequences, relating us to floating patterns violently shaken by driving drums and argute saturation. The compelling and persuasive batch is completed with two expertly forged reworks by Hayes Collective’s Nørbak and Italian sound expert VSK.

Written and produced by Jacopo Lattanzio
Additional Production by VSK and Nørbak
Mastered by João Rodrigues at Tema Mastering
Artwork by João Frederico
Released by Hayes Collective, Portugal
Release Date: 18/12/2020
Catalog Reference: HYSEP21
Format: Digital

Tools From Another Mother

JLTZ - Tools From Another Mother (inc. Nørbak and VSK Remixes)

System Revival ’s project was born (prematurely) in the second half of 2020 with 2 emergency charity compilations aiming to raise funds for relief efforts in Beirut after the port explosion in August. 

The label plans to continue curating such charity compilations for various causes quarterly in 2021 - next one to be released on March 4th via Bandcamp called 'Zero Hunger' raising funds for the World Food Programme. And to follow, will come another one in June.

''We aim to identify the need to pursue a better future for ourselves (as people) and our environment (as our planet). Bringing people together through art & music is something extremely positive and helping the people in need is essential, to stay grounded and not take things for granted.''

Artists involved in this compilation are: Albert van Abbe, Blazej Malinowski, Charles Green, Einox, Hendrik van Boetzelaer, Kessel, Mary Yuzovskaya, Miller & Bosscher, Montero & Raul Alvarez, Tapefeed, Temudo, Voicedrone, VSK, and Zemög.

Artists Profiles:
Raul Alvarez - https://soundcloud.com/raulalvarezmusik
Montero - https://soundcloud.com/monteromusik

Pre Order:
https://systemrevivalrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/zero-hunger

P R E M I E R E: Montero & Raul Alvarez - Arcadia [SYSTEM REVIVAL]

Benjamin Damage is an innovative UK techno artist, the first artist signed to Berlin’s legendary 50Weapons label and the last to release an album at its closure. This period produced three critically acclaimed albums and many EPs, drawing from diverse sources to help define the crossover UK / Berlin techno sound.

As well as two, highly charged four-tracks for Len Faki’s Figure label and ‘Deep Space Transit’ on ARTS, Benjamin put out two stinging dance floor cuts as BDB, a secret collab with label mates, Feel My Bicep. A live-recorded cut for Jeff Mill’s Axis Records was released this year. 

Performing on an all-hardware setup, Benjamin’s storming live performances have lit up the best clubs and festivals all around the world. The powerful setup has been fully redeveloped for 2021.

Drum Computer

BenjaminDamage