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Premiere: QOW »Bano« [Genot Centre]

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Track 13 from our compilation "did you mean: irish Vol. 2" by @0n4b


Audio from an A/V collaboration between 0N4B (ABADIR x Onsy) and multi disciplinary artist Castell Lanko.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHZrpO9IDA0

did you mean: irish vol II

0N4B - Cybernetic Emptiness

Ruhail Qaisar - Fatima 
Cat. Nr: DN019
Format: DL + 48 page photography & text publication (Urdu / English) 
Release Date: January 27, 2023
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/fatima

Ruhail Qaisar’s Fatima is a requiem for a dead future. The debut album release by the self-taught artist and producer screams with the trauma and decay of life in his hometown of Leh—a high-altitude plateau region in the contested Ladakh area, extending from the Himalayan to the Kunlun Ranges. Qaisar absorbs this external condition of perpetual conflict between nation states into his internal life and resulting compositions, crossing sound art, noise music and experimental filmmaking. Hauntological drones, power electronics and convulsive post-industrial dissonance create an unnerving sense of fear, anger, and alienation. A broken transistor with a knob tuned to the abyss is bombarded with the cries and bitter laughter of a city’s inhabitants tyrannized, not only by military occupation but the soft-power subjugation of the tourism industry.
 
Following 2016’s Ltalam EP—released under Qaisar’s now-defunct Sister moniker—Fatima serves to transmit memories carried through the events, local mythos and personal recollections of growing up between the remote agrarian villages of Ladakh and the urban center of its joint capital—Leh. The album was mixed between that area, and a DIY home studio in New Delhi, where the artist amalgamates his collected found sounds and field recordings into unrecognizable hybrids. Discordant pads and atmospherics on the dark ambient of “Daily Hunger” is disrupted by a crashing, pounding reverb, while contributor Elvin Brandhi shrieks towards its horrifying conclusion in the squelching, scratching sound of something soft being chewed.
 
An anti-lingual conjuring of metaphysical totems in music, Fatima is a seething chronicle of experience through the dynamics of riots, violence, colonization, unemployment, PTSD, and self-abuse. The cycling tumult of “Namgang” hosts a menacing whisper that echoes the hissing fury of something like Einstürzende Neubauten and Lydia Lunch’s “Thirsty Animal,” while a trouncing distorted bass line on “Fatima’s Poplar” circles a voice that barks, "The Western Civilization Show has been discontinued."

The Bunker, New Delhi
Choglamsar Village, Ladakh

Mastering by Rashad Becker
Mixing by Julien Racine 
Photography by Rana Ghose 
Design by Niels Wehrspann

Fatima

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Ruhail Qaisar - Namgang

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Ziyiz - Elasticat
DJ Scheme & Danny Towers ft. Lil Yachty & Ski Mask The Slump God - How You Feel

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Ziyiz X Ski Mask X Lil Yachty X Danny Towers X DJ Scheme - Rama's Feel Great Mashup

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HULUBALANG - Cerca

One year after the release of STILL’s debut album ''I'' comes a surprise remix pack with contributions by NÍDIA (Principe), Kenyan producer Slikback as well as Nyege Nyege associate Zilla, Low Jack and E-Unity from France, Duppy Gun Productions feat. I Jahbar, Primitive Art’s Jim C. Nedd, Dominican Republic via LA producer Kelman Duran.

This album is mastered by Jeremy Cox, featuring artwork by Invernomuto, costume by Jules Goldsmith and photography by Giulio Boem.

I (Remixed)

STILL - Shikorina (Slikback Remix) (PAN 80-R)

CLUB CHAI co-founder Lara Sarkissian (aka @FOOZOOL) releases her debut EP 'DISRUPTION' on December 17, 2018 via CLUB CHAI. The project is an electronic soundtrack to an imagined fictional film inspired from stories of Armenian mythology, the transition from the worship of nature to the roles of gods and goddesses and tying these narratives to encounters with familial spirits. The soundtrack uses electronic composition, instruments with roots in the Armenian Highlands, sounds shaped from plateaued landscapes and geography, samples from old cartoons, and distorted narrations of rituals. 

Album Credits:

Production, Arrangement & Composition:
Lara Sarkissian

Mixing & Mastering:
bastiengoat

EP photo:
Greg Nemet

DISRUPTION

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Lara Sarkissian - Greeted By Tir (Տիր)

2030 from "This is Cairo Not The Screamers" compilation by Nashazphone, featuring 7 intense Egyptian shaabi remixes by Cairo's finest.

Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/this-is-cairo-not-the-screamers
Bandcamp: https://nashazphone.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-cairo-not-the-screamers

2030 [Nashazphone]

Nadah El Shazly traditional Egyptian song with harsh texture and noisy sound design on a new C.A.N.V.A.S. compilation.

'Apocope' is out February 12th on C.A.N.V.A.S.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2YrzHr6

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@c-a-n-v-a-s

Premiere: Nadah El Shazly - Fl3ln [C.A.N.V.A.S.]

FOUNDERS:
@8ULENTINA @LaraSarkissian
2016 - 2021 • clubchai.bandcamp.com 
CLUB CHAI is a record label, event series and curatorial project founded by 8ULENTINA and Lara Sarkissian (fka FOOZOOL) in Oakland, California. CLUB CHAI centers diasporic artists with the intention of carving out sounds and spaces that consider the ways we build narratives as a reflection of our current and future selves. We believe in the transformative abilities of storytelling through sound and honoring its creation of genres and movements for marginalized people throughout the history of electronic music. Through our label releases and projects we hope to contribute to this archive and history.
CLUB CHAI hosted regular events in Oakland and San Francisco while participating in an international network of artists and collaborators. CLUB CHAI held showcases in New York City and London, and have also presented at Unsound Festival Krakow (2019), Mexico City, Milan, and a UK tour in collaboration with TT label. The label hosted shows and streams on NTS radio, Rinse FM, Lower Grand Radio, and Boiler Room.

Lara Sarkissian - Greeted By Tir (Տիր)

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