Name: OMG feat. Vela Seff by Modulaw
Duration: 2 min 14 s
Description: The producer duo Modulaw & Xzavier Stone have worked with collaborators, both new and familiar faces, to create the soundtrack for «SPEED». Over the course of eight songs, the artists reinterpret the energy of the fast-paced and playful nature of «SPEED», thereby adding a sonic dimension to the drops world.

Taken from Miedo Total (@miedototal) new EP Augury By Birds, out January 19, 2022, via UNIZONE (@unizonelabel)

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Miedo Total’s latest work Augury By Birds is a collection of funereal and unnerving tracks that navigate themes of obsession, death anxiety and superstition. Written during the early months of 2020, Augury By Birds manifests as four tracks that meander between kinetic sound objects and hymn-like compositions. The EP’s title refers to a fixation with predicting the future brought on by a consuming fear of death and explores a traditional idea that the behaviours of birds could be read as omens. 

The release features 3 remixes from KMRU (@kamarujoseph), Xiu Xiu (@xiu-xiu-music) and Flora Yin-Wong (@floraytw).

Visuals by Alexander Comana

Mastering by Wim Dehaen

Released by UNIZONE

Premiere: Miedo Total - Suffer [UNIZONE]

LIL ZOID - MAGMA (ORIGINAL)

The producer duo Modulaw & Xzavier Stone have worked with collaborators, both new and familiar faces, to create the soundtrack for «SPEED». Over the course of eight songs, the artists reinterpret the energy of the fast-paced and playful nature of «SPEED», thereby adding a sonic dimension to the drops world.

Put It On feat. Lateena

OMG feat. Vela Seff

Written and produced by @ragazzaxxi and @djfuccimexico
Mixed by Ragazza XXI
Mastered by Lorenzo Targhetta
Photography by Ragazza XXI
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℗ & © 2023 Promesses

"Ragazza XXI is back on Promesses with his second project: 'Canasta mexicana de rolas'. After a vast exploration of latin rhythms two years ago with 'La Flor de Jimulco', Ragazza XXI’s intention on his sophomore new release was to shift towards a more homogeneous blend of experimental Tribal and Guaracha. To push further on the experimentation, he decided to feature a different artist on each track (DJ Fucci, Marara Kelly, El irreal Veintiuno, acabesitos, chiasme and Climate Collapse), in hopes of expanding his production methods and delivering an unexpected result."

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Ragazza XXI - 01-800 ft. DJ Fucci

Boomkat Product Review:

Heavy-duty Indian soundsystem carnage by its leading proponent DJ Smiley Bobby, on Uganda’s immense NNT - unmissable for anyone wowed by recent videos of Indian sound clashes, priming the label for incoming heat by DJ TSR.

A proper mazza from Maharashtra State in Western India, DJ Smiley Bobby’s ‘Dhol Tasha Drum Exercises’ presents nearly an hour of up-to-the-second, electronic re-interpretations of ceremonial drums. It’s a full-frontal example of the rave energies in BRIC countries currently catching fire internationally, paralleling innovative mutations of Baile funk in Brazil or from the Svbkvlt lot in China with a ruthlessly rough brand of dancefloor discipline that sharply bends tradition into the hot present. Yr ears will not deceive you - DJ Smiley Bobby’s gear is frankly some of the sickest we’ve heard in a minute and we expect this introduction to be prized by any ravers unsatisfied with Western club music’s increasing tendencies to imitate-not-innovate.

First formed by the late Shri Appasaheb Pendse in the ‘60s, Dhol Tasha Drum exercises were originally performed on a sort of acoustic kettle drum but became electronically adapted in recent years thanks to the likes of DJ Smiley Bobby and peers including DJ Aasif, DJ Ammy, and DJ TSR, the latter of whom is due to drop an album with NNT this year. DJ Smiley Bobby’s introductory session finds the sound at its stripped down and breathless best with a ceaseless battery of drums and percussive madness that truly puts willing bodies thru their paces as the mixtape steps from side A’s 90-110bpm workout to its 150bpm ‘Hard Drum Sound System’ on the flip.

Also kinda mirroring the way DJ Plead has flipped Arabic drum styles, how Bilou XIV have transposed Senegalese mbalax drum patterns onto machine grids, or DJ Diaki’s Malian balani knee-ups, we’re certain this one will light up the pleasure centres of proper dancers everywhere, and dovetail with the sort of thing Beatrice Dillon makes, or anyone who’s been scouting zones where Indian bhangra and UK rave music bump fists, a la Mick St. Clair’s remixes of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

Un-fucking-missable!!!

DJ SMILEY BOBBY - Dhol Tasha Drum Exercises from Maharashtra (sampler)

lil sumthin cause I felt like it.

project soon.....

WalkBIH [JUKe]

Taken from SBKT057: mmph - Harvest

Release date: 26th April 2023

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It's been five years since Korean-born, Los Angeles-based sound designer and composer Sae Heum Han, aka mmph, released his last EP Serenade on the Tri Angle label in flurry of activity. "Harvest" arrives after an unintentional pause; three years ago, Han was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that immediately changed his priorities. Bedridden and exhausted from medication, he was only able to work on music for around an hour each day - the rest of his time was swallowed by rest and precarious trips to hospital in the midst of a global pandemic. Now in remission, Han looks back on this period as a time of emotional evolution where the ideas behind "Harvest" could be unravelled. The album emerges from his desire to reconnect with the Korean music he heard when he was growing up in Seoul, using these discernible timbres as building blocks to decorate with his advanced palette of electronic sounds and processes.

