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First of the two splits released together with the launch of the DESTITUTE label on May 28th.

01. ANCESTRAL VISION — 925 Wage Slaves
02. DMKHV — Tender Engineering

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@dmkhv

gfx: @bibimbobo

925 Wages Slaves / Tender Engineering

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DMKHV — Tender Engineering

Artist: @xiaoquanxiaoquanxiaoquan
Catalogue Number: IM090
Album: A Taste of Revenge
Release Date: May 28th, 2021
Format: Digital

Having spent the latter half of 2020 pushing out a string of intense bootlegs via SoundCloud and taking up remix duties for acts like Ice_Eyes, São Paulo’s Xiao Quan is readying some original productions for his debut release on Infinite Machine, entitled A Taste of Revenge. These frantic, drum-heavy compositions see the artist push further into a liminal space where techno and hybrid club sounds blend - and continues a stylized nod to Xiao Quan’s muse, The Crying Freeman manga series.

The record opens with Chakram Intel Bulletins; one of the EP’s more measured moments but one that remains as tense and claustrophobic as the rest of Taste of Revenge. The layers of crunching analogue synthesis and the deluge of drum hits which seem to trip over each other are hypnotic; creating strange and disorienting effects on the ear. The end result has more than an air of the cyberpunk about it - as if Vatican Shadow tried his hand re-soundtracking Ghost In The Shell.

Xiao Quan notches up the dread and suspense on the following title track of the EP. Airy sustained tones and an unrelenting mass of polyrhythms push up against each other, vying for your attention before a piercing 2-tone melody cuts through the mix like a hot knife through butter.

With the next track, Shades of Death, the creeping suspense and claustrophobia of the previous two compositions is swapped out for unadulterated rhythmic chaos. Underpinned by an oscillating bass pulse, countless samples and drum lines are arranged in a frenetic audio-collage. A solid showcase of Xiao Quan’s skillful combining of sounds from across the globe.

The EP rounds off with The Crying Freeman, a track named after the manga that underpins many elements of the Xiao Quan project. The most melodic production of the release, the track’s mournful synth line glides over rushing, mechanistic drum patterns. This blend of the emotional and the machinic distinctly mirrors the situation of the manga’s protagonist; an assassin hypnotically programmed to kill on his master’s demand who sheds tears at the fate of his victims.

Even a passing glance at panels of The Crying Freeman manga clearly shows that Xiao Quan has done his homework on his source material. The producer masterfully channels the uneasy and shadowy world of the manga series and translates it into the sonic experience that is A Taste of Revenge EP.

Tracklist:

1. Chakram Intel Bulletins
2. A Taste of Revenge
3. Shades of Death
4. Crying Freeman
5. The Dragon from Russia (Bandcamp bonus track)

Artwork by Danny Hell
Mastered by Fausto Mercier

Xiao Quan - Shades Of Death

An Introduction

INDIVIDUAL DROPS by https://soundcloud.com/ice_eyes out 30/04 via Genot Centre // tape & digital
Get it now // http://bit.ly/gen035_presale
Remix by https://soundcloud.com/cxlo // https://soundcloud.com/cxlo/ice_eyes-argo-cxlo-remix

Produced by https://soundcloud.com/ice_eyes
Cover, teasers & recycled PET object by https://soundcloud.com/h5io
Original tracks mastered by Stefan Konstantinidis at Fabrika Music // www.fabrikamusic.gr 
Remixes mastered by @wimdehaen

INDIVIDUAL DROPS by ICE_EYES is a cold-blooded showcase of dynamic sound organization, where sputtering shreds of sound cluster into larger scale rhythm units, before shattering into new formations once again. Sounds here are sliced, combed, atomized and always performing new acrobatics around the indeterminate no man's land of the rhythm-pitch transition zone, yet somehow never straying too far from advanced dancefloor-ready syncopations. 
The tonal medium of these broken rhythmic arrangements immediately suggests something trembling with cutting edge technological infrastructure, where harmonically dense pads evoke a long forgotten IDM cgi landscape, where hybridized sounds rattle through an elaborate piping system. Warbled mumblings remind us this music is still situated in the realm of the human, but one where every transmission first passes through a chain of paranoia, interception, re-encodings and subversive content barricades. 
The album is finished off with each track rearranged once again by a handful of masterful remixers. 

