At The Top Its Just Us

Format: LP/Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No: PAN 82
Release Date: 10 November 2017 

buy: http://p-a-n.org/product/m-e-s-h-hesaitix-pan82/
bandcamp: https://optimate.bandcamp.com/album/hesaitix

01. Nemorum Incola (05:26)
02. Mimic (06:29)
03. Blurred Cicada I (02:19)
04. 2 Loop Trip (05:12)
05. Search.Reveal. (06:20)
06. Privileged Lord (02:18)
07. Coercer (06:01)
08. Blurred Cicada II (02:16)
09. Signal Ride Drum (03:17)
10. Diana Triplex (03:48)
11. Ihnaemiauimx (02:25)

Further departing from both the cinematic abstraction of ‘Piteous Gate’ and the hectic drums of ‘Damaged Merc’, Berlin producer M.E.S.H’s new full-length, ‘Hesaitix’, is marked by its hyper-ornamented rhythms and a sense of pensive, moonlit spaces.

The atmosphere has shifted; the radical deconstruction of previous releases has given way to subtler interventions, building new structures in strange territories. Shifting from the meditative to states of manic unease, Hesaitix is an unnerving injection into both the social space of club music and the interior space of digital audio fantasy.

How did I become so stupid?

A sound can be both formless and over-rendered, like a boneless but fleshy hand from a life drawing class. 

What agent could set these broken sounds in motion?

A laugh behind an evil curtain. A drummer that’s cool and grotesque, a detuned siren. A brushfire under a full moon.

Recorded in Berlin and Umbria, Hesaitix sees Janus resident and PAN staple M.E.S.H. firmly engaged in a kind of sonic world building, a place where the unconscious and the alien intersect.

Hesaitix

M.E.S.H. - Nemorum Incola (PAN 82)

bod [包家巷] 
The Recurrence Of Infections [复发感染] w/Flora Yin-Wong & M.D. James remixes
DN014
Format: digital album
Release Date: 7 December 2018
Buy: bit.ly/2JLszOm

Nicholas Zhu’s previous efforts as bod [包家巷] saw them folding context both online and off into palpable concepts like MoVA (Museum of Virtual Art) as well as sound pieces Advent of the Silicon Rain [硅雨来临] and Limpid Fear [清澈恐惧], released through Quantum Natives and KNIVES, respectively. Zhu’s music is primarily constructed through piano and voice, “performed” through active manipulation of a MIDI instruments and vocal recordings overlaid and situated in field recordings and soundtrack rips. The resulting world created reads as documentations or meta-considerations of the present moment, measurements of the experience of life through technologically informed sound design.

The latest bod [包家巷] work, entitled The Recurrence Of Infections [复发感染], is an elliptically sweet yet unsettling audio piece that conceptualizes a state of mind in “the quiet hours of laborious coping that fall into the areas between work and sleep.” It comes with additional sound and video supplements that "are components of the larger, continuous work that is living." The title refers to a series of health issues that they had while living in Los Angeles.

Zhu has stated in previous interviews that their practice in music is distinct from their art, citing “socioeconomic precarity” as a driving force behind their work. “I put my studio practice on hold specifically to work on music (for efficacy, music allows me to engage with people in a way that art can’t) knowing that meaning doesn’t translate, even when literally transcribed.”

The spacious desolation and emotional surges that are felt in the sound piece aren’t intended to impart meaning as much as expressing an affect, specifically attuned to the darker moments in one’s life when they are self-loathing, lost in unease and intense fear. The work varies from calm and polymorphous soundscapes to maximal onslaughts of noise and harmonies, each section stitched to the next as nonlinear, anecdotal chapters in a story of personal experience.

The Recurrence Of Infections [复发感染]

bod [包家巷] - Infection Supplement [感染补充]

"@hydropsyche is hollowed out club music for the post-anthropocene. The debut album Scree, inspired by ancient history and the vestiges of our own time explores evolving polyrhythmic melodies and composition within a pre-defined tonal structure. 
In the future, our civilisation is detectable as a sediment layer of aluminium. The instruments this music was made on, the speakers it was played on, and the club it was played in will all be the same matter, and the humans that listened to it a layer of carbon beneath."

Artwork by Lilian Hardouineau 
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta

Scree EP

U - 020

Hydropsyche - U - 020

Marco Colocci (@queimada77) is an Italian producer and sound engineer based in Berlin. Learning how to play the contrabass and music theory has initiated the growth of his interest in the techniques of field recording and sound design, as well as his overall passion for electronic music. After self-releasing music during his teens, and later producing for Taiwanese artist Sabiwa from Chinabot, under the moniker Queimada he now presents a debut record coming out on Gin&Platonic.

Built around a concept proposed by Harvard professor E.O. Wilson, Eremocene depicts a future state of miserable epoch into which human species is slowly but steadily accelerating. Characterized by the existential & material isolation that comes from having calamitously extinguishing other forms of life on Earth while intrepidly fulfilling our immediate needs, the future labeled as The Age of Loneliness sees our identity completely transformed. 
On the record, Queimada explores precisely the conflict between the tempting ease and a pang of unconfessed guilt in an attempt to capture the ironical relationship they epitomize. The album represents an encounter between different techniques of granular synthesis and field recording. The encounter between the unstoppable and destructive, altogether resulting in a disruptive anthem of the intensifying burden of the postmodern times.

