Olan Monk - Auto Life
Format: Digital (EP)
Cat. No: CANVAS011
Release Date: 1st October 2021

Watch the video for 'Fameless': https://youtu.be/-xndTe8uWrc

Pre-order Auto Life (EP): canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/auto-life

‘A farewell to idolatry, where culture is absorbed into nature, like a body back into the fertile soil. Written as a 27 club survivor, lamenting the young dead, no longer young and celebrating the spectral presence of iconised peers. Reflexive and self-aware of the problem of over-identifying with the fictional performance of the solo act in various guises or archetypes: the rockstar or trapstar. Auto Life is a practical attempt at a weird re-hybridisation of otherwise seemingly divergent strands of popular music, conflating stylisations usually segregated by genre.

Auto Life was written as a collection of songs for eventual live performance. Recording music is absurd—an act in which you initially perform to no-one. The inclusion of a sample of crowd noise in ‘Fameless’ is the music studio equivalent of a laugh track being added to the soundtrack of a sitcom—unable to give up on disappearing horizons completely and imagining another context for performance in which an actual audience beyond the performer is present.

Autotune Punk—as a music of antagonism that resists from within, bending the lanes of a machine that flattens out the vocal performance to a given scale. I can still express feeling—even angst—but the machine doesn’t care. Refusing its own funeral, emulating the dead—it’s a Rock simulacrum. A renewably performed myth. I broke the spell. I just heard it as it was. The sacred framing of presence makes the pop idol always-already-dead by turning them into a symbol and an image—undead, un-ageing and endlessly reproducible within a commercialist visual culture.

The music which I would grow up listening to would later become a tool towards first facing, maybe later dismantling—or at least bending—the structures in which music was still being written, performed and recorded into existence. My emulation of and interest in pop—and popular—music is not in irony. I love this music—yet I question the context and conditions through which it has come to exist and continues to change shape. Opening up the horizon of pop to a new kind of strangeness, where the familiarity of the pop song disappears into blissful distortions and mixed signifiers towards a world in-between, otherwise unknown’.

— @olanmonk

Written, performed and recorded by Olan Monk

‘Bruised Fruit’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City, additional production and vocals written and performed by Elvin Brandhi
‘Burnout’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City

Tracks 01–07 mastered by Ali Najafi
Tracks 08 and 09 mastered by Jam City

Artwork by Ewa Awe

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Auto Life

Olan Monk - Fameless

City & i.o - Chaos is God Neighbour [APP005]

01. Desolate Revenant (06:39)
02. Breach (06:27)
03. Omnistack (06:23)
04. Catacomb (05:38) [with Dis Fig]
05. Descendant Cross (05:28)[with x/o]
06. Bleak Chain (05:13) [with x/o]
07. Unkind (04:44) [with Dis Fig]
08. Bomb-blasted Stack (03:52) [with vvilms]
09. Atlatica (03:24)
10. Circling Orc (03:07)
11. Temprorare (02:22)
12. Marrow (02:20)
13. -20+20-20+20-20+20-20 (02:10)
14. Granular Heater (01:34)

Total running time: (59:59)

City & i.o are:
AW — Audio engineering, synth
FC — Vocals, accordion
MP — Drums, guitar, sampler
VX — Vocals, strings
WB — Guitar, synths, piano

Tracks 4 & 7 written by Dis Fig
Track 5 & 6 written by x/o, City & i.o
All lyrics written by the vocalists
Additional production on track 5 by Aaron Wharton
Track 8 features an extensive sample of an untitled piece by vvilms

Artwork by John Blanche
Additional artwork, design, and Tortured Cybernetic Abomination logo by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Sigil by Julian Butterfield
Mastered by Aaron Wharton

City & i.o are from British Columbia, Canada.

Chaos Is God Neighbour

City & i.o - Unkind (feat. Dis Fig)

6G is the child of a hollow moon, unwritten histories of permaculture deities in the levant, pagan conspiracies about haunted birthrights, texts buried in lunatic obscurity, communication with the evil smile of a goddess, bells designed to be wrung three times in the night, childish blood games, farmers with occult crops.

