Common Tonalities is an exploration of Southeast Asian tuning systems and scales through modern music technologies for the creation of new music.

Presenting 20 new tracks from 20 musicians around Southeast Asia — from a series of workshops led by Khyam Allami.

Learn more about the project here: https://www.goethe.de/prj/nus/en/art/cmt.html

Corin Ileto – Utom Summoning

Keep Looking At The Sun

DAWN016)
100 limited copies
@gargantuang
Produced by Gargantuan Grief
Mastered by @lastrackqlf
Photos by GG and Hajj
Design by @hadji-hajj
Dawn 2022

Gargantuan Grief - The End Is Known

Authentically Plastic - RAW SPACE

"RAW SPACE" is rooted in chaos and chance, sensuality and intensity - it's an album that's able to sound alarmingly freeform and tightly controlled simultaneously. Already established as a genre-disrupting DJ, and even dubbed "demon of the Nile" by Ugandan politicians after an exuberant performance at Nyege Nyege festival in September 2019, Kampala-based sonic hypnotist Authentically Plastic brings a digger's literacy, an activist's intent, and an artist's playfulness to their jagged debut album.

As both a DJ and a producer, Authentically Plastic is drawn to the idea of chance as a creative tool - to push against the idea of the all-knowing genius, and approach artistry instead as a facilitator, unraveling parallel mismatched rhythmic events. Their musical process is to start with chaos, then attempt to mold those fleshy structures into polyrhythmic mutations, pulling influence from East Africa's innovative musical landscape and augmenting it with an exploratory sense of surrealism.

On opening track 'Aesthetic Terrorism', rough-hewn industrial rhythms chug mechanically against course, dissonant synth blasts and acidic arpeggios. There's a faint sparkle of Detroit's chrome-plated Afro-futurism, but bathed in neon light, reflecting Africa's contemporary electronic revolution. Authentically Plastic's productions have a sense of thematic coherence, but their myriad influences are torched into cinders, leaving inverse impressions and ghost rhythms: the tuned overdriven clatter of 'Anti-Fun' echoes Ugandan kadodi modes, yet simultaneously mirrors the rugged out-zone grit of Container or Speaker Music; standout centerpiece 'Buul Okyelo' meanwhile is as rhythmically cross-eyed as Slikback or Nazar, but juxtaposes kinetic dancefloor thumps with chaotic microtonal ritual cycles.

Writing "RAW SPACE", Authentically Plastic found themselves fascinated by sonic flatness. They realized that in Western art, there's an obsession with depth of field that carries into music, robbing it of intensity. The album is an example of the power that can be reclaimed when you let go of depth, letting sounds rub together carnally and spawn something fresh and unexpected

Chaosmos

elation exhilation ep.1 by @ade-de-cerjat

tracklist : 

acopia - work it out
clairo - closer to you
bby eco (@bbyeco) - aero angel
graces ives (@graceives) - baby
palmistry (@palmistry) - my friend
emby matthews (@user-938204534-104655255) - hndlbr
more eaze (@moreeaze) - gentle pets
dean blunt - somalia park
blood orange - i wanna see you
carl gari & abdullah miniawy - hela
king krule - wednesday overcast
voice actor (@voice_actor) - battling dust
yung hurn - slow spook
princess ketamine ft. trans zimmer & estle - tears
tohji ft. mechatok - UFO
olalla.lux (@user-486353892) & hugo calcio (@hugocalcio) - eden
lokey (@lokey-music) - inverse
babii (@babiibabiibabii) - fury 325_w/sv1
clara la san - in this darkness
kllo - cursed
enya - on your shore
organ tapes (@organtapes) - how you will
john glacier - on formulation
emmadj - jplace mon ascenseur
xhl unit (@xhlunit) - caveat
dj charme (@deejaycharme) - leap of faith
rosie lowe & duval timothy - don
sam gendal & antonia cytrynowicz - treasure that i treasure
simili gum (@similigum) - take care (prod. city links)
skrillex, bibi bourelly & sonny moore - don't get too close
shira small - my life's all right

