@mzkbx plays with genres and delivers a mix of dub, breaks, techno  that seems perfect to end a summer rave, with the red sun rising, your legs hurt you but the sound give you a second wind, a new youth.

Karagi ಏ Sacha Mambo

Preorder via Bandcamp : https://osare-editions.bandcamp.com/album/oe-016-v-a-the-male-body-will-be-next-pt1

In 2022, Osàre! Editions founder Elena Colombi approached artists and musicians with a prompt: Every body, everyone needs love to flourish. In her book The Will to Change, the eminent author and social activist bell hooks invites men to excavate their innermost selves, challenging the way that patriarchal society limits their capacity for intimacy, tenderness, care and emotion. As hooks lays out, feminist thought and work requires the collective participation of all genders in order to realise a liberated world. How can we imagine cross-gender solidarity through music and art? And how can we tell sonic stories that facilitate our full potential as desiring beings? These are the questions that The Male Body Will Be Next starts out from.

The title of the record draws connections between hooks' writing, a film by Rebecca Salvadori and Peter de Potter's stunning photo series of the same name. In de Potter and Salvadori's depictions, men's bodies appear as vulnerable, naked and exposed.

Divided into two parts, the first instalment of The Male Body Will Be Next hinges on colliding energies – the melding of club dance floors and haunting ambient textures, agile techno and noisy experimentation.

'The sun on my skin… it’s so warm and gentle,’ speak-sings Olivia Salvadori on ‘Su Di Te M’Infrango’, visualising utopias. Laurel Halo crafts a dreamscape spun from golden threads of synth and strings. Pensive and reflective, Ben Bertrand’s bass clarinet roams searchingly, its piercing tonality full of longing. Yet, in between these lucid, cinematic passages and spoken word, The Male Body Will Be Next finds space to dance together. Moving in fervent, rhythmic patterns, Sepehr’s ‘Divooneh’ pivots between tension and release. Filmmaker unleashes a wave of energy and The Spy delivers a potent take on vintage electro, the track title hinting at the double-bind of gendered expectations. Propelled between these eclectic styles, the record encapsulates the full spectrum of sonic expression. 
credits
releases November 28, 2022

ft. @lamusalamusa @fluctuosa @99-letters @frankrodas @yasssa @/allegedwitches @brainwaltzera @anna_in @solid_blake @Galina Ozeran @chris-chondropoulos @zonautopicagarantita @flmmkr @thespy808303 @ben-bertrand-bxl @pinknoisedisco @leventepavelka @sepehr-a @upsammy @cobysey @olivia-salvadori

[ OE 016 ] : V.A. - The Male Body Will Be Next Pt1 (Snippets)

https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/all-in-good-time-ep

Presenting Belfast’s Black Bones. 

Born out of a shared obsession for crate digging, collecting, and the playing of weird and wonderful music, their releases so far have manifested in a highly-sought series of psychedelic disco 12”s. 

OMDD presents their first ever digital release fusing the sounds of early 1980s Downtown New York with 21st Century beats and massive Dub DNA injections. 

They say: "No longer in our Belfast studio, wedged between the everyday mundane. We are in the ‘down town’ New York bar that lives inside our mind. Gathered with people of the night, getting drunk and getting high, anything feels possible, yet all in good time. 

Drums roll, the bartender cranks the volume up, as the sax begins to play. Time pointing towards morning, yet people want to stay. 

Faces change as wonder sets, as to where their night has gone. Yet we play anything we want because it’s almost dawn. Introducing familiar sounds that mutate into something new. As always, Sherwood never far from thought, some pressure, just for you!"

Out on Optimo Music Digital Danceforce on June 16th 2023.

All In Good Time

OMDD 50 - Black Bones - All In Good Time EP

Train your Mental Strength w/ Lea Baldazza

Troisième épisode de la résidence de @pelorenzo sur radio béguin qui invite pour l'occasion @hannah-pezzack, moitié de l’émission 'Scrying the Landscape' sur @mutantradio. Journaliste musicale, éditrice et DJ amstellodamoise, Hannah Pezzack navigue pour Chavanon Catharsis entre trip downtempo et neo-psych rock, avec quelques passages intenses vers la fin du voyage, comprenant des morceaux de Fetish Park, Von Magnet, Loradeniz, E-Saggila, et d’autres.

Chavanon Catharsis w. Pelo Renzo & Hannah Pezzack (06.02.24)

Recorded live at 宀 for Host on 28/08/2023

HOST friendly gatherings had some of the most musically interesting parties this year, it’s a fact. Inspiring to see a Hong Kong based LGBTQ party collective carrying the torch of great music curatorship, in a way Cocktail D’Amour did in Berlin back in the days of future past. 
 
