Taken from SBKT046: Rilla - Yugeki / 遊撃 EP

Cover Design: Tianyi
Mastering: Raphael Valensi
Release Date: 21st January 2022

For our first release of 2022 we are excited to welcome Fukuoka born, Kyoto based producer RILLA to the SVBKVLT roster with ‘Yugeki / 遊撃’, the first in a series of EPs for the label.

Featuring 5 thunderous original tracks, and packaged with equally fierce remixes from Howie Lee, Osheyack and Hyph11E, the title ‘Yugeki’ translates to ‘attacking the enemy or assisting allies as the opportunity arises’, a ‘search-and-destroy mission’ or a military action without a predetermined target. Tianyi’s artwork encompasses this concept perfectly with a cloaked combatant, bow drawn, prepared for action.

Rilla

Rilla has been active in the Japanese music scene for almost 25 years, starting as a DJ in Tokyo in 1997 and a buyer for Cisco Records since 2002. His event ‘Almadella’ with Keihin and Yusaku Shigeyasu presented and toured artists such as Shackleton, Peverelist, Scuba, Goth-Trad and Karafuto aka Fumiya Tanaka, with Rilla himself playing over 50 events a year. Since 2012 he has been based in Kyoto, and in 2020 released his first EP ‘SFTM002’ on Torei’s ‘Set Fire To Me’ label. His SVBKVLT debut ‘Yugeki / 遊撃’ sees Rilla expand outside of Japan for the first time, with a second EP set for release later in 2022

Yugeki / 遊撃 EP

Rilla - Isn's (Osheyack Remix)

Premiering "X-Risk" by personalbrand taken from "New Existence" EP out on 16th November via Infinito Audio Network

Bandcamp: https://infinitoaudio.bandcamp.com/album/new-existence

personalbrand makes experimental electronic music and is currently based nowhere in particular. Realising the futility in earlier fixations on dystopias and doomerism, he now uses music to explore how visions of hope might be reflected in the shards of our contemporary failures.

Producer, curator, and founder of experimental label POSTWORLD, the current iteration of personalbrand is exploring how visions of hope might be reflected in the shards of our contemporary failures. Despite his moniker, he is presently focused on illuminating the music and art of others that share this anticipative outlook.

personalbrand has released music on TAR and Over My Body, and is a former resident DJ at Taipei's FINAL.

On New Existence, personalbrand presents three fidgeting, hyperactive tracks that use grime-inspired motifs and experimental club influences to communicate a sense of future shock, the feeling that change and transience has become so rapid that it is now overwhelming. Yet rather than becoming preoccupied with cascading catastrophes, the tracks' more abrasive aspects repeatedly interact with organic elements, alluding to decelerated ways of living that combine technological development with appreciation of the natural world.

The EP also features three powerful genre-mashing remixes by B E N N, AFGA06L, and rEmPiT g0dDe$$.

Links:
personalbrand
@personalbrand
Infinito Audio Network
https://soundcloud.com/infinitoaudiolabel
https://infinitoaudio.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/infinito_audio_label

New Existence

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[Premiere] personalbrand - X-Risk (New Existence out via Infinito Audio Network)

The Marseille-via-Morroco duo Caïn و Muchi will release their new EP Warda وردة in February 2023, on which bass frequencies and knife-sharp percussion arrangements collide with resonant thoughts on mental health, social oppression, and political conflicts.

Read more on CxC 🔗 https://couvrexchefs.com/en/premiere-cain-muchi-warda

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PREMIERE: Caïn و Muchi - Warda وردة

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Functory 03 is the third compilation from FunctionLab will be released on August 5, 2019.

After the practice and introspection of the “localization of the vanguard scene” in the past two years, we proudly started from Hangzhou and have extended our tentacles to a farther geographical space; Collecting music from all over the world and converging into functionlab's own "smell”, self-centred yet separated from self-expression.

Functory 03 contains 12 tracks produced by Akito/ bela/ GG Lobster/ GUAN/ Kieran Loftus/ Laughing Ears/ Mice/ Mr.Pena/ XHANKONKON/ XOXO Miro/ Yikii/ Zean

The cover and MV are made by Hangzhou artists Zhou Yilun and Martin Goya Business & Cheng Ran respectively.

Tracklist/

Mr.Pena - X-Akii12 @mr-pena
GUAN - I Only Open My Mouth for Reading Disc @boyang-guan
bela - 玄武 Black Tortoise @6314
GG Lobster – Rivaldo Top 10 Goals @gglobster
Zean - Eyes @zeanmusic
Akito - Drown My Demons @akeytoe
XOXO Miro – 鼓一 Drum Studies 1 @xoxomiro
Kieran Loftus - Avoid as Teammate @iamahoe
Yikii - 蚀变 Alteration @yikii
Mice - 过肠 Intestinal Passer @inq7b4qx57vq
XHANKONKON - XXXME @xhankonkon
Laughing Ears - Polymorphic Reality @laughingears

Release Date 2019/8/5
Mastered by GUAN
Music Video by Martin Goya Business & Cheng Ran
Artwork by Zhou Yilun
Released by FunctionLab

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Released by:
FunctionLab
Release date:
5 August 2019

Akito - Drown My Demons

An unorthodox bass, techno splicer from @alecpace incoming on @nous-disques. 

