I would love to know the whole lyrics, even if they don't really matter as they blend with the rest as another sound, and the intonation of the voice already expresses more than words

Dub/Deep/Minimal/Ambient/Inteligent #32

Marcel Fengler - Frantic

Giving form to a broad personal project of continuous inquiry and existential expression, ‘A World Of Service’ marks the Ostgut Ton debut of Spanish producer, DJ and artist JASSS [@jass-29] aka Silvia Jiménez Alvarez.

Buy ‘A World Of Service’ as 12" LP, digipak CD or in digital formats: https://berghain.berlin/jasss
Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/a-world-of-service

Listen at
Bandcamp: https://ostgut.bandcamp.com/album/a-world-of-service
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/album/a-world-of-service/1587326314
Derer: https://www.deezer.com/playlist/9615082122
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5R76uc259XhrHUYGDcalQh
YouTube: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mOqu3yBiTOGor8eQrL9Kyrmbi6jVKDKiY

Watch the music video for “A World Of Service”, directed by Sander Houtkruijer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZzRP2p7Lek

The evolution of ‘A World Of Service’ has curved around genre collapsing and unexpected metamorphoses. Formerly the name of the monthly radio show JASSS hosted in Berlin, and soon to be the title of her expansive multi-sensory touring concept in collaboration with Ben Kreukniet, here ‘A World Of Service’ is powerfully concentrated in sonic form. Throughout the album JASSS muses on the especially current human and technological barriers to interconnectivity; both lyrically and musically she deconstructs the self, unmasks anxieties and interrogates the insufficiencies of language as applied to gender, identity and interpersonal relationships. Forming her own fluid, nuanced lexicon in response, JASSS seeks a deeper understanding of her multiple selves, emerging through unbridled adolescent rage and the wisdom of maturation, traversing liminality with abstract electronics and baroque industrial pop. Visually this is underscored by Matt Lambert’s uncanny floral cover portraiture, as well as the record’s distinct scent of wet earth, flower and woods developed for the album by Meri Bonastre and applied to the vinyl innersleeve.

Following the imaginative nostalgia of ‘Weightless’, her 2017 debut album for iDEAL Recordings, as well as her blistering dancefloor 12” for Whities / AD 93, ‘A World Of Service’ folds personal and societal concepts in on themselves, not seeking answers but rather luxuriating in the unique friction that questions create. JASSS is intensely focused yet musically unbridled; this is reflected in tonal shifts of ‘A World Of Service’. Through the computerised yearning and bruising of a heartbreak on “Luis”, to the jagged and wordless tundra of “Vapor Dentro”; the intriguing juxtaposition of warm, alluring Spanish vocals against rigid pillars of industrial heft and bass grind (“Camelo”), and the soaring maximalist industrial pop of the album’s closer, “Wish.”

As intensity rises through the pandemic-era trip hop of the album’s title track “A World Of Service”, JASSS sings:

“Pleasure /
Is nowhere to be found inside this world of service /
I call to be my life.”

Pleasure may remain elusive to her, but in the determination to make peace with her various identities in this technological age, JASSS offers a compelling glimpse into an essential type of artistic voice.

— Text: Christine Kakaire

Cover and artwork photography: Matt Lambert | Layout: Yusuf Etiman
Florals: Anatomie Fleur
Make-up: Christian Fritzenwanker and Mario Mendez
Scent: Fum de Kyphi

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JASSS | Birds You Can Name

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Existenz

Golden Dawn

DO 2

Artist: Elements of Joy 
Remixer: Sawf
Title: Dopamine
Album: Divide & rule Remixes
Label: Pi Electronics
Release Date: August 23, 2024
Formats: Vinyl + Digital 
Genres: Techno, Industrial

With the 10th anniversary of the π project this year, Pi Electronics proudly presents the second Remixes 12” of the label’s various artists series, featuring remixed tracks from the “Divide & Rule” compilation. Following the first record of this compilation remixes concept, “Variable Remixes” in 2021, we now bring you the second instalment: “Divide & Rule Remixes” (PEVA04). Original tracks by Stave, Lycurgus, Kondaktor, and Elements of Joy are remixed by label favourites Samuel Kerridge, Templeyard Studios, Monrella, and Sawf. From the IDM-leaning industrial/noise touch of British artist Samuel Kerridge and the dreamy/slow industrial sounds of Athens' Templeyard Studios on the A side, to the noise techno chaos of Birmingham’s Monrella (Mick Harris) and the sonic treatment of Greek techno pioneer Sawf on the B side, this release showcases four tracks for enthusiasts of different tastes, crafted by legends in their own right.

