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CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: MAY 2024

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After an introductory trio of mutant rave 12”s in 2019, Aasthma return, galvanised with hi-EDM-pop sheen and stacked melodies for a more ambitious sound that draws as much from Peder Mannerfelt’s work on Fever Ray records as his and Pär Grindvik’s shapeshifting electronic tekkerz. In a strong sense ‘Arrival’ is effectively a new iteration of hi-tech Swedish dance-pop for the 2020s, summoning the spirits of UK hardcore rave and its trip hop offshoots thru a glossy production prism that winks at Eric Prydz, Avicii and Max Martin, while seamlessly kneading in aspects of footwork, industrial dancehall and hypeR&B-pop. Quite understandably it arrives on Modeselektor’s label, and shares much of the German duo’s thrust toward bigger sound staging, only less fruity and crisply rudely puckered.

Arrival

Lights Out

Taken from SBKT061: 33EMYBW - Holes of Sinian
Release date: 8th November 2023

Photography: Hqeivy
Design: Luke Griffiths
Mastering: Raphael Valensi


‘Holes of Sinian’ is the fourth studio album from Shanghai based artist 33EMYBW, and features collaborations with Marina Herlop, Batu, Forrest Gander and oxi peng.


‘Time is a porous Sinian stone.

The mystery of the Sinian stone lies in the "holes" rather than the "stones" - these holes constitute the beauty of the Sinian stone, forming overlapping gaps and penetrating scenes, and also constructing the existence of the Sinian stone itself . The mysteries and contingencies of life are like holes in stone, densely covered in time, leaving fractal paths and jumping clues in the evolution history of the earth. Ghosts of the oldest Ediacaran biota wander among them - "Evolution Failed!" But instead of dying, they drift from rocky crevices into another dimension, from hole to hole, haunting them in nonlinear time, replanning another arrival.’

Holes of Sinian

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33EMYBW - Holes of Time 时间之孔 feat. oxi peng

@distancefromsasha 🤝

The things I hold in mind, the cavalcade of thoughts, the endless shrieking procession. The baying and the whimpers. Incessant and relentless. I know that all things considered and all other things being equal and on balance I'm not as it were your favourite, but what I do know is that you are of me; that is to say, mine. This is all I know. This and the fact that I will like and share and repost and engage with S A S H A's 'I Know I'm Not Your Favorite But You're Mine', premiered via Madjestic Kasual. Knowledge that's known.

S A S H A - I Know I'm Not Your Favorite But You're Mine [MK PREMIERE]

@ity2000 - No Road No Problem
Format: Digital / CD
Release Date: June 8th, 2024
Mixed by Casper van der Lans
Mastered by @Go_Meee
Cover by Cathy Hu
SL+23
© Seedlink⁺ 2024

ity - Song For People

SWAY (feat. june)

https://objectblue.bandcamp.com/album/chaos-discoideum

chaos discoideum

Cover of Fearless Heart by Steve Earle

BA - vocals, electric + classical guitars, drums
OT - vocals, lead + bass guitars

Mixed by Alex Talan
Artwork by Barrett Avner

Barrett Avner & Organ Tapes - Fearless Heart

The first instalment in our 'Removed Bliss' series

Composition by @objectblue

[click the 'buy' link for free dl]

A natural growth flow; sustainability within saturation; decaying economy, decaying human energy; minimum outcome; thus an ever growing tendency to automate; [on the other end] desires of terminating rooted inequalities.

Artwork by Donia Shohdy 
Mastering by Joseph Morris

Object Blue - Who's Brave?

@tobago-tracks strides forward on its fine run of form, locking in the debut three-track EP 'Do you plan to end a siege?' from rising London-based producer @objectblue.

Centrepiece track 'Act like it then' is a robust techno transfiguration. Hard-hitting percussion lays an attention-grabbing foundation, above which off-kilter textures and a contorted Cardi B sample push the track into mesmeric territory.

Out March 16, pre-order: https://tobagotracks.bandcamp.com/album/object-blue-do-you-plan-to-end-a-siege

Do you plan to end a siege?

More exclusive music

Premiere: Object Blue 'Act like it then'

LGS008 // object blue - REX (@objectblue)

A1: The princess is no longer at this address
A2: (time to) WORK
B1: Cordelia's call to arms
B2: Chipping at the kingdom

Out now
Buy: https://lgsrec.com

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LGS008 // object blue - REX

Following a formidable debut EP on Tobago Tracks in March this year, Object Blue continues her rapid upward trajectory with ‘Rex’ on Let’s Go Swimming. ‘Cordelia’s Call To Arms’ is a tense burst of dizzying techno...

Read more: https://bit.ly/2I9LDTM

Premiere: Object Blue ‘Cordelia’s Call To Arms’

Premiere of Object Blue's remix of  Sim Hutchins' 'Dumped by Pirate Radio'. Forthcoming on Local Action.

Read article: https://weareinsert.com/audio/premiere-sim-hutchins-dumped-by-pirate-radio-object-blue-remix-local-action

C18230.5 (Mastered MP3s)

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Premiere: Sim Hutchins - Dumped by Pirate Radio (Object Blue Remix) [Local Action]

Taken from SBKT031: 33EMYBW - Arthropods
Release date: 11th October 2019
Art Direction by 33EMYBW
Design by Fang Yang
Mixed and Mastered by Raphael Valensi

For the next release on SVBKVLT we are proud to present ‘Arthropods’, the new album by 33EMYBW. 7 new tracks plus remixes from Hakuna Kulala’s Don Zilla, Hyperdub’s Ikonika and NAAFI’s Lechuga Zafiro.

Arthropods will be released on Friday 11th October. 33EMYBW will be premiering her new live show for the album at Unsound Krakow on the same date.

About Arthropods

The soul is a fragment of a dream, the seed of future and past, evolving infinitely on the Arthropods* Continent. We seek out dreams and catch them, to scrape together the new Adam.

*1 ARTHROPODS： Arthropods is the alienation form of GOLEM*, and there is a soul in each metamere. They can upload, download, and link to each other.

*2 GOLEM：A golem is mythical humanlike figure made from clay and magically able to move on its own. In the Bible, Golem is an unfinished human being, without a soul. Through the process of its own evolution and its makers' experiments, a Golem can contain or generate its own soul. It can appear in different interconnected forms and reproduce itself at will. A golem with a soul, in order to speed up its own evolution, will sometimes supersede or devour the original form of life. The album Golem is inspired from this source.

Arthropods

33EMYBW - Adam Bank

Galore

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god's chariots

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bookings
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Americas: joe@surefireagency.com

inquiry, commission, or please send music to:
thebluestobject@gmail.com

Producer/DJ
EP1: Do you plan to end a siege? (TT, 2018)
EP2: REX (Let's Go Swimming, 2018)
EP3: FIGURE BESIDE ME (self-released, 2019)
EP4: Hyperaesthesia (co-produced with TSVI; Nervous Horizon, 2020)
EP5: Grotto (TT, 5 March 2021)

listen to my BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix here (aired 15.08.2020): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000ln2b

NTS resident 2023
Rinse.fm resident 2018-2022


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