Experimentalist

Hyaluron taken from Free Radicals EP
https://idol-io.link/FreeRadicals

Excited to announce https://soundcloud.com/deenaabdelwahed & https://soundcloud.com/basilemusicsounds first collaboration on 'Free Radicals', a three-track EP of deep, percussive and advanced club music hybrids, to be released in June 10th. InFiné labelmates harness their shared experience and knowledge to fuse distinct but complementary production styles, combining cold, metallic sound design with warm percussive grooves.

Bandcamp

Basile3 & Deena Abdelwahed - Hyaluron [Taken from FREE RADICALS]

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-xl-order-access-point 

French production outfit @xlorder present 'Mercenary' on @b4_music, a punchy two tracker fusing melodic soundscapes with rave soaked euphoria, Drum & Bass and UKG.

Mercenary

XL Order - Access Point [B4 Music]

Evita Manji - Spandrel?
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 136
Release Date: 30 January 2023
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/Spandrel

In evolutionary biology, the term spandrel refers to the features of an organism that aren't developments for survival, and seemingly possess no obvious purpose. The word is taken from an architectural label for the triangular spaces in the corner of an arch: small aesthetic elements that provide symmetry and demarcate boundaries. Musician and vocalist Evita Manji asks an opaque question on their debut album, wondering in the face of immense loss what elements of ourselves might be for endurance, and what might just be decoration. Their tracks, pieced together from the vapors of contemporary club music, baroque pop, and experimental sound design, are a way for Manji to examine their relationship with the world at large and within, disassembling systems of control and highlighting interconnectedness.

Manji has been an ethereal presence on the scene for the last few years, collaborating with numerous artists as both a sound artist and a creative director. Last year, they launched their own platform myxoxym, where they debuted two singles from "Spandrel?" and assembled an ambitious fundraiser compilation featuring Rainy Miller, Palmistry, Cecile Believe and others, raising money for Greek wildlife fund ANIMA. Performing across the world at festivals such as Unsound, Lunchmeat, and Rhizom, Manji has also appeared at clubs in Berlin and London, and was picked to represent the Shape+ platform in 2022. These experiences teem through "Spandrel?", helping them weave a complex artistic tapestry that seeks to look far beneath the surface of existence, attempting to balance the doom of global climate meltdown with themes of self-actualization, love, and bodily autonomy.

The album opens on the title track, an introductory précis that prepares listeners for what they're about to hear. Manji's vocals hum with a plugged-in sense of cybernetic melancholia, filtering the world's barrage of rhythms and harmonic themes into lithe, clubwise pop that's buoyed by their advanced sonics. From there, we're wrenched into the sadness of atmospheric lament 'Pitch Black', a meditation on death that submerges deep bass beneath layers of choral bliss, evoking the church and the dancefloor without sacrificing the power of each polar element. Their darkness is pushed from the inside to the outside on 'Oil/Too Much’, a commentary on the oil industry from the perspective of the animal kingdom that doubles as a neon-hued expression of contemporary depression. But it's on 'Body/Prison’ where Manji sounds most naked, speaking honestly about their life's darkest moments and confessing their deepest feelings over searing trance-inspired synths and grotesque percussion.

"Spandrel?" is an album that takes time to unravel, and Manji's themes resonate through history that's older than pop music. It's tragic, romantic, and poetic, and resolutely refuses to turn away from the era's most urgent concerns.

Production, writing, composition: Evita Manji
Co-production 'XYZ/Labyrinth': Ludwig Wandinger
Mix: Evita Manji
Master: Enyang Urbiks
Artwork: Spyros Droussiotis
Mask: Hermes Pittakos

Spandrel?

Evita Manji - Pitch Black (PAN 136)

When we established Balmat in 2021, neither of us could have imagined that within two years, we’d be putting out an album by one of our musical heroes: Mike Paradinas (@mikep), aka µ-Ziq. The British producer has been an inspiration to label co-founders Albert Salinas and Philip Sherburne since the 1990s. In fact, his album-length remix project The Auteurs Vs µ-Ziq was one of the very first pieces of electronic music that Philip bought, way back in 1994. To have the opportunity to release his music now feels like a real full-circle moment. 

