new 2CD by dave phillips: should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let him resolutely pursue a solitary course; there is no fellowship with the fool / cicada trance (gatefold sleeve, edition of 200, released by no part of it)

dave phillips' trajectory as an experimental recording artist began in the mid-80s, with a punk background that expanded to wilder and more nuanced territories as a solo artist.

having utilized field recordings, both raw and arranged, for over 20 years, not to mention his well-established work with bombastic body sounds, surrealist strings, and tribal percussion, phillips has honed his use of source material in a way that comes off more as a soldier's sense of duty than anything resembling a hobby. with "should a seeker... / cicada trance", he returns with two badly needed physical issues of integral field recording-based pieces that were previously only available for digital download.

"should a seeker..." was initially published as a digital release on the radical matters label in 2008. it is a structured arrangement of sounds with reptilian, amphibian, and insectan origin, remastered for physical release in 2023. for over 56 minutes, gurgles, primal roars, and screams from creatures of the night swirl in and out of the stereo spectrum in complex, yet somewhat rhythmic patterns, for an almost hyperreal effect.

the main insect featured in "cicada trance" is the first one that drew dp to another world, through its sound. imagine these singing ringing cicadas create trance states. like being high on life, ultimately immersed in the present moment: immersion - to be part of something.

recorded in thailand, vietnam, indonesia and south africa between 1994 and 2015.

cicada trance is dedicated to the most important beings on this planet: insects.

should a seeker... / cicada trance

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Final Planet #5 (29/10/21)

IDA Radio: Changeless w/ Exploited Body & APEAK - 3rd November 2021

Tracklist:

APEAK

Canadian Rifles  - Lessons On Shells
Envélope Cruz - Chariots
City & i.o - Catacomb ft. Dis Fig
Blackhaine - Saddleworth
SKD - Nekurzeme (3.14 remix)
Helm - Moskito
Valentin Ginies - ATU
Alredna - Octa 3
H2OP - Highest In The Room
antechamber - On the Borders of Shadow
Presha - The Spell
Death Bells - Intruder
Rafael - No More Damage
Romance Relic & lil rhiz0me - Untitled

Exploited Body

Flora Yin-Wong - The Sacrifice (ft. Adam Sherry)
himukalt - the pig is crying out
FRKTL - Scene V: Aphercotropism
Only Now - Vision Through (ft. Kamaljeet Ahluwalia)
LOFN - Child In Chains
Sectra - A Demon In My View
E-Saggila - 83C
Capiuz - Frozen Lake
KAVARI - Healing Spring
The Undertaker's Tapes - Lethal Beliefs
FAKETHIAS & Lala8 - Premium Defects
Scalameriya - Kneel! (2021 Re.Set Mix)
Spiritual Voices - Soul Catcher VIP
Exploited Body - Nothing Personal
Cursal - Conduit (AXKAN Remix)
Raiden - Habitat 67 (Sorcery Remix)
Batu - Go Deeper
_mass - dxscord
Walton - Dread III

@exploitedbody
@apeak

IDA Radio: Changeless w/ Exploited Body & APEAK - 3rd November 2021

The ‘Emergence’ series was the first fully-fledged project of Bella Ursa's head honcho @letherique , aimed at experimenting with the boundaries of his many influences – no matter if its techno, disco, electro, or ambient. It helped forge his identity through much trial and error and ultimately led to the creation of the Bella Ursa imprint.

As now is the time to finally move forward in peace, we thought it would be nice to release a mixtape compiling all these early works, along with a few extra and unreleased tracks. To make this collection complete, he entrusted many of his friends met over the years with each producing a remix of their choice. Harnessing the power from a multitude of different scenes, ‘Emergence Remixed’ offers a brand-new journey into uncharted horizons, where Morodesque disco meets mind-altering electro-jazz and cinematic delights reminiscent of Lalo Schifrin’s soundtracks.
It will be released digitally on all platforms, but also on a cassette inside a beautiful smoked UV printed case, which assembles with the first part of the collection.

Phase 1 of the Bella Ursa mothership is now complete.

