"Blasted and cutting sounds immersed in dark ambiances characterize the mixes of Hålbå (@halbaofficial). They are embodiments of his vision focused on society's decay and its constant feeling of an uncertain future. Chaos, despair, and distress are some of the feelings that the artist tries to convey on his Podcasts, a result of deep research of unconventional audio material to reach a huge impact for the listener." 

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Vinyl & digital album: kmruahossan.bandcamp.com/album/limen

Released on April 29th, 2022

Last year, Kenyan sound artist Joseph Kamaru (aka KMRU) and French digital alchemist Niamké Désiré (aka Aho Ssan) were invited by Berlin Atonal to collaborate on a project for the festival's Metabolic Rift edition.

The duo had already been working together, but the offer provided the momentum to shift the conversation into another gear. Initially, they looked for thematic connections within their individual practices that might match Kamaru's meditative soundscapes with Désiré's crumbling cyberpunk expressionism, and surprisingly for two artists renowned for their grasp of minimalism, it was the opposite that drew their attention. Watching the world shift as it reacted to the spiraling pandemic, Kamaru and Désiré were moved to experiment with volume, physicality, and intense emotionality.

“I never made something so extreme," Désiré says of the duo's first recording, 2021's 'Ruined Abstractions', an extended composition that matches dense, powerful low-end drones with fractal digital fuzz and smokestack bruit. It set the mood for a back-and-forth that resulted in their seismic debut full-length, "Limen", described by the two acclaimed artists as an attempt to scrutinize the yin and yang of destruction and creation.

Cacophonous, concrete crunches fanfare the album's opening piece 'Resurgence' - the result of their Berlin Atonal commission - but the track refuses to languish in wrecking ball devastation. Instead, powerful synthesized harmonies ring from beneath the rubble, before stifling everything in a humid fuzz of dense, emotionally-charged cinematic electronics.

Influenced by the prescient post-apocalyptic mood of Katsuhiro Otomo's "Akira" and the mythological phoenix, an immortal bird said to be reborn from the ashes of its dying predecessor, "Limen" is an album that sonically snapshots the anxious, floral beauty of an explosion or the colorful intensity of a raging fire. It's rooted in concepts of duality - the idea something unsettling can be viewed from a different angle and re-interpreted.

On the album's epic, 21-minute centerpiece 'Ruined Abstraction I + II', swirling electromagnetic interference paints a haunted parallel vista that dissolves slowly into subtle, orchestral tones and booming, widescreen thuds.

Almost angelic closing track 'Rebirth' meanwhile is the most unashamedly beautiful composition Kamaru and Désiré have written together, but its choral bliss is doused in petroleum noise and saturated distortion.

"Limen" is an album that seeks to lift a veil of silence from the world, replacing it with maximalist bombast and vivid passion. It's a dynamic piece of work that finds its creators pushing themselves to the limits, deconstructing history as it detonates around us.

All tracks written and produced by Joseph Kamaru
and Niamké Désiré; mastered by Joker

Published by Multiverse Media Publishing
© & ℗ Subtext / Multiverse LTD 2022

subtextrecordings.net/

Limen

Vinyl & digital album

KMRU & Aho Ssan - Ruined Abstractions

DJ set par Gabrielle Gaf
https://soundcloud.com/lthrecords

Oxygen is a series of outdoor events
This performance was recorded on the island of Montréal / Tiohtià:ke
on the evening of Saturday, July 23rd, 2022

Oxygen - Gabrielle Gaf

Antiquated frames
Of night pool
Shining on steady shore
A mirror for seeing tumultuous sky
Tiles graven as sabulous coast

Ladders rolled into forlorn sheaves
Like bootlegged boose In dark doldrums
Wind between ground and lid
Arcane hovels pervade in dawn.

Accumulation of vulnerability, collective world of avalanches, this ancient land - ascendance, that so often takes on the countenance of
being in more than one place.

The patterns repeat themselves, adorned in anguish, with a feeling, compelled to vaunt - lustrous arrival in overwhelming lines.

'The Lost Columns' is a deluge of unbroken slashes in Arcadia between Arkhad and KAOSMOS. Arriving at the same place, in the presence of mutual accord.

