Taken from SBKT055: TRANCE BAND - Entrancing
Release date: 3rd March 2023

In a global landscape that increasingly prioritizes individuality over collaborative expression, TRANCE is a distinctive project. Initiated by Chinese multidisciplinary artist Tianzhuo Chen, best known for his work with Asian Dope Boys, TRANCE is as artistically amorphous as its constantly evolving line-up, that fluctuates as it shimmers across borders and time-zones. In 2019, the project was demoed in Beijing as part of a solo exhibition from Chen, a 12-hour durational performance that examined the altered states of living and dying and pondered the sounds, sensations, bodies and spaces that notion might suggest. On hold for three years due to COVID-19 restrictions, TRANCE was eventually premiered in Hamburg at the Kampnagel Theatre last year where it was presented as a surreal three-day ceremony. This time around the Trance Band was made up of Berlin-based noisemaker and vocalist Dis Fig, Indonesia's Gabber Modus Operandi, musician and MC KIM KHAN, guitarist and engineer Felix-Florian Tödtloff, and Vancouver-based percussionist and producer CITY. Chen directed the show, channeling each artist's unique energy into an alliance that highlighted their independent skills while pushing towards ideas that simply couldn't have been realized discretely.

"Entrancing" is a live documentation of that incendiary Hamburg session, powered by the performative fireworks that came from having the project halted for two years before it was allowed to burst into life once more. Just as with previous iterations of TRANCE, the space was terraformed into an alien landscape that allowed the collective to enact a carnivalesque display that was tightly controlled but creatively boundless. Musical u-turns were accompanied by monumental stage overhauls that reshaped a muddy, fog-filled outdoor riverscape into an arena, or a sweaty nightclub. This theatrical impact can't be visualized as clearly on the record, but musical cues do just enough heavy lifting to provide a tantalizing contour. When the alluring electro-acoustic plucks and resonant sustained string tones of 'There's a Ghost in the Lantern' cascade into cinematic drone metal on 'Ylva's Theme', it's impossible not to be drawn into the TRANCE narrative. Sonic stage lights flicker with uncommon intensity as the nebulous group rewrite their collective personal stories into stirring, synergistic poetry.

"Something changes!" KIM KHAN calls out on 'Soft and Black', cutting through warbling synths and itchy beatbox percussion. The track builds quickly, reaching a sizzling crescendo of buzzsaw noise and acidic electronics. It's a stylistic sea change that channels the group's kinetic energy into a rock show, and CITY picks up the message on 'Trance Genesis', adding rapid-fire drums to a barrage of guitar skronk. 'Shaolin Affliction' glues Trance Band's jagged artistic edges to a vintage metal template, gradually dissolving into throaty post-hardcore, while 'My Fortress' brings the show to a powerful conclusion with Dis Fig assuming the role of grunge balladeer, bellowing into the void over cacophonous live instrumentation. Unbound by musical and artistic conventions, TRANCE peers out from the basement, the gallery and the playhouse to forge an expression that's all of this and something new entirely. It's refreshing, witty, exhilarating and most of all, completely unpredictable.

Entrancing

Gabber Modus Operandi - Larung [digital only]

"One of five recordings made on 15 April 2023 in Richmond, VA. Cassette/full released tba."
@scim1
@deskulling

Scim & deskulling - Bonk

﹝ 𝓢𝓦𝓘𝓝𝓔 𝓟𝓡𝓔𝓜𝓘𝓔𝓡𝓔 >> Young upcoming Slovak producer, DJ and visual artist @kodiki is releasing his new EP called "600db" ﹞

➽ Through a wonderful and imaginative song "YPOS" the producer delves into the captivating world of our inner child. The experimental ambiance of high-frequency sounds tells a story of processing and overcoming deep fears our past self has built for us. "600db" EP will continue with the narrative of getting to know and embracing our inner child with our childishness.

