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Spring Bones

spring bones

Full stream of JS Donny's "DubCore3," taken from OTM9 compilation on Ōtium Records, out November 8.

Pre-order: https://otiumrec.bandcamp.com/album/liminal-spaces
More: www.orbmag.com/music

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Premiere: JS Donny - DubCore3

We are glad to share with you Liminal Spaces, our next compilation release (digital only). This V.A. is a collective effort from 8 artists, all invited to explore the concept of grey-area in a way that it would relate to their personal and/or creative realm. A grey-area is very linked to what is known as a liminal space : a transitional location, or a state being, in between two others, often empty, abandoned, that feels cold, nostalgic and slightly unsettling, but also familiar to our minds.

Liminal Space goes into a wide sonic spectrum range. Disturbing spoken words, emotional pop anthems, deconstructed club and disquieting ambient are merged all together here for an unsteady listening experience.

The creative process began just before the war in Ukraine - when we learnt that we were working on a concept so close to such an event, we decided that all proceeds will go to Helping To Leave, a NGO helping people evacuate from areas affected by the Ukrainian war.

Morfine - On & Off

Art by Nick Castonguay
Graphic Design by Kristian Spears
Mastered by Cristobal Urbina at See You Mastering
Organized by Thom Speakman
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts

Jesse Osborne-Lanthier - NO AGE, KNOW AGE, NEWS AGE MUSIC (m.s-t.i.t.e.i.15m.o.e.)

Excerpts from the second release in the groove series dedicated to variations on ambient, footwork and fast tempos. groove 14 was produced by Canadian sound artist @automatisme01.
Artwork: Iwona Jarosz
Mastered by: Mateusz Wysocki
Edition of 60 tapes.

Automatisme - groove 14.1 (preview)

@exhausted-modern

The first release from Markham Road comes in the form of a VA spined by frequent collaborators of its sister platform Infame Radio. The consequent nine tracks vary along a scale of percussive rhythms both relating to established and experimental ideas. As a trial in itself, this project took shape through exponential conversations between all those creatively involved. All tracks are written and mixed by each respective artist.

MR001

Oblaka - Naturopathic Healing

Scythe (Demo)

feat. Kenichi Iwasa, Kuljit Bhamra

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No: PAN 106
Release Date: 07 February 2020
Purchase: bit.ly/33ISoYr

‘Workaround’ is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythmobsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN. It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro- Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.

Recorded over 2017-2019 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14 bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play.

‘Workaround’ evolves Dillon’s notions in a coolly unfolding manner that speaks directly to the album’s literary and visual inspirations, ranging from James P. Carse’s book ‘Finite And Infinite Games’ to the abstract drawings of Tomma Abts or Jorinde Voigt as well as painter Bridget Riley’s essays on grids and colour. Operating inside this rooted but mutable theoretical wireframe, Dillon’s ideas come to life as interrelated, efficient patterns in a self-sufficient system.

With a naturally fractal-not-fractional logic, Dillon’s rhythms unfold between unresolved 5/4 tresillo patterns, complex tabla strokes and spark-jumping tics in a fluid, tactile dance of dynamic contrasts between strong/light, sudden/restrained, and bound/free made in reference to the notational instructions of choreographer Rudolf Laban. Working in and around the beat and philosophy, the album’s freehand physics contract and expand between the lissom rolls of Bhamra’s tabla in the first, to a harmonious balance of hard drum angles and swooping FM synth cadence featuring additional synth and vocal from Laurel Halo in ‘Workaround Two’, while the extruded strings of Lucy Railton create a sublime tension at the album’s palatecleansing denouement, triggering a scintillating run of technoid pieces that riff on the kind of swung physics found in Artwork’s seminal ‘Basic G’, or Rian Treanor’s disruptive flux with a singularly tight yet loose motion and infectious joy.

Crucially, the album sees Dillon focus on dub music’s pliable emptiness, rather than the moody dematerialisation of reverb and echo. The substance of her music is rematerialised in supple, concise emotional curves and soberly freed to enact its ideas in balletic plies, rugged parries and sweeping, capoeira-like floor action. Applying deeply canny insight drawn from her years of practice as sound designer, musician and hugely knowledgable/intuitive DJ, ‘Workaround’ can be heard as Dillon’s ingenious solution or key to unlocking to perceptions of stiffness, darkness or grid-locked rigidity in electronic music. And as such it speaks to an ideal of rhythm-based and experimental music ranging from the hypnotic senegalese mbalax of Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, through SND and, more currently, the hard drum torque of DJ Plead; to adroitly exert the sensation of weightlessness and freedom in the dance and personal headspace.

