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First Contact

Taken from SBKT048: 33EMYBW & Gooooose - Trans-Aeon Express

Artwork: Weirdcore
Design: Luke Griffiths
Mastering: Raphael Valensi
Release Date: 25th March 2022

In late 2020, in the midst of lock downs and worldwide uncertainty, London based visual artist Weirdcore presented his first solo exhibition, ‘Orient Flux’, at SKP-S in Beijing, supported by Kennedy London. Developed and produced remotely due to travel restrictions, the exhibition spanned 7 interconnecting audio-visual installations forming a ‘train station from the future’, with music and sound design by 33EMYBW and Gooooose. Initially arriving at the ‘Stellar Lounge’, passengers traversed through the ‘Oblique’ security checks, decompress and adjust their bodies for travel in the ‘Microcosmic’ zone, and pass through the ‘Infinity Gates’ and ‘Dimensional Horizon’ to finally board the ‘Trans-Aeon Express’, an illusory bullet train, to embark on a spatio-temporal journey through time.

‘Trans-Aeon Express’ by 33EMYBW and Gooooose is a continuation of this project, with music and sound design from the exhibition, as well as new tracks inspired by and sampling elements/ambience from the various installations. Released on a limited-edition LP, as well as digitally, the album features new artwork by Weirdcore, updating and evolving the original Orient Flux emblem, with graphic design and layout by Luke Griffiths.

Special thanks to Kennedy London and SKP-S Beijing.

Trans-Aeon Express

33EMYBW - Macrocosmic

Aïsha Devi nurtures an idiosyncratic approach to her music. She describes her sound as Aetherave, and uses bassy-heavy club motifs and intentional aesthetic signifiers to transport listeners to a dizzying, kinetic environment, harnessing timeless frequencies. On each record, Devi has advanced her philosophy and developed her technology; her last album 'DNA Feelings' was a radical hybrid of ancient mysticism and rebellious pop, and 'Death is Home' propels listeners towards the extremes, bending fictile beats and cybernetic textures into transformational songs. This eagerly-awaited new album is a livable, breathable sonic essence that reveals itself alchemically, reorienting anachronistic cultural preconceptions with its contemporary, ornate language and eerie architecture.

'Death is Home' is ultimately a manifesto. It's Devi's most revealing work to date and a direct result of her personal evolution and ongoing quest. Growing up under the shadow of isolation and abuse, she formed her practice as a healing method, using it to neutralize her past and recreate an alternate, more hospitable reality - beyond the human condition. 
Her feelings were compounded when she tracked down the whereabouts of her father B.K. Gurung, a Nepali drummer whom she never knew. Devi was informed he had died young, but rather than perceive this as a binary, through mourning, she realized that his existence had already offered her a lifeline and a refuge. 

Devi's words and productions reach out to a place where weightlessness has the power to dissolve the corporeal world's manufactured terror of death. Without this trepidation, life's boundaries and limitations fall away. "Burn the flesh, a Deva's born," she sings over tense, pneumatic kicks on 'Not Defined by the Visible'. Her voice is contorted by electronic processes, but the meaning is human: to reach the holy, we must shed our skin. The narrative that guides the album unfurls with the plasticity of an open-world videogame, a space where one can unravel the dogma of life vs. death. On 'Lick Your Wounds', Devi reveals her deepest trauma, pacifying it with rousing, ritualistic rhythms and melancholic pads. "Vapors of violence remain in my broken bones, intoxicate my DNA," she invokes. "I'll lick my wounds and heal at night. I'll take over." She extends this invitation to anybody tuned in to her signals, providing lodging for those that crave it. Birth is virtual. Death is home.

Death Is Home

vinyl / stream

Not Defined By The Visible

Udeekna

It is no longer a question of forcing bodies to be docile or maintaining order

https://papaphilia.bandcamp.com/album/deep-blue-l-lerkenfeldt-papaphilia

Mind of My Mind Part 1

Richard Rudd, Recorded live at the Seven Sacred Seals Cortes Island Retreat
Featuring soundtrack by Elijah Ray - http://www.elijahraymusic.com/

Seven Sacred Seals Retreat - 2015

Emanation of Seventh Seal Meditation (feat. music by Elijah Ray)

"Surfing on the crest of a whirlwind year, Animistic Beliefs are releasing their 8- track debut album Mindset:Reset on the inimitable Solar One Music. The duo has utilized their bespoke setup and expansive list of influences to create a contemporary electro record”.

Happy to finally share with you the first glimpse of our first album!!
This track is called Succubi Island. Hope you enjoy it :)
Album cover by Isolde Woudstra.

 Full album out on 24-09-2019.

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Mindset:Reset

PREMIERE: Animistic Beliefs - Succubi Island [Solar One Music]

"Hakana" is an ambient collaboration between modular artist Yumi Iwaki (Tokyo/LA) and koto/modular artist Kasson Crooker (Seattle).  The two met at Synthplex in LA where they both performed and agreed that a fusing of their unique styles would beget something wonderful.  Yumi first created lush beds of synths and processed samples, with Kasson then performing the traditional Japanese koto heavily processed through modulars. Yumi's spoken word poetry blends the idea of 果てない (hatenai / endless) with 儚い (hakanai / fleeting)  ~ please enjoy our new song!

