A Melody Inside

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You’re blessed to be hearing the long-awaited Lovefear debut album, live and listenable courtesy of TT.

‘Schema’ is a work of deep focus, a slow-spiralling plunge into a zone of enhanced awareness. What unfolds is crisp yet hallucinatory, like the HD visions of some hyper-advanced biomechanical life form animated by psychotropic research chemicals.

‘Mother Null’ and ‘Red Thought’ render images of flickering holograms on gleaming glass architecture; 360° interfaces and synthetic neuro-inputs. There’s an air of gradually realised tension and unease, a sense of something uncanny at the core of the cybernetic sheen. But Sydney Bass honcho 3NDLES5 lays down a human touch, his impressionistic spoken word flow on ‘Inner’ conjuring smeared metropolitan light pollution and the romanticised blur of half-remembered late night transit.

And then there’s ‘Macro’ and ‘Swan Cross Antonym’. Flurries of accelerated consciousness, a mind operating on evolved firmware. These are aerodynamic flow-state tunes, cold-blooded bangers pulsing forward like quicksilver through veins. But ‘Economy of Ascent’ brings it all down to an introspective simmer — because for all its screen-mediated gloss, ‘Schema’ is deeply felt, not calculated.

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All tracks written, produced, and mixed by Lovefear
Track 1 ('Great Age') featuring additional production by Lia T
Track 6 ('Inner') featuring vocals and lyrics by 3NDLES5
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Mastering: DJ Pitch
Cover art: Josh Crumpler
Words: Madjestic Kasual
A&R: Madjestic Kasual

Lovefear - Red Thought

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Upload w_ Xen Model & Freestyler

Upload explores the musical possibilities achievable through the use of a personal computer. Featuring local LA natives alongside global members of the underground electronic music community, the show proves that one’s resources are not synonymous with the creation of impactful music. In this series, hosts Xen Model unveils fresh new sounds in a diverse range of experimental styles such as ambient, glitch, brain dance, flashchore, and hardcore music.

This month’s episode features special guest, Freestyler.

As founder of the Transatlantic record label, Freestyler consistently showcases his affinity for, and understanding of, club music. In a way, this sonic curation is amplified by his DJ sets. By making unconventional connections that may seem bold, he aims to construct an organic flow between seemingly unrelated sounds in order to show the value – and fun – of versatility.

Upload w_ Xen Model & Freestyler

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BEAUTY GOD BEAT

Type: EP
Format: Digital
Releasedate: May 14th
Cat. number: SLA25
Artwork: Oliva Rawlings
Master: Norman Orro

If you listen to the breeze long enough, a song will emerge.
The air hangs on the cusp of rapture.
It will have you foraging in existential void, identity-gardening for a better future...
realworlding.

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Hiding in relative obscurity, Music For Your Plants – the sonic environment tended by Tallinn's Norman Orro – originated in late 2000s as a library-music-obsessed prog-rock collective in the dusty attics of the Estonian Academy of Arts. The project has since shed its initial kraut-informed sprawl, evolving through junglist, breakbeat hyperstitions toward a sort of post-anthropocene chamber music: densely layered, rhythmically unstable, and emotionally euphoric.

MFYP maintains a fascination with nonhuman perspectives and systems,
expressing this through forgotten esoteric plugins or operating 90’s hardware with the casual precision of someone peeling particularly stubborn fruit. Despite surface affinities with ambient or post-club sonics, Orro’s output eschews the genre’s more pristine tendencies. MFYP’s productions are texturally grainy, often abrasive in detail – the residue, perhaps, of early-digital workflows and a background in tape-saturated, longform rock improvisation.

Where Hassell sought hybrid utopias, MFYP’s trajectory leads deeper into what Orro has referred to as “Fifth World sonics,” creating a deliberate babel of "world musics" – sometimes deploying reflective detachment, elsewhere earnestly attempting to reconfigure music for an age where the concept of "world" is in crisis. This approach, crystallised on the 2013 Humanity EP, helped cohere the “eco grime” microgenre through holographic, deconstructed folktronics and mutations of UK bass DNA.

On Aeolian Software, we find bit-crushed fretwork and pop-leaning structures, if only briefly gasping for air. MFYP’s current phase appears concerned with breath and density, melodic cells surfacing through mist before dissolving again – as if uncertain whether to take root or vanish.
New Age textures creep in sideways, only to be clipped by loose 2-step scaffolding, while vocal trance fragments pockmark the air like overheard dreams. Somewhere between the PS2 boot sequence and a pan-global spiritual, it's panglossia for the post-everything listener.

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