Russian Tsarlag and Secret Boyfriend are two of the most distinct and inimitable makers in the canon of the contemporary American “DIY” underground. In 2013, the two artists released an untitled split 12” on Ryan Martin’s (Secret Boyfriend) prolific 𝐻𝑜𝑡 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑠 label. It’s a pleasure to host their reunion as a part of the ENXPL series, sharing new work.

Russian Tsarlag’s side A is gorgeously trudging and despondent; these syrup drenched ballads and collages sit amongst some of his finest work, (see his most recent self released work through his Wasp Video Roadhouse imprint). Side B is the domain of Secret Boyfriend. The effort hosts an eclectic batch of dense and emotive ambient passages, live recording, and bedroom shoe-gaze. Martin’s Secret Boyfriend project allows for a fluidity in form and content, mastering longing through a myriad of languages.

"Live at Cold Spring Hollow, Belchertown MA 10 02 19" recorded by Sam Hodge
audio finalized by Glyn Maier
artwork by Carlos Gonzales and Ryan Martin
design by RJM Vanderheyden

Split

Russian Tsarlag - Partially Recycled (ENXPL08)

Tracklist:
Koji Kondo - Final Hours
Racine - Nérol
Patrick Belaga - Momentum
Concrete Fantaisies - Who Speaks for Earth
Treglia - Cuirass of Shells
Otro - Tarde (14 March 2020)
Traumesser - Conversion Artifact
Ubu Boi - Ire Signal
S280F - keep precious things inside you or you will lose them
Lugh - Million Dollar Cowboy
Klein - We Are Almost There
ABADIR & Pie Are Squared - Al Saad Aqbal Bibtisam
Moss Harvest - Harmonium
William Basinski - Tear Vial

caring until the end of time (mix)

Zonaa - Quantum Checks

"Temple of Urania" is an audiovisual project by three Polish artists (Justyna Banaszczyk, Darek Pietraszewski, Tomek Popakul), based on an art residency that took place just before the outbreak of the pandemic on the Channel Island of Jersey. The final form of the installation was informed by the experience of pandemic isolation in 2020 and an attempt to find an alternative way of presentation – one that would exclude the collective nature of concerts or clubs, while still offering a space for the actual reception of an audiovisual work, ‘live’ and offline.

The project, inspired by the extraordinary life and work of the artist couple Claude Cahun (b. Lucy Schwob) and Marcel Moore (b. Suzanne Malherbe), who lived on Jersey during the Nazi occupation, will be presented in two versions: as a travelling multi-channel audiovisual installation (premiere: 13-15/08/2021, Sanatorium of Sound Festival, Sokołowsko) and a 28-minute film released by Pointless Geometry on a limited, collector’s VHS tape (premiere: 21/10/2021).

The rich oeuvre of the two forgotten artists, which inspired the Polish trio to create Temple of Urania, includes Les Jeux uraniens (‘Uranian Games’) – Claude Cahun’s controversial, unfinished and unpublished manuscript, surrealist photographs, poetry, collages, and above all the absolutely pioneering philosophy, which accompanied the artists in life and art. Preceding the emergence of terms such as ‘gender’ or ‘non-binary’ by more than 40 years, Cahun sought in her works a space free from divisions, experimenting with her body, appearance and sexuality. ‘Masculine? Feminine?’, she wrote in Aveux non avenus (‘Disavowals’). ‘It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me’.

Temple of Urania is an homage of sorts to Cahun and Moore, an attempt to draw attention to their unique art and the need to introduce them to the avant-garde canon. Another of its objectives is to create a temple, a portal to a non-binary world, a space for meditation and communal experience – a shared existence. The temple of Urania is also a temple of love governed by Aphrodite Urania, who in Greek mythology symbolised mystical, spiritual and astral love – love beyond borders. Temple of Urania is the fruit of 18 months of work, a collective process prolonged through the pandemic that engulfed the world right after the artists returned from Jersey to Poland. As a result, the work has a deeply personal dimension – it is the result of many hours of discussions, a sense of frustration caused by the impossibility to meet outside the online sphere, and a portal for the artists themselves, a space of pleasure, peace, fulfilment and comfort. A projection of a world imagined by Claude and Marcel, which even today – 100 years later – remains in the sphere of surreal dreams.

The temple created by Banaszczyk, Pietraszewski and Popakul is free from divisions, transporting the viewer to the world imagined and advocated by Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

making of: https://youtu.be/KaA8Y2ZLLC0  
AV installation documentation: https://youtu.be/bv6ZH_0YCFg

Temple of Urania -  Banaszczyk/Popakul/Pietraszewski (POINT#42) - VHS soundtrack excerpt

Our 35th Mixtape installment arrives from Dahjyn, a musician, producer and vocalist  originally from the Pacific Northwest of the U.S  and currently based in Brooklyn.   	
					
Dahjyn, or Dan Jyn Suk Ahrendt is currently a resident with a monthly show at Hong Kong Community Radio and has just recently published his debut EP, The gall (Most Dismal Swamp, 2021) featuring additional remixes by Endgame, Thegn, and trngs. 

A new member of the swamp family, his sounds is completely akin to the label’s unique sonic aesthetics. With relentless industrial gut-punch percussion, textural power electronics, and reflective baritone verse, the album includes 5 tracks that embody a convulsive tension between an abrasive physicality and a brooding emotionality: a visceral incantation working through aggregate layers of trauma.

Alongside his particular self-exploration in identity and ability to express it, he’s continually inspired by amazing electronic musicians and producers around the world pushing his boundaries and expectations. Also a 

In this mix, Dahjyn tells us, he covers a very solid gamut of his driving nostalgia combined with the newer driving interests in his ears. The personal arc has moved from a past more anchored in post-punk romanticism, moving into the atmospheric self-obliteration of the heavier experimental pulling from the traditional music he’s found himself lost in.

Tracklist:
Akai Tori - Takeda No Komoriuta
Book of Knots - Drosophila Melanogaster (ft. Blixa Bargeld)
Nilotika Cultural Ensemble - Ejokawulida
The Anchiskati Choir - Alilio ver.2
Rowland S. Howard - Silver Chain
The Blood of Heros - Hecatomb
Setabuhan - Tabuh Langit Tanduk Jawara 
The Bug - Warning (ft. Flowdan)
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Shohmyoh (AKIRA OST)
Bark Psychosis - Absent Friend
Kim Yung Mi - Haenim

Most Dismal Swamp presents DAHJYN

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Tracklist :

Hildur Guðnadóttir - 5 Degrees of Warming (Battlefield 2042 OST)
Burnt Offerings - Intensity
Less-O - Behind Closed Doors
Simo Cell & Hodge - Drums from the West
Abadir - IV
Jimmy Edgar - METAL (ft. SOPHIE (RIP))
Richi - Crooks [Ship Sket ED1T]
Realitycheck - Infra
HANAH - Imprezza
IVVVS - Comma
Incendie -  Glass (Arson Edit)
Modern Collapse - Throw That iPhone X Away
Loraine James - Let's Go
Klahrk - Send It!!
Zaliva-D - End Of The Sky (Skyshaker Fem4Fem Edition)
Vina Konda - Melting E.Coli
SLIKBACK X OBJEKT - APEX
фанкшн - Флюгер
aya - tailwind
Glass - Hybrid Thinking
Gwia Ekim & indigoblue - Content Corruption (RougeHotel Remix)
Max Dahlhaus - Artificial Prodigy (Aquarian Remix)
Exploited Body - We Will Never Be Safe In This World

2042 - The Homeopathics (Novembre 2021)

ev w/ DJ Strawberry invites güns - 14/12/20021

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