OW1 JEMAPUR - Mode Cleaner

For Omen Wapta’s inaugural release, Japanese musician/sound designer/coder/producer JEMAPUR explores the far reaches of abstract experimental techno on his album Mode Cleaner. Pulling from music that the Nagano-based artist made between 2016 and 2020, the album demonstrates JEMAPUR’s distinctive use of glitch, microsampling, live coding, and granular synthesis techniques. As the producer explains, Mode Cleaner was made at a time when his subconscious was being drawn towards subjects like physics, geometry, murals, ancient civilisations, the logic of nature, and the observation of the universe.

Intricate yet expressive, cerebral yet sensory, melancholic yet vivid, the Mode Cleaner album comes a decade-plus into JEMAPUR’s career of innovative electronic music. In 2019, he was invited to become an artist-in-residence at Amsterdam’s De School, where he was introduced to Omen Wapta’s Woody92.

1. WSIF.rg
2. 1011 ISOL-T
3. 195IN.B
4. Frctlze 412

5. Mode Cleaner
6. M.PLEX
7. D.I.
8. QED1066
9. Infinite-Gravity (digital bonus)

Released: October 18, 2021
Buy: https://omenwapta.bandcamp.com/album/jemapur-mode-cleaner

Written and produced by Toshiaki Ooi  
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering 
Artwork by Woody 's-Gravemade
Words by Selim Bulut

Distributed by Clone Records Rotterdam
Digital and vinyl via Omen Wapta Bandcamp

© Omen Wapta 
Delft, The Netherlands 2021

www.omenwapta.com

Mode Cleaner

OW1 JEMAPUR - Mode Cleaner [preview]

@bruitage
@stereometrix

BC: https://brutaz.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-7

Quite an intimate affair, including never-ending, quietly glistening jams on the verge of a dancefloor and a chillout room - somber yet including a few secretly ecstatic moments. With sneaky kick drums, ringing bells, chirping birds and the smell of spores opening, the atmosphere here is quite dense, at times relentless, yet empathetic at the core. The EP comes from a classically trained painter and a tattoo artist, Stereometrix, who sets up a rather idiosyncratic set of visual and acoustic references. He's part of Penumbrum, a Warsaw night and label uniting like-minded artists from western Ukraine and Belarus, building a city within a city.

All tracks recorded in Warsaw, 2022-2023. B1 is written by Stereometrix & Shjva. "Big love to pipupum chat & to my lovely girls from k1315┌⁠(⁠・⁠。⁠・⁠)⁠┘⁠♪＼⁠(ﾟ⁠ｰﾟ⁠＼⁠)"

pi pi pi premiere: Stereometrix - Alligators (Brutaż)

@rodmanmx
@ineffablerec

BC: https://ineffable.bandcamp.com

After the sentimental success of his debut "La Fragua," Mexican producer Rodman returns with the "Falcata EP," featuring six new productions for Ineffable.

The record's title comes from the name of an ancient sword, which is quite apt as the sharp sound-design & impressive perc work slices through the EP from start to finish. It fluctuates between moods, touching on the deeper, dubbed out & echoed sounds of Rodman's palette, and moving swiftly into complex rhythmic patterns that were definitely built with the club in mind.

Falcata EP

pi pi pi premiere: Rodman - Vendaval (Ineffable)

Recent Ep published under my old alias up on @RAWR
get it here: https://irlyl.bandcamp.com/album/a-bit-warmer

Irl.Yl - Ab Crsp

Artist: Refractor VA	
Title: Inside The Forest
Label: Organic Signs
Cat No: OS03
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist: 

A1. Jan Swam - Events That Led To My Dissapearance
A2. Pyramid Of Knowledge - One Day
B1. Digitalis - Digitekno (1997 Unreleased)
B2. Tadan – Moon Tek


In the third release of Organic Signs, we embark on a direct journey to the musical heart of Refractor: the annual gathering held in a forest on the outskirts of Madrid to celebrate dancing under the sun and stars for 24 uninterrupted hours.

With four tracks that encapsulate the sound of different mental states you may experience firsthand on this expedition, we begin with label manager Jan Swam's track. He introduces us to ancestral sounds featuring a flute played by himself, gradually accompanied by a penetrating bassline and synth, along with various elements spread across the stereo field. All of this leads to an unexpected finale. Next, we delve into the track by French artist based in Seoul, Pyramid Of Knowledge aka K.O.P. 32, who has crafted a perfect progression of sounds to immerse us in a trance towards the depths of the subconscious. The intensity builds up gradually until reaching its peak in the final moments.

On the other side, we welcome back our beloved Digitalis, responsible for the label's first release. This time, he presents a lost gem from '97 never before released, transporting us directly to the UK rave scene. Get ready to feel the unleashed pulse of the English artist who left an indelible mark on psychedelic music. Finally, we venture into the last chapter where Tadan pilots an interdimensional ship towards the hidden face of a moon that orbits a planet beyond the solar system. Close your eyes to appreciate the depth of the atmospheres and textures, intertwined with a constant rhythmic line that will guide us to the final moments of the record.

Refractor VA - Inside The Forest (OS03)

basement_dubs presents "COIL" #7 May residency @ blackteethradio

gi - Thought Makes Music

01. 21, 22, 23
02. fold
03. laces
04. knots
05. morning
06. coil
07. feedback
08. rapture (with Marcus Whale)

Digital + Vinyl 12”
@gistrung

Absorb is proud to present ‘Thought Makes Music’, the highly anticipated long-player by gi, solo moniker of unbridled musician, performer, and lyricist Gigi De Lacy (Optic Nerve).

