"French musicians Alban Mercier(Officium) and Eric Desjeux (Tzii) team up after years of friendship for a 9-tracks collaborative album that will be out on OKVLT. The duo’s first recording attempt is a highly evocative and melancholic album based on the pair personal archives, techniques and souvenirs. A collection of twisted voices, haunting synths and percussions combining Tzii’s composition skills with Officium’s field recordings, chant and bleak approch of sound.
“WATCHING MYSELF FORGET WITH NO RESISTANCE” is an intimate research on perception, memory and inward visions : sometimes violent, yet poetic and definitely elegiacal. "
Full streaming of Officium's track "Grey Blue Eyes". A tide of ethereal melodies and percussion instruments in a field recording backround, while the hollow bass kicks in, transforming everything to a slowburn beat with synth flexions and sliced and floating distorted sounds.
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Artist: @officiumofficium
Track: "Grey Blue Eyes"
Title: "Watching Myself Forget with No Resistance"
Label: @o-k-v-l-t
Format: Cassette + Digital
Release date: June 30, 2021
Pre-order: https://okvlt.bandcamp.com/album/watching-myself-forget-with-no-resistance

☽ Mixed and mastered by Tioma Tchoulanov
☽ Artwork by Gaëtan Bizien
☽ Available on pro-dubbed C50 tapes with risoprinted cover
☽ Edition of 70 hand-numbered copies
☽ 20 ex. comes with 12ml black magic potion

Premiere: Officium - Grey Blue Eyes [OKVLT009]

Release Date : 04/11
Mastering : Dj Steaw

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Premiere of the track "Khitab - خطاب" by Osman Arabi as Ain Horus , taken from his upcoming sample-based album on Lebanese experimental label Modular Mind.
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Artist: Ain Horus
Track: "Khitab - خطاب"
Album: "Risala Min Shahed Ayan"
Label: @modular-mind
Format: Cassette + Digital
Release date: April 2, 2023
Pre-order: https://modularmind.bandcamp.com/album/risala-min-shahed-ayan

Written and Produced by Osman Arabi
Recorded during May - July 2022
at Studio Horus, Berlin-Neukölln
Mastered by Kujo at Modular Mind Studio
Artwork by Ain Horus - Layout by Zekra

"The entire album consists of samples and sounds from the 1996 Egyptian cult film ‘Al Nom Fil Assal’ (Arabic: النوم فى العسل, English: “A Deep Sleep” or “Sweet Oblivion”). The satire features legendary comedian Adel Emam, directed by the great Sharif Arafa and scored by Omar Khayrat, the film tackles topics like sexual impotence, corruption, ignorance and frustration in Egyptian society which led it to become one of a kind audio-visual experience in the Arab world.
Osman Arabi, a veteran producer known for pioneering black metal and noise in the early 2000s from Al-Mina Lebanon, describes the format of his album as an “18-track cinematic audiobook”. This musical reinterpretation is an homage to the very essence of the film that revolves around the question: What does the spirit of a world that has gone mad look like?"

Premiere: Ain Horus - Khitab - خطاب [MMT05]

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The light was faint as he looked down the tunnel into the abyss. He could only see flickering shadows and the odd shimmer of a torch in the distance as he walked slowly forwards towards the end. Life had been a blast but now it was time for something else, a new beginning in which he would seek new friends, new experiences and new freedom from the comfort of the darkness and the great beyond. Who knew what kind of fresh faced fun lurked down below...

Parisians Gaëtan Bizien and Tioma Tchoulanov are UVB76 on a new EP for the ever menacing record label RUBBER from The Hague. It's brutal, odd and weird, just as we like it. The imprint describes the new EP as follows:

"Re-thinking industrial reductionism, the duo presents us an experimental signature of clattering tones, field-recordings, and rapidly fluctuating effects. Breakneck rhythms in an ever-shifting dream phase—this is musique concrète at full speed."

Buy here:  https://rubber-denhaag.bandcamp.com/album/bakara

BAKARA

PREMIERE: UVB76 - Gauze [RUBBER]

Saint Abdullah // “In God’s Image” // 2xCD on Psychic Liberation // 
Release date: August 21, 2020

Saint Abdullah, composed of Tehran-born brothers Mohammad and Mehdi, have fine-tuned their vision of conceptual, blown-out dub and free jazz with “In God’s Image,” an ambitious twenty-song double CD on Psychic Liberation. The opus by the two Iranians living in New York, is full of mourning and rage, but these affects only scratch the surface of the work’s emotional and formal heterogeneity. 

