Ferocity gives way for tenderness as @bungalovv becomes the latest @genomeshanghai inductee. 

Oozing gentle optimism, ‘Visited by Strangers’ takes a different approach from earlier work. Where records like ‘Donde Hubo Fuego’ established a direct, hard-edged style, this one shifts emphasis to introspection. It’s also a product of the pandemic; the remote nature of its various collaborations speaking to an elusive sense of community and belonging. 

Complete with auto-tuned vocals courtesy of Catnapp, our premiere finds sublime tension in a cinematic arrangement of field recording and synth.

'Visited by Strangers' is out March 31st on Genome 6.66Mbp.

Pre-order: bungalovv.bandcamp.com/album/gnm029-bungalovv-visited-by-strangers

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Premiere: Bungalovv - Behind the Storm (feat. Catnapp) [Genome 6.66 Mbp]

The sound of Ukraine's independent music scene. Presented by Схема, a Kyiv-based collective that moves forward rave culture in Ukraine.

https://www.nts.live/shows/cxema/episodes/cxema-24th-april-2023

Cxema w/ Undo Despot 240423

super shy ☆

Honour - Àlááfíà
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 121
Release Date: 03 November 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Alaafia

Honour’s debut album is a ligament stretching from Lagos to London and to New York, curling across the diaspora and brushing the darker hues of blues, hip-hop, free jazz, ambient, gospel with Christian mythology and Yoruba folklore. As cinematic as it is painterly, Àlááfíà is a meditation on themes of life, death and love that pulls inspiration from the unexpected poetic profundity of casual conversations, field recordings, literature, ephemera, or personal archives. The result is an impressionistic vision in Black and Blur that both exhausts and implicates language—substantiating a mythos proposed by Fred Moten that sublimates boundaries between everywhere and nowhere; history and the present; the individual and the universal.

Àlááfíà delineates a gothic landscape cut by overdriven beats, swooping orchestral blasts, choral bursts and ear- splitting fuzz, where the fleshly and spiritual realms commune. Dedicated to Honour's late grandmother, the title track began to take form after their last embrace and remains steeped in her influence and spirit—a tape-saturated composition that starts in Lagos and ends in London's smoke-stained cityscape, the song’s dream-like quality developed out of the artist’s grief and PTSD coping with this loss. Beneath the stretched guitar drones and stuttering loops, their grandmother's shared faith bubbles to the surface.

“When Angels Speak of Love,” borrows its title from two works by Sun Ra and bell hooks, respectively. Sculpting echoes of praise music into disorienting spirals perforated with syrupy DJ Screw-inspired breaks and sharp splinters of melancholic guitar, “When Angels Speak of Love” engages a conceptual dialogue with the spirits of both late thinkers, folding them into Honour’s pantheon of ancestral guides. The album’s ninth track, “Giz Aard ($uckets),” is a dirge of regimented drums which anchor this somber melody as it whirls into a blizzard of heartache, uncertain if its consequence will be death or eternal joy.

The album’s sole lyrical offering, “Pistol Poem (Lead Belly),” begins with a darkly humorous bar, “He went thru hell and back/ came back/ 2 get the strap,” that swells into a haunting allegory based on the life of Philip “Hot Sauce” Champion. A modern take on the Blues, Honour’s lyrics reify the artist’s status as a student of both literature and popular culture, crossbreeding the artist’s clever wordplay with additional references to Richard Pryor, Robert Johnson, Kelly Rowland & Bryon Gysin.

Setting core principles of hip-hop, R&B, jazz and gospel music to atemporal soundscapes and compositions, Honour crafts a record that marinates in its own knotty contradictions. The ghosts that sit on the artist’s shoulders have never been more tangible than with this emotive debut.

Built and destroyed by Honour
Additional production by Bridgegroom
Mixed by Honour
Mastered by Jason Goz
Artwork by Honour

Honour - ILLBETHERE, 4EVERANDEVER (PAN 121)

The signal is strong, send to all. Widegaze, post-beat, freneticisms and hoover – Body Motion plugs in sideways to decode one layer of cogent reality at a time. Parallel paradigms, monthly on NTS1 
https://www.nts.live/shows/body-motion/episodes/body-motion-dawn-29th-december-2023

Body Motion w/ Dawn 291223

produced by Kissen, Special Guest DJ, Ben Bondy, & nueen <3
@kissenirl @specialguest-dj @benbondy @nueen

Tijuana Fog

Kissen 'Tijuana Fog'

Official Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ITeqV32YkQ&feature=youtu.be

Buy 'Temples' EP

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Downstairs People - Show You [INDEX:016]

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@b-g-h-b0 & @kimkhole
Solitaire Radio Vol.III
Recorded 27.10.2024
Vienna, Autriche

bela
J. S. Bach - Sinfonia No. 9 in F Minor, BWV 795
S. Rachmaninoff - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42, No. 3
S. Rachmaninoff - Études tableaux op. 39 Lento assai in A minor, No. 2
Claude Debussy , Pour le piano Suite - Toccata
Claude Debussy , Pour le piano Suite - Sarabande
Giacinto Scelsi - Hispania
Philip Glass - Etude No. 9

Kim
Bell Beaker - Sideman
Elusin - Rockstar
Wolfs Eyes - The Driller
Howard Shore - Crash (Cover)
Këkht Aräkh - Wanderer
Mayhem - Freezing Moon // Acoustic Black Metal Cover
Këkht Aräkh - Amor
Sematary - Slaughter House

Rites of Solitaire #3 w/ bela & kim

@pontiacstreator @benbondy @lukasoppenheimer

bloom:forever is a tale of interwoven love stories, each bleeding in to each other, understanding each other, regenerating the loveless, infinite understanding. holding us in its core (ringing eternally) basking in the glow of us looking for it ⚘

⤷ 100% of proceeds for the first 3 months go to @3ezwa.de

https://charmlink.bandcamp.com/album/bloom-forever (its bandcamp friday)

pontiac streator & ben bondy - all worth it w u there (feat. light)

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Canopy

Antoine Pete - This is Stereo Fall

Bubbles

@ScratchaDVA @g3p0 @theonlyraerae @claralasan @iamgrime

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