Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound Releases

https://exterminador.bandcamp.com/album/sadistic-tendencies-volume-1

06 - Ryan James Ford - Sever Dural

@lasha-chkhaidze-648696435

As the legend says, Agartha is a lost kingdom, located in the earth’s core.
Only the bravest found courage to go to the journey to find it.
As you go deeper, the road gets darker, scarier… The journey to Agartha symbolizes the journey to the untraveled parts of human consciousness, which often frightens us, but as we observe and heal our dark parts we no longer need to compress and hide them. Facing our main fears will make our road mor adventurous, and one day the whole journey will become a tale. Tale of a man who found the lost kingdom of Agartha.

The Institute is happy to present a newcomer in its ranks: Lasha Chkhaidze, one of the 13 members of collective "If Strangers." Georgia is home to melancholia and many exciting musicians, something we have shown in many of our previous releases. Lasha’s first album is part of this theme.

These six tracks gently pull you into a subtle and immersive journey. Listen and soon you find yourself pulled into the beauty of sadness - surrounded by these carefully crafted soundscapes which offer a perfect opportunity for a moment of introspection. The young Georgian delivers ambient and piano at its finest on this first LP.

Agartha

Lasha Chkhaidze - Agartha LP

@Banusound - TransSoundScapes LP

South-east Turkey born DJ, sound artist and producer Banu uses music as a political tool. For her, the strong message carried through sound is a vehicle to express emotions as well as a means of fighting against oppression. Using participation, social design, ecology, feminist and queer theory to create multimedia installations with sound as a main element, Banu‘s practice is closer to contemporary art and activist spaces than the club realm.

Banu‘s debut album TransSoundScapes is an exercise in female solidarity between her as a migrant woman and her sisters from the trans community, where an artist from one marginalised group is showing support towards her trans sisters, using her platform to help them amplify their voices and building a bridge towards a mutual understanding of femininity.

Conceptually, TransSoundScapes comes in continuation of Banu‘s previous research-based work, using music as a positive tool for change while working with various marginalised communities. The album originated from the very real experience of being confronted with verbal harassment in Berlin on a daily basis, particularly aimed at her transfeminine friends and companions. As a queer woman of Turkish and Kurdish origin, Banu did not only observe the verbal aggression directed at her friends, but also understood most of the insults shouted in languages such as Arabic. Seeing how she got significantly more verbal violence directed at them when in company of trans people made a lasting impression on her, so she wanted to try and use her relative privilege to amplify transfeminine voices through her music.

Coming from a very conservative family, making music has been her lifelong dream. It was the moment she had the opportunity to work with the iconic Arp 2600 synthesiser (a younger sibling to Eliane Radigue‘s infamous 2500 machine) that all her disparate interests came into place to create an empowering soundscape with the aid of analogue drum machines. TransSoundScapes has a very full, porous sound, where every element that comes into play sounds soft yet clear. Across the 7 tracks, Banu conjures pounding subterraneous bassy techno („Surgery“), slithering tentacular EBM („First Time“) and pulsating cavernous soundscapes („Harem“), where oversized dance-floor elements are woven with poetic spoken word passages, resulting in sensusous yet political anthems. Banu artfully merges loosely related genres such as techno, electro, dub and sound poems into a sound that is at once deeply personal and extremely compelling.

All of the tracks are collaborative efforts, Banu seeing the process as an exchange of care and shared experiences, while integrating research into her writing process. The lyrics in „Transition (part 1+2)‘‘ are an adaptation of Sara Ahmed’s “Living a Feminist Life”, while „Surgery“ was born out of series of interviews with trans people, channeling the metallic sounds of a surgery room to refer to society‘s perception of transness as a medical condition. Tracks like „First Time feat. Patricia“, „Harem feat. Prince Emrah“ or „We feat. Aérea Negrot“ document her encounters with various trans women, centering their life experiences while also developing a deep dialogue through the process of making music together.

The darkest and perhaps the most emblematic track is ‚‘Bianka (In Memory Of)‘‘, dedicated to the late Bianka Shigurova, a 22-year old Georgian actress found dead in her apartment. It was her Tbilisi photographer friend George Nebieridze who told her Bianka‘s tragic story, whose death is suspected to be an assasination due to transphobia. Banu chose one of Nebieridze‘s analogue photos of Bianka as the album‘s cover art.

TrasSoundScapes

BANU - TransSoundScapes LP

For our birthday episode, you can expect the techno fairies to visit ://about blank on February 11th. It will last 24 hours and be the opportunity to present the latest EP in our STAUB series. As usual it is a Various Artists released by Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound. These five tunes represent what you can hear at STAUB, music that ranges from leftfield to drum and bass, from ambient soundscapes to booming techno.

