A screaming comes across the club... 

Sweat is a collection of 2017-2021 live tracks. They are structured akin to the live shows I've been doing over these years, missing, of course, some works in progress and forthcoming material usually involved. 

This was the time. And this is the record of the time. 

Every show would get a new version, and these are my favorites. Evidently, most are vastly superior to the sickly versions previously available. These are precious for the experience and knowledge that went into them, they have been whittled down from bricks of compressed noise. 

Shit, basically I felt fucking stupid for having some bangers sit around on my laptop forever cause I'm not playing any of these live again (what shows? what clubs? me and whose army lol?); people keep asking me for these; most people will never see me live, so. And I figured this is a time to start a Bandcamp, seeing how Bio Future Laboratory is still selling my shit but won't pay me. 
I am still real, I exist. 

Thank you to everyone for inviting me to play, and thank you to everyone for coming to hear me play. I remember this; it happened. 

You may view this as a live album, and you may pick your favorites from the repeated tracks, which would give you a vague approximation of a show, minus the sweat.

Forever Forgive (Live 2021)

SLA11: Lullaby for the Dead by @angehalliwell

Type: Album
Format: Digital / CD
Releasedate: July 8th 2022
Cat. number: SLA12

Ange Halliwell first touched the harp when he was 12 years old. From the verdant countryside of southwestern France, he composes music combining hypnotic arpeggios, sound layers and voices sometimes sung, spoken or shouted. Ange Halliwell's creations are intimately linked to nature. They feed on multiple influences: traditional music, lyricism, contemporary hyper pop... We can hear the sound of cicadas in his music, in his clips, we run alongside Pastou, his faithful companion and muse. In a total project, Ange Halliwell creates a musical and visual universe that is both luminous and melancholy.

With his new album "Lullaby for the dead", Ange explores different universes in which grief, creatures, hopes and contemplation are mixed. Through his electric harp and other elements such as the voice, the hurdy-gurdy or a tale, each piece is like a prayer, a tribute to these invisible worlds and these emotions that overwhelm us all at some point in our lives. "Fly, fly beautiful soul! The afterlife awaits you..."

Mixed & mastered by Lorenzo Targhetta
'Walk Away' produced by Milyma & Ange
'Harvest Moon' hurdy-gurdy played by Camecrude
Cover idea by Malibu
Thank you to Milena, Valentin, Ludovic, Paula, Marylou, Anaïs, Alex

Buy CD / Digital

Ange Halliwell — 'Walk away' (Milyma)

(DAWN018)QOSO - MEDUSA
50 limited copies
CD
Mastered by Lastrack
Photos by Melchior Tersen
Design by Studio Janiaut
Type Design by Isia Yurowski
Dawn 2023

Qoso - Top Boy Feat Omaar

Pollution Opera - s/t
Cat. Nr: DN027
Format: DL / LP
Release Date: April 24, 2024
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/PollutionOpera

Elvin Brandhi and Nadah El Shazly refuse to turn away from the horror. The intercontinental duo’s Pollution Opera album is an uncompromising futurist depiction of our disfigured, dystopian, and dying reality. Facing hell in full defiance, the experimental noise album catapults itself through a volatile compound of breathless shouts, screams, and screeches, in collision with vocal samples, environmental recordings, and acousmatic sounds. Ten tracks cover the spectrum of electroacoustic fragments and vocalizations, treacherously suspended between the roar of engines and synth distortion, of evocative intonations or guttural retching.

First conceived in 2020, Pollution Opera bubbled up organically from a first tandem motorbike ride through El Shazly’s hometown of Cairo. Singing and screaming through the second-loudest city in the world, Brandhi and Shazly found the extreme noise pollution served as catharsis from the suffocating smog that surrounded them. They then took these sonic specimens into studios across years and countries—from the initial recording and sessions in Egypt to Uganda, where their so-called “cacophony carbon orchestra” would carry into simultaneous but separate residencies at Nyege Nyege in Kampala. There, Brandhi and Shazly reprised the role of the motorbike as their “stage,” in a city where motorbikes are the main mode of public transport. They then developed a live A/V performance from video material captured by Arno Mery, collected from their travels, and reworked by Egyptian artist Omar El Sadek during Banlieues Bleues Festival 2023 in France.

The result is what the artists themselves describe as “an uncompromising world-spew, a shameless alloy of love and hate.” Haptic knocking, barking dogs, and human growls trample El Shazly’s famously evocative Egyptian singing style on “CRÎi Me A River.” Breathless vocal cut-ups and samples are bulldozed by arrhythmic acoustic percussion on “Danse Le Flou.” There are moments of respite within all the chaos, however, whether in the heavily pitched, Auto-Tuned opening of “Pollute Bold” or the wonderfully melodic closer of “Crisp Heart”—its derelict rhythmic thrust giving a listener something to dance about.

Both artists lend their unique positioning and idiosyncrasies to Pollution Opera, whether it’s in artist, vocalist, and musician Brandhi’s avant-garde noise music pedigree as both a solo artist and member of father-daughter duo Yeah You, or
singer, composer, and producer El Shazly’s hybrid catalogue combining electronic music with contemporary classical. Together, in asking the question of what a postmodern opera might sound like, the duo offer their existential answer in the true spirit of the often playful and ironic philosophical position by offering no answer at all.

Voice & electronics: Elvin Brandhi & Nadah El Shazly
Violin on ‘Crisp Heart’: Ocen James
Soprano on ‘Attention’: Marie Requa Gailey

Artwork by Omar El Sadek & Niels Wehrspann
Mastering by Rashad Becker

Pollution Opera

Pollution Opera - Pollute Bold

Taken from SBKT064: sideproject - sourcepond
Release date: 30th May 2024

Following up from work on Björk´s 'Fossora', Icelandic trio 'sideproject' debut on SVBKVLT with their new full-length album 'sourcepond'. Taking influence from the fog-covered wetlands of their native island, sideproject transfigure influences from the low-end frequencies of grime and bass music, and reshape it into a haze of transient-smeared beats accompanied by breathy synths that grow ever wetter till they slip beneath the surface tensions of their harmonic stratum. Compared to previous output, 'sourcepond' opts for a more concise approach to their music, stacking up their influences of experimental electronic, Icelandic punk and contemporary club music, and builds a sound that oscillates between melodic hooks and experimental rhythms. Each track carves through the sensuous material, pulling the listener into the dank sourcepond as though magnetic forces were guiding a bird's beak towards misty horizons.

Artwork by sideproject
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

sourcepond

sideproject - double zebra

Live recording of my live electronics set for the album presentation of "HYPERKLASSIꓘ V.1" from Edoardo Micheli
13.10.2024, Morphine Raum, Berlin

Live at Morphine Raum

001.01 Bucci Carlos - Sys Snippet KSP074

nous verrons passer le son libre

Bass Out

Exploited Body - Touching Without Feeling 

A cry for intimacy in a time where physical connection is lost. 

Embrace is the first taste of Helsinki-based artist Exploited Body's third EP "Touching Without Feeling”, which reveals a more somber and brooding aesthetic for the artist. The ominous presence of Exploited Body’s signature blistered distortion manifests as a physical entity, while his murmured vocals call to be touched like an apparition that can be felt prominently throughout the record. 

Released September 27th.

Buy 'Touching Without Feeling':
https://changeless.bandcamp.com/album/touching-without-feeling

@exploitedbody

Touching Without Feeling

Exploited Body - Embrace

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