08.12 @ Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia

w/ Grand River AV live (@grandriver), Vallmo (@vallmo-music), Exploited Body (@exploitedbody), Jim Krutor live (@jim_krutor), Martyyna (@martyyna-1) b2b Kewu (@ke_wu), Frances Sander & družbeta (@ondraasovka) AV live

Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1520056982173788
Tickets: https://goout.net/cs/lunchmeat-x-ngp-grand-river%2Bvallmo%2Bdalsi/szuwasw/

Lunchmeat x NGP: Grand River AV live, Vallmo, Exploited Body, Jim Krutor live, and more

Mixes

NTS: Posh Isolation - Exploited Body Guest Mix - 18th March 2021

Tracklist:

Exploited Body - Still Life
Casimir - Dst Schim
Hiiro Issiki - Qualia From A Complex
Trauma - The Village Has A Warlock
Slikback - AITA
Soho Rezanejad - Perform
Daniel Ruane - Gatherer
111X - Untitled
Weak People - Decrepit
Show Me The Body - Animal In A Dream
Visionist - Allowed To Dream
E-Saggila - Mantis Print
Vanity Productions - Valiakhmetova
111X - To Regret (Closure)
Croatian Amor & Varg²™ - 冰冷 (ft. Charity SsB & Exploited Body)
Aho Ssan - Ondl
SITOI - Veriappelsiini
KhalilH2OP - Galdr 2100 I-III
APEAK - Grey Skies (Instrumental)
Know V.A. - Trauma (Exploited Body Remix)
Clouds - Eiocha
Exzald S - Syn (Heights)
Ecco2k - Bliss Fields (Edit)
Exploited Body - Relinquish

Duration: 60:00

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NTS: Posh Isolation - Exploited Body Guest Mix - 18th March 2021

Sacho TAKEOVER • Jim Krutor (live)

On her third album, Berlin-based Dutch-Italian composer and sound designer Aimée Portioli, aka Grand River, asks what guiding forces might be driving, enticing, and affecting us. “All Above” is rooted in her deeply personal philosophy as an artist, blurring the boundaries between electronic music and acoustic music and sculpting familiar ambient forms into personal themes painted with rich emotional colours. Written painstakingly over the last two years, the album is the most ambitious and divergent set of music Portioli has assembled so far, with a wide variety of instrumentation (including voices, strings, organs, guitars, and synthesisers) focused around the piano. She‘s keen to assure listeners that while that instrument isn‘t always heard, it‘s constantly at the forefront of the album, shepherding its emotions and anchoring its mood. It makes sense then that on the opening track ‘Quasicristallo’, the acoustic piano is the first element we hear, recorded closely, so its characteristic rattle and creak can speak as loudly as the familiar tones themselves. When the music blooms into abstraction and processed electronics, it‘s almost imperceptible: reverb mutates into ghostly vapour trails, and distortion forms the keys into another instrument entirely.

“All Above“ follows 2020‘s acclaimed “Blink A Few Times To Clear Your Eyes“ and 2018‘s “Pineapple” released on Donato Dozzy and Neel‘s Spazio Disponibile imprint. Having garnered praise from outlets like Resident Advisor, XLR8R, The Quietus, Inverted Audio, and The Verge, Portioli operates in a unique space within the electronic music scene, straddling the art world and the wider electronic music scene. She‘s developed sound art installations for Rome‘s La Galleria Nazionale and the Terraforma Festival-related Il Pianeta, and has appeared at Barbican, MUTEK, Le Guess Who?, Kraftwerk, and other internationally renowned venues and festivals, often collaborating with Marco Ciceri on A/V presentations. Ciceri also maintains the visual identity of Portioli‘s label One Instrument, a concept imprint that asks artists to create music only using a single device. All this experience is poured into “All Above”, a richly visual album that‘s far more than just an imaginary film score. While on ‘Human’, her piano punctuates a rhythmic synthesised bassline and smudged choirs that can‘t help but trace out the silver screen. The composer is keen to clarify that she doesn‘t think of her music (or sound in general) in visual terms.