Once upon a time, a little girl felt something was missing in her life. She searched and looked everywhere in the world. As she longingly stared at the clear blue sky, she noticed puffy white trails behind airplanes. For days and nights she walked - sometimes ran - behind these sinister tracks made of vapor. Extraterrestrial entities seemed to blink in the darkest nights and approved of her mission. After a year she finally arrived at its source. When she asked around what it was, the answer was a word full of mysterious energy: STAUB.

Bandcamp

STAUB 007 (10 Years Compilation)

Schloss Mirabell - Requiem for Robots
@florinaspeth
played on Cello and two V2 Cello-1-robots


The Intergalactic Research Institute for Sounds is proud to present Requiem for Robots. For this latest transmission, Florina Speth aka Schloss Mirabell joined forces with a group of robots that were built by Kay Sievers (versioduo.com). The musical question this record states is: “Who animates what?”


The physical body of these robots consists of a wooden cuboid, a single string around which a round, internally strung bow revolves, and a motorized finger which can press down the string.  They produce sounds that are very similar to the cello. They display unusual characteristics such as motor noises, infinite sounds or sometimes scratchy and gruff qualities. In addition, there is the extraordinary level of kinetic expression created by the bow circling around the string. Taken together, precisely these peculiarities form a unique instrument profile, a character which is emphasized in the presented project.
Florina Speth, born 1983 in the mountains near Salzburg, started playing the cello and piano at the age of 6 and began studying music at the “University Mozarteum Salzburg'' at Clemens Hagen when she was 11. She won several prizes and was part of orchestras such as the Bayerisches Landesjugend Orchester and Salzburger Junge Philharmonie. Always keenly interested in contemporary music, she loves bridging experimental arts with science. She composes and works with cello and cello robots. She regularly collaborates with Dasha Rush, Hüma Utuku, Nicholas Bussmann, Lucile Desamory and Larissa Lackner.

V2 Cello-1-robots
The physical body of such a robot consists of a wooden cuboid, a single string around which a round, internally strung bow revolves, and a motorized finger which can press down the string. Various parameters such as bow speed, bow pressure, finger position and finger pressure can be controlled via MIDI. The robots produce sounds that are very similar to the sound of a cello or viola. Due to their physicality, they exhibit very unique and unusual characteristics such as motor noises, infinite sounds or sometimes scratchy, sometimes gruff qualities, which in turn differ from the usual string sound of a cello. In addition, there is the extraordinary level of kinetic expression created by the bow circling around the string. Taken together, precisely these peculiarities form a unique instrument profile, a character which is emphasized in the presented project.

Composition: Schloss Mirabell
Playing Cello and two V2 Cello-1-robots
Music robots: Versio Duo (V2)
Mixing: Jelle Akkerman
Mastering: Tim Rees (at Schnittstelle)
Artwork by: Florina Speth

Schloss Mirabell - Requiem for Robots

J. F.´s Journey

J. F.´s Jounrey

Lifeform 2034 - J. F.´s Journey

MICHAILO + IRAKLI - RELEASE (Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound 006)
@michailotodua & @irakliiy
A1. - Michailo + Irakli - Merme
A2. - Michailo + Irakli - Shrag Sibylline
B1. - Michailo + Irakli - Kult
B2. - Michailo + Irakli - Merion

Release Date: 15. 06. 2019
Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound 2019

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Open Letter to the Government of Georgia and Madam President Salome Zurabishvili

Dear Governing Class of Georgia and dear Madam President,

I hope you will allow me to first write my sincere greetings. I will spare you the J’accuse, but I am going to delve into a sinister and shameful situation for our otherwise beautiful country.

My name is Irakli Kiziria, I was born in Georgia and I am a musician living in Germany for almost two decades. I first heard about Michailo two years ago through friends and activists. I listened to his music and met him during an interview with Electronic Beats that happened in 2018. To be able to meet him in prison gave me the chance to exchange with him on different projects. It is not easy to collaborate with someone alienated from “regular” society, with no access to the internet and so on, but it is also very interesting. After almost a year, I am very happy and proud to announce that my label is ready to release our record on June 15th. I believe music is an expression of freedom and that Michailo expresses in his music his longing for it. Maybe if you listen to his music, you will hear the voice of our brothers and sisters in prison. Maybe you will feel and understand that he and many others do not belong there. Maybe you will find the courage to change these laws that hurt so many of our brethren. And maybe you will try to help them see their families and their friends sooner.

