fuzzy / nowt mood

Following the recent collaborative SERWED II and Square Fauna albums on West Mineral Ltd. and Firecracker Recordings respectively, Flaty is back on his own ANWO RECORDS with an album titled RAILZ. A year in the making, it’s a product of solitary contemplative pursuit, an exploration of a metaspace where the varied worlds inherent to Flaty’s artistic sensibility coexist, blend, and collide true to the original kinship between electro and hip-hop. The altered footwork and fine-grained dubstep sonic structures, the freeform soundscapes and refracted beats, the consistently heavy bass and eventful razor-sharp high frequencies of the album are all bred, built, mixed, and mastered single-handedly by Flaty who has also designed all the artwork and packaging. In comparison with the artist’s previous productions, the tone is colder, the approach more detached, while the substance is no less personal and the experience neither less diverse nor less intense. The artistic, cultural, and technological styles and eras of the last half-century fuse and productively dissolve in the utopian interferences of the LP. Expect RAILZ to be presented as the soundtrack to a forthcoming series of ANWO STUDIO collaborative audio-visual live performances.

to be released 9th July on vinyl [1xLP] and digital. 

A1 railz
A2 including
A3 LISC
A4 a toy story
A5 ggodz

B1 say it
B2 rotation—60
B3 november hords
B4 OCA
B5 feeding of the negativity

📦distributed by Triple Vision

pre-order:
bandcamp: anworecords.bandcamp.com/album/railz
bleep: https://bleep.com/release/233160-flaty-railz
boomkat: https://bit.ly/3wsneD3

written, produced & mastered by Flaty [@producedbyflaty]
design & execution by ANWO STUDIO
lettering by Kuzma Palkin
linear notes by LC

© ANWO RECORDS, Moscow 2021

RAILZ

[ANWO—03] Flaty — RAILZ

The Daisart founder and interdisciplinary composer Emile Frankel collaborate on some gauzy, introspective ambient.

'my seat and weep' is out November 28th on Daisart.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3xfKxB0

@falteringthread
@emilefrankel
@daisart-press

Premiere: J - petals (with Emile Frankel) [Daisart]

end of the year thoughts and intentions
in a self-release "survivors kit" by @perila
https://perilazone.bandcamp.com/album/survivors-kit

we can’t control what’s happening outside but we can take care of the inside so the outside feels better.

perila – barefeeter

thirty ninth episode of our "States United" show on @n10-as, with guest @conpani

States United 38: con pani

Bénédicte live set at Église Saint-Edouard September 22nd 2022.

Photo by Mary Chen.

~Buy~

B​é​n​é​dicte Live at Église Saint​-​Edouard

 New jump up / drum & bass tune from Bif – "Dutty". 
Heavy bass, rave energy

If you enjoy it, drop a like, comment, or repost — it helps a lot!

#drumandbass #dnb #jumpup #jumpupdnb #bassmusic #bif

Dutty-BIF

Saturday session #3🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

riserayys ft. loneliness- бескрылые надежды (ceqeo)

Heavy As A Stone (K-LONE Sleepy Mix)

Stream & Download: https://godtet.bandcamp.com/album/godtet

'Ensueño' is the second offering from GODTET; The debut LP and live band project from Sydney guitarist, Producer & Beat-maker Godriguez. Praised for his production on ‘The Great Mixtape’ for Sampa the Great, Godtet sees Godriguez stepping back into the live format of production with a full band.

The self-titled LP is due out October 27th via La Sape (SAPE001).

Andrew Bruce - Piano
Jan Bangma - Bass
Tully Ryan - Drums
Dominic Kirk - Percussion
Godriguez - Guitar

Produced by Godriguez and Jack Prest
Recorded live, no overdubs, in 2016 by Jack Prest, assisted by Antonia Gauci, at Studios 301, Alexandria, Sydney
Mixed and mastered by Jack Prest

GODTET - Ensueño

DED LYK ELVIS (RIP P)

Lifted - 2
Format: LP / Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 85
Release Date: 07 June 2019
Buy: https://bit.ly/2W0yIL6 / https://bit.ly/30OhkwC

PAN welcomes back the Lifted ensemble for a second cross-continental adventure off the grid, simply titled Lifted 2.

Lifted’s latest release expands on the expression of improvised fusion that brought about the spectrum of styles explored on their 2015 debut album for PAN. Expansion is a key theme to Lifted 2, primarily in the musicians involved; Lifted is now a core group of Future Times boss Max D, Matt Papich aka Co La, Jeremy Hyman and Motion Graphics. Expansion also relates to musical ideas Lifted explore and the studio techniques executed.

Whereas the way they approached the idea of improvisation on Lifted 1 was framed in jazz terms, the seven-tracks on this second LP step even further into the vivid unknown. Zero boundaries for the exploratory impulse. “On this record we went a lot deeper into our kind of studio technique,” Lifted say. “We tried to cultivate the sound using the studio as a primary tool, almost a member of the group in a way.”

As with the debut Lifted LP, listening to Lifted 2 is an open invitation to experience the worldwide creative framework surrounding these artists. The collaborators for each track, whether present in the studio or online, show what a fluid and freeform exercise Lifted can be.

Max D’s international crew of Future Timers play deft roles throughout Lifted 2. Jordan GCZ and Dawit Eklund both return for ‘Lifting’ alongside 1432r’s Sami, NYC’s Will DiMaggio and Sao Paulo’s Repetentes 2008. Beatrice Dillon and Bass Clef, two highly-decorated artists from the UK underground, make telling contributions which mark the latest in a long line of celebrated creative collaborations for the pair. Further input comes via Aya, vocalist and bassist for crucial Japanese experimentalists OOIOO, and Martin Kasey, a friend of Papich with a background in Baltimore theatre, summoned for Lifted duty to provide some striking saxophone blasts.

