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K-Tracks: Night Tunes 1

ambient techno / idm

Idm glitch

precise, clear, resonating

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New York based percussionist and composer Eli Keszler is set to release his new album Icons on June 25 via LuckyMe. Icons is an immersive work in perpetual motion, evoking a glorious and dystopian western world. Known as a frequent collaborator to Oneohtrix Point Never, Laurel Halo, Kevin Beasley, and Rashad Becker, Keszler’s latest solo venture offers up a latticework of melodic percussion, drum set, and electro-acoustic instrumentation, built upon fragments of American abstraction, ancient scales, industrial percussion, and jazz-age film noir to achieve its feeling of imperial decay. Keszler’s instrumental performances are framed by panoramic recordings of New York City and the Odyssey Cave, along with other on-location audio from his global travels, defining an expansive music that takes on hyperreal forms difficult to describe outside of the loss and wonderment that defines our age.

“Icons is the music I made during a time where travel and trade were effectively suspended,” states Keszler. “I spent nights wandering around Manhattan collecting recordings of the empty and silent city where a car alarm was audible from blocks away, where the hum of the electrical grid and the clash of bicycle gears suddenly occupied a massive amount of space. I spent the entirety of that year in Manhattan, probably the longest I’ve stayed in one place in over a decade. The island was essentially shut down and running at an erratic pace. The speed of the city seemed to oscillate from intense speed - ambulances, protests, helicopters —  to near stasis — a sort of beautiful, strange, serene stillness. I saw something strange and beautiful happening: power cracking and people changing. With Icons, I was working with these mythological tropes that are deteriorating and decaying before our eyes to create a music that finds beauty in our fragile and unstable reality. 

Keszler has released music on Shelter Press, Empty Editions, ESP Disk and PAN. His 2018 album Stadium was awarded Boomkat’s Album Of The Year.  Most recently, Keszler wrote the original score to Dasha Nekrasova’s feature The Scary of Sixty First (which made its recent premiere at Berlin Film Festival) and contributed to Daniel Lopatin's original score for Josh and Benny Safdie's Uncut Gems. Keszler’s music, installation, and visual work have appeared at the Whitney Museum, Lincoln Center, MIT List Center, Victoria & Albert Museum, Sculpture Center, The Kitchen, South London Gallery, Hessel Museum, Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Luma-Foundation, Barbican, Walker Art Center, and MoMA PS1.

Icons

The Accident

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Eli Keszler - The Accident

Polygonia returns to the home ground, IO records with the third EP named "Deformed Human Nature." The four-track EP presents Polygonia in her typical fashion, pushing organically created rhythms "one step further."
'The Desire for Independence' is all about the rolling groove driven by congas and layered with numerous little details that pop in like fireflies in the dark. It's one of those tracks that create a perfect 'calm before the storm' on the dance floor.

Polygonia on SoundCloud: @polygonia
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PREMIERE: Polygonia - The Desire For Independence [IO Records]

What Do U Want? (Henzo's Tough As Fuck Mix)

Paradisia Vol. ♾ is the 4th instalment of the compilation series, celebrating 8 years of the label @gang-of-ducks and featuring 16 tracks.

Support & Buy: gangofducks.bandcamp.com/album/paradisia-vol

Curated by Sabla
Artwork in collab with Anna Neretto
Mastered at G of D HQ
GODREC029
© Gang of Ducks 2021

Paradisia Vol.∞

Support & Buy

Drifting Clouds [Gang of Ducks]

Bend

Flutter

Anthy / Serpentine

Rise (Bonus)

The Beauty Of Dying

Retrospective

Volcano

Helix

Gall Tones

Sumiya

Aperture

Lose

"Dublin DJ/producer Sputnik One shares the second offering from his recently launched label N-Face - the follow up to 2022’s debut release Supa Natural/Grafters ft. Belfast-based rapper EMBY which was supported by Ben UFO, CCL, DJ Voices and more. 

The club-destroying compilation spans 10 tracks, featuring bubbling bass and glitchy breaks through cheeky wafters to fresh and exciting techno and dancefloor mutations from a total of 11 artists and groups from three continents. Rising talents Dual Monitor, Glimmerman, LWS & No Sir join label head Sputnik One & K-Wata, as well as fresh faces St. Amp, Outl1er, DJ Gerard, Puncta and Young Muscle. N-Face 002 V/A showcases the Dublin artist’s strong vision and A&R hand and celebrates some of the most talented underground heads about. Staying in line with the spirit of collaboration set out in N-Face 001, Sputnik One teams up with K-Wata for their contribution to the compilation, with ‘Back Innit’ a chugging drama infused percussive roller. "

N-FACE002

K Wata & Sputnik One - Back Innit [N-FACE 002]

upsammy - Germs in a Population of Buildings
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 132
Release Date: 05 May 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/GerminaPopulationofBuildings

On her sophomore album "Germ in a Population of Buildings”, upsammy moves through her surroundings with the curiosity of a place-bending landscape architect. The album is rooted in her interest for ambiguous environments in constant shift, and the feeling of discovering strange patterns in different ecosystems. Often, the Amsterdam-based artist finds herself zooming in and out beyond a place's most recognizable surface features to inhabit the microscopic and gigantic. Gathering field recordings and evocative environmental sounds, she shapes this source material into vibrating electro-acoustic rhythms and unstable, psychedelic textures.

upsammy's debut album, 2020's critically-acclaimed "Zoom", was praised for its careful reimagining of IDM, evolving vignettes that nodded towards the dancefloor without being shackled to its rigid set of rules. On "Germ in a Population of Buildings" her process has evolved considerably; the skeletal trace of IDM is still present but it's been trapped in amber, allowing her unique sonic landscape to develop organically. 'Being is a Stone' is a proof of concept in many ways, layering upsammy's contorted voice in rickety patterns beneath a lattice of fragile rhythms and faintly melancholy synths. It's never immediately obvious where the sounds are coming from - a hiccuping beat might be glass cracking underfoot, and larger pulses could be wet concrete, rusted iron or bent plastic. As the sounds develop they morph into each other, demolishing what came before and building on top of the ornamental wreckage.

