In recent years we have noticed a strong trend for pastoral tendencies in experimental culture. Within the unsettling, swirling, data-streams of the internet age, people seem to take comfort into connecting with nature and sublimity through folklore. The industrial dreams of science-fiction are slowly being reduced to hauntology, as the economy grows more important than the people working in it. To be able to find a moment throughout the day, where someone shares honest emotions that make us dream of touching grass, feels blissful, if not necessary.
This is exactly what this split tape does to us. We were extremely happy when we got the chance to release some music of Kitchen Cynics, and felt it would work amazingly with Lamina’s work. We thus invited them to work on this album that we’re now so eager to present to you. The title of the tape, Objets Transitionnels, refers to items children use to provide psychological comfort, especially in unusual or unique situations. Let this music carry you through these unusual times. Don’t forget to love your neighbour.

All music by Kitchen Cynics & Lamina
Mastering by Martijn De Bondt
Cover art by Dre Roelandt
Graphic design & lay-out by Laura Conant

Lamina & Kitchen Cynics - Objets Transitionnels

Seraphim w/ Axine M - 12/07/2023

Thanks to https://soundcloud.com/coedencoedencoeden.

Tracklist:

ben bondy - milk
aircode - Wet and Solid
Stigma - No Garden (feat. Justin K Broadrick)
Eterna - Industry Night
Asio otus - Dandelion
xtclvr - deep scannin
exael - L-Theanine
Pessimist - SPRTLZM
Quartz - Pale Tongue
ssaliva - Believer(CDQ)

(+)earth w/ Coeden

Cassette/digital release available from https://soundcloud.com/mappaeditions
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/chim-ras

Named after the mythological hybrid of the chimaera, Forces’ first collection for mappa was put together in a similar fashion. The sounds all stem from a fruitful residency at Stockholm’s EMS Elektronmusikstudion in May & June 2022, leading to a bounty of source material with which to build. The sounds and concept are equally chimeric, stringing together disparate and unintuitive jams, the music mimicking the multi-limbed, sewn together beasts of both creative open source coding and destructive multinational concerns who hide their cores amid endless appendages. Like Doctor Moreau, Forces - aka Finnish artist Joonas Siren - weaves wildly varying attributes into something new, from short-circuiting 8-bit dream ambience to fractured digital groans, drones, and noisy freakouts.

Though EMS is best known for its Buchla and Serge modular systems, Forces went ‘digital’ and largely navigated a lesser-known synth rack one can wheel between studios, affectionately known as the ‘90s Wagon’. “It housed different digital rack synth modules,” explains Siren, “ like the super unknown EVS-1 by Evolution Synthesis, a UK company who only produced this one rack synth only and then vanished.” Some truly alien sounds emerge from Forces’ creative misuse of forgotten 90s boxes and sampled modular jams. The result is an erratic trip through mismatched circuitry and digital codes, slipping between emotional artifice and harshly logical music.

The track titles stem from both famous mythological chimaeras and multinational arms dealing conglomerates. “Different quite sinister firms can operate in broad daylight, easily hiding their true nature. Many of these mega-corporations have different branches (like chimeric limbs) that are producing quite normal mundane every-day items, as well as mass-producing weapons.” A dedicated SuperCollider user too however, Siren states how open source coding snippets are also ‘chimeric beings’. “You end up always using some part of some old code and then building completely new work on some old idea,” Siren explains. Despite its misuses, there’s also something hopeful in the malleability of ideas, and the ability to creatively collage the world as it is into something wholly new, even better.

Complete gear list:
SuperCollider
Evolution Synthesis EVS-1
Yamaha TX81Z
Nord G2 Modular
Nord Wave
GRM Plugins
OddVoices website
Omnisphere VST
Vital VST
Diva VST
Waldorf Microwave XT
Serge Modular
Buchla 200 System
Buchla 100 clone 

credits
released August 10, 2023

Recorded, coded, composed, performed & mixed by Forces (Joonas Siren)
joonassiren.fi
www.instagram.com/fffforces/

Recorded at EMS Stockholm, June 2022, with the digital synths of the "90's wagon" synth rack, and the SuperCollider programming language

Artwork by Marutonkun
www.marutonkun.com
www.instagram.com/marutonkun/

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
abdonoval.com

Words by Tristan Bath
Photography by Zoltan Czakó

Released by mappa as MAP039 in 2023

Chim​æ​ras

Forces - Rheinmetall (from Chim​æ​ras, MAP039)

In recent years we have noticed a strong trend for pastoral tendencies in experimental culture. Within the unsettling, swirling, data-streams of the internet age, people seem to take comfort into connecting with nature and sublimity through folklore. The industrial dreams of science-fiction are slowly being reduced to hauntology, as the economy grows more important than the people working in it. To be able to find a moment throughout the day, where someone shares honest emotions that make us dream of touching grass, feels blissful, if not necessary.
This is exactly what this split tape does to us. We were extremely happy when we got the chance to release some music of Kitchen Cynics, and felt it would work amazingly with Lamina’s work. We thus invited them to work on this album that we’re now so eager to present to you. The title of the tape, Objets Transitionnels, refers to items children use to provide psychological comfort, especially in unusual or unique situations. Let this music carry you through these unusual times. Don’t forget to love your neighbour.

