Genot Centre  That music has a profound impact on us -𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞

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)

CLAM012 | SINERAW - EMULATION OF US

Sineraw... nonlinear speculations on human nature... and beyond . . .

https://clam-pressure.bandcamp.com/album/clam012-emulation-of-us

@sineraw

WWW.CLAM.LIFE

SINERAW - DISINTEGRATES

This compilation came together as a solidarity effort between the eastbloc sound community and their international loose network of friends, allies and collaborators.

We want to state again that our network has a zero-tolerance policy against all manifestations of racism, antisemitism, queerphobia, classism and other forms of discrimination.

While this is a benefit compilation for Ukraine, we want to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine, Syria and Yemen and all people who are currently victims of imperialist aggression.

We are incredibly grateful for everyone's contributions, from artists who shared new, old, previously unreleased, remix or completely new work created exclusively for this compilation, many many thanks!

Also thank you to our members who worked tirelessly to make this happen and a special thanks to Justin (Radio Benska) for mastering, Polydoris PR for press and Nufolklore Studios for artwork/graphic design.

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This is a communal effort in partnership with many other wonderful compilations. If you would like to see a list of those compilations. Follow this link:

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EKSE - NANA [We Stand with Ukraine, EASA 2022]

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 - Reification

wopooloopow

"Veering from fractured hyperpop into deconstructed club oddness and ambience, this album is a restless and rewarding experience that will delight fans of the Orange Milk catalogue and the stranger corners of Oneohtrix Point Never’s discography." (https://soundcloud.com/djmag) 

"Time and time again, we have found ourselves lost in this album. A potent stew of element we’d possible not normally enjoy tumbling in space with sections we wish continued into far longer expanses." (Obladada) 

On Organe Solaire (GEN051) by https://soundcloud.com/amselysen a coherent ensemble is presented consisting of digital, hyperprocessed textures, minuscule sound fragmentations and impassioned, pressing vocal broadcasts. Deceptively, the sound at intermittently even approaches something like a sugary sweet pop production: chord stabs, piano tones, heartfelt howling, energetic kicks, the whole works. The most powerful weapons in the electro-acoustic toolkit are used here: sound events occur on a microscopic scale, sliced, granulated, pitch-bent, resonant, bubbling, stretching - but at the same time have an impactful, cinematic, piercing quality. From the arrangement point of view there is a cryptic multi-centered, restless logic, with the trajectory of all tracks constantly getting out of balance, twisting, self-subverting. The human voice, or the remnants of it, form an important thread through this album; spanning a wide tonal, textural range, the voice material is sometimes vocoded, stuttering, crushed, resampled, fried, totally pushed beyond its limits; but at other times innately performative, assertive - a declaration of intent or active intervention, conveying meaning, communicating something important. Organe solaire follows 2020's murky transmission Hypnagogic Surge.

/ Hakeem Lapointe (https://soundcloud.com/amselysen) about GEN051
“My [Amselysen’s] second full length album’s focus, Organe Solaire, strays from conceptual music and goes on dissecting and splaying a dark but colourful sludge of emotions. A major point source in my compositional approach to the record has been imagining the trajectory of hyper-pop if it evolved with a more pessimistic tendency, with the same bells and whistles, but less shiny and squeaky clean — like the rainbow reflections of tar bubbles.
Organe Solaire, unable to afford being cryptic, doubles down on honest, raw lyricism and is quick to open up, building a comprehensive musical and gestural language that reflects the narratives behind each and every track. They range from slow suicidal ballads, to demented hyper-melancholic pop, to interludes containing heavy narratives, like Discrepancies (for Kellyanne): a heavily filtered piano composition dating from my late teens, also acting as a hope to reach out to a long lost then-best friend.
I did not shy away at referencing personal idols who’ve inspired me throughout the years: The Labour of Love samples Akira Fuse’s Shikuramen No Kahori, a song mentioned in Joji Koyama and Tujiko Noriko’s feature length film Kuro, and matches its theme: gazing at the afterimage of a romance long gone. Post-modern Tsunami, as outlined by “shoutout to Hito Steyerl”, is made to the image of Steyerl’s Liquidity Inc.: in its wave-like structure; in its senseless meme aesthetic; and nods at its conceptual approach, dissecting contemporary culture with economic undertones.
To aid me in my efforts, I have called upon two outstanding collaborators to lend their strengths on the album. I’ve recruited the excellent Ubu Boi, providing tactful compositions and solid vocal performances, and the mysterious 2x|n, a.k.a. Seraphim, for precise sound design and incisive aural interventions.
Delving into romantic torment, drug use, artistic frustrations, struggles with mental illness, Organe Solaire brings forth a fundamentally human experience in the form of raw edges thinly veiled under a layer of gloss.”

