Name: it's a ｡·*･.🅿🆄🆁🆂🅴｡ﾟ *✿ not a MaNbAg (and I say it with chest) by lloydfears
Duration: 4 min 19 s
Description: Bob The Drag Queen - Purse FIrst (FL Remix)

blue steel is a producer and co-founder of our label. His works explore classic, warm sounds of club music in a poetic and modern way. Simple, catchy melodies and complex, bass-heavy rhythms are paired together resulting in original, club-oriented compositions.

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blue steel - solpadeine

“Which sounds lie within the quietness that precedes the rise of new species?”

Calmaria is the first act of Acta Recordings, previously named AVNT Recordings. The label went through a rebranding and reconfiguration to better represent a new generation of emerging artists, specially from Brazil and Latin America.

Acta Recordings aims to be a sheltering space for divergent and limitless creative artists, gender-bending through Pop and Obscure music. We're designing a new and exciting home, from scratch and within the possibilities of our resource availability in a socio-political complicated country - collectively world-building and terraforming in inhospitable places.

Digital Exhibition & Online Zine:

calmaria.xyz

Artwork: Yan Higa

DIGESTIVO - Conflito

Prolific Japanese producer T5UMUT5UMU has built up a reputation in the last few years for his ability not just to recreate club styles but to flip them into almost unrecognizable dancefloor hybrids. "Sea of Trees" follows a blistering run of Bandcamp releases where T5UMUT5UMU has melted together gqom and techno, deconstructed grime and welded dubstep to traditional music from Japan and India. Here, he's operating completely off the grid, pulling raw materials from across the globe and hammering them into confounding shapes and patterns.

On its surface, 'Fireball' sounds like a liquid metal approximation of South African gqom, but move in closer and you can make out dubstep bass squelches, trap hats, and industrial techno jet propulsion filling in the gaps with rubberized mortar. 'Desert' is the EP's most lightheaded cut, a psychedelic percussive spiral that curves micro-tuned mbira clangs around bee sting bass, aerated noise blasts and sub-aqueous kicks. It's a hard track to place, but fits in somewhere between Donato Dozzy, Menzi and 33EMYBW, all shifting rhythms and precision-edited sound design.

'Sea of Trees' retains this momentum, pushing the tempo and interspersing woodblock vibrations with syncopated bass drums and goosebump-inducing synths, while closer 'Bottomless Valley' shifts back into a gqom framework, shuffling the expected pulse with a powerful dembow swing, half step subs and Indian-inspired rattles. "Asyl" is a varied but shockingly coherent statement from an enigmatic producer who refuses to confine himself to a single path, and at a time when "cross-genre" is the norm rather than the exception, it's refreshing to witness a producer who's unafraid to truly make stylistic left-turns, rather than simply mash together top-level aesthetics.

Sea of Trees

Bottomless Valley

HYPR104 Mente3000 - Street Knowledge 93
Bandcamp: https://hyperboloid.bandcamp.com/album/street-knowledge-93

Old school meets contemporary bass music mutations in Street Knowledge 93 remix collection, original created by Mente3000, remixed by Hyper John, Pondus, Digitonica, Beatrix Weapons and P0brediabla

Mente 3000 is a Chilean DJ and producer, linked to the underground electronic scene since the early 1993.
In the years 2002-2009 he was co-founder of the Idm label Fueradeserie! based in Barcelona.He has released tracks on labels such as Hyperboloid, No Problema Tapes, Postworld and Tsa Records.He is currently the director of the INFINITO AUDIO NETWORK label and has a monthly residency at www.hkcr.live. and also participated in radios such as Cómeme, Noods, Rinse Fr, Kiosk and more. From May 2023 he will be in Barcelona as the operations center for the label and performances.

Artist: Mente3000 
Title: Street Knowledge 93
CAT: HYPR104
Release Date: 17/03/2023 
Release type: Digital (all formats) 
Mastering by A.Fruit 
Artwork by Gsmgarden

Street Knowledge 93

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Mente3000 - Street Knowledge 93 (Digitonica Remix)

@yara-said-4, AKA Noise Diva, graces a new @raghoulmusic comp with wistful, noise-flecked melancholia.

A statement of intent from the Moroccan label, ‘Crocodile Tears in a Reptilian World’ is a focused distillation of the label’s sonic scope. 9 tracks spanning ambient emissions, dubby dread and mutant rave ordnance.

Our pick finds the Amsterdam-based producer and Garage Noord resident in amorphous ambient mode. A sombre, textured sound experiment for pensive contemplation.

'Crocodile Tears In A Reptilian World' is out March 10th on raghoul.

