Track 3 from "Dawn Simulation". Available now on Chondritic Sound.

https://chondriticsound.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-simulation

Gift (Chondritic Sound, 2023)

Club music culture necessarily shifted gears in many ways during and after the course of the pandemic. Older participants found their way into other interests and younger participants took new reigns to orient spaces they felt good inside of. The agenda for the music, and the cultural industry surrounding it at large, took a more frivolous and “fun” turn. Clubs needed to recoup lost money, people needed more refreshing catharsis for their nightlife escape, and in some pockets scattered around the globe a newer and younger cadre of producers/promoters/DJ’s pulled optical cues from a scattering of “darker” influences to give an alternate aesthetic to the aforementioned “vibes” culture. In the midst of this, a large polarization of conceptual energy shifted within the compositional and utilitarian machinations of the club music culture leaving behind the brooding and cerebral placeholders for a different kind of enjoyable hedonism. Terrestrial Paradise’ “Artificial Hell” harkens to another prescient time before that shift occurred. “Artificial Hell’ might just be an illustration of what all of this fun escapism encapsulates.

Terrestrial Paradise is the latest moniker from Montreal come Los Angeles based producer Jaclyn Kendal. Having developed and cemented her sonic positionality with releases on North American labels like Ascetic House and Summer isle over the years, as well as a series of monolithic live sets, Bank is pleased to announce Kendal’s Terrestrial Paradise first full length album “Artificial Hell”. Over the course of nine recordings, “Artificial Hell” gives a master class in pressurized industrial techno of the slower variety. Fitting with the legacy of Bank’s output since it’s inception, Terrestrial Paradise’s aesthetic sensibilities sit within the canon of a certain tinge of club music imbued with a sense of natural grit, sans pretense.

“Artificial Hell” nods to artists like Scorn, Regis, and 400 PPM while maintaining it’s own territory in the landscape of cerebral and brooding rhythmic techno. Ominous, mechanistic drones sit above succinctly exacted percussion composition and sound design. Throughout “Artificial Hell”, Kendal shows her proficiency with the push and pull of building and releasing tension. On tracks like “Salvation” and “Relativity” she melds her synth wash wallscapes with driving percussion, serving as both a hint and counterpoint to the the entirety of the latter part of the album taking on spartan ambient compositions as a way to keep the listener in a subdued stasis. This album is a statement piece from a long time participant in the North American underground music sectors. It reminds the listener through perilous, considered rhythms and darker drone impositions to cement themselves back into a place where not everything is always a good time.

Terrestrial Paradise - Western Ave (BNK-042)

“Skin-grafting — a process of making an opening in the skin, in two places, and holding the wounds together. The supple skin of an inner arm heals to the sore on the cheek or neck, replacing cursed tissues with the untarnished. The difference of texture is visible for life in both places. A kind of scar, but built from the healthy body, a transferal of a wound from one place to the next; healed, at the price of a permanent disfigurement. 

Skin-graft a wry smile onto a laugh bridging mirth and mourning, and you're entering the territory of 𝑬𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒆. 

2020 the Merciless — its dangers were clocked ahead of time in a sarcastic prelude text to an album which couldn't know the venom of its own truths. 

Chaperone grasped at the future in '19 with fingers bluntened by exhaustion, and God only knows how much was shrewd foresight, how much was heaven-sent premonition, and how much of reality was forged from the sacrilege of looking forward with such a scornful gaze.

Was it the dream of one, or of many? That future was shaped somehow — is collective pessimism to blame for the inevitable and colourless future? 

𝑬𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒆 bears its scars in static. Some seem old, personal, borne on the body, while some seem to be phantoms of pain not yet felt by anyone. "Yet", the inevitable; "yet", the certainly uncertain. "Yet" will come for us all.

[....]"

Excerpt of writing by Freddie Hudson (April 2023). 

𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘫-𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘗𝘋𝘍 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘥 (𝘻𝘪𝘱) 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘦.