Like the image gracing its cover—a tiny, dusty peykan, its roof fitted with an image of Ruhollah Khomeini and cone speakers—Saint Abdullah uses DIY minimalism to deliver maximal messaging. On “Problem,” distorted percussion, Shia oration, and a sample of the late Nipsy Hussle meld into a cathartic club burner, while the rhythms and lifted string arpeggiations on “Potion for sorrow” induce hazy cinematics, the duo’s attempt at Persian stoner boom bap. 

Elsewhere are instances of improvised jamming, melancholic twinkling, and pensive restraint. The powerfully eclectic statement by Saint Abdullah includes appearances by saxophonist Travis Laplante, who blows a spiralling noir line over feedbacking cacophony. On another track, Moor Mother delivers a poetic lashing on Western imperialists who rain missiles on hospitals, grieves the bodies piling up as capital gets sucked from the Earth. 

The sample work on “In God’s Image” draws heavily from Iranian documentaries, and includes the brothers’ field recordings from Tehran and New York. Heretical combinations collide senses of antiquity and contemporaneity, resisting the many orientalist reads on Iranian culture and politics. In this struggle, Saint Abdullah conveys many emotional registers, from exhausted depression to righteous indignation. 

Among many things, the image of Khomeini on the cover, which often scandalizes American audiences, represents the overthrow of a 2,500-year-long monarchy. All forms of dehumanization receive the sonic snakebite of Saint Abdullah, and “In God’s Image” resuscitates the revolutionary potential of music that pulls from the traditions of oppressed peoples in both the East and West. 

Psychic Liberation, in operation since 2018, is an experimental music label started in Brooklyn, New York, currently based in The Hague, Netherlands. The label is distributed in North America by Fantastique, and in EU/UK by Boomkat.
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña 
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releases August 21, 2020

www.psychicliberation.net

Audio by Saint Abdullah
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña

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A1 from Cutting Room - The Night Chemist 
https://brokntoys.bandcamp.com/album/the-night-chemist

'And now for something brutal... Cutting Room disembark on brokntoys for an EP of techno abstractions. Breaking their hiatus after their celebrated Steeplejack debut, The Night Chemist follows up on their previous outing – and the beast has evolved. Across 4 tracks the Australian trio, formed by Connor Gibson, Eugene Brockmuller and Cosmo Feltham, distill foreboding atmospheres, crushed mechanical beats and turbulent Ballardian passages. The EP closes with a remix from Spanish legends Esplendor Geometrico demolishing Always Rock.'

@cuttingroomusic

Cutting Room - Always Rock Dog Ya Mates

Gil.Barte - R.S.F. Lp - MT001 
https://methotapes.bandcamp.com/album/r-s-f

R.S.F.

Gil.Barte - Mt Carmen

https://blackseedacts.bandcamp.com/track/yuki

Yuki

ENDILL013 featuring Philipp Otterbach, Annechoic, Poperttelli, Ayaz & NVST remixes of Exhausted Modern's Year of the Rat LP is shipping out from today, shops will get the record next week, sorry for the delay.

Distributed by clone.nl
Bandcamp: bit.ly/YOTR_Remixes

Picture: Jonáš Verešpej
Graphics: Jan Horčík (Heavyweight)

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Exhausted Modern - Hard Working Rats (NVST Hifive Remix)

Defunct record label ran by @exhausted-modern, based in the heart of Europe - Prague (2011-2021).

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ENDILL013 - YEAR OF THE RAT REMIXES EP
ENDILLP02 - EXHAUSTED MODERN LP
ENDILLP01 - FOTOPLASTIKON LP 
ENDILL012/BT36 - VA HUMAN ABSTRACTS VOL. 1 
ENDILLW02 - EXHAUSTED MODERN / ALIVER / PROJECT GERMS SPLIT EP
ENDILL011 - MARCOS CABRAL / DANIEL ARAYA SPLIT EP
JUP002 - MAMA BUBO LP
ENDILL010 - D'MARC CANTU EP
ENDILL009 - ZARKOFF (Mr. Pauli remix) EP
ENDILLT01 - LAYUP ALBUM
JUP001 - OMNIBUS 2LP
ENDILL008 - DIRCSEN EP
ENDILLW01 - LAYUP EP
ENDILL007 - ENDFEST EP
ENDILL006 - STEPHEN LOPKIN / DIMDJ SPLIT EP
ENDILL005 - CCO EP
ENDILL004 - IDEOMATIC EP
ENDILL003 - LAYUP EP
ENDILLVA01 
ENDILL002 - LAYUP EP
ENDILL001 - LAYUP EP

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