Following last year’s ‘Kaijupop’ debut LP released on Gang of Ducks, eclectic producer Soft-Bodied Humans returns with a new 50-minute 25-second track: ‘Bass symphony, take 1’.

Unlike Soft-Boded Humans’ previous grime or dancehall-tinged collaborations with MCs such as Swordman Kitala or sbk, ‘Bass symphony…’ is a shapeshifting, head-wrecking piece of modern composition inspired in equal parts by Terry Riley, OG Metallica bassist Cliff Burton and the Amen break.

In its undiluted form this epic construction builds with rousing drum rolls, crunching metal guitar and imperious pop synth, until the track goes into overdrive with drum ‘n’ bass rhythms and a rampaging, monstrous synth bass that lays waste to everything in sight.

By the time that bass demon stutters to climax the aural landscape has shifted once again, with ambient drones whirling around the sounds of far-away explosions and the robotic shrieks of synth risers full of malign intent.

If that sounds like a lot to digest, then ease your mind into the sonic bloodbath with this 7-minute ‘single’ edit, out 1 March. 

The full-length ‘Bass symphony, take 1’ will drop on 29 March.
 

Assembled by David McNamee
Mastered by Angel Marcloid at Angel Hair Audio
Artwork by Dan Allison

Praise for Soft-Bodied Humans

“Samples of Japanese monster films and unmatchable lyrical prowess accompany infectiously energetic instrumentals.” – The Wire

“Fuck-the-club up mid-00s grime riffs and late-00s dubstep kickdrums that gobble up all the
air in the room” – The Quietus

“Just like the kaiju that inspired them, these beats clang and scrape when they don’t rock the earth beneath their feet, blazing like towering infernos at the mercy of the gigantic beasts whose presence is clear in the snippets of newsreel that occasionally force their way through the maelstrom.” – Underscore Magazine

“Wonky, acerbic, bass-heavy hip-hop” – Pan African Music

Soft-Bodied Humans - Bass symphony, take 1 (single edit)

The finished piece from my previous Hordijk Sketch.  Multi-tracked, musique concrete style editing. Headphones highly recommended or studio monitors cranked up.

Hordijk Phantasma

Izzy Gleicher, flute
Ford Fourqurean, clarinet
Adam von Housen, violin
Thea Mesirow, 'cello
Isabelle O'Connell, piano
Joe Tucker, percussion
Whitney George, conductor

recorded & mixed by Adam Pietrykowski
Elebash Hall, CUNY Graduate Center
New York, New York

No. 1 - Abandoned Places

🌸DOWNLOAD LINK🌸

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e7qsbnchsrzqmou/Song2%20%E3%80%9C%E3%81%8A%E3%82%89%E3%81%8C%E7%94%BA%E3%81%AB%E6%98%A5%E3%81%8C%E6%9D%A5%E3%81%9F%EF%BC%81%E3%80%9C.mp3?dl=0

Song2 〜おらが町に春が来た！〜

Happy Christmas!!!🎅🎄

🎁DOWNLOAD LINK🎁
http://www.mediafire.com/file/c5huu44wxncjbbo/%u304A%u3089%u304B%u3099%u753A%u306E%u30E9%u30B9%u30C8%u30AF%u30EA%u30B9%u30DE%u30B9.mp3

おらが町のラストクリスマス

Andrea Taeggi—Zimní Král (12" vinyl LP)

The music on this record was made using a vast array of rare analog machines Andrea had the chance to work on at the Willem-Twee synthesis studio in Holland (built with the iconic Studio di Fonologia RAI as a blueprint). Most of the percussive sounds come from an Analog Computer, which has been rarely used only as a music instrument (its main purpose was flight simulation). In fact, during the Cold War times it was also used as measurement tool by civil engineers and even by the army. 
To my knowledge, very few artists have given a new context to the such device, which I have found absolutely unique-sounding and gave me enough inspiration to compose a whole new album focused on it. 

At present, no one has ever officially released music recorded at the Willem-Twee synthesis studio.

The music on this record further explores cyclical, minimal and hypnotic concoctions – a particular  investigation focused on unusual rhythms that Andrea had already started on his well-received ‘Mama Matrix Most Mysterious’, released on Type in 2015. Think walls of subfrequencies, snappy rollercoasters of the mind, labyrinths in hyperspace & snakes eating their own tails.

Zimní Král means “Winter King” in Czech and was the epithet given to Frederick V Elector Palatine (king of Bohemia), the last of a legacy to actively support alchemy as a means of studying reality, the self and their inter-reflections.

All music by Andrea Taeggi
https://andreataeggi.wordpress.com

Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M Berlin

Forthcoming on SM-LL Sept 1st, 2018
http://www.sm-ll.com

Dinergy (SM-LL, Sept 1st)

The Menace Redux

얼마나 いい顔 みんないい顔
How many too many 많이 많이 얼굴
oh baby don’t stop baby don’t stop 
호기심을 자극하는 표정

いくら聴けど 待てど暮らせど
見りゃ見るほど どんだけいい顔　
ピエトロ コロッセオ ミラノ サンマルコ
un bel viso so classic


갑자기 更新 Vエプ通知
止まらぬ動悸 필요 있요 救心
ローマの中心 美の勝利
너의 눈 너의 코 너의 입 全部

Every day 다른 魅力 많다
make fashion hairstyle 
그 눈빛 sexy lady baby
내가 좋아하는 cat’s eye


Baby don’t baby don’t baby don’t stop
生まれたばかりのbaby don’t stop 
マスクじゃ隠しきれな〜い 止まらぬ美貌
이렇게 어떻게 気持ちは永遠


白くて儚いまるで 우유
頭の中拡がる 無限の宇宙
Fall in Heaven 果てのない夜
逆さに落ちてく Oh baby it's you

Baby don't baby don't baby 난 slave  
Born in Heavenのモノホンnative
が地元に凱旋 覆る概念
지금 맞아 바로 マジ おまえが真理


Baby don’t baby don’t baby don’t stop
生まれたばかりのbaby don’t stop 
マスクじゃ隠しきれな〜い 止まらぬ美貌
이렇게 어떻게 気持ちは永遠


妄想ハダ 오늘도 공부하다
Baby, 자기, 여보 보고 싶어
深夜に通知 時差がしんど〜
얼어 죽을 사랑해 

突き刺さる性癖 迫りくる兵役
高まる美意識 アートの始まり
私を止めないで baby
君のことが好きな私が大好き

내일은 더 너를 좋아할것같아
スマン ヨンミン 가족にスタッフ
隣で소리지る小奇麗な女
전부 抱きしめ 가자가자 墓場


Baby don’t baby don’t baby don’t stop
生まれたばかりのbaby don’t stop 
マスクじゃ隠しきれな〜い 止まらぬ美貌
이렇게 어떻게 気持ちは永遠


아름다운 너를 보면
내 마음이 아름다웠던 기억이 나

ピポピポパー

얼마나いい顔 feat. NOPPAL

Slow-moving soul music

https://bluetapes.bandcamp.com

Soft-Bodied Humans - Bass symphony, take 1 (single edit)

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