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Ethno Service, a moniker for two electronic musicians based in Prague, are here with their debut long-player ‘NMA’. Released via LBD Sounds tape series, it comprises six masterfully crafted original compositions and a couple of remixes, including an uneasy jungle rework by Exhausted Modern’s new alias Oblaka and a spaced-out ambient escapism remix by voodoo priestess Lucie aka Avsluta. It’s not an easy listening affair, broken and sometimes unnerving rhythms blended with duo’s uniquely moody atmosphere, ever morphing and taking you places you didn’t even know existed. Expect percussion-heavy tracks on a lower side of bpm spectrum. You may dive into this album horizontally, or try to find out if it’s still danceable. Is it? Sure it is!

Release date: Friday 27th May 2022
LBD sounds © 2022
Distributed by Kudos Records
Mastered by Kozber @ Sirius Studio, London
Remixes by: Ladislav Zensor, Lucie Stepankova
All titles written, performed and produced by: GWD & Parle G

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Ethno Service - NMA [LBDTAPE007] - snippets

Avsluta - Ākāsagata
Ākāsagata [ST046 / Secuencias Temporales]

Produced by Lucie Štěpánková aka Avsluta
Mastered by Jorge Eafhm at Secuencias Temporales Studio
Artwork by Scencist
Released by Secuencias Temporales from México City, México
Release Date : May 23th. 2022

Lucie dedicates her creative practice to object-oriented improvisation, performance, interactive installation and theoretical and empirical research in the fields of Deep Ecology and New Materialism.

This ongoing inquiry is a fluid continuation of her studies of Sound Arts and Design at the University of the Arts London from where she graduated in 2018. She then returned as a visiting lecturer of Improvisation and Performative Practice in 2019, inhering the post from her former professor and well-respected writer and musician David Toop.

She regularly performs solo and group improvisations with her ever-growing ensemble of objects, materials and small electronics under her real name and with analog and digital electronics under her electronic music moniker Avsluta in venues across London and around Europe. In the past two years, these two projects have been going through an ongoing process of merging.

Avsluta (London, UK)
https://soundcloud.com/avsluta
https://www.facebook.com/avslutaavsluta
https://www.instagram.com/avsluta_

Secuencias Temporales
https://soundcloud.com/secuencias_temporales
https://www.facebook.com/secuenciastemporales
https://www.instagram.com/secuencias_temporales
https://secuenciastemporales.bandcamp.com

Oslated.
http://www.oslated.com
https://soundcloud.com/oslated
https://oslated.bandcamp.com
https://formaviva.com/oslated

Ākāsagata

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@ethnoservice | Remix by @avsluta | @littlebeatdifferent | NMA EP [LBDTAPE007] | Cassette & Digital

Snippets - https://soundcloud.com/littlebeatdifferent/ethno-service-nma-lbdtape007-snippets

Release info:
Ethno Service, a moniker for two electronic musicians based in Prague, are here with their debut long-player ‘NMA’. Released via LBD Sounds tape series, it comprises six masterfully crafted original compositions and a couple of remixes, including an uneasy jungle rework by Exhausted Modern’s new alias Oblaka and a spaced-out ambient escapism remix by voodoo priestess Lucie aka Avsluta. It’s not an easy listening affair, broken and sometimes unnerving rhythms blended with duo’s uniquely moody atmosphere, ever morphing and taking you places you didn’t even know existed. Expect percussion-heavy tracks on a lower side of bpm spectrum. You may dive into this album horizontally, or try to find out if it’s still danceable. Is it? Sure it is!

Bandcamp

PREMIERE: Ethno Service - NMA 02 (Avsluta Remix) [LBD Sounds]

Scottish New Music Awards Winner 2023 for Sonic Arts.

Mixed by Ronan Fay at Greendoor Studios.