How do all these collaborations manifest on Lifted 2? It’s a sort of inverse process full of blind takes with the results more bruised than polished. “The song stays fluid until the end. We pile the ideas really high and then decimate them,” Lifted say. “We delete until the songs are crystallizing; lay a grid of silences to organize the tracks. The breathing spaces become definitive.”

These seven tracks adroitly weave through mood and vibe, demanding heads lock in with an initial blast of whip sharp percussive hits and contemporary no-wave blowouts before letting off steam with soothing ambient synthesis. “Black Pepper” acts as the album centerpiece, an unhinged mangle of SH101 basslines, freeform flute & saxophone and multiple percussive sources brought to order by Papich’s studio dubs. “Rose 31” edges closest to the kind of jazz fusion that inspired the project from the off, Lifted utilising the various classic instruments deployed by the greats of the game. Closer “Near Future” smartly foregrounds Motion Graphics’ stunning piano talents, gradually stripping away all other elements until all that is left are his swirling notes.

The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring photography by Traianos Pakioufakis and artwork by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

http://p-a-n.org

Lifted - Now More Than Ever (PAN 85)

featuring Kuljit Bhamra

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No: PAN 106
Release Date: 07 February 2020
Purchase: bit.ly/33ISoYr

‘Workaround’ is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythmobsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN. It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro- Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.

Recorded over 2017-2019 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14 bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play.

‘Workaround’ evolves Dillon’s notions in a coolly unfolding manner that speaks directly to the album’s literary and visual inspirations, ranging from James P. Carse’s book ‘Finite And Infinite Games’ to the abstract drawings of Tomma Abts or Jorinde Voigt as well as painter Bridget Riley’s essays on grids and colour. Operating inside this rooted but mutable theoretical wireframe, Dillon’s ideas come to life as interrelated, efficient patterns in a self-sufficient system.

With a naturally fractal-not-fractional logic, Dillon’s rhythms unfold between unresolved 5/4 tresillo patterns, complex tabla strokes and spark-jumping tics in a fluid, tactile dance of dynamic contrasts between strong/light, sudden/restrained, and bound/free made in reference to the notational instructions of choreographer Rudolf Laban. Working in and around the beat and philosophy, the album’s freehand physics contract and expand between the lissom rolls of Bhamra’s tabla in the first, to a harmonious balance of hard drum angles and swooping FM synth cadence featuring additional synth and vocal from Laurel Halo in ‘Workaround Two’, while the extruded strings of Lucy Railton create a sublime tension at the album’s palatecleansing denouement, triggering a scintillating run of technoid pieces that riff on the kind of swung physics found in Artwork’s seminal ‘Basic G’, or Rian Treanor’s disruptive flux with a singularly tight yet loose motion and infectious joy.

Crucially, the album sees Dillon focus on dub music’s pliable emptiness, rather than the moody dematerialisation of reverb and echo. The substance of her music is rematerialised in supple, concise emotional curves and soberly freed to enact its ideas in balletic plies, rugged parries and sweeping, capoeira-like floor action. Applying deeply canny insight drawn from her years of practice as sound designer, musician and hugely knowledgable/intuitive DJ, ‘Workaround’ can be heard as Dillon’s ingenious solution or key to unlocking to perceptions of stiffness, darkness or grid-locked rigidity in electronic music. And as such it speaks to an ideal of rhythm-based and experimental music ranging from the hypnotic senegalese mbalax of Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, through SND and, more currently, the hard drum torque of DJ Plead; to adroitly exert the sensation of weightlessness and freedom in the dance and personal headspace.

The album is mixed by James Rand and mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Thomas Ruff, layout by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

Workaround

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround One (PAN 106)

We are pleased to release a special DJ set by our beloved Flora Yin-Wong. Flora Yin-Wong is a London-born, Chinese-Malaysian multidisciplinary producer and DJ. Sculpting ambient field recordings into dissonant pastiches informed by the synthetic framework of club influences, Flora Yin-Wong’s body of work cycles through the emotional spectrum. Informed by life experiences spanning through East Asia and beyond, her aural collages vibrate with personal, social and spiritual history—sampling temple chimes, the Chinese Yangqin stringed instrument, Cantonese pop music and pulling from her family’s history of involvement with opera. Instinctually powerful, her work touches on existential themes of death, transmission and rebirth in a way that can crawl under a listener’s skin. Her releases on PTP, Pan and C.A.N.V.A.S. really inspired us to make this session happens. This time Flora delivered a beautiful wide range set - CSS068. 

Read full article feature and interview on:
https://cultivatedsound.com/068-Flora-Yin-Wong

Cultivated Sound Session - CSS068: Flora Yin-Wong

Flora Yin-Wong

Cultivated Sound Sessions - CSS068: Flora Yin-Wong

AIR Krew - 'Discuss and come back'
Format: Cassette, Digital
 Release Date: September 16, 2020
Artwork: Jesse Sappell

Hailing from Moscow and St. Petersburg respectively, Sergey Podluzhniy, Piper Spray and Lena Tzibizova come together as AIR Krew and share with us “Discuss and Come Back.” While floating broadly in Shoegaze’s orbit, the album charts a pretty unpredictable course from beginning to end, with an ornate sentimentality running as a constant from track to track. As in most cases, the words don’t do justice to the sound, the map really isn’t the terrain and you’re better off  taking the time to explore it all for yourself.

https://soundcloud.com/kabinw

MWT004: AIR Krew, 'Discuss and come back'

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