under the cool umbrella of decay

For its 53rd release, Da ! Heard It Records proposes Peripateo by Osilasi.
The magnetic tape engages; it’s the start of transhumance. We go from mountain to train, from plane to galactic, from sheep to welding, from desert to opium bar, from sparks to hertzian waves. Osilasi is softness at the cliff’s edge.
The ancestors to be are invoked. There is shared healing in the entanglement of the voices, the toms, the harp, and the machines. The presences are powerful.
Osilasi is resonances and bodies in movement. There are two and still more. The pulse is solid, the string play assured. The landscapes transform in the repetition. The events trip, answer, and absorb one another in echoes across the deployment of various sonorous planes.
Only the materialness of the tape is there to signal us that we have arrived at the end of something.
The explored territories seem to still be full of possible crossings.
Peripateo 53th release is distributed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.The album is available for download and listening for free at the following address: https://www.daheardit-records.net/en/discography/dhr-53

Osilasi - Face A

Nozinja (Shangaan Electro, Warp Records) teams up with Tessela (R&S Records) for a split 12" release to be released by Bleep on February 9th.

Pre-order now: http://link.bleep.com/nozinja-tessela-wa-chacha

Wa Chacha (Tessela Version)

So Into Being Screwed

"////" by Second Woman from "LP2" due out April 2017 on Spectrum Spools.

"////" by Second Woman

Taken from the album 'Paradise 94', to be released by Modern Love on March 23rd, 2018. Cover Photo by Rebecca Salvadori.

Paradise 94

Lucy Railton - Pinnevik

From Boli Group "N.P.D.S" LP/DL 
Posh Isolation 208 
Out May 4th, 2018

"Via negativa, not a collection of skills but an eradication of (mental) blocks
Meme sonate, winter sun fails but 'spirits bright'
Matiné meditation
A picture of fresh moringa leaves
The sound of NSA listening in on your most intimate moments.
Early 21st Century Music”

Boli Group is a new ensemble spearheaded by Copenhagen based composer and producer Asger Hartvig. Responsible for some of the most fearless and intriguing works to come from the city in recent years, Hartvig is as imposing as he is mysterious, and his debut release for Posh Isolation makes no concessions.

Hartvig is perhaps best known for his work with the group Synd Og Skam. And though less known, Brynje 1&2 is just as exceptional. Taking both technology and classicism as allegories, each group charts routes in and out of pop music, somehow arriving at an observer's distance to the distinct stylistic choices in the process. The label Visage has published the best of this, and the logic has certainly been carried into 'Boli Group LP,' the latest offering from Hartvig and his distinguished ensemble of Nina Cristante, Holger Hartvig, Thea Thorborg, and Cæcilie Trier.

There is a nearly unendurable fragility to 'Boli Group LP.' It's as if Hartvig has let the complexities of his themes stand in mourning; his narrator taking a moment to themselves behind sunglasses, exhausted for the rose-tinted lens of the prepared script. The album is willingly dramatic, though it never plateaus into melancholia. Hartvig pirouettes at the edge with the sorrowful string arrangements and the pristine timbre of the piano, the immediacy of the acoustics always binding the listener tightly to the risk. Pastoral and meditative, the electronics don't tamper with the delicate fabric being woven. They always register as supportive and understated. The synthetic hum, occasionally yielding a doleful melody as it does, manages to imbue a naiveté to this contemporary and subtly idiosyncratic chamber music.

Though the track titles lead us on, in time the examination the album provokes is that of the tension in transparency. The album's secret, barely kept through the minimalism, is its distinct folk noir quality in holding it.

"boli group creating new chamber folklore embracing the playing of instruments, not the played, but that which is playing for the sake of future focus and edit into the very minerals of instrument, intuition, emotion, fragility underlying, the warning, always pulsating acts of drama, wet leaves, asphalt, pan to right, agriculture and electricity poles a container ship, lonely in horizon hoping for a clear thought, but everything existing as conspiracy the sound of a search, uncertain and always asking, for certainty is false, showing sceneries changing permanently and forever narrating, like a panorama of grey clouds, keeping humidity levels high, heating up before the release of water and lightning investigation for folk instruments. What are their songs and where will they go, over time, woven together like a piece of fabric created to stand against the lethal winds”

A1. Overture 04:36
A2. How To Play 03:12
A3. Monsanto Folk Song 02:46
A4. Toxica 03:15
A5. Moringa 03:15
A6. Garden Picture 02:28

B1. Tension In Three Stages (Drama) 06:28
B2. Tension In Three Stages (Country) 03:18
B3. Tension In Three Stages (Nautic) 05:39
B4. Summit 01:35

Posh Isolation 208

04 05 2018

Boli Group - Toxica

The Altar +++++

The girls are picking flowers
Dangling at the sides of their hands

Somewhere else someone else feels worse
Forget that the sun is in the universe
Somewhere else someone else feels worse
A life of compassion feels so rehearsed
Somewhere else someone else feels worse
Forget to remember your own worth
Somewhere else someone else feels worse
All your regret cannot be reversed
All your regret cannot be reversed
All your regret cannot be reversed

The Altar (Ruined By Yves Tumor)

half stepper

Dance driven future pop that perhaps belongs in a Berlin nightclub circa 2040, Embedded Figures has paved a venomous, dark disco path in the NZ electronic underground before relocating to Melbourne in 2017.

"Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) is an incremental Compilation built over the year by Detonic Recordings.
Each Month an on-line single is published with an "A" and "B" side from each of the international artists participating in the project.
In December the complete compilation will be released on Vinyl featuring the hit from each contributor.

