Aïsha Devi nurtures an idiosyncratic approach to her music. She describes her sound as Aetherave, and uses bassy-heavy club motifs and intentional aesthetic signifiers to transport listeners to a dizzying, kinetic environment, harnessing timeless frequencies. On each record, Devi has advanced her philosophy and developed her technology; her last album 'DNA Feelings' was a radical hybrid of ancient mysticism and rebellious pop, and 'Death is Home' propels listeners towards the extremes, bending fictile beats and cybernetic textures into transformational songs. This eagerly-awaited new album is a livable, breathable sonic essence that reveals itself alchemically, reorienting anachronistic cultural preconceptions with its contemporary, ornate language and eerie architecture.

'Death is Home' is ultimately a manifesto. It's Devi's most revealing work to date and a direct result of her personal evolution and ongoing quest. Growing up under the shadow of isolation and abuse, she formed her practice as a healing method, using it to neutralize her past and recreate an alternate, more hospitable reality - beyond the human condition. 
Her feelings were compounded when she tracked down the whereabouts of her father B.K. Gurung, a Nepali drummer whom she never knew. Devi was informed he had died young, but rather than perceive this as a binary, through mourning, she realized that his existence had already offered her a lifeline and a refuge. 

Devi's words and productions reach out to a place where weightlessness has the power to dissolve the corporeal world's manufactured terror of death. Without this trepidation, life's boundaries and limitations fall away. "Burn the flesh, a Deva's born," she sings over tense, pneumatic kicks on 'Not Defined by the Visible'. Her voice is contorted by electronic processes, but the meaning is human: to reach the holy, we must shed our skin. The narrative that guides the album unfurls with the plasticity of an open-world videogame, a space where one can unravel the dogma of life vs. death. On 'Lick Your Wounds', Devi reveals her deepest trauma, pacifying it with rousing, ritualistic rhythms and melancholic pads. "Vapors of violence remain in my broken bones, intoxicate my DNA," she invokes. "I'll lick my wounds and heal at night. I'll take over." She extends this invitation to anybody tuned in to her signals, providing lodging for those that crave it. Birth is virtual. Death is home.

Death Is Home

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Not Defined By The Visible

AKA HEX - Do The Rite Thing / Hex On Fire
Cat. Nr: DN033
Format: Digital
Release Date: November 22, 2024
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/AkaHex

AKA HEX is a brand new collaboration between Aïsha Devi and Slikback.

Devi has always used her music to look outward, beyond the confines of club music and the avant garde towards a space that's less predictable and far more mysterious. She was born in Switzerland with Nepali Indigenous heritage, and her transversal identity has helped her navigate the underground as not just a producer and vocalist, but as a curator. Co-founding the Danse Noire imprint in 2013, she used that platform to launch her breakout EP 'Hakken Dub / Throat Dub', following it up with the labyrinthine 'Of Matter and Spirit' album in 2015. Devi's interest in sonic alchemy and multi-dimensional expression was further developed on 2018's 'DNA Feelings', coming to an overflowing head with last year's enigmatic 'Death Is Home', which featured a collaboration with none other than Slikback.

Born and raised in Nairobi, Slikback is one of the world's most adventurous producers, taking elements from the wide spectrum of club, noise, ambient and rap musics and forming them into a psychedelic lattice of high intensity sounds and emotions. He's spent 
the last few years prolifically contributing to his canon via his Bandcamp stream, this year compiling the highlights into the frenetic double-LP 'SLIKBACK' – 22 tracks of future-facing, soundsystem-ready experimental club sounds that define his journey so far. 

Together, they synthesize their artistry as AKA HEX, welding kinetic, bass-heavy rhythms to zig-zagging, sci-fi tinged soundscapes and mutant vocals. It's Devi's most dancefloor-focused material in years, and Slikback's most alien to date, bridging the chasm between avant-pop, experimental club and hallucinogenic ambience.

Mastered by Raphael Valensi 
Artwork by nmr.cc

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AKA HEX - Do The Rite Thing

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DRÆG - Killing

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Dark Energy

Guantanamo

Artist: M.E.S.H. 
Album: Hesaitix
Cat.Nr: PAN 82
Format: LP / Digital
Release Date: 10 November 2017

buy: http://p-a-n.org/product/m-e-s-h-hesaitix-pan82/
bandcamp: https://optimate.bandcamp.com/album/hesaitix

Further departing from both the cinematic abstraction of ‘Piteous Gate’ and the hectic drums of ‘Damaged Merc’, Berlin producer M.E.S.H.’s new full-length, ‘Hesaitix’, is marked by its hyper-ornamented rhythms and a sense of pensive, moonlit spaces.

The atmosphere has shifted; the radical deconstruction of previous releases has given way to subtler interventions, building new structures in strange territories. Shifting from the meditative to states of manic unease, Hesaitix is an unnerving injection into both the social space of club music and the interior space of digital audio fantasy.

How did I become so stupid?

A sound can be both formless and over-rendered, like a boneless but fleshy hand from a life drawing class.

What agent could set these broken sounds in motion?

A laugh behind an evil curtain. A drummer that’s cool and grotesque, a detuned siren. A brushfire under a full moon.

Recorded in Berlin and Umbria, Hesaitix sees Janus resident and PAN staple M.E.S.H. firmly engaged in a kind of sonic worldbuilding, a place where the unconscious and the alien intersect.