Hakana (Yumi Iwaki & Kasson Crooker)

Operatica is the third instalment of the ongoing project Operating Manual for Floating in Space.

The third act was a collaboration between the audience, who were instructed to enact a singing choir, and the performer who vocally improvised in search of harmony with the audience.

Live recorded on December 6, 2019 during Mood Ring at Roodkapje.
www.operatingmanualforfloatingin.space

Operatica (feat. the audience) (Live at Roodkapje, December 6, 2019)

‘Emboss Star’ is the new album by Kochi-born, Kyoto-based artist Kazumichi Komatsu, the first to be released under his own name following a prolific run of material as Madegg @madegg .

Kazumichi Komatsu - Emory

UNKNOWN ME "Bishintai" LP (NNF360)
Not Not Fun (https://soundcloud.com/not-not-fun-1) / 2021

releases April 30, 2021

PRE-ORDER:
https://unknownme.bandcamp.com/album/bishintai
https://midheaven.com/item/bishintai-by-unknown-me

やけのはら、P-RUFF、H.TAKAHASHIの作曲担当3人と、グラフィック・デザインおよび映像担当の大澤悠大によって構成される4人組アンビエント・ユニット「UNKNOWN ME」が、4作目となる待望の1st LP "BISHINTAI"を、米LAの老舗インディー・レーベル「Not Not Fun」からリリース。

UNKNOWN MEはこれまでに3作品をリリースしており、2017年には、亜熱帯をテーマにした作品「subtropics」が、英国「FACT Magazine」の注目作に選ばれた。また、アンビエント・リバイバルのキー・パーソン「ジジ・マシン」の来日公演や、電子音楽×デジタルアートの世界的な祭典「MUTEK」にも出演している。

このアルバムは、電子頭脳のガイドと共に旅をする都市生活者のための環境音楽であり、心と体の未知の美しさを探求するイマジネイティブ・サウンドスケープとなっている。
ニューエイジ、バレアリック、電子音楽といった様々な要素を内包した、多彩な曲調のアンビエント・メディテーションは、神聖な不思議さを持って蜃気楼と共に揺らめき、光り輝く。

聴きやすくも深遠な、繰り返しのリスニングにも耐えうる完成度を誇るこのアルバムには、素晴らしいゲスト・ミュージシャンとのコラボレーションも収録されている。
電子音で、世界的に活躍するトラックメイカー「食品まつり」、伝説の奇才「ジム・オルーク」が参加。
また、片想い、ザ・なつやすみバンド、うつくしきひかり、といったバンドのメンバーとしても知られる変幻自在のマルチ・プレイヤー「MC.sirafu」がスティールパンで、同じく、ザ・なつやすみバンド、うつくしきひかりのメンバー「中川理沙」がハーモニック・コーラスで桃源郷の彩りを添える。
未知の惑星で撮影したかのような幻想的なアーティスト写真は、気鋭の写真家「Ichisei Hiramatsu」が撮影している。

The inaugural LP by Tokyo Metropolis electronica entity UNKNOWN ME, Bishintai, is a sublime synthetic suite of cosmic wellness transmissions exploring “the unknown beauty of your mind and body,” appropriately named for a kanji compound meaning “beauty, mind, body.” Crafted with software, synthesizer, steel drum, rhythm boxes, and robotic voice by the core quartet of Yakenohara, P-RUFF, H. Takahashi, and Osawa Yudai, the album unfolds like a holographic guided meditation, soothing but cybernetic, framed by subways and sky malls. Latticework electronics flicker with texture, glitch, wobble, and mirage, themed around sensory perception and body parts.

A diverse cast of collaborators assist in actualizing the collection's uniquely urban expression of new age ambient, from psychedelic footwork riddler foodman to multi-instrumentalist institution Jim O'Rourke to Japanese underground shape-shifters MC.Sirafu and Lisa Nakagawa. Although the group cites a therapeutic muse (“made for the maintenance of the minds of city dwellers”), Bishintai shimmers with an alien strangeness, too, like decentralized relaxation systems obeying sentient circuits. This is music of utopia and nowhere, channeling worlds within worlds, birthed from a sonic ethos as simple as it is sacred: “in pursuit of beautiful tones.”

Side-A
01 Beauty, Mind and Body #1
02 Open The Sense
03 Gaze On Your Palm
04 Breathing Wave (with foodman) 
05 Have a Noble Meal (with Jim O'Rourke)
06 Moisture Of View (with MC.sirafu)

Side-B
07 Beauty, Mind and Body #2 
08 Isometrics 
09 Can You Hear a New World
10 Treadmill (with Lisa Nakagawa) 
11 Aroma Oxygen
12 Beauty, Mind and Body #3



Composed ：YAKENOHARA（01～07,09～12）,P-RUFF（01～03,05～09,11,12）,H.TAKAHASHI（02,04,08,10）
04 : Additional Sound By foodman
05 : Additional Sound By Jim O'Rourke
06 : Steelpan,Pianica By MC.sirafu
10 : Chorus By Lisa Nakagawa

Recorded : December 2016 ～ February 2020 
Mixed : YAKENOHARA (01～04,06,07,09,10,12), P-RUFF (05,08,11)
Mastering : YAKENOHARA

Mind of My Mind Part 1

Papaphilia