https://disciples.ffm.to/heavycombination

A crucial introduction to the 'King of Kikuyu Benga' and the first career-spanning retrospective of the incredible catalogue of the late, great Joseph Kamaru.

17 tracks that run the gamut from vibrant dancefloor chants with high life-esque guitars, to afro funk, drum machine and keyboard driven disco grooves, and folk style laments. The music is raw, immediate, danceable, and packed full of memorable hooks. The incisive lyrics range from protest songs to relationship advice. Joseph Kamaru was an incredibly popular figure in his native Kenya, connecting with everyone from high-powered politicians to the rural and urban working class, and his music deserves a much wider international audience.

Compiled in partnership with Joseph Kamaru's grandson, the sound artist KMRU.

The tracks have been carefully remastered from original tape transfers by Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin.

Sleeve designed by Karolina Kołodziej using original archive material from the Kamaru family vaults.

Extensive liner notes include essays by Kenyan academic Maina wa Mũtonya, music journalist Megan Iacobini de Fazio, and KMRU himself.

Joseph Kamaru - Kenya Kũrũngara (Remastered) - from Heavy Combination 1966 - 2007

The Sound In My Mind

~ LAAPS 046 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP46]

artist : Offthesky
album : Nocturnas
duration : 40.28 mn
date : August 28th, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / marble pink/purple LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

----------------------------------------------------------------
pre-order : August 01st, 2025 / official release : August 28th, 2025
----------------------------------------------------------------

Sound and composition by Jason Corder
Vocals by Rin Howell
Created in Thailand and Colorado, 2022 - 2024

Mastered by Offthesky
Artwork by Gaël Bonnefon
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
----------------------------------------------------------------

Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://offthesky.bandcamp.com/
----------------------------------------------------------------
℗ & © 2 0 2 5 - L A A P S - L A A P S 0 4 6

Offthesky - Dying Within Dreams

»La Traversée« (»The Crossing«) is Matthias Puech’s second album for Hallow Ground and follows up on 2023’s »Mt. Hadamard National Park.« Profoundly inspired by re-reading »The Odyssey,« the French composer, instrument designer, and scholar used a Eurorack modular synthesizer to create four pieces that are by far the most intuitive and emotionally charged in his ever-expanding catalogue. Puech’s masterful command of sound comes to the forefront with even more urgency on this record. A wandering meditation on the human condition, »La Traversée« is an album that is constantly in motion—complex electronic music at its most gripping and evocative.

The foundation for »La Traversée« was laid when Puech prepared a live set for a tour organised in collaboration with Hallow Ground in support of »Mt. Hadamard National Park.« Before writing the first three pieces—»Ennosigaios,« »Polyphármakos,« »Nekuia«—the 18½-minute-long »Ithâké« was composed in near-total isolation in the South of France at the end of 2023. Puech performed the material live several times before taking a step black from it for a while. He revisited the pieces when preparing them for a release. »I was struck by how the technical process and the intention behind the music had completely vanished from my memory,« he says.

What remained intact, however, was Puech’s association of the material with one of the most influential texts of Western literature. Reading a graphic novel adaptation of »The Odyssey« with his two four-year-olds, he noticed the effect that it had on them and himself. »Its themes of longing, fear of and attraction to the unknown, unresolved quests, and the struggle for control felt topical,« he says. »I was completely taken. Every story ever told seemed contained in this ancient tale; every story I have ever tried to tell as a composer seemed inscribed in this framework.« This also extended to formal motifs such as the repetition of incidents, narrative developments, or dramatic effects that also mark »La Traversée.«

Puech says that he perceived Homer’s writing as musical, »like an old Delta blues or a Renaissance counterpoint,« which inspired his writing process. »With a couple of knobs on my Eurorack system, I could control the unfolding of a story,« he notes. »This made me pass through different emotional states and led to moments in which everything made sudden sense—when you as an artist get a glimpse at something essential, can touch upon something universal.« This shines through »La Traversée,« a wildly imaginative album that is deeply personal while also telling a story far more wide-reaching than that of its creator.

Composed, recorded and mixed by Matthias Puech
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Cover: excerpt from J. M. W. Turner, Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (1842)
Drawing by Matthias Puech

La Traversée

Ennosigaios

Widely regarded as one of the most uncompromising works in experimental noise, Kevin Drumm’s Sheer Hellish Miasma is once again available on vinyl. First released on CD in 2002 on the original Mego label, the album remains a landmark in extreme electronic sound and is an essential and ferocious document of Drumm at his most inventive.

The history of Drumm’s Sheer Hellish Miasma is one of resilience to the twists of underground trends that have come and gone since its initial release. Using guitar, tape manipulation, microphones, pedals, analog synthesizers, and subtle computer processing, Sheer Hellish Miasma is an overwhelming experience: a sonic onslaught of storming feedback, fractured textures and  an unrelenting energy. At once brutal and meticulously composed, the album offers a singular vision at the outermost edges of sound art.

For seasoned noise veterans, Sheer Hellish Miasma offers a bracing soundscape filled with exquisitely abrasive textures and more than enough hidden detail to warrant repeated listening – a distinct voice in the increasingly same-sounding world of abstract electronic noise. For everyone else, Drumm’s journey through the noisy underworld is likely to inspire fear or, in an optimistic case, fearful admiration. 

Drumm’s Sheer Hellish Miasma is an abstract noise classic with this 2LP reissue being an artefact of eternal power.

Sheer Hellish Miasma

Cloudy

Kevin Drumm 'Cloudy' (EMEGO053)

hello! is anyone somewhere currently reading/listening this? would like to know! anyway, thank you so much. love, J.

2021-10-07 - enumeración de percepciones 2.8.2vozeq demo

Siren Song

Siren Song (Cover)

LE DON DES LARMES

LÉO LA NUIT - NAUSÉE

𝗔𝗯𝘂𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱 & 𝗞𝗠𝗥𝗨 - 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 - 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 

𝗟𝘂𝗸𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘇 𝗪𝗲𝗴𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿 - 𝗳𝗼-𝗵𝗻 - 𝗕𝟮

𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗝𝗔 𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗖́ - 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗘𝘆𝗲𝘀 - 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗰𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗵 

𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗩𝗘 𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗘𝗡 - 𝘀𝗶𝘅 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 - 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝘀 (𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟮) (𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗽𝘁)

𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼 & 𝗧𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝘂𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗲 - 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮 - 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼

𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗶 𝗗𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘃 + 𝗗𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗳 - 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 - 𝟬𝟭 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹

𝗞. 𝗟𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿 - 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 - 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗲

42 42

Joseph Kamaru - Kenya Kũrũngara (Remastered) - from Heavy Combination 1966 - 2007

Disciples