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HARD RETURN
Net label for repetitive/persistent music.
BANDCAMP: hardreturn.bandcamp.com

EP release date:
22 July 2021

buried

resurrections

mybody by ex.sses (@ex_sses). Taken from Bienvenue au club (@bienvenueauclub) new V/A b̶i̶e̶n̶v̶e̶n̶u̶e̶ ̶a̶u̶ ̶c̶l̶u̶b̶ Au revoir à la discothèque, out July 6, 2022.

Read: https://bit.ly/3zYXkeD
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3zWCOeQ

Bienvenue au club is a Strasbourg-based collective focused on bass music, club music and all sorts of hybrid contemporary electronic music, in which we release fanzines, podcasts and parties of course, questioning the definitions of the word “club” and everything orbiting around it. 

Our second release is an ambient compilation with artists including Beatrice, Belle-2-nuit, Cardus, Chaos Angel, Ex.cess, Jjjacob, Jonnnah, Llyodfears, nunu, POL100 & Uccellove.

The compilation is intitled “Au Revoir à la Discothèque”, it’s Bienvenue au club’s ambient flipside. Bienvenue au club being the more dancy, clubby branch of the project, Au Revoir à la Discothèque on the other hand, is focused on more beatless things. After-club, the after-party. Peaktime is over, melancholic pads and abstract structures take over, the rhythm is no longer necessary but sometimes it comes back to remind us of the evening we’ve previously experienced.

Mastered by Neil Abdelmoula

Released by Bienvenue au club

Premiere: ex.sses - mybody [Bienvenue au club]

ex.sses - mybody

@ex_sses debuts on @tobago-tracks with two experimental club cuts exploring “physical sensation, material and the gendered body”

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-exsses-silicon

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Premiere: ex.sses ‘silicon’

cascade w/ ex.sses + ANJALI - 20.09.2022

ex.sses and RAUCAAU go b2b for 1 hour of fun on Netil Radio

cascade w/ ex.sses + RAUCAAU - 18.10.22

EGG MEAT takeover cascade this month exploring their world of sounds. make sure to listen to their release on Alien Jams out now.

https://alienjams.bandcamp.com/album/egg-meat

cascade w/ ex.sses + EGG MEAT - 17.01.2023

this months cascade ex.sses and ROOO go b2b with a fun, fast and heavy mix.

cascade w/ ex.sses + ROOO - 21.03.2023

ex.sses vs excel dj 

Tigers cavern blends the hard glitchy world of excel dj and the textural clubby soundscapes of ex.sses 

Out on bandcamp via SODAA - https://sodaaclub.bandcamp.com/album/decentralised-compilation-vol-1

Decentralised Compilation vol.1

Tigers Cavern - ex.sses vs excel dj (SODAA comp)

leech 

Out now via SODAA on band camp -https://sodaaclub.bandcamp.com/track/ex-sses-leech

leech - ex.sses (SODAA comp)

ex.sses goes solo for a down tempo sonic cascade <3

cascade w ex.sses - 16.05.2023

ex.sses and SOW go b2b for an hour of fun genreless bassy goodness.

cascade w/ ex.sses + SOW - 20.06.2023

Open Culture: No Borders is a campaign demonstrating solidarity with refugees and asylum seekers, as an ongoing response to the UK government’s ‘Hostile Environment Policy’. The policy has involved a slew of regressive legislations, intended to create a deliberately challenging environment for migrants to settle. In the process, we are seeing cruel approaches to the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers, the use of provocative language intended to create division and the adaption of laws which offer protection of human rights for all.

“𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁'𝘀 𝗮𝘀𝘆𝗹𝘂𝗺 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆'𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗴𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆. 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵 - 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗴𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆, 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗯𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘆, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆.” - 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿-𝗦𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗵, 𝗖𝗘𝗢, 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹

Proceeds go to Safe Passage International, who support unaccompanied children seeking asylum to reunite safely with their families across Europe, and campaign for more accessible, safer routes.

All people have the right to a happy and fulfilling life. At a time when hostile narratives and actions seek to divide us, we believe that empathy, compassion, and connection are essential values to strengthen.

