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Haron – Taxa (QUEESTE005)
https://smarturl.it/queeste005

01 Drosera
02 Benthos
03 Pantala
04 Pincertail

Haron’s Taxa EP dips into a world of fizzing electronics and draws from it four potent club mutations. 

Having explored spacious ambient on 2018’s well-received Wandelaar, the Dutch producer turns his attention towards full-body rhythms. These newly prepared compositions, the first club release on Queeste, are dappled with synthesised colour and unexpected timbral shifts, aligning the producer with global bass permutations while maintaining his own playful course.

The skittering dancefloor percussion of opening track ‘Drosera’ immediately signals this change in direction, leading effortlessly into the tightly coiled drums of ‘Benthos’ whose name is taken from the community of organisms that dwell on the seabed. In a nod to Wandelaar’s serene tones, the track ends with weightless ambience alongside snippets of human voices, a single moment of stillness on a release elsewhere defined by movement. ‘Pantala’ is pristine computerised dancehall teeming with disembodied samples and impressionistic swirls of noise before Taxa ends with ‘Pincertail’ whose bustling syncopations recall UK funky at its nimblest.

No less evocative than his beatless work, on this EP Haron has crafted his own idiosyncratic abstraction of club music, one imbued with joyful melodies and a giddy, pleasingly destabilising sensibility.

releases July 3, 2020

All tracks written and produced by Haron Aumaj
Mastered by Wouter Brandenburg
Graphic design by Fallon Does
Words by Lewis Gordon

Taxa

introducing ⤷ Haron – Taxa (QUEESTE005)

Taken from Fé/Vazio [ELP051] out 07/08/20

Properly mazy rhythmic psychedelia from Lisbon’s Serpente who comes back to Ecstatic Recordings pursuing the spirits of Alice Coltrane and Don Cherry via Fourth World gateways and the spiralling broken beat vortices of Anthony Shakir, following on from that killer LinnDrum tribute to Prince’s ‘Parade’ album last summer.

A direct reference to Dischord’s legendary Faith/Void split album, Fé/Vazio draws thrilling, jagged lines between the ground-breaking jazz fusions of the ‘60s-‘70s and the Afro-Futurist pinnacles of ’90 Detroit and UK-based techno and their offshoots; broken beat, jungle, and “IDM”. 

His style broadly collapses the psychedelia of his work as Ondness (Where To Now?, Holuzam, Sucata Tapes) into a more ravishing and arguably vital sound that frames a modern state of mind between dystopian paranoia and utopian freedom.

Like last year’s cultishly acclaimed Parada (Ecstatic Recordings, ELP044), 'Fé / Vazio' comes to restlessly fulfil a physical and spiritual need for this kind of music right now; it sidewinds into chaotic multiples of polymetric rhythms, hypnotic drone and curious folk hooks that somehow gel with a fractious, rhythmelodic coherence that rudely acknowledges all that came before it. 

Track to track Bruno recalls the kaotic harmonies of Derrick May as much as Anthony Shakir’s sleight drum edits in ‘Nível De Fumo’, and the Reinforced cosmic rolige of Colin Lindo (Alpha Omega/Nubian Mindz) or 4Hero - who were no strangers to the promise of spiritual jazz music and the Afro-Latin codes of Brazilian music - in ‘Em Sendo’, while the reticulated hot steppers ‘Visitação’ and ‘Escalpe’ seamlessly bind roots and futurism in a singular, headlong style and the scudding ‘90s techno/IDM tone of ‘Razia’ surely recalls the rhythmic ingenuity and modern blueness of early Autechre. 

It's a record that feels unlocked and cosmically free compared with so much rictus, floor-based music, but with a grit and colour that can’t be denied on (currently imaginary) dance floors.

Buy!

Serpente - Rainhas [ELP051]

• stories written and read by Inger Wold Lund
www.ingerwoldlund.no/

• sound by Alexandra Zakharenko
http://zakharenko.es/
https://dome.pw/

An audio piece originally made to be listened to in a house in a harbor on the windy east coast of Iceland.
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Some nights ago I dreamt I was holding eggs in my hands. Their shells were so fragile that just being next to each other could make them crack.

Inger Wold Lund – 7 stories

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"[mix for endlessly studying, in follow Moten; ‘I think we were committed to the idea that study is what you do with other people. It’s talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing, suffering, some irreducible convergence of all three, held under the name of speculative practice.’ (The Undercommons)]" @zourry

Art by Celeste Stein
https://www.instagram.com/celeste_stein

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Taken from the album 'Blink A Few Times To Clear Your Eyes'
Released as LP and Digital

Grand River 'Side Lengths' (EMEGO 290)

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Satin Doll - Dub For Annie - dis/mm-di01

"Erevan DJ entame la deuxième saison de son “Herbe À Chat” avec une session dédiée au label Eco Futurism Corporation entre grime, IDM, exotica et des morceaux de HERBARIUM, LSTNGT, SHYQA, X.Y.R. ou silént phil."

Diffusé le 17/09/2020 sur @lyl_radio : https://lyl.live/episode/herbe-chat-7-1/

Serpente - Rainhas [ELP051]

ECSTATIC