Catalog number: MNSXLP004
Artist name: The Observatory and Koichi Shimizu
LP Name: Demon State
Label: Midnight Shift
Release date: 23 September 2022

A1. Panopticism
A2. Demon State
A3. 1-330
A4. Lichen
B1. Animal
B2. Imprisoned Mind
B3. Psyberia
B4. Demon State (Demonstrate Remix)

“There was something extra-political, extra-social, almost extra-human about it; it smacked of tidal waves, of natural forces . . . These emotions are my instruments.”
— Richard Wright, The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference (1956)

The Observatory is one of those last few bands that can change and become your life. Stuck in Singapore, the wilful outlier of Southeast Asia, this ever-shifting group stubbornly evolves past its roots, most recently in an more improvisational, instrumental, and noise-adjacent territories in an EP with collaborator Haino Keiji.

In DEMON STATE, Dharma and Cheryl Ong plus Yuen Chee Wai continue The Observatory’s bold partnerships, this time with electronic musician Koichi Shimizu (IMPRINT). Together, they finally reach this long-gestating, total (yet I’m sure temporary), and rhythm-focused, electronic reinvention of The Obs—while briefly nodding to their past. The road is long; DEMON STATE is one pit stop in glorious hell.

Partly stemming from a casual, improv studio session with Koichi in early 2020, the eight tracks on DEMON STATE—their first release on the Midnight Shift label—were formed from a gradual accumulation of sonic layers; they were foraged, recycled, and pieced together remotely also from solo bedroom recordings, a historical sample, nonhuman beats and effects, as well as journals and junk.

A vinyl and digital release, DEMON STATE features the cover-art illustration of Enka Komariah (Senyawa, Raja Kirik). As they describe it, the “sense of wretchedness in this, the waste of capitalism, the evils of racial discrimination, the ever-spiralling mess, the awakenism of control” are confronted, head on in the band’s pattern, to disturb, comfort, confuse, worship, dance, rest, and resist. 
Ultimately, the singular form of DEMON STATE refers to our personal, individual, and ineffable states of demonic possession. DEMON STATE embraces us in the independent space of The Obs, where we can be alone together. It offers its listener some type of solace, if not an exorcism. For when the devil has been in us for this long, who’s to say who’s possessing who, who’s whispering sibilant sounds in our ears, who’s wearing the mask, who’s not yet dead and who’s still alive? Who’s still fighting for a just world?

Credits:
Composed, arranged and performed by The Observatory and Koichi Shimizu
Recorded in Singapore and Yamanashi by The Observatory and Koichi Shimizu
Edited and mixed by Koichi Shimizu
Mastered by Simon from The Exchange
Art direction by Yuen Chee Wai
Layout by Takashi Makabe
Illustration by Enka Komariah
Press text by Dan Koh
Words by Yuen Chee Wai
Imprisoned Mind contains an excerpt of the speech by President Sukarno at the opening of the Bandung Conference (Afro-Asian Conference) 1955.
Koichi Shimizu – otolary.wixsite.com/koichishimizu
The Observatory are Cheryl Ong, Dharma and Yuen Chee Wai – theobservatory.com.sg
Produced by Kavan Spruyt (Midnight Shift)
All rights reserved The Observatory and Koichi Shimizu 2022.

Demon State

Bandcamp

MNSXLP004 - The Observatory and Koichi Shimizu - Demon State

Warm-Up set I played before SNTS at Smolna this January.

Tracklist:

