First single from Thoughts on Manifolds (GEN050) by https://soundcloud.com/blankws out on August 28 on Genot Centre on tape & digital.

Thoughts on Manifolds (GEN050) by https://soundcloud.com/blankws is a feather light, mixed-material showroom of synthetic objects, constantly rolling, constricting, zooming, bubbling, evoking some vast space. Impossibly thin, transparent foil, crisp, ice cold fluids, metal on rubber impacts etching elaborate diagrams and schemes into ambiguous, lush techno-reminiscent chords. The sound arrangement here is akin to a granular breeze, like an alien meteorology, a particle simulation turning into a textural primordial soup. Constantly in acceleration or deceleration, the listener knows every vast saturated pad is seconds away from the rush of a blast-off, almost intolerable G-forces, images flashing in front of one's eyes, bullet-like hard pans. These operations are like a valve being turned, the sudden pressure release causing a stream of some noble gas being set free, or opening a shutter suddenly providing a flicker of light highlighting the contours of some cavernous lost zone.

// BIO
/ Kaan Işık aka Blank Wall Season
Blank Wall Season is an experimental electronic music project created by Kaan Işık. He is a composer and sound editor based in Istanbul who explores the relationship between new aesthetics and aspects of hearing in his sonic journey. After studying cinema and sonic arts, he founds his vision in music from eclectic perspectives that deepen his productions. Blank Wall Season blends acousmatic elements with complex textures. He has worked with renowned art galleries and clubs in Istanbul, Ankara, and Berlin by curating event series and expanding his network in art.

Thoughts on Manifolds

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Blank Wall Season - Overlayer (GEN050)

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wrapped into fatimas exoskeletal prayer **demo**

from "Satyrikon"

https://clam-pressure.bandcamp.com/album/satyrikon

@kuthijin

KUTHI JIN - SOURCE OF DEVILS, A GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN

ty orrin for inviting me!

TL:
Racine - Cacouna
Obsequies - Crisis
Dissecting Table - Nightmare on the Bed
Tod Daraku - Baal
Blood of Aza - COCK SHAME
Mokgh - Factory
Yan Higa - Charmer (Yvu Remix)
Caïn و Muchi - KU7()
bonebrokk - Tuunbaq
Walton - Dread II
SINERAW - YOU WANT SOFT
Alparr - Unreleased
Keith Ape - IT G MA (CHIYU RMX)
Amselysen - Assault
FRKTL - Scene II: Desiderata Over Scale
FRKTL - Scene III: Self-Assembly
TRYCE - Phosphene
id6 - DJ Tomand Renell
Defensa - Staingate
Lechuga Zafiro, Imaabs y Braian - Legba
TALPAH - THROAT SINGING
011668 & S280F - HIGH CHARITY ) RED EARTH PURIFICATION CEREMONY (ft. vvxxii)
Nai'X - THRDIMPCT (ft. Undead Ronin)
Miss Jay - Transcendence (VIP)
WULFFLUW XCIV - Hyperemia
Jesse Osborne-Lanthier - Self Care, Covered in Potting Soil
Nara - Saliva (Ship Sket Remix)
nathanashersherman - Leaked

PLANET FHLOSTON EPISODE 025: 300ofu164637

Taken from Wanton Witch's upcoming album 'Aku'

This highly personal release marks her second album and serves as a powerful sequel to her debut, where the previous album delved into her past, ‘AKU’ honestly captures her current state of mind. Born from the depths of her soul and reflecting a profound exploration of identity and existence, this 11-track hauntingly beautiful body of work promises an unparalleled auditory adventure, harmoniously blending diverse sounds, textures, and structures into a distinctly melancholy perspective on reality.

Inverted Images

The 38th release of katharsis and our final release of 2023 is the prodigious compilation "Embracing Darkness, Absorbing Light" featuring a vast array of artist beloved by the label. Throughout the grandiose line-up of the 36 tracks, the listener is absorbed by various differing interpretations of the theme outlined in the title of the album. Some of the invited artist went full into introverted progressions and meditative sounds, while others focused on aggressive rhythms or anthemic melodies. But even though the styles and techniques of the songs differ from each other, the artists seem to have some commonality in their sonic palettes that binds it all together in a mutual love for music as a healing force of nature <3

releases December 29, 2023

artwork by jjjacob
mastering by jjjacob

pre-order:
katharsis-label.bandcamp.com/album/embr…bing-light

Embracing Darkness  Absorbing Light

Alteration

ELCA - Alteration

Welcome to renewed Research Facility!

In the first chapter of this compilation we will introduce you to musicians and producers whose sound we characterize as “ozone layer restoration technologies” - uncompromising textural landscapes, brought to crystallization in sterile conditions. Weightless motives, supported by avalanches of broken drums and high clicks of percussion - this is the Air-Cleanse Unit.

Featuring Yoko Xama, Teko Inon, DIGITONICA, Michelle, RareFlora and SIQMENT.HIDDEN.

Streaming links: linktr.ee/researchcore

22.12.2023 #RESEARCHCORE #AIRCLEANSEUNIT

RareFlora - Like 10000 bullets down my spine

ingress

sad bitch

From 'v1984 - Pansori' out 5th May 2017 on Knives
Preorder Knives store: https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/81573-v1984-pansori
Preorder bandcamp: https://v1984.bandcamp.com/

Moving forward from last year's well received debut EP 'Becoming (N)one' on Glacial Industries, v1984 releases his debut for Knives, the label founded by Jamie Teasdale (Kuedo) and Joe Shakespeare. Jamie says "v1984 was the first artist we approached as a label, in 2014. He's been a core part of Knives as an idea, since before our first record."

v1984, real name Christopher Ramos, is of Korean/Filipino descent and the title ‘Pansori’ reflects his Korean heritage. It has the dual translation of a 'gathering place for sound' and it specifically refers to traditional storytelling, which in turn is a neat description of the EP.

The music here is delicate and meticulously laid out. Even when it approaches noise it's detailed and elegant rather than bludgeoning, like the piano and arpeggio that give way to a cold crystalline spray and shimmering drone in the opener 'SPfiNAL TAP re-JUVENescence'. The switches in mood from track to track suggest a loose narrative, even with a brief interlude in the shape of 'False Awakenings' that feels as if it's inspired by long forgotten anime soundtracks, constructed from beatless clustered pitch-shifting vocals, bells and airy whooshes.

Musically the EP references both the classical music Christopher studied as a child and contemporary electronic music, but it's shattered and smeared into unusual shapes that are, in the more abstract tracks, his musical interpretation of lucid dreaming. Even the club ready tracks have an element of the sublime, such as 'Too Much' which sounds like a synthetic take on the emotional soundtracks of Joe Hisaishi with crafted contemporary hip hop beats woven in, or the damp neon melancholy of 'Aria of Dawn' which colours a mood with a simple gentle glassy melody over tip-tapping drums.

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The final track 'beauty_IT5INYR-H3D' draws the whole EP together, into a track that contrasts the frenzied and the elegant with crashing, whirling imp-like voices and glassy noise dragged over a tender solo piano melody underpinned by depth charge bass chords.

As with every Knives release, visual communication is an integral part of this project. Berlin-based Maren Karlson's illustrative practice is absurd, technically sharp and walks a fine line between beauty and the corruption of aesthetics.  Maren has provided the artwork for 'Pansori', and these traits align perfectly with Christopher's compositions. Christopher says of the EP's imagery: "There was something immediately beautiful, yet maybe a bit unsettling as well, that felt quite tangible to me and resonated within my work.  For me, the image depicts some of these moments, between the real and unreal, like lucid dreaming."

v1984 - Aria of Dawn

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