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Taken from paszka's new album 'lapton' (G&P023), out February 26, 2023

It's been no secret that Poland marks as one of Europe's most significant melting pots of electronic computer music. Hand in hand with prominent festivals, adventurous labels, and the overall vivid culture of the niche genre, the country's breeding ground has raised countless talented and innovative up-and-coming producers. Having released music under his former moniker 'rużaw' as well as various projects including his widely acclaimed album 'Gluon' already as 'paszka' via Noumenal Loom, performing at Unsound and often collaborating with his partner or peers, the Krakow's very own Szymon Sapalski already is an established name among the ever-flourishing local matrix. Named after the word 'laptop' repeatedly misspelled by his friend's grandma, paszka now presents his follow-up longplay 'lapton' via Gin&Platonic.

On lapton, paszka has achieved to graft fierce rhythms and defragmented particles of contemporary pop music onto his signature hyper manic and rigorous sound design. But where the quirky record kinda innocently starts as lanparty-gone-goofy-by-personal-computers-taking-over-their-masters-playlistst and beyond a CPU-overload-from-granny's-healthresort-vacation-powerpoint-photocollection, it suddenly slows down onto jovial sketch of Goofy the Dog's presentation of approximate 5-year prediction of development of global prices of uranium, then 'lapton' quickly speeds up and darkens onto a mighty-microtonalism-motherboard-epilepsy, a melodramatic-bluescreen-glitchcore-blues. Shattered to many directions yet strangely coherent, paszka's fastidious music remains both geeky and candidly ludicrous. 

Written, produced & mastered by Szymon Sapalski

Artwork by Jiri Macku
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Digital & Cassette

paszka - żabol

Sharpest face Pt2

Surrender Remix

Tunnels (x/o Remix)

Track: back yard
Artist: other islands (@otherislands)
Premiere Release Date: 20 April 2023
Album: all else said / back yard
Album Release Date: 4 May 2023
Tracklist:
1) all else said
2) back yard
Mix: other islands
Master: Transition

PREMIERE //>> other islands -  back yard

Taken from SBKT057: mmph - Harvest

Release date: 26th April 2023

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It's been five years since Korean-born, Los Angeles-based sound designer and composer Sae Heum Han, aka mmph, released his last EP Serenade on the Tri Angle label in flurry of activity. "Harvest" arrives after an unintentional pause; three years ago, Han was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that immediately changed his priorities. Bedridden and exhausted from medication, he was only able to work on music for around an hour each day - the rest of his time was swallowed by rest and precarious trips to hospital in the midst of a global pandemic. Now in remission, Han looks back on this period as a time of emotional evolution where the ideas behind "Harvest" could be unravelled. The album emerges from his desire to reconnect with the Korean music he heard when he was growing up in Seoul, using these discernible timbres as building blocks to decorate with his advanced palette of electronic sounds and processes.

Han's music has always balanced precariously between the rigor of classical training and the relative open-endedness of electronic experimentation. This duality is still present on "Harvest", but Han's canvas has widened slightly. He continues to blur the line between the traditional and the modern, emulating and mirroring Korean instruments with synthesizers and sound design elements, and blending them with acoustic sounds and live percussion samples. But where his previous records and scoring work highlighted his ability to weave baroque forms into tight, contemporary sonic tapestries, this album adds the drama, yearning and spirituality of folk. On 'Dialogue' for example, pitch-warped traditional vocals twist through an ensemble of bizarre future-ancient sounds; fluttering strings dissolve into spiked percussive barbs and synthesized wails cut through walls of industrial noise.

'Spirit' follows quickly, coaxing listeners into a trance state with its flurry of microtonal string plucks and irregular percussion. Han is a master of breath control, letting his brief moments of negative space interrupt any expected regularity and guide the track away from electronic music's expected grid. This just about prepares the ground for the title track, a labyrinthine maze of dramatic compositional motifs and dizzying sonics that mutates from gugak forms into a cacophony of pneumatic blast beats before snapping back. From here the album lurches towards the dancefloor for a moment, absorbing and contorting cantankerous club rhythms on 'Avnue' and 'Moon Jar', slowing to a crawl on 'Harvest II'. Despite hijacking its theme from the title track's blast beat section, it transforms into a ballad, acting as a fittingly tearjerking finale.

The record is rounded off by a trio of remixes that draw Han further into the SVBKVLT family. Egyptian producer ABADIR chops up 'Harvest' and reassembles it into a jerky banger, extracting its dancefloor potential and evolving hardstyle thuds into spectral concertina flexes. 'Moon Jar' meanwhile is turned into twitchy trance by Shade Seoul's NET GALA, and Yen Tech stitches together 'Avnue' and 'Dialogue', creating an anxious backdrop that shuttles mmph's android folk to the modern metropolis.

Artwork by Sae Heum Han
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Harvest

mmph - Spirit

mmph - Avnue / Dialogue (Yen Tech Remix)

@nozagam is a solo project by French experimental-club producer Etienne Zastko who takes a bleak view of a destructive Anthropocene Epoch, in which “utopias can’t exist and we’ve lost our way in our blind devotion to technology”. The album pieces together a chronology of catastrophic events. A fictionalized soundtrack to humankind’s end-cycle. The abrasive textures and suffocating atmosphere immerse us into a total universe where everything that could have gone wrong has. Affirmations and tech bro optimism didn’t quite cut it. And if those disembodied voices that sporadically reach out are the survivors, that’s not good news.

