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INDIVIDUAL DROPS by https://soundcloud.com/ice_eyes out 30/04 via Genot Centre // tape & digital
Get it now // http://bit.ly/gen035_presale
Remix by https://soundcloud.com/cxlo // https://soundcloud.com/cxlo/ice_eyes-argo-cxlo-remix

Produced by https://soundcloud.com/ice_eyes
Cover, teasers & recycled PET object by https://soundcloud.com/h5io
Original tracks mastered by Stefan Konstantinidis at Fabrika Music // www.fabrikamusic.gr 
Remixes mastered by @wimdehaen

INDIVIDUAL DROPS by ICE_EYES is a cold-blooded showcase of dynamic sound organization, where sputtering shreds of sound cluster into larger scale rhythm units, before shattering into new formations once again. Sounds here are sliced, combed, atomized and always performing new acrobatics around the indeterminate no man's land of the rhythm-pitch transition zone, yet somehow never straying too far from advanced dancefloor-ready syncopations. 
The tonal medium of these broken rhythmic arrangements immediately suggests something trembling with cutting edge technological infrastructure, where harmonically dense pads evoke a long forgotten IDM cgi landscape, where hybridized sounds rattle through an elaborate piping system. Warbled mumblings remind us this music is still situated in the realm of the human, but one where every transmission first passes through a chain of paranoia, interception, re-encodings and subversive content barricades. 
The album is finished off with each track rearranged once again by a handful of masterful remixers. 

ICE_EYES about INDIVIDUAL DROPS 
“In seeking of new challenges, our latest work Individual Drops, is focusing on new evolving sonic material from a more microscopic point of view, by integrating more obvious granular synthesis ideas. The purpose is to create a new formula that works both in sculpting sound design, and the same time respects our dystopian orientation as an archetype. At this point, we engage more intensive, ever changing, faintly anorgasmic, sonic motifs, that work as a guidebook to an overall fragmented picture. 
Arcadia, as an art form that can be used as a metaphor of utopia, is always present at the background of that image, holding all parts together, like an anchor in a turbulent sea, resembling the Argo floating on these angry waters. Space or Khoros is a variable of time balancing from small to large places, but not in an paternal way. Granular synthesis at its core, forming each sound in a discrete way, like a drop of rain falling in a pit of clear water.”

Individual Drops

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Ice_Eyes - Argo (GEN035)

GIL - Infolding 
Cat. Nr: DN015
Format: Digital
Release Date: 12 July 2019
Pre-order: bit.ly/2ERpTgG

GIL’s latest record Infolding is released by Danse Noire, his second release on the label since Orchids and Wasps. Aptly named, it traces an inward fold, both of the artist's leanings and the listener's experience. The record is reflective, probing, and supple; its arrangements a development of the musical language explored in his previous release.

Infolding engages both with composition and non-determinism, its playfulness skipping across dramatic deluge and expansive gestures to gently paced segments, a game of hide and seek. GIL displays once again his interest in movement as well as an understanding of the fine aspects which determine familiarity and structure; time as rhythm, embodiment as genre, precognition and expectation – the agents of notional listening get questioned gently and persistently. The result is music which will joyfully betray an ear's expectation, replacing it with a twist or sudden space. The record dances on an unstable surface, dipping where it should rise, halting where it could pound, uttering affecting melodies, gracefully yet laboriously; GIL's is an introspective, churning, bone rattling palette.

Hardly ever offering a moment of rest, he creates environments in which something is perpetually pulling, stretching, towards-tending. Laden with cartwheeling themes and hooks which appear and disappear in different shades, the record houses overarching motifs which appear and scatter over the span of several tracks. This dizzying distribution makes for an in-folded listening, in which the artist considers the record's body as outside of single frameworks, its premises and planting delayed or waylaid by new, unexpected considerations.

The distinct sense of motion in the record is the artist making use of his experience as a live musician, and is further developed due to his aphantasiac condition. An inability to visualize both imagery and sound in his mind spurs GIL into sensing arrangements by physical preemption and resonance, reactively. Unsurprisingly then, Infolding takes shape as a blindfolded, visceral dance.

Track 1 & 3 mixed by Jeremy Cox, track 5 mixed by Alexis Chan. Mastering by Jeremy cox.
Artwork by Maya Rochat.

@gilschneider

Infolding

GIL - dustgreen

Cat No: MATERIA07
Title: Magnetic Field
Artist: @tsumutsumu
Label: Materia 
Release: 6th September 2019

1. Magnetic Field	
2. Industrial Ecosystem
3. Coup
4. Dominator
5. C4

Magnetic Fields

T5UMUT5UMU - Industrial Ecosystem

In April 2019 we took a trip to Tokyo to capture the sounds of the transport, markets, instruments, machines and public places. We did the same back in London and created a sample bank for each city. We reached out to underground Tokyo producers who we consider to be some of the best up-and-coming producers in the city. 

Each producer used sample sounds from the opposite city from our recordings. The result is a collaboration between two underground scenes through music creation and samples from opposite sides of the world. A massive thank you to everyone involved.

"...pumped, energised tracks that are tempered by ambient sounds moulded in the hand of a stranger." - Mixmag: mixmag.net/read/southspace-collaborative-album-tokyo-south-london-news

Samples collected by Stan Sorrell, Cecilia Morgan and Finbar Kelly. 
Artwork by Finbar Kelly. 

@cil_music
@44rapture
@maidable
@amaretto_old_skool
@5tatic_music
@dukeofharajuku
+ MACROO

southspacerecords.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-sound

呼応・共鳴 (Mirror Sound)

T5UMUT5UMU - Ritual

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.

7 Xiao Quan - Half Moon Kick

2 Xiao Quan - Sword Dancer

PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM HERE
https://aghnie.bandcamp.com/album/demur

All tracks written & produced by Aghnie
Photography: Mariam gabritchidze aka Levi Deni https://www.instagram.com/levi_deni_/?hl=en

Anesthesia

Untitled Dark Ambient

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My first ever sample pack is out now on Bandcamp! 

Including:

23 Drum Loops
20 FX Sounds
9 Synth Loops
+ more

Make sure to download the bonus when your purchase is complete.
*The acapellas from the preview are not included*

Sample Pack - Out now on Bandcamp

Label based in HangZhou, China.

demo / contact : flmusic@functionlab.cn