We are launching our monthly playlist series NVA Selects with a selection of tracks handpicked by our music director Leticia aka @softcoresoft. Warm up your month of February with luscious synths and rich techno textures.   
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Nous lançons notre série des playlists mensuelles NVA avec une sélection de morceaux triés sur le volet par notre directrice musicale Leticia aka @softcoresoft. Réchauffez votre mois de févrirer avec des synthés séduisants et des textures techno corsées.

NVA Selects #1

Pre-order: https://okzharp.bandcamp.com/album/outside-the-ride

'Outside the Ride' builds on @okzharp's last EP for @hyperdub - a new 7-track record landing back on the label this August. Born out of a 127 bpm Gqom-influenced soundtrack created for a short film, 'Outside the Ride' sees Okzharp moving forward with a new amalgam of speedy music that explores a chimera of South African Gqom, turn-of-the-century techstep and footwork.

On 'Incline Disconnect', acidic leads slither against tense, trance-inducing synth swirls. Frayed, off-kilter drums and fierce 808 accents interlock in an unlikely, seductive soundsystem killer.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Okzharp 'Incline Disconnect'

Like countless others, Steve Goodman played a lot of video games during lockdown. At the time, the artist known as Kode9 and founder of the iconic Hyperdub label found himself imagining a game about Scotland and the country's plan to set up a colony in Panama back in the 1690s. Those thoughts later crystallised into Astro-Darien, an AV installation, "sonic fiction" and album that explores Scotland's space program and its past colonial ambitions through the lens of a video game.

Speaking to RA on this week's episode of the Exchange, Goodman delves into the various facets of this project, including Escapology, his score to Astro-Darien. The album, released in July, is "like a film trailer that's giving you a little taste of various bits of story and strands of a kind of palette of sounds and a world," he explains. "So if you want, there's places to go deeper on it but if you are not interested in that, just treat it as a slightly weird dance music record."

Science fiction aside, the Hyperdub founder also discusses the cyclical nature of music and why jungle is currently experiencing what many have called a revival. "Music doesn't move forward, it doesn't progress in a linear fashion," he describes, attributing that to "generational relationships."

For more deep thoughts and Goodman's guide on hiking in the Scottish Highlands, listen to the conversation in full.

EX.624 Kode9

To mark the 20th anniversary of famed British label Hyperdub, Line Noise organised a round-table interview with four of the label's key artists - founder Kode9, Ikonika, DJ Haram and Heavee - at Primavera Sound 2024. The results were fascinating, swinging from the obsession of running a record label to every artist's favourite Hyperdub songs. Picture by Cecila Diaz Betz.

Line Noise Episode 167 (Hyperdub special with Kode9, Ikonika, DJ Haram and Heavee)

Pre-order: https://ikonika.lnk.to/SAD

@IKONIKA arrives on @hyperdub with 'SAD', a 10-track record marking a distinctive push up from their past as a producer, with their sultry, unvarnished vocals directing the journey.

“This is an album travelling through seasons in your mind. It’s as close to my final form as I’ve known”, Ikonika explains. The languid 'Your Vibe' is a seductive paean par excellence.

Premiere: Ikonika 'Your Vibe'

Horns by Marion Ross III 

Produced, arranged, & performed by Soft Glas


Late Bloom available on Bandcamp: https://softglas.bandcamp.com/album/late-bloom

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hi frends

here´s a ruff free download  SOUND VOYAGE  (Niko Schabel ,Radio Citizen & Tom Wieland , 7 Samurai) edit of one of the best kept lo fi 80´s Afro Synth private press secrets for you.
Sounds like Maurice Fulton stranded  in Congo ? ,originally released 1980 on Julien´s own imprint in France on wax, Julien Babinga Records ‎– JB 003  .
Thnx Makossa for reminding me of this beauty !

enjoy folks.

soundcloud.com/7-samurai

free download

JULIEN BABINGA M'Bongui-Percussions SOUND VOYAGE future world edit

Deep Space Habitat (BiggaBush Remix)

Taken From The Album 'Diggin In The Carts' A Collection oOf Pioneering Japanese Video Game Music' out  17th November on Hyperdub

Diggin In The Carts

What is your birthday?

