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LA-based electronic duo OOFJ are elated to announce the release of their sophomore album Acute Feast (April 21 on Ring The Alarm Records).

The brainchild of real-life couple Jenno Bjørnkjær and Katherine Mills-Rymer, the LA-based electronic duo OOFJ met in New York City while Bjørnkjær was working on music for Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia. This chance encounter developed into both a romantic and sonic chemistry that would eventually lead to the couple collaborating on music that formed the foundations of OOFJ.

Equal parts glamorous and nightmarish, with a glittery seductive tone to it, Acute Feast hints at the otherworldly, almost hyper-real world that OOFJ don’t just reside in, but have orchestrated.

Acute Feast

Sailor

This is my response to this weeks @naviar-records haiku challenge.

More information on this week's project here:

"whenever we meet
it’s raining
green walnuts"

Tanaka Hiroaki (1959–2004) was a Japanese poet from Osaka. A student of Hatano Sōha, he published many of his works in the journal Ao 青 (“Blue”), of which he became editor in 1979. In 2000, he founded his own journal, Yū ゆう.

Haiku by Tanaka Hiroaki (Italian)

Extract of picture by Kevin Wang

Submission deadline: 29th October 2025
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

we meet (naviarhaiku616)

Out September 9, 2016.

In Belleville Renderings Part I, Heathered Pearls pays homage to one of his childhood homes in Michigan as well as Detroit techno icons The Belleville Three. A chamber of echoes and delays introduces the track, while a deep bass motif propels it forward, and bright synths float across the driving beat. The release marks his third creative collaboration with his sister Martyna for Ghostly. Previously working together on the artwork for HP’s recent LP Body Complex and the Koivu shirt lines for The Ghostly Store, the remaining parts of the Belleville project will be realized through upcoming music and a cement installation series.

Heathered Pearls on tour with Tycho, dates here: http://ghostly.com/artists/heathered-pearls

Belleville Renderings Part I

Heathered Pearls - Belleville Renderings Part I

'Only Heaven ' EP Out Now -
AHOT / Stream / Download: https://coldcut.lnk.to/ohYo

Taken from ‘Only Heaven’ EP released 25th November 2016 on Ahead Of Our Time.

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Only Heaven

Coldcut - 'Quality Control Feat. Roots Manuva'

Our Keepsake

Experimental techno meets post-rock. SUMS knows how to combine dreamy analog sounds with bulky percussion elements. You can exclusively enjoy one of their new tracks and dive into another world.
 #SUMS #Berlin #Atonal

More information: https://i-d.vice.com/de_de/article/premiere-sums-budapest

SUMS

premiere: sums, budapest

Fontarrian - Wait For Me (Cuki Remix)

Kelpe - 'Midsommar'

Object Is A Navigator

Object is a Navigator

Preconscious
the mental function in which thoughts, ideas, emotions, or memories not in immediate awareness can be brought into the consciousness, usually through associations, without encountering any intrapsychic resistance or repression.

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Dear friends and listeners,
a few words about what this album 'preconscious' and its genesis.
His first title i chose for her perfect ability to define this place in mind which arise the emotions, then the senses images, stored in memory, accessible when the process of awareness.
At the base of the project, i chose the name of my son who was still 'in the pipeline', it is this impulse that i started to work: how to welcome and get ready myself at his coming. Then i felt the need to broaden the spectrum, about the conditions necessary for this coming, approaching love, trust, endurance. Desiring to do a 'fiction' i kept the title ‘arya’ only realistic trace of this birth. So i talk about these choices, those who gather and those who separate, the various crucial stages of a relationship, the desire to remain upright, prepare and keep his way, and that which is done to my family.
From my current location as well as the cultural and generational clash that every day i measure the size, i wanted to attempt a dialogue. it certainly there's much moral in this project and i fully assume. I have the ambition to share this aspect of my life with the generations that follow, the photographic and visual choices and some of the texts are illustration of it. And to go back to the preconscious, this need has been paired with this sudden realization.
Some may find this album less researched, less dense and much less dancing than before. As some of you know, i no longer recognize myself in this square of green that is music for clubbing. This format, nor its rationale doesn’t represent me at the moment. With this album, i take off, leaving the scene that brought me so she forced me. I do not know my next destination, but hope to see you there and hopes that you will find refuge in this latest opus as a welcoming and warm.