My name is Michail Todua, I am turning thirty-four this year and I was raised in Tbilisi. Music was always my passion since childhood, which is why I decided to work in this industry. Thirteen years ago I met a girl named Salome in a club, we fell in love and I married her before she gave birth to our daughter who is now nine years old. Sadly for the past six years, I have only talked to my little girl on the phone. She thinks I live very far away in the USA because we did not want to hurt her at such a young age with the truth. On September 12, 2013, while I was driving back to Tbilisi from holiday, I was randomly stopped and taken into the local police station. After which I was sentenced to nine years for possession of the drug MDMA (for personal use). After two years in jail, I was granted the right to work on music, and the penitentiary administration allowed me to arrange one room and transform it into a music studio. Music is one of the most important things in my life and I could not be without it. I collected various parts of music gear that people sent me. It was not easy, and I had to depend on the kindness of many people to get what I needed. During my time in prison, I have managed to release five records. This is a labor of love that I craft and work on during the 5-hour blocks of time I get five times a week in the studio. I have created music for a play based on 12 Angry Men and for the documentary Facility 16. I also offer music therapy for my fellow inmates.

Release

MICHAILO + IRAKLI - Release (IRIS006)

Roman artist Adiel joins forces with Northern Electronics co-founder Anthony Linell on new EP, 'Raso'. Hear the 909 kicks juxtaposed with ebbing ambience and haunted vocals on the A1 now.

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-adiel-anthony-linell-raso

Premiere: Adiel & Anthony Linell 'Raso'

Chikiss - Baby Bye (2020 Version)
+ Stanislav Tolkachev Remixes


Tracklist
A1. Chikiss - Baby Bye (2020 Version)
B2. Chikiss - Baby Bye (Stanislav Tolkachev Ambient Mix)

D. Chikiss - Baby Bye (Stanislav Tolkachev Remix)

Cat. Nr. IRIS008
Limited 7“: 150
Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound 008
2020


New technologies have affected the way we discover music. As much as I love crate digging, it was while browsing Bandcamp that I stumbled upon Baby Bye. The song caught my attention and as soon as I finished listening to it, I listened again and again, in what seemed to be an endless loop.
In my living room, images of a fireplace came to my mind, I was cozy while outside progressively turned into the landscape of Siberia. The unforgiving winter with its cold and darkness surrounded me, but I felt wrapped up in warmth and light.

I contacted Chikiss and invited her to play live at a STAUB. When I asked her if I could release her music, she offered to rerelease Baby Bye.
Being so in love with the song, I accepted instantly. When we started to work on the record, I realized I wanted to add something more, not just reissue a track. I feel sometimes we do not treat the things we love with enough respect. I feel fortunate to be given the chance to treat her music with the attention I thought she deserved in the first place.

That is why I asked Stanislav to remix the song. It may seem like an odd choice, but by doing so I brought together two of my favorite artists. This record means a lot to me and I sincerely hope you will appreciate it.


Remixes: Stanislav Tolkachev
Mastering: ManMade Mastering
Cover Image: Epiq Sty
Design / Concept: Irakli Kiziria

Baby Bye

Chikiss - Baby Bye + Stanislav Tolkachev Remixes (IRIS008)

Artists : Souls Tide Zone, 9beats, Nicolas Rifo, dc11, Mersel, Benabou
Title : Various Artists II
Catalogue : CWR006
Format : Digital
Country : France
Genre : Electronic
Style : Ambient / Deep-Techno / Techno
Release date : July 27th, 2020
Mastering : Vincent Villuis / Ultimae Studios
Artwork : Antonin Schéou-Archibald

Supported by A Thousand Details, Bruno Ledesma / Ledd, Condensed Utopia, Droneghost, Easy Morph, Hurtado, Inherent, Justine Perry, Kontinum, Krypt, Marnyc, Mechanist, Mental Resonance, Mila Dietrich, MTD, Slam, Paco Osuna, Paula Koski, Polygonia, Stefan Vincent, Svarog, Takaaki Itoh, The Alchemical Theory and many more...

Buy on Bandcamp : https://cosmicwaverecords.bandcamp.com/album/various-artists-ii

When we created the label in 2017, our idea was to push new talents and to create an artist community following our philosophy. The six tracks here describe well the universe we want to promote, raw, mental and sci-fi techno with a big attention to details and sound design.

