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Artist: Xiao Quan
Title: Connection
Mix & Master: Xiao Quan
Artwork: Gabriel Massan
Label: FunctionLab & Indieworks

The name Xiao Quan sparks a question mark and confuses tons of listeners. His nationality, cultural background and behaviour are topics that everyone who knows him for the first time want to talk about. Those are also the themes he is more than happy to play with in his music. In fact, he has lived in Shenzhen, China for two years, when Oil Club wasn‘t even open.

Cultural symbols from Asia and Africa have appeared more and more frequently in world’s art scenes in recent years, although the status of self-consumption in content and consumption by the Western world is still unchangeable in a short time. As a producer from São Paulo, Xiao Quan’s "Connection" EP uses a generalized and concrete way to create cultural symbols as he operates them and make them sound normal and casual, which is impossible for many original creators of culture, especially in mainland China, which is almost derailed from its tradition now. Xiao Quan is just like us (Chinese people and producers), absorbing and using a large amount of information from around the world.

"Connection" EP is undoubtedly based on the Xiao Quan-style black humor, and the connection with the Asian and African culture he deeply loves. Unlike in the past, he really participated as a member of Asian culture through FunctionLab this time. From the first sound of "Rolling Barrel”, like the sound of a dragon coming out of the fog, drums from Asia and Africa came through and wore it to the end, warm and obscure. Does the rough Chinese vocal sample appearing in the track puzzle you? This is the voice that Xiao Quan doesn't understand very much but crazy in love with. The fun is self-evident. As for elaborate arrangements and superb production techniques, these have never been the case for Xiao Quan.

Welcome to the wild and lovely dancing world of Xiao Quan.

2 Xiao Quan - Sword Dancer

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Artwork: @morena-spagnolo

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FROM CLAM005 | K MAJIK 23

https://clam-pressure.bandcamp.com/album/clam005-k-majik-23

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KUTHI JIN - ANTIKASHIZA W/ VORONHIL

Victor Metske is a Rotterdam-based electronic musician, who is normally known for his energetic club-ready style of production and for the label Bound Centre, which he co-founded with Ice Viper, Imhotel & Ezra V. On katharsis, he presents a more introspective and thoughtful side of himself with his EP “In The Midst Of Things”, which seems to stem from this weird year of isolation and quarantine. 

The 4 tracks of the EP send us on a contemplative journey through our feelings, spanning from the blissful pads on the beautiful opener “Flour On Her Feet” to the more disturbing and anxious plucked strings on “First Sight”. Metske states the following about the release:

“In the midst of things, in between life changing events and entirely new daily routines there were small moments where I could sit down and reflect. The four tracks of this EP were created in these small pockets of time. During the pregnancy of my girlfriend, after the birth of our son, at the arrival of a global crisis. 

Melodic and atmospheric elements previously hidden in my send channels have been braving the foreground of my productions for a while now. But more recently I've been able to use these elements to translate the weight of recent events directly into some of my music. All four tracks represent very personal abstract feelings that I could never put to words.

Within these four tracks I can hear feelings of joy, love, doubt and melancholy scream back at me. I can hear myself settling into a new world, struggling with relinquishing control and discovering calmth.”

In The Midst Of Things

Victor Metske - First Sight

--ESP
MECHA-03 es la tercera compilación del colectivo TRRUENO.
El lanzamiento es una compilación de 17 temas producidos por los miembros del sello y varios artistas invitados, incluyendo a Ziúr, el performer y poeta Cru Encarnação, Leonello Zambon, MARTTEIN, Golpe Erotico y Gregorio Nash

--ENG
MECHA-03 is the third compilation of the TRRUENO collective.
The release is a compilation of 17 tracks produced by members of the label and various guest artists, including Ziúr, performer artist and poet Cru Encarnação, Leonello Zambon, MARTTEIN, Golpe Erotico & Gregorio Nash

Mastering by Astrosuka & Sofja
Artwork by Emma Pidré
Logo by Pablo Betas

Ziúr - Nadir

Sébastien Forrester (@holy-strays) aims at creating spontaneous sound document using imperfect live takes and impulsive drumming to build intricate though always dancefloor-friendly rhythmic architectures.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/sebastien-forrester-mishap

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Premiere: Sébastien Forrester - Mishap

https://soundcloud.com/allofevragain?fbclid=IwAR0SjMJauSa3ATJapH3ld7ywlEgNil3jyouqmASLima28BBZUdVwQKED5qc ❤

oxhy ~ storing meat in the belly of my brother (excerpt)
Pentu ~ Ftf2 (Through the Eyes of a Satellite)
bo khat eternal troof family band ~ I HAVE SEEN ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE UNDER THE SUN; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind
Jtamul ~ Wing Flutters
Réelle ~ Kissing Myself
Villaelvin ~ REY
MRTRY ~ Unchained
Tristan ~ ANGELDUST
In My Talons ~ Ha He Sum, An Enchantment (excerpt)
AVRIL SPLEEN ~ INECTIVE FLESH
WWWings ~ GLOWIN UP
Torus ~ Sound Of The Drums
Jtamul ~ Tsiqvi
Benzokai (aka Artjom) & Tont ~ Feels Like Driftin'
TTristana ~ HOWL IN VIRTUAL NATURE
Ewa Awe ~ I Dont Want To Believe It
ssaliva x julietta ferrari ~ Moan

BCAAmusic // ALL OF EVR AGAIN

Mezclado por @neszdc
Fotografía por @yyedd 

Tracklist:
Itoiz   Lau Teilatu
James Ferraro   Suki Girlz 2
Krymeareaver   Voodoo
Clams Casino   Hell (Instrumental)
Silk Road Assassins   Akwraith / Families
Louis Me   The Tracks Of My Tears
Crystallmess   Interlude for the dropouts
Contacto   Tierra Nueva
De Cos  Gorriak
1995epilepsy   get 2 know
HTRK   Real Headfuck
Dean Blunt   Fronto Kings (ft. Jonatan Leandoer)
Slint   Good Morning Captain
Puce Mary & CTM   Release (For Ezra)

AZKMIX002

AZKMIX: DE COS

@pixelord and @maxdahlhaus use collaborative EP 'Lets Collapse' to show how both artists have felt throughout the ongoing global pandemic.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/pixelord-whoosh/

Premiere: Pixelord - Whoosh

Label based in HangZhou, China.

demo / contact : flmusic@functionlab.cn