brain scratch

Inspired by melodies heard in dreams, late-night musings, and hypnagogic half-visions. This EP, especially in its instrumental sections, is an alchemical attempt to capture something numinous, profoundly subtle, and wordless. The sometimes dissonant melodies here represent contrasting angles of liminal space; at once chaotic, yet at the same time harmonious, whispering of some truth between the lines, yet aside from sight or thought. Let the textures take you, journey beyond the walls of 3-dimensional space, see what is within.

Piasenn (skader Mix)

brain crease

It is time to let go of your fear and doubts. You must learn to embrace the darkness of your soul, for it is a light beacon of hope for humanity. Your soul wants to show itself in its truest form, strength, perseverance, courage and determination of spirit. In this lifetime your soul needs to cleanse and open its feelings for katharsis.

With the double compilation “Infinite Summer: Ekstase & Fantasi”, katharsis celebrates the return of raves and concerts to society after a long period of pandemic shutdown. A magical summer has past filled with a great pallet of emotional material, ready to be expressed. Therefore, we encouraged a collection of artists we adore to channel their imagination of the greatest way to conclude an endless summer night with into a piece of music.

This resulted in a grand assemblage of harmonious manifestations, naturally splitting into two divisions with opposing focuses. In contrast to the first part of the duology “Ekstase”, which focused on euphoric and dancefloor-oriented outputs, this second part “Fantasi” has a more serene and introverted focal point. The majority of the tracks seem to be meant to stop time in deep reflection with a placid sunrise as the backdrop, exemplified by the purgative opener “salomé” by Aestum, but the listener will find occasional rhythmic outpourings like the unhurried clubby vibes on awbluu’s “Rosalyne (Voxen)” or the beautiful melodic “we will get where?” by Beham.

Infinite Summer: Fantasi

little dummy

galen tipton - little dummy

OrangeTone's debut album 'Lightmixer' out now!

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Lightmixer

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Shds

inxsz

Preview of "The Moon Turned Into The Sun" by HMOT. Released Feb 1st 2024 by Kota Tones & Beacon Sound.

The Moon Turned Into The Sun - HMOT (Minimix)

First solo release from vocalist, movement artist and composer Elaine Mitchener, whose work encompasses improvisation, contemporary music theatre and performance art. Solo Throat draws on the work of African-American and African-Caribbean poets Kamau Brathwaite, Aimé Césaire, Una Marson and N. H. Pritchard as source material for twelve new vocal compositions
Elaine Mitchener is a veteran of vocal expression in the global Black Avant Garde, traversing free improvisation, cross-disciplinary music theatre and contemporary composition with clarity and joy. Most recently, Mitchener has been improvising and composing with the written word as source material - challenging classical ensembles with her piece (“the/e so/ou/nd be/t/ween”), and commissioning composers Matana Roberts, Jason Yarde and George Lewis to respond to the work of Sylvia Wynter (“On Being Human as Praxis”, Donaueschinger Musiktage, 2020). Her performance of Umbra poet N.H Pritchard’s text FR/OG at OTO in 2021 was a revelation - a solo vocal recasting of the powerful visual-material form that Pritchard uses to disrupt semantic ‘sense’.

Building on this performance, Solo Throat takes the work of Pritchard alongside poets Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Aimé Césaire and Una Marson as its source material. Its compositions are a loose translation - a carrying from text to voice which holds multiplicity and celebrates the transformative power of literary possibility. Surrendered to the spacing and repetition of consonants and vowels, Michener’s exceptional phonetic freedom gives rise to a sensuous experience which intensifies the roles of rhythm, timbre and breath in expressing meaning.

Solo Throat comes together as much through difference as similarity. Mitchener’s own solo improvisations sit alongside the work of Brathwaite, Césaire, Marson and Pritchard, forming a constellation of unlikely alignments which make no aesthetic conclusion. Instead, Solo Throat is a site of encounter, an irreducibly plural de-composition of words into a heterogeneous assemblage of sounds and impulses, emphasising what Anthony Reed calls, “the play on and the surplus of margins of lyrical translation to resituate other pathways of expression”. Just as the poets cited use white space to complicate our act of reading, so Mitchener utilises silence and multiphonics to complicate the act of voicing and the way we listen.

Solo Throat

ROKU036 - Elaine Mitchener - "stretchedwoundspeaks" from Solo Throat

KILROY WAS THE DON

tinkle

full title: Pretty unfinished song about the struggle of sharing doubts on my identity AKA "tu parli al mondo sempre" wrongly translated in "it's hard to talk". 

art by laposorride.xyz

Kinked - "tu parli al mondo sempre" wrongly translated in "it's hard to talk"

"Pain goes by, don't worry. I wish the timing would have been better. It still hurts sometimes but I try to stay happy…

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releases May 24, 2024

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Produced and mixed by Huar Huarco, Ed Lalo
Mastering by Ed Lalo
Artwork by Huar Huarco

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Come To Me

Manu Jaikin is a DJ, producer and co-founder of Alta Costura: experimental label and rave organizer from Buenos Aires, operating rhythms from 80 to 160bpm. In this mix you can hear club sounds going in and out, one hour spanning percussion-driven footwork, trap, techno and bass recorded in one take.

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TRACKLIST: 
Florconvenas - Labios de semilla
El Murki - Danza del canil vacío
Myspace Juan - Puttin' in work
Hishimura - Surge
Nadia Struiwigh - Voxis Ohlun
Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Globe
Seudo Plot - Hedahut
Natsumi Hirota - yi._______
JK FLESH - Nothing is free
Crimewave - Aftermath (Deft remix)
Parts Project - Tomb
Dustmite - Crusher II
K-65 - Lock off
Keta Caviar - Dollar, pound, peso, yen, rupee
BPMF - Tell mommy bye
Negroni Nails - Vertical slice
The Infiltraitor - The beat of a cold heart
UFO95 - Wallon
Drippin - Kyoto
Sacred Lodge - Santa sangre
Me In Mono - Jax
Heavee - BangBang
cd:dc - Blower
DJ Clent - Sound forge
Ron Morelli - Two fingers up
Surgeon - Raw Trax 2
Translate - Sanctuary investigation
Decoder - Jivatma
VHS - TBI 6
Marco Shuttle - Arpex

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Artwork by @tornaycass

Manu Jaikin - Synthetic Tales - 24.05.24

A track from the game Pikuniku.
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Pikuniku - Mother's Lullaby

Brass Mechanics

Tarahumara

Lira

Tam Tam

Record label based in Providence, RI

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