Knives follow this Summer’s Kuedo OST release with a club tool EP from DJ / producer duo, Know V.A.

'Hibernation' traces ecstatic elements from the hard dance music familiar to their formative experience growing up in Holland, and fuses them with more UK leaning frameworks of late 90s techstep and late 00s vaporous grime, forming an ode to the romantic nostalgia of a shared club experience. Across the 5 tracks on 'Hibernation', Know V.A. set baroque string and choral arrangements into orbit around a hypnotic meandering of fierce gabber stabs and chattering percussion - at once reminiscent of both devine, classical ceremony and flailing club experience, drenched in sweat.

Know V.A. have performed internationally for a range of promoters and venues, such as Boiler Room and Stedelijk Museum. They curate the event and club night ‘Strange Days’, which seeks to showcase contemporary hardcore experimentalism and explore how the genre, sonically and visually has remained active in the underground. Their soundtrack work includes music for Calvin Klein and the acclaimed hardcore documentary 'Thunderdome Never Dies'.

A collaborative artwork for the project is provided in the form of an emblem designed by Nicholas Law, subsequently animated by Winston Duke.

The EP will be closely followed by an additional release of remixed tracks, provided by UCC Harlo, Exploited Body & Sully.
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Know V.A.: Hibernation Remixes (KNV009B)
Release date: 22nd January, 2021

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Artwork by Nicholas Law & Winston Duke

Know V.A. - Hibernation Remixes (KNV009B)

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Exploited Body, the brainchild of multidisciplinary artist Noah Kin, is an exploration of relentless, club-ready experiments that push the limits of the physicality of sound.

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Exploited Body - When My Darkness Came To Light

Following releases on Posh Isolation and Northern Electronics, Exploited Body returns to his label Changeless to present his ambitious debut album 'When My Darkness Came To Light'.  
  
'When My Darkness Came To Light' is a subdued yet unrelentingly volatile record that examines the inescapable parallels of his depression and life as a black person. On his first solo release since 2019's 'Touching Without Feeling', his signature blistering distortion is contrasted with delicate melodies and heart-wrenching compositions that are at once deceivingly captivating and staggeringly harsh.  
  
’When My Darkness Came To Light’ will be released 9th April via Changeless.  
  
The album is written, produced, mixed and mastered by Noah Kin and features artwork by the visionary LA-based mixed-media artist Jesse Draxler and photography by Changeless affiliated Helsinki-based photographer Helen Korpak.

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When My Darkness Came To Light

Exploited Body - Still Life

Written, produced, mixed and mastered by Noah Kin (Exploited Body).

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Exploited Body - You Say My Heart's In The Right Place Even Though I'm Not In My Body

Exploited Body - Relinquish

Exploited Body - Can't Wear My Skin

Exploited Body - Atrocity (Grievance As A Substitute For Existence)

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

Sirens

Out 16 August 2023 ☆
Strange Days © 

Artwork by Lisa Schamlé, Igor Lorok
Mastering by La Villa

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

Dilemma

Just wanna rock edit
Out 30 October 2023 ☆
Artwork by Lisa Schamlé
Available on Bandcamp: https://knowva.bandcamp.com/track/just-wanna-rock-edit

All proceeds will be donated to Save the Children and their Children's Emergency Fund to support their humanitarian help in Gaza.

Info: www.savethechildren.org/us/where-we-work/west-bank-gaza
Call for immediate ceasefire now: www.amnesty.org/en/petition/demand-a-ceasefire-by-all-parties-to-end-civilian-suffering/

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X - mixtape out now
16 tracks (2013-2018) 
Tracklist below ⤵
Runtime 55:19
Free download: https://knowva.bandcamp.com/album/x


It’s been 10 years since we’ve released our first EP. It’s special to realise we have been on this collaborative project for over a decade now, and this seems like the perfect time for a gift. We’d like to celebrate 10 years of synergy between two childhood friends who decided to make music together.

We present you X - a 16 track-mixtape from years 2013-2018. It’s a collection of off-cuts, rarities and previously unreleased tracks. Most of these have been sitting on our harddrives for all this time. All of the productions capture a time before the Strange Days-era. We wanted to give these tracks a final resting place before the turn of the next decade. Or as they say; out with the old - in with new.

The X stands for the 10 years in music, as well as a cross. You can see this tape as honouring and closing off this formative period, and would invite you to come along with us on this trip through nostalgia. We were just 17/18 years old when we started doing this, and it’s insane that we’ve actually achieved something at such a young age.

