With a background in playing jazz and formative years of playing saxophone in a live band, Prague-based Ursula Sereghy stepped out of the hustle to focus, all while becoming a regular at the local Synth Library. A space where she found the support of the musically and politically like-minded and could nourish her newfound passion for experimenting with machines and exploring the limitless possibilities of sound design. An extensive period of voluntary detachment from everyday life during the pandemic gave rise to the stunningly confident debut album 'OK Box' fabricated by this dark horse of a producer.

Opening 'OK Box' reveals a truly multifarious microcosm. On her very first musical output, besides manipulated field recordings and widely used granular synthesis, Ursula draws wisely from her past musical practice as acoustic or synthesized samples of jazz instruments become the furtive common denominator of the record's sonic narrative. Circulation of the breath among the instruments chambers substitutes the streams of city dwellers flowing through the cramped city environment. With Ursula's entangled compositions, she creates the representation of revealing and embracing the intuitive connections of the experiences and thoughts with their mental and physical surroundings, at times leading the listener to melancholic placements, followed by moments of mischievous clarity and rational sentiment. But essentially, the longplay is a friendly ride following unusual mental maps and broadening the borders of the very cartographical ones, all with inconspicuous sideroad peeks of cheeky little creatures, still surveillance by destiny-bending spirits, and oversaturation of out-there emotional associations. Hang in there, you little civilians and slimy slugs alike. To cut a long story short - 'OK Box' houses a lively collection of warm-hearted and witty jams honoring the nature of reasonable escapism. 

Written & produced by Ursula Sereghy
soundcloud.com/ursulasereghy

Mastered by Wim Dehaen
soundcloud.com/wimdehaen

Artwork by Jiri Macku
jirimacku.tumblr.com

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Ursula Sereghy - Lock Picking

A thrilling prequel to the critically acclaimed "My Life with The Pirate Bay".

master by radek sirko / duy gebord / @sir-rad

artwork by me

My Life with Netflix

"Veering from fractured hyperpop into deconstructed club oddness and ambience, this album is a restless and rewarding experience that will delight fans of the Orange Milk catalogue and the stranger corners of Oneohtrix Point Never’s discography." (https://soundcloud.com/djmag) 

"Time and time again, we have found ourselves lost in this album. A potent stew of element we’d possible not normally enjoy tumbling in space with sections we wish continued into far longer expanses." (Obladada) 

On Organe Solaire (GEN051) by https://soundcloud.com/amselysen a coherent ensemble is presented consisting of digital, hyperprocessed textures, minuscule sound fragmentations and impassioned, pressing vocal broadcasts. Deceptively, the sound at intermittently even approaches something like a sugary sweet pop production: chord stabs, piano tones, heartfelt howling, energetic kicks, the whole works. The most powerful weapons in the electro-acoustic toolkit are used here: sound events occur on a microscopic scale, sliced, granulated, pitch-bent, resonant, bubbling, stretching - but at the same time have an impactful, cinematic, piercing quality. From the arrangement point of view there is a cryptic multi-centered, restless logic, with the trajectory of all tracks constantly getting out of balance, twisting, self-subverting. The human voice, or the remnants of it, form an important thread through this album; spanning a wide tonal, textural range, the voice material is sometimes vocoded, stuttering, crushed, resampled, fried, totally pushed beyond its limits; but at other times innately performative, assertive - a declaration of intent or active intervention, conveying meaning, communicating something important. Organe solaire follows 2020's murky transmission Hypnagogic Surge.

/ Hakeem Lapointe (https://soundcloud.com/amselysen) about GEN051
“My [Amselysen’s] second full length album’s focus, Organe Solaire, strays from conceptual music and goes on dissecting and splaying a dark but colourful sludge of emotions. A major point source in my compositional approach to the record has been imagining the trajectory of hyper-pop if it evolved with a more pessimistic tendency, with the same bells and whistles, but less shiny and squeaky clean — like the rainbow reflections of tar bubbles.
Organe Solaire, unable to afford being cryptic, doubles down on honest, raw lyricism and is quick to open up, building a comprehensive musical and gestural language that reflects the narratives behind each and every track. They range from slow suicidal ballads, to demented hyper-melancholic pop, to interludes containing heavy narratives, like Discrepancies (for Kellyanne): a heavily filtered piano composition dating from my late teens, also acting as a hope to reach out to a long lost then-best friend.
I did not shy away at referencing personal idols who’ve inspired me throughout the years: The Labour of Love samples Akira Fuse’s Shikuramen No Kahori, a song mentioned in Joji Koyama and Tujiko Noriko’s feature length film Kuro, and matches its theme: gazing at the afterimage of a romance long gone. Post-modern Tsunami, as outlined by “shoutout to Hito Steyerl”, is made to the image of Steyerl’s Liquidity Inc.: in its wave-like structure; in its senseless meme aesthetic; and nods at its conceptual approach, dissecting contemporary culture with economic undertones.
To aid me in my efforts, I have called upon two outstanding collaborators to lend their strengths on the album. I’ve recruited the excellent Ubu Boi, providing tactful compositions and solid vocal performances, and the mysterious 2x|n, a.k.a. Seraphim, for precise sound design and incisive aural interventions.
Delving into romantic torment, drug use, artistic frustrations, struggles with mental illness, Organe Solaire brings forth a fundamentally human experience in the form of raw edges thinly veiled under a layer of gloss.”

