April 12th, 2021
Vague Culture 3
JWR040

Artwork by Get Face
Mastered by Colin Moir

https://soundcloud.com/bedoublensound
https://soundcloud.com/dreamgoth
https://soundcloud.com/theuropeancanon
https://soundcloud.com/mxntrxss
https://soundcloud.com/porqueria
https://soundcloud.com/dannyhelll
https://soundcloud.com/rvincenzo
https://soundcloud.com/SunshineVendetta
https://soundcloud.com/symdk
https://soundcloud.com/rougeh0tel
https://soundcloud.com/ravencomptonparis
https://soundcloud.com/softieseason
https://soundcloud.com/poly-armour
https://soundcloud.com/wifeof_lot
https://soundcloud.com/djturian
https://soundcloud.com/iamxato

Poly Armour - Ishh

Samples generated by My Voice Beatbox+AI transformations, tracks mixed and assembled in GarageBand iOS (not so easy without real hardware)

Just a clouds

Final destination! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥1/6/25

ØFFSHØRE - Lights Of The Dark (Lizplay Records)

Produced in Turku, Finland by sound artist Lukas Lunden.

YEURRGHH

@weight-less

Limited CD release. Out on YOUTH Thursday 15th August 2019.

L. Lund - Lo Tech - YOCD4

I was super lucky to be joined by @akikoharuna for my October resident slot on Limbo Radio. Her EP from earlier this year is a real highlight and hit so many buttons for me. Akiko joined me for an hour guest mix in the middle of the show and it absolutely banged :) 

All tracks from me IDed in comments.

Clemency invites Akiko Haruna - 21/10/19

Mixing & Mastering: GUAN
Artwork: Melt Joshua (ig: @melt_j)
Design: GG Lobster
Catalog: FL012

SHAME

Pre-order

premiere: Laughing Ears - Shame 羞耻

"The most negative emotions are neither grief nor anger that cannot be suppressed, but shame.

Shame is the disease of the soul. It is one of the most heartbreaking experiences. Shame is the wound inside. It separates us from ourselves and also separates us from others.

In shame, one's self-consciousness is 'split' - imagine that when we are in the eyes of another person - the self-consciousness of people in shame will have such a split, themselves Always in your own eyes.

Shame is the first and most essential cause of all violence (whether for individual violence or for specific groups of people). Anger, assault, and violence are all coping strategies for shame.

Using seemingly powerful anger to mask the powerless shame. In order to cope with shame, the individual externalizes the internal blame on the self to the outside world and others, and then angers and attacks the outside world and others. This feeling is better to endure than pure shame.

Unlike most emotions, shame does not disappear with time, it lurks in us. It is the least easily recognized and released emotion, it is the most secretive emotion. ”

SHAME by Laughing Ears will be released on FunctionLab on November 19, 2019. Shame, To Cover, Self-loathing, Keep in the dark, combines the four emotions into one EP, showing Laughing Ears' most hidden and bare personal feelings.

Track List:

5.Shame 羞耻 
6.To Cover 遮蔽 
7.Self-loathing 自我厌恶 
8.Keep in the dark 隐瞒

Release date: November 19, 2019
Mixing & Mastering: GUAN
Artwork: Melt Joshua (ig: @melt_j)
Design: GG Lobster
Catalog: FL012

Laughing Ears - To Cover 遮掩

AIRE returns to Glacial Industries following his well received JMA project. 

Since his last outing AIRE has been crafting his live show, an AV spectacular which debuted at Barcelona's LOOM Festival this year.

AIRE has also been becoming a growing presence in Barcelona and beyond both in the club and on stage with his Spanish Mafia crew with a number of live outings including an Off Sonar show.

SOPHIA is a heady, synth driven club banger which showcases another side of AIRE. 

SOPHIA drops worldwide via Glacial Industries on 13/12/2019.

