https://fanlink.to/comicsans12_xliks

Composed by Jean-Baptiste Arthus
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta
A&R by GBoi & Jean Mi
3D by Jack Anderson
Graphic Design by Virgile Flores

The virgin idealist bedroom producer is buried, now make way for the 4.0 romantic sound designer! After some appearances on various artists, xl.iks unearths his long-time working debut EP and is ready to win the he@rts all around the world with a stunning piece of corrosive-but-sentimental IDM. Entitled "eoseubnida", this record is the result of all the contradictory passions the Grenoble based producer is crossed by. His bad boy tastes for dark, harsh and noisy stuff coexist in harmony with his emo soul interested in flowers, love and birds. In 5 tracks xl.iks expresses this inner duality : tortured beats are enlightened by mellow synths, outdated video games references are bundled up in HD sound design and the whole piece describes the thin line between reality and virtual world. xl.iks definitely belongs to our hypermodern era except the fact that, facing our uncertain future, he prefers to unsheathe the final fantasy sword of poetry rather than the cyberpunk cynism.

xl.iks - konako

RONCE - AQUATICS
(DAWN013)
100 limited copies
12inch
@itsronce
Produced by Zoë Villerd
Mastered at Studio Martyrs
Photo by Ronce
Design by Hajj
Dawn 2021

Ronce - The Devil Sleeps In My Stomach

IM095 - Infinite Machine 10 Years Compilation
Label: Infinite Machine
Release Date: December 3rd, 2021
Format: Digital

Celebrating 10 years of solidly cerebral club music releases, Infinite Machine is celebrating its first decade with an 19 -track compilation full of heat from label mainstays, new signees and some of the friends who helped them along the way. Infinite Machine was born out of a desire to run an dance imprint with the same DIY ethos as the hardcore/screamo labels that xWOLFx, IM's owner, was previously involved with. Over its decade-long lifespan, the label has rapidly evolved into a central figure within the hybrid dance music scene that’s formed on the internet; a place where dembow drum patterns can easily sit next to Sinogrime samples and dubstep sensibilities. In the last few years, as the label and it’s artists have matured, Infinite Machine’s output has taken a slightly cyberpunk turn, moving away from pure dance-floor slammers and towards more conceptual works which deal with our ultra-accelerated culture or soundtrack imagined off-planet worlds.

Some highlights from the release include Galtier’s ‘My Mess is a Face’, a real head-spinner full of granular synthesis and warped sample work. Later on in the comp, Bungalovv delivers a sensory delight with ‘Alacran’, a track so dense with layers of sound design it feels like you can sink your teeth into it. All Centre signee Duswunder pops up mid-way through the release with the frenetic and furious ‘Black Bile’ which is absolutely not a track to be missed. IDM upstart Daniel Ruane’s contribution ‘ZZZZZ’ is hypnotic perfection - one of those compositions that really has to be heard to be believed. Towards the end of the release, long-time Infinite Machine signee Yilan appears with ‘Cortisol’, another slow mind-bender of a track full of siren-like synths and rolling stutters of percussion. And rounding out proceedings is W3C’s ‘Templar’, a great example of the sort of forward-thinking music Infinite Machine loves to release. It’s a track rooted in club culture but, at the same time, transposed away from that context to some other-worldly space.

In an era of dance music consumption where genre trends or in-vogue labels can rapidly switch from flavour of the month to faint memories, this 10-year milestone is a testament to the independent label's unwavering enthusiasm for unearthing fresh talent and pushing our releases at a relentless pace, much like the hardcore labels xWOLFx previously ran. Three cheers for another decade of jaw dropping releases and Infinite Machine's commitment to the church of DIY.

Artwork by Benfika

Xiao Quan - The Vengeful Spirit Of Iron Fist

✪ After our debut compilation, we are giving you a little present in form of the new "SWINE WORLD 22". Collection of songs about current dark times by artists from all over the world. Deep dive!

✪ This music compilation is intended to present soundtrack to the contemporary world. Growing depression and mental health problems; the increasingly intense digital world and online communication, the coming Metaverse, the real purchases of land in Decentraland or other virtual worlds, the less and less deep meaningful human contact; intensifying global warming and environmental issues or disasters… The artists in this unique compilation have made music for the current chaotic world and future dystopian futures that await us.

✪ You can support us via "Name Your Price" option on Bandcamp ♫ bit.ly/SwineWorld22 ♫

Inalco2222 - Alontanarse

A Symbol For Disguise (GEN048) out now on Genot Centre on tape & digital.

