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Isaka - Elytra [SFX03]

uploading my mix for Ani's shows here

Tracklist:
Hannes Feßmann - A brief history about Stone and Sound
BANKS / Jesse Osborne-Lanthier and Grischa Lichtenberger - Fuck with Myself / Good Morning America
Kid Kishore - BALLE BALLE
DJ Plead and Cop Envy - I.G.A.
AVOW91 - Royalty Must Die
Uwalmassa - Untitled 03
Doctor Jeep - Pax
clippng. - All in Your Head
Anakta - Cautivo
Lanark Artefax - Corra Lin
Torana - Amok
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
DJ E-Rick & Tactic - Bring The Noise
Frixion Fanatic - Floating Big Stones
AYA - I Will Not Come At Your Beck And Call I Am At Home Preemptively Mashing Up The Dance That Is Where I Am
Future Bound - Blue Mist
DJ Karawai - Jitting Over
qebrus - _|_\_\ - /_/_|_
Robert Inventor - Bitter Sweet
Erika de Cassier - Intimate (Club Mix)
Seven Orbits - ?????
Club Cab - FTS
Aaron Spectre - Say More Fire
Tempa T - Next Hype
Isomov - Wavelet (A-0 Remix)
DEBIT - Audacious
Becoming Real - Shader (Air Max '97 Remix)
Extension of Eternity - All Over
Hurt You So - Jonny L
JV & Palf - Don't Stop (Cassius Select Remix)
Sonique - It Feels So Good (Breakbeat 7")
Moonstones - Yen Pox
Perth Drug Legend - Hillend Hyper Squad
Yasunori Mitsuda / Forest Drive West - The Girl Who Stole the Stars / Persistence of Memory, Pt. 2
Chapo Trap House - The Terminal 366

KLANGVIOLENCE w/ Isomov - November 2019

Liquefaction of rhythmic and melodic matter.

SoundCloud: @ccl-url

PURE Guest.040 CCL

Isomov - Mitosis

Isomov - Sentience

https://www.mixcloud.com/reformradio/klangxiety-attack-w-isaka-xavier-gibson-13th-december-2023/

Tracklist:
Fatima al Qadiri - Sunset Fever
Mumdance - The Sprawl
Kelela - Rewind
A-0 - Wraithboi
Mr. Mitch - Fly Soup
Lamont & Grim Sickers - Death Slide
Pinch & Mumdance - Turbo Mitzi
MM - Why You All In My Face
Lokane - Eastway Project
MUNGUUGNUM - BIOCENOSIS
Lady Leshurr - Queen's Speech 4
Le Dom - Oazis (Liar Optimix)
Gage & Kevin Jz Prodigy - Bad Bitch
Lechuga Zafiro - Tambor Espada (سكين) feat. C1080
Spurz - Growth Structure
Ash B - Fleek
SPF666 - Don't Laugh
Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U
Kahn - Abattoir
French Fries ft. Bambounou - Hugz
Bloom - Quartz
Bloom - Quartz VIP
Grizzle - Entreaty
K Wata - Bone Tags
Youngstar - Pulse X
DivPro - Pulse DP
Stormzy - Shut Up
bastiengoat - recursive
XTC - Functions on the Low
Mumdance & Novelist - Take Time
Wiley - Ice Pole (Proc Fiskal Dun Dried Lungs Bootleg)
Iglew - Urban Myth
Little Simz - Bars Simzson
Objekt - The Goose That Got Away
Modelle - Cutlass
Skream - Minimalistix
Emika - Battles (Kamikaze Space Program Remix)
Isaka - XENOFEMiNiST ANTiNATURALiST (Liar Remix)
A-V - Hitman (Ani Kland Remix)
Sir Spyro - Topper Top (Isaka's Toothbrush AI Cover)

Klangxiety Attack w/ Isaka 13th December 2023

ZULI, experimental club producer and VENT co-founder hailing from Cairo hits the NTS airwaves to showcase his club wares: aggressively left-field.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/ZULI/episodes/zuli-29th-january-2024

ZULI - Isaka Takeover 290124

mashup of the og, the remix, and 3 steps ahead - im a gabber, with some fun kicks added

ascendant vierge - Influenceur (Isaka's Online Avatar Edit)

