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A Symbol For Disguise (GEN048) out now on Genot Centre on tape & digital.

“Rich in production ideas, an album that breaks down the barrier between what's danceable and what's meant for careful listening.” (https://soundcloud.com/ma3azef)

"A Symbol for Disguise is all action and drama that demands attention. The sound design is flawless, leaving a maze of dense music, impossible to ignore." (Foxy Digitalis)

"This is a precision-tooled and deliberate collision of club abstraction and broader experimental concerns." (https://soundcloud.com/if-only-uk)

"Encounter and decomposition of heaven and earth, collision and dissolution, forming the density of matter with soft silky water, and flying in the void of clouds." (https://soundcloud.com/avyss)

On A Symbol For Disguise (GEN048), @ububoi & @rhunterrrr join hands to craft a high saturation, high density, high tension collection of collaborative tracks. Texturally, the sound is raspy, heavy hitting, synthetic yet constantly fluid, pushed or shaped into high harmonic regions, giving the sound a full, shimmering, metallic tint. The blasting, bouncy, crispy, sometimes even shredding percussive approach suggests an intense but elastic approach, manifesting in constantly morphing highly syncopated rhythmical forms. With detuned synthetic harp arpeggios, grimy, chromatic melodies and gnarly, glassy pads, the approach here is sometimes reminiscent of that lost era where home listening music, dance music and computer music formed an uncertain and temporary alliance. The notion of a confrontation is further underlined by the incidental appearance of a denatured voice in full range: whispering, declaring, demanding, wailing - looking the listener in the eye.

Recorded, produced and mixed by @ububoi & @hunterrrr.
Mastered by @wimdehaen.
Artwork & tape design by eeeeelllfffyyyyyyyyy.

Limited edition of 55 C35 tapes with on-body printing pro-dubbed by Headless Duplicated Tapes.

A Symbol For Disguise

pre-order

ubu boi & r hunter - Proxy, Lover (GEN048)

Xao - Wirehead

Format: Digital/Vinyl
Cat.No: CANVAS013
Release Date: 2nd December 2022

Pre-order available at canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/wirehead

‘An overwhelming diet of stimulation. Maximalist sonics reflect/mimic the barrage of media, attention hijack. A cathartic balm with which to come down from the onslaught. To break out of the compulsion loop. Erosion of Attention and Critical Thought. The inability to write or hear a melody.

As more potent stimulus is experienced with greater frequency, the elicited response grows duller. Satisfactory engagement requires stronger, stranger and crueller stimulus. Entropy cascades, form becomes occluded. Dragon chasing. The Earth will implode under the weight of our data. The internet currently boasts the mass of a strawberry.

Wire-heading as a Possible Contributor to Civilisational Decline.
Wire-heading as a Possible Contributor to the Death of Art?
Wire-heading as a form of music making…
DAW addiction, resampling syndrome.

Micro-genres and reissues. A glut of influences, fleeting obsessions; option paralysis fomented. Procedural and algorithmic composition to break the stalemate. The imposition of order becomes freeing. Seeding pareidolia? Freedom through procedure. The altar wine of counterpoint and the modafinil of machine learning. Or a new digital spirituality achieved through enhanced aleatory. Silicon zealotry and the pursuit of the divine online.’

Music by Xao

Vocals on 'I Wed My Shadow' performed by Marie Requa Gailey

Artwork and design by Somnath Bhatt

Mastered by Alex Gordon at Abbey Road Studios

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Xao - Ophanim Plushie

RONCE - CRÈVE
(DAWN020)
50 limited copies
CD
@itsronce
Produced by Zoë Villerd
Mastered by @lastrackqlf
Photos by Gabriel Cautain
Design by @hadji-hajj
Dawn 2023

CRÈVE

CRÈVE OR PAY

Ronce - Chiens

@bademjan

The 46th release of katharsis is the EP “Plumage” by french artist Bademjan, coming out in full on November 18th. "Plumage" takes the listener on an epic voyage guided by the arcane wisdom of synthetic bird-guides, mysterious creatures leading the way through haunting and sublime realms. The EP emerges as a reflection on the pursuit of elusive truths and their role in shaping identity, and unfolds like an initiatory journey, inviting the listener to explore realms of feelings unremembered and times that never were.

From the discovery of a hidden chapel where stained glass whispers vivid secrets, to eerie calls piercing the night in a moonlit forest, each of the seven tracks reveals a new chapter in this overarching tale. Throughout the journey, the mystical birds appear briefly but meaningfully, offering both an unsettling and comforting presence as they help us navigate the shifting sands of self and accept the inevitable decay of all that we hold dear.

On “Plumage”, Bademjan unfolds his full potential by materializing his sonic development with incorporation of the electric upright bass as the backbone of the record, with its sound manipulated and processed to evoke a spectrum of emotional textures, from delicate pizzicato notes to deep sub-bass roars and gritty bow strokes. This organic foundation is enriched with woodwind-esque synths, ethereal vocal harmonies and the uncanny chirps of artificial birds, creating a sonic fable that feels both eternal and ephemeral.

Bademjan has previously put out releases with labels White Garden and Olga Productions, and contributed to compilations from Club Late Music, 90000realms and evo-natura besides figurating on the katharsis compilations “Embracing Darkness, Absorbing Light” and “Infinite Summer: Fantasi”.

artwork by Pierre Guais ( @swoydgarden )
mastering by @jjjacob

premiere: Bademjan - Screeches in the Moonlit Woods

1 Disco Accident

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how you do me

Burdened Recreation (Fridge Remix)

The new episode of ANTICLUB featured KIKIMORA (@soundofkikimora) delivering a set full of overdrive, distortion, and melancholic-to-the-point-of-heart-bleeding melodies — a raw, emotional soundtrack to the dystopian times we live in.

Stay tuned @ www.20ftradio.net

HANT

ANTICLUB w/ KIKIMORA @ 20ft Radio - 23/05/2025

Lyrics:

Bury me 
Forget my name 
Bury me 
Forget my face 
Dig the dirt on my grave
Let me rot and decay 
Headstone with my name 
Love aura blessed gang 
Bury me oh

I can't go on like this 
Did you forget I exist?
I miss your body on mine 
I miss your lips on my lips 
You know I couldn't resist 
You got my heart in a twist 
If only i got my wish

Schizophoria - BuryMe (heff)

In My Head

Knives are proud to present the debut release from Belgian artist Obsequies, entitled Organn. 

At its core, Organn is a record about love and duality. Taking inspiration from Isidore-Lucien Ducasse's poem 'Les Chants de Maldoror', the record is antagonistic yet often drops its temper to reveal blistered beauty within the fray. Such are the condradictory elements within the compositions themselves: widescreen claustrophobia; glimmering sludge; piercing VHS ambience.

Visuals come courtesy of French mixed-media artist, Thomas Hauser. Hauser's imagery similarly evokes retrograde surrealism and further insists on a narrative at work here, with obscured characters playing out alongside mantric piano, filmic vox and hyperspeed jungle.

Obsequies - Asthme

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