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We are delighted to be holding down a residency on the illest station in Tāmaki Makaurau/Aotearoa/dawurld >>> @95bfm

Second Saturday of the month >>> 01:00-02:00 [NZT]

For this show, we got a speshy live recording from our party at Backsteinboot in Berlin, by no.1 qt XENIA REAPER [@user-951049725-782254964]

#13 XENIA REAPER [INDEX:95bFM]

The World I Want Would Be Celestial, Wet

https://absorb-label.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-i-want-would-be-celestial-wet

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1. Lily Tait - Twinkling Flute of the Mind @lilytait
2. J - In Swirling Clouds of Silver Lace @user-29348158
3. Third Space - Granite Island @3rd-space
4. Chloë Sobek - Oumuamua 2
5. Abby Sundborn - Seams @ab3070
6. E Fishpool - I Don't Hate You @e-fishpool
7. DBR - Monumentality @breezydbr
8. Nick Ashwood - Stravaig @nick-ashwood
9. Makinist - Unopened @user-153161389
10. Bridget Chappell - And When You Reach The Plains After Crossing The Mountains @hex-tape
11. Claudia Sin - Panic @claudiasin
12. Lilly Kane - Love Song (with Chi) @lillykane9909
13. Cypha - Mist Music @cyp4

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Mastered by Joseph Buchan
Artwork by Matthew Asling
Compiled by Kavil Patel
Distributed by One Eye Witness
www.one-eye-witness.com

The World I Want Would Be Celestial, Wet

Various Artists - The World I Want Would Be Celestial, Wet (Preview)

A deep-diving sonic essay swinging the pendulum betwixt wiry dub, UK bass fragmentation and dembow-derived mutations, the third volley from Worship comes courtesy of French producer, Eszaid, whose name shall ring a bell to lovers of L.I.E.S. and Collapsing Market. Beaming raucous signals from deep down throbbing subaquatic rifts, "Indraic Cut" gets the ball rolling on an eerie, downtempo dub tip, setting the focus on an intricately woven web of menacing reverbs, spooky melody and convulsive drumwork. A zombie-like dancehall and jungle hybrid running the gamut from robot-operated Caribbean skank to reconfigured bursts of Source Direct-style percussive rage, "Zmej" is a master exercise in style when it comes to shifting from full shot to exploded view in a flash, sure to get that dizzy-high sensation flowing across the room.

Steel-clad and ominous, "Ophis Dub" implements its own smouldering, gunpowder-scented electronic grammar, like the untamed brainchild to Deep Medi, Autechre and Basic Channel. Flush with textures and envelopes to wrap your ears around, Eszaid's music treats us to a proper DnB-adjacent brainwash but in its own idiosyncratically, threateningly future-proof way. The fast-changing "Chained" abseils further deep into uncharted reverb-drenched territories, this time laying further emphasis on the mutative nature of drums themselves and the abstract-leaning FX he coats them under, eventually hatching in a Rubber Johnny-esque whirlwind of sonic assault. "Kronstadt" rounds off the journey on a slo-combusting junglistic note, moving upstream towards a Metalheadz heyday kind of headspace with its processed drums lashing and gigantic bass ripples tsunami-ing down the ravers' spines to effervescing effect.

WORSHIP003 - Eszaid - Encircled Earth - OUT October 18th
https://worship-productions.bandcamp.com/album/encircled-earth

WORSHIP003 - Eszaid - Encircled Earth (Preview)

Ena - Stratum  [ROSA002] 12" 
@ena-iai

Purchase: rosa-au.bandcamp.com/album/stratum

Mastered by LXC 
Distributed by @oneyewitness

Ena - Stratum [ROSA002] 12"

When we established Balmat in 2021, neither of us could have imagined that within two years, we’d be putting out an album by one of our musical heroes: Mike Paradinas (@mikep), aka µ-Ziq. The British producer has been an inspiration to label co-founders Albert Salinas and Philip Sherburne since the 1990s. In fact, his album-length remix project The Auteurs Vs µ-Ziq was one of the very first pieces of electronic music that Philip bought, way back in 1994. To have the opportunity to release his music now feels like a real full-circle moment. 

Paradinas, of course, needs no introduction. Under a slew of aliases, chief among them µ-Ziq, the British artist revolutionized leftfield electronic music in the 1990s—coincidentally, this year marks the 30th anniversary of his debut album, Tango N’ Vectif, for his friend and sometime collaborator Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label—and his label Planet Mu (@planetmurecords) has built up a formidable catalog of visionary, forward-looking records, mapping virtually every corner of the electronic spectrum. With 1977, he turns the clock backward in a sense, and not just with the album’s title: Rooted in classic ambient and electronic sounds, these 15 tracks evoke the anything-goes spirit of the early ’90s, before the tools and tropes had calcified into cut-and-dried styles.

