@isabarb & @anton-lambert combine on 'Tombola 37' for the third instalment of @m0ntage's conceptual compilations series 'Referential Irony'.

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Premiere: Inferior Design & Lambert - Tombola 37

Holding the tension of opposites is a theme running throughout the work of Angelo Harmsworth, and the six pieces comprising Vent are certainly no exception. Inspired by the different and oftentimes clashing forces comprising our weather systems, the New Mexico-born but now Berlin-based musician and producer envisioned his “compositions as micro-ecologies,” wherein “powerful waves push off one another.” The patterns emerging from this captivating music represent some of Harmsworth’s most complex to date. Swells of foreboding frequencies and jarring maximalist textures may bear down on listeners, yet an undercurrent of bliss–so deeply submerged it borders on the subliminal–manages to infuse even the most tumultuous moments of Vent with a calming groundedness.


And also like the climate, especially in the age of the Anthropocene, this cassette unfolds in ways that are profoundly unpredictable. An artist known for his ability to span the divides separating underground noise, sound design, ambient and industrial, Harmsworth ensures that each successive piece makes a radical break from what preceded it. This quality becomes particularly apparent when contrasting sides. The nearly harsh-noise, distortion-charged moments punctuating Side A are nowhere to be found on Side B, which reveals moments of vast, spectral beauty that reflect his roots in the desert landscapes of the American Southwest.


Of course, this kind of sonic breadth only comes with experience, of which Harmsworth has plenty. Steadily recording and releasing experimental music since the early 2010s, he has worked with some of the sub-underground’s stand-out imprints, including Angoisse, Bathetic Records, Total Black, and Opal Tapes. Placed in the context of his impressive catalog, Vent can be seen as both a continuation of what came before and a bold new development.



Angelo Harmsworth is a musician & sound artist whose works tends to fluctuate between austerity and decadence. Currently based in Germany, he has been published by a network of experimental labels in addition to his own imprint, Lime Lodge.

releases July 26, 2022

Recorded by Angelo Harmsworth
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Artwork by Angelo Harmsworth
Design by RJM Vanderheyden
Text by Justin Farrar

VENT

ENXPL15- ANGELO HARMSWORTH - A1. AEROSOL

Toxe - The Story of Leonora (OST)
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 127
Release Date: 17 February 2023
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/TheStoryofLeonora

The Story Of Leonora (OST) is the seventh edition of PAN’s Entopia soundtrack series. The first original score by Toxe, the album accompanies a short film of the same name by Clemens Stumpf and Cleis Vandam. Serving as an extended version of the original score, the new release from Toxe additionally presents audio yet unheard by viewers of the film. Created in 2020 between Berlin and Amsterdam, The Story of Leonora is released today as a 10track album and a limited edition sliding puzzle designed by Emir Timur Tokdemir.

The album ebbs and flows while retaining the individuality of certain moods–– sometimes ominous, often innocent. Recalling an elementary introduction to the world, Toxe draws inspiration from sounds sourced in daily life: the clicking of high heels, birds and humming machines. Cascading echos and short breaths merge with delicate synths and incomprehensible human mumble. The simplicity of these elements are distilled to their core, evoking the naïveté of the world to an alien perspective, while maintaining sonic sophistication throughout.

Written, produced & mixed by Tove Agelii 
Mastered by Rashad Becker 
Film direction & photography by Clemens Stumpf and Cleis Vandam
Puzzle design by Emir Timur Tokdemir

Toxe - The Story Of Leonora (OST) (PAN 127)

A @deardogs debut finds @apulati-bien at his most fluid and amorphous.

Following notable incursions on footwork and dancehall zones, new EP ‘Non Masse’ marks a departures into new ambient realms. Spatialised, probing sound designs ranging from percolating to vaporous. 

Our pick, ’Seeder’, floats in on a dense, widescreen cloud. The kind of ambient emission that resonates with the explorative nature of earlier Apulati releases.

'Non Masse' is out March 24th on Deardogs.

