https://xtclvr.bandcamp.com/album/sippinsaline
covered by deep softy
mastered by shy

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● [SWINE PREMIERE] ● Los Angeles-based electronic music duo @xenmodel is releasing their new EP via Montreal-based label @causalchainclub (March 3rd)

➽ "Timesaver" is the name of the Xen Model’s third full-length album and second release on Causal Chain. The 9-track LP stays true to the duo’s eccentric sound while delving into the introspective side of their productions.

➽ "The track „Controller“ stood out the most from the project for me. It is hard to describe with words, but maybe the term „Braindance“ (imagine artists like Aphex Twin, Autechre, Squarepusher, Venetian Snares, Boards of Canada, μ-Ziq) captures the mood of the music accurately. It's like a living organic-electronic-hybrid thing, something between a modular synthesizer, a liquid alien-like creature, and a plant all in one."

READ MORE in the article ➽ https://swinedaily.com/premiere-xen-model/

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Timesaver

[Swine Premiere] Xen Model - "Controller" (Causal Chain)

Following the release of his debut ambient EP 'Lens Flare Music' on Genome 6.66 Mbp, bdstf grants us a mix of his own productions, soothing ambient music, beautiful guitar or piano pieces and video game soundtracks.

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"𝐷𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑑? 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑒, 𝑎 𝑏𝑜𝑥? 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑤𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑘𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠?

𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 30 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑘, 𝑛𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑒, 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑝-ℎ𝑜𝑝, 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑜, 𝑑𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝, 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐, 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑜, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒, 𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐. 𝐸𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑣𝑒, 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒.

𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑢𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑛𝑒𝑤, 𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠. 𝑀𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑒𝑏𝑏 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤, 𝑟ℎ𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑚𝑠 𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑠𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ'𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠, 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑.𝐴𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑠, 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑏𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑒. 𝐴𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑, 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒, 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦.

𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟, 𝑇𝑠𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑜𝑑𝑦𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐. 𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒. 𝐿𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢."

releases June 28, 2024

Curation by Lisa More
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Mastering by Benoit D. / Perception Mastering

Alice Anyway - La Cavale

Celebrating 5 years of Eastern Nurseries.

A communal release comprising 14 pieces of modern electronic music, “Diving Headfirst Into The Sun" marks yet another entry in an ever-growing series of Eastern Nurseries compilations, bringing together new and familiar faces to the label's roster.

Doesn't it amaze you, the way our paths crossed?

Mastered by Owen Pratt
Artwork by Tristán Alcover

Diving Headfirst Into The Sun

Severin Black - Clari e Sinos

@starleaf
The 44th release of katharsis is the debut album “Late Bloomer” by the malmö-based entity Starleaf. A whisper caught between interstellar winds, a tale of a cosmic protagonist - something growing, something distant and near at once. The album manifests the ethereal spirit of Starleaf with deep rhythmic pulses of bass sprouting from the deep, strong melodic forces of trancey synths and hard-hitting space-warping percussion.

Starleaf is an organism thriving on the edge of the comprehensible, drawing from energies that defy the natural laws we claim to know. In its branches, rhythms weave, harmonic growth pulses, and textures bloom from the nexus of the organic and the alien. Its origins are a paradox of seed and starlight, where sound becomes a tendril, twisting through Malmö’s underground and far beyond.

releases September 30, 2024

Artwork by jjjacob
Mastering by jjjacob & Starleaf

Late Bloomer

Brucebo

premiere: Starleaf - Brucebo

Ghosting

What happens when dubby drum & bass meets Dischord’s post-punk colossus Black Eyes? “Break” is the new EP from NY’s Relaxer, the long running alias of Daniel Martin-McCormick (Black Eyes, Ital and co-founder of Dripping), and it signals a decisive shift in his music.

Prompted by friends to write a drum & bass live set just as Black Eyes was reuniting, the results didn’t quite fit the d&b genre. But it felt right. Quick, nimble, with room for the ferocity of his favorite post punk and some of the spaciousness of dub. Evergreen vibes, really, but seen from a fresh perspective.

