Fantasilandia, Vol. 2

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ALL TRACKS WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY FLORENT HADJINAZARIAN IN ST FONS, FRANCE.
INSPIRED AND DEDICATED TO "MELANCHOLIA DER ENGEL"
MASTERING BY DANIEL MUMBERSON
DESIGN BY MON


Bringing on the cold rush, seven tracks, all 3:33 long, Hajj’s sound is among the most distinctive in his field on ‘No Soul, No God, No Devil, No Existence’. Influenced by Marian Dora's 2009 film 'The Angels' Melancholia', the album is perhaps best defined by the stark negative ecstasy of its highlight ‘Drag Me Into the Void’, presenting Hajj as a master of collage-like structure, in possession of a compelling grasp of atmosphere. It stands out from much of the contemporary french music we’re aware of for its oblique rejection of club muscularity in favour of more unusual, weightless pressure and suggestively gestural arrangements. That’s not to say it’s not ripe for certain moments in the club, it just doesn’t give them readily.

Beginning like Biosphere doing dankest road rap with DJ Lostboi (anyone checked that Nedarb cut lurking on Æ’s Bandcamp purchase list yet?) in ‘Our Lady of Darkness’, he holds an immaculately dark-but-lush appeal from the K-hole nightmare of ‘Loosing U 4 Ever’ to the cosmic plangency of ‘Vox Tenebrae’, meting out discomfiting intro rap like a fantasy Croww x Ronce in ‘Heaven’s Calamity’, and like Spectre x Pan Daijing in ‘Do U Remember Bein Born’, while his ear for saliva-inducing textures comes to fruition on the voyeuristic vortex of ‘Burning Illusions’, perfectly distilling the cold rush on an original mix of the glorious ‘Drag Me Into the Void’.

Vox Tenebrae

'infant'

Artwork - Wendy Jin

Next up joining us on the series is the talented Detroit based artist/producer. Their recent release on warm winters has easily become a plant favourite and is like no other. 

This mix is a nostalgic adventure of sounds, a story with a hopeful narrative, containing the tones of beautiful instrumentals and angelic vocals throughout.

Worth a listen if you’re very much into the likes of ulla, goo age, ultrafog, and sleepdial.

"The idea of making the mix dense, like a gem, kept recurring to me. A compact sense of sounds that are ephemeral, fleeting, and somewhat dreamlike, all entangled into one. 

lots of recent favorites (goo age, teu + jung dj, 4kfairyfantasy, Jjiyoung Wi, tau contrib) as well as things i’ve loved for longer (more eaze, DJ Sprinkles, Nuno Canavarro, Sawako (RIP))."

goo age - song with luke petet (scary version + sad) 
Nuno Canavarro - [Untitled] 6 
June Jordan reading “On Your Love” 
Matthew Doyle - 5 + 1
teu + jung dj - tune 
June Jordan reading “On Your Love” 
4kFairyFanᴛ҉ asy °゜- lov u 2
Reiko Kudo - Emi & Mrs. Evans  
more eaze - galv 
Jiyoung Wi - Walking Tumor 
Rod Modell - Landslide 
Sawako - Pink Liquid Cotton Candy
Yoshio Ojima - Etiquette  
DJ Sprinkles - Grand Central, Pt. II (72 Hrs.…) 
qwizzz - Sunset Magazine on Interstate 80 
tau contrib - CMYL
e-veryday - e-verynight 
greta kelly - no mistake 
jil and saga charlotte - sometimes i see your face

infant - plnt02

Taken from the forthcoming EP 'Baptizm'.
Out March 17th 2015 digitally and on 12".

Rabit - Bloody Eye

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - HOAX (PAN 148)
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 148
Release Date: 04 October 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/HOAX

Mutating out of the collaborative practice established on STROBE.RIP, Amnesia Scanner and Freeka Tet are so back with a new dual record project that explores and explodes norms of music production, songwriting and sonic aesthetics. HOAX is *not* an album and remix released together, but rather, a singular experience unfolding as two mirroring, mutually-reinforcing (or perhaps deconstructing) records.

The Amnesia Scanner “AS HOAX” record administers the liquid drip of devastating ballads, wandering mosh-ups and industrial flood lights that we fiend for. But, as with every AS record it is impossible to mistake the grunged-out doom for nihilism: there is simply too much raw emotion, vulnerable narrative and playful experimentation. With drums and chaos from Freeka on four “ASFT” tracks, AS has delivered perhaps their most prescient, hopeful and soon-to-be-seminal record of their genre-defining career.