Minimum Viable Product

Embedded Figures - St. Kilda

Mixed by Matt Tink Tank Tinkler 
Mastered by Babam@Storn Studios Bandung

STRANGE STAINS - RELAXATION (ZACHARIAS SZUMER REMAXX)

HELM - Chemical Flowers
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 99
Release Date: 17 May 2019
Purchase: https://bit.ly/2Uxqs9z / https://bit.ly/2UpJ0bA

Luke Younger returns to PAN with an eight-track album of his most direct work to date. Composed alone at NO studio in the Essex countryside, to start an album with a piece called ‘Capital Crisis (New City Loop)’ seems an intentional misnomer. Long, sustained periods in the rural studio setting see Younger working with an array of fragmented, disassociated sound sources to build upon 2015’s Olympic Mess. It shares a similarly inclined vision of the urban environment, but here Chemical Flowers makes reference to paradoxical notions of authenticity and creative practice by way of questioning the structures around us. Collages are assembled and dismantled, temporal and spatial boundaries fluctuate and movement is an overarching theme.

Surrealist drowned world atmospheres sculpted far enough away from the source of inspiration leave plenty of room for ambiguity. The nocturnal nature of the recording process is self-evident, and pieces like ‘Leave Them All Behind’ tap into a deep psychedelic undercurrent. Confused narratives, emotions and aleatory hallucinations ebb and flow throughout. ‘I Knew You Would Respond’ evokes murky soundtrack terrain with eerie repetitive strings and ambient respite, disrupted periodically by brief bursts of granular noise. It’s one of the records most unnerving moments, possibly as it’s one of the most recognisably human.

The album navigates dense passages with recurring signifiers. Hollow percussion, modulating delay and curious field recordings come and go, maintaining a perpetual state of flux where nothing stays the same for long. The drowned world theatricals return on the swamp-like ‘Lizard in Fear’ whilst string rhythms creep in on the penultimate track to incite momentary electroacoustic harmony. Floating synthesis slowly washes over and the title track unfolds - five minutes of reverb-laced portamento, visions of decay and Editions EG influenced
world-building. Movement is key.

Chemical Flowers features string parts arranged and recorded by JG Thirlwell (Foetus / Manorexia / Xordox). Additional cello played by Lucinda Chua and saxophone by Karl D’Silva. The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

http://p-a-n.org

Chemical Flowers

HELM - I Knew You Would Respond (PAN 99)

I Stopped When I Began To Hear Voices In The Trees

Aquarian - The Snake That Eats Itself

Canadian born, Berlin based producer @Aquarian makes his full length album debut The Snake That Eats Itself on Bedouin Records. This record follows his collaborative EPs with Deapmash as 'AQXDM" and is his first solo release since his 2016 experimental mixtape for Quiet Time.

Nearly five years in the making,The Snake That Eats Itself is Aquarian's most complex, diverse and emotive work to date, plunging his trademark UK sound-system / techno hybrids into a self-contained, cinematic universe streaked with heavy influences from industrial, IDM, drone and dark pop music. Written in Brooklyn, New York, in a deeply transitional, yet seemingly endless period preceding his relocation to Berlin,the title of the album refers to the Ouroboros, a mythological serpent symbolizing the cycle of birth and death and infinity itself.

The Snake That Eats Itself pits Aquarian's most abrasive and brutal moments next to his most wistful and introspective. Viscerally thick layers of tape saturation envelop the album as sludgy synths ooze against brittle atmospheres; breakbeats fragment, explode and disintegrate into swarms of delay and noise; scorched, metallic percussion - sampled from a year-long demolition and construction project next to his apartment - forge the rhythmic backbone of the album. These elements, however, seamlessly make way to startlingly crystalline and shimmering ambient passages, offering a sense of reprieve and balance.

Tracklist:
01. End Credits
02. Blood Sugar
03. Sketch 2 (Song for D.O.U.G.)
04. Ouroboros
05. Tarp2
06. New York, An Eternity
07. Hate Is A Strong Word (Part 1)
08. Hate is A Strong Word (Bruxist Part 2) 09. Letting Go At Arm's Length
10. 365 Days And Counting

The Snake That Eats Itself​ is accompanied by art direction and a collaborative live A/V show by acclaimed artist and researcher Sougwen Chung.
Early support from Aphex Twin
Artwork by Sougwen Chung
All tracks written, produced and engineered by Aquarian unless otherwise noted. Tracks 4, 7, 8 & 10 mixed by Dean Grenier
Additional engineering by Dean Grenier on tracks 7 & 8.
Mastered by Goth Trad

'Hate Is a Strong Word, Pt. 1' taken from Aquarian's debut album titled 'The Snake That Eats Itself' that will be released on Bedouin Records on February 14th 2020.

Pre-order x2LP

Aquarian | Hate Is a Strong Word, Pt. 1

Second single from @shiwashiwa's debut full-length release "I'm Here," out 24/07/20 on @primordial_void.

Pre-order: https://primordialvoid.bandcamp.com/album/im-here

I'm Here

PREMIERE: shiwashiwa - New Hometown [PV-08]

Track from the upcoming DE NOR 2020 compilation LP/DL, out on January 11, 2021!

Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt : The Monster Of Yesa

Taken from the album Caterina Barbieri - Fantas Variations released as 2LP and Digital

Fantas Variations

Bendik Giske 'Fantas for Saxophone and Voice' (EMEGO 279)

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

HELM - I Knew You Would Respond (PAN 99)

PAN

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