We are ever developing and excited to see what the future brings. This is to many more in 2024. We can now start working on our debut album, something that we’ll take our sweet time for.

We are so grateful to be able to have shared these moments with you. This is to all we crossed paths with, the like-minded people, the collaborations, to all the hazy nights on the dance floor.

Full mixtape out now on Soundcloud.
Free download on Bandcamp.

1. Told u (2017)
2. Fuji (2017)
3. Figure ft. HOEK (2016)
4. Buzzin (2017)
5. U did (2017)
6. Ashore ft. Lewis James (2015)
7. 132 BPM - Live in Dubai (2017)
8. Aye (2013)
9. Cactys (2017)
10. Stalen Kuisten - RE:VIVE @ Eye (2018)
11. Simulacrum (2016)
12. Juice (2013)
13. Echoes (2016)
14. Recurrent (2017)
15. Prisma (2014)
16. Vortex (2017)

♡ Thank you for listening ➪➪
This is to the future.

X,
Feico & Marijn

Artwork by Alex Zeta. (www.instagram.com/itsalexzeta/)
© Strange Days

Bandcamp: https://knowva.bandcamp.com/album/x
Linktree: https://tr.ee/Lm8L0-IT8k
IG: https://www.instagram.com/kn0wva

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X (Mixtape 2013-2018)

Avril 14th edit

Out 14 April 2024 ☆
Artwork by Lisa Schamlé
♡ Thank you for listening ➪➪

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Avril 14th edit

Three years after their debut album ‘When My Darkness Came To Light’, Exploited Body has returned with their new album ‘Here, I Abandon’.

‘Here, I Abandon’ marks a new beginning, documenting the grievous first steps on the path of healing. The title references reaching a point, where all that doesn’t serve oneself must be left behind. The record is an exercise in “noise pop”, featuring prominent vocals from Exploited Body while combining their signature blistering distortion with their love of catchy melodies.

The album opens with ‘Only Your Eyes Could See My Wings’, a fragile and minimal ballad dedicated to their partner, who helped them find their way out of their pain-shrouded mind. Emerging from the fog, echoing vocals and thunderous piano drones lead into the disarmingly vulnerable vocal passage, the most personal song Exploited Body has ever shared with the world. ‘Demon Of Hatred’ is a slow-burning mantra about ending the cycle of trauma that began long ago, that manifests itself as a rage-filled beast. The screeching metal and cavernous bells collide under the somber vocals until it’s all ripped to shreds by violent pillars of noise. ‘After All (In The Ruins Of Limerence)’ deals with losing oneself in another person and awakening from the fever dream that is limerence. Along with the swinging vocal melodies, the dissonant mechanical humming break out into an onslaught of distorted kick drums before dissolving into harmonic bliss.

‘Replacing A Scar With Another’ explores themes of self-sabotage and self-harm, how we often reject help that is offered to us, creating new wounds to tend to instead of mending the old ones and trading old harmful beliefs into new even more detrimental ones (“replacing a god with another”). ’Self-Surrender’ is about shame, self-deception, requesting others to ‘hold your light’ until the sun’s out while you wallow in the dark abyss of self-pity, but now the time to has come to face yourself. The ethereal production paired with a delicate melody is reminiscent of a haunting lullaby with ghostly voices creaking in the midst of ringing synths, before everything comes to a head for a disjointed crescendo.’ Abandon’ is the purge that marks the point of no return, stripping off your weakness piece by piece, like an exorcism through the brutal wall of noise that the song builds up to. The closing track ‘Tear Me Apart Until All That’s Left Is Love’ is the bittersweet moment of letting yourself disintegrate and splinter into pieces to make room for what lies at the core of it all. A soft landing back into your body, before the colossal aftershock kicks in and sends you on your way to what comes next.

The album is written, produced, mixed and mastered by Nori Kin and features artwork by Changeless-affiliated Helsinki-based photographer Markus Watkins & Nori Kin.

Here, I Abandon will be released November 1st via Changeless.

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Exploited Body - Only Your Eyes Could See My Wings

Exploited Body - Helix / Unravel

Exploited Body takes it back to the club with their latest two-track offering 'Helix / Unravel' - a pairing, that meshes the intensity you've come to expect, with newfound high-speed break experimentations.