SOPHIA

AIRE - SOPHIA

Aired on NTS Radio Dec 8 2020

https://www.nts.live/shows/corin/episodes/corin-8th-december-2020

FEMALE WIZARD - MAGIC MADNESS SADNESS
LIL ASAF - MBAKAL (PROD. BASHAR SULEIMAN)
BIGA YUT X DEBMASTER - MUSAMAVU
TYGAPAW - SOON COME
SHYBOI - ANANASEM
HYPH11E - DOPPELGANGER
HEXTAPE - REVENGE (GABBER MODUS OPERANDI REMIX)
NKISI - YOKA
KENDOJUBAKI - DARK PARK
NET GALA - ALTERNET
PRETTYBWOY - CENTRIFUGAL
BOOGZBROWN - AIRWAVE
OSSX - DON’T CARE, DIDN’T ASK
BABY BLUE, UGENT - COUNT BACK FROM FIVE
SONIA CALICO - THAT DANCE ON THE MOON
STOLEN VELOUR - EVENT HORIZON
BADSISTA - NILE RIVER DANCING

NTS Radio Mix - December 2020

Artist: @laughingears
Catalogue Number: IM086
Album: Blood
Release Date: February 26th, 2021
Format: Digital

Laughing Ears is poised to release her second LP this January via club music vanguards, Infinite Machine. Her lengthiest offering to date, Blood consists of 10 tracks that highlight Laughing Ears’s knack for building otherworldly atmospherics within club-ready, dance music structures. Taking the tale of Fenrir as it’s starting point, (a giant wolf in Norse mythology who spent much of his life bound and chained to a rock in captivity), the album conceptually deals with family ties and the melancholic beauty that can be found in the darkness of loss.

Blood opens with the airy, gliding synths and heavy drumwork of Flickering Shadows. The track has a unique sense of space due its wide stereo-imaging as well as Laughing Ears’ haunting melodies and driving rhythms. A 100bpm creeper fit for exploring uncharted virtual lands. On the following track, Loki, things are stripped back to their functional essentials. Tabla hits, bass pluses and strange whistles brush up against each other in a head-spinning assemblage before surging towards a climactic resolution.

The serene Untouched Places showcases Laughing Ears’ unique approach to melody and harmony. With a background in singing herself, her synths lines here seem to tonally intertwine, like vocal DNA, veering from harmonious and dissonant phases. Compared to the tranquility of Untouched Places, LP title-track, Blood, moves the record in a more intense direction. A brick wall of compressed percussion and humanoid-sung samples seem to battle it out for the listener’s attention in an enthralling sonic confrontation.

On Blood’s mid-point, Night Whisps, the producer’s love for the thrilling soundtracks of Satoshi Kon’s anime movies definitely comes through clearly. Bass drones claustrophobically reverberate around the mix - acting as a musical backbone that a wide array of staccato samples are stitched onto. Next up, Murderous Means, as its blood-thirsty title suggests, is a brutal and hard-hitting club track that’ll keep listeners guessing as the composition twists and turns. The song’s furious, ever-evolving drum patterns create mesmerizing rhythms you can’t help but bob your head to.

The polyrhythms continue on the following piece, Buona Fortuna. Like footwork, a genre she looks to for inspiration, on Buona Fortuna, the main groove is built out of a disparate family of drum samples which work in tandem - much like how individual dots of an Impressionist painting cooperate to form a single, concrete image. Laughing Ears then slows things down slightly with Glimmer, which sees the producer mix the low end stylings of UK Funky with strung out horns and gong hits.

On Potcheen, the longest of the record, Laughing Ears ambitiously constructs a track that starts from curious, ambient beginnings before morphing into a ferocious footwork-infused banger. Rounding off the release, Warm as A Lizard is a groove-laided drum freakout, crammed full of dense textures which build into a tonal fever pitch.

Artwork by Nic Symbios
Mastered by Fausto Mercier

Blood

Laughing Ears - Untouched Places

Label based in HangZhou, China.

demo / contact : flmusic@functionlab.cn

Laughing Ears - To Cover 遮掩

FunctionLab

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