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Started as equal parts research division of techno’s new frontiers, haven for the sacred and profane, and benevolent anarchy, @raarraar aims to release truly innovative music, made by and for brave sonic explorers. Each release is tied to an artwork, a poem, a story, a photograph - aiming to be a true gesamtkunstwerk.

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RAAR avec PEDER MANNERFELT - 13 Septembre 2021

Alavux - Do-Town Phonk

Alavux - Do-Town Phonk (BradLee Rework)

Shout out to MAS 2008 & Tresor.West

Release Date : December 2021

More Info : 0ktag0nrec.bandcamp.com

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Laura Balboa is a radio producer and independent researcher that investigates experimental sound with a gender perspective in Mexico and its connection with Latin America. She has worked as a multidisciplinary artist and designer for the Mexican electronic and sound art scenes and she is now part of Radio Nopal with her radio show called Bulla, featuring the work of women and non binary sound producers. Based in Sweden, she is also a designer working in Research & Development at Arduino, the innovation and open source technology company. 
https://soundcloud.com/jjjolll
https://laurabalboa.com
https://www.instagram.com/bullaradio
https://www.mixcloud.com/radionopal/playlists/bulla/

TRACKLIST: 
1. Espectra Negra - Thysia (2020, Urban Arts Berlin Label) / 00:00
2. Leena Lee - Transubstantiation (2020) / 02:30
3. Piaka Roela - Días todavía (2021, Oris Label) / 06:47
4. Lucrecia Dalt - Disuelta (2020, RVNG Label) / 10:16
5. Camille Mandoki - LOW (2013) / 13:05 
6. Molamol - (In)habitable (2021) / 16:18
7. Alexandra Cárdenas - ZeeZicht (2017) 22:04
8. ZGAMU - De minibus bonorum et malorum (2021, We Only Share Label) / 25:52
9. LDY OSC - Nenechant (2018, The Bunker NY Label) / 27:44
10. Gudrun Gut + Mabe Fratti - Aufregend (2021, Umor Rex Label) / 33:53
11. Smurphy - SHIVA TEXMEX (2015) / 38:08
12. Tatiana Heuman - Akane (2018, Astro Nautico Label) 42:28
13. Debit - untitled (2019) / 45:15
14. NEUROKILL - EN LA NOCHE (2021) / 48:57

f:p podcast episode 96_Laura Balboa

Queer, Afro-Chicanx MPLS based DJ DIE/ASPORA aka Cristian Ybarra is an up and coming curator / music selector specializing in house, techno, dark wave, & EBM. As a resident DJ / collaborator with Dark Energy, Gothess and Acme Collective along with their own monthly dance party at the notable West Bank venue Part Wolf, their main priorities include not only bringing inclusion and visibility to the dance floor but to the MPLS dance scene as well. aka Cristian Ybarra is an up and coming curator / music selector specializing in house, techno, dark wave, & EBM. As a resident DJ / collaborator with Dark Energy, Gothess and Acme Collective along with their own monthly dance party at the notable West Bank venue Part Wolf, their main priorities include not only bringing inclusion and visibility to the dance floor but to the MPLS dance scene as well.

https://soundcloud.com/cristian-ybarra-635514574
FB: DlEASPORA
IG: die_aspora

Techno Hour of Power 044 - DIE/ASPORA

Dark Planet VA
1. Three Faces Of Eve - Wish You'd Leave
2. DJ Godfather - It's Only Detroit
3. Steve Allman - Next Level
4. Versalife - Shift Levels
5. Helsmoortel - Violence
6. Flug - Just You
7. Assembler Code - Architects
8. Blaktony - Produkt
9. The Exaltics - One Direct Line
10. VRIL - Orgon
11. Lord Of The Isles - Approach & Identify
12. PARAND - Archangel
13. 88756 - Fine Dining Experience
14. Co-Accused - Abduction
15. Monk - Simulation Theory
16. Darkmode - Dr Bloodmoney

We return with a fresh rogue squadron assembled for another massive compilation as 16 Electro warriors take on the ‘Dark Planet’.

