072022

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Cutecore prodigy @karl_wille and @goneicon ’s first-ever attempt is both gleaming and emotional. Cheems is a 21st-era bit of hyperspace with the eternal demo by Karl being flooded by gone icon’s singular vocal eerie.

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[Premiere] Karl Wille ft. gone icon — cheems

Taken from Prettybwoy (@dj-prettybwoy) new album Tayutau, out September 17, 2021, via SVBKVLT (@svbkvlt)

Read: https://bit.ly/2YiBFND
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3zr5oBV

Prettybwoy’s debut is entitled Tayutau ( 揺蕩う), a traditional Japanese term often used in haiku and literature, meaning ‘waver’ - a state of indecisiveness, to lose determination or purpose, often temporarily, or to drift or sway to and fro. Made over the last two years whilst dealing with isolation, job loss, burnt hard-drives and almost losing the whole project, the album has seen several phases and degrees of anxiety, uncertainty, hope and frustration.

‘Too many things have changed since starting to make this album, and I think that is reflected in the production. The album can be split into three parts – tracks I made before the pandemic when things felt stable, tracks made during lockdown in isolation, and tracks made during the cautious and conflicted opening up and the lead up to the Olympics. There has been so much confusion and changes back and forth, but I want to have hope and try to keep focused, which at times hasn't been easy’

As well as drawing from external causes, 'Tayutau' also comes from a place of internal uncertainty.

'This is a trip in search of my new identity, or maybe to understand my current one. I am Japanese, living in Japan, but my music is only released by labels from other countries. I am a member of SVBKVLT (China), and also Polaar (France), but where or who am I in Japan?’

Tayutau is a 10 track album, featuring two vocal appearances from lIlI and a collaboration with Primula, and comes with artwork and video from Wang Jingxin. A separate EP of remixes will be released shortly after the album.

Cover Design: Wang Jingxin

Mastering: Raphael Valensi

Released by SVBKVLT

Tayutau

Premiere: Prettybwoy - Mikoshi [SVBKVLT]

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qwqwqwqwa  - Fashion Music For Scammers

של האמת kareokeהבית שלי בליבי

This is a reharmonization of Happy Birthday, tuned to 22 equal divisions of the octave. It is loosely centered around what we call "porcupine temperament."


Happy Birthday

I recorded this a while ago, have no idea what it's from

Sunset

This is a comma pump in the unnamed 17496/16807 temperament, tuned to 34-equal. The basic root movement is by 7/6, and the chords are tuned to 7-limit subminor 7 chords, to make the voice leading smoother.

17496/16807 Comma Pump, Subminor Chords, 34-equal

This is an early microtonal improvisation of mine, which I did before I knew anything about regular temperaments. 24-EDO is the tuning, and this composition can be loosely thought of as being structured around "semaphore" temperament within it, and perhaps "neutral" as well.

Oblique Motion

This is a comma pump in porcupine which goes up by three 6/5's and then down two 4/3's back to 1/1. I designed it as an example of something that I thought sounded perfectly "natural," but which doesn't work at all in 12-EDO. I'll use this in a piece somewhere down the road.

The tuning here is 23-EDO, which does a much poorer job in approximating the harmonic series when compared to the other tunings listed here, so the chords don't seem to blend as well. That notwithstanding, it still has a certain interesting color to it, which I somewhat enjoy.

A Porcupine Comma Pump - 23-EDO version

"Wayang" by @lovefear1 is the first track from @pneumatic-pneumatic 's debut compilation "Pneuma" out on the 12th of February.

Pre-Order: https://pneumatic1.bandcamp.com/album/pneuma
Read More: soulfeederweb.com/blog/premiere-lovefear-wayang

[Premiere] Lovefear - Wayang

kolya — Fake Rock Anthems
https://lnk.to/NPL0010

qwqwqwqwa — Fashion Music For Scammers
https://lnk.to/NPL0009

V/A - Lorelei
"Lorelei" item — 10 Handmade Planters
https://lnk.to/NPL0008

Mori Mori — Aurora
https://lnk.to/NPL0007
Premiere of "healer" video on @AQNB
https://youtu.be/K4-DV0sDchM

qwqwqwqwa - Fashion Music For Scammers

Neoplasm