Artist: NTsKi
Album: Orca
Format: Digital / Vinyl / CD on EM Records Japan
Release: Aug 6, 2021

NTsKi is a Kyoto-based artist, musician. She began making music while living in the UK and began working in earnest in 2017 after returning to Japan. She works seamlessly to create tracks with gentle but somewhat eerie vocals and a mixture of diverse musicality. In 2021, she was selected by Bijutsu Techo as one of the newcomer artists who will open up the 2020s. Her collaboration with 7FO, released through EM Records, was selected as one of the best of the year by Shintaro Sakamoto. In addition to her self-produced works, she has participated in the works of Giant Claw, CVN, Shokuhin Matsuri a.k.a foodman, Dengaryu, KM, etc., and has released through overseas labels including TAR and Orange Milk. Also, she has contributed music to the Japan Pavilion hosted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry at SXSW 2019, where Yoichi Ochiai was the general director, virtual singer te'resa, and an Australian bag brand. On August 6th, 2021, her debut album "Orca" will be released via Orange Milk / EM Records. 

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Orca ~

Music & words by NTsKi, except “Parallelisme” by Haruomi Hosono & Miharu Koshi 

All tracks produced by NTsKi, except track 3, 4, 5, 6 co-produced by Yem Gel, track 2 co-produced by Le Makeup, track 8 co-produced by Dan Shutt, track 10 produced by Giant Claw

Guitars on track 2 by Le Makeup, vocals on track 2 by Dove, vocal editing on track 6 by Hiroto Taniguchi, guitars and bass on track 9 by Yosuke Shimonaka

Track 1, 5, 8, 9 mixed by The Anticipation Illicit Tsuboi @ RDS Toritsudai 

Mastered by Rick Essig @ REM Sound NYC 

Visual art by Keith Rankin based on a montage by NTsKi

NTsKi - Plate Song

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The release in 1995 of wipE'out'', a lightning-fast, razor-sharp, futuristic racing game that helped to launch the PlayStation in Europe and North America, changed video games industry. Equally striking was the game’s original music, which came from Welsh musician Tim Wright, aka CoLD SToRAGE, mixing the accelerated beats of drum & bass with the pure synth rush of trance to make music that sounded as breathlessly exciting as playing the game felt.
   
The first advancement of wipE'out'' - The Zero Gravity Soundtrack comes with three powerful tracks: the original production 'Messij' –and indeed one of the most beloved tracks from the score– together with two stellar remixes by @hyperdub's head @kodenine and British producer Datassette (@datashat).

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General Blurb:

Back in the 1990s video games were still largely seen as nerdy: fun, sure, but basically a guilty pleasure that you’d soon grow out of. The release in 1995 of wipE'out'', a lightning-fast, razor-sharp, futuristic racing game that helped to launch the PlayStation in Europe and North America, changed all that. This was a game that looked and sounded both adult and cool, the kind of game you would put on display in your living room, rather than hide away under your bed. Key to this was the fact that wipE'out'' borrowed unashamedly from the clubbing experience and electronic music, in a way that put it at the heart of progressive mid 90s culture. It soon became a phenomenon.

wipE'out'' looked sensational, with Sheffield agency The Designers Republic - known for their work with Warp - creating the visuals, packaging and manual for the game, drawing heavily on the bright colours and excitable geometric shapes of the rave and club flyers of the early 90s.

wipE'out'' also sounded like a new rave dream. The European version of the game included music from The Chemical Brothers, Leftfield and Orbital, the kind of fashionable game syncs that were almost unheard of at the time. Equally striking was the game’s original music, which came from Welsh musician Tim Wright, aka @coldstorage, by this point already a veteran in the video games world, having worked on the music for Amiga titles such as Lemmings and Shadow of the Beast 2. His music for wipE'out'' was, if anything, even more extreme than the big-name syncs, mixing the accelerated beats of drum & bass with the pure synth rush of trance to make music that sounded as breathlessly exciting as playing the game felt.

These tracks were burned into the brains of millions of gamers; the soundtrack to a generation of late-night anti-gravity racing, as the sun gingerly rose beyond the curtains. But they haven’t, perhaps, quite got the respect they deserve, something that this release will address. In 2023, video game music is finally getting its dues; here, remastered and repackaged –and also remixed by cutting edge producers such as Kode9, μ-Ziq, Brainwaltzera, Simo Cell, Wordcolour, James Shinra, Surgeons Girl and Dattassette– are some of the most important, thrilling, innovative and most fun songs ever committed to game release.

wipE'out'' - The Zero Gravity Soundtrack

Messij (Kode9 Remix) / wipE'out'' - The Zero Gravity Soundtrack [LPS-PS14]

3. WRACK - Bamboo Shoots

2023 marks the expansion of traverse as a label, with the first volume of series “traversée” and an 11-track opus from Qetsy. We’re now back with the second edition of traversée - a space for producers to explore their own versatility. A border-free home for artists to share personal ideas, wherever they are from. 

For this second volume, we are welcoming nine artists who, altogether, shape the vision of traverse through its diversity of music and places. 

Ripio: "I wanted to explore the space between slow and fast rhythms, something between techno dancehall and jungle inspired breakbeats."

Ripio - Enlace Confuso [traverse]

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Litebulb wrote an earlier version of this song called "Round 3: I Wurk Hard" with different lyrics and beat patterns, but DJ Spinn wanted to bring it back with a new feel. Bulb wrote the lyrics capturing the most influential moments in his early upbringing into the Footwork artist he is today, summarizing nearly 15 years of work and community building into two verses and a chorus. Listen to Litebulb's story as he takes you on a Journey on how he did it all, living at 160 beats per minute

Stream or Download “160” now: linktr.ee/theerafootworkcollective

Watch "160" Short Film here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=st3uW08Po8s

Executive Producers: Jamal "Litebulb" Oliver
Directed/ Shot: Camera Goon
Edited: Lateef Idris
Lights: Kenzo Cohen
Sound/ Audio: Sam Skilnik
Special Effects: Micheal Davis
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160 feat. Litebulb & Steelo

A song that is seeping in loss and shedding of self, serves as a space for rebirth. 

The title track from ex.sses upcoming EP 'undo me' out 3rd of November.

ex.sses - undo me Ft. Bonnie

All the proceeds of the release will be donated to Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières, aiding the injured in Gaza.

Recorded in Helsinki during October and November 2023.

You Can't Solve It Alone

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Keiska, Murrettumeri & Romance Relic - You Can't Solve It Alone

In a debut EP that transcends genre boundaries, Seta Loto guides us through the soundscapes of 'Earth-Related System’ forthcoming on the Lyon-based label Comic Sans. With a sophisticated fusion of minimal bass, atmospheric and UK-style techno, dub and dancehall, each of the five tracks develops its own ecosystem, distorted by alterations of reality as if on psychedelics.

Delving into the concept of a sound infrastructure, the artist lays its foundation in the earth as the primary element. An intangible low-end drifts over the surface of the sound, unceasingly creating an intense, enveloping atmosphere reminiscent of tectonic shifts. Above, organic textures manipulated by cutting-edge sound design techniques and clever re-sampling work neatly share the remaining sonic environment.

Seta Loto's creations resonate with a spiritual essence, evoking an intimate relationship with the wonders of nature and rootedness to the earth.
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released November 29, 2023

All tracks written, recorded, produced and mixed by @seta_loto
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta
Artwork by Seta Loto, Matteo Duccoli, Sleek fata
A&R @sleek-fata

NTsKi - Plate Song

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