Album, OKVLT009, 30th June 2021

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French musicians Alban Mercier(Officium) and Eric Desjeux (Tzii) team up after years of friendship for a 9-tracks collaborative album. Ltd. edition of 70 pro-dubbed tapes and risoprinted cover.

Mixed & mastered by Tioma Tchoulanov. 
Artwork & design by Gaëtan Bizien.
https://okvlt.bandcamp.com/album/watching-myself-forget-with-no-resistance

○ Tzii — Brief Sun Flames

The rhythms of sleep are unknown to the sleeper. Usually, only with interruption, or dreams, or through wakeful observation, are we made aware of them. And even then, only somewhat. On this cassette, Zenxen uses his research into the cycles of sleep and rest to explore and recreate the phenomenon of neural oscillations. 

The tracks sound as if they’re composed of water, vapor, and dust. Trails of percussive events and simple melodic gestures accompany low end sculpting that moves like water, vapor, and dust. Like a tour of the body’s rhythmic structures, these are the waves within, crashing on interior shores. The electrical activity of the brain’s neurons are measured in hertz—cycles per second. Using a range of sampling techniques, Zenxen recreates alpha, theta, and delta waves to construct sonic models of the brain in various states.

Collaging other compositional elements into the works, such as field recordings of whispering voices, and the rise and fall of cicadas, Zenxen forms a tapestry that resembles autonomic processes, like a breath, or a secreting gland. Lullabies in one sense—these tracks were composed for an overnight drone event in the artist’s hometown of Berlin—in another they are intensely awakening, serving as activations of specific frequency windows. 𝐼𝑛 𝑊𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑠 is a sonically cavernous descent, down into the brain’s most mysterious and rejuvenating depths.  

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Zenxen [ˈzɛn ˈdʒɛn] is an interdisciplinary ambient project from Benedikt Ellebrecht, combining academic studies in sociology, literature, and philosophy, time spent playing in post-punk bands, and ongoing participation in the underground electronic music scene in Berlin, Germany. 

Starting with experimentation with sample-based techniques, Ellebrecht has developed Zenxen into a digital musique concrète. He processes and reassembles field recordings from his immediate physical surroundings as well as drawing from virtual spaces such as the internet and videogames. As Zenxen, he has self-released 2 EPs and regularly performs live. 

Ellebrecht also contributes sound design for theatre and performance pieces, including at Ruhrtriennale Essen 2016 and at Staatstheater Darmstadt 2019 in collaboration with Niels Wehr. And in 2017, he co-founded the multimedia label No Disk (https://www.instagram.com/nodisk_/) with Joel AS (Arad Acid).

In Waves

Zenxen - Mesh Of Nodes (ENMX16)

Ping-bong improvisé entre Uwë Bolg & Officium pour la première en direct des studios marseillais de LYL Radio.
MP3 à l'aveugle, disques poussiéreux, vin & okonomiyaki.
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LYL Radio ☽ Tales From The Far East ☾ Episode 14 w/ Uwë Bolg & Officium [151021]

Reaggeaton et dancehall lo-fi passés à la moulinette pour un trip codeïné avec Arca, Duppy Gun, PhysicallySick3 et du tout frais de Merca Bae & Maoupa Mazzocchetti.

Trrrrracklist:
    MADALYN MERKEY - Nexus
    MERCA BAE & TENTWENTYSEVEN - Zuzpend (w/ TenTwentySeven)
    SHANNON FUNCHESS - See that Nigga
    UNTOLD - Tear Up The Club
    MERCA BAE & ZUTZUT - Loodi
    ADAM ASNAN—Mythcigc II 5
    ARCA - Self Defense
    EMBACI - Walk on May 5th
    DJ VELKRO
    [E216] ADAM ASNAN—Mythcigc II 5
    LIZZ x TOMASA DEL REAL x DJ SUSTANCIA x TECH GRL - TE GUSTA EL PERREO (PROD. BY SWOOPS & DJ ALTER)
    ECKO & MARIAH ANGELIQ - Reggaeton De Antes
    LE ENTREVIDA - Gente Vidagena
    MAOUPA MAZZOCCHETTI - ****** (remix) out soon
    T.A.U - Malo2K - Mueve el Toto

