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Taken from SBKT040: Yen Tech - Assembler

Release date: 28th May 2021

With Assembler, his second full-length album, Yen Tech re emerges in ecstatic and primordial new form -- a multi-layered and interwoven work that blends futuristic production, meta-science fiction, and anthropic critique into a dizzying array of next scenarios -- a maze-like vision of our technological and exponentially oracular, full-stack future.

This imagined future becomes a construct or place in itself; one in which the record buzzes and swarms; a mechanosphere of towering melodic vocal samples and sound design - all narrated by Yen Tech's unnerving, diaristic vocals - as he channels the form of post-human techno cretin, whispering hyperbolic ASMR to no one in particular. We follow this character from one disorienting experience to the next as he recites a stream of indecipherable neologisms and hyper-descriptives, the existential residue seeping from every line. In the end though, a strange, uneasy beauty comes into focus; the metamorphic lyrics and musical euphorias revealing Assembler as a type of elegy: a wet glass reflection of the failures of what we are and were - and a jubilant celebration of what we may become.

"I imagined Assembler as a type of self imposed simulation, an invisible boundary that the narrator has to navigate out of to move forward. It was a way of looking at how we may carry the issues and failures of the past with us into the future. The psychological baggage of history, the guilt of geotrauma, the addictive melange of technology all become dealt with in this stage of acceptance and recovery. I wrote the album with this in mind, a process to find the slimy pearl of who we are" - Yen Tech

All music and lyrics written by Yen Tech
Produced and arranged by Yen Tech
Vocals by Yen Tech
Additional vocals by Katy Townsend
Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Artwork and vinyl design by Johannes Schnatmann

Assembler

Yen Tech - Arsenal

Racine - Amitiés
Cat. Nr: DN022
Format: CD / DL
Release Date: January 21, 2022
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/Racine

There’s a lived-in quality to the sound of Racine’s Amitiés. Named after the French word for friendship, the Montréal-based Quebecois artist follows an extended time spent indoors to contemplate what it means to be isolated and in one’s own body, while also staying connected. The album is a follow-up of sorts to Quelque chose tombe (“Something Falls”), released in February 2020 and a kind of accidental prophecy for the crisis that was to come.
Amitiés disintegrates before your very eyes. Opening with a roughshod iPhone recording of Racine playing his parent’s harmonium, the creaky acoustics of "Mon amour je ne guéris jamais" slowly degrade into digital simulations of dreadful organic beauty. That track and the rest of the LP gives the feeling of an abandoned building; a sense of frayed, earthiness dusted with the wisdom of time. And yet, it’s almost entirely made from simulations. Clipped Native Instruments violin patches punctuate the churning atmospherics of “Arête coincée dans une amygdale”. The lonely gongs and bells of “Grosso” resonate in a gust of synthesised ambient. Vocal plugins and the very occasional YouTube samples of a recorded voice are sped-up, glitched, pitched and scrambled into indecipherability. These vocal apparitions rise and fall into the sonic ether like individual ghosts of human contact. They’re bold and expressive, deeply melancholy and yet full of the potential for joy and an awareness of life’s beauty.

It’s in this dearth of social interaction—the heady psychosis of too much solitude—that Amitiés’s tone and mood lies. A score for the numb dissociation from internal chaos and alienation, the album’s sense of acute distress is assuaged only by the small network of collaborators and influences it draws from. Long-time friend and peer Justin Leduc-Frenette (aka Keru Not Ever) contributes drum programming to “Mon amour je ne guéris jamais”. A last-minute reworking of the untitled “Sans titre” by German duo Arigto matches the weight and timbre of Racine’s sooty post-classical soundscapes.

Ultimately, Amitiés is a very human response to an inhuman environment. It’s an intimate homage to friends and the mysterious effects of distance, while somehow finding healing in hardship.

Mastered by Rashad Becker, artwork by Niels Wehrspann

@julienracine

Amitiés

Racine - Arête coincée dans une amygdale

++ TINNITVS : RELAPSE ++

A year after TINNITVS, our double anniversary compilation, we’re happy to present TINNITVS : RELAPSE, an extension of the original edition with remixes by members of the Global URL Nation.

