VBRA Collection - March 2017

Pre-order now on Bandcamp
https://oofb.bandcamp.com/album/punch-drunk-out-of-fashion-boys-vol-2

Out of Fashion Boys Compilation Vol.2: Punch Drunk

Punch Drunk refers to the dizziness when fighters get rocked, pretty much resembles to the numbness after five six Vodka shots. We borrowed this concept to name our compilation, hoping it delivers the same experience aurally and emotionally even without Vodka. So that you may keep your feet on the ground when the real punch comes. As Buddhism says, "All sufferings are caused by omissions.” All those omissions (joys and sorrows to put it simple) are punches to our life, where all our false satisfaction and desperation are punch drunk. Wish we can stay sober, or just straight out get a "punch drunk".

Out of Fashion Boys Compilation Vol.2: Punch Drunk

Punch Drunk指的是在格斗比赛或现实中被重拳击中产生的眩晕感，就像是一口干掉一杯伏特加后对整个世界都失去了知觉。我们借用这个概念来命名这张合辑，是希望让每个人即使不喝伏特加，也能够在听感和情绪上体会punch drunk。等到哪一天真的迎来一记“punch”时，希望你能站稳。就像佛教所讲的有漏皆苦, 所有的“漏”（简单理解为过喜或悲的情绪）都是一记punch，我们对生活的所有虚假的满足与绝望也是punch drunk，希望我们能保持清醒，否则就干脆享受punch drunk吧。

@laughingears 

Laughing Ears is an electronic music producer who currently lives in Shanghai, she burst onto the underground music scene these years. A unique presence in China’s burgeoning electronic underground with impressive releases. Her music crosses genres which include Experimental, Ambient, Beats, Bass, Footwork and Noise. She treats sounds as building blocks, by layering and combining them, she builds stylized sound castles of her own.

Mastered by Eliot Lee
Artwork by Kawakoto

Premiere | Laughing Ears - Madness Of Two(Punch Drunk: Out of Fashion Boys Compilation Vol.2）

"Cold Crystal Timbres" recalls the immediate past. Hight-tech emotions and synthetic unnaturalness: When sonic hybridities were echoing early 2000s pop.

Once a haven for nerds and enthusiasts, the internet became accessible to many in the early 2010s. Utopias linked to the early internet, such as that of an anonymous and democratic cyberspace, are finally being displaced by a neoliberal Silicon Valley ideology that manifests itself in platforms like Facebook and Amazon.

Rebecca Fuxen and Martin Rovan’s mixtape "Cold Crystal Timbres" pays tribute to the music that emerged from this structural change and aesthetically relates to it. This hybrid music genre, which developed between 2010 and 2015, is characterized by both cold digital sounds and nostalgic pop references. It is embedded in collectives, loose associations, labels, events, or curatorial projects that network primarily through platforms such as SoundCloud and Myspace. Although this music takes place mostly in traditional club settings, it is transnational, digital networking practices that create political activism and solidarity: many collectives establish platforms for DJs, producers, and activists. They reclaim the white- and male-dominated club scene and emphasize the queer context of its genesis and the central role of BPoC within club music.

Listening to the digital, high-resolution sounds of the time one comes to grasp the intersections of digital everyday culture and music as well as the influence that technological developments have on the realities of the artists’ lives.


Credits:
Mixtape by Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan
fkoff1963 - everytime
Rabit - Hex [Tri Angle Records]
boygirl - YE SLOW
Celestial Trax - Secrets [Purple Tape Pedigree]
Blastah - Fica [Mäss]
Sami Baha - Chunk [Planet Mu]
Retina Set - I've Got Feelings Too
SOPHIE - Not Okay [Future Classic]
Lotic - PHLEGM (ZZ GOLOSO EDIT) [NAAFI]
Toxe - Let Me Thru [STAYCORE]
Resla - Nitro [STAYCORE]
Lechuga Zafiro - Agua y Puerta [NAAFI]
MikeQ - The Ha Dub Rewerk'd [Fade To Mind]
Mechatok - Placer [STAYCORE]
Dat Oven - Icy Lake (Total Freedom Remix) [Fade To Mind & Night Slugs]
Toxe x Aaliyah (v1984 edit) [BUILD]

Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan: Cold Crystal Timbres, Mixtape

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ANSIA001 
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B. Cala

out 14/11/2016
Hand-stamped white label 12"
300 copies - vinyl only
Mastered by Lewis at Stardelta, pressed at Optimal

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Piezo - ANSIA001

Collab with the briedrin https://soundcloud.com/tostidubs
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INDIVIDUAL DROPS by https://soundcloud.com/ice_eyes out 30/04 via Genot Centre // tape & digital
Get it now // http://bit.ly/gen035_presale
Remix by https://soundcloud.com/cxlo // https://soundcloud.com/cxlo/ice_eyes-argo-cxlo-remix

