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@kagamismile is from an industrial city a few hours from Chicago and spends some of his time in the futuristic sprawl of Shenzhen, China. His most recent output of music focuses on minimal meditative synthwork reminiscent of early Aphex Twin and strong nods to Japanese video game soundtracks as well as the concept of liminal spaces. His music reflects a series of recurring dreams had since 2017, that of a missed moment with a stranger. His compositions are usually filled with nostalgia and romance as well as a haze of urban solitude. He has released on labels such as Dream Catalogue, Tekres, SOVN, Gin&Platonic, as well as an upcoming album on Opal Tapes and Sores (Sound+Matter) from Sweden. He will also release an album on Shimmering Moods this year.
Tracklist:
all IDs from his unreleased album

Cloak 113.2 - Kagami Smile

On continue dans la ramade* avec Semla qui nous entraîne dans sa montée en surface avec un set d’ultra-rayons pour oublier la grisaille de novembre. 
Merci de ouf 

«carte postale des émotions - été 2023 - en 3 parties 
 starring good friends, love, support and beautiful rides » 

*nom commun; (Pyrénées) réunion de plusieurs centaines de moutons. (Rare) ensemble de branches feuillues. (Occitanie) Giboulée.

Ascendance • C_C 
Drugs • IVVVO
in time for the next sharpened edge • Dakn 
Mokurei • Michiyo Yagi 
Dreaming Yourself • Yate Surge 
La fin de la vie... • Jean 
Dandelion Sailing • Chypho 
São Jorge • Hermeto Pascoal 
Harmonic Chain • Ex-Wise Heads 
White Oak • Ulaan Passerine 
Egun argi hartan • Pascal Gaigne 
Pusch • Station 17 
As Long as There's Sunset • Pepe 
Head Rah • Agôn 
Août (Original Mix) • Ishiban 
Ah Mi Guide (Egoless Remix) • Rider Shafique 
JAH HAFFI COME P.2 • kaya powa records 
Sound System DNA Part 4 • Weeding Dub Meets Iration Steppas 
Antimatter (Original Mix) - Cartridge 
Dishonest • zygos. 
Chevaux • Ceramics

Bientôt Veuves mixes : Semla's sortir la tête de l'eau

TRACKLIST:

Pleading Fern - Ciglio
irel.ier - ved
ANMON - Orch I
Arcane - For You
Arcane - Rave Cadet
COIDO - Don't Stop
Sully - Extant
Basic Rhythm - No End
The Spirit Catcher - Phantasm
12.7mm - СОМНЕНИЯ
t0ni, DJ Hristos - B Zero (Apocalypse Mix)
Assyouti - Dip Dem
TRAKA - Yedan (feat. Funkier)
ZULI - Yabny Kfaya ft. Dakn
Capiuz - Squalo
Ma Sha - Psyspi
Glass - Appointment Scheduling System
NKC - Afterlife
Money Lang - Formula
Circular Square - 3-HT A
Kahter - Tell Me
L O S C I - Rattling Pussy Snake
Capiuz - Stright Forward
BIG J - rudeboi
Design Default - Eta Aquariids (Sputnik One Remix)
Granul - Aksayan (Hassan Abou Alam remix)
exmantera - SKIN (feat. Nova Caine)
Sewerslvt - all the joy in life was gone once you left

Capiuz's Hectic - 15/12/2023

encrypted voicemail w/ Heva Vaupel & Giugno - 03/01/2023

Yikii - Chorion
Cat. Nr: DN026
Format: DL
Release Date: January 5, 2023
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/Chorion

The eerie lullaby of Yikii’s vast creative universe continues with her latest LP, Chorion. Following the anxious beauty of 2021’s ambient, post-club, and avant-pop-inspired Crimson Poem 深紅之詩 album, the Changchun-based artist carries her expansive experiments in harmony and dissonance onto her timeless gothic electroacoustics that operate at the nexus of the past, the present, and the future. Here, avant-garde contemporary classical meets utilitarian videogame composition to create a wholly immersive sonic environment that’s as ravishing as it is terrifying.

Named after the life-giving embryonic membrane that eventually forms the placenta, Chorion takes its conceptual cue from science-fiction writer Andy Weir’s acclaimed short story, The Egg. In it, a god and a dead man on the threshold of reincarnation discuss the notion of a Universal One—the unity of everyone and all things. On Chorion, the idea of whether we are "every human being who ever lived" is presented less as a question and more an inarguable fact, in a soundscape built from a glut of musical material created and collected by Yikii between 2018 and 2021.

Haunting the album cover is a painting of a Rhaphidophoridae—the artist’s entomophobia (an extreme fear of insects) projected onto the spiny silhouette of this blind and unpredictable subterranean cricket, reminiscent of the parasitic arthropods of first-person shooter games like BioShock and Resident Evil. Trained pianist Yikii applies these solitary pursuits of the digital era to her experiments in microtonal music and special tunings, which delve into the dark recesses of the cumulative subconscious. From the queasy hallucinations of her “Dream Cassette” reworking to the acutely physical rhythms of “Melinoë” and “Mongolian Worm,” there’s a twisted interiority to Chorion, where a battery of sonic, conceptual, and emotional material implodes in a dazzling vortex of violent intensity.