In this edition, GUN affiliates /pulsr_ , Cosmic Caz, Désiré,  indigoblue, RougeHotel, SNKLS, Talita Otović & Yaka offer their own take on the original tracks and expand its sonic palette with a wide spectrum of noises, pitches, and textures. Buzzing, hissing, humming, clicking or sizzling, it’s still ringing!


++ TRACKLIST ++

01. Didier XCX, GRIG & Brice Reiter - It’s Late Not Latte (/pulsr_ Remix)
02. Gwia Ekim & indigoblue - Content Corruption (SNKLS Remix)
03. SNKLS & Soft Matter - Warm Circuits (indigoblue Remix)
04. VINÍ & P I T - TEMPESTADE.exe (Yaka Doomcore Flip)
05. Gwia Ekim & indigoblue - Content Corruption (RougeHotel Remix)
06. GRIG & jjjacob - Antechamber (Cosmic Caz Remix)
07. ASJ, Désiré, Kelvin T, Thegn & Tommy Moisi - Pumped Up Hash (Désiré & Talita Otović Remix)


++ CREDITS ++

Visual by /pulsr_, 11611 & migu
https://www.instagram.com/pulsrsounds/
https://www.instagram.com/intothywoods/
https://www.instagram.com/migu.exe/

Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta

Tracks produced by /pulsr_ , Cosmic Caz, Désiré,  indigoblue, RougeHotel, SNKLS, Talita Otović & Yaka.

Original tracks produced by ASJ, Brice Reiter, Désiré, Didier XCX, GRIG, Gwia Ekim, indigoblue, jjjacob, Kelvin T, P I T, SNKLS, Soft Matter, Thegn, Tommy Moisi, & VINÍ.

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Didier XCX, GRIG & Brice Reiter - It’s Late Not Latte (/pulsr_  Remix)

Tedium is modernity in the waiting phase. A longed-for moment of stasis.
A compilation of 23 tracks that shows us a rather wide spectrum including diverse manifestations of modern electronics. Boredom and neurosis that hold hands and become a chameleon-like whole.

Sometimes this combination draws its essence from obscure ambient demotivating, other times steals the body of enormous noisy and granular flows.

An emblematic sound vessel capable of containing everything from the sharpest electro-acoustic resonances to the most deformed deteriorations of hip hop imagery.

released May 27, 2022

Curated by A Flooded Need and Eks.
Artwork by NMR.
Mastered by Guido Marziale at KU Studio.
FLOOD01 - A Flooded Need, 2022.

Tedium

You're Not Welcome Anymore (feat. Ahmed)

Elvin Brandhi - You're Not Welcome Anymore (feat. Ahmed)

Next November 16 we release the ep New Existence
by PERSONALBRAND.
The ep includes three original tracks and three remixes by B E N N,
AFGA06L and rEmPiT g0dDe$$.

We share with you the Disurbanism tracks as a preview.
Enjoy!!

Ả̬̽͜LL̛͟ IDENTITIEŚ̳ A̦͛RE ̣͎̉̐FIC̻̯̅̀T̮̍IOŃ͚̰͂
Producer, curator, and founder of experimental label POSTWORLD, the current iteration of personalbrand is exploring how visions of hope might be reflected in the shards of our contemporary failures. Despite his moniker, he is presently focused on illuminating the music and art of others that share this anticipative outlook.

personalbrand has released music on TAR and Over My Body, and is a former resident DJ at Taipei's FINAL.

©+℗ Infinito Audio Network
IAN111/ 2022

New Existence

Disurbanism

𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱 - 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺

111X - 'Shame'

Three years after his previous outing, the elusive prince of noise 111X returns to Changeless with his monumental paragon ‘Shame’.

Born amidst a period of personal collapse and the cathartic realisation of inadequacy and finiteness, ‘Shame’ traverses devastatingly beautiful, dreamlike sonic realms. The record delves into the temporal and fleeting nature of our corporeality, how the smallest tremors can ultimately shake you to your very core.

