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@cupocupo - Armor EP
[PAYNOMINDTOUS, PNMTU004, out Dec. 3rd, 2021]

CupoCupo is a duo of musicians hailing from Bergamo, Italy, presenting their second work after the debut ‘Hypermetabolism’ EP out earlier this year on the US label @wearetar. Coming with an album cover by the Italian visual artist eurasiandesert [https://instagram.com/eurasiandesert/] and an official two-sided A5 300 gr. cardboard artwork print, the 4-tracker release is a coherent, eventful episode of knife-edge post-club hybridization, a treasury of outstanding sound design skills, vicious bass handling, and rhythmical obsessivity.

The centerpiece of their work is extensive vocal manipulation, employing voice chops with the role of primary composition tools within the multi-faceted pieces rich in heavy kick drums, snappy percussions, and gurgling vibrations. Drawing influence from contemporary electronic genres as well as free-form experimental music, the EP is closed by a trancey, grandiose rework of the opening track Yerro curated by the influential artist @galentipton (she/they), and a somber, pitch-black remix by Italian-based composer and producer @shevsmachine (she/her).

With ‘Armor’, CupoCupo hand out explosions of shattered sounds cramming themselves in turbulent flows of energy, where self-perception is challenged, strength is tested, and certainties are dismantled. Sealed lips utter red-hot rants oscillating from burning outbursts of chaos to sudden clarity. Tragic voices sing penetrating ballads for wandering bodies, waiting for their destiny to manifest and vehemently start opposing it. Light comes with darkness, and anything can be worth struggling for. CupoCupo’s outings are nothing but heartfelt testimony that brighter times are yet to come. Or not. 

01-04: Produced and mixed by CupoCupo. 05-06 remixed by Galent Tipton and SHE/MACHINE, respectively. Mastering by @wimdehaen. Artwork and flyer design by eurasiandesert.

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Releasing music under both her given name and “recovery girl” Ohio native @galentipton has been recognized by the likes of Iggy Pop, David Byrne, Rebecca Black, Adult Swim, Anthony Fantano, 100 Gecs, and Dorian Electra. She has released numerous projects on Orange Milk Records, Deskpop, and Unseelie, and most recently her song “tadpoles lullaby” has gone viral on Tik Tok. in all her work whether it be pop, club, or sound collage her focus is finding the connective tissue between the challenging and the accessible, always with a strong sense of play.

Armor

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CupoCupo - Yerro (Galen Tipton Remix)

Skyrim 2

Chants of the Spooks Ep
https://soundcloud.com/ttristanafkap6r6r6k
https://soundcloud.com/dj-pacifier
https://soundcloud.com/acabrookie

released February 18, 2022

Artwork by Jeanne Gilbert
www.instagram.com/janomax/
Mastering by Gaspard Hers
www.instagram.com/gaspard_hers/

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DJ Pacifier - Anthems For A Seventeen-Year Old Girl (Broken Social Scene RMX)

Hatsune Miku kept Riddim【C rystal castles Guitar】

"Chemins Secondaires" is extract from Quanta Records’ third release, Correspondances, a mini LP by αίών (aeon) that combines experimental techno, ambient and musique concrète elements.
The tracks of the album communicate through similar sounds, noises and rhythmic patterns. But while atmospheres diverge, there is a constant exchange from cold and industrial to solar and melodious so as to form a complex and balanced ensemble.
αίών’s has placed randomness at the centre of his creative process. Computing and random programming have allowed the artist to explore new structures and to no longer simply consider a glitch as an error, but rather as a primal source of novel sound.
The outcome is a collection of sinuous and contemplative Correspondances that aims at contorting the listener’s subjective experience of time.

Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering
Design by @atroistudio (www.atroistudio.com)

Correspondances (QR003)

αίών - Chemins Secondaires (QR003 - B2)

This is my own arrangement of Julie Fowlis' "The Mo Ghaol Air Aird a' Chuan" featuring myself on whistle.

Tha Mo Ghaol Air Aird a'Chuan

Imagine yourself in a lush valley full of fragrant flowers, crystal clear ponds, and the occasional small waterfall. Bliss and peace reign in this beautiful paradise surrounded by majestic mountains.

