Taken from SBKT049: Osheyack - Intimate Publics
Release date: 8th June 2022

Intimate Publics, Osheyack’s second album, is an homage to Shanghai, the city he has called home since 2012. Over the past ten years the producer has evolved from an avid club-goer to a key member of the vital soundscape that emerged from ALL Club and its predecessor, the now defunct club The Shelter. As hinted by the title, which draws on American social theorist Michael Warner’s work on publics and counterpublics, the album expresses a commitment to mining the utopian potential of club music, forging new worlds and generating future social relations, just as the artist bids farewell to the city at a moment of uncertain transition. While tracks like 'Edging' and 'Thrall' continue to present his signature collage of harder club music, the rest of the record reveals a shift to synthetic approximations of acoustic instruments. 'Still', the central track of the album, is a piece composed almost entirely of samples found on Vocaloid (a vocal synthesizer developed by Yamaha, commonly used to give voice to Japanese virtual idols). While echoing themes explored in previous projects, like the nature of realism and authenticity in a techno-mediated landscape, Intimate Publics is charged with an unexpected emotional candor and vulnerability, unveiling a personal side Osheyack is only beginning to explore.

Words by Alvin Li
Artwork by Xiaofei Qiu
Design by Luke Griffiths
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Intimate Publics

Osheyack - Piecemeal

The first track from @ice_eyes & @locr3 collaboration 'Dreamless Shadows' EP out on April 5 via Fixed Abode.

Listen & pre-order here: https://linktr.ee/fixedabode

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Ice_Eyes & Locre - Astra [Fixed Abode]

IDENTITY SAMPLER II

Analyze, Reproduce

a collection of tracks made between 2021 and 2024 that i never knew what to do with
i also cant open the project files for most of these ffs
so this is what's left ::)
<3

Barkurkz (2024)

6. ZEBUL (EL CADAVER VACIO DE UN ANGEL)- MVL DE OJO

∎ SWINE PREMIERE ∎ @mensikmusic's first release for the newly formed Mexico City-based label INNTRA

"Exodia" is a melancholic club song. It shows Mensik's ambient music background, but also the new artistic territory, that he's exploring now after a series of DJ sets across Europe and Latin America. It's the perfect example of the atmosphere, where you can cry at the club. You feel sad, but also happy and full of relief at the same time.

⍈ Mensik tells us: "My new music is the result of an evolution of the past few years building a musical path, searching for new horizons through the diversity in music. When I first got into music I was making a lot of ambient and experimental music, I've always liked how it makes you feel to listen to a song that can really touch your feelings and mix it into a bunch of colors and textures, I think with this record I wanted to recreate that feeling but for the dancefloor."

⍈ "Música para llorar en el club. Para cerrar lo ojos y homogeneizarse con lo que realmente importa al ritmo de los estrobos, láseres y sistemas de sonido," writes INNTRA.

∎ EP LUX by MENSIK will be out on March 13th ∎ 
https://mensik.bandcamp.com/album/lux


[Swine Premiere] MENSIK - EXODIA (INNTRA)

Shelter presents “Aveen” — the third installation in our genre-agnostic compilation series.

To follow up 2023’s “Feyrûse” and 2024’s “Mizgîn”, we have curated an emotionally charged collection of 17 tracks that press against the debilitating realities of life in the mid-2020s. The title stems from a Persian word meaning “pure” or “transparent” — signaling a search for unfiltered and sincere artistic expression in the midst of a social climate filled with smoke and mirrors.

“Aveen” features Shelter’s most international line-up to date, with music from 18 artists spread across 13 countries and 5 continents displaying their signature sounds shaped by their local scenes and cultures. 

Flowing through mutated shades of ambient, hypnagogic pop, trance, leftfield techno, neo-perreo, and GQOM — the compilation connects the myriad influences and mind-states of electronic musicians from nearly every corner of the world and tethers them together into a cathartic 17-track excursion.


DJ GÄP, Xiao Quan – Slice me up

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@slym_cloud

https://techlabbp.bandcamp.com/album/magma-va

Hárpia - Potroh [TLVA011]

Moon

Confidance

respectfully yassified

https://burial.bandcamp.com/track/near-dark
https://burial.bandcamp.com/album/untrue
https://burial.bandcamp.com/album/tunes-2011-to-2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et5B-zfAIIo

icymi archangel bootleg
https://soundcloud.com/iamquestionmarc/archangel-questonmarc-edit-burial

https://linktr.ee/questionmarq

Near Dark (quest?onmarc Bootleg) - Burial

quest?onmarq