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In “Don’t Understand” Taiwanese filmmaker 王鈞 Wang Chun @wangdrink recites lyrics adapted from a song by Chinese rock pioneer 崔健 Cui Jian, who Simon grew up listening to. As the music nods to the peculiar, new wave-like production quality of certain Chinese music from the early 90s, the words point towards a constantly mutating world, changing too fast to comprehend. 

Format: LP
Cat. No.: AT-022
Release date: 4 June 2021

Music by Simon Frank
Mixed and Mastered by Lujiachi
Vocals on “Don’t Understand” by Wang Chun
Photo by Jin Ningning

01.	Reduce
02.	My Motto
03.	Do It Wrong
04.	Role Reversal
05.	Don’t Understand
06.	So Dream It
07.	Reduce (Lujiachi Remix)
08.	So Dream It (Angel Wei Remix)


”So Dream It” is a new album by Beijing-based Canadian musician Simon Frank, featuring six original tracks, and remixes from Angel Wei and Lujiachi.

Simon occupies an unique position within Beijing’s music community, equally likely to be found playing live at dance club Zhao Dai and psychedelic rock dive Fruityspace. Inseparable from live performance and their author’s experience of the city, the songs on “So Dream It” fall between set categories, merging electronic post punk with acerbic acid house synth tones, and punctuating low-slung rhythms with sampled shouts and percussion.

While the music’s relentless propulsion and staccato bass lines recall EBM and seamier strains of Benelux synth pop, Simon’s lyrics sidestep the fantasies of power that often define these genres, opting instead for deflated self-deprecation as he depicts protagonists cracking under the pressure of a harsh urban environment.

So Dream It

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Simon Frank - Don’t Understand

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12" available
https://doubledgescissor.bandcamp.com/

Instrument Sleeve is the result of a long collaboration that represents their background of Instrustrial, Noise, Techno, Glitch, Experimental & Ethereal sounds.

Circinus - Psychiceyeclix & Caecus Animi

KISEWA’s Scream Sonata explores monstrosity.

Scream Sonata seems like looking into the mind of a horror fiction writer.

The monstrosity is attached to the baseless hallucinations of different appearances depending on the individual rather than a authoritative grotesque appearance.

KISEWA seems to know how to instigate a vortex of negative hallucinations, but at the same time ritualistically induces another hallucination to drive it away.

Scream Sonata tells the story of a race between monsters carrying such double hallucinations.

About KISEWA:
Based in Seoul, KISEWA is an independent musician/artist who’s practice is based on observations of contemporary music culture and explores the various sounds that it is comprised of.

Committed to the practice of gathering pieces and particles of independent music that are scattered around, KISEWA’s pursuits have been heavily directed toward covering the wide array of so-called sub-genres, including industrial, noise and ambient.

As an extension of such research into the unique and multifaceted web of independent musical acts, KISEWA is also eager to present the artist’s own sound works that are equally unique and diverse in their own rights. 

Format: EP
Digital Release by Absurd TRAX
Physical Release by Mouhoi
KISEWA's Digital Distribution by No Slack Reocrds
Cat. No.: AT-025/ MHR-011
Release date: 1 October 2021

Produced by KISEWA
Track 1-4 Mastered by Hakju Chun (Mushroom Recording Studios)
Track 5-7 Mastered by Nerve
Remix by Computer Music Club, Primitive Knot and T5UMUT5UMU
Layout and Cover Art by Mouhoi
Original Painting by John Martin

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KISEWA -  Scream Sonata

A tribute to Australia's masters of abusive electronic music.
Eternal respect and support to Bloody Fist and the whole Newcastle crew.
Be sure to check for more physical and downloadable releases here:
http://www.noisexchange.com
http://bloodyfistrecords.bandcamp.com

Tracks used in this megamix:

Nasenbluten - Cunt Face
Overcast - Sydney
Nasenbluten - 75 CD's
Nasenbluten - Fuck Anna Wood
Syndicate - Watch Me Bash This
Nasenbluten - Cocksucker
Syndicate - Appetite For Destruction
The Shaftmen - Shaftman
Nasenbluten - Big Gonads
Nasenbluten - I Don't Fuck Around
Overcast - I Will Attack
Nasenbluten - Machete
Xylocaine - L.M.G
Syndicate - Grim Reaper
Nasenbluten - Airstrikes
Nasenbluten - Bloody Hell (For Christ's Sake Mix)
Nasenbluten - Blows T' The Nose
Overcast - Only Way In
Syndicate - Compton
Nasenbluten - Fuckin Greedy Bitch
Nasenbluten - Fuck S.F.

