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March 2019, Iceland, Catartsis & Ida traverse vast expanses of snow and ice. All ears with microphones in hand, they fade in a multitude of topographies guided by the acoustic subtleties of a melting world. "Ice Collage" lures us into an Arctic fog swollen by the uncanny impression of geo-presences. Recordings of thawing landscapes, lithic crumblings, and breathing geothermal soils animate the 3 tracks of the EP into a blend of bass and ambient music.

Catartsis & Ida – La douce du Leirnuksgvur

Sphaîra

Kairos

Additional mixing by Jacob Rush
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken

claylouis.bandcamp.com/album/orbis

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Reticulat

Available to pre-order from Second Born Bandcamp: https://secondborn.bandcamp.com/album/a-non-equilibrium-thermodynamic-system

Kop-Z first heard the term "A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System" in a book he found in an old junk shop in Manchester city centre for 2 quid. Its describes humans as systems constantly battling the entropy and world’s challenges around us in order to survive:

"Whilst this is true, we are also systems that work together. We think, learn, grow, and create beautiful things like art and music. I love this contrast. There are many similar contrasts in the spaces we inhabit: day and night, love and hate, going to bed at 9 p.m. or 9 a.m.”

He articulates this contrast by juxtaposing vignettes of human life with unrelentingly kinetic probability programming systems. Autobiographical field recordings, manually looped vinyl and childhood video games melt into psychedelic waves of sub-focussed pressure.
Throughout the record, these themes are engaged by a psyche imprinted by influences such as jungle, footwork, noise, rave, post punk, reggae, the Curry Mile and a river in the Peak District. This results in an auditory fabric that interlocks contrasting physical and digital systems across temporal contexts. Rejoicing in the expression of lived human experience, whilst surrendering to the chaos of the machine.

Written and Produced by Daniel Ochieng Odhis Copsey
Mastered by Miles Whittaker of Demdike Stare
Manufacturing by Press On, Middlesborough
Vinyl Background Artwork by Micah Giraudeau
Sticker Artwork by Rose Rukia Achieng Copsey
Distributed by Second Born

SB002: Kop-Z - A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System EP [Previews]

CEM - FORMA
Cat. Nr: DN031
Format: Digital / Transparent LP
Release Date: 28 March, 2025
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/cem

CEM has gained international notoriety over the past years for bewitching club and festival audiences alike with his feverish, polymorphic and richly referential DJ sets. For his debut full-length album, FORMA, the Berlin-based Herrensauna founder momentarily departs the dancefl oor, instead contributing a refl ective and at times menacing compositional study on terror and temporal anachronism for our perplexing times. All six pieces were originally commissioned to accompany Portuguese artist Mauro Ventura’s performative installation of the same name, shown fi rst at the Volksbühne in 2022; the work engaged notions of labor and repetition through a multiplicity of gestural and corporeal interventions. Featured prominently on FORMA are the sound of bells—doorbells, meditative bowls, farm cowbells, Shinto bells—a motif CEM distills repeatedly onto the record to presage and work through both the violent specter of order and discipline, as well as the reparative qualities of harmony and retreat.
Opening the album with poignant synths, granulated bell hits, and double bass string drones is “The Calling”, which summons listeners into a rattling and twisting soundscape that dichotomously channels alertness and serenity at once. “Bells Corrupt”, in turn, transforms the comforting chime of bells into an alarming and insistent pattern as it evolves in pitch and form, recalling the anxious fi lm grammar of Italian giallo legends Lucio Fulci and Dario Argento or Czech animator Jan Švankmajer. “An Industrial Satire” is conceived as an homage to experimentalist Limpe Fuchs, known for her Dadaist use of self-made, metallic instruments and strings. The second part of the piece takes a staggering turn with the addition of ghaita—a Northern Moroccan double reed horn with a series of holes—sampled from the Master Musicians of Joujouka’s collaborative 1971 album with Brian Jones and layered alongside CEM’s own percussion work. The horn elements—linked to the ancient fertility rites of Pan—here culminate in a melodic embodiment of panic and celebration. “Statue Garden” is a minimalist organ drone piece interlaced with fi eld recordings accumulated through the musician’s recent travels across East Asia. Its dexterous balance of stillness and depth provides a contemplative interlude amidst the album’s vigour. The album closes on a provocative note with “The Sincerity Test” that features Berlin-based Lithuanian performance artist Gertrūda Gilytė, whose wry spoken-word intervention mirrors the kind of grotesque, deluded ‘positive affirmations’ that abounds on social media, suggesting a relatedness between narcissistic online speak and the rise of reactionary politics.

CEM is no stranger to the ever-threatening past and present of fascism, having been raised in Vienna within a Turkish-Kurdish immigrant household. FORMA thus emerges as a militant sonic offering and, through its razor-sharp interweaving of atmosphere and texture, conjures a fractured, albeit elegiac, space of possibility wherein time is out of joint and the circular motion of history with a capital H is dizzyingly thrown into disarray. As our world rushes forward into the past, casting dissonant spells might turn out to be our last rempart.

Forma is a series of action painting performances founded and directed by Mauro Ventura with movement direction by the choreographer Kiani del Valle

Track 1 mastered by Raphael Valensi
Track 2-6 mastered by Rashad Becker
Artwork by Niels Wehrspann

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CEM - The Calling

CRUDE Lab w/ Timmyia Vol. 15

EIII - Refraction 2

Here my second album "The Quietest Shade."

Credits:
Music by Adone Giuntini
Mastered by Raär
Artwork by Mandana Sadat

Aedon - Abbreviated Form

Bondefar's Crypt

This short mix of 14 tracks draws from Hiiro Issiki's latest EP ‘Tannins’, and includes mashup tracks.

"To transform the structured art of “music” into ambiguous particles of memory and space.
It is neither “story” nor “emotion”. It is the sensation of fragments, the memory of reverberations, the minute tremors of the unconscious. In other words, I want to present as a work of art the very sensation of “a faint blur in the silence. Time is not a line but a layer, melody is not will but an accidental stain, and “to listen” is not to enter into the sound but to be blurred by the sound."

Tracklist:

Hiiro Issiki - Out Of The Blue
Hiiro Issiki - Cage Homes
Hiiro Issiki - Lachrymose
Hiiro Issiki - No Place To Hide
Hiiro Issiki - Sabi
Hiiro Issiki - Still Reverbs Run Deep 
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About the artist:
Hiiro Issiki creates unique, immersive music that blends dynamic, emotional soundscapes with meditative stillness. Inspired by movie soundtracks, his work combines deep, sentimental tones and abrupt, intense noises to reflect modern society and human existence. His music explores our hopes for the future and raw impulses, inviting listeners to experience an existential journey, culminating in a dramatic, reflective album ending that captures life’ s struggles and joys.
Issiki has performed at the Austrian festival HYPERREALITY, the Shanghai club Antigen, the Tokyo clubs WWW and Forestlimit, and has recently held an ambient exhibition at the Koishikawa Botanical Garden in Tokyo.

https://soundcloud.com/hiiroissiki
Tannins via: https://sabsaniks.bandcamp.com/album/tannins


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Hiiro Issiki presents: Tannins

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Kübra Uzun! How Turkish composers use the rhythmics and motifs? Activist, performer and DJ Kübra Uzun is melting the examples in an hour-of-a-pot of well known composers from Cemal Reşit Rey to Adnan Saygun, Fazıl Say, Ulvi Cemal Erkin and more.

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