DAWN016)
100 limited copies
@gargantuang
Produced by Gargantuan Grief
Mastered by @lastrackqlf
Photos by GG and Hajj
Design by @hadji-hajj
Dawn 2022

Gargantuan Grief - Leave Those Doomed Coordinates

words from @tatiaumiel: 

ᴇᴛᴇʀɴᴀʟʟʏ ᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴀᴄʀᴇᴅ ᴍᴜꜱɪᴄ
ᴀ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀꜰᴜʟ ꜰᴏʀᴄᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴛʀᴀᴠᴇʟꜱ ʙᴇʏᴏɴᴅ ᴅɪꜱᴛᴀɴᴄᴇꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ꜰʀᴇQᴜᴇɴᴄɪᴇꜱ
ɪᴍᴘᴀᴄᴛꜰᴜʟ ᴘʀᴀᴄᴛɪᴄᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʜᴀꜱ ᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇᴅ ᴏᴜʀ ᴇxɪꜱᴛᴇɴᴄᴇ
ᴜɴᴘʀᴇᴅɪᴄᴛᴀʙʟᴇ ᴍᴏᴍᴇɴᴛꜱ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴀʀᴇ ʙᴜʀɪᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ꜱᴏᴜɴᴅ

Thank you Montez Press Radio for inviting me to curate “ETERNAL AND SACRED”. A 10 hour broadcast [...] featuring mixes and live acts exploring experimental, classical, and deconstructed soundscapes from some of my all-time favourite artists.

ETERNAL AND SACRED - LOKA (24 March 2023, Live @ Montez Press Radio)

ludwig wandinger - blood

‘Inflatable Gravestone’ is the debut album by Mun Sing (aka Giant Swan’s Harry Wright).

The motivating force of the album is the sudden loss of Harry’s father in 2020. His father struggled with substance addiction and the album explores ideas of 'spirituality' and the ‘higher self’ in relation to addiction and its parallels with the coping mechanisms of grief. It also aims to highlight the importance of humour and distraction when coping with loss.

Serving as a narrative for his own experiences, the album is largely built around club-centred tracks (such as ‘Spider’ and ’Squabble’) broken up by moments of yearning and reflection in tracks like ’The Poison Garden’ and ‘Helhest (Azrael Smirks)’ and moments of dark anguish like 'Inheritor' with its heavy slab-like chords and pensive piano. Flirting with awkward and suggestive rhythms, Wright deliberately suspends moments of resolution and groove in favour of drama and jerky, unexpected cartoonish humour, taking as much influence from the likes of the Art Of Noise as Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. 

Wright rewards the listener with moments of clarity and introspection like flags on the journey, recruiting vocalist MX World to deliver lyrics and melodic ideas created by him and his father. His father’s journals in rehab helped inform most of the lyrics. Some take whole sentences as a way to physically ‘give life’ to his words for the first time. The lyrics describe feelings, revelations and  apocalyptic hallucinations. MX World's clear, direct tone suggests folk music and the timelessness of the human condition.

The album concludes with the title track ‘Inflatable Gravestone’ which features a chorus of giddy manipulated laughter from Wright’s friends and family to a truly maddening effect. This is then resolved by bright and clear piano chords and the sound of Wright’s father breathing in his sleep. A deeply affecting and personal record with corkscrew twists and turns and a healthy dose of absurdism.
releases June 2, 2023

All tracks written and produced by Harry Wright. Lyrics by Harry Wright, except track 10 lyrics by Harry Wright and William Wright. Lead vocals by MX World. Additional vocals by Nashne, Akiko Haruna and Mouse.

Mastered by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven Mastering.

Published by Domino Publishing.

Inflatable Gravestone

Mossambi makes his return to All Centre to follow up the stunning debut Resurf EP from the beginning of 2023. On The AI Told Me To, he delivers 3 more experimental techno exertions backed by a heavy-duty club remix from Holloway.

Reptate opens proceedings with otherworldly vocals stuttering over Mossambi’s distinctively inventive sound design. The track enters an off-kilter, compelling groove composed of deep kicks, growling subs and snippets of microtonal melodies, building up and playing out like an extra-dimensional take on dubstep.

The title track keeps up the momentum with deep kicks and shuffling hats, allowing a lush choral pad to stutter and proliferate amongst the percussive intricacies. The chord is manipulated, filtered and triggered in unpredictable patterns as the track progresses, keeping the listener on their toes whilst Mossambi holds down a transfixing groove.

