Giving form to a broad personal project of continuous inquiry and existential expression, ‘A World Of Service’ marks the Ostgut Ton debut of Spanish producer, DJ and artist JASSS [@jass-29] aka Silvia Jiménez Alvarez.

Buy ‘A World Of Service’ as 12" LP, digipak CD or in digital formats: https://berghain.berlin/jasss
Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/a-world-of-service

Listen at
Bandcamp: https://ostgut.bandcamp.com/album/a-world-of-service
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/album/a-world-of-service/1587326314
Derer: https://www.deezer.com/playlist/9615082122
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5R76uc259XhrHUYGDcalQh
YouTube: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mOqu3yBiTOGor8eQrL9Kyrmbi6jVKDKiY

Watch the music video for “A World Of Service”, directed by Sander Houtkruijer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZzRP2p7Lek

The evolution of ‘A World Of Service’ has curved around genre collapsing and unexpected metamorphoses. Formerly the name of the monthly radio show JASSS hosted in Berlin, and soon to be the title of her expansive multi-sensory touring concept in collaboration with Ben Kreukniet, here ‘A World Of Service’ is powerfully concentrated in sonic form. Throughout the album JASSS muses on the especially current human and technological barriers to interconnectivity; both lyrically and musically she deconstructs the self, unmasks anxieties and interrogates the insufficiencies of language as applied to gender, identity and interpersonal relationships. Forming her own fluid, nuanced lexicon in response, JASSS seeks a deeper understanding of her multiple selves, emerging through unbridled adolescent rage and the wisdom of maturation, traversing liminality with abstract electronics and baroque industrial pop. Visually this is underscored by Matt Lambert’s uncanny floral cover portraiture, as well as the record’s distinct scent of wet earth, flower and woods developed for the album by Meri Bonastre and applied to the vinyl innersleeve.

Following the imaginative nostalgia of ‘Weightless’, her 2017 debut album for iDEAL Recordings, as well as her blistering dancefloor 12” for Whities / AD 93, ‘A World Of Service’ folds personal and societal concepts in on themselves, not seeking answers but rather luxuriating in the unique friction that questions create. JASSS is intensely focused yet musically unbridled; this is reflected in tonal shifts of ‘A World Of Service’. Through the computerised yearning and bruising of a heartbreak on “Luis”, to the jagged and wordless tundra of “Vapor Dentro”; the intriguing juxtaposition of warm, alluring Spanish vocals against rigid pillars of industrial heft and bass grind (“Camelo”), and the soaring maximalist industrial pop of the album’s closer, “Wish.”

As intensity rises through the pandemic-era trip hop of the album’s title track “A World Of Service”, JASSS sings:

“Pleasure /
Is nowhere to be found inside this world of service /
I call to be my life.”

Pleasure may remain elusive to her, but in the determination to make peace with her various identities in this technological age, JASSS offers a compelling glimpse into an essential type of artistic voice.

— Text: Christine Kakaire

Cover and artwork photography: Matt Lambert | Layout: Yusuf Etiman
Florals: Anatomie Fleur
Make-up: Christian Fritzenwanker and Mario Mendez
Scent: Fum de Kyphi

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Laertes - Chaos (Worg Remix)
Alpi & Essē - Mermaid's Hassle
MYSHL - Vegvisir (Aquiver Remix)
Eamo - Mercury (Biocym Remix)
Surt - Metaurus
Ness - Deep Consciousness (Ness Unconscious Rework) 
Marco Shuttle - Simmetria Delle Stringhe
Svarog - Scared Procession
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07.04.2024 Deep Space Series w/ Ridoe

2024 - 04 - 25 - E L A Invites PHILIP KYLBERG

For this week’s guest, we are pumped to finally welcome the OG, the first Vertebrae resident, XEN CHRON to the series :) 

Xen Chron is Chris Leamy, an absolute mad man of a musician and producer — just two days out from his forthcoming EP release ‘A Fireside Chat’ on Fever AM, one of our all time favorite labels… so be sure to go pre-order that, and enjoy a full hour of some tripped out, otherworldly sounds 👽👽👽

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Following up 'Selected Works of Anthony Braxton' EP from multi-instrumentalist sextet Ferry Good Company, Danish imprint Don't Look Back prepare to release '2x2x2' EP from Barcelona-born now Copenhagen-based composer Xavier Bonfill...Our pick is '2x2 (bell plate version)' thanks to its entrancing sound bath enclosed by mirroring steel sheets. As crystal quartz symphonies are broadcasted from underworld cave systems, Marta Soggetti and Lorenzo Colombo sculpt an ambient soundscape filled with FX-soaked bell plate polyphony culminating in a whirlwind of analogue noise spirals.

