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As time runs out on our @opal-tapes merchandise collaboration, we offer a glimpse into what the future holds for the label with a sneak peek at the upcoming vinyl album 'Peculiar', by Japanese musician @kentarohayashi.

Peculiar

Kentaro Hayashi - Odyssey [Opal Tapes]

I made this piece during the winter months when I spent most of my days alone, digging into archives, collecting some forgotten scraps from old tape loops together and melting them with what felt present at the time, those soundscapes that vibrate most beautifully in deep silence.

It consists of two parts - one corresponding to the setting process, the other to resetting, it tells story of leaving traces and covering them up.

Trace had its very first premiere on May 6 at Rewire festival.

Trace

Take a meditative journey to a softer headspace with @yeye-music's 'Nothing On My Horizon Except Everything'. Forthcoming on @anerecs.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/ye-ye-nothing-on-my-horizon-except-everything

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Premiere: Ye Ye - Nothing On My Horizon Except Everything

From 'µ-Ziq - Goodbye EP' (out on Planet Mu - 1st April 2022)
https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/242667-ziq-goodbye

µ-Ziq says hello again with 'Goodbye'. The six track EP is the first in a series of releases by Mike Paradinas this year, which are all centred around the 25th Anniversary Edition of 'Lunatic Harness’, his classic 1997 album. 

Inspired by going back through the archives while he was remastering the Lunatic Harness reissue, 'Goodbye' sees Mike revisiting the nineties, taking on jungle and it's precursor jungle tekno and upgrading them with the benefit of hindsight and contemporary software. Imbued with Mike's lush sense of melody and his knack for striking contrasts (don't be shocked to hear maudlin piano, 303 and amens in the same track), 'Goodbye' approaches these old genres like a sandpit, and stretches them in directions only Mike might take.

Goodbye

µ-Ziq - Goodbye

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CRUDE Lab w/ Jess Doit Vol.8

Links: fanlink.to/lavibe11

Imer6ia releases Translucid, a first album that raises the flag of wave music to the zenith of our post-algorithmic world.

Well known visual artist in the digital arts, she directed several 3D videos clips, notably for the artist Louise Roam, and designs, among other things, sci-fi inspired 3D digital fashion dedicated to the Metavers. She has also worked as scenographer and stage designer, as for the Thunderbreak parties of the highly influent LGBTQI+ crew Parkingstone.

As symbiotic as her plastic and digital creations, her musical universe is deeply rooted into Wave music: a musical movement that digests and reinterprets Trap, Trance, or EDM sounds, not hesitating to associate Reese Bass and eroded vocals, between dreamy harshness and synthetic nostalgia. Even if not very highly covered by medias, the microgenre publicly introduced to the world in 2015 by grime legend Plastician (through his “Wave Pool MMXV” podcast), reaches a popularity, especially on soundcloud and youtube, sometimes not so far behind some more mainstream music.

Imer6ia is the best-kept secret of that scene, alongside the references Barnacle Boi, Skeler, Brothel, Juche or the late Øfdream, with some of whom she has already collaborated.
This first album will allow her to proudly impose her feminine avatar on a male soil that needs it. You can trust Lavibe, the pioneering label curated by Brice Coudert (former A&R for the legendary Concrete Paris club), that keeps revealing one big name after another (Emma DJ, Banga, Simo Cell, GЯEG...), and the crack production team gathered around Imer6ia to propel her iridescent aesthetic far beyond the DIY practices of the genre.

Considered one of the best French producers, ex-Club Cheval member Canblaster lent a hand to the project to raise the level in terms of sound production and composition.
Sound designer and former AGLORY producer IPON mixed the tracks, and also injected a bit more industrial sound, with an almost pop music efficiency to the full project.
Mastering have been done by Simon Tiercelin while Imer6ia’s friend Rare0000 took part to the project during the whole production process, bringing his mastery of the wave music codes and drum programming skills.

Translucid offers ten compact, coherent and dense tracks, which oscillate between physical musicality and dreamy sensuality. They offer us a reflecting mirror to dive into a hybrid dance between artificial intelligence and humanoid memory. Translucid provides us with a manual of augmented existence, an indispensable soundtrack for our time in the grip of the new solastalgia syndrome.

Composed and produced by Imer6ia : tracks 01,03, 04, 05, 06, 07
Co produced by Canblaster & Imer6ia: tracks 02, 08, 09, 10

Additional production:
Rare000: tracks 01,02, 08, 09
Ipon: tracks 01, 02

Arrangement:
Ipon: tracks 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10
Canblaster: track 07
Rare0000: tracks 03, 04, 05, 06

All tracks mixed by Ipon

All tracks mastered by Simon Tiercelin

Artworks: Imer6ia

Label: lavibe

07 Imer6ia - Fossils

01 Imer6ia - Disconnect

Premiering "Inertiatic" by Daysailer taken from "Naivete" out on 30th March via xenonyms

Bandcamp: https://xenonyms.bandcamp.com/album/naivete

A few words from the artist: 
“Like any album where you sing for the first time, the word that most often comes to mind is “personal.” However, I tried to use my voice as just an added instrument to the band, instead of being the standout aspects of these tracks. With that in mind, I’ve been no more personal on this album than I have in the past.

If these songs get stuck in your head, well, that's all I want really”

Links:
@daysailer
@xenonymsss

Naivete

bandcamp

[Premiere] Daysailer - Inertiatic (xenonyms)

CRDL005
Release Date: 29/06/2023

Full Tracklist:
01. CHAINS OF FATE
02. WRAITH
03. FROM ASHES
04. ACHERON (Chemist & Tom E Vercetti)
05. PERIPHERALS
06. BOUND BY FLAMES

• Artwork: Dylan Tushar

From Ashes

Bound By Flames

Out now: https://displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/remembered-surfaces

For the eleventh edition of the DISPLAYSOLO series the Ontario-based artist @cares contributes a collection of four tactile sonic explorations. Like a set of recreated memories that never existed, “Remembered Surfaces” winds through a blurred map of mutating spaces that feel both familiar and alien, both real and artificial.

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https://cares.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/cares
www.facebook.com/carescorp/
www.instagram.com/_cares/
twitter.com/___CARES

Written & recorded by Cares
Recorded in rural Ontario during 2022-2023
Artwork, cassette design & mastering by Joey Butler AKA Kid Smpl

Cassette / Digital

Cares - Wax Rust Smoke

Time is eating us away from the inside, and the simple fact that people exist around us affects us deeply. We are all emotionally fragile. 
Love is the reason, as it is where all of our memories are rooted. 
Happiness, tenderness, anxiety, hatred or violence, whatever happens, don't forget one thing: it's in the most difficult and most painful moments that we must feel the most alive.

Vocal by: AuraAura
soundcloud.com/auraauraofficial

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@antiverseworld
lavibe Label manager
@underscopefrance A&R
Former Concrete / Dehors Brut / Weather festival A&R

07 Imer6ia - Fossils

Brice Coudert (lavibe / Underscope / Antiverse)

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