Kitchen Cynics - Skulls

Lamina - Derrière La Roche

Lamina - La Veillée (ft. Bear Bones Lay Low)

Kitchen Cynics - The Doctor   The Sailorwoman

Lamina - Nube

lower your eyelid standing at the bottom of the ocean aerodrome & 400JASA - 27/10/2023

A dark pop and post-club dream with @gabrieller0se. Recorded live and aired on @refugeworldwide.

@esileelise (00:00:00 - 00:14:00)

Intimation - Slowfoam
Aaware - YancityGurl
Soft Glow - Know V.A.
silhouettes edit - Keiska

@gabrieller0se (00:14:01 - 00:58:50)

Two Heavens - DJ Missoni
I Stand On Glass - Ascua
i guess i do - Arad Acid
Vestige - Xmryi 
Unmarked - Lilac Pavilion 
Angel - Laced 
Lethargic ft. Tuchscreen - Seren Realm
Rubí - Cimarrón
Sushuro - cunt remember ft. VAXXX
Become Human - Consumed Triumphant
Unreleased - 4TUNA & Arté  (Terenor Records)
Celestine - Asca
Language of Light - extra dimensional 
ily (Lisa More Remix) - Laura Trance

Artwork by @gabrieller0se <3

Somewhere Else w/ Gabrielle Rose (Refuge Worldwide)

"murmur is a quiet, blurred sound often heard from a distance"
a selection of ambient & everyday field recordings. (&moreee)

@m_i_0

Scaredeer - Charaxes
(walking around funkhaus, recording sounds in big spaces, people gathering outside milchbar) - Dueling Ants
Space 1 - Nala Sinephra
Morning Walk - The Green Kingdom
Pretty Cloud - Loris SS Sarid
Don't Look - Mary Lattimore
Un Esquif Sur L'iceberg - Voiture
East Wind - Time Rival
Where To - Drape 
Not Knowing - Félicia Atkinson Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Raga Requiem Version - emanative
1 seating (welcome) - J Foerster / N Kramer
Open Field - Kiln
Climbing the Cellphone Tower - Mark Tester
*moth of the outernet - giant skeletons
Living Torch I - Kali Malone
Vervloekte - Nicolas Gaunin
diluted dreams - claire rousay
Pale Interior - Grouper
Take the Thorn, Leave the Rose - Ana Roxanne
to dream is to forget - Hidden Orchestra
Hypnogogia (feat Dolphin Midwives) - Sofie Birch
Lucky Rosemary - Omny Gardens
Belt of Venus - Lynn Avery & Cole Pulic
Parallel - Akusmi
The Count of Monte Christo Dub - Horus All Stars

(murmures) ep03 ⏤ mio

From "Scim | Codex" released on Auralith
@scim1

Listen to  the full album:
https://auralith.bandcamp.com/album/codex

Scim | Chrysalis

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”. 
More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

Ariane Kiks & dj kit @ Kiosk Radio 14.02.2024

Manuel Sékou is an audio/visual producer, assembler, viewer, collaborator and hoarder from Dresden, currently based in Cologne. He’s been attracting attention since 2016 with numerous audio works, live-sets and online radio-shows under the moniker @luxxuryproblems. Yet he’s complementing his musical output in the field of visual arts through several self-published books and exhibitions. His Sound has been published via @spa_recordings, @katharsislabel, @comicsansrec, @infinitoaudiolabel and @76666, to name a few. For the current LAFmusik show he squeezed some breaks and classics as kick off for the season. Enjoy listening.

manchmal klappt es einfach nicht
THUGWIDOW - Take Me Down With You
Biome - 879
dgoHn - Invisible Sandwich
DJ SS - Rollidge
Pete Bruder
Need For Mirrors - Dimmer
mach deine eltern stolz
Jacob Stoy - Wanna Be
Fracture - From The Very Top
MIAS X M51 - TASTY BOYS
Muslimgauze - Shishla Nain Royal Bidjar
T>I The Box
Alza54 - XXXTentaçion
Kool Keith - Animals In The Projects
Laylow - DE BÂTARD
candlelight - habit
Valance Drakes - The Heart Must Pause to Breathe
ALT OST - Mind Basar (Fuk Yu)
LIFEPATH6 - Counterspell
Gamera - Turn To The Sun

LAF Podcast #045 | luxxuryproblems

Copenhagen-based artist Shō Alexander Murayama presents his debut release "samebound", under the alias name "saand".

Divided into two narrative pieces, the idea behind the project is to create an abstract place, one within the imagination, but still out of reach.

Artwork & Cassette Design by Ronja-Elina Kappl.
Written by Shō Alexander Murayama.
Mixed & Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis.

Kitchen Cynics - The Doctor The Sailorwoman

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