https://sophiazhuravkova.bandcamp.com/album/land

Juniper

Bright Kiss Of Fire from the forth coming record ' The Ghost Of Georges Bataille" By Drew McDowall & Hiro Kone

Drew McDowall and Hiro Kone’s collaborative record "The Ghost of Georges Bataille" induces a state of suspense via sonic seance. Conjuring the sentiment of death as productive force, the artists join their analog paradigms to open a door elsewhere, or perhaps, inside - sublimating personal struggles into ritualistic offerings. Churning, cinematic, and pulsating with an organic sentience - The Ghost of Georges Bataille invites an undeniable presence into the consciousness and lulls both collectors and the newly inducted alike into catharsis - with the hairs on their arms standing up. Not for the casual listener.

Artwork by Tauba Auerbach
Written Produced and Recorded by Drew McDowall & Hiro Kone
Mixed by Hiro Kone
Mastered by Josh Bonati
Published by BANK Records NYC

The Ghost Of Georges Bataille

Drew McDowall X Hiro Kone - Bright Kiss Of Fire (BNK-013)

Taken from:

Jay Glass Dubs - Plegnic [E039] 
Out on vinyl and digital on Ecstatic Recordings
07/09/2018

Jay Glass Dubs sublimates Athenian distress and ennui into plasmic dub ether on ‘Plegnic’, his lushly evolved 1st collection of new material for Ecstatic, following from their acclaimed, 2LP ‘Dubs’ [2017] set of his earliest, hard-to-find tape releases. 

Deconstructing and rebuilding Jamaican dub with musique concrete production methods and a lingering air of inspiration from new age and Laïko, or Greek popular music, on ‘Plegnic’ Jay Glass Dubs fascinatingly evolves his sound with richer melodic and harmonic arrangements in a concerted effort to bridge and expand the nostalgic, esoteric and dancefloor dimensions of his unique sound world.

The key to the record lies in its title, ‘Plegnic’; an extinct word meaning “to strike like a hammer”, as well as its palpable sense of nostalgia. In this archaic context, JGD uses vintage machines and obsolete samples into junction with vocals from Yorgia Karidi - sound artist and coincidentally former beau of his childhood neighbour, and Andreas Kassapis one of his oldest friends, who provides the cover art - to conjure a strikingly new, mutated take on classic and well-trodden styles; metaphorically and anachronistically renewing their purpose while connoting his newfound dancefloor drive in the process.

Recording took place at his mother’s house in the Athens suburbs, with Fugazi’s ‘Steady Diet of Nothing’ on repeat. It was here that he dug out an old Juno, a Yamaha RX5 drum computer, and some “…crappier equipment” that provides the structural scaffold to his array of nostalgic, melancholic Laïka samples, which could be considered the ghost in the shell or the diffused soul of this superb five part crop.

On the A-side he sets out to spook with the desiccated, teetering steppers motion of ‘Temple Dub’ featuring heavily processed vox by Yorgia Karidi, but the heady nostalgia takes over with a sublime tactility in the vaulted chorales and endless reverb tails of ‘Umbro Dub’, and again in the aching sehnsucht of ‘Mouthless Dub’, where traces of Laïka’s bouzouki melodies most beautifully glimmer thru. 

However, the B-side is far more upfront and up-for-it, firstly putting his weight behind the cranky skank of ‘Dry Dub’ with its hexagonal drums and acidic bass squirm, then in the super squashed swagger of ‘Fearless Dub’, a near 10 minutes long pinnacle of his dancefloor output to date.

Ultimately Jay Glass Dubs’ music is riddled with the kind of nostalgia that can make an unfamiliar piece of music feel like an intense déjà entendu, like you’ve heard it before in a dream or some altered state. That’s a rare and precious thing.

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JAY GLASS DUBS - TEMPLE DUB [E039]

A1 from the upcoming "Wave Idea" (Lillerne #110) CS out early April '19 :)

Jung Deejay - Miyu Pattern

Following the comprehensive introduction Le Raccourci, Julien Dechery delves further into Sebastian Gandera’s seemingly endless archive to present Contre-Sens. Culling from various cassette albums, rehearsal tapes, demos and answering machine recordings, the two part mix collages some of the French composer’s earliest work, when the sampler was a core component of his apparatus; tender passages disrupted by moments of lunacy. Returning the source material to it’s intended form, the physical release is limited to 100 metallic silver C60s, with sleeve design from Steele Bonus.

Exclusive to Efficient Space, Commend (New York), Balades Sonores (Paris) and Skydiver (Melbourne)

SEBASTIAN GANDERA - Contre Sens (Excerpt) (ES008.5) OUT NOW

From "Ses Kondi" cassette album.
Released on ORILA records, summer 2019.
https://soundcloud.com/orila
orilarecords.bandcamp.com/album/ses-kondi

Ses Kondi

Lord

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/altered-state-tapes-share-two-tracks-from-new-antonio-and-yl-hooi-releases

Pursuing in their tradition of ballsy swagger and punk-minded take on the fringes of club and non-club music, @altered-states-tapes round off 2019 with an ever excitingly diverse batch of pumped-up music to knock your senses askew and further dreamy, off-kilter delicacies sure to have the home systems wading in subdued psychedelia.

YL Hooi - W/O Love [Altered States Tapes]

Russian sonic marauders Flaty & OL serve up the second edition of their SERWED project for West Mineral. 

