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Pierre Fournier - Suite for Cello Solo No.2 in D minor, BWV 1008 - Prélude
Astrid Sonne Minais B - Mistakes (@a_sonne)
Aaliyah ft Timbaland - Try Again (Acapella)
Ian Martin - Missing Realism (@seer-music)
Irena a Vojtěch Havlovi - Smyčcem sluncem
Maxwell Sterling - Eris (@sehnsuchtsounds)
Whitearmor - 13
ML Buch - Stone Bridge (@mlbuch)

How to hold tiny things

Guilde 2

Disturbed

My Sword - Disturbed

Step Out.

Artwork: Sculpture by Horimoto, Sergal character by Mick Ono, Graphics by Yan Higa.
Mixing and Mastering: Yan Higa

92.8 FM (Saskia Hack)

@mondoriviera is the moniker of Ravenna-based musician and visual artist Lorenzo Camera. Producing music at the crossroad between late-night z-series horror movie soundtracks, 2d modular synthesis digital soundscapes and new-school plunderphonics, after his debut “Il Tempio degli Uomini Granchio” on New Weird Italian label Riforma, and the folk-vaporwave soundtrack for videogame Nott Longa on Artetetra, Mondoriviera is back with 10 new tracks jumping from the golden era of glossy horror VHS to new millennium goblin muzak and sonic delusions.

At the threshold between early 2000s music videos nostalgia, childhood memories and digital drifts, the second album by Lorenzo Camera, aka mondoriviera, explores the sentimental impacts of contemporary archetypes in our imagery with the help of post-vaporwave sounds. [The life of] “Frenton Cantolay", a parody of 'Frampton Comes Alive', the 1976 pop record, is a sonic journey into a contemporary Olympus inhabited by spiritually-corrupted zombies. In this parallel world, zombie celebrities, only apparently outside the afflictions of life, live at the mercy of Fortune, praying to the graces of the Goddess who exists above all world's logic.

Yet every success reveals the arbitrariness of their path; Fortune brutally elevates people to heaven only to eat their heads alive, while the mass keeps working, alienated, just to sustain their futile concatenation of needs. A timeless hero, the zombie Frenton Cantolay attempts to rise from mere worker to superstar, chasing unattainable dreams without accepting that we are not the same in this Olympus.

Echoing pastiches of pastiches of theories and pieces of lost media, mondoriviera's album reflects on the afterlife of 2000s musical archetypes and at the same time tries to open up alternative futures. A glitching pornography of our mediatic times, the zombie is a character that questions our deepest desires and social constructs. Is there an alternative?

The scratchy, phantasmagoric sounds of Mondoriviera create a sense of alienation and possibility. After the psychedelia and Creepshow's imagery already present in Lorenzo's debut record 'Il Tempio degli Uomini Granchio', this album represents a further hallucination, a soundscape for an unrealised deranged metaphysical videoclip, a crooked ballad for a love yet to come. 
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releases June 30, 2023

Composed, produced and mastered by Lorenzo Camera
Artwork by Riccardo Redeghieri - Baiu Baiu
Liner notes - Alice Minervini

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Compax

@dawnrecords @hadji-hajj

Betty Hammershlag - Sibling
Gargantuan Grief -  Keep Away From The New Idols 
Modern Collapse - Epiphany (Skit 2)
Ronce - Acteon 
Crave - D'you Wanna?
Modern Collapse (Feat. Jeune Lxt) - Promesses Tenues
jjjacob - Gephyra 
Dodo & J37 - Plafond 
Hajj - ????
Jonnnah - I Care 4 U
Art Crime - Crash 
Dodo - Focus 
Modern Collapse - They Had It.(Watters)
Ronce - Bois Vert
8STARS - Bad Idol (feat. whiterose)
Gargantuan Grief -  Be Your Own Martyr 
King Doudou - Chase The Red Lion
Gohda - Lost Without U

SOUFFRANCE FM #49 / DAWN (DAWN'S SPECIAL MIXED BY HAJJ)

Originally recorded at the International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, in 2018 - Betty Hammerschlag’s ISCP EP gets a reboot via Cologne’s SPA Recordings. 
ISCP emphasizes Betty Hammerschlag‘s signature that recycles intros, phrases and found sounds into infinite loops. Layered emotions are warping with desires to cycle endlessly about each other. Their deconstruction of pop songs is a delicate act of extracting quintessential temperaments of emotional pop. The Songs are floating eternally like a never-ending sillage full of sentiments.

SPA011: Betty Hammerschlag - ISCP EP

Betty Hammerschlag - 06

WALTZ OF ETERNITY

Back for a new episode of my residency Disciple of Serendipity, i’m taking on the role of the interviewer, to invite Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist and label founder @yanhiga (aka @yyvu), foreshadowing their upcoming EU tour 🎙❣️

From their COVID EP 'Sylum' to the concept of Terra-Reforming, through their label @actarecordings, their close relationship with nature, the video games & songs that have shaped them, and the energy they put into nurturing their vision & preserving ecosystems in any form — thanks to their generous insights during this interview, this episode does not only portray Yan Higa, but also the Brazilian experimental electronic scene through them. 

It’s a really precious interview, hope you’ll like it!
𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝐸𝑉𝐸𝑅𝑌𝑂𝑁𝐸. 𝐽𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛 <3

Mentioned / linked to this episode : 
@yanhiga ’s EP Sylum : https://soundcloud.com/yanhiga/sets/sylum-1 
Calmaria Compilation : https://soundcloud.com/actarecordings/sets/calmaria
Next release as Yvu : https://yvuu.bandcamp.com/album/agora-2

𝑇𝑅𝐴𝐶𝐾𝐿𝐼𝑆𝑇
Yan Higa - 92.8 FM (feat. Saskia)
Yan Higa - Test Subject (Bonus)
Yvu - There’s a Fire In The Neighbor’s Nest
Acta Recordings - Cria
ELIZA - Straight Talker
Gooooose - From Stellar Maze to Infinity
Epic Underwater Ambience Background Sound Effect
Yan Higa - Arisco
Yan Higa - Night Shift
Yan Higa - Test Subject (Extended)
LittleBigPlanet Soundtrack - Main Theme
Mexo - Teia
Fausto Mercier, Roland Nagy - glare
Yan Higa - Polar

xx

My Sword - Disturbed

ISENGARD