We’re launching a new line of catalogue of more immediate temporality. Starting with Marissa Malik aka Manuka Honey.

“Industrial Princess”, Manuka Honey’s debut EP embodies her striking but mystic persona. Torn between nostalgia and uninhibited futurism, Industrial Princess is laced with nods to abandoned rave sound, recontextualised by Manuka Honey’s signature Latin rhythms and disregard for any genre-defining conventions. Underpinning the EP is an ominous feeling of distress and discomfort that Manuka Honey is renowned for, designed to provoke clubs into anxious frenzies and heightened bodily reactions.

Manuka Honey - Industrial Princess

In ‘Next Life’ the ashes of Tzusing’s tracks are reanimated by some of his favorite producers.

Tzusing & Hodge - LCD (Estoc's TFW Your Name Is Written On The Ostrakon Remix)

With its Compilado Vol. 1, the Sevillian collective Rawa Club draws lines between Andalusian and Latin American club scenes.

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PREMIERE: European Canon - Manteca (Rawa Club)

Another fierce release from the chief purveyors of mutant dembow, this time courtesy of Ecuadorian collaborators, PVSSY and Entrañas.
 
Something crept up her legs, enveloped her torso and prickled her neck right to her fingertips. A sensation she wasn't familiar with, one that caught her by surprise - mostly at the fact that she enjoyed it. She knew she was flushed but she didn't feel embarrassed. In fact, quite the opposite. She felt an urge she'd never felt, to take off her clothes and do nothing but stand, absorbing the energy that radiated from the open mouths of those whose eyes met the image of her body. Was this what it meant to feel empowered? 

Taken from 4-track 'Fervor' EP, 'Manía' sticks closely with the industrial, hard-hitting mutated-dembow sound now synonymous with the Colombian imprint, TraTraTrax. With previous releases from the likes of Nicola Cruz, Nick León and Luca Durán whose fiercely forward-facing and idiosyncratic takes on perreo have been reimagined as amapiano by Ikonika, a leftfield roller by Simo Cell and fierce breaks by Henzo, 'Fervor' maintains the principle of global collaboration with remixes from South African Hakuna Kulala associate, Menzi, and Uruguayan NAAFI affiliate, Lechuga Zafiro.

Next up on the catalogue comes a contribution from long-time collaborators both hailing from Ecuador, PVSSY and Entrañas. Off to a militant start - quite literally - razor-sharp whiplash effects jolt 'Manía' into action before mellowing somewhat with the introduction of bass throbs and epic-sounding melody. That's not to say that the track's force is dampened, though: their sharpness is integrated into a full-bodied soundscape amongst demonic vocal chops and the warning signs of long-drawn-out synth reverbs.

Fervor

PREMIERE: PVSSY and Entrañas - Manía [TraTraTrax]

Taken from SBKT049: Osheyack - Intimate Publics
Release date: 8th June 2022

Intimate Publics, Osheyack’s second album, is an homage to Shanghai, the city he has called home since 2012. Over the past ten years the producer has evolved from an avid club-goer to a key member of the vital soundscape that emerged from ALL Club and its predecessor, the now defunct club The Shelter. As hinted by the title, which draws on American social theorist Michael Warner’s work on publics and counterpublics, the album expresses a commitment to mining the utopian potential of club music, forging new worlds and generating future social relations, just as the artist bids farewell to the city at a moment of uncertain transition. While tracks like 'Edging' and 'Thrall' continue to present his signature collage of harder club music, the rest of the record reveals a shift to synthetic approximations of acoustic instruments. 'Still', the central track of the album, is a piece composed almost entirely of samples found on Vocaloid (a vocal synthesizer developed by Yamaha, commonly used to give voice to Japanese virtual idols). While echoing themes explored in previous projects, like the nature of realism and authenticity in a techno-mediated landscape, Intimate Publics is charged with an unexpected emotional candor and vulnerability, unveiling a personal side Osheyack is only beginning to explore.

Words by Alvin Li
Artwork by Xiaofei Qiu
Design by Luke Griffiths
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Intimate Publics

Osheyack - Thrall

The enigmatic artist offers us a utopian project for a newborn communist country pictured in Isotopia, a mysterious sound manifesto blending Afro-Caribbean traditional sounds with contemporary electronics, to be released on Paris via Brussels imprint Promesses.