Artist: Ppaulus
Title: Ursa Minor
Label: @bellaursa
Release date : January 22nd
Purchase: https://bellaursa.bandcamp.com/album/emergence-remixed

● 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙏𝙐𝘽𝙀

𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙚 : Letherique - Ursa Minor (Ppaulus Remix)

German Army (@german-army) is a duo from the San Gabriel Valley. Born between Sydney Possuelo and Paulo Freire, this project is as prolific and productive as it is shrouded in mystery.
Characterised by a certain amount of experimentation aimed at sound collage, the most industrial plunderphonics and the darkest noises, the enigmatic Californian collective has accustomed us to a certain variability of musical genres, but also, without a doubt, to an unquestionably high level of quality and a perennial dark emotional component, which reveals itself in an exquisitely overbearing way in their work.

'Then is Now' certainly doesn't spare itself in this, gently dragging us (but with no way out) into a dreamlike and post-apocalyptic scenario. The air is rarefied, the atmosphere terribly poisonous; noisy organic references blend with ruined urban components. A constant tension takes over our bodies during this muddy, murky sonic journey.

Time is the merciless executioner, the place the poor sacrificial victim.

Digital + Cassette. 
Buy: afloodedneed.bandcamp.com/album/then-is-now

German Army - Obsolete Connections

a short excerpt off new hour long piece of  ringing singing piercing insect psycho acoustics

about:

the main insect featured here is the first one that drew me to another world, through its sound. a piercing high ringing frequency that seems to go on and on, often alternating with a slower, winding kind of motion, until the sound rises, peaks and drones again. some of these cycles are short, a minute or two a round, others seem to go for an hour, their winding down phase often partly silent; many play in 10 to 20 minute cycles. their song can differ from one region to the other, like dialects. their sound can be heard for miles. it’s ear-splitting loud when you’re close.

i’ve been wanting to do this piece for a long time, maybe since i returned from my first half year in thailand, early 1995. one recording herein is from then.

mostly i don’t see these musicians. many locals all over south east asia told me that these are cicadas. a few others gave other names. i never verified any further. i hear individuals and tribes, not really species. besides, there are all sorts of sonic individuals in these recordings, and i don’t think they care much about what we call them.

recorded in thailand, vietnam, indonesia and south africa, most of these are daytime sonic activities, one is nocturnal. all play in hot climates, frequently during the hottest time of day. two are desert inhabitants (kgalagadi), the others live in the humid heat of tropical rainforests.

i often wonder what goes on in these creatures when they’re playing. when they sing or stridulate, or whatever you want to call it, it’s vibration, it’s ongoing, repetitive. it’s being in the very immediate here and now. the common scientific explanation is “mating call” (another scientific favourite is “territorial call”). this may explain one of many reasons, but reasons apart from “functional” ones seem excluded.

i could imagine these singing ringing cicadas create trance states. like being high on life, ultimately immersed in the present moment and their immediate surroundings and celebrating it. maybe their sound creates altered states of consciousness also in other beings.

immersion - to be part of something

assembled jun ’21 - jan ’22 in zug and brugg, switzerland
dedicated to the most important beings on this planet - insects
alternate headphone listening is recommended
www.davephillips.ch

cicada trance (excerpt)

Kolben

Galactic Funk co-founder Bertram lands on Dead Channel with his debut EP Kibra Cadena. Literally translated as ‘break chains’ in Aruban creole, and broadly referencing the breaking of colonial chains of imperial oppression, this six track EP of tense, brooding rhythms is driven and gritty. Spanning mutated psychedelic dub, Giallo-tinged cinematix, frenzied insidious acid, and methodically churning crispers, this stunning work is singular in its execution and focused in its vision. Visceral, heady, and relentless, this dark, genre-defying gem is a tour de force in sonic mastery.

Releases on limited cassette and digital March 18, 2022.

