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Preorder : https://wheretonow.bandcamp.com/album/slow-drift

Artist : Orlando FitzGerald
Title : Slow Drift
Cat : WTN69
Format : Limited, hand stamped & stickered LP with unique Tyre Print PVC sleeve / Digital
Release Date : 09.09.22

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Sleeve design by Liam Cosford

Where To Now? are proud to present the new album from Irish born, NY based Orlando FitzGerald. Previously recording as ‘Orlando’, FitzGerald has released music via ‘Local Action’, ‘Gobstopper’, and All City affiliated label ‘First Second’. Where Orlando’s previous works have focused on the dance floor, here we see a pivot towards a Cello led sound which embraces experimentation, space, and solitude.

FitzGerald's approach to music is born from punk, and he carries this DIY approach towards the weighty world of the Cello. With no formal training FitzGerald instead takes an intuitive approach, quietly seeking out expression and treating his sounds to create a unique basin of tension, warmth, and paced release. With percussive contributions from Matthew Byas (of Phony Ppl), restrained Sax skronk from the brilliant Kate Mohanty, synth work from Evan Shornstein (also known as Photay), and vocals from none other than NY Post-Punk legend Anna Domino, FitzGerald has created a cinematic record that moves between worlds of unnerving dread, and lush, hopeful melancholy.

‘Slow Drift’ opens with the unsettling ‘Infinite Life’, where layered Cello and Sax murmur set the scene and accompanying bass rattle evokes the feeling of mechanical motor drift. This melding of the mechanical and organic will become a central theme to the album. ‘Anticipate The Heat’ follows, with the album's most Jazzwise moment - where Byas' scattered hand drums punctuate Mohanty’s mellow flutters.

‘Wind’ is where we find Orlando at his most cinematic and melodic, presenting a serene, bubbling movement where hushed picking and restrained playing recalls the quiet ambience of Helios, or the melancholy of Bruce Langhorne at his most desert swept, staring into an endless horizon.

‘Unfolding’ opens with Anna Domino’s unmistakably fragile, sensual, and affecting vocals, for which the Cello compliments in call and response fashion, allowing Anna’s vocals to lead, creating a moment which appears to explore themes of regeneration, loss, and hope - which again, is refracted and responded to by Orlando.

Next we have a triptych of ‘Grid’ movements, which continue to explore the above themes, drifting between meditative minimalism and abstract discordance with hypnotic effect - Orlando approaches these pieces with such considered interplay, fully embracing space, silence, and cyclical repetition to create a devastatingly emotive, and desolate landscape, which continuously attempts to regain focus, yearning for stillness.

Finally the album ends with "One" a meditation on wholeness and unity where moody, yet serene guitars balance wailing cello.

Orlando FitzGerald - Unfolding (Ft. Anna Domino)

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??? - ???
DJ JM - Razor
Doctor Jeep - Key Activation
Dj Delish - Pass That Cunt
RVSHES - IXX
K-Hand - Sound 6
General Ludd - Making Strange
Ryvahl - Protopattern
DJ Booman - Freeze (Gipsy Trax Edit) 
DJ Tameil - Rude Boy Giddy Up
Grain - A1
Illumination Boyz - My Way Home
Rene Wise - Tell Me
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Felix K - Why Are You In This Prison ?
Fastliner - Race Of Robots
Nikki Nair - Exp1
Back In Da Dayz - Work Da Box
DJ Boss - Try This
??? - ???
Basic Channel - Season Pass 4 D-Nest 
Le Dom - ???
Unknown Artist - Rockin' Mofos
DJ T-1000 - Push
dBridge - Digital Dread
Warehouse Rave - Ouija Riddem
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Greg - Dembow Tronico (Simo Cell Remix)
Maara - Princess Express
Lu2K - ???
Fireground - United
Araabmuzik - Suzie Q
J:Kenzo - Ricochet VIP
Fadi Mohem - Release
F&E - Spell

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Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 132
Release Date: 05 May 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/GerminaPopulationofBuildings

On her sophomore album "Germ in a Population of Buildings”, upsammy moves through her surroundings with the curiosity of a place-bending landscape architect. The album is rooted in her interest for ambiguous environments in constant shift, and the feeling of discovering strange patterns in different ecosystems. Often, the Amsterdam-based artist finds herself zooming in and out beyond a place's most recognizable surface features to inhabit the microscopic and gigantic. Gathering field recordings and evocative environmental sounds, she shapes this source material into vibrating electro-acoustic rhythms and unstable, psychedelic textures.