Elements of Joy  - Dopamine (Sawf Remix) [Pi Electronics]

Two years after releasing the acclaimed Crash Recoil, Anthony Child aka Surgeon returns to Tresor with new LP, Shell~Wave. Retaining the minimal equipment list and studio-version-of-live-show-sets approach of the previous album in order to focus on the work itself, Shell~Wave is a deeply personal document of both where Surgeon is and has been, converging three decades of experience with a continued curiosity in the untested.

"To make this project, I had to dig really deep in terms of what my relationship was to techno; I've been involved with it for a really long time and there's a lot about it I feel dislocated from, so I had to really think hard about what techno is to me. I often get asked "what is techno to you?" but I can't answer that with words; this album is the answer."

From the complex, twisting track Infinite Eye to the caustic Soul Fire, the eight tracks that make up the body of the album are single-take explorations of the vast, hard yet minimal techno Child is synonymous with. 

Neatly dividing the record in two, the emotional centre of the record comes in the form of Dying, a vibrating, beatless piece that with a mantra-like vocal loop steeped in reverberating effects.

Further echoes of dub production appear throughout the record as tracks like Divine Shadow, and Empty Cloud have an almost ever-present mist of reverberation, driven by the appearance of a new delay unit in the equipment list; while much of the philosophy of Crash Recoil's creation is present, the process and the instruments have changed as Child again switches up his approach to studio work.

This insistence on trying novel techniques doesn't preclude returning to old ones, as this use of modern digital machines with live, hands-on takes that are as inspired by 60s producer Joe Meek and 70s reggae as they are by this year's synthesiser expos.

"For me, it's an interesting experience returning to old techniques again after 30 years. [I'm] always exploring and finding myself back at the beginning. Connecting the present with the past."

This philosophy of 'time travel' is inherent to the music itself as the synchronised loops repeat while the delay and effects branch out, forming unique eddies; distinct quantum moments within the circular whole; the future leaking through the spaces between the sounds. All of the concepts on the album are perfectly communicated through the painting by Taiwanese artist Jazz Szu-Ying Chen which suggests the movement of water, sound waves, and the chitinous shells of sea creatures.

BANDCAMP

Surgeon - Dying

My track 'Danya' released on my label @aneelhi-rec's compilation Fluid Horizons [Aneelhi002] 
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Tbilisi-based label Aneelhi Rec unveils its second release, Fluid Horizons—a bold and immersive Various Artists compilation that explores the outer edges of techno and modern rhythms. Featuring 13 carefully curated tracks, the collection delves into tribalistic atmospheres, analog textures, and hypnotic glitches, forming a dynamic and ever-evolving soundscape.

From deep ambient explorations to driving techno and DnB-infused rhythms, Fluid Horizons defies categorization, embracing movement, depth, and raw energy. Each track contributes to a larger narrative—one that reflects Aneelhi Rec’s forward-thinking identity while celebrating the fluidity of sound. Evocative, kinetic, and intricately textured, this release pushes the boundaries of techno, embodying the label’s vision in its purest form.

Release date : 11/04/2024
Pre-order : aneelhi.bandcamp.com/album/fluid-horizons

Curated by Ina Kacz
Mastered by Tomas Gonzales
Additional mastering by Luminescent Mastering
Artwork by Angelo Nieto
Digital distribution by Triple Vision
© Aneelhi Rec 2025

Ina Kacz - Danya [Aneelhi Rec]

[ KNAUGHTY ]

Knaughty is a project by Kvachi, a multimedia artist born and raised in Tbilisi, resident DJ at KHIDI and co-founder of the LEASH queer party series. Kvachi joined the KHIDI family in 2017, initially as a graphic designer. Coming from a musical family, their connection to music began at an early age. The essence of Knaughty lies in its embrace of musical diversity.

