Artist: Giant Claw
Album: Mirror Guide
Format: Digital / Vinyl
Release: May 7 or 14, 2021

Music by Keith Rankin
Visual art by Ellen Thomas and Keith Rankin
Mastered by Starkey

Artist Statement:

I have been recording Mirror Guide off and on since my previous album Soft Channel came out in 2017, working on pieces in my spare time while co-running Orange Milk Records and trying to make a living as a freelance visual artist. 

I wanted Mirror Guide to feel less frenzied than some of my previous music, and decided to use a hyperreal string sound as a lead instrument the rest of the sounds could orbit around. I improvised long stretches with the digital instrument and picked moments that elicited some emotional response in me as the foundation for each piece. It helped to imagine a small synthetic ensemble playing every additional part, considering the choices an individual might make if they were focused primarily on their instruments’ role within the group. 

In my improvised sessions I also gravitated towards what I called a ‘bouncing ball’ rhythm - later described to me as an exponential rhythmic sequence. After thinking about how genres often center around a core rhythmic pattern I adopted the sequence as another consistent feature for the album. 

In the past I’ve cut up pop acapellas as vocal elements, but on Mirror Guide decided to work with several artists I had come to know from three very different music scenes. I traveled to Pittsburgh for a few days and recorded with vocalist Tamar Kamin (from the band the Van Allen Belt) generating hours of improvised and lightly prepared melodic material that I later edited into several songs. I also incorporated more poetic almost spoken word vocals from Japanese musician and photographer NTsKi and a small segment of screeching moans from fellow Ohioan Diana Gruber. 

More generally I found inspiration from artists like Paul Lansky, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and the range of emotion in the music of Geinoh Yamashirogumi Orchestra, best known for scoring the Akira soundtrack which is a longtime favorite. I was also encouraged to complete Mirror Guide through conversations with the late composer, tape collage pioneer, and friend Noah Creshevsky, who gave me several boosts of confidence after hearing early versions of the music.

Giant Claw - Thousand Whys (vocals: Tamar Kamin & Diana Gruber)

@ytem's experimental style blends influences from electronic and classical music, providing him with a chimera-like artistic persona - he manages to deliver atmospheric soundscapes and electric dancefloor-ready sets just as fluidly.

Catch Ytem every 1st Thursday of the month from 23h to 00h [CET] on rinse.fr

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Ytem - 1er Avril 2021

Reworked version of 'Sylvan' (KNV010) by Klaar & Kinn. Vocals by Owen Davey & Annie Garlid.

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Klaar & Kinn - Sylvan (Version)

Chaos Angel took part in our first compilation, lilywhite, and we're glad to hear her selection today! As producer and occasional DJ she confuses with surprising twists in her sets and her tracks can’t even fix the broken souls she is trying to comfort. But let her rumble, she will find her peace eventually. <33

Tracklist : 

{arsonist} - →
Flora Yin-Wong - Bitterness
Hajj & Destroyed Temple - Hajj - Untitled
Kloxii - DLMD
Tzusing - Esther
Aho Ssan - Simulacrum II
Yelzin - Hammertone
with voice over by Chaos Angel
OOH-sounds - Foreign body [D Version]
Otro - (Again Someday)
Patrick Belega - Lilt (with Kai Kight) 
Christoff Riedel - unreleased

INTERLUDE: Sailor Moon saves Hotaru

Christoff Riedel - unreleased
Lensk - Strained (FRKTL Manifold Remix)
Show Me The Body - Halogen (Mal Devisa)
URTE - Periglacial
Roly Porter - An Open Door
Dylan Henner - Little Frogs Swam by Every Now and Then
Neugeborene Nachtmusik - Turbulence
Grouper - Holofernes 
Shøen - Il. Peplis
Malibu - One Life
ASJ - Melancholy
TCV - unreleased

HYPERLINK MIX #22 w/ chaos angel

Behind @electromngr 's punny label name is a wish to open the realm of conceptual music and infuse it with comedic tones and a strong visual identity. Influenced by breakbeat, dub, jungle, UK bass and drum & bass, Electroménager will take you on a journey beyond music.

Tune in for Electroménager one 1st Thursday out of two every other month from 20h to 22h [CET] on rinse.fr

Electroménager avec Otis b2b Bby Eco & Jacques Torrance - 06 Mai 2021

→ ARIGTO (@arigto) is a duo of musical and visual artists. They greet us with an eclectic mix exploring and combining their classical roots with their modern influences, where lush instrumentals spring up through unruly distorted sounds and grim baile funk. 

Initially aired on Lyl Radio, May 26th, 2021.

→ Artwork
@arigto

→ Tracklist
Asa-Chang & Junray - Hana
Floating Points, London Symphony Orchestra & Pharoah Sanders - Movement 6
Citytronix - Dissipated
Rogergoon - Eye Too Close
Oneohtrix Point Never - Imago (KAVARI Edit)(El Goloso Vox)
Aho Ssan & Bohma - Untitled I
Offermose - Korrupt Tradition
Shiro Sagisu - On the Precipice of Defeat
Luis Pestana - Asa Machina
Clark & Yair Elazar Glotman & Yamila Ríos - Shut You Down
Arigto - Contorted Figures (Tilman Robinson Rework)
Vera Spektor - Golden Bludgeon (Arigto Edit)
Ex Eye - Form Constant; the Grid (Arigto Edit)
Felix Rossy Quintet - The Changes
Snowdrops - Trapezian Fields
Ian Nyquist - II (Desire Path)
Arigto - Persona
Alex Epton & Lucinda Chua - TUB
Asa-Chang & Junray - Hana

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ARIGTO: Changing Direction Every Day For Fear Of Missing The Path

"Come what may, this is happiness" is the closing title of ARIGTO's upcoming album "Pretense". It is centered around altered cello and vocal recordings and tries to recollect and reflect on the previous tracks. Hereby it attempts to be a counterbalance and a conclusion to them at the same time and lead back into a more undeterred prospect.

