info: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/erotika-35-genstridh

EROTIKA 35 – Genstridh

Vanessa Amara - 3

Khibiny

“Dead eyes” are what you see when the spark of presence is gone, when the gaze becomes flat and unfeeling. They don’t track the world with curiosity, don’t soften with warmth, don’t betray the smallest flicker of life behind them. Instead, they look vacant, as if the person is only half-there—or not there at all.

Psychologists might call it dissociation, emotional numbness, or the drained look of depression. Trauma can hollow the eyes until they no longer shine, leaving only a glassy stare. Burnout, exhaustion, even despair can strip away the subtle movements we instinctively expect, making the gaze uncanny in its stillness.

What unsettles us is that eyes are supposed to reveal the soul. When they go lifeless, it feels as if something essential has slipped away. The body is alive, but the windows look out onto nothing. And that nothing stares back.


Artist: KEX0
Album Title: DEAD EYES
Label: OVERDOSE
Catalog: ODEP005
Format: Digital
Release Date: 09/05/2025
Mastering:KEX0
ARTWORK:KEX0

DEAD EYES INTRO

B1 - Boubou - Untitled

Recorded live at Fields 2016 Festival at Muzeon. 
Music: Kira Weinstein, Lovozero.
Artwork: Daria Beskorsaya.
Recording & Mixing: Mikhail Myasoedov.

Lovozero + Kira Weinstein — Fields

Release date: September 29th
Pre-order: https://lullabiesforinsomniacslabel.bandcamp.com/album/l-szl-hortob-gyi-transreplica-meccano

Hungarian composer and musicologist László Hortobágyi, took his first expedition to North India in the late 1960's to record music, study philosophy and learn traditional instruments such as the rudra-vina, sitar, surbahar and tabla. These ongoing trips heavily influenced his musical style and much of his recorded work. LFI is happy to announce the reincarnation of one of his most illustrious works, Transreplica Meccano originally released by Hungaropop in 1988. 

As a child László fantasised about interacting with otherworldly muses and imploring them for the hope and guidance he yearned to escape the intellectual bareness of his surroundings. His early feelings of alienation combined with the almost sensual pleasure he remembers from these interactions, influenced and helped shape his life long musical journey.  In 1980 he established the musical society called Gáyan Uttejak Mandal. It was named after the Hindu-Moslem musician's society founded by Navraojí Kabrají in 1870 (it was the school of the great musicologist, V.N Bhátkhánde).
The society expanded throughout the 1980’s with an archive of oriental music, to be considered unique and unrivalled in Eastern Europe, which has operated parallel to the Gáyan Uttejak Studio and the Gáyan Uttejak Orchestra. The members have made it their duty to practice and study the world heritage of traditional cultures. 

The remastered and revised edition of Transreplica Meccano is reborn after 31 years.     László weaves a tapestry of sample based magic, transcribed from travels across the orient, transporting the listener to a fascinating world of archaic musicality. His sound palette is rebuilt and restructured using PCM morphology and FFT spectrum analysis as well as virtual overtone, processing synthesis software he developed in 1988. 
The new live program's repertoire is based on the classical Indian instrumental technique of the Gáyaki-Ang and the Tablá-tárang polyrhythmic structure and is mixed with his developed sound morphology of the granular systhesis technique according to his original 'computed memesis of music' concept. The result is an incredible amalgamation of musical worlds, allow yourself to be immersed in a truly unique dialect.


L. Hortobagyi : ibm-pc, sampler, been, synths, tabla, sitar, vocoder
Nora Hortobagyi : voice, strings

P. Radvanyi : Sygnus modular-synth (on Cathedral of Reptiles)
Toto : bass
Goezi : pozauna 
Chipy : flute
(on Nono-bol)

Recorded in the Gayan Uttejak Studio, Budpest. 1986 
Remastered and revised by L.Hortobagyi in 2006

László Hortobágyi – Transreplica Meccano (LFI009) Preview

‘Descend’, the new work of modificatory project Lovozero, encapsulates Anastasia Tolchneva’s sound setting of cross-disciplinary performance of the same name, passed during the first TKANI session in Mutabor, Moscow's most spectacular underground music venue. By the guidance of Anastasia, Maria Kharitonova and Anna Kravchenko performers tried to reverberate the processes of genesis, growth and dissolution of various structures in human body during the event. The capture of inevitable fluidity was the main aim of the whole act; the reaching of urgent kinæsthetic freedom that creates a proper possibility for reversing of linkage between impulse and motion.