upsammy's debut album, 2020's critically-acclaimed "Zoom", was praised for its careful reimagining of IDM, evolving vignettes that nodded towards the dancefloor without being shackled to its rigid set of rules. On "Germ in a Population of Buildings" her process has evolved considerably; the skeletal trace of IDM is still present but it's been trapped in amber, allowing her unique sonic landscape to develop organically. 'Being is a Stone' is a proof of concept in many ways, layering upsammy's contorted voice in rickety patterns beneath a lattice of fragile rhythms and faintly melancholy synths. It's never immediately obvious where the sounds are coming from - a hiccuping beat might be glass cracking underfoot, and larger pulses could be wet concrete, rusted iron or bent plastic. As the sounds develop they morph into each other, demolishing what came before and building on top of the ornamental wreckage.

On the dynamic 'Constructing', upsammy's sound design fluxes through hyperactive bass music structures, abstracting expectations at every turn. Often her sounds are whisper quiet, rattling and vibrating until heavier masonry drops and disrupts the structure. And when discernible rhythms subside into the background, like on the album's eerie title track, they become almost illusory, morphing between the real world and the electronic. upsammy's processed voice works like a bridge between these realms, snaking between stark, whimsical melodies on 'Patterning', arching from AutoTuned detachment into cooing, dreamy intimacy. By considering the harmonies between each location she's visited, upsammy has been able to build a unique topology that's an uncanny digital amalgam of her lived experience. It's a thoughtful alternative in an era more concerned with flatting the landscape than crumpling it and examining its peaks and troughs.

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Mixed by James Ginzburg
Artwork by Jonathan Castro Alejos and Tharim Cornelisse

Germ in a Population of Buildings

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@madikoptah - selektorka, słuchaczka, dumna reprezentantka kolektywu artystycznego @regime-brigade. W swoich setach stawia na basowe połamane brzmienia, które przeplata ze wszystkim, w czym znajdzie rezonującą z nią energię. Ostatnio mocno zczilowała i chętnie eksploruje wolniejsze odsłony muzyki elektronicznej. Na antenie Radia Kapitał ptowadzi audycję BASSKET, w której łączy swoje różne zajawki.

@madikoptah - a selector, listener, proud representative of the @regime-brigade artist collective. In her sets, Madikoptah focuses on bass-driven broken sounds, which are matched with  anything  she finds energy resonating with her. Lately she's been focusing on chiller sounds, and is eager to explore slower forms of electronic music. Feel free to check her program called Bassket on Radio Capital, where she presents the tunes she is currently listening to.

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Pre-order: https://maloca.bandcamp.com/album/siiix-vol-1

Brussels-based label @malocarecords presents 'SIIIX, Vol.1', a compilation-turned-collaborative EP showcasing a dialogue between HIIIT (fka percussion ensemble Slagwerk Den Haag) and six producers - shimmering between footwork, IDM, UK bass and ambient.

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Ikävä Pii - Paradigms -++
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A fancy press release text here. A big concept. The usual tags, buzzwords, adjectives. Post-facto meaning, retroactive motives. Tropes for easy consumption, categories for easy detection. Some big DJ played it out! It's forward-thinking - yet the usual.
Or, left turns, fuckups, new experiments, old loves.
Lyrics, words, good ideas, desires, tea, fears, memes, questions, wrong answers, bad ideas.
No interesting sound was ever made by playing it safe.
Have fun you coward :)

҉p҉҉a҉҉r҉҉a҉҉d҉҉i҉҉g҉҉m҉҉s҉ ҉l҉҉o҉҉r҉҉e҉҉c҉҉o҉҉r҉҉e҉ ҉d҉҉e҉҉e҉҉p҉҉f҉҉a҉҉k҉҉e҉҉s҉ ҉s҉҉t҉҉e҉҉r҉҉e҉҉o҉҉t҉҉y҉҉p҉҉e҉҉s҉ ҉c҉҉l҉҉i҉҉c҉҉h҉҉e҉҉s҉ ҉c҉҉o҉҉s҉҉p҉҉l҉҉a҉҉y҉҉s҉ ҉d҉҉r҉҉a҉҉w҉ ҉t҉҉h҉҉e҉ ҉l҉҉i҉҉n҉҉e҉ ҉f҉҉u҉҉c҉҉k҉ ҉u҉҉p҉ ҉b҉҉u҉҉t҉ ҉w҉҉i҉҉t҉҉h҉ ҉g҉҉r҉҉a҉҉c҉҉e҉

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