Dirty Electronics & T M Shaw - Objects at Hand

Objects at Hand is the result of an ongoing collaboration between Dirty Electronics (John Richards) and T M Shaw.
 
Just before lockdown in 2020 Richards and Shaw finished a tour, Points of Failure, which involved building performance-installations in various venues across the UK. These environments, made up of DIY devices and found objects, were constructed in response to the performance spaces, and consisted of sound, light, smell, smoke and other sonic processes. 
 
Objects at Hand was recorded retrospectively in remote locations and then edited and mixed as a memory trace and document of the sounds, physical spaces and objects encountered on the tour.
 
Action, uncontrollable instruments, unstable systems, performative failures, reimagined affordance of objects, playing with resource, improvising inside electronics, assembling and disassembling sound devices, architectural features are folded into this performance document.
 
Richards and Shaw see their work as a form of ‘cybernetic wayfaring’, improvising with materials, feedback and new situations, as they continue, and repeat.

Tape / Digital

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Out now on Genot Centre on tape & digital: https://album.link/gen046abadir

"A striking work of hi-def sound design, which intends to explore the intricacies of the human voice, and the significance that can be found in the oddities and interruptions to be found in our speech patterns." (https://soundcloud.com/djmag)

https://soundcloud.com/rami-abadir's Pause/Stutter/Uh/Repeat (GEN046) is a collection of gravity-defying tension build-ups and releases, crammed grimey patterns and blasting overdriven kicks setting the stage for an acousmatic, digital treatment of the human voice as a raw sound source. Vocal snippets, elusive traces of dialogs, ghost notes between utterances, modelled or resampled choirs all form the basis of this approach. On these tracks, high definition focused sound beams, charred high-res textures are complemented by intricate drum rolls sizzling, rushing up, bending beyond their breaking point joined by the clang of metallic, synthetic objects colliding, deforming, rupturing.
The release is accompanied by a handful of remixes, including a staggering diagonalization by https://soundcloud.com/frktl, a bass heavy club ready edit by https://soundcloud.com/ice_eyes, a frenetic, bouncy reimagination by https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier and a luminous big drum-powered rendition by https://soundcloud.com/zulimusic.

Recorded, produced & mixed by https://soundcloud.com/rami-abadir.
Album tracks mastered by https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier.
Remixes mastered by https://soundcloud.com/wimdehaen.
Artwork & tape design by Sam Lubicz (of https://soundcloud.com/333boyz)

Limited edition of 55 C46 tapes with on-body printing pro-dubbed by Headless Duplicated Tapes.

// https://soundcloud.com/rami-abadir about Pause/Stutter/Uh/Repeat (GEN046)
“Uh, um, ah, urgh, so, well, I mean, indeed—in everyday conversation, we stutter, pause, prolong a syllable beyond its actual length, sigh, click our tongues and lips, laugh, and repeat. Such interjections utterances and fillers may be considered superfluous to our interactions, even interrupting our flow of ideas. But, if we listen closely, we’ll find them loaded with deeper layers of meaning and affect: hesitation, thrill, discomfort, uncertainty, surprise, shyness, contemplation, or the agonizing search for meaning. 
As I extracted those recurrent utterances from supposedly coherent conversations, and the more I listened to those shards of sound in isolation, I came to the realisation that our semantic exchange has always been fragmented. This overpowering sense of fragmentation inspired a collage structure and infused the production with a deconstructed, dramatic and cinematic sound. In this sense, the collage technique in composition reflects how we construct meaning out of tiny utterances in our speech. “Pause/Stutter/Uh/Repeat” is a distillation of overlooked communication, implicit expression and elusive meaning, all of which could be reduced in a one-syllable utterance. The end result was a canvas of revisited meaning.
I submitted this work as my graduation project for the MA program “Digital Media” at the University of Arts Bremen.”

