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Opening Techno Ambient /Noise

Giving form to a broad personal project of continuous inquiry and existential expression, ‘A World Of Service’ marks the Ostgut Ton debut of Spanish producer, DJ and artist JASSS [@jass-29] aka Silvia Jiménez Alvarez.

Buy ‘A World Of Service’ as 12" LP, digipak CD or in digital formats: https://berghain.berlin/jasss
Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/a-world-of-service

Listen at
Bandcamp: https://ostgut.bandcamp.com/album/a-world-of-service
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/album/a-world-of-service/1587326314
Derer: https://www.deezer.com/playlist/9615082122
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5R76uc259XhrHUYGDcalQh
YouTube: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mOqu3yBiTOGor8eQrL9Kyrmbi6jVKDKiY

Watch the music video for “A World Of Service”, directed by Sander Houtkruijer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZzRP2p7Lek

The evolution of ‘A World Of Service’ has curved around genre collapsing and unexpected metamorphoses. Formerly the name of the monthly radio show JASSS hosted in Berlin, and soon to be the title of her expansive multi-sensory touring concept in collaboration with Ben Kreukniet, here ‘A World Of Service’ is powerfully concentrated in sonic form. Throughout the album JASSS muses on the especially current human and technological barriers to interconnectivity; both lyrically and musically she deconstructs the self, unmasks anxieties and interrogates the insufficiencies of language as applied to gender, identity and interpersonal relationships. Forming her own fluid, nuanced lexicon in response, JASSS seeks a deeper understanding of her multiple selves, emerging through unbridled adolescent rage and the wisdom of maturation, traversing liminality with abstract electronics and baroque industrial pop. Visually this is underscored by Matt Lambert’s uncanny floral cover portraiture, as well as the record’s distinct scent of wet earth, flower and woods developed for the album by Meri Bonastre and applied to the vinyl innersleeve.

Following the imaginative nostalgia of ‘Weightless’, her 2017 debut album for iDEAL Recordings, as well as her blistering dancefloor 12” for Whities / AD 93, ‘A World Of Service’ folds personal and societal concepts in on themselves, not seeking answers but rather luxuriating in the unique friction that questions create. JASSS is intensely focused yet musically unbridled; this is reflected in tonal shifts of ‘A World Of Service’. Through the computerised yearning and bruising of a heartbreak on “Luis”, to the jagged and wordless tundra of “Vapor Dentro”; the intriguing juxtaposition of warm, alluring Spanish vocals against rigid pillars of industrial heft and bass grind (“Camelo”), and the soaring maximalist industrial pop of the album’s closer, “Wish.”

As intensity rises through the pandemic-era trip hop of the album’s title track “A World Of Service”, JASSS sings:

“Pleasure /
Is nowhere to be found inside this world of service /
I call to be my life.”

Pleasure may remain elusive to her, but in the determination to make peace with her various identities in this technological age, JASSS offers a compelling glimpse into an essential type of artistic voice.

— Text: Christine Kakaire

Cover and artwork photography: Matt Lambert | Layout: Yusuf Etiman
Florals: Anatomie Fleur
Make-up: Christian Fritzenwanker and Mario Mendez
Scent: Fum de Kyphi

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Taken from Anechoic's Al-Bidâya Wa An-Nihâya LP on Diffuse Reality Records, out March 2.

Pre-order: https://diffusereality.bandcamp.com/album/anechoic-al-bid-ya-wa-an-nih-ya-vinyl
More: www.orbmag.com/music

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Pitch Blender Remixes

Unidentified Objects (Jessica Ekomane Remix)

The latest edition of the Warning Mix Series comes straight outta Warsaw and the studio of Bartosz Kruczyński better known under his stage name Earth Trax. The Polish artist made himself quite a name with a steady flow of top notch productions, praised by labels such as Rhythm Section, Shall Not Fade, Aus Music and Les Yeux Oranges. 

With this recording he’s once again proofing that his skills as a DJ are not any inferior those as a producer. You’re in for an hour of jacking yet spherical techno sound!