1.	Vofa – PI05.1
2.	ANFS – Olatatzi
3.	Nemmett – Teeth
4.	Sawf – Farania
5.	New Frames – Farewell Legacy (Ontal Remix)
6.	Distra – Blood Chain
7.	PLANKTON – Condor (Niereich Remix)
8.	Szmer – Guara
9.	Joton – Twin Flames
10.	Augusto Taito – Metalmorfosis
11.	Shifted – Unveiled
12.	Sept – Volatile
13.	Juan Sanchez – Qx02 (Mike Parker Remix)
14.	Transient X4 – 78
15.	Shekon – Excess of Reduction (Michal Jablonski Remix)
16.	Seleccion Natural – Negative Selection
17.	Tapefeed – 777
18.	Michal Jablonski – Higgs
19.	Takaaki Itoh – Lutencer
20.	Keikari – Roska
21.	Lars Huismann – Pendulum
22.	Juliana Yamasaki – Instability
23.	Lex Gorrie – Disaster Control (DJ Dextro Remix)
24.	Gabriel D’Or & Bordoy – Descendants
25.	Joefarr – Formation
26.	Temudo – Calmakira
27.	Lewis Fautzi – Neurohumoral Transmission
28.	Vegim – Helikoopter (David Temessi Remix)
29.	Niereich – Ventricular
30.	Scalameriya – Ghroar
31.	Sawf – Hofta
32.	TWCOR – Trace Decay (Bas Mooy Remix)
33.	Oxygeno – Thirty Against One
34.	NX1 – PHFT4
35.	Ansome – Bad Blood (Perc Remix)
36.	NN - The Glitch of an Optimized Digital Society
37.	H. Paul - AAA
38.	Reinier Zonneveld x Speedy J – Kicktrack
39.	Ghost in the Machine – Fear Jerker
40.	Edo Messina – Muscida
41.	Bas Mooy – Centerfold
42.	Nørbak – There’s no Lesson
43.	Lewis Fautzi – Symptomatic (Rødhåd Remix)
44.	PWCCA – Genotype
45.	Klint – Justice
46. Lewis Fautzi - Stimulated Desorption
47.	Roll Dann – When The Hate Goes Away 
48.	_asstnt & Roll Dann – Back From The Morgue
49.	Kessell – Nonzero
50.	Manni Dee – How They Treat Us
51.	Adriana Lopez – Sudden Halt
52.	Planetary Assault Systems – Rip The Cut (Luke Slater Remix 2)
53.	Hans Bouffmyhre  - Treatment

Smolna Club w. SNTS 06/01/2023 Warsaw (Warm-Up Set)

Watch the video on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ElTwIaq4k&t=2147s

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Booking: slavica@voidplusone.com
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Track-list:

01. Catartsis - Rattrape Par La Realite [YGAM]
02. V+1005D 02 [Void+1]
03. V+1003D 02 [Void+1]
04. Gunjack - Random Axis Jack [U.K Executes]
05. CTSD - Lung Buster [Demian]
06. Tensal - LB1 [Tensal]
07. Mathew Jonson - Symphony For The Apocalypse [Wagon Repair]
08. ARKVS - Rise And Fall [Tar Hallow]
09. Mystics - Act Of Faith [Kazerne]
10. Oscar Mulero - The Gothic Window Effect (Reeko Remix) [Mental Disorder]
11. Paul Bailey - Hadal Zone (James Ruskin Remix) [De:tuned]
12. Rommek - Cut The Mustard [Natural Selection]
13. V+1003V B1 [Void+1]
14. Regis - Blood Witness [Blackest Ever Black]
15. Mystics - Still [47]
16. V+1005D 01 [Void+1]
17. ?????? - (Beta Version) [Void+1]
18. Raffaele Attanasio - Rukbat [Kazerne]
19. Dj Emerson - Etonic (Leandro Gamez Remix) [Kiddaz.fm]
20. Hertz & Johan Bacto - Dirty Crutch [Sway]
21. V+1004D 01 [Void+1]
22. Tensal - Dragonlance [KR3]
23. V+1003D 01 [Void+1]
24. Dahryl - Breaking ice (Ansome Remix) [Soma]
25. V+1004V B2 [Void+1]
26. British Murder Boys - Father Loves Us [Counterbalance]
27. Anthro - Falcon [Wrongnotes]
28. Perc - Loose Fit [Void+1]
29. UNRELEASED
30. Olga+Jozef - Tsunami Track [Tsunami]
31. V+1003D 03 [Void+1]
32. UNRELEASED

Scalameriya_-_VoidCast_(April2023)_[V+1P001]

Album: Mutant Modality vol.3
Label: Mutant Modality
Release Date: July 4th 2024 - 04/07/2024
Formats: digital
Catalogue: MMVA03

MUTANT MODALITY is a platform and music label exploring strange and cathartic forms of artistic expression - through the prism of different atmospheres. It will provide soundtracks influenced by our times, while encouraging a sense of community between like-minded artists operating across experimental and dancefloor music.

< … we became, again, emerging from the city’s hollowed veins
a symbol, like a mark on our burning mutant flesh. 
some kind of sigil, yielding to long-lost flames through the soiled concrete.  
and then, without a movement, a sudden realization : these lost worlds were ours … >

For this release we go SPECTACULAR. 
I mean, DISTORTION, SPECTRAL VOICES... CHAOS!
PURE MUTANT ENERGY, EVERYWHERE, INSIDE... SPREADING!