"Pretense" will be released on the 24th of September, being accompanied by limited 7" square printed vinyls containing an exclusive bonus track and prints of selected versions of the cover.

The album was mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space and the covers shot by Russian photographer Nikita Polovnikov.

https://soundcloud.com/arigto
https://soundcloud.com/lawrence-english

Premiere: ARIGTO - Come What May, This Is Happiness

Myxomy - Myxomy (SUB042)

Stream & download: https://myxomy.bandcamp.com/album/myxomy

Artistic collaborations don't have to be exhaustive, competitive or combative. And for Berlin-based producers James Ginzburg and Ziúr, their work together as myxomy has been almost effortless. Both artists bring with them a deep history of recording in vastly different circumstances: Ginzburg has worked on bass music, folk, experimental techno (as half of Emptyset) and experimental drone, while Ziúr played in a number of bands before settling into her current explorative electronic mode. So when they started working together in 2020, it was their respective backgrounds that provided the touch-paper for an explosive artistic head-to-head.

Ginzburg instigated the process by sending Ziúr beats he'd made in Bristol in a former life, and Ziúr, fresh from finishing her PAN-released third solo album "Antifate", set about sculpting them into completely new forms. In response, Ziúr dispatched vignettes to Ginzburg and he did the same. As they exchanged ideas back and forth and lapsed into absurdity, the songs followed suit, evolving from raw concepts and loops into proper songs as both Ziúr and Ginzburg traded melodies, lyrics and production tricks. The duo's fragmented sketches and scribbles took on new life, channeled, refined and re-invigorated as they developed into anxious, hybridized pop jewels.

Their surprising stylistic choice is revealed immediately on opening track 'Sloppy Attempt', a fractured mood stabilizer that dissociates from Bristolian trip-hop into glossy android pop. Ziúr's singing voice carries the track into a sonic black hole, mutated into an alien gurgle as she gently coos the prophetic words, "a sloppy attempt won't cut it, no no." And as Ginzburg takes the reins on 'A little opaque', singing over Ziúr's twisted neon electronics, it's clear that both artists have pushed each other outside of their comfort zones, providing the reassurance and comfort necessary to evolve.

On 'In and Until', they find an exact median between their two most recent albums. Twanging hurdy-gurdy sounds remind of Ginzburg's 'crystallise, a frozen eye', compelled forward by brittle foley percussion we last heard on "Antifate". A scalding industrial boil of deranged synthesizer squeals and rolling drums parts like the Red Sea on 'Toxin Out', cooling to a crust for Ziúr's half-sung words to echo overhead. "Burn the bridges it's a choice, eat the rich, and throw up on the fuckbois."

"Myxomy" isn't an overtly political album, but driven by a desire to create and a shared philosophical space, Ziúr and Ginzburg are naturally outspoken. Their vision of pop is twisted through history and floated on frustration, growth and constant reinvention. It's a unique mix of polar elements - light and dark, noise and silence, joy and melancholy - that centers itself on one important theme: together, we're far more powerful than we ever could be alone. 
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releases November 12, 2021

All tracks written and produced by Ziúr and James Ginzburg
Album art by Stefan Fähler
Design by Philip Marshall
Artist photo by Kasia Zacharko
Mastered by Joker
Published by Multiverse Media Publishing © & ℗ Subtext / Multiverse LTD 2021
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Myxomy

Vinyl & digital

Myxomy - A Little Opaque

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@sortlegeme
The first release of the year on katharsis is the album “wandering” by danish artist sortlegeme. As the titles of the tracks reveal, the album takes the listener through different dreamlike sceneries with a eerie sense of anxiety as the common denominator. With jjjacob on the mastering and artwork of the album, sortlegeme’s album “wandering” sends the listener on a suspenseful trip of ambivalent melancholy.

The artist, who has earlier released tapes on labels like Moral Defeat and Perfect Aesthetics with styles ranging from tribal techno to noisy ambient, takes an even more filmic approach on wandering by interpreting the ghostly atmospheres and strange feelings he experienced throughout the pandemic year.

The incorporation of rhythms from genres usually foreign to him like hip-hop and jungle suits the artist’s narrative style and brings very vivid pictures the mind of the listener - stretching from the paranoia and psychotic mood on the track “climbing” to the dramatic chase-scene of “pursuit”. His more ambient style is present in the uncanny intro and outro tracks “turn” and “return”, but also on the gloomy yet picturesque track “shrinking”, which was premiered with the pre-order of the album.

artwork by jjjacob
mastering by jjjacob

wandering

sortlegeme  - shrinking

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ARIGTO: Changing Direction Every Day For Fear Of Missing The Path

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