And we are back! This time with Swan Meat (@swanmeat), a ghost sulking limp-wingedly, through a planet called Fleshworld. Here she creates tunes that contain cries of sadness and tenderness, but that are able to speed up to 170bpm within the bat of a fairy's wing. This mix is a perfect example of Swan Meat's audible contortions and the sheer effortlessness with which she does it.

Photo courtesy of Swan Meat
Lay out by Oliva Rawlings

Valley Radio 054 - Swan Meat

mxrder in shadowmoor - slowed + reverb + tiktok version

toodandy_??? (Ultra Slowed & Bassboosted)

We Are Not Alone

bod [包家巷] - Prelude to Music for Self Esteem [YGK004]

1. RESTITUTION
2. MOTHERHOOD

Format: Digital/EP
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Cover: Nick Zhu
Video: youtu.be/riObCNLoN_w

Lyrics for RESTITUTION:

树圈

送回来

做像

天上空

好 , 收

点视

会加

来

做像

好 , 收

圈里在

您留多花

做像

听虎

痛没光洗

地



炎身

是

东会痛



炎身

是

地



城市没有

刮, 刮

回家走

是

石, 来 hell

石, 来 hell

石, 来 hell

石, 来 hell

Music For Self Esteem

bod [包家巷] - RESTITUTION [YGK004]

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Flagalova, 'Mélodies infinies et non finies' (2019). Courtesy the artist.

Lonely Boys single "Dominate" with a remix by In My Talons on Creamcake.

CC09

@lonelyboys 
@inmytalonsishapeclay

released May 2, 2019

Dominate single written and produced by Lonely Boys 
Dominate remix produced by In My Talons 
Mastered by In My Talons

Art by Lucie Stahl, End of Tales, 2017

Buy: creamcake.bandcamp.com/

Dominate

Lonely Boys - Dominate (In My Talons Remix)

The Wheel of Time

Ange Halliwell - Spring Day (feat. Sandylene)

Amnesia Scanner — Tearless
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No. PAN 108
Release Date: 19 June 2020
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Tearless

Berlin-based duo Amnesia Scanner have announced the impending release of their sophomore LP, Tearless, a sonic reflection of how it feels to experience Earth at a time when collapse is emerging as the prevailing narrative. As Amnesia Scanner founders, Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala watch their icy home country of Finland thaw- the staggering scale of political recalibration and the worldwide climate crisis blows open old norms. “There’s a looming sense of radical change,” they noted pre-COVID, connecting the period of making the album to a fin de siecle horror and curiosity regarding what new world is being ushered in. Tearless has been referred to as “a breakup album with the planet”, to which Amnesia Scanner responds, on the LP’s closing track: “You will be fine, if we can help you lose your mind.” Amnesia Scanner are previewing the album in the form of a video for their accidental quarantine anthem “AS Going,” a clip featuring a cascade of images of spiraling humans.

Tearless marks a turning point in the duo’s trajectory, one begun in 2014 with the AS Live [][][][][] mixtape, followed by audio play Angels Rig Hook, two EP’s for Young Turks, and their 2018 debut album, Another Life (PAN). For Amnesia Scanner in 2020, the walls of the nightclubs, galleries, and institutions fall away and are replaced by full-scale theatrical productions complete with jumbotron stages, animatronics, and a surrealist costumed cast (literally so in the XL version of the album’s live show, Anesthesia Scammer). Likewise, the musical scope of the album is expansive, with guest vocalists — the Peruvian artist Lalita and the Brazillian DJ/producer LYZZA — descending into a vast uncanny valley of sound. With the crossfader on Tearless sitting closer to pop than abstraction, so too does the audience for this record widen in scope. Opener “AS Enter” sets a sombre tone until the fucking riffs of the second track (the titular, Lalita-helmed “AS Tearless”) make clear there’s plenty of roaring to come. A feature from metalcore band Code Orange on “AS Flat” follows, along with “AS Trouble” (feat. Oracle, the third, machinic ghost-member of Amnesia Scanner) and together they hit as black-metal-gaze dirges. Closing Tearless is the sadboy grunge of “AS U Will Be Fine” with a clear statement of intent: doom, despair, insanity, absurdity, it’s all natural, all cathartic, and all OK.

For the art direction of this release, Amnesia Scanner collaborators PWR scavenged the pop cultural unconscious, as if ventilating memory dissociated by trauma. The gatefold vinyl reveals a four-panel comic, full of iconic pre-millennial motifs, which arrive cut up and reassembled collage-style: fitting visuals for an album that channels Deftones as much as reggaeton, menace as much as the drop-outness of grunge. Refuse like the ‘90s and party like the ‘20s—if that seems senseless, you are doing it right.

The album is mastered by Enyang Urbiks, featuring visual direction from PWR Studio.

@amnesia-scanner
http://p-a-n.org

Tearless 

Amnesia Scanner - AS Labyrinth (PAN 108)

Connections 1 - 13

Hantrax - Day 25

From the compilation bandcamp:

Peramen! A Compilation for Belarus

“Change! Our hearts demand it. Change! Our eyes demand it”, sings Kino’s Viktor Tsoi in “Peremen”. This song may now be heard on the streets of not just Minsk and Grodno, but also Babruysk, Brest, Gomel, Mogilev, Pinsk, Vitebsk and what – at least to a foreign onlooker – looks like countless Belarussian cities and towns engulfed in protest. Following years of Alexander Lukashenko’s rule, another rigged election, omnipresent violence perpetrated by the state apparatus, censorship and draconian laws, the people have taken to the streets en masse. This is not the first time the Belarusians are out to protest, but the scale of these disturbances is unprecedented. Also unprecedented is the fact the rallies are led by women, who head the peaceful marches that have spread onto the streets of Belarus. Workers, miners, teachers, employees of the media and the Minsk underground as well as artists from the Belarusian State Philharmonic have all joined the protests. They stand against lies, demand the transparency of public life, and access to power. As they rally against repression and torture, they expose themselves to the same.

The artists featured on the Peramen! compilation also demand changes. While we cannot physically join the protesters on the streets of Belarus, we want to offer them at least this form of support. Our thoughts are with our friends – and with all the people who have been arrested, beaten, and humiliated. We join in the grief of families of all those murdered in the protests.

The compilation covers a broad selection of genres: from club music, through classical and experimental classical, to noise, ambient, and rock; from pieces that were composed to ones that were improvised or inspired by folk music. Its geographical scope is similarly broad, spanning Belarus, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, USA, Russia, and Hungary.

All proceeds from Peramen! A Compilation for Belarus will go to #BY_help, a grassroots initiative offering aid to victims of repression, established on the wave of arrests that shook Belarus in March 2017. The funds will be used to pay fines, unlawful fees imposed for being held in detention, medical costs and lawyers.

The idea for the compilation was developed by Elena Sizova, Minsk-based DJ and producer. Peramen! A Compilation for Belarus was prepared with the help of the Radio Kapitał collective.

Жыве Беларусь! Zhyve Belarus! Žyvie Biełaruś!

Mastering Engineering by Dr Rey | Uferlos Studios & more
Artwork by Zofia Kofta

BELARUS DONATE

What Else Could I Do (Belarus Charity Comp)

Label based in Berlin, est. 2008. http://www.p-a-n.org