Anima is the new EP of Berlin based multi instrumentalist and music producer Tom Willems (TCV @tcvbln).

The five tracks comprising the record showcase digitally heavy, brute soundscapes full of uncompromising rhythm and melody. Drawing inspiration from classic genres like gabber and industrial, TCV articulates a sound that is highly abrasive but often surprises with poetic verity.

As the track names indicate, the record conceptually is concerned with the human body and its perception as something which can be both fragile and powerful. TCV unveils, that a traumatising phase of his life, inspired him to process his impressions of lifelessness being inhabited by machine-power. Witnessing how new wealth and vitality is being pumped into a corpus made him fascinate about this passive recreation. The idea of a life depending on mechanical forces, repeating and recovering, is echoing through his acoustic concept. Each track thereby communicates a different stage of a physical transitioning, thus a metamorphosis in whole.

Anima

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Miasma Jester is Lizzitsky’s second EP on Gabber Eleganza’s label Never Sleep. Recorded in Uruguay, London and Venezuela using cassette, modular synths, laptop and various acoustic instruments. It takes in elements of power electronics, throwbacks to 90’s harsh noise, ambient improv, hardcore and 00’s London sub bass pressure. Several tracks were recorded in the now abandoned Elephant and Castle shopping complex, a grim goodbye to childhood spots visited with South American family. London based artist Sarah Khan (ICA New Contemporaries), collaborates on Black Phlegm, with her spoken word driving 160bpm bursts of noise, infra-bass and textured cassette melodies. Miasma Jester follows a fragmented trajectory through IDM melodies, broken dancehall, Thunderdome kicks channeled through max/msp glitches - before collapsing in on itself. Danish vocalists MC Pusher and Sgabe deliver cracked and redlined vocals over 165bpm drones and atonal string arrangements on Usenet Suic Pac, with more pensive, ambient moments via You Can’t Say Hello Without Saying Hell’s decayed 8bar grime nods and Carbroke House’s gloomy ambient dirge.

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Kat Nzingha - 'Vorphic Skin'

Based in Philadelphia, Kat Nzingha is a multidisciplinary artist that explores experimenting with abstruse textures. By combining their sculptural works with heavy low-end frequencies and celebratory tones they create blissfully cryptic sonic materials that are the extended bodies of modified objects that they fabricate. Revealing the spirit within their sculptural entities in the sonic form of convulsing kicks, metallic percussion, and hyper-processed textures.

After releasing the EP Angeltribe on TT Label in 2020, Kat Nzingha releases their first vinyl 7” record with Toothgrinder Press with only 20 copies for purchase.

Vorphic Skin resonates from the idea of metamorphosis as transformation, and mutation as a modification. They activate the deconstruction of the internal human body and its process through industrial sonic textures.

Music: Kat Nzingha
Design & laser: William Francis Green
Label: Toothgrinder Press 2023

Vorphic Skin

Kat Nzingha - Vorphic Skin

111X - 'Shame'

Three years after his previous outing, the elusive prince of noise 111X returns to Changeless with his monumental paragon ‘Shame’.

Born amidst a period of personal collapse and the cathartic realisation of inadequacy and finiteness, ‘Shame’ traverses devastatingly beautiful, dreamlike sonic realms. The record delves into the temporal and fleeting nature of our corporeality, how the smallest tremors can ultimately shake you to your very core.

’Shame’ sees 111X expand upon his distinct palette of unwavering noise, somber melodies and staggered drums with brooding guitar drones, adding a newfound depth to the sorrow found throughout his oeuvre. Let it wash over your trembling flesh, and you will come out the other side as an unstoppable force.

'Shame' will be released March 10th via Changeless.

Written, produced & mixed by 111X.
Mastered by Nori Kin.

Artwork by Helen Korpak.

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[Premiere] 2x|n - Oxyeria (g_sv)

Club annihilator collaboration between https://soundcloud.com/griigg & xato, featuring a club-ready remix by Yogyakarta-based artist https://soundcloud.com/sanjonas_48b. 

Originally released as part of Magdalena's Apathy Compilation "Steel Genesis ver​.​3C3C1D11940".

Artwork by Ioannis Nafpliotis.
Written by Griigg & Ioannis Nafpliotis.
Mixed by Ioannis Nafpliotis. (Track 1)
Mixed & Remixed by Yonaz Kristy. (Track 2)
Mastered by Panajiotis A. Vaxevanakis.

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Racine uses sound to transcend the contemporary hellscape. Far from indulging in purely hedonistic escapism or nihilistic detachment, the celebrated Canadian producer confronts difficult emotions head-on, embracing tension and turbulence. Each release reformulates uncertainty into haunted soundscapes bristling with detail, weaving fractured samples, mutant melodies and glacial electronics into a hyper-real reflection of modern living. New two-track single Delirium focuses those same future-seeking sonics into Racine’s most direct – not to mention surprising – work to date.

Side A coalesces the producer’s amorphous electronics into a crystalline dancefloor workout. Soaring vocals clipped from a New Age radio broadcast glide atop ruffneck drums, with noctilucent synth pads and fizzing ambience seeping in through the cracks. Racine’s signature sense of unease and melancholy is still very much present, though here lurking in the track’s low-end and on the periphery; an overwhelming endorphin rush threatening to tip into amphetamine anxiety at any moment. Side B explodes outwards from that same sound palette, dancefloor hooks atomised into formless textures, eschewing melody and rhythm as it reaches toward even more ecstatic heights.

Delirium provides an exhilarating expansion of Racine’s soundworld, demonstrating his prowess as a producer even while moving into new contexts, and speaking to a distinct need for ecstatic release and transcendence.

Mastering by James Ginzburg
Artwork by Niels Wehrspann

Delirium

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In a desperate search for emotional enlightenment @beatrixweapons approaches this new mix with the certainty of finding a positive ending. Here she reflects on her path while creating a true love letter to the music that has influenced her the most. The Tracks she has selected are in tune with the feeling of hopelessness and illusion, and the tale of an internal battle always fought while looking at the sky, searching for answers.  Breakcore, IDM and the essence of a crushed club.

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Track 1 from the 'Chrysalis' EP by cable.percussion
Released Jan 25 2024
Label: Aduaine
Mastering : Chris McCormack (Blacklisted)
Artwork: Barry Greaves/Kaiber

Chrysalis is available on Bandcamp
https://aduaine.bandcamp.com/album/chrysalis

Watch the music video for Chlorophyll 5000 here!
https://youtu.be/WbTlocQLQek?si=CFpIRaYCzV5u6NUJ

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