Planet B

Los Angeles duo Xen Model provides three tracks that incorporate playful, intricate programming within an effective rhythmic foundation. At every turn are new textures and micro-edits that come together to form engaging and beautifully balanced soundscapes.

DATA CAP (FT. 11AI)
Gated tones whisper among swift percs, glistening metallics, and a dynamic bassline.

Produced by Xen Model (@xenmodel) ft. 11ai (@il-ai)
Mastered by Xen Model
Cover art by Bruno Lauzon Tanzi
Words by Holden Carroll

Releases April 22nd, 2022

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Xen Model - Data Cap (ft. 11ai)

Available on cassette at https://causalchain.bandcamp.com/album/oko

oko is laced’s sophomore EP under her new moniker, which takes a new path compared to her previous noise explorations. Drawing inspiration from ambient music, dreampop, video game and anime soundtracks, breakbeat and IDM, the music conveys a dream world where the artist tends to escape in. The EP was produced over the course of 2021 since laced’s 2020 MUTEK performance in Montreal, taking a melodic approach in contrast to her more percussive productions. oko is best consumed under a pile of warm blankets or under the rain, its energy being one of catharsis, contemplation, healing and dreaming.

Music by laced (@lacedetail)
Mixed and mastered by SIM
Remixes by dybbuk (@disk-wraith), Xen Model (@xenmodel), SIM (@sim_mtl) & Gobekli (@gobekli)
Album art by Bruno Lauzon Tanzi (@bruno-lauzon-tanzi)
Texture generated by Andrew Nowacki

laced - Silkscreen

3XL02 
Remastered tunes from bandcamp fridays and some comps.. 
Sleeve design by Nahyun Park. 
www.nahpark.xyz

"Clearing their cache of stray bullets, Exael returns with a gyring plunge into percussive wormholes and low-lit mood enhancers .The tracks are broadly cleft along schisms of dark/light and demonic/angelic, switching from restive propellers to more sublime sensations in a fine testament to their practice - making for prob our favourite Exael release thus far.

On the “darker” side, they commit the convulsive, fractious footwork pulses and warped tones of ‘Circle (Squishy Mix)’ in a sort of parallel to 33EMYBW’s insectoid rhythms and combustion systems, while ‘Ice That melts The Tips’ trades in rapid, ice-skating thizz and ‘Ghoul Search (Demonic Attachment Mix)’ fires up the junglist particle accelerator for a proper gauntlet of hyper techstep dynamics.

The contrast is epitomised by ’Composure’, arranging flinty breaks on a luscious waterbed of floating pads, before ‘Eidolon’ renders a sort of airborne dembow pressure in the vicinity of Ben Bondy & special guest dj’s xphresh works.  ‘L-theanine’ closes the session on a fine tread inside emo ambient styles and flurries on the same spectrum between DJ Lostboi and Teresa Winter, complete with a reverberating, half-buried vocal. 

All smoke & strobe doozies."

Circle (Squishy Mix)

Floating in nebulous and sublime, @broshuda inaugurates his No Vacancy alias on @kinlaw's @ceramicslabel label.

The eponymous album strips his trademark sound down to a suite of minimalistic, meditative environments. This isn’t quite ambient, nor is it drone, but slots nicely into the German artist’s discography. 

Leaving listeners in a state of suspense, our premiere dials the drowsy, hypnogogic qualities up to truly mesmeric effect. Quietly cathartic and cloaked in lo-fi haze.

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Premiere: No Vacancy - 4 [Ceramics]

‘Catch Feelings’ marks a decade and some 100 releases in the game with a treasure chest featuring label stalwarts Romance, Celestial, Spivak, Felisha Ledesma (appearing here with Angelo Harmsworth) as well as label owners Not Waving & Primitive World, alongside new faces Raw Deal, Horses, ’93 Til Infinity and ICARUS. - Boomkat

Felisha Ledesma Feat. Angelo Harmsworth - Silver Washed (ECSTATIC Catch Feelings)

song from a cpl years back

https://asiootus.bandcamp.com/album/-

mastered by @usofusofusofusof <3

Eggteen

Buy on cassette or digital: http://shop.conditional.club/album/clastics

The doggedly prolific and eclectic Phil Julian opens up a brand new deck of cards on the sublimely crunchy and elastic 'Clastics'.

Austerely described as 'five sets of interrelated pattern based / sequencer derived recordings', Clastics lays down a gauntlet of straitjacket electronics, fizzing and crackling into and out of life. Mutated patterns evolve and decay without a care in the world.

Supremely excited to bring this to Conditional. One for the believers.

Music by Phil Julian.
Art by Renick Bell.

Clastics

Phil Julian - 'EA' (from 'Clastics', CON007)

from forthcoming 'Coatcheck Remixes' compilation, comes out 30 October on Enmossed (https://enmossed.bandcamp.com)

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@floriantmzeisig
@enmossed

Phil Julian - 'EA' (from 'Clastics', CON007)

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