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After another weary year, allow us to soak your digital tendrils in our tepid aural ooze – a sonic silicone secretion to reboot the limbic system to its most primal state of ecstasy.

INDEX0X0XL is the second release of our pan-sensory bouquet, distilled to provoke and whet our deepest of lusts. An atomised, sway-inducing solution to seduce and ensnare the most sated souls, thru an intoxicating rhapsody of notes – a Venus in slurs.

The tracks will be available as 'pay as you feel' on Valentine's Day 2022. There will also be love inspiring merch to accompany the compilation: a colour-customisable, individually handmade INDEXOXOXL dildo by xoxo.dilco. Head to Bandcamp to order, or send us a dm.

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Mastered by @ikezwanikken
Artwork by @kingsofty
Curated by @connaharaway & @kingsofty

INDEXOXOXL

dildos n digis

vase – Ache

Here's a remix I did for my good friend Drew, FaltyDL. Keeping it old school.

FaltyDL - Rolling (µ-Ziq Remix)

dummy tree - no dream long weekend

01. (soundcheck)
02. A Wrestler's Prayer
03. Room of Ladders 

Digital + Limited 'Clamshell' CD
@yunzero + @josephbuchan + @bdyclock

Absorb presents the debut EP by 'dummy tree', the interlocked, ambient strong of Melbourne's Jim Sellars (Yunzero), Jordan Obarzanek (Body Clock, OBA, Cloud Ice 9), and Joseph Buchan (Other Joe).

Three improvisational live cuts form the super-group’s first release, all pinched from their dovetailed performance at the ABSORBED festival in 2024. It was 4:30pm, they were backlit by the afternoon sun. Through these longform recordings, each member of dummy tree can be heard intimately, testing dynamics in turn and introducing surprising amounts of drama. There are guitars, both acoustic and electric, competing with synthesisers and woodwind instruments that build from a murmur into whole walls of sound. The drowsy atmospherics are akin to early Seefeel or Windy & Carl, although careful listeners will also pick up crumbs that trace back to the extensive catalogue of works made by Sellars, Obarzanek and Buchan individually.

You'll find the music of dummy tree to be more disarming than any of the aforementioned, a special project that is worth celebrating in its infancy, and to watch out for while it grows.

1 x mono DI
1 x stereo DI
2 x SM57

Recorded live at ABSORBED III, Miscellania, on March 9 2024.
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyqGG0qdR9k

Mixed & Mastered by Joseph Buchan
Engineered by Alex Mraz
Artwork by Sam Horman
Video by Dogmilk Films
Words by Kavil Patel
ABSORB04

01 (soundcheck)

The newest release from 29 Speedway, UltraBody, is a compilation record featuring the music of Jake Muir, Pent & Dylan Kerr, Nexcyia & mu tate, James K, Flora Yin-Wong, Ex Wiish & Dorothy Carlos, Kamran Sadeghi, Tati au Miel, James Hoff, Eric Frye, qwqwqwqwa & sop.io, Muein, & Maxwell Sterling. The record is emblematic of the artists who have performed at 29 Speedway shows in New York and Europe during the past two years, and is the third in a series released by the label.

The record investigates how the self, spirituality, and language are intertwined with the intervention of subjectivity by new technologies. With increasingly sophisticated tech, and the supposed ability to remake the world and ourselves, what differentiates our individual discretion from the will imposed upon us by software? Quoting Walter Chaw, “Decades of rampant, unregulated and ill-considered technological leaps have begun to evolve, to mutate, humans at a biological level”. This haphazard acceleration towards a techno-utopic transformation of humanity has faulted, and as William Gibson put it, is leading us to live in a “half assed singularity”. In this reality, artistic processes are influenced by excessive access to computational tools and assistance, but not utterly controlled.

This in-between state of dominion is explored on UltraBody. “Incoherences” samples the utterances of Dylan Kerr’s voice processed between Pent’s percolated glazes, muddying the gulf between vaporous ambient and reflexive sound design. The voice on James Hoff’s “A... ...Cha.... A... I feel l” was created by trying to get voice cloning technology to sing a gps data stream, the music an extrapolation from an earworm he got stuck in his head while shopping in Kyoto. On “Plogue Chain”, Eric Frye’s most speculative sci-fi observations spiral into a glazed pool of digital cacophony, while Kamran Sadeghi’s “Formula Fiction” is an experiment in (un)controlled generativity. Incorporating minimal pings from a 3D simulation scene based on gravitational interaction, cello bits evolve on “Assimilation”, a collaboration between Ex Wiish & Dorothy Carlos.

