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"One day City’s came to town. Some people would argue City’s just like any other mall, eating culture and souls, leaving it to rot in its dysfunctional digestive system. But how would they know? The saying went like this; once you go to City’s, you’ll never go back. Born from mist, she’s like a custom made divination, serving you all your prophecies in paper-wrapped lies."

Written & composed by @ewaawe & Matilda Tjäder, 2021  
For Info Unltd feat Schloss Salon:  
https://cashmereradio.com/episode/info-unltd-ft-schloss-salon/

Voices from inside the mall: Ming Lin, Yen Chun Lin, Nikhil Vettukattil, Kamran Nayyer, Adam Dove & Tosia Leniarska

Ewa Awe & Matilda Tjäder - City's

Crystalline ambience bleeds into glitching tapestry as ZULI remixes French duo Glass.

'Anxiety Prime (Remixes)' is out April 7th on Comic Sans Records.

Pre-order: fanlink.to/comicsans16

@zulimusic
@glassglassmusic
@comicsansrec

Anxiety Prime (Remixes)

Premiere: Glass - Quantic Blunt (ZULI Zoned Out Remix) [Comic Sans Records]

“Clones” is a fictional piece written and scored into a sonic narrative by Matilda Tjäder. The work was commissioned and produced by HTSU Cooperative.

Release date: April 8, 2022 
Buy/ CD: matildatjader.bandcamp.com/ 
clones.showup.how/

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“Clones” tells the story of a never-ending winter from the perspective of a narrator and her experience of dreaming in multiple states. In the absence of shifting seasons, dreaming becomes the primary state of transformation.

In four-hour daily cycles, this narrator wakes up, falls asleep, and dreams amidst a pervasive hum that takes possession of her body and summons a familiar visitor. Together, these bodies exist somewhere and elsewhere, gliding through landscapes while nurturing their fading memories into a new figuration.

When recognizable cycles disappear, new patterns appear. Taking place in a moment frozen in time, “Clones” documents the memories of two sources and of a symbiosis becoming parasitical.

All works written, composed and produced by Matilda Tjäder Commissioned by HTSU Cooperative
 Co-produced, mastered and mixed by Daniel Tjäder
  Recording assistance: Daniel Tjäder & Niklas Tjäder  
Flute on track #11 and #19: Angelina Petrovic 
Image: Sanna Helena Berger  
CD design: Ewa Poniatowska  
Website design and Clones logo: Aurélien Potier  
Editing and proofreading: Annie Goodner and Louis Mason

Frostkiss

All that is called world

Taken from SBKT057: mmph - Harvest

Release date: 26th April 2023

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It's been five years since Korean-born, Los Angeles-based sound designer and composer Sae Heum Han, aka mmph, released his last EP Serenade on the Tri Angle label in flurry of activity. "Harvest" arrives after an unintentional pause; three years ago, Han was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that immediately changed his priorities. Bedridden and exhausted from medication, he was only able to work on music for around an hour each day - the rest of his time was swallowed by rest and precarious trips to hospital in the midst of a global pandemic. Now in remission, Han looks back on this period as a time of emotional evolution where the ideas behind "Harvest" could be unravelled. The album emerges from his desire to reconnect with the Korean music he heard when he was growing up in Seoul, using these discernible timbres as building blocks to decorate with his advanced palette of electronic sounds and processes.

Han's music has always balanced precariously between the rigor of classical training and the relative open-endedness of electronic experimentation. This duality is still present on "Harvest", but Han's canvas has widened slightly. He continues to blur the line between the traditional and the modern, emulating and mirroring Korean instruments with synthesizers and sound design elements, and blending them with acoustic sounds and live percussion samples. But where his previous records and scoring work highlighted his ability to weave baroque forms into tight, contemporary sonic tapestries, this album adds the drama, yearning and spirituality of folk. On 'Dialogue' for example, pitch-warped traditional vocals twist through an ensemble of bizarre future-ancient sounds; fluttering strings dissolve into spiked percussive barbs and synthesized wails cut through walls of industrial noise.

'Spirit' follows quickly, coaxing listeners into a trance state with its flurry of microtonal string plucks and irregular percussion. Han is a master of breath control, letting his brief moments of negative space interrupt any expected regularity and guide the track away from electronic music's expected grid. This just about prepares the ground for the title track, a labyrinthine maze of dramatic compositional motifs and dizzying sonics that mutates from gugak forms into a cacophony of pneumatic blast beats before snapping back. From here the album lurches towards the dancefloor for a moment, absorbing and contorting cantankerous club rhythms on 'Avnue' and 'Moon Jar', slowing to a crawl on 'Harvest II'. Despite hijacking its theme from the title track's blast beat section, it transforms into a ballad, acting as a fittingly tearjerking finale.