Distributed by Boomkat
Vinyl & Digital out MARCH 2020


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Initial 2                  (2:29)
Plastm                   (4:29)
Save vs. Spell       (3:24)
Grip                       (3:56)
In Spare                (2:40)
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Lima                      (2:31)
Shade Lyra           (4:49)
Live Cut 01.06.19 (1:35)
Plane                     (4:54)
Promises               (4:11)


www.westmineral.ltd
www.serwed.com
OL www.soundcloud.com/moneyisagas
Flaty www.soundcloud.com/producedbyflaty

Serwed – Serwed II (OUEST093) [Preview]

Plafond 6 — Cucina Povera & Haron (LP)

Vinyl/digital: bakk.bandcamp.com/album/plafond-6
Vinyl/distribution (Clone): https://clone.nl/item59834.html

A	Cucina Povera & Haron — Riffittelyä (21:43)
B1	Haron — Maandag, Spiegeldag (6:47)
B2	Cucina Povera — Ajatus (9:26)

Plafond enters its second decade with Cucina Povera and Haron fusing the folkloric and futurist. Maria Rossi and Haron Aumaj (real names) honour musical cinematism on ‘Riffittelyä’, which slowly unfolds during a twenty-two minute trail of exploration, angst and redemption. Meddling voices pinch through an aural mist, Kubrickesque strings impend and cathedral organs relevate. Most striking is the compatibility of Rossi’s tangibility and Aumaj’s computerisation, seamlessly forming a renewed dynamic, as granular as it is loose in texture.

During this unique first collaboration it can be quickly forgotten both artists have highly distinctive styles. We are reminded of these singularities on the other half of the record, featuring two solo works, both rich yet contrasting in their colour and emotion. On ‘Maandag, Spiegeldag’, Aumaj sketches in orange chromatics, a featherweight composition that feels far away from the greyscale fragility that Rossi portrays on ‘Ajatus’. Showcasing two minimalist artists catapulted by their stunning debut albums, this sixth Plafond keeps the listener in constant awe, pointing us to the endless potential of spontaneity.

Comes in Pantone printed outer sleeve with deep red and yellow topped with a silk screened black and a soft pink inner sleeve, wrapped in a dreamy blue Obi-strip printed with white and black, by the BAKK Fuzz Factory.

Music: Maria Rossi @cucinapovera / Haron Aumaj @wivah
Mastering: Wouter Brandenburg
Design: Mike Kokken and Ruben Verkuylen
Words: Luke Cohlen @lukecohlen

BAKKPlafond6 | Cucina Povera & Haron (LP)

'Hebdamu' taken from the EP 'Shifting Values' by Neinzer for Where To Now? Records.

Release Date : 11.09.20

wheretonow.bandcamp.com/album/shifting-values

Limited handmade 12" EP with Obi print strictly limited to 150 Copies.
Sleeve artwork by Nicola Tirabasso.

Tracklist
1. Traum'a
2. Nabi
3. Rassalin
4. Hebdamu
5. Cause Pan Tact Insoluble

Following up 12”s for AD 93 (formerly known as Whities), Timedance, International black, and Yume, Neinzer lands with Where To Now? for a suite of leftfield slow steppers and deep melancholic psychedelia. Having been quietly turning heads for the last few years Neinzer cuts an interesting figure in today’s electronic landscape as someone whose creations walk the lines of heavy, otherworldly, hypnotic Techno, explored by the likes of Avalon Emerson, Metrist, the Hessle Audio crew etc, whilst maintaining a gauzy, acid washed dreamy quality which recalls the work of more restrained, melodic electronica stalwarts such as Floating Points, Four Tet, Clark, etc. Neinzer’s work stands apart from all of these touch points however by utilising an often tense & unstable approach to sound design, but always injecting his worlds with huge flashes of melody, joy, and power.

We dive in with heads down intent on the opener ‘Traum’a’. Deep pads and quick paced percussive flurries shuffle below detuned piano keys, bringing an almost jazzwise leaning to the dance. Next, we lean back with ‘Nabi’, where Neinzer flexes his electroacoustic influences and explores tone & tension by melding a natural pallet of human sound with synthesized pressure to create a unique and destabilising piece.

‘Rassalin’ brings the Machine Funk and slows things right down with dizzying effect, deeply swinging its way with gritty intent through a trembling landscape on the brink of collapse. From here on out, Neinzer shifts his previous beat led focus towards something more psychedelic and exploratory – on ‘Hebdamu’ we find flourishing swathes of freeform melodic beauty build and build, snaking around the precise percussive hallmarks of Neinzer’s sound world, and ‘Shifting Values’ ends with the gloriously dubbed out experimentation of ‘Cause Pan Tact Insoluble’ – coming off like Adrian Sherwood jamming with Popol Vuh.

Neinzer - Hebdamu

‘Feeling’ is taken from Leila’s uber-classic debut album ‘Like Weather’, originally released on Aphex Twin and Grant Wilson-Claridge's Rephlex label in 1998 and -  for our money - one of the most quietly influential records of the late 20th century. Newly remastered by Rashad Becker and available for the first time ever on any digital platform, 'Feeling’ is impossibly contemporary, landing somewhere between the asymmetric soul of Mica Levi/Tirzah and the squashed, fluorescent pop of Yves Tumor. The re-mastered reissue of Like Weather will be available Nov 20th on Vinyl, CD and Download formats.

Leila - Feeling (Rashad Becker Remaster)

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