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@iseeflame "Vultures & Thorns" [IC006]

The exosphere of old cycle scavengers predate the plunge of the serpent rider back into the abyss. Scintillating through the descent. Drawing back the obsidian arrows – straight through the heart.

In which where their bones of iridescent scales once lay; shall I the same. Wild stallions upon ethaxian plains. Mercenary mechatronic heatseek stampedes hone in on mutant carbon-based cruelties with circlets of red-dot iron sights.

In flames; be fauna, xae, and all flora. Engulfed. Forgotten in transliminality. Within these crystal tears, leads for the keeper of eyes to glisten. Hidden shrouds. Carcass amidst.

“I contemplate the soil as a wayward shadow which
The sun of the living excites (heats) not the dead.”

Ascension: for the moonstone jewels compose the crown of the crescent bride, bequeathed upon spirals of locks. On the thrusted skies, we would get nourished upon the source; the chariot of dawn to bask in the eternal solar ponds; suspended in light.

The phial and the blade.

Vultures and thorns.

art cover by lyfegain
words by E.E

Vultures & Thorns

ICY FLAME -  Cryptid

Thunderdome Priscilla

TAR164
@xhlunit

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XHL UNIT - 'Syrup+1'

taken from "hierarchia"
bffmusicbffmusic.bandcamp.com/album/hierarchia

🪶 . ‗˒∝﹏∘

i’m pretty sure that if I checked Bartek’s Google Chrome tab bar I’d see something like “lord of the rings fanmade bootleg 144p”, “classic post-soviet cartoons best moments compilation”, “Jožin Z Bažin” or some other cursed stuff . . . and maybe that's why “hierarchia” is such a complicated mixture of polygonal minimalism, hauntological sci-fi or numb trap beats, perfect for an obscure, dark-humored, 90’s point ‘n click game
. . . but that’s just my theory.

𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐤 Ⅰ
𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐡𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬.
𝐈 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐱𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬, 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.

“hierarchia” doesn’t stop impressing me with its confident, super coherent worldbuilding and shamelessly minimalistic storytelling built with microtonal, arrhythmic, disharmonic melodies melting more and more with every second.
Bartek’s polyphonic synths are talking to his acoustic guitar like they've been knowing each other their whole life.

𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐤 𝐈𝐈
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎.
𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 (𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐫.𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥), 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝.
𝐈𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 𝐈 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 (“𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬” 𝐚𝐧𝐝 “𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐝𝐲”), 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 “𝐍𝐢𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐰𝐧𝐨ść” 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏.

It feels like I’ve been waiting forever to listen to something like this record.

moodboard:
🥀🌚🌬️🌫️⚙️🎰🐔🦠

music by Bartek Kalinka
www.instagram.com/bartekkalinka/

artwork by Adam Kozicki
www.instagram.com/adam_kozicki/

master by radek sirko / duy gebord
duygebord.bandcamp.com

♫°002

Bartek Kalinka - hierarchia

Butch U - Night Drive

@alza-54

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Mastering - Christoff Riedel
Artwork - Tom Fischer, Hannes Fendrich, Alexander Turovsky

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+++ GUN UNITED 02 : P I T - Biotic Network +++

We’re truly happy to open the new year with another addition to our UNITED series, which for each EP in the series, one member of the GUN community collaborates freely with other producers and artists of their choice.

For the second piece in the series, multi-faceted producer and Biodiversità Records founder P I T brings together three up and rising talents : ASJ, myen and migu, whose activities of the past few years consistently kept pushing the boundaries of the electronic soundscape.

Biotic Network is a breeding experiment, a virtual field research that started with an open call to the GUN community to share data such as images, texts or sounds. These gathered multimedia specimens - an aggregation of personal experiences with nature, served as a substrate for the growth of a new life form inspired by mycorrhizal networks and internet archives.

From the moist synthetic echoes of Fungi on My Face.mkv to the interweaved chaos of Sculpting Mycelium.mkv and the encompassing symbiosis of Aggregate.mkv, Biotic Network transcends classifications and carefully crossbreeds counter-balancing sound species. 
The resulting EP is an interconnected web of sounds and imagery, providing us with a fertile ground for future generations of sonic ecosystems. 

++ TRACKLIST ++

01. P I T - Fungi on My Face.mkv
02. P I T, migu & myen - Sculpting Mycelium.mkv
03. P I T & ASJ - Aggregate.mkv

++ CREDITS ++

Track produced by P I T 
https://soundcloud.com/digiborg_pit

In collaboration with : 
ASJ https://soundcloud.com/weareasj
migu  https://soundcloud.com/miguzo
myen  https://soundcloud.com/myentericplexus/

Cover & visual works by Pacôme le Rouge 
https://www.instagram.com/pacomelerouge/

Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta

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P I T, myen & migu - Sculpting Mycelium.mkv

as appearing in ARCHANGEL:NEMESIS [S1E1] + Dalmata Daniel x EXILES x Farbwechsel compilation
mastered by Erik Bánhalmi

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Space for interdisciplinary practice

est. 2020

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