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On Inhuman Spaces, Sour Gout creates collages of organic and virtual intensities, sculpting them into a series of immersive soundscapes. The album combines digital, instrumental, and organic sounds into a wide array of abstract forms. Sour Gout seeks to create a sense of the inhuman through the blends of these sonic sources. Inhuman Spaces takes influence from the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, Frank Zappa's late synclavier compositions, and the apocalyptic healing manga Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō. The album represents a sonic shift for Sour Gout toward a more personal and abstract space, which represents a move forward to new frontiers of musical exploration for the artist moving into the new decade.

Credits
All music produced and mixed by Sour Gout
Mastering by Nerve
Artwork by arisa

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Transmitted Forces

Gabber Modus Operandi - PUXXXIMAXXX (2021 Reissue) 
Cat. Nr: DN018
Format: LP (splatter)/ DL
Remastered & incl. 3 exclusive bonus tracks - first time on vinyl! 
Release Date: 19 March 2021
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/PUXXXIMAXXX

You could call Gabber Modus Operandi’s PUXXXIMAXXX LP a ‘scene-defining’ record. That’s except there’s no real ‘scene’ to speak of where the DIY electronic duo come from, deep in the belly of the neo-colonial beast of Bali—an island province of Indonesia where tourism is its biggest industry, mainstream house and techno its musical staple. “Bali is like an Australian backyard for some people,” jokes Ican Harem about the capital of Denpasar where they both live, just a four-hour flight from Perth. “It’s basically like when you go to Ibiza. Those are the sounds, that’s the kind of the people, that’s how they dress up, that’s how they dance.”

Otherwise known by the project’s GMO initialism, Harem and DJ Kasimyn (aka Aditya Surya Taruna) first released PUXXXIMAXXX on influential Yogyakarta label Yes No Wave in 2018, before performing the Javan capital’s Nusasonic festival that same year. It takes its title from their original name that is a play on an unmentionable curse word, and it’s the result of a clusterfuck of influences that blew up with access to the internet in Indonesia, enabled by cheap Chinese smartphones in the mid-2010s. “Now, all the content that we posted in social media basically came from this layer,” says Kas about this new medium for cultural expression across the country’s diverse and disconnected archipelago—a girl in a remote village dances on Tik Tok, construction workers play act while on the job. “This is like the amazing channel where they make their own content. They make these absurd jokes—like, local jokes. They just celebrate it. I don’t think they think about making content. They just want to record shit, but it’s kind of an explosion of this amazing and beautiful thing; of people crossing the Island and then showing them, ‘Oh, basically behind my house, there is a traditional party where people get possessed by a tiger’.”
From the derivative metal, punk and rock influences of the country’s first ‘indie explosion’ to the ‘lowbrow’ pop and local dance music hybrids of funkot and dangdut koplo, PUXXXIMAXXX is a brilliantly chaotic pastiche. It references breakcore and gabber while framed by traditional gamelan pentatonic scales. There’s the high-pitched trumpet opener of Sangkakala I and the ritualistic beat and looped vocal samples of Hey Nafsu, along with a fascinating montage of the Javanese jathilan possession dance for their wildly popular Dosa Besar music video. “If you think we’re doing ritualistic stuff, or playing gamelan, we’re not,” adds Kas. “We are around that area but at the same time, we also listen to Prodigy.”

GMO’s speculative Indonesian rave is infectious. It’s been dubbed ‘post-alay’ by the duo in tribute to the cheesy cultural phenomenon of the suburban teenager and has since caught on worldwide. Follow-up EP HOXXXYA was released on Shanghai label SVBKVLT in 2019, earning the band slots at CTM Berlin, Kampala’s Nyege Nyege Festival and performances in China with Asian Dope Boys. This is a level of recognition that’s well-deserved for a sound that snubs the western canon in favour of a hybrid post-colonial sound that’s pure imagination. “We just kind of like suck that energy that, actually people kind of enjoy their identity,” says Kas. “Especially the people not from the big city, because people from big cities, they always want to have confirmation from the West. Like, ‘I would love to play techno, and then play in Berghain in Berlin and LA’, that kind of stuff. But there is a layer that people don’t give a shit about that, they just want to have fun.”

Remastered by Beau Thomas 
Design by Teknovoid & Niels Wehrspann
PUXXXIMAXX was originally released by Yes No Wave

@gabbermodusoperandi

PUXXXIMAXXX (2021 Reissue)

Gabber Modus Operandi - Melayu Boleh Neraka

@objectblue

object blue makes a theatrical return to TT with a new audio-visual EP Grotto. Released on Friday 5th March, this 5-track EP follows the release of her breakthrough debut 'Do you plan to end a siege?' in 2018 on the label.

Characterized by fleshy synths and drawing on the fantastical, blue’s pinpoint percussion guides listeners through scenes of both lushness and macabre. Opening track ‘ Opened Close ’ creases its anthemic synth line in on itself, hinting at a hedonic visitation that never comes to be. ‘ Fugitive’s Focus’ orchestral summons follows, with bass-heavy rhythmic patterns assuring us of the gravity of the moment. Now is
not the time to flee.

As the squeeze gives way to the cavern, ‘ Exorcism of a self-help book’s’ disarranged messages scratch their way towards the light. Fairytale echoes of the rave punctuate claggy walls with smooth, lush moss. Its droplets shiver through thundering bass and crystallised clicks in ‘ Procession Of Healers’ as chaotic whimsy persists abound. The final track ‘ Closed Open’ comes upon a vocal apparition whose lamentation
arrives in loops and coils. The work’s undeniable presence leaves listeners both held and shaken; with unspoken knowledge thrown into spectral relief.

Grotto is released via TT on Friday 5th March.