The various starts with a close friend of the label Souls Tide Zone that show us another side of his project with a powerful ambient track “Oracle”. Then comes “Tembeling”, produced by one of the label manager 9beats, mixing sci-fi forest ambiance with a strong organic bassline. Third track “A.I.” is from the Lyon based DJ and composer Nicolas Rifo, fast rolling toms with a dark atmosphere will guide you on this one. The first part of the various shows that CWR is not intended to focus on one style but more on the emotion and ambiance of the tracks.

Second part starts with the parisian based modularist dc11 and his track “Electron”. He took our attention these last months, dropping really strong and precise techno that clearly match the label. Then comes “Supo x1000” from Mersel that will easily find a place on your sets. Last artist highlight on this release is Benabou with her track “Torment”, mixing analog percussions with a strong lead.

1.  Souls Tide Zone - Oracle (Original Mix)
2. 9beats - Tembeling (Original Mix)
3. Nicolas Rifo - A.I. (Original Mix)
4. dc11 - Electron (Original Mix)
5. Mersel - Supo x1000 (Original Mix)
6. Benabou - Torment (Original Mix)

CWR : www.facebook.com/cosmicwaverecords

Souls Tide Zone 
@souls-tide-zne

9beats
@9_beats

Nicolas Rifo
@nicorifo

dc11
@dc11music

Mersel
@merseltechno

Benabou
@benabou

Various Artists II

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Various Artists II [CWR006]

Limited Casette Mix "NONA TIS PARANOIAS" , for the tape series of Clandestine Records  @carl-clan-d 

Tracks by : @borusiade @uvbsoixanteseize @lfttrax @homva @303_420_666 and more

NONA TIS PARANOIAS - Limited Casette Tape

The excellent, St. Theodore joins the series for mix #063.

The Russian based DJ and producer is behind the Raw Union imprint and has had previous releases on the some of our favourite labels such as Land of Dance, Craigie Knowes, and Rotterdam Electronix, expertly crafting and outputting his EBM, acid filtered, cold-electro sound.


We're excited to be working alongside St. Theodore, on the split v/a 'Black Earth Strikes Back' with Sheepray & Larionov. Digital is available now via bandcamp, with 12" dropping end of November.

Listen -> 
'Black Earth Strikes Back'
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/Hr9M

Purchase -> 
'Black Earth Strikes Back'
https://hilltowndiscouk.bandcamp.com/album/hil008-black-earth-strikes-back


https://soundcloud.com/st_theodore

HD Mix #063 - St. Theodore

NYX RITUAL XXXII - PHILIPP STROBEL

Formerly one half of a live duo, Oliver emerged as a self-titled solo artist in 2016, an outlet for cold electronics conceived by London-based producer and DJ, @oliver_gibson. Oliver’s sonic interests lay in a non-purist approach, a resistance against convention. After teasing edits in his sets and a remix of R.L Crutchfield’s classic ‘No, Nothing, Never’ from Dark Day, Gibson made his debut in late 2020 with a 5-track ‘Knuckle Love’ EP on the Moralez run, @msqrecords including remixes by @flmmkr and Lander. His style is an intersection between Post-Punk, EBM, Darkwave, Industrial Techno and Rave. His session explores these and more, building up patiently over the mix. Lock in!

Includes tracks by @gavilanraynarussom, @maxabysmal, @msc_mvqx, @badfaithactor, @rnxrx, @ja-na-woodstock, @brxsdale, @richardgamble, Lander, @dario-dea [@theusmago remix], Dusty Idols, @melanoboy, @freybenedikt, @anatolianweapons, @deenaabdelwahed [ancient-methods remix], @kenny_campbell, @anifas, @morkentrcks, rhys fulber & portion control, @cyanidtechno, Dahlia, Mind | Matter, @doktor_blood, @thehorrorist [@bernhard-von-zorn remix], @daggatrx

Galactic Funk Podcast 017 - Oliver

https://soundcloud.com/mnemmett
https://soundcloud.com/osmtapes

PREMIERE⚡️Nemmett - Brom (Daylight) [OSM Tapes]

Established in 2017, the Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound has been an outlet for artistic and experimental endeavors that go beyond electronic music.
Evocative soundscapes from Georgia were the first communication from the Institute. It has since released music from Ukrainian artist Stanislav Tolkachev, acclaimed duo Air Liquide, or Georgian producer Michailo.
Michailo notably worked on his EP in prison, sending files to the label through intermediaries. He was released early, shortly after his record came out.
These days, it is also the home of STAUB’s unknown artists and of the cello robots that keep company with Schloss Mirabell.
With its blurring aesthetics, the Institute travels from clubs to museums and always pushes its exploration further.

MICHAILO + IRAKLI - Release (IRIS006)

Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound

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