AKA HEX - Do The Rite Thing / Hex On Fire
Cat. Nr: DN033
Format: Digital
Release Date: November 22, 2024
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/AkaHex

AKA HEX is a brand new collaboration between Aïsha Devi and Slikback.

Devi has always used her music to look outward, beyond the confines of club music and the avant garde towards a space that's less predictable and far more mysterious. She was born in Switzerland with Nepali Indigenous heritage, and her transversal identity has helped her navigate the underground as not just a producer and vocalist, but as a curator. Co-founding the Danse Noire imprint in 2013, she used that platform to launch her breakout EP 'Hakken Dub / Throat Dub', following it up with the labyrinthine 'Of Matter and Spirit' album in 2015. Devi's interest in sonic alchemy and multi-dimensional expression was further developed on 2018's 'DNA Feelings', coming to an overflowing head with last year's enigmatic 'Death Is Home', which featured a collaboration with none other than Slikback.

Born and raised in Nairobi, Slikback is one of the world's most adventurous producers, taking elements from the wide spectrum of club, noise, ambient and rap musics and forming them into a psychedelic lattice of high intensity sounds and emotions. He's spent 
the last few years prolifically contributing to his canon via his Bandcamp stream, this year compiling the highlights into the frenetic double-LP 'SLIKBACK' – 22 tracks of future-facing, soundsystem-ready experimental club sounds that define his journey so far. 

Together, they synthesize their artistry as AKA HEX, welding kinetic, bass-heavy rhythms to zig-zagging, sci-fi tinged soundscapes and mutant vocals. It's Devi's most dancefloor-focused material in years, and Slikback's most alien to date, bridging the chasm between avant-pop, experimental club and hallucinogenic ambience.

Mastered by Raphael Valensi 
Artwork by nmr.cc

buy / stream

AKA HEX - Do The Rite Thing

Since its debut as a radio show on London’s NTS in 2012, Precious Metals has been committed to showcasing the outer reaches of experimental club music, both locally and globally.

The platform has been focused on capturing the organic cross-pollination of sounds from the inner-city and the sublime chaos of the present moment.

Precious Metals Vol.1 encapsulates this ethos, and ambition, as the culmination of the past 12 years. Representing the sound and artistic vision for the label in a way that captures the essence of what the label is about. Precious Metals seeks to unearth artists that are visionaries on their own terms, eschewing conventional genre limitations.

The art direction includes collaboration with Malaysian graphic artist and designer Hirashe.

United in compassion and solidarity for the Palestinian cause and its ongoing humanitarian crisis, all proceeds from the album will be donated to support efforts toward humanitarian aid in Gaza, and Palestinian emancipation.

International Fundraiser: 
The People Stand with Gaza

Chino Amobi - Child of War

Guest mix by Sueuga & Only Now.
Guest links 
https://www.instagram.com/sueuga_/
https://www.instagram.com/kusharora/

With @sueuga, @onlynow2 & @ice_eyes


Guest Mix by Sueuga & Only Now w/ Ice_Eyes (20.11.2024)

Guest mix by Chem XP.
Guest link https://www.instagram.com/chem.xp/
With @chemxp


Guest Mix by Chem XP w/ Ice_Eyes (18.12.2024)

Food Prep:
IG @ alonacei 

Mix:
Soundcloud @opheliaxz
IG @ opheliaxz

Tracklist:
Shinetiac - monsoon (NTS 2 Verison) 
DB1- b1 - B-Sides
Rambadu- Reis- Yatras
Struktur- Mycelium I
So Wet’s Water Kingdom- Floral Arrangement 2- Self-released
TRYCE-Phosphene- DreamDisc
Pent- Fragments feat. Dorothy Carlos- Trepidation Cycles- Self-released
A24- All Outta Angst- Off Tangent Recs
Mitry- Regeneration - Cold Tear Records
Eden Aurelius- Slow Moving Bodies- Coclear
PULSE X- Kiss The Future- 3XL
Nimu- Room Of Mirrors- ITX028
Ike Zwanikken- Days Under- Greed Gave Me a Lily- Theory Therapy
V/Z-Candles-  Suono Assente- AD 93
Nick Leon- Single-Celled Organisms - Refraction-Self-released
K2DJ(prod kindtree) - Sippin

Food Prep 012: Opheliaxz

kat Nzingha - Oxia

BITCHASS TAPE

Venera - Tear
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 153S1
Release Date: 10 July 2025
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Tear

Venera shares ‘Tear’, the first single of the upcoming album ‘Exinfinite’ out via PAN on September 12th, 2025.

Having defined a multi-dimensional sonic universe on their acclaimed eponymous debut album, composer/filmmaker Chris Hunt and Korn’s James “Munky” Shaffer abandon the familiar and drift towards a kingdom of recursion on EXINFINITE, staring down a tangled mass of mirrored wormholes that hum with eldritch ambiguity.

On ‘Tear’, the duo’s new direction can be heard clearly as Shaffer’s primal guitar noises are reformed into eerie widescreen expositions that Hunt punctuates with pneumatic kick and snare cycles. Broken up by airlock hisses and luminous synths, the track proposes a backdrop that VENERA continuously transmute, reforging the concept as the album develops.

Recorded in Downtown Los Angeles, CA and Atlanta, GA
Mixed by Chris Pawlusek in London, UK
Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis, London, UK
Art by EFFIXX with Samanta García

Venera - Tear (PAN 153S1)

LUCKI - Geeked (Chem XP Edit)

Pre Order https://throwingsnow.bandcamp.com/album/cosms

An extract from the album, Embers

Cantor's Dust (Parts 1 & 2) [Houndstooth]

#AnatolianKickPlunderMicroTonalMusic  *** https://bit.ly/2HgBIyN  ********  https://bit.ly/2VWcTA5 ** 2/5BZ - ANADOLOG (1997)serhat  : electronics & acoustic saz & live processed effects, feedbacks -- armağan : vocal . track produced "Anadolog" in 1997 and released on 2/5BZ - NO Exotic CD ----- https://2-5bz.tumblr.com/post/82840306371/25bz-anadolog-1997-25bz-anadolog-1997 ***." usurped properties " ( emval-i mağsube ). it concluded that the long-term aggregate of these crimes amounted to " economic carnage " ( iktisadi katliam ). *. open studios zur transmediale 2006 " elecrosazoustic is musically centred around the combination and confrontation of micro-tonal electronic sounds with the sounds of a saz (baglama) - a traditional turkish instrument, which is like a lute and also microtonal in itself. "
http://www.tesla-berlin.de/page184_en.html.  MicroTonalMusic

LUCKI - Geeked (Chem XP Edit)

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