*Newcastle Hardcore Megamix appears on the Company Fuck album "100% Solid Gold Fucking".
http://www.brkcore.fr/spip/spip.php?article141

Company Fuck - Newcastle Hardcore Megamix

"It appears that you've been crushed..."

The Brutal Spears track "I Did It Again" appears on CHINSCAPE:​ an old­school, 12­-tape pack featuring over 9 hours of forward-thinking neo­-contemporary performative music praxis from Chin Stroke Records.

http://bit.ly/chnstrk12
https://chinstrokerecords.bigcartel.com

Brutal Spears - I Did It Again

Morgan Freeman's Psychedelic Semen

On Illusion (feat. DJ Tendraw)

From the ADAADAT compilation Trade & Distribution Almanac Volume 5.
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Trade-Distribution-Almanac-Volume-5/release/7892990

Company Fuck - Go Loud Or Go Homo

In conjunction with the celebration of Netlabel Day on 14th July 2017, the duo electronic Bottlesmoker from Bandung, Indonesia, has released their latest album, Parakosmos. The album itself is the first album-series to welcome the anniversary celebration of Yes No Wave Music.

The philosophy of Parakosmos lies on the journey of a person in a singular world of harmony surrounded by contrast. Parakosmos is a bundle of stories about togetherness in nature, which Bottlesmoker believe that harmony relies on two opposite things.

The main ideas throughout all the songs are about artistic rituals carry out by indigenous people in a rural area of Indonesia. The traditional ritual is a natural expression to preserve sense of balance in life.

The word Parakosmos is taken from two different meaning: Paracosm often describe as imaginary world. While the words Paradoks and Kosmos merged and create one whole new meaning which explain that everything in the universe created in pair, opposite, black and white, men and women, dark and light, and so on.

Anggung Suherman (Angkuy) and Ryan Adzani (Nobie) tried to explore unusual approach to work on this album. They did unique collaboration with American ethnomusicologist, Palmer Keen, who once carried out field recording in many locations in Indonesia. Keen managed to record and collect various exceptional sound-bite from traditional music instruments in Indonesia and documented each of them under the name of AuralArchipelago.

Parakosmos is an album which demonstrates the way Bottlesmoker give musical respond toward Aural Archipelago. They soaked up the powerful energy and values from the traditional ritual and release them into original experiences.

There are two different concepts performed by Bottlesmoker throughout the creative process in the making of this album. First, they adapt the way in which the traditional instruments played, such as the musical beat of ‘kendang’ to the rhythm repetition of ‘tarawangsa’. Second, to record singing voice of solo to choir, from Beluk performance in Tasikmalaya, to Panggaiyang in East Sumba which become the main vocalization in the album of Parakosmos.

There are 10 songs which has become one tale of a person from ‘bottom’ to ‘up’, inspired by the ritual and cultural values in ancient Indonesia. It has strong connection with harmony in nature.

‘Parakosmos’ is the fourth album from Bottlesmoker, as well as the most exceptional album with different concept and outstanding sounds.

Parakosmos

BONET CIRCLE

music for Egg Theater's filipino adaptation of The PIllowman by Martin McDonagh
translated and directed by George De Jesus III
trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyyDN0t_X4

Joee Mejias- Ang Munting Jesus (The Little Jesus)

Go out of a death's face

DJ Tendraw is the abstract turntablist, circuit bent free noise alter-ego of London based artist Michael Shaw.

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