鬼面 : GWI MYEON PODCAST 058 KNAUGHTY

Download: https://rawppl.bandcamp.com/album/gr-v-4
Spotify, Youtube, etc: https://bfan.link/gruv-4

Release Name: GRÜV #4
Track Title: Sea Skimming
Artist: Kyle Cortis
Label: GRÜV
Catalog: GRÜV04
Release Date: 26/09/2025
Format: Digital
Mastering: Charles Accarisi

Tracklist:
1. Aidan Rudd - Heretic
2. Isaiah - Teak
3. BENZA - Parabole
4. Lucas Boston - King Of The Snake Pit
5. Florian Picasso - Bombaclot
6. Sina XX - Minimal Damage
7. Kabay - Becoming Again
8. Toobris - Reset
9. JXXXO - MIRADAS
10. Fran LF - Trembling
11. Sole Dosi - Delitto
12. FANK - Way To Much
13. Yazmin - Beneath The Static
14. Rare Mamba - No Society
15. MAURER - Silent Revolt
16. Kyle Cortis - Sea Skimming

Kyle Cortis
https://soundcloud.com/kyle-cortis
https://www.instagram.com/kyle.cortis/

FOLLOW THE Ü
@gruv-label
www.instagram.com/gruv__u/

GRÜV 4

Sea Skimming

Buy link

Kyle Cortis - Sea Skimming [GRÜV04]

Ben Klock & Marcel Dettmann - Dawning (revisited)

The White Castle (w/ Dariius)

Track from NE43 The Empire Line – Rave LP

Photography by George Nebieridze

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome

Pre-order: https://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com

"The Empire Line present six cyclonic episodes for confined spaces on their debut album, 'Rave.'

Comprised of Posh Isolation's Christian Stadgaard (Damien Dubrovnik, Vanity Productions), Jonas Rönnberg (Varg), and with Isak Hansen (Iron Sight) on tantrums, the trio's marauding live shows have been translated into a slippery set of pummelling techno works, watermarked with florid noise.

'Rave' is a celebration of contemporary rave culture, focused on the everlasting and transcendent as the night slips out past the day. With living-for-the-weekend hedonism irretrievably converted into a manicured, violent cliché, building new worlds and forging new modes of intimacy takes an exceptional sincerity. Naming some of the crews closest to The Empire Line in the album's titles, their spaces are examples of just how rave culture persists as a transgressive stronghold in people's lives.

Ranging from k-hole anthems to jacking, close-range sessions, 'Rave' still bears the traces of the group's experimental background, ensuring the tension is kept up through the catharsis."

The Empire Line – Fast Forward (Intet glemt, intet tilgivet)

Grebenstein and Seefried – radical autodidact and trained musicians – have been working together for 6 years between longer periods of rest, intensive musical output emerged in short and concentrated sessions. A stripped back way of working, with only one drum machine, one synthesizer, and one voice, is reflected in the minimalistic and uncompromising songs they produce. Those who get drawn into the songs of the duo will find themselves simultaneously shocked into overdrive and lulled into a temporary peace – always guided by Seefried’s warm and deep voice.

At the end of 2019, in the year of the label’s 25th anniversary, they will be back on Regis’ Downwards Records with their new release “Raging Tender“.

Written and produced by Jan Grebenstein and Christine Seefried, "Raging Tender" is the title track of Grebenstein & Seefried EP out on Feb 1, 2019 in vinyl 12” and digital download.


Cat. No. LIN081 – All rights reserved.
℗ & © Downwards 2019

Raging Tender

Grebenstein & Seefried – Raging Tender [LINO81]

Anofelo

Online Shop: www.northernelectronics.bandcamp.com

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The Empire Line – Fast Forward (Intet glemt, intet tilgivet)

Northern Electronics

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