Mossambi’s final track, Miscellaneous Vegetable Platter, slows things down to a hypnotic 110 bpm pace. A disorienting blend of scrambled vocals, fried digital synths and dubbed-out bass and chord hits are kept in check by steady drums, whilst a frenzied snare roll pushes and pulls at the track’s intensity as the track progresses, crafting an engrossing low-tempo workout.

Holloway translates Mossambi’s glitched vocals and heady sound design onto a ferocious four-to-the-floor groove. A warbling bassline bubbles underneath driving percussion, whilst a syncopated hard house siren brings the energy levels to a fever pitch.

The AI Told Me To

Mossambi - The AI Told Me To [ACEN056]

𝘿𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙤 𝙖𝙡𝙜𝙪𝙣𝙤𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙤𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙡 𝙋𝙚𝙟𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙮, 𝙦𝙪𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙮 𝙨𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙣 𝙖 𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙩𝙚, "𝙎𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝘿𝙪𝙗" 𝙣𝙤𝙨 𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙖 𝙖𝙡 𝙉𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙋𝙚𝙯 𝙙𝙚𝙡 2020 𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙫𝙤𝙨 𝙢á𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙜𝙪𝙤𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙡 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙤...

𝙇𝙖𝙨 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙪𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙣 𝙚𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙖𝙙𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙡 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙚 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙧𝙤 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙖 𝙨𝙚𝙜𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙖 𝙑𝙞𝙙𝙖, 𝙖𝙡 𝙢á𝙭𝙞𝙢𝙤 𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙡 𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙢𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙤.

𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚, 𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙖 𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙯𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙪𝙣 𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙭 𝙙𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙖 𝙎𝙚𝙥𝙞𝙖 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙨𝙖 𝙨𝙞𝙣 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙨.

-𝙋𝙚𝙟𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙮 𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨-

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Sentimental Dub (Beach Resort Remix)

Hope

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booking : questionmarqdj@gmail.com ☆
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GODSPEED - quest?onmarq

DJ Pitch founder of TT (fka Tobago Tracks) and All Centre scoures the outer-reaches of the internet for an hour on Kiosk Radio.

DJ Pitch @ Kiosk Radio 08.05.2024

qetsy intviews NN - 09/05/2024

"In Perpetuum [20 - Min Excerpt For Sonic Agency]"

ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ

Aki Traar is a producer and sound designer from Vienna. His productions seamlessly merge genre features of post-club, industrial and hip-hop, with a strong focus on sound design, using the personal computer as a limitless musical instrument. The fast-paced digital world and internet culture as well as local influences and mythical stories inform and shape his musical worlds.

https://soundcloud.com/aki6
https://akitraar.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/akitraar/

🌿 ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ꜱᴏɴɪᴄ ᴀɢᴇɴᴄʏ

Spurred on by the acuteness of current global events, we are raising our voices in solidarity with the oppressed, the tortured, the silenced, and the unheard. While humanity is at stake, and our values are on trial, in moments of despair, rage and endless grief, acts of solidarity are needed more than ever. The events that shake Palestine and Israel are resulting in an ever-tighter spiral of violence and desperation. They are a horrific wake-up call that brutally brings the precarious situation on our planet to the fore. The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, and Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians are intolerable. On top of that, the military actions threaten the lives of the remaining hostages in the Gaza-Strip, and even more innocent people in Gaza.

…being together, in community

Read the full curatorial statement here
strumandiodine.com/article/sonic-agency/

SONIC AGENCY - AKI TRAAR - "In Perpetuum"

New EP 'Frolic' out 7th Feb 2025 on Illegal Data:
https://illegaldata.bandcamp.com/album/mun-sing-frolic-ep

Debut album 'Inflatable Gravestone' released 02-06-23 on Planet Mu:
https://munsing.bandcamp.com/album/inflatable-gravestone

LIVE Asia/Australia/Europe 2024 >>

26 October / ALL Club w/ Yves Tumor / Shanghai, CHINA
30 October / Wall & Wall / Tokyo, JAPAN
31 October / ENTER [DJ SET] / Tokyo, JAPAN
01 November / FINAL / Taipei, TAIWAN
02 November / OIL / Shenzhen, CHINA
07 November / Phoenix Central Park / Sydney, AUSTRALIA
08 November / Grace Darling Hotel / Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
09 November / Catalog Music / Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
15 November / Le Station / Paris, FRANCE
22 November / Casino Luxembourg / LUXEMBOURG 
30 November / Ormside Projects / London, ENGLAND


Management/Bookings >> joe@qujunktions.com
Lols >> mmuunnssiinngg@gmail.com
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Inflatable Gravestone

MUN SING