“Paper Ruins” is a dramatic and melancholic debut from Sozorie, an up-and-coming producer from Minsk, Belarus. Beautiful experimental ambient and arty electronica inspired by “visionary architecture,” the kind of architecture that is not realistic and only exists on paper.

Nikolay Steshitz, the person behind Sozorie, is really enjoying creating what he calls “controlled aggression” in his sound. Indeed, even the lushest moments of “Paper Ruins” possess a certain tension, buried underneath the elusive melodies and the rubbery beats.

The album showcases a rich production palette. Some synth work here sounds “classic,” repurposing the classic IDM/electronica/downtempo canon. But then everything changes, and we get more penetrative, siren-like hyperboles that clash against glitches, kick drums, and distorted clangs shaping rhythmic passages not dissimilar to early Amnesia Scanner. Sozorie ties all of these broad influences into a knot and carefully places them inside a narrative, and it does feel like a scaled paper model of a brilliant, strange building. Steshitz comes up with a fresh vision and an excellent record equal parts a home listening trip and great material for the more adventurous DJs.

released March 25, 2021

Music: Nikolay Steshitz
Mixing & Mastering: Nikolay Steshitz
Artwork: Nikolay Steshitz

Pillar Crush

Everything going wrong at the same time.
Vultures ascend over digital scree wi’in sight of garbage dump.
Opportunistic loops-not-loops hack into your credit card but it’s fine.
Like the batteries in a synthesizer about to die, but it was broken anyway, so <kein Ahnung>, duckie.
Diagrams of ascent/descent, planes over Heathrow/Tegel/JFK/other airports are available.
Organisms, microscopic, enlarged, burrow, through, telephone, cables, even, now.
The iterative combat of every day life and other over-dramatic crescendos.
How it feels to be interrogated, and maybe you like to be interrogated, and maybe that is okay too.
Endless pantomime of analogue collapsing/machinery bimbedying around.
Sound of eleven sugar-fuelled children bouncing on a bouncy castle with no adults supervising.
End.

EVOL - Do These Eleven ('Do These' P!?027)

ju ca - Gestures (@ptwiggs Remix)

Mastered by Sean McCann at Recital Program

Artwork is 'Untitled 7' by Lucas Dupuy

℗ & © angoisse 2020

ju ca - Gestures (ptwiggs Remix)

Out Now: https://noumenalloom.bandcamp.com/album/safari-explorer-kent-install

Kent Install is the debut record from Safari Explorer, a solo project by Dilian, musician/producer based in Brooklyn, NY. Safari Explorer is an exploration / exercise in creating pop melodies that pull influence from Cumbia, he often heard growing up in Mexico City, and from Dilian’s worldwide travel.

The album doesn’t function as a concept album, instead focusing more on found meanings in novel combinations and a pop approach. Recorded mostly on 4 tracks and with minimal gear, the album is an emotional tour of Dilian’s interior world + a world where access is immediate and global in the data age.

All songs composed by Safari Explorer (pka Dilian)
Noumenal Loom 2020

Kent Install

Ringtonez II

Safari Explorer - Ringtonez II

07. Ardour (Bela Remix)

Duswunder - Loccc

Xiao Quan é um projeto focado em misturar elementos musicais de diversos cantos do mundo.
Ouça mais: @xiaoquanxiaoquanxiaoquan

Arte: @dj_demetria
QSY: Código Fonético Internacional para “Transmita em outra frequência”

QSY-16: Xiao Quan

Clips from 'Boötes Void' the new release from Metal Preyers (strictly vinyl only release)  220 Copies one sided Vinyl.  

Buy Link: https://bit.ly/2ELolrL

Matching the oneiric dramaturgy and machine drum-noise aesthetics of their recent, internationally praised debut record, Metal Preyers re-emerge into their disorienting, dread-inducing soundscape and condense it into this 20 minute, beautifully composed work. Soaked in atmosphere, and genuinely unsettling, Bootes Void lures us into a world of hypnogogical hallucinations and disturbing instrument lacerations. Crafted with fragments of abrasive guitars, otherworldly piano tones and machinesque doom synth-lines, the record follows a deliberate progression and cinematic narration, elements of musique concrète can be picked up. The opening wooden drums create a frightening tension that is intensified by the decaying loops against a backdrop of misty harmonic dissonance, blood-curdling screams and eerie chanting. When it dissipates it can only shift into a more ghostly surrealism. A discomforting desolation echoing void.

Releases October 1st, 2020

Preview: Metal Preyers 'Boötes Void'

remixed my friends' metal band with a load of other heads - get the remix EP here 

https://godalone.bandcamp.com/album/god-alone-2

God Alone²

God Alone - Feeling on Tic [Lighght Remix]

iOSMIDI6_Droplets

BFTT - iOSMIDI6_Droplets (Jennifer Walton's iPhone In Heavy Water Remix)

guest + show info:

Mixtress

https://soundcloud.com/mixtressed is part of the https://soundcloud.com/sisu_crew community, a platform educating, and showcasing marginalised DJs and producers through DJ courses, events, podcasts, radio shows, mix series and workshops. 'Sisu aims to connect and nurture new and existing talent in the electronic music community.'

Mixtress’ debut on Rinse FM – https://soundcloud.com/rinsefm/lobstertheremin301120

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Sydd Viscose

https://soundcloud.com/syddviscose is a curator of the queer experimental music platform ‘VAMP Sonic’ that's aiming to (and successfully) curate and build a community in the 'scene'. She is a monthly resident @ https://soundcloud.com/threadsradio, make sure to go check her shows out they’re very good!

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Teya Logos

https://soundcloud.com/teyalogos is a Philippines based producer and DJ, at the age of just 16 she is already making her mark on the ‘scene’ (there are too many things to list! - go check her profile!).

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furious styes stuff (+ furious fm info)

(almost) every DJ SagePay mix on – archive.org/details/djsp-all/, my 30 mins here is taken from mix number 11 titled ‘4 DJMICKEYH’

https://www.instagram.com/2styles2furious/

furious fm is a mix series / online podcast that is a continuation of my rinse fm shows dedicated to the ‘weirder / more experimental’ sides of dance music.. within that prioritising marginalised dj’s and producers. if you’d like to guest or send tracks for me to play on the shows and in my sets, please send to…

furious (dot) styles (@) yandex (dot) com

i’m always looking to platform new and upcoming people as well so feel free to share this with anyone who you think would fit the bill / benefit,it’s so appreciated, thanks so much! ryan

furious fm #003 with Mixtress, Sydd Viscose & Teya Logos

Record label, events series and beyond from North England

Saturday's monthly 7 - 8pm on https://nts.live

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