SENE - Swoon (2021)
out on new @unknownprecept compilation 'Accidental Business'
unknownprecept.bandcamp.com/album/accidental-business

We're proud to present Accidental Business, a long-term project strewn with pitfalls and disillusions nodding to the incongruous events that led to the birth of Unknown Precept. Looking back at what made our trademark for the past 8 years, this new compilation marks a turning point in our discography. Scanning out the dustiest corners of the label's bizarre roster to offer a complete look at Unknown Precept's soul and vision; it brings together 18 tracks of unreleased material and collaborations recorded by our closest friends. From slow-paced post-punk hitting hard as bricks to short-circuited noise that makes the power supply trip, not to mention our love for the grotesque and self-mockery via humorous wonky synthpunk and bad tempered body music cracking jokes at a ghost audience. This is what you get when a group of people that have no clue what they're doing get together. Into the unknown we sink, but where to find us next?

Swoon

1. NVST - If The Sherrif My Family 
2. Warzou - Goliath 
3. Hanah - Off The Grid 
4. Etoh Ed - What U Do 2 Me 
5. Cassius Select - Salty by choice 
6. Office World - Copyright Control 
7. Lintu - New You Is Better 
8. Saint Abdullah - Stock of a merchant 
9. Lumpex - Guilted 
10. Plastre - Tangential Mind 
11. Penelope’s Fiance - Sober Bad Trips
12. Flegma Joe - Bad Fontaine

Compilation 01. Too Big To Fail Too Big For Jail - SNIPPETS

Track from the album "First Device", by Sladazj. Released September 18 by Valcrond Video. Sladazj is a new project from Luke Wyatt (Torn Hawk). 

https://valcrondvideo.bandcamp.com/album/first-device

https://open.spotify.com/album/4IhiYUhkYqdVrDrHAuGcaE?si=18Vrkt-nQWani2VwfNjSJw

https://smarturl.it/VV035

SLADAZJ - "Swerved Off"

❏ afolder.studio ❏ 
segment taken from 2020's 'flash across the intervals' lp on sister platform 'a ƒolder' ➜ limited physical run of 250 vinyl copies with sleeve art by Michael Amstad and Marte Eknæs and 4-page text insert by Oscar Powell ➜ pre-order via ↯ BUY ↯ ➜ released 11 september

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↯ flash across the intervals ↯ is the first new powell LP since 2016’s Sport on XL Recordings ⨧ the first music available physically since his 2018 collaboration with Turner-Prize winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans ➬ oscar wanted it known that this is not intended as a definitive album ↪︎ the realisation/release of some bold new statement, a singular mark of identity or triumphant elucidation of years of valiant work ↩︎ rather, it is simply 35 minutes of music segmented from an overall flow of stuff ⥄ a variable torrent of hyper-synthetic composition brought about by entirely other things ⇩ circumstances that relate in no way to a previous life led within the toxic/capitalist bubble of taste, music, entertainment and ‘community’ ▷ as René Char once wrote, ‘no bird has the heart to sing in a thicket of questions’, and so it was that oscar found himself bereft of courage, stripped of any enduring connection to his work, dissociated from many of the fragile and reactionary structures that had previously held him up. when your own distributor won’t answer your emails ☀︎ when the illusion of reality dissolves around you ☀︎ how can you not think as Leibniz once did: ‘we thought we had arrived at port, but found ourselves thrown back out on the open sea.’ it is easy to be moulded by a contemporary space that leaves you with no possibility of creating anything at all, in a kind of zero state of expression that inevitably forces you to look elsewhere ↙︎ to pursue a Deleuzian line of escape out towards a horizon line that never draws closer. here at least, out on the waves, new cartographies can be traced and new connections formed. 

this album thus functions as a message in a bottle: cast from unknown coordinates, it maps some of these connections, not least in its close relationship with the visual work of michael amstad and marte eknæs ➔ their imagery fills this music ➔ oscar’s music inflates their films. what emerges from the fog is a luminous three-headed constellation of melodic lines in non-sensical interplay with one another ⥄ here on record, though, spinning at a speed of your choosing, and with eyes closed and no imagery to hand, the feeling remains of a profound decentring, music discontinuously carb✲nated by an alternate geography of relations, the depths of which are only just beginning to be explored.

flash across the intervals

↯ Buy ↯

powell ☀︎ performance to a harsh critic ☀︎ aƒ18

Two club focused tracks from the archives of the San Francisco based artist, writer, and community organizer. Nihar has been instrumental in carving out space for parties that tow the line of function and experimentation on the west coast of the United States as co-founder of the SURFACE TENSION party series. Along with Chris Zaldua, Nihar also runs the Left Hand Path label, highlighting electronic anomalies and documenting challenging work in his locale. Nihar has performed worldwide in Shanghai, Osaka, and Mexico City and has been programmed into the Recombinant and Mutek festivals.

