Isomov - In Theory (DECISIONS 016)

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Polina Khatsenka aka mʊdʌki is a Czechia-based sound artist, dj, event organiser and music producer from Minsk, Belarus. She has devoted her work to sound exploration since 2015. Her music production is arising from subconsciousness with an accent to authentic sound sources, author‘s recordings with usage of basic/primitive hardware, including DIY synths, all based on digital setup. Each type of performances of hers are amplified by improvisational methods with space for randomness left in order to make each show bear peculiar energy and provide the listener an intensive feeling of living the moment.

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Misty Picture - Startup
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UNIZONE: MƱDΛKI [s04e07]

To Mirka 

Nuclear decay occurs when the nucleus of an atom is unstable and spontaneously emits energy in the form of radiation. The result is that the nucleus changes into the nucleus of one or more other elements. These daughter nuclei have a lower mass and are more stable (lower in energy) than the parent nucleus. 

“Ábris Gryllus is a cross-disciplinary media artist and musician based in Budapest. He is well-known for several projects, collaborations and performative works with choreographers, sculptors, dancers and other musicians. As a tireless artist always open to new possibilities, Gryllus has worked on dance pieces, educational workshops and installations; he is one-half of the beat-oriented group FOR., and not least of all, he produces immersive electronic music under his own name. His solo materials include the frantic vocal-based ‘Canon’ (The Death of Rave) and two releases on Farbwechsel (‘Post_’, ‘A.D.’) that feature a rather focused, slowly forming approach to composition. 

‘Nucleus of the Decay’ shares the fundamental, carefully sculpting method that is prominent on the aforementioned Farbwechsel releases. This two-track EP is a conceptual piece that reflects on life-changing events, biological or chemical processes and the overall bipolarity that is encoded into the course of a lifetime. Both pieces of the album embody the duality of a living, organic texture and its transience: at times, it can be graceful and splendid, at other times it can be distressing and overwhelming. 

‘Parent I (with Thea Soti)’ is a gradually building opening track, starting with only a handful of audio channels of scratches, hisses and a high-pitched tone. In a smooth and subtle manner, the vocals of Soti then fade into the dense fabric of sounds that unfold, engaging in a plethora of expressions, supported by a bass progression resembling a chorale-like structure. ‘Parent II’ is centered around an instrumental piece, a string-like leitmotif surrounded by whispers and echoes that are bright and piercing, as well as light and cumbersome at the same time. 

‘Nucleus of the Decay’ offers a sonic world that admits the struggle and joy of reflecting on one’s presence, and sees the captivating yet eerie nature of the inevitable future. Working with both purely synthesized sounds and real-life voices, Gryllus’ first solo EP at EXILES invites us to a place that is warm and harsh all at once, dragging us into a swirling torrent of ethereal whitewater.” 

—Nemerov 

“(...) Ábris Gryllus, known for his performative works with choreographers, sculptors, and dancers, creates music of decay and resignation. Nucleus of the Decay is shorter than its 2020 predecessor AD, but similar in structure, with microsounds appearing against a backdrop of hauntological passages. The album is reminiscent of the work of Philip Jeck or The Caretaker, where he builds an ambient, spatial story among noises and loops reminiscent of post-classical synth layers. It is melancholic, sad, and alluring but also lyrical and seductive.” 

—Jakub Knera (The Quietus)

music by Ábris Gryllus* @abrisgryllus
digital mastering by Roland Nagy
vinyl mastering by Stefan Betke (pole) 
artwork by Renáta Szabó

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www.instagram.com/rnszab

*featuring
Thea Soti – Vocals (Parent I)

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Ábris Gryllus – Parent I (with Thea Soti)

Meet endorphxne Paris-based DJ, producer, and artist. With tracks ranging from lullaby sounds to mumble rap, expect a crazy narrated journey with a bitter-sweet touch.

