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Billy Bultheel - The Arcades Project (Snow Cycle)
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 138S1
Release Date: 09 February 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/TheArcadesProject

Billy Bultheel shares 'The Arcades Project (Snow Cycle)', the first single from the upcoming full-length album 'Two Cycles' out via PAN on March 8th.

Written for Trackers by Billy Bulheel / IXVEUTAI by Sophocles, directed by M. Marmarinos at the Ancient Amphitheater of Epidaurus, 2021

Played by Spyros Vergis and Menelaos Moraitis
Recorded by Ilias R. Flammos at Antart Studios, Athens, 2022

Mixed by James Ginzburg
Mastered by Enyang Urbicks

Billy Bultheel - The Arcades Project (Snow Cycle) (PAN138S1)

Faith In Strangers’ was written and produced between January 2013 and June 2014, and was edited and sequenced in late July this year. Making use of on an array of instruments, field recordings, found sounds and vocal treatments, it’s a largely analogue variant of hi-tech production styles arcing from the dissonant to the sublime. The first two tracks recorded during these early sessions bookend the release, the opener ‘Time Away’ featuring Euphonium played by Kim Holly Thorpe and last track ‘Missing’ a contribution by Stott’s occasional vocal collaborator Alison Skidmore who also appeared on 2012’s ‘Luxury Problems’. Between these two points ‘Faith In Strangers’ heads off from the sparse and infected ‘Violence’ to the broken, downcast pop of ‘On Oath’ and the motorik, driving melancholy of ‘Science & Industry’ - three vocal tracks built around that angular production style that imbues proceedings with both a pioneering spirit and a resonating sense of familiarity. Things take a sharp turn with ‘No Surrender’- a sparkling analogue jam making way for a tough, smudged rhythmic assault, while ‘How It Was’ refracts sweaty Warehouse signatures and ‘Damage’ finds the sweet spot between RZA’s classic ‘Ghost Dog’ and Terror Danjah at his most brutal. ‘Faith in Strangers’ is next and offers perhaps the most beautiful and open track here, its vocal hook and chiming melody bound to the rest of the album via the almost inaudible hum of Stott’s mixing desk. It provides a haze of warmth and nostalgia that ties the nine loose joints that make up the LP into the most memorable and oddly cohesive of Stott’s career to date, built and rendered in the spirit of those rare albums that straddle innovation and tradition through darkness and light.

Damage

zonedout - WEBCORE TRACK 402 (prod. phntmzn bR)

Preorder the album

Fatima Al Qadiri - Battery - Taken From 'Brute', Released 4th March 2016

Taken from Betonkust & Palmbomen II - "Center Parcs EP", out on cassette and digitally 26 February 2016.

Buy Tape: http://bit.ly/20EqiK1

Betonkust & Palmbomen II - 24x33

buy this: https://y1640.bandcamp.com/track/weep

WEEP

BEA1991 x POP TRADING COMPANY x THRASHER MAG

feature project -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxYqlNqpFhk&t=94s

WDSG?

Water can put out flames 
But nothing can stop this day
I feel a high tide in my eyes 
Brimming at the sight of you 
I feel a high tide in my chest
Ready to flood this house 
Gush down the hallway 
Crashing through the windowpane 
Wash the pain away 
Water can put out flames
But nothing can stop this day

Written and performed by Eartheater 
Produced by Acemo and Eartheater
Mixed by Kiri Stensby 
Mastered by Heba Kadry 
Cover art direction by Christian Velasquez 
Photography by Sam Clarke

Eartheater - High Tide (prod. Acemo, Eartheater)

Two Autumns

With Eyes Unclouded By Longing

Russia's angelwave princess Polina Zhukova AKA ccontrary stepping up with a dreamy LP for ПИР that follows her excellent mixes on NTS and Rinse and an EP on Los Angeles' TAR label.

"ADHD" was inspired not by the disorder as such but rather by childhood in general, growing up as a concept. And the music here has just the right amount of that naivety; it's atmospheric and nostalgia-inducing. There's a firm nod to early 90s chillout, as well as contemporary trance mutations, Shanghai scene, conceptronica, and even dusty 2-step flex that brings Burial to mind.

This is a concise and strong gesture from a young artista coming into her own. See you in post-COVID chillout rooms and at those Minecraft raves that we'll surely see more of.
credits
released October 15, 2020

Music: Polina Zhukova
Mixing: Polina Zhukova
Mastering: Fedor Pereverzev
Artwork: Notcareboy (www.instagram.com/notcareboy/)

ADHD

Corrosion Effect

Hyperdub is a record label based in South East London UK

Fatima Al Qadiri - Battery - Taken From 'Brute', Released 4th March 2016

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