On the dynamic 'Constructing', upsammy's sound design fluxes through hyperactive bass music structures, abstracting expectations at every turn. Often her sounds are whisper quiet, rattling and vibrating until heavier masonry drops and disrupts the structure. And when discernible rhythms subside into the background, like on the album's eerie title track, they become almost illusory, morphing between the real world and the electronic. upsammy's processed voice works like a bridge between these realms, snaking between stark, whimsical melodies on 'Patterning', arching from AutoTuned detachment into cooing, dreamy intimacy. By considering the harmonies between each location she's visited, upsammy has been able to build a unique topology that's an uncanny digital amalgam of her lived experience. It's a thoughtful alternative in an era more concerned with flatting the landscape than crumpling it and examining its peaks and troughs.

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Mixed by James Ginzburg
Artwork by Jonathan Castro Alejos and Tharim Cornelisse

Germ in a Population of Buildings

upsammy - Patterning (PAN 132)

upsammy - Green Lung (PAN 132)

upsammy - Constructing (PAN 132)

'Humor' Release Date: June 30, 2023
Listen Now: https://hardlyart.xyz/tofusmell_basilnoodles

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Bandcamp: https://tofusmell.bandcamp.com
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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1iOQiPT8N1MQbdUaTaefyZ?si=_6D2D2FcR0a0BW90Xh_Clg
On Tour: http://www.hardlyart.com/tours/tofusmell

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Humor

Basil Noodles

tofusmell - Basil Noodles

1993

The follow-up to 2022's Forova EP is the fervent and focussed 'Bputch'...

A singular scalpel-like ray sat atop an equine drum bed.

☺︎ Art direction from Joshua Costar
☺︎ Mastered by Beau at Ten Eighty Seven

✏︎SOSOSO✎

OUT NOW

Bputch

Glimmerman - Step Mode (Sputnik One's 2 Step Mode rework)

muslimgauze vs species of fishes

sh-sh-sh v1.0

Pre-order: https://maloca.bandcamp.com/album/siiix-vol-1

Brussels-based label @malocarecords presents 'SIIIX, Vol.1', a compilation-turned-collaborative EP showcasing a dialogue between HIIIT (fka percussion ensemble Slagwerk Den Haag) and six producers - shimmering between footwork, IDM, UK bass and ambient.

The final result is six wildly different sonic outcomes, from the high-energy workouts of @upsammy’s ‘Embrytone’ to Julian Satorius’s warped rhythms in ‘Klutsel-Klötzli’.

More exclusive music

Premiere: upsammy 'Embrytone'

I’ve made a track and AGENDA⋮ has made a song out of it.

“Paradigms” out in 3 versions.

Ikävä Pii - Paradigms -++
Ikävä Pii - Paradigms --
AGENDA⋮ - Paradigms +-

A fancy press release text here. A big concept. The usual tags, buzzwords, adjectives. Post-facto meaning, retroactive motives. Tropes for easy consumption, categories for easy detection. Some big DJ played it out! It's forward-thinking - yet the usual.
Or, left turns, fuckups, new experiments, old loves.
Lyrics, words, good ideas, desires, tea, fears, memes, questions, wrong answers, bad ideas.
No interesting sound was ever made by playing it safe.
Have fun you coward :)

҉p҉҉a҉҉r҉҉a҉҉d҉҉i҉҉g҉҉m҉҉s҉ ҉l҉҉o҉҉r҉҉e҉҉c҉҉o҉҉r҉҉e҉ ҉d҉҉e҉҉e҉҉p҉҉f҉҉a҉҉k҉҉e҉҉s҉ ҉s҉҉t҉҉e҉҉r҉҉e҉҉o҉҉t҉҉y҉҉p҉҉e҉҉s҉ ҉c҉҉l҉҉i҉҉c҉҉h҉҉e҉҉s҉ ҉c҉҉o҉҉s҉҉p҉҉l҉҉a҉҉y҉҉s҉ ҉d҉҉r҉҉a҉҉w҉ ҉t҉҉h҉҉e҉ ҉l҉҉i҉҉n҉҉e҉ ҉f҉҉u҉҉c҉҉k҉ ҉u҉҉p҉ ҉b҉҉u҉҉t҉ ҉w҉҉i҉҉t҉҉h҉ ҉g҉҉r҉҉a҉҉c҉҉e҉

Ikävä Pii - Paradigms --

Quadrant Dub

Quadrant Dub I

Faith Healer - Try ;-) - Out September 8, 2017 on Mint Records

Faith Healer 
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Try ;-)

Faith Healer - Sufferin' Creature

Faith Healer - Best Saved 4 Last

Original version taken from the WARP limited 2CD compilation 'Artificial Intelligence II'.

Mark Franklin - Release To The System (Radio Edit)

Written, re-mixed and produced by Al Green at 'The Zoo'.

Boddika & Joy Orbison - Mercy (Boddika's VIP)

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