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Xavier Bonfill - 2x2x2 (bell plate version) [Don't Look Back]

KHR067 | Van Morph_Δαίμων Εαυτού

"Δαίμων Εαυτού" for the ancient Greeks was the deity-protector who lived inside each person from birth to death, something like today's "Guardian-angel" and the correct translation of the phrase basically means "I act according to what my conscience thinks is right".
The title was not chosen at random. It is a phrase in ancient Greeks that precisely defines his inner world and his choice not to be imprisoned in stereotypes and "must do" that do not characterise him as a human being. We would say that he has always been absolute in his beliefs and the values ​​that he think we need in a society to be able to express our respect and our love, our humility and our honesty.
"In a world where "appearance" is more important than "soul", thinking about your fellow human being is a small revolution."

Buy Link: https://vanmorph.bandcamp.com/album/khr067

released May 23, 2024

Written & Produced by Van Morph
Mastered by Rewarrp studio PL
Cover by Evangelos Morph (UK)

More About the artist:
https://www.facebook.com/MorphVan
https://soundcloud.com/morphvan1
https://inktr.ee/VanMorph

KHR067 | Van Morph - Echoes

Margus Löve has spent years skillfully mapping the essence of techno music, moving up and down the timeline to incorporate into his sound works elements such as the industrial rhythms transformed by the Yamaha DX7, the e-tablet pop music of Belgian dance floors, cold warehouse raves, the electronic abstractionism of the '90s generation, and the monotonous darkness of Berlin’s (new) school. The styles of different decades are always noticeable in his work, but they come filtered through his own musical lens—one that sifts out individual emotional moments instead of direct copying. These rhythm constructions or tonal textures, filtered with surgical precision, are always delivered back to the listener in a highly minimalist form.

This is also the case with the “Altered” EP (which actually should be labeled a maxi-single), where the minimalism of the tracks could be visualized as a triangle: one point being beats per minute, the second point echo-laden synthesizer sounds (which would be a stretch to call melodies), and the third being the track titles’ tags—dub and rave. The latter, dub and rave, begin to stretch one corner of the triangle, and though the overall number doesn’t change according to Pythagorean theory, the rhythm either accelerates or slows down, other sounds come closer with greater intensity or fade into the mist. While the overall structure remains the same and uses the same materials, the mood offered moves across a broad and rich spectrum.

The construction is simple, brilliantly balanced, and soothingly monotonous. But the words "rave" and "dub" add yet another layer—and this one is subconscious—where the listener imagines these mentioned musical styles in their mind. This fantasy play makes the music itself feel more abundant, offering more than just the recorded bits and bytes can allow.

As a fifth track, there's also “Altered Ambient,” where the beauty of the material’s simplicity comes out especially clearly. Here, everything is fully laid out and the airy space gives a better sense of the sounds used in the track. Flowing very quietly, it gives the listener more time to become familiar with every tiny sonic detail. Beautiful simplicity and the beauty of simplicity—from rave to chill out. 

1. Altered (Rave)
2.Altered (Rave Dub)
3. Altered (Dub Rave)
4. Altered (Dub)
5. Altered (Ambient)

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Margus Löve at Sudu Mastering.
Artwork by Martin Rästa.

https://exitsafemode.bandcamp.com/album/altered

Altered

Margus Löve has been a well known name to darktronica scientists over the years. The solo artist’s starting point after the change of millennium became the technoid end of drum&bass with the bubbling bass waves of speed garage and Löve’s style became substantially directed by dubstep that gained ground at the start of the 2000s. The name L-OW successfully propagated the bass-loving vibe at the prime time of dubstep, and in the background the dub-techno-esque parallel project 1DERL& got more and more off the ground. Founding of the label Processed in 2012 and the release of 1DERL&’s debut album became a spiritual turning point – the allure of the sounds of dubstep shifted to the background and darker soundscapes found a new home in cooler techno trances. Margus Löve has moved still deeper in the swamp of sounds with his new project Exit Safe Mode that is striving to cut through the safety nets and broaden the palette of sounds. The sounds are complemented by darker ambiences and rhythmic skeletons, while staying essentially loyal to the pulsating force of techno. It’s time to discover the shady territories beyond the untrodden tracks.