Produced by https://soundcloud.com/ice_eyes
Cover, teasers & recycled PET object by https://soundcloud.com/h5io
Original tracks mastered by Stefan Konstantinidis at Fabrika Music // www.fabrikamusic.gr 
Remixes mastered by @wimdehaen

INDIVIDUAL DROPS by ICE_EYES is a cold-blooded showcase of dynamic sound organization, where sputtering shreds of sound cluster into larger scale rhythm units, before shattering into new formations once again. Sounds here are sliced, combed, atomized and always performing new acrobatics around the indeterminate no man's land of the rhythm-pitch transition zone, yet somehow never straying too far from advanced dancefloor-ready syncopations. 
The tonal medium of these broken rhythmic arrangements immediately suggests something trembling with cutting edge technological infrastructure, where harmonically dense pads evoke a long forgotten IDM cgi landscape, where hybridized sounds rattle through an elaborate piping system. Warbled mumblings remind us this music is still situated in the realm of the human, but one where every transmission first passes through a chain of paranoia, interception, re-encodings and subversive content barricades. 
The album is finished off with each track rearranged once again by a handful of masterful remixers. 

ICE_EYES about INDIVIDUAL DROPS 
“In seeking of new challenges, our latest work Individual Drops, is focusing on new evolving sonic material from a more microscopic point of view, by integrating more obvious granular synthesis ideas. The purpose is to create a new formula that works both in sculpting sound design, and the same time respects our dystopian orientation as an archetype. At this point, we engage more intensive, ever changing, faintly anorgasmic, sonic motifs, that work as a guidebook to an overall fragmented picture. 
Arcadia, as an art form that can be used as a metaphor of utopia, is always present at the background of that image, holding all parts together, like an anchor in a turbulent sea, resembling the Argo floating on these angry waters. Space or Khoros is a variable of time balancing from small to large places, but not in an paternal way. Granular synthesis at its core, forming each sound in a discrete way, like a drop of rain falling in a pit of clear water.”

Individual Drops

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Ice_Eyes - Argo (GEN035)

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MELTS INTO LOVE 

xin, 'Spent, Wasted and Saved (ft. AYA)'. Courtesy Subtext Recordings, Berlin.

Welcoming Penelope's fiance in hm fam we share a track made in collaboration with Xyn Cabal. There will be a proper release by him in 2020 and we are calling it now: it's the best thing you will listen to next year.

Artwork by Inhalt
Penelope's fiance: https://soundcloud.com/doesnt-matter-11
Xyn Cabal: https://soundcloud.com/thereexistss

Penelope's fiance - To die hating them (freedom) ft. Xyn Cabal

Undisputed Truth (sanctuary)

Track Premiere: Awaken by @martyyna-1 [@bcaasystem]
Awaken EP due August 10th https://bcaasystem.bandcamp.com/
Read More: https://paynomindtous.it/awaken-martyyna-bcaa/
Artwork by Igor Sabaev [https://instagram.com/igorlorok/]
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Today, we’d like to offer you the last track premiere just before the so longed summer break. On the spotlight is MARTYYNA, a producer / DJ born and currently based in Prague, affiliated with the Blazing Bullets DJs collective, co-founder of the Illegal Taipei research hub and of the cutting-edge KSK events series in the Czech capital. Her debut EP, titled Awaken and developed around the deployment and dissection of traditional Asian instruments such as guzheng and erhu, will see the light on August 10th on the local BCAA system platform.

Already appeared on outcomes such as Eco Futurism Corporation, Unizone, ANBA, and others more with multilayered, textured gems of glitchy ambiance, rusty percussions, and dim melodies, her intimate approach to composition is enriched for the occasion by the use of her own vocals, appearing throughout all the record as the leading component together with the aforementioned deconstruction of string instruments.

In particular, MARTYYNA’s peculiar drive comes from her background as architecture/urbanism professional which led her to spend several years in Taiwan and other far-East regions researching local, illegal, and unofficial housing and the economic forces at play. Her creative outings are somehow suspended between a sense of tidiness and order and the unrestrained desire to create living, breathing sonic entities. The two components show up in a tense exchange where none of the sides prevail, enhancing each other instead.

Mastered by Dominik Gajarský, the EP comes with a neu-grunge cover by Igor Lorok, a visual artist and DJ based in Prague. Also involved with the KSK crew as the author of its graphic identity, his artwork for the EP is the fruit of a close relationship with the producer that brought them working together around the album concept.

As the title suggests, Awaken is a largely experimental work composed of five pieces that are focused on affirmation, inner discovery, acceptance of all the experiences – both painful and cheering – life throws our way, and how we manage to react and embrace them. In the words of Adela Sobotkova aka NEW MAGIC MEDIA, MARTYYNA’s musical approach “works with honestly admitted chaos, positively welcomed coincidence”.