Originally installed with Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop https://edinburghsculpture.org/whats-on/beacon-tower-alliyah-enyo-selkie-reflections/

Selkie Tape Loops

Monochrome Premiere :

Artist : @edte-1
Track : Sellenti II (Avsluta's Desert Trip Re-Imagination)
Label : https://soundcloud.com/indefinite-pitch
LP : Organica Reinterpretations
Format : Digital
Release Date : 08.03.2023
Bandcamp : https://indefinitepitch.bandcamp.com/album/organica-reinterpretations

Original tracks on ‘Organica’ produced by Nils Edte
Reinterpretations by Lucie Štěpánková aka Avsluta
Mastered by J. David Lucio S.
Artwork Editing and Layout by Mark Wagner

𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐄 : Nils Edte - Sellenti II (Avsluta's Desert Trip Re-Imagination) [Indefinite Pitch]

Daniel Jahn of Hamburg record shop Bureau B join us for semi-regular hour-long outings.

https://www.nts.live/shows/bureau-b/episodes/bureau-b-11th-may-2023

Daniel Jahn (Bureau B) 110523

Konkani is spoken in a small part of India along the coast. They have a special type of music  with influences from polka, disco, ska, schlager, house, and even jodling. It is often a tropical sound with sometimes adventures arrangements.
Tracklist:
Abolina & Laram - nari
Marina - Ghandiji
??? - Vande Vande Mataram
Melwin Paris 4 - Konkana
Erci Ozario - Ye Lagim
Melvy Rodriques - Ume Ume
Claud henry - Jacintha
Oh my love - Haason naachyan
??? - Lonchen
??? - Disco naas bhaye naas naas

Venderstrooik - Konkani Summer Mix

Now that's what I call crap

Blue Spot

Indefinite Pitch PREMIERES. Edition 612

Avsluta - Rātri

V/A - Winter Nights
[InirecVA001 | Initiate Records]

Produced by Lucie Štěpánková aka Avsluta
Mastered by Brice Deloose aka Pattrn
Picture by Mod21
Artwork by Leslie Deboeur

Released by Initiate Records from Brussels, Belgium
Release Date: December 23, 2023

Avsluta

https://soundcloud.com/avsluta
https://www.facebook.com/avslutaavsluta
https://www.instagram.com/avsluta_

Initiate Records

https://soundcloud.com/initiate_concept
https://www.facebook.com/initiate.music
https://www.instagram.com/initiate.concept

Indefinite Pitch. Yantai

https://www.indefinitepitch.com

Winter Nights

Rätri

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Indefinite Pitch PREMIERES. Avsluta - Rātri [Initiate]

ConFirm Feat. Guy Tavares- Cult Leader (Het Duiden Der Dingen)

Low 60's

Swapped the 3 for a 4 with no hesitation and I am ready to move forward, backwards, sideways or whatever else it takes for me to get to heaven. We begin promptly, in an orderly fashion and as things are so fresh and fragile I thought it would be good to keep it pure and simple with @re_amerzaa joining me for a deep session. Going through new finds and some upcoming releases.

JAS w/ Dragos & Amerza 07-01-2024

Mysig

live at Caos Club, Cusco, Peru (extract) - 1st June 2018

Investigative Podcast 
about the Lable M SQUARED for the Attic Magazine, Romania.

"M Squared is a pure DIYrecord lable which was run from a small recording studio in Sydney, Australia between 1979 and 1984, founded by Mitch Jones and Michael Tee. 
Together with a small group of diversly talented  friends, they gathered in the Wilshire Street, close to the studio of Doublethink records, to start their own project and go to war against the big record companies, with their ideas of "Oz Rock".
Through the following time great artists like Shane Fahey joined with an armful of cassettes of wonderful tunes that waited for their release and formed new projects like 'The Makers of the Dead Travel Fast'.
After some starting problems, they easily made it from a 4-track to an equiped studio, from cassettes to 12" records. The live appearances by Systematics and The Makers of the Dead Travel Fast over the summer 1981 started the fascinating challenge of trying to win over Australian pub audiences with M Squared's versions of "rock" music. Michael Tee started talking to promoters and venue owners and convincing them that an M Squared night was conducive to a lot of punters buying beer. 
A lot of great live shows were played.
The M Squared idea was, that music does not have to conform with any sound or style. 
New styles were created, new directions were set.
1984 sadly things did not go exactly to plan. By mid year M Squared was over. 1 Wilshire Street was abandoned and the three friends drifted apart."