Hear the launch show on Voices Radio featuring an interview with Safe Passage's Youth Leader team: on.soundcloud.com/BWbik

Read more:
Safe Passage - www.safepassage.org.uk
Campaign webpage - www.pollination.uk/projects/open-c…ture-no-borders

ex.sses - skinless

ex.sses is joined by FFM resident ALO3 for a chaotic hard and fast b2b.

cascade w/ ex.sses + ALO3

cascade w/ MAYA VIKA - 19.09.23

| bathroom situ - sisu - 22.06.2023

cascade w/ ex.sses + IYESHA - 21.11.2023

Tracklist:

Velvet Belly - This Mortal Coil 
Encrypted - Puglist 
erotica - Simo Cell 
Cascade - SHEEN 
Helios - Ehua 
Ill be gone next week - Swimswim 
Toast - Blawan 
SOCOTROCO
Acecho - Imaabs 
Medical Fodder - 33EMYBW
Proteus - Low Khey
Hydra - Fatima Al Qadiri
Nerve Plant - NKC
Cutina - El Irreal Veinti
Resistance - SKSS
Smile (ft Simo Cell) - Second 
A Thousand Unfocused Eyes - Galtier

cascade w/ ex.sses - 19.12.2023

cascade w/ ex.sses - 16.01.2024

ex.sses & Manuka Honey go b2b for a spooky hour of cathartic release <3

are u the white bunny or the black cat

cascade w/ ex.sses + Manuka Honey - 20.02.2024

tabideee takes over cascade for an hour of bass driven sounds.

cascade w/tabideee - 19.03.2024

aaanjalii takes over cascade for an hour of swampy sludgy sounds.

cascade w/ aaanjalii - 16.04.2024

LEECH

Wind grates at her skin as she walks over scorched ground. Something under her feet resists the imprint of her weight, surprising her sense of balance. She bends down to examine it, digging her fingers into the earth to pick the object out of its crater. 

The object’s weight is in alignment with the pull of gravity, a relic of frozen air.  It contains properties that belong to both the artificial and the natural. From futures and pasts, it ordains her as the breathing pinnacle of the present.

Climax

The object’s smooth surface is interrupted by a dark circle, impenetrable by any shouts of light. She looks into it, the circle quivers and envelops her gaze. 

Vision gone, her boundaries dissolve then vanish as mist does in the violence of the sun. Her body becomes amorphous, her muscles untwist themselves like roots from a tree being pulled from their tips.

GUTS

She speaks and her words start to drip out of the relic and fall thickly onto her feet. Re-embodied, she is transmuted into the unknown new.

RELIC

The silence of the landscape around her is cut open. The object begins to wheeze, releasing oiled melodies striking the space both inside and outside of the body that holds it. The relic does not choose between the boundaries of the epidermis. It emits waves, shaped like soft limbs that dance over the boundaries that contain herself.

Consumed

In the peripheries of her body, emotion previously cast into the unknown, cascades and climaxes within unoccupied space.  The space she now inhabits consists of electric sensitivity and stuttering temporality.  She cannot recall where she was walking to. Instead, she stays there, at the mercy of the object. She surrenders to it, is intimate with it as she is unable to leave it. She doesn’t know how long she has been here for.

Mouth

As the relic starts to vibrate in her hands, the shape of her being sharpens and shivers in response. Pools of light-sweat glisten on the terrain of her back.  

[A relic; something that is left behind. But this strange thing insists on a connected multiplicity, reaching forwards and backwards, refusing to be contained in any succinct temporality or affect. Like a spurned lover, it won’t be alone. It is old and new, terrifying and joyous.]

M.A.D.

@ex_sses album 'RELIC' is dominated by deep bass but leaves enough headspace for intricate percussion. Forthcoming on Cherche Encore.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/ex-sses-m-a-d

Premiere: ex.sses - M.A.D.

"Wind grates at her skin as she walks over scorched ground. Something under her feet resists the imprint of her weight, surprising her sense of balance. She bends down to examine it, digging her fingers into the earth to pick the object out of its crater.

The object’s weight is in alignment with the pull of gravity, a relic of frozen air. It contains properties that belong to both the artificial and the natural. From futures and pasts, it ordains her as the breathing pinnacle of the present."

London-based party and label Cherche Encore return with a debut release from ex.sses, who helms the Iterations show on Balamii and earwax, a platform for womxn identifying artists who work in sound and performance-based practices. Made up of 6 tracks, 'RELIC' explores personal themes of the relationship with the body, intimacy and queer identity, layering ASMR whispers over dark, rumbling bass and intricate percussion.

Short story by Lottie Hughes.

PREMIERE: ex.sses - mouth [Cherche Encore]

RELEASES
03.11.23 - undo me - TT Label

16.06.23 - tethered - CANINAL RECS VA
14.06.23 - cunnalingus (ex.sses stimulation remix) - Earful of WAVs (remixes)VA
09.06.23 - skinless - Pollination Open Culture: Open Borders comp 
03.02.23 - Tigers Cavern + leech (SODAA comp)
01.09.22 - scanner (TT) 
06.07.22 - mybody (BVNO VA)
22.07.21 - BURIED EP (Hard Return) 
27.02.21 - RELIC EP (Cherche Encore )

'This is intense, exciting music that keeps a foot firmly on the dancefloor, even when at its most intricate.' - DJ Mag

RADIO
cascade w.ex.sses on @netilradio
*archived - Iterations w/ ex.sses on @balamii 

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