Name: Reincarnation (breakcore piano ballad) [preview] by ᴄRtxLzn
Duration: 1 min 28 s
Description: LJ Rich + CJ Carr. Inspiration: Igorrr, Puzzlhead, Beethoven, romantic-era classical music, rave, trap, breakcore.

where are you now, bro? Your music was awesome :'(

LJ Rich + CJ Carr. Inspiration: Igorrr, Puzzlhead, Beethoven, romantic-era classical music, rave, trap, breakcore.

Reincarnation (breakcore piano ballad) [preview]

* Announcing CANVAS005 *

Michael Speers - xtr'ctn (LP)

Format: Digital/Vinyl
Cat.No: CANVAS005
Release Date: 13th of September 2019

;
synthetic listening environments :: created with material extracted from field recordings and processed/arranged using software, alongside electronic signals from no-input feedback + test equipment.

most of the source material was generated at my place of work[as a technician]—whilst testing large amounts of audio equipment—capturing electronics’ internal behaviours + using very high levels of amplification on various small capsule microphones, connected to wireless transmitters placed in resonant vessels/spaces and materials of interest
;

Northern Irish, London based musician Michael Speers composes and performs music as a temporal and worldly extension of himself and the tools at his disposition. As a percussionist by training, Michael extends his contact and interplay with resonant objects through instrumentalised amplification and feedback, employing signal processing to articulate the almost tangible constitution of sonic material as structural, nearly cellular, microscopic entities. Following his integral presence in C.A.N.V.A.S. performance events since their inception and his recent participation in the Cipher compilation, xtr’ctn is released in September 2019 as a debut solo LP for both the artist and the label.

Dehumanised black metal screams, attributed to seagulls - specifically “recorded in Ramsgate, 06.2017”. It’s the inhuman that concerns us here, or our complex relationship with non-human entities and abstractions. Extracting is a process. By integrating recorded and found sound phenomena, treated as profane and material entities, Michael meticulously arranges sound objects into composition, upholding a fidelity to their emergent properties. Most of these objects become seemingly un-referential, although occasionally you arrive at a near-recognisable sound source or environment, disrupting the invitation towards a total loss of a sense of self.

This is fictional music - it is of and for a world that doesn’t exist. Although presenting sound with sincerity and integrity, without allusion to linear narrative, Michael's materialistic approach is transcended by the sensitivity of his composition. In a sense, it comes after both feeling and expression, as the subdued emotion of a person attempting to reach beyond their own affective limitations. It reaches out without ever really touching anything. Yet for all it’s clinical reduction, there are moments of unhindered emotion which strike harder for their arrival from such a seemingly nonhuman place.

“xtr’ctn” fails in reaching a point of immanent abstraction - a flatline horizon. It arrives instead at the outer brim of a sensory dam, where organic glitches from the extremities of our perception have spread - like sonic cataracts - intercepting the flow of our auditory awareness. In its state of fiction, “xtr’ctn” acts as a flag for the C.A.N.V.A.S. community, pitched as a marker of our enacted existence, weathered though unliving. To follow this signal to its depth is to accept the unknown - you only follow, knowing no alternative.

Mastering by Ali Najafi
Artwork and product design by AALTAR

@michaelspeers

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Buy DL/LP

Michael Speers - sul. locus

Network Glass - Joker Culture (Excerpt)

Rhea

https://schematicmusiccompany.bandcamp.com/track/hrmmm

Wake - Hrmmm

digital single available here: https://obeobe.bandcamp.com/album/spoo

made using puredata and ableton

Obe - Spoo

Bridgebaby [ADHD Mix]

Scattered

"The big question however is where to next? NITEFISH has been investigating how to do socially distant gigs. “I’ve been looking at bubble suits, hazmat suits, sumo-wrestling outfits.” PDF Pockethole has gone all out on the podcast, using it as the outlet for every other aspect of his art. Toke O’Drift is preparing an album and a documentary on Dublin’s independent music scene. And Julia Louise KnifeFist set up a DJ collective, mid-quarantine, called Bitten Twice.

Alongside producers Rory Sweeney and Fomorian Vein, the collective’s plan is to release a compilation and work towards getting unconventional artists into Dublin’s clubs once they reopen.

“There does need to be a threshold and standard,” KnifeFist says. “But I remember seeing one show in the States where instead of playing music, the band put Vaseline on their hands and wrestled the guitars, and I like places that give you the ability to craft silly things like that.”

And that expression of creative freedom gets to the heart of what drives the capital’s digital netherworld. It is raw, polarising and deranged, but compellingly cathartic in its mania. “The heart gets hard without something to believe in,” Knifefist bellows on his track Knob. “I set to freak the only way I believe in.” "

- Michael Lanigan, Totally Dublin

www.totallydublin.ie/music/music-features/going-underground/

released August 21, 2020

in order of appearance

soundcloud.com/user-499230202
soundcloud.com/julialouisknifefist
soundcloud.com/nitefishofficial
soundcloud.com/ozwalddublin
soundcloud.com/surgeryhead
soundcloud.com/fomorianvein
soundcloud.com/user-leonfolan
soundcloud.com/ponxi
soundcloud.com/donagh-sugrue

ροηχι - Adonis Upon Us

release on 20 November 2020 : https://bit.ly/39esOQP
@made_vacuum

Introducing morosphinx, a squeaky trio from Brussels. Recorded in Vilvoorde, on the outskirts of the Belgian capital, this album probes impressions of relative distances within a sound space. morosphinx projects us into a musical context that is both strange and familiar, where sounds blend together and define their own landmarks.

morosphinx - B2

Contributed to Elevate by Dig That Treasure Records
https://digthattreasure.bandcamp.com/album/elevate

Elevate

Dancers

CORTEXELATION
Booking/collab emperorcj@gmail.com
http://cortexelation.bandcamp.com

DADABOTS 
Neural networks generating death metal via livestream 24/7
http://dadabots.com
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwnzm7/this-youtube-channel-streams-ai-generated-black-metal-247

Cortexelation Labs http://cortexel.us
Tek-Obsessed Audio Recordings 
https://tekobsessed.bandcamp.com/
Gypsy Tribe Archive
https://gypsytribearchive.wordpress.com/

Reincarnation (breakcore piano ballad) [preview]

ᴄRtxLzn

Recent comments

RoH

Xenodine-4-pluorate

Messier

autonon

Related tracks