藤田 靖明 (Yasuaki Fujita) - What Is Your Birthday

Taken from Stroboscopic Artefacts' first compilation, Flowers From The Ashes: Contemporary Italian Electronic Music, out April 13th, 2018 on 2x12" / CD / Digital.

Order: https://stroboscopicartefacts.com/shop/flowers-from-the-ashes-salp006-sacd009/



Flowers From The Ashes is the latest multi-artist project to bear the acclaimed Stroboscopic Artefacts imprimatur. There is a sensibility of decadence and corroded grandeur etched within its four album sides, reminding us that historically “decadent” times have nonetheless resulted in some of the boldest acts of individual and collective creativity. Like the "floral" theme that has remained a consistent feature of S.A.’s graphic presentation, the music here equally presents fragility and intensity in a way that really drives home this visual metaphor for good, while still holding out the promise that similar creations will be seeded in the near future.

Though many of the artists involved have set of residence outside of their native Italy, all contribute here to make a captivating portrait of a shared spirit and cultural memory. The album opens with 'Errori', deceptively fragile sonic ornaments crafted and suspended in space by Blackest Ever Black artist Silvia Kastel. This is followed closely by the mellifluous, warming glow of percussionist Andrea Belfi’s 'Spitting & Skytouching', and then by the resolute electric bass patterns and luminous fog of 'Lux et Sonus', from Eeri label head Marco Shuttle. Hospital Productions alumnus Ninos du Brasil open the B-side with a similarly dense, amorphous construction built from tribalistic chants and rhythmic patterns, to be followed by Mannequin label boss Alessandro Adriani’s 'You Will Not Be There For The End', showcasing his distinctive take on the "paranoiac breakdance" aesthetic of classic EBM. S.A. veteran Chevel rounds out the first record in the program by interlacing several percolating synth lines together into a richly conversational piece.

The journey continues with 'Starving The Mind', an undulating mini-epic from S.A. founder Lucy that is animated by his signature balance of seductiveness and concentration. The bright, biting acid synth tones of 'PRV-HH3-X', by Lory D, then takes a sharp right turn into an invisible metropolis ruled by reflective high fashion and hidden intrigue. The imposing architecture of 'Virgo Rebellion', designed by modular synth futurist Caterina Barbieri, acts as an excellent companion piece, and sets up the closing '4G' from Spazio Disponibile co-founder Neel - a crepuscular serenade that accurately sums up much of the foregoing activity.


All tracks (w)&(p) by Silvia Kastel, Andrea Belfi, Marco Shuttle, Ninos Du Brasil, Alessandro Adriani, Chevel, Lucy, Lory D, Caterina Barbieri & Neel.
Graphic concept by Ignazio Mortellaro [OA].
℗ & © Stroboscopic Artefacts 2018.
Cat. No SALP006 / SACD009 - all rights reserved.
www.stroboscopicartefacts.com
info@stroboscopicartefacts.com

Order

D1 - Caterina Barbieri - Virgo Rebellion [SALP006/SACD009]

Taken from the forthcoming album 'Death Becomes Her' 
Released on Hyperdub on 1st March 2019.

Produced by Asmara
Preorder the album and receive ' Like A Girl feat K-Rizz' https://fanlink.to/Deathbecomesher

Death Becomes Her

Like a Girl Feat K-Rizz

Angel-Ho - Like A Girl feat K Rizz

Today's premiere is brought to you by Video Game music composer Yuzo Koshiro .  With an added twist from Hyperdub's head honcho Kode9, the track is from the new Diggin In the carts remix EP.

Watch the interesting interview with Yuzo Koshiro here:
https://youtu.be/TAuAM75Pf5w

Diggin In The Carts Kode9 Remixes is out on the 3rd May on Hyperdub on Vinyl and Digital

Various Artists - Diggin In The Carts, Kode9 Remixes

Premiere: Yuzo Koshiro 'Temple (Actraiser) Kode9 RMX'

Snooks - Rex

Ben Cardew meets fearless London producer Loraine James to talk math rock, Twitter collaborations, love and lockdown.

Line Noise Episode 63 (Loraine James)

Never Apart is a non-profit organization determined to bring about social change and spiritual awareness through art, culture and music events. ➤ www.neverapart.com

Hyperdub is a record label based in South East London UK

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