Regards 
Van Hai


Albatross (with Minski)

Taken from the album 'Dysnomia', released worldwide on June 1, 2015 through Erased Tapes.

Order it on 2x LP, CD and Download here:
www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP068
iTunes here: snip.ftpromo.net/dawnofmidi
Bandcamp: dawnofmidi.bandcamp.com 

With Dysnomia, the Brooklyn-based group Dawn of Midi made up of double bass player Aakaash Israni, pianist Amino Belyamani and drummer Qasim Naqvi abandon improvisation in favour of composition, utilising sophisticated rhythmic structures from North and West African folk traditions to weave a sonic tapestry of trance-inducing grooves. From close up one may see only dots, but when stepping back an undulating image reveals itself. “We didn’t want to create anything cerebral,” says Belyamani, “we wanted something visceral, something that would awaken our instinctive dance impulses.”

“We wanted to make a record that sounded both musically futuristic and sonically vintage,” explains Israni, “and since the album never saw a proper international release, it is very exciting to see what might happen when more people are exposed to it. And to be aligned with Erased Tapes, whose enthusiasm for the music they release has done a lot for exposing unique instrumental and electronic music, makes it that much more interesting.”

TRACKLIST / CREDITS:

1. Io 2. Sinope 3. Atlas 4. Nix 5. Moon 6. Ymir 7. Ijiraq 8. Algol 9. Dysnomia
Written by Amino Belyamani and Aakaash Israni.

NORTH AMERICAN PRESS:

“Stellar… at a loss for words” – Spin
“Something totally unprecedented” – Pitchfork
“Perverse in a good way” – The New York Times
“Brain-bending, seemingly impossible” – Rolling Stone
“Moving and addictive...a feat of innovation” – Interview Magazine
“A mysterious, vital sound with a pull all its own” – L.A. Times

MORE INFO:
www.dawnofmidi.com · www.erasedtapes.com


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Dysnomia Album trailer: https://vimeo.com/dawnofmidi/dysnomia

Algol (Dysnomia)

Channelled madness – the sound Dawn of Midi spent years shaping, culminating into their most mesmerising work yet

With Dysnomia, the Brooklyn-based group Dawn of Midi abandons improvisation in favour of composition, utilising sophisticated rhythmic structures from North and West African folk traditions to weave a sonic tapestry of trance-inducing grooves. From close up one may see only dots, but when stepping back an undulating image reveals itself. “We didn’t want to create anything cerebral,” says Belyamani, “we wanted something visceral, something that would awaken our instinctive dance impulses.”
Having met at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles in 2006, bassist Aakaash Israni, pianist Amino Belyamani and drummer Qasim Naqvi found their original rapport through late night tennis matches on the campus court. The chemistry they founded there eventually led them back indoors to improvise together; something they did in total darkness to deprive themselves of all their senses except the crucial one – their hearing.
The manner, by which a trio of solely acoustic instruments ends up sounding like electronic music, has to do with the unconventional ways the group play their instruments on Dysnomia. The record comes to life in the trio’s critically acclaimed live shows, a test of endurance and trust that involves performing their hand-looped acoustic minimalism note for note, just as the compositions were recorded. Dawn of Midi’s sets are as energetic and rhythmic as a seamlessly mixed DJ-set, mesmerising fans in the same way the group’s favourite experimental and electronic acts have for decades.
The album was recorded to 2-inch tape at Waterfront Studios in Hudson, New York - a former church that was purchased and transformed into an analogue recording playground by the great engineer Henry Hirsch. Once the band visited the studio and met Henry, an expert in analogue recording equipped with a vintage Helios console, 16 and 24-track tape machines and a superb collection of microphones, it was obvious they had to record there; it was miles ahead of anywhere else they had visited. Rusty Santos then mixed the album to make sure it would hit as hard as the group’s favourite electronic albums do in spite of it being entirely acoustic.
“We wanted to make a record that sounded both musically futuristic and sonically vintage,” explains Israni, “and since the album never saw a proper international release, it is very exciting to see what might happen when more people are exposed to it. And to be aligned with Erased Tapes, whose enthusiasm for the music they release has done a lot for exposing unique instrumental and electronic music, makes it that much more interesting.”

Dysnomia will be released worldwide on June 1st, 2015 through Erased Tapes – available on 2x LP, CD and Download.