ESTOC - BOG TROLL [YGK019]

1. BOG TROLL
2. SOMNOLENCE
3. PERSPICACITY
4. WAR WORLD ft CITY
5. LUGUBRIOUS

Format: Digital/EP
Release Date: 11 Nov, 2022
Mixed by Estoc
Cover by Taylor Dow
Mastered by Soda Plains

ESTOC - LUGUBRIOUS [YGK019]

‘Inflatable Gravestone’ is the debut album by Mun Sing (aka Harry Wright) released on https://soundcloud.com/planetmurecords on 2nd June 2023

https://munsing.bandcamp.com/album/inflatable-gravestone

The motivating force of the album is the sudden loss of Harry’s father in 2020. Their father struggled with substance addiction and the album explores ideas of 'spirituality' and the ‘higher self’ in relation to addiction and its parallels with the coping mechanisms of grief. It also aims to highlight the importance of humour and distraction when coping with loss.

Serving as a narrative for their own experiences, the album is largely built around club-centred tracks (such as ‘Spider’ and ’Squabble’) broken up by moments of yearning and reflection in tracks like ’The Poison Garden’ and ‘Helhest (Azrael Smirks)’ and moments of dark anguish like 'Inheritor' with its heavy slab-like chords and pensive piano. Flirting with awkward and suggestive rhythms, Wright deliberately suspends moments of resolution and groove in favour of drama and jerky, unexpected cartoonish humour, taking as much influence from the likes of the Art Of Noise as Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. 

Wright rewards the listener with moments of clarity and introspection like flags on the journey, recruiting vocalist MX World to deliver lyrics and melodic ideas created by them and their father. Their father’s journals in rehab helped inform most of the lyrics. Some take whole sentences as a way to physically ‘give life’ to his words for the first time. The lyrics describe feelings, revelations and  apocalyptic hallucinations. MX World's clear, direct tone suggests folk music and the timelessness of the human condition.

The album concludes with the title track ‘Inflatable Gravestone’ which features a chorus of giddy manipulated laughter from Wright’s friends and family to a truly maddening effect. This is then resolved by bright and clear piano chords and the sound of Wright’s father breathing in his sleep. A deeply affecting and personal record with corkscrew twists and turns and a healthy dose of absurdism. 
credits
releases June 2, 2023

All tracks written and produced by Harry Wright. Lyrics by Harry Wright, except track 10 lyrics by Harry Wright and William Wright. Lead vocals by MX World. Additional vocals by Nashne, Akiko Haruna and Mouse.

Mastered by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven Mastering.

Published by Domino Publishing.

Waiting In The Car

Soothing yet hyperfast. Here is a triptych of tracks that I've has been playing and recorded at their live shows lately, notably at Quebec's Mutek, France's Nuits Sonores, Austria's Elevate Festival. All at 185 BPM, from nostalgic breaks melodies, to speedcore, you name it!
An early listener and friend ZULI described these as “Intelligent Club Heaterz”, our beloved mastering engineer Joker as “Techjunglehno head bop jazz blue ocean light”... ;P Tell us your thoughts! :))

Music by Zoë Mc Pherson
Mastering by Joker
Artwork by Alessandra Leone

Buy sfx-space.bandcamp.com/album/chaos-30-live

Chaos 3.0 Live [SFX09]

Let It Go

AKA HEX - Do The Rite Thing / Hex On Fire
Cat. Nr: DN033
Format: Digital
Release Date: November 22, 2024
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/AkaHex

AKA HEX is a brand new collaboration between Aïsha Devi and Slikback.

Devi has always used her music to look outward, beyond the confines of club music and the avant garde towards a space that's less predictable and far more mysterious. She was born in Switzerland with Nepali Indigenous heritage, and her transversal identity has helped her navigate the underground as not just a producer and vocalist, but as a curator. Co-founding the Danse Noire imprint in 2013, she used that platform to launch her breakout EP 'Hakken Dub / Throat Dub', following it up with the labyrinthine 'Of Matter and Spirit' album in 2015. Devi's interest in sonic alchemy and multi-dimensional expression was further developed on 2018's 'DNA Feelings', coming to an overflowing head with last year's enigmatic 'Death Is Home', which featured a collaboration with none other than Slikback.

Born and raised in Nairobi, Slikback is one of the world's most adventurous producers, taking elements from the wide spectrum of club, noise, ambient and rap musics and forming them into a psychedelic lattice of high intensity sounds and emotions. He's spent
the last few years prolifically contributing to his canon via his Bandcamp stream, this year compiling the highlights into the frenetic double-LP 'SLIKBACK' – 22 tracks of future-facing, soundsystem-ready experimental club sounds that define his journey so far.

Together, they synthesize their artistry as AKA HEX, welding kinetic, bass-heavy rhythms to zig-zagging, sci-fi tinged soundscapes and mutant vocals. It's Devi's most dancefloor-focused material in years, and Slikback's most alien to date, bridging the chasm between avant-pop, experimental club and hallucinogenic ambience.

Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Artwork by nmr.cc

AKA HEX - Hex On Fire (Psychic Version)

Hello world <3
Here is an upcoming X-Ray LP with 13 tracks which has been written during the last 3 years. Its a big work for me and i'm very excited to present it to you.
Prolly its first ever deconstructed club literally edged on bones?
Forgotten and almost lost techic of cutting vinyls on x-rays films now is here to destruct the sounds of contemporary club.
First single "Selfie" is out now. Full release on 04.04.25.

Produced, composed and mastered by WULFFLUW XCIV.
Artworks and visuals by Sophie Nakonechnaia.