With 𝑽𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒄𝒕, exael’s offering to the ENXPL series, the artist furthers their exploration of what they refer to as “the jester’s gaze”, wherein a variable array of emotions of the fool are less than obvious to decode. In this emotively charged interzonal reflection point, exael probes these psychedelic anxieties through eight varying tracks of accomplished electronic music production. Excavating the root role of the jester and it’s cosmic objecthood, exael takes on a synchronous identity; human and computer, jester and virus, superimposed. Far from a glistening ambient escapism, or sentimental shoegaze meditations, or obligatory club tropes, exael has created a sonic terrain unique to their own narrative and positionality as an artist. Side A of 𝑽𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒄𝒕 showcases exael’s comfort in fast tempo constructions, while the B side offers slower tempoed ventures with guest vocal duties by writer Zoe Darsee moving between trip-hop and industrial affectations.

exael is an alias of Naemi, an artist residing in Berlin. Their work under this moniker aims to upend elements of divergent sonic aesthetics and musical styles, reassembling them with the intent to create diffuse, mulitfunctional contexts. Utilizing exael as an avatar, Naemi attempts to access a collective subconscious via their own, externally processing the sounds and images that permeate contemporary life. Thus, highlighting the ways in which people merge and re-combine with culture on a molecular level as a result of this near-constant immersion. They present stimulating, lysergic sounds in an organic and explorative manner instead of the sometimes exhausting vibe of highly-calculated, experimental club music. 
credits
releases August 27, 2023

All production exael
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Design by RJM Vanderheyden

VANISHING ACT

PURCHA$E

ENXPL18 - EXAEL - B1 Desire Is A Glitch (with Zoe Darsee)

@connaharaway
@theory-therapy

Pre-order: theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/lusidiq

Glasgow-based producer and INDEX:Records co-owner Conna Haraway unveils his debut solo release on Theory Therapy – 8 tracks of luminous electronics and restless textures too amorphous to be neatly categorised into a particular genre. Over 40+ minutes, the co:clear founder fuses dubbed-out illbient abstractions, voluminous low end and aquatic gurgles into unconventional analgesic soundscapes. The overall result is something immersive, visceral, and psychedelic – a fully-fledged sound that sits somewhere between delirium and bliss.

Lusidiq features 3 remixes by Seoul duo Salamanda, Philadelphia-based DJ and producer Opheliaxz, and Adam Dove, best known as sound artist Nexcyia.

Lusidiq

pi pi pi premiere: Conna Haraway - All (At Sea) [Theory Therapy]

f061 - carolf

Jake Muir's latest set of soft-focus, sensual electro-concrète, dissolves X-rated gay sleaze flick soundtracks into a shimmering suite of subdued orchestral flourishes and surreal cosmic psychedelia.

After 2020's 'the hum of your veiled voice', a romantic, neo-noir set of nocturnal rattles and lubricated rumbles, Muir began to approach a new concept. Putting together a long-form mix for Honey Soundsystem, he began to consider the eroticized soundscapes of gay subculture outside of the mainstream, looking closely at texture, psychedelia and emotionality.

The idea was to represent queer sexuality in a looser, more experimental manner, grazing the super-sensory pleasure of the bathhouse experience and the illicit joy of cruising without getting too self-serious while doing it. The mix was so popular that Muir followed it up with a weightless sequel two years later, and began developing the concept into a proper album, using more samples of music and dialogue, eventually performing the piece at the esteemed GRM as part of their FOCUS #4 concerts alongside work by Eliane Radigue, Folke Rabe and Chris Watson.

Limited Edition LP & Digi out 28th September.

© sferic 2022.

@jakemuir

Jake Muir - Cruisin' 87 (Bathhouse Blues, SFERIC15)

first track from my new album on Theory Therapy

"Glasgow-based producer and INDEX:Records co-owner Conna Haraway unveils his debut solo release on Theory Therapy – 8 tracks of luminous electronics and restless textures too amorphous to be neatly categorised into a particular genre. Over 40+ minutes, the co:clear founder fuses dubbed-out illbient abstractions, voluminous low end and aquatic gurgles into unconventional analgesic soundscapes. The overall result is something immersive, visceral, and psychedelic – a fully-fledged sound that sits somewhere between delirium and bliss.

Lusidiq features 3 remixes by Seoul duo Salamanda, Philadelphia-based DJ and producer Opheliaxz, and Adam Dove, best known as sound artist Nexcyia."

Written and produced by Conna Haraway
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Artwork by Conna Haraway

tapes & digis

Fractals

Following a release on 3XL in the spring of 2023, k2dj, aka Ben Bondy, delivers an astoundingly diverse, gorgeously realized album with Por. Subliminal pop iterations, fever dreams of the anthropocene, love letters sketching the heat of bodies in motion; disparate sensations woven with care, delight, and total wonder.

k2dj - Por (NAFF019) [Clips - Continuous]

cop the ep here https://benbondy.bandcamp.com/album/bb-z-line

z line print w huerco s. & pontiac streator

Worlding With Earth releases December 6, 2023 on Mappa 

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Composed, recorded and mixed by Madelyn Byrd (Slowfoam)
slowfoam.bandcamp.com

Recorded in London and Berlin in 2022 and 2023, with field recordings from Croatia, in 2020
Saxophone and Accompaniment by Sarah Allada

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
abdonoval.com

Cover art by Johanna Bath
www.johannabath.de

Layout and text by Basia Strzeżek
www.instagram.com/balbinka_s/

Words by Tristan Bath
Photography by Zoltan Czakó

Released by mappa as MAP041 in 2023

Phantom Memories, Iambic Limbs

JAMES K
"ELEKTRA (Scream Through the Eyes of a Statue)"
CD in jewel case w OBI strip
Edition of 250
Release 19.01.2024

“Why is female sound bad to hear?” - Anne Carson

ELEKTRA (Scream Through the Eyes of a Statue), is a multimedia performance broadly conceptualizing the female voice as an “X-ray to the bones of sound.” It was commissioned by Issue Project Room and performed April 26th, 2018 in Brooklyn, New York.  Taking poet, essayist, and Classics professor Anne Carson’s translation of Sophocles’ tragic play Elektra as a point of departure, James K monstrously externalizes the inner sonic world of female vocalization through a scored collaborative framework interpreting each of Elektra’s “screams” in the Greek tragedy.

