All grime will sound like this in 2050...

NTS resident ONY reflects on themes of migration and displacement with cinematic, textural electronics.

'Children of the Apocalypse' is out January 28th on Scorpio Red.

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Taken from SBKT054: Gorgonn - Six Paths
Release date: 31st January

Artwork and layout by Akihide Monna
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

In Japanese Buddhism, it's believed that when someone dies they are ushered down one of six paths depending on the karma accumulated during their previous lives. A being might end up in the world of humans, animals, demigods, or celestials, but it's also possible to end up reborn as a pitiable hungry ghost, doomed to an existence of insatiable desire, or even worse - be sent to hell, or jigoku. Ruled over by the Japanese lord of death Emma-ō, this hell isn't quite like the Christian hell, it's closer to purgatory, and cleansing the karma can take hundreds of millions of years of excruciating torture in extreme cold or immense fire. Japanese bass alchemist Gorgonn takes these themes as the basis of his debut album "Six Paths", assembling a spiritually weighty set of futurist dubs that consider the possibility that our mortal domain might be closer to hell than we realize.

Gorgonn describes himself as a Japalien exile. He left the country of his birth almost two decades ago, and since then has been working tirelessly to formulate Jamaican dub, noise, techno, and no-wave into a sound he calls "sci-fi steppas". If you've not come across his name before, there's a good chance you've heard his reverberations. An established sound tech who's worked with The Bug, Hype Williams, Seefeel and others, he's part of G36 with Kevin Martin, Dokkebi Q with Kiki Hitomi, and a former member of Devilman with DJ Scotch Egg and Bo Ningen's Taigen Kawabe. Just last year he released the acclaimed "Disentegration Dubs" full-length alongside JK Flesh, the veteran producer who's best known for masterminding Godflesh. All this experience blesses Gorgonn's productions with remarkable sonic force, and "Six Paths" is his most crushing display yet, smelting cannonball bass and osmium beats into sharp-edged soundsystem weapons.

Look no further than opener 'Abyss' for evidence of this: psychedelic synths draw the mind away from the mortal realm, while tangled, distorted beats push us back down to earth, our faces crushed into the grit and gravel. Using tweaked sub bass and unsettling drones, Gorgonn lays out a cinematic backdrop for the album, drawing us into a world that's terrifying, viscous, and nauseatingly familiar. There's a militaristic roll to 'Without Beginning and End', a track that juxtaposes spacey halfstep thrusts with death metal distortion, footwork polyrhythms, and unearthly pads that addresses the crushing endlessness of jigoku. On 'Invisible' meanwhile, Gorgonn torches the skeletal remains of D&B, abstracting familiar rhythmic patterns into fuzzy, ritualistic cycles that sound both ancient and humming with prospective technology. But on the closing track 'Life as a Beast', it sounds as if Gorgonn has come to a conclusion, and in a flurry of acid squelches and doomy foghorn bass blasts, he seems to have accepted that being reincarnated as an animal might be the best anyone can hope for. Who knows, you might end up as a cat.

Six Paths

Gorgonn - When Can I Come Back?

The CIRCLE is proud to present the first Hong Kong local Footwork/Juke music compilation "In Memory of DJ Rashad" !!!

The Chicago-based pioneer of Footwork music and also the founder of Footwork family Teklife, DJ Rashad, passed away on April 26, 2014, but his impact continued unabated. The CIRCLE is honored to invite seven local music producers from Hong Kong and Macau to participate in this music compilation. There are predecessors who first introduced Footwork to Hong Kong, and there are also cutting-edge newcomers in recent years. They pay homage to the legendary DJ Rashad with a brand-new production and at the same time showcase the latest sounds from the local Footwork scene.

"In Memory of DJ Rashad" is available to buy on the Bandcamp website, please check The CIRCLE's Bandcamp website.

The CIRCLE 榮幸為大家呈獻首張香港本地 Footwork/Juke 音樂合輯《In Memory of DJ Rashad》！！！

來自芝加哥的 DJ Rashad 是 Footwork 音樂先驅和 Teklife 團隊的創始人， 他於2014年4月26日離開人世，但其影響一直有增無減。The CIRCLE 有幸邀請到七位港澳本地音樂製作人參與今次的音樂合輯，有最早把 Footwork 引進香港的前輩，亦有近年加入陣線的新銳DJ創作人。他們一同以全新作品向 DJ Rashad 這位傳奇人物作至高的敬意，並同時為大家展示本地 Footwork 的最新聲音。

《In Memory of DJ Rashad》現於 Bandcamp 網站正式發售，請到The CIRCLE於Bandcamp的專頁購買。

Tracklist：
KOLAK - 崗 Kong
Saiyan_bmc – Mister Softee 2.0
Fingergap – 很快將會講你知 (Canto-pop Reimagination of DJ Rashad feat. DJ Spinn – "Let U No”)
Mad Ctrl – 泡沫幽靈
Shelf-Index - WRONG(prototype)
Nerve – 涼風有信
Achun – Need Nothin' More

Mastering by Nerve
Cover by Sean UNI

R.I.P. DJ Rashad!

Saiyan_bmc – Mister Softee 2.0

@m-e-s-h x(+ future) =====  ++++ ! ! ! ! 

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Japanese multi-instrumentalist Jigga channels the conflicting energies of Ancient Japan and modern anxiety to frightening effect in his debut for Dubai’s Bedouin Records.

Read more: https://hyponik.com/features/first-listen-jigga-nitya-bedouin-records/

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First Listen: Jigga - 'Nitya' (Bedouin records)

Taken from SBKT027: Gooooose - Rusted Silicon

Rusted Silicon is a new album from Gooooose. 7 original tracks with remixes from Samuel Kerridge and Nahash, plus an electro-acoustic rework by Sote featuring traditional Persian instrumentalists  Arash Bolouri (Santour) and Pouya Damadi (Tar)

Artwork by Fang Yang
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Release date: 17th May 2019

Rusted Silicon

Gooooose - Plasma Sunrise

poem w/ ivy

Yangze - Hold Your Horses

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Barcelona-based oddball electronics label Anòmia are about to release the sophomore LP from Berlin-based 333 Boyz, 'Yours,'.

Yours,

333 Boyz - Poison Mask [Anòmia]

Fabulous (Alban Winter Edit)

Focus Please

Splash Pattern - Focus Please

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