'Helix' is a spiralling fever dream, with drums of tungsten skitter through the blaring sirens and posessed screeches, showing no signs of slowing down. 'Unravel' is deliverance, release. Incorporeal voices echo through the cracks of the ferocious drums, eventually submitting to the soaring, euphoric synths signalling the escape from the cycle.

’Helix / Unravel’ is out now via Changeless!

Written, produced, mixed & mastered by Nori Kin.
Artwork by Jesse Draxler & Nori Kin.

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Exploited Body -  Helix

Exploited Body -  Unravel

Taken from SBKT070: estoc - Are We Doomed to Bow to the Stupid and Cruel?
Release date: 26th June 2025
Artwork & Design: Amber Jean
Mixing & Digital Master: Nori Kin
Vinyl Master: Raphael Valensi

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estoc presents the newest manifestation of her artistic practice: an attempt to make sense of a world seemingly hellbent on violence as its chief export. Art written as a direct response to the conditions felt both at home and watched across oceans through a phone. This album exists as an acknowledgement that our fates are inextricably intertwined, yet, our (temporary) comfort is extracted from the third world. Across 10 tracks the question is: Are We Doomed to Bow to the Stupid and Cruel? Answers are posed and then brushed away, like dust from a shelf. By the end, nothing is settled and we are left with more questions than answers.

Collaborators and co-conspirators weave in and out of the compositions, their presence felt as both adornment, and as integral infrastructure. DJ Haram opens the album with ‘Heretic’. Her voice swims through crackling noise, throbbing basslines — a guided meditation as much as a late night conversation. ‘The Weight’ follows directly after. AZADI.mp3’s smoky chants hover in the air above a smouldering fire of trip hop drums and synths, devolving to a miasma of distortion and swirling screams. The next song, ‘Where Do We Go Now’, builds and swells with rumbling synths, arriving fully as breaks crash forward and Military Scientist’s voice cries out over a chaotic sea. The first solo composition of the album comes in the form of ‘The Poison of the Centre’. A solemn yet off-balance meditation of drums, cut over an uneven and shifting beat. This rhythmic fervor is multiplied tenfold on ‘No Glory’, a harsh bath of bass and drums, constantly fighting for space to breathe through the manufactured scarcity of the mix.

‘Scorched Earth’ lends us our first breath of fresh air. Mia Carucci sings a lullaby over growling instrumentation, Exploited Body’s co-production threatening to boil over at any moment. A momentary break in the clouds, a beam of sunlight shines through before being quickly swallowed back up by the storm; gone as quickly as it came. It is here that we plunge even deeper, as the heartbeat of ‘Heaven Defined for Another’ rattles through. Machinery and exasperated breathing become inexorable, both driven to their breaking point by a rolling wave of thunder. This mechanical terror roils forth on ‘Cradling’. Miedo Total sets clattering steam and cogs over crying strings that threaten to throw themselves to pieces. The penultimate entry sees Violence lend voice and production to ‘Bones Broken, Many Things Left Unsaid’ — a deep terror lurches, shuddering and crashing like ocean waves. A gentle chorus of strings ushers in the final piece, ‘Scratch a Liberal’ — a rare, but fleeting moment of tenderness on the album. Heavy towers of bass throw the composition into shadow, tension builds and grows before collapsing in on itself, revealing the fear and violence at the core of this project. At the end of it all, we are left alone to contemplate what is to be done.

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I turned my obsession with Danny L Harle & pinkpantheress's 'Starlight' into this remix.

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This version is pitched down 0.72 semitones for SoundCloud reasons. :')

Starlight (Exploited Body Remix)

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HOB22: For Answer by @kuramamusic

« Standing on my skanking feet,
Tormenting the one I once was.
Crafting on a thiner sheet,
As if the wind simmered, whereas;

The beat down low, the nonchalant verb,
Striking my own vow, the malicious herb.
Creeping on the wandering souls, vividly,
Growing in my own beloved felony.

No rescuing will is about to reach us,
While the storm rages;
Ascended by the rush,
Offended by too many faces.

But the rush returned, bitter,
Cowardly, as the Hound.
And now only have I found,
How I would kneel for answer. »

Artwork by eeeeelllfffyyyyyyyyy/
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Know V.A.: Hibernation (Knives)
Release date: 6th November, 2020

Knives follow this Summer’s Kuedo OST release with an upfront club tool EP from DJ / producer duo, Know V.A. 

