Taken from SBKT040: Yen Tech - Assembler

Release date: 28th May 2021

With Assembler, his second full-length album, Yen Tech re emerges in ecstatic and primordial new form -- a multi-layered and interwoven work that blends futuristic production, meta-science fiction, and anthropic critique into a dizzying array of next scenarios -- a maze-like vision of our technological and exponentially oracular, full-stack future.

This imagined future becomes a construct or place in itself; one in which the record buzzes and swarms; a mechanosphere of towering melodic vocal samples and sound design - all narrated by Yen Tech's unnerving, diaristic vocals - as he channels the form of post-human techno cretin, whispering hyperbolic ASMR to no one in particular. We follow this character from one disorienting experience to the next as he recites a stream of indecipherable neologisms and hyper-descriptives, the existential residue seeping from every line. In the end though, a strange, uneasy beauty comes into focus; the metamorphic lyrics and musical euphorias revealing Assembler as a type of elegy: a wet glass reflection of the failures of what we are and were - and a jubilant celebration of what we may become.

"I imagined Assembler as a type of self imposed simulation, an invisible boundary that the narrator has to navigate out of to move forward. It was a way of looking at how we may carry the issues and failures of the past with us into the future. The psychological baggage of history, the guilt of geotrauma, the addictive melange of technology all become dealt with in this stage of acceptance and recovery. I wrote the album with this in mind, a process to find the slimy pearl of who we are" - Yen Tech

All music and lyrics written by Yen Tech
Produced and arranged by Yen Tech
Vocals by Yen Tech
Additional vocals by Katy Townsend
Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Artwork and vinyl design by Johannes Schnatmann

Assembler

Yen Tech - Sentry

Black and white tones remind me of minimalistic, powerful rhythms and vibrations that move through the body.

When I made the tracks and painted the artwork, I trusted my intuition. In my mind, I saw angular, square shapes that, in combination with strong contrasts, created an image of vibration. Something hypnotic and deeply resonant. 

I wanted to fuse deep bass atmospheres and the relentless momentum of techno. Creative, percussive and unmistakably dubby. Raw and distinctive soundscapes that wake you up and pull you in, with a vibe that’s full of energy yet never loses its punch. Every element is finely tuned to maintain that mystical, percussive groove: hypnotic, dubbed-out momentum.   

I've closed the EP with a cinematic outro that I hope conveys a deep an lingering intensity. Textures in slow motion puling you inward, shaping in your mind as you slowly dissolve into meditation.

MUADEEP has also honored me with a fresh and genre-bending jersey-perspective in his remix.

buy on bandcamp

Grid Vibe

MFN   __2-MIX_01

Marco Colocci (@queimada77) is an Italian producer and sound engineer based in Berlin. Learning how to play the contrabass and music theory has initiated the growth of his interest in the techniques of field recording and sound design, as well as his overall passion for electronic music. After self-releasing music during his teens, and later producing for Taiwanese artist Sabiwa from Chinabot, under the moniker Queimada he now presents a debut record coming out on Gin&Platonic.

Built around a concept proposed by Harvard professor E.O. Wilson, Eremocene depicts a future state of miserable epoch into which human species is slowly but steadily accelerating. Characterized by the existential & material isolation that comes from having calamitously extinguishing other forms of life on Earth while intrepidly fulfilling our immediate needs, the future labeled as The Age of Loneliness sees our identity completely transformed. 
On the record, Queimada explores precisely the conflict between the tempting ease and a pang of unconfessed guilt in an attempt to capture the ironical relationship they epitomize. The album represents an encounter between different techniques of granular synthesis and field recording. The encounter between the unstoppable and destructive, altogether resulting in a disruptive anthem of the intensifying burden of the postmodern times.

Produced by Queimada
Mastered by Wim Dehaen
Artwork by Jiri Macku

Buy via: https://ginandplatonic.bandcamp.com/album/eremocene

https://soundcloud.com/ginandplatonic

Eremocene

Premiere: Queimada - Why U Cry? (ft. Sabiwa)[Gin&Platonic]

PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM HERE
https://aghnie.bandcamp.com/album/demur

All tracks written & produced by Aghnie
Photography: Mariam gabritchidze aka Levi Deni https://www.instagram.com/levi_deni_/?hl=en

Anesthesia

https://soundcloud.com/z0it - Shoe Study 5
from "Music to Dance to" (QNR038)
released 10th August 2020
DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/file/et129vaddkn3tyc/z0it_-_music_to_dance_to_%2528QNR038%2529.zip/file

Music to Dance to

QNR038 (↓↓↓)

z0it - Shoe Study 5

@evilmedved

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Mastering - Christoff Riedel
Artwork - Tom Fischer, Hannes Fendrich, Alexander Turovsky

Evil Medvěd - WOmMwom

Starting this new year with a mix by @klahrk ! He is the founder of @warecollective and member of Quavis, Klotang & Viscount. A multimedia artist and serial collaborator, their work and projects span across an array of genres and mediums. Most recently releasing a jungle, hardcore & hard dance inspired tape under the alias of Klotang (with Otang) 2021 holds a year with more solo projects and releases than previous years including an upcoming EP on SFX and many more projects across the year including work with KAVARI, CITYTRONIX & as Quavis.