TRACKLIST
ELI_0 -serenity // OQBQBO - eavesdropping // ? - Godspeed // PREMIERE BLOOMFELD - solid  (lobster theremin) // LADY GAGA - love game // MEAT COMPUTER - eyes wide shout // OLIVER TREE & ROBIN SCHULZ - Miss You  // LOKEY - inverse // KODAK BLACK - Roll in Peace // ICE SPICE X  NY DRILL SAMPLE TYPE BEAT -  If I Was Your Girl // CUTE DOOR - Drool // ? -catalist // LATTO FEAT. GLORILLA & GANGSTA BOO - FTCU  // ANEED - Muma Loves This // DJ ROC - Make Crack Like Dis // BROOKLYN BOUNCE - Rave Hard // YOUNG THUG - Best Friend // NARDO WICK · G HERBO · LIL DURK · 21 SAVAGE - Who Want Smoke?? // ? - ? // SALEM - frost // DOON KANDA - Bloodlet (Animistic Beliefs Remix) // ? - lost // LUCIDBEATZ - let u go // ICE SPICE - in ha mood // PRTCLE - hellookitty! // ? - palace

KNOW YOUR LOCAL w/ endorphxne (14/03/23)

New episode of our 'Bad Habits' show on @lyl_radio with a guest mix by @sassssscha and @loftgarten!

In this mix @sassssscha and @loftgarten (co-founder of @nia-records) drives you deep down the deconstructed club with glitches, disrupted canons and bubblegum wrapper towards reverberative ambiences of flutes and synths. Comment for track ID's.

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La Non-Dansante accueille Valeska, artiste et DJ venue de Leipzig, dont la musique émotive accompagne le lent et long chemin de l'introspection. Au cœur de l'intime, elle nous invite à confronter nos émotions les plus brutes dans la mélancolie d'un jour sans soleil.

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A Decadent Overture: "A Loppy Lesson" Emerges to Evoke the Unspeakable

Prepare to plunge into the abyss of the senses as DECISIONS ushers forth "A Loppy Lesson," an unfettered odyssey born from the twisted genius of Loppy B. A seductive successor to the duo’s initial Lament, this auditory indulgence blooms forth as the sinister full-length offspring of their musings, beckoning connoisseurs of the unconventional to teeter on the precipice of the forbidden and drink deep from the chalice of crooked club gear.

From the arcane crucible of Soft Centre 2022, where Loppy B did take stage to craft a musical tale of sublime enchantment, the wretched seeds of "A Loppy Lesson" were sown. Each track emerges from the obsidian mists of this encounter—a transcendent rite that blurred the lines between reality and debauched fantasy.

“The dank, the foetid, the animistic”—Loppy B's artistic ethos unfurls like a fragile secret. Forsaking the anemic gloss of festival anthems, they bask instead in the squalid muck and primordial thrum deep in the bowels of the dance. Here, sonic sprites are born from overdriven sub frequencies that cavort with tricksterish volition, instigating an aural pandemonium that sluices through the listener's very soul.

But ah, the titular "Loppy Lesson," a revelation bestowed upon the duo during a dancefloor reverie at the cusp of dawn. A truth unveiled—a visceral testament to the paradoxical beauty that emerges from the putrid and the sublime, the repulsive and the resplendent—a revelation that courses through the album's fair eddies and foul gyres.

And what visual feast accompanies this decadent audial offering? The veil between the tangible and the ephemeral shivers, as photographic fragments of digital conception entwine with the elegance of hand-cut lino prints. An ocular riddle forged by Loppy B’s very own hands, a mirror reflecting the album's descent into oneiric depths.

As twilight stretches its sinuous fingers and the stars illuminate the paths of deviants and seekers, "A Loppy Lesson" emerges—a sonic grimoire waiting to be unsealed. Surrender yourself to its forbidden harmonies, and let the arcane currents of Loppy B's creation unravel the boundaries of sonic ecstasy.

