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Prolific Japanese producer T5UMUT5UMU has built up a reputation in the last few years for his ability not just to recreate club styles but to flip them into almost unrecognizable dancefloor hybrids. "Sea of Trees" follows a blistering run of Bandcamp releases where T5UMUT5UMU has melted together gqom and techno, deconstructed grime and welded dubstep to traditional music from Japan and India. Here, he's operating completely off the grid, pulling raw materials from across the globe and hammering them into confounding shapes and patterns.

On its surface, 'Fireball' sounds like a liquid metal approximation of South African gqom, but move in closer and you can make out dubstep bass squelches, trap hats, and industrial techno jet propulsion filling in the gaps with rubberized mortar. 'Desert' is the EP's most lightheaded cut, a psychedelic percussive spiral that curves micro-tuned mbira clangs around bee sting bass, aerated noise blasts and sub-aqueous kicks. It's a hard track to place, but fits in somewhere between Donato Dozzy, Menzi and 33EMYBW, all shifting rhythms and precision-edited sound design.

'Sea of Trees' retains this momentum, pushing the tempo and interspersing woodblock vibrations with syncopated bass drums and goosebump-inducing synths, while closer 'Bottomless Valley' shifts back into a gqom framework, shuffling the expected pulse with a powerful dembow swing, half step subs and Indian-inspired rattles. "Asyl" is a varied but shockingly coherent statement from an enigmatic producer who refuses to confine himself to a single path, and at a time when "cross-genre" is the norm rather than the exception, it's refreshing to witness a producer who's unafraid to truly make stylistic left-turns, rather than simply mash together top-level aesthetics.

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The Prague-based imprint is going further into sound experimentation with a new project blending Baroque music influences with Hyperpop-designed instrumentations coming from the emerging Marseille’s queer scene talent stelios.exe. 

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PREMIERE: Stelios.exe - COMBUSTIO (UNIZONE)

Guest mix by https://soundcloud.com/sueuga on https://soundcloud.com/movement-radio-athens

Full Tracklist

Uboa - The Sky May Be (extus)
Whiterose - ridXdrown feat. Mazes Purr
Obelisk - Echoburst
2xn & Gyur - No Trigger
The Haxan Cloak - Growing / Disorder
Kat Nzingha - Pleasant Anxiety 
Tollund Men - Belong To Me
Miedo Total - Bastard
Brave Little Abacus - The Blah Blah Blahs
Hforspirit - UnTyMe
DJ YTP - ADHD Stomp
Golden Ashes - Gold Are The Ashes Of The Restorer
Dviance - Gasp
Pharmakon - Spit It Out
Sutekh Hexen - Iaek
I Hate Sex - San Francisco

Ice_Eyes w/ Sueuga Movement Radio 190423

Taken from SBKT057: mmph - Harvest

Release date: 26th April 2023

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It's been five years since Korean-born, Los Angeles-based sound designer and composer Sae Heum Han, aka mmph, released his last EP Serenade on the Tri Angle label in flurry of activity. "Harvest" arrives after an unintentional pause; three years ago, Han was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that immediately changed his priorities. Bedridden and exhausted from medication, he was only able to work on music for around an hour each day - the rest of his time was swallowed by rest and precarious trips to hospital in the midst of a global pandemic. Now in remission, Han looks back on this period as a time of emotional evolution where the ideas behind "Harvest" could be unravelled. The album emerges from his desire to reconnect with the Korean music he heard when he was growing up in Seoul, using these discernible timbres as building blocks to decorate with his advanced palette of electronic sounds and processes.

Han's music has always balanced precariously between the rigor of classical training and the relative open-endedness of electronic experimentation. This duality is still present on "Harvest", but Han's canvas has widened slightly. He continues to blur the line between the traditional and the modern, emulating and mirroring Korean instruments with synthesizers and sound design elements, and blending them with acoustic sounds and live percussion samples. But where his previous records and scoring work highlighted his ability to weave baroque forms into tight, contemporary sonic tapestries, this album adds the drama, yearning and spirituality of folk. On 'Dialogue' for example, pitch-warped traditional vocals twist through an ensemble of bizarre future-ancient sounds; fluttering strings dissolve into spiked percussive barbs and synthesized wails cut through walls of industrial noise.