Paradinas, of course, needs no introduction. Under a slew of aliases, chief among them µ-Ziq, the British artist revolutionized leftfield electronic music in the 1990s—coincidentally, this year marks the 30th anniversary of his debut album, Tango N’ Vectif, for his friend and sometime collaborator Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label—and his label Planet Mu (@planetmurecords) has built up a formidable catalog of visionary, forward-looking records, mapping virtually every corner of the electronic spectrum. With 1977, he turns the clock backward in a sense, and not just with the album’s title: Rooted in classic ambient and electronic sounds, these 15 tracks evoke the anything-goes spirit of the early ’90s, before the tools and tropes had calcified into cut-and-dried styles.

There’s no shortage of familiar sounds on 1977. There are echoes of raves and chillout rooms and transmissions from the fringes of techno; there are detuned synths and glistening reverb tails and, above all, gauzy vox pads, the eerie glue that holds it all together. The title, he says, is meant to invoke a general sense of nostalgia, bookmarking a year in his boyhood when he became more self-aware. More than anything, 1977 sounds like µ-Ziq distilled: Stripped of his signature breakbeats and customary chaos, Paradinas’ first-ever strictly (well, mostly) ambient album presents the essence of his music in a whole new light.

Along the way Paradinas touches on dark-ambient drones (“Marmite”), horror-film themes (“Belt & Carpet”), jungle breaks (“Mesolithic Jungle”), and even house music (“Houzz 13”), which marks the first bona fide dance-floor moment on Balmat to date). Yet the album never—to our ears, anyway—feels expressly retro. Rather, Paradinas plucks timeless sounds out of the ether and gives them a gentle tap, spinning them into unexpected new orbits. At times, 1977 feels like an experience of extended déjà vu: When we first listened to it, we had the sense that we already knew this music. It was as though we had heard it years ago, perhaps on a battered cassette tape lent to us by a friend, and been searching for it ever since. We hope you feel the same.

1977

µ-Ziq - 1977 [BALMAT05]

Love him x Hero of my story, just a fun mix I stumbled across when i was fucking with the hot cue pads

HERO OF MY STORY x LOVE HIM | Bladee x Twoshell

Pre-order: https://lrain.ffm.to/unresolutionremix.opr

@worldwideunlimited gives the remix treatment to @user-14305412's 'New Year's UnResolution' — Where L’Rain’s single is perhaps her most overtly pop-influenced so far, Python’s remix falls squarely into the chill-out ambient category bringing to mind his own downtempo epics that nod to the likes of Boards of Canada and the epochal Café del Mar series. DJ Python is a pillar of the Brooklyn/Queens based scene via a long-running residency at Nowadays. He gained wide spread recognition for his release Mas Amable on label Jenny Slattery’s label, Incienso.

More exclusive music

Premiere:  L’Rain 'New Year's UnResolution' (DJ Python Remix)

Buy: https://kassiansound.bandcamp.com/album/phase-two

Within the transformations of their meticulous processes, London duo Kassian become a vessel for alchemy: filtering and distilling scores of stems, samples and layers until something richer and more complex than the sum of its parts emerges.

Since their debut release in 2018, Kassian have drifted leftwards into heavier, more abstract territory, harnessing their individual skills for working in the small pockets and painting the whole cloth of the canvas. In their first outing for !K7, Phase Two EP, the Roland System 1 synth is the throughline as they painstakingly piece together sketches, turning high hats into kick drums, capturing the resonance of percussion and drift further into each other’s heavy-hitting sonic realms.

 The EP’s final track “Patterns” was inspired by Kassian’s earliest incarnations of live performances, and it unashamedly captures the peaks of communal moments, rounding out the EP with an epic take on deep and techy house.