ICE_EYES about INDIVIDUAL DROPS 
“In seeking of new challenges, our latest work Individual Drops, is focusing on new evolving sonic material from a more microscopic point of view, by integrating more obvious granular synthesis ideas. The purpose is to create a new formula that works both in sculpting sound design, and the same time respects our dystopian orientation as an archetype. At this point, we engage more intensive, ever changing, faintly anorgasmic, sonic motifs, that work as a guidebook to an overall fragmented picture. 
Arcadia, as an art form that can be used as a metaphor of utopia, is always present at the background of that image, holding all parts together, like an anchor in a turbulent sea, resembling the Argo floating on these angry waters. Space or Khoros is a variable of time balancing from small to large places, but not in an paternal way. Granular synthesis at its core, forming each sound in a discrete way, like a drop of rain falling in a pit of clear water.”

Individual Drops

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Ice_Eyes - Argo (GEN035)

Fake It or Make It

Free Download

t0ni - Blind Guard

Schnelles Geld

Karōshi - Schnelles Geld (R.i.p.)

CLMxGUN is happy to present Chain of Whispers, a two-fold EP exploring further collaborative production processes. Like a murmur in the wind, a secret being delivered from ear to ear, it is born from a playful approach to sound manipulation and its transformation when passed from one hand to another. An embodiment of how music can be altered by each and every contribution.

Through a defined set of constraints based on the Telephone game, the concept is simple : each successive track is a remix of the previous one, and the contributors could not hear what was done before them. So on and so forth. A continuous cycle of appropriation and re-interpretation.

From this experiment resulted two 7-track EPs, two chains which gathered 11 artists, each with their own identity and their own input. With each new link in the chain, the sound mutates, speeds up or slows down - some of its elements are exacerbated, while others are concealed or juxtaposed to new ones. 

The first chain welcomes Désiré, HeedLess, indigoblue, Lithe, migu, and SNKLS. It starts from soothing bells and angelic voices to end up with rhythmic patterns and sharp impacts. A journey through a collective world with its own soundscapes and wonders.

++ TRACKLIST ++

01. migu - Leha
02. HeedLess - Leha-01
03. indigoblue - Reminiscent Stitch
04. Désiré - Trève
05. SNKLS - Ripple
06. Lithe - Gabba Charm
07. migu - Lost Item

++ CREDITS ++

Visuals by k095c
https://www.instagram.com/k095c

Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta

Tracks produced by Désiré, HeedLess, indigoblue, Lithe, migu, SNKLS
https://soundcloud.com/desirbonaventure https://soundcloud.com/heedlessmusic https://soundcloud.com/indigoblue97 https://soundcloud.com/lithetrax https://soundcloud.com/miguzo https://soundcloud.com/snakeleserpent

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SNKLS - Ripple

Sébastien Forrester (@holy-strays) aims at creating spontaneous sound document using imperfect live takes and impulsive drumming to build intricate though always dancefloor-friendly rhythmic architectures.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/sebastien-forrester-mishap

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Premiere: Sébastien Forrester - Mishap

We are a Dublin based nightlife media outlet and events project that is primarily focused on showcasing talented Irish DJs and producers. 

Having had great success thus far we are now looking to branch out and have formed a record label and Youtube channel under the name Talamh Records. 

Our vision for the label has stemmed due to the ever-growing, consistent quality of dance music that is currently being produced in Ireland. We would like to aid in showcasing this diversity of talent to as many people who are interested in dance music as possible.

This is so we can further push our collective vision and aim to provide an online hub where Irish artists can be promoted and display their music on a scale that will aim to be recognised nationwide and beyond in the near future.

Cnámha - Pipelines

@philanxy's 'Theme' presents the tension between ‘Brutalism' maximalism to the spiritual essence in the need for endless stimulations. Forthcoming on @sadan_rec.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/philanthropist-theme

Premiere: Philanthropist - Theme

From @anonymouscomplicity's 2019 EP, Apophenia (Lost Time), on @jeromeworldwide: https://jeromeworldwide.bandcamp.com/album/apophenia-lost-time

Apophenia (Lost Time)

Lensk — Strained (FRKTL Manifold Remix)

contact: destitute.collective@gmail.com

What do we stand for? Do we have to stand for anything? We flow through the cuts and incisions on the body, with its desires, tears and anger. In that we stand against what binds us, what disrupts the flows, the illusions of „better” and „worse”, that you are this or that. Borders? Blockages? It will all melt anyway.
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DMKHV — Tender Engineering

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