Amsterdam, 1982. Smoke fills the streets, squatters clash violently with the police, uprising is in the air. In this disorderly mess, the worlds of activism, art, fashion, and nightlife converged into an explosion of creativity. Amidst all of this Electric Party, the brainchild of René van Rijn, released the ‘Work’ tape on Amsterdam label Fetisj, now a cult cassette for the few who remember.

Forty years ago they created this unique blend of no wave, mutant disco, funk, and experimental music. It was around the time of the rise of the members-only club Mazzo, with all its prominent figures, the anarchy of the squatting movement, and the art academy connection. Everything took place in this inebriated twilight zone of blissful joy.

This record consists of 3 of the best tracks from the ‘Work’ tape and 6 unreleased tracks from forgotten cassette tapes, all remastered and restored where necessary. Among them the unreleased anthem ‘Caribe’, which was recorded in Spain as the opening track for a Spanish discotheque in 1987.

We worked 4 years to tie the strings together and we’re more than excited to release it, with its marvelous background story, well captured in liner notes written by Hannah Pezzack, and printed on a full-color inner sleeve.

Re-mastered by Wouter Brandenburg and designed by Steele Bonus. And special thanks to Marco van Dalfsen from Diggin' Demos for his help and dedication in the process of finding Electric Party. Get his Work cassette, a hardcopy fanzine, and bonus tracks at: bit.ly/3tCclN2

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@bunzinelli

release date: october

Ladakh

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Dummy Hands first release comes from former @noodsradio resident dj_2button (@darktides). Now based in Vancouver, ‘Transient Communications’ is the artist’s vinyl debut and a fine collection of low light scuzz and paranoid grooves.

Transient Communications

dj_2button - Transient Communications [Dummy Hand]

Buy at: luridmusic.bandcamp.com

Alex from Lurid Music:

'Aggelos first approached Lurid Music with the idea for this project a few months ago. We agreed on one condition, that all proceeds be donated to refugee causes, like we did with his Black Sea EP which supported the Syrian refugee crisis. When Russia invaded Ukraine, we decided our focus had to be helping the Ukrainian refugees who were forced to leave their homes in search of safe havens abroad.

We discussed this with most contributors to the project and the consensus was that donations should strictly go to humanitarian groups and not any armament funds. There were also some thoughts about helping conflict-affected peoples in other parts of the world but we decided it was too much to tackle for a relatively small project like this one.

Therefore, donations stemming from the sales of this release will be distributed to the following humanitarian groups currently active in Ukraine or neighboring countries welcoming refugees:

- International Medical Corps: internationalmedicalcorps.org/emergency-…n-ukraine/
- Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights - Ukraine Urgent Response Fund: urgentactionfund.org
- Polish Humanitarian Action: www.pah.org.pl/en/donate/
- World Central Kitchen: wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
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released April 1, 2022

Original tracks written and produced by Aggelos Baltas.

Remix duties handled by the following, thank you for bringing your "A game" to this project: A Hand, Adhémar, Aditya Permana, Anna vs June, Ayaz, Black Seed, Bunzinelli, BXP, Cantillate, Christian Coiffure, DimDJ, Facets, Frank Butters, GK Machine, Infuso Giallo, Itzel, Jacques Satre, Krokakai, Komodo, Koyil, Misha Sultan, Mr. TC, NVST, Pannotia, Petros Spatharos, Philipp Otterbach, Poperttelli, Sepehr, Skynet 75, A Strange Wedding, Sun Genam, Tadan, Tagliabue, Tassilo Vanhöfen, T.D.O.S., Théo Muller, Vidock, YNV, Zillas On Acid.

We were fortunate to receive pro bono contributions from four highly-esteemed mastering engineers: Taylor Dupree (www.12kmastering.com), Brian Kage (kagemastering.squarespace.com), Dietrich Schoenemann (completemastering.com) and Tim Vitek (timvitekmastering.com). We are thankful for their meticulous work, especially to Dietrich for enlisting his fellow engineers to help with the massive remix load, 44 tracks are definitely too much for one person to listen to in such a short span.

The artwork was provided by Bill Brown, a Maryland native who lives and works in Ukraine. When the war started, he made his way safely to Germany via Poland. This illustration is an homage to Maria Prymachenko’s “May That Nuclear War be Cursed!”, which also inspired the title of this release. You can follow him on Instagram at www.instagram.com/takomabill/.