'Thought Makes Music' is gi’s farthest-reaching work, a conclusive vision that follows a succession of revered sketches and short-form releases on labels such as Altered States Tapes (AUS) and Beyond the Bridge (ROK). So far her work sits on the outer limits of what can be considered “dance music”, and at full-length, its singular and immersive quality is glaring. Here, gi’s familiar spacious sound design and metallic IDM percussion is refined by an intertidal palette and restrained songwriting parameters. Given a larger canvas, gi works with increasingly blurred, distorted and feedbacking sounds, enclosed by asynchronous rhythms, bent and then snapped back into grid; the album reveals its musicality in moments of overlap, where everything happens at once.

Across eight tracks, listeners find electronic music that is less concerned with narrative so much as with landscape. gi habitually uses a set of recurring samples, melodies and drums to create the murky atmosphere that permeates the record. Instances of repetition, like a re-used drum break across 'laces', 'coil' & 'rapture' reveal a practice that is constantly rearranging itself via generative drum programming and resampled modulation. This impulse for repetition snowballs into a prominent exploration into feedback on this release. From the warping harmonies on 'feedback'; screeching textures on 'rapture'; and the metronomic jolts of frequency on 'morning' and 'knots', we hear gi’s fascination with “failed” methods of capture, nodding to her history with DIY, punk and hardcore scenes in so-called Australia. Exploring “blown out” re-recorded musical qualities for the first time under the gi alias, we find overtures of amplified noise bleed into otherwise crisp arrangements.

Allowing discreet reference-points to blur, new tonal profiles and distorted intensities arise for gi. 'Thought Makes Music' draws connections with the world around it, following rolling moments of feeling. gi presents her debut confidently, but the sound remains curious, playful & protective of itself; it answers no questions.

Written by Gigi De Lacy
on Wangal and Gadigal land

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Artwork by Clara Joyce
Inner Artwork by Mackenzie Benato
Layout by J Amelie Cantrell

Thank you to Kavil, Marcus Whale, Kenzie, and to everyone who the music comes from.

05. Morning

available on 12" on Kimochi Sound

@vertical-cat

Fustian

Juno

Vertical Cat - The Gecko Pt. 1

Ｂａｄ Ｔｉｐｓ🔸https://linktr.ee/badtips
𝕽𝖊𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖘 👉🏾 badtipsaudio@gmail.com


⏬𝐁𝐔𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐒 & 𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐒⏬



Dylan Cote - Antrela
Syrinx Music, 2024
𝓑𝓾𝔂 👉🏾 https://syrinxmusicfr.bandcamp.com/album/dylan-cote-antrela

🔴 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝔸𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕤𝕥
https://soundcloud.com/dylancote
https://www.instagram.com/dylan__cote/

🔵 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝕃𝕒𝕓𝕖𝕝
https://www.instagram.com/syrinx_music/
https://syrinxmusicfr.bandcamp.com/

𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖗𝖊#271 📢 Dylan Cote - Iron & Flesh [Syrinx Music]

䷄ Hsu (Patience, nourished While Waiting)

"Time is perfectly spaced to hear the echo of your sincerity."

Sun Genam - Not For Your Ears [OB005]

I turned the page and will never forget what I then saw.

The fountain pen scratched against the paper, whistling like fur on an abandoned tire in the middle of the night at the centre of the universe in the core of whatever it is I’m trying to believe. I am a patient human and I live and breathe. I know this for sure.

I read about a whispering stillness of the Stadsnacht as my blood levels gradually even out again. Beneath the ink, the words take shape. This is a secret correspondence with the Book of Change – a dialogue not meant for eyes or ears, but for the soul. Are you still with me?

The Snake/rope tightens, its Coils Dive into the deep well of patience, where waiting is an art, a dance with the unseen. The Scientists Say we should measure, predict, contain—but here, in the shadow of the deepest of nights, the only truth is the Celebration of Ignorance. Love is the force that binds as it untangles the invisible thread that refuses to sever. The next page quotes the mystical figure Daim: "Never Dissever Us."

There, in the dawning light, the Dageraad reveals the Icequeen in her frigid throne, the Topiary Man standing guard in his sculpted silence. In this quiet landscape, I wait. I continue to wait, for I have good fortune on my very hands.


If You Won’t, I Will.


Can we exhibit the power to possess conformity? Can we redeem the benefits of crossing the water? Yes. The choice, the act of breaking through the barrier of convenience, is both a burden and a liberation.The words swirl, abstract and concrete, like action and inaction. The Book of Change is a paradox to puzzle over.

The evening cool rests its shoulders on my fluffy neck. I inhale as my pen lifts itself from the paper once more, shedding ink as though it were tears of joy. I know that I have touched the edge of something vast, something that moves beyond the grasp of reason into the heart of the I Ching, the ever-turning wheel of change. This is the correct orientation. This is the vivid imagery of clouds falling from the heavens and into our laps. This was never meant for your ears. This was meant for you to feast on as the seasons bestow upon us. 
credits
released November 11, 2024

All tracks produced and mixed by Sun Genam
All tracks mastered by Scape Mastering
Words by Christiaan van Lennep
Artwork by Sun Genam

Stadsnacht

Fury

mix series and label by @deep_creep

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label ~ https://pi-pi-pi.bandcamp.com

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