At the begginig i thought its gonna be some power electronics i got a bit excited not gonna lie

i hear the house drums im just wondering what you're processing the drums through. share?

Olan Monk - Auto Life
Format: Digital (EP)
Cat. No: CANVAS011
Release Date: 1st October 2021

Watch the video for 'Fameless': https://youtu.be/-xndTe8uWrc

Pre-order Auto Life (EP): canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/auto-life

‘A farewell to idolatry, where culture is absorbed into nature, like a body back into the fertile soil. Written as a 27 club survivor, lamenting the young dead, no longer young and celebrating the spectral presence of iconised peers. Reflexive and self-aware of the problem of over-identifying with the fictional performance of the solo act in various guises or archetypes: the rockstar or trapstar. Auto Life is a practical attempt at a weird re-hybridisation of otherwise seemingly divergent strands of popular music, conflating stylisations usually segregated by genre.

Auto Life was written as a collection of songs for eventual live performance. Recording music is absurd—an act in which you initially perform to no-one. The inclusion of a sample of crowd noise in ‘Fameless’ is the music studio equivalent of a laugh track being added to the soundtrack of a sitcom—unable to give up on disappearing horizons completely and imagining another context for performance in which an actual audience beyond the performer is present.

Autotune Punk—as a music of antagonism that resists from within, bending the lanes of a machine that flattens out the vocal performance to a given scale. I can still express feeling—even angst—but the machine doesn’t care. Refusing its own funeral, emulating the dead—it’s a Rock simulacrum. A renewably performed myth. I broke the spell. I just heard it as it was. The sacred framing of presence makes the pop idol always-already-dead by turning them into a symbol and an image—undead, un-ageing and endlessly reproducible within a commercialist visual culture.

The music which I would grow up listening to would later become a tool towards first facing, maybe later dismantling—or at least bending—the structures in which music was still being written, performed and recorded into existence. My emulation of and interest in pop—and popular—music is not in irony. I love this music—yet I question the context and conditions through which it has come to exist and continues to change shape. Opening up the horizon of pop to a new kind of strangeness, where the familiarity of the pop song disappears into blissful distortions and mixed signifiers towards a world in-between, otherwise unknown’.

— @olanmonk

Written, performed and recorded by Olan Monk

‘Bruised Fruit’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City, additional production and vocals written and performed by Elvin Brandhi
‘Burnout’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City

Tracks 01–07 mastered by Ali Najafi
Tracks 08 and 09 mastered by Jam City

Artwork by Ewa Awe

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Auto Life

Olan Monk - Fameless

dusted light cinema

wish live at 123 (4/23/22)

First digi single on the label by New Zealand sweethearts Hysterical Love Project <3 

"set your spirit free"

https://motionward.bandcamp.com/track/hysterical-love-project-2bc1
https://soundcloud.com/hystericalloveproject

MWD001: Hysterical Love Project, "2BC1"

Taken from Ludwig Wandinger's sophomore album 'Spiritual Decay' (G&P022), out September 2022

The name of many talents - Ludwig Wandinger - has been echoing in the experimental scene for quite some time. This comes as no surprise, as the already renowned Berlin based polymath channels his full-time effort partly into playing live drums, producing his and other people’s music and creating multidisciplinary visual art. Following multifaceted solo projects on labels Average Negative/Alpha Pup Records and Orange Milk Records, Gin&Platonic are delighted to present Ludwig's exceptional sophomore full-length album 'Spiritual Decay'.

Written & produced by Ludwig Wandinger (@ludwig-wandinger)
ludwigwandinger.com

Mastered by Rashad Becker

Photo by Sophie Klock

G&P022 💀

Spiritual Decay

Bandcamp

Ludwig Wandinger - In

very limited quantities of cds available this week on daisart.bandcamp.com

2022
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artwork by @user-29348158
mastered by @theodoreschafer

'popcorn'

05 - Arad Acid - Untitled

Solano - a single by the duo of Justin Young (vocal) and Andrew Aged (guitar): friends who sing songs broadcast from God's living room. Meditative guitar ambient that transports you to a crystal-clear healing space.

Andrew Aged is an American singer-songwriter, producer, and musician from Los Angeles. He is a member of the alternative R&B duo inc. no world, together with his brother Daniel.

Justin Yong is a New York-based sound producer, also known as The Tares, Kulowo Wawega, ATEN. His releases under the alias No Debts were among the first in our catalog. We also have a short interview with him www.instagram.com/p/CUhZhjEo2xG/?img_index=1.

Solano

Solano - Solano  [ICSOO6]

Whities 011 - Lanark Artefax
Release date - 9th June 2017
Buy - http://www.whiti.es/

A1 - Flickering Debris
A2 - Touch Absence
B1 - Hyphen To Splice
B2 - Voices Near The Hypocentre

Designed by Alex McCullough. Comic Panel by Joseph P Kelly.
Mastered by Matt Colton

 Distributed by Rush Hour

Thanks to Calum, Alex, Joseph, Matt, Olivia and Oskar!

011-Lanark Artefax: Flickering Debris/Touch Absence/Hyphen To Splice/Voices Near The Hypocentre

info: manarecords.com/003

Out June 2018.

Alternatively banging and evasive, exhausted and unglued. Stepping along the rim of the silver screen. Diptera takes a near electro-acoustic approach to the DNA, texture and pressure of UK Garage with a debut release on Mana comprised of four tracks. Obsessively written over four years and teeming with material detail.

The duo's musical collaboration operates like a relay. Initial tracks made by Activist DJ — short sharp affairs focused on swung drums and darkside — are passed on to Wesley to be broken apart, tinkered with, and slowly refigured into more anxious and impressionistic musical forms, etched with intricacies and mixed fidelity. The result is a distinctive and resourceful excavation of hardcore at its most agile.

A fly on the wall may face some adversity, so if you imagine a human hand in basic swatting motion, maybe you will also couple the image with an evasive manoeuvre of some sort; usually there is a moment of hesitation where the human is unsure whether their aim was true. "Did I catch it?"

Mastered and cut at D&M.
Distributed by Honest Jon's, London.

Art by Gustavo Eandi, with direction from Diptera and Matthew Kent.

Diptera - Silver

with @lolina_relaxin 
Recorded at Healthm8, London, 2017
https://copelandgast.bandcamp.com/track/shred-2

copeland & gast - SHRED

Mana is a record label established in 2017 by Andrea Zarza, curator at the British Library Sound Archive, and Blowing Up The Workshop founder Matthew Kent. 

Publishing works with an archival and contemporary sound, Mana is a platform redrawing narrative boundaries and perspectives through a playful, radical and unexpected approach.

Diptera - Silver

Mana

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