Refractions

Dub Protection & The Sportswear Mystics

Dub Protection (feat. Emma-Jean Thackray)

Taken from SBKT040: Yen Tech - Assembler

Release date: 28th May 2021

With Assembler, his second full-length album, Yen Tech re emerges in ecstatic and primordial new form -- a multi-layered and interwoven work that blends futuristic production, meta-science fiction, and anthropic critique into a dizzying array of next scenarios -- a maze-like vision of our technological and exponentially oracular, full-stack future.

This imagined future becomes a construct or place in itself; one in which the record buzzes and swarms; a mechanosphere of towering melodic vocal samples and sound design - all narrated by Yen Tech's unnerving, diaristic vocals - as he channels the form of post-human techno cretin, whispering hyperbolic ASMR to no one in particular. We follow this character from one disorienting experience to the next as he recites a stream of indecipherable neologisms and hyper-descriptives, the existential residue seeping from every line. In the end though, a strange, uneasy beauty comes into focus; the metamorphic lyrics and musical euphorias revealing Assembler as a type of elegy: a wet glass reflection of the failures of what we are and were - and a jubilant celebration of what we may become.

"I imagined Assembler as a type of self imposed simulation, an invisible boundary that the narrator has to navigate out of to move forward. It was a way of looking at how we may carry the issues and failures of the past with us into the future. The psychological baggage of history, the guilt of geotrauma, the addictive melange of technology all become dealt with in this stage of acceptance and recovery. I wrote the album with this in mind, a process to find the slimy pearl of who we are" - Yen Tech

All music and lyrics written by Yen Tech
Produced and arranged by Yen Tech
Vocals by Yen Tech
Additional vocals by Katy Townsend
Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Artwork and vinyl design by Johannes Schnatmann

Assembler

Yen Tech - Sentry

Diistemi

Siblings

The sixteenth chapter in World Canvas’ mix series comes from Copenhagen-based experimental artist and composer Xenia Xamanek. Having released under prolific Danish imprints such as Anyines and OUMPHFF, Xamanek has crafted an adventurous approach to composition and songwriting. 
On their mix for World Canvas, Xamanek presents songs from various different fields ranging from experimental hiphop to dembow-inspired rhythmical explorations. 

Cover art courtesy of the artist

@xeniaxamanek

World Canvas Mix 16: Xenia Xamanek

Slice Of Life

Written and Produced by Brian Leeds
Mastered by Anne Taegert
Design by Jonathan Castro Alejos - www.jonathancastro.pe

"Plonk VI" is taken from Huerco S.' Plonk LP
PREORDER: Vinyl 2x12"/CD/Digital:
huercosplonk.bandcamp.com/album/plonk
Out February 25th, 2022
INC-015

Huerco S.
huercosplonk.bandcamp.com/album/plonk

Incienso
www.inciensorecs.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/inciensorecs
www.incienso.nyc

Huerco S. - Plonk VI [INC-015]

Release: 23/08/2025
Artist: https://soundcloud.com/desertravenmusic
           https://www.instagram.com/desertravenmusic/#
           https://www.desertravenmusic.com/contact

Desert Raven - Peace be with you (Original mix)

Sometimes Dimensional Dissonance is all you need.

Trigonometric

Systeme Biotic-Symbiotic Echo [Dark Nature Concept]

Niagara - Jordão

Individual track download free via bandcamp - pls check buy link.

Dinosaur Shakedown

Gay Harder

Shayu 'A Still Present'

"On “A Still Present,” Shayu immerses the listener in a hi-def landscape of icy synths and deep, multiform percussion. Processed vocal samples cut through the layers of rhythm, transporting the listener into a hypnotic, club reverie. Shayu’s strength lies in her ability to balance floating, ethereal atmospherics with profound low-end and hybridized drum programming. “A Still Present”arrives as a strong first installment in the simulate series and a testament to Shayu’s vivid, cutting-edge sound design."

http://sbvrsv.press/premiere-shayu-a-still-present/

Written and produced by Shayu.
Mastered by Noboru Okuda.
Artwork by Daiki Miyama and David M. Romero.

Shayu - A Still Present

CLMxGUN is happy to present Chain of Whispers, a two-fold EP exploring further collaborative production processes. Like a murmur in the wind, a secret being delivered from ear to ear, it is born from a playful approach to sound manipulation and its transformation when passed from one hand to another. An embodiment of how music can be altered by each and every contribution.