@bertram-croes
@galactic-funk-amsterdam
Mastering by @kfrey
Artwork by Brian Drabant

www.deadchannelrecords.com/
www.instagram.com/dead__channel/
www.facebook.com/dead.channel.records/
www.discogs.com/label/2023500-Dead-Channel-Records

Bertram - Future Surveillance [DC014] (Snippet)

As a result of Russia’s cruel invasion of Ukraine, the lives of millions have turned from living in peace to instability and fear, facing attacks and occupation. In order to help the people of Ukraine, we release this compilation album to raise funds to United Help Ukraine – a charitable non-profit organization for medical aid and humanitarian relief for the front lines. All income we receive from sales of this V/A goes to support their work.

unitedhelpukraine.org
credits
released March 7, 2022

DDC05

Mastered by A.P (GS Mastering & Post)

Art Direction / Artwork: Daniel Jani (Studio Jetski)
A&R, Executive-Producer: Max Sinclair
Text: Gábor Gyulai

Sheva

Co-founder of Sons of Traders, Berlin based TANS debuts on Dead Channel with this collection of darkened acid electro and analog broken-beat heaters. Stripped-down percussion, raw gut-punch basses, occult vocalisms, and unsettling atmospherics that linger in the shadows meld seamlessly together in this blighted jewel. Not to be missed!
credits

Releases on limited cassette and digital May 13, 2022

@tans-1
Mastering by @kfrey
Design by Brian Drabant

www.deadchannelrecords.com/
www.instagram.com/dead__channel/
www.facebook.com/dead.channel.records/
www.discogs.com/label/2023500-Dead-Channel-Records

Tears on the Host

TANS - The Priest's Morsel [DC015] (Snippet)

Fucking Shit Show [SONS OF TRADERS] [14.04.2022]

Phosphene w/ Granite Mask - Nov 4th 2022

NEW 2CD by dave phillips: should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let him resolutely pursue a solitary course; there is no fellowship with the fool / cicada trance (released by no part of it)

dave phillips' trajectory as an experimental recording artist began in the mid-80s, with a punk background that expanded to wilder and more nuanced territories as a solo artist.

having utilized field recordings, both raw and arranged, for over 20 years, not to mention his well-established work with bombastic body sounds, surrealist strings, and tribal percussion, phillips has honed his use of source material in a way that comes off more as a soldier's sense of duty than anything resembling a hobby. with "should a seeker... / cicada trance", he returns with two badly needed physical issues of integral field recording-based pieces that were previously only available for digital download.

"should a seeker..." was initially published as a digital release on the radical matters label in 2008. it is a structured arrangement of sounds with reptilian, amphibian, and insectan origin, remastered for physical release in 2023. for over 56 minutes, gurgles, primal roars, and screams from creatures of the night swirl in and out of the stereo spectrum in complex, yet somewhat rhythmic patterns, for an almost hyperreal effect.

the main insect featured in "cicada trance" is the first one that drew me to another world, through its sound. i imagine these singing ringing cicadas create trance states. like being high on life, ultimately immersed in the present moment: immersion - to be part of something. 

recorded in thailand, vietnam, indonesia and south africa between 1994 and 2015.

cicada trance is dedicated to the most important beings on this planet: insects.

should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal... (xcerpt)

sound as communication in direct and primal form, a language, a tool of metaphysics, a conscience, a consciousness. works that oppose the omnipresent restriction and reduction of life, to activate primordial shared emotions otherwise hidden under the debris of this crumbling civilisation. inviting rumination, encouraging intervention, endorsing catharsis & environmental e/quality, touching sentience, cleansing. audio de/construction, psycho-acoustics, sound rituals, sonic activism, humanimalism; ritual protest music to heal homo sapiens out of its infancy.

solo works since 1987. 
part of SCHIMPFLUCH-GRUPPE (with Rudolf Eb.er, Joke Lanz, Marc Zeier, Daniel Löwenbrück etc.) since 1991.

projects present and past include OHNE, dead peni, perverts in white shirts, PK, ketsu no ana, fear of god & more;  collaborations with G*Park, Francisco Meirino, Randy Yau, Hiroshi Hasegawa, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Chris Galarreta, Masonna & more; ScHimpfluch Associates label with Rudolf Eb.er etc blablabla

contact/booking dp@tochnit-aleph.com

cicada trance (excerpt)

dave phillips

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