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Design by Yikii & Niels Wehrspann

buy / stream

Yikii - Mazarine 深蓝

EInlächelnamfußederleiter

Thanks to I & P

Recorded from 2021-2023 in Vienna
Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval (@a_b_d_a_b_d)

Post

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STRUMA+IODINE PREMIERE
Bara & Isa - "BELLSONG" [@jeopardizetapes]
@baraandisa

Viennese label Jeopardize is a low-key umbrella for a wide variety of styles and low-threshold approaches. Its second instalment "VARIOUS ARTISTS 2" gathers takes on ambient, noise and drone music. The full compilation is out on the 6th of June 2024 and will be presented at FLUCC Deck in collaboration with "Enigmatic Serenades". 

Artist: Bara & Isa
Title: BELLSONG
Label: Jeopardize
Catalogue: J02
Format: Tape
Release date: June 6th, 2024
Written & produced by Bara & Isa
Mastering by YBsole

******

Bara & Isa is the project of London and Vienna based producers and singer-songwriters Bara Noha and Solo Isa.

With a light touch they combine sound material from various instruments such as
gong, harp, vocals, chimes, synthesizer, voice notes, field recordings, singing bowls, glockenspiel, tuning forks, flute, bells, guitar, electric organ, organ pipes, egg slicers, VSTs, friends and family into emotive compositions that could be listened to with ears, or described as _________________________________________-.

Ever since they released their first EP „pink sphere" in 2021 they have been exploring live performance in London and Vienna (most recently also Düsseldorf, their first gig away from home) and working out the meaning of life.

******

„BELLSONG“ is the first of a series of new songs to be released later this year.

S+I PREMIERE: BARA & ISA - "BELLSONG" [JEOPARDIZE]

https://forgotimprint.bandcamp.com/album/glisten

Kagami Smile-Dream Architecture

LISTEN or BUY: https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/sotto

VIDEO teaser / SOTTO 
youtu.be/md6kPU18r6g 

‘Sotto’ is Andrew Oda’s attempt at world building in sound. Meshing method, mind, metaphysical and mundane into massive murals, its triptych of vivid compositions seem to wield electronic sound like a magic paintbrush. Inspired by the paintings of Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Ljubomir Popović, and Nicole Duennebier, ‘Sotto’’s three parts inhabit environments bursting with explosive internal ecologies of synthesized pulsations, yawning drones, tinkling imaginary chimes, and abstract noisy rumblings that flow, ebb and breathe with the infinite complexity cognition meshing with the chaotic order of natural greenery. 

Side A’s two pieces – ’Sotto’ and ‘Spirit’ – are both only made up of synthetic sound, created via computer and other synthesizing methods. The spark came from an attempt to show the process of creation, life and the final union through sonic means, spiralling into a dense lattice of lifeforms, spirits, and objects realised in sound. “The original goal of the project was to convey the idea of this sound visualization for creatures and textures that are fluid, tangled and morphing into and around each other,” explains Oda. 

While imagination and spirit are the subjects of the first two pieces, the final piece of the triptych, ‘Enfold’, emerges into a luscious and staggeringly beautiful material world. Oda turns here to acoustic recordings made in the field, as well as pianos, bells, and flute (performed by Susannah Oda), layering the results into the trembling organic soundscape suggested by Jonáš Gruska’s cover photography. The entirety of ‘Sotto’ is a living and vivid sound world of Oda’s creation – the first in a pegged trilogy of triptychs – brimming with beauty in which to wander and bask. 


released November 2, 2020 

Music by Andrew Oda 

Side A contains only sound synthesis 
Side B contains field recordings, piano, bells, as well as flute recordings from Susannah Oda 

SOTTO was made in Indiana, California and Virginia from 2018-2020 

Cover and photos by Jonáš Gruska 
instagram.com/jonas.gruska/ 

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval 
abdonoval.com 

Words by Tristan Bath 
tristanbath.com 

Photography by Leontína Berková 
leontinaberkova.com 

Released by mappa as MAP021 in 2020

MAP021 / Andrew Oda - SOTTO

Taken from Opinion - YT (QTT21)
Available Friday December 11 on our Bandcamp: https://quiettimetapes.bandcamp.com/album/yt
50 copies on cassette

Opinion - Transcontinental

Gonna upload all the mixes since 3 Yrs anniversary, and can find the earlier ones at Mixcloud page.
We're now releasing some music, if you make non-dance electronic music, basically means track that barely has beat, feel free to pm
And still accepting mixes and visual

NIGGAS IFFY UHHH BLICKY GOT THE STIFFY UHHH
GOT THE BLICKY UHHH DRUM IT HOLDS FIFTY UHHH
SCUMMMMMMMMM GAAAAAAAAANG

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