I: At twelve noon of a busy morning I took fully one and a half drachm...

II: Slowly, two immense cosmic systems...

III: You want to know what this is really all about

We had the great pleasure of being joined by techno-animist and Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey. We discuss UK Bikelife; commodity fetishism and how trainers and fashion are tokens of class with magic-like attributes; the repertory of spells the left still has against KeK's Meme Magic; TechGnosis and conspiritualism in the age of Elon Musk. AND Lana Del Rey's White Dress! You won't miss this!

SD23 - w/ Mark Leckey - Art is the Magic of the Left 📹🔮

bruised ∪ beaming ∪ both live

This field recording captures activity around the nesting location of a group of European Bee Eaters. The nests were located in the banks of the river Fiora. The mics and recorder were carefully placed and left to record over a long period so not to disturb the birds. In the background we can hear a Golden Oriole, Skylarks and European Blackcaps.

Recorded 04.08.2020
Sony PCM A10 + 2 x LOM mikroUsi

European Bee Eaters - Montalto Di Castro, Lazio, Italy

music video:
youtu.be/YI6L15kTYo0

taken from "The Endeavour To Understand" coming 26.11. pre-order:
https://xxxglamourxxx.bandcamp.com/album/the-endeavour-to-understand

Portugal, 2029 A.D.

"The Endeavour To Understand" rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire.

Consisting of sci-fi amalgam of post-internet Dracula sounds, 90’s Asian movie soundtracks, digital soundscapes and dreamy glitch, ultimately being an epic personal journey where each track is a chapter of a massive story.

The fate of humankind depends on this album. Your mission is to protect it.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬, 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐞; 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬, 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫.
~ Baruch Spinoza "Ethics, Part 4: Of Human Bondage or the Strength of the Emotions"

"The Endeavour To Understand" is the 8th album released by the brazilian living in Portugal music producer and sound designer Igor Almeida under the name of Superalma Project. Post-Genre Electronic Music and Sound Design to try to understand and cope with reality.

𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐪𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐢𝐬, 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥, 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦.
~ Igor Almeida

music & master by Igor Almeida
superalmaproject.com

composed, recorded, mixed and mastered at makrostorm. studio (Porto/Portugal), between February and September 2018
www.facebook.com/makrostorm/

artwork by Diogo de Tita
www.instagram.com/diogodetita/

additional design by Igor Almeida

𝒢°10

Superalma Project - The Millennial Obsession With Starting Over

for soprano, double bass, and electronics

Anika Kildegaard - soprano
Will Yager - double bass

please continue (2020)

Les champignons dans leur forme visible à l’œil nu, ne sont que les fruits temporaires d’un organisme invisible. Bien souvent symbiotes, ils fonctionnent en osmose avec une autre créature sylvestre, formant ensemble un équilibre de partage. Les champignons sont aussi appréciés pour leurs propriétés de décomposeur naturel, leurs vertus purificatrices autant sur les corps que sur les esprits.

The ACOLORA FAMILY est très heureuse de vous présenter FUNGUS, sa première compilation ambient, regroupant XII tracks des membres de l'équipe ainsi que de quelques gentils amis des villes et des champs.

Avec "Champignons” comme terreau de cette recherche sonore collective, les artistes se sont emparés de tout ce que le règne fongique peut évoquer : les macro, micro, nano créatures, les mangeables autant que les toxiques, les parasites, les psychédéliques, ceux mijotant dans nos soupes et potions... Les morceaux, produits comme des sortilèges sonores, invoquent les forces positives et régénératrices de la psyché.

L’ordre des morceaux suit le cycle naturel de vie des êtres, leurs temps d’abondance, de mort, de renaissance puis de renouveau.
Un grand merci à nos amis pour leurs contributions hallucinogènes.

Comme toujours, Acolora reste fier danseur des musiques indansables, exprimant avec entrain ses émotions et son amour.

Émancipez-vous du bon goût, et prenez racine dans cette terre douce, espiègle, joueuse et insouciante.

Bonne écoute! 
crédits
paru le 22 décembre 2020

Mastering Lucas Boutignon
Album cover Fauxbits999

Fungus

Symbiose Corp - ∑ La Recherche Du Champignon Perdu

Sp7c3, is a project leaded by @absalom_jeremias , without a doubt one of the most relevant and consistent names present in our catalog. Since his debut with two tracks in the compilation “Nalvage” (IWO001), he has relentlessly being releasing material  both independently and participating in omnibus projects. His last work is “Lavanda” (IWO013), a harsh noise LP filled with frantic rhythms.
This album contains the song “Glosoli”, which drifts away from his usual employment of glitches, dancing rhythms, textures and noises. It is an inspiring song, reminiscent of landscapes and memories.
Si Us Plau, Si Us Plau, Si Us Plau. 
Available from January 22, both in physical and digital format.
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Sp7c3, proyecto encabezado por @ es sin duda uno de los nombres más importantes y sólidos del sello. Tras sus dos temas debut en la compilación “Nalvage” (IWO001) no ha parado de lanzar material, de manera independiente y a través de compilaciones. Su último trabajo fue su larga duración “Lavanda” (IWO013), un disco de harsh noise con ritmos frenéticos.
En este album nos trae su nueva canción “Glosoli”, alejado de los glitches característicos, los ritmos bailables y sus coqueteos con las texturas y los ruidos.  Una canción inspiradora que evoca paisajes y recuerdos. 
Si Us Plau, Si Us Plau, Si Us Plau. 
Disponible este 22 de enero, física y digitalmente.