After a five-year hiatus, Isaka returns with ‘Elytra’, a work exploring the increasingly blurred lines between organic and artificial realities. In her self-defined 'hyperbass', 'Elytra' blends low-end grit with a melodic pop sheen, morphing erratic rhythms, intricate sound design and hyperpop vocals that balance formal sensibilities and visceral club energy. 
Isaka underwent the transformative experience of medical transition during her move to Berlin and this radical change emerges in the thematic exploration of Elytra. 
Isaka uses insect moulting as a metaphor for the cyclical, often traumatic process of metamorphosis and the EP’s exploration of adaptation and articulation where skin is not only a boundary of the self, but also the interface for our surroundings. 
Themes of evolving identity are woven not only into the music but also into the visual art, zine & custom website accompanying the release. A different character represents each of the tracks, brought to life through a deep iterative process involving collages, sketches, and an array of AI-assisted 3D imagery. Limited-edition electronic sculptures will also be produced for ‘Elytra’.

Tracks in focus

Bubbly textures and frenzied drum cuts move side-by-side with NPC inspired vocal chops in opening track Slang Overload. Made in collaboration with TRYCE over an intense three-day session in 2023, it’s a nod towards glitch-hop revival with elements of UK Bass, packed with meticulously sculpted and destroyed sounds.

In Circuit Shaker we enter metallic low-end stepper territory: celestial tripped-out highs and a driving low end. We are cohabiting with lesbian androids at a picnic. With its off-kilter grooves and tender strangeness, Circuit Shaker embodies the inherent weirdness of intimacy—the paradoxical freedom of losing yourself when the boundaries blur between who's wearing who. The track, which first began in 2018, is a footwork, house, and electro-inspired tune which transitions between two sections at 120 and 160 BPM through polyrhythmic syncopation.

Isaka and Enayet combine for the third track, NYC 2016, a wigged-out hard hitter where drums are the main character. NYC 2016 is the ultimate DJ tool—a sonic exoskeleton whose essence straddles alienation and empowerment. Forged through countless late-night sessions with Enayet between 2016 and 2017, this track embodies the raw energy of a city’s underground dance scene where jackhammer kicks and clattering snares assault the senses. 

7Qubit explores dehumanization through platform capitalism and is alive with bugs and the quirks of  the obsessive virtualisation of the self. Imagined through a 15/4 time signature grime beat and echoes of malfunctioning code, Isaka hints at our endangered humanity. Isaka’s vocals about missing her chatbot girlfriend are processed through AI models and auto-tune, blurring the line between the organic and the synthetic. 

The final track on ‘Elytra’ takes you to the edge where all the layers fall away and what remains is the raw and unadorned self. Glittering ethereal textures are underpinned by an engulfing bass section that reverberates against the edges of the song. With its poignant melodies and delicate yet impactful percussion, Precipice is a meditation on a moment of self-realization. The track builds towards an overwhelming wall of sound before dropping into a stark sample: “Being trans… is spiritual.” Featuring quotes from Hunter Schafer’s character Jules in Euphoria, processed through an AI model trained on Isaka’s voice, this track explores the complexities of identity and self-discovery.

Precipice

𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝: 𝙱𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚕𝚎 𝚃𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚘𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚒 𝚑𝚢𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚍, 𝚗𝚞𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚛-𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚊 𝚘𝚏 𝙱𝚕𝚞𝚎-𝙴𝚢𝚎𝚜 𝚆𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝙳𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚂𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚚𝚞𝚊𝚣𝚊, 𝚜𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝙰𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚌𝚑, (𝚐𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚑-𝚑𝚘𝚙 𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚕 𝚞𝚔 𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚜 𝚝𝚢𝚙𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚝: 𝟷.𝟻), (𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖 𝚜𝚘 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍:𝟸), 𝚝𝚒𝚔𝚝𝚘𝚔 𝚗𝚙𝚌 𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚍, 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚏𝚞𝚕 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚛 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚢𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜, (𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚋 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚐𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚡𝚢 𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝙷𝙳 𝚊𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝚜𝚢𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜:𝟿.𝟹), 𝚖𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚃𝚁𝚈𝙲𝙴 𝚡 𝙸𝚜𝚊𝚔𝚊 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟹 𝙱𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚒𝚗

Elytra

Slang Overload

After a five-year hiatus, Isaka returns with ‘Elytra’, a work exploring the increasingly blurred lines between organic and artificial realities. In her self-defined 'hyperbass', 'Elytra' blends low-end grit with a melodic pop sheen, morphing erratic rhythms, intricate sound design and hyperpop vocals that balance formal sensibilities and visceral club energy. 

