upsammy - Germs in a Population of Buildings
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 132
Release Date: 05 May 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/GerminaPopulationofBuildings

On her sophomore album "Germ in a Population of Buildings”, upsammy moves through her surroundings with the curiosity of a place-bending landscape architect. The album is rooted in her interest for ambiguous environments in constant shift, and the feeling of discovering strange patterns in different ecosystems. Often, the Amsterdam-based artist finds herself zooming in and out beyond a place's most recognizable surface features to inhabit the microscopic and gigantic. Gathering field recordings and evocative environmental sounds, she shapes this source material into vibrating electro-acoustic rhythms and unstable, psychedelic textures.

upsammy's debut album, 2020's critically-acclaimed "Zoom", was praised for its careful reimagining of IDM, evolving vignettes that nodded towards the dancefloor without being shackled to its rigid set of rules. On "Germ in a Population of Buildings" her process has evolved considerably; the skeletal trace of IDM is still present but it's been trapped in amber, allowing her unique sonic landscape to develop organically. 'Being is a Stone' is a proof of concept in many ways, layering upsammy's contorted voice in rickety patterns beneath a lattice of fragile rhythms and faintly melancholy synths. It's never immediately obvious where the sounds are coming from - a hiccuping beat might be glass cracking underfoot, and larger pulses could be wet concrete, rusted iron or bent plastic. As the sounds develop they morph into each other, demolishing what came before and building on top of the ornamental wreckage.

On the dynamic 'Constructing', upsammy's sound design fluxes through hyperactive bass music structures, abstracting expectations at every turn. Often her sounds are whisper quiet, rattling and vibrating until heavier masonry drops and disrupts the structure. And when discernible rhythms subside into the background, like on the album's eerie title track, they become almost illusory, morphing between the real world and the electronic. upsammy's processed voice works like a bridge between these realms, snaking between stark, whimsical melodies on 'Patterning', arching from AutoTuned detachment into cooing, dreamy intimacy. By considering the harmonies between each location she's visited, upsammy has been able to build a unique topology that's an uncanny digital amalgam of her lived experience. It's a thoughtful alternative in an era more concerned with flatting the landscape than crumpling it and examining its peaks and troughs.

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Mixed by James Ginzburg
Artwork by Jonathan Castro Alejos and Tharim Cornelisse

Germ in a Population of Buildings

upsammy - Square to Sphere (PAN 132)

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Welcome to the big 50!
We're super happy to be here at 50. What better way to celebrate but to have the incredibly talented RTR come on and blow us away with an hour of unreleased GOLD. Stick around after that and allow Mr Node to tickle your head holes with a few Gated upcoming delights and a whole host of immense tunage from a ton of other admired Producers.
That's how we'd like to celebrate 50 and hope you do too. Huge thanks as ever to everyone involved, big big love for seeing us get this far.
If you've time, why not go check out what's up on our Bandcamp too? There's still plenty of gems to be found.
https://gatedrecordings.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist
Opening tickle - Mecha Maiko - Innocent (NewRetroWave) https://soundcloud.com/mecha-maiko

RTR Unreleased material onslaught - 1st Hour (No tracklist)

Node - 2nd hour (and a bit) (Mopping up)