T-shirt screen printing was kindly provided by Nolan, a grindcore bassist from Washington DC. You can follow him on Instagram at www.instagram.com/malokul202/'

Vol.2

Depths Of the Black Sea (Anatolian Weapons w/ Black Seed)

BANDCAMP

Exhausted Modern - Out 4 tha Count

Distorted sword-synth together with crunchy broken groove and sharp snare are the perfect combo to create a safe dancefloor.

@camboja is a London-Turin based duo devoted to bass, rave and sound system music. Their sound focuses on analog chaos, rhythmic hypnosis and dystopia. They collaborate with several experimental collectives, such as Sagome and Pho Bho records.

Pho Beat Bazar Vol. 2

Camboja - Safe Word

Voluminous Arts happily announces its third official release, a 12 track digital album and accompanying 3xLP limited 3 color vinyl edition entitled “Disco” by Gavilán Rayna Russom’s elusive alias Black Meteoric Star. 

This is not a Disco record. The title deliberately troubles the music biz’s incessant tendency to hierarchize genre classification over the experience of listening. If you must categorize these mutant sounds think of them as a proposed alternate score for those long, caffeinated sessions in Abby Sciuto’s forensics lab, the soundtrack to a heavy workout in the Westchester Danger Room or perhaps the musical accompaniment to deep body investigations of your own ancestral memories. 

What this record really is, and why it’s called “Disco” has to do with the layering of time and life energy present in the spaces where we have traditionally danced to music which are sometimes called Discos. From the pounding urgency of “Muscle Machine” through the unbridled night vision romp that is “Fluid Feline Forms” and the shimmering investigations of “Whispers Between Worlds” to the extended lazer pointer focus of “I’m Unmelting” this record lays out a broad slab of practice-based research into the ghosts we connect with on the dance floor. Whether it be through partying in former industrial buildings, contested spaces of labor built on lands violently appropriated from indigenous people, uncomfortably inhabiting vacuums in queerness left by the AIDS epidemic, lifting lineages through sampling, or the relentless cycle of whitening that accompanies dance music’s march into the market, our experiences in the Disco have been permeated by the spectral and the haunted. Through rhythm and frequency, organized over time, this music blurs the veil between the living and the dead inviting those who move to it to connect with experiences beyond that false binary. 

What you have here is another fantastic Black Meteoric Star record, as always made without multitracking or overdubbing, recorded directly from single live takes. It is is utterly consistent with all that name has come to mean, but on “Disco” Black Meteoric Star’s vision has been allowed to expand into an almost mythologically epic space. Ancestral time works differently. Settle in and absorb the frequencies. As the closing track suggests, the virtual Disco these sounds evoke is for “Freaks Only”.

Disco

Muscle Machine

Black Meteoric Star - Muscle Machine

All music and production by: In Atlas

Painting: Michael Kvium

Perseids

SD001


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SD001

Buy on TAJR BANDCAMP

Branislav Jovan čević from Belgrade has created something deep, dark and beautiful for his first release and we are honored to welcome him here on DISK! All 4 tracks take it easy at first but will not let you off the hook until they are done with you!
They’re gonna drag you down far below that surface of the flickering chirrs where that summer night felt still warm and snug.

https://soundcloud.com/k6r
https://soundcloud.com/d1sk

PRÈMIÉRE: Kӣr  -  Negentropia [Disk]

@spillgold
This is the first single from the upcoming album ‘Highway Hypnosis’, to be released 16 November on Knekelhuis.
Spill Gold is a two-piece from Amsterdam, that excels in crafty songwriting and alienating catchiness, creating a world of repetitive, transcendental soundwaves in the process. They’re a great addition to the versatile nature of Knekelhuis and we’re happy they join our family.

All music by Rosa Ronsdorf & Nina de Jong
Produced by Roy van Rosendaal
Mastered by Wouter Brandenburg
Artwork and cover design by Jacob Hoving
Distributed by Rush Hour

Highway Hypnosis

Spill Gold - Highway Hypnosis [Knekelhuis]

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//bookings: alexalliverti@gmail.com

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V.V.I.A.(@womenofvvia) with @venusvolcanism

Perseids

In Atlas

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