SIM CARD HØLDER is not a band. It is the hybrid child of Ian Bruner, Drone Operatør and Gajek. Its procreation date is hard to pin down, but it started 2020 with an Insta chat and one of Ian's piano improvisations recorded in his Colorado living room. From there the album grew in separated covid lockdown wombs at three different locations in Germany. Ian's shadowy instrumentation of light piano and heavily layered and long believed to be dead soundscapes were digested, replanted and grown-over by Drone Operatør's and Gajek's uncompromising and individual sense for song structures and sounds. When finally all body parts were assembled in early 2021 the baby was already fluent in different languages.

Sim Card Hølder grows slowly while meandering through dense and open fields. It switches from calm and dreamy moods to wild fractured outbursts without fragmenting into the arbitrary. A raw spiritual power keeps every part connected and in perfect motion. Each song is a portal into multiple universes that suck you in on thick piano carpets, sharp saxophone spikes and buzzing quadcopter wings, warming insect intestines, blasting raw drums and slow healing winds, screeching synth rhymes, dissonant orchestral tales and floating blue melodies. It’s a demanding ride but thoroughly deeply relaxing. The perfect soundtrack to rewind your mind.

Music by SIM CARD HØLDER

Artwork by Mario Miron

Mastered by Kevin McPhee (East End Mastering)

Releasing on Blueberry Records, October 29th, 2021.

Sim Card Hølder

SIM CARD HØLDER - dronepilot (composed by Drone Operatør & Ian Bruner)

From forthcoming release 'araw' EP (December 10 2021)
Artwork: Wei Huang

Vinyl Preorder:
https://music-corin.bandcamp.com/

Vinyl Preorder

Solis

Blightcaster - s/t
Cat. Nr: DN023
Format: DL
Release Date: October 21, 2022
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/blightcaster 

An anonymous duo split up by border control between Melbourne and London, with an axe to proverbially grind. Blightcaster takes its name from Magic: The Gathering but its affinity with the fantasy trading card game stops there. Or that’s at least if you think fantasy can’t also be a nightmare. The mostly recorded, rarely live noise, gorenoise, power electronics, hardstyle (etc.) band began in the dank privacy of a southeast London basement in 2016, before being cut short by an expired visa and a return to Australia for one of its members.

A handful of years and a global pandemic later, the two had the opportunity to finish their work remotely, sending files between countries and ruminating on the rotten core of a world that has only gotten rottener. Tracks like “Hymns from the Slaughterhouse”, “Disgraced Species” and “Devastator Slug” wheeze, croak and crackle with swells of extreme distortion. “Mind Unleashed” and “Weaponised Banter” offer a pounding though heavily degraded gabber in a barely melodic turn that you would never detect in the goregrind comparison of a band like Last Day of Humanity or Agents of Abhorrence’s contemporary grindcore.

Recorded using whatever they had with limited skills, Blightcaster is the no-fi product of sessions with a broken laptop, cracked software, a cheap synth and buggy contact mic. And while the duo’s own nihilism denies having a message, you might make one out in the blood-curdling shrieks and crunching beats of “Miserable, Mediocre, Nothing”. If ‘inspired' is the wrong word to use, Blightcaster are at least informed by the likes of labels like Self Abuse, Blood 'n' Guts, Head Fuck and Shit Wank Records. There are samples from survival horror games like Manhunt and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, but also from the meme zeitgeist; such as the 'Small, Angry Man Yells at Trumpet Player' youtube video. This is the sound of life in the crumbling hell-realm of reality, where ruin and plague meet magic. 

Mastering by Rashad Becker
Design by Niels Wehrspann
Artwork image by @clochefolle
Blightcaster logo by @rotten_realm

Blightcaster

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Blightcaster - Mind Unleashed

the b-side of 
https://soundcloud.com/lumaline/sets/atrophy

https://atrophy.neocities.org/
https://lumalinemusic.com/

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afrozenmemory:ventrali

Chill tunes and Open Space ambience imaginations with wide synth panorama

Deep Space Tells - Warp Space Tension

https://cosmicleaf.gr/releases/581/emotional-ambient
https://cosmicleaf.bandcamp.com/follow_me
https://www.patreon.com/cosmicleaf
https://cosmicleaf.gr/playlists
https://cosmicleaf.gr/tag/63/free-download/releases


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Psychill Blossom 🌸 Псайчил / псайбиент / Psybient
https://www.submithub.com/link/psychillblossom
Psychill Blossom is a vibrant journey through psychedelic chillout, psybient, and downtempo soundscapes. Blending ethereal melodies and deep grooves. Let the music guide you beyond the ordinary. #Psychill #Downtempo #Psybient


Dedast - Human Production Line

S S S S - This Terrible Virtue Of Forgiveness (GIL Remix)

“Vivi’s Meadow” by @mangbg is the first track from @katharsislabel 's debut compilation "The Flow of Water" out on the 21st of May

Pre-order: https://katharsis-label.bandcamp.com/releases
Read more: https://soulfeederweb.com/blog/premiere-mang-vivis-meadow/

[Premiere] Mang – Vivi’s Meadow

July 27th, 2020
JWR036
Ace Cav-Drug Clown EP

https://soundcloud.com/ice-cavity
https://acecav.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ace__cav/
https://twitter.com/icecavity

Mastered by SIM
Artwork by phhhyu
Ace Cav logo by https://www.instagram.com/whavvel/

Ace Cav - Mansion

@m1ssjay @queriastarmorta @ashidapark @antoniaxm @amblio
Read more: pw-magazine.com/2020/premiere-miss-jay-vocal-experimentation-odete-remix

Distorted Reality

Vocal Experimentation (Odete Remix)

Premiere: Miss Jay »Vocal Experimentation (Odete Remix)« [Ashida Park]

After self-releasing a 2 track single in 2020, Barcelona based producer SLTR starts off the year with a four track EP on Aizkora. 

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/sltr-sw-3

S S S S - This Terrible Virtue Of Forgiveness (GIL Remix)

Haunter Records

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