Houschyar investigated and selected his favorite 38 tunes, which appeared on M Squared Records between 1980 -1983.
The selection features the following bands.

A Cloakroom Assembly
A Spledid Mess
Denial
Height/Dismay
No Night Sweats
Patrick Gibson
Prod
Scattered Order
SoliPsik
Systematics
Terse
The Barons
The Makers of the Dead
The Slugfuckers
Ya Ya Choral

The Attic: From The Archives: M Squared Stories

"While the Coronavirous lockdown made many things impossible or infinitely more difficult and painful, it also opened up an unprecedented space to think, to reflect and to work in ways that the usual pressures deny. 

On March 17th David Toop and Lucie Stepankova were due to play in a trio with Yifeat Ziv at Café Oto; then on April 9ththey were also booked to play at Iklectik as a duo. Both gigs were cancelled, of course, because of the virus. In support of Iklectik, Lucie and David agreed to record a track together in the only way possible, by exchanging files and passing mixes back and forth across the aether. The feeling of working on this first track was positive so they decided to make a mini-album. One of the elements from the first track was a reading by Lucie of a passage from Kenya Hara’s book, On White, and this preoccupation with colour became a theme for the whole project. Other tracks were inspired by the writings of Himla af Klint on mystical blue, Hokusai on shades of black, François Jullien on the six colours of Chinese ink and Cees Noteboom on the yellow/orange hue of a ceramic bowl. 

Jullien wrote of a transition from ‘physical concretion to spirit dimension’, according to the dilution of the ink. This is how these tracks felt as they emerged between April and June of extraordinary times. When the album was finished it seemed fitting to offer it to Café Oto in a gesture of support and hopefulness for the future of London’s key venues. 

David Toop and Lucie Stepankova have previously played in duos at Café Oto, Iklectik and at the Jhilava documentary film festival. They have also played in trios with Yifeat Ziv at Hundred Years Gallery, Tania Caroline Chen at Iklectik and John Butcher at Hangar Bicocca, Milan." - David & Lucie

TR061 - David Toop & Avsluta - Blue Ether

Founder at @introspective_electronics
Explorer at @terra-obscura-london
Ambientist at @phonicarecords
Alchemist at @soundofvadin

Booking: info@introspective-electronics.com

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Live
26/01 • Live Ambisonic Improv @ The Baths [London, UK]

DJ
11/01 • Introspective Electronics @ Netil Radio [UK]
16/01 • Kindred Radio [London, UK]
19/01 • Goo Night @ Spanners [London, UK]
02/02 • Cabin Fever * b2b Alicia @ Corsica Studios [London, UK]
03/02 • A.R.X. @ C3 [Milan, IT]
08/02 • Introspective Electronics @ Netil Radio [UK]
10/02 • Amoenus presents: Stone, Nexcyia, mu tate & Avsluta @ The Baths [London, UK] 
07/03 • TBA @ Loki [London, UK]
04/05 • Queens Yard Summer Party @ Hackney Wick [London, UK]
31/05-02/06 • Above Below Festival * b2b Phrex [Chiltern Hills, UK]
05/06-12/06 • KALA Festival [Dhermi, AL]

Curation
21/04 • Introspective Electronics x Experiment Intrinsic @ The Baths [London, UK]

Workshops & Talks
26/01 • Spatial Sound Workshop @ The Baths [London, UK]

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