The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Michael Guidetti & James Whipple.

Hesaitix

M.E.S.H. - Search. Reveal. (PAN 82)

Poise - The Remixes

Forest Coloss (Kablam Remix)

Empty Hell is the second EP from Osheyack for SVBKVLT, containing 3 original tracks plus remixes from KABLAM and Via App. The release was inspired by a text written by Jordan Tierney, and features artwork by Dre Romero. A limited edition, long sleeved shirt featuring the artwork and a back patch with the text will coincide with the release.

Empty Hell

Osheyack - Hidden Teeth

Le Dom is one of the four corners of Paradoxe Club, the Parisian party responsible for some of the most upfront and adrenalin-spiking club material of the last two years. Schism is Le Dom's second EP for the label, and its four ferocious tracks continue the crew's experiments with the "Berite Club" concept: a fusion of homegrown, post-Bangalter loop worship with the global rhythms of grime, ballroom, B'more and kuduro. The whole EP is guaranteed to turn dancefloors to jelly, but 'Primal' is the starting gun – a relentless, three-minute sprint through granite-hard kicks and ragged surfaces that'll leave you out of breath and elated. Look out for the EP on April 5.

@le_dom
@paradoxeclub
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redbullmusicacademy.com

Schism

Le Dom "Primal" [Top Flight with Chal Ravens Premiere]

Taken from SBKT031: 33EMYBW - Arthropods
Release date: 11th October 2019
Art Direction by 33EMYBW
Design by Fang Yang
Mixed and Mastered by Raphael Valensi

For the next release on SVBKVLT we are proud to present ‘Arthropods’, the new album by 33EMYBW. 7 new tracks plus remixes from Hakuna Kulala’s Don Zilla, Hyperdub’s Ikonika and NAAFI’s Lechuga Zafiro.

Arthropods will be released on Friday 11th October. 33EMYBW will be premiering her new live show for the album at Unsound Krakow on the same date.

About Arthropods

The soul is a fragment of a dream, the seed of future and past, evolving infinitely on the Arthropods* Continent. We seek out dreams and catch them, to scrape together the new Adam.

*1 ARTHROPODS： Arthropods is the alienation form of GOLEM*, and there is a soul in each metamere. They can upload, download, and link to each other.

*2 GOLEM：A golem is mythical humanlike figure made from clay and magically able to move on its own. In the Bible, Golem is an unfinished human being, without a soul. Through the process of its own evolution and its makers' experiments, a Golem can contain or generate its own soul. It can appear in different interconnected forms and reproduce itself at will. A golem with a soul, in order to speed up its own evolution, will sometimes supersede or devour the original form of life. The album Golem is inspired from this source.

Arthropods

33EMYBW - Arthropods Continent feat. Li Jianhong

‘S.L.F. Versions’ – a set of cutting-edge radical reworks from Aïsha Devi’s widely-praised EP ‘S.L.F.’

Hotly-tipped Chinese scene stalwart 33EMYBW delivers a thunderous percussion-heavy take on ‘Two Serpents’, and rising Indonesian duo Gabber Modus Operandi overhaul ‘Uupar Theory’ with pummelling kick drums encircling frenzied, swirling synths.

Nordic maverick Varg adds jungle breaks and pitched-down crunch to Devi’s pitched-up ethereal voice, whilst lauded JA collective Equiknoxx Music‘s vibey avant-dancehall version gives shout-outs to Devi from vocalists Gavsborg and Shanique Marie.

In addition to acclaim gained for ’S.L.F.’, over the summer Devi toured extensively, performing at some of the world’s most prestigious and forward-thinking events. At Dark Mofo x Atonal in Hobart, Australia she premiered her new AV show ‘∞E=TRv’ – an innovative collaboration with visual artist MFO using light in space and reflective surfaces. 

Centred around Devi’s transcendence/continuum energy formula and inspired by Planck’s Constant in physics, these special shows have wowed and inspired, as have AV events staged with Emile Barret, and Devi’s solo shows - where audio takes centre stage. 

LIVE DATES

12th Oct – RBMF afterparty @ Stratos, Oslo – Norway / Live A/V
18th Oct – LEV Festival, Madrid @ Matadero – Spain / Live
19th Oct – Simple Things Festival, Bristol – England / Live + VR w/ Pussykrew
08th Nov – Positive Education @ Cite du Design, St. Etienne – France / Live
10th Nov – Les Garages Numeriques @ Beursgebouw, Brussels – Belgium / Live MFO AV
22nd Nov – MUTEK Festival @ Fabrica, Mexico City – Mexico / Live (AV TBD)
07th Dec – Nova Muzak @ Borusan Music House, Istanbul – Turkey / Live AV

1.	Aïsha Devi – ‘Two Serpents’ (33EMYBW Remix)
2.	Aïsha Devi – ‘Uupar-Theory’ (Gabber Modus Operandi Remix)
3.	Aïsha Devi – ‘I'm Not Always Where My Body Is’ (Varg Remix)
4.	Aïsha Devi – ‘The Favor Of Fire’ (Equiknoxx Remix Feat. Gavsborg & Shanique Marie)

S.L.F. Versions

I'm Not Always Where My Body Is (Varg Remix)

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