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10th episode of Cartel podcast with Mina Lord 

Mina Lord is producing experimental electronic music since 2017 after many years as a drummer in grunge, punk and metal bands. Rather than sticking with one genre, she utilized a whole spectrum of music expression in her own productions to create whole worlds and atmospheres for the audience to dive in to. Her main focus is to create her own sound by recording and designing all her samples herself. Often described as very atmospheric, almost cinematic - she creates music and DJ mixes out of stimuli. A deep interest in the interaction of visuals, space and sound, results in linking these elements together right at the foundation of a project. In December 2019 she had the debut event of her own music and art collective The Twelve Prophets, where she invites and collaborates with other artists to explore the link between music, visuals, technology and space. 

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Mina Lord x Cartel [010]

Atlas, the label debut EP by Foxconn Suicide, is a dense ocean of dilated, murky industrial grooves, shimmering trance-derived arpeggios and sporadic noisy, deteriorating assaults.

In a swamp steeped in digital pitfalls, the duo's mechanical contortions turn a stern gaze to the mournful march of the industrial world and the cold rave nostalgia of centuries past, guiding us to the stake of an old and painful path, favoring under their breath an unknown and present torment.

Exploring the dangerous limits of the senses, the EP's five tracks accompany us on this violent immersion into the human ego, accepting the intimate and dark boundaries of self-processing and finally rebelling through an uneasy, neuromantic but necessary reaction.

1. Stigma
2. Levitation Down
3. Suspension III
4. Advena
5. Becoming-light

Produced by Alessandro Biselli & Mirco Ercoli
Mastered by Giancarlo Brambilla
Artwork by Carmine Laurenza
Guitars on Becoming-light by Loris Cericola
AFN010 - A Flooded Need, 2023

Atlas

Foxconn Suicide - Becoming-light

VūMantra Records presents:
[Vūdcast_021]

MINA LORD live set @ OHM Berlin

Recording of MINA LORD sensational live set at OHM Berlin , during the second VūMantra Records night, together with 3SBAT, Vū , FANGARM, THIRD REPLICA, B777, ENÈH.

Mina´s photo by Vince Gagliardi

VūMantra Records

MINA LORD Live @ OHM Berlin X VūMantra Records night [Vūdcast_021]

UZHUR is a duo,based in Paris France, inspired by industrial, doom, noise music and deep listening. They released their first LP in 2023 on vinyl with Nahal Recordings. Jean-Charles Bastion and Fabien Rios  use a mix of electronic instruments and guitars through amplifiers , with feedbacks and interconnections to explore a both brutal and poetic aesthetic.Their music explores post apocalyptic landscapes with processed vocals invoking mantras.

Track list:
Trepaneringsritualen - Venerated and Despised
UZHUR - Breach - Part II
The Body x Haxan Cloak - Hail to Thee, Everlasting Pain
I am a Lake of Burning Orchids - Valediction
Frédéric D. Oberland & Irena Z. Tomažin - Hieromancy
Whitehouse x Nurse With Wound - untitled
Puce Mary - Fragments of a Lily
Ramleh - Hole In The Heart
Emptyset - Flame
Jerusalem In My Heart - Thahab, Mish Roujou', Thahab
Yellow Swans - Burnt Dub
Consumer Electronics - Co-opted
UZHUR - AION
Extreme Precautions - Untitled 10
Pan Sonic - Corona
Somaticae - Finfisher
Prurient - Traditional Snowfall
JK Flesh - MY FUCKING EXIT
UZHUR - LOGOS
Phurpa - Fundamental Mantra Of Bon
Thomas Köner - Ilira

Podcast 163 - UZHUR x Brutal Forms

A year and a half after the release of the eponymous LP UZHUR on Nahal Recordings (label founded by Paul Régimbeau aka Mondkopf and Frederic D. Oberland - Oiseaux-Tempête, Le Rêveil des tropiques...), UZHUR will release a 5-track EP entitled APHASIA on Italian label Brutal Forms in November 2024.
The EP, recorded in their Parisian studio early 2024, opens up new horizons, both more rhythmic and more melodic. In contrast to the extreme deconstruction of the album, this EP features more structured pieces, in line with the band's dark, post-industrial aesthetic. Opening with FINAL, a French-spoken explosive blast, the record is gradually tinged with melancholy and rage in murky magma, ending with a long, abstract 11-minute piece, a vision of a decaying civilisation.

Music by UZHUR.
Artwork design and photo by Grégoire Orio.
Recorded, produced and mixed at Singular Studio, Paris.
Fabien Rios: drum machine, electric bass, feedbacks.
Jean-Charles Bastion: modular synth, vocals.
Mastered by James Plotkin.

Synthetic Dreams

EXPERIMENT [Re-Cords]