On this single sided 12", "Rumble" centers Tabla rhythms amidst syncopated and undulating drum and synth work for an uptempo club affect. "Vermillion Garden" slows things down with a more throbbing groove that uses vocal synthesis to oscillate in and out of sweaty-wall atmospherics. The record is accompanied by a text titled "Against Having a Music Industry; For a Renegade Future", an essay at once taking inventory, and leaving room for hope, amidst the perplexing times for electronic music that this record presents itself inside of.
credits
releases September 25, 2020

Written and recorded by Nihar
Mastered by Jack Callahan
Distributed by Fantastique

NIHAR - A1. Rumble

Paris (FR)-based artist Isham Kouidri presents his debut release “All I See Is Blue” for the Enmossed x Psychic Liberation collaboration series. On “All I See Is Blue”, the artist extrapolates a sonic environment from a single piano loop. As the recording progresses through it’s respective acts, A side“Through The Window” and B side “Now He’s Gone”, tension and the sublime are interwoven. Isham Kouidri uses his time on “All I See Is Blue” to allow for his process to subvert the reverie he has created, but the light is always right around the bend.

releases September 25, 2020

mastering :: Glyn Maier

artwork :: Pierre Roy-Camille

order :: https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/all-i-see-is-blue

All I See Is Blue

Isham Kouidri - Through The Window [Part 1] (ENXPL03)

Alex Zhang Hungtai, David Maranha, Gabriel Ferrandini — There's No God Where I am
Loren Connors — Frozen Star
Mirror/Dash — Gum
Earth - Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine
Vezha Hmar — Lyudy Stomleny
Kim Gordon — live 05.27.05
Loren Connors — 33 Battle Of Clontarf
不失者 - すきにやればいい
Pärson Sound - Blåslåten
buttechno — persidskogo
Der Golem — Нет
midnite cobras — melz 2013 1
Alex Zhang Hungtai & Austin Milne — You Alright M8
SYR 5 — live ATP
midnite cobras
Tonstartssbandht - AMEN live in Kyiv 27.04.2013

London-born producer Flora Yin-Wong (@floraytw) experiments with early instruments, digital software processing and lo-fi rudimentary recordings. Her releases were via Modern Love this autumn and Berlin's PAN, as well as a cassette tape on New York’s PTP. She has contributed productions and remixes for the likes of Giant Swan, Circadian Rhythms, J Colleran etc. Flora’s duality has also ensured she’s retained a firm presence in the club atmosphere as both a DJ and performer.

www.20ftradio.net/archive

NONDUAL w/ Flora Yin Wong @ 20ft Radio - 05/11/2020

Edition of 300. White vinyl LP.

The Gagmen are Aaron Dilloway, Nate Young, Joachim Nordwall and Dilloway's old pal Andrew W.K, here grouping together for an almighty, previously unreleased LP of atavistic headwreckers of the most fucked and unnerving calibre - completely unmissable for fans of Wolf Eyes, Dilloway’s ‘Modern Jester’, Nate Young’s ‘Regression’ sessions, or anyone looking to ignite/summon new//dark energy.

The Gagmen - Untitled 1 (from the iDEAL LP)

info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/inexact-13-joyul
https://soundcloud.com/tunerplease

Joyul

inexact 13 – Joyul

Before the end of this very strange year, we would like to present one last very soothing mix from Nick Klein. Been Home for Months is a collection of audio pooled and arranged for situating the self in the very present. 

Tracklist: 
Arvo Part - Sarah Was 90 Years Old 
SCANT - Debilitate (B SIDE)
Strangulated Beatoffs - It's A Vile, Vile, Vile, Vile World 
Meredith Monk - Do You Be
Oren Ambarchi - Gene 
Pansonic - Hapatus
die Reihe - 106 Kerri Chandler Chords
Chris Fratesi - Untitled
Joachim Nordwall - Control And Energy
Minoru Sato - Asuna
LDSN - 2
LDSN - 4
Balloon Monument - MARCH TAPE SIDE B
Ben Richards - Sky Diver


Nick Klein is an electronic music artist interested in loud volume as form, as well as the sociology and ideology that is present in music subcultures. Netherlands based Klein runs radio programs, a label, and organizes events under the title "Psychic Liberation." He has released on the labels L.I.E.S., BANK, Unknown Precept, Viewlexx, Monorail Trespassing, and iDEAL. 

His latest release Actor-Network Theory on iDeal was recorded in 2018 and is the final record Klein made as a resident in New York, before moving to Den Haag. Taken from a caption on his Instagram, Klein describes the record as a weaving of “disparate sonic narrative[s] of dissociative opiated sleeping-bag retreats and anxiety fueled drum loops... Music for sleeping in a cold basement with a short blanket, coughing up a cigarette at Pier 94 in February, or lamenting the fickle nature of one’s own metabolism.” Actor-Network Theory can be found on iDEAL’s Bandcamp.

NICK KLEIN, BEEN HOME FOR MONTHS, SATELLITE MIX 003

Electronic Sound Disturbances & Pleasures since 1998.

Contact: labelhead_at_idealrecordings.com

The Gagmen - Untitled 1 (from the iDEAL LP)

iDEAL Recordings