Out now on Genot Centre on tape & digital: https://album.link/gen046abadir

https://soundcloud.com/rami-abadir's Pause/Stutter/Uh/Repeat (GEN046) is a collection of gravity-defying tension build-ups and releases, crammed grimey patterns and blasting overdriven kicks setting the stage for an acousmatic, digital treatment of the human voice as a raw sound source. Vocal snippets, elusive traces of dialogs, ghost notes between utterances, modelled or resampled choirs all form the basis of this approach. On these tracks, high definition focused sound beams, charred high-res textures are complemented by intricate drum rolls sizzling, rushing up, bending beyond their breaking point joined by the clang of metallic, synthetic objects colliding, deforming, rupturing.
The release is accompanied by a handful of remixes, including a staggering diagonalization by https://soundcloud.com/frktl, a bass heavy club ready edit by https://soundcloud.com/ice_eyes, a frenetic, bouncy reimagination by https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier and a luminous big drum-powered rendition by https://soundcloud.com/zulimusic.

Recorded, produced & mixed by https://soundcloud.com/rami-abadir.
Album tracks mastered by https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier.
Remixes mastered by https://soundcloud.com/wimdehaen.
Artwork & tape design by Sam Lubicz (of https://soundcloud.com/333boyz)

Limited edition of 55 C46 tapes with on-body printing pro-dubbed by Headless Duplicated Tapes.

// https://soundcloud.com/rami-abadir about Pause/Stutter/Uh/Repeat (GEN046)
“Uh, um, ah, urgh, so, well, I mean, indeed—in everyday conversation, we stutter, pause, prolong a syllable beyond its actual length, sigh, click our tongues and lips, laugh, and repeat. Such interjections utterances and fillers may be considered superfluous to our interactions, even interrupting our flow of ideas. But, if we listen closely, we’ll find them loaded with deeper layers of meaning and affect: hesitation, thrill, discomfort, uncertainty, surprise, shyness, contemplation, or the agonizing search for meaning. 
As I extracted those recurrent utterances from supposedly coherent conversations, and the more I listened to those shards of sound in isolation, I came to the realisation that our semantic exchange has always been fragmented. This overpowering sense of fragmentation inspired a collage structure and infused the production with a deconstructed, dramatic and cinematic sound. In this sense, the collage technique in composition reflects how we construct meaning out of tiny utterances in our speech. “Pause/Stutter/Uh/Repeat” is a distillation of overlooked communication, implicit expression and elusive meaning, all of which could be reduced in a one-syllable utterance. The end result was a canvas of revisited meaning.
I submitted this work as my graduation project for the MA program “Digital Media” at the University of Arts Bremen.”

// https://soundcloud.com/rami-abadir's bio
AِBADIR (Rami Abadir) is a music producer and sound designer born in Cairo, Egypt.
His work focuses on experimental, glitch and ambient music, and he's one half of the duo 0N4B. Together with the visual artists Nurah Farahat and Islam Shabana, he co-founded the audio/visual collective "Mapping Possibilities", which has been active in promoting A/V events since 2016. ABADIR is also the editor of the electronic music section of the Arabic music webzine Ma3azef, where he also contributes as a writer on critical theory, music history, reviews and interviews.
Previously solo released on Hush Hush Records, Yerevan Tapes, Kaer‘Uiks, D.M.T. Records, and through 0N4B on Kaer’Uiks, ANBA, Aural Electronics.

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ABADIR - III (Ice_Eyes Third Eye Exercise Remix)

Taken from Daphne X (@spindle-whorls) new album The Dissolution of Eva, out July 19, 2021, via EXILES (@exiles-electronics)

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’This is the story of Eva, the first person to have their consciousness uploaded onto the cloud, with the help of Evergreen, an online platform specialised in digital immortality.

Successfully led through seductive visions, Eva's consciousness breaks free from the material realm and relocates itself in the virtual space of Lethe.

Once landed in her new state however, Eva realises that part of her contract with Evergreen is to execute the role of virtual assistant for the living customers for the rest of eternity.

