2020.11

R&S Records – In Order To Care

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🔔 Avant presents: 🔔 
#monthlyhomework
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The first chapter of our monthly very random but passionate selection of releases!!!
You will never enjoy homework so much.

BFFT - iOSMIDI6_Droplets / Mutualism
Lol K - The Breeze / Halcyon veil
Lutto Lento - HORNED HEART ft. Katarzyna karpowicz / Haunter records
Kanyon - Kanyon / Towhead Recordings
Audio Bambino - BAM-002
Kompakt - Pop Ambient 2021
A.k.Adrix - Desenhos animados / Principe
Zaliva D - Whisper / SVBKVLT
Nurse3d + BLK SLK - SKULL / tremorstv
MARCOS - CUMBIA PIRATA / HIEDRAH
O.L.I.V.I.A - 99% / AGVA
t0ni - Always / Soul Feeder
Eterna - Fly
Lorenzo Senni - Vandalize Music / warp
Maya Crux - Pretty Face
Radio Red x Abrons arts center - Fiebre de cabina Vol.1
AceMo - Low Pressure / Sonic Messengers
Modulaw & Xavier Stone - Summoning Spirits
DVC refreshments - Hits Only / Arbutus records
Atki2 - Atki2 x Frijsfo dancehall sevens / Frijsfo
Augenwasser - Sleepdancer / Les Disques Bongo Joe

Monthly Homework - December 2020

peachlyfe emerges from the high-speed, forward-thinking Copenhagen Techno scene; known for their energetic approach to production coupled with an affiliation for peculiar rhythms and a desire to explore the outer reaches of dance music. 
 
‘Creeper’ sets the standard; unveiling as a fast-paced, itchy and foreboding blend of highly charged kickdrums, rolling hats and sticky, palpitating synths. Nene H, a dynamic producer with strong ties to the Danish capital through her residency at one of the cites most loved parties ‘Endurance’, is on hand to remix- turning in a late-night tale that moves amidst the shadows.
 
The low-slung groove of ‘Trashman’ is as hypnotic as they come; the type of mind-bending composition that leaves you questioning what exactly just happened, bringing the A-side to a gripping close.  
 
Industrial and brooding, ‘Burst’ opens the B-side with a bang, followed by ‘Elemental Friend’, a trance-leaning cut, blended with percussion that strikes down like metallic fists. 

>> @peach-lyfe
>> @nenetreat

Swamplyfe

BUY RELEASE

LT086 // peachlyfe - Swamplyfe

Full EP download here : http://crested.bandcamp.com

Laser Quartz

Engine Takes to Water

Mooch

Thresholder

Idea for Contradiction 1

Positive feeling

Clara! y Maoupa - Luna Nueva (BZH008)

A1 Truenos
A2 Gavilán
A3 Virgo
A4 Baja y Suda
B1 Sum Sum (Cover)
B2 Badman
B3 Secreto Ritual
B4 Clarividencia

C1 Truenos (Instrumental)
C2 Gavilán (Instrumental)
C3 Virgo (Instrumental)
C4 Baja y Suda (Instrumental)
D1 Badman (Instrumental)
D2 Secreto Ritual (Instrumental)
D3 Clarividencia (Instrumental)

Luna Nueva

Buy at Boomkat

Clara! y Maoupa - Badman

Want It All

Included on @r-srecords In Order To Care album

All proceeds go to help fund the NHS

Listen to the full track and support at https://randsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-order-to-care

As the track has binaural processing, please listen with headphones.

Antifragile (R&S Records)  [CLIP]

out now on @r-srecords ! so happy to have contributed to this lovely compilation, 'in order to care'. click the link to grab your copy on bandcamp and find out more <3

In Order To Care

Anz - Cheer Up Love

Symmetry Finder - taken from: 
R&S Compilation featuring 40+ artists. Available now.

