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Warm Winters Ltd. is pleased to announce JC Leisure’s (@jcleisure) latest solo release, 'Mutations For'. The album is built from the artist's collection of mixtapes from circa 1992 onwards that distil the counterculture of rave, free parties and pirate radio broadcasts. 

For the last couple of years this archive has formed the basis for JC Leisure’s hybrid DJ cassette sets, a handful of which are archived on Bandcamp. Aware of each cassette's cultural legacy, with 'Mutations For' JC Leisure sets out to give the archive a higher form of autonomy. Similar to the audio-to-midi processes he developed with his band Raft of Trash (where they use the world-building game Simcity3000 as raw material) the cassette tapes are sampled live and fed to synthesizers, software patches and samplers; allowing them to write their own melodies and rhythms. Leisure has worked with and alongside these results and offers them up on 'Mutations For' as an alternative future to a counterculture's unstable history. 

These ideas are explored further in collaboration with designer Afonso de Matos on the poster that forms the physical realization of this work.

Full release coming March 20, 2020.

Mutations For

JC Leisure - Soft-Paste Porcelain (ft. Dialect)

Acousmatic poem by the ambassador of unconsciousness and sound designer Asio Otus (@asiootus)

Recorded in Lisbon 28/03/2020

The artwork is a collab between @asiootus and @iq94

FR059 Asio Otus (Lisbon, Portugal)

Taken from the album 'Tendrils' (ALT54)

Buy here: https://alterstock.org/product/tendrils/

Malvern Brume - Circling (ALT54)

Excerpt from Asha Sheshadri's upcoming album "No Longer A Soundtrack"

No Longer A Soundtrack

ANM049 Asha Sheshadri — Elephant Years (Excerpt)

Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie - aq (MONDOJ14)

Taken from Hypnagogic Surge (GEN043). Presale is on!
To be released on November 22 on tape & digital on Genot Centre.

Produced by https://soundcloud.com/amselysen.
Mastered by @wimdehaen. 
Album cover by eurasiandesert.
Limited edition of 55 C29 tapes with on-body printing pro-dubbed by Headless Duplicated Tapes.

HYPNAGOGIC SURGE (GEN043) by AMSELYSEN is a dense setup of signal interferences, of jacked up, spliced, reconstructed digital snippets, of outbursts whose amplitude overcooks the microphone's defenseless circuitry. Anxious with unreleased energy build-ups, the music is always pregnant with a double quality, something like a dagger made from ice, the possibility to shatter or crumble into a thousand shards combined with the looming threat of clean rupture posed by the blade's edge. Digital distortion is used here to unmask materials, to frontally attack them and expose their shimmering metallic face; pitch-time processing dilemmas get dodged by exploding into the high frequency gleam embedded but hidden in their algorithms. Completely removed from the "Lo-Fi" paradigm seeking warmth or nostalgia, the present degradation-reconstructions result in newly audible chirp figures, the sparkle of aliasing and the descent into the grainy territory of microscopic sound events. From a more panoramic perspective, these tracks are continually transforming contraptions, with looping frames accelerating, doubling, halting or stuttering, overloading, seemingly struggling to buffer, sometimes mixing with immiscible materials to form a glistening suspension of new sound material.

// Hakeem Lapointe (Amselysen) about the album 
"Stemming from confusion, indignation, and feeling disoriented, Hypnagogic Surge appeals to dream-like lenses that reinterpret the everyday world; words lose clarity and are reduced to phonemes and their perceived energy, well-known advert jingles and hit songs are obfuscated and develop into undecipherable melodies, feelings ranging from relief to aggression flash quickly into succession without rhyme or reason. In the awareness gaps of the dream state, information is made up and averaged into confusing erroneous approximations — here translated in the poised presence of aural artifacts such as bad mp3 bit rate shimmer, 1/8in inlet pops, bad aliasing and interpolation, unshielded cable radio interference, fake stereo, inverted polarizing, etc 
Amselysen’s nightmarish interpretation of the hypnagogic state is heavily informed by tropes surrounding hardcore music, only this time the tropes are removed from their context and reimagined before reappearing into the album, thus resulting in a hyperreality; a simulacra of hardcore, intensity and dynamism. Remediating genres like punk, techno, metal, rap and noise through distant mimicry and radical sampling, Hypnagogic Surge approaches liminal reverie with a garish maximalist attitude."

// Amselysen artist bio 
Amselysen is Montreal-based intermedia artist Hakeem Lapointe’s latest musical project. It focuses on approaching experimental electronics with a critical lens, bridging the gap between conceptual spaces typically reserved to institutional practices and accessible aural aesthetics. Usually described as an outsider artist, never privy to the music academia and alien to most of the underground scene, Lapointe sheds all concerns for musical conventions and pursues their own sonic obsessions, which commonly sit in the leftfield genre. Their current work process ponders on indeterminacy, plunderphonics, hyperrealities, cultural foraging, and hypnagogia. 
Works, outside of their own visual practice, include scores and sound design for short films, performances and installations in various exhibitions, including the After Hours at the McCord presented under Kent Monkman - Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience.

Buy // tape & digital

Amselysen - Surgesurgesurge

@alexiacaunille 

Pour célébrer notre deuxième anniversaire, nous lançons une série de trois compilations, regroupant 43 artistes aux esthétiques plurielles, à l’image d'Ola Radio.

« Ola Compile vol.1 - Bande passante » est la première de cette série de trois volets.

To celebrate our 2nd anniversary, we are launching a serie of three compilations, bringing together 43 artists with plural aesthetics.
This is a tribute to the different scenes of electronic music and the actors who bring it to life.

“Ola Compile vol.1 - Bande passante” is the first of this three-part series. Its release is scheduled for January 14, 2021 (Ola Radio's anniversary).

Artwork : Maceo Goy-Clairet
Mastering : Grégoire Candela (Octave Sonore)
A big thanks to all the artists who contribute to this project.
Un projet d’Ola Radio

Alexi Shell - BABY

https://nebulo.bandcamp.com/

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