’Shame’ sees 111X expand upon his distinct palette of unwavering noise, somber melodies and staggered drums with brooding guitar drones, adding a newfound depth to the sorrow found throughout his oeuvre. Let it wash over your trembling flesh, and you will come out the other side as an unstoppable force.

'Shame' will be released March 10th via Changeless.

Written, produced & mixed by 111X.
Mastered by Nori Kin.

Artwork by Helen Korpak.

@111x

111X - Desire (Bloom)

From Voronhil • Pantomima

•• VIDEO ••
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8ByiXx-BMY

ACT01_ GETTING TO KNOW (●´⌓`●)
ACT02_ HARD SLEEP, SWEET DREAMS ❤꒰ღ˘‿˘ற꒱❤
ACT03_ MEETING GIANTS, TRYING TO FORGET ( ఠൠఠ )
ACT04_ BY SCRAPING TAME THEM (づ ◕‿◕ )づ
ACT05_ MAYBE A WAY OUT, MAYBE A WAY IN …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ

Chronological order slice of life
(-‿◦☀)

clam-pressure.bandcamp.com/album/pantomima

@voronhil

VORONHIL • ACT05_PART08 - BOXED IN

AbraKadabra è una traccia che incarna la mia visione della musica hard tekno del nuovo millennio, dove la vecchia scuola si fonde con la nuova. Questa traccia esplosiva trae ispirazione dal 'Baile funk da Favela', unendo il desiderio di divertirsi e stare insieme con la dura realtà della criminalità.

English

AbraKadabra is a track that embodies my vision of hard tekno music for the new millennium, where old school meets new school. This energetic track draws inspiration from the 'Baile funk da Favela', blending the desire to have fun and be together with the harsh reality of crime.

AbraKadabra

rmxxx by @wwwings 
https://twitter.com/wwwings

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N1L - WARWARWAR ⚔️(WWWINGS REMIXXX)⚔️

CS/DIG

PUPPY02 *PREVIEWS*

Imaabs - Inflexiones

https://humanbehindpluto.bandcamp.com/track/orbital-energy

https://open.spotify.com/album/7o764Ab505XUWocfYfWcg5?si=05CHLhiWSVuJULOIor3k_g

Orbital Energy

Human Behind Pluto - Orbital Energy

free dwnld
On May 3, musician Simone Corbalan AKA OCHI releases her debut EP ‘Lo Social’ on Caustics.

The record features guest performances by producer Escobar Gallardo, who remixed the track 'Social' and Rene Roco mastered and mixed the remix. OCHI mixed and produced the whole album. 

‘Lo Social’ was made on autum, 2019.

Words from Caustics: Thanks to the whole collective who have created something very special to each one of us.

Lo Social

OCHI - Lo Social [CSTCS003] EP

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OCHI - Mujercita

Written and produced by Eric Frye.
Design by Eric Frye.
Software by Curtis Roads, Marcin Pietruszewski, and Oli Larkin.

https://ericfrye.bandcamp.com/album/inconsequential-music

Inconsequential Music

Bandcamp

Inconsequential Music 1

@trngs is a maximalist hi-fi music producer, multimedial artist and an occasional but quite a good sk8ter. After us grinding heavy on his last year’s projects BILOCATE and LAPTOP CREMATION, we reached out and he shared couple of very intense wav. files with us.

All the three files contain visceral sound tangles, which TRNGS himself (with our honest confirmation) insists on calling „dance“ music. Like in the cover of the record, which is capturing the tragedy of today's environmental condition, bits of the artificial sound elements blend insensibly into the organic material, all together creating a complicated 3-part puzzle, layed out on dark and rather disturbing background.
„I am very passionate about making music with sort of uncanny relationship between synthesized and sampled sounds“, describes TRNGS on that note.

We have designed a sleek 3D-printed flower pot as an object accompanying the EP, so you can plant yourself a dose of organic green hope (with possible shades of purple) into this tiny zen garden.

Produced, mixed & mastered by trngs.
trngs.bandcamp.com

Artwork by Daniel Vojtisek & Jiri Macku.

trngs - 1100

@trngs is a maximalist hi-fi music producer, multimedial artist and an occasional but quite a good sk8ter. After us grinding heavy on his last year’s projects BILOCATE and LAPTOP CREMATION, we reached out and he shared couple of very intense wav. files with us.

