Scim - 'Abyssal Plain'
24 Jan 2023, digital
@scim1
Download:
https://formforum.bandcamp.com/album/abyssal-plain

Scim - Surface Tension

@sueuga - Conflict Areas EP
[PAYNOMINDTOUS, PNMTU009, out on February 16th, 2024]
[paynomindtous.bandcamp.com/album/conflict-areas]
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Sueuga (she/her) @sueuga is a Mexican artist, DJ, and producer known for her releases on pivotal labels such as NAAFI, Hiedrah, Salviatek, Sacrilejio, Soul Feeder, Arboretum, and Precious Metals among the others. Now based in Amsterdam but raised in Oakland, California where she started her music career by collaborating with artists from the Neoperreo scene, Sueuga has been an important actress in the contemporary scene thanks to her experimental, mutant club outings primarily inspired by industrial music and dominated by unsettling atmospheres, ferocious drums, and abrasive textures. We’re very excited to announce the release of her new “Conflict Areas” EP that will be out on Friday, February 16th. 

The 5-tracker opens up with a short and eerie introduction called “Dragged” which indeed abruptly drags the listener into a perilous sound journey composed of explosive rhythmic discharges that also extend to the second and third tracks, the titular “Conflict Areas” and “Heat Therapy”. Thanks to its extensively variegated yet immediately accessible and catchy compositions, Sueuga’s awe-inspiring work manages to summon dark, infernal scenarios while also envisioning bright futures of long-awaited victory, offering a commentary on the existential struggle of unconditionally and wholeheartedly affirming one’s existence in turbulent, oppressive times. With its sense of unavoidable and relentless tension, the entire EP is an act of belligerent resistance in sound form.

The two final tracks host collaborations with the founder of the overmybody.tw label, Taipei-based DJ and producer B E N N @bedoublensound, and Duma’s noise/metal experimental musician Sam Karugu, respectively. While the first one (“Hidden Fees”) indulges into the heavy-hitting, cadenced percussive progressions previously shown in the rest of the EP (and here enriched by deep, bursting basslines and a ghastly melody), the latter (“MMXXIII”) provides a free-form anthem for all the metalheads where rumbling distortion and eerie vocals meet incessant lamentations and gurgling noise in the background.

Tracks 1-3 produced and mixed by Sueuga. Track 4 produced and mixed by Sueuga & B E N N, track 5 produced and mixed by Sueuga & Sam Karugu. Mastering by Wim Dehaen @wimdehaen. Artwork by post_cyberparamo instagram.com/post_cyberparamo/

Conflict Areas

Name-Your-Price DL

Sueuga - MMXXIII (feat. Sam Karugu)

Taken from @anh_phi debut EP Buông, out February 20, 2024.

Pre-order: https://bitly.ws/3dhbc
Read: https://bitly.ws/3dncf

“I was born with empty hands and I will leave with empty hands", mom said.

Titled "Buông", the debut EP draws from a word dear to Anh Phi mother's heart, meaning “to let go” in Vietnamese, echoing resilience, impermanence, and the intergenerational dichotomy of both forced and privileged migrations. It was composed in constant transition across borders, East and West, underlaid by paradigm shifts and diasporic discourses. Anh Phi’s "Buông" is a visceral exploration, inward and outward.

Multilayered modern metropolises, primal tribal feels, global borderless club mutations, Nam Cát Tiên biosphere, cinematic plots, twists & cliffhangers… “OI” — timeline collapses, equanimity, transmutation, mess & order —, “Ạ” — memories lost in translation, testimonies, mother tongue & alien tongue, morphed bikes, organic arpeggio birds —, “()” — breaths, autonomous sensory meridian response, childhood reminiscence, body movements, play —, “Ừ” — soil, light, wind, bells, rite, propelling to space…

It all converges at the intersection of uncertainty and clarity, where no answer is given yet sparse ingredients are digested.
Systems and beliefs reset to the unknown.
Mining an unreal epoch.
In between spaces yet to be discovered.
Swarm of flying beings diving into new lights.

Artwork by Anh Phi.

Mixed and mastered by Raphael Valensi.

Premiere: Anh Phi - Ừ [Self-released]

@g3ra1d
artwork by kastoxx 
www.instagram.com/kastoxx
https://formforum.bandcamp.com/

portalll - BLURRED

vio lino - verita

"Safeguarded, I'm Everything Beautiful" follows a tumultuous, dark yet rewarding journey into self-acceptance. Offering an introspective look into schizophrenia, the Portuguese musician Kmado combines, bends and breaks his musical roots and inspirations at will to convey an immersive and high-intensity experience.