'Spirit' follows quickly, coaxing listeners into a trance state with its flurry of microtonal string plucks and irregular percussion. Han is a master of breath control, letting his brief moments of negative space interrupt any expected regularity and guide the track away from electronic music's expected grid. This just about prepares the ground for the title track, a labyrinthine maze of dramatic compositional motifs and dizzying sonics that mutates from gugak forms into a cacophony of pneumatic blast beats before snapping back. From here the album lurches towards the dancefloor for a moment, absorbing and contorting cantankerous club rhythms on 'Avnue' and 'Moon Jar', slowing to a crawl on 'Harvest II'. Despite hijacking its theme from the title track's blast beat section, it transforms into a ballad, acting as a fittingly tearjerking finale.

The record is rounded off by a trio of remixes that draw Han further into the SVBKVLT family. Egyptian producer ABADIR chops up 'Harvest' and reassembles it into a jerky banger, extracting its dancefloor potential and evolving hardstyle thuds into spectral concertina flexes. 'Moon Jar' meanwhile is turned into twitchy trance by Shade Seoul's NET GALA, and Yen Tech stitches together 'Avnue' and 'Dialogue', creating an anxious backdrop that shuttles mmph's android folk to the modern metropolis.

Artwork by Sae Heum Han
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Harvest

mmph - Harvest (ABADIR Remix)

track list
Nahash - A snake in your house
bitter babe  - como me miras
safety trance x dj loser - dreamshater
desto - beacon
ratttlesnake - atrapame (miss jay remix)
kat nzingha x skyshaker - eternal voice
zagam - anthopocene
dayzero x wrack - dahlia (b e n n remix)
adead - amen taiko
dj bboy - popcorn
brodinski x modulaw - activian 
dj veiga - rebirth
holandes - dj do baile (cash from hash remix)
loe - nanares

Anti Shift - Simulated Reality
ANNAM - The Society Box - The Destructrion
B E N N - unreleased track
Manni Dee - London Isn't England feat. Ewa Justka (Ansome Remix)
Reso - Raid
Cawd Slaydaz & LomaasBello - Que Quiere
Aagentah - V-Drome (Granul Remix)
Tzusing - Muscular Theology
Kazuki Koga - Cascades
ARKHAM SOUND - LIMINARY 
Sueuga - Toxic@
DJ GÄP - Love It (feat. Evil Medvěd, POiSON ANNA)
Comastasis - Fermented Biomass
DJ Mariio - uSkukela
Alec Pace & Sonia Calico - Fantasma
3Phaz - Drum Track

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About Sero

It is the music that specifically made for bastards to dance in the club by Mr.Peña and XOXO Miro from Switzerland. All of the wired melodies, funny records, sudden drums are saying “not taking it too serious”, let you not wail like a baby when you break everything due to an inexplicable fall. A humorous language, hidden in every sound from Sell to Horserider. So far, there is still no mystery in this EP, it simply provides us with all the functions that every dance music should have; of course, just for mature bastards.

这是瑞士制作人 Mr.Peña 和 XOXO Miro 专门为了让混蛋们在俱乐部跳舞而 制作的音乐。所有诡异的旋律、搞笑的录音与突然砸下的鼓点都是在跟你说: “放轻松。”，让你在因莫名其妙摔倒而把东西都摔坏时不会像个三岁小孩一样 哇哇大哭。一种幽默的语言，藏在从《Sell》到《Horserider》中的每一个声音 里。在这张 EP 中没有任何神秘之处，它只是简单直接地提供给我们舞曲应有 的全部功能，当然，只是对一个成熟的混蛋而言。

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Master: frqncy audioservices
Artwork:董冰清

Sero

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The aftermath of Tony Perez victory over the universal conspiracy : provocations, juicy blasts, a fountain of pleasant bouncery.
Humanity has not been saved again by the good old heroes, entering the new paradoxal flow of evil entertainment...

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