Never Normal Records & ANTI-MASS are excited to announce their collaborative compilation, Gukuba, born out of 12 months of sound exchanges, field recordings, & online listening sessions between East African and Afro-Diasporic artists and producers indigenous to the USA.
This compilation focuses on new approaches to dance, sound and rhythms between Africa and the global Black Diaspora.
There are a myriad of sonic influences in this body of work, from Techno, to Acholi Electronic, to Footwork and more. The music of Gukuba spans the sonic stories and cultural backgrounds of the 10 collaborators featured on the project.
Featured collaborators include rising artists Authentically Plastic, Turkana and Nsasi (ANTI-MASS/ Uganda) Tayhana (NAAFI) and Suzi Analogue, Heavee, NO EYES, Safiyahh, Queens D. Light and Elevation (Never Normal Soundsystem/ USA- Worldwide).

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when you're losing that hard ass game what do you say?
OK, try again :)

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Hysteria of Origins EP
https://8ulentina.bandcamp.com/album/hysteria-of-origins-2

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HUMA - Memorias que encontré

4.Yo chiquita

Cuatro pistas rescatadas de una pérdida, que narran juntas un trabajo mágico, melancólico y efímero que pudo haber desaparecido en un instante y ser olvidado.  

“Me hace pensar en la nostalgia que me traían los paisajes de mi niñez (pasé hasta los 22 años en Venezuela); sin ningún sentido político sino más bien con una añoranza estética”, dice Amantra.

Música que nace del accidente, pero sobrevive a él.

Yo Chiquita

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Taken from SBKT054: Gorgonn - Six Paths
Release date: 31st January

Artwork and layout by Akihide Monna
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

In Japanese Buddhism, it's believed that when someone dies they are ushered down one of six paths depending on the karma accumulated during their previous lives. A being might end up in the world of humans, animals, demigods, or celestials, but it's also possible to end up reborn as a pitiable hungry ghost, doomed to an existence of insatiable desire, or even worse - be sent to hell, or jigoku. Ruled over by the Japanese lord of death Emma-ō, this hell isn't quite like the Christian hell, it's closer to purgatory, and cleansing the karma can take hundreds of millions of years of excruciating torture in extreme cold or immense fire. Japanese bass alchemist Gorgonn takes these themes as the basis of his debut album "Six Paths", assembling a spiritually weighty set of futurist dubs that consider the possibility that our mortal domain might be closer to hell than we realize.

Gorgonn describes himself as a Japalien exile. He left the country of his birth almost two decades ago, and since then has been working tirelessly to formulate Jamaican dub, noise, techno, and no-wave into a sound he calls "sci-fi steppas". If you've not come across his name before, there's a good chance you've heard his reverberations. An established sound tech who's worked with The Bug, Hype Williams, Seefeel and others, he's part of G36 with Kevin Martin, Dokkebi Q with Kiki Hitomi, and a former member of Devilman with DJ Scotch Egg and Bo Ningen's Taigen Kawabe. Just last year he released the acclaimed "Disentegration Dubs" full-length alongside JK Flesh, the veteran producer who's best known for masterminding Godflesh. All this experience blesses Gorgonn's productions with remarkable sonic force, and "Six Paths" is his most crushing display yet, smelting cannonball bass and osmium beats into sharp-edged soundsystem weapons.

Look no further than opener 'Abyss' for evidence of this: psychedelic synths draw the mind away from the mortal realm, while tangled, distorted beats push us back down to earth, our faces crushed into the grit and gravel. Using tweaked sub bass and unsettling drones, Gorgonn lays out a cinematic backdrop for the album, drawing us into a world that's terrifying, viscous, and nauseatingly familiar. There's a militaristic roll to 'Without Beginning and End', a track that juxtaposes spacey halfstep thrusts with death metal distortion, footwork polyrhythms, and unearthly pads that addresses the crushing endlessness of jigoku. On 'Invisible' meanwhile, Gorgonn torches the skeletal remains of D&B, abstracting familiar rhythmic patterns into fuzzy, ritualistic cycles that sound both ancient and humming with prospective technology. But on the closing track 'Life as a Beast', it sounds as if Gorgonn has come to a conclusion, and in a flurry of acid squelches and doomy foghorn bass blasts, he seems to have accepted that being reincarnated as an animal might be the best anyone can hope for. Who knows, you might end up as a cat.