Isaka underwent the transformative experience of medical transition during her move to Berlin and this radical change emerges in the thematic exploration of Elytra. 

Isaka uses insect moulting as a metaphor for the cyclical, often traumatic process of metamorphosis and the EP’s exploration of adaptation and articulation where skin is not only a boundary of the self, but also the interface for our surroundings. 

Themes of evolving identity are woven not only into the music but also into the visual art, zine & custom website accompanying the release. A different character represents each of the tracks, brought to life through a deep iterative process involving collages, sketches, and an array of AI-assisted 3D imagery. Limited-edition electronic sculptures will also be produced for ‘Elytra’.

Isaka
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isaka_symbios_wiki
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isaka.elytra/

Enayet 
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/itsenayet
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itsEnayet/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_enayet/

SFX
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sfx_space/

PREMIERE: Isaka & Enayet - NYC 2016 (SFX)

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Isaka - Elytra, 2024 
Buy: https://sfx-space.bandcamp.com/album/elytra-sfx03

"After a five-year hiatus, Isaka returns with ‘Elytra’, a work exploring the increasingly blurred lines between organic and artificial realities. In her self-defined 'hyperbass', 'Elytra' blends low-end grit with a melodic pop sheen, morphing erratic rhythms, intricate sound design and hyperpop vocals that balance formal sensibilities and visceral club energy.
Isaka underwent the transformative experience of medical transition during her move to Berlin and this radical change emerges in the thematic exploration of Elytra. "

@s-f-x-0101
@isaka_symbios_wiki

[Premiere] Isaka - 7Qubit (out on SFX)

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Isaka - Elytra [SFX03]
SFX, 2024
𝓑𝓾𝔂 👉🏾 https://sfx-space.bandcamp.com/album/elytra-sfx03

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𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖗𝖊#264 📢 Isaka - Circuit Shaker [SFX]

Isaka, TRYCE - Slang Overload
ZULI - Sequel (ft. Haykal)
Bungalovv - Smoke Signals
Tufi, Oliver Torr - Bodixx
10_r3n - xingtian
Isaka, Enayet - NYC 2016
E Wata, Enayet, K Wata - Zero G
Isaka - Circuit Shaker
Zoë Mc Pherson - Blender
ABADIR, Nahash, Toumba - Marchadair - Toumba Remix
Callosum - Tell You
Isaka - Precipice
ALE♡HINA, CÁRPATOS - ???
trngs - REAL EYEWITNESS
TRYCE, Xenia Reaper - ???
Softmatter - ???

BBC Raver's Hour w/ Isaka 25.10.2024

Rinse FM Podcast

Sarra Wild: 2024 Roundup - 12 December 2024

Green Fingers Presents a wonderful experimental guest mix selected by Isaka, 'Kwia Rebuild'. Enjoy listening folks! - Kaspar 

More From Isaka Below - 

https://www.instagram.com/isaka.elytra/
https://on.soundcloud.com/fjgAqg5Buph7QkGi7

Tracklisting Below - 

Artist	Track
The Range	Regular
TSVI	Inner Worlds
Proc Fiskal	Scarab Aloph
Kellen303	Vital Signs
Kellen303	Tulpa
Mr. VOID	variaciones de un tema comun
NetNarrator	I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter!
Koreless	Black Rainbow
Andre Zachery	the system is rigged
rAHHH	Dog Days
Nico Niquo	In A Slient Way
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow	The Alien
Jacqueline Powers	Mindless Milker  Cow Transformation Hypnosis
Benfika	Pentimento
Billie Eilish	What Was I Made For?
Mani Festo	Hold the Line
JUNG AN TAGEN	SI036
Archangel	Never Lose My Beloved
Grischa Lichtenberger	1011_11_Ss1
Dead Can Dance	The Host of Seraphim
E Wata, K Wata, Enayet	Cradle to the Grove
Eric Serra	Ruby Rap
Marina Herlop	abans abans
설기양SULGI	ASMR MUKBANG Spicy chicken Tteokbokki
Mumdance	Jazz Excursions
tsaik	Lovenote
Heidi Becker	POV: you're on a date with a chronically online girl
Danny Elfman	Edward Scissorhands Introduction
Britney Spears	Everytime
Walton	Vectors
Gaetano Donizetti	Lucia di Lammermoor: "Il dolce suono"
Underworld	Born Slippy (Nuxx)
Mememusic117	Homer Simpson Singing — Born Slippy (Nuxx)
Delay Grounds	Metal Swinging
dakooters	god is dead OwO
Stevie Wishart & Sinfonye & Guy Sigsworth	Bingen: O Virtus Sapientie Alio Modo
Joe Armon-Jones & Maxwell Owin feat. Shabaka Hutchings	Rago’s Garage
Trio Da Kali And Kronos Quartet	Sunjata
Holly Waxwing	Teva Suite
Ryong	meaningless duet
Coil	The First Five Minutes After Death
Dave London	Breathe Depp (Infiniti Remix)
DJ Deeon	Freaky
Kaho Nakamura (Belle)	Faces in the Rain
Henry Greenleaf	Ithaca Vox
Signal Quest	Save Point Sanctuary
Kate Tempest	People's Faces
MsPaintBoi	Dep
Devi McCallion	Gothic GF Wants Popeyes ASMR