Honed over a period of two years, the five tracks on “Break” fuse Relaxer’s careening, technoid sounds with free jazz-tinted drum programming, snarling sound design and spacious echo trails. It’s a perfect fit for 29 Speedway’s future-facing, exploratory anti-genre approach to electronics. The tape features two remixes by the singular DJ Marcelle and mastering by Dubplates & Mastering. Daniel tells his side of the story below:

“Two years ago my friends who run the drum ‘n’ bass party Headznite asked me to write a live set for a Ukraine fundraiser they were putting on. Right at the same time, my punk band Black Eyes was having our first practices in 20 years, which meant I was re-training my body to scream at top volume and high registers and to lay into my guitar at full force. In those same months, Dripping was forming and ideas were flying for crazy, boundary-pushing lineups. I had just finished writing the meditative composition suite “In Softening Air” and was feeling the call; it was time to let it rip.

Everything poured into that live set for Headznite, and a new style was born. Relaxer had begun as a decisively techno project, but pushing the BPMs and working in drum breaks tweaked the formula enough to cut any lingering ties with that ethos.

Over the next two years I kept on it, writing more, recording, pushing the technique and exploring the sound. “Break” is the first time any of this work has been made public. Sometimes a detour can hack your brain. My first dance 12” as Ital was supposed to be a one-off side project to my punk band and it ended up taking over my life. Now punk music is calling asking for the debt to be repaid. Fuck it.”

Written & recorded by Daniel Martin-McCormick, 2022-2024.
Mixed by Daniel Martin-McCormick & Sol León, with assistance from Sphente Shepherd.
Mastered at Dubplates & Mastering.
Art & design by Brian Mark.
Thanks to Headznite for the prompt.

Chasing Your Own Tail

“Diaries I” is an exercise based on the prompt of a diary.

The impetus of this compilation is to serve as a vehicle to explore and highlight the unique creativity that is fostered in the raw, private stages of creation.

Featuring: @infaant, Eustress, Aon, Neolith, @taucontrib, @vinakonda, @usofusofusofusof, and @martini_glass.

Link to the accompanying zine: https://coldstorage.nexus/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Diary-I-Zine.pdf  

Infant - Lathe

Explores how we project unacknowledged inner qualities onto romantic partners. Through New Zealand nature imagery, the song charts the journey from idealised love (seeing missing parts of ourselves in another) through disillusionment (borrowed strength fading) to psychological maturity. The core insight: the courage, grace, and wholeness we seek in lovers already exists within us, sleeping like seeds. Love matures when we reclaim these projections and meet as equals—"not your missing piece, but your equal in this wild garden of becoming." From my upcoming book "Breakfast with Jung" Chapter 5: Anima and Animus. 
Jazz (43%), Jazz, Nu Jazz / Jazztronica (38%) Singer Songwriter (22%) Adult Contemporary (20%)
Jazz, Blues, Neo-Soul (15%)


A Field Guide to Projection  (Lyrics)

In the wild meadow of new love, we stand
Like pohutukawa reaching toward light
Morning mist wraps around our ankles
Kowhai petals scatter gold secrets
I see in you the quiet grace I've yet to embrace
While you mirror parts of me I've forgotten to claim

Seasons turn like pages in memory's book
Our shared story begins to blur
Your strength, once solid as Tane Mahuta
Trembles like flax in southerly winds
My warmth, borrowed from your fire
Fades like sunset on harbor waters

Thunder rolls through our shared silence
In winter's bare-branched honesty
Truth rises like dawn on Waiheke
The courage I sought in your heart
Was my own, sleeping like seed in soil
The gentleness you found in my hands
Your own grace, waiting to bloom

Our projections fall like autumn leaves
Becoming food for deeper roots
Spring arrives with its own wisdom
Morning paints messages on waves
Your hand in mine familiar as birdsong
In your eyes, I see myself at last
Not your missing piece, but your equal
In this wild garden of becoming
Between us, something entirely new
Takes root in ancient soil

A Field Guide to Projection

I wrote the lyrics but used ai to turn it into a song

Ghosting

Lucy Duncombe

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