The duo of Oxhy and Susu Laroche have chosen the name The Fertile Crescent, evoking one of the cradles of human civilization as much as a (un)healthy devotion to the power of the lunar cycle. Musically, it reeks of post-industrial folklore ripe with solemn tones and conflicting bits, combined via the mocking dream logic of a trickster spirit. A skeletal presence of melody in a sparse, ceremonial ambiance that can even welcome thunderous rolls of breakbeat, like tapping from the energy of every ritual that has scarred the land in time. Following the record is like attempting at drawing a psychic topography of those same rituals, manifestations, tragedies and games, it’s like mistaking the broadband network for the Ley lines but still succeeding in conquering its occult power.

Written & Produced by Fertile Crescent
Mastered by Tapewave

All profits go to: www.islamic-relief.org.uk/afghanistan-emergency-appeal/


https://soundcloud.com/oxhy
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the fertile crescent - cant let you live again

Iney - oqbqbo

original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E935Od_J4fw

Physically Sick

My Sorrow Is Luminous

Backtearer & Why Be - dc

The ‘dc mixtape’ takes the form of an oneiric suite, moving through expressive registers alternately liturgical, pastoral, and diaristic. Why Be and Backtearer recorded it between Copenhagen, Berlin, and Hong Kong, and the resulting beatless vignettes bear traces of their disparate recording contexts as a kind of aural sediment, accumulated across a jagged multi-continental procession. Following their collaborative track “Freedom Amph” on Backtearer’s 2015 LP ‘Swear’ for Berlin’s YYAA Recordings, this is the two artists’ first full-length release.

Cover by Chino Amobi
Text by Alexander Iadarola
Mastering by JCN

Backtearer & Why Be - dc (JANUS006)

Released on m_division's compilation 'Unity'
Profits from the sale go to supporting cancer patients affected by COVID-19 in Russia.

Thanks for supporting.

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https://mdivision.bandcamp.com/releases

Mastered by Aleksandr Matlakhov
Released June 25, 2020

SKY H1 ft. Soho Rezanejad - Animal

We are proud to present you « Sacrifices & Privileges » compilation !
It’s an uncompromising compilation with french and foreign artists reflecting what our world is currently about. From deep ambient to tortured experimental, this release aims to touch your heart with sonic emotions.
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released February 5, 2021

Graphic design: Nicolas Guillerminet
Drawing: Lucas Levon

Collect Yourself

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@terribiltotheis

Edited Arts is launching ‘Endorphins’, the first in a new series of charity compilations. Endorphins features contributions by Cassius Select, Ccontrary, DJ TESS, Emily Glass, furious styles, Hard Fantasy, Jaeho Hwang, Jasper Jarvis, Lighght, d0us, Shelley Parker and terribilis.

‘Endorphins’ is a compilation of pre and post cathartic visions & sounds. Embodying the alleviating potential of club music, 12 artists have made sonic references to the happy hormone that acts to relieve pain. Vigorous drums, shy wubs, disobedient trance, lifting breaks, and reclining interludes work towards the unrestrained mindset of this collection. This is the first release from a series that recreates psycho-sensory states of happiness, or the lack thereof.

Profits from this release will go to Black Minds Matter and Drake Music. 

Mastered by hmurd
Artwork by +777000

Tracklist:

terribilis - Having To Come Back Down
Cassius Select - Cradle 2
Hard Fantasy - Body Prison
Emily Glass - Hollow Butterfly Charm 
Lighght - Excruciating Brightness (Ode To DJ Netflex)
d0us - prec1 
furious styles - Admit It You Wish I Was Here
Shelley Parker - Tramadol Roll
DJ Tess - Legrina 
Jaeho Hwang - Jangdan1-Pyong
Jasper Jarvis - Birth 
Ccontrary - Voices 

We appreciate your support and hope you enjoy the music. Thank you for listening.

terribilis - Having To Come Back Down

(‾̴̴͡͡▿•‾̴̴͡͡ʃƪ) 30 min live/dj set for Nice Setting on Skylab radio- chopped up loops.,60% my own productions & loops & cut up samples
12.2020

oh, out of time mix

First single from @avastarr's EP "Angels In the Sand" forthcoming 05/02/21 on @slagwerk.

Mastering: @jesseosbornelanthier
Artwork: @amalcrossing

Angels In the Sand

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