The Lost Columns

KAOSMOS - Dizzying Dream

OBLIVION VII ⏤ Holyld

(I don't want any kitsch. I got tired. I don't even want to dance. I feel weightless. I don't want to focus on any unnecessary stimuli. I want to exclude everything, while listening to the elementary sounds filtering in from the outside world. I want to lie down on the ground and watch the plants around me slowly grow out of the ground and wrap around my body, covering me. And then return to where I came from. Where we all vibrate as one.)

music by Áron Lőrinczi @obwigszyh
mastered by Roland Nagy
artwork by Márton Tóth

www.instagram.com/marutonkun

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Obwigszyh – Through the Walls

Buried Alive shows aspects of human condition within distinctive 
waves of pressure in noise music. Soaked affection and emotional 
response onslaughts into his works like blasts in the guise of sensitivity.
His undivided oeuvre to reach deeper into himself,  buries in earnestness and 
resurfaces widespread on overwrought electronics. Disarray of agony and 
rapture of sentiments fold in together in a passionate, impulsively dense mettle.
Both of which place more weight on emotional peaks while keeping hold of a sombre backdrop.

Tracklist: https://radioflouka.com/shows/amusing-ourselves-to-hear-blindchild-invites-buried-alive-15-12-20223

STREAM RADIO FLOUKA

Amusing Ourselves to Hear : BlindÇhild Invites Buried Alive - 15/12/20223

https://www.retreatradio.net/saatans-kvinna

https://soundcloud.com/saatanskvinna

Unknown Album

SAATANS KVINNA #43 (17/02/23)

SØS Gunver Ryberg makes big, powerful music. Hailing from Denmark the former stunt woman turned BAFTA nominated producer and composer lays down driving rhythms and textures for exhiliarating live shows at Berghain, Atonal, and on Boiler Room, or labels like Contort.  Often stitching in field recordings to add texture and timbre to her work it adds up to a brilliantly dark and insular experience somewhere between noise and techno.

Says the woman herself of her podcast for us, “this is a mix between unreleased tracks, jams and some already released tunes. All music is by SØS Gunver Ryberg except the remix for Else Marie Pade.” The resulting 45 minutes start off as an all out assault: a flurry of synths and frazzled lines, overdriven drums and apocalyptic overtones. But the heaviness subsides and the energy dissipates into muggy and dystopian ambient. Drums do then return and bring with them a real eeriness that makes this an utterly compelling session.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 174 - SØS Gunver Ryberg

After performing at the Kuboraum Open Studio last November for the launch of Shapednoise's previous album "Aesthesis," Shapednoise, and Gabber Eleganza returns with a brand new mix.
The mix is a sound landscape exploration with unorthodox clashing rhythms, sound design, and cinematic textures. All this by merging by hardcore continuum, techno,  noise, and cutting edge bass.

Shapednoise + Gabber Eleganza Kuboraum Mix

Bernard Parmegiani - Docteur Jekyll et les femmes
FAUST- 17  Untitled - Rudolph - Recommended Records
Orphx- Corridor - Hospital
Prophän- Introduction To Worship- Rhadâb
HUREN- Drom - Zhark
Laughing Hands - Seven - Adhesive
NSI- The Factory Of "Livre Brulé" - Independent
Valentina Goncharva- Symphony Of Wind - Shukai
Riechmann- Abendlicht- SKY records
 Andrzej Korzynski -The Night the Screaming Stops- Finders Keepers
Cupol- Like This For Ages - 4AD
Deerhoof- Running Thoughts- Kill Rock Stars
Anthony Gnazzo - Asparagas - Mills College
Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer  (Incidental)_ Steven A Jones
Kingdom Come- Time Captives - Polydor
 Michel Houellebecq -Séjour-Club - Tricatel
Mirelle Chamass-Kyrou - Étude I - Nostalgie De La Boue
Phew- Signal - Pass records
Mariah- Soko Kara - Shan Shan
Devikorps- Plague State - X-img
SHITHAUS- When It Comes Time - Independent
The Anti-Group-   A.A.A.A. (Accelerated Audio Alpha Activity)- Side effects
Hermann Nitsch - Akustisches Abreaktionsspiel - Galerie Klewan
The Connells- ’74-’75 = TVT Records

Contemporary Kvlt Elektronische by HUREN

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