Available on cassette at https://causalchain.bandcamp.com/album/oko

oko is laced’s sophomore EP under her new moniker, which takes a new path compared to her previous noise explorations. Drawing inspiration from ambient music, dreampop, video game and anime soundtracks, breakbeat and IDM, the music conveys a dream world where the artist tends to escape in. The EP was produced over the course of 2021 since laced’s 2020 MUTEK performance in Montreal, taking a melodic approach in contrast to her more percussive productions. oko is best consumed under a pile of warm blankets or under the rain, its energy being one of catharsis, contemplation, healing and dreaming.
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released May 6, 2022

Music by laced (@lacedetail)
Mixed and mastered by SIM
Remixes by dybbuk (@disk-wraith), Xen Model (@xenmodel), SIM (@sim_mtl) & Gobekli (@gobekli)
Album art by Bruno Lauzon Tanzi (@bruno-lauzon-tanzi)
Texture generated by Andrew Nowacki

laced - Angel

Stupor

Even a Tear

The twelfth edition of the DISPLAYSOLO series finds the London-based artist, Mirror Organs sculpting two eyes-down ambient rollers suited as much for late night urban wanderings as they are a dark, sub-frequency filled club. Both tracks meld floaty synths and ice cold atmospheres with churning, cyclical low end rhythms, creating a blend that's ultimately just as much hypnotic as it is dynamic.

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Written & recorded by Mirror Organs
Recorded in London during Summer 2023
Artwork, cassette design & mastering by Joey Butler AKA Kid Smpl

Cassette / Digital

Mirror Organs - Be The Same Again

Billy Bultheel - Two Cycles
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 138
Release Date: 08 March 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/TwoCycles

Billy Bultheel's debut solo album is an ambitious distillation of the composer's,' sprawling litany of influences and his unique approach to site-specific composition. A compilation of pieces created between 2016 and 2023, the album is a forceful testament to Bultheel's expansive performance practice and collaborations with cutting-edge visual artists like Anne Imhof and James Richards.

Drawing inspiration from industrial music and metal as well as medieval and baroque polyphony, Bultheel devised a way to present this collection of works side-by-side. The record is split into two distinct cycles: the Snow Cycle, which collects Bultheel's electro-acoustic and compositional work, and the Game Cycle, which assembles his electronic productions. These two suites have unmistakable symmetry; Bultheel's traditional compositions are bolstered by his understanding of electronic production, while his electronic pieces are moulded by his knowledge of classical and traditional music. "Two Cycles" is an album that exhibits duality, embodying the dichotomy of Bultheel's roles as both an ensemble composer and an electronic producer.

The haunting opening track of the 'Snow Cycle', 'The Arcades Project', — named after the unfinished compendium of architectural contemplations penned by the eminent German philosopher, Walter Benjamin - places four tubas in strategic towers surrounding the audience, creating an immersive auditory experience. Conversely, 'The Snows of Venice' — named after Alexander Kluge and Ben Lerner collection of short stories and poems — was conceived for two flautists directed to intertwine their melodies as they traversed through knee-high water.

The 'Game Cycle' meanwhile places a strong emphasis on rhythm, crafting a sonic landscape that resonates with overdriven metallic clanks and sharp stabs. Drawing upon his extensive experience in composing for choreography, Bultheel envisions a series of jittery dances that purposefully deviate from conventional timelines. 'Decreation' infuses techno with the visceral qualities of noise music and 'Game Theory' offers an unsettling skeletal barrage of saturated, precisely tuned percussive hits. Bultheel brings 'Two Cycles' to a close with 'Gigue,' a reference to the 6/8 baroque court dance that traditionally marked the conclusion of a dance suite; by merging marching rhythms performed by two percussionists on a single drum set with chaotic and evocative synth leads, he establishes a tantalizing counterpoint.

'Two Cycles' is a musical compilation that explores the themes of locale and landscape, elucidating the intricate dynamics that arise between the musicians and their audience, the ears and the architecture. Considering timbre, density and the psycho-acoustic qualities of communal spaces, from the warehouse to the cathedral, Bultheel draws indelible lines between seemingly distant concepts, merging the celestial with the terrestrial.

The double album cover, one for each side and cycle on the record, features a collage created by the Welsh video artist James Richards that merges medieval iconography with snippets of queer memorabilia.

All tracks written by Billy Bultheel
Mixed by James Ginsburg
Mastered by Enyang Urbicks

Billy Bultheel - 5SSP (Game Cycle) (PAN 138)

Composición musical en hidrofono + sintetizador.-

pizz en violín.


obra usada en colaboración con el video performance espejo de agua de Seba calfuqueo

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Eternal Cadances w/ Ju Dallas & TVBXS - Aaja Channel 1 - 15 04 24

SHAUWDII 23.4.24

An unsettling meditation on perception in the digital age. Through dark ambient textures, experimental pulses, and fragments of glitch and cinematic sound, Raw Cognition explores how human awareness burrows into the fabric of our hyperconnected society... restless, hungry, and never quite at ease.

In this world, the human body becomes a metaphor for our digital landscape, and the chigger... tiny, invasive, relentless, embodies human perception: feeding on the endless scroll of content, reacting to the invisible hum of online life, and leaving a lingering psychic itch.

Dig Deeper Little Chigger is a journey into the spaces where technology, isolation, and introspection collide.

Deeper Little Chigger #6

In a moment

The Iron Drone 741 Hz [Dark Nature Concept]

Two Autumns

Visor

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Even a Tear

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