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Gray's Underworld

'Watching Dead Empires in Decay’, an album recorded under another of Kirby’s pseudonyms ‘The Stranger’ and released on Modern Love, a label that has been close to Kirby through these last eventful 15 years. It’s a dream album for the label: perhaps the most ambitious of Kirby’s career so far. It’s complex, singular, enigmatic, percussive, dark, and you just can’t work out how it was constructed.

Gone are the sampled 78’s of The Caretaker, but it also doesn't exactly sound electronic - you just can’t quite fathom how any of it was put together: Field Recordings? Found Sounds? Sheets of metal scraped and hammered? Drum machines re-wired? It’s stark and unsettling, haunted, even troubling - but often just beautiful.

The Stranger - So Pale It Shone In The Night

HIDEAWAY ( Original Cut) feat Jeremiah Meece

Algiers - Cleveland -  GAIKA REMIX (Spectacular Empire Dub)

You think the economic situation in the Congo is bad? Wait until you hear about government funded sex abuse in the Korean pop industry. Sell your bong for guns while you still can. The human body is the most effective killing machine ever designed by mother nature and it is unlikely that it is a coincidence that your soul resides in this particular vessel. Is Kim Kardashian a greater global force than juche ideology? You think the economic situation in Greece is bad? Wait until you hear about the working conditions of the peasants who build snowmobiles in the Caucus mountains. Avoid paying child support by converting all your assets to cryptocurrencies (E-mail me and I'll do it for you for 9 percent of gross, 8 percent if converting to Etherium.) Shouts out to the girl on the treadmill in front of me. Wowee!! What's the chemical formulation of fluoride this week? Next chick I see in boot-cut jeans is getting spin kicked in the fucking jaw. How many antique nightstands do you think Jimmy Iovine can buy with the money he's made from releasing compilations of negro spirituals? The primary concern with being a degenerate is that there is always someone who will sink lower. Bring back violence.

did it and got away with it

Are We in Hell Yet?

Produced by TRYP (@nndmtryp)

Includes Streaky, Flies, Shitshow, Black Paint, Hahaha, and You Might Think He Loves You...

YEAR OF THE STREAKY PILLBOX HAHAHA

Amnesia Scanner - Another Life
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No. PAN 96
Release date: 7 September 2018
pre-order album: bit.ly/2JxE61G / bit.ly/2uxWLWx
Video: https://youtu.be/U8Kk3nD2Bh8 

'AS Too Wrong' is the third single revealed from Amnesia Scanner's debut album 'Another Life'. Built around a haunting vocal hook from Oracle it has been already lauded as one of the most infectious doombahton songs of this year. It continues to unveil the distilled vocal heavy sound that is at the center stage of the album.

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Another Life

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Amnesia Scanner - AS Too Wrong (PAN 96)

FC WHITE LABEL

04 RISE + TAN (CHOP + SCREW DUB)

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/regno-maggiore-la-danza-di-sabasaa

@gang-of-ducks

Astroveliero

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Download: Regno Maggiore - La Danza Di Sabasaa

Mastered by @iseeflame
Artwork by TASHA KAPYUSHON (https://www.instagram.com/tashakapyushon/)

Release date:
7 April 2019

D Life

Arca - &&&&&
Format: LP (Special etched vinyl edition) / DL
Cat.No. PAN 100
Release Date: 18 September 2020
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Arca
Fully remastered & first-time release of individual tracks

For anyone who can remember, Arca’s &&&&& was a moment. Its 25-minute stretch of coiling, contorted grime and glitch; dub and hip hop dropped with the buzz of an impending co-production credit on Kanye West’s Yeezus in 2013. It included cuts of sound and beats that were too weird for that pop project, while becoming a piece of experimental art that what would come to define what is by now broadly known as a ‘post-club’ sound. It’s music that is as visceral as it is experimental; made as much for the mind, as it is for the body.

Released with no warning seven years ago, &&&&& became a bridge between Alejandra Ghersi’s time partying and collaborating with her queer peers, while still living in New York to the next stage of her career releasing on Mute in London. She’d go from making beats for rapper Mykki Blanco and fashion label Hood By Air, posting lurching bass reworkings of pop hits on YouTube, and producing her first fluid mixtapes with DIS Magazine, to finishing off this seminal mixtape on the synths in Daniel Miller’s studio.

After dropping three impressive EPs the year before, &&&&& marked a transition. Continuations and extrapolations of material from Stretch 1 and Stretch 2 appeared in the mangled RnB sampling of “Century” and Arca’s signature vocal layering in the pitched flow of “Waste”. Along with the fluttering, muted heartbeat of “Obelisk”, and the lumbering piano chords of “Mother”, fourteen sonic sketches were elegantly woven together into a single, downloadable whole.

As Alejandra’s course turned toward moving to Europe from the United States, &&&&& became a remarkable challenge to the form of the mixtape, which was a relatively new trend taking hold of the online-oriented underground at the turn of the 2010s. But where many, if not most mixtapes where treated simply as a showcase of individual tracks presaging a more ‘official’ release to come, &&&&& was a complete piece in its own right. “I wanted to make something that was my best work,” Alejandra says about a record that has stood the test of time, “I listen to it very fondly today.”

Now, with the lifespan of the Arca project nearing a decade, Alejandra has entered a new era of ‘non-binary pop’ with her fourth album, KiCk i, out on XL Recordings. It’s more important than ever to look back while forging ahead, and &&&&&’s ground-breaking hybrid dance music is a good place to start:

“A sense of possibility, a sense of the unknown; punk attitude, respect for classical music and formality; cyberpunk, anime, sexual tension; trauma, innocence, fear of death; kink, lots of weed, and wanting to connect with people, but not on the terms of a status quo. That kind of sums up &&&&& for me.”

The release is mastered by Enyang Urbiks, with artwork by Jesse Kanda.

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