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@speakermusic remix of an @axine-m track from "HAUNT3D BODY R3MIX3S" - a remix collection of tracks from @axine-m's 2020 release "ꔠ⍺Ⴎ𝜼τ𝟈ḋ ϦƠḋ𝙔 ³³³" to be self-released via Bandcamp on 05/05/21.

All proceeds will be donated to For the Gworls, a rent & medical fund for Black trans people. More info here: https://www.forthegworls.party/home

HAUNT3D BODY R3MIX3S

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PREMIERE: Axine M - sᑦ⍺𝜼 (s⍺𝗩𝐢Ơ𝑟〕(Speaker Music Remix)

@Cares forthcoming @infinitoaudiolabel release reflects a collective sense of anxiety and overload but also of finding connection despite isolation.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/cares-images-and-you

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Premiere: Cares - Images And You

@lacedetail
Whirling glitched-out crystalline drums spinning backwards, amidst chilled glistening drops.

Mastering by SIM.
Artwork by Bruno Lauzon Tanzi and Nela Paki in collaboration with artist Marilou Lyonnais Archambault.

VA [CC003]

Sentient

laced - Sentient

@freddymn

Mixmag ES presenta  el nuevo lanzamiento  con visión de futuro del productor keniano Slikback, que continúa con su particular modo de entender la electrónica rompiendo las reglas y mostrando una fusión de géneros sin complejos. 

Dos nuevos originales enigmáticos y dos remixes: uno de Sarmacja, nativo de su actual hogar, Polonia, que le da a Quoios una textura oscura, el otro remix del productor de Bristol, Sunun, que desarrolla a Klout en un ambiente menos presionado.

En el lado A, Quoios traza una inminente carga atmosférica que da paso a ritmos industriales con capas de voces y samples. Klout combina tonos oscuros y ritmos complejos, con un ligero guiño al ácido en los sonidos. Ambas pistas son armas de doble filo para la pista de baile.

En el lado B, el dub de Sarmacja late desde el principio, introduce una hebra de voces entusiastas y rubor cósmico. El remix de Sunun ofrece una remezcla más lenta, exploratoria e inquietante de Klout.

Quoios/Klout

PREMIERE: Slikback - Quoios (Sarmacja Dub) [Byrd Out]

From the Psychic Liberation vaults comes a pairing of sonic material from artists LXV and Glyn Maier. Having originally been planned for respective 7” releases, the pairing of these modernist technological psychedelia recordings revealed themselves to sit beautifully together. 

Lxv is the most prolific alias of David Sutton, a sound arranger from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He also records under the monikers Heaven Copy, Temporal Movement, as well as his full name, David Wesley Sutton. Glyn Maier is a sound artist and field recordist living in the Unorganized Territory of South Oxford, Maine. A longtime fixture of East Coast underground circuits, Maier has performed and recorded under various aliases, most recently as Lack. Maier currently runs nature friendly label Enmossed.

Sutton notes of the A side material “The two recordings which appear on this side were created using pure data and a Roland SP808EX. They come to you from the distant year 2015. At this time I was very interested in exploring irregular modes of rhythm and constructions of motion in a digital audio environment. I sought to emulate the wavering state between tech-infused dysphoria and transcendent euphoria -through creating a pathway to irregular groove excavation in the disjointed wriggles of adverse movements, tangled up, like a tornado blasting through a junkyard and assembling a pc, but not quite.”

On the flip side of the record, ‘Memoria' and 'Gŵyl' were recorded in late summer 2017 following the passing of Maier’s grandmother. “I built them using sounds coaxed from her collection of wooden shakers and metallic windchimes. Further processing and arrangement were done with an Arp 2600 synthesizer and a handful of analog effects units. A final touch was provided by Brood X cicadas that I recorded in her backyard. Predicted to emerge in 2021, a small cohort awakened early and sang through the sweltering evenings my family and I spent sifting through her belongings - a lifetime of materialized memories.

The 12” comes in an edition of 150 hand stamped copies, in yellow disco jacket and poly sleeve.
A side mastered by Jack Callahan
B side mastered by Glyn Maier
Distributed in the U.S.A. by Fantastique.

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PLIB009 - A1. LXV- Rain

After their acclaimed apparitions on OOH-sounds, Santé Records and Zoe Mcpherson’s SFX, Glass ( @glassglassmusic ) come back on Comic Sans for their longest work to date.

Anxiety Prime is the result of a collaboration between Glass and Comic Sans’s headquarters. Through the whole record, the experimental writing of the duo bends club culture references into a playful and hybrid sound experience. To achieve this result, the Caen based producers use every tools at their disposal from cutting-edge techniques like max/msp programming, machine learning to random internet sound sampling, voice experimentation and field recordings to name a few.

