written by: @seneparis
label: @unknownprecept
release date: September 24th, 2018
link: https://unknownprecept.bandcamp.com/album/i-heard-you-laughing

I Heard You Laughing

Sene - Trade Union

Taken from:
Serpente - Parada Lp & Download [Ecstatic Recordings, 28/06/19] 

Lisbon-based Bruno Silva enacts pure voodoo with extended, restless LinnDrum workouts that take Prince’s distinctive LM-1 signatures as a starting point for loose-limbed tribal jams that flow with the colour of the Brazilian carnival and the rhythmic psychedelia of hardcore jungle.

The title ‘Parada’ cannily nods both to Prince’s ‘Parade’ album and the percussion of carnival parades, speaking to a plurality of polyrhythms in a tradition of fusion music that seeks to meld myriad forms of communal, ritualistic and ecstatic music - not a million miles from the bare carnival funk of ‘Parade’s’ ’New Position’.

In six parts ranging from extended runs of drumkit-falling-down-stairs to nimble junglist mutations and rapid, darting concisions, Serpente spells out a heavily intoxicating and intuitive sort of rhythmic psychedelia that lives up to a broad palette of influences ranging from Haitian voodoo ceremonies and central African drum circles, through to the Sun Ra Arkestra and Alan Silva’s Celestial Communion Orchestra, via Keith Hudson’s dub transcendence, and the rude modernism of UK rave and virulent styles currently coming from Lisbon ghettos on the Príncipe label.

In attempting to untie and unite these worldly references, an asymmetric percussive friction and hypnotically unresolved tension naturally emerges from Serpente’s flux of machine made patterns. It’s there in the restlessly gnashing, swingeing brilliance of ‘Nivel de Chama’ and the exceptional mix of detuned Linn drums and reticulated jungle breaks in ‘Trama’, while the B-side probes this idea in three subtly agitated, but more space-out ’Símbolo’ parts, and finally with a sublime tension between his twitchy percussive saccades and celestial synth pads in ‘Nivel de Cinza.’

‘Parada’ is pure body music in a minimalist/maximalist way that acknowledges both physical and spiritual needs, and requires a dancing or thinking body in order to properly unlock its purple magick.

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EP Has remixes by:
Fisky: soundcloud.com/fiskyoioioi
Forces: soundcloud.com/forces-music
Ecdysis: soundcloud.com/thomasripleyecdysis
T R I S T A N: soundcloud.com/triste-temps

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Available Now: 
https://variscan.bandcamp.com/track/128tr

128TR [clip]

A series of bleak, blustery scenes make up Nazanin Noori’s Farce. Noori, who also works as a theater director, conjures glacial storms and buzzing subterranean server farms on this album; but such scenes were far from the artist’s guiding narrative as it was being produced. The two tracks, clocking in at 80 minutes total, were envisioned as an enraged argument (or a "modular heartbreak") unfolding between two groups of people about a pothole in the road, told from the perspective of the road, and then the pothole.

This surreal, mundane plot device is nowhere to be found on Farce in any concrete way. And this is intentional. Noori, inspired by Artaud's concept of the theatre of cruelty, wants listeners to develop their own sensorial world separate from the musician's. When not darkly ambient, the tracks are full of drama and whimsy, as if a spotlight is following a character along a wayward path, into the hands of fate. The emotional hooks in the sound include a sense of desperate desolation, optimistic reprieve, and of course, the sense that ritual repetition is both a curse and a blessing—but they resist obvious imagery. Exactly what kinds of characters or settings get hung on the album's scaffolding is up to the audience. Listening with a hi-fi sound-system is highly recommended.

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Nazanin Noori is an Iranian artist living and working in Berlin, Germany. Her work includes theater and radio play direction, music, and text. She focuses on atmospheric narratives in sound, and works to overcome cultural reliance on sentiment by making dramatic adaptations of non-dramatic texts. She studied theater, film and media sciences at Goethe University in Frankfurt and worked at Deutsches Theater and Schauspiel Hannover. She currently selects Acid Folk for POMP, a sound scenario series on Retreat Radio, and is an artist-in-residence at the Young Academy of the Arts in Berlin.

released August 25, 2020

mastering :: Martijn Comes

all proceeds to Afrorack (Chicago, IL, USA) - www.afrorack.org

FARCE

Nazanin Noori - IMAGINE ALL THAT FALL IN A POTHOLE ON A BEAUTIFUL DAY (ENMX09)

Eighteenth episode of our "States United" show on @n10-as, with guest @soundsofgap

States United 18: Gap

Edited Arts is launching Beyond Shame, Any Second by DJ Meddle.