Pre-order: deardogs.bandcamp.com/album/non-masse

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Premiere: Apulati Bien - Seeder [Deardogs]

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ALL TRACKS WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY FLORENT HADJINAZARIAN IN ST FONS, FRANCE.
INSPIRED AND DEDICATED TO "MELANCHOLIA DER ENGEL"
MASTERING BY DANIEL MUMBERSON
DESIGN BY MON


Bringing on the cold rush, seven tracks, all 3:33 long, Hajj’s sound is among the most distinctive in his field on ‘No Soul, No God, No Devil, No Existence’. Influenced by Marian Dora's 2009 film 'The Angels' Melancholia', the album is perhaps best defined by the stark negative ecstasy of its highlight ‘Drag Me Into the Void’, presenting Hajj as a master of collage-like structure, in possession of a compelling grasp of atmosphere. It stands out from much of the contemporary french music we’re aware of for its oblique rejection of club muscularity in favour of more unusual, weightless pressure and suggestively gestural arrangements. That’s not to say it’s not ripe for certain moments in the club, it just doesn’t give them readily.

Beginning like Biosphere doing dankest road rap with DJ Lostboi (anyone checked that Nedarb cut lurking on Æ’s Bandcamp purchase list yet?) in ‘Our Lady of Darkness’, he holds an immaculately dark-but-lush appeal from the K-hole nightmare of ‘Loosing U 4 Ever’ to the cosmic plangency of ‘Vox Tenebrae’, meting out discomfiting intro rap like a fantasy Croww x Ronce in ‘Heaven’s Calamity’, and like Spectre x Pan Daijing in ‘Do U Remember Bein Born’, while his ear for saliva-inducing textures comes to fruition on the voyeuristic vortex of ‘Burning Illusions’, perfectly distilling the cold rush on an original mix of the glorious ‘Drag Me Into the Void’.

Vox Tenebrae

Loosing U 4 Ever

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Eminent Availability (Obscura) / Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (Anima)

Kamil Dossar - Eminent Availability (Obscura)

I've had this extremely minimalist patch on my rack for about a week now, so I had to record it today before I took out the patch cables. 

Bass sequenced by DualTM and everything else sequenced by Pigeons on O&C hemispheres firmware. Pamela's Pro Workout on the clocks. Using the MengQi DPLPG on the low pass gate action.

This more accurately showcases what the Campestria Versio firmware is capable of. Campestria Versio is doing both reverb and distortion on a 2hp Osc in this demo. Another 2hp Osc is on bass duty. The only other effects module used was Mutable Clouds on the 2hp Pluck.

77 (Another Rough Campestria Versio Demo)

Taken from 'Deserted / Reclaimed'(G&P015), out September 16, 2020

With a handful of releases out on various pioneering imprints (including longplays RISC Chip and Meme Booth via Conditional Records or the latest contribution to the groove series by Warsaw based label outlines), the producer, programmer and live-coder Mike Hodnick is one of the leading figures representing a movement of computer-centred music production, recently labeled as algorave. Since we are devoted fans for quite some time, the Platonic's are proud to present Mike Hodnick´s latest project under the prolific Kindohm alias - 'Deserted / Reclaimed'.
Sequenced live on a drum machine, the diptych stretches across four vast sonic plains, bounded by curvy dunes formed by countless TidalCycles code bits, constantly pouring over like the grains of scorching and shiny sand. Full of paradoxical rhythm twists planted into the ever-bending landscape, Deserted / Reclaimed reads as a fragmented and sometimes petrifying ride towards the chaotic percepts of the monumental surroundings, dissolving in the thermal inversion somewhere far on the horizon.

Written, produced & mastered by Mike Hodnick
www.kindohm.com
@kindohm

Artwork by Jiri Macku
jirimacku.tumblr.com

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Deserted / Reclaimed

Digital & Cassette

Kindohm - Reclaimed 2

ccontrary pits angular club structures against yearning woodwind on Mun Sing's Illegal Data imprint.

'Illegal Data Compilation #2' is out February 26th.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2ZpwAQR

@ccntrr
@illegaldata

Premiere: ccontrary - Gasp [Illegal Data]

Honcho of @dawnrecords and @souffrancefm
1/3 of @one_legacy
Lost pilgrim with an internet address
florenthadjinazarian@gmail.com

Vox Tenebrae

HAJJ

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