Taken from SBKT049: Osheyack - Intimate Publics
Release date: 8th June 2022

Intimate Publics, Osheyack’s second album, is an homage to Shanghai, the city he has called home since 2012. Over the past ten years the producer has evolved from an avid club-goer to a key member of the vital soundscape that emerged from ALL Club and its predecessor, the now defunct club The Shelter. As hinted by the title, which draws on American social theorist Michael Warner’s work on publics and counterpublics, the album expresses a commitment to mining the utopian potential of club music, forging new worlds and generating future social relations, just as the artist bids farewell to the city at a moment of uncertain transition. While tracks like 'Edging' and 'Thrall' continue to present his signature collage of harder club music, the rest of the record reveals a shift to synthetic approximations of acoustic instruments. 'Still', the central track of the album, is a piece composed almost entirely of samples found on Vocaloid (a vocal synthesizer developed by Yamaha, commonly used to give voice to Japanese virtual idols). While echoing themes explored in previous projects, like the nature of realism and authenticity in a techno-mediated landscape, Intimate Publics is charged with an unexpected emotional candor and vulnerability, unveiling a personal side Osheyack is only beginning to explore.

Words by Alvin Li
Artwork by Xiaofei Qiu
Design by Luke Griffiths
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Intimate Publics

Osheyack - Usually Never

Artist: NOGE
Title: DAMAGE
Label: Matière
Catalog Number: MAT013
Release Date: 05/05/2023
Format: Digital
Mastering: Raär
Artwork: Yoram Musiek

Tracklist:

IN YOUR EYES
ANEMOIA
SKR SKR SKR
170 D.P.S (feat G.ear)
PRETEND ヽ(*・ω・)ﾉ
ANEMOIA (Miss Jay Remix)
SKR SKR SKR (novashift remix)

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@noge_official
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@universe-of-gear
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@m1ssjay
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@novashift
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NOGE - Anemoia (Miss Jay Remix)

T5 06

Your Planet Is Next - URBAN MAN XL
⚪️ Available now on Bandcamp: https://yourplanetisnext.bandcamp.com/album/urban-man-xl

We're proud to present URBAN MAN XL, the new alias from @yourplanetisnext , on Terminal. This project captures the essence of genres like happy hardcore, breakbeat, and early grime. URBAN MAN XL takes us to a distorted reality where early 2000s London and 90s Rotterdam converge in a high-energy, technically explorative sonic narrative, throwing us back to those dark, sweaty clubs where euphoria and chaos were the common tongue.

With production marked by wild downsampling and time-stretching, this EP channels the raw, visceral energy of hardcore and breakbeat into an unfiltered sound. Each track is an explosive piece, full of broken rhythms and saturated basslines, reminiscent of early rave experiences, but with a contemporary edge that makes it unmistakably his own. The narrative is further enhanced by an intergalactic war story between the "Frogtronic" resistance and "the free world" — a nod to DIY aesthetics and the sharp, acidic humor that defines the project.

The visual art for URBAN MAN XL, developed by Triss, draws from 90s graffiti, connecting with the jungle, hardcore, and rave culture. This retro aesthetic is combined with Dennis Vera's low-res DIY animations, evoking the spirit of those early colorful and minimalist raves. This EP is more than just music: it's a sonic manifesto exploring the limits between analog and digital, nostalgia and futurism.

Terminal once again proves to be the natural home for projects that refuse to conform, seeking to challenge the codes of clubbing. URBAN MAN XL embodies that attitude: frenetic rhythms, low frequencies, and a twisted nostalgia that just wants to tear up the dancefloor.

Track list:
01. 6666
02. Frogtronic Malware
03. Buff
04. Artic Mega Server
05. Hits From The...

Video by Dennis Vera @umbermindset
Character design by YPIN
Cover art by Triss, BST
Mastering by Matthew Styles

Your Planet Is Next - Arctic Mega Server

Gimme ur tears 💧

two of my drum tools

ripped from boxed on rinse

spot a third inside the full show: https://soundcloud.com/rinsefm/boxed170515?in=boxedldn/sets/boxed-radio #ttdrumz

Drumdeath / Reflector Drumz (Boxed Rinse FM rip)

Night in Milan (Single Version)

Soluna - Can’t help but worry (remix)

Nikotam2 - Permafrost

Couvre x Chefs Premiere: http://couvrexchefs.com/en/blastah-last-wordz-majia/

[PREMIERE] CxC- blastah - Last Wordz

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

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.

Written by GG Lobster
Translated by Yang Tiantian

Pre-order

Premiere: [FL016]Xiao Quan - Connection EP

Label based in HangZhou, China.

demo / contact : flmusic@functionlab.cn