ambient non euphoric

Crystalline ambience bleeds into glitching tapestry as ZULI remixes French duo Glass.

'Anxiety Prime (Remixes)' is out April 7th on Comic Sans Records.

Pre-order: fanlink.to/comicsans16

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Anxiety Prime (Remixes)

Premiere: Glass - Quantic Blunt (ZULI Zoned Out Remix) [Comic Sans Records]

Taken from SBKT057: mmph - Harvest

Release date: 26th April 2023

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It's been five years since Korean-born, Los Angeles-based sound designer and composer Sae Heum Han, aka mmph, released his last EP Serenade on the Tri Angle label in flurry of activity. "Harvest" arrives after an unintentional pause; three years ago, Han was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that immediately changed his priorities. Bedridden and exhausted from medication, he was only able to work on music for around an hour each day - the rest of his time was swallowed by rest and precarious trips to hospital in the midst of a global pandemic. Now in remission, Han looks back on this period as a time of emotional evolution where the ideas behind "Harvest" could be unravelled. The album emerges from his desire to reconnect with the Korean music he heard when he was growing up in Seoul, using these discernible timbres as building blocks to decorate with his advanced palette of electronic sounds and processes.

Han's music has always balanced precariously between the rigor of classical training and the relative open-endedness of electronic experimentation. This duality is still present on "Harvest", but Han's canvas has widened slightly. He continues to blur the line between the traditional and the modern, emulating and mirroring Korean instruments with synthesizers and sound design elements, and blending them with acoustic sounds and live percussion samples. But where his previous records and scoring work highlighted his ability to weave baroque forms into tight, contemporary sonic tapestries, this album adds the drama, yearning and spirituality of folk. On 'Dialogue' for example, pitch-warped traditional vocals twist through an ensemble of bizarre future-ancient sounds; fluttering strings dissolve into spiked percussive barbs and synthesized wails cut through walls of industrial noise.

'Spirit' follows quickly, coaxing listeners into a trance state with its flurry of microtonal string plucks and irregular percussion. Han is a master of breath control, letting his brief moments of negative space interrupt any expected regularity and guide the track away from electronic music's expected grid. This just about prepares the ground for the title track, a labyrinthine maze of dramatic compositional motifs and dizzying sonics that mutates from gugak forms into a cacophony of pneumatic blast beats before snapping back. From here the album lurches towards the dancefloor for a moment, absorbing and contorting cantankerous club rhythms on 'Avnue' and 'Moon Jar', slowing to a crawl on 'Harvest II'. Despite hijacking its theme from the title track's blast beat section, it transforms into a ballad, acting as a fittingly tearjerking finale.

The record is rounded off by a trio of remixes that draw Han further into the SVBKVLT family. Egyptian producer ABADIR chops up 'Harvest' and reassembles it into a jerky banger, extracting its dancefloor potential and evolving hardstyle thuds into spectral concertina flexes. 'Moon Jar' meanwhile is turned into twitchy trance by Shade Seoul's NET GALA, and Yen Tech stitches together 'Avnue' and 'Dialogue', creating an anxious backdrop that shuttles mmph's android folk to the modern metropolis.

Artwork by Sae Heum Han
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Harvest

mmph - Harvest

Inna Heaven Feel (Rework)

Back Again

"ripetizione" - single out on @ninaprotocol

full ep on bandcamp via https://fals.ch

https://f4lsch.bandcamp.com/album/ripetizione

thanks to farmersmanual

ripetizione

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hello again
. ∆ . . ∆ . . ∆ . . ∆ . 
Went in a bit too deep with this, spent hours tweaking the loop before finding the power to record it. Cut the jam short and it still came out at 15 minutes. Building a nice catalogue of these live recordings, feels like I'm getting some nice results. Will have to get some of these online soon if I can get a few more of this standard.
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- Polyend tracker sampling the pro vs and volcafm2 for stabs + background pad-drone
- Hi-res drones from 2 analog synths
- 2600 bassmans 
- fm lead
- ALM coupe drums + filtering
- KP3 + Love Beams + Yamaha FXxX
. ∆ . . ∆ . 
Peace 
. ∆ .