The record is rounded off by a trio of remixes that draw Han further into the SVBKVLT family. Egyptian producer ABADIR chops up 'Harvest' and reassembles it into a jerky banger, extracting its dancefloor potential and evolving hardstyle thuds into spectral concertina flexes. 'Moon Jar' meanwhile is turned into twitchy trance by Shade Seoul's NET GALA, and Yen Tech stitches together 'Avnue' and 'Dialogue', creating an anxious backdrop that shuttles mmph's android folk to the modern metropolis.

Artwork by Sae Heum Han
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Harvest

mmph - Harvest

Perfect Love (Peter Rauhofer's Long 'N Perfect Edit) - House of Prince featuring Oezlem

Small Mercy

Illustration by Finnian McKenna
Photography by Inigo Bake

Come True

Back Again

GCDUBZ:006 - BONGO DUB

ft. Mez
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OUT ON 16th APRIL 2024 // PRE-ORDER FROM 5th APRIL 2024

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The EP features the instrumental 'Bongo Dub' (vocalled by Mez for his 'One Uncle' project and SD9, Aurea Semiseria & AKA AFK for the 'Bongo In Brazil' project) and Mez's instrumental edit (also vocalled by Mez and featured on the 'One Uncle' project)

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Big up all the DJs who've supported & spun the instrumental/vocal version on their radio shows or club sets.
Thank you to all those who've streamed or downloaded a copy of the vocal versions/instrumental.
And to those who've been feeling the riddim and have asked me over the years when it would be released, I'm sorry for the wait.

GCDUBZ:006 - BONGO DUB

"ripetizione" - single out on @ninaprotocol

full ep on bandcamp via https://fals.ch

https://f4lsch.bandcamp.com/album/ripetizione

thanks to farmersmanual

ripetizione

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hello again
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Went in a bit too deep with this, spent hours tweaking the loop before finding the power to record it. Cut the jam short and it still came out at 15 minutes. Building a nice catalogue of these live recordings, feels like I'm getting some nice results. Will have to get some of these online soon if I can get a few more of this standard.
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- Polyend tracker sampling the pro vs and volcafm2 for stabs + background pad-drone
- Hi-res drones from 2 analog synths
- 2600 bassmans 
- fm lead
- ALM coupe drums + filtering
- KP3 + Love Beams + Yamaha FXxX
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Peace 
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≈inner-worldly . ∆ . outer-worldly≈

Written & produced by Matilda Tjäder
Mixed & mastered by Daniel Tjäder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKcsMlhd-Qk
Music video by Jakob Ohrt 

@matildatjader
matildatjader.com/
matildatjader.bandcamp.com/

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do you believe in destiny? 
in angels or in deities? 
in ghosts or in demons?
in magnetism or rules of attraction?

I’m really making an effort to describe   
a moment of synchronicity 
of parallel frames spilling into 
one, continuous scene 
and through the perspective 
of a bird, God, or other celestial being 
we witness its protagonists from above 
making sense of it all

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I fly my time like an arrow
like in a supply chain 
I abstract from all these hands 

once I shoot I can let go 
(there's just not one way bow)
for this matter of logistics

there’s just so many banana flies 
I wonder
did we leave something rotten behind? 

II: she said come back 
and I’ll make your words travel 
with the speed of an arrow :II

Matilda Tjäder - Speed of an Arrow

from
Thou who holds but owns not
sound poetry
from March to June 2020
collected by Adrienne Herr
drawing by Marie Lea Lund 

available here: https://tltrpress.bandcamp.com/album/thou-who-holds-but-owns-not

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thanks to Charles Verni for delay tailoring 'The Ghost Piano'
mastered by Daniel Tjäder

Thou who holds but owns not

The Ghost Piano

Country Music is a collaborative project by Daniel Iinatti and Anna Sagström that is born on the factory floors of the rural rust belts, in the corrosive regress of life and tempo in downgraded de-industrialized wastelands and anti-growth environments, and in the urban steel knit of precarious compositions. An alloy of work, speed and materials formed out of the potential energy of underused spaces to envision music from the contemporary periphery. A reimagined music of the land, towards a new Country Music.