Written and Recorded by Object Blue
Creative Direction, Editing and VFX - Natalia Podgórska
Mastered by Alex Gordon
Artwork by Josh Crumpler

object blue - Opened Close

@Sunareht "Amorama" LP

Out now : sunareht.bandcamp.com/album/amorama

Written and produced by @Sunareht
Mixed by Sunareht and Le Dom
Mastered by Tom Waltz
Artwork by Manuel Moreno Cortes

PRDX010 - www.paradoxeclub.fr

Amorama

Sunareht - Party Soundtrack Generator

xato's 4th EP "Annihilation" is an ode to past selves than another music project.

"Annihilation" explores the dark self and the redemption that comes after the following events, with muddy drums and noisy basses being the main sound focus of the project, surrounded by field-recording manipulations and deep evolving textures.

As the opening track, "Reverse" introduces the idea of how our brains remember and process the questionable and hard moments of our past, in a remorseful and harsh one-minute reminder that took place after all the events of "Annihilation".

The second track of the project "Bodies under the Moon", introduces deep drones, lifeless drums on ritualistic patterns and heavy distortion, fused with a sample by the Finnish music composer Mikko Tarmia, best known for his dark scores in critically acclaimed survival horror games, such as SOMA, Penumbra & Amnesia. The sample was used with permission.

"Shattered Dreams" borrows the sonic concept of the previous track. Live processed gnarly bass and an emotionally empty ending, are used as the main expression of the self-titled concept.

"I sacrificed myself to the Gods of Death to live forever inside your body" is a ritual intermission that expresses the urge of merging with one another, for the search of inner peace and security.

The fifth installment of the tragedy, "Destruction", features the notion of life after "death", the birth of new ideas and directions that drag us out of the misery that surrounds us. Deep continuous bass, destructed by the intense emotions of the strings and the progression, fuses the and creates the concept above.

On "From Ashes", xato takes all the textures featured on previous tracks of the project and combines them all together with a piano recording by UK artist Waller, mixing them into a dark, but soothing end to the story.

EP contains bonus tracks "Drowning" & "Strum".

[EVO005]

Artwork by v.3lo.
Written, Mixed & Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis.

Annihilation

xato - Destruction

@salllvage (Rowan Savage) is a proud Kombumerri First Nations man living on Gadigal Land ('Sydney,' 'Australia'). He is a producer, DJ and dancer working at the intersection of queer club culture and connection with Country. He uses field recordings from Kombumerri Country ('Gold Coast') to make experimental electronic music. His DJ sets fuse underground influences from across the globe with a strong First Nations sensibility. He is influenced by Indigenous Futurisms, and by an ongoing engagement with vogue and ballroom culture. His art aims to inhabit and bridge the tensions between abstraction and emotion, the wild bush and the dancefloor, the personal and the social, authenticity and reconstruction.

What was a crucial sound experience in your life?
The moment I heard Lechuga Zafiro create a beat from water; the moment I read David Toop describe noise itself as a haunting; and most of all, the moment I understood that sound could be a path back to Culture.

Links:
soundcloud.com/salllvage
www.instagram.com/salllvage/

Field recordings throughout were recorded on Kombumerri Country ('Gold Coast,' 'Australia') 2019-2020

Dialogue:
Bedevil (Tracey Moffatt, 1993)
David Toop (interview)
Lake Mungo (Joel Anderson, 2008)
Space is the Place (Sun Ra, 1974)
Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)

Tracklist:
Severed Heads - Skippy Roo Kangaroo
Graeme Revell - Nature Morte (Still Life)
Brian Eno - Shadow
amby downs - gaarra-y gaarra-li (doing a painting)
The Walker Brothers - The Electrician
Áine O'Dwyer - We Plough the Fields and Scatter
Lankum - What Will We Do When We Have No Money (Lighght Bitcoin Blockchain Blend)
salllvage - vapour on the estuary
Virginia Astley - When the Fields Were On Fire
Four Tet - Unspoken (promo version)
Kraftwerk - Tanzmusik
Thames Estuary Birds
Euglossine - Eco Fascist Dethroned
Phil Struck - Im Knick
Pendant - IBX-BZC
Lila Tirando a Violeta - Karanga Ngeru
Waak Waak Djungi - Gonawarra
salllvage - Guanaba
salllvage - SALT WATER BLOOD
Syntonic Research Inc. - The Psychologically Ultimate Seashore

MNEMOSYNE #012 - SALLLVAGE

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Ambientoza (Reggaeton Mix)

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Ambientoza (Dembow Mix)

Spirit Twin's tracklist: 00:00 - 02:47: Spirit Twin - Minuet of the Forest
02:27 - 04:26: Spirit Twin - Loser Baby (Unreleased)
04:26 - 07:31: Spirit Twin - Angel 333 (Ayegy Remix)
07:31 - 09:46: Spirit Twin - Bluetooth (Hara Kiri Remix)
09:46 - 13:01: Spirit Twin - 1010 (Unreleased)
13:01 - 15:54: Spirit Twin - Come Up (Anoop Remix) 
15:54 - 21:26: Spirit Twin - Fields in the Rain (Virgo Remix)
21:26 - 24:33: Spirit Twin - Stone Fortress (Spirit Twin Nightcore Remix)
24:33 - 27:30: Spirit Twin - Speak About (Spirit Twin Nightcore Remix)
27:30 - 29:43: Spirit Twin - Dragonfly (Matt Tecson Remix)

ONE WINGED ANGEL ft SPIRIT TWIN, THEGN, MATT TECSON

Zambian producer SHE Spells Doom delivers a new Magnetic Mix that builds and then hits you with plenty of intricate and energetic drum work.

Artist: @shespellsdoom
Article + Tracklist: https://www.magneticmag.com/2021/02/magnetic-mix-136-she-spells-doom/

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