@balasdeagua
Love is an emotional capacity without boundaries. It is the inherent beauty of life and light, flowing from within our body and mind. The alchemy of intimacy and devotion helps us to ascend from darkness, filling our soul with a clear radiant energy. Like a beaming star, our compassion and affection heal us by releasing our trauma in katharsis.

The compilation “No Limits, All Love” is the 12th release of katharsis, celebrating our first anniversary with 10 poignant tracks from artists novel to the label. With the title as a thematic starting point and additional references of gratitude, healing and growth, the contributing artists were invited to interpret their experiences of kathartic purgation and salvation through music.

To commence the compilation, the Egyptian Ma3azef-affiliated artist ABADIR engages us with his spellbinding track “Clearance”, before the British sound-designer Phrixus gets our bodies moving to his wonky “Unintentional Alchemy”. Debuting local Danish artist Bloszum takes the pace down again with the hypnotizing piano-infused hymn, “Beauty Is Only Crystal Deep”, followed by the daybreaking floater “Flamma” by Uruguayan artist Balas De Agua.

Subsequently, French producer Zero Crossing Point delivers a stellar spectrum of emotion on “Our Ascension” ahead of the sentimental receptacle of heartbreak on the track “Vesper” by French artist Awbluu. The energy dives deep into the trancelike state of our subliminal mind on Nexcyia’s “wrapped(up)”, as danish duo J Sliwa, consisting of label founder jjjacob and his partner in crime Lighyer, shoots for the stars with celestial cannons on the track “Light Is Within”. The compilation culminates in climax on the motivational rave-anthem “Don’t Be Sad” by the Swedish YEAR0001-affiliated duo Quit Life, before Santebela closes the album with grandiose piano phrases bathed in reverb on “save me”.

artwork by jjjacob
mastering by jjjacob

No Limits  All Love

Balas De Agua - Flamma

RONCE - AQUATICS
(DAWN013)
100 limited copies
12inch
@itsronce
Produced by Zoë Villerd
Mastered at Studio Martyrs
Photo by Ronce
Design by Hajj
Dawn 2021

Ronce - The Devil Sleeps In My Stomach

Pan Daijing - Tissues 
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 118
Format: 2xLP / DL
Release Date: 21 January 2022
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Tissues

Pan Daijing’s exhibition-performance Tissues premiered in the Tanks at the Tate Modern in autumn 2019. A five-part immersion in performance, sound, movement, space, and most of all emotion in its most distilled and conflicted states, Tissues engaged with the conventions of opera and tragedy to present a searing representation of the embattled human psyche in space and time. While the ambitious multi-sensory artwork made use of the range of Daijing’s artistic capabilities, music, particularly the voice, was at its formal and emotional core. The vinyl and digital release of Tissues on PAN serves as a record of that work, in the form of an hour-long, studio-recorded audio excerpt: an invaluable archival document from Daijing’s practice.  
 
Tissues is both a solitary work and a formal study in relation. Composed, directed, designed, written, and performed by Daijing (alongside a cast of twelve dancers and opera singers), the work—its libretto written in a mixture of old and modern Chinese—lingers inside a single human perspective. Daijing conjures states that are by turns delicate and severe, the tension between opposing modes animating the work as it unfolds. And yet, for all its interiority, Tissues foregrounds an intimate relationship with its audience through details like its engulfing visual landscape and its rattling, confrontational narrative arcs. Daijing uses the opera form as a prism through which to question the boundaries of music itself: perhaps, she proposes, music is much more than simply what is heard. It is in the relationship between voice and electronics that this limit is most clearly breached. Across the four parts gathered in this documentation, a counter-tenor, a soprano, a mezzo-soprano, and the artist herself voice a mixture of stunning laments and cries over an instrumental landscape, built out from industrial texture. Meant to be heard in a single listen, rather than track by track, the work unfolds through tender hollows and agitated peaks. At its crescendo, the operatic vocals melt away and the synthesizers themselves seem to howl with grief.
 
Daijing uncovers an essential, sometimes painful, music in all that surrounds us, inviting something like catharsis but also a greater understanding of the thing she and her cast conjure and draw close. A tissue, after all, is both a disposable object one uses to wipe away a tear, and the building block of our fleshy human forms. Daijing reaches and excavates the roiling core of what it is to be alive and full of feeling. 

Music from Tissues, an opera of five acts at Tate Modern, London on Oct 2nd, 4th and 5th, 2019
Composed, written, produced and directed by Pan Daijing. 

Performed by Anna Davidson, soprano ; Marie Gailey, mezzo soprano, Steve Katona, countertenor and Pan Daijing,  additional vocals.
The recording is mixed by James Ginzburg , Jan Urbiks and Pan Daijing, mastered by Rashad Becker. 

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Tissues

Pan Dajing - Excerpt from Tissues Part Two "A Found Lament"(PAN 118)

@consumed_triumphant / @eternaldelightlabel / @holodnayavodalabel

The next ethereal mix is by Consumed Triumphant. Previously the artist was featured on Eternal Delight's compilation «No Masters Except God» and on Thriwax radio show on ma3azef.live and HKCR. This year he released his debut double single featuring Сolor 0 on Холодная Вода (Kholodnaya Voda). For the rest of the year he is going to release singles and EPs on Black Holes and the mentioned labels.

ethereal mix 044: Consumed Triumphant

It seems way overdue, because it is: Van Boom (@realvanboom) comes out with this Valley Radio episode and it is everything we wanted from him. In a mix brimming with fast kicks, crackling textures and powerful volumes, Van Boom is still able to translate sensitivity and delicacy. Dive into the, already iconic, first mix of 2023!

