Gabber Modus Operandi - PUXXXIMAXXX (2021 Reissue)
Cat. Nr: DN018
Format: LP (splatter)/ DL
Remastered & incl. 3 exclusive bonus tracks - first time on vinyl!
Release Date: 19 March 2021
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/PUXXXIMAXXX

You could call Gabber Modus Operandi’s PUXXXIMAXXX LP a ‘scene-defining’ record. That’s except there’s no real ‘scene’ to speak of where the DIY electronic duo come from, deep in the belly of the neo-colonial beast of Bali—an island province of Indonesia where tourism is its biggest industry, mainstream house and techno its musical staple. “Bali is like an Australian backyard for some people,” jokes Ican Harem about the capital of Denpasar where they both live, just a four-hour flight from Perth. “It’s basically like when you go to Ibiza. Those are the sounds, that’s the kind of the people, that’s how they dress up, that’s how they dance.”

Otherwise known by the project’s GMO initialism, Harem and DJ Kasimyn (aka Aditya Surya Taruna) first released PUXXXIMAXXX on influential Yogyakarta label Yes No Wave in 2018, before performing the Javan capital’s Nusasonic festival that same year. It takes its title from their original name that is a play on an unmentionable curse word, and it’s the result of a clusterfuck of influences that blew up with access to the internet in Indonesia, enabled by cheap Chinese smartphones in the mid-2010s. “Now, all the content that we posted in social media basically came from this layer,” says Kas about this new medium for cultural expression across the country’s diverse and disconnected archipelago—a girl in a remote village dances on Tik Tok, construction workers play act while on the job. “This is like the amazing channel where they make their own content. They make these absurd jokes—like, local jokes. They just celebrate it. I don’t think they think about making content. They just want to record shit, but it’s kind of an explosion of this amazing and beautiful thing; of people crossing the Island and then showing them, ‘Oh, basically behind my house, there is a traditional party where people get possessed by a tiger’.”
From the derivative metal, punk and rock influences of the country’s first ‘indie explosion’ to the ‘lowbrow’ pop and local dance music hybrids of funkot and dangdut koplo, PUXXXIMAXXX is a brilliantly chaotic pastiche. It references breakcore and gabber while framed by traditional gamelan pentatonic scales. There’s the high-pitched trumpet opener of Sangkakala I and the ritualistic beat and looped vocal samples of Hey Nafsu, along with a fascinating montage of the Javanese jathilan possession dance for their wildly popular Dosa Besar music video. “If you think we’re doing ritualistic stuff, or playing gamelan, we’re not,” adds Kas. “We are around that area but at the same time, we also listen to Prodigy.”

GMO’s speculative Indonesian rave is infectious. It’s been dubbed ‘post-alay’ by the duo in tribute to the cheesy cultural phenomenon of the suburban teenager and has since caught on worldwide. Follow-up EP HOXXXYA was released on Shanghai label SVBKVLT in 2019, earning the band slots at CTM Berlin, Kampala’s Nyege Nyege Festival and performances in China with Asian Dope Boys. This is a level of recognition that’s well-deserved for a sound that snubs the western canon in favour of a hybrid post-colonial sound that’s pure imagination. “We just kind of like suck that energy that, actually people kind of enjoy their identity,” says Kas. “Especially the people not from the big city, because people from big cities, they always want to have confirmation from the West. Like, ‘I would love to play techno, and then play in Berghain in Berlin and LA’, that kind of stuff. But there is a layer that people don’t give a shit about that, they just want to have fun.”

Remastered by Beau Thomas
Design by Teknovoid & Niels Wehrspann
PUXXXIMAXX was originally released by Yes No Wave

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PUXXXIMAXXX (2021 Reissue)

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Gabber Modus Operandi - Sangkakala

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From 'µ-Ziq - Goodbye EP' (out on Planet Mu - 1st April 2022)
https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/242667-ziq-goodbye

µ-Ziq says hello again with 'Goodbye'. The six track EP is the first in a series of releases by Mike Paradinas this year, which are all centred around the 25th Anniversary Edition of 'Lunatic Harness’, his classic 1997 album. 

Inspired by going back through the archives while he was remastering the Lunatic Harness reissue, 'Goodbye' sees Mike revisiting the nineties, taking on jungle and it's precursor jungle tekno and upgrading them with the benefit of hindsight and contemporary software. Imbued with Mike's lush sense of melody and his knack for striking contrasts (don't be shocked to hear maudlin piano, 303 and amens in the same track), 'Goodbye' approaches these old genres like a sandpit, and stretches them in directions only Mike might take.