After’s last years huge ‘Defend Your Planet’ VA, we immediately set about recruiting another incredible group of artists that represent the label’s output. Once more, an exciting blend of established, classic and up and comping producers, all taking inspiration from the collective sound of Detroit & European influenced Electro, come together to make their sound heard via Dark Planet.

Dark Planet

One Direct Line

The Exaltics - One Direct Line [AVD014]

Aphid - 25/11/21

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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JASSS | Wish

Most of the music is from the Fab label Voitax. Artists: Cyan85, Cressida, Bailey Ibbs, LFDM, Arad, Luz 1e, Also: Masha Motive, and some Bug/ njoy

Hypnic Jerks Mix

Operator - 04

Speechmaker - Module 15/05/2022

Pitch Blender Remixes

Unidentified Objects (Jessica Ekomane Remix)

[Intro]
You thought silence was safety, thought your shame was buried deep.
You thought you could sleep while we bled.
No more. The night’s awake — and we remember.

[Verse 1]
You moved like a shadow, smiling like a saint,
Tucked your hands in pockets while you taught us pain.
Thought your secrets were stone, thought your name was safe,
Built your kingdom on stolen nights and lies you draped.
We kept the wounds quiet, swallowed the screams,
You fed on our fear and sold our dreams.
But the ledger’s open now, receipts in my fist,
I’m speaking the names — I won’t be dismissed.

[Pre-Chorus]
You wanted hush. You wanted peace.
We wanted truth. You got release.
No more cover, no more lies,
We pull the curtain, we light the skies.

[Chorus]
Your heart will know the weight of truth tonight,
No hiding in the darkness, no running from the light.
You stole our nights — we’ll claim the dawn,
We shout your name till your cover’s gone.
The heartbeat of reckoning pounds in the street,
We bring the proof, we won’t retreat.
You thought you’d win — thought you’d be free,
Now face the day — now face what we see.

[Verse 2]
Your alibis crack, your stories fall,
We stack the witness statements, we show them all.
Every lie you told becomes a rope,
We drag it into daylight, we take the hope.
You’ll sleep for now — but not in peace,
Truth is a shadow that never cease.
We’re the noise you tried to smother with gold,
We’re the names on the lips of the young and old.

[Pre-Chorus]
You built your walls with other people’s bones,
We tear them down and we take back home.
No more silence, no more shame,
We turn your lies to ash and flame.

[Chorus]
Your heart will know the weight of truth tonight,
No hiding in the darkness, no running from the light.
You stole our nights — we’ll claim the dawn,
We shout your name till your cover’s gone.
The heartbeat of reckoning pounds in the street,
We bring the proof, we won’t retreat.
You thought you’d win — thought you’d be free,
Now face the day — now face what we see.

[Bridge]
We are the voices you tried to mute.
We are the files, the photos, the truth.
We call the cops, we call the court, we call your name,
We make the public square remember your shame.
No more hush money, no quiet deals,
We’re the force that rips off your seals.
You took what wasn’t yours — you’ll answer the cost,
We resurrect the lost and count what you lost.

[Breakdown]
Call the names! Light the proof!
No more corners — no more roof!
Expose! Report! Demand the law!
We’re done covering up what you saw!

[Final Chorus]
Your heart will know the weight of truth tonight,
No hiding in the darkness, no running from the light.
You stole our nights — we’ll claim the dawn,
We shout your name till your cover’s gone.
The heartbeat of reckoning pounds in the street,
We bring the proof — we won’t retreat.
You thought you’d win — thought you’d be free,
Now face the day — now face what we see.

[Outro]
You don’t get to sleep while we remember.
You don’t get to lie while we speak.
We are the storm you made — we are the reckoning.
We will not be silenced.

Heartbeat of Reckoning

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

Contact / demos policy: https://www.ostgut.berlin/label/contact/

JASSS | Wish

Ostgut Ton | A-TON | unterton

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