More: weareinsert.com/audio/alec-pace-translucent-nous-disques/

Premiere: Alec Pace - Translucent [Nous Disques]

DJ Diaki is Diaki Kone, balani show dj, and radio animator in Sanakoroba, Mali. One of the originators of Balani Show sound system sound, DJ Diaki plays in the style of Balani mix with high energy balafon samples, crashing drums, and live remixes that he calls Balani Fou (Crazy Balani).

“Balani Show” is a Malian phenomena with two decades of history.

Balani Show began in the late 90s, as DJs with sound systems began to animate social ceremonies. The reason was economic – DJs were cheaper then a Balafon group. While this probably occurred simultaneously throughout Mali, the DJ credited as the originator is Seydou Bagayoko. DJ Diaki and DJ Sandji became his apprentices in the late 90s and early 2000s.

Early on, DJs would play cassettes. But to create more dynamic music, they began to augment songs with drum pads: crashing coupé decalé rhythms, cymbals, and whistles. Moriké Keita (DJ Moh) was first with a drum machine. Playing a gig at a nightclub in Bamako, DJs would stop in and dub their remixed versions direct onto new tapes to play at their parties. Over time, more drum pads found their way to Bamako, and DJs begin playing remixes on the fly. This was followed by a brief period of CDJs before the current incarnation of laptop DJs. However, the drum pad is still used, and sometimes even a synthesizer:

Balani Show thrived in the mid-2000s with DJ Senateur performing an official version on Malian television. But in recent years, it has returned to its street culture roots, played in neighborhoods in informal block parties. There is the occasional moral panic, raised by religious leaders, at the site of young people dancing provocatively at night. Occasionally a move will be made to ban Balani Shows, but the legality of the bans are dubious. What the religious opposition has succeeded is in contributing to a general decline of Balani Shows in the capital.

DJ Diaki lives 20km from the Bamako, where Balani Shows are now more common. The village Balani Shows have a completely different element from Bamako – with rapid fire tempos and tranced out loops that extend into mind melting repetition. “It’s much faster in the countryside,” he says. “The people in the village want the music fast. If someone goes to my parties, it’s impossible they dance the whole time.” His video channel illustrates this point. While it may have been the city where Balani Show was born, its back in rural Mali where it has taken on a new form, and where the highest tempo Balani Shows are thriving. 

releases February 20, 2020

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Taken from SBKT034: Nahash - Flowers of the Revolution

‘Flowers of the Revolution’ is the new album from Nahash. 7 original tracks, including a collaboration with Osheyack, plus remixes from Elvin Brandhi featuring Kanja from Duma, Gabber Modus Operandi and DJ Plead

‘The album was written while researching and reading about the role that the US played in installing dictators in central and south America. The harsh and industrial sounds I used as a way to talk about what happens when the harsh reality of neo-liberalism takes over a country that could do very well without it.

I was reading and watching documentaries about Haiti and Cuba and trying to imagine what those countries would be without any western influence.

The ‘’flowers of the revolution’’ are the flowers that never grew, the fields that were burnt down, the plants that were trampled by boots.’ – Nahash

Flowers of the Revolution

Nahash - Changement De Régime

Absolutely killer 10-tracker debut album on Hakuna Kulala by Russian avant-club producer and DJ Wulffluw XCIV. Designed to cause serious cerebral and physical damage on dance floors across the world.
Innovative and genre-blending, Wulffluw XCIV incorporates industrial/EBM techno and synthetized tones with dembow rhythms, kuduro and gqom to forge layered corporeal music with no geographical borders that feels vast. Each track is richly textured, surgically produced with agility and fierce finesse connecting a barrage of sounds and cultural influences plus high doses of playful and visual appeal. Wulffluw drops multiple emotional club bangers that are intriguing and jittery, marked by the front, harsh and unrelenting percussions, and enriched with repetitive sonic explosions, haunting vocals, cyberpunk ambience, and emphasized loud-soft dynamics. Standout tracks include Ash Bay and the psy-trancy Endelea.
With this album (was he in residency here in Kampala?) Wulffluw XCIV's reveals a vigorous artistic sensitivity defined by his interest in connecting disparate communities and diasporic styles. In the past he has collaborated with musicians from all over the world, among others Ink Midget, Santa Muerte & Rafa Maya, Blastah, Nahshi, Yoshitaka Hikawa, AN System, Icy Flame, and Whiterose.

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dj haram - body count
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