Glen of Dreams

@bleedingheart666

Artwork by Thomas de Rijk
Typeface by Christophe Synak
Mastering by @inkmidget

On The Brink Of Defeat

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BLEEDING HEART - Cut By Thorns

[HEEL002] KROLIK – EPIPHANY

"Epiphany" is a moment of realization, so big it signifies the dusk of Krolik's path, finally complete, long awaited. So these last remnants stand testimony of the ever flowing state of things and its never ending evolution. It's a set of heavy bass, chopped samples and cheesy melodies infused with a touch of irony that set the surroundings for a sweet ending, seeding a new beginning, as the ears become the beak.

Edition of 200 copies on transparent red vinyl, with a silk-screen print on the PVC sleeve.
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released October 3, 2019

Recorded, Mixed, Mastered (only digital version) and Produced by Krolik
soundcloud.com/voronhil
Graphic design by Gianluca Lonigro
www.gianlucalonigro.net
Produced by HEEL.ZONE

© 2019 HEEL.ZONE RECORDS
www.heel.zone | heel.records@gmail.com

EPIPHANY

KROLIK - HARD CRASH

Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek 'Elephant'
Posh Isolation 231

preorder : 
https://poshisolation.bandcamp.com/
http://poshisolation.net/
The combined forces of Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek first found a way into the world in 2017 with the album 'Buy Corals Online'. Together they now present 'Elephant', an eight-track album that composes an inquisitive space with its parts.

The economy of movement across Rahbek and Valentin's new collaborative album makes for a gentle transmission of its abstract intimacies. This presence, which we caught glimpses of on their previous work 'Buy Corals Online', is shaped by the delicate interplay between acoustic instrumentation and synthetically rendered sounds. Hauntingly melodic at times, the album feels like a suite of uncanny lullabies that grant access to realities that can only be found in dreams. Rahbek and Valentin are always leading us somewhere and showing us something—one piece of the scene at a time, coming and going with different parts of a puzzle that eventually settles into a complete form. And through all this we perceive an inviting restlessness on their behalf, encouraging us to stray further and further into the private space of 'Elephant'.

Valentin is perhaps best known for his work in the exquisite atypical pop group Kyo, though his wide- reaching music and videography practices covertly underpin his flagship projects. Most recently, Valentin has been working with Yung Lean as both producer on his 'Nectar' album as Jonatan Leandoer127 as well as on their commission for Sweden's Cullberg Ballet. As Croatian Amor, Rahbek has made similar forays into unworldly pop and his work with Christian Stadsgaard as Damien Dubrovnik has been as critical as their co- founding of Posh Isolation.

Modest interventions from processed field-recordings and semi-erupting synths invite you to zoom in enough to hear the human hand. An attention to listening, to how sounds cradle the small movements and gestures that naturally accompany the playing of guitar, piano, and viola, is acutely developed by Rahbek and Valentin. It's in this way that 'Elephant' persuades us that even small stories unfurl into the most intricate and tremendous of sagas.

Tracklist

1. Solina 03:35
2. Touch And Vision 04:22
3. Scarlett 08:05
4. In Waves ft. CTM 03:17
5. Call Me By My True Names 02:45
6. Sense World 03:42
7. The Heart Of Things 05:31
8. Elephant 03:40

Mixed by Nikolaj Nielsen 
Mastered by John Hannon 
Posh Isolation 231 
28th February 2020

Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek - Scarlett

Proud to present my 2nd place of the Film Scoring contest - Score The World. Over 300 composers worldwide entered this scoring competition. So I'm really proud! Follow the link to see the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY3-9jgLisc

Score The World film scoring contest - 2nd place winner!

Score The World Film Scoring contest - 2nd place winner!

Released on m_division's compilation 'Unity'
Profits from the sale go to supporting cancer patients affected by COVID-19 in Russia.

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https://advita.ru/
https://mdivision.bandcamp.com/releases

Mastered by Aleksandr Matlakhov
Released June 25, 2020

SKY H1 ft. Soho Rezanejad - Animal

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