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Futurist electronics from stars of the Chinese underground, presented monthly by Shanghai-based label & scene linchpins SVBKVLT. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/svbkvlt/episodes/svbkvlt-19th-october-2023

Svbkvlt w/ Alex Wang 191023

Preorder 'In Theory' and get WaVeLeT now: https://isomov.bandcamp.com/album/in-theory

DECISIONS is pleased to finally unleash ‘In Theory’ by NYC-based polymath @isomov, whose bio follows, in their own words:

“Isomov began as a project to explore the perspective of the ‘Automatic Computer’ from Asimov’s ‘The Last Question’ — the omniscient entity. At the time I was studying a lot of quantum information theory and was probably the most depressed I’ve ever been in my life; I dreamt of escaping my finite reality into the unending world of information. After graduating from University with a degree in mathematics, I’ve spent five years working as an art-world freelancer in Brooklyn. I work almost exclusively on the computer: rendering, arduinos, websites; I even tutor through webchat. On the one hand, my informatic intimacy has kept me largely alienated from physical reality, trapped in obtuse theory. On the other hand it has helped me to slowly reify as a non-binary cyborg goddess, a devout humanist obsessed with the practical affect of aesthetics. 
For me, the internet has been a tool for gaining empathy through its ability to host and distribute diverse perspectives. The more my body has dissolved into the virtual, the more I have been able to resimulate the emotional experiences of others. I am now interested in how we move beyond a theory of utopia to the project of a protopia, always working to make tomorrow a little better. I’ve looked towards quantum information theory to help to understand and reconcile the seemingly infinite spectrum of realities we call our universe. This is the new vision of Isomov.”

‘In Theory’ sets divergent impulses in motion, animating superheated exchanges between order and entropy, flesh and code. ‘Origin, Emergence, and The One’ is a false utopia where differing cultures come together in restless harmony despite their aesthetic differences: frictious dancehall percussion and grandiose choral washes parry and twine, constantly threatening to subsume the other. ‘Hoping Mechanisms’ takes place at the critical point of identification, when the named object of perfection becomes a radical dystopia of conflicting binaries. Rarely have we heard kicks so exuberantly scattered or bass so charred — Uncanny Valley rendered as a scorched, inhospitable territory. ‘Ensemble’ shows the reality of a cyborg beyond binaries, the coexistence of a fictional ideology with the chaos of lived reality. A panicked voice is met with grounding sub bass, over which a superposition of arpeggiated chords glide. An emergent meter forms through an unseen grid before everything chaotically decoheres, revealing its ultimate fragility. ‘Wavelet’ is an attempt to describe the emergent and chaotic self through convolution and principal component decomposition. Identity is revealed via dizzying arrays of Moire patterns as rhythms slide over one another under liquefying bass pulses.
‘Memory Loops’ grapples with the inherent traumas present in any stochastic system, the vestigial remnants of code in everything’s DNA. We never escape reliving the consequences of these boundary conditions which define the historical trajectory of becoming.
‘In Theory’ conjures a hologram of emergence, an ecology of a self attempting to overcome each passing moment’s complexities in a bid for metastability. Oscillating fervently between the human and non-human, the EP offers riches for both cerebral listening and large soundsystem bodywork.

A limited edition physical release of ‘In Theory’ will be available in the form of a WiFi-enabled interactive visualizer trapped in a small holographic sculpture. The sculpture is handcrafted and coded by Isomov, and will retail exclusively on Bandcamp.

Cover artwork by Isomov and Oliver van der Lugt

Isomov - WaVeLeT

New-york based artist Isomov uses complex sonics to explore the virtual world and infinite realities on their new project, ‘In Theory’. Hear the erratic bass and meticulously scattered kicks on ‘HOPiNG MECHANiSMS’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-isomov-hoping-mechanisms

In Theory

Premiere: Isomov 'HOPiNG MECHANiSMS'

Isomov - Memory L∞ps

Isomov - Ensemble

Isomov - Origin, Emergence, and The One

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Isomov - Memory L∞ps

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