Sergey Smirnov aka Phil Anker is a sound producer and electronic musician from Republic of Belarus, Minsk. Currently he is based in New York.

Сергей Смирнов ака Phil Anker - саунд продюсер, электронный музыкант из Беларуси, Минск. На данный момент базируется в Нью Йорке.

25.06.2021
@phil-anker

Phil Anker (New York)

Anchoress is a project by Berlin based composer, singer and artist Anna Lucia Nissen. Anchoress understands music as a way to explore spaces beyond logical boundaries, creating a world that allows for connections on both an intellectual and emotional level. With a focus on vocal delivery she crafts arcane eulogies centered around her distinctively androgynous tenor howl. Anchoress' songs are cinematic in the way they reveal their narratives, and she considers song writing to be like scoring an imagined film. Accompanied by haunting strings, android choirs and swelling synthesizer drones, her vocals metamorphose into different characters. These lyrical protagonists are amalgamations of historical figures, feminist literature and observations of her surroundings telling stories about female anger, 21st century alienation and their yearning for new forms of collectiveness. Influenced by the experimental use of orchestral music of artists such as Scott Walker or Franco Battiato, Anchoress fuses elements of modern classical, dark post-industrial sounds and Gregorian chant into devotional hymns which collapse in on themselves to form uncanny ecstatic dirges.

https://soundcloud.com/user-765091120-185532946
https://www.anchoress.online
https://anchoress-official.bandcamp.com/album/in-times-where-eyes-are-low

Mentorship: Jan Brauer https://soundcloud.com/jan-b-300086776

Anchoress - Toys Of Grace

I haven't tried to make a complex compilation for a couple of years, but it's about time. The result is a minor and a bit creepy jazz idm trip, with a few traditional electronica, techno and jungle in it. It starts with Dave Holland's sleepy double bass playing, and ends with Slag Boom Van Loon's absurd mess.  There's no direct mixing and tempo-fitting, because that limits the room for maneuvering a lot. The tracks are stitched together with special cuts, which are made up of effects-driven bits of the tracks themselves layered over pads and percussion parts, plus a nice soft crossfade. The tracks don't layer on top of each other, instead you dive from one to the other.

Tracklist: 

1)Dave Holland - Spheres
2)The 7th Plain ‎- Railer 
3)Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays ‎- As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
4)Christian Kleine - Quadriga 
5)Duplex - Censory (Remix 2)
6)Number One - Kanyon
7)Fugue - interlagos
8)Simon Turner - Autimn Leaf
9)Substanz- T - Rekall
10)Dan Wave - X343
11)Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous, and Jack DeJohnette - Maya + "To Be Continued"
12)Sentinel - Toulepleu + Jan Garbarek - Skrik & Hyl
13)East of oceans - 1995 to forever
14)Slag Boom Van Loon - Fallen Angels Entering Pandemonium

Special Mix 2 Years Of Reflection

Vox Populi (Bolivia)
Nicolas Quiroga a.k.a Vox Populi is a Bolivian DJ from La Paz, who heads and directs several artistic projects. And the general director of HEARec La Paz Bolivia His music is a subtle and eclectic mix of various genres related to breakbeat, techno, new wave and indie but he is also a big fan of metal, jazz, rock and more experimental stuff.
Nicolas is the creator and president of SGCADE (Society for Collective Management of Digital and Electronic Arts) and partner/director of RCA, the only electronic music club in La Paz.

Vox Populi (Bolivia) [Que Sakamoto 思考と発想 (Thoughts&Ideas) Vol.6] [21.01.2022]

Most Moscow: Rush 16.11.21

You can hear how His Majesty The Universal Chaos wheezes and moans in many ways: by listening to the sounds made by a plastic bag from «Pyaterochka» grocery store, while it picked up by a harsh March wind, or just by turning on the Vampiro mix for 5/8: radio.

Vampiro is the spirit of the city of Odintsovo, a collector of obscure melodies, a maker of mixes (after which we are forced to take sedatives) and just our dearest friend.

vampiro

Vampiro - 5/8 Radio #188

[english below]

"Leap of Faith" to utwór z nadchodzącego albumu Uwdara - "Broken Planet".

Preorder  kasety rozpocznie się 1.04 o godz. 9:00 na superkasety.bandcamp.com 
Nakład limitowany 100 sztuk. 

