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Taken from SBKT055: TRANCE BAND - Entrancing
Release date: 3rd March 2023

In a global landscape that increasingly prioritizes individuality over collaborative expression, TRANCE is a distinctive project. Initiated by Chinese multidisciplinary artist Tianzhuo Chen, best known for his work with Asian Dope Boys, TRANCE is as artistically amorphous as its constantly evolving line-up, that fluctuates as it shimmers across borders and time-zones. In 2019, the project was demoed in Beijing as part of a solo exhibition from Chen, a 12-hour durational performance that examined the altered states of living and dying and pondered the sounds, sensations, bodies and spaces that notion might suggest. On hold for three years due to COVID-19 restrictions, TRANCE was eventually premiered in Hamburg at the Kampnagel Theatre last year where it was presented as a surreal three-day ceremony. This time around the Trance Band was made up of Berlin-based noisemaker and vocalist Dis Fig, Indonesia's Gabber Modus Operandi, musician and MC KIM KHAN, guitarist and engineer Felix-Florian Tödtloff, and Vancouver-based percussionist and producer CITY. Chen directed the show, channeling each artist's unique energy into an alliance that highlighted their independent skills while pushing towards ideas that simply couldn't have been realized discretely.

"Entrancing" is a live documentation of that incendiary Hamburg session, powered by the performative fireworks that came from having the project halted for two years before it was allowed to burst into life once more. Just as with previous iterations of TRANCE, the space was terraformed into an alien landscape that allowed the collective to enact a carnivalesque display that was tightly controlled but creatively boundless. Musical u-turns were accompanied by monumental stage overhauls that reshaped a muddy, fog-filled outdoor riverscape into an arena, or a sweaty nightclub. This theatrical impact can't be visualized as clearly on the record, but musical cues do just enough heavy lifting to provide a tantalizing contour. When the alluring electro-acoustic plucks and resonant sustained string tones of 'There's a Ghost in the Lantern' cascade into cinematic drone metal on 'Ylva's Theme', it's impossible not to be drawn into the TRANCE narrative. Sonic stage lights flicker with uncommon intensity as the nebulous group rewrite their collective personal stories into stirring, synergistic poetry.

"Something changes!" KIM KHAN calls out on 'Soft and Black', cutting through warbling synths and itchy beatbox percussion. The track builds quickly, reaching a sizzling crescendo of buzzsaw noise and acidic electronics. It's a stylistic sea change that channels the group's kinetic energy into a rock show, and CITY picks up the message on 'Trance Genesis', adding rapid-fire drums to a barrage of guitar skronk. 'Shaolin Affliction' glues Trance Band's jagged artistic edges to a vintage metal template, gradually dissolving into throaty post-hardcore, while 'My Fortress' brings the show to a powerful conclusion with Dis Fig assuming the role of grunge balladeer, bellowing into the void over cacophonous live instrumentation. Unbound by musical and artistic conventions, TRANCE peers out from the basement, the gallery and the playhouse to forge an expression that's all of this and something new entirely. It's refreshing, witty, exhilarating and most of all, completely unpredictable.

Entrancing

v1984 & City - Parallel Phrases [digital only]

From 'Calma', out July 5th on Gone Baby.

COP THIS YOU'LL: https://gonebaby.bandcamp.com/album/calma

@undrwght 👼
@imgonebaby 👼

A barren life you live. Just nothing. How are you to extract yourself from the gloop'd ass mire. There's simply no turning back, you say, idiotically, swarmed by flies, sticky-mouth'd, encrusted, disdained, shat upon. And then at the death: Undrwght's 'Latidos', from 'Calma' out July 5th on Gone Baby. A life raft in the lamest ocean of all time.

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Undrwght - Latidos [MK PREMIERE]

@e6c41
@hkcrlive

e6c41 is the astral alias of Matheus Daniel, a sound/visual artist based in Belo Horizonte. He operates the ambient trance platform Pleroma and have also released tracks via Genome 6.66 MBP, Slagwerk, Hyperlink, ÖÖÖ and Low Income Squad. The name 'e6c41' references two chromogenic processes used to develop photographic film, symbolizing the interaction of colors emerging from the union of light and darkness. Matheus embodies this concept: his released music shines celestial light, while his DJ sets embody darkness. When summoned to perform in festive environments, expect a deconstructed perspective on trance and ambient, uniquely blended and constructed in a melodic and obscure manner, defying conventional DJ norms.

