Taken from SBKT040: Yen Tech - Assembler

Release date: 28th May 2021

With Assembler, his second full-length album, Yen Tech re emerges in ecstatic and primordial new form -- a multi-layered and interwoven work that blends futuristic production, meta-science fiction, and anthropic critique into a dizzying array of next scenarios -- a maze-like vision of our technological and exponentially oracular, full-stack future.

This imagined future becomes a construct or place in itself; one in which the record buzzes and swarms; a mechanosphere of towering melodic vocal samples and sound design - all narrated by Yen Tech's unnerving, diaristic vocals - as he channels the form of post-human techno cretin, whispering hyperbolic ASMR to no one in particular. We follow this character from one disorienting experience to the next as he recites a stream of indecipherable neologisms and hyper-descriptives, the existential residue seeping from every line. In the end though, a strange, uneasy beauty comes into focus; the metamorphic lyrics and musical euphorias revealing Assembler as a type of elegy: a wet glass reflection of the failures of what we are and were - and a jubilant celebration of what we may become.

"I imagined Assembler as a type of self imposed simulation, an invisible boundary that the narrator has to navigate out of to move forward. It was a way of looking at how we may carry the issues and failures of the past with us into the future. The psychological baggage of history, the guilt of geotrauma, the addictive melange of technology all become dealt with in this stage of acceptance and recovery. I wrote the album with this in mind, a process to find the slimy pearl of who we are" - Yen Tech

All music and lyrics written by Yen Tech
Produced and arranged by Yen Tech
Vocals by Yen Tech
Additional vocals by Katy Townsend
Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Artwork and vinyl design by Johannes Schnatmann

Assembler

Yen Tech - Sentry

COLLAPSE

Driven

Marco Colocci is an Italian producer and sound engineer based in Berlin. Learning how to play the contrabass and music theory has initiated the growth of his interest in the techniques of field recording and sound design, as well as his overall passion for electronic music. After self-releasing music during his teens, and later producing for Taiwanese artist Sabiwa from Chinabot, under the moniker Queimada he now presents a debut record coming out on Gin&Platonic.

Built around a concept proposed by Harvard professor E.O. Wilson, Eremocene depicts a future state of miserable epoch into which human species is slowly but steadily accelerating. Characterized by the existential & material isolation that comes from having calamitously extinguishing other forms of life on Earth while intrepidly fulfilling our immediate needs, the future labeled as The Age of Loneliness sees our identity completely transformed.
On the record, Queimada explores precisely the conflict between the tempting ease and a pang of unconfessed guilt in an attempt to capture the ironical relationship they epitomize. The album represents an encounter between different techniques of granular synthesis and field recording. The encounter between the unstoppable and destructive, altogether resulting in a disruptive anthem of the intensifying burden of the postmodern times.

Produced by @queimada77
Mastered by Wim Dehaen
Artwork by Jiri Macku

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Queimada - Reveal

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

@bungalovv
Emotional material manifests itself in many different forms. Sometimes it flows like a river, rolls like a wave or pours like rain. The fluidity of emotional experience makes sense as our bodies are mostly made up of water – life's matter and matrix, mother and medium.

It is time to let go of your fear and doubts. You must learn to embrace the darkness of your soul, for it is a light beacon of hope for humanity. Your soul wants to show itself in its truest form, strength, perseverance, courage and determination of spirit. In this lifetime your soul needs to cleanse and open its feelings for katharsis. This current physical lifetime offers you a new leaf, to be able to learn to balance obsolete, distorted behaviors.

The Flow of Water

Bungalovv - even if we don't breath the same air

fucked up UKG edit 4 my teenage crush

mix, master & artwork by AV

WYWF

Xiao Quan - Bloodshed On The Silk Road MORTAL REMINDER V/A [CD M.A 001]

Michelle brings her varied tastes of club music and r'n'b to the NTS Manchester studio every month. Early september 2020, Michelle invited us to take her radio slot over.

TRACKLISTING :

migu - Leah
HeedLess & Mansa - Call Whisper
Zaliva-D - Groan (Citizen Boy Remix)
Xiao Quan - New Ties
Stasya - Cinza
OCD - Pronounced
Orqualyzer - Inexternal
Cocktail Party Effect & Redders - Talking to Bricks
Soft Matter - No Violence
Maxsta - Locked In (Debba Remix)
Subp Yao - Imatuk
Ship Sket - PUPPET
GUAN - XM Body (feat. Four King)
/pulsr_ - neg_ space
Seven Orbits - Mantis
LCY - Y
Nate Swan & Lithe - No Contact
NATE08 - drgdlah
LV & Josh Idehen - Imminent (Slick Shoota VIP Extended)
Sean Paul - Temperature (POLO LILLI Reheat)
DJ Mastercard - without sound 2k17
DJ Rashad & DJ Spinn - Oh God
RP Boo - Total Darkness
DJ Paypal - ALL MINE (s20e15)
FITNESSS - F20 / FAITH 
African Imperial Wizard - Alī ibn Idrīs
Nahash - The Horns
Soreab - Daisy Gun
Rapid Antics - Spells
Rapala700 - embolia
Viscera - Fifth Threshold
Aïsha Devi - Dislocation of the Alpha
Jeune Faune - Ur World (ft. Pablo Altar)
MICHELANGEL0 - How Frantic It Is To Be Alive In The Year20

Image : Robin Lopvet

NTS // 05.09.20 // Michelle invites Club Late Music

FROM CLAM005 | K MAJIK 23

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

@kuthijin 

@voronhil

KUTHI JIN - ANTIKASHIZA W/ VORONHIL

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

Label based in HangZhou, China.

demo / contact : flmusic@functionlab.cn