And apart from industrial multileveled interior of Mutabor and various objects of complex nature (silicon, concrete, aluminum) within it and the dancers’ bodies floating in their presence, it was Lovozero’s sound had been calibrating the sentiment right and righteously. (A)synchronous and (a)symmetric pulses, muted murmuring and lowercase crackles were the same parts of derived (un)certainity, as inclusive presence of spectators and strain of happened movements did. Now this splash of noise and tune is accessible for everybody – and everybody could test his own knuckles and fibers in the same measure that occurred that evening.

Descend Pt. I

Morita Vargas '8', released as HH03 LP by Hidden Harmony Recordings (Estonia)

Morita Vargas – composer, producer, voices

Mastering - Diego Crisalida
Vinyl mastering, lathe cutting - Matt Colton (Metropolis Labs, London)

Recorded in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Recording period 2014-2018)

Long Play purchase:  moritavargas.bandcamp.com
12" 180-gram vinyl record, 33 RPM, black vinyl. Edition of 1000 hand-numbered copies coming in die-cut outer sleeve, color print inner sleeve and protected by additional poly-liner sleeves.

Deysa

система | system presents "bluelancholia" ep by Moscow-based trio elektricheskaya sobaka.

Elektricheskaya sobaka is an improvisational trio project by Rustem Imamiev aka XΛN, Kirk Stephane aka Rites of passage and Nicolai Schizoph.
Initiated in 2017, for 3 years the trio became one of the most visible experimental electronic impro band on the Moscow scene, also at that time they founded the online radio Morpheus, which they're curating.
And, yes, their musical spectrum is really wide, from punk, post-punk and post-indie to electro, techno and even post-jazz and doom affiliated, etc.

"bluelancholia" ep consists of 5 tracks, every track of this ep is the cut from the improvisation recording session by Elektricheskaya sobaka.
In the tracks of "bluelancholia" ep I hear something like rolling reminiscent figures, crafted and breathing fantasy.
Improvisation here exists between rhythmical script and hazardous joy, diving into excursions in both groovy and contemplative zones.

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система | system представляет релиз "bluelancholia" от Московского трио elektricheskaya sobaka (Электрическая Собака).
Elektricheskaya sobaka -  это проект от: Rustem Imamiev aka XΛN, Kirk Stephane aka Rites of passage и Nicolai Schizoph.
Собравшись окончательно в музыкальный проект в 2017 году, и в итоге за три года elektricheskaya sobaka стала одним из самых заметных экспериментальных электронных импровизационных проектов Московской сцены. Также за эти же 3 года артисты инициировали и курируют онлайн радио "Морфей".
И, да, их музыкальный спектр очень широк - от панка, пост-панка и пост-инди до электро, техно, и даже пост-джазза, и пост-дума.
"bluelancholia" ep состоит из 5-ти треков, каждый трек данного релиза является следствием импровизационных сессий от "электрической собаки".
В треках "блюланхолии" я слышу что-то вроде повторящихся, катящихся одна за одной, запоминающихся саунд фигур, созданных и дышащих фантазией. Импровизация здесь существует между ритмическим скриптом и случайной радостью, погружая слушателя в экскурсию, сотканную из грува и созерцательно задумчивых зон, как сон.    

credits:

Elektricheskaya Sobaka:

Rustem Imamiev — synths, effects, drum machine, samples
Kirill Stepanov — modulars, guitar, bass guitar, drum machine
Nicolai Schizoph — drums, effects

All recordings were made in the period from 2018 to January 2020 by the Elektricheskaya Sobaka at their studio in the Moscow region.
All engineering, recording, mixing and mastering — Nicolai Schizoph

Visual, artwork made by сис&sys feat. elektricheskaya sobaka, collage was made by сис&sys from the fragment of the painting by Le Dessin Observe.

Translation from english to russian by сис&sys.
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Электрическая Собака:

Рустем Имамиев - синтезаторы, эффекты, драм-машина, сэмплы
Кирилл Степанов - модули, гитара, бас-гитара, драм-машина
Николай Шизов - ударные, эффекты

Все записи сделаны группой Электрическая собака на своей студии в Подмосковье, в период с 2018 по январь 2020 года

Запись, сведение и мастеринг - Николай Шизов.

Визуал, артворк сделан сис&sys совместно с электрическаой собакой, коллаж сделан сис&sys из фрагмента картины от Le Dessin Observe

Перевод с английского от сис&sys.