The piece develops unique methods of screaming through musical and non-musical objects -- performed through manipulated text, videos, and live contributions from James K (voice, electronics, violin, video) Brooklyn-based musician Eve Essex (alto saxophone, various winds and electronics), electronic producer and performer Dylan Shir (electronics), composer and cellist Leila Bordreuil (cello), and poet/artist Eli V Manuscript (textual alchemy, projections).

Within this collaborative framework, James K scores “the scream” to express the various relations between hysteria and the “gender of sound” -- a blurred and overlapping feminine sound defined by its fragmentation and resistance to scripted narrative. Elektra’s presence is emblematic of a radical alienation that occurs as a standing discrepancy to tragic convention. Amongst society, she is the anti-dialogue, a symbol of protest.

‘my cries are wings, they pierce the cage’

Elektra’s vocalizations pierce through language, revealing a shattered interior of multifaceted reflections constructed against habitual linguistic or vocal expression. In tragic convention, such habitual vocalization takes the shape of the often terse, patriarchal voice of the Greek philosopher -- a didactic, conceptual container in opposition to the expressive “becoming” of Elektra’s cries that riot against fixity. As a tragic character, Elektra is radical and alien for Sophocles and his audience -- an ever-present conviction that demonstrates how female shame has constructed a life-size funeral urn around her.

Through translating a text within layers of translations, a fragmentation of the firsthand into traces, James K mirrors Elektra’s deconstruction of reality into siren shards, offering an experiencing of female sign language as a means of sabotage to the world of normal utterances. By sliding on the edge of convention to sharply abandoning rational speech and sonic construction, K’s piece aims to embody Elektra’s strained and stretching screams, as cuts against the glass; her sabotage bound within the blanket loop. In response to rigid vocalization and fixed sonic understandings, ELEKTRA (Scream Through the Eyes of a Statue) takes the scream as an unruly, emotive sonic experience projecting outwards into objects and audience: to the very bones of sound.

This is a live recording of its single performance. Recorded by Bob Bellerue at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY. Mixed by James K. Mastered by Jack Callahan. Performed by James K, Eve Essex, Via App, and Leila Bordreuil. Conceived and scored by James K for four players, and written in collaborative improvisation with the performers. Textual alchemy by Eli V Manuscript. Design and layout by Nicola Tirabasso and James K.

JAMES K - ELEKTRA (iDEAL225 CD excerpt)

Electronic lullabies from Australian producer Other Joe.

"for Lex, and all the other Joes."

https://other-joe.bandcamp.com/album/one-billion-kisses-5

@josephbuchan

other joe - one billion kisses

ANGER

@indexrecords @coclear

bookings:
indexrecords@cyborgorgy.com

upcoming: 

18.05.24 - Soto, Kyoto [JP]
24.05.24 - MADPIA @ Spread, Tokyo [JP]
25.05.24 - Sorrow Club @ Ferments, Seoul [KR]
16.06.24 - TBA, London [UK]

selected past dates: 

27.04.24 - The Lubber Fiend, Newcastle [UK]
18.11.23 - EXIT, Glasgow [UK]
17.11.23 - co:clear, Glasgow [UK]
02.11.23 - 90mil, Berlin [DE]
17.10.23 - Kindred Radio, London [UK]
15.10.23 - Mutant Radio, Tbilisi [GE]
13.10.23 - Leftbank, Tbilisi [GE]
01.10.23 - Arkaoda, Berlin [DE]
30.09.23 - HÖR Radio, Berlin [DE]
04.08.23 - The Glove That Fits, London [UK]
06.05.23 - The Pottery Gym, Philadelphia [USA]
05.05.23 - Mansions, NYC [USA]
04.05.23 - Public Records, NYC [USA]
04.05.23 - The Lot Radio, NYC [USA]
30.04.23 - GLOB, Denver [USA]
29.04.23 - GLOB, Denver [USA]
27.04.23 - Saint J Cyber Cafe, Los Angeles [USA]
22.04.23 - The Watershed, Portland [USA]
21.04.23 - Hyper K, San Francisco [USA]
04.03.23 - Shoreditch Arts Club, London [UK]
24.03.23 - Empty Gallery, Hong Kong [HK]
23.01.23 - HÖR Radio, Berlin [DE]
17.12.22 - In:Libra, Preston [UK]
26.11.22 - Soup, Manchester [UK]
25.11.22 - Pipe Factory, Glasgow [UK]
26.08.22 - Old Hairdresser's, Glasgow [UK]
13.08.22 - Soup, Manchester [UK]
02.07.22 - Stereo, Glasgow [UK]
30.04.22 - Backsteinboot, Berlin [DE]
25.03.22 - Old Hairdresser's, Glasgow [UK]
18.03.22 - YES, Manchester [UK]
24.07.21 - In:Libra, Preston [UK]
17.08.19 - The White Hotel, Manchester [UK]
29.05.19 - Schrippe Hawaii, Berlin [DE]


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