Premieres

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]

https://bit.ly/2x88Sym

Taken from @kayal_jd's new KG Mixtape, out April 15, 2020 via @beat-craft-music

In April, 2020 Beat Craft has selected the Egyptian artist Omar Kayal for its debut as an imprint. Beat Craft 001, KG Mixtape, is a 22 minute mixtape of 8 original previously unreleased tracks by Omar Kayal plus a collaboration with Egyptian producer Essperx. 

Previously released on Egypt-based label ANBA, Kayal's talent emerges strongly in this mixtape where melodic lines are "heavily influenced by my Nubian origin and developed on piano scales in nights spent over Ableton", he comments. Epic choruses are mixed with breaks, drum and bass, more gloomy atmospheres and subaqeous alien synths and organs. The work reflects everyday restlessness, anxiety, stress, will to escape, and the artist's existential self-adressed question: is it worth it?

Artwork by Carlo Quaranta

Revised by Mostafa Onsy

Mastered by Roland Nagy

Released by:
Beat Craft

The work is a tribute of the artist to Nada Hasan

Premiere: Omar Kayal - Nayba [Beat Craft]

https://bit.ly/3aaWoTT

Увод У Ботанику by @lil_taty1. Taken from 02faulty two single split release, out April 25, 2020 via One Man Army.

Pre-order: https://liltaty.bandcamp.com/album/02faulty

Lil Taty is Belgrade based producer and DJ who emerged on the scene during spring 2013. His music is heavily influenced by UK club music in its most sinister shape, yet manages to find its own niche among the contemporary club movement. He is a co-founder of @minoradjustments-records alongside @bolelee and founder of MURK @murkbeograd podcast - mix series which discover fresh and exciting DJs from both the local and international underground scenes. With influences ranging from Fugazi to Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Lil Taty is a man with a taste for audacious sound, which is reflected in both his DJ sets and his productions for the likes of Classical Trax, heel.zone and SEAGRAVE.

Artwork by @springboardtx

Mastered by @bolelee

Released by:
One Man Army

Premiere: Lil Taty - Увод У Ботанику [One Man Army]

https://bit.ly/3eE0abI

Taken from @alleycatss new album Evr2, out April 21, 2020 via @midlifemusic.

Evr2 is a collection of odes to nostalgia / letting go / "facing reality"
Soundtrack to imaginary transitory places
Seizing the mood of lonely summer dusk
Goodbye past.

Artwork by Alley Catss
http://alleycatss.neocities.org

Mastered by Fausto Mercier (Roland Nagy)

Released by:
Midlife Music

Dedicated to Alexandru Cuza

Evr2

Premiere: Alley Catss - Evr21 [Midlife Music]

https://bit.ly/2Smp3Q1

Taken from @markbartha new album '18', out May 1, 2020 via @exiles-electronics.

https://barthamark.com/

The idea of the most recent personal project - the album titled '18' - of Márk Bartha (music composer for theater and film) came to life in 2018. At that time, facing a pause in the flow of life along with a set of personal problems, the artist decided do use the act of creating as self-therapy. To shape the musical material, Márk drove his inspiration from personal experiences and deep self-reflection.

Artwork by Pleux
https://www.instagram.com/pleux_/

Mastered by Roland Nagy (Fausto Mercier)

Released by EXILES
EXILES is a Budapest-based label focusing on regional electronics.
https://exiles-electronics.bandcamp.com/

Premiere: Márk Bartha - ktty [EXILES]

https://bit.ly/35zB49U

Taken from @dj-pacifier new EP Rescue & Research Pt​.​1: DJ Pacifier, out May 15, 2020 via @failed-units.

Pre-order: https://failedunits.bandcamp.com/album/rescue-research-pt-1-dj-pacifier

Montreal's DJ Pacifier debuts on Failed Units with 3 ridiculous breakcore power grabbers. Berlin's @smog_0 and Failed Units boss @daniel-ruane-2 come in and finish the hit.

Full Album Preview: https://soundcloud.com/failed-units/rescue-research-pt-1-dj-pacifier

Design by Luca Lozano, Sheffield
PLANETLUKE.COM

Mastered by Dominic Clare @ Declared Sound, Leeds

Released by Failed Units

Premiere: DJ Pacifier - Endless Mode (smog Remix) [Failed Units]

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Premiere: Anh Phi - Ừ [Self-released]

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