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ice is dripping. candles are out. the foreplay over.

Our selection of lustworks are anticipating your next move…

INDEXOXO<3

A third volume of nocturnes devoted to whetting all thirsts -
a salve to soothe all burns of desire.
For where there once was love,
ever shall its void fill with longing.

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INDEXOXO<3

Ike - Nurture

Releases on 04/12 <3

https://soundcloud.com/ullastraus
https://soundcloud.com/ultrafog

https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/it-means-a-lot
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https://rubadub.co.uk/products/it-means-a-lot

Ulla & Ultrafog, "Lame Mart"

The newest release from 29 Speedway, UltraBody, is a compilation record featuring the music of Jake Muir, Pent & Dylan Kerr, Nexcyia & mu tate, James K, Flora Yin-Wong, Ex Wiish & Dorothy Carlos, Kamran Sadeghi, Tati au Miel, James Hoff, Eric Frye, qwqwqwqwa & sop.io, Muein, & Maxwell Sterling. The record is emblematic of the artists who have performed at 29 Speedway shows in New York and Europe during the past two years, and is the third in a series released by the label.

The record investigates how the self, spirituality, and language are intertwined with the intervention of subjectivity by new technologies. With increasingly sophisticated tech, and the supposed ability to remake the world and ourselves, what differentiates our individual discretion from the will imposed upon us by software? Quoting Walter Chaw, “Decades of rampant, unregulated and ill-considered technological leaps have begun to evolve, to mutate, humans at a biological level”. This haphazard acceleration towards a techno-utopic transformation of humanity has faulted, and as William Gibson put it, is leading us to live in a “half assed singularity”. In this reality, artistic processes are influenced by excessive access to computational tools and assistance, but not utterly controlled.

This in-between state of dominion is explored on UltraBody. “Incoherences” samples the utterances of Dylan Kerr’s voice processed between Pent’s percolated glazes, muddying the gulf between vaporous ambient and reflexive sound design. The voice on James Hoff’s “A... ...Cha.... A... I feel l” was created by trying to get voice cloning technology to sing a gps data stream, the music an extrapolation from an earworm he got stuck in his head while shopping in Kyoto. On “Plogue Chain”, Eric Frye’s most speculative sci-fi observations spiral into a glazed pool of digital cacophony, while Kamran Sadeghi’s “Formula Fiction” is an experiment in (un)controlled generativity. Incorporating minimal pings from a 3D simulation scene based on gravitational interaction, cello bits evolve on “Assimilation”, a collaboration between Ex Wiish & Dorothy Carlos.

On UltraBody, sound has no separate existence from space.

James K - Sketch 4

'Пізнання льодовикового рельєфу' is the first artefact of our duet, the cornerstone of the ongoing asynchronous work with Comechelet (@comechelet). The debut 10-composition LP is set to be released in December 2024 — bear with us. 
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About VA : COLLAGE
If it appeared right before you, just for a second, would you either walk this fleeting path or let it vanish in a blink, hidden forever beyond the fine lining of your eyelid? Taking the road to nowhere can be tempting, just as the urge to leave everything behind. Paradoxically, embracing the void feels so fulfilling - but isn’t acceptance part of the grief? We’re all searching for our own secret place, where inner peace could finally grow from its embryonic stasis.

Much like that uncertain trail, the present 'Collage' compilation charts a course through the soft, dreamy side of contemporary electronic music. Designed either for the club or a living room, this ethereal patchwork of 14 tracks is woven from silk-like sound design. ambient techno, experimental, IDM, atmospheric dub sonic - each genre highlights in turns ultra-stretched audio spectrums, smooth instrumental lines, introspective reverberations or digital breaks.

After Jonnnah’s ‘The Next Kingdom’ - debut LP published earlier this year, this second release embodies the label’s musical ethos once again: cold yet heartwarming textures, celestial synths and volatile rhythms.

Credits:
A.D : Jonnnah (@jonnnah / @second-end-rec)
Graphic design : Tiphaine Voix, Lucas Dupuy
Mastering : kick21
Words : Loïs Markarian


Collage

ᵖʳᵉᵐⁱᵉʳᵉ ϙue x Comechelet — Пізнання льодовикового рельєфу [Second End Records]

all worth it with you here part two w/ light

IDDDD {CHYNNA}

The first track on South Korean-born, Netherlands-based artist Jiyoung Wi's (@jiyoungwi) 4'44" - a 'sound fiction' in the format part book and part CD. During her Sonology course in The Hague, Wi's recent work considers the relationship between the two mediums to alter the possibilities of narratives.

Structured as a series of letters opening with a one-sided transcript of a conversation, 4'44"'s accompanying audio tracks combine sounds collected through field recording and a reading of the transcript by seven speakers - in Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Bengali, English, Lithuanian, and Turkish. The use of multiple languages disrupts a single, cohesive cultural or geographical context for the text, further obscuring the identities of those engaged in the conversation. Such translation of text to sound acts as a prelude, drawing the readers into the disjointed world of 4'44". Intimate and surreal, the story follows a first-person narrator who relies on her fractured psyche for survival, chronicling the various stages of her mysterious illness.

he title reflects the layered conceptual and formal explorations of the work, appropriating John Cage's 4'33", lasting 273 seconds, often interpreted as referencing -273°C, or absolute zero, where all molecular motion stops. By adding 11 seconds, Wi creates an interval to reflect on "the other," mirroring the act of letter-writing, which involves both a sender (self) and a recipient (other). The resulting manipulation of time also draws on cultural symbolism, as the number four is often associated with death in many Asian cultures. Combining the suspended ambience of 4 minutes and 33 seconds with a brief yet charged speculative moment, the letters of 4'44" invite meditation on what lies beyond the self, at the edge of death.

https://doyenne-books.bandcamp.com/merch/d-08-jiyoung-wi-44-book-cd-set

Me in her flat in N*rth Korea Pt.1 - Jiyoung Wi [D-08]

Robbery

15 Candles (mu tate Remix)

Need Someone 2 Find Me

NEXT: 
19 Oct - Frieze London Showcase with Completedworks ft. Lisa Lerkenfeldt, Maria Gorodeckaya x Ekaterina Bazhenova-Yamasaki

Tickets: https://ra.co/events/2270176

Past events:
LP launch at Cafe OTO - 29 April 2025
Film showcase at Current Plans gallery, Hong Kong - Dec 2024
Book reading at Dear Friend Books, New York - Nov 2024
Takeover at Saigon Gallery, Athens - July 2024
Camden Art Centre, London - July 2024
3-part Series Residency at Ormside Projects
https://doyenne-books.bandcamp.com
Launch at Cafe OTO - 2023

Current/Previous Stockists:
Tender Books, London
ICA, London
Tate Modern, London,
Aeon Books, New York, US
MMCA Library, Seoul, KR
The Book Society, Seoul, KR
Parallaxe Records, Kyoto, JP
Objects & Sounds, Ghent, BE,
AD England, Manchester
Good Press, Glasgow
Motto Berlin, DE

Contact: Floraytw@gmail.com

Me in her flat in N*rth Korea Pt.1 - Jiyoung Wi [D-08]

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