33EMYBW - Medusa

33EMYBW - Rana

为人子女，是每个人生来最熟悉的身份。而为人之父，则是初出茅庐的年轻人很难想象的情绪，几乎是“进入下一个人生阶段”的重要标志之一。在2018年的父亲节，Snapline 乐队的主唱陈曦，现在以另外一个身份 Late Troubles 为大家送上他为大女儿所创作的歌曲。亲昵、笨拙、骄傲和甜蜜的苦恼，全在这首《给她的歌》里。

陈曦选择用简单的方式来呈现这首歌：低保真鼓机，质朴的贝斯乐句，清亮的尤克里里，60年代式的磁带采样键盘，陈曦的声线温柔而笃定。My Little Airport 的 Nicole 担任了这首歌的女声伴唱，平添可爱气氛。鸭打鹅的韩涵和 P.K.14 的许波共同完成了编曲与混音。

《给她的歌》同时也是 Late Troubles 即将发行的首张专辑《月亮人 Moon People》的首支单曲。

Her Song 给她的歌

Late Troubles - Her Song 给她的歌

B6 - The Cube (SV)

Meng Qi 孟奇 - Whale Child   鲸童

Gooooose - CRH380A

Wang Changcun - Fie1428

Meng Qi - Whale Child

L+R 望海

HWA- Phase Shield

提及侗族音乐大多会想到侗族大歌。侗族大歌可以追溯到春秋战国年代，迄今已有2500多年的历史。侗族大歌是一种有着多个声部、复杂合声的合唱形式，同时它也是中国乃至东亚地区，非常罕见的复调音乐形式，近些年无论音乐学术界还是人类学领域都有着很多的研究。

《DONG 1》是鸭打鹅乐队成员韩涵的个人项目GOOOOOSE在2018年完成的一张全长专辑。专辑的录音始于2016年的春节，韩涵参与了素然（Zuczug）以及行耳文化（SounDate）的合作项目，在贵州省从江县高增乡小黄村录制了很多的声音素材，其中包括很多的侗族民间谣曲；而后韩涵回到自己的上海工作室，将素材剪辑整理，辅以合成器与软件，进行了二次创作。这张唱片是系列发行的第一张。

《DONG 1》并不是一张“保留记录世界文化遗产”，或是用现代配器法重新演绎侗族大歌的专辑。正如韩涵在当地所观察到的，现代文化对于这些村寨的侵入已经是不可逆转的趋势：“我想我们能做的，既不是去发誓要帮助当地人回到农耕社会，也不是充当一个集体无意识的旁观者……”在创作的过程中，韩涵为自己设定了一些规则，例如严格控制使用采样音色的数量，尽量从最简单的声音来合成等等，尽可能不过于铺张。

在《DONG 1》中可以听到采集自村寨与公路的侗族谣曲，此外还有水声，风声，捕鱼时的对话……值得一提的是，韩涵没有对原始的录音素材进行调变，而是对合成器或采样音色进行实时微调，保留甚至凸显了侗族大歌里的拍频效应（beat frequency，由于音高和音色略微不同而产生的额外频率。这种声音现象在很多传统民间音乐中可以听到，在现代音乐中也有着颇多应用）。侗族大歌的很多歌词都与“时间流动”有关（我们都已老了，已经过了谈情说爱的年纪 / 十八岁正是花样年华的年龄，什么烦恼都没有），而这一次在电子乐器的包裹下，它们流向更加模糊未知的所在了。

06 Young Liquid 青水

05 Oblivion 遗忘

03 Guitar 吉他

02 Fish Catching 抓鱼

01 Same Clouds 同样的云

ayrtbh’s latest album, Song of Anon, is a nest of algorithmic oddities, a composer writing himself out of the mix. Assembled over the course of a year, ayrtbh created Song of Anon by imitating himself in software, writing his score in algorithmic form, debugging then rebugging, exaggerating mistakes and in the process crafting a peculiarly human corpus of melodious machine music.

The album’s title references Anon — the faceless, nameless avatar of our digital age, an un-known provocateur, a trickster, a troll. Its cover art — an oil painting by artist Du Wenting — be-lies the cold machinery under the hood. ayrtbh says of his choice of cover art: “In the past, when information was less developed, when choosing a cassette or a CD in the store we basically relied on information such as album covers, album titles, and song titles. This process is very fun, like gambling with your own feelings.”

Likewise, Song of Anon plays with expectations, patching together 8 tracks of jittery electronica with an opaque internal logic that requires multiple listens to absorb. This is by design: ayrtbh’s greatest influence here is nonlinear, irrational impulse. He introduces a curved logic into the mu-sic-making and listening process at a time when most music-related algorithms — the juice powering our Spotify playlists and YouTube rabbit holes — are created for the purpose of ag-gressive, deterministic recommendation. Song of Anon, by contrast, is a <body> without <div>’s, a deviation calculated to shake the ghost out of the shell and thrill the listener with each unex-pected twist.

03 Music For 2 - Step Verification

02 Damn.gif

01 Hi

The entire EP is backlit with a certain, violentcolor. GUAN’s music meditates on the connection between violence and desire,and the anti-violence self-protection mechanisms inherent in the creativeprocess. According to GUAN, an unlikely epiphany dawned on him upon watching the 2002 gross-out film, Jackass: "I felt a great shock inside, andthe fear of awe was born,” he says, explaining: “A bunch of silly guysdestroying themselves for no reason other than the pleasure of gaining theattention and fear of the world in this extremely nonsensical way. From a weak social classposition, they attack themselves, and in so doing madly attack the invisibleviolence imposed on them by the mainstream value system. Their broken bodiestell us that they are still individuals.”
 
It's hard to apply anexisting genre tag to this album. For inspiration, GUAN said: "The sourceof the form is unpredictable synthesizer modulation, a variety of musicalstyles that sound left-field, or like music from cult movies. The content comesfrom the experience of the punk era, reflections on the internet industry, andan aversion to many art forms produced by childhood art education.” GUAN wasinfluenced by the structural framework of Techno in his compositional process, also takingatmospheric cues from  Industrial andGlitch. The noise and club-built sounds are also mixed with sounds reminiscentof religious rituals, and all of this is intertwined with synthesized samples,the tortured sound of the human voice as fed through Google Translate. Takenall together — and especially experienced live — Barbaric Kung is ashort shock to the system, an attempt to communicate a specific tone of violentdelight.

GUAN's Barbaric Kung will bereleased on October 31, 2018 by D Force Records. The vinyl version of Barbaric Kung is also coming soon, so stay tuned.

Barbaric Kung

07 Invertebrate (Subass BB Remix) 无脊椎动物 (Subass BB 混音版)

06 Deal with Ghosts (Gooooose Remix) 弄鬼（Gooooose 混音版）

05 Super Hijack 超劫持

04 Make a God 装神

03 Deal with Ghosts 弄鬼

02 Invertebrate 无脊椎动物

01 The Last Perpetrator 最后的施暴者

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