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Taken from SBKT049: Osheyack - Intimate Publics
Release date: 8th June 2022

Intimate Publics, Osheyack’s second album, is an homage to Shanghai, the city he has called home since 2012. Over the past ten years the producer has evolved from an avid club-goer to a key member of the vital soundscape that emerged from ALL Club and its predecessor, the now defunct club The Shelter. As hinted by the title, which draws on American social theorist Michael Warner’s work on publics and counterpublics, the album expresses a commitment to mining the utopian potential of club music, forging new worlds and generating future social relations, just as the artist bids farewell to the city at a moment of uncertain transition. While tracks like 'Edging' and 'Thrall' continue to present his signature collage of harder club music, the rest of the record reveals a shift to synthetic approximations of acoustic instruments. 'Still', the central track of the album, is a piece composed almost entirely of samples found on Vocaloid (a vocal synthesizer developed by Yamaha, commonly used to give voice to Japanese virtual idols). While echoing themes explored in previous projects, like the nature of realism and authenticity in a techno-mediated landscape, Intimate Publics is charged with an unexpected emotional candor and vulnerability, unveiling a personal side Osheyack is only beginning to explore.

Words by Alvin Li
Artwork by Xiaofei Qiu
Design by Luke Griffiths
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Intimate Publics

Osheyack - Thrall

ANBA is proud to present our first release of 2022 'HYYDDDRR8' by Copenhagen artist Hedo Hydr8 (@hedohydr8). Their first Debut EP is laden with heavy hitting experimental club music - this producer is one to watch so keep your ears peeled.

This track features Alva Alva & you can check out Hedo Hydr8's full artist statement on the main EP playlist.

Credits:

Track ft Alva Alva (https://www.instagram.com/alva_alva_alva_alva_/?hl=en)
Mastered by Enyang Urbiks
Artwork by Anders Reventlov

Artist Social Media links:

www.soundcloud.com/hedohydr8/ 
www.facebook.com/hedohydr8 
www.instagram.com/hedohydr8/

Label Social Media Links: 

https://soundcloud.com/2anba2 
https://2anba2.bandcamp.com/ 
https://www.facebook.com/2anba2 
https://www.instagram.com/2anba2/

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Hedo Hydr8 - BBBBBB (ft. Alva Alva)

@mangbg
It is time to let go of your fear and doubts. You must learn to embrace the darkness of your soul, for it is a light beacon of hope for humanity. Your soul wants to show itself in its truest form, strength, perseverance, courage and determination of spirit. In this lifetime your soul needs to cleanse and open its feelings for katharsis.

With the double compilation “Infinite Summer: Ekstase & Fantasi”, katharsis celebrates the return of raves and concerts to society after a long period of pandemic shutdown. A magical summer has passed filled with an incredible pallet of emotional material, ready to be expressed. Therefore, we encouraged a collection of artists we adore to channel their imagination of the greatest way to conclude an endless summer night into a piece of music.

This resulted in a grand assemblage of harmonious manifestations, naturally splitting into two divisions with opposing focuses. On the first part of the duology “Ekstase” coming out on September 20th, we are presented with fourteen tracks for the dancefloor in an array of different styles, ranging everywhere from energetic morning vibes on the junglish opener “Origin, Gate's Dawn” by Yem Gel to hardcore sensations on Mang’s trap-infused roller “Based Halo”.

Infinite Summer: Ekstase

Based Halo

premiere: Mang - Based Halo [Infinite Summer: Ekstase]

Tzusing and Taipei’s FINAL club curate a five-track compilation of local experimental electronic talent on @seacucumberlabel. Hear @sandystrace's ‘Beholden’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-sandys-trace-beholden

Premiere: Sandy’s Trace ‘Beholden’

‘Inflatable Gravestone’ is the debut album by Mun Sing (aka Harry Wright) released on https://soundcloud.com/planetmurecords on 2nd June 2023

https://munsing.bandcamp.com/album/inflatable-gravestone

The motivating force of the album is the sudden loss of Harry’s father in 2020. Their father struggled with substance addiction and the album explores ideas of 'spirituality' and the ‘higher self’ in relation to addiction and its parallels with the coping mechanisms of grief. It also aims to highlight the importance of humour and distraction when coping with loss.

