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Infection

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ISD Party

Easter -  The Softest Hard

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https://youtu.be/auXnbSAvvD0

‘High Maintenance’ is a song that captures the dynamic between habitual impulses and mindful thought process - the eternal inner conflict that controls our movements and actions. The concept is manifested in a mesmerising video that sees black magnetic sand and a Japanese dancer (Takanori Kawaharada) reacting in a way that conveys the two conflicting energy forces. Despite its otherworldly appearance, the effect on screen (shot by Matan Balalty) is completely natural, analog and organic – symbolizing an important essence that runs through all of Noam’s productions. To achieve this, they experimented with powerful speakers and rare earth magnets, capturing the visual display of the pulses being sent through sand and how they translate into kinetic rhythms, shapes and textures.


Credits:
Lyrics by Noam Helfer & Mor Polanuer
Music and Vocals by Noam Helfer
Produced and Mixed by Noam Helfer & Roy Avital
Guitars, Synths and Programming by Roy Avital & Noam Helfer
Mastering by Barry Grint @ Alchemy Mastering

One by One

High Maintenance

Lover / Two Loves

Lover

Rabbit Hole

Thanks for listening <3 

Premiere: http://www.kaltblut-magazine.com/track-premiere-hanz-indifference/

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/hanzbeats
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HanzBeats

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Indifference

Anthem(We came from the Stars)

NKC - HD Anthem (EP)
ETS002
Release date: 26/03/2018

In 2016, NKC began Even the Strong with the intention of bringing together relatively new DJs and producers working at the crossover between tribal house, UK funky, dutch house, kuduro and other drum-heavy genres. Doing away with eclecticism, the idea was that the highly percussive 130bpm club sound that MM, NKC, Superficie, Tash LC, DJ JM and many others were playing and making would be tested, built up and developed in front of a solid crowd of dancers. At some point in the process, the term ‘hard drum’ emerged as a jokey shorthand for the sound, and has now firmly stuck. 

These three tracks were developed in 2016 and became set-staples at the parties. The title track ‘HD Anthem’ is just that - a hard drum anthem - combining rugged tribal house hits, tuned perx pushed just off the grid, and the rattle of chain-link fences. ‘Next Life’ centres around a hypnotic crash processed to an extreme crescendo, before breaking out into a brutal tom loop. ‘Codeine Crash’ samples the robotic dembow roll of Akito’s 2016 track Codeine Claps, phasing it and layering with hard cracks to create a whipped back groove. 

Artwork by 3000000000am and Nate James 
Mastered by Jeremy Cox

NKC - HD Anthem

TOXE — Blinks
Format: 12"/Digital
Cat.No: PAN 88
Release Date: 22 June 2018
Purchase: https://toxe.bandcamp.com/album/blinks

Swedish producer Toxe's sharp ascent through club-cursed climes has elicited the highest praise from the start. In just a few years she has linked up with Staycore and Halcyon Veil, presented an A/V project 
with The Vinyl Factory, and scored KENZO's FW 2016 prints presentation with close collaborator Mechatok. Her new EP 'Blinks' is a fractal bloom of candied melodies and minor laments set in a sweep of frenetic rhythmic scenes. 

Developed throughout last year, 'Blinks' journals a period of inward flux. And though this is never presented in an overtly self-conscious way on the EP, Toxe binds a sweet juvenilia with a bustling and eager pensive tone to outline her tessellating sense of self just below the surface. 

Meditative glimpses of soaring synthetic landscapes are woven across 'Blinks' in brief snatches. Awash in horrific and gripping fluorescent hues, these environments are augmented by a comically mischievous 
patchwork of voices and saccharine rasps that clamour for attention, hinting at Toxe's impulse to voice a simultaneous and unorganised set of experiences. 

The release is mastered by Jeremy Cox, featuring art by Jasper Spicero.

@to-xe
http://p-a-n.org

Blinks

Toxe – Honey Island (PAN 88)

CYPHR - Nautilus [YGK002]

Format: Digital/Single
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Cover: Whitney Wei
Mastered by: Jeremy Cox

Nautilius

CYPHR - Nautilus [YGK002]

'Vibrio', the debut release from Sydney producer SCAM (@scamscamscam), offers four love songs written for bacteria and molecules. Examining geosmin, luciferase, slime mold, mushrooms, THC, morphine and other companions, the EP zooms in on human encounters with our microscopic kin on Earth to explore the emotional terrain of inter-species and inter-chemical intimacies.
Sonically, 'Vibrio' injects OTT emotionality and TMI sentimentality into robust and playful rhythms. On EP opener 'Host' a floaty late-noughties R’n’B lead winds around a TED Talk snippet declaring our collective status as microbial hosts. 'Crumb', made with producer and vocalist @Seayams, contrasts the symbiotic beauty of bioluminescence with the biopolitical strategies of anti-injection blue light. Another Seayams collaboration - 'Tetra Crush' - narrativises the search for water and longing for rain so fundamental to our species as assisted by our long-term crush, geosmin (the bacteria that contributes to petrichor: the smell of rain). 'QQ' closes with bouncy drums over looping samples from Coil’s '5-Methoxy-N, N-Dimethyl- (5-MeO- DMT)' and 'Physarum Sonification', a recording of the bio-electrical activity of slime molds by Interspecifics — essentially an invitation for slime molds to come out on Friday.
A rose-tinted trip through oft-overlooked intimacies between us and our non-human collaborators in Life, 'Vibrio' suggests that these entanglements are every bit as flirtatious, devotional and co-dependent as our human relationships.

