Olan Monk - Auto Life
Format: Digital (EP)
Cat. No: CANVAS011
Release Date: 1st October 2021

Watch the video for 'Fameless': https://youtu.be/-xndTe8uWrc

Pre-order Auto Life (EP): canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/auto-life

‘A farewell to idolatry, where culture is absorbed into nature, like a body back into the fertile soil. Written as a 27 club survivor, lamenting the young dead, no longer young and celebrating the spectral presence of iconised peers. Reflexive and self-aware of the problem of over-identifying with the fictional performance of the solo act in various guises or archetypes: the rockstar or trapstar. Auto Life is a practical attempt at a weird re-hybridisation of otherwise seemingly divergent strands of popular music, conflating stylisations usually segregated by genre.

Auto Life was written as a collection of songs for eventual live performance. Recording music is absurd—an act in which you initially perform to no-one. The inclusion of a sample of crowd noise in ‘Fameless’ is the music studio equivalent of a laugh track being added to the soundtrack of a sitcom—unable to give up on disappearing horizons completely and imagining another context for performance in which an actual audience beyond the performer is present.

Autotune Punk—as a music of antagonism that resists from within, bending the lanes of a machine that flattens out the vocal performance to a given scale. I can still express feeling—even angst—but the machine doesn’t care. Refusing its own funeral, emulating the dead—it’s a Rock simulacrum. A renewably performed myth. I broke the spell. I just heard it as it was. The sacred framing of presence makes the pop idol always-already-dead by turning them into a symbol and an image—undead, un-ageing and endlessly reproducible within a commercialist visual culture.

The music which I would grow up listening to would later become a tool towards first facing, maybe later dismantling—or at least bending—the structures in which music was still being written, performed and recorded into existence. My emulation of and interest in pop—and popular—music is not in irony. I love this music—yet I question the context and conditions through which it has come to exist and continues to change shape. Opening up the horizon of pop to a new kind of strangeness, where the familiarity of the pop song disappears into blissful distortions and mixed signifiers towards a world in-between, otherwise unknown’.

— @olanmonk

Written, performed and recorded by Olan Monk

‘Bruised Fruit’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City, additional production and vocals written and performed by Elvin Brandhi
‘Burnout’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City

Tracks 01–07 mastered by Ali Najafi
Tracks 08 and 09 mastered by Jam City

Artwork by Ewa Awe

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Auto Life

Olan Monk - Fameless

Brooklyn-based musician Celes presents her new mixtape "Limit Break" as part of our brand-new mixtape series "evx-tapes".

The two segments, "Flame" and "Heart" feature an array of spontaneous and joyful field recordings, guitar improvisations and wind-imbued bell performances.

“With love and care to all my friends”
- Celes

[EVX001] 

Artwork by Mittens Wei 
Written & Mixed by Violet Celes
Cassette Design & Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis

Limit Break

Heart

Celes - Heart

6G is the child of a hollow moon, unwritten histories of permaculture deities in the levant, pagan conspiracies about haunted birthrights, texts buried in lunatic obscurity, communication with the evil smile of a goddess, bells designed to be wrung three times in the night, childish blood games, farmers with occult crops.

The duo of Oxhy and Susu Laroche have chosen the name The Fertile Crescent, evoking one of the cradles of human civilization as much as a (un)healthy devotion to the power of the lunar cycle. Musically, it reeks of post-industrial folklore ripe with solemn tones and conflicting bits, combined via the mocking dream logic of a trickster spirit. A skeletal presence of melody in a sparse, ceremonial ambiance that can even welcome thunderous rolls of breakbeat, like tapping from the energy of every ritual that has scarred the land in time. Following the record is like attempting at drawing a psychic topography of those same rituals, manifestations, tragedies and games, it’s like mistaking the broadband network for the Ley lines but still succeeding in conquering its occult power.

Written & Produced by Fertile Crescent
Mastered by Tapewave

All profits go to: www.islamic-relief.org.uk/afghanistan-emergency-appeal/


https://soundcloud.com/oxhy
https://soundcloud.com/tsvsvnami

the fertile crescent - cant let you live again

Ewa Awe - Spiderloop

Heith - Your Element (a spell of equality)
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 119S
Format: DL
Release Date: 26 July 2022
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/YourElement

X, Wheel

Heith - Your Element (a spell of equality) (PAN 119S)

Toxe - The Story of Leonora (OST)
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 127
Release Date: 17 February 2023
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/TheStoryofLeonora

The Story Of Leonora (OST) is the seventh edition of PAN’s Entopia soundtrack series. The first original score by Toxe, the album accompanies a short film of the same name by Clemens Stumpf and Cleis Vandam. Serving as an extended version of the original score, the new release from Toxe additionally presents audio yet unheard by viewers of the film. Created in 2020 between Berlin and Amsterdam, The Story of Leonora is released today as a 10track album and a limited edition sliding puzzle designed by Emir Timur Tokdemir.

