Sound Of Desert

Dora

Live recording electronics, acoustics, mics, noise makers, and communal synchronized brain damage. 

Live NiL - Beats, voice, sounds, mixer, and Bass Guitar,  
Tim Myantena - electronics, synths   
Anita Matias - microphone, guitar, cassette player, music box, percussion.

Timanita Muscaranil

NHKyx - Kasm04
10" Vinyl & Digital
Release Date: 2nd May 2025
Available in all good record shops

NHKyx >> Koyxen >> Kohei Matsunaga >> Returns to Skam Records to deliver KASM04 on the 10” Vinyl Series. A musician and illustrator born in Osaka in 1978, started drawing at an early age and went on to study architecture at university.  He has been actively making music since 1992, with notable releases on labels such as Raster-Noton, Wordsound, Mille Plateaux, PAN and Skam Records. Kohei has collaborated with many artists, including Mika Vainio, Sensational from the Jungle Brothers, Sean Booth from Autechre, Conrad Schnitzler, Merzbow, Asmus Tietchens and many more. Very proud to have four new tracks of Kohei’s heavy rhythmic electronic music….  
A1 Filled with Vacuum                                  A2 Ancient Behave
B1 Same Point Different Coordinate     B2 Formulated Rhythm 4s
 
Written & Produced: Kohei Matsunaga
Mastering: A1 B1 Tomokazu Orui // A2 B2 Joe Lambert

Artwork: @bhatoptics
C&P Skam Records 2025

NHKyx - Filled with vacuum

DD. Records was, and remains still, an inimitable insight into a treasure trove of astonishing talent from a unique and semi-hermetic society of musicians in Japan's early 80's DIY scene. In the space of just five years, the label released 222 cassettes of idiosyncratic, wilfully strange, and addictively bold experimental music from a small and tightly bound group of friends and collaborators. This music was almost always recorded at home and released on a short run of cassettes with homemade Xeroxed artwork (that was only distributed outside Japan by a single record store in the US). And - true to the label's creative remit - could be anything from avant-punk, experimental sound collage, early computer / MIDI programming, noise-pop songwriting, freaked-out ambient or countless other genre coinages found only here in DD. Records' singular canon.

Words and Mix by James Vella / A Lily

Bleep Mix #298 - Phantom Limb: DD. Records Special

Klangkrieg
ZOD
FlopBeatDisc
Postçore X-Mist
TestTubeKid
PotereOcculto
SuddenInfant
eiterherd
Nomex
jeanFerraille
FatiqueSuspect
Gwal
YannDubb
BlackLung
EON
Shxchshxshx


https://soundcloud.com/bonnie-parker-2

https://www.mixcloud.com/bonnieparker129142/

Selections 78 - CRi

https://www.instagram.com/knifeloop/
Seamus O'Donnell @knifeloop

Improv Session Knifeloop and Frank

NoTodosSilban Capitulo II

E1 - Halogenix - Silver Sword

Taking over our mix series this week, FOLD's chief woofer-buster Voicedrone steps up with a wide load of high-octane floor ordnance, custom built for hectic weekend workouts and recorded live at the mighty London club. Taking off like a bullet, this one swings the pendulum betwixt powerhouse tech grit, acidic squelch and further dirt-tracks-ready breaks. No delayed reaction with this one, ruff'n'tuff material for the heads.

soundcloud.com/voicedrone

Reclaim Your City 

Reclaim Your City 367 | Voicedrone

Dabke is the celebratory music and dance found throughout the Levantine Middle East. 
By the mid-1990s, a new wave of high-energy electronic dabke music had emerged – to be heard at weddings, parties and cassette-stalls region-wide. New wave dabke was first introduced to western ears by way of Omar Souleyman and his northeastern Syrian sounds. This collection presents a hypnotic and diverse selection of electrified dabke dance cuts from a region in the south of Syria known as the Houran.

The Houran refers to a swathe of south Syria and northwestern Jordan, beginning just below Damascus, and encompassing the Syrian cities of Daraa, Suweida, Bosra and the Golan Heights.  Its populations include Syrians, Bedouin, Druze, Palestinians and Jordanians – and this unique confluence of cultures is evident throughout these tracks. 

Hourani dabke is relentless and commanding, driven by heavy rhythms and weaving synthesizers. Long passages of intense musical fervor are punctuated by fierce male vocals, belting out calls for the audience to dance, alongside the lyrical laments and tributes to love and lust. But the sound of the Houran is best defined by the mejwiz - a double-reed bamboo flute famed for its droney overtones as well as shrill, buzzing melodic lines achieved by circular breathing techniques. 

Historically, Hourani dabke was played with mejwiz, hand percussion and narrative vocal chants.  Electronic beats have inevitably embellished the contemporary sound, magnifying the intensity – and the mejwiz players have taken their craft to the microphone, in order to maintain the instrument’s prominence over the resulting volume.  The sampled mijwiz sound has its own specific qualities and in recent years, can even be heard in combination with its organic counterpart. 

The recordings featured in this collection were captured live to the mixing desk during weddings and parties throughout the Houran during the 1990s and 2000s, and represent a mere sliver of the sounds found in tape and disc vendors throughout the region.

Release date: April 2, 2013: 
"Dabke – Sounds of the Syrian Houran" Reissue on CD (Compact Disc).

Proceeds from this release will be donated to the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (IFRC) to help support urgent humanitarian aid work during the ongoing crisis in Syria.

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