Produced by Queimada
Mastered by Wim Dehaen
Artwork by Jiri Macku

Buy via: https://ginandplatonic.bandcamp.com/album/eremocene

https://soundcloud.com/ginandplatonic

Eremocene

Premiere: Queimada - Why U Cry? (ft. Sabiwa)[Gin&Platonic]

кораблик (MUTANTS MIXTAPE VOL.3: SEED)

KOUH BAS nous propose ce mois-ci un live inédit. En des temps troubles, le duo veut nous faire voyager dans une nouvelle vie/ville, un nouveau présent, une façon de prévoir ce qui se serait passé si nous avions choisi un autre schème d'évolution.
Nous gravitons autour d'une ville aquatique, une totale fusion entre la technologie et la nature, une ville en quelques sorte animiste, où l’espèce des vertébrés humanoïdes n'est ni présente ni mise en retrait, elle agit au sein d'un tout
Il est difficile de dire, dans cette masse organique audible, qui opère quelle action.
C'est un râle étouffé par les tropiques numériques de cette ville en constante évolution. Un tout, accordé, qui tantôt fusionne, se dégrade, se compose dans un environnement ni futuriste ni passé.
KOUH BAS nous propose de se laisser emporter par des visions, tout en présentant quelque chose de neutre pour que chacun puisse trouver une autre façon de voir et d'imaginer un espace onirique.

KOUH BAS soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/kouh-bas

BANDCAMP LINK https://harpiesrecord.bandcamp.com/album/kouh-bas-this-is-a-new-kind-of-eco-future-life-we-wanna-show

This month, KOUH BAS presents an exclusive live performance to us. During those confusing times, the duet wants to send us on a voyage to a new city/life, a new present, as a way to predict what would have happened if we had chosen a different scheme of evolution.

We gravitate to an aquatic city, a total merger of technology and nature, a sort of animist city, where the species of vertebrate humanoids is neither here nor put aside, but it acts within a whole.

It’s hard to tell, in this audible and organic mass, who operates what action.

It’s a death rattle hushed by numerical tropics in a city in constant evolution. A well tuned whole which sometimes merges, deteriorates and composes itself in a neither futuristic nor past environment.

KOUH BAS sweeps us away with visions, presenting something neutral to let everyone find his/her own way of seeing and imagining a dreamlike space.

KOUH BAS soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/kouh-bas

BANDCAMP LINK https://harpiesrecord.bandcamp.com/album/kouh-bas-this-is-a-new-kind-of-eco-future-life-we-wanna-show

Visuel by Argan Habask & aariel Tombaale
Text by aariel Tombaale
TO ALL GORGONS
STAY SUPPLE, STAY TUNED, STAY HARPIES
LOVE

HARPIES RECORDS

This is a new kind of eco​-​future life we wanna show

KOUH BAS- This is a new kind of eco-future life we wanna show

Bye now

Mastering by jjjacob
Artwork by jjjacob
Video by jjjacob

Victor Metske is a Rotterdam-based electronic musician, who is normally known for his energetic club-ready style of production and for the label Bound Centre, which he co-founded with Ice Viper, Imhotel & Ezra V. On katharsis, he presents a more introspective and thoughtful side of himself with his EP “In The Midst Of Things”, which seems to stem from this weird year of isolation and quarantine.

The 4 tracks of the EP send us on a contemplative journey through our feelings, spanning from the blissful pads on the beautiful opener “Flour On Her Feet” to the more disturbing and anxious plucked strings on “First Sight”. Metske states the following about the release:

“In the midst of things, in between life changing events and entirely new daily routines there were small moments where I could sit down and reflect. The four tracks of this EP were created in these small pockets of time. During the pregnancy of my girlfriend, after the birth of our son, at the arrival of a global crisis.

Melodic and atmospheric elements previously hidden in my send channels have been braving the foreground of my productions for a while now. But more recently I've been able to use these elements to translate the weight of recent events directly into some of my music. All four tracks represent very personal abstract feelings that I could never put to words.

Within these four tracks, I can hear feelings of joy, love, doubt and melancholy scream back at me. I can hear myself settling into a new world, struggling with relinquishing control and discovering calmth.”

Music Video for "Flour On Her Feet": www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxVoSkuO_mA&ab_channel=jjjacob  

released October 15, 2020

In The Midst Of Things

Victor Metske - Flour On Her Feet

Written & Performed by Ambriel
Produced, Mixed & Mastered by @riedelchristoff
Artwork by Alexander Turovsky (https://www.instagram.com/alexanderturovsky/)

Motorola (prod. by Christoff Riedel)

I'm really bad at following social media's rhythm, impostor syndrome is eating me up inside and it's hard to expose myself but here's a comp....

some music and stuff created between 2018 and 2020

artwork by me

draw by Vimes-DA

www.deviantart.com/vimes-da/art/Dark-souls-sketch-535717919

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

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