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PREMIERE: Negro Dinero - Paternalismo cultural (Promesses)

@elirrealveintiuno - Irrealidades
Format: Digital
Release: March 31st, 2023

Irrealidades is the new album from Mexican scene stalwart Bryan Dálvez, El Irreal Veintiuno on Infinite Machine. Although his reputation is well-established at home through EPs and tracks on NAAFI, Subreal and Infinite Machine itself, Irrealidades comes across as his boldest and most cohesive statement yet.

The album is a kaleidoscopic survey of Mexico’s rich sonic landscape, as well as an ambitious attempt to encompass the country’s historical becoming: from the rich, imagined sounds of pre-hispanic times to its current war-torn reality.

But an academic pursuit this isn’t and this is still very much music for the body. From the get-go, drums burn and rhythms gallop; sharp, aggressive synths insist and prod. Un respiro, the album’s mid-point gives us exactly that, a breather, albeit an emotionally charged one. Soon enough the second half of the record returns to polyrhythmic fury and ravey turbulence. We reach fever pitch on closer Minorías, envisioned by Bryan as a sonic representation of the eschaton: “the last track is merely the end of everything”.

Throughout the record disjointed voices loop endlessly before managing to articulate a single intelligible word. Maybe, Irrealidades seems to say, we are also caught in a loop, unable to break out from the cycle of violence and marching irredeemably (but with healthy curiosity) into The End, when Quetzalcóatl makes his glorious return.

Irrealidades

El irreal Veintiuno - Retiembla (IM101)

Cat No: MATERIA07
Title: Magnetic Field
Artist: @tsumutsumu
Label: Materia 
Release: 6th September 2019

1. Magnetic Field	
2. Industrial Ecosystem
3. Coup
4. Dominator
5. C4

Magnetic Field

T5UMUT5UMU - Coup

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Sumerge tus sentidos en esta nueva terapia de baile de riesgo para sanar el espíritu a 150 BPMS. Tu capacidad celular se verá restablecida por default a través de estas dos piezas claves de experimentación musical. ¡Supera los límites de lo trascendental a la velocidad del taquión!

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Immerse your senses in this new risky dance therapy to heal the spirit at 150 BPMS. Your cellular capacity will be established by default through these two musical experiences. Push the limits of the transcendental at the speed of the tachyon!


Tachyon Particles Clup Pack
Produced by @siumata & @amorsatyr
Mastered by @imaabs

Artwork by Jusomor

Tachyon Particles

@iamquestionmarc

CLUB CHAI Vol. 2 is a collection of tracks by artists whose work truly embodies the Club Chai ethos that exists in storytelling through sound. As we close out the label, this release remains a lustrous perspective on the future.

Alongside the compilation, the Club Chai Archive book is out today on our Bandcamp. You can preorder the book alongside the digital release of the compilation for a bundled price of $35 ($15 for the compilation and $25 for the book).

The archive book is a culmination of all the moving parts that make up Club Chai at once – a way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. A way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. How do we remember and archive something that is really made up of a fleeting feeling? Being on the dancefloor with friends, singing in unison or zoning out in complete bliss. It feels right to create something physical that can be held, touched and encountered slowly and 
carefully. Making this book entirely with friends makes it feel even more intimate and special. 

Mastering: 8ULENTINA & Lara Sarkissian

Artwork credits:
Photo: Lara Sarkissian & 8ULENTINA
Textile: 8ULENTINA
Artwork edits & processing: Jessika Khazrik
 
Club Chai Book Design:
Art and Design Direction: Azha Luckman @azhaayanna 
& Peter Dolezilek @topchef_allstars

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quest?onmarq - Eye Of The Spiral

Some more snare porn in the vein of some of the drum tracks I've released in the past.

Buy on my Bandcamp: https://davequam.bandcamp.com/album/snare-screams

Mastered by Rafael Fauria

Snare Screams

FKA Massacooramaan. Booking, inquires, demos: massacooramaan@gmail.com

Greasemania Vol 4 out now on Bandcamp

https://davequam.bandcamp.com/album/greasemania-vol-4

Snare Screams

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