PREMIERE: Kassian - Patterns [!K7 Records]

Voyager intro through nn~ and RAVE w "vintage" data set
https://github.com/acids-ircam/RAVE

nn~ Voyager intro - Slauson Malone 1

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I’m a ‘polite rudboi’
2nd single from my upcoming album out Today !

The quest begins in just some weeeeeks. Get reaaady for ‘Cuspide Des Sirènes’.

More info and pre order at bandcamp : https://simocell.bandcamp.com/album/cuspide-des-sir-nes-album?label=1739385335&tab=music

polite rudboi (2nd single from my upcoming album)

@seta_loto
@comicsansrec

BC: https://comicsansrecords.bandcamp.com/album/earth-related-system

In a debut EP that transcends genre boundaries, Seta Loto guides us through the soundscapes of 'Earth-Related System’ forthcoming on the Lyon-based label Comic Sans. With a sophisticated fusion of minimal bass, atmospheric and UK-style techno, dub and dancehall, each of the five tracks develops its own ecosystem, distorted by alterations of reality as if on psychedelics.

Delving into the concept of a sound infrastructure, the artist lays its foundation in the earth as the primary element. An intangible low-end drifts over the surface of the sound, unceasingly creating an intense, enveloping atmosphere reminiscent of tectonic shifts. Above, organic textures manipulated by cutting-edge sound design techniques and clever re-sampling work neatly share the remaining sonic environment.

Seta Loto's creations resonate with a spiritual essence, evoking an intimate relationship with the wonders of nature and rootedness to the earth.

Earth-Related System

pi pi pi premiere: Seta Loto - L5 S1 (Comic Sans Records)

Kode9 and Burial return to the fabric fold with brand new exclusive music on a split 12" single landing in stores 21st July 2023 via fabric Originals. 

The project succeeds the duo’s 2018 joint contribution to the historic mix series – picked as the final FABRICLIVE release to round off the 200-strong mixed comp series. 

The 140g 12” comes in both two limited editions and standard black vinyl version. The former is clear vinyl with a special black embossed foil fabric logo detail in the outer-sleeve logo design - or silver vinyl with special silver embossed foil. 

Both versions feature a bespoke 3D design encapsulating the fabric logo printed on reverse board on heavyweight card - a special one-off product to showcase the very best in electronic music. 


fabric Originals is a record label from Farringdon nightlife institution fabric, launched in September 2022.
credits
released July 21, 2023 

Kode9, Burial

Infirmary

Kode9 - Infirmary [fabric Originals]

We immediately fell in love with @sylvere ’s "Ah Oui Ah Oui" on @modeselektor 's Berlin based label @monkeytownrecords the day of the release and spontaneously made a little @CYU style edit for our own club sets.

We asked for permission from Sylvere to share this with you here and got really nice feedback from him (such a nice guy!).

Check, stream & buy the original:
https://soundcloud.com/sylvere/ah-oui-ah-oui-1
https://sylvere.lnk.to/EP3

buy/stream original

Sylvere - Ah Oui Ah Oui (CYU Bootleg Edit)

Video Clip : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc7qCCQzmtM
Bandcamp : https://darzacktechno.bandcamp.com/album/drowning-the-machines

Legacy

i fucking love that picture i need a boyfriend so bad

Felicita - Spalarkling (Early)

A quick dirty and unauthorised remix from the stems at https://soundcloud.com/silentalarming/sets/hampstead-heath-usb ... hours of fun with these.

Squarepusher - Wendorlan? (Ardisson 110 rework)

free download: https://hypeddit.com/joyorbison/flightfmklaxxedit

Free Download

Joy Orbison - flight fm (KLAXX Edit)

Objekt - Chicken Garaage

like jmw turner found a renoise terminal
shoutout the goat @evianchrist

Evian Christ - On Embers (naramnesia edit)

I would usually never dream of touching a Blawan tune and absolutely love the original but I felt like this could use a darker more intense version for my own dj sets. Enjoy folks. 

Experimentalist

Janchii