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David Coccagna (Chaperone) is a Philadelphia-based writer and musician focusing primarily on transgressive human behavior, poverty, class division, and addiction. Born and raised in Philadelphia, the principle imagery and sonic influences of the depressed Northeast neighborhood Lawncrest has served as the palette and canvas Coccagna works upon. He has worked with labels Great Circles, Jungle Gym, Con.apt, and Minor Adjustments, with more recent focuses leaning into repetitive sound and theme. He is an avid cyclist and has two cats.

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Recorded in Philadelphia, Montesportali, and Richmond by David Coccagna (𝘢𝘯𝘹𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦 written in collaboration with André Altrez) between 2017-2019
Remastered by Glyn Maier in 2023
Artwork by R. Inez
Design and layout by Joe Bastardo

Emotion Hospice

Chaperone - Ash Wednesday, The Triage (ENXEVP02)

Makoto Oshiro, from Okinawa and now based in Berlin, has developed an artistic practice spanning sound, site installation, field recording, language, instrument design, and more for over a decade. His performances and installations have spanned the globe, regularly appearing across Asia, Europe, North America, and further - often collaborating with other artists, most recently with Nick Klein on the album 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒅 released by the cult Italian label Superpang last year.

𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅 documents four live and studio performances from 2020-2023 in Tokyo and Berlin, and marks Oshiro’s first solo album since 2014. Small electro-mechanical devices made by Oshiro, which he calls 𝘬𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪-𝘬𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴, are coaxed into physically generating sound by rapidly opening and closing relays. The speed of the relays is controlled by Oshiro, producing a distinctive clicking (“𝘬𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪-𝘬𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪-𝘬𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪…”) at lower speeds - then bursting into squeals, squawks, and drones at their maximal activity, occasionally creating sympathetic harmonics with the surface they have been placed upon. Functioning as acoustic oscillators, numerous 𝘬𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪-𝘬𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴 build a richly layered environment, approaching sonic phenomenon at its most fundamental aspects.

These recordings bridge installation and performance, machine and organism, abstract and physical, subconscious and rapture - especially on the title track 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅, with over 40 minutes of densely unfolding square waves and their superpositions.

Listen loud, lay down, walk around, meditate, stretch, and wander through the void.

𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒌 and 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑷𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒆 recorded at UdK Berlin Sound Studies and Sonic Arts Studio in 2022.
𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑽𝒐𝒊𝒅 recorded at Morphine Raum (Berlin) in 2023.
𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅 recorded at Permian (Tokyo) in 2020.

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Makoto Oshiro is a Berlin-Tokyo based performer and artist. His primary medium is sound, but he also combines other elements including light, electricity and movement of objects. In live performances, he uses self-made tools and instruments that are based on electronic devices, every day materials, and junk. His installation work handles sound as a physical and auditory phenomenon, and focuses on characteristics such as vibration and interference.

He is also a member of the live installation / performance group The Great △(夏の大△) with Takahiro Kawaguchi and Satoshi Yashiro, and runs the label Basic Function. 

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Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Design by Dominique S

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Makoto Oshiro - Wander Through The Void (ENXPL21)

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Lime Lodge returns with an hour of their swelling intensity &ampamp; textural experimentation.


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“Sky Split Open” is a piece of sonic reverie, swirling and then drowning in a flow of shattered evocative refraines.

Posh Isolation 287

Music by Christian Stadsgaard
Vocals by Rosa Anschütz
Lyrics by Rosa Anschütz
Guitar by jbhviid
Mixed by jbhviid and Christian Stadsgaard
Mastered by jbhviid

Sky Split Open

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Dahjyn w/ Thegn takeover - 01/03/2024

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AMBIENT HARDCORE - Nick Klein - 11 mar 2024

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On Friday the 16th of March, corecore invited sixteen DJs and artists, all more or less local to Amsterdam’s music scene(s), to share 20 minute mini-mixes and hybrid performances in a six hour listening session in De Sering. 

Sets by 55ever, dj audio (⊥), cdr103, Frog of Earth, he1een, interlude, jp'♡, Mandy Pixel, mary, nefo, Odete, Pharfetchd, sara plusplus, so wet’s water kingdom, tj0ki and umanea.

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Makoto Oshiro - Wander Through The Void (ENXPL21)

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