Against this belligerent crispness emerges the sublime obelisk of noise in Freeka Tet’s “FT HOAX”. This is the debut full-length record released under the Freeka Tet moniker. It is a conceptual art piece that is unapologetically immediate. Using custom bashed scripts the AS record is negated, inverted and buffed down to reveal underlying rhythms and textures.

Freeka has taken the ubiquitous technology of noise-canceling headphones as a point of departure for this experiment in music-denial. The desire for eliminating environmental sounds is turned inwards to undermine the music itself. A variety of original techniques are used for ambient AS cancellation including creating a virtual space simulation and adding noise to spectrogram images.

While Freeka’s gesture is extreme, the result brings you to a serene contemplative plateau. The dual mirrored records are meant to be unlocked together: listening to the drone-ification opens up patterns and movements previously hidden, your newly trained ear will go deeper into the layers of subliminal encoding on HOAX leaving you reprogrammed.

The lyrics are a sticker suspended above reflective abyss: labeled ingredients are anchors that pull a connection out of the crashing shores of Oracle’s baritone sax croning and operatic countertenor samples from latent space. The resulting They Live glasses that are ripped from your eyes makes this dual record project a scathing polemic on state of music and creativity, thus raising the stakes of what it means to be an artist in the post-post-post-digital-crypto-AI-utopia-anthropocene.

Written and produced by Amnesia Scanner
ASFT RUFF, ASFT TAZZIE, ASFT ISSOK, ASFT ICAROS, written and produced by Freeka Tet & Amnesia Scanner
Drums on ASTF TAZZIE & ASFT ISSOK by Freeka Tet
Mixed by Amnesia Scanner
Additional mixing on AS OVER by Enyang Urbiks
Mastered by Enyang Urbiks

AS HOAX

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - ASFT Icaros

Pain Management presents the debut release of London based percussionist Pike.

Having provided rhythms from the shadows for a number of reputable labels and live outfits - 12th Isle, Scenic Route, Slow Dance - Fallen Angel sees the artist unveil a musical fluency and soloist instinct with his first independent effort under his own name. Flexing a previously unseen multi-instrumentalism on two emotive post-rock offerings.

An active participant in London’s underground music circuit, Pike’s performances play with textural, rhythmic and improvisational possibilities. He has developed a unique rhythmic fingerprint indebted as much to UK bass music as to rock, dub and avant-garde electronics. The steady evolution of his practice, alongside extensive behind the scenes collaboration with a wide roster of UK-alt artists - Charlie Osborne, Covco, The Fertile Crescent, Tiberius B - has laid the groundwork for this year’s striking introduction to a new era of the project.

His official debut release on Pain Management falls somewhere at the intersection of dub electronics and art-rock; a dynamic exploration of live instrumentation’s cathartic potential.

On the expansive opener Fallen Angel, a tangle of emotive guitar and basslines float above steady, hypnotic drums. In contrast with the record’s plosive closer, Fallen Angel shimmers with a central ephemerality. Threads of euphoria woven into the shadows of something less sweet. The sensation is one of temporality; a distant memory just out of reach. The presence of this melodic softness shrouding over the rougher elements instills an intimacy to the piece. A late night hymn of introspection; one for the wanderers.

The B-side’s Concrete Dub mirrors this format, putting some serious muscle into things. In keeping with the title, Pike masterfully deploys a hazy, dubbed out groove brimming with swung-drum attitude and bassline thickness. From the mycelium grunge bursts a raw, heartfelt guitar line, distorted power-riffs soaring upwards higher and higher. The result is an emotive and vulnerable sensation of uninhibited feeling - a serious pain management power ballad.

Out Feb 17th on all platforms.
Digital files available via Bandcamp.
Cover image by Yasmin Gordon.

Pike - Fallen Angel [PM003]

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Épong - Kjerst

@soniasurma is a writer, radio host and occasional DJ based in Kraków, Poland. 

https://soniasurma.day/

photo by Sonia Surma

Tracklist:

Hanne Lippard – Missing
Liew Niyomkarn – incoming
Sabiwa, Queimada, Nathan L. – Nothing blue - 無憂無慮
Apu Nanu – Rare Items
Maxwell Sterling – Hollywood Medieval Pt. II
Adele Marcia Kosman – Now that you are done: Formless
aya – Emley lights us moor (feat. Iceboy Violet)
Suk Hong – Three Movements for the Play Deprived
Rainy Miller – 2 Live> (feat. Rose A)
Heith – Sangkakala Malaikat
SY/N – 631x / Melts into million voices
mmph – Avnue
Xuri – Sage of the Diviners
Colin Self – Involution of Spirit
Lutto Lento – Horned Heart
Soli City – (Exclusive) Of Words / Of Tongue
Gossiwor – Guilt Pipe


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