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SERA015: Satellite Era presents “The Heaviness Of Hovering EP” - a collection of boundary-pushing tracks by Mike Castañeda, better known as @terminal11.

100% of the proceeds made from this release will be donated to La Frontera on a monthly basis. They are a growing nonprofit that offers comprehensive crisis and community behavioral health services to children, adults, and families throughout the state of Arizona.

Learn more about La Frontera: https://lafrontera-empact.org

With a musical career spanning over two decades, Phoenix-based artist Terminal 11 has made it a priority to continuously adapt to the latest in sound design and technology. After a handful of highly acclaimed releases, we welcome him to our family with some of his best and admittedly most personal work yet.

Emerging from the pinnacle of an early breakcore movement in North America, Terminal 11 became a household name on legendary experimental labels worldwide such as Cock Rock Disco, Hymen, Opal Tapes, and Love Love Records. Although his pioneering sound has mutated over the years, the genre-free, forward-thinking mentality he wields has stayed consistent, allowing him to transcend past any particular style or trend.

By combining niche machines such as music trackers and modular systems, Terminal 11's production is a unique blend of aged subcultures and keen futurism. Each track serves as the reflection of a live performance that incorporates real-time sampling and looping, modular jams, live effects, and general improvisation. With a desire to keep challenging himself, his audio workstation tends to reform between projects. For his latest EP, he brings out his sharpest tools in an effort to forge something timelessly special.

"The Heaviness Of Hovering EP" may sound familiar to the avid listener of leftfield electronic music - thumping basslines, off-kilter drum programming, and disorderly synths effortlessly fill the soundscape. Terminal 11 expands on these ideas by refining the foundation of his previous work, forming a more lively sound that feels freshly discovered. Caustic ooze pours out of the stereo in "Von Bridges Kit" as the track progresses into a dystopian realm. "Pressure Cooker" is a clear nod to acid techno and braindance, providing a proper rave anthem for dancefloor enthusiasts. Frantic drum work embodies "To Disappear," slowing in tempo but ensuring to fill each second with altering percussion sequences. The metallic snap in "Rabid Mist" is playfully attentive as the track shapeshifts between a fusion of breakcore and dancehall. The title track repurposes old guitars from his newly founded personal collection to create emotive drones, adding a sentimental touch that serves as a perfect ending to this project.

The completion of "The Heaviness Of Hovering EP" meant much more to Terminal 11 than simply releasing music - it marks a pivotal moment in his fabled career amidst the underground. Setting these repressed emotions free has allowed him to continue progressing not solely through music, but also as a human. A healing moment proves to be monumental for his growth and just as important for our collective.

“I created these tracks while experiencing a mental state that oscillated between a blur of healthy functionality and numb avoidance, easing slowly only with time. The experience was a result of deep grieving - my mind had me hovering outside of myself while simultaneously feeling weighed down by life. This project was made gradually over the last two years during the pandemic within rare times that I could disappear into creativity. The tracks are presented in chronological order, keeping true to the timeline of conception and the sequential themes of transformation, healing, and ultimately returning to a fully lucid connection to purpose.”

CREDITS
Mike Castañeda - production, mixdown
Amir Mashayekhi - mastering
Nic Juister - cover art, visuals

"Dedicated to my father - Jorge Guillermo Castañeda (1961-2020)"

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Terminal 11 - Pressure Cooker

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Mission Crossing: https://soundcloud.com/missioncrossing/cloud-reflection
Judgement Act: https://judgementact.bandcamp.com
Vocal: Hatsune Miku

Mission Crossing / Judgement Act - Cloud Reflection (LOS Acid Reflexion rmx)

Heavy snail shell

Coarse droning journeys convey a feeling of obscured identity in a modern landscape with a sense of true beauty at its core...

Meshing an appreciation for cold industrial atmospheres witnessed during time spent in Peoria and Shenzhen with the elevating characteristics of shoegaze and post-rock, Kagami Smile’s release roots out the rewarding and endearing qualities of dark electronic music.

A sense of self veiled by disassociation seems to revolve as the very central point of Obscured Face. Tragic euphoria is bruised and cracked by gauzes of dissonance and depreciation. Any semblance of purity is clouded and co-opted by a staggering visceral texture. Human emotion becomes aged and refracted through reference and replication. But the majesty of the sounds themselves seem to nod towards a small spark of hopefulness, as if the listener were walking towards the most minuscule of lights in a blistering, midnight snowstorm.

A cold and disassociated ambient experience that is not without tinges of light and moments of warmth. Kagami Smile delivers a standout release for his label debut, filled with moments of tremendous power and poignancy.

https://decayingspheres.bandcamp.com/album/obscured-face
https://soundcloud.com/kagamismile
https://soundcloud.com/decayingspheres

Obscured Face

PREMIERE: Kagami Smile - Hidden Mirror [DECAYING SPHERES]

Far away from home
Systems set to survival mode
There's only one thing on my mind:
I need to go back to what I left behind

I hope I've learned from my mistake
Doesn't matter what risks I have to take
I will return, one way or the other;
Back home to the city of copper

Renegade

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The City of Copper

Echo/Response

Focuses on sounds from the east and voices of resistance from around the world. The mix goes out to the oppressed all around the world and the awakening triggered by the awareness of the Palestinian catastrophe. 

Title: "Blanket Revolt" 
Mix by: Ashar Mumtaz / اشعر ممتاز
Made for NoiseNotBorders Radio mix on CKUT Montreal

"Blanket Revolt" - اشعر ممتاز . Ashar Mumtaz  (Noise Not Borders Radio mix on Ckut Fm 90.3 )

Having been a part of the label since its inception, Soft Collision's debut on Artificio continues the narrative begun with Imago, his contribution to the compilation Ficciones.   Asterismo is a collection of five spatial, subtly acid-tinged, electro-infused tracks meticulously constructed with evocative melodies and basslines.   From the eponymous opener to the bass-inflected «Conmoción», each track evolves organically, filling unseen voids with a harmonious blend of synth interactions and dynamic rhythms.

Written and produced by Mateo Callejas
Mastered by Miguel Isaza at momoto

Asterismo

Pantala

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Soft Collision - Pantala

If you like the track, consider following me /reposting my music! 

Hash is minced meat, and refers to the minced textures glued together and is a bit of a parody of the 'acid' genre ;)

This track is composed almost entirely from standalone (one-off) samples from a eurorack & moog. Got to play with one about 2 months ago, recorded a loooot (about 8 hours) of sounds. 

also recorded a lot from a moog. I only used midi from a certain scale, and got a ton of samples in many different notes in the scale. A few hours of this. With different patches dialed in.

After I did this (during two separate weekends so it took a while) I went ahead and combined them in this little composition. The goal was to make something interesting from one-shots as opposed to neatly putting down midi and working on it normally. Instead I opted to make the sounds, and then try to make a coherent composition out of them.

This is the result.

Oh yeah, also a few synthesized drum samples from a minipops. The pops in a minipops sound amazing!



Mission Crossing / Judgement Act - Cloud Reflection (LOS Acid Reflexion rmx)

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