Six Paths

Gorgonn - When Can I Come Back?

London label @nervoushorizon may be rooted in the capital, but that's never prevented it from showcasing artists, genres and trends from around the world. 

For its latest V/A outing, Nervous Horizon has enlisted new label friends such as @objectblue, Ehua (@ehuamusic) and Chevel (@chevelmusic) alongside mainstays such as DJ Plead (@1djplead) and DJ JM (@deejay_jm) for a neat ten-tracker that delves into the global, hybrid sounds that have become the label's signature over the past few years.

While all tracks are catered towards the dancefloor, no two tracks sound the same. From reggaeton to club delirium to object blue's 'Neo Noir' – a hypnotic techno mutation that echoes the drama and high energy experienced in one of blue's sets – it's a brilliant comp filled with brilliant artists from a label that's only getting better.

'NH V/A VOL. 3' will be released on November 15. Pre-order below.

Pre-order: https://nervoushorizon.bandcamp.com/album/nh-v-a-vol-3

More exclusive music

Premiere: object blue 'Neo Noir'

Following her breakout EP, SiS, Jasmine Infiniti returns with thirteen disruptive club tracks fit for the The Infernal Ballroom. On her meticulously-crafted debut LP, she conjures occult rave incantations with sub-tectonic bass and spectral, seductive harmonies. Audaciously championing R&B, vogue and hip-hop sounds, Jasmine Infiniti’s latest collection of techno-hybrid dance tunes is bound to be the new soundtrack of NYC’s queer underground nightlife. 

Where SiS was an ode to queer solidarity, community and sisterhood, BXTCH SLÄP is as much about personal myth-building as it is about claiming individual space as a queer person. 

BXTCH SLÄP is cunt, unflinching and uncompromising, but it also boasts surprising range—moving briskly between ethereal hardcore house (“HOTT”), the anxious pounding of dark electro (“SPOOKED”), and certifiable techno bangers (“YES, SIR”, “WELLFAIR”). Meanwhile album standout “<3” hovers just above 100 BPM, a defiant statement of sensuality, calmness, and euphoria that’s no less gripping for its dramatic deceleration. Closing number “SHONUFF” clocks in at ten and half minutes; not a second of this adrenaline-rush of an acid techno tune feels wasted. BXTCH SLÄP might be most appropriate for the club, played at dangerously high volumes, but this music certainly takes on a new life after hours, in the moments we spend between the parties, alone and full of desire. 

The Queen of Hell is back and her powers are stronger than ever. 
All hail The Queen!


(Photo IG @shotbyguerilla)

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Visual >>What becomes Legends most? by Curtly Thomas aka smallboydanger
Audio >> Cosmic Power by Nkisi

Cosmic Power - Nkisi

“Some of us had to get free, and some of us might.” 
On my debut album Get Free, I sonically explore the idea of personal freedom using techno landscapes, and visually inspired by Detroit's The New Dance show. Get Free explores what it is to actively dismantle imagined limitations, to eradicate the bondage of self doubt, to forge ahead with love and light, to liberate the body and mind. It puts the process of self discovery and owning of ones’ entire self to the forefront, with a soundtrack that relentlessly pulses and moves with intention. “Relish in those waves, we stand only to gain connection.” Once the vision is actualized, we gain connection, and ultimately we get free.
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released November 13, 2020 

Written-By, Composed By, Producer – Tygapaw 
Featuring - Mandy Harris Williams 
Engineer, Mixed By – Loric Sih 
Mastered By – Glenn Brady 
Artwork – Avion Pearce 

THANK YOU 

To my ancestors for standing by me, holding my hand through the making of this album, and being the inspiration behind the concept of the album. Very special thank you to Mandy for lending your brilliance to the album, and blessing it with your powerfully affirming words. Huge thank you to Loric for helping me mix this album in a month, big up to Glen for mastering it so beautifully. Very special thank you to Avion Pearce for creating the iconic album art. You are everything. 

This is my debut album and I’m grateful to have worked with you all to bring this dream to fruition. Big up to the NAAFI fam for releasing this album. Thank you especially to the wonderful persons who have supported me from day one, your support has given me the space to develop as a musician, to create this body of work. 

Gratitude is a must.

GET FREE

In Their Fear They Plotted Her Destruction

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