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Warning #96 Earth Trax

Vinyl only live recording from my dantz festival performance. Played before inspirarional souls Lena Willikens, DVS1 & Blawan, humbled to have been part of this!

For this special warmup I tried to explore some places apart from my usual hipnotic/deep techno narrative. My goal was to show local people there is a lot to discover within electronic music, knowing there was gonna be an intense long techno journey after my performance. Felt it was the ideal place to take some risks :)

Hope you enjoy!
bassy.

Bassywax at Dantz Festival 2023

LINK: https://www.dancingvinyl.com/vinyl/arkajo-entwine-signature-remixes/

Arkajo is back on his own label with two originals and two remixes by kindred spirits, Polygonia and Konduku. Starting with the warm Entwine, stepped-out beats laced with swirly stabs. Polygonia’s finishes off the A-side with an organic and atmospheric rework; saturated in deep, trippy, rattling tonally percussive flows. Arkajo’s Signature leads the B-side: broken drum patterns with whispers from the realm between where Sweden and the UK meet. Konduku settles the score with his dark and eerie 4×4 techno take. A diverse record to keep in the bag for both hazy basements and the upcoming summer season.

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B2 Signature Konduku Remix

AS IF THEY'VE WAITED TOO LONG AND STARTED REALIZING THAT

Berlin-based artist Pavel Milyakov aka Buttechno joins us for an hour a month. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/buttechno/episodes/buttechno-8th-april-2024

Buttechno w/ NAWAZ 080424

2024 - 04 - 25 - E L A Invites PHILIP KYLBERG

We are glad to welcome our friend Francesco Belfiore from Roma. Francesco is a Dj, live performer, producer and he specializes in modular techno. He has recently released an Ep on Semantica Records and also for the label Concrete Records. He's the founder of the labels Truth or Consequences and Save the Blessed, the latter known for releases by artists such as San Proper and The Analogue Cops. His music is distinguished by a minimal and hypnotic sound, characterized by intricate rhythms and complex sonic textures, reflecting the influences of the Berlin school and dub techno. His performances are a journey through pulsating rhythms and dark atmospheres.

@francesco_belfiore
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RA : fr.ra.co/dj/francescobelfiore
IG : www.instagram.com/francesco_belfiore/?hl=fr

Б podcast 40 / Francesco Belfiore [Semantica rec.]

Square One presents: IMGL

ESP

Gianluca Tavaroli, también conocido como IMGL, se encuentra en la encrucijada del dominio clásico y la exploración electrónica contemporánea. Nacido y criado con una base musical clásica, Gianluca se aventuró más allá de los límites tradicionales para crear una identidad artística única.

Formado como músico clásico, logró la excelencia en su oficio, obteniendo reconocimiento por su competencia. Sin embargo, su viaje artístico dio un giro inesperado al adentrarse en los ámbitos de la producción musical ambiental y IDM. Bajo el nombre de IMGL, Gianluca fusiona la elegancia atemporal de las influencias clásicas con los sonidos de vanguardia del ambient y el IDM.

Con una combinación perfecta de sensibilidades clásicas e innovación electrónica, la música de IMGL trasciende los géneros, creando un paisaje sonoro que invita a los oyentes a una experiencia auditiva cautivadora. Sus composiciones, que van desde expresiones clásicas hasta exploraciones ambientales, muestran una profunda versatilidad que refleja su compromiso de traspasar los límites de la expresión musical.

El arte de IMGL es un testimonio de la fluidez de la creatividad, lo que demuestra que una base clásica puede servir como plataforma de lanzamiento hacia territorios inexplorados. El viaje de Gianluca Tavaroli como IMGL continúa cautivando al público, ofreciendo una perspectiva refrescante sobre la intersección de la música clásica y electrónica.