Pre-Sale ✦ https://kodiki.bandcamp.com/album/600db 
(Slovak) Article ✦ https://swinedaily.com/premiere-kodiki/

Mix + Master: Samo Benko
Cover art: Kodiki

☍ ☍ ☍

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[Swine Premiere] Kodiki - YPOS

(I really thought that I could be somebody that you'd wanna keep)
(I really thought that I could be somebody that you'd wanna keep)

I really thought that I could be somebody that you'd wanna keep
Keep, Keep
I really thought that I could be somebody that you'd wanna keep
I guess I'm foolishly in love with you for thinking I could be
any different than the rest of them ...
Ya, I'm no different than the rest of them but

That's not my fault (fault)
You've got a lot of work to do on yourself
and that's not my fault (fault)
I think I'm done crying over you
But I wrote this song

I think I'm done crying over you
But I wrote this song for
(done crying over you, done crying over you)

I really thought that I could be somebody that you'd wanna keep
I really thought that I could be somebody that you'd wanna keep

Love me
Love me
Love me
Love me

Love me
Love me
Love me
I really thought that I could be somebody that you'd wanna keep (Love me)

Love me
Love me
Love me
I guess I'm foolishly in love (Love me)

Love me
Love me
Love me
Love me

Love me
Love me
Love me
Why won't you love me

Some Bunny Loves You

Fourth track in album "SYMPATHY"
with @archidi_1
artwork by @_v.3lo

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W/ ARCHIDI | SEARCH FOR HOPE

KOZY - Direkt ein bauen!

p me (copyright sample plenka)

из уродливой машины выхожу красивый

с красным телефоном
в ебаных ковбойских бутсах
их просто перевернуло
я трачу кэш я трачу мула

я даже не олынил
я даже не олынил
но я получаю
но я получаю

кто у меня есть кроме меня
это мужицкий мир
я беру миринду на заправке
даже это красиво

я даже не олынил
просто великолепен
деньги ушли на ветер
суча я вернусь на ветте

на упавшем черном ветте
икс десять от этой хонды
стряхиваю пепел запотели окна
стряхиваю пепел
стряхиваю пепел

с этих ебаных денег
с этих ебнутых денег

из уродливой машины выхожу красивый

out of ugly

Es una previa de lo que será mi primer EP de hardcore main ,pronto estará listo

2025-21-08_JuanTraxx_Tema_1_Blade-28.wav

Iku & ☆7571 - CDMX

https://colorsquadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/c-o-l-o-r-s-q-u-a-d-0-0-8

ID#1 out now https://eggshellgoblin1.bandcamp.com/album/id-1

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Man Of The Hour

Originally composed for livestreaming events during the ongoing lockdown of 2020, Felisha Ledesma presents two extended pieces as a debut album, “Sweet Hour”. Ledesma’s first full length release arrives after much experience in creating collaborative works with artists such as Isabella and Angelo Harmsworth, site-specific installations, and high-profile festival performances.

Both pieces were realized using a new software synthesizer, called “AMQR”, which Ledesma built for personal use in collaboration with Ess Mattisson. Contrary to many digitally-based compositions, a distinctly warm and organic palette pervades these recordings. An almost playful leisurely pace is employed, engaging the listener to listen deeper; the pieces gracefully evolve with special attention to subtle shifts in stereo field and sonic coloration.

The time-of-day titles illustrate the two distinct moods conveyed: "7:00 AM" integrates field recordings and a hardware modular synthesizer, taking the listener through a psycho-acoustic journey exploring various nooks and crannies of subdued auditory rivulets: perhaps a hidden woodland brook, a sunny glen, a crunchy gravel walkway. "2:00 AM" harkens to the memories of nightclubs, opening with a synthesized arpeggio which could lead into a dancefloor-ready stomper. But instead, Ledesma steps back, allowing the arpeggio to develop into an encompassing ASMR-like timbral massage. The two compositions are united in a slightly melancholic grasping for connection; are they unfolding or are they unraveling? Ledesma does not answer the question outright, but instead finds joy in superposition and sublimation - while creating a space for the listener to inhabit, to live in, and to re-connect.

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Felisha Ledesma is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Berlin, GER. In Portland, OR, Ledesma co-founded and directed numerous organizations focused on experimental sound and community engagement such as S1 (an artist-run space) and the Synth Library (a lending library for electronic music equipment). Most recently Felisha co-founded Fors (fors.fm), creating "novel instruments that are elegant to use and adventurous in sound" in collaboration with Ess Mattisson and is studying sonic arts at Universität der Künste, Berlin. 

releases January 29, 2021

mastering :: Ess Mattisson

cover artwork :: Felisha Ledesma

design ++ layout :: Robin JM Vanderheyden

all proceeds to Equitable Giving Circle :: www.equitablegivingcircle.org

Man Of The Hour

Fergus jk McQueenie