Tracklist : 

KAVARI & xato - Nereids
Miss Jay - 46262
Klahrk & CITYTRONIX - I.D
Syz - Bunzunkunzun
Cuban Chamber of Commerce - Goofing Off
COLLO - Bantu
Emily Glass - Uvula
Chatline - Glasss (Wee Bey Last Minute Mix)
Mamboussa - Open
Druid - Cyber Time Crisis (Margari's Kid Remix)
Klahrk - Send It!!!
Root For The Villian & Calculon - Collusion (AFruit Remix)
Penelope's Fiancé - Futile Endeavours
Halber Ball - Centrifuge Fif (Yoofee Remix)
Hyph11E - Shatter
Amazondotcom & Siete Catorce - Absent City
Yssue - Riddim The Dirt
DJMTN9090 - Coisas Suficientes Já Pt 4
Will Penn - Stijl
Jel, The Digital Dream Girl + Himera - Whisper (Klahrk & CITYTRONIX Remix)
CITYTRONIX - Crystalline Skies
Ana Caprix x Kamixlo - Como Si Fuera Tu Ultimo

HYPERLINK MIX #16 w/ klahrk

@michaelbrailey
@trngs
@10r3n

Low End Activist - Low End Activism
ZelooperZ x Dilip x Matrax - McDonaldz
AYA GLOOMY - 2020 Tokyo Destruction
Marcioz - HINO DO CABELO RUIM
Edison Chen - 戰爭 (feat. 陳奐仁, 胡蓓蔚 & Mc仁)
MVRK - Cortex
NENE - 地獄絵図 feat. NIPPS
Dead Recipe - Answering Machine
Tohji - Oreo (Mura Masa eternal mix)
DJ Rashad - I Don’t Give A Fuck
T5UMUT5UMU - Dub Power
Ice_Eyes - Airlock
Know V.A. - Dirt
KAVARI - Pale Flesh (KAVARI ‘1on1’ edit) (ELFZ Remix)
Silver Waves - A-Biz
jiafeng - Useless Cuteness 可爱没用
Del tha funkle homosapiens - If you must
Action Sports - September Grapes
Mun Sing - Balloon
Yem Gel - BodEGun
Faye Wong - Impetuous

MICHAELBRAILEY (trngs + 10_r3n takeover), HALLO: Radio [21.1.21]

Reaching out from the cloud xato delivers a diverse & eclectic trip all around the audio spectrum. @iamxato

Tracklist:
Aloka - XTX3
Wizard Of - Table Magic
Хаски - Бит шатает голову (Pixelord Remix)
Was Fret - She Can Break Walls
Willy - ODDS
Himera - I Don't Wanna Live a Life Without You (I Let It Unfold) (xato drums edit)
CELES7E & SWAN MEAT - MURMUR
3XPERIENCE - UGLY
eMiLY GLASS - LITTLE PUZZLE
100 gecs - stupid horse (Alfred English Remix)

Cover art by @bruno-lauzon-tanzi

All Around Mix

xato - All Around Mix

CLMxGUN is happy to present Chain of Whispers, a two-fold EP exploring further collaborative production processes. Like a murmur in the wind, a secret being delivered from ear to ear, it is born from a playful approach to sound manipulation and its transformation when passed from one hand to another. An embodiment of how music can be altered by each and every contribution.

Through a defined set of constraints based on the Telephone game, the concept is simple : each successive track is a remix of the previous one, and the contributors could not hear what was done before them. So on and so forth. A continuous cycle of appropriation and re-interpretation.

From this experiment resulted two 7-track EPs, two chains which gathered 11 artists, each with their own identity and their own input. With each new link in the chain, the sound mutates, speeds up or slows down - some of its elements are exacerbated, while others are concealed or juxtaposed to new ones.

The second chain welcomes 71W3, GRIG, jjjacob, Lithe, Lukann, and SNKLS. Covering a broad spectrum of sounds, it moves back and forth between heavy club material and ethereal soundscapes, finding peace and closure in this constant state of unrest.

++ TRACKLIST ++

01. SNKLS - Mito-shi
02. Lukann - Angler
03. Lithe - Distant Voice
04. jjjacob - Flight Fragility
05. 71W3 - Birds
06. GRIG - Trees at Night
07. SNKLS - Mito-shi (Full Chain Mix)


++ CREDITS ++

Visuals by k095c
www.instagram.com/k095c

Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta

Tracks produced by 71W3, GRIG, jjjacob, Lithe, Lukann, SNKLS
https://soundcloud.com/71w3
https://soundcloud.com/griigg
https://soundcloud.com/jjjacob
https://soundcloud.com/lithetrax
https://soundcloud.com/lukann4
https://soundcloud.com/snakeleserpent

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jjjacob - Flight Fragility

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