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Low Heat

Premiere: De Grandi »Energy Blitz (Low Mix)«

A screaming comes across the club... 

Sweat is a collection of 2017-2021 live tracks. They are structured akin to the live shows I've been doing over these years, missing, of course, some works in progress and forthcoming material usually involved. 

This was the time. And this is the record of the time. 

Every show would get a new version, and these are my favorites. Evidently, most are vastly superior to the sickly versions previously available. These are precious for the experience and knowledge that went into them, they have been whittled down from bricks of compressed noise. 

Shit, basically I felt fucking stupid for having some bangers sit around on my laptop forever cause I'm not playing any of these live again (what shows? what clubs? me and whose army lol?); people keep asking me for these; most people will never see me live, so. And I figured this is a time to start a Bandcamp, seeing how Bio Future Laboratory is still selling my shit but won't pay me. 
I am still real, I exist. 

Thank you to everyone for inviting me to play, and thank you to everyone for coming to hear me play. I remember this; it happened. 

You may view this as a live album, and you may pick your favorites from the repeated tracks, which would give you a vague approximation of a show, minus the sweat.

Forever Forgive (Live 2021)

Trauma by jjjacob (@jjjacob), Bungalovv (@bungalovv) & Odete (@queriastarmorta). Taken from jjjacob new album Brutal Nature, out June 20, 2022, via katharsis (@katharsislabel)

Read: https://bit.ly/39srufH
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3zQQnMu

The 23rd release of katharsis is the collaborative album “Brutal Nature” by label founder jjjacob and various other artists. The idea of the project, which has been in progress for several years, was to extend the artistry to a more conversational form than the classic introverted style of the electronic music composer. The album shaped itself through several exchanges of ideas and stems between jjjacob and the numerous artists of the project.

The final product of the collaborations has a common theme of finding solace in the darkness and brutality of nature. This could be exemplified by the deep melancholy infused with an inner peace of losing a loved one in the mourning song “Threnody” with Hajj, or in the overcoming and healing of both internal and external wounds by the catharsis of music and art on the eloquent track “Trauma” with Bungalovv and Odete. As an introduction to the album, jjjacob and the local Beham created an auditory interpretation of self-blame with movie samples and abrasive low-end explosions, and to conclude it jjjacob and Slikback created the bass-heavy club lullaby “Bonum Nocte”.

The album follows jjjacob's previous two EPs on katharsis from last year, “Journey Before Destination” and “Internal Presence”, but it is his first full-length album since “Body Without Organs” released on the Spanish label Sweat Taste in 2020. The album artwork is a collaboration between jjjacob and Emil Stephensen, with the main motive being a painting by the latter.

Artwork by jjjacob & Emil Stephensen

Mastered by jjjacob

Released by katharsis

Premiere: jjjacob, Bungalovv & Odete - Trauma [katharsis]

hemera’s escape

Pollution Opera - s/t
Cat. Nr: DN027
Format: DL / LP
Release Date: April 24, 2024
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/PollutionOpera

Elvin Brandhi and Nadah El Shazly refuse to turn away from the horror. The intercontinental duo’s Pollution Opera album is an uncompromising futurist depiction of our disfigured, dystopian, and dying reality. Facing hell in full defiance, the experimental noise album catapults itself through a volatile compound of breathless shouts, screams, and screeches, in collision with vocal samples, environmental recordings, and acousmatic sounds. Ten tracks cover the spectrum of electroacoustic fragments and vocalizations, treacherously suspended between the roar of engines and synth distortion, of evocative intonations or guttural retching.

First conceived in 2020, Pollution Opera bubbled up organically from a first tandem motorbike ride through El Shazly’s hometown of Cairo. Singing and screaming through the second-loudest city in the world, Brandhi and Shazly found the extreme noise pollution served as catharsis from the suffocating smog that surrounded them. They then took these sonic specimens into studios across years and countries—from the initial recording and sessions in Egypt to Uganda, where their so-called “cacophony carbon orchestra” would carry into simultaneous but separate residencies at Nyege Nyege in Kampala. There, Brandhi and Shazly reprised the role of the motorbike as their “stage,” in a city where motorbikes are the main mode of public transport. They then developed a live A/V performance from video material captured by Arno Mery, collected from their travels, and reworked by Egyptian artist Omar El Sadek during Banlieues Bleues Festival 2023 in France.

The result is what the artists themselves describe as “an uncompromising world-spew, a shameless alloy of love and hate.” Haptic knocking, barking dogs, and human growls trample El Shazly’s famously evocative Egyptian singing style on “CRÎi Me A River.” Breathless vocal cut-ups and samples are bulldozed by arrhythmic acoustic percussion on “Danse Le Flou.” There are moments of respite within all the chaos, however, whether in the heavily pitched, Auto-Tuned opening of “Pollute Bold” or the wonderfully melodic closer of “Crisp Heart”—its derelict rhythmic thrust giving a listener something to dance about.

Both artists lend their unique positioning and idiosyncrasies to Pollution Opera, whether it’s in artist, vocalist, and musician Brandhi’s avant-garde noise music pedigree as both a solo artist and member of father-daughter duo Yeah You, or
singer, composer, and producer El Shazly’s hybrid catalogue combining electronic music with contemporary classical. Together, in asking the question of what a postmodern opera might sound like, the duo offer their existential answer in the true spirit of the often playful and ironic philosophical position by offering no answer at all.

Voice & electronics: Elvin Brandhi & Nadah El Shazly
Violin on ‘Crisp Heart’: Ocen James
Soprano on ‘Attention’: Marie Requa Gailey

Artwork by Omar El Sadek & Niels Wehrspann
Mastering by Rashad Becker

Pollution Opera

Pollution Opera - Pollute Bold

@tetsuya-fukada  (TOKYO)

クラブミュージックをベースにアートや舞踏など様々な表現領域を横断する実験的イベント「無政府dystopia」のパーマネントメンバー。近年はHKCRへのDJ MIX提供や自身の楽曲制作にも取り組んでいる。

He is a permanent member of the experimental event "Museifu Dystopia" which is based on club music and crosses various fields of expression such as art and dance.
In recent years, he has been actively providing DJ mixes for HKCR and producing his own music.

Unknown Album

CYANIDE SYSTEM IN CLOAK - Tetsuya Fukada

Written by Emme Dalla Dea Worthy
Produced by Emme Dalla Dea Worthy
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta
Cover by Raphaël Moreira Gonçalves

emme - secret garden rmx // i still believe

https://soundcloud.com/digitonica & https://soundcloud.com/tuf_i for https://soundcloud.com/overmybodytw

https://www.retreatradio.net/koma0000

Listen 24/7 at www.retreatradio.net

Koma0000 #3 w/ Digitonica & Tufi (31/10/24)

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Ltd. edition of 300 grey vinyl + DL: https://boomkat.com/products/perfect-oracle

Xyn Cabal - NOWEI [RAVEXYN, 2019]

Exploited Body - Touching Without Feeling 

A cry for intimacy in a time where physical connection is lost. 

Embrace is the first taste of Helsinki-based artist Exploited Body's third EP "Touching Without Feeling”, which reveals a more somber and brooding aesthetic for the artist. The ominous presence of Exploited Body’s signature blistered distortion manifests as a physical entity, while his murmured vocals call to be touched like an apparition that can be felt prominently throughout the record. 

Released September 27th.

Buy 'Touching Without Feeling':
https://changeless.bandcamp.com/album/touching-without-feeling

@exploitedbody

Touching Without Feeling

Exploited Body - Embrace

Nothing Remains

Helsinki • Est. 2019

info@changeless.net

Exploited Body - Embrace

Changeless

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