bdstf - Above And Alone

Taken from the album 'The Horgenaith' out 15 July 2022 on Illegal Data

Bristol’s Sarahsson is a force to behold. A composer, producer, performance artist and DJ, her intricate work is a visceral expression of divine queerness and her experience with synaesthesia.

Originally hailing from Exeter, when she moved to London she discovered a queer community that hadn’t been present in her hometown and so began to explore the rejection of genres and the dissolution of gender. Drained by the male dominance in electronic music, Sarahsson’s first forays into more experimental sounds and parties helped direct her own personal journey—exploring the feminine, synaesthesia and blurring the lines between binaries.

Inspired as much by the natural world as she is by gore and harsh noise, Sarahsson fuses elements of classical music with metal, experimental electronics and hardcore. Her debut LP The Horgenaith explores themes which Sarahsson equates with queerness: “Transmutation, embodying contradicting parts of oneself,” she says. “Finding familiarity in difference is a lot of what queerness is about for me”. A multi-dimensional commentary on “femininity's cultural proximity throughout history to nature and rediscovering the body as a landscape, its constant state of flux and transience.”

Joining label alumni AYA, Kai Whiston, Emily Glass and more, Sarahsson’s signing to Illegal Data is a testament to her unique sonic offering and her visually arresting live performance, which involves classical and contemporary instrumentation and various audio interfaces.

With a grant from Saffron Records she also spent time at a woodwork studio building her own Daxophone, a wildly curious bowed instrument, and rejected pre-made samples, choosing to create her own instead. Field recordings of marsh reeds and whispers become percussion atop the blasting sound of crushing waste removal machines.

A truly special voice in the current climate of electronic music, Sarahsson brings together her unique ear for melody, rich textural harmony and dramatic narratives to achieve something genuinely awe inspiring and timeless on her debut LP. Creating a piece of work so honest and nurturing yet accessible and open, it raises open questions rather than dishing out rigid statements.

On her emotionally charged sound Sarahsson says: “I'm trying to reach a very specific feeling. One tiny point in the middle of a nuclear explosion where everything happens all at once, bittersweet and fierce, a moment when opposites collide into one. The nexus point.”

Having already performed in parts of the UK and Europe with the likes of Lyra Pramuk, Oklou, Swan Meat etc. and as part of a SOPHIE tribute show for Club Quarantine in 2021, Sarahsson now has her sights set on bringing her album to a live setting across Europe and the rest of the world.


Tracklist:
01. Ancient Dildo Intro
02. Tonsil Pearls
03. Lacing The Well
04. I Am The Earth
05. Perennium (Reprise)
06. Orchidectomy
07. A Selfish Tryst
08. Swallow
09. Cladonia Hymnal

Sarahsson - I Am The Earth

we asked the artists who performed at our last event to send us minimixes which we compiled for our Lyl radio residency, now available on sc 💯💯

mix by @fannuze

artwork by www.instagram.com/vera.cruuz/

Styx mini mix - fanny <Lyl radio>

hwii softludio (bootleg)

Embark on a mesmerizing journey with Antoine Caline, a unique blend of ambient, trance, and experimental sounds. @antoinecaline

Antoine Caline is an electronic producer based in Milan. In 2017, he started working on production and established connections with Italian artists on SoundCloud. He has released numerous Trap music under another name. In 2021, he decided to shift his career towards a more experimental sound, leading to the creation of numerous ambient/drone tracks and an upcoming EP.

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Tracklist:
1. Varg²™- Wear it (100.000 petals fell like rain)
2. Yves Tumor  - Limerence (Deterioration Mix)
3. .ANAMIRTA  - .individui - midlnd remix  
4. Croatian Amor, Scandinavian Star  - Last Thing You 
5. SALEM - Tair
6. Alice V - Tabu
7. JHL - Self-Preservation
8. Aimer Demain - Without vanity I lay naked
9. s7n - Easter Bunny
10. DJ Elmoe - From Da Back
11. Antoine Caline  - Women In You
the therapist Chief Keef (interlude)
12. Chief Keef - Young Rambos (edit by Antoine Caline)
13. ariana grande - touch it (chloe scarlett remix)
14. Akuraeyrii - Lost Into The Gloominess
15. Caterina Barbieri - Alphabet of Light 
16. Evian Christ - Xkyrgios
17. Aïsha Devi - Lick Your Wounds
     Awich - Queendom (edit by Antoine Caline) 
18. Ninajirachi - Icebody 
19. Alakaij - id

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*021 - Antoine Caline

Tracklist 
Keiska - up
Olalla.lux & Hugo Calcio - Fuga (Repeat it 4ever)
bambinodj - GepaÌcktraÌger [3LNA+oklou]
MASSI - Zunzuncito (feat. kęnåi)
Jerome Russell - Champagne Super Toner
SSIEGE - Drama Lover
Morph - Molly - Xestia
AGILITÄT - daydream
ABADIR - Kyrie
eleu - equanimity
Ike - Nurture
AGILITÄT - Cure3
Eisebelle - purgatorio
leop4rdi - awayy
Eisebelle - how to disappear completely
Mikey Enwright - Die On The Dancefloor (Rival Consoles L Devine Mashup by Quit Life)
Schnuffel Bunny - Snuggle Song (AX3LCLOUD REMIX)
windowseeker - sea angel

Mixed by @eleu-148294552

eleu - Pastel Dream Girl Mix

PEACE001 - Vinyl Only - Out March
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Boomkat: bit.ly/15GVkpp
Bleep: bit.ly/1yKHCNK
Red-Eye: bit.ly/1zo99Hg

In the bustling world of instrumental grime, Mr. Mitch’s ‘Peace Dub’ phenomenon - initially a concept aimed squarely at flipping grime’s ‘war dub’ complex on it’s head - has fast become a reputable sub-genre all of it’s own. With a series of his own peace edits garnering plenty of recognition online over the course of 2014, Mitch has enlisted a trio of new-school producers to assist him in re-contextualising four unconventional classics and with it, christen a new series of peace-themed white label 12”s.

Simply titled PEACE001, Mitch is joined by Gobstopper signees Strict Face and Loom, as well as elusive beat-making trio Silk Road Assassins on the label’s first ever physical record - a body of work that takes instrumental grime even further into unchartered territory. Kicking off with the brooding heartache of Mitch’s fuzzy, emotionally charged re-rub of Dru Hill’s ‘How Deep Is Your Love’, there’s also space for Strict Face to turn an icier, washed-out hand to the peace aesthetic on ‘Alice’ - his beautifully mellow, minimalist rework of Alice Deejay classic ‘Better Off Alone’.

Latest signee Loom opts to take a deconstructionist route through Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ as glitchy melodies, ushered reverb and pitched-up vocal loops meet harsh, industrial sampling in unerringly dystopian collision of ideas, whilst Silk Road Assassins sign off with their take on T-Pain’s ‘Im Sprung’. Trickling, iced-out melodies and pitched-down vocals are laid over dark, menacing bass rumbles in a tribute to the sound that has already earmarked the trio as refreshingly slick sound designers. - Tomas Fraser


Loom - Kate (Peace Edit)

on my own (prod. hennessyyy)

latte (prod. 1jowisen x praizewa)

2shots1lie

Bandcamp

Batalhas De Airlock (Utah? x Bubas Produções)

whatever: vitelio@sacrilejiorecords.com
@kotrinaa

hwii softludio (bootleg)

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