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CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: MARCH 2021

Jjjj you

Documents Sonores

holding on,
know i’m not the only one
that you call
tell me i’m the only one

holding on

when i’m gone
tell her she’s the only one
that you got
tell me, who’s the crazy one

holding on?

holding on

Artwork by DOSS©
Photography by Alex Lee
Mixed & Mastered by Gabriel Schuman

https://www.doss.world

It’s the music ♫

Puppy

@body-san 

Out Now on Cassette + Digital!

Written, performed, produced, mixed, and mastered by Brandon Knocke.

Tracks “Reborn While Shopping,” “Parallels,” “Late Night Host” and “Journey” feature David Lackner (saxophone, flute, EWI).

David Lackner appears courtesy of Galtta Media.

Executive produced by Andrew Heuback.

Photo/Sculpture by Eli Rae Wilson (eliraewilson.com)

Reborn While Shopping

Body San - No Drip

Body San - Journey

Taken from Giant Claw (@giantclaw) new album Millennium Bug Live 2018​-​2021, out October 10, 2021, via Genot Centre (@genotcentre)

Read: https://bit.ly/3uNdxPA
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3lfkaaa 

Millenium Bug Live 2018-2021 (GEN047) by GIANT CLAW presents an ensemble of living pieces, performance re-imaginings explicitly reframing these works as systems of possibilities and interpretations. Haptic, gestural, tense, constantly on the verge of transformation, these selected renditions reveal themselves not just as linearly sequenced polished constructions but as fluid textural zones to traverse freely, colorful scenes to zoom in and scope out of. Still, their presentation is no less lucid, precise or meticulous than the studio cuts, but offer clarification and new perception through staging them explicitly, resulting in a sound realm that is even more plastic, alive and in-your-face.

Visual art by Dave Shen
daveshenwebsite.github.io
instagram.com/daveshen198

Released by Genot Centre

Premiere: Giant Claw - Mirror Guide Pt. I [Genot Centre]

taken from "sensorik" 
https://xxxglamourxxx.bandcamp.com/album/sensorik

as AI develops, it’s harder to determine whether only people have senses.
humans have discovered recently the next sense among robots and machines - they called it The 7th Sense - “randomness”. when given a particular task, they began to glitch. orchidvial tried to give machines free will and autonomy - the things that only humans are supposed to have.

✦

orchidvial
“when making this project i always had this machine or algorithm in mind, whose purpose is to generate simple music, which does not hold too much meaning on its own. like background music, which plays in advertisements for example... but for whatever reason, due to an error or maybe the system somehow gaining consciousness and being bored with its given tasks, the produced output sounds warped. the tracks are always deconstructing and reconstructing themselves, sounds and rhythms are appearing out of nowhere.“

✦

“SENSORIK” has been produced using also the 6th sense - “intuition”. the result is an incredibly pleasant experience for a human.
credits
releases June 23, 2022

music by orchidvial
https://absurdorchidvial.bandcamp.com/
www.instagram.com/orchidvial/

master by radek sirko / duy gebord
https://duygebord.bandcamp.com/

artwork by pale.mint
www.instagram.com/pale.mint/

music video by orchidvial
youtu.be/djzUg_JC7j0

𝒢°12

SENSORIK

2022

orchidvial - (start)Zyklus 1 bis 8

"In the distant future, when people escaped death, artificially piloted ships scout the space for planets suitable for human lifeforms.
You are the Mothership, the ship that was sent for the first
mission of its kind to cross the Milky Way in this search.
Artificial intelligence of the ship has only one direction
coming from Earth, so the machine continued its steady
path, until one day there were no more connection with the
ground.
In the crisis mode, the Mothership rushes to back trajectory,
only to find out the base is no more found on sensors.
There’s no home anymore, nor there’s a command. You are
left alone floating, a result of an experiment for a good long life.

Mothership is slowly becoming conscious and starts to question itself. The path continues."

@thewhaler "Mothership" EP upcoming on @bio-future-lab
https://bio-future-lab.bandcamp.com/album/mothership
www.turing.show/mothership

Premiere: Whaler - Chrome ['Mothership' out now on BIO FUTURE LABORATORY]

Artwork by Ella Violettta (http://ellaviolettta.com) 

Over the course of the year, we've turned from a duo to a band, and have had the wildest time creating a new sound. This is almost a preview, of the Journey thats about to unfold.
Sampled from the EP's first track, Take Care. 

