TR160 - Joachim Nordwall - 'FORMS OF ECSTASY'

DBR - Chicxulub: https://nvrec.bandcamp.com/album/chicxulub
NV Rec is thrilled to present it's 11th release titled Chicxulub, work by a reclusive NYC music producer DBR. Glitchy ambient dub inspired by Chicxulub, an impact crater from an asteroid, buried underneath the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. 

music – DBR
mastering – OL
artwork – Maria Gorshkova
© NVREC 2021

[NVR11] DBR - Chicxulub

released July 29, 2021

All Music by MOS FET, Eustress, and Solid Squares

Mastering: Pheek

Geomag - copper squeeze

In June 2021, an unmarked package arrived at the Psychic Liberation headquarters. The small box, which had no return address, contained three items: a thumb drive, a printed message from a notes app, and a small satchel of what seemed to be carambola seeds. The note reads: “We were raised in the ashes of time. This is a philosophy of live. Made while sailing the seas of chaos on our humble houseboat, a place you’ll come to know. But do not seek us out. We are gone.”


Unwilling to risk a computer virus, or humor what was maybe a prank, the thumb drive sat on a shelf for a number of weeks. Eventually, label head Nick Klein decided to take it to the Royal Library of the Netherlands and open its contents on a computer there, just in case.


The thumb drive was titled jd swift. It’s unclear whether this is the artist’s name, the title of the album, or both. The recording opens with an alien spaghetti western: a chopped voice and wobbly single note, signaling that this is a strange place. The percussion is directionless at first, but warbled samples, including the nostalgic clink of getting a coin in Donkey Kong, give way to mutant structure.


Distorted twinkles, dubby hats, and big paranoid kicks occasionally swirl into lo-fi hurricanes, but mostly this music resides in the calm but weirdly charged eye of the storm.


Though little can be assumed about the context of these sonic creations, they seem to be the result of extended jams. The toolbox includes broken arpeggiations and fuzzed bells, air horns and watery pannings. This is twisted globalism, a nexus of serenity and catastrophe, a series of unrecognizable landscapes that read like field recordings though they are intentional creations. The inscrutability of their delivery captures perfectly the sense that artists are no longer individuals or collectives—they are circuits of larger machinery.


Meandering between sounds, these sui generis recordings don’t quite fit the categories of contemporary electronic music. Junk ambient, marginal acid… it’s a struggle to appropriately describe the sounds. Part of this difficulty comes from the artist’s (or artists’) purposefully self-effacing strategy, a circumventing of the systems that edify and circulate art based on identity, practice, and vision. Indeed, this is one of the reasons PL was strangely attracted to these recordings in the first place.


All eight of the individual pieces that make up jd swift are untitled, but are labelled with the time at which they start in the recording. The first track is titled 0:00. Does this hint at new beginnings, or a stance against time itself? If you find yourself on a coast, keep an eye out for a houseboat. Its occupants may know the answer. 
credits
releases October 7, 2021

Mastered by Glyn Maier

Graphic Design and Art by Germán Enrique Caceres Cueto

Psychic Liberation, in operation since 2018, is an experimental music label started in Brooklyn, New York, currently based in Berlin, Germany.

DISTRIBUTED IN THE UNITED STATES BY FANTASTIQUE LLC.

JD SWIFT

PURCHA$E

JD SWIFT -  0:00 (PLIB011)

Troth ‘Oak Corridor’ Album Out 1st of November 2021.

Listen to 'Balancing Arc':
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Music video by Amelia Besseny & Cooper Bowman, recorded in the area of Newcastle, Australia.
© + ℗ 2021 Knekelhuis, under exclusive licence to Knekelhuis Records.

Oak Corridor

Balancing Arc

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Контур Сс - Даб_Клаб_Зон

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Dreamcycles - Future Lights and Archetypes

https://sitequeeste.bandcamp.com/album/future-lights-and-archetypes
Available 1 May 2020 exclusively on Bandcamp. Available 29 May 2020 on all digital platforms.

Dreamcycles, the moniker of Irish-Canadian artist Jennifer Moore, emerges from the ashen present to deliver her conceptual debut mini-album Future Lights and Archetypes. Operating at the node between technological reality and speculative fiction, Moore transforms ethereal bedroom pop and monolithic electronics into uncanny soundscapes to explore what she describes as the “landscape of a future global economy.”