Yes you heard correctly, Brussels-based MUTANT MODALITY hits back with a third installment exploring different modalities of industrial techno, rhythmic noise, post-punk AND BEYOND. 
The release party will be at Brussels’s Illegaal on July 13th https://www.facebook.com/events/819614106279438  

https://mutantmodality.bandcamp.com/album/mutant-modality-vol-3 
https://soundcloud.com/mutantmodality 
https://www.instagram.com/mutant_modality/ 
https://www.facebook.com/mutantmodality 


A Body Without - Sigil
Distra - Black Craft (Polanski Remix)
Maze DK - Tramp The Streets 
Pierre Berge-Cia - To Make Saints Out Of Sinners 
G.xist - Red Lymph
Summer Satana - Chaos Is Good
Mina Lord
The Undertaker's Tapes - By the Sword (Club edit)
Skemer - Overgave
Sophie du Palais & Nour Kara - My Soul In This Vision 
The Marquis Is Dead - L’Enfer C’est Les Autres

Mastering by Halba at Black Hole Mastering
Artwork by studio NVDP instagram.com/nvdp.dsgn

Premiere: Distra - Black Craft (Polanski Remix) [MMVA03]

Mix by @ininin01
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Written by @snap_writer
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The Silent Roar Amidst Drift

Fragmented time
Shattered and scattered spaces

The essence of truth and falsehood, dispersed

In the flow of distorted emotions
Veiled by tangled gazes of others

In the silence of self-reflection
Searching for hidden truths within

Amid the waves of time
The contradiction of waiting records

Unexpressed and adrift
Undying deaths

Reflecting upon the self in silence

Waves of time, waiting in paradox.

Unexpressed, adrift
Undying deaths

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표류 속 침묵의 포효

파편화된 시간
깨지고 흩어진 공간

흩뿌려진 진실과 거짓의 본질

왜곡된 감정의 흐름 속에
덮인 타인의 뒤엉킨 시선

스스로를 돌아보는 고요
그 속에 숨어있는 진실을 찾아

시간의 파도 속에서
기다리는 기록의 모순

표현하지 못하고 표류하는
죽지 못한 죽음들

고요 속의 자아 반추

시간의 파도, 모순된 기록의 기다림

표현 못 한, 표류하는
죽지 못한 죽음들

BAEK-KYOUNG EP.9 | The Silent Roar Amidst Drift - INININ

We've now reached the end of Social Unrest.  A decision I've been mulling over for some months now.

This started as an outlet for me during Covid.  Since then the scene has changed so much, it's pretty much unrecognisable to me.  So with that it's time to end this.

Will something else replace it?  Right now I don't know.  It could be the end of the road in many ways.

But for now, there's one last hour to get through.

01. Einstürzende Neubauten - Ist Ist (Dubfire Remix) - Self Released
02. Revolt - Phantom Shift - SHISHI
03. Metakross - Body Control - Oberwave
04. Punshukunshu - Gomorrah - Sharped Records
05. Hex Wolves - Field of Flesh (Spheric Remix) - Valley Electroniks
06. Evil Dust - Migraine - Self Released
07. The Fifth Stigma - Shielded By Thorns (Revelations) - Venaeform
08. Kenny Campbell - There is No God - Unreleased
09. NZM 99 - Critical Destiny - Soil Records
10. Nigh/T\mare - Run Don't Turn Around - Gwi Myeon Records
11. Distra - Black Craft (Polanski Remix) - Mutant Modality
12. Äitee - Kardashev Decline - Khoinix
13. Velvet May - Illusion in Control - Veyl
14. Qual - Techsick (Zanias Remix) - Self Released
15. Statiqbloom - Sharp Silhouettes - Brutal Forms
16. Frank Borjak - Renegade Bass - Audiovoid Recordings

Social Unrest

Social Unrest 036 September 2024

Synthasia - Live Recording @Volnost, April 19, 2025

「碧き地球の夢をみて」
5.24.2025
at Sakuraza, Kofu
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LIVE
Koichi Shimizu
C-KAY (KGRn TOKYO)
Jun Nakadate
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Cassette DJ
Sakura Fantasma

Live at 桜座

The full-length album, "Oblivion," features 10 tracks themed as the soundtrack to a fictional sci-fi film.

This work continues to utilize oriental motifs, industrial beats, and a variety of noises. However, it minimizes concrete musical elements like scales to maintain an abstract quality. The music is designed to elevate background scores into full-fledged musical pieces that unfold through various scenes.

The production was created exclusively using Max/MSP. Some tracks were even recorded in a single, improvised take, with a focus on sound dynamics, range, and the abstract atmosphere and transitions between sounds, rather than prioritizing beats.

This album is an attempt to elevate the mood of various cinematic scenes, moving beyond simple background music and into a more musically sublime realm.

Embodiment

Produced by: @distratechno
Mastered by: Wataru Abe
Artwork by: Wataru Abe
Label by: Subcrypt
Release Date: October 8, 2025

Embodiment

Wataru Abe - Distra

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