Tracklist:
1. Silkback - Density
2. Sorcery - On the Bias (Bedouin Records)
3. Dj Würm - Worm Research
4. NKC - Nerve Plant
5. DJ VALENTIMES - Locust [VKR-010]
6. Exploited Body - Collapsar
7. WULFFLUW XCIV - Abandoned
8. CNÁMHA - Destabalization Technique
9. LAREN - Call of The Nymph
10. DRAAG - PROMETH+S
11. TCV - Power
12. ABSSYS - COMASTASIS X EPIPHAGI X ABSSYS - NO M OLVIDÉ D TI EL
ALGORITMO SÍ (MASHUP)
13. Lesser Of - Consummation (Swarm Intelligence Remix)
14. Van Boom & Oldyungmayn - Ayshay
15. Tommy Mork - Eternally Cruel
16. Predator - TERRORTIME
17. Van Boom & whiterose - AGORA (????? Remix)

Photo: courtesy of Van Boom
Lay out by Oliva Rawlings

Valley Radio 095 - Van Boom

Icon crash report

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/exploited-body-9th-april-2019

Recorded live for NTS Radio 9th  April 2019.

Tracklist:

NAKED - Spit
Ron Morelli - Border Dust (202 Version)
Portishead - Machine Gun
Trauma - En(d)trance
Copout - Stressed
Littlebabyangel - Alarm Song
Shalt - Confined
Tessela - Rough 2
Amnesia Scanner - AS Another Life (Exploited Body Remix)
The Empire Line - If You Used To Be Punk
Istigkeit - The Violence Engraved In You
Exploited Body - I Was Never Enough
Slikback - Rage
Y1640 - Tension (ft. WWWINGS)
APEAK - Fake Citizenship (ft. Exploited Body)
Fakethias - Thrust
DÆMON - In-App Purchases
Mun Sing - A War In Heaven
Ziúr - Unreleased
B.YHZZ - Hol
whiterose - Constant Isolation
Imaabs - Nuevo Extremo
111X - Insects Drowning In A Pool
Sense Fracture - War, You Mirror
IVVVO - Face
Wulffluw XCIV & Celes7e - Heartache
Anthro - Dismembered Dolls & Cracked Skulls (Scalameriya Remix)
Iron Sight - I’ll Do Anything For You
Lotic - Resilience
Yilan - Double Blind Trails
9T Antiope - Living Through Sleeping Through
Sue Zuki - Didufindher
Croatian Amor - Eden 1.2
Ziúr - Arise

Duration 59:35

@nts_live

NTS: Exploited Body - 9th April 2019

Undivided, unified, the overwhelming sense of oneness. Feeling and experiencing this was her strongest desire since the departure, a deep longing. Walking back to base, she knew this had been obtained, it was clear and ran through her like water. Though she did not feel complete, she did not feel intergrated or a part of the whole, as it were. The collective 'one' disected, distributed and proliferated without her. Did she feel spaciousness or emptiness?

The next release on Lyon-based label BFDM is a raw palette of sonics created by Dawn head honcho and visual artist, Hajj. Opening track 'My Love Is Rotten To The Core' floats in and thunders out; delicate piano and textural delays drift upon cavernous low end. The track pushes and pulls and creates space for reflection, or even just a temporary moment to bask in...

PREMIERE: Hajj - My Love Is Rotten To The Core [Brothers From Different Mothers]

Teresa Winter - Emptiness Is Also An Excess [RAVE031]

PT I – A FOREST IN NORMANDY

GLOBAL COMMUNICATION – 9:39
L.T.F. – TO A REASON
ROGER DOYLE – PASSAGES (CLOSING)
CIENFUEGOS – D MAJOR MOTIF DEPRIVATION
O YUKI CONJUGATE – OUT THROUGH THE SKIN
COIL – SARA DALE’S SENSUAL MASSAGE 7
CIENFUEGOS – DEUS OTIOSUS
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO – LIFE, LIFE
DELPHINE DORA – LUMIERE AVEUGLE II
COIL – THEME FROM A GAY MAN’S GUIDE TO SAFER SEX
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ – PRESSURE

PT II – THE SPRING IS COMING

SUSUMU HIRASAWA – GATSU (BERSERK)
SEEFEEL – SPANGLE (AUTECHRE REMIX)
RON NAGORCKA – LEMARRCOOTYA (GREY THRUSH)
NUNO CANAVARRO – 5
ISA GENZKEN & TOTAL FREEDOM – FUCK THEM ALL
7038634357 – FOCUS
INTERNAZIONALE – SHE PLACED THREE PEARLS ON THE MIDDLE OF HIS TONGUE
HAROLD BUDD & ROBIN GUTHRIE – GAZE
BJÖRK – BATABID
FORTRAN 5 – HEART ON THE LINE (BASSLINE MIX)

Tomorrow Is Not Promised

ccontrary pits angular club structures against yearning woodwind on Mun Sing's Illegal Data imprint.

'Illegal Data Compilation #2' is out February 26th.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2ZpwAQR

@ccntrr
@illegaldata

Premiere: ccontrary - Gasp [Illegal Data]

Exploited Body is the brainchild of Helsinki-based experimentalist and multi-disciplinary artist Nori Kin. They are known for their signature blistering distortion, delicate melodies and heart-wrenching compositions that are at once deceivingly captivating and staggeringly harsh.

With releases on PAN, Posh Isolation, Northern Electronics and their own label Changeless, in addition to an increasing number of performances in clubs, museums and festivals around Europe, Exploited Body is fast becoming a well-recognized name in the contemporary experimental scene.

NTS: Exploited Body - 9th April 2019

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