Goodbye

µ-Ziq - Goodbye

AFX (Aphex Twin) - Laughable Butane Bob (A. G. Cook Edit)

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Taken from SBKT029: Gabber Modus Operandi - HOXXXYA
Release date: 16th August 2019

For the 29th release on SVBKVLT we are excited to present ‘HOXXXYA’, a new album from Indonesia’s Gabber Modus Operandi. Artwork by Asian Dope Boys’ Chen Tianzhuo, mastered by Raphael Valensi

‘For this album, we owe a lot to the metal/noise scene and to the small rapidly growing rave crew in Denpasar, while at the same time a ton of influence strongly came from all the sounds blasting out from our banjar (neighborhood) community, the loudest spirits of Dangdut Koplo and Indonesian happy hardcore, to gamelan sounds and everything in between.’
– Gabber Modus Operandi

HOXXXYA

Gabber Modus Operandi - Genderuwo

Listen to all tracks from ‘Oderbruch’ in full at @Hypem https://hypem.com/premiere/shed

The fifth studio album by @Shedofficial aka René Pawlowitz centers thematically on the Oderbruch region in former East Germany where the producer and DJ grew up and continues to split his time (when not in Berlin.) Both the album and track titles as well as the artwork by Arnim Tölke [Ectoplasma (Oderbruch)] reflect Pawlowitz’s deeply personal associations with the borderland’s marshy landscape, as well as enormous political and historical changes the region underwent as the last Eastern front during World War II – and, later, following the dissolution of the GDR.

The nine tracks on ‘Oderbruch’ are inspired by the intertwined nature of the subjective and historical, which ring through Shed’s idiosyncratic take on breaks, bass, techno, symphonic ventures, ambient and hardcore. But unlike Shed’s previous records, ‘Oderbruch’ incorporates broad pastoral landscapes – left behind and returned to.

More info and order: https://ostgut.de/ton/record/249

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Shed | Die Oder

from the vaults. vintage 2005 sound in glorious 192kbps.

squarepusher theme
eviscerate
male pill pt 5
windscale
fat controller
fat controller g700mix
lone raver
full rinse ft mc twin tub
rustic raver
come on my selector
tundra
last ap roach/ruin/tommib
varkatope
plaistow flex out
the exploding psychology
my red hot car
go spastic
do you know squarepuseher
acid tape track
anstromm feck
tundra 4
ufos over leytonstone
conumber
chin hippy
port rhombus
ultravisitor
venus no 17 acid mix/50 cycles
snake pass
square rave
decathlon oxide
ill descent/melt 14.6/step 1
iambic 5 poetry

His Fucking Sound

His Fucking Sound - A Squarepusher Megamix (2005)

Mix & Artwork, Hokenshitsu twitter.com/hoxenshitsu

Tracklist,
1.  Ciel - Why Me?
2.  Debba - Signal
3.  Addison Groove - Cider was stronger than the weed
4.  Nephew - Gone
5.  Katie Got Bandz - Lil Bitch (Demasiado Bootleg)
6.  Ecko Bazz - Kyusa Embela
7.  Off The Meds - Belter
8.  Hermetics - Escaping Samsara
9.  Radiohead - Lotus Flower (Pangaea Remix)
10. Dismantle - Bodied
11.  Errorsmith - Lightspeed
12. Boddika - Wavelights
13. Stanislav Tolkachev - Be Careful And Nobody Dies
14. Peder Mannerfelt - A Queen
15. Zeta Reticula - Extrapolate
16. Nite Fleit - Folie A Dreamland (Jensen Interceptor Remix)
17. The Subdermic - Dopeamine Jab
18. AQXDM - Leisure Techno
19. Mathis Ruffing - Spirited Within
20. Breaka - Icy Grills
21.  YGG - Strikers (Bakey Edit)
22. Crytal Waters - Gypsy Woman (DieMantle RaveYard Mix)
23. Chimpo - Sneaky Lobster
24. Zeki 808 - Present
25. Flowdan - Grime (Bakey Edit)
26. Flava D - Closer ft. Miss Fire
27. Big Miz - Opia
28. Client_03 - Self Doubt Injector
29. Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy (Richard Devine Trapezoid Mix)
30. Pinch - Crossing The Line Ft. Killa's Army
31.  JASSS - Turbo Olﾃｩ
32. Uun - Scripture and Virtue
33. Neon Chambers - Cascade

懐旧 (Nostalgia)

Dj Flakka is a charismatic inhabitant of Porto who is very much inseparable from the Underground culture of the City, sometimes as a wild cowboy, sometimes as an indomitable DJ... full of talents and partnerships. In 2016, in a creative flash, he created Freak Fixe, a Label that hates to be put in a box of preconceptions, with a Tech of a thousands shapes, leaves the most experienced listener with a mouth open. It promises magical crescendo sets for the cosmic universe, where the forces cross blades for infinite space.

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