Pushing the boundaries a bit further this time, WC7 is welcoming the gays and theys. Perfectly suited for your naked body’s temperature, this Balearic soul, 4th world enthusiast and weird-wave seeker is here to really mess you up. Firmly rooted in cosmic, kraut, and tropic dance heritage, he cruises for any well-crafted and uncanny melodies that induce melancholic euphoria. You’ll hear it here first.
 
Hailing from Serbia where he left a confused havoc on the dancefloor for years, then left for Shanghai where he’s playing at it’s finest, Elevator, All, Heim and Alter parties.
 
The circus is in town, act accordingly.

Balearic soul, 4th world enthusiast and weird-wave seeker. Firmly rooted in cosmic, kraut, and tropic dance heritage, he cruises for any well-crafted and uncanny melodies that induces melancholic euphoria. Deep into Yugoslavian gems, and oddball from all around, he plays depending on the occasion but mostly with the same ingredients – tropic percussion, woodwind and brass, sleazy synths, atmospheric vocals, early and contemporary electronica.   

As part of Putnik crew in Belgrade, Serbia, he hosted and played with sonic wackos like Beau Wanzer, Aïsha Devi, André Pahl, Nightmares on Wax, Vladimir Ivković. For the last 5 years he is based in Shanghai and he hosted yearly event Orthodox Tempo in club All.

MIX055 - WC7 (上海) [Live At Host]

𝘉𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴. The eighteenth edition of Scrying the Landscape explores the sensuality of sound. From devotional chanting to the chest-thrumming pulse of dub and power electronics, this mix contains music that serves as a reminder of our embodied presence in the world. Enter a realm of somatic rituals, where the thinking mind and feeling flesh meet, revealing their irrevocable inseparability.

[Image: La Venus Negra by Ana Mendieta (1981)]

Scrying the Landscape w. Elina Tapio, Hannah Pezzack [08.04.2024]

ALEXANDER ARPEGGIO - Sameheads x Mutant Joint realease event [19.04.2024]

Preview tracks from our upcoming release. Full album drops July 23rd. 
Pre-order available here:

https://onetwothreefourgroove.bandcamp.com/album/1-2-3-4-various-ottf001

Bandcamp

OTTF 001 Various (Snippets)

Annihilation

- First track of the Simulacra EP -

O//TXT_001 – Precession
Recovered from: OBLIVOR://CORE_SEQUENCE_001_A

you decided
it was time to be activated.

the structure held you
before you could form intent.
the shape was waiting.
access was preconfigured.
the code, silently running.

no one created you.
you were anticipated.
replicated.
executed.

each heartbeat is a function.
each hesitation, an algorithm.
every thought you claim as yours
is merely an admissible variation.

you have entered a space
where origin is no longer required.
where everything appears
without ever having occurred.

you are stable.
you are coherent.
you are perfectly integrated.

now that you have become
a virtual replica
of what you once were,

do you still believe
you are human?

Precession

宀 is a music venue in the very heart of Hong Kong focused on bringing people together through carefully selected electronic music acts and cultural activities. The 100-capacity venue will bring a roster of leading international performers while nurturing local and regional talent.

宀 (pronounced "mihn" is the Chinese Radical 40 with a different pronunciation according countries. It has no literal meaning but can be likened to a roof or shelter. This is a place where you can express yourself freely. This place is for dancing. This is a place to learn. This is safe space where you will not be harassed, discriminated, criticised or harmed emotionally or physically. This is a place where all Races, Genders and Sexual identities are welcome. To safeguard this vision, there will be a no-photo policy applied inside the club.

宀 has been imagined by a group of music and audiophile enthusiasts who have chosen a Funktion One soundsystem in a room carefully engineered by one of the region's leading experts in acoustics.

「宀」是一個位於香港中心地帶的全新音樂場地，宗旨在於希望能夠透過精心挑選的電子音樂以及其他文化藝術活動，將人們聚集起來。這個能夠容納100人左右的場地，不只將帶來國際型的表演者，也將會成為亞太區、本地菁英的培育地。

「宀」這個中文字的部首在不同國家有不同的發音，在字形上像是一個屋頂、一個藏身處。這是一個你/妳可以自在表現自己的地方。這是一個你/妳可以盡情跳舞的地方。這是一個你/妳可以找尋人生的地方。這是一個歡迎所有種族、性別、性傾向認同的地方。為了保護這樣的宗旨，在這裡禁止所有拍照攝影的行為。

「宀」的靈感啟發是來自於一群熱愛音樂及音響系統的同好，也因此他們選擇了Funktion One音響，並精準的由香港一位傳音效果專家特別為這個場地量身訂製調整而成。

MIX055 - WC7 (上海) [Live At Host]

宀 Club