Is this the new forever or is it Samsara?

The sleep of the beast is made of questions and Eva is the shadow of an old world, dreaming.’ 

Artwork by Joanna Dyba
www.instagram.com/jakgdyby/

Typography by Adrienn Császár
www.instagram.com/drienn_csaszar/

Mastered by Roland Nagy
https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier 

Released by EXILES

Premiere: Daphne X - Transparency into Information [EXILES]

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Ausschuss - Left Hand (En)

trngs (@trngs) remix, taken from Dahjyn (@dahjyn) debut EP The Gall, out August 27, 2021, via Most Dismal Swamp (@mostdismalswamp)

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The Gall is the debut EP from Brooklyn producer and vocalist Dahjyn, featuring additional remixes by Endgame, Thegn, and trngs. With relentless industrial gut-punch percussion, textural power electronics, and reflective baritone verse, these 5 tracks embody a convulsive tension between an abrasive physicality and a brooding emotionality: a visceral incantation working through aggregate layers of trauma.

Cover artwork by Olia Svetlanova

Mixing by Randall Dunn at Circular Ruin Studio

Mastering by Noah Kin

Released by Most dismal Swamp

The Gall

Premiere: Dahjyn - Stacks of Bleed (trngs Remix) [Most Dismal Swamp]

Taken from Ursula Sereghy (@ursulasereghy) debut Ok Box, out September 12, 2021, via Gin&Platonic (@ginandplatonic)

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With a background in playing jazz and formative years of playing saxophone in a live band, Prague-based Ursula Sereghy stepped out of the hustle to focus, all while becoming a regular at the local Synth Library. A space where she found the support of the musically and politically like-minded and could nourish her newfound passion for experimenting with machines and exploring the limitless possibilities of sound design. An extensive period of voluntary detachment from everyday life during the pandemic gave rise to the stunningly confident debut album 'OK Box' fabricated by this dark horse of a producer.

Opening 'OK Box' reveals a truly multifarious microcosm. On her very first musical output, besides manipulated field recordings and widely used granular synthesis, Ursula draws wisely from her past musical practice as acoustic or synthesized samples of jazz instruments become the furtive common denominator of the record's sonic narrative. Circulation of the breath among the instruments chambers substitutes the streams of city dwellers flowing through the cramped city environment. With Ursula's entangled compositions, she creates the representation of revealing and embracing the intuitive connections of the experiences and thoughts with their mental and physical surroundings, at times leading the listener to melancholic placements, followed by moments of mischievous clarity and rational sentiment. But essentially, the longplay is a friendly ride following unusual mental maps and broadening the borders of the very cartographical ones, all with inconspicuous sideroad peeks of cheeky little creatures, still surveillance by destiny-bending spirits, and oversaturation of out-there emotional associations. Hang in there, you little civilians and slimy slugs alike. To cut a long story short - 'OK Box' houses a lively collection of warm-hearted and witty jams honoring the nature of reasonable escapism.

Artwork by Jiri Macku
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Mastered by Wim Dehaen
soundcloud.com/wimdehaen

Released by Gin&Platonic

Premiere: Ursula Sereghy - Clock)))Hunt [Gin&Platonic]

Agelena Armour at Positive Education Festival 2021

Thanks to https://soundcloud.com/indigoblue97

(+)earth w/ Indigoblue

Made in response to:

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves

Naviar haiku challenge 604, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

A couple of relatively simple elements combined with an experimental layer using several stages of granular processing. All the basic components were made with Voltage Modular plus some additional granular processing using GRFX from Imaginando. Mixed and manipulated in a single "Live" improvised take.

Tea Bushes Ripple - (naviarhaiku - 604)

THE EIDOLON VEIL PROJECT. A COLLECTION OF SONGS FROM EIDOLON VEIL, RELEASED AND UNRELEASED. ENJOY TO YOUR PLEASURE

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Premiere: Daphne X - Transparency into Information [EXILES]

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