The duo’s work can be seen as a contemporary sound collage, where hundreds of heavy processed sonic fragments are carefully arranged into a multi-layered composition. Anxiety Prime is a physical exploration of socio-political violence and the ambiguous nature of our fragmented personality in our modern society.

Release date : September 21st

Music by Glass
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta
Artwork by Sara Bastai & Inés Maestre
Design by Virgile Florés
A&R by Gboi & Jean Mi

Preorder : https://comicsansrecords.bandcamp.com/album/anxiety-prime

Anxiety Prime

Glass - Spot explorer

For the next release on Early Reflex we welcome Frankfurt-based producer and composer Lorica (formerly known as Avbvrn), following his debut EP on Display and a split on Destitute.

Lorica filters a surgical attention to detail and sound design through a wide-scope approach to atmosphere and the spatial qualities of music. The resulting work conjures up dramatic, vivid, and tactile sonic landscapes that recall classical forms and techniques, while drawing upon contemporary textures and approaches to rhythm and memory.
Inspired by renaissance arts and their creative process ‘Adaptive Radiation’ [EYX005] stretches further Lorica’s experimental and oblique musical approach to the club-focused context of Early Reflex. The result is a 5-track EP blending cinematic sound design with traces of dubstep, drill, dancehall, trap, and more which is going to hit the listeners both physically and emotionally!

The opener ‘Baikal Rediscovered’ is a great example of Lorica’s production style where the composer blends together orchestral and atmospheric pads with incessant grimey beats and a deep bass-line making it a suitable tool for the club.
A storm of otherworldly sounds in contrast with its trapp inspired rhythmic session protrude in ‘Ochre Skeleton’ originating a surrealistic and peculiar atmosphere.
Approaching the end of the first half of the EP there is ‘Petrified Butterfly’, a dreamy and spooky interlude where synthesised flute melodies, fast-paced percussions and effected field recordings repeat and alternate themselves continuously while evolving every time differently in a never-ending loop until every sound dissolves in empty reverberated spaces.
Entering the second half of the release, listeners get hit by the drilling kick drum and the twisting sound design of ‘Sodiumglanz’, which lead to the closure of the EP.
In ‘Breccia’ Lorica explores further his blend of cinematic effects with the pronounced attitude for the club, delivering a track characterised by pitch-shifting electronic percussions and the harmonic progression of orchestrated instruments and strings.

‘Adaptive Radiation’ is available across all platforms starting from Friday 5th of November.

© & ℗ 2021 Early Reflex. All rights reserved. All tracks produced and mixed by Lorica § Mastering by Andrea Prato § Drawings by Giuseppe Cavuoto § Artwork by Alessandro Scanu.

Ochre Skeleton

Lorica - Ochre Skeleton

IM089 - @galtier - Pulchra Es Elementis
Label: Infinite Machine
Release Date: September 24th,2021
Format: 12" / Digital

With 10 years in the ‘biz’ firmly under his belt, Jiah Wells is poised to release the first full-length LP of his Galtier project, Pulchra Es Elementis. Whilst Galtier is arguably one of the originators of the percussive style that would eventually fall under the Hard Drum label, the heightened theatrics of his recent output have seen him channel Blade Runner-styled sonics and move further away from absolute club functionality. Whilst Galtier’s output often seems to soundtrack hypothetical, off-planet words, Pulchra Es Elementis turns the focus inwards: towards Wells’ own emotional constellation, his evolving spirituality and his attempts to tap into planes of existence beyond the tangible. The album’s Latin title translates to ‘Elements are Beautiful’ and encapsulates the artist’s belief that there is grace in all of life’s aspects; pushing past what we deem as good or bad, minuscule or massive.

Pulchra Es Elementis begins with Crystalised Larva, a brooding opener of breathy pad synths and expansive kick drums which reverberate through the mix as if the hits originate from the bottom of a valley. There’s an indistinct sense of tension on this track, in part due to a central melody, which never resolves but only descends lower in pitch. This tension turns to explorative wonder on Wilfull Saviour, where a mirage of musical ideas come in and out of focus. Although the sonic worlds Galtier explores are internal to him, Wilfull Saviour still possesses that sense of a cosmic journey we’ve come to expect from Wells; an ardent fan of dystopian films and literature.

Continuing this emotional odyssey, Bruised, But Not Broken sees the artist push deeper into the psychological undergrowth; its murky tonality juxtaposes crisp, Reggaeton-inspired drum patterns with a heavily compressed one-note synth line that modulates wildly - cutting through the mix like a nagging thought that won’t leave your mind. Next up is U Were, U Are & What U Will Be, one of the more club-ready tracks of the LP, which gets us moving with a snarling bassline and layers upon layers of percussive hits and inflections.