The album ebbs and flows while retaining the individuality of certain moods–– sometimes ominous, often innocent. Recalling an elementary introduction to the world, Toxe draws inspiration from sounds sourced in daily life: the clicking of high heels, birds and humming machines. Cascading echos and short breaths merge with delicate synths and incomprehensible human mumble. The simplicity of these elements are distilled to their core, evoking the naïveté of the world to an alien perspective, while maintaining sonic sophistication throughout.

Written, produced & mixed by Tove Agelii 
Mastered by Rashad Becker 
Film direction & photography by Clemens Stumpf and Cleis Vandam
Puzzle design by Emir Timur Tokdemir

Toxe - The Story Of Leonora (OST) (PAN 127)

sometimes u come in from the club at 7am and need all the music to be MORE AMBIENT so u have to make your own

a lot of my friends have been tryna escape recently , hopefully this and a spot of 30 degree mancunian sun will help

p . s. pls excuse my vv vapor artwork , i think i might have sunstroke

filton [ dissociative edit ]

The closing track on "Expand," the forthcoming compilation to be released by Danish record label @petrola-80.

"Melancholic ambient, bangers for your woozy late night DJ set, mind-bending sonic experimentation and forward-facing alternative pop cuts - Petrola 80 lay it all down for you on March 20th 2020."

Tracklist:
Yangze - Hold Your Horses
Yearling - Resortplex Guide
Basic House - Sweater Shop
Gel - Antiquit
KhalilH20P - 100 Tears 02:59	
Piag3t - Turn Out Tense 03:09	
Rasmus Juncker - Sauna
Francesca Burattelli - Condition
Lighyer - Awakpo
SATNAV - Floe Wichu
jjjacob - Solitary Defeat

Artwork: Laurits Hanak
Master: Valdemar Kragelund
Format: Cassette, digital and T-shirt

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Released on m_division's compilation 'Unity'
Profits from the sale go to supporting cancer patients affected by COVID-19 in Russia.

Thanks for supporting.

https://advita.ru/
https://mdivision.bandcamp.com/releases

Mastered by Aleksandr Matlakhov
Released June 25, 2020

SKY H1 ft. Soho Rezanejad - Animal

Haunter Records is proud to present Left My Brain @ Can Paixano (La Xampanyeria) OST. A project five years in the making, dotted by contributions from dear friends Asaël Robitaille, v1984 and Marie Davidson; it is Osborne-Lanthier’s most ambitious work to date and, in many ways, an elegiac record. Largely composed and produced in the shadow of his mother’s passing, it also contains an another sort of elegy: to a infamous Barcelona restaurant that functioned as a daily stop for Osborne-Lanthier during a stay in Catalunya. It was in the midst of  that trip that he started adding sardonic, deranged experiments to his then-overtly serious, academic work. After his mother’s passing in 2016, nostalgia drove him to revisit a body of old recordings where he discovered something new: the sarcasm, self-effacing humour and proficient technicality he’d found so funny originally was now just a mask for insecurity and sadness. He set out to rework those recordings, reprocessing them over and over until their structures completely changed, until they’d gained such texture and depth they were no longer recognizable.
 
The music’s journey construes a multi-layered story, one only he can tell. The record smacks with a wet nostalgia that soaks into the concrete dryness of Osborne-Lanthier’s sound design, maintains a taste for intensity as a tool for immersive engagement. There’s a widescreen romanticism to these compositions, reminiscent of a vivid dream: the tracks are tactile and elastic, morphing rapidly from uncanny-valley EDM tropes to vast, sweeping expanses of sincere choral synths. Osborne-Lanthier sees the album as something of a concept cemetery; an overgrown plot that slowly filled to the brim with dead ideas; a mycelial network of thoughts and plans that never came true. The fruiting body of a fungus born from the nutrients of dead plants: an opus born from trash. 
 
For all of its absurd alien beauty, this is as much a record about being a musician as it is a record about making fun of music: as much an expert-level exploration of technical chops as it is an assault on the stupidity of technicality. Beautiful film-like ambient passages flow directly into weapons-grade riffs, fluid whirlpools drain into chattering synths and shrieking frequency envelopes. Ugliness and immaturity are not only preserved but elevated. The result is Osborne-Lanthier’s most finely-honed record to date — a reflection of what it is to be human: divinely uncategorizable.

Composed between 2015 and 2020 in Montreal, New York, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Milan, Tokyo, Stockholm, Osaka and Shanghai by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier.
Produced in Montreal by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier.
Additional production and arrangement assistance by Asaël Robitaille.
Mastered by Heba Kadry.
Design, layout and additional art by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier.
Art installation and photographs by Adrian Altman, courtesy of the artist.

Cat. No. SPCTR015/PTTDIABL001 – All rights reserved.
℗ & © Haunter Records 2020

Left My Brain @ Can Paixano (La Xampanyeria) OST

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Jesse Osborne-Lanthier - Catchment Areas (Spiritual Pollution)

First single from @avastarr's EP "Angels In the Sand" forthcoming 05/02/21 on @slagwerk.

Mastering: @jesseosbornelanthier
Artwork: @amalcrossing

Olan Monk - Fameless

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