Miasma Jester is Lizzitsky’s second EP on Gabber Eleganza’s label Never Sleep. Recorded in Uruguay, London and Venezuela using cassette, modular synths, laptop and various acoustic instruments. It takes in elements of power electronics, throwbacks to 90’s harsh noise, ambient improv, hardcore and 00’s London sub bass pressure. Several tracks were recorded in the now abandoned Elephant and Castle shopping complex, a grim goodbye to childhood spots visited with South American family. London based artist Sarah Khan (ICA New Contemporaries), collaborates on Black Phlegm, with her spoken word driving 160bpm bursts of noise, infra-bass and textured cassette melodies. Miasma Jester follows a fragmented trajectory through IDM melodies, broken dancehall, Thunderdome kicks channeled through max/msp glitches - before collapsing in on itself. Danish vocalists MC Pusher and Sgabe deliver cracked and redlined vocals over 165bpm drones and atonal string arrangements on Usenet Suic Pac, with more pensive, ambient moments via You Can’t Say Hello Without Saying Hell’s decayed 8bar grime nods and Carbroke House’s gloomy ambient dirge.

Miasma Jester [NSR012]

Lizzitsky - Usenet Suic Pac Ft Mc Pusher & Sgabe

Mt. Fuyu - A Mirror To Weave
Cat. Nr: DN024
Format: DL
Release Date: June 2, 2023
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/MtFuyu

A grave and sprawling epic, Mt. Fuyu’s A Mirror to Weave swells with implication. Written, recorded, and produced from the heart of a person who’s lived through life’s struggles much too young, the album is a ferment of ideas and experiences that together capture the sheer strangeness, beauty, and terror of existence. Born in China and immigrating to the United States with his parents in infancy, the Kansas City-based artist—otherwise known as Fu Liu—moved from the coastal province of Shandong to America’s Midwest in the early 2000s. The dot-com crash to follow led to living precariously with his father in Canada, then a short stint in foster care, before settling into a strict regimen of academic and musical pursuits on the family’s return to the US.

This classical jazz education and scholarly background comes through in A Mirror to Weave, where an endless inventory of influences—crossing Coil, The Caretaker, Burial; Mark Fisher, Hito Steyerl, Carl Jung, and more—is steeped in a sublime brew of drone, post-industrial and ambient; hauntology, dub and bass. Rife with the trauma of the past, and the expansive landscapes of the present, opener “Temple” billows with decayed, distended, and eerily pitched vocals, as an arrhythmic pulse grows then crashes in a surge of noise and distortion. The disturbance rumbles through other tracks too, as the subaqueous current of “Swamp Nymphs” roils and fizzes around a crumble of pads and sine waves, while resampled and effects-laden drums charge head-first into the spooky atmospherics of “Ovre” with an erratic urgency.

Although often muted, muffled or restrained, the voice and its whispered words play a central role in A Mirror to Weave. It’s in the existential drift of “Shells”, as Fu Liu’s sweetly sung words (“seen it all/ a black hole”) ripple over a melancholy piano solo; environmental field recordings fluttering delicately just beneath the surface. The audio is taken from the parks, streets, bars, as well as online spaces Fu Liu inhabits, giving the record its heavy sense of grief and alienation. Wandering through the emotional state of pandemic-era estrangement, while also mourning the passing of friends, A Mirror to Weave is a requiem for the worst that’s already been, and an exaltation of the best that’s yet to come. 

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Design by Niels Wehrspann and Solène Gonnet

A Mirror To Weave

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from "Satyrikon"

https://clam-pressure.bandcamp.com/album/satyrikon

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KUTHI JIN - SOURCE OF DEVILS, A GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN

Taken from Wanton Witch's upcoming album 'Aku'

This highly personal release marks her second album and serves as a powerful sequel to her debut, where the previous album delved into her past, ‘AKU’ honestly captures her current state of mind. Born from the depths of her soul and reflecting a profound exploration of identity and existence, this 11-track hauntingly beautiful body of work promises an unparalleled auditory adventure, harmoniously blending diverse sounds, textures, and structures into a distinctly melancholy perspective on reality.

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The 38th release of katharsis and our final release of 2023 is the prodigious compilation "Embracing Darkness, Absorbing Light" featuring a vast array of artist beloved by the label. Throughout the grandiose line-up of the 36 tracks, the listener is absorbed by various differing interpretations of the theme outlined in the title of the album. Some of the invited artist went full into introverted progressions and meditative sounds, while others focused on aggressive rhythms or anthemic melodies. But even though the styles and techniques of the songs differ from each other, the artists seem to have some commonality in their sonic palettes that binds it all together in a mutual love for music as a healing force of nature <3

releases December 29, 2023

artwork by jjjacob
mastering by jjjacob

pre-order:
katharsis-label.bandcamp.com/album/embr…bing-light

Embracing Darkness  Absorbing Light

Alteration

ELCA - Alteration

Colapso De La Función De Onda

Ley De Faraday

call of the void

SVØX  @svoxx
IG: @svox.wav
Support: https://distortionalliancerec.bandcamp.com/track/zakelto
Cover: @distkick
Master: @distkick

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SVØX - ZAKELTO [FREE DL]

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