Artist: https://soundcloud.com/kklofinkk, https://soundcloud.com/rps413
Track: 896
Label: https://soundcloud.com/virtualforestrecords
Format: Digital VA
Release date: 25/11/22
YouTube: https://youtu.be/IxwKXrF20Jk

The French electronic scene is bursting with new talent and dissolving boundaries, acting as a giant melting pot of influences from all different genres. In this spirit, Virtual Forest Records is hosting a new 12-track compilation to showcase the mesmerizing dark side of this creative movement.
No Digging After Midnight condenses elements from deep techno, downtempo, UK bass, or even halftime into a unified whole. A foray into deep and uncharted waters, for a glimpse at the future of dance music.

PREMIERE | Klofink & RPS13 - 896 [Virtual Forest] 2022

CD/Digital Preorder: https://lizardlabel.bandcamp.com/album/wav-fuzz-sensing

Lizard Label proudly presents their inaugural release: a slab of aqueous technoid excursions and hi-def electro workouts from Chicago-based producer Wav Fuzz. The head lizards first heard these tracks performed as a live set at an intimate gathering in the woods and immediately knew it needed a broader audience. With Sensing, the artist hones in on a lush strain of dance music thematically oriented around human sensory awareness, matching detailed compositions with each of the senses. The album follows previous releases on labels including Les Yeux Orange, Bed of Roses, Occult Research, and the artist's own imprint EYMS.

“Vision” kicks off Sensing with a wave-jumping journey through layered synth pads and chiming mallet leads, all girded by drum programming that bumps over sturdy kicks and clattering hi-hats. Wav Fuzz lets the central elements of each track loop listeners into a trance state while frosting the outer layers of the stereo spread with warm pads and rushes of pure texture. “Audition” — as in hearing, not trying out for the part — leans into throbbing bass bursts planted beneath a web of interlaced saw waves, while “Olfaction” heads off on a major key trip that splits the difference between a Mediterranean yacht party and a space cruiser docking against the backdrop of Saturn.

Throughout Sensing, Wav Fuzz demonstrates a fine-tuned sense of melody without lapsing out of the state of drift. Fine-grain synth patches share space with complex beat patterns and evolve together through subtle shifts in narrative — all while remaining in that club-ready sweet spot, with basslines that could only sound massive on a proper sound system. “Gustation” skirts the closest here to what could be called IDM, with thirty-second note patterns jittering behind alternating atonal and consonant synth phrases, creating a sinuous ebb and flow, equal parts tension and ecstasy.

“Somatosensation” places Wav Fuzz’s hands on the keyboard, dripping out a stream of balearic arpeggios and luxuriant chords — that is, before that bassline kicks in, underpinning the proceedings with a feeling of constant forward motion. Knowing exactly when to deploy each new element without overcrowding the mix, the artist coasts with us through a network of kicks and bleeps, filter sweeps and looped one-bar melodies. Wav Fuzz adds another sense to the traditional five: “Intuition.” The album closer starts in a state of wide open bliss, with synthetic bongos and shakers backing a steady kick snare groove, before complicating with the introduction of growling bass and intensifying synth ornamentation.

Wav Fuzz prefers to maintain a sense of anonymity around the project, which suits the liquid nature of the music. The compositions that Sensing offers reach us as finely sculpted sessions that feel like they could extend far beyond their allotted time, swirling through their varied permutations while maintaining their central groove, their core idea. As a durational medium, we listen to music and we know that it will end at some point. We find ourselves within the space of one track, already preparing ourselves for the next. We watch for the signs on the side of the road that might lead us to some new vista. Sensing balances that expectation with pockets of perfect stasis — moments we would be fine looping along with unto infinity.

Words: Max Allison

Produced by Andrew Bisenius
Mastering by Jason Letkiewicz
Artwork by Alyssa Beers

Sensing

[PREVIEW] Wav Fuzz - Sensing (lizlab001)

"... there is no specific present moment...everything that has ever happened and will happen at any time and any place... Your birth is out there. Your death too. Every moment of your life is out there, somewhere. The past, present and future all exist, and are equally real."

Barking's favorite quote that he came across recently regarding the Block Universe Theory*

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@barkingmusic
www.garethpsaltis.com/music
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Phormix Podcast #245 ● Barking

Taken from "Uncle Reed In The Purple Mine".

LP/Digital out March 1, 2024.

@amkarahoi

Uncle Reed In The Purple Mine (IMPTNC08)

Amkarahoi - Handa

https://soundcloud.com/forlornforlorn

https://www.retreatradio.net/meander

Meander_2_15_2

Meander #2 w/ forlorn (15/02/24)

Live recording @ the Future Intel headquarters in The Hague. Streaming live on Youtube and futureintelradio.com.

Stefan Alexandrov ╚═ Future Intel ═╗ 22 02 2024

Operator is an online community radio station and cultural platform based in Rotterdam.

https://www.operator-radio.com
https://www.instagram.com/operator.radio
https://www.youtube.com/@Operator-radio

Crack is Wack  - 1st March 2024

callgod

a sleepy beat

Samudra Manthan

vibes & zig tracked by tapes + mix mup + kmos. taken from ZIGTRAX LP on workshop records. distributed by hardwax.

https://hardwax.com/30621/zigtrax/zigtrax/

workshop XXII

ZIGTRAX "Untitled A2"

We want to be the vessel for facilitating the warmth of sound created by artists we love, for the listener to be held by the sound in the moments they are present.

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