originally aired on the alleviate radio show nov.30 2017

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Michael Speers - xtr'ctn (LP)*OUT NOW*

Format: Digital/Vinyl
Cat.No: CANVAS005
Release Date: 13th of September 2019

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synthetic listening environments :: created with material extracted from field recordings and processed/arranged using software, alongside electronic signals from no-input feedback + test equipment.

most of the source material was generated at my place of work[as a technician]—whilst testing large amounts of audio equipment—capturing electronics’ internal behaviours + using very high levels of amplification on various small capsule microphones, connected to wireless transmitters placed in resonant vessels/spaces and materials of interest
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Northern Irish, London based musician Michael Speers composes and performs music as a temporal and worldly extension of himself and the tools at his disposition. As a percussionist by training, Michael extends his contact and interplay with resonant objects through instrumentalised amplification and feedback, employing signal processing to articulate the almost tangible constitution of sonic material as structural, nearly cellular, microscopic entities. Following his integral presence in C.A.N.V.A.S. performance events since their inception and his recent participation in the Cipher compilation, xtr’ctn is released in September 2019 as a debut solo LP for both the artist and the label.

Dehumanised black metal screams, attributed to seagulls - specifically “recorded in Ramsgate, 06.2017”. It’s the inhuman that concerns us here, or our complex relationship with non-human entities and abstractions. Extracting is a process. By integrating recorded and found sound phenomena, treated as profane and material entities, Michael meticulously arranges sound objects into composition, upholding a fidelity to their emergent properties. Most of these objects become seemingly un-referential, although occasionally you arrive at a near-recognisable sound source or environment, disrupting the invitation towards a total loss of a sense of self.

This is fictional music - it is of and for a world that doesn’t exist. Although presenting sound with sincerity and integrity, without allusion to linear narrative, Michael's materialistic approach is transcended by the sensitivity of his composition. In a sense, it comes after both feeling and expression, as the subdued emotion of a person attempting to reach beyond their own affective limitations. It reaches out without ever really touching anything. Yet for all it’s clinical reduction, there are moments of unhindered emotion which strike harder for their arrival from such a seemingly nonhuman place.

“xtr’ctn” fails in reaching a point of immanent abstraction - a flatline horizon. It arrives instead at the outer brim of a sensory dam, where organic glitches from the extremities of our perception have spread - like sonic cataracts - intercepting the flow of our auditory awareness. In its state of fiction, “xtr’ctn” acts as a flag for the C.A.N.V.A.S. community, pitched as a marker of our enacted existence, weathered though unliving. To follow this signal to its depth is to accept the unknown - you only follow, knowing no alternative.

Mastering by Ali Najafi
Artwork and product design by AALTAR

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

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Michael Speers - tombeau

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Emotional material manifests itself in many different forms. Sometimes it flows like a river, rolls like a wave or pours like rain. The fluidity of emotional experience makes sense as our bodies are mostly made up of water – life's matter and matrix, mother and medium.

It is time to let go of your fear and doubts. You must learn to embrace the darkness of your soul, for it is a light beacon of hope for humanity. Your soul wants to show itself in its truest form, strength, perseverance, courage and determination of spirit. In this lifetime your soul needs to cleanse and open its feelings for katharsis. This current physical lifetime offers you a new leaf, to be able to learn to balance obsolete, distorted behaviors.

The Flow of Water

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treibgut aka @fabian-lanzmaier bends sounds until they breach on his latest release on @international-winners 'mimikry'.

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https://soundcloud.com/z0it - Instructions (The Lick)
from "Music to Dance to" (QNR038)
released 10th August 2020
DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/file/et129vaddkn3tyc/z0it_-_music_to_dance_to_%2528QNR038%2529.zip/file

Music to Dance to

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z0it - Instructions (The Lick)

pol100 ‘Sepsis EP'

pol100 is an alias used by Italian producer Paolo Maiarelli. Maiarelli is originally from Ferrara, a small city located in the north of Italy. Inspired by the likes of Arca, Rabit and Lee Gamble among others, it has been four years since he started to create music under the pol100 moniker. During this period he developed, what he calls, a more personal sound that can be heard on his previous releases ‘ANOTHER FINE DAY’ and ‘PLAGUE EP’ released on respectively Elastica Records and Du Couer Records. His latest work ‘Sepsis EP’ will be released on Bound Centre and introduces us to a new chapter in Maiarelli’s work. The complex mix between Ambient-like audio engineering and break/bass heavy electronica is conceived from his research into the idea of sound over structure and is based on the four symptoms of septic shock. On basis of these four symptoms Maiarelli created a listening experience that transcends conventional forms of arrangement and sound design and forces the listener to take a deep dive into the concept and physical consequences of the disease.
credits
releases September 8, 2020

Artist:
⚔ pol100 (www.soundcloud.com/wasmusic-1)

Artwork:
⚔ Buien

Mastering:
⚔ Edoardo Elliot

Tracklist:
01. pol100 - Fever
02. pol100 - Edema
03. pol100 - Hypothermia
04. pol100 - Altered Mental States

Video:
⚔ Buien

Digital Distribution:
⚔ Clone (Rotterdam)

Links:
www.facebook.com/poll100
www.instagram.com/_pol100_

www.facebook.com/boundcentre.official
www.instagram.com/boundcentre.official

www.instagram.com/buien_

www.clone.nl

Sepsis EP

Fever

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pol100 - Fever

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Let’s start 2021 on @internetpublicradio with a highly energic mix made of UK Funky, Baltimore Club, Gqom and dancefloor-friendly blends.

Visual : Agnes Pelton - Winter (1933)

Tracklist

Mind Blown (Arma Edit)
Kyla Ft. Paleface - Do You Mind (Crazy Cousins Remix)
Big Homie & Habibiboi - Carne Guiso
Donae’o - Party Hard
Bey T - Wololo Redrum (Nori)
Murder He Wrote - Mono
Assi - Mata Batida Ft. Rayvanny
Lil Silva - Different VIP
Jon Kwest - Harford Road Hustle
Venganza - Someone To Call My Flight Risk (Janet Jackson X Leonce & Neana)
Kingdom - No More Same Ft. LUVK
SHYBOI - Head Top
Venganza - Run Up Get Dun Up Latente (Wulffluw XCIV & Nahshi Syn Remix X Dj Gay - Z)
Venganza - She's Feeling Bust Back (MikeQ X TenTwentySeven)
Habibiboi - Brick Dance
Bok Bok x Pop Smoke - Dior Hearts (DJ Erika Kayne)
Venganza - Stalker Fem Queen (Ms. Boogie & Trannilish X Kingdom)
Slick Shoota - Wam Bam Tool
Venganza - Unlock It (Charli XCX X Bulma & Kurama X Miss Jay)

Michael Speers - tombeau

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