We’re honored to share with you the eponymous album track, the keystone to understanding the whole EP concept, style, and motivations. As strongly introspective as any of the other four pieces, Awaken reminisces about the toxicity of sorrow and the cathartic power of pain, while affirming the courage of vulnerability and the will to manifest ourselves with no refrains. From a musical point of view, the track combines dreamy atmospheres, somber yet steady percussive elements, and layered vocal lines chanting wholehearted lyrics. “When you allow yourself to live your truth and also speak it without fear, then comes the liberating awareness that what doesn’t kill you will actually make you stronger”. Enjoy!

MARTYYNA - Awaken [PAYNOMINDTOUS Premiere / BCAA system]

++ TINNITVS - A 5-YEAR ANNIVERSARY COMPILATION ++

In 2015, Club Late Music was created as an open-source music label, with the ambition to explore the production and diffusion of artistic contents by connecting artists worldwide into a network based on collaboration, sharing and mutual aid. It was quickly followed by the creation of the Global URL Nation in 2017 : a still growing community of artists, designers and enthusiasts willing to crystallize this idea into a tangible reality.

Five years later, after more than a dozen projects - from EPs and compilations to audiovisual pieces and installations, as well as many radio shows, live acts and club events - we are still more than convinced that collective action, togetherness and genuine openness are much needed guides to navigate our troubled times.

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We are happy to celebrate this double anniversary with TINNITVS, a 12-track compilation made by members and friends of the Global URL Nation. With 24 artists from more than a dozen countries, it acts as a statement of our current mindset by presenting only collaborative tracks made by two or more persons. An embodiment of playful exploration and muti-faceted creation, covering a broad range of sounds and styles, from the lowest roars to the sparkliest ringing vocals.

As a reverse present to our supporters, as well as a way to explore further what open-source could mean in contemporary music production, the stems of each track are made available for anyone to use as they please when downloading the compilation. We hope this initiative will give birth to inspiring reworks and remixes, expanding the scope of the original tracks into new beings in perpetual evolution. We invite any contributions, from GUN members and beyond, to be sent to us in order to be gathered under a common project that will take shape in the coming months with the same mindset.

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We are overwhelmingly thankful to anyone who has joined and participated in the adventure, as well as to everyone who has shown support in any way possible - from those who listened to our music to those who played it, from those who shared our content to those who involved us in their activities. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for the continuous inspiration.

We still have a lot to learn and to improve, and we hope that this anniversary only marks a foundation to build upon. A basis that will allow us to keep further exploring sonic realms and visual wonders, as well as collective organization and collaborative processes.

Let’s hope we can celebrate and dance together soon.

🕊🕊🕊

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++ TRACKLIST ++

01. GRIG & jjjacob - Antechamber
02. HeedLess & Mansa - Call Whisper
03. ASJ, Désiré, Kelvin T, Thegn & Tommy Moisi - Pumped Up Hash
04. Arj0na & Metrakit - Mov3
05. LCL Stream, Quasistate & DJ Skynet - VR Chads
06. Désiré & SNKLS - Last Plane
07. NEW FEAR & LMN3 - ORSUS
08. Gwia Ekim & indigoblue - Content Corruption
09. Sport Eyes (dj dialup & PK Is Cool) - Tkee
10. SNKLS & Soft Matter - Warm Circuits
11. VINÍ & P I T - TEMPESTADE.exe
12. Didier XCX, GRIG & pan_x - It’s Late Not Latte

++ CREDITS ++

Visuals by Gourau&Phong, GRIG & Robin Lopvet
https://www.instagram.com/gourauphong
https://www.instagram.com/griigg
https://www.instagram.com/robinlopvet

Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta & Metrakit (Track 04)

Tracks produced by Arj0na, ASJ, Désiré, Didier XCX, DJ Skynet, GRIG, Gwia Ekim, HeedLess, indigoblue, jjjacob, Kelvin T, LCL Stream, LMN3, Mansa, Metrakit, NEW FEAR, pan_x, P I T, Quasistate, SNKLS, Soft Matter, Sport Eyes, Thegn, Tommy Moisi, & VINÍ.

DOWNLOAD / STEMS

GRIG & jjjacob - Antechamber

Llanto - Cabrón

Full release: 
https://n1lmusic.bandcamp.com/album/kr-l-spe-s

Producer, Composed By, Artwork By, Mixed By – N1L
Mastered By – Raphaël Valensi

                                                     Tracklist:
1 	krɔːl speɪs 	2:15
2 	alpha fail 	5:24
3 	chronos 	3:18
4 	kairos 	2:42
5 	ijsv.0gel II 	2:28
6 	centipede goddess 	2:23
7 	ani-maani-musani-mal 	3:00
8 	exit anthropocene 	3:02
9 	bloodstained totems 	2:43
10 	kavadi aattam 	7:10

1st draft titled "water memory" was released as limited edition cassette tape via OpalTapes, 2018
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Extended, updated by N1L 2018-2020
Re-mastered by Raphaël Valensi 2020

krɔːl speɪs

N1L - krɔːl speɪs 2020 (snippets)

bookings etc -> kablamkablamkablam@gmail.com

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