Taken from Zaumne (@zaumne) new EP Élévation, out April 16, 2021, via Mondoj (@mondoj-org)

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Zaumne's new album titled Élévation is a multifaceted yet subtle work, an abstract collage that is equally entrancing and immersive. Quoting passages from Baudelaire’s “Flowers of Evil”, the Polish musician promises to elevate the soul and consciousness “Beyond the sun / Beyond the ether”. Yet simultaneously, the artist wants us to stay where we are and focus on the immediate surroundings in search of our personal attachment to the world.

Initially recorded for the WET (Weird Erotic Tension) online community the four pieces are an exploration of erotic aspects of the environment and uncanny intimacy with other beings and objects that dwell in our nearest proximity. Just like on previous releases for labels like Czaszka Rec. or Perfect Aesthetics, on Élévation Zaumne maintains his interest in emotional aspects of sound and internet culture – he builds his compositions from fragments of ASMR-whispered poetry, samples of natural phenomena and field recordings from his family home and its environ.

What starts as an escapist exercise driven by uneasiness and ennui becomes an individual healing process, in which the subject rediscovers the strangely intimate relationship with the world and opens up to almost magical methods of communicating with other beings. ASMR samples and sounds of the artist touching, playing with and exciting different objects are an experiment in establishing contact with the non-human realm and a method of attuning the body and the mind to the reality in which everything is interconnected.

Zaumne tests Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance” through radical, sensual intimacy with what’s near, finding a glimpse of the absolute in his own room, again quoting Baudelaire: “To a child who is fond of maps and engravings / The universe is the size of his immense hunger”. Words by Jakub Depczyński

Artwork and layout by Paulina Ufnal & Janek Ufnal

Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering

Released by Mondoj

Élévation

Premiere: Zaumne - Fantôme [Mondoj]

It's been five and a half years and we are still together. This is a belated birthday present from i-D. Stay hard, sometimes emotional ;)
Mix by @https://soundcloud.com/boyang-guan & @ljj555998
Photograph by 鲍金龙

FunctionLab mix for i-D | 猛男的眼泪

Laenz's supernatural bass music lands on the Italian label Early Reflex.

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PREMIERE: Laenz - Undue Valence (Early Reflex)

enmossed is pleased to present 𝑬𝑵𝑴𝑺, a new cassette series curated by artist and perfumer Daisy Paradise, Florian T M Zeisig, and Glyn Maier. Releases consist of pairing an artist’s album with a plant of their choice and feature an interview - spoken or written - connected to the chosen plant. RJM Vanderheyden realized the series design beautifully with UV-etched, and color-matched cassettes and cases made from recycled materials, drawing upon a collection of rare botanical illustrations.

In the works for over a year, we are delighted to debut the first album of the series from long-time enmossed associate Chaperone - 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄, paired with chamomile and a chat between Daisy Paradise and Suzanne Belle Stone of Moon of Hyldemoer Herbals.

“Daisy Paradise tells us that when a plant is taken out of its comfort zone, its growth adapts to new and challenging conditions. Its properties change: they incorporate the difficulty and beauty of its foreign surroundings. Chaperone trawls the dusty grooves of bossa nova LPs, extracting forgotten melodies and re-contextualizing them into an indeterminate industrial churn. A boscagic echo rendered into a miniature plastic flower, partially submerged in a puddle alongside crumbling asphalt.

Suzanne Belle Stone reminds us that, while we obsess over the rare, we fail to honor and celebrate the gifts of the common - that’s why we tend to undermine the strength and the subtlety of the ever-present chamomile. Chaperone repeats a sound, looping it, making it common. An abundance of multiplicities that create a new temporality, helping us quiet our mind. Chamomile is quiet, chamomile listens. A flower that likes to grow in large groups, in community, surrounded by its own repetitions.

𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 is a dense hive of loops spreading their subtleties and becoming common through the air, a rooting system weaving an all-enveloping sea of electric dust under which we listen, as in a dream, to the static effervescence of a swarm of chamomile seeds. Each of these seeds contains a tiny sun and a tiny moon. Plants come to you when you need them.”
- Marta Núñez Pouzols

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David Coccagna (Chaperone) is a Queens-based writer and musician focusing primarily on transgressive human behavior, poverty, class division, and addiction. Born and raised in Philadelphia, the principle imagery and sonic influences of the depressed Northeast neighborhood Lawncrest has served as the palette and canvas Coccagna works upon. He has released worked with labels Great Circles, Jungle Gym, Con.apt, and Minor Adjustments, with more recent focuses leaning into repetitive sound and theme. He is an avid cyclist and has two cats. 

recorded by Chaperone
interview by Daisy Paradise
assistance by Florian T M Zeisig
audio finalized by Glyn Maier
design and artwork by RJM Vanderheyden

Leaflet Music

Chaperone - A Puddle With No Origin (ENMS-01)

Explore mixes by upcoming party starters from musical and DJ collectives across the globe

https://www.nts.live/shows/diesel-tracks/episodes/diesel-tracks-kitty-5th-june-2023

Diesel TRACKS: Kitty 050623

lower your eyelid (kiyo.0 & aerodrome speedbient rework) - 21/09/2023

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https://radiopunctum.cz/shows/motsion

March Motsion (@motsion-ua) by Andriy Kostyukov (@andriy_k) & AXT (@axtaxtaxtaxtaxtaxtaxtaxt) w/ Ancestral Vision (@ancestralvision). Recorded live at Tendance Listening Bar. (@tendancedance)

Photo by Tereza Kopelentová

Tracklist:
Ninja Priest - Semínko Krajiny [BCAA System]
Apu Nanu - Fountain [BFF Music]
Ancestral Vision - Sand Memory [Radio Labe]
Kangding Ray - Late Coral Glow [ara]
Lanark Artefax - Voices Near the Hypocentre [AD 93]
Sudanim - Midrift [Her Records]
Kid Antoine - Proximity [Her Records]
Nguzunguzu - What Dance [Innovative Leisure]
Looting - My Eyes Rolling Back In My Head [self-released]
Ayesha - V7 [kindergarten]
96 Back - Laco [Local Action]
Průvan - Flagrant Vagrant [Tectonic]
Batu - Atavism [Timedance]
xeno_ - Púca [skeleton]
Ancestral Vision - Mothra Flight Mode [LOFS]

Motsion 03/24 by Andriy Kostyukov & AXT w/ Ancestral Vision

H.A.U.N.T - VOYAGE

PHNTMZN - cold drive (prod. phntmzn bR)

Piedra y Chispa

Label based in HangZhou, China.

demo / contact : flmusic@functionlab.cn