On UltraBody, sound has no separate existence from space.

James K - Sketch 4

Match Fixer - Take 3 (SER002)

Dischorealism was initially intended to be a conceptual work about ”milk” but we quickly got tired of the idea and the result was partly something completely different. Nevertheless, partly the same in the sense of sucking the life out of somebody, exploiting and over consuming trust in any form. Dischorealism explores the cost of dual nature and circulates around themes such as friendship, sex, violence and drug abuse.

Dischorealism is IMAGE and SOUND and a collaboration between Vanligt Folk and videoartist Tobias Toyberg. This is the SOUND part of the collaboration.

Handmade jewel case art by Phantom Whistle.

Physical edition released on January 18th 2025 at Skeppet GBG. Limited to 300 copies.

DISCHORA

Persistence of vision refers to the optical phenomenon whereby an image continues to appear in the view for a brief instant after exposure to the original image has ceased. This effect arises from retinal afterimages, often referred to as "retinal persistence", by photoreceptors, filtered by the central nervous system, which remain active slightly beyond the cessation of the stimulus.
I imagined that this process could also be present in listening to music: a sound that could remain in our perception even after we have stopped listening to it.
Persistence of visioni s a project of re-visiting a raga of Indian classical and religious music (Raga Abhogi) using western instruments in an experimental perspective .
Claudi Gabbiani: acoustic and electric guitar

Roberto Zorzi: electric guitar and dobro

Roberto Musci: acoustic guitar, tamboura, Tibetan bells, angklung, voice

Digital distribution : Just-Breathe


Persistence of vision

adapa

Equiknoxx are one of the hottest, most innovative dancehall squads from Jamaica right now; Bird Sound Power is their debut collective show of strength, packing 12 avant, crooked riddims by core members Gavsborg and Time Cow, plus Bobby Blackbird and Kofi Knoxx, with vocals by Kemikal, Shanique Marie and J.O.E. (R.I.P).
The set was parsed and pieced together by Jon K & Demdike Stare , and now thanks to link ups via Swing Ting’s Balraj Samrai (a longtime livicated supporter), it is issued on Demdike’s DDS imprint, replete with Jon K’s sleeve design.
Easily identified by the squawking bird idents peppering their cuts, Equiknoxx productions have been big in the dance since Gavin Blair a.k.a. Gavsborg produced Busy Signal’s billboard hit Step Out in 2005, followed by key instrumentals for Beenie Man, Aidonia, Masicka, and T.O.K. - with many released on 7” thru their Equiknoxx Musiq label, and some of which, such as Aidonia’s Negative, are included in this set.
Bird Sound Power arguably marks up the most striking riddim album you’ll hear from JA in 2016, weighted with the potential to open up perceptions of current dancehall thanks to the mad character and broad reference points of its producers, encompassing King Jammy’s foundational digi-dub and Dave Kelly’s Mad House sound as much as rugged New York hip hop and the wigged-out, feminine pressure of Virginia Beach’s Timbaland or The Neptunes.
The oldest tune inside dates to 2009, but the rest are relatively recent dancehall mutations, including a number of exclusives produced in the last 12 months. Each one reps for Equiknoxx’s unique aspects, such as Jordan Chung a.k.a. Time Cow’s brilliantly bizarre, layered arrangements of film samples, sawn-off hooks and digi-tight beats, whilst also a result of as their distinguished family vibe,
Bird Sound Power exists in a paradox, contemporary but classic, and with as much potential to turn new heads onto current JA sounds as Mowax’s Now Thing set back in 2001, which remains a key touchstone for all fwd looking producers..

Bird Sound Power

Peanut Porridge

behavioral shutdown model

dɛ koŏning

OKS004 "Pawel's Bar - Cantina"

A1 Dub Prejudice
A2 Tardigrade Dub
A3 Algo Rydim
B1 Insert Into Dub
B2 Point Of View
B3 Pawel's Band

Design by Profi Aesthetics
Masted by Sam John

OK SPIRIT 2020, Frankfurt am Main

Pawel's Bar - Cantina

BOOKING: warren.morris@theplayground.co.uk