"Life in Warp" is the debut album from the Portuguese producer “A lake by the mõõn”. Every sound (like literally every sound, every kick, synth, etc) you hear in the record was created from field recordings of living beings that are, or have been, endangered since the beginning of the Anthropocene.
Some of the sounds in the album were kept untouched from their original field recording, and others went through various processes of extreme digital manipulation in order to be transformed into all sorts of material. Blending the raw and processed sounds, the animal’s voices are recontextualized from their collapsing ecosystems into a new world of organic electronic music.

“Life in Warp” invites you to observe and experience wildlife in a new way, it invites you to pay deep attention to what sound has to teach us about the state of our planet, it gives you a chance to listen to the frightened sounds of the beings that have been ignored and tortured for far too long. In hopes that this album will give you courage to act against our’s and other beings' extinction.
We are facing the worst crisis humanity has ever seen. There are more than 1 million endangered species on the planet right now. Since 1970 Earth has lost 60% of all animal life. We are living through the 6th mass extinction. We urgently need to stop, listen, imagine and act. We manifest against the narratives of fatalism and of fake hopes!
Clock is ticking.

Final Reality XXI

from "Amethyst: New Sounds from Moon Glyph Records" CS
https://moonglyph.bandcamp.com/album/amethyst-new-sounds-from-moon-glyph-records

Iceblink - "Molecules"

https://www.nts.live/shows/phambinho/episodes/phambinho-10th-august-2021

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Funnel Of Luv (cover)

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Artist: At Her Open Door
Album: FLIR
Format: Digital / Tape
Cat.No: CHI041
Master: Taiki Kobayashi
Artwork: Saphy Vong
Release Date: 5th October 2022

A glitching, heavy darkness pervades FLIR, the new album from Tokyo-based artist At Her Open Door, to be released on Chinabot. Combining uniquely diverse elements – dubstep, traditional Chinese instrumentation, and progressive rock, among others – FLIR is a whirlwind journey through fruitful experimentation, creating a world of jagged sonic edges and frenetic beats along the way.

Taiki Kobayashi of At Her Open Door started out in progressive rock and hardcore bands, and now describes his work as “a fusion of Asian traditional instruments and 80s synths for a modern approach.” With FLIR, wobble bass and jungle add new textures to his precise, melodic compositions, which also make use of the characteristic bell sounds of the Peking Opera.

Tracks like CINA display this approach, blending up a melody that could have come from an 80’s sci fi soundtrack with Chinese instrumentation and wobble bass, for an aggressive, thumping blitz on the senses.

“FLIR is an acronym for “forward-looking infrared” and is intended to mean the result of detecting something hot,” says Kobayashi, referring to his exploratory musical process. “In composing the songs, I have been focused on reproducing and shaping the sound that I want to hear now.”

Lately, he has also been inspired by electronic music from Depeche Mode and Yellow Magic Orchestra. “What I valued in creating FLIR was the fusion of the esoteric and aggressive atmosphere of that music with the 80s romanticism that I have explored in the past,” he says.

About At Her Open Door:

At Her Open Door is an experimental music project started in 2007 by Japanese artist Taiki Kobayashi. His music is characterized by crossing various genres such as dubstep, experimental, IDM, new wave, Traditional asian instrumentations, new age, and 80s synth wave.

FLIR

Gleam

At Her Open Door - Gleam

kvadosh: A newcomer producer based in Athens, whose productions resemble early sci-fi movie soundtracks mixed with 90’s techno. Aside from alien-sounding soundcloud productions, kvadosh occasionally creates fast-paced breakbeats playing over stretched folk vocal samples.

MOJO

LAPS