Exploited Body - When My Darkness Came To Light

Following releases on Posh Isolation and Northern Electronics, Exploited Body returns to his label Changeless to present his ambitious debut album 'When My Darkness Came To Light'.  
  
'When My Darkness Came To Light' is a subdued yet unrelentingly volatile record that examines the inescapable parallels of his depression and life as a black person. On his first solo release since 2019's 'Touching Without Feeling', his signature blistering distortion is contrasted with delicate melodies and heart-wrenching compositions that are at once deceivingly captivating and staggeringly harsh.  
  
’When My Darkness Came To Light’ will be released 9th April via Changeless.  
  
The album is written, produced, mixed and mastered by Noah Kin and features artwork by the visionary LA-based mixed-media artist Jesse Draxler and photography by Changeless affiliated Helsinki-based photographer Helen Korpak.

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When My Darkness Came To Light

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Taken from the album 'The Horgenaith' out 15 July 2022 on Illegal Data

Bristol’s Sarahsson is a force to behold. A composer, producer, performance artist and DJ, her intricate work is a visceral expression of divine queerness and her experience with synaesthesia.

Originally hailing from Exeter, when she moved to London she discovered a queer community that hadn’t been present in her hometown and so began to explore the rejection of genres and the dissolution of gender. Drained by the male dominance in electronic music, Sarahsson’s first forays into more experimental sounds and parties helped direct her own personal journey—exploring the feminine, synaesthesia and blurring the lines between binaries.

Inspired as much by the natural world as she is by gore and harsh noise, Sarahsson fuses elements of classical music with metal, experimental electronics and hardcore. Her debut LP The Horgenaith explores themes which Sarahsson equates with queerness: “Transmutation, embodying contradicting parts of oneself,” she says. “Finding familiarity in difference is a lot of what queerness is about for me”. A multi-dimensional commentary on “femininity's cultural proximity throughout history to nature and rediscovering the body as a landscape, its constant state of flux and transience.”

Joining label alumni AYA, Kai Whiston, Emily Glass and more, Sarahsson’s signing to Illegal Data is a testament to her unique sonic offering and her visually arresting live performance, which involves classical and contemporary instrumentation and various audio interfaces.

With a grant from Saffron Records she also spent time at a woodwork studio building her own Daxophone, a wildly curious bowed instrument, and rejected pre-made samples, choosing to create her own instead. Field recordings of marsh reeds and whispers become percussion atop the blasting sound of crushing waste removal machines.

A truly special voice in the current climate of electronic music, Sarahsson brings together her unique ear for melody, rich textural harmony and dramatic narratives to achieve something genuinely awe inspiring and timeless on her debut LP. Creating a piece of work so honest and nurturing yet accessible and open, it raises open questions rather than dishing out rigid statements.

On her emotionally charged sound Sarahsson says: “I'm trying to reach a very specific feeling. One tiny point in the middle of a nuclear explosion where everything happens all at once, bittersweet and fierce, a moment when opposites collide into one. The nexus point.”

Having already performed in parts of the UK and Europe with the likes of Lyra Pramuk, Oklou, Swan Meat etc. and as part of a SOPHIE tribute show for Club Quarantine in 2021, Sarahsson now has her sights set on bringing her album to a live setting across Europe and the rest of the world.


Tracklist:
01. Ancient Dildo Intro
02. Tonsil Pearls
03. Lacing The Well
04. I Am The Earth
05. Perennium (Reprise)
06. Orchidectomy
07. A Selfish Tryst
08. Swallow
09. Cladonia Hymnal

Sarahsson - I Am The Earth

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Bridget Ferrill & Áslaug Magnúsdóttir, 'Metal Slug Sings' (2022). Courtesy Subtext Recordings.

To be released on Genot Centre on March 19 (tape & digital).
Pre-order now → https://genot.bandcamp.com/album/misinput-tycoon

On Misinput Tycoon (GEN052), https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier returns to Genot Centre with an album full of intricately engineered, futuristic sound explorations. Quirky, syncopated, even grimy melodies emerge between sounds reminiscent of cinematic automatic sliding doors, plasma-filled light cannons and full-spectrum boot-up sounds. The approach is bio-mimetic, elastic, fizzy, accelerating and decelerating, like listening to a process of wringing out an artificial fabric, or rupturing ultra-light fibrous materials in incredible resolution. More than ever, this album is littered with colorful, even contemplative segments: having an orchestrated, playful feeling. But make no mistake: more than mere intermezzos, this only a further dimension of the album's depth, the bright timbres ready to interface with a stroboscopic, liquid, granular counterpoint at any time.

// Roland Nagy (https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier) about GEN052
“I’m constantly watching pixels since I was 5. This album reflects wasted time and digital traumas. MISINPUT TYCOON is a sequel of my FULLSCREEN album from 2019 (also on Genot) - a sonic playground that feels much safer to me compared to my previous works. Also, it's the first album I made without hearing „What would XY think about this track?” in my head. These are my hymns for healing from the digital core - hope it will help.”

// BIO
Roland Nagy (he/him) is a Hungarian sound engineer, ex-media arts student and producer. Ever since 2016 he has released music under https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier moniker on labels like on EXILES, Kaer‘Uiks, Pointless Geometry, Infinite Machine or Genot Centre. His work in the field of electronic music production, while resonating with hardcore digital culture and bouncy rhythmic heaviness, is closely connected to his fascination for natural soundscapes and their fractal nature. In particular, Nagy skillfully manages to depict a violent, tense world populated of minuscule yet grand sound variations, intertwined in a web of apparently chaotic textures. He was part of Shape Platform roster in 2020.

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From Voronhil • Pantomima

ACT01_ GETTING TO KNOW (●´⌓`●)
ACT02_ HARD SLEEP, SWEET DREAMS ❤꒰ღ˘‿˘ற꒱❤
ACT03_ MEETING GIANTS, TRYING TO FORGET ( ఠൠఠ )
ACT04_ BY SCRAPING TAME THEM (づ ◕‿◕ )づ
ACT05_ MAYBE A WAY OUT, MAYBE A WAY IN …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ

Chronological order slice of life
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@treglia - Untitled (feat. Inef Coupe)

"I’m so happy to announce the follow up to my album On Wax Shores is set to be released on formforum on September 23rd. A huge thanks to Inef Coupe, and S280F for their collaborations on this project. As well as a big thanks to Dagger and Warren for their work on the cover artwork. Lastly, thank you formforum for your unwavering support of my music."

FF is proud to announce, and to be releasing, Treglia's second album on the label. Treglia is a composer residing in Los Angeles, California . His dreamlike soundscapes feature organic textures, synthesizers, and poetry.

Treglia - Untitled 
01 Untitled
02 Untitled (feat. Inef Coupe)
03 Untitled 
04 Untitled (feat. S280F)

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Treglia - Untitled (feat. Inef Coupe)

Omb Extrusus

Self Rape(I DON'T CARE MIX)

I TRIED TO TELL YA SOMETHIN' THRU THIS FUCKING PHONE (1st version demo)

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Ship Sket - England as a Succubus out 7th June 2024
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ID001 -  Various Artists - Compilation #1
ID002 - TEEN - TEEN EP
ID003 - Various Artists - Compilation #2
ID004 - Zoee - Flaw Flower LP
ID005 - Sarahsson - The Horgenaith LP 
ID006 - Zoee - Moonflower EP
ID007 - Swan Meat - Blood Supernova Remixed EP
ID008 - Ship Sket - England as a Succubus EP

Sarahsson - I Am The Earth

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