Midheaven Records continues its run of firsts in 2021 with ‘Shifgrethor / Konstant Kemmer’, the debut of Eora/Sydney-based producer Mx-Ai (they/them). The last decade has seen Mx-Ai move from playing in bands, to no-input mixing, to chopping samples and programming drums—a habitual experimentation both integrated with living, and consciously auto-didactive. Years of quietly working away have resulted in a warped bass music sound, drawing upon the sensibilities of musique concrète, jungle, dub and dancehall. Taking their names from concepts in Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’, ‘Shifgrethor’ and ‘Konstant Kemmer’ are a small glimpse into a larger world of sounds yet to be heard, where synths cling like vapour to structural beats, meticulously grooving and articulate. Astute sound design makes tangible a feeling suspended between excitement and anxiety, with sweeps of FX and minute rhythmic shifts keeping things on the move, ever-curious and rolling. This is an exciting statement of intent from a gifted artist.

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About Midheaven:

Midheaven operates on unceded Gadigal and Wangal lands in Eora/Sydney. We acknowledge the Gadigal and Wangal peoples as rightful owners of these lands, and pay our respects to their elders past and present.

Midheaven Records is devoted to giving a platform to forward-thinking, mutative, compelling music. We will be releasing a slew of new work by emerging soloists, ensembles, and collaborations over the course of 2021, donating 10% of all proceeds from sales to Radio Skid Row, in support of community radio and grassroots organising.

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Credits:

All tracks written, recorded and mixed by Wade Gilmour.
Mastered by Mike Grisner at Manmade Mastering.
Artwork by Ben Buchanan.
Layout by Cameron Whalen.

Shifgrethor / Konstant Kemmer

Buy on Bandcamp

Mx-Ai — Konstant Kemmer

@jiovanni-nadal
Monumental bass drama with out-of-balance rhythms that might just knock you off your feet.

Mastering by SIM.
Artwork by Bruno Lauzon Tanzi and Nela Paki in collaboration with artist Marilou Lyonnais Archambault.

VA [CC003]

Dino Egg

J. Albert - Dino Egg

@ssiege

https://blankmindlabel.bandcamp.com/album/comme-de-loin

Comme de Loin

SSIEGE - Corpo Libero

Taken from Flaty (@producedbyflaty) new album RAILZ, out July 9 via ANWO RECORDS (@anworecords)

Read: https://bit.ly/3gQNmkc
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3gLWWpY

Following the recent collaborative SERWED II and Square Fauna albums on West Mineral Ltd. and Firecracker Recordings respectively, Flaty is back on his own ANWO RECORDS with an album titled RAILZ.

A year in the making, it’s a product of solitary contemplative pursuit, an exploration of a metaspace where the varied worlds inherent to Flaty‘s artistic sensibility coexist, blend, and collide true to the original kinship between electro and hip-hop. The altered footwork and fine-grained dubstep sonic structures, the freeform soundscapes and refracted beats, the consistently heavy bass and eventful razor-sharp high frequencies of the album are all bred, built, mixed, and mastered single-handedly by Flaty who has also designed all the artwork and packaging.

In comparison with the artist’s previous productions, the tone is colder, the approach more detached, while the substance is no less personal and the experience neither less diverse nor less intense. The artistic, cultural, and technological styles and eras of the last half-century fuse and productively dissolve in the utopian interferences of the LP.

Expect RAILZ to be presented as the soundtrack to a forthcoming series of ANWO STUDIO collaborative audio-visual live performances.

mastering — Evgenii Fadeev

design & execution — ANWO STUDIO

released by ANWO RECORDS

RAILZ

Premiere: Flaty - including [ANWO RECORDS]

Just when you think you've heard all the Sleng Teng riddims.....
Taken from the Reducer 12" available on Bandcamp:

https://reducer.bandcamp.com/album/reducer-2

Private press industro-dub madness beamed from squat-life Northampton, circa the 80s. The first and last word in classic dancehall punk comes around for a SECOND issue 12″ scraped off the linings of the cosmic dustbin that tried to bury them.

Real relics acquired direct from Reducer guitarist and tape-loopist Hooly ‘the Human Aerial; Insant cop if you’re into: Eric Random, Jah Wobble & PIL, African Head Charge, any 80s post-punk to be honest.

Hear More / Buy

Reducer - Sleng Teng Masters

Social Anxiety

Artist: Various Artists
Premiere Artist: Atrice
Title: VA1
Track Title: Haumea
Label: Hektar
CAT#: HKT_01
Release date: 15.07.2021
 Format: digital

Hektars debut release features 8 different artists from across the globe. The musical variation spans from free experimental works to more
club oriented tracks. The release is meant to be diverse while still beeing cohesive.

Hektar - VA

Premiere | Atrice - Haumea (HKT_01)

||| MIXWORK 001 - T. MORIMOTO |||
Mix by artist, producer & @sumactrac co-founder @tmorimoto

TRACKLIST 
T.Morimoto - Mon Amour 4
T.Morimoto - Cage Time
T.Morimoto - Ice148
T.Morimoto - Mon Amour 6
T.Morimoto - Death of Bambi
T.Morimoto - Cold Rock
T.Morimoto - Life by Proxy
T.Morimoto - Cult Clubs
Utility - Revolver Hype Remix
T.Morimoto - Hwooo!128
T.Morimoto - PZN
T.Morimoto - Take a Walk
T.Morimoto - Contract Out
Utility - Sham
Poison - Mincc
T.Morimoto - Vacation
Utility - Flooot (DJ Plead Remix)
T.Morimoto - Mon Amour 7

MIXWORK 001 - T. MORIMOTO - 26/08/21

@0littleartist0
https://5gatetemple.bandcamp.com/album/cancel-copenhagen

Cancel Copenhagen

5GTCC ~ LITTLE ARTIST ~ CANCEL COPENHAGEN [excerpt]

Equal parts cerebral and disorientating, ELLLL remixes Erosion Flow into some bass-heavy club.

'Affinity' is out December 11th on Caress.

Get it here: bit.ly/3qvAQeh

@ellll
@erosion-flow
@caressstudios

Premiere: Erosion Flow - Enhance (ELLLL Remix) [Caress]

** Boomkat Product Review **

Firmly established among NNT’s weirdest and most watchable units, Metal Preyers slug screwed anthems on their killer 2nd mixtape for the central/east African powerhouse. Responsible for some of 2020’s strangest highlights with their eponymous debut, plus a single-sided 12” and the ‘Preying Well’ mixtape, the project now gathers their late night energies at a wickedly knackered slant across two sides of original compositions patched into a snaking tale of psychedelic torment and grouching grooves that pick up where they left off, deep in the underbelly of Kampala after dark.

Under the cryptic title of ‘432+’, a grippingly slow sequence of events and smeared styles occur, following an elusive thread of sozzled logic between bleary ballads, drag-mode Afrobeat bangers, and absolutely killer patches of splayed drill drums, into more gutturally psychoactive, bad-belly turns of digital distortion and smeared Naija anthems that make way for viscous R&B and dematerialised noise. 

Quite simply, nobody else is making this kind of concentrated crud right now, striking the most vital balance of daring impressionism and rugged, druggy function that can’t help but suck listeners into its surreal temporality and psychedelic weltanschauung.

+432

NNT027 Metal Preyers: '432+' Preview

Outopia Thru Sound // BKV Industrial + BKV Cadavre + Bokeh Thought Programme // Avon Terror Corps // I serve Duppy Gun // Pheasantry Life ⚔

Reducer - Sleng Teng Masters

Bokeh Versions