SOCIALS: 
https://soundcloud.com/pleromapleroma
https://instagram.com/mafiusmefius

[coisas bonitas] w/ e6c41 - 22/11/2024 @HKCRLIVE

Dialled-In May'25 features a mix from Shenzhen-based producer & DJ, ADEAD

SC: https://soundcloud.com/oran-dead
IG: https://www.instagram.com/its_adead/

Tracklist:

1. Imogen Heap - Noise
2. Limp Bizkit - Get A Life
3. Dua Lity & The Boss - Soulsick
4. SIM - Simitri
5. XHL UNIT - Exhalv Dispatch
6. De Grandi - TTP
7. Kat Nzingha - Enthrall
8. Yikii - Tragic Sublime 悲剧性崇高
9. Victor le Masne - Artemis
10. ADEAD - Amen F**king Insanely Harder Taiko 
11. DJ GAP - Slice me up (feat. XIAO QUAN)
12. glisten - Usiko
13. DJ Fanqui & TToten - Leitada
14. El Pelele - LA LLAVE
15. Praktikal & Andria - Verte Anaconda
16. NET GALA - KATRINAKATRINAKATRINA
17. Swarm Intelligence - The Glory Is You
18. Lila Tirando a Violeta - Unworthy Praise (Suegua Remix)
19. The Lazy Jesus - DLBCN (Tufi[AR] Remix)
20. Beavs - Scald
21. ADEAD - S.T.G
22. Colin Self - Darkness Visible
23. Menzi - CorruptX
24. Nimda - ETERNAL
25. UNCIA - Voluntarism (funkshn Remix)
26. Limp Bizkit - Bring It Back
27. aespa - Armageddon (Mount XLR Remix)
28. ADEAD - I knew you were so sick of me
29. MM - Dionysus Drums
30. Yikii - Heavenly Hell 天狱
31. trngs - CAPTCHA
32. AKA HEX & Aisha Devi & Slikback - Hex On Fire (Club Version)
33. Zora Lucent - Circling (LUNA LIAS Remix)
34. SIL V3 R 100 - POOR LITTLE BASTARD
35. Tenebre - Intro Showreel
36. Rumina - To The Ground
37. TAR - Song 2
38. WaqWaq Kingdom - Yaren Soran
39. Assyouti - Rorschack
40. Flore - Come Up
41. Abadir & Nahash - Stoned Roses
42. WULFFLUW XCIV - Mithril Veins

CSTM Mix 020: Dialled-In w/ ADEAD - 24/05/2025

@greenlineengineer - проект Дениса Калиниченко, диджея, саунд продюсера, лайв перформера, хранителя формации Aspect и участника команды KURS radio. География миксов и записанных лайв выступлений простирается от Британии и до Китая. Минимум прямой бочки, напористо и основательно, временами минималистично, но с каждой минутой все интереснее.
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XUE ROGA v1

Focus please !!!

Vain coeur EP out on Genome 6.66 Mbp on 14 July 2019.

@chaams

Une étrange impression, que plus jamais je n'aurai aussi mal qu'autrefois. Peut-être que la colère qui me submerge aujourd'hui a finalement écrasé les douleurs qui jadis m'assaillaient.

Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Photograph by Badis Kasdali

[GNM016] Chams – Vain coeur

Chams – Vain coeur

Following guest shows on NTS and Radio Bonita, Philadelphia based artist and producer Kat Nzingha joins TT to present their debut EP, Angeltribe.

Mixing and mastering - Kat Nzingha
Artwork - Josh Crumpler
www.katnzingha.com
soundcloud.com/katnzingha

Angeltribe

Kat Nzingha - Antinomianism

Core is Ryazan based music label and event planner

Artists: @leraraevskaya, @deniscord, @nestor_nestor, @djslon, @roma-zuckerman, @vikashum, @celes777, @mazhorov, @eklektiquemusic, @alexander-kosonogov @EIPORETIC @gnaardistort @slowkick @frrra @um6ra @drvgzila @broosnica @maybelmeow @dopejunn @deadxice @spellhaunt

Guests: @Obgon, @KovyazinD, @Bvoice, @Zabelin, @DJRozet, @SashaKhizhnyakov, @Synkronized, @Eostra, @Cream-Soda, WPCWE, @gaelabakarova, @molodoychelovek, @silskkbrec, @r-l-g-n, @1borys, @unbalance, @Cultkitchen, @loudufa, @Anrilov, @lockedclub, @Kubrakov, @IC3PEAK, @0299 @roma-ptashenko, @yung-acid-3, @sofia-rodina, @uvulauvula @summer-of-haze

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