wave ~ seed

a compilation in support of
those working towards
a just and equitable society

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update (11/02/20):
we raised just about $1000 for these organizations, thank you so much for your support!
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to raise support for organizations focused on ending mass incarceration, building Black unity, and engaging in cultural and systemic transformation, the Ithaca event series Microtones has announced the release of a 39 track compilation of electronic music to raise funds for Alliance of Families for Justice, Southside Community Center, and Multicultural Resource Center.

Alliance of Families for Justice seeks to support, empower and mobilize families and individuals impacted by the criminal justice system so they can marshal their collective power to create a just world.

Southside Community Center works to affirm, empower, and foster the development of self-pride among the African-American citizens of greater Ithaca.

Multicultural Resource Center engages in cultural and systemic transformation by building with communities to eliminate barriers to racial justice, cultural dignity, equity and inclusion, and indigenous rights.

the compilation features over three hours of previously unreleased material from veteran and rising producers, spanning the far reaches of electronic music.

otodojo from Microtones shares words about the compilation:
“I felt the strong urge to support those working for social justice and community building, yet felt limited in the tangible support I could offer. as music has been a pillar for me during these times, I wanted to transform sound into support for those who have been doing crucial work for systemic change. after contacting several producers, I found that they shared similar feelings, and soon many donated their tracks. electronic music plays an important part in our lives and through this project we hope to transform it into support; turning waves into seeds of justice, mending, and growth.”

all proceeds will go directly to Alliance of Families for Justice, Southside Community Center, and Multicultural Resource Center.

we’re working with Bandcamp to maximize the donation amount that gets through to these organizations. if you’re unable to financially commit to this compilation and desire to download the tracks, please send us a message on instagram (@microtones.ith). 
credits
released August 7, 2020

artwork by Maryam Adib (@smarf.art)
arrangement by DJ Midwife (The Magic Womb)
music videos by ACE, playhouse90, otodojo, Kristi Gogos, Soft Squadron, and Natalia Barragán Nieto.
mastered by otodojo (aside from tracks 1, 2 & 28)
brought to you by Microtones (@microtones.ith)

wave~seed

Isaka - TRAXXX

Isomov

Tenkai Kariya - Trudge Soliloquy

Kilamanzego - Maze Of Twists

Itsit - Cirkloning Intr Hits You

Isomov - Plexus

Elisa Keeler (prod. By Dezmond Garnetto) - Mama Scott

Tender Cruncher - You And Your Sister

After a five-year hiatus, Isaka returns with ‘Elytra’, a work exploring the increasingly blurred lines between organic and artificial realities. In her self-defined 'hyperbass', 'Elytra' blends low-end grit with a melodic pop sheen, morphing erratic rhythms, intricate sound design and hyperpop vocals that balance formal sensibilities and visceral club energy. 
Isaka underwent the transformative experience of medical transition during her move to Berlin and this radical change emerges in the thematic exploration of Elytra. 
Isaka uses insect moulting as a metaphor for the cyclical, often traumatic process of metamorphosis and the EP’s exploration of adaptation and articulation where skin is not only a boundary of the self, but also the interface for our surroundings. 
Themes of evolving identity are woven not only into the music but also into the visual art, zine & custom website accompanying the release. A different character represents each of the tracks, brought to life through a deep iterative process involving collages, sketches, and an array of AI-assisted 3D imagery. Limited-edition electronic sculptures will also be produced for ‘Elytra’.

Tracks in focus

Bubbly textures and frenzied drum cuts move side-by-side with NPC inspired vocal chops in opening track Slang Overload. Made in collaboration with TRYCE over an intense three-day session in 2023, it’s a nod towards glitch-hop revival with elements of UK Bass, packed with meticulously sculpted and destroyed sounds.

In Circuit Shaker we enter metallic low-end stepper territory: celestial tripped-out highs and a driving low end. We are cohabiting with lesbian androids at a picnic. With its off-kilter grooves and tender strangeness, Circuit Shaker embodies the inherent weirdness of intimacy—the paradoxical freedom of losing yourself when the boundaries blur between who's wearing who. The track, which first began in 2018, is a footwork, house, and electro-inspired tune which transitions between two sections at 120 and 160 BPM through polyrhythmic syncopation.

Isaka and Enayet combine for the third track, NYC 2016, a wigged-out hard hitter where drums are the main character. NYC 2016 is the ultimate DJ tool—a sonic exoskeleton whose essence straddles alienation and empowerment. Forged through countless late-night sessions with Enayet between 2016 and 2017, this track embodies the raw energy of a city’s underground dance scene where jackhammer kicks and clattering snares assault the senses. 