At Pulchra Es Elementis’ mid-point is the LP’s title track, a drumless interlude where blissful, shimmering synths create a patchwork of intensities. Galtier’s approach to songwriting shines through here; ignoring musical pragmatics, he opts to feel his way through his compositions without knowing where they might end up. Following on from that weightless breather, Phantasiai turns up the freneticism with its head-spinning mix of drum programming and a glitched-out synth line that yo-yos up and down octaves. Things get even more furious on the Superficie-featuring Cavernam, a hollow Hard Drum banger inspired by Eskibeat sensibilities and designed to create a sense of self-implosion.

The album’s penultimate track, (U Are) Beautiful, is a tale of two halves: beginning with a moment of serenity as synthesizers swell like an ocean tide before evolving into a marching crescendo of raw energy. Rounding off the album, Shine Forth hurtles through pacey drum work and all manner of strange zaps and klaxons before giving way to a final dose of nebulous ambience.

A musical journey unlike any other ‘club music’ albums, Pulchra Es Elementis is an LP that demands to be consumed in one sitting. Reflecting on his place within the universe and the musical landscape, the album could be viewed as a musical exorcism which sees Galtier working through and shedding huge chunks of his ego that stuck to him out of fear of the unknown. Pulchra Es Elementis begins on an insecure, overwhelming or, even, existential note before rounding off with a related sense of vastness seen with new, more positive eyes. It’s a voyage we hope you will join him on.

Galtier - Crystalised Larva

Sternum Sanctum - Bonus album track for bleep.com

Available here: 
https://bleep.com/release/60775-fis-the-blue-quicksand-is-going-now

The Blue Quicksand is Going Now - Album of the Week at Bleep.com

http://xn--lpy-0naa.com/

Fis - Sternum Sanctum

Pre-order C18230.5 and get Pissing WKD Blue now: hutchinssimthetik.bandcamp.com/album/c182305

Sim Hutchins is back to save dance music on C18230.5, the follow-up to his chart-topping club classics collection Clubeighteen2thirty. Released in April this year, Clubeighteen2thirty drew from both the positives and negatives of Sim’s clubbed out youth - as focused on existential crises and lost comrades as transformative trips and life-affirming experiences - on a record that doubled as a requiem for his raving days and an realist’s depiction of dance music in 2018.

On C18230.5, Sim presents new tracks from the album sessions and remixes from three of clubland’s finest current artists. ‘Pissing WKD Blue’ and ‘Like Herding Cats’ both take the album’s key tropes - harmonic distortion, interference and at-times-overwhelming digital FX - and apply them to weighty UK soundsystem traditions, while LOFT, object blue and algorave standard-bearer Renick Bell take on three of the record’s biggest hits.

Tracklist:
1. Pissing WKD Blue
2. Like Herding Cats
3. Bath Salts in the Saccharin (LOFT's Artificially Sweetened Luv Remix)
4. Dumped by Pirate Radio (object blue Remix)
5. Baby You'a Drug (Renick Bell Remix)

Written & Produced by Sim Hutchins 
Mastered by Beau @ Ten Eight Seven 
Artwork by Our Place Studio

C18230.5 (Mastered MP3s)

Sim Hutchins - Bath Salts In The Saccharin (LOFT's Artifically Sweetened Luv Mix)

written by: @seneparis
label: @unknownprecept
release date: September 24th, 2018
link: https://unknownprecept.bandcamp.com/album/i-heard-you-laughing

I Heard You Laughing

Sene - Trade Union

Urban Temple EP

Work - Life - Balance

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Sophie Schnell’s @pyur project arrives in limbo via experimental exponents @subtext-recordings with a flutter and a crash: equal parts chaotic and peaceful, it’s a collective hallucination that merges mortal forms with the realm of the underworld.

Oratorio for the Underworld

PYUR - Manta Ride [Subtext Recordings]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eBhf6f8TrM

A2 I Tried To Tell Ya Something Through This Fucking Phone

A local Bokeh Allstars takeover of a classic track from Bokeh lore (the original Jay Glass anthem).

Taken from the forthcoming Bokeh Allstars VA Mutal Aid Compilation, out this week. 

101% The Very Best of Outopian Sounds

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Jay Glass Dubs - Compound Dub (Kinlaw Remix ft. Dali De Saint Paul, Franco Franco & DJ Saisho)

sorry @maoupa-mazzocchetti and @clara-uno

Clara! Y Maoupa - Baja Y Suda (ZAAX Aiyi-Lectro Remix)

Consequences

Avbvrn - Foment (Recursive)

Actor-Network Theory

Choking On Ice

Emergence

Lead single by @gramrcy and @de_grandi for upcoming compilation release 'Exchange'.

Pre-order digital, cassette or T-shirt:
https://petrola80.bandcamp.com/album/exchange

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Exchange

Gramrcy & De Grandi - Sea In Air

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