'Hibernation' traces ecstatic elements from the hard dance music familiar to their formative experience growing up in Holland, and fuses them with more UK leaning frameworks of late 90s techstep and late 00s vaporous grime, forming an ode to the romantic nostalgia of a shared club experience. Across the 5 tracks on 'Hibernation', Know V.A. set baroque string and choral arrangements into orbit around a hypnotic meandering of fierce gabber stabs and chattering percussion - at once reminiscent of both devine, classical ceremony and flailing club experience, drenched in sweat.

Know V.A. have performed internationally for a range of promoters and venues, such as Boiler Room and Stedelijk Museum. They curate the event and club night ‘Strange Days’, which seeks to showcase contemporary hardcore experimentalism and explore how the genre, sonically and visually has remained active in the underground. Their soundtrack work includes music for Calvin Klein and the acclaimed hardcore documentary 'Thunderdome Never Dies'. 

A collaborative artwork for the project is provided in the form of an emblem designed by artist Nicholas Law, subsequently animated by Winston Duke.

The EP will be closely followed by an additional release of remixed tracks, provided by UCC Harlo, Exploited Body & Sully. 

As of 2020 Knives is an independent project, now separate from any parent label.

Hibernation 

Know V.A. - Dirt

Know V.A. - Artefact

Know V.A.: Hibernation (Knives)
Release date: 6th November, 2020

Knives follow this Summer’s Kuedo OST release with a club tool EP from DJ / producer duo, Know V.A. 

'Hibernation' traces ecstatic elements from the hard dance music familiar to their formative experience growing up in Holland, and fuses them with more UK leaning frameworks of late 90s techstep and late 00s vaporous grime, forming an ode to the romantic nostalgia of a shared club experience. Across the 5 tracks on 'Hibernation', Know V.A. set baroque string and choral arrangements into orbit around a hypnotic meandering of fierce gabber stabs and chattering percussion - at once reminiscent of both devine, classical ceremony and flailing club experience, drenched in sweat.

Know V.A. have performed internationally for a range of promoters and venues, such as Boiler Room and Stedelijk Museum. They curate the event and club night ‘Strange Days’, which seeks to showcase contemporary hardcore experimentalism and explore how the genre, sonically and visually has remained active in the underground. Their soundtrack work includes music for Calvin Klein and the acclaimed hardcore documentary 'Thunderdome Never Dies'. 

A collaborative artwork for the project is provided in the form of an emblem designed by artist Nicholas Law, subsequently animated by Winston Duke.

As of 2020 Knives is an independent project, now separate from any parent label.

Know V.A. - Hibernation

Know V.A. - Tunnelrave (Schellingwouder)

Know V.A.: Hibernation (Knives)
Release date: 6th November, 2020

Knives follow this Summer’s Kuedo OST release with a club tool EP from DJ / producer duo, Know V.A.

'Hibernation' traces ecstatic elements from the hard dance music familiar to their formative experience growing up in Holland, and fuses them with more UK leaning frameworks of late 90s techstep and late 00s vaporous grime, forming an ode to the romantic nostalgia of a shared club experience. Across the 5 tracks on 'Hibernation', Know V.A. set baroque string and choral arrangements into orbit around a hypnotic meandering of fierce gabber stabs and chattering percussion - at once reminiscent of both devine, classical ceremony and flailing club experience, drenched in sweat.

Know V.A. have performed internationally for a range of promoters and venues, such as Boiler Room and Stedelijk Museum. They curate the event and club night ‘Strange Days’, which seeks to showcase contemporary hardcore experimentalism and explore how the genre, sonically and visually has remained active in the underground. Their soundtrack work includes music for Calvin Klein and the acclaimed hardcore documentary 'Thunderdome Never Dies'.

A collaborative artwork for the project is provided in the form of an emblem designed by artist Nicholas Law, subsequently animated by Winston Duke.

As of 2020 Knives is an independent project, now separate from any parent label.

Know V.A. - Trauma

Know V.A.: Hibernation Remixes (Knives)
Release date: 22nd January, 2021

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Artwork by Nicholas Law & Winston Duke
Mixed by Julian Osti

Know V.A. - Hibernation (UCC Harlo Remix)

Know V.A.: Hibernation Remixes (Knives)
Release date: 22nd January, 2021

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Artwork by Nicholas Law & Winston Duke

Know V.A. - Artefact (Sully Remix)

Know V.A.: Hibernation Remixes (Knives)
Release date: 22nd January, 2021

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Artwork by Nicholas Law & Winston Duke

Know V.A. - Trauma (Exploited Body Remix)

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