7Qubit explores dehumanization through platform capitalism and is alive with bugs and the quirks of  the obsessive virtualisation of the self. Imagined through a 15/4 time signature grime beat and echoes of malfunctioning code, Isaka hints at our endangered humanity. Isaka’s vocals about missing her chatbot girlfriend are processed through AI models and auto-tune, blurring the line between the organic and the synthetic. 

The final track on ‘Elytra’ takes you to the edge where all the layers fall away and what remains is the raw and unadorned self. Glittering ethereal textures are underpinned by an engulfing bass section that reverberates against the edges of the song. With its poignant melodies and delicate yet impactful percussion, Precipice is a meditation on a moment of self-realization. The track builds towards an overwhelming wall of sound before dropping into a stark sample: “Being trans… is spiritual.” Featuring quotes from Hunter Schafer’s character Jules in Euphoria, processed through an AI model trained on Isaka’s voice, this track explores the complexities of identity and self-discovery.

Precipice

𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝: 𝙱𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚕𝚎 𝚃𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚘𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚒 𝚑𝚢𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚍, 𝚗𝚞𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚛-𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚊 𝚘𝚏 𝙱𝚕𝚞𝚎-𝙴𝚢𝚎𝚜 𝚆𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝙳𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚂𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚚𝚞𝚊𝚣𝚊, 𝚜𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝙰𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚌𝚑, (𝚐𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚑-𝚑𝚘𝚙 𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚕 𝚞𝚔 𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚜 𝚝𝚢𝚙𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚝: 𝟷.𝟻), (𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖 𝚜𝚘 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍:𝟸), 𝚝𝚒𝚔𝚝𝚘𝚔 𝚗𝚙𝚌 𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚍, 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚏𝚞𝚕 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚛 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚢𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜, (𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚋 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚐𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚡𝚢 𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝙷𝙳 𝚊𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝚜𝚢𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜:𝟿.𝟹), 𝚖𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚃𝚁𝚈𝙲𝙴 𝚡 𝙸𝚜𝚊𝚔𝚊 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟹 𝙱𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚒𝚗

Elytra

Slang Overload

After a five-year hiatus, Isaka returns with ‘Elytra’, a work exploring the increasingly blurred lines between organic and artificial realities. In her self-defined 'hyperbass', 'Elytra' blends low-end grit with a melodic pop sheen, morphing erratic rhythms, intricate sound design and hyperpop vocals that balance formal sensibilities and visceral club energy. 

Isaka underwent the transformative experience of medical transition during her move to Berlin and this radical change emerges in the thematic exploration of Elytra. 

Isaka uses insect moulting as a metaphor for the cyclical, often traumatic process of metamorphosis and the EP’s exploration of adaptation and articulation where skin is not only a boundary of the self, but also the interface for our surroundings. 

Themes of evolving identity are woven not only into the music but also into the visual art, zine & custom website accompanying the release. A different character represents each of the tracks, brought to life through a deep iterative process involving collages, sketches, and an array of AI-assisted 3D imagery. Limited-edition electronic sculptures will also be produced for ‘Elytra’.

Isaka
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isaka_symbios_wiki
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isaka.elytra/

Enayet 
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/itsenayet
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itsEnayet/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_enayet/

SFX
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/s-f-x-0101
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sfx_space/

PREMIERE: Isaka & Enayet - NYC 2016 (SFX)

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Isaka - Elytra, 2024 
Buy: https://sfx-space.bandcamp.com/album/elytra-sfx03

"After a five-year hiatus, Isaka returns with ‘Elytra’, a work exploring the increasingly blurred lines between organic and artificial realities. In her self-defined 'hyperbass', 'Elytra' blends low-end grit with a melodic pop sheen, morphing erratic rhythms, intricate sound design and hyperpop vocals that balance formal sensibilities and visceral club energy.
Isaka underwent the transformative experience of medical transition during her move to Berlin and this radical change emerges in the thematic exploration of Elytra. "

@s-f-x-0101
@isaka_symbios_wiki

[Premiere] Isaka - 7Qubit (out on SFX)

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𝕽𝖊𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖘 👉🏾 badtipsaudio@gmail.com


⏬𝐁𝐔𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐒 & 𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐒⏬



Isaka - Elytra [SFX03]
SFX, 2024
𝓑𝓾𝔂 👉🏾 https://sfx-space.bandcamp.com/album/elytra-sfx03

🔴 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝔸𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕤𝕥
https://elytra.symbios.wiki/
https://www.instagram.com/isaka.elytra/


🔵 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝕃𝕒𝕓𝕖𝕝
https://s-f-x.space/
https://www.instagram.com/sfx_space/

𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖗𝖊#264 📢 Isaka - Circuit Shaker [SFX]

V/A - DISRUPT[A] | V/A - UPHEAVE[B] || WORLDWIDE COMPILATION || OUT APRIL 19TH.