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Uwdar (czyli 1/2 duetu ETNOBOTANIKA) prezentuje album Broken Planet. Wydawnictwo kasetowe oznaczone w naszym katalogu jako SPRK004 to coś absolutnie wyjątkowego. To co pierwsze rzuca się w oczy to sam wygląd kasety. Postanowiliśmy nieco zaszaleć i po raz pierwszy zrobiliśmy kasetę typu full print, a ponadto na dwóch stronach kasety znajdują się dwie różne grafiki w rożnych kolorach, które dzięki efektowi przezroczystości nakładają się na siebie. Do kasety dołączona jest także wkładka z czterema dwustronnymi panelami wypełnionymi zdjęciami, które przedstawiają inspiracje dla tego albumu. Projekt kasety w oldschoolowym stylu współgra z muzyką, która nawiązuje do złotych czasów breakbeatu, jungle i trip-hopu. Dobrze znanym breakom towarzyszą nostalgiczne, syntezatorowe melodie, za które tak polubiliśmy ETNOBOTANIKĘ i oczywiście sample. Jest tu sporo gitarowych wstawek umiejętnie wyciętych ze starych polskich punkowych kaset, ale też echa głosów z VHS (np. klasyczny dialog z Serpico, Beavis i Butt-head!) czy wycinki audio z gier komputerowych z epoki (Tony Hawk Pro Skater). Jeśli pamiętacie czasy pirackich płyt CD i kaset, gdy królowały albumy Prodigy i Westbama, jeśli godzinami giercowaliście we wspomnianego Tony'ego Hawka czy Wipeouta, to ta kaseta zapewni Wam niezły nostalgia trip! Rzecz jasna nie jest to tylko odtwarzanie tego co było kiedyś. Uwdar sięga po oryginalne breaki i przetwarza je na swój wyjątkowy sposób tak, że cały czas mają taneczny potencjał, ale albumu jako całości, między innymi dzięki licznym skitom, interludiom i zmianom tempa, świetnie słucha się w całości. Z tego wszystkiego wyłania się coś jeszcze - opowieść o "Połamanej Planecie". Czy to komentarz do czasów, w których żyjemy lub kondycji nas wszystkich jako ludzkości? Przekonajcie się sami!

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Uwdar (that is 1/2 of ETNOBOTANIKA duo) presents Broken Planet album. The cassette release marked in our catalog as SPRK004 is something absolutely unique. What strikes at first sight is the very look of the cassette. We decided to go a little crazy and for the first time we made a full print cassette, moreover on two sides of the cassette there are two different graphics in different colors, which thanks to the transparency effect are superimposed on each other. The cassette also comes with an insert with four double-sided panels filled with photos that represent the inspiration for this album. The cassette's old-school design works in tandem with the music, which harkens back to the golden days of breakbeat, jungle and trip-hop. Well-known breaks are accompanied by nostalgic, synth melodies for which we liked ETNOBOTANICA so much and, of course, samples. There are a lot of guitar interludes skilfully cut from old Polish punk tapes, but also echoes of voices from VHS (e.g. a classic dialogue from Serpico, Beavis and Butt-head!) or audio clips from computer games of the era (Tony Hawk Pro Skater). If you remember the times of pirate CDs and cassettes, when Prodigy and Westbama albums reigned supreme, if you spent hours playing the aforementioned Tony Hawk or Wipeout, this cassette will give you a nice nostalgia trip! Of course this is not just a recreation of what used to be. Uwdar takes the original breaks and transforms them in his own unique way so that they still have dance potential, but the album as a whole, thanks to numerous skits, interludes and tempo changes, among other things, is a great listen. Something else emerges from all this - the story of "Broken Planet". Is it a commentary to the times we live in or the condition of all of us as humanity? See for yourself!
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credits:

Gfx & music: @uwdar
Mix & mastering: @stachy

Broken Planet

Uwdar - Leap Of Faith

Originally released in 2002, “Harnessed the Storm” was conceived as the opening chapter of the legendary seven Storms – a series of seven albums created within a single year and released via several labels under different names. “Harnessed the Storm” was the sole one in the series credited under the main Drexciya project.
The album, which is considered to be one of the pair's darkest, was produced in a time of creative outbreak and emo- tional turbulence. The duo's confidence was at a peak, new techniques revolutionized musical production, but the duo also had to face Stinson's severe health issues. This led to a radical shift of pace in producing and releasing music. For the Detroit pair it was time to move on from their ground-breaking past. It was time for some shape shifting and wave jumping to occur, in Drexciya’s terms.
This is reflected two-folds on the ten cuts of “Harnessed the Storm”. With seven different album projects in the pipeline, Stinson and Donald were able to give the atmospheres and structures of each individual work a more distinct focus, resulting in longer pieces and more defined moods. “Harnessed the Storm” integrated classic Drexciyan dance floor moments like “Under Sea Disturbances” and “Digital Tsunami”, brooding experiments like “Dr. Blowfins' Black Storm Stabilizing Spheres” and “Aquatic Cataclysm” which rank with the most abstract, alien and stark in their catalogue, and a few choice cuts of wave-cruising beauty into a cohesive whole – the disparate elements fused by an all-permeating sonic dread.
“Harnessed the Storm” is as much the uncanny silence before the storm - looming in the unknown, as the storm itself, making this album at once an incredibly focused sound production, as well as a journey of highest emotional complexity.
Another masterful lesson in futurist dance music from one of its strongest forces.

Harnessed The Storm

BANDCAMP

Drexciya - Birth Of New Life

PB020
Coming soon )late April(
Rush Hour Distribution

PB020 Ajukaja - Stranger

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“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is Brazilian producer Gawk’s newest release on Yellow Island Records, with a bonus remix by South Korean DJ and producer, DJ Bowlcut. The Brazilian producer’s five track EP takes the listener on a journey of travel, independence, and comfort in solitude in a foreign place - and allows us to experience the nostalgia that follows upon returning home.

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