Pre-order: raghoul.bandcamp.com/album/crocodile-tears-in-a-reptilian-world

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Premiere: Noise Diva - Crying For 6 Minutes In The Club Toilet [raghoul]

Taken from SBKT057: mmph - Harvest

Release date: 26th April 2023

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It's been five years since Korean-born, Los Angeles-based sound designer and composer Sae Heum Han, aka mmph, released his last EP Serenade on the Tri Angle label in flurry of activity. "Harvest" arrives after an unintentional pause; three years ago, Han was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that immediately changed his priorities. Bedridden and exhausted from medication, he was only able to work on music for around an hour each day - the rest of his time was swallowed by rest and precarious trips to hospital in the midst of a global pandemic. Now in remission, Han looks back on this period as a time of emotional evolution where the ideas behind "Harvest" could be unravelled. The album emerges from his desire to reconnect with the Korean music he heard when he was growing up in Seoul, using these discernible timbres as building blocks to decorate with his advanced palette of electronic sounds and processes.

Han's music has always balanced precariously between the rigor of classical training and the relative open-endedness of electronic experimentation. This duality is still present on "Harvest", but Han's canvas has widened slightly. He continues to blur the line between the traditional and the modern, emulating and mirroring Korean instruments with synthesizers and sound design elements, and blending them with acoustic sounds and live percussion samples. But where his previous records and scoring work highlighted his ability to weave baroque forms into tight, contemporary sonic tapestries, this album adds the drama, yearning and spirituality of folk. On 'Dialogue' for example, pitch-warped traditional vocals twist through an ensemble of bizarre future-ancient sounds; fluttering strings dissolve into spiked percussive barbs and synthesized wails cut through walls of industrial noise.

'Spirit' follows quickly, coaxing listeners into a trance state with its flurry of microtonal string plucks and irregular percussion. Han is a master of breath control, letting his brief moments of negative space interrupt any expected regularity and guide the track away from electronic music's expected grid. This just about prepares the ground for the title track, a labyrinthine maze of dramatic compositional motifs and dizzying sonics that mutates from gugak forms into a cacophony of pneumatic blast beats before snapping back. From here the album lurches towards the dancefloor for a moment, absorbing and contorting cantankerous club rhythms on 'Avnue' and 'Moon Jar', slowing to a crawl on 'Harvest II'. Despite hijacking its theme from the title track's blast beat section, it transforms into a ballad, acting as a fittingly tearjerking finale.

The record is rounded off by a trio of remixes that draw Han further into the SVBKVLT family. Egyptian producer ABADIR chops up 'Harvest' and reassembles it into a jerky banger, extracting its dancefloor potential and evolving hardstyle thuds into spectral concertina flexes. 'Moon Jar' meanwhile is turned into twitchy trance by Shade Seoul's NET GALA, and Yen Tech stitches together 'Avnue' and 'Dialogue', creating an anxious backdrop that shuttles mmph's android folk to the modern metropolis.

Artwork by Sae Heum Han
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Harvest

mmph - Harvest (ABADIR Remix)

Renslink - !85 EP
Label: Infinite Machine
CAT#: IM103
Format: Digital
Release: May 26th, 2023
Mastered by Fausto Mercier
Artwork by Luis Tomita

UK producer Renslink calls IM103 his first effort focused on the dancefloor, but it belies a lifetime steeped in it. This is prime material for the most advanced of DJs.

The first cut, Static, blends heavy, droning atmospheric sound design with the half-time template of dubstep, complete with jungle vocals. Before reaching the first half, however, it goes into a healthy techno gallop, making the track a perfect set opener if drama is your thing.

From that we go into the three-on-two mindbend of In My Mind, full of beautiful rhythmic trickery and rave culture nods in the sampled female vocals.

Cenotaph feels like a Pinch & Mumdance dub that they kept for themselves around the Control/Strobelight era, all rolling, persistent kick, dubbed-out dready vocals and dystopian hoover.

In Touching The Void we find a moment of drama and relative tenderness, as cinematic strings and choir soar over a busy rolling breakbeat. Occasionally, the proceedings are punctuated by a reese bass and bleeps fill that keep it fresh (an you on your toes).

Closer Silence is a mutant dembow wobbler with alien vocals by Nivalis, like dancehall for after the nuclear apocalypse, when we’ll have all the extra limbs we’ll need to dance to music like this.

!85 EP

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Renslink - Static (IM103)

Three years after its first various artists compilation, Causal Chain presents the third instalment of the series, Évoque. Artists already established on the label are joined by newcomers, bringing forth new sounds yet to be explored on the imprint.

Track by @disk-wraith.
Mastering by SIM.
Album art by Bruno Lauzon-Tanzi.

Sandevistan

dybbuk - Sandevistan

Read more about Shit Sket's EP forthcoming on HEEL.ZONE, on CxC: couvrexchefs.com/en/ship-sket-eyehole89-heel-zone/

Pre-order: heel-zone.bandcamp.com/album/hd-013-bamboo-torture-ep

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