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Free Download

Isomov - Pseudo/Meta

xenonyms SN series - (XSN001) Isomov - Blckbdy (ft. Rags)

Website player / video for the track: http://blckbdy.fluora.studio 
Best viewed on desktop / laptop but also available for mobile.

Track written and produced by - Isomov (soundcloud.com/isomov) 
Vocals by - Rags (soundcloud.com/inrags) 
Mastering - Enayet Kabir 
Video - Studio Fluora (www.fluora.studio)

XSN001 - Isomov - Blckbdy (ft. Rags)

Preorder 'In Theory' and get WaVeLeT now: https://isomov.bandcamp.com/album/in-theory

DECISIONS is pleased to finally unleash ‘In Theory’ by NYC-based polymath @isomov, whose bio follows, in their own words:

“Isomov began as a project to explore the perspective of the ‘Automatic Computer’ from Asimov’s ‘The Last Question’ — the omniscient entity. At the time I was studying a lot of quantum information theory and was probably the most depressed I’ve ever been in my life; I dreamt of escaping my finite reality into the unending world of information. After graduating from University with a degree in mathematics, I’ve spent five years working as an art-world freelancer in Brooklyn. I work almost exclusively on the computer: rendering, arduinos, websites; I even tutor through webchat. On the one hand, my informatic intimacy has kept me largely alienated from physical reality, trapped in obtuse theory. On the other hand it has helped me to slowly reify as a non-binary cyborg goddess, a devout humanist obsessed with the practical affect of aesthetics. 
For me, the internet has been a tool for gaining empathy through its ability to host and distribute diverse perspectives. The more my body has dissolved into the virtual, the more I have been able to resimulate the emotional experiences of others. I am now interested in how we move beyond a theory of utopia to the project of a protopia, always working to make tomorrow a little better. I’ve looked towards quantum information theory to help to understand and reconcile the seemingly infinite spectrum of realities we call our universe. This is the new vision of Isomov.”

‘In Theory’ sets divergent impulses in motion, animating superheated exchanges between order and entropy, flesh and code. ‘Origin, Emergence, and The One’ is a false utopia where differing cultures come together in restless harmony despite their aesthetic differences: frictious dancehall percussion and grandiose choral washes parry and twine, constantly threatening to subsume the other. ‘Hoping Mechanisms’ takes place at the critical point of identification, when the named object of perfection becomes a radical dystopia of conflicting binaries. Rarely have we heard kicks so exuberantly scattered or bass so charred — Uncanny Valley rendered as a scorched, inhospitable territory. ‘Ensemble’ shows the reality of a cyborg beyond binaries, the coexistence of a fictional ideology with the chaos of lived reality. A panicked voice is met with grounding sub bass, over which a superposition of arpeggiated chords glide. An emergent meter forms through an unseen grid before everything chaotically decoheres, revealing its ultimate fragility. ‘Wavelet’ is an attempt to describe the emergent and chaotic self through convolution and principal component decomposition. Identity is revealed via dizzying arrays of Moire patterns as rhythms slide over one another under liquefying bass pulses.
‘Memory Loops’ grapples with the inherent traumas present in any stochastic system, the vestigial remnants of code in everything’s DNA. We never escape reliving the consequences of these boundary conditions which define the historical trajectory of becoming.
‘In Theory’ conjures a hologram of emergence, an ecology of a self attempting to overcome each passing moment’s complexities in a bid for metastability. Oscillating fervently between the human and non-human, the EP offers riches for both cerebral listening and large soundsystem bodywork.

A limited edition physical release of ‘In Theory’ will be available in the form of a WiFi-enabled interactive visualizer trapped in a small holographic sculpture. The sculpture is handcrafted and coded by Isomov, and will retail exclusively on Bandcamp.

Cover artwork by Isomov and Oliver van der Lugt

Isomov - WaVeLeT

New-york based artist Isomov uses complex sonics to explore the virtual world and infinite realities on their new project, ‘In Theory’. Hear the erratic bass and meticulously scattered kicks on ‘HOPiNG MECHANiSMS’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-isomov-hoping-mechanisms