The album is mixed by James Rand and mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Thomas Ruff, layout by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

Workaround

Beatrice Dillon - Square Fifths (PAN 106)

From the album: Blinding Nights (April 2022)

Written, produced and mixed by Morfine
Mastering : Sébastien Petit at Sodasound
Artwork : Ines Saki Segond-Chemaï

Distributed by Underscope
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The unpredictable, dark and dreamy soundscapes that Morfine produces are, above all else, an expression of her innermost thoughts. Her songwriting blurs the boundaries between electronic and pop music, making use of her own unique vocals, alongside melodies dripping with melancholy and steeped in avant garde FX. “Blinding Nights” is contradiction in terms, a way of saying that sometimes it’s darkest before the dawn. On her debut album Morfine’s production and lyrics illustrate this paradox, based on moments from her own life.
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Blinding Nights est le premier album de la compositrice, auteure, claviériste et chanteuse Morfine (Estelle Morfin à la ville).
Blinding Nights porte en lui une contradiction : peut-être est-ce dans l’obscurité la plus profonde que l’on perçoit la plus vive lumière. Cet album illustre ce paradoxe, tout en se basant sur les événements qui ont marqué Morfine ces dernières années.

Blinding Nights

Morfine - Doppler

Morfine - "Credo" : first single from the forthcoming album 🖤

Album : Blinding Nights (digital release : 14 April 2022)
https://morfine.bandcamp.com/

Music composed and produced by Morfine
Mastering : Sébastien Petit - Sodasound
Artwork : Ines Saki Segond-Chemaï
Distribution : Underscope

Morfine - Credo

Morfine - Hold The Night

Shapes

Morfine - Shapes

Xozgk - skllpt [CC002] out 08/01/2020

All tracks written and produced by Xozgk between 2018 and 2020.

Additional production and mixdown by anabasine at Autoland.

Mastered by Pierre Guerineau.

Artwork by Bruno Lauzon Tanzi in collaboration with artist Marilou Lyonnais Archambault.

CC ↻ 2020

Xozgk - kli_6

AM Studio is a collective of music producers with different backgrounds, skills, styles and approaches of the music composition. 

We also work with an international network of other composers for projects that require it.

With this variety of talents, we are able to propose tailor-made compositions that make every project singular and aligned with the client's vision and aesthetic.

> More Info: https://amsoundesign.com/composition

@benoitb is a DJ and multi-faceted producer. As efficient as it is discreet, he traces his own path and always remains in search of new sound explorations. A strange fruit, cross-pollinated with strains of breakbeat, electro, techno, ambient and more, his sound defies the norms and standards that often hinder the innovative potency of contemporary electronics.

Originally from Paris’ outskirts, he moved to Berlin in 2015 where he founded his label Banlieue Records to promote a hybrid and new sound with artists who share his vision such as Mathis Ruffing, Aiwa, N1L, Nummer or D'Marc Cantu, helping him to define this specific and atypical sound.

In parallel, he released several EPs on labels such as Berceuse Heroique, Wisdom Teeth, Unthank or Into The Light. His project, under the alias of Al Jerry, co-produced with the London producer Gohan, was released last year on Optimo's sub-label AF Trax. A few projects will see the lights in the following month under new alias to cover one’s track.

Milky Way

Benoit B - Milky Way / AM Studio

Much more than a man a woman is a space from childhood we learned that our bodies and souls are merely vessels for bigger things other entities destined to be filled a woman cannot be an empty space she must not be big she must not be loud but the space that she is the one that belongs to her it must not be empty so they they tell me I should always aspire to be completed to be full full of a child of a man of a an ideal of whatever cheap organic and ancestral preconceptions they can shove in my body my soul should be filled with their worries a flypaper paper made of empathy catching the flies of their childish tantrums and anxious entitlement like the virgin Mary Holy Mother Universal listener Crier I take the sorrows of others and swallow them as I swallow pill bite into the ideal Swallow swallow it all I am a space that should always ask to be filled even when I’m vomiting all the debris they have discharged into me over time. A woman is a polluted polluted river. Trying to dissolve foreign objects with acid, distrustful of everything of everyone because I am terrified of this breaking and entering cult yet i am still rejecting trash in waves on the shores of myself I still want to be at peace with my own emptiness, the sealed empty room that i am to negate the space Leave nothing in me too precious for them to take let their complaints and desire drip around me without ever penetrating me even if I am capable of turning the broken glass they give me into polished diamonds, 
doesn't mean that it hurts any less.

Malignant

Voids

Ronce - Voids [RAVE032]

Liminal Spaces out now : https://otiumrec.bandcamp.com/album/liminal-spaces
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Album 'Blinding Nights' out (14th of April 2022)

The unpredictable, dark and dreamy soundscapes that Morfine produces are, above all else, an expression of her innermost thoughts. Her songwriting blurs the boundaries between electronic and pop music, making use of her own unique vocals, alongside melodies dripping with melancholy and steeped in avant garde FX. “Blinding Nights” is contradiction in terms, a way of saying that sometimes it’s darkest before the dawn. On her debut album Morfine’s production and lyrics illustrate this paradox, based on moments from her own life.

Morfine - On & Off

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