video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2-rRJmZg6M

xquisite releases is proud to present ‘Summer in Sexilia’ the new album by Cecilia

On the winding roads of escape, running away from the burning city's suffocation, in search of air, Cecilia drowns in the thick, elemental romance of Sexilia island.

The landscape oozes and recalls the radical desire of adolescent souls, a chaste and mystical resistance which flutters and strolls above through ditches, railroad edges, highway exits, stinking alleys owned by starving cats.

Sparse and sculptural breaths, the songs are drunk with melancholic infatuation.

“Summer in Sexilia” is a sensory encounter with the great despair in which the lover's courage takes shape once again, sublime, hanging on the memory of the shining stars.

In the hallucinated Summer of Sexilia, the ground trembles, the hands get dirty and the world craves for real tenderness and silent ecstasy.
credits
releases August 6, 2021

all music by Cecilia, with thanks to Isabella Lovestory, Bashar Suleiman, Yalei Shen for vocal features

cover artwork by Justine Neuberger

graphic design by Aleski Tammi

mastered by Oscar Khan

Cecilia - grave

Conceived as an ecotonal space where the multiple sonic reinterpretations of the composition can converge, we are pleased to present the first compilation of EKŌ, a platform inspired by the essence of the spatial and acoustic propagation of rhythmic and experimental phenomena. Which seeks to share through this selection different ideas and creative sensibilities around experimental dancefloor. Where it is sought that, through the value of sharing in equitable and diverse ways, it is motivated to generate changing, thinking and sensitive spaces from, to and with what happens in the world and on the dance floor.

EKŌ baste together and puts in dialogue the personal universes of each creator in this compilation, also as a presentation of what EKŌ is and intends to generate, allowing us to access those meeting points that occur beyond the physical.

Enjoy, dance, share love and music.

Lyo XS & KOI - Crisantemo

As the first katharsis release of 2022, we present you the debut EP “Distance” by Rome-based artist chantssss. This release frames a deep introspection for the listener by exhibiting a granular sound collage based mainly on aquatic sounds but also on solid objects broken up to tiny pieces until they transform into a liquid semi-percussive state.

Throughout the four tracks of the EP, we are enveloped by a transforming layer of fluid noise, that momentarily resembles the slithering of a snake, which is also graphicly represented by the artist alias. This is no coincidence, as the artist is connected to this theme by their experience of being bitten by a viper while capturing aquatic field recordings in the mountains.

On “Distance”, chantssss premieres his artistic expression by employing intertwining multi-sensory atmospheres of nature combined with generative synthesis and field recordings. The single “Your Next Online Healing” will be premiered on the 3rd of February, a week before the full EP releases on February 10th.

Distance

chantssss - Breath

Honour - BEG 4 MERCY
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 122
Release Date: 09 December 2022
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/BEG4MERCY

There's not much we can say about Honour that makes complete sense. They may or may not have grown up in the US, making beats with a cousin who sang in a church band; they might have toured as a roadie with platinum-selling R&B outfit Pretty Ricky before acing regional videogame tournaments and moving to NYC; they could have sold their life story to children's book author C.S. Adler and signed to Violator management; and maybe they ended up stationed in London, working as a runner on music promos. But however plausible it is, the breadcrumb trail provides us with a detailed cultural framework for "Beg 4 Mercy", a dense fog of pop and underground references that's as inescapable as it is enticing. It's a rare debut that engulfs even the most cautious listener, sweeping through tongue-in-cheek Wild West bravado and psychedelic, overdriven club rap, bifurcating into crumbly DIY noise and vaporous euphoric soul. Sometimes barbed and cynical, but just as often deliriously warm-hearted, it's a record of contradictions that's as puzzling to unpick as the artist's baffling backstory, imprinted with more hidden messages than a Renaissance painting. Who needs to play identity bingo when the art's screaming so loudly?

Production, writing, and composition by Honour
Additional production on SEVEN SEALS by Bridegroom
Poem on 2Yung2Die written and recited by Gwendolyn Brooks
Mastered by Miles Whittaker

BEG 4 MERCY mp3

Honour - WAYOE (PAN 122)

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 - Germ in a Population of Buildings (PAN 132)

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”. More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

The Morning Show w/ jujulove & Basile3 @ Kiosk Radio 22.09.2023

Nous y sommes enfin, après deux ans d'attente Theory Basement déboule et ça dérape. Né de la collaboration entre Eurrope et le duo 50cc et de 4 remix légendaire par Aval Douar, Glass, Modern Collapse, Classic Man on est trop fier de vous présenter ce bijou à ne pas mettre entre toutes les mains. À écouter dans toute les plus grosse gova sportives du monde.
Merci aussi à Lastrack pour le mastering, Delo pour le mixage et bien sûr Gobzfx pour la DA de monstre.