Portioli studied as a linguist and used her art to develop an emotional language that‘s not bound by expected cultural constraints. When she adds a different instrument or process, it‘s not to reference a visual cue but to mark a journey through different states of being. Each element embodies a different emotion or mood: the electric guitar represents strength or violence, synthesisers shuttle us into the dream world, and the acoustic instruments highlight intimacy and warmth – even heart. Read like this, the tracks are like meditative poems rather than cinematic vignettes.

Dedicated to Editions Mego founder Peter Rehberg, who died suddenly last year, “All Above” demands engagement and refuses to evaporate into the background. The album asks listeners not just to absorb the album as a whole but notice the cracks in the structure and discern the tension they cause. That‘s never more evident than on the closing track ‘Cost What It May’, a piece of music almost jarring when Portioli chops into noisy waves of electric guitar. In the wrong hands, this might sound like a power move – some rock posturing to act as a finale. But Portioli‘s expression is different. She‘s forcing a level of engagement that perceives the negative space as just as necessary as the saturated positive, and what could be more haunting and emotionally resonant than that?

All Above

Human

Grand River 'Human' (EMEGO308)

Free Palestine (فلسطين حرة): Exploited Body - 17th January 2023

Tracklist:

111X - Dirge (Autolysis)
Show Me The Body - Animal In A Dream
Blanck Mass - Odd Scene
Objekt - Bad Apples
Peder Mannerfelt - This Machine Shares Memes
Exploited Body - Syrtis
SHXCXCHCXSH - Shumumumu
Objekt - Cactus
M.E.S.H. - Kritikal Thirst
M.E.S.H. - Festival Circuit
Busta Rhymes - Touch It (Ivy Lab's 20/20 Remix)
Esa - Blast
Bassment Jaxx - Where's Your Head At
Manni Dee - London Isn't England Anymore (Ansome Remix)
Cocktail Party Effect - The Police Took My Garden Away
SOPHIE - Whole New World
Pruvan - Beastwoman
Swordman Kitala - Heat Flexx (O'Flynn & Ekhe Remix)
TSVI - Black Dog (ft. Luru)
MC Kalzin - Medley Da Putarialização
Exploited Body - Collapsar
LSDXOXO - Death Rattle
ZULI - Trigger Finger
Aquarian - Insulin
Makornik - Violent Voltage
Trends & Boylan - Norman Bates
Goth-Trad - Sunbeam
Logos - Glass (Boylan Remix)
Capo Lee - Shell On Demand 2.0
Pessimist - Danger
Yves Tumor - Lifetime

Duration: 48:54

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Othem

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Track from NE90 Vallmo – Othem LP
Out on LP and digital September 8th

For her second release on Northern Electronics, Vallmo (appellation of Melina Åkerman Kvie) strengthens her proficiency towards an electronic elevation with each and every track being a crevice offering kaleidoscopic gleams into a poetic narrative extracted from the slightly auto tuned yet softly metallic voice. What Virgil is to Dante, the piano is to the listener: a fragmented leitmotif and a guiding cicerone into the nimbus that is 'Othem'.
Dual in nature, the album comprises seamless transitions between divergent idioms, figuratively as well as literally. A false dichotomy conveying the opposing pairs tender and bold, distinct but evading and with a direction every so often forward as inward. 'Othem' is an opus in equal parts melancholy, magic and mimesis.

Mixed by Nori Kin
Artwork by John Gustafsson, Graphics by Jonas Rönnberg
Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome

Vallmo – Othem

Helsinki-hailing producer, DJ and Changeless label-head Exploited Body (@exploitedbody) brings some hip-rattling energy, moving hurriedly through tracks and tempos in a frantic-yet-danceable experimental showcase wheeled across four decks.

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The brainchild of Helsinki-based experimentalist Nori Kin, Exploited Body is an audial paradox – where blistering distortion collides with delicate melody, and ethereal vocals oscillate between angelic lament and demonic invocation. Their music is a visceral experience, at once hypnotic and harrowing, luring listeners into a world of staggering emotional weight and sonic extremity.  

With releases on PAN, Posh Isolation, Northern Electronics, and their own imprint Changeless, Kin has steadily carved out a distinct presence in the contemporary experimental landscape. Their compositions stretch the boundaries of electronic music, fusing industrial abrasion, haunting atmospherics, and deeply personal narratives into something both intimate and overwhelming.