The EP was written and recorded on Darug and Gadigal land where sovereignty was never ceded. 'Vibrio' drops on Friday 12 October 2018
 
Cover photography and design by Oliver van der Lugt.

Vibrio

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SCAM - Host

bod [包家巷] 
The Recurrence Of Infections [复发感染] w/Flora Yin-Wong & M.D. James remixes
DN014
Format: digital album
Release Date: 7 December 2018
Buy: bit.ly/2JLszOm

Nicholas Zhu’s previous efforts as bod [包家巷] saw them folding context both online and off into palpable concepts like MoVA (Museum of Virtual Art) as well as sound pieces Advent of the Silicon Rain [硅雨来临] and Limpid Fear [清澈恐惧], released through Quantum Natives and KNIVES, respectively. Zhu’s music is primarily constructed through piano and voice, “performed” through active manipulation of a MIDI instruments and vocal recordings overlaid and situated in field recordings and soundtrack rips. The resulting world created reads as documentations or meta-considerations of the present moment, measurements of the experience of life through technologically informed sound design.

The latest bod [包家巷] work, entitled The Recurrence Of Infections [复发感染], is an elliptically sweet yet unsettling audio piece that conceptualizes a state of mind in “the quiet hours of laborious coping that fall into the areas between work and sleep.” It comes with additional sound and video supplements that "are components of the larger, continuous work that is living." The title refers to a series of health issues that they had while living in Los Angeles.

Zhu has stated in previous interviews that their practice in music is distinct from their art, citing “socioeconomic precarity” as a driving force behind their work. “I put my studio practice on hold specifically to work on music (for efficacy, music allows me to engage with people in a way that art can’t) knowing that meaning doesn’t translate, even when literally transcribed.”

The spacious desolation and emotional surges that are felt in the sound piece aren’t intended to impart meaning as much as expressing an affect, specifically attuned to the darker moments in one’s life when they are self-loathing, lost in unease and intense fear. The work varies from calm and polymorphous soundscapes to maximal onslaughts of noise and harmonies, each section stitched to the next as nonlinear, anecdotal chapters in a story of personal experience.

The Recurrence Of Infections [复发感染]

bod [包家巷] - The Recurrence of Infections [复发感染]

Tzusing / M.E.S.H. — Split
Format: 12"
Cat.No: PAN 95
Release Date: 19 February 2019 
Purchase: https://bit.ly/2U0NNMw

Tzusing and PAN mainstay M.E.S.H. join forces for a club-ready split EP, the first white label in a new series.

Limited to 300 copies, hand stamped, no repress.

This EP is mastered by Jeremy Cox

@m-e-s-h @tzusing
p-a-n.org

A2. Tzusing - The Whistle (PAN 95)

HELM - Chemical Flowers
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 99
Release Date: 17 May 2019
Purchase: https://bit.ly/2Uxqs9z / https://bit.ly/2UpJ0bA

Luke Younger returns to PAN with an eight-track album of his most direct work to date. Composed alone at NO studio in the Essex countryside, to start an album with a piece called ‘Capital Crisis (New City Loop)’ seems an intentional misnomer. Long, sustained periods in the rural studio setting see Younger working with an array of fragmented, disassociated sound sources to build upon 2015’s Olympic Mess. It shares a similarly inclined vision of the urban environment, but here Chemical Flowers makes reference to paradoxical notions of authenticity and creative practice by way of questioning the structures around us. Collages are assembled and dismantled, temporal and spatial boundaries fluctuate and movement is an overarching theme.

Surrealist drowned world atmospheres sculpted far enough away from the source of inspiration leave plenty of room for ambiguity. The nocturnal nature of the recording process is self-evident, and pieces like ‘Leave Them All Behind’ tap into a deep psychedelic undercurrent. Confused narratives, emotions and aleatory hallucinations ebb and flow throughout. ‘I Knew You Would Respond’ evokes murky soundtrack terrain with eerie repetitive strings and ambient respite, disrupted periodically by brief bursts of granular noise. It’s one of the records most unnerving moments, possibly as it’s one of the most recognisably human.

The album navigates dense passages with recurring signifiers. Hollow percussion, modulating delay and curious field recordings come and go, maintaining a perpetual state of flux where nothing stays the same for long. The drowned world theatricals return on the swamp-like ‘Lizard in Fear’ whilst string rhythms creep in on the penultimate track to incite momentary electroacoustic harmony. Floating synthesis slowly washes over and the title track unfolds - five minutes of reverb-laced portamento, visions of decay and Editions EG influenced
world-building. Movement is key.

Chemical Flowers features string parts arranged and recorded by JG Thirlwell (Foetus / Manorexia / Xordox). Additional cello played by Lucinda Chua and saxophone by Karl D’Silva. The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

http://p-a-n.org

bod [包家巷] - The Recurrence of Infections [复发感染]

Danse Noire