Il était une fois une bande de criminels intrépides, connus pour leurs talents de conduite hors pair et leur goût pour l'exploration urbaine. Leur passion ? Rouler à vive allure et explorer les endroits les plus insolites. Leurs montures ? Des gamos de course surpuissantes, capables d'atteindre des vitesses vertigineuses en quelques secondes. Ces jeunes délinquants étaient réputés pour leurs compétences de pilotage et leur audace sans faille. Avec leurs bolides dernier cri, ils répandaient la terreur sur les routes, défiant les lois de la vitesse et semant les forces de l'ordre sans la moindre hésitation. Mais ce qui les excitait encore plus que les courses effrénées sur l'asphalte, c'était l'exploration urbaine. Ils étaient fascinés par les recoins les plus sombres et méconnus de la ville. Et leur endroit de prédilection était les sous-sols des stades.
La nuit venue, lorsque le monde sombrait dans le silence, les bougs se glissaient furtivement sous les stades, à la recherche d'aventures palpitantes. Les entrées secrètes et les passages dissimulés étaient leur terrain de jeu, et ils ne se lassaient jamais de repousser les limites de l'exploration. Là-bas, dans les dédales obscurs, ils découvraient des vestiges oubliés, des histoires antiques laissées à l'abandon. Les vestiaires délabrés, les tunnels interminables et les salles mystérieuses étaient autant de trésors à conquérir pour ces thrill seekers. Leurs rires s'échappaient dans l'obscurité, mêlés au ronronnement des moteurs. Leurs yeux brillaient d'excitation alors qu'ils escaladaient les escaliers étroits et arpentaient les longs couloirs poussiéreux. Rien ne pouvait les arrêter. Mais leurs exploits et leurs méfaits ne passèrent pas inaperçus, et bientôt les cops était à leurs trousses. Une course-poursuite acharnée s'engagea entre les voitures rapides et les forces de l'ordre déterminées à les arrêter. Les rues de la ville devinrent le théâtre d'une traque épique, où vitesse et astuces étaient les seules armes en jeu. Les voitures bosstées à mort, manœuvrant avec adresse à travers les embûches de la circulation urbaine, semblaient intouchables. La tension était à son comble, et alors que les voitures des flics se rapprochaient dangereusement, le groupe trouva refuge sous un stade encore inexploité. Ils abandonnèrent leurs bolides dans l'obscurité et partirent à pied, se fondant dans les ombres environnantes.
Ainsi, ils continuaient leur vie de criminels audacieux, roulant à toute vitesse et explorant les recoins les plus secrets de la ville. Leur légende grandissait jour après jour, suscitant admiration et crainte.
Certains les qualifiaient de hors-la-loi, d'autres les considéraient comme les héros modernes d'une époque imprévisible. Quoi qu'il en soit, ils continuaient leur périple, prêts à repousser sans cesse les limites de la vitesse et de l'exploration urbaine.

50 cc & Eurrope - Stadium Solution

I go somewhere to close my eyes

with motion and cover graphics by @spherewriter
- thank your for your work and words along the progress

released via @signalweltfunk
listen here 
https://linktr.ee/signalweltfunk

written and produced: Maurice Schirm
cover: Erik Dittert @spherewriter
mixing: Finn Klose @bierkastenkalle
mastering: Maurice Schirm @maurice.schirm

Maurice Schirm – I go somewhere to close my eyes

Drones of Despair

Following support from artists including Aya, CCL and Bruce, London-based duo borderland state_the best kisser in l.a.join the TT roster with 2-track EP silicon overseer.

@borderlandstate
@thebestkisserinla
Artwork - Josh Crumpler
Mastering - Benjamin Saint

silicon overseer

iuo feat. anna b

Work (CM-009)

A1 - Yourope (0:26)
A2 - Airbnb (0:17)
A3 - FAQ U (0:38)
A4 - Missing (0:36)
A5 - PO (0:50)
A6 - No Monuments To Be Made Today (1:11)
A7 - New Empires, Old Vampires (0:26)
A8 - The Right Word To Write a Wrong (1:23)
A9 - Work (1:13)
A10 - Futurum (0:33)
B1 - A Day In The Studio (7:28)
B2 - Modern Spanking Bolero (3:31)

Released on the 13th of July 2020
Cat. no: CM-009
Format: 12" Vinyl & CD
Written and recorded by Hanne Lippard
Production by Louis McGuire on B2 - "Modern Spanking Bolero"
Guitar by Paul Benham on B2 - "Modern Spanking Bolero"
Mixed by Alban Schelbert
Mastered by Rashad Becker
Designed by Ethan Assouline
Pictures by Felix Brüggemann
Distributed by Boomkat

Collapsing Market © 2020 in collaboration with LambdaLambdaLambda

Hanne Lippard - Modern Spanking Bolero (CM-009)

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