“Rich in production ideas, an album that breaks down the barrier between what's danceable and what's meant for careful listening.” (https://soundcloud.com/ma3azef)

"A Symbol for Disguise is all action and drama that demands attention. The sound design is flawless, leaving a maze of dense music, impossible to ignore." (Foxy Digitalis)

"This is a precision-tooled and deliberate collision of club abstraction and broader experimental concerns." (https://soundcloud.com/if-only-uk)

"Encounter and decomposition of heaven and earth, collision and dissolution, forming the density of matter with soft silky water, and flying in the void of clouds." (https://soundcloud.com/avyss)

On A Symbol For Disguise (GEN048), @ububoi & @rhunterrrr join hands to craft a high saturation, high density, high tension collection of collaborative tracks. Texturally, the sound is raspy, heavy hitting, synthetic yet constantly fluid, pushed or shaped into high harmonic regions, giving the sound a full, shimmering, metallic tint. The blasting, bouncy, crispy, sometimes even shredding percussive approach suggests an intense but elastic approach, manifesting in constantly morphing highly syncopated rhythmical forms. With detuned synthetic harp arpeggios, grimy, chromatic melodies and gnarly, glassy pads, the approach here is sometimes reminiscent of that lost era where home listening music, dance music and computer music formed an uncertain and temporary alliance. The notion of a confrontation is further underlined by the incidental appearance of a denatured voice in full range: whispering, declaring, demanding, wailing - looking the listener in the eye.

Recorded, produced and mixed by @ububoi & @hunterrrr.
Mastered by @wimdehaen.
Artwork & tape design by eeeeelllfffyyyyyyyyy.

Limited edition of 55 C35 tapes with on-body printing pro-dubbed by Headless Duplicated Tapes.

ubu boi & r hunter - My Pharmakon (GEN048)

Hyperlink continues its exploration of sounds and emotions with a new chapter of its digital mini compilations. link002 therefore invites you to a dark and deadly sad - but beautiful - trip through the musical interpretation of 6 producers.

Welcome to the Asphodel Meadows, where ordinary souls are sent to live after death.

♥ @atrueterrorcorporation

A True Terror Corporation - Eruption

Blightcaster - s/t
Cat. Nr: DN023
Format: DL
Release Date: October 21, 2022
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/blightcaster

An anonymous duo split up by border control between Melbourne and London, with an axe to proverbially grind. Blightcaster takes its name from Magic: The Gathering but its affinity with the fantasy trading card game stops there. Or that’s at least if you think fantasy can’t also be a nightmare. The mostly recorded, rarely live noise, gorenoise, power electronics, hardstyle (etc.) band began in the dank privacy of a southeast London basement in 2016, before being cut short by an expired visa and a return to Australia for one of its members.

A handful of years and a global pandemic later, the two had the opportunity to finish their work remotely, sending files between countries and ruminating on the rotten core of a world that has only gotten rottener. Tracks like “Hymns from the Slaughterhouse”, “Disgraced Species” and “Devastator Slug” wheeze, croak and crackle with swells of extreme distortion. “Mind Unleashed” and “Weaponised Banter” offer a pounding though heavily degraded gabber in a barely melodic turn that you would never detect in the goregrind comparison of a band like Last Day of Humanity or Agents of Abhorrence’s contemporary grindcore.

Recorded using whatever they had with limited skills, Blightcaster is the no-fi product of sessions with a broken laptop, cracked software, a cheap synth and buggy contact mic. And while the duo’s own nihilism denies having a message, you might make one out in the blood-curdling shrieks and crunching beats of “Miserable, Mediocre, Nothing”. If ‘inspired' is the wrong word to use, Blightcaster are at least informed by the likes of labels like Self Abuse, Blood 'n' Guts, Head Fuck and Shit Wank Records. There are samples from survival horror games like Manhunt and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, but also from the meme zeitgeist; such as the 'Small, Angry Man Yells at Trumpet Player' youtube video. This is the sound of life in the crumbling hell-realm of reality, where ruin and plague meet magic.

Mastering by Rashad Becker
Design by Niels Wehrspann
Artwork image by @clochefolle
Blightcaster logo by @rotten_realm

Blightcaster

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Blightcaster - Weaponised Banter

Forsaken Emblems

'CRx Aureal' is taken from the forthcoming Shapednoise album ‘Aesthesis’, released 8 November 2019 on Numbers.

Watch the short video by Pedro Maia on YouTube: http://nmb.rs/shpd_ns_aesthesisvid

Listen & Buy ‘CRx Aureal’ now:
Bandcamp - http://nmb.rs/shpd_crx-aureal/bandcamp
Spotify - http://nmb.rs/shpd_crx-aureal/spotify
Apple Music - http://nmb.rs/shpd_crx-aureal/applemusic
iTunes - http://nmb.rs/shpd_crx-aureal/itunes
Boomkat - http://nmb.rs/shpd_crx-aureal/boomkatrecords

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Aesthesis

CRx Aureal

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Shapednoise - CRx Aureal (taken from Aesthesis)

Released on Meia-Vida 2019, physical copies available on:

https://meiavida.bandcamp.com/album/axis-o-r-g-s

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