iliac × shapes ⁽ᵇ²ᵇ⁾

Attack and Release was meant to embody the feelings of comfort and care, of being pushed outside of those boundaries and taking on a defensive stance. In newly budding relationships, arguments arise and subside, and egos need to be diminished* for the greater good. Iliac and shapes come together in this mix to illustrate the thresholds and conflicts that arise between individuality and love, all while being enveloped in the comforts of ethereal reverbs.

attack release iliac × shapes ⁽ᵇ²ᵇ⁾

@evely-plaschg

https://notowar.bandcamp.com/album/we-stand-with-ukraine

All purchases go to humanitarian aid and queer feminist networks in Ukraine, or in help of Ukraine.

We Stand with Ukraine

You Are Not Afraid (In My Talons & Evelyn Plaschg)

Seu amor ainda - lawd knows / salt_server //blend/48

Seu amor ainda - lawd knows / salt_server //blend48

LAVURN is the debut self-titled album from Lavurn Lee, a singer, songwriter, producer, performer and DJ from the inner suburbs of Toronto. He has also lived and worked in Sydney, Hong Kong and Berlin. His music is an emotionally complex assemblage of processed vocals, filtered pads, surgically programmed drums, haunting melodic fragments and hazy textures. This 13 track album of sparse, emotive and experimental R&B is his second for SUMAC and his first under his own name, following a previous record under the name Fake in 2018. Lavurn was made over three years between Toronto, Berlin and Hong Kong in close dialogue with SUMAC founders DJ Plead and T.Morimoto.

Previously, as Cassius Select, he has established himself as a unique voice in dance music, releasing on cult labels such as Unknown to the Unknown, Accidental Jnr, Hypercolour, Banoffee Pies, Raw Basics and Bruk Records. His side projects include collaborations with vocalists such as VV Pete and Daemon, his previous experimental R&B aliases Guerre and Fake, and BV (alongside Marcus Whale and DJ Plead).


THOUGHTS & REFLECTIONS ON THE MAKING OF LAVURN

“I’m trying to make pop music. Not in the industry sense, but in the way that everyone is making their own type of pop music. It wants to be listenable, so it can create emotions. I come from bedroom song writing in the age of the internet. The lyrical content and sounds reflect my demeanor. Big ego with low sense of self-worth. Constantly posturing. At once both strong and weak. I don’t always trust my abilities. I don’t have the voice to produce contemporary radio R&B. I don’t do traditional harmonies, mine are all over the place.

It's the first time I'm writing about my own life in a literal sense. I spent years writing love songs having never been in a relationship. Whereas this feels very raw as a reflection of my experiences. To me the album sounds insular because it was made that way, in isolation. The vocals are used in a sampled way. A chorus for one track might be chopped and turned into another hook. A verse for one song is half timed and used for the chorus of another. Auto-Tune is used heavily. Some tracks are ‘written’ by pulling different beats, textures and vocals from different tracks and seeing what fits together. I tried to take self-sampling further and further. I was thinking of ways to world-build.

Most of the lyrical content on the album is about dealing with a breakup. But the album doesn’t reflect a break-up because it’s completely one sided. It doesn’t reflect the reality that I was an awful person during the relationship. Really it's an inward study of a reaction to rejection. It’s ambivalent. The attitude is “hey imma do me and improve myself”, while also desperately wanting someone back (for all the wrong reasons). There’s a veneer of self-improvement and healing. But it’s all performance. I used to think all the songs had a kind of toxic intent because of this. Trying to impress someone in a way that would make them want to return to you. In retrospect I understand the songs differently. They’re not perfect. A bit confused in their vulnerability. Maybe quite sweet in a way. I think it’s healthy for me to see the lyrics on the album as directed at myself. It’s an album about self-love. I learnt that making music can be a kind of self-care.” 
credits
released February 16, 2024

Written, recorded, produced and mixed by Lavurn Lee
Mastered by T.Morimoto
Photography by DJ Plead

LAVURN - READ VIEW MIRROR

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Lyrics :: 
strength it comes and goes 4x 

counter x x xpose
curl up pill bug pillow  
2x

victim cross my ice again
hide my soul like glass again
hard i fall like christ again
i dont where im at again

counter x x xpose
curl up pill bug pillow 
2x

why cant i be like strong like you
tetrapod and the concrete too
silver stones it cuts and clean
i just i just hope that i will gleam

counter x x xpose
curl up pill bug pillow 
2x

strength it comes and goes 
strength it comes and goes 
strength it comes and goes 
strength it comes and goes 


why cant i be like strong like you
tetrapod and the concrete too
silver stones it cuts and clean
i just want to shine and gleam

strength it comes and goes 
strength it comes and goes 
strength it comes and goes 
strength it comes and goes 

why cant i be like strong like you
tetrapods and the concrete too
silver stones it cuts and clean
i just want to shine and gleam

counter x x xpose
curl up pill bug pillow 
2x

Pill Bug Pillow

I'd do anything to protect what I love the most. 
But what does that say about my humanity?

Single II (B): PACON

@journaloffourseasons

Instrumental

THE DREAM WHERE I SHOT HIM [PACON S:1]

Landauer's Lament

HDWAV 5.1 - SW33TT 3V1L DRR11LLL 0FF1C14L R3M1X - Stuntin

Lone Rider

https://7-0-3.bandcamp.com/album/hero-summer-suite-2016

Intro
Everything I Own
Last On Earth (for The Pilman Radiant)

16 Hero Summer Suite

Just call me Panic, i make beauty music 
Member of @chao-gardem 
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/dontpanic3k
Bandcamp:
https://djdontpanic.bandcamp.com
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCubMiAn-FAZUDz5jaBSwzNA

Pill Bug Pillow

DJ Dont Panic

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