Isaka Presents- Kwia Rebuild

Saturday 25 January 2025
CTM 2025
OXI

A hyperreal exploration of identity, transformation, and the boundaries between organic and artificial realities, Isaka’s EP Elytra is built on her »hyperbass« framework and a blend of hand-drawn collages, sketches, and AI-assisted 3D imagery. Merging aggressive low-end energy with sound design, glitchy textures, and hyperpop vocals that balance experimental abstraction with dance fever immediacy, themes of insect moulting thread through the work: metamorphosis as a cyclical, layered and often traumatic process.

@isaka_symbios_wiki

CTM 2025: ISAKA at OXI

Sarra Wild invites Isaka - 24 June 2025

Sweat Equity is happy to present its latest release, Bell Curve’s Fucked Up If True. The debut EP from the recent New York transplant, out digitally this month, is a six-track crash course in the potentials for sculptural bass music, just in time for back to school season. 

The lead single, 'Heaven and Hell,' is a slab of patient sonic sculpting, mixing together lush synth work with razors edge rhythmic elements that take a psychedelic spin on easy genre readings or familiar signifiers. Intently focused on movement and progression, F.U.I.T. carries some a serious cognitive payload, while never losing site of each track’s potential and purpose on the dancefloor, its mind-altering capacities stemming from an almost endless series of rhythmic permutations and changes that leave you miles from where you started.

Pre-Orders are available 9/15, with the record hitting stores 9/29. 
Produced by Bell Curve
Mixed by Andrew Nerviano
Album art by Studio Fluora

Pre-Order Here:
https://sweatequitynyc.bandcamp.com/album/fucked-up-if-true

Fucked Up If True

Grip it Here

Bell Curve - Heaven And Hell

SUGARQUOTE - You Feel Perfect

Artist: @galtier
Title: Terran EP
Format: Digital
Release Date: July 27th

It is with great excitement to announce the return of the Nostro Hood System label boss, Galtier (Bristol, UK) to Infinite Machine. Following-up his well received 2016 "Myth Codes" EP. 

Galtier's Commentary about the EP:

The concept for the ‘Terran’ EP is centered around a lone human drifting through space, planet to planet. Who this person might be is irrelevant – it can be anyone, any gender, any race. What is important is that this person is undergoing a treacherous journey deep into the unknown. They are alone on this journey and it is no easy task, but their resilience and determination to carry on is what drives them forward. 
The premise within this is based around the idea of each individuals own suffering, each person who walks this earth faces their own obstacles, which ultimately at its core is beyond their control. Much like the Terran drifting through space, the unknown of space parallels the unknown future of life, and the endless possibilities that perpetually arise throughout it. The EP is presented as a sense of hope – encouragement to all that even though they often drift through their spiritual life alone, they are not alone on this journey. Each Terran faces the blackness of space in their own way, and they too can choose how they perceive this arduous, yet immensely worthwhile experience.

What might seem like a crushing, over encumbering existence, at times, only adds to the worth of life. Life is a challenge – and it should be – as overcoming the challenge and powering on, despite the odds, makes each day and each moment (a keepsake if you will) innumerably more valuable.