Featherstone - Microcosm (Gated forthcoming)https://soundcloud.com/featherstone_adl
CCF -  Blue flash (mindcolormusic)https://soundcloud.com/user-323386958-333033085 https://soundcloud.com/mindcolormusic
EOD - LAZAG (WeMe) https://soundcloud.com/weme-records
Ceephax Acid Crew - Capsule in Space (Bonus Slam) (Waltzer)
Mantra - Get That (Polybius Tracks)
KAMS - Packet Of Crisps Acid (Mighty Force)
The Jaffa Kid -Age Of K-0S (Gated forthcoming)
Lord of the D - Dunstable (WeMe Records)
Brainwaltzera - Medal Headz -G.B.D.F (Peshay Remix)(FILM) https://soundcloud.com/brainwaltzera
LMAJOR - Too Bad (WNCL forthcoming)https://soundcloud.com/westnorwoodcassette https://soundcloud.com/lmajor
JiaLing - RahJahLing (Self released)https://soundcloud.com/pbnstrawberryjam
WTCHCRFT - SHAKE IT (Bored Lord's Rave Shaker) (Sorry records)https://soundcloud.com/boredlord https://soundcloud.com/wtchcrft2
DieMantle - Be Right There (Astrophonica)https://soundcloud.com/diemantle https://soundcloud.com/astrophonica
Uf0 - Suicidal Thoughts (Further Electronix)https://soundcloud.com/analog_uf0
Bjarki - Blessuð Börnin (!K7 Records) https://soundcloud.com/bjarki
Rigby On The Run - Thinkin Bout U (Self-released)https://soundcloud.com/rigbyontherun
Headland - Garbo (System Music)
EDM - Wrest Park Dark Grove Find (EDM)
Bastiengoat - Work that (Self released)https://soundcloud.com/bastiengoat
Footclan - F-Dat32 (FIDES)https://soundcloud.com/footclantrax
Galaxian - Code of Existence (Shipwrec)https://soundcloud.com/galaxian https://soundcloud.com/shipwrec
Near Stoic - The Companions of The Enchanted Creek (Gated forthcoming)https://soundcloud.com/user-924408546

Gated Podcast 50 // RTR / Node // May 2023

https://colorsquadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/c-o-l-o-r-s-q-u-a-d-0-1-4

Melfins Phenyls

Artist: Freq444 / @freq444
Title: Dispersion EP
Label: no•id / @nodotid
Release date:  September 2023
Format: Digital / vinyl
Listen/buy: https://nodotid.bandcamp.com/album/noid001-freq444-dispersion-ep

A word from the label: 

Making the Dispersion EP was a really exciting, challenging ride: all of that went into the 4 tracks, that are - essentially - techno inspired? We went heavy on the IDM buildups and breaks, but took care to execute them with maximum fidelity to sound. So far the music was appreciated by our fam AliA, Shifted/Carrier, Dave N.A. and Martyn, and we hope you'll enjoy it just as much as they did. 

All mastering credits go to Tangible Air, we have our long time friend Ibert Pauwels to thank for the spacey graphic design, and are stoked for the release (vinyl & digital) on 1st September 2023. 

It’s coming out on our new label no•id, curating hard-hitting & unrestrained electronic music with discretion.

Consider yourself cordially invited to the release party & label launch 2.09 at Au Kalme, Blvd Badouin 19 Brussels (18h-22h) - would love to see you there.

PREMIERE: Freq444 — First Contact (no•id, 2023)

Recorded by Josh Kay & Romulo Del Castillo
Designed by Josh Kay
Mastered by Dietrich Schoeneman
Fernando Subirats sings & plays tabla on Frendano  
Dogness contains samples from Kettel's "My Dogan" 

A Schematic / Detund joint-release
Catalog # SCH079 / DUCD02
© 2011, Schematic Music Company
Published by Light Of Man, BMI

Demissions limited digipak compact disc available from Detund on 7/14/11
Phoenecia - Good Man Bones EP (featuring an exclusive vinyl-only track) available from Detund on 7/7/11

Aunt Alice

'hope's return' is the feeling of perseverance that love can imbue in you but also the melancholy of having love, because it can always be lost.

it feels like a song trying to dig itself up from under the dirt

Bandcamp: https://maral.bandcamp.com/track/hopes-return
music video: https://youtu.be/xmHUwx3xsMU?si=XAVWDOBXOQy-onwu

hope's return

Fakeworld.

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”.

More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

Mycelcorps @ Kiosk Radio 03.07.2024

Liflux101

Machine-learning stems acquired using Spleeter

kettel live on mixlr 14 apr 2020

kettel