All the three files contain visceral sound tangles, which TRNGS himself (with our honest confirmation) insists on calling „dance“ music. Like in the cover of the record, which is capturing the tragedy of today's environmental condition, bits of the artificial sound elements blend insensibly into the organic material, all together creating a complicated 3-part puzzle, layed out on dark and rather disturbing background. 
„I am very passionate about making music with sort of uncanny relationship between synthesized and sampled sounds“, describes TRNGS on that note.

We have designed a sleek 3D-printed flower pot as an object accompanying the EP, so you can plant yourself a dose of organic green hope (with possible shades of purple) into this tiny zen garden.

Produced, mixed & mastered by trngs.
trngs.bandcamp.com

Artwork by Daniel Vojtisek & Jiri Macku.

trngs - S()LV3NT

systematic overcoming of longing since 2016
/ record label, collective & common spirit 

http://ginandplatonic.online

~ press ~

Unlimited Editions: Gin&Platonic (The Wire)
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/unlimited-editions-gin-platonic

aircode's Surface Tension on The Quietus:
https://thequietus.com/articles/33450-tenniscoats-ryosuke-kiyasu-spykidelic-aircode-cassette-high-bias

aircode's Surface Tension on SilenceAndSound:
https://silenceandsound.me/2023/10/26/aircode/

aircode on Crucial Listening podcast:
https://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/crucial-listening-141-aircode/

SINERAW's MIMETIC FAUNA on SilenceAndSound:
https://silenceandsound.me/2023/08/28/sineraw/

paszka's lapton on The Quietus:
https://thequietus.com/articles/33125-the-quietus-best-albums-of-2023-so-far

Somaticae's Kleis among the best albums of 2022 on The Quietus:
https://thequietus.com/articles/32400-the-quietus-top-100-albums-of-2022-norman-records

Oroboro's SPIKYMEMORY video on If-Only:
https://ifonlyuk.com/video-premiere-oroboro-spikymemory/

Ursula Sereghy on SHAPE:
https://shapeplatform.eu/2023/ursula-sereghy-i-cant-hear-myself-in-a-city

Ursula Sereghy interviewed for The Wire Magazine: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/thinking-outside-the-box-milos-hroch-interviews-ursula-sereghy

Ursula Sereghy's OK Box among the best albums of 2021 on The Quietus:
https://thequietus.com/articles/30903-the-quietus-top-100-albums-of-2021

hmurd's Flower Knight reviewed on RA:
https://ra.co/reviews/34044

toiret status' liquid house on The Quietus:
https://thequietus.com/articles/30921-best-tapes-of-2021

toiret status' liquid house on Juno:
https://www.juno.co.uk/junodaily/2021/02/19/this-weeks-best-new-albums-7/

toiret status' liquid house on Paynomindtous:
https://paynomindtous.it/toiretstatus-sabiwa-gnp/

Kindohm's Deserted / Reclaimed on Boomkat:
https://boomkat.com/products/deserted-reclaimed

Forces' Epoch on SBVRSV.press:
http://sbvrsv.press/premiere-forces-world-is-going-to-burn-gp012/

julek ploski's śpie on toneshift.net:
https://toneshift.net/2019/11/25/spie-by-julek-ploski/

julek ploski's śpie on nowamuzyka.pl:
https://www.nowamuzyka.pl/2019/11/13/julek-ploski-spie/

Queimada's Eremocene on Paynomindtous:
https://www.paynomindtous.it/ginplatonic-queimada-eremocene/

trngs' RLLY INTENSE .WAV FILES on Threshold:
https://www.thresholdmagazine.pt/2019/07/a-tecnologia-experimental-de-trngs-e.html

HIMERA featured on Ersa Magazine: http://ersamagazine.com/popnotes-penpals-three/

Strachkvas‘ mix of the month on A2larm: a2larm.cz/2018/11/mix-mesice-strachkvas/  

Kagami Smile’s Four Selves reviewed on RA: https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/23134

trngs - 1100

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