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City & i.o are immensely proud to present Chaos is God Neighbour, the full-length follow-up to their 2019 record Spirit Volume. This new release finds the musicians digging into murkier depths than Spirit Volume, and features extensive contributions from collaborators Dis Fig, aka Felicia Chen, x/o, aka Veron Xio, and vvilms, aka Aaron Wharton.

Composed at a frenetic pace over several weeks in mid-2020, the claustrophobia is palpable. As the album progresses the tracks get both shorter and progressively more brutal, interrupted by brief moments of respite. Throat-shredding harsh vocals provide a high watermark in intensity, while the expansive performances of Dis Fig and x/o serve as vantage points over the morass, giving the listener something both beautiful and human to grasp. Careening from rich synth work, to distorted guitars in alternate tunings; from i.o’s virtuosic and unhinged drumming to slabs of harsh ambient noise, this is a genuinely ambitious and rewarding album.

The front and back cover artwork is courtesy of legendary Games Workshop illustrator John Blanche.
credits
released November 1, 2021

City & i.o are:
AW — Audio engineering, synth
FC — Vocals, accordion
MP — Drums, guitar, sampler
VX — Vocals, strings
WB — Guitar, synths, piano

Tracks 4 & 7 written by Dis Fig
Track 5 & 6 written by x/o, City & i.o
All lyrics written by the vocalists
Additional production on track 5 by Aaron Wharton
Track 8 features an extensive sample of an untitled piece by vvilms

Artwork by John Blanche
Additional artwork, design, and Tortured Cybernetic Abomination logo by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Sigil by Julian Butterfield
Mastered by Aaron Wharton

Chaos Is God Neighbour

City & i.o - Bleak Chain (feat. x/o)

A Symbol For Disguise (GEN048) out now on Genot Centre on tape & digital.

“Rich in production ideas, an album that breaks down the barrier between what's danceable and what's meant for careful listening.” (https://soundcloud.com/ma3azef)

"A Symbol for Disguise is all action and drama that demands attention. The sound design is flawless, leaving a maze of dense music, impossible to ignore." (Foxy Digitalis)

"This is a precision-tooled and deliberate collision of club abstraction and broader experimental concerns." (https://soundcloud.com/if-only-uk)

"Encounter and decomposition of heaven and earth, collision and dissolution, forming the density of matter with soft silky water, and flying in the void of clouds." (https://soundcloud.com/avyss)

On A Symbol For Disguise (GEN048), @ububoi & @rhunterrrr join hands to craft a high saturation, high density, high tension collection of collaborative tracks. Texturally, the sound is raspy, heavy hitting, synthetic yet constantly fluid, pushed or shaped into high harmonic regions, giving the sound a full, shimmering, metallic tint. The blasting, bouncy, crispy, sometimes even shredding percussive approach suggests an intense but elastic approach, manifesting in constantly morphing highly syncopated rhythmical forms. With detuned synthetic harp arpeggios, grimy, chromatic melodies and gnarly, glassy pads, the approach here is sometimes reminiscent of that lost era where home listening music, dance music and computer music formed an uncertain and temporary alliance. The notion of a confrontation is further underlined by the incidental appearance of a denatured voice in full range: whispering, declaring, demanding, wailing - looking the listener in the eye.

Recorded, produced and mixed by @ububoi & @hunterrrr.
Mastered by @wimdehaen.
Artwork & tape design by eeeeelllfffyyyyyyyyy.

Limited edition of 55 C35 tapes with on-body printing pro-dubbed by Headless Duplicated Tapes.

ubu boi & r hunter - Towers Of Babel (GEN048)

Work with Lak & D!ana for Lower Grand Radio (07/06/2022)

https://xterea.bandcamp.com/album/roamer-ep

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90210 Eyes of Truth

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made this edit live as an intro for my radio show on @datafruits, 3 days before Avicii's death

Drowning CELES rip VIP edit

@nodebts - to do  

"todo is an archive of ruins made anew. prophesying a new sense of peace and comfort in the unknown. this is how I dance in the dark."

Tracklist : 

1.  bri x alva noto mash - never runs dry
2. burial hecker mash
3. sitting in the glory of the mercy seat / true love VIP - burial x the tares 
4. losing you / untitled cover - solange x the tares 
5. drummer / untitled cover - yyu x the tares 0
6. static major edit 
7. cloister zero/one in a mill mash - aaliyah x n prolenta

Artwork by @holographic-internet

to do

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no debts - to do [AD001]

GASS returns with the warped to the bone three track EP by Italian producer - Chevel.

“Glass Bridge is one of my most emotionally intense work yet. I wanted to play with the idea of chopped vocals as a continuation of my track ‘Always Yours’. The approach is very minimalistic butyet emotionally full, a feeling emphasized by the contrast created by the chopped female vocals juxtaposed to the intense, long and heavy bass notes” [Chevel 2020]

GASS is a record label hosted by Mamiko Motto and Eric Hu.

TRACKLIST: 
1. Forever
2. Crush
3. Glass Bridge


All tracks written, recorded and mixed by Dario
Tronchin,
® + © GASS, 2020.
Art Direction by Eric Hu
Mastered by Etienne Rallu
Cat. No. GASSD005 – all rights reserved.


PRE-ORDER
https://gassrecords.bandcamp.com/album/glass-bridge

CHEVEL - GLASS BRIDGE GASSD005

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GASS is inspired by evolving technology and underground dance culture, led and curated by Mamiko Motto.
Art direction by Eric Hu. 

For Demos please mail hello@mamikomotto.com

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