very nicely written,arranged and mixed : )

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STDEV005 - ANASTROPHE

Taken from SBKT040: Yen Tech - Assembler

Release date: 28th May 2021

With Assembler, his second full-length album, Yen Tech re emerges in ecstatic and primordial new form -- a multi-layered and interwoven work that blends futuristic production, meta-science fiction, and anthropic critique into a dizzying array of next scenarios -- a maze-like vision of our technological and exponentially oracular, full-stack future.

This imagined future becomes a construct or place in itself; one in which the record buzzes and swarms; a mechanosphere of towering melodic vocal samples and sound design - all narrated by Yen Tech's unnerving, diaristic vocals - as he channels the form of post-human techno cretin, whispering hyperbolic ASMR to no one in particular. We follow this character from one disorienting experience to the next as he recites a stream of indecipherable neologisms and hyper-descriptives, the existential residue seeping from every line. In the end though, a strange, uneasy beauty comes into focus; the metamorphic lyrics and musical euphorias revealing Assembler as a type of elegy: a wet glass reflection of the failures of what we are and were - and a jubilant celebration of what we may become.

"I imagined Assembler as a type of self imposed simulation, an invisible boundary that the narrator has to navigate out of to move forward. It was a way of looking at how we may carry the issues and failures of the past with us into the future. The psychological baggage of history, the guilt of geotrauma, the addictive melange of technology all become dealt with in this stage of acceptance and recovery. I wrote the album with this in mind, a process to find the slimy pearl of who we are" - Yen Tech

All music and lyrics written by Yen Tech
Produced and arranged by Yen Tech
Vocals by Yen Tech
Additional vocals by Katy Townsend
Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Artwork and vinyl design by Johannes Schnatmann

Assembler

Yen Tech - Exegesis

@balasdeagua
Love is an emotional capacity without boundaries. It is the inherent beauty of life and light, flowing from within our body and mind. The alchemy of intimacy and devotion helps us to ascend from darkness, filling our soul with a clear radiant energy. Like a beaming star, our compassion and affection heal us by releasing our trauma in katharsis.

The compilation “No Limits, All Love” is the 12th release of katharsis, celebrating our first anniversary with 10 poignant tracks from artists novel to the label. With the title as a thematic starting point and additional references of gratitude, healing and growth, the contributing artists were invited to interpret their experiences of kathartic purgation and salvation through music.

To commence the compilation, the Egyptian Ma3azef-affiliated artist ABADIR engages us with his spellbinding track “Clearance”, before the British sound-designer Phrixus gets our bodies moving to his wonky “Unintentional Alchemy”. Debuting local Danish artist Bloszum takes the pace down again with the hypnotizing piano-infused hymn, “Beauty Is Only Crystal Deep”, followed by the daybreaking floater “Flamma” by Uruguayan artist Balas De Agua.

Subsequently, French producer Zero Crossing Point delivers a stellar spectrum of emotion on “Our Ascension” ahead of the sentimental receptacle of heartbreak on the track “Vesper” by French artist Awbluu. The energy dives deep into the trancelike state of our subliminal mind on Nexcyia’s “wrapped(up)”, as danish duo J Sliwa, consisting of label founder jjjacob and his partner in crime Lighyer, shoots for the stars with celestial cannons on the track “Light Is Within”. The compilation culminates in climax on the motivational rave-anthem “Don’t Be Sad” by the Swedish YEAR0001-affiliated duo Quit Life, before Santebela closes the album with grandiose piano phrases bathed in reverb on “save me”.

artwork by jjjacob
mastering by jjjacob

No Limits  All Love

Balas De Agua - Flamma

In July, Diana Azzuz (@dianaazzuz) releases ”Anastrophe” on Standard Deviation, including remixes by M.E.S.H. (@m-e-s-h) with a new alias ”eea” (Extreme Energy Availability) and Swan Meat (@swanmeat). It’s the first solo project by the Kyiv based multidisciplinary artist, following her collaborative audiovisual release ”Sui Noxa” from October last year. Listen now to ”Recursive Gesture”, the second track of the EP.

More infos soon!

Teaser: https://youtu.be/-WqoXcOuLC4

Release date is July 20th

Written & composed by Diana Azzuz
Mixed by Paul Georg
Mastered by UTC+16
Photography by @studyofnight

Anastrophe

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Premiere: DIANA AZZUZ - RECURSIVE GESTURE (STDEV005)

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Corin, 'Ex Nilalang' (2021). Courtesy UIQ, London.

