Artist: RXM Reality
Album: Advent
Format: Digital / Vinyl
Release: June 25, 2021

Music by Mike Meegan
Visual art by Keith Rankin
mastered by Angel Marcloid

Following a series of releases on the label Hausu Mountain, Chicago’s Mike Meegan aka RXM Reality makes his Orange Milk debut with Advent, a collection of pummeling electronic impact music. Heavily inspired by the sound mix of blockbuster movies, the music is aggressive with a new industrial feel, where breathing sounds, sword swipes and gun loading clips are manipulated beyond recognition into raw form and texture. In contrast to the mechanical timbres, the actual composition and feel of the music is loose and free; hook-like rhythmic passages will occasionally lock into place, but there isn’t much overt acknowledgement of the computer grid. I think RXM Reality and other likeminded artists are slowly erasing the separation between perceptions of acoustic and electronic music. By interfacing so seamlessly with the tools of creation, the music feels hand-hewn, idiosyncratic, and mechanical all at once.

While often purely percussive, Advent also features a stronger focus on harmony and melody than previous RXM albums, adding a layer of sudden melancholy maybe most notable in tracks like “Character Limit”, which strips back the chaotic bombast in favor of an understated harmonic passage, or “These Days” which begins with an almost gentle looping melodic phrase before aggro rhythmic blasts interject. Mike describes his previous few albums being inspired by darker themes, but by the end of Advent we start to see a lighter perspective shine through.

RXM Reality - Grip Of Evil

a story of damage is pieced together. live, muddy, and still unclean. the way it was meant to be; wet with tears, wholly broken, and myself bound.

Smoggy

Hard Industrial Bop

Bite

（一）

被遥遥注视的悲剧
是一场滑稽的喜剧

The tragedy of being watched from afar
Is a funny comedy

（二）

记忆里的声音，像隔着厚重的墙。

头痛次数越多，这堵墙就越厚。

一个个不合逻辑的幻觉堵在时间另一边，
我的眼睛渐盲，被吸进光的漩涡。

肯定着索然无味的问题一至问题十。

我在这里，这里就是梦的水塘。

The sound of a memory is like a thick wall separating them

The more headaches you have, the thicker the wall becomes

And each illogical illusion gets trapped on the other side of time

My eyes grow blind and are sucked into a vortex of light

So I focus on the tedious questions from one to ten

I am here. This is the pond of dreams.

（三）

所有打破我的孤独的东西...

All the things that break my solitude...

（四）

怨恨的千军万马，它们从四面八方涌来，
化为丝丝寒意渗入我脚下的土地。

Troops of resentment, they come from all directions
Seeping into the ground beneath my feet as a tinge of cold

（五）

怪异的连结
玷污心爱之物的圣洁

Strange connection
Defiling the holiness of the beloved

（六）

我忘记了我是谁
我是大千世界散落的碎片
我是昨天路过的枯树
我是黑漆漆的乌鸦
我是一阵寒冬腊月的风
我什么也不是

I forget who I am
I am a scattered fragment of the world
I am the dead tree I passed by yesterday
I am a black raven
I am a gust of winter wind
I am nothing

（七）

梦的入口
思想的固体
赤身裸体
将一切束缚抛弃

Entrance to dreams
The solidity of thought
Nakedness
Relinquish the shackles

（八）

下着雪的宽阔广场
地面到处是高高矮矮的冰刺
零散地摆着几只巨型动物陶土玩具
温润的落日停在猩红小凉亭顶上……
暧昧的感动……

梦境如何影响现实？

以一种不可思议的推动力…

模糊虚实的界限…

显现出无限的可能性。

A wide square with falling snow
The ground covered with ice spikes tall and short
Several clay toys of giant animals were scattered
The warm sunset rested on the top of the small scarlet pavilion......
Ambiguously touched......

How do dreams affect reality?

With an incredible impetus...

Blurring the boundaries of reality and illusion...

Revealing infinite possibilities.

（九）

与世界割裂的孤独，
飘在虚空中的寂静，
还有多久才能到尽头？

The solitude of being cut off from the world,
The silence that floats in the void,
How much longer is there until the end?

（十）

世界局限在茫然的未知中

The world is confined in the bewildering unknown

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"This song is my favorite one on the whole album. The heaviness from the combination of microtone and brass makes me obsessed.... When I wrote this song I imagined a scene of an overpowering beast descending, a monster covering the sky, blotting out the sun, transformed by my melancholy, that crushes all living things in its path......

The words in the video come from some fragments of dreams and poems that I usually record." - Yikii

Yikii - Tragic Sublime 悲剧性崇高

(UNSLS020)

Taken from Yikii's debut album on unseelie, 'Crow-Cyan Lake 鸦青湖畔' (UNSL021)

All music written, performed, produced and mixed by @yikii
Artwork by Yikii
Mastered by @jesseosbornelanthier

Released on unseelie, 2023.

The Crow​-​Cyan Lake 鸦​青​湖​畔

VIDEO

Yikii - Tragic Sublime 悲剧性崇高 (UNSLS020)

hangouts- Kmoe
agony instrumental remake- Yung Lean

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RONIN NiNJa clip

White River Remixes

Fauness, 'White River (Ytem & Escha Creuseur Liberation Remix)' (2020). Courtesy the artists.

( ̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅[̲̅ ̲̅]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅ )@dasychira ♡´`·♥·´`♡
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-`ღ´- STAFFcirc + MKSTAR26 + petet + ZBW + Sintel + kfaraday - A Mechanical Receptacle, Fifty Shards of a Glowing Heart
-`ღ´- Love-De-Lic - Kera-Ma-Go (MoonDisc Version)
-`ღ´- DJ cathexis - 絵画教室の思い出
-`ღ´- w3bcam - 2 bugs
-`ღ´- Emily Glass & Dasychira - We Will Find It
-`ღ´- Metome - Gumball (Total Freedom Remix)
-`ღ´- dj fun216 - [ambient_track11111111111] AA fuh
-`ღ´- Quartet of Flowering Genes/Who are you? What makes you you? Who am I?
-`ღ´- Soichi Terada - Time Station (Ape Escape OST)
-`ღ´- DV-i - Media Prototype (Text "888" For reinabe)
-`ღ´- Dusted - Always Remember To Respect And Honour Your Mother - Part One (7' Mix)
-`ღ´- Yikii - 溺水遊樂園  drowning amusement park 
-`ღ´- Hitomi Sato - Distortion World (Pokémon Platinum OST)
-`ღ´- Dead Space - Ring Around the Rosie (Nightcore)
-`ღ´- Yoko Kanno - Trees Make Seeds
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This mix is part of NeuroXcape hosted by NeuroDungeon at Club Cooee.

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Body Scan

GF002

'State Of Dismay'
In the opening track, 'Starvation', xato creates a soundtrack to midnight hour. The ambient piece captures an uncertain & unfamiliar atmosphere wrapped in a blanket of bubbling sound design & warm drones.

'LDX17' a live recorded drone soundscape crafted out of stretched resamples of old demos and heavily processed field recordings.

'Hallucinations' is a delicately processed field recording piece that takes place outside of xato's apartment at 5:50am. The 12 minute piece was made as a reminder of how peace and chaos can be found always at the same place.

Mix & master by xato.
Artwork by aangelwwings.

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