Through a defined set of constraints based on the Telephone game, the concept is simple : each successive track is a remix of the previous one, and the contributors could not hear what was done before them. So on and so forth. A continuous cycle of appropriation and re-interpretation.

From this experiment resulted two 7-track EPs, two chains which gathered 11 artists, each with their own identity and their own input. With each new link in the chain, the sound mutates, speeds up or slows down - some of its elements are exacerbated, while others are concealed or juxtaposed to new ones. 

The first chain welcomes Désiré, HeedLess, indigoblue, Lithe, migu, and SNKLS. It starts from soothing bells and angelic voices to end up with rhythmic patterns and sharp impacts. A journey through a collective world with its own soundscapes and wonders.

++ TRACKLIST ++

01. migu - Leha
02. HeedLess - Leha-01
03. indigoblue - Reminiscent Stitch
04. Désiré - Trève
05. SNKLS - Ripple
06. Lithe - Gabba Charm
07. migu - Lost Item

++ CREDITS ++

Visuals by k095c
https://www.instagram.com/k095c

Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta

Tracks produced by Désiré, HeedLess, indigoblue, Lithe, migu, SNKLS
https://soundcloud.com/desirbonaventure https://soundcloud.com/heedlessmusic https://soundcloud.com/indigoblue97 https://soundcloud.com/lithetrax https://soundcloud.com/miguzo https://soundcloud.com/snakeleserpent

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SNKLS - Ripple

CR 19-11-20 Estoc & Know V.A

Artist: @laughingears
Catalogue Number: IM086
Album: Blood
Release Date: February 26th, 2021
Format: Digital

Laughing Ears is poised to release her second LP this January via club music vanguards, Infinite Machine. Her lengthiest offering to date, Blood consists of 10 tracks that highlight Laughing Ears’s knack for building otherworldly atmospherics within club-ready, dance music structures. Taking the tale of Fenrir as it’s starting point, (a giant wolf in Norse mythology who spent much of his life bound and chained to a rock in captivity), the album conceptually deals with family ties and the melancholic beauty that can be found in the darkness of loss.

Blood opens with the airy, gliding synths and heavy drumwork of Flickering Shadows. The track has a unique sense of space due its wide stereo-imaging as well as Laughing Ears’ haunting melodies and driving rhythms. A 100bpm creeper fit for exploring uncharted virtual lands. On the following track, Loki, things are stripped back to their functional essentials. Tabla hits, bass pluses and strange whistles brush up against each other in a head-spinning assemblage before surging towards a climactic resolution.

The serene Untouched Places showcases Laughing Ears’ unique approach to melody and harmony. With a background in singing herself, her synths lines here seem to tonally intertwine, like vocal DNA, veering from harmonious and dissonant phases. Compared to the tranquility of Untouched Places, LP title-track, Blood, moves the record in a more intense direction. A brick wall of compressed percussion and humanoid-sung samples seem to battle it out for the listener’s attention in an enthralling sonic confrontation.

On Blood’s mid-point, Night Whisps, the producer’s love for the thrilling soundtracks of Satoshi Kon’s anime movies definitely comes through clearly. Bass drones claustrophobically reverberate around the mix - acting as a musical backbone that a wide array of staccato samples are stitched onto. Next up, Murderous Means, as its blood-thirsty title suggests, is a brutal and hard-hitting club track that’ll keep listeners guessing as the composition twists and turns. The song’s furious, ever-evolving drum patterns create mesmerizing rhythms you can’t help but bob your head to.

The polyrhythms continue on the following piece, Buona Fortuna. Like footwork, a genre she looks to for inspiration, on Buona Fortuna, the main groove is built out of a disparate family of drum samples which work in tandem - much like how individual dots of an Impressionist painting cooperate to form a single, concrete image. Laughing Ears then slows things down slightly with Glimmer, which sees the producer mix the low end stylings of UK Funky with strung out horns and gong hits.

On Potcheen, the longest of the record, Laughing Ears ambitiously constructs a track that starts from curious, ambient beginnings before morphing into a ferocious footwork-infused banger. Rounding off the release, Warm as A Lizard is a groove-laided drum freakout, crammed full of dense textures which build into a tonal fever pitch.

Artwork by Nic Symbios
Mastered by Fausto Mercier

Blood

Laughing Ears - Flickering Shadows

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Laughing Ears - Flickering Shadows

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