Square One Podcast 002 - IMGL

دة في الزجاج والذهب (Qasīdat fī al-Zujāj wa al-Dhahab) – Poem of Glass and Gold

[Verse 1 – Arabic, soft female vocal]
في الممراتِ المضيئة كالقمر،  
تتراقصُ الأرواحُ في عطرِ العودِ والياسمين،  
تسيرُ الخطواتُ فوقَ بساطٍ من ضوءٍ ناعم،  
كأنّ الزجاجَ يهمسُ بالذهبِ للحكايات.  

[Instrumental interlude – 0:45–1:10]  
crystal chimes, gentle oud arpeggios, deep bass pad rising  

[Verse 2 – Arabic, male/female duet]
يا معبدَ الرفاهية، يا قصيدةَ الزمن،  
فيك يتجسّدُ الحلمُ بينَ الألوانِ والمرآة،  
كلُّ جدارٍ لوحة، وكلُّ نظرةٍ وعدٌ بالدهشة،  
يا بيتَ الملوكِ في قلبِ البحر.  

[Spoken Bridge – English, 1:50–2:15]
*"Golden halls, reflections of dreams,  
I walk among whispers of light.  
Every step feels eternal,  
every breath – divine."*  

[Drop / Groove – 2:20–3:20]  
slow deep-house pulse with glassy synth layers and oud phrases weaving in reverb space; 110–112 BPM  

[Verse 3 – Arabic, soft female vocal]
حينَ يهبطُ المساءُ كعباءةٍ من الحرير،  
تستيقظُ الأنوارُ كنجومٍ من الغبار،  
وفي العيونِ انعكاسُ الموجِ والسماء،  
تعودُ القصيدةُ إلى صدرِ الذهب.  

[Refrain – English, sung]
*"Golden halls, reflections of dreams,  
Atlantis – the heartbeat of luxury."*  

[Outro – ambient reflection 3:50–4:30]
slow fading echoes of oud, crystal chime, and soft

2 qasīdat-fī-al-zujāj-wa-al-dhahab)-–-poem-of-glass-and-gold”,.mp3

Listen to all tracks from ‘Utility’ in full at https://sambarker.bandcamp.com/album/utility

On his debut solo LP ‘Utility’, Barker [@voltek] turns his focus toward melding experimentation and dancefloor pragmatism with the psychology behind the musical decision making process.

‘Utility’ is a playful but non-ironic musical approach to a whole spectrum of utilitarian and transhumanist ideas: from models for quantifying pleasure and “gradients of bliss” to abolishing suffering for sentient beings (not just people) through the ethical use of drugs and nanotechnology. Over nine tracks, Barker’s vision ebbs and flows through waves of deeply psychedelic musical vignettes; free-floating and futuristic melodies and rhythms as targeted brain stimulation.

Listen now in full

Barker | Paradise Engineering

Pre-order available now. Color copies exclusively available for Important Records mailorder customers. 

Multivocal is a polyphonic maze that unfolds to both the body and the mind. A generative take on rhythm and spacial perception, it presents the same events in different configurations. 

The two pieces of the album, "Solid of Revolution" and "Never Odd or Even", mirror each other with the same principle in different musical scales: steady pulses with one millisecond difference in tempo start beating together, then slowly phase organically and progress into ever-changing rhythmic patterns until they finally return to unison. 

Multivocal emphasizes shifts of attention in the listener’s experience and plays with the expectations that frame it. Originally conceived for quadraphonic sound, the pieces reveal the many different aspects and modes of perception that can arise within the same sequence of notes. In this way Multivocal is influenced by concepts of gestalt psychology such as multistable perception - a term describing ambiguous patterns that offer multiple interpretations at once. The minimalism and repetitive quality of the music also refers to trance-inducing and collective music practices, driven by the strong bodily affects induced through the use of rhythms.

Those two compositions were recorded live during Ars Electronica 2018 at the occasion of the sleeping event « Sonatas for Sleep/less », curated by multimedia artist Shu Lea Cheang and cultural theorist Matthew Fuller.

Jessica Ekomane - Multivocal - LP - PRE-ORDER

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