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EM007 - Spivak - Violences

A mesh of sculptural sounds, pop poetics and folklore, referencing a DIY slacker spirit.

The Cyprus based musician and sound-artist is set to release ‘Violences’, a 4-track EP, on Electroménager in March 2024.

@mspivak
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Release date: 14.03.24
Pre-order: electromngr.bandcamp.com

Music composed & produced by Maria Spivak
Quilt by Picnicfatal
Creative direction by Yanni Caloghiris

Violences

EM007 — "Violences" by Spivak

AIRCODE 16.4.24

xato (est. 2018) is the moniker of the Greek, Vienna-based artist, producer, audio engineer and label owner of ‘evo-natura’ Ioannis Nafpliotis (b. 2000).
With a diverse palette of sounds, he debuted in 2020 with “State of Dismay”, an ambient/drone EP released on Himera’s boutique collective, “GoodbyeForever”.
During 2024, he released 4 EPs, all high-end produced projects covering the club, rap/hip-hop, bass, drone and experimental spectrum. A club essential EP "Emotional Burner" on DJ LOSER's label “Magdalena’s Apathy”, featuring Atlanta's finest 645AR, his anticipated drone EP "Irrational Fear" via "evo-natura", featuring bod [包家巷] on the spoken words, the catastrophic bass / leftfield EP "Stories with no fairy tales" via "xyx", featuring Klahrk and the 6-track collab heater EP with 645AR on the raps, featuring tracks with Ludwig Wandinger and BloodzBoi’s side alias, yy02, via “xyx”.
His DJ and Live sets are both skillfully performed, with both improvisation and DJ sets being fully adaptive to the audience’s energy, making them one of its kind experiences.

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https://soundcloud.com/iamxato
https://soundcloud.com/evo-natura
https://www.instagram.com/iamxato/

SI103 - XATO

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.

Kamran Sadeghi - Formula Fiction

Maximum Euphoria w/  ecolagbohrsac2021 - 25/10/2024

Kamasutra

Fifth track in a suite of tracks inspired by a walk along a wooded river bank in the summer close to where I live. This track explores how the calming sound of the flowing river gives you a chance to contemplate the past. Enjoy. CD

Lyrics by David North:
Peace in my dreams
Sleep at night
Taken away my past for keeps
She went away
Nothing I say
She will never grow old
Story be told

On golden sands I walk upon
Tracks I leave behind
Reflectionsof the life we live
Never to be kind.

On golden sands I walk upon
Tracks I leave behind
The river is the life we live
Never to be kind.

The River is the Life we Live

Tracks I leave behind

Originally sparked by a moment of inspiration from an AI, this song grew through experimentation and creative exploration into the track you hear now —
an epic, cinematic soundscape that invites listeners to dive in, let their imagination run wild, and find their own meaning in it. 

The Beginning

J.G. Biberkopf
'Fountain Of Meaning' EP
DN010
Format: vinyl / digital
Release Date: 8 December 2017
Mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M
@jgb-k


Fountain of Meaning is a new sonic fiction from sound artist J.G. Biberkopf following last year’s Ecologies II: Ecosystems of Excess released on Knives. Emerging out of a situation of overflow, the record burrows deeper into his practice of palpable audio theater with a study of object and relations across space-time specific sounds. 

The Fountain as a theme reflects a spouting and spilling of information, an erotic gushing of imagined aural history. “The Fountain was the source of water in the public space in cities,” J.G. Biberkopf explains. “Now it’s pretty much a sexualised architectural gesture of both beautification and the spectacle of dominant ideologies.” 

The western classical musical canon, much like the perpetual coming of the fountain, flush the headphone space with stimuli. Reflex and memory guides the listener through a semiotic architecture of processed recordings of masses in Catholic churches and contemporary performances of pre-medieval music. A liquidity of structure has an anxious influence and is a closed system approach to form and imagination. When water flows, it fills every space, then spills over to claim more. History is equally abundant and alive. We have never had as much history as we have now. We have never been able to see ourselves as we can now. 

A knowledge of a grander architecture of knowing and recalling oppress the ecologies of human decision-making.The nature of the archive has  transformed into a total and panoptic intelligence. A life is a gamble as the inventory of the world overflows into the production of a spectral third, an other, a confrontation. Fountain of Meaning offers a dynamic tension and release. A molecular tragedy, our abject recovery into a collaborative reimagining of a trauma long forgotten. 

What can be gleaned from this overflow?

DN010 - Fountain of Meaning

Fountain Of Meaning

J.G. Biberkopf - Delirium

A label run by @jacquestorrance + @olly-geary

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info (at) electromngr (dot) com

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Past Showcases :

16.11.24 at Backsteinboot, Berlin
21.09.24 Music IRL at Cahier Central, Paris
10.02 — 02.06.24 Exhibition at Galerie Kernweine, Stuttgart
01.03.24 at Le Tony, Paris
30.11.23 at Cahier Central, Paris
06.10.23 at Le Sample, Paris
08.10.21 + 09.10.21 at La Station, Paris
29.01.20 at Paloma, Berlin
23.11.19 at Galerie Kernweine, Stuttgart

EM007 — "Violences" by Spivak

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