Taken from SBKT054: Gorgonn - Six Paths
Release date: 31st January

Artwork and layout by Akihide Monna
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

In Japanese Buddhism, it's believed that when someone dies they are ushered down one of six paths depending on the karma accumulated during their previous lives. A being might end up in the world of humans, animals, demigods, or celestials, but it's also possible to end up reborn as a pitiable hungry ghost, doomed to an existence of insatiable desire, or even worse - be sent to hell, or jigoku. Ruled over by the Japanese lord of death Emma-ō, this hell isn't quite like the Christian hell, it's closer to purgatory, and cleansing the karma can take hundreds of millions of years of excruciating torture in extreme cold or immense fire. Japanese bass alchemist Gorgonn takes these themes as the basis of his debut album "Six Paths", assembling a spiritually weighty set of futurist dubs that consider the possibility that our mortal domain might be closer to hell than we realize.

Gorgonn describes himself as a Japalien exile. He left the country of his birth almost two decades ago, and since then has been working tirelessly to formulate Jamaican dub, noise, techno, and no-wave into a sound he calls "sci-fi steppas". If you've not come across his name before, there's a good chance you've heard his reverberations. An established sound tech who's worked with The Bug, Hype Williams, Seefeel and others, he's part of G36 with Kevin Martin, Dokkebi Q with Kiki Hitomi, and a former member of Devilman with DJ Scotch Egg and Bo Ningen's Taigen Kawabe. Just last year he released the acclaimed "Disentegration Dubs" full-length alongside JK Flesh, the veteran producer who's best known for masterminding Godflesh. All this experience blesses Gorgonn's productions with remarkable sonic force, and "Six Paths" is his most crushing display yet, smelting cannonball bass and osmium beats into sharp-edged soundsystem weapons.

Look no further than opener 'Abyss' for evidence of this: psychedelic synths draw the mind away from the mortal realm, while tangled, distorted beats push us back down to earth, our faces crushed into the grit and gravel. Using tweaked sub bass and unsettling drones, Gorgonn lays out a cinematic backdrop for the album, drawing us into a world that's terrifying, viscous, and nauseatingly familiar. There's a militaristic roll to 'Without Beginning and End', a track that juxtaposes spacey halfstep thrusts with death metal distortion, footwork polyrhythms, and unearthly pads that addresses the crushing endlessness of jigoku. On 'Invisible' meanwhile, Gorgonn torches the skeletal remains of D&B, abstracting familiar rhythmic patterns into fuzzy, ritualistic cycles that sound both ancient and humming with prospective technology. But on the closing track 'Life as a Beast', it sounds as if Gorgonn has come to a conclusion, and in a flurry of acid squelches and doomy foghorn bass blasts, he seems to have accepted that being reincarnated as an animal might be the best anyone can hope for. Who knows, you might end up as a cat.

Six Paths

Gorgonn - Without Beginning or End

flickers of thoughts and memories...
scattered fragments woven together,
aligning to form a snapshot of a single moment

written 2021-2023

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Full show: https://www.mixcloud.com/1020Radio/biches-please-w-juliebiche-turbomiffy-13th-february-2023/ 

Renslink - Silence (ft Nivalis)
Ital Tek - Cobra
Lakker - Swells
Van Boom - II 
Deft  & Lewis James - Wolf 503 b
Konx-Om-Pax - Shibuya Sunset (hardcore mix)
Kuedo - Eyeless Angel Intervention 
Max Dalhaus - Artificial Prodigy (Aquarian remix)
Zora Jones - Low Orbital Ion Canon 
Crystal Castles - Femen
Scintii - Times New Roman (Osheyack remix)
7777 の天使 - Witch Heaven 
Slikback - KAZE (ft Mrigasheera)
E-Saggila  - Aziza
NET GALA - Quarrel (Vonlin Yoon remix)
Kilbourne - Seismic Cross (ft The DJ Producer)
Swan Meat - Tearz Circus

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DIV PRO - CIRCLES 18/03/23

@samielmusic - PlayingGames (⠏⠇⠁⠽⠊⠝⠛⠀⠛⠁⠍⠑⠎)

Introducing "ruminant tapes". The debut release from Lambs-ear. A multi-genre record label highlighting experimental, boundary-pushing sounds. A communal collaboration between artists globally who are at the forefront of their respective genres. Except; noise, hardcore, breaks, ethereal, and ambiance.

All the profits generated by the sales of this compilation will be donated to Acorn, a community union that brings together people who are being pushed to one side by bosses, landlords or politicians.

www.acorntheunion.org.uk

'ruminant tapes 001' will be released on May 5th, 2023.

SAMIEL - PlayingGames (⠏⠇⠁⠽⠊⠝⠛⠀⠛⠁⠍⠑⠎)

@nil0000 - Life Is A Luxury Yacht (prod. @yankscally)

Introducing "ruminant tapes". The debut release from Lambs-ear. A multi-genre record label highlighting experimental, boundary-pushing sounds. A communal collaboration between artists globally who are at the forefront of their respective genres. Except; noise, hardcore, breaks, ethereal, and ambiance.

All the profits generated by the sales of this compilation will be donated to Acorn, a community union that brings together people who are being pushed to one side by bosses, landlords or politicians.

www.acorntheunion.org.uk

'ruminant tapes 001' will be released on May 5th, 2023.

Nil00 - Life Is A Luxury Yacht (prod. Yank Skally)

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TRACKLIST:

EYTAN TOBIN x HESK x IYER - WHERE'S THE BASS
SHEEFY MCFLY - GO N JIT [SLOWROLLA RMX]
DJ HANK - AIR RIDE
CIEL x ALI BERGER - I'VE BEEN REACHING FOR THE STARS [NIKKI NAIR RMX]
ACEMO - ANCESTRAL PLANES 2 
HEAVEE - EYES ON THE HORIZON 
FLOOR TWENTY - SAY MY NAME 
BLACK RAVE CULTURE - TRIPS TO LONDON
CHUMP CHANGE - TARRY 
CHANGO x FSTZ - WORK EM 
DJ PAYPAL - BABY BUBBA 
DJ MANNY - TAKE FLIGHT 
DJ SWAGGER - PARGHOST
DJ ORANGE JULIUS x DJ HANK - WYWD 
SAMURAI BREAKS - XCLUSIV
KUSH JONES - BLOCK
DJ LIL GENEROUS - JACK YOUR BODY
CESRV - TWO 2 DA 3 
TESSELA - HACKNEY PARROT [JETSKI FOOTWORK EDIT]
SUPRAMAN - TWERK MY BACK 
SLICK SHOOTA - ALL CREW
TASO - LOC'D OUT SMOKED OUT
NIKES - WLHEM
DJ PHIL - LIAR

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Bored Lord - Unloyal

Final boss

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