Taken from SBKT049: Osheyack - Intimate Publics
Release date: 8th June 2022

Intimate Publics, Osheyack’s second album, is an homage to Shanghai, the city he has called home since 2012. Over the past ten years the producer has evolved from an avid club-goer to a key member of the vital soundscape that emerged from ALL Club and its predecessor, the now defunct club The Shelter. As hinted by the title, which draws on American social theorist Michael Warner’s work on publics and counterpublics, the album expresses a commitment to mining the utopian potential of club music, forging new worlds and generating future social relations, just as the artist bids farewell to the city at a moment of uncertain transition. While tracks like 'Edging' and 'Thrall' continue to present his signature collage of harder club music, the rest of the record reveals a shift to synthetic approximations of acoustic instruments. 'Still', the central track of the album, is a piece composed almost entirely of samples found on Vocaloid (a vocal synthesizer developed by Yamaha, commonly used to give voice to Japanese virtual idols). While echoing themes explored in previous projects, like the nature of realism and authenticity in a techno-mediated landscape, Intimate Publics is charged with an unexpected emotional candor and vulnerability, unveiling a personal side Osheyack is only beginning to explore.

Words by Alvin Li
Artwork by Xiaofei Qiu
Design by Luke Griffiths
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Intimate Publics

Osheyack - Still

Taken from SBKT057: mmph - Harvest

Release date: 26th April 2023

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It's been five years since Korean-born, Los Angeles-based sound designer and composer Sae Heum Han, aka mmph, released his last EP Serenade on the Tri Angle label in flurry of activity. "Harvest" arrives after an unintentional pause; three years ago, Han was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that immediately changed his priorities. Bedridden and exhausted from medication, he was only able to work on music for around an hour each day - the rest of his time was swallowed by rest and precarious trips to hospital in the midst of a global pandemic. Now in remission, Han looks back on this period as a time of emotional evolution where the ideas behind "Harvest" could be unravelled. The album emerges from his desire to reconnect with the Korean music he heard when he was growing up in Seoul, using these discernible timbres as building blocks to decorate with his advanced palette of electronic sounds and processes.

Han's music has always balanced precariously between the rigor of classical training and the relative open-endedness of electronic experimentation. This duality is still present on "Harvest", but Han's canvas has widened slightly. He continues to blur the line between the traditional and the modern, emulating and mirroring Korean instruments with synthesizers and sound design elements, and blending them with acoustic sounds and live percussion samples. But where his previous records and scoring work highlighted his ability to weave baroque forms into tight, contemporary sonic tapestries, this album adds the drama, yearning and spirituality of folk. On 'Dialogue' for example, pitch-warped traditional vocals twist through an ensemble of bizarre future-ancient sounds; fluttering strings dissolve into spiked percussive barbs and synthesized wails cut through walls of industrial noise.

'Spirit' follows quickly, coaxing listeners into a trance state with its flurry of microtonal string plucks and irregular percussion. Han is a master of breath control, letting his brief moments of negative space interrupt any expected regularity and guide the track away from electronic music's expected grid. This just about prepares the ground for the title track, a labyrinthine maze of dramatic compositional motifs and dizzying sonics that mutates from gugak forms into a cacophony of pneumatic blast beats before snapping back. From here the album lurches towards the dancefloor for a moment, absorbing and contorting cantankerous club rhythms on 'Avnue' and 'Moon Jar', slowing to a crawl on 'Harvest II'. Despite hijacking its theme from the title track's blast beat section, it transforms into a ballad, acting as a fittingly tearjerking finale.

The record is rounded off by a trio of remixes that draw Han further into the SVBKVLT family. Egyptian producer ABADIR chops up 'Harvest' and reassembles it into a jerky banger, extracting its dancefloor potential and evolving hardstyle thuds into spectral concertina flexes. 'Moon Jar' meanwhile is turned into twitchy trance by Shade Seoul's NET GALA, and Yen Tech stitches together 'Avnue' and 'Dialogue', creating an anxious backdrop that shuttles mmph's android folk to the modern metropolis.

Artwork by Sae Heum Han
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Harvest

mmph - Harvest (ABADIR Remix)

Locre (@locr3)

Locre is a Russian music producer currently based in Istanbul. In his music, Locre channels his innermost feelings and emotions, expressing them through a blend of genres such as Club, Grime, and Bass. His work is a continuous exploration of the balance between light and darkness, creating a unique and captivating sound that draws listeners in.

Ice_Eyes(@ice_eyes)

Athens based duo Ice_Eyes formed in 2012. They started producing leftfield electronic music forms and experimenting with modern club territories, techniques, and atmospheres. Since 2022, Ice_Eyes has become a solo project by Anastasios Tatsis.