Moore’s imagination conjures a new order of global governance which uses data to assess the competencies, characteristics, and productivity capacity of its citizens. Predictive analytics are used to shuttle humans around the globe in a tightly choreographed dance of space, labour and capital. Spanning a perspective both personal and systemic, the Dublin-based producer guides the listener through her sober invention, anchoring its alienating events around simple longings for home.

Across six tracks, present-day sonics are repurposed to create warped atmospherics. “If I wanted to see the world, I’d have to imagine it,” says a disembodied voice on opening track ‘Memory (Temporary Access)’. Pitter-patter footsteps, playing children, and whirring device noises swirl around the words: harsh, familiar, and ultimately unsettling. ‘Fonn Abhaile’ follows—its vaporous synths matched by breathy vocals—but ‘Abrasive Routes’ reveals the haunting potential of Moore’s psychoacoustic constructions. News report snippets detailing the Dublin financial district jostle with screeching high-definition cars. “It’s become the most extraordinary contrast to everything else here,” recites a roving correspondent, cataloguing inequalities suffused into the electronic artist’s home.

As the mini-album progresses, the emotional intensity rises. ‘Memory Laneways’ pairs an elegiac refrain with industrial kicks before ‘Playing with the Concrete’ offers a moment of brightness. “You look good when you’re smiling,” sings Moore over a distant sinogrime melody, followed by her closing, and most affecting track, ‘Final Goodbye.’ Meditations on belonging are swept along by circular, trance-like synths whose closing destination is bittersweet: euphoria tempered by the artist’s sombre backdrop.

Moore describes Future Lights and Archetypes as a “post-extraction artefact.” Through its diary entries, radio clippings, and fragmented songs, the mini-album resembles an object hewn from a fully-realised world, like an Ursula K. Le Guin novel refracted through machine learning. Keen listeners might also detect a flicker of Grouper’s place-based musings or even the crumbling electronics of Actress. But this release melds intimacy with pulsating stimuli, Moore’s gaze oriented firmly towards the human cost of an omniscient technological future.

Future Lights & Archetypes

Dreamcycles - Memory Laneways

JWR034
'You Will Never Know'

The second in a series of compilations selected by friends/family as well members of our own team. Music made for our lost loved ones and for the difficult times. Check out the EP below! 

featuring 
https://soundcloud.com/v3sta_ath
https://soundcloud.com/blissingpersons
https://soundcloud.com/jacobmarley
https://soundcloud.com/max-rollins
https://soundcloud.com/facewashmusic
https://soundcloud.com/entten
https://soundcloud.com/user-976108423-700598082

Mastered by SIM
Artwork by Oskar Jeff aka Dome Zero

For Agnes Jackson

nueen - balance me

Charlotte Simon - Chloé

@micronoise-paranoic-sound carefully explores the sonic space of crunchy, clicking and overdriven sounds on forthcoming @faktura_ural release.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/micronoise-paranoic-sound-puteshestvie-vniz

Premiere: Micronoise Paranoic Sound - Puteshestvie Vniz

Independent Record Label

Sentry - Perfect Blue Bubbles
https://flightcoda.bandcamp.com/album/perfect-blue-bubbles

African Ghost Valley - Hondas Goblins
https://jollies.bandcamp.com/album/hondas-goblins

Új Bála - Hideg Sors
https://ujbala.bandcamp.com/album/hideg-sors

Geomag - below the river above the air
https://jollies.bandcamp.com/album/below-the-river-above-the-air

Women of the Pore & Arrington - Hot Town - Rip Up the Streets
https://jollies.bandcamp.com/album/hot-town-rip-up-the-streets

VA - Content Aware
https://jollies.bandcamp.com/album/content-aware

Kritzkom - Fuzziness
https://kritzkom.bandcamp.com/album/fuzziness

African Ghost Valley - Iberville
https://jollies.bandcamp.com/album/iberville

Abaunz - Ilunpean Arnas Hotsa Entzuten
https://jollies.bandcamp.com/album/ilunpean-arnas-hotsa-entzuten

African Ghost Valley - AAM
https://jollies.bandcamp.com/album/aam

MOS FET & Eustress - These Days
https://jollies.bandcamp.com/album/these-days

Andrew Haines - Hidden in the Night
https://jollies.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-in-the-night

Új Bála - Lobban
https://ujbala.bandcamp.com/album/lobban

Reinartz - Interactions 
https://reinartz.bandcamp.com/album/interactions

VA - Crash Klang Bang Thang
https://jollies.bandcamp.com/album/crash-klang-bang-thang

Geomag - copper squeeze

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