Client 03 - Symmetry Finder

Taken off R&S Records - "In Order To Care" Compilation with all proceeds going to the NHS

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Koyal

Saint Abdullah // “In God’s Image” // 2xCD on Psychic Liberation // 
Release date: August 21, 2020

Saint Abdullah, composed of Tehran-born brothers Mohammad and Mehdi, have fine-tuned their vision of conceptual, blown-out dub and free jazz with “In God’s Image,” an ambitious twenty-song double CD on Psychic Liberation. The opus by the two Iranians living in New York, is full of mourning and rage, but these affects only scratch the surface of the work’s emotional and formal heterogeneity. 

Like the image gracing its cover—a tiny, dusty peykan, its roof fitted with an image of Ruhollah Khomeini and cone speakers—Saint Abdullah uses DIY minimalism to deliver maximal messaging. On “Problem,” distorted percussion, Shia oration, and a sample of the late Nipsy Hussle meld into a cathartic club burner, while the rhythms and lifted string arpeggiations on “Potion for sorrow” induce hazy cinematics, the duo’s attempt at Persian stoner boom bap. 

Elsewhere are instances of improvised jamming, melancholic twinkling, and pensive restraint. The powerfully eclectic statement by Saint Abdullah includes appearances by saxophonist Travis Laplante, who blows a spiralling noir line over feedbacking cacophony. On another track, Moor Mother delivers a poetic lashing on Western imperialists who rain missiles on hospitals, grieves the bodies piling up as capital gets sucked from the Earth. 

The sample work on “In God’s Image” draws heavily from Iranian documentaries, and includes the brothers’ field recordings from Tehran and New York. Heretical combinations collide senses of antiquity and contemporaneity, resisting the many orientalist reads on Iranian culture and politics. In this struggle, Saint Abdullah conveys many emotional registers, from exhausted depression to righteous indignation. 

Among many things, the image of Khomeini on the cover, which often scandalizes American audiences, represents the overthrow of a 2,500-year-long monarchy. All forms of dehumanization receive the sonic snakebite of Saint Abdullah, and “In God’s Image” resuscitates the revolutionary potential of music that pulls from the traditions of oppressed peoples in both the East and West. 

Psychic Liberation, in operation since 2018, is an experimental music label started in Brooklyn, New York, currently based in The Hague, Netherlands. The label is distributed in North America by Fantastique, and in EU/UK by Boomkat.
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña 
credits
releases August 21, 2020

psychicliberation.net

Audio by Saint Abdullah
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña

PLIB007 - SAINT ABDULLAH - A5. Of Us (CIENFUEGOS EDIT)

Deus Otiosus

Astaron

As Time Joins In

Inspired by open spaces (and the objects that interrupt them), META DOOR L is the latest auditory excursion from Perila. Expansive in scope, it extracts beauty from the organic and inorganic alike, tapping into the wonder of the outdoors as it revels in the unique properties of metal—both as a material and a sound source. Building on her work for labels like Sferic, Motion Ward, and Boomkat Editions, META DOOR L is rooted in field recordings extracted from the wilderness outside Tbilisi, where a series of hiking expeditions led Perila to chance encounters with metal tubes, large rocks and the ruins of an old house. In the months that followed, these recordings were patiently processed, degraded and transformed, their misshapen remains welded together by hazy ambient atmospheres and textured soundscapes. From there, the St. Petersburg-raised, Berlin-based artist pushed herself into new creative territory, searching for the innate (and decidedly non-linear) rhythms lurking within her dense sonic stratigraphy. META DOOR L is the hypnotic end result, an immersive listen whose lush tones and guttural rumbles coalesce into something utterly transportive.

Music by Perila.
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux.
Artwork by Oficina de Disseny.
Printing by L'automatica, Barcelona.

Ent I Pse

The Breeze

Air Held Softly in a Fist

Twice

Oilseed Stone

Oilseed Stone (feat. Coby Sey)

Proud

iOSMIDI6_Droplets

BFTT - iOSMIDI6_Droplets

Breaka X Guava - In Order To Care (R&S) - 08 Fiscal Hibiscus

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