Sp7c3 - Glosoli

Statement by the Party for Socialism and Liberation

The paralysis that gripped the U.S. capitalist establishment in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Trump-instigated, fascist-led assault on the U.S. Congress and the continuing threats from armed fascist organizations came to an abrupt halt on Jan. 12 with the public letter sent to all members of the U.S. military signed by the eight generals who comprise the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. The statement read: “The violent riot in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021 was a direct assault on the U.S. Congress, the Capitol Building and our constitutional process … [and was the result of] sedition and insurrection.” 

The letter sent to more than 1.3 million members of the armed forces by the Pentagon top brass is a clear sign that they are worried that military forces were being drawn into or participated in the seditious conspiracy. This letter comes after the extraordinary Jan. 3 statement from all ten living Secretaries of Defense warning the officials in the Pentagon to not allow the military to be used to alter the 2020 election outcome.

Also on Jan. 12, leaders of the Republican Party began to defect from Trump. Rep. Liz Cheney, the 3rd ranking House Republican, announced that she would vote for impeachment and Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell let it be known to the media that he thought Trump had committed impeachable offenses. This constitutes the first real break within the Republican leadership against Trump. Cheney said, “The President of the United States summoned the mob and lit the flame of this attack,” adding, “There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of his oath of office and to the Constitution.” House Republican Rep. John Katko, the top Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, said, “To allow the president of the United States to incite this attack without consequences is a direct threat to the future of our democracy.” 

Also on Jan. 12, the FBI organized the first press conference where Acting United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Michael Sherwin declared they had initiated “a significant international counterintelligence or counterterrorism operation” whose “only marching orders from me are to build seditious and conspiracy charges”. Sherwin announced that 70 had already been charged, charges against 100 more people were being prepared, and noted “That number, I suspect, is going to grow into the hundreds”. Steven D’Antuono, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office, stated, “The brutality the American people watched with shock and disbelief on the 6th will not be tolerated by the FBI,” adding that “The FBI has a long memory and a broad reach”.  

Powerful tech companies have also come together to ban Trump from using social media platforms on the basis that he used these same networks to incite a violent assault against the seat of government. Trump is banned from Twitter, Facebook and now YouTube as well as many others.

On the same day, a large number of capitalist corporations, banks and other institutions took action to break from any association with Trump or his family-owned company. Deutsche Bank, which has been Trump’s primary lender for decades, announced their decision not to do business with Trump or his company in the future. The Trump Organization owes Deutsche Bank more than $400 million. The PGA said it would no longer hold the PGA Championship at Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey which had been set for May 2022. Universities stripped Trump of honorary degrees. Shopify, the company that serves e-commerce sites, closed to online stores tied to Trump. The online payment platform Stripe will no longer process payments for Trump’s campaign website. 


Read the full statement here:
https://www.liberationnews.org/the-paralysis-ends-trump-fascism-and-the-capitalist-state/

The Paralysis Ends: Trump, Fascism and the Capitalist State

SYNOPSIS
As a child you dreamt nightly of forest and immortals: tribes of experimental bears and wolves. You recorded secrets shouted by cicadas, who first heard them whispered from roots of the great central tree. In this hypogeal gossip, sky dwellers were the evil ambitious gods. You were told, “It’s the underworld, deep below the soil, that’s where you are loved”.
You’d wake with sleep sand in your eyes and disbelieve the elves and their paintings. You’d even find the rumours from the tree a little slanted. But that one dream, with the boiling hand and ladybug ice cubes, the face buried in the funeral garden—that, you never forgot. When it proved a kind of premonition, you became a shadow self.
Your thoughts became a monoculture, writing the same fantasy on repeat. Over and over again your fiction coddled the creatures who once lived in your dreams, until the numbness spread and they could no longer hold a lute, let alone fend off pests.

Story & Voice by Claire Morse
Music by Levan Shanidze

read story: https://blueyogurt.medium.com/funeral-garden-claire-morse-b0b8bc87db3a

Longtime Buried

[BLXP009]
https://youtu.be/E_tAqTbhnpY

1. David Toop - Fox Spirits
2. Flying Testicle - The Red Lanterns
3. FANTOOMRAADIO 06 - IDA POMASSL DJ SOTOFETT
4. chushi - unreleased
5. Strobe Talbot - Extreme Happiness
6. overdub flows - flow9
7. Kunteynir - Иду
8. Madegg - Mitsubishi
9. My Hip - Mutant Joe
10. MADTEO - WHAT-D YOU DO -OH NO (RE-EDIT)
11. Bugsex - PX02
12. MADTEO - STREETS OF JASPER
13. Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Zu Fuss A (Track 1)
14. Soundhouse - Themes For Dreams (RE-EDIT)
15. playboi carti - perky97 (solo)

https://youtu.be/E_tAqTbhnpY
https://youtu.be/E_tAqTbhnpY
https://youtu.be/E_tAqTbhnpY

'Made Off' [BLXP009] mix preview_ https://youtu.be/E_tAqTbhnpY

Entry for KVR One Synth Challenge 143
Any hardware synth
All sounds from the Korg Monotribe, recorded and arranged in Ableton.

zarf - mono tribe

Composer originally from Charleston, SC - Currently based in Rhode Island.

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