Serving as a narrative for their own experiences, the album is largely built around club-centred tracks (such as ‘Spider’ and ’Squabble’) broken up by moments of yearning and reflection in tracks like ’The Poison Garden’ and ‘Helhest (Azrael Smirks)’ and moments of dark anguish like 'Inheritor' with its heavy slab-like chords and pensive piano. Flirting with awkward and suggestive rhythms, Wright deliberately suspends moments of resolution and groove in favour of drama and jerky, unexpected cartoonish humour, taking as much influence from the likes of the Art Of Noise as Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. 

Wright rewards the listener with moments of clarity and introspection like flags on the journey, recruiting vocalist MX World to deliver lyrics and melodic ideas created by them and their father. Their father’s journals in rehab helped inform most of the lyrics. Some take whole sentences as a way to physically ‘give life’ to his words for the first time. The lyrics describe feelings, revelations and  apocalyptic hallucinations. MX World's clear, direct tone suggests folk music and the timelessness of the human condition.

The album concludes with the title track ‘Inflatable Gravestone’ which features a chorus of giddy manipulated laughter from Wright’s friends and family to a truly maddening effect. This is then resolved by bright and clear piano chords and the sound of Wright’s father breathing in his sleep. A deeply affecting and personal record with corkscrew twists and turns and a healthy dose of absurdism. 
credits
releases June 2, 2023

All tracks written and produced by Harry Wright. Lyrics by Harry Wright, except track 10 lyrics by Harry Wright and William Wright. Lead vocals by MX World. Additional vocals by Nashne, Akiko Haruna and Mouse.

Mastered by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven Mastering.

Published by Domino Publishing.

Waiting In The Car

Out 14 June 2023 ☆
Strange Days ©
Artwork by Igor Lorok
Mastering by La Villa

Bandcamp: knowva.bandcamp.com/album/slow-burner-hard-drifter 
Stream/buy: https://tr.ee/Rs4UohNKSm

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Sirens

We have some lacerating, avant-club abstraction as @corinmusic returns to Lee Gamble’s @uiqmusic label.

Back on UIQ following 2021’s 'Enantiodromia' release. Where that explored ideas of machine learning, specifically memory retention in AI, ‘Lux Aeterna’ imagines sound as sentient across a suite of tracks indebted to sci-fi soundtracks and baroque-era beauty. It’s a fierce and forward investigation into texture through the prism of granular synthesis and club-focused concerns. 

Our premiere, ‘extasis’, finds the multidisciplinary artist marrying spectral trance and industrial maelstrom to exhilarating effect.

'Lux Aeterna' is out July 14th on UIQ.

Pre-order: uiqmusic.bandcamp.com/album/lux-aeterna

Lux Aeterna

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Premiere: CORIN - extasis [UIQ]

@shalt
@ernestdtapes

Buy 🔗 https://ernestdtapes.bandcamp.com/album/is-that-all-what-you-want

V/A - Is That All What You Want?
Limited edition - 50 CD
EDT14 - ©2023 Ernest D. Tapes

Artwork - Jean-François Leroux

PREMIERE: SHALT - Slow Focus (Ernest D. Tapes)

taken from the too oh won nein comp of edits and booties available at the above link as pay what you like

out to kryptic minds on the original

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Amsterdam duo Know V.A. are one of the Netherlands’ forefront explorers of genre bending club music. Pulling influences from their youths spent at hardcore parties, their range is boundless and their music burst with dynamics. Their versatility is at home at Lunchmeat, Defqon.1, Boiler Room, NTS, Asia’s underground clubs and their own monthly Echobox show.

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