xquisite releases is proud to present ‘changing of the guard’, a 4 track ep by Ghostlore of Britain (Sarah Rosamond Hartnett and Kieron Livingstone). @user-698004474

Through psychic drift they conjure the spectral sounds of the landscape: paranoid drum n bass, heart broken rnb, and the droning choral winds of the estuary.

Ghostlore of Britain - Frodens

trngs on Ma3azef ft. Fausto Mercier

video soon maybe
enjoy xoxo
update: no video for this one lololol

unravel

⸙ unravel ⸙

2020-2021
full album: https://formforum.bandcamp.com/album/until-some-process-takes-care-of-me
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deskulling - Until Some Process Takes Care of Me

Guest mix series curated by septembers PYUK EDP resident MARAws (@wsmara_archive)

graphic design by Sonechko (@yavdomike)

it's dj natasha lapidaria (@yavdomike) with the third mix of the guest mix series!  

Tracklist:

Sergei Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kijé
ohyung - fucking pretty 
yeongrak - nothing to connect to here
𝓂𝒶𝓇𝓎 𝓅❀𝓈𝒶 - Tu Sonrisa (fo Elvis) 
pendovka - dududu acrobatics
ehh hahah - bez powodu 
INUIT - 5_Osor
French Kettle Station - The Gate [Slagwerk]
Mårble - У́ТВАРЬ / UTENSIL
loto retina - Build a Snowman (Crazy Remix) 
Michelle Olczak - za dużo

[guestmix03] dj natasha lapidaria

Yikii - Crimson Poem 深紅之詩
Cat. Nr: DN020
Format: LP (marbled) / DL
Release Date: October 1st, 2021
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/Yikii

Yikii’s Crimson Poem 深紅之詩 exists at the foggy threshold where dreams become nightmares. The Changchun-based Chinese producer has released over 20 albums and mini-albums in her relatively short career, but none of them resonate with the same trembling intensity as this latest LP. “It’s the closest to the colour and atmosphere of the new world I imagined, compared to the previous albums,” says Yikii about the relative completeness of what could be described as her first proper full-length. It takes its cue from a particular interest in linear time, where Yikii asks, "if we can meet with the wonders of this world, will there be a new beginning in the next, or will it all fall apart?"

Crimson Poem 深紅之詩 consistently plays with this tension. There’s the rising dread of a hollow hand drum and other traditional instruments knocking up against each other, before they swell into waves of rising choral patches and layered, off-tune chanting on “Five Layers Of Crimson Snow 五重絳雪”. Then there’s the lonely piano and flute that weaves through its own resonance before exploding into noise and dissonance on “Phantasmagoria! 千燈幻景”. These, along with the drunken waltz to close “Liminal Space 虛與實”, echo the eerie fade of a psychological horror.

Inspired by ambient, gabber and post-club; contemporary composition, avant-pop and nursery rhymes, Crimson Poem 深紅之詩 is Yikii’s most complete manifestation of her ongoing creative focus on “sadness and despair in hazy beauty". It’s the surreal sound of a kind of trance-like, in-between state, a hypnagogia that’s not to be confused with the washy psychedelia of ‘hypnagogic pop’. The music here is instead detailed and intentional, with a dark-light chiaroscuro created by the shadows of a haunted gothic. “They are always one step ahead of others in digging deeper into the spiritual realm,” Yikii explains, citing dark fantasy games like Fatal Frame, Fran Bow, and Little Misfortune as aesthetic inspirations.

Initially intended to be an album of mainly microtonal music and special tunings, Crimson Poem 深紅之詩 has become more of an exercise in world-building rather than straight up music making. There’s an anxious beauty here, where destructive noise meets delicate atmospheres that build and bloom. “I want to create my own world through music and drawings, which exists in a separate time and space, and if I leave, you can still feel my existence through them. From there you can experience a whole world that is alive.”

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Photography by Yikii, design by Niels Wehrspann

@yikii

Crimson Poem 深紅之詩

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CLAM010 | JENNN - UNCAGED, UNLIMITED

"a long awaited escape..."

https://clam-pressure.bandcamp.com/album/clam010-uncaged-unlimited

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CLAM010 | JENNN - UNCAGED, UNLIMITED

"a long awaited escape..."

https://clam-pressure.bandcamp.com/album/clam010-uncaged-unlimited

@jennjennnnjenn

WWW.CLAM.LIFE

Yikii - -47 °C

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