The visual aesthetic of Zagam is one of fusion, a medieval plague doctor mask with a 23rd-century twist. “Anthropocene” mines a similarly disparate set of influences, spanning an evermore hybridized clubspace. Gqom, grime, industrial techno, footwork: everything is fair game. The rich musical background and hard sonic palette of Zagam make for a perfect match for the hybrid electronics approach of Unizone.
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Anthropocene is coming out on May 4, 2023 as a digital and physical release (50 limited edition cassettes available via label‘s Bandcamp page).

original tracks by Zagam
remix tracks by Miedo Total, Wulffluw XCIV, personalbrand & B E N N
mastered by Wim Dehaen
artwork & visuals by Erranth
tape design by Mr. Maquerelle
text by Thomas Romana

Bandcamp + Cassette

ZAGAM - NO MESSING (B E N N REMIX)

● Swine: Can you tell me something about pent? How did you meet her? (I asked Axine right away, responding to her email).

● Axine M: „pent is my good homie and frequent synthesis confidante. we met at Bossa Nova Civic Club like 6 years ago? we talk about FromSoft games and share pictures of our cats. i’ve been bugging her to do a remix for a while so this is really gratifying for me. i love her music and spin it all the time.“

More info in the article ➥ https://swinedaily.com/axine-m-premiere/

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[Swine Premiere] Axine M - "th02 (pent Remix)"

TRACK LIST
hajj - our lady of darkness
C1 & LD Hillside Demons
Entranas - Incertidumbre
san hani - dracula (bleachie remix)
attachment style (dudda remix)
brodinski & deft - Delone
luciano - SUV (DJ Sley remix)
precolumbian - festejo party music
abssys - sol radiante
von bikrav - le signal
van boom & oldyungman - sajida
endgame - slipknot edit
el plvybxy & sapphir22 - gambito de dama
mc luks e mc morgana - no black out  
polar - glaum
dj speedlife sustancia
slick blacklight (endgame remix)

Bloomfeld 100% prod mix

PM (NTS) Endgame & Bloomfeld (100% production mix) 13.09.23

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With the single Lies, Joss-E delivers two tracks that dive deep into the world of Liquid Drum and Bass, embracing a more minimalistic and soulful approach. The producer builds delicate and immersive atmospheres, where every groove and vocal is carefully placed, resulting in tracks that radiate balance, sensitivity, and harmony.

Smooth basslines and subtle rhythmic elements support the vocals with elegance, creating a sonic narrative that feels introspective yet impactful. The balance between minimalism and emotion makes this release stand out for listeners who appreciate the more refined and contemplative side of Liquid Drum and Bass.

Lies showcases Joss-E’s artistic maturity, offering music that works perfectly both in atmospheric DJ sets and in personal listening moments, inviting the audience to get lost in the subtle details of his production.

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Joss-E - You Lied

LYRICS:

pocket full of hundreds
mind full of doubt
steady caving in make my home feel like a house
but I’m trying not to lose it
just wanna say screw it
but Gods got my back so I know that I’ll get through it
when I feel alone I just fall down on my knees and I pray
thinking bout the times when I thought I would go insane
but now I just look back and think of them as better days
cause now I’m in a place that I wish that I could change
I thought I had friends until they went off and changed
and when they see me up they’ll be asking for my change
but I ain’t making music for the money or the fame
in reality its just an outlet for my fear and pain
and often I am fearful that these things will stay the same
generational curses an unbroken chain of pain
but until that day I’ll open up and pour down like the rain started off my heart was frozen then it falls down and evaporates

throw away (prod. pyctur)

Know V.A.: Hibernation (Knives)
Release date: 6th November, 2020

Knives follow this Summer’s Kuedo OST release with a club tool EP from DJ / producer duo, Know V.A. 

'Hibernation' traces ecstatic elements from the hard dance music familiar to their formative experience growing up in Holland, and fuses them with more UK leaning frameworks of late 90s techstep and late 00s vaporous grime, forming an ode to the romantic nostalgia of a shared club experience. Across the 5 tracks on 'Hibernation', Know V.A. set baroque string and choral arrangements into orbit around a hypnotic meandering of fierce gabber stabs and chattering percussion - at once reminiscent of both devine, classical ceremony and flailing club experience, drenched in sweat.

Know V.A. have performed internationally for a range of promoters and venues, such as Boiler Room and Stedelijk Museum. They curate the event and club night ‘Strange Days’, which seeks to showcase contemporary hardcore experimentalism and explore how the genre, sonically and visually has remained active in the underground. Their soundtrack work includes music for Calvin Klein and the acclaimed hardcore documentary 'Thunderdome Never Dies'. 

A collaborative artwork for the project is provided in the form of an emblem designed by artist Nicholas Law, subsequently animated by Winston Duke.

As of 2020 Knives is an independent project, now separate from any parent label.

Hibernation 

Know V.A. - Hibernation

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