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［PREMIERE］
Sabiwa 'Dumpling Machine . XP feat. Nathan L.'
Apr. 20 (Thur.) 22:00 GMT+8

Taiwanese-born experimental electronic producer and performer Sabiwa has teamed up with Taipei-based label Over My Body for the release of her latest EP, ‘Dumpling Machine. XP ’. 

Based in the music hub of Berlin, Sabiwa's journey began with the cello at the age of 12, but it wasn't long before she developed a deep fascination with electronic music, sound design, and field recording.

Today, Sabiwa is known for her ability to create complex textures and abstract patterns by dissecting and blending natural and synthetic sounds with unpredictable results. Her live performances are a true audio-visual experience, with Sabiwa curating live visuals that complement her processed vocals and immersive soundscapes.

Beyond the stage, Sabiwa has lent her unique sound to art performances, documentaries, and a wide range of collaborations with other artists and musicians. Her rise in the electronic music industry has been felt globally, with her presence reaching far beyond her current bases in Berlin, Taipei, and Torino.

In the premiered single 'Dumpling Machine . XP feat. Nathan L.', the artist seamlessly blends noises with distinctive  grooves and intricate rhythms, resulting in an unpredictable and dynamic sound that will leave you wanting more. With its complex patterns and textures, this track showcases Sabiwa's mastery of the art of sound design and curation.

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Premiere: Sabiwa 'Dumpling Machine . XP feat. Nathan L.'

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 - Spirit

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KØNY - Keep breathing

Limbo

[Intro]
I don’t beg, I don’t bow, I take what I will.
Step in my shadow — or get swallowed still.

[Verse 1]
You thought you knew control — you learned on borrowed time,
Played your kings and queens, but you missed the sign.
I move like winter, quiet, slow, precise,
Turn your callous heart to ice, roll the dice.
Chains ain’t needed when the mind obeys,
I bend the rules, rewrite your days.
You wanted power? You wanted to break me?
Now I’m the storm — you’re the legacy.

[Pre-Chorus]
Close your eyes, hear the hush before the fall,
I’m not your mercy — I’m your all.

[Chorus]
I’m dominant — not submissive, I am steel, I am will,
Grip tight to the truth while your lungs stand still.
Call my name, or don’t — you’ll follow still,
Bound by my will, yeah — bound by my will.

[Verse 2]
You flip the script, then bankrupt the ink,
Took what was mine, now watch me rethink.
Smiles for the cameras, knives in the dark,
I trace your map and I find the mark.
This is reclaim, not just a game,
I’ll make the night remember your name.
No mercy served — only dues to pay,
You cross the line — you don’t walk away.

[Pre-Chorus]
Pulse in your throat like a warning bell,
I am the verdict, the final spell.

[Chorus]
I’m dominant — not submissive, I am steel, I am will,
Grip tight to the truth while your lungs stand still.
Call my name, or don’t — you’ll follow still,
Bound by my will, yeah — bound by my will.

[Bridge]
Whispers turn to orders, you answer without sound,
You thought you’d lost me — but I’m standing my ground.
This isn’t love, this isn’t mercy — it’s the price you owe,
When you robbed the poor, you didn’t know the foe.

[Breakdown]
Bound. By. My. Will.
Bound. By. My. Will.
No more lies, no more deals — only the silence that kills.

[Final Chorus]
I’m dominant — not submissive, I am steel, I am will,
I’ll take the throne from your thief-stained grill.
Call my name, or don’t — the night is still,
You’re bound by my will, yeah — bound by my will.

[Outro]
You wanted to break me — you only taught me how to win.
Bound by my will… never again.

Bound By My Will

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