Turn On ! Tune In ! Drop Out! on LYL Radio 01.12.21

« A quarante ans, je continuais à porter des mini-jupes, des motifs extravagants, du rose, du ﬂuorescent, des étoiles en guise de boucle d’oreilles. Je continuais de me balader avec mon chapeau léopard, mon sac-peluche, mon ensemble à ﬂeurs, et puis j’ai senti dans le regard des autres que je n’avais plus l’âge pour le faire. Je suis pourtant la même qu’à mes 16 ans, c’est les autres que je vois changer » 
 On ne peut mieux décrire ce qu’est le vieillissement, sinon dans cet écart qui nait et ne cesse de croître, entre réalité physique et image spéculaire de soi : L’une s’abîme avec le temps, exposée aux lois cruelles de la pesanteur et de l’oxydation, l’autre, ne vieillit pas, reste intacte et vierge de toute altération, ﬁgée à un moment où l’on se sentait bien. Plus le temps passe, plus l’écart qui se creuse devient monde. Il peut en devenir si douloureux que beaucoup cherchent à y échapper, usant et abusant de tous les artiﬁces. 
 Youth looks so good on you est une balade sonore explorant avec étrangeté le monde intérmédiaire qui se trouve entre réalité et fanstame de soi, un monde où le culte esthétique de la jeunesse se fait le souverain du peuple.

Naomie Klaus est une productrice de musique et chanteuse française, basée à Bruxelles. Se considérant comme une actrice ratée, elle construit sa musique sous forme d’histoires et de micro-séquences dans lesquelles elle s’amuse à interpréter différents personnages avec sa voix. Elle évoque un conte de fées pour adultes, où les princesses que l’on rencontre sont des nymphomanes hystériques, armées et mal habillées.

En savoir plus sur les Heures Sauvages : https://cwb.fr/agenda/les-heures-sauvages-nef-des-marges-dans-l-ombre-des-certitudes

Naomie Klaus - Youth looks so good on you #HeuresSauvages #IdealTrouble

O'La'Tsé Tsé Tsé

lungo il fiume di una città esoterica [mixtape]

https://radiopunctum.cz/shows/phonon-swarming

phonon~ swarming (@phononcrew) #14 by Sholto Dobie (@sholtodobie)

Tracklist:
clara de asis & ryoko akama - without territory (erstwhile)
lucy railton - standing cadence (modern love)
sydney spann - possession (recital)
christina vantzou - reclining figures (kranky)
banana - afterwards (infant tree)
tetuzi akiyama - trajectory (besom presse)
marja ahti - in all this, there is a melody that you can sing and to which you may dance (black truffle)
phill niblock - nudaf (xi records)
vanessa rosetto - exotic exit (kye)
luciano maggiore & michael speers - necesse est numquam revelare stercorem tuum II (krim kram)

phonon~ swarming 01/24 by Sholto Dobie

“As a warm and fleeting breath that erupts from the deep, stains the room in red and heals”
Catriel’s second album INFERNO JOINT MACHINE is about 10 steezy songs with raw pop structure, a fast communication between his feelings, machines and a microphone captured in one take.

Available in Tapes & Digital on our Bandcamp
https://vastechoses.bandcamp.com/album/vastechoses-21-catriel-inferno-joint-machine

VASTECHOSES - 21 - CATRIEL - INFERNO JOINT MACHINE - Snippets

A3 - Laika bégaye

Carcass Identity, AKA Bear Bones, Lay Low and Carrageenan, bring EBM-tinged, tripped-out polyrhythms to Glasgow's Phase Group label.

'Carcass Identity' is out February 28th on Phase Group.

Pre-order: bit.ly/37PpgCY

@bearboneslaylow
@carrageenan
@phasegroup

Premiere: Carcass Identity - Spiraling Paradigm [Phase Group]

Officium & Tzii — "Watching Myself Forget with No Resistance"
[ Out now ]

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Electronic rituals & sonic ceremonies
Founded in 2013 by UVB76

Tales from The Far East radioshow on LYL Radio
https://lyl.live/show/tales-far-east/

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LYL Radio ☽ Tales From The Far East ☾ Episode 14 w/ Uwë Bolg & Officium [151021]

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