// https://soundcloud.com/rami-abadir's bio
AِBADIR (Rami Abadir) is a music producer and sound designer born in Cairo, Egypt.
His work focuses on experimental, glitch and ambient music, and he's one half of the duo 0N4B. Together with the visual artists Nurah Farahat and Islam Shabana, he co-founded the audio/visual collective "Mapping Possibilities", which has been active in promoting A/V events since 2016. ABADIR is also the editor of the electronic music section of the Arabic music webzine Ma3azef, where he also contributes as a writer on critical theory, music history, reviews and interviews.
Previously solo released on Hush Hush Records, Yerevan Tapes, Kaer‘Uiks, D.M.T. Records, and through 0N4B on Kaer’Uiks, ANBA, Aural Electronics.

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TUNGSTEN HEART

A collection of fearless love songs, inspired by Spring and the pains and ecstasies of nesting season. A gallery of lovelorn electronic ballads in the name of heartache. "Wild Love To Grow" is Eastern Nurseries' longest and bravest release to date, as well as the first to be presented physically as a double cassette edition.

"When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light."

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Photo by Toby Ziff
Mastered by Diego Escriche

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As a response to the war in Ukraine, Janushoved is releasing a relief compilation in order to raise funds for the people of Ukraine.

All proceeds will go directly to support the work of Red Cross inside Ukraine, helping children and their families with relief, food and medical care.

Janushoved no. 146

Ferox Maw - K.ratica

Troisième compilation cassette du label Motherlode Recordings (50 exemplaires seulement)

Artistes présents :

Face A :
DJ Conséquences - Pavillon Purifié
Kenzo y Ernesto - Amor Sacrificado
Unpopular Opinion - Red Coat
Depuis-avant - Afterwork Work
Haaland - Lila, Trage Nikes Keine Fila
Hell Marie - Maka Way 2 Luv (OCLS Remix)

Face B :
Barry Johns - My RZ And Me
Steve S - Tss (2013)
Ian Tocor - Je Suis Fils
Le Matin - Reproductive Organ Replacement
Corps Déchiré - Invocation

Artwork : Jules LePull
Photographies Studio : Valentin Béru
mail@valentinberu.com
https://valentinberu.com
Bandcamp : https://motherloderecordings.bandcamp.com

Motherlode A.Tracking #4 Teaser

Silvia Kastel - The Gap
from "Silvia Kastel - The Gap" (nkt007) 
out on noisekoelln.bandcamp.com
Edition of 50 Tapes

Photo by Ben De Biel

Silvia Kastel - THE GAP

Beta Librae - Prismatic

Vladislav Delay - Rakka
Format: LP/DGTL
Cat.No. CR11
Pre-order: bit.ly/35ZwaBQ

It’s been 5 years since “VISA”, Sasu Ripatti’s latest release under his iconic Vladislav Delay moniker. Time of the study, of exploration and reconstruction, a time in which his sound, his methods, and practice have never ceased to evolve. It is now time for a new release which he titled Rakka, and it only makes sense for it to find a home on Cosmo Rhythmatic.

Ripatti makes it very clear that Rakka is not a ‘nature recording’, though it is inspired by the time he spent in the wilderness above arctic circle and tree lines, and the feelings and thoughts that traversed him while there. The music on the album is thus directly inspired by the arctic tundra: the elemental struggle to survive or thrive, the living creatures’ fight for existence. The raw, undefined, uncontrolled and uncorrupted power that exists within it.

Ripatti remakes these values into music, in monumental yet humble forms. Reductionist though not minimal, setting each part to prove its meaning, stripped from the meaninglessness of hooks and melodies. Sounds feel like carved off the flesh, leaving the bones bare. Beats emerge as ripples, as the motion of isolated forces, thwarting with the icy textures and backgrounds and trembling with strenuous energy.

A truly extreme ecosystem of sound, unleashed in the album as much as in the new Vladislav Delay live set, visually given life by Ripatti’s wife, artist Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF).

Written and produced by Sasu Ripatti
Artwork by LCR
Graphic Layout & Type by Pasquale Ascione
Mastering & Cut @ Dubplates & Mastering
Publishing by Warp Music LTD
© Cosmo Rhythmatic 2020

Vladislav Delay - Raataja (CR11)

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Maoupa Mazzocchetti and Charmaine Lee zig-zag between psychotic dread and sacramental regeneration of the soul.

'UXY Dosing©' is out now on BFDM.

Buy: bit.ly/3oNkqLY

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