Taking from witch house and shoegaze, navigating into hard dance and chiptune and borrowing flavors from emo and lofi, these genres, among many other sounds, all function as catharsis in some way throughout the album. From the introductory 2-part track "Someone Else Today" establishing the tone of the album through a brutal switch-up from a soft lofi guitar track into an explosive cathartic drop, to the emotionally-charged, anxiety-inducing gabber of "SP Superstar" onto the chaotic fusion of jungle, metal and hard dance of "Dream Weaver", and eventually ending on an eerily satisfying calmer note in "Infinite Light Beams All at Once", the record takes the listener onto Kmado's navigation of his headspace through more troubling mental episodes.

Approaching themes of medication, symptom masking, psychosis, suicidal tendencies, paranoia and dissociation, Kmado, through a healthy dose of distorted, auto-tuned vocals, recounts in retrospect some of his more troublesome times and experiences dealing with his mental illness, ending the record in a bittersweet tone of acceptance.

Production, vocals @kmado
Mixing @swanpalace
Mastering @ancestralvision
Visuals [IG @ zhecon_ ]

Bandcamp

KMADO - DREAM WEAVER

“The Overload flooded us. Consumed Us. Made us whole again”. As the time when "Transmute" was taking shape, so did the multiple global crisis. "Transmute" is an effort to represent the human spirit and its resiliency amidst the uncertainty, hopelessness and chaos of the current era.

Burnt Offerings is a duo consisting of Arthur Bdt (Arson) and Andres Leon (Laopé).. Their music oscillates from Drone to Cuban music, incorporating everything from traditional Latin instruments to modern sound design tools. These influences converge outside of their original contexts through heavy digital audio processing, deconstruction, and arrangement.  The sound can be best described as a disjointed yet symbiotic relationship between the past and the now.

credits
releases June 21, 2024

All tracks producing & mixing by Burnt Offerings
Mastering by B E N N
Visual by ERRANTH

https://overmybody.bandcamp.com/album/transmute

https://soundcloud.com/overmybodytw

PREMIERE: Burnt Offerings - Passage

Liliane Chlela - Anatomy Of A Jerk
Label: Infinite Machine
CAT#: IM112
Format: Digital
Release Date: July 5th, 2024
Artwork by Richard Kahwagi
Mastered by Fausto Mercier

Tracklist:

1. Bison
2. bza2
3. Friendly Fire
4. Ouverture
5. Rave Melancho
6. Third Fraud
7. Did I Stutter
8. The Right To Offend Itself

Liliane Chlela’s ‘Anatomy of A Jerk’ reflects on sonic storytelling, experimenting with the compositional frameworks under which it operates. The Beirut-born producer, dj and performer stands at the forefront of the independent electronic music scene in Lebanon, with a reputation for shattering expectations with her live auditory soundscapes, exploring improvisation and the manipulation of sounds from wide-ranging musical genres. Her fifth record (and first on Infinite Machine) steers further into such territory, warping manic synth patterns into percussive motifs, cutting abruptly in and out of poignant melodic interludes. Chlela’s sonic narratives begin, repeat, break apart, disappear and fold into themselves, encouraging contemplation of the compositional elements–the anatomies–that constitute them.

Each track is a meticulous excursion–a melange of varied constituents carefully and uncannily arranged, sometimes coalescing, often deliberately breaking away from the song’s anticipated structure to bring forth unexpected moments of beauty. The first arrangement, ‘Bison’, is exemplary of this, where high intensity metallic stomps, clangs and stabs form a rhythm that is frequently interrupted and broken apart, sometimes by evasive melodies that tease the listener before fading.

‘Bza2’ and ‘Friendly Fire’ move further into the discomfort of unanticipated moments and interruptions. In each, haunting strings and synth-pad melodies start and stop, floating and pausing over jitters and stutters of mechanical percussion. Other tracks move further into the atmospheric, creating dramatic, theatrical soundscapes. ‘Third Fraud’ leans into this approach, where string progressions and cinematic drums tell a story that is less affronting.

Like previous works of Chlela, these eight compositions reach into a difficult space that is only rewarded with careful attention, patience and openness. The arrangements are invigorated by the distinct nature of the compositional fragments; seemingly divergent patches, sounds and rhythms are paired across an eccentric timeline, providing ample opportunities for listeners to relish in the sudden jerk of the unforeseen.

PRE-ORDER

Liliane Chlela - Did I Stutter (IM112)

PA Knocked out Aleksandra edit 1

RVCKO - No Mirar Atras V.A (FatGrooves Records)

ILÍCITO

معازف | مجلة الموسيقى الأولى والأخيرة من نوعها في العالم

Premiere: Anh Phi - Ừ [Self-released]

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