"Pathos" is the latest track from @dianaazzuz 's upcoming EP out on the 20th of July for @standard-deviation

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[Premiere] Diana Azzuz - Pathos

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 Diana Azzuz (@dianaazzuz) new EP Anastrophe, out July 20, 2021, via Standard Deviation (@standard-deviation)

Read: https://bit.ly/3xmvyVa
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3hew1mW

Diana Azzuz’s first solo installment on Standard Deviation is the artist’s initial connection to electronic club sounds and presents a subtle transformation within her artistic practice. Through her mostly conceptual approach, Azzuz seeks to challenge notions of sound explicitly by disobeying common expectations and preconceptions. The EP is called ”Anastrophe”, a fitting title describing rearrangement as a strategy to create sound.

The Video shot for the second track ”Recursive Gesture” revolves around the idea of metamorphosis in the modern world, highlighting unpredictable, unidentifiable aspects of human ways of thinking within the so dominantly emerging cross-virtual world. Azzuz wants to present the limitations of human preconceptions in the virtual age of uncertainty and fluidity. As the artist describes, ”why are things perceived to be fixed and certain and how can I communicate and articulate this contingency?”, Azzuz draws on different tools like AI in her work, visually depicting a fluid state of self-modulation, morphosis within time and space, aiming to emphasize the fundamental ambiguity within our lives.

While ”A Very Touchy Spot”, the first track of the EP is a subtle and mysterious entry into Azzuz’ world of sounds, using ambient textures combined with classical drum elements, ”Recursive Gesture” tries to escape this initial idea towards influences of Grime, Bass and contemporary forms of Dubstep creating a powerful bass roller. ”Pathos”, the last track on the EP, is a heavy hitting roundup taking on modern club sounds, using elements of Gabber, Trance and Hardcore. Inherent to all tracks, a rather dark mood carries the tracks and embeds them into a coherent ambiguous feeling of unpredictability, uncertainty and fluidity.

The EP get’s supported with remixes from M.E.S.H., who’s contributing with a new Alias ”eea” (Extreme Energy Availability) on ”Recursive Gesture”. Cologne based musician Swan Meat rounds it up, taking a shot on ”Pathos”.

Artwork by Diana Azzuz

Mixed by Paul Georg, eea fka M.E.S.H., Swan Meat

Mastered by UTC+16

Released by Standard Deviation

Premiere: Diana Azzuz - A Very Touchy Spot [Standard Deviation]

Kyiv club ∄’s label, @standard-deviation, readies the dark, genre-hopping debut EP from @dianaazzuz. Hear @swanmeat's scorching acid trance remix of ‘Pathos’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-diana-azzuz-pathos-swan-meat-remix

Premiere: Diana Azzuz ‘Pathos (Swan Meat Remix)’

PAN mainstay M.E.S.H. dons a new alias, evolving Diana Azzuz's original into a menacing, swaggering electro rhythm.

'Anastrophe' is out July 20th on Standard Deviation.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3hyNhmT

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@dianaazzuz
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Premiere: Diana Azzuz - Recursive Gesture (eea Remix) [Standard Deviation]

The sixteenth chapter in World Canvas’ mix series comes from Copenhagen-based experimental artist and composer Xenia Xamanek. Having released under prolific Danish imprints such as Anyines and OUMPHFF, Xamanek has crafted an adventurous approach to composition and songwriting. 
On their mix for World Canvas, Xamanek presents songs from various different fields ranging from experimental hiphop to dembow-inspired rhythmical explorations. 

Cover art courtesy of the artist

@xeniaxamanek

World Canvas Mix 16: Xenia Xamanek

Evil Medvěd Live set recording | PlatoOstrava | Ursula Sereghy ‘OK Box´ Launch

Erratic

krash - digicore x hyperpop x prettifun type beat (prod. sw4gaccino)

@soft-matter guest mix for @threadsradio broadcasted June. 8, 2020

Int'l Winners w/Soft Matter (Threads*BUSHWICK)-08-June-2020

معازف | مجلة الموسيقى الأولى والأخيرة من نوعها في العالم

∄ is a cultural institution in Kyiv, established in 2019 on the territory of a former brewery, located at 41 Kyrylivska Street. It serves as a multifunctional space for club events like ∄ Community Events, Curated By, Enareї, for experimental music concerts like Miasma of the Real and other cultural events.

∄ also manages the in-house music label Standard Deviation. Established in September 2020, Standard Deviation is a multidisciplinary label for music, art and publishing, cultivating creative exchange between an aspiring Ukrainian scene and a global community.

K41 is the community-born name of the institution embraced and widely used by the public.

Premiere: Diana Azzuz - A Very Touchy Spot [Standard Deviation]

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