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Zakè & City of Dawn - "Agape" out now on Azure Vista Records

Limited edition coloured LP and download. Get it here: https://azurevistarecords.bandcamp.com

"On Agape, pioneers of slow-evolving minimal drone, zakè (a.k.a. Zach Frizzel) and City of Dawn (a.k.a. Damien Duque) transform unadorned inputs into beautiful complexity. The drone duo, based in Texas and Indiana respectively, is known for their carefully crafted textures, avoiding sudden shifts or abrasive sororities. Their focus offer up the steady ebb and flow of sound, cultivating a profound sense of meditative stasis and explorations of high-fidelity sound. 

These six extended pieces are organic and minimalist in nature, but has an ethereal, mirage-like quality to them. Somber, yet incredibly uplifting. Agape is the kind of ambient record that refuses to be reduced to mere background music – the harmonic foundation and the details of the soundscapes are too compelling for that. Frizzell and Duque manage to evolve rather simple sonic ingredients into weightless ambient perfection."

Zakè & City Of Dawn - "Once Forgotten"

@Itoa returns to @exitrecords with a suite of fast, funky and acid-dipped genre fusionism

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-itoa-wet-brain

Premiere: Itoa ‘Wet Brain’

7 Weapons Series

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Eddie Beatz - Bong(Howie Lee Edit)

Artwork by Camille
Music video by Lilian Hardouineau

Written/ Composed
& Produced by Inès Cherifi (@icslb)

Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta (www.instagram.com/_allpass/)

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02 Inès Cherifi - Disappear

How To Open a Portal

The Seven Line Prayer To Guru Rinpoche 莲师七句祈请文

Mantra of Buddha Amitayus

Mantra of Buddha Amitayus 长寿佛心咒

Slow Worm

Electronic Music from the Seventies and Eighties

Shing Kee (1986)

Order OHER PEPLE'S CRIMES: www.anaott.bandcamp.com/album/other-peoples-crimes

After ‘Cobraxine’, ‘Boogie Throb’, and the Ana Ott – released ‘Molochville’, Brecht Ameel (Razen/Ameel Brecht) gives us his new album under the Br’lâaB moniker ‘Other People’s Crimes’; a high-on-paranoia, pre-crime-surveillance narrative, constructed after hours in the studio from a combination of Ameel’s own recordings on a widely varied set of instruments, library music, flea-market broken vinyls and old cassettes. Part blind-overdub palimpsest-collage, part straightforward composition, the 10” contains both Br’lâaB’s loop constructions and tracks performed by the found audio phantom band called the Acid Boogie Quartet. Bearing more gritty layers of both sound and subtext than ever, the “Other People’s Crimes” EP stands as an artefact of wild paranoia and spy-thriller sonics, weaving vignettes of surveillance gone wrong, doublethink and confessional echolalia.

Police and thieves are in the streets, running wild with nosebleeds and ill will ids. Dial v for victim as the night horizon broods a neon luminol glow. Howling at the vortex, buried under blindfolds, vigilantes take to crime with fear and ketamines.

Other People's Crimes

Br'lâaB - Dial V for Victim

Xephem Records presents "The Compiler Series"; A collection of short compilations featuring various artists from the Braindance community.
https://xephem.bandcamp.com/album/compiler-level-1

DivBy0 and p1nkf1re
ogie and Kesko
FLX 
NIKE_VOMITA
Tysk Raider
®adår
fxbip
Alex Tannhauser

∑_05E5 / COMPILER LEVEL 1 / XEPHEM RECORDS / OUT NOW

Howie Lee - Island Birdy
Taken from the album Birdy Island, out now
LP/CD/Digital - Mais Um (MAIS042)

"At once fine-grained and expansive, Lee’s work combines traditional Chinese music and historical references with wild electronic experimentation" 
7.6 in PITCHFORK 
"Birdy Island is Lee's most organic work" RESIDENT ADVISOR
Swirling layers of OST-style sound design, dreamy choir vocals and traditional Chinese folk combine across eight dynamic and transportive tracks on Birdy Island, the latest album by Beijing-based producer/artist, Howie Lee, due out in April 2021 on Mais Um. 

Howie’s latest offering is as enchanting as it is boundlessly imaginative. “I’ve always had this concept in my mind about making an album based around an island”. Loosely based around Lee’s own long-formed concept of a floating Sicilian theme park, co-inhabited by both birds and ancestral spirits, Howie remarks: "Birdy Island to me is a palace in the clouds and the birds are worshipped like Gods. Not like a western God though.” Reminiscent of Hayao Miyazaki’s Laputa (in the 1986 film Castle In The Sky), Lee’s Birdy Island has been built by a Chinese investment company seeking to re-sync our relationship with the spiritual and natural world after years of economic collapse and degradation, and who invite Howie to compose the park’s soundtrack. 

On the album’s 2nd single Island Birdy, Lee’s intricate brand of traditional pan-asian exploration meet experimental bass weight sound resurfaces with stripped-back UK Grime sonics and ceremonial taoist music at it’s centrepiece, fusing to create a sound world like no other. Reminiscent of movie or video game soundtracks of decades previous, Island Birdy feels intimate, yet refreshingly unfamiliar. 

From Daoist scripture to 1970s martial arts-themed wuxia novels, Howie’s myriad strands of musical and visual output have often enveloped themes circling modern and ancient Chinese history. Lee’s Socialism Core Value EP series and the dystopian-horror 3D animation for 2017 single Bankers (created and directed by Howie himself), as well as his work with visual artist and video game designer, Teom Chen (the pair have gone on to tour their collaborations across China as part of Lee’s live show), offer a glimpse into the broad social and cultural questions intrinsically entwined throughout his discography.  

Arranged and mixed by Howie Lee
All instruments by Howie Lee (keyboard & prepared piano, yang qin, guitar, bass, drums. percussion, accordion, flute, guan zi + digital instruments)
Choir vocals by Howie Lee, Yehaiyahan, Fishdoll and West by West
Artwork by Coldass @coldass.zhou

www.maisumdiscos.com
www.maisumdiscos.bandcamp.com

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