Say you'd die for me I'd die for me too

Aïsha Devi returns with new album 'Death is Home' on Houndstooth, her first LP since 2018 and her most personal work yet.

Aïsha Devi nurtures an idiosyncratic approach to her music. She describes her sound as Aetherave, and uses bassy-heavy club motifs and intentional aesthetic signifiers to transport listeners to a dizzying, kinetic environment, harnessing timeless frequencies. On each record, Devi has advanced her philosophy and developed her technology; her last album 'DNA Feelings' (2018) was a radical hybrid of ancient mysticism and rebellious pop, and her upcoming LP 'Death is Home' propels listeners towards the extremes, bending fictile beats and cybernetic textures into transformational songs. This eagerly-awaited new album is a liveable, breathable sonic essence that reveals itself alchemically, reorienting anachronistic cultural preconceptions with its contemporary, ornate language and eerie architecture.

'Death is Home' is ultimately a manifesto. It's Devi's most revealing work to date and a direct result of her personal evolution and ongoing quest. Growing up under the shadow of isolation and abuse, she formed her practice as a healing method, using it to neutralize her past and recreate an alternate, more hospitable reality - beyond the human condition. Her feelings were compounded when she tracked down the whereabouts of her father B.K. Gurung, a Nepali drummer whom she never knew. Devi was informed he had died young, but rather than perceive this as a binary, through mourning, she realized that his existence had already offered her a lifeline and a refuge.

Devi's words and productions reach out to a place where weightlessness has the power to dissolve the corporeal world's manufactured terror of death. Without this trepidation, life's boundaries and limitations fall away. "Burn the flesh, a Deva's born," she sings over tense, pneumatic kicks on 'Not Defined by the Visible'. Her voice is contorted by electronic processes, but the meaning is human: to reach the holy, we must shed our skin. The narrative that guides the album unfurls with the plasticity of an open-world videogame, a space where one can unravel the dogma of life vs. death. On 'Lick Your Wounds', Devi reveals her deepest trauma, pacifying it with rousing, ritualistic rhythms and melancholic pads. "Vapors of violence remain in my broken bones, intoxicate my DNA," she invokes. "I'll lick my wounds and heal at night. I'll take over." She extends this invitation to anybody tuned in to her signals, providing lodging for those that crave it. Birth is virtual. Death is home. 
credits
releases November 10, 2023

Written, composed & produced by Aïsha Devi
Track 4 features Slikback
Mixed by Theo Karon
Artwork by Niels Wehrspann
Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios, London
Manufactured at optimal-media, Germany
Cat. No. HTH172 – All rights reserved
℗ & © Houndstooth 2023

Aïsha Devi - Dimensional Spleen (feat. Slikback)

https://deskulling.bandcamp.com/track/replay-polyphony

Replay Polyphony

My Clockwork Toy

"I whisper past every creature I encounter: survive and prosper, for us both"

All proceeds will be donated to Anima, Vegan Farm & Dog's Voice in order to facilitate their efforts in rescuing, nursing and rehabilitating animals that were affected by the recent fires in Athens, Greece.

www.wild-anima.gr/en/profile/
www.dogsvoice.gr
www.instagram.com/veganfarm.gr/

Mastered by Oliver Torr
Cover & Affirmation by Female Pentimento

Evita Manji, Oliver Torr - Reality/Shadows

RADIO:TRAUMA 014: MALICE DOLL

Malice Doll is a DJ + Producer from Detroit, currently based in Montreal, Canada. Her sound, formed by her formative years within Michigan’s hardcore punk scene, manifests as dark, abrasive, noisy and distorted hardcore electronic music ranging from breaks, gabber, deconstructed club, and genre-bending sounds on the forefront of the electronic landscape that escape definition. Having produced a number of successful tracks (including a remix of Yves Tumor’s “Limerence” that has taken the London club scene by storm), her catalogue and recognition are quickly spreading out of North America to the rest of the world.

For this mix, Malice Doll has chosen a bouquet of new-age hardcore club sounds. “The tracklist is basically anything that can scratch that [noisy, hardcore electronic] itch. It's my last attempt to squeeze catharsis out of the end of summer, so I tried to make it messy and unpredictable. The whole thing could be read as a bit of a downward spiral that you hopefully come back from.” Sit back and take in what can only be described as a masterclass in contemporary club terror.


TRACKLIST:
Malice Doll - Trauma Intro
Neir - Headlights
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton & Ecco2k – Eternero
Deli Girls - Control
IMANU x Jon Casey - KOTARO (kaito. remix.)
Blood of Aza - Banshee (cenceae. remix.)
E_Death - Raw
Raiika, moth.sanctuary - BADGIRLSPIT 
Gartex - Silent Hill
Low Poly, Yung Lean - Body/Mind x Hoover (KAVARI Edit)
KFC Murder Chicks - Disposable
Onhell & Deadcrow - Blackout Dub
push push push
Skrillex, Hamdi, TAICHU & OFFAIAH - Push (Malixe Remix)
Fitness, Lag Switch - SHRAPNEL
KAVARI - Incisor (Bleed Mix)
Teya Logos - THIS IS MY BODY
M.I.A. - Paper Planes (Noise Mafia Edit)
Klaudio - 60 ⍕ X 60 8
Lil Uzi Vert, Snow Strippers - Fire Alarm (WatAboutMe remix)
Bhad Bhabie - Hi Bich (White Horse Refixx)
Damn Whøre - Occultizm Bubblegum
Crystal Castles - Untrust Us x My Morbid Fantasy
Suzy Sheer - Glitter
SALEM - Sears Tower (Arca Remix)