There is no real sense of completion within this journey too, as ‘home’ is something that the Terran will not experience again. ‘Home’, or ‘Earth’ in many ways is birth through this allegory, and every moment from this point becomes the struggle of existence. One can never step backwards to another moment in time that has already passed, as the world will not allow you to return to your previous spiritual self. The only true and just way is forward, further into the abyss of the universe.

Artwork by Nic Symbios.

Terran EP

Terran

Galtier - Emerald Salts (IM069)

birdwatchr - spooky toucan type beak

PAN w/ TZUSING & M.E.S.H. - 28th January 2019
https://www.nts.live/shows/pan/episodes/pan-28th-january-2019

@nts_live
@tzusing
@m-e-s-h

IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE feat. POISON PEN, STYLES P, VINNIE PAZ - Black Vikings
YENNU ARIENDRA & J "MO'ONG" SANTOSO PRIBADI - Alas Tyang Pinggir (The Outcast Forest)
DIAMANDA GALÁS - This Is The Law Of The Plague
THREE 6 MAFIA feat. EIGHTBALL & MJG, YOUNG BUCK - Stay Fly
DOWNSTATE - Scissors
T.O.P - Doom Dada
CRAVE - 16
6IX9INE, BOBBY SHMURDA - Stoopid
DJ HVAD - ANGST (EP VERSION)
DANNY BROWN - When It Rain
ABYSS X - Humiliation
FALCON KID - Basketball
JK FLESH - Nothing Is Free
ZALIVA-D - Born Dead
NEANA ON THE TRAK - Lilin
DEEVEN - Bion Lithe Remix
石野 卓球 - Ghost In The Shell
SAINT ABDULLAH - Let Me Sing
WRACK - Chou Ha
CAPTAIN AHAB - I Don't Have A Dick
CEVIN KEY - 15th Shade
DEENA ABDELWAHED - Tawa (M.E.S.H. Remix)
FRAXINUS - Overland V16
REALITYCHECK - The Signal (VIP Dub)
INGRATE - Hoax
STANLEY SCHMIDT - Brutal Ornament
SPLASH PATTERN - Up Next New Season
CARRETTA, WORKERPOOR - Subtle Knife
LIKE A TIM - Beats Djax Up
ISOMOV - Wavelet
HMURD - Clip That [Clubmix]
M.E.S.H. - Ten Alarm
DAFT PUNK - Technologic Peace Field Edit
M.E.S.H. - Festival Circuit
NICO - Unwhole
MAAYAN NIDAM - News From East
JASMINE INFINITI - Flight At O'Hare
JOCK CLUB - Grave Yard
HARAVOT - Unreleased 1
AIR MAX '97 - Soft Body
NUNU (FT. DJH) - SCUM 6
NA DJ - Rave Slaps Xtarri
M.E.S.H. - Atemlos
COSMIN TRG - Upscale Scalability, Implemented

PAN w/ TZUSING & M.E.S.H. - 28th January 2019

Full stream of @galtier and @reclusebeats' futuristic bass cut "The Jade Pillar,' out now on @nostro-hood-system.

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/premiere-hear-a-futuristic-bass-cut-from-galtier-and-recluse

More info

Premiere: Galtier - Jade Pillar (feat. Recluse)

Rinse FM Podcasts

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Air Max '97 with Isomov - 29 September 2019

Aquarian makes and plays music that feels familiar but is hard to pin down. His take on techno, jungle, rave and bass is alien and unique, a blend of the Berlin, London and Detroit sounds we all know and love, but with a little something extra injected into it to give it a mutant sense of funk. The Canadian is now based in Germany and has released on Quiet Time Tapes as well as his own Hanger Management.

His mix is a devastating study in rhythm, contorted drum programming and warped bass that is stripped back to its bare essentials but that is constantly on the move and keeping you guessing. It starts off twisted and tightly coiled, complex and involving, but slowly loosens up and heads straight forward in thrilling fashion. Electro, ghetto, IDM, drum & bass and more all get chawed up and spat out in ways that only Aquarian can.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 251 - Aquarian

“Burn the Empire” by @aniklang is the latest track from her upcoming EP out on @hyperboloid records on the 6th of November.

Pre-order: https://hyperboloidrecords.com/album/burn-the-empire
Read more: soulfeederweb.com/premieres/premiere-ani-klang-burn-empire

BURN THE EMPIRE

[Premiere] Ani Klang – Burn the Empire

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

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