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Amselysen - My True Faith

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Flewid Out Now!

noumenalloom.bandcamp.com/album/flewid

Flewid

Lasus - Slemp-Q

Thirty-first Cime show on @radio80000 w/ @jusnjjshh

traumesser – sharp-bladed tactics
Vid Edda - Skygge Flakser
Sarahsson - Lime Time
unperson - Spiritual™
Flaty – IP-Elegy
ben bondy – immortal
Nile Koetting & Nozomu Matsumoto - Architecture
Lucy Liyou & Eric Frye - Part 1 & 2
Luigi Ceccarelli - Exsultet
Amber Meulenijzer - Procession
Thomas Ankersmit - Perceptual Geography
Jessica Ekomane - Solid of Revolution (reworked)
Claire Rousay - peak chroma
Meredith Monk - Summer Variation
Metta World Peace - Glomar
Zeze Wakamatsu - Aomori Before Summer
Martyna Basta - Speechless Lately
bela - Fish
Justin - unreleased
Eric Frye - Love Pilled

Artwork by www.instagram.com/alexanderturovsky/

May, 23th, 2023

Cime w/ Justin on Radio 80000 (May, 23th, 2023)

Written and Produced by @nocturnerror & @eeraclio
Mastered by Eks
Photo by Carmine Covino
Artwork by Augusto Fabio Cerqua

POLAR

Nocturnerror - POLAR (feat. Eraclio)

𝘈𝘯 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴. 𝘑𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴.

@veerything

Quiet

veerything 

Gather

veerything 🍃 Reunion

High Quality Digital Bits: Thundercode Aesthetics Displayed and Explained by Nesso.
credits
released June 1, 2020 

Recorded, Mixed and Produced by Nesso 
nesso.bandcamp.com 
Mastered by Giancarlo Brambilla 
@kuthijin 
Graphic Design by Gianluca Lonigro 
gianlucalonigro.net

HD.024 | NESSO - LAMBDA

RIP ✝2015∞2023✝
tape label/music community from Prague
https://linktr.ee/genot

Bryce Helm - Close You're Eyes Why Smokeing Weed (GEN053)
Fausto Mercier - Misinput Tycoon (GEN052)
Amselysen - Organe Solaire (GEN051)
Blank Wall Season - Thoughts on Manifolds (GEN050)
Klahrk & KAVARI - Wax (GEN049)
ubu boi & r hunter - A Symbol For Disguise (GEN048)
Giant Claw - Millennium Bug Live 2018​-​2021 (GEN047)
ABADIR - Pause​/​Stutter​/​Uh​/​Repeat (GEN046)
Eilien - Digital Lovers (GEN045)
QOW - Dawafer (GEN044)
Amselysen - Hypnagogic Surge (GEN043)
Euglossine - Blue Marble Agony (GEN042)
adaa - ok im real i think (GEN041)
My Cruelty - The Secret Weapon (GEN040)
Quantum Natives - Silent Night (GEN039/QNR034)
Fausto Mercier - FULLSCREEN (GEN038)
Corporation - Graffito (GEN037)
Mor Air - Life Behind Glass (GEN036)
Ice_Eyes - Individual Drops (GEN035)
r hunter - rrrrrrafael (GEN034)
I am just a Pupil - Classical Classics (GEN033)
Jano Doe - Duranzie (GEN032)
Æthereal Arthropod - Opilio (GEN031)
Laura Luna Castillo - Laminares (GEN030)
Tereshkova - Collapsed Lake (GEN029)
German Army - Terroir Place (GEN028)
21st Century Wolf - City Zen EP (GEN027)
Ten Hyphen Twenty - In-Store Music (GEN026)
woopheadclrms - vs o​.​t​.​O​.​g​.​I (GEN025)
Lišaj - Mezina (GEN024)
Wrong Dials - Hello Brightness My New Sex Friend (GEN023)
Forces - Plastisphere (GEN022)
Bonie Jash - Shirase (GEN021)
AF85 - ハイパーオリンピック (DIAMOND EDITION) (GEN020)
Percival Pembroke - Arpeggiatorworld​+​+ (GEN019)
HDMIRROR - ANTHEMS (GEN018) 
Enchanted Lands - Feed Goals (GEN017)
The House in the Woods - Paralysis (GEN016)
Izanasz - Spectral Cascades (GEN015)
Luna & Tarnovski - Luna & Tarnovski (GEN014)
Ecto Mist - Equal (GEN013)
Aghnie - Club Envy EP (GEN012)
Iku - Fugue (GEN011)
Dane Law - r.bit (GEN010)
Bryce Helm - Persona (GEN009)
Cass. / Dudal / Stijn Hüwels - Silent_Night#4: Dauw (GEN008)
Liminal / Aires - split (GEN007)
HERBARIUM - DIVINE HERBA: EXTENDED (GEN006)
Lišaj - Szara EP (GEN005)
Lee Chapman - Silent_Night#1: bar do thos grol (GEN004)
MB03 - Jackie World (GEN003)
Lee Chapman / Wim Dehaen - Voices & Allusions / Benidorm Hotel (GEN002)
Percival Pembroke - A Course In The Theory Of Drones (GEN001)

Amselysen - My True Faith

Genot Centre ✝2015-2023✝

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