RESK7004
Releases May 30, 2023
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ugne&maria is the duo project of Ugnė Vyliaudaitė and Marija Rasa Kudabaitė, both based in Brussels. Their music is made from a mosaic of samples and carefully triggered field recordings, in dialogue with Vyliaudaitė’s violin. Intricate and calming but far from ambient, in that where ambient music recedes ugne&maria’s music sounds always close to the skin. The compositions are subtle and precise, setting up a logic and then gently manipulating it or letting it hover for several minutes. Elements move seamlessly from background to foreground and then return. Snatches of text or recognisable samples serve as textures rather than as location markers or figures to which one could reliably ascribe meaning.

Despite the pattern like nature of the music (its non-narrative insistence), there is a literary quality here. While the electronics offer hints of house music or half-remembered techno, the violin bathes the entire thing in a wash of Old-World elegance, making it both softer and sadder.

When listening to this music, it is easy to imagine the enormous scale of samples and tracks that must be exchanged between the two musicians. Indeed, it is music made for a large part from sounds that have been found and traded.

— Henry Andersen

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All songs written and performed by Marija Rasa Kudabaitė and Ugnė Vyliaudaitė
Except B1: text written by Paul B. Preciado in “Le lieu qui t’accuielle”, Un appartement sur Uranus (2019), pp. 236-239	 

Instruments: Analog synthesizers, digital and human voice, sampler, field recordings, violin

Recorded at Les Ateliers Claus
Mixed by Chris Ferreira
Mastered by Felix-Florian Tödtloff
Artwork by Laura Marija Balčiūnaitė
Special thanks to Paul. B Preciado for permission to use the text

A project by Marija Rasa Kudabaitė and Ugnė Vyliaudaitė
https://marijarasa.com/ugnemaria

Futura Resistenza
Brussels/Rotterdam, 2023

A2 healing

A1 better

RESLP026
Releases January 22, 2024
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In the early '80s, Dutch band Nadagen carved themselves a niche in Amsterdam's post-punk scene, where nihilism was a call to arms. Their name translates to 'aftermath' or 'twilight years', reflecting their existential outlook: their songs offered prophecies of impending doom, echoing their belief in the imminent end of the world. Nadagen's minimal instrumentation and shouted lyrics convey a sense of rebellion, denouncing the consumerism and so-called decency of the era. Despite a brief existence, they left a legacy that resonates in today's troubled times, making their records a gleeful experience for all the long-standing doomsayers out there.

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Side A: All songs written and recorded at Nite Flite Studios, Amsterdam, 1983 by Marc Josten, Lex van Moorsel, Rob Besjes, Peter Simons, Guus Bauer except ‘Onder 4 Ogen’ by Lex van Moorsel, Peter Simons and Guus Bauer; ‘Buitenwijk’ by Guus Bauer with clarinet by Marleen Vis; ‘Gelijkspel’ lyrics by Marc Josten, music by Guus Bauer and Peter Simons with guest appearance by Diana Ozon.

Side B: All songs written and recorded at Oktopus Studio, Amsterdam, 1982 by Marc Josten, Peter Simons, Rob Besjes and Lex van Moorsel. Lyrics by Marc Josten.

Mastered by Wout de Kruif
Artwork by Hugo Zebra
Layout by Koos Siep
Liner notes by Niek Hilkmann

FUTURA RESISTENZA
Brussels/Rotterdam, 2024

7 Gordijn

RESLP030
Releases May 7, 2024
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The grooves of a record are traces of past sonic events – in a sense, vibrations frozen in time. It is thus that a record actually also embodies an aural sculpture whose multidimensional morphology lies slumbering in a two-dimensional disc. If the disc is rotated, a sensitive needle can set free the spectrogram captured in its spiraling canyons of sound once more – something like a seismograph in reverse, mirroring time and translating the recordings back into vibration. The resulting fluctuations in air pressure create pockets of turbulence in space-time, atmospheric micro-detonations, some of them strong enough to blow holes through the fabric of our everyday lives and open up short-lived, fragile areas of free space: playgrounds for alternate nows, rehearsal spaces for counterworlds, portals into different dimensions.

The sonic alchemy of rotating objects is the focus of a substantial part of Trobollowitsch's curiosity. Around 2020, one such object was set up inside the Kleiner Wasserspeicher in Berlin: a sound installation based on a turntable 2 meters in diameter. The music emanating from it was made by 2 trumpet players sitting on its colossal surface, facing outward and turning in circles at a leisurely 8 rpm. They regularly rotated past 6 holes, each of them 16 centimeters in diameter, that were themselves the openings of 4- to 6-meter-long pipes that were arranged radially around this gyroscope of sound in a charming construction devised with a keen sense for the idiosyncrasies of the employed materials. The pipes transformed the acoustic impulses of the instruments, organised according to a special written score and enriched with the resonant energy of the materials used in the construction, into an extensive acoustic topography of wandering, overlapping, and mutually permeating sonic clouds, pulsing fuzzily and constantly in flux, through which the audience strolled.

