Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0CB0KdBoZVNztkPwN84Rqp?si=t8jXSTzLSOaZ1Jf7pOHBbg
Bandcamp: https://calmdot.bandcamp.com/album/frag1
Tidal:tidal.com/album/93114475

FRAG1

A collection of brain debris from September. Exploration of texture and dynamics in a glitched harsh noise environment. Sampled from future projects, while sitting in my hollow.
Most things about this project has been crudely rushed together, out of spite of my own overthinking.

Full audiovisual: youtu.be/rRyF5unWOd4

Backwards, Through Concrete

If you can't find the sea, Let us take you there... 

You can't wash methane away. It will always be there, lingering around you, knowing your every move. It's your resource when nothing is left to use. Be careful. Methane at high levels can be fatal. 

...you've just arrived at the sea. 

Introducing Philadelphia's newest label, AngeltribeXTL 

AngeltribeXTL is an artist collective and label created to highlight and uplift emerging queer experimental artists. This year's kickoff album celebrates blackness and queerness. 'Methane Sea' features 10 emerging experimental electronic music artists.

You can find each featured artist here: 
@mercurysymbol 
@venusloc 
@jordandealart 
@vernonjordaniii 
@_pureply 
@saintsolsolsol 
@micahlattt 
@forgottenrequiems 
@no.soy.tu.luna 
@katnzinghasdead

album cover by Tyler Cala @openkeloid 

Tracks mastered by Dominic Clare at Declared Sound: 
benedicere - ninesixfour 
Kat Nzingha - Throat 
Venusloc - EARS2HEAR 
Mercury Symbol - the word of the day is Malingering 

Tracks mastered by Kat Nzingha: 
ROSEKILLJUPITER - into the sun to fawn and be left 
PurePly - trust 
ROSEKILLJUPITER X Moonflower III - wander/out to blues 
St. Sol - Find It Again 
micah lat - while wearing a mustache 

compilation title by St.Sol @saintsolsolsol 

special thanks to VRBA for supporting 
compilation album curated by Kat Nzingha

Kat Nzingha - Throat [AXTL0001]

Mt. Fuyu - A Mirror To Weave
Cat. Nr: DN024
Format: DL
Release Date: June 2, 2023
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/MtFuyu

A grave and sprawling epic, Mt. Fuyu’s A Mirror to Weave swells with implication. Written, recorded, and produced from the heart of a person who’s lived through life’s struggles much too young, the album is a ferment of ideas and experiences that together capture the sheer strangeness, beauty, and terror of existence. Born in China and immigrating to the United States with his parents in infancy, the Kansas City-based artist—otherwise known as Fu Liu—moved from the coastal province of Shandong to America’s Midwest in the early 2000s. The dot-com crash to follow led to living precariously with his father in Canada, then a short stint in foster care, before settling into a strict regimen of academic and musical pursuits on the family’s return to the US.

This classical jazz education and scholarly background comes through in A Mirror to Weave, where an endless inventory of influences—crossing Coil, The Caretaker, Burial; Mark Fisher, Hito Steyerl, Carl Jung, and more—is steeped in a sublime brew of drone, post-industrial and ambient; hauntology, dub and bass. Rife with the trauma of the past, and the expansive landscapes of the present, opener “Temple” billows with decayed, distended, and eerily pitched vocals, as an arrhythmic pulse grows then crashes in a surge of noise and distortion. The disturbance rumbles through other tracks too, as the subaqueous current of “Swamp Nymphs” roils and fizzes around a crumble of pads and sine waves, while resampled and effects-laden drums charge head-first into the spooky atmospherics of “Ovre” with an erratic urgency.

Although often muted, muffled or restrained, the voice and its whispered words play a central role in A Mirror to Weave. It’s in the existential drift of “Shells”, as Fu Liu’s sweetly sung words (“seen it all/ a black hole”) ripple over a melancholy piano solo; environmental field recordings fluttering delicately just beneath the surface. The audio is taken from the parks, streets, bars, as well as online spaces Fu Liu inhabits, giving the record its heavy sense of grief and alienation. Wandering through the emotional state of pandemic-era estrangement, while also mourning the passing of friends, A Mirror to Weave is a requiem for the worst that’s already been, and an exaltation of the best that’s yet to come. 

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Design by Niels Wehrspann and Solène Gonnet

A Mirror To Weave

buy / stream

Mt. Fuyu - Close2U

Othem

Poppy

Blood of Aza - VON DUTCH
Sleigh Bells - Tell 'Em
Lil Uzi Vert - Fire Alarm (ft. Snow Stripper)
NAAFI - Sinais (Estoc Remix)
Bassvictim - Canary Wharf freestyle (feat Oatmilkandcodeine)
trngs - TEEETH
Charli XCX - B2B X CLUB CLASSICS (KAVARI 4X4 MIX)
Crystal Castle - Alice's Practice (AUCO edit)
DJ WARLORD - VISA (SPIRITOTEM EDIT)
Skitzaph0nic - Very Disturbing
Charli XCX - Everything is Romantic

🫨BURNEDOUTSUMMER🔨

'Daffodil' marks a double debut from ranunculi & JLYELI. The track is an energetic blend of organic sounds and color bass.

Follow ranunculi: @ranunculi
Follow JLYELI: @jlyeli

STREAM/BUY

ranunculi & JLYELI - Daffodil

Hardwave Trap Beats - Instrumental - Free Beats - FreeDL

Vórtice Urbano - Hardwave Trap Beats

Falling

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0CB0KdBoZVNztkPwN84Rqp?si=t8jXSTzLSOaZ1Jf7pOHBbg
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/bw/album/frag1-ep/1421939040
Bandcamp: https://calmdot.bandcamp.com/album/frag1
Tidal:tidal.com/album/93114475

Breath

Vocals & Magic https://soundcloud.com/eatqs

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0CB0KdBoZVNztkPwN84Rqp?si=t8jXSTzLSOaZ1Jf7pOHBbg
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/bw/album/frag1-ep/1421939040
Bandcamp: https://calmdot.bandcamp.com/album/frag1
Tidal:tidal.com/album/93114475

Fever Dreams Ft. EATQS

I Like It

Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0CB0KdBoZV…zLSOaZ1Jf7pOHBbg
Apple Music: itunes.apple.com/bw/album/frag1-ep/1421939040
Bandcamp: calmdot.bandcamp.com/album/frag1
Tidal:tidal.com/album/93114475

Tantrum

Engame & Chai T   (22nd February 2017)

Hand Crushed By A  Mallet - 100 gecs (oblinof Edit)

Contact: calmrecs.uk@gmail.com
@calmrecs
FRAG1 Out now everywhere:
Bandcamp: https://calmdot.bandcamp.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Isbm9UzWSgqy6A9Da5pi1?si=t8jXSTzLSOaZ1Jf7pOHBbg
Tidal: https://tidal.com/album/93114475 
Perishable Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRFlKQLd8PA&t=6s

Fever Dreams Ft. EATQS

FRAGILE

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