Han's music has always balanced precariously between the rigor of classical training and the relative open-endedness of electronic experimentation. This duality is still present on "Harvest", but Han's canvas has widened slightly. He continues to blur the line between the traditional and the modern, emulating and mirroring Korean instruments with synthesizers and sound design elements, and blending them with acoustic sounds and live percussion samples. But where his previous records and scoring work highlighted his ability to weave baroque forms into tight, contemporary sonic tapestries, this album adds the drama, yearning and spirituality of folk. On 'Dialogue' for example, pitch-warped traditional vocals twist through an ensemble of bizarre future-ancient sounds; fluttering strings dissolve into spiked percussive barbs and synthesized wails cut through walls of industrial noise.

'Spirit' follows quickly, coaxing listeners into a trance state with its flurry of microtonal string plucks and irregular percussion. Han is a master of breath control, letting his brief moments of negative space interrupt any expected regularity and guide the track away from electronic music's expected grid. This just about prepares the ground for the title track, a labyrinthine maze of dramatic compositional motifs and dizzying sonics that mutates from gugak forms into a cacophony of pneumatic blast beats before snapping back. From here the album lurches towards the dancefloor for a moment, absorbing and contorting cantankerous club rhythms on 'Avnue' and 'Moon Jar', slowing to a crawl on 'Harvest II'. Despite hijacking its theme from the title track's blast beat section, it transforms into a ballad, acting as a fittingly tearjerking finale.

The record is rounded off by a trio of remixes that draw Han further into the SVBKVLT family. Egyptian producer ABADIR chops up 'Harvest' and reassembles it into a jerky banger, extracting its dancefloor potential and evolving hardstyle thuds into spectral concertina flexes. 'Moon Jar' meanwhile is turned into twitchy trance by Shade Seoul's NET GALA, and Yen Tech stitches together 'Avnue' and 'Dialogue', creating an anxious backdrop that shuttles mmph's android folk to the modern metropolis.

Artwork by Sae Heum Han
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Harvest

mmph - Moon Jar (NET GALA New Simmian Remix)

The second single taken from Ans M's debut album 'Cicada Lullaby'.

Pre-order the full release now:
https://ans-m.bandcamp.com/album/cicada-lullaby

Cicada Lullaby is out on June 2nd 2023.
Written and produced by Ans M @anssss
Mastered by Harry Murdoch

Cicada Lullaby

Bandcamp

Ans M - Hypogean

POUR IT OUT (DEVIL MIX)

Artist: Xiao Quan
Title: Connection
Mix & Master: Xiao Quan
Artwork: Gabriel Massan
Label: FunctionLab & Indieworks

The name Xiao Quan sparks a question mark and confuses tons of listeners. His nationality, cultural background and behaviour are topics that everyone who knows him for the first time want to talk about. Those are also the themes he is more than happy to play with in his music. In fact, he has lived in Shenzhen, China for two years, when Oil Club wasn‘t even open.

Cultural symbols from Asia and Africa have appeared more and more frequently in world’s art scenes in recent years, although the status of self-consumption in content and consumption by the Western world is still unchangeable in a short time. As a producer from São Paulo, Xiao Quan’s "Connection" EP uses a generalized and concrete way to create cultural symbols as he operates them and make them sound normal and casual, which is impossible for many original creators of culture, especially in mainland China, which is almost derailed from its tradition now. Xiao Quan is just like us (Chinese people and producers), absorbing and using a large amount of information from around the world.

"Connection" EP is undoubtedly based on the Xiao Quan-style black humor, and the connection with the Asian and African culture he deeply loves. Unlike in the past, he really participated as a member of Asian culture through FunctionLab this time. From the first sound of "Rolling Barrel”, like the sound of a dragon coming out of the fog, drums from Asia and Africa came through and wore it to the end, warm and obscure. Does the rough Chinese vocal sample appearing in the track puzzle you? This is the voice that Xiao Quan doesn't understand very much but crazy in love with. The fun is self-evident. As for elaborate arrangements and superb production techniques, these have never been the case for Xiao Quan.

Welcome to the wild and lovely dancing world of Xiao Quan.

3 Xiao Quan - New Ties

MDLW - THE SONGWEAVER

Merlin Modulaw is a sonic architect who constructs immersive worlds and identities through the medium of sound. His artistic endeavors encompass a diverse array of approaches, spanning composition, production, performance, multimedia works and spatial audio. 

From an early age, his fascination with the convergence of various influences fueled a quest for innovation.
He seamlessly blends experimental electronic music and sound art with classical composition, contemporary rap, dancehall, and R&B, along with regional club-music styles. This unconventional fusion reveals the underlying parallels, forging a musical language that defies traditional boundaries.
Guided by a keen ear for innovative sound design and a talent for captivating performances across various mediums, Modulaw's artistic vision takes tangible form. Whether presenting acousmatic experiences, DJ-sets, performances, sound installations, or his own musical creations, he consistently pushes the limits of his artistic expression.

Having studied sound design and electroacoustic composition, Modulaw's creative exploration extends beyond the realm of music. He ventures into new territories such as videoworks and print, expanding the boundaries of his creative expression.

OMG feat. Vela Seff

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