RADIO:TRAUMA 014: MALICE DOLL

HOAX

AS Mantra

tracklist

anastasia asmr - asmr al lago segreto
7038634357 - centerline
drumloop - open space
dj lukinhas - mtg assombra pitchfork (marina herlop x mc jhony oliver x cirilo)
club eat - curtains
jayddded - lacedddheart-raceddd
sophie - all aboard feat. nadia rose + cecile believe
kaito, hightide & karan!, yandrel - puxatudo
sophie - make it go down (feat. big freedia)
seratone - flute dubs
skrillex, hamdi - push (pzzs remix)
diessa - kahn and neek in the fast lane (glamorous)
nick león, erika de casier - bikini
karan! - 540540540
space laces - kaiju (pzzs flip)
teya logos - this is my body!
brunoso - césio
m.i.a. - paper planes (hedex, nvadrz & alias remix)
don darkoe - simon says (nan slap vip)
lady gaga - disease (pzzs remix)
kozmo' - elemento
ikeda - n.e.x.
apu nanu - my bitch is - (central cee - doja [apu nanu rmx])
urias - the way i drop (karan! flip)
dj carlozs - baby justin bieber atualizada 2024

SECRET LAKE - 24/01/25 Hundebiss x Kenshiro Carena night

Crushed, mashed and blend thoroughly on 4 decks.
This mix is a dj coming-out and a business card you should always keep in your purse, just in case.

Tracklist :
@pat_16120 ○◦˚.˚Realworlᗡ゜・
@monker178 - Eye of the Storm / Genesis
@cenaceae - bldnghrt
@sven-gali & a.b. thompson - salvo
@apunanu - MY BITCH IS - (Central Cee - Doja [Apu Nanu Rmx])
Physical Therapy - Male Tears
Cotton Mouth - Triumph of Love
Wa?ste - riri - te amo (WA?STE REAL MADRID CF MIX)
Lanark Artefax - Touch Absence 
innerinnerlife - Real Lies - Dream On (innerinnerlife edit)
keiska - silhouettes edit
CALCIFER (HMRC) - TAKE MY LOVE/HAVE MY LOVE
Klahrk - Look Out 
Eartheater - Spill The Milk (LCY remix)
@svengali - Just Dance (svengali's Dreamstate Mix V4)
Jam City - The Raven (AiR DJ 'Dale' Dub)
Prettybwoy - Puff (Proc Fiskal Vapelung Remix)
SOPHIE - Ponyboy (Megadog)
@exmantera - spiral
@malicedoll - dustBunny- Crush (Malice Doll Remix)
ēlfຊ - TENSHI₄ (MOON.LIGHT MIX)
SKY H1 & Ssaliva - Dooms
PHANTAZN - NEVER LOSE ME [CLUB]
F2F - Screams All Night
Trap Monarchy - genre compilation
@icqbaby x @dudda - ★★★ fnf ★★★ #jerseyclub
LSDXOXO - "uwu"
Sevyn 0000 - Razor
M.E.S.H. Hyph11e - Unknown Number 未知 (M.E.S.H. Remix)
Kenji Araki - Save It
AN System - Strange World
Medulasa - Meats Songs
Hesaitix - Cusp of Unknowing
Femmexy - Femme Fatale
Mother Cell - Beyonce - Crazy In Love (Mother Cell Flip)

'crushed' mix

Dark Core

Amnesia Scanner - Another Life
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No. PAN 96
Release date: 7 September 2018
pre-order album: bit.ly/2JxE61G / bit.ly/2uxWLWx

'Another Life' is the debut album from Amnesia Scanner, the Berlin-based music duo, performing arts group, experience design studio and production house, created by Finnish-born Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala.

Founded in 2014, Amnesia Scanner's approach is informed by a unique perspective on technology and the way it mediates contemporary experience. System vulnerabilities, information overload and sensory excess inform their work, which has found a home in both clubs and galleries.

Building on their mixtape 'AS Live [​]​[​]​[​]​[​]​[​]' (2014), Amnesia Scanner’s critically acclaimed audio play 'Angels Rig Hook' (2015) laced a potpourri of dancefloor tactics with a machinic narrator. Their dual EPs for Young Turks, 'AS' and 'AS Truth' (2016), distilled this immersive environment into an abrasive collection of cryptorave tools. The most striking detail of ‘Another Life' is Amnesia Scanner's use of both human and inhuman voices. The latter is provided by the latest addition to the production unit, a disembodied voice called Oracle, which represents the sentience that has emerged from Amnesia Scanner.

Oracle's vocal performance ranges from exuberant mania to anxious dread and beyond. Coupled with the pop song structures that Amnesia Scanner employs for the first time, the avant-EDM productions of ‘Another Life’ evocatively explore a schizophrenic present marked by narratives of a slow apocalypse or salvation via technology. Indeed, the lullaby of 'AS Another Life' swings between trill hope and casual threat, lending a precarious gait to the song's staggering rhythm. The album's first single, 'AS Chaos', is its most powerfully direct track, with Pan Daijing’s English and Mandarin vocals taking over for Oracle. At its peak intensity, as in ‘AS Faceless’, Amnesia Scanner's doombahton overheats into nu-metal-gabba.

Amnesia Scanner has presented work at art institutions such as ICA London, HKW Berlin, and the Serpentine Gallery Marathon in London. They collaborate with PWR Studio for their design and visual direction. The AS live experience is co-created with Stockholm-based Canadian designer Vincent De Belleval. When unplugged from the Amnesia Scanner stream, Haimala works as a composer and producer with a wide range of musical and visual artists, and Kalliala co-directs the think tank Nemesis.

The album is mastered by Jeremy Cox, featuring photography by Satoshi Fujiwara, and visual direction from PWR Studio.

@amnesia-scanner

p-a-n.org/

Another Life

Amnesia Scanner - AS Faceless (PAN 96)

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