Their music has been remixed/reformed from emblematic artists like ZULI, Renick Bell, Gallen Tipton, ABADIR to mention a few, while their material is featured frequently in DJ sets/Radio shows by Lee Gamble, ZULI, HELM, Szare, Endgame, Graham Dunning, Bapari, Lawson Benn (Public Order), Meuko Meuko and more.

Currently Ice_Eyes hosts a monthly show on Movement Radio Athens, while during the last years the Greek producer has recorded many shows on NTS, Threads Radio, Rinse France, Noods Radio, Ma3azef Radio (Tunis, Cairo), HKCR amongst others.

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Exhalation is the debut compilation of ÖÖÖ, which embodies the label's main theme of "Primitive Future". The concept captures the essence of a universal cycle that encompasses physical and spiritual elements for generating life, intelligence, and emotion. It speaks to the movement of life forms in all their subtlety or grandeur, from humans, creatures to planets, from unknown beings to unpredictable happenings. Exhalation is rooted in the origin of natural orders and chaos since time immemorial.

Participated artists are crossing different continents of the earth - SÁCCEA (@sacce4), Aestum (@aestum), e6c41 (@e6c41), Iva Peralta (@ivaperalta) Ylateau (@ylateau), Anh Phi (@anh_phi), Locre (@locr3), Ice_Eyes (@ice_eyes), Azelsgöattii (@goattii), Toby Davis (@toby_davis), Klusā Daba (@klusa_daba).

The artists developed their envision of the theme through different sonic landscapes - from futural energy paradise, turbulent apocalypse earth cracks, cult incantation from posthuman tribes, the nirvana of subconscious struggles, to oracle lights and dreamlike chants that heal wounds... Any possibilities are expected as artists will tell a consistent story of Exhalation together with their unique perspectives.

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Track 8, mixed by Owlt.
Mastered by Nicolas Castelli.
Cover artwork by Peter Schwarz.

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ÖÖÖ is growing in a primitive future. 

www.ooolandscape.com
www.instagram.com/o.o.o._landscape

Ice_Eyes, Locre - Limen

Thirty-second Cime show on @radio80000 w/ @riedelchristoff

FAKETHIAS - milky - just the way you are (cover) 
k2dj - remember 
Poem - 7
rensgo - MTG - FLAUTINHA MAGICA BOTANDO AS ELFINHA PRA SENTAR 2 
sim fane - sunlight
DORIS - when you wanna put it in a song and it goes lik 
tuna - unreleased 
Diony Lake - Blister 
bp iv - Pocket of Folded Comets 
Vertigo Stellar - unreleased 
4D:8K_GUARDEDTRIPZ - é un
Ein - 1q _ eol _
Christoff Riedel - unreleased 
jak2 - Anti-Volume (Healer✠Tank)
Voronhil - ACT05_PART08 - BOXED IN 
YOE - spiney 
Gideo - Off_5 
erdo - lights off +harvest
Infant - lark (shovel)
Teni - No Days Off
NAVO- In The End
aeria - Habemus Matrem 
Gibby - We Will Meet Again
Betty Hammerschlag - Siebling 
Dj Deejay, Joe - unreleased 
HÉRISSÉ - Rites from the Tome 
Ship Sket - Memeflip [Time Eclipse]
TRYCE - Fossil Fluid 
MURDER CLUB - CATCH THAT MOTHERFUCKER [SONIC.EXE DISS]      
Veronika Paleeva / Ivy - pt.1
Karlfroye, Kimberlaid, Talita Otović - Lucent Theme 
Babeo Baggins - Things I Forgot To Do (feat. Drake)
Vertigo Stellar - unreleased
tau contrib - unreleased 
Swoopy - ampelmann ft spira me (opal) 
bdstf - What Is He?
1x333 - ☹︎

Artwork by https://www.instagram.com/vertigooooo/

Cime w/ Christoff Riedel on Radio 80000 (June, 20th, 2023)

Chenso – the second single from the upcoming QUAVIS project Layers. Full release 2nd February 2024.

Artwork by Ludwig Wandinger

Layers

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Quavis – Chenso

Emotional Soup - juste hervée invite Maya Fortune (Mai 2024)

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Lazee Luq - Darkcide

Dogma - Demo clip

Mad Hatter's talk Dr Kdr Music

Punishing remix of @iceboy_violet FOTL from @leoproducer, free DL!

functioning on the low (leo remix)

Ship Sket

Mima's Theme

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