There’s no shortage of familiar sounds on 1977. There are echoes of raves and chillout rooms and transmissions from the fringes of techno; there are detuned synths and glistening reverb tails and, above all, gauzy vox pads, the eerie glue that holds it all together. The title, he says, is meant to invoke a general sense of nostalgia, bookmarking a year in his boyhood when he became more self-aware. More than anything, 1977 sounds like µ-Ziq distilled: Stripped of his signature breakbeats and customary chaos, Paradinas’ first-ever strictly (well, mostly) ambient album presents the essence of his music in a whole new light.

Along the way Paradinas touches on dark-ambient drones (“Marmite”), horror-film themes (“Belt & Carpet”), jungle breaks (“Mesolithic Jungle”), and even house music (“Houzz 13”), which marks the first bona fide dance-floor moment on Balmat to date). Yet the album never—to our ears, anyway—feels expressly retro. Rather, Paradinas plucks timeless sounds out of the ether and gives them a gentle tap, spinning them into unexpected new orbits. At times, 1977 feels like an experience of extended déjà vu: When we first listened to it, we had the sense that we already knew this music. It was as though we had heard it years ago, perhaps on a battered cassette tape lent to us by a friend, and been searching for it ever since. We hope you feel the same.

1977

µ-Ziq - 1977 [BALMAT05]

Civilistjävel! - Fyra platser
 Release Date - 7th April 2023 
12" Vinyl & Digital

Vinyl - https://rubadub.co.uk/products/fyra-platser
Digital - civilistjavel.bandcamp.com/album/fyra-platser

A1 – Sebäng
A2 – Louhivesi (ft. Cucina Povera)
 B1 – Kolugn
 B2 - Valmsta

Komponerat och framfört av Civilistjävel! förutom A2 som är komponerad och framförd av Cucina Povera och Civilistjävel! 

Design av Fergus Jones 
Etikettdesign av Rebecka Holmström 
Distribueras av Rubadub

Fyra platser

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Civilistjävel! - Fyra platser (FELT004)

From Lazy Mechanics by Carrier aka @shifted

https://thetrilogytapes.bandcamp.com/album/lazy-mechanics

Lazy Mechanics

TTT BANDCAMP

Carrier – Ten By Ten

Out now

Digital: tinyurl.com/xsf4yn5j
Vinyl: tinyurl.com/kbhntbkv

1. Don_t DJ - Lemon Garlic

Catalog number: MNSXLP005
Artist name: Wrecked Lightship
EP name: Oceans and Seas
Date of physical release: 26 May 2023

A1. Arial
A2. Third Law
B1. Kill Mirror
B2. Hydrotower
C1. Eon
C2. Take it Back
D1. Henge
D2. Oceans and Seas

Pointillist club rhythms and dense, porous dub clouds encircle the Wrecked Lightship as Laurie Osborne and Adam Winchester set sail for phantom islands once more. The nocturnal boatswains chart a course guided by pronounced percussive impulses, using physicality to navigate the looming atmospheric pressure that has become their signature style.

Opening tracks ‘Arial’ and ‘Third Law’ speak to the roots of Osborne and Winchester’s respective work as Appleblim and Wedge, dealing in dancefloor abstractions where techno, electro and dubstep once stood, but there’s much more at play than simple genre tags could ever express. ‘Third Law’s electro-static interference calls back to Winchester’s work in Dot Product, while the twitchy urgency and gnarly bass echoes Osborne’s ALSO project with Second Storey.

Wrecked Lightship is an anchorless concern, free to drift into experimental waters if the currents surge that way, and so ‘Kill Mirror’ and ‘Hydrotower’ head away from forthright structures to play around with sound design and full-frequency manipulation. It’s too kinetic and jagged to be considered ambient, even if it willfully shirks the dancefloor. But for every starboard swerve there’s a prevailing wind, and the likes of finely-tuned club weapon ‘Take It Back’ whip ahead with laser-eyed focus.

Nailing their split interests between immediacy and the avant-garde to the mast, Wrecked Lightship deepen the reach of their project on their second album. Whatever shape a specific track might take, Oceans & Seas serves as a paean to the art of sonic manipulation and spatial processing.

Written and produced by Adam Winchester and Laurence Osborne
Artwork by Chloe Grove
Layout by Takashi Makabe
Mastered and cut by Simon at The Exchange

Oceans and Seas

Bandcamp

MNSXLP005 - Wrecked Lightship - Oceans and Seas

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Sunset (nature 2)

Record label by @perkopair

Distributed by Rubadub

info@f-e-l-t.com

Civilistjävel! - Fyra platser (FELT004)

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