An edited recording of the event can now be heard on this record – a product that, to be sure, first had to be pressed into the two-dimensionality described above, the modest form of which – as we now know – is the substrate of a multilayered conjunctive machine: a vinyl-based 'plane of consistency' able to fold, deform, and compress time and space so deftly that one has the impression of hearing echoes of distant worlds and times – 'everything everywhere all at once.' Who knows what a shower of tachyons pattering on the membrane of our reality sounds like? Who has heard the friction manifested by possibility particles as they cross our living rooms on their journey through the multiverses? And what sound do portals to parallel worlds make when they open and close? I haven't the faintest idea – but this record is a fantastic soundtrack to contemplate it all…


— Hans-Jürgen Hauptmann

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Andreas Trobollowitsch: idea, concept, installation, composition of track A1, A2, A3 and B
Alex Kranabetter: trumpet, composition of track B
Martin Eberle: trumpet, composition of track B

Recorded by Markus Wallner at Zacherlfabrik Vienna 2022
Mixed by Andreas Trobollowitsch
Mastered by Markus Wallner
Photography by David Višnjić

FUTURA RESISTENZA
Brussels/Rotterdam, 2024

4 LIVE AT ZACHERLFABRIK

2 TRUBA

1 SEITENHIEB

RESLP033
Releases April 25, 2024
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Introducing De Mond's debut LP, 'Glow.' Stijn Wybouw (also known as Kramp) and Arno de Bock (who provided drums for Hermann among other projects) throw you into a maelstrom of bold sounds and rhythms. From squiggly synth bursts to kaleidoscopic loops, they push the outer parameters of 21st-century musical art.

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All music by DE MOND
Stijn Wybouw: Voice, Percussion, Synth
Arno De Bock: Drums, Samples

Bassline in ‘Voor de wind’ played by Bart Vandebroek
Double bass in ‘De mond spreekt vies’ performed by Simon Beeckaert

Mixed and co-produced by Roman Hiele
Recorded by Kasper De Sutter at Les Ateliers Claus
Mastered by Christophe Albertijn

Cover artwork by Stijn Wybouw
Layout by Jeroen Wille

FUTURA RESISTENZA
Brussels/Rotterdam, 2024

7 Dense smog everywhere

6 High pressure on the galloping horse

5 De mond spreekt vies

4 Voor de wind

3 Glow

2 Keylers in de storm

RESLP028
Releases April 22, 2024
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Drawing from her compositions for Helena Wittmann's film DRIFT (2017), Nika Son creates a sonic journey across the Atlantic Ocean. Following a weekend at the North Sea, one of Wittmann’s two protagonists embarks on a journey across the Atlantic from the Caribbean to the Azores, during which unpredictable waves and deep sleep foster a transformative experience.

Capturing the essence of this cinematic encounter through sound, Nika Son’s compositions allow the water itself to become a storyteller, immersing listeners in the resonating body of the boat and plunging them into the profound depth of the ever-shifting ocean. 

Whether illuminated by daylight or veiled by night, the nature of this material world emerges through an exploration of the ocean as a distinct and tangible space, inviting contemplation of its transformative power. The line between reality and imagination blurs, and the waves echo the emotions of the voyage.

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All tracks are composed, recorded and mixed by Nika Son during 2017-2018
D5 and N5 are excerpts of the video-sound installation Wildness Of Waves by Helena Wittmann & Nika Son

All other tracks are excerpts of the original soundtrack of the film DRIFT by Helena Wittmann

Mastered by Kris Jakob (Tonal Bias)
Text by Theresa George
Lay-out by Jeroen Wille

FUTURA RESISTENZA
Brussels/Rotterdam, 2024

12 Wildness Of Waves II

11 25°22’17.8”N 54°09’20.2”W

8 34°55’35.4”N 36°16’14.3”W

5 Wildness Of Waves I

3 31°46’29.9”N 32°31’22.1”W

2 28°05’53.3”N 37°49’34.2”W

1 53°31’41.2”N 9°58’25.7”E

RESLP031
Releases April 22, 2024
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Recalling early fears of recording technology, "The Dramaturgy of Decay" by Mark Vernon explores ghostly voices, distorted and intangible. Vernon's aural cinema reflects decay in ruined films, echoing the sonic texture of vanished places and voices. Amidst matters of death and environmental degradation, the album still holds tones of humour and familiarity. Through fragments of reworked audio letters, it unfolds a sonic journey through forgotten moments, wresting life from the ephemeral. "The Dramaturgy of Decay" is a deeply haunting but beautiful reflection on time in the form of sound—an otherworldly musical experience resonating between past and present.

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A2 is an alternative version of the soundtrack to the short film of the same name by Barry Burns, Luke Fowler & Mark Vernon
All tracks recorded and composed by Mark Vernon
Mastered by Felix-Florian Tödtloff
Lay-out by Jeroen Wille

FUTURA RESISTENZA
Brussels/Rotterdam, 2024

7 The Years Simply Dissolved

6 Unbroken Spontinuity

5 The Town Was A Tomb And The Sky It's Vault

4 Trembling With The Impatience Of Engines

3 Pouring From Hollow To Empty

2 Achterhaven Splinters

1 A Wrong Turn Towards Eternity

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