Beyond Shame, Any Second opens with a call and response, a melody relayed over a damaged line, altered by its journey. Throughout this debut EP, that broken signal is forged into jagged rhythms and raw club pressure.

Space defines Meddle's sound: skeletons of dance styles paused and peppered by deftly chosen samples and oddness. A love letter to Porto, echoes of London's dread. Chopped, ripped apart, fused back together, just enough and never too much.

Twenty Five Four features Ece Canlı, the Porto-based Turkish researcher and artist, soon to launch her debut album on local mainstay Lovers & Lollypops. Recorded in one enchanting take at Stop studios, Ece’s spectral voice glides out of a cadaverous instrumental, only to steer and bewitch it in the end

(Downloading gives access to stems and bonus art)
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The thumbnail from the Ytube upload of The Ones - Absolutely Flawless is that emo-club picture of the woman with headphones on listening to a song looking really fallen, a swirl of light about her as if that is music itself or her own feelings made visible. It’s a thumbnail for a Traktor tutorial vid, or was it my 2010 HD desktop wallpaper? Wait that’s actually some private information… keep it to yourself please.

Meddle samples the word and it’s a good one: “correction”, and repeats it. It’s not that you or me or us if you’ll let me lump (us) together, need reminding of Absolutely Flawless for a smile, it’s that it’s actually quite difficult to cope with the day to day chronic loss of placeness, opportunity, collective spirit, when lyrics from tracks like these speak of things you’ve never experienced, or had said to you, which begs the Q’ who or what is flawless? Who’s shaming who? Am I the listener embarrassed to live a life not up to the sentiment of the song, or should u as the producer be uncomfortable to make me feel this way?

Meddle and Ece Canlı made a 15min track that is the exact opposite of a neon slow-shutterspeed glowstick swirl. It’s the royal gate music for the princeless, the loading music for a game about true bonds where the confidence to not be unspoiled is the mechanic.

These samples and sounds on here are special because they fit together not untouched but touched in this way. This isn’t music of extra loneliness for the already alone, or of shininess for the dull and lowly, it’s the music that says – “I’ll be there any second”–  for you, and just for you.

Album Artwork by DJ Meddle
*words by DJ Hard Shoulder // text by Emile 
Mastering by hmurd
*extra mixing on Twenty Five Four by André Ribeiro

DJ Meddle:
@meddle-uk

Edited Arts:
Instagram - www.instagram.com/editedarts/
Facebook - www.facebook.com/editedarts/
Twitter - twitter.com/editedarts

We appreciate your support and hope you enjoy the music. Thank you for listening.

DJ Meddle - Beyond Shame, Any Second

Mix originally made for Fat Out Fest 2020

Tracklist:
Tati Au Miel - as someone who truly loves and expresses
Zuli - Bombardino 
Core Self - Suspiria 
Thoom - Hadiqa 
Aho Ssan - Ondl
Eye Measure - White Wine 
Arash Moori - Invert 
UKAEA - Vampire Moth (with AJA) 
Temp Illusion - Construction of Insomnia 
Clemency - Mimic Animals That Are Easy to Love (Jennifer Walton Remix) 
Slikback - Pull Up
Rosaceae - In a Field 
Cam Deas - Drift Through
SITOI - Kyyhky 
Abadir - XLR@T 
Hamilton Scalpel - Two Bladed Spear Thistle
Tygapaw - Scene 1: Unseen 
Prison Religion - Metal Mouth
Zoe Mc Pherson - Learn Your Language Faster feat. Elvin Brandhi 
Exploited Body - The Lake 
Feu St-Antoine - L’eau par soif 
Medical Negligence - Gods, Drugs and Water 
Kry - Spit on My Face 
Bonebrokk - Lightning 
Sully - Poison 
Hyph11e - Get Out from Under

Mix for Fat Out Fest

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