Romance Relic - Breath Of Their Character

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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 - Green Lung (PAN 132)

Futurist electronics from stars of the Chinese underground, presented monthly by Shanghai-based label & scene linchpins SVBKVLT. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/svbkvlt/episodes/svbkvlt-21st-september-2023

Svbkvlt w/ Abadir 210923

Tracklist:

Lovefear - Great Age
HP: 925 MP: 463 - Rare Bird
Anthony Linell -The Earth Rises Again
Sarah Davachi - Play the Ghost
Poemme - Rain Of Stars
Christina Vantzou - Wild Beast Research
Lemta Toro - Still Timbres
Croatian Amor - Any Path to Touch the Stars
Aamourocean, Detente - Au Pied Des Arbres III
Raum - Daughter
The Sight Below - Without Motion (Leandro Fresco Remix)
Christina Vantzou - Pottery Fragments
Midwife - God Is A Cop
Sine Tempore - Pt. II
Doctor Organ - Sugar

Play The Ghost

Basile3 @ Kiosk Radio 18.06.2024

If this mix had a name it would be ´carrément heureux’

Tracklist _ July 2024 

Lucas Dupuy - It’s an Endless World!
Space Afrika - 1-2-1
Pent - Annular Proto Sep
Santebela (with Angelina Nonaj) - Surge
Malibu - One Life 
Perila - Fallin Into Space
Nate Scheible - There’s Nothing That Says I Cannot Dream 
Torus - Feeel
So Wet’s Water Kingdom - Sloterdijk 
Downstairs People - The Path
Cleyra - Cross My Mind
Tangerine - Cinematic Dance Music
Slowfoam - Like Phantom Memories in the Slinking Storm 
SSIEGE - Fata Foresta 
Queen, Icebox Violet - Heartbreak of a Broken Stitch

Photo: on a plane

You Said You'd Hold My Hand Through The Fire

seamless ~ episode °2

'Obscure Faces' is an experimental ambient project made with phrases & ideas I have created over the past few years. These tracks are centered around the use of hardware synthesis to evoke a strong sense of emotion.

This debut album is a reflection of a point in time and a direct insight of my own experiences and thoughts, let these tracks resonate with you too.

Enjoy,
Novakova.

Metallic Waves

Born of resonance.
A low vibration.
A shimmer beneath the dunes.

We followed it — not knowing where it led, only that it moved like memory through bone, like breath across ancient sand.
It twisted through dust and drum, through trance and tension, collecting fragments of rhythm left behind by those who inspired before us.

An echo etched into the bones of the world.
A wave that never fully fades,
a breath that hums beneath silence,
a frequency still felt, though its source is long gone.

The infinite nothingness.
The pulse before language —
the Omni vibration, moving through all things.
A sound that remembers.

Nine tracks composed of a journey:
from the folding of horizons,
through celestial theses and rose quartz hearts,
chanting mantras while losing touch,
stripped to the pure,
drawn into the dance of Ophir Lila,
riding the Miraj Groove,
to breathe with the unseen.

Echion Omni
Debut album by Beats Circuit

Featuring ZaZa, Jay Ram & Byzantine Time Machine
Artwork by Anutosh & Cedric Debled

Mastered by Itay Berger / aka Kukan Dub Lagan
@ Kukan Dub Mastering, Barcelona, Spain
kukandublagan.com
Info@feellifemusic.com

Horizon Folds

Paying Off

From AEST-057: Zaumne “Dreams of Teeth Falling Out” CS

Dream books tend to explain the titular dreams of teeth falling out as a signal that some of our needs have been neglected or sometimes as a prophecy of failure or loss. As distressing as it sounds, such dreams are not necessarily a bad omen – they may also foreshadow regeneration and rebirth

Recorded in 2020, Zaumne’s new album is a study of suppressed feelings crawling underneath the consciousness. A dense mosaic of lurking emotional states that we need to recognize and make peace with for our own good

Dreamt in 2020
Mastered by Adam Donoval

Dreams of Teeth Falling Out

Zaumne - Let's Go Home

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

A meeting point for music freaks from Brussels and beyond. A tiny kiosk bar serving eclectic music and drinks. Sometimes, in sunny summer days, a safe space to dance under the trees.

For general questions: info@kioskradio.com
For music submissions: music@kioskradio.com

Basile3 @ Kiosk Radio 18.06.2024

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