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“𝘈𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴. 𝘍𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥.”

With great joy we announce VALLEY001, a compilation of Valley family members that displays the versatility, power and most of all talent their community possesses. On the 2nd anniversary of the Valley Radio mix series we are able to celebrate a great coming together of people, motivated by passion and love. 
In this project Valley shows once again that they move rather like an organism than a static platform. Constructing an ever-evolving state influenced by the creative energy of its digital and social surroundings, Valley’s next shape will always be surprising yet familiarly touching. 
Treat yourself to a great variety of sounds with the debut compilation album and start your adventure of discovering the Valley.
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releases May 7, 2021 

Cover art + visuals by Oliva Rawlings 
Mastering by Boudewijn Scholten

Nunu - Lament

Taken from Ludwig Wandinger's sophomore album 'Spiritual Decay' (G&P022), out September 2022

The name of many talents - Ludwig Wandinger - has been echoing in the experimental scene for quite some time. This comes as no surprise, as the already renowned Berlin based polymath channels his full-time effort partly into playing live drums, producing his and other people’s music and creating multidisciplinary visual art. Following multifaceted solo projects on labels Average Negative/Alpha Pup Records and Orange Milk Records, Gin&Platonic are delighted to present Ludwig's exceptional sophomore full-length album 'Spiritual Decay'.

Written & produced by Ludwig Wandinger (@ludwig-wandinger)
ludwigwandinger.com

Mastered by Rashad Becker

Photo by Sophie Klock

G&P022 💀

Spiritual Decay

Bandcamp

Ludwig Wandinger - In

https://xterea.bandcamp.com/album/roamer-ep

The Pattern

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - STROBE.RIP
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 139
Release Date: 16 June 2023
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/STROBE.RIP

Amnesia Scanner’s third full-length album titled STROBE.RIP is a collaboration with the artist and musician Freeka Tet, who joins the album and associated live performances as a vocalist and creative collaborator.

Released by PAN records, STROBE.RIP is part of a broader series of live performances, installations, videos and physical products created by the group.

Since its inception in 2014, Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala have continued to evolve and redefine Amnesia Scanner through experimentation across online and IRL realms. This album brings them a step closer to the latter.

With French-born, New York City-based Freeka Tet on board, STROBE.RIP acquires a new array of influences that draw from the multidisciplinary artist’s hacker mindset, shaping the sound into new forms. As a programmer and technologist, Freeka Tet’s work straddles commerce and art, combining intuitive and performative modes of expression with emergent technology and creative coding. Much like Amnesia Scanner, Tet draws from online vernacular and techno-magic to create satirical, uncanny work – artificially augmented, and highly engineered sounds, textures, images and ideas that translate memes and code into a more human and affective language.

Haimala and Kalliala say, “Amnesia Scanner is now living in the world it has built,” signaling a sincere commitment to the act. The human dimension in STROBE.RIP is chaotic: a reverse hero’s journey that merges deep-fried baroque with the quasi-angelic into a psychotic megamix of tropes, lyrics, genres, and sonic palettes that are both disorienting and deeply resonant.

The opening track Tongue Demons perfectly summarizes this, with blaring synth stabs and frenetic drum patterns paving the way for a broken melody arranged through a digital brass chord progression. Giggle and Bounds follow right after: two outstanding pieces of introspection signaling the melodic turn of the album, with the latter almost posing as a weirdo 2-step ballad filled with deep pads and pitched-up and down vocals.

The 160bpm, 4-to-4 pulsing kicks of Ledge and the palm-muted chords of Disperse serve as a perfect build-up to Ride, right in the middle of the tracklist: a summer hit from hell, a crooked saxophone-graced tune carried by a crusty, Balearic acoustic arpeggio. The alt acoustics continue with Damon, or at least before the track turns from Nirvana’s Unplugged to Slayer’s double kick drum pedals and becomes thrashtronica with Tet on screamo duties.

Things get softer with Clown, specifically in the chanted refrain, and even more aetherial in the almost trip-hop timbres of abandoned.club, where chopped-and-screwed vocals sing “I lost myself in the club.” Scorpions, Bats & Spiders is the abstract gem declaring the death of Deconstructed Club Music—a genre created by journalists and pioneered by the duo, among others. The words “deconstructed,” “club,” and “panel discussion” are spelled out in a vortex throughout the track as if they were to be carved on the genre’s imaginary gravestone. Closing the album, the saw bass of Cat serves Euro-electro à la Benny Benassi’s Satisfaction, while the doomed outro Merge closes the album in a triumphant aggregation of noise and pixelated drums that render the image of a crust-punk ensemble.

Written by Amnesia Scanner
Produced by Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet
Mastered by Enyang Urbiks

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - Merge (PAN 139)

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - Scorpions, Bats & Spiders (PAN 139)

1. Kyyberwall - Not Far From The Tree

Against The Wood, Opposed To Flesh

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Tower Of Silence

bad feeling

Alpha Zero I

i try to EQ my gitfiddle to sound like actual thunder i dont give a fuck about riffs shut up 

Beg Me To Fucking End You

@gilschneider
Vertige II is the second compilation to be released on Abîme, gathering tracks from ten artists to explore the Vertige concept with a wider spectrum of intents.

It features contributions from musicians all around the globe, each of them delivering an interpretation of this ambivalent sensation that could be equally seen as a positive or negative feeling if taken in its plurality of meanings.

Ranging from GIL’ dizzying textures in ‘Storm Petrel’ to the sweetness of Fauness’ guitars in ‘Am I ready’, Vertige II finds its coherence when seen as a progression, a back and forth between fear and love, with each track responding to the previous one by being its deforming mirror.

Vertige II puts the emphasis on vocal tracks, but again doesn’t limit itself to a one-sided approach, and that’s how Lil Asaf’s harsh Jordanian rap can be found coexisting with Flagalova’ anthemic pop and Ptwiggs’ shoegaze ‘Forever is not enough’.

As the successor of our first compilation, this record can be seen as both a continuation and a rupture in comparison with it. The delicate sound palette of the original opus has exploded and expanded into an ecletic collection of pieces, sometimes frightening and overwhelming, and sometimes soothing and reassuring, as is the Vertige.

Vertige II

GIL - Storm Petrel

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