≈inner-worldly . ∆ . outer-worldly≈

The Beach - Evian Christ (Malibu Remix)

from 'Eternal Summer' © BELOW0 2024
Mixed by MFM & inter alia
Mastered by inter alia

All shoplifters go to heaven.

31.5.2024

SHOPLIFTERS

give me 2 dozen old drills and i'll make the sharpest knife that will last 50 years

From 'Calyx', out March 28th on Transatlantic.

@ole123456 🦅
@transatlanticrecords 🥏

TO BUY IMMEDIATELY: https://eshayoleole.bandcamp.com/album/calyx

 What’s your constitution? Not much. Not much at all. Wispy and withered at best. A void at most realistic. Not much writing home to do regarding this. My home won’t hear of it, because what would there be to hear of? A rickety gasbag devoid of substance or meat or matter of any kind. What you need is some meaning. A purpose-driven lifestyle. Here it is: it’s olé’s ‘Sunflower Cache’. It’s listening to and liking and reposting and sharing it widely. It’s acknowledging that it’s premiered on Madjestic Kasual, that it’s from the ‘Calyx’ EP, that it’s out on Transatlantic. From hole to whole.


to buy immediately

olé - Sunflower Cache [MK PREMIERE]

inspired by @interalia_0 https://soundcloud.com/interalia_0/beauty-beat

BEAUTY GOD BEAT

femi FM ep05 — femi

From @ssssofiiiii 's new EP "I want this feeling to last forever"

Stream & download: push.fm/fl/iwtftlfep

Emerging artist sofii, also known as Sophie Koella, announces her deeply personal debut EP I want this feeling to last forever, a self-produced meditation of 4 songs on emotion, memory, and the echoes of the unlived. Born from the necessity to process, the project weaves classical elegance, electronic textures, and lyrical repetition into a trance-like exploration of nostalgia: past, present and future.

Born in New Orleans to a French guitarist (who used to play with Bob Dylan) and an American mother, sofii’s life has been scored by contrasts: ballet and classic music discipline, jazz’s improvisation, and the restless energy of cities like NYC and Paris where she cut her teeth in its underground scene. After years modelling and djing, she stepped into music direction for Courrèges alongside Erwan Sene before claiming her voice as a solo producer. In 2024 she co-founded the Paris collective and event series More Hard Feelings alongside Emma DJ, Julia Lemaire, and Matière Noire inviting the likes of Skrillex, Varg2TM, Safety Trance and Bill Kouligas.

The EP’s lead single and title track is released with the album announcement with a music video. She elaborates:’Iwtftlf’ is a song about nostalgia for something we don’t yet know or have lived—also known as anemoia. It’s about a moment in time that stands perfectly still, a fraction of a second we wish would never end. This stillness, this calm before the storm, is at the heart of the track. It portrays a story suspended between the lived and the unlived, a memory that doesn’t belong to us yet aches like it’s already gone.

As for the rest of the EP, “Cry for Me” (reimagined with Greek producer Raed Raees) layers vocals like a cleansing tide, dissolving into a piano finale that nods to Sofii’s classical roots. The mantra “say it over” loops, invoking meditation’s rhythmic solace. “Remember“, penned in Paris, twists a crisis-born text message into pulsing synths and the EP’s only percussive heartbeat. And “Pocket Dial” samples a 3-minute voicemail from sofii’s grandmother—an accidental, aching relic of connection—set to wordless strings and synth.

Written, performed and produced by sofii
Additional production on ‘Cry for me’ by Raed Raees
Additional production on ‘Pocket Dial’ and ‘Iwtftlf’ by Lux18
Artwork by Marie-Mam Sai Bellier
www.instagram.com/sai.mam/
Master by Lorenzo Targhetta

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