elation exhilaration ep.1 with (dj)ade

Corin - illumina
Odete - Sereia
Lorica/Avbvrn - (Gouge) Vorthron
QOW - Qommetra
Soho Rezanejad - The Impermanence of A Flower
Scotch Rolex, Shackleton & Omutaba - The Three Hands of Doom
Aho Ssan - 05 Hero Once Been (feat. 9T Antiope)
Cryptostegia - If I exist
VISIO - angelo ribelle
ABOsahar - كان ليا صاحب
Qow - Rabsh
Centum/ˈsɛntəm/ - REPAIRED WITH GOLD

ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ

Mursal is a Vienna based performer and DJ. Her background in dance shapes the way she listens to, selects and plays music. Her DJ-sets are ranging from heavy percussions to grainy noisescapes.

https://soundcloud.com/user-950856435-120811061
https://www.instagram.com/mursalheydari/


🌿 ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ꜱᴏɴɪᴄ ᴀɢᴇɴᴄʏ

We stand in global solidarity with the part of our societies that has no part.
We are raising our voice for those who are silenced, unheard and rendered invisible – dehumanised.
We are advocating for peace, justice, equality, and freedom for every human being on this earth.
We protest collectively against oppressive systems and systems based on exploitation, authoritarian regimes, fascist ideologies, and reactionary governments everywhere on this planet. 


…being together, in community

Read the full curatorial statement here
strumandiodine.com/article/sonic-agency/

SONIC AGENCY - MURSAL - "mother there"

A New Beginning Was Born Ext Ver.

Manchester's Daniel Ruane kickstarts his new label Failed Units with four explosive cuts of mangled electronics.

Read more: https://hyponik.com/features/first-listen-daniel-ruane-nest-failed-units/

@failed-units
@daniel-ruane-2

Dawn Of The Failed Units Pt. 1

First Listen: Daniel Ruane - 'Nest' (Failed Units)

@pisitakun @chinabot @elvin-brandhi-1
Read more: pw-magazine.com/2020/premiere-pisitakun-monn-aarchhe-eat-jackaaal-elvin-brandhi-remix

Absolute C.O.U.P.

Premiere: Pisitakun »MONn - AARCHhE - EAT- JACKAAAL Elvin Brandhi Remix)« [Chinabot]

Zulu - Haeyrehsu

Taken from @holysimilaun album Ansatz, out January 29, 2021, via @ooh-sounds.

Read: http://bit.ly/3o7tXNC
Pre-order: http://bit.ly/3931yEd

Following the aphex-blessed En-To-Pan and the recent ep Hegenrax [OOH-014] Holy Similaun goes further in its intimate and personal musical discourse with Ansatz [attempt / approach] to investigate uncertainty and the mutation of our "safe spaces”.

Extremely dilated fades, intermitted structures, massively warped voices, blasting industrial distortions and gaming sound effects populate the synthetic environments of a not-necessarily dystopian post-something, multifaceted and porous.
The feel is that of a soundtrack for a present future, inspired to the narrative naivety of anime.

Holy Similaun seems to frame its attention on the matter between and around standard musical objects—rhythm, melody to name two— overturning normal hierarchies and apparently reorienting the listeners towards the scenery rather than the ‘action’. The voids, the gaps, the structural falls and the physical impact of sounds are the core of that "negative space" in constant change.

Ansatz leaves a sense of the unfinished—distant ambient mutant techno echoes in a Neo-Tokyo-3 soundscape.

Artwork by Nicolo' Cervello
https://www.instagram.com/transverseorientation/

Mastering by Rupert Clervaux

Released by OHH-sounds

Ansatz

Premiere: HOLY SIMILAUN - Fluctus [OOH-sounds]

Club explorations from the East African and Congolese Electronic Underground and beyond.

Chaosmos

HAKUNA KULALA

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