https://takearestnow.bandcamp.com/album/die-hard-rmxs-vol-2

DIE HARD RMXS VOL.2 is the second rework EP of some selected tracks from the original Rest Now! compilation ‘Die Hard (Rest Now! Motion Picture Soundtrack)’ featuring remixes by @queimada77 @ptwiggs @emilyglassss @triste-temps and @ubinas

All the proceeds will be devolved to the #closed4women emergency fund promoted by ActionAid to allow the anti-violence centers to continue working at their best even during this difficult period of coronavirus pandemic.

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'In Defense' from D003 compilation released by Doyenne.

D003 arrives as a split between four experimental sound artists from London/LA, Philadelphia, Krakow, and Portland/Berlin.

Available on Bandcamp now:
https://doyenne-books.bandcamp.com/album/doyenne-003-felisha-ledesma-martyna-basta-lucy-liyou-ekaterina-bazhenova-yamasaki

In Defense

Seraphim w/ 111X - 11/10/2023

Solastalgia for bass flute, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, percussion, piano and electronics

Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble:
Małgorzata Mikulska - bass flute
Tomasz Sowa - bass clarinet
Krzysztof Guńka - baritone saxophone
Aleksander Wnuk percussion
Martyna Zakrzewska piano

„Festiwal Prawykonań”( Festival of Premiers) at the NOSPR (National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra).
12th March 2023 Katowice (Poland)

Audio: Polish Radio
Video: Matuesz Różański

Solastalgia for bass flute, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, percussion, piano and electronics

Track 3 from "Dawn Simulation". Available now on Chondritic Sound.

https://chondriticsound.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-simulation

Gift (Chondritic Sound, 2023)

Bank NYC is very excited to present the definitive statement of Collector, "No Prospects". Collector is the solo guise of Jason Campbell, resident of Newcastle, Australia. Since 2014, Campbell has been channelling the industrial malaise of his hometown through his unique take on heavy electronics. After a series of releases on global-spanning labels such Steel City Dance Discs (UK), Nice Music (AUS), Clan Destine (SCO) & Night People (US), the debut long-player for Bank NYC finds Collector embracing true album form for the first time in his discography. Across eight pieces, Collector delivers a bleak sonic narrative via a hardware-only approach to production: Analog drum machine patterns are intricately intertwined with menacing synth lines, and driving bass is met with the unrelenting clatter of tightly-sequenced field recordings taken straight from the heart of local industry.

Thematically, "No Prospects" navigates the downfall of Newcastle's BHP Steelworks at the end of the 20th century. Acknowledged widely as the largest de-industrialisation event in Australian history, the closure of the Steelworks in 1999 marked a dramatic cultural shift where blue-collar vocations were vanquished due to an economic slump, and were consumed by the trending cosmopolitanism seen in adjacent cities. "No Prospects" draws on Campbell's family lineage in the Newcastle's steelworks, providing a rich, personal context to an industry that both gives and takes away. The sharp intensity of the album is sustained by dramatic shifts in pace: the devestating slow burners of 'Two From Five' and 'Ricochet' are instinctually offset by the frenetic 'CFT' and 'Workers Club Collapse', which showcase Campbell's no-nonsense approach to shaping an almost club-ready breed of modern industrial techno. Although diverse across both sides, cohesion is found in Campbell's toolkit of samples that are unmistakably Collector. The album's eponymous track, 'No Prospects', serves as an introspective centrepoint - a largely arrhythmic excursion shrouded in familiar brooding, textural drones, and underpinned by the chug of machinery on the brink of collapse.

Although forever indebted to the spirit of local electronic outcasts, Bloody Fist Records, Collector's "No Prospects" is a remarkably distinct statement straight from the heart of Australia's Steel City. The complexity of arrangements speak to Campbell's long association in experimental music communities, whilst the persistent feeling of dread conveys a uniquely regional story of decay and futility. Pure Novocastrian industrial electronics.

No Prospects

Collector - Gauze (BNK-040)

Released in 2021 via Station 14. 
Limited cassette edition of 25 hand-numbered copies.
Unmarked black cassette shell. Housed in a glossy, full color 8.5" x 4.5" four-sided resealable folding poly bag with mini promotional insert.
Made to coincide with one-off Chicago live performance. Remaining copies were distributed via the Small Mercies webstore.

Key Of Life

Reflections on the visit of an old friend.

"Oh, to have control of the trade winds!" (for Threnoscope and Strega)

"If you had to live your life over and over again for eternity, how would you live it? What does making choices mean? The contingencies of a life unravel my senses."

Throughout the course of 10 tracks of ‘Wiederkunft Eternal LP‘, the debut album by German producer thirdworldlabour, a digitally cold climate dominates throughout while a specific kind of affectivity is captured in each track. The sound design ranges from emotionally brutal (within) and uncanny (diminished spirits) to blissfully divine (a seamless float to another dome). An emphasis of using chopped vocal samples together with choir-like ambience often creates an ethereal atmosphere which subsequently is shattered by seemingly primitive and at times overtly mechanistic drum programming. Repeatedly Cryogenic synth melodies are paired with unwavering percussion that evoke connotations of fully automated, industrial production processes (many fathers/ancestral transition). Whereas in other parts, steady vocal arpeggios prevail in a textural landscape which seems to dissolve itself into non-physicality (disintegration II).
Reflected in the works title, the album draws upon the concept of the 'Eternal Return' which has its origins in non-western philosophy. The concept relates to the notion of pre-determinism and assumes that time and space are infinite progresses in which the individual is living their life over and over again in a never ending recurrent cycle.
Wiederkunft Eternal examines said concept within the expressive potential of sound and specifically tries to investigate the relationship between hope and despair as central themes in human experience.

all tracks by @thirdworldlabour
mix & mastering by @wimdehaen
visuals & cassette design by Ver
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