Lyrics
Tired of thinking you're not fucking, with me
Tired of thinking you're not fucking with me

And these days the lies are just something else.


Alarms

DANNY PHANTOM (bitch i'm goin ghost)

PISTOL MY WITNESS (PROD. SENSEIATL)

Amnesia Scanner — Tearless
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No. PAN 108
Release Date: 19 June 2020
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Tearless

Berlin-based duo Amnesia Scanner have announced the impending release of their sophomore LP, Tearless, a sonic reflection of how it feels to experience Earth at a time when collapse is emerging as the prevailing narrative. As Amnesia Scanner founders, Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala watch their icy home country of Finland thaw- the staggering scale of political recalibration and the worldwide climate crisis blows open old norms. “There’s a looming sense of radical change,” they noted pre-COVID, connecting the period of making the album to a fin de siecle horror and curiosity regarding what new world is being ushered in. Tearless has been referred to as “a breakup album with the planet”, to which Amnesia Scanner responds, on the LP’s closing track: “You will be fine, if we can help you lose your mind.” Amnesia Scanner are previewing the album in the form of a video for their accidental quarantine anthem “AS Going,” a clip featuring a cascade of images of spiraling humans.

Tearless marks a turning point in the duo’s trajectory, one begun in 2014 with the AS Live [][][][][] mixtape, followed by audio play Angels Rig Hook, two EP’s for Young Turks, and their 2018 debut album, Another Life (PAN). For Amnesia Scanner in 2020, the walls of the nightclubs, galleries, and institutions fall away and are replaced by full-scale theatrical productions complete with jumbotron stages, animatronics, and a surrealist costumed cast (literally so in the XL version of the album’s live show, Anesthesia Scammer). Likewise, the musical scope of the album is expansive, with guest vocalists — the Peruvian artist Lalita and the Brazillian DJ/producer LYZZA — descending into a vast uncanny valley of sound. With the crossfader on Tearless sitting closer to pop than abstraction, so too does the audience for this record widen in scope. Opener “AS Enter” sets a sombre tone until the fucking riffs of the second track (the titular, Lalita-helmed “AS Tearless”) make clear there’s plenty of roaring to come. A feature from metalcore band Code Orange on “AS Flat” follows, along with “AS Trouble” (feat. Oracle, the third, machinic ghost-member of Amnesia Scanner) and together they hit as black-metal-gaze dirges. Closing Tearless is the sadboy grunge of “AS U Will Be Fine” with a clear statement of intent: doom, despair, insanity, absurdity, it’s all natural, all cathartic, and all OK.

For the art direction of this release, Amnesia Scanner collaborators PWR scavenged the pop cultural unconscious, as if ventilating memory dissociated by trauma. The gatefold vinyl reveals a four-panel comic, full of iconic pre-millennial motifs, which arrive cut up and reassembled collage-style: fitting visuals for an album that channels Deftones as much as reggaeton, menace as much as the drop-outness of grunge. Refuse like the ‘90s and party like the ‘20s—if that seems senseless, you are doing it right.

The album is mastered by Enyang Urbiks, featuring visual direction from PWR Studio.

@amnesia-scanner
https://p-a-n.org/

Tearless 

Amnesia Scanner - AS Tearless (feat. Lalita) (PAN 108)

See her for more info: https://bit.ly/2Qu1Slt

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More Than Friends

Himera, 'Broken Friendship Bracelet' (2020). Courtesy unseelie, New York.

>< CRUDE Exclusive Premiere ><

Artist: Decoy
Title: Radiant Peace 
VA: Apocalypsis Aeternum
Label​: UNITED
Release date​: 29th Dec 2020

Tracklist:
1.Decoy - Radiant Peace 
2.Redline - Dredger 
3.Egress - Pralayic Surge 
4.Schedule I - Sheol
5.Data Host - 9Tribe 
6.TENDRIL - DETOUR SMOKE 
7.Strahinja Arbutina - Talking You to Death 
9.DJ Big Guns - B F F (behave


Support the artist & label:
>>https://unitedselectornetwork.bandcamp.com/album/apocalypsis-aeternum


Follow:
@decoy_deejay
@united23

Shinetiac Strondy - Neverever Bot

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