Haha oh my god, I wanted to make something with this sample so bad and couldn't do it....You nailed it...THE NEEEEECK

Roo Honeychild's City Imp returns for the label's second instalment with Dublin stalwart Ozwald's Back Of The Bus EP.

Over three years in the making, Ozwald takes on Jersey Club, Juke and Jungle, reconfiguring them with his maverick style, whilst partnering up the likes of USHMUSH to face some old foes along the way. This is Irish Club Music in peak form, delivered by its most distinguished and BASS addled purveyors

'Aoife's Neck' is a bona fide classic of Dublin's underground. It appeared originally as a Soundcloud edit in 2018 and has circulated through local DJs collections ever since. This floor burner is built around a maniacally chopped sample of Aoife McGregor's famous 'NECK' related Whastapp voice message. City Imp doctrinal history upholds the original Aoife's Neck as ground zero for Dub[lin] Club [Music] as a genre, the earliest fully successful attempt to subsume the aesthetic spirit of Jersey Club to a uniquely Irish memetic idiom. The 2024 update stays faithful to the original while innovating in the realm of percussion. The extra sauce in this department and extension of the 4x4 rhythms delivers a DJ tool that is equal parts sludgey and frenetic, sure to freak out even the most experienced of dancers.

Back of The Bus lands in full on June 25th here: https://cityimprecords.bandcamp.com/album/back-of-the-bus-ep 

With a launch party to boot at Wigwam Dublin on June 28th feat. Ozwald, Ushmush and Roo!

PREMIERE: Ozwald - Aoife's Neck (City Imp Records)

@icfam

The 43rd release of katharsis is the album “Love Language” by the Danish artist icfam. It is evocative like a long makeout session, tongue action specifically. icfam celebrates the long journeys to daydreamy destinations on a record that is romantic and peaceful, yet at times highly energetic.

Through streamlined synthesis and arrangements, icfam produces a composite world of sound that carries a message of love and simplicity. Despite the meticulous care for sound design on this record, the use of intuitive sounds and phrases so simple, sometimes approaches a sort of mindlessness. Building conceptually on sinewaves as the only sound that really exists, the artist develops a nonfragmented illusion through obsession over the harmonic series and melodies within melodies.

Love Language is both reassuring and mystifying, like your favourite lullaby. As well as intoxicatingly painful like exquisite torture. icfam wants to express a special feeling one might get from going to the hospital. A cathartic feeling of being safe and held.

If you’ve fallen from above
You’re walking with your woes
If there’s nowhere to run
The happy hospital

releases August 26, 2024

artwork by Emma Kallan
Mastering by icfam
Mastering of the remix by Søren Oliver Due

icfam - Olive

Introducing Ultra Instinct with their cover of Marcy Playground's "Opium." A collaboration between Steph Kretowicz and Ben Babbitt, the Los Angeles-based duo’s busted tragic loser pop draws on spoken word text, collaged field recordings, and live-mangled CDJ edits of original tracks to explore the time-tested ritual of combining words and song. 

https://ultrainstinct.bandcamp.com/album/opium

After publishing a number of recordings since 2020 including "BSAD (buy shit and die)” via CURL, “Brutal” for Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, and the autofictional radio play, “I hate here ft. felicita” (YLE Radio, Finland). Ultra Instinct is a new live iteration of that collaboration.

Upcoming European dates include:

Aug 29- Ultra Instinct at @Meakusma Festival, Eupen https://www.studioneau.be/emissions/meakusma-festival-2024/steph-kretowicz-ben-babbitt/
Sept 5- Ultra Instinct w/ @enhancementtt + @cccconrad at Forma HQ, London
https://forma.org.uk/projects/ultra-instinct/

Ultra Instinct, "Opium" (2024). Courtesy AQNB, Los Angeles.

✦ SWINE PREMIERE ✦ @entranas ft. @ene_ese via @infinite-machine

Check out our interview ♬ https://swinedaily.com/entranas-caverna-interview/

In this record, Entrañas searches for a sound that conveys both the infrastructural chaos he experiences currently in his home city, while also reflecting the hauntingly beautiful and seemingly perpetual terrain just outside of Quito. Not far from the frequent and unpredictable power outages and city-wide lockdowns which are now commonplace due to the ongoing narco wars, there is an Andean stratovolcano visible from many parts of Quito, including Entrañas own bedroom window.

Bandcamp

[Swine Premiere] Entrañas Ft. Ene Ese - Toque De Queda (Infinite Machine)

Hollowland - 'And Now You Stand Before The Sun'

"You ascend the walls you made, oh time it takes to make amends."

‘And Now You Stand Before The Sun’ is a culmination, a closing chapter of the journey that began with 2022’s ‘Like The Reformed’ and succeeded by last year’s ‘Oath (Soon The Storm Will Pass, And We Will Fly Again)’. The record sees Paavo Piekkari and Jonathan Engeldahl fleshing out the microcosm they call Hollowland, resulting in their most mature and fully realised work to date. Beyond the rapturous sonics, there is a deep melancholy woven into the very essence of Hollowland that is present through it all.

At its core the record is about the hope that anguish and sorrow will lead to something beautiful and pure, persistance shed of the often glorified scaly skin of martyrdom. Notions of departing from oneself, to be reborn and catch a glimpse of the coveted silver lining, are explored on tracks such as ‘Nothing Remains Ov Your Own Image’, ‘Falls’ and ‘As You Stand Beneath It, The Light Burns Brighter Than Before’. On ‘In Open Arms’ and Purest Form’ the endless cycle reaches its inevitable conclusion of incarnation, chronicling the very moments of becoming. Consider it a sign of stillness, at least for now.

The passing storm won’t be the last, yet we embrace the fleeting moment of light beyond the clouds, using it to release all within.

@hollowland-music

And Now You Stand Before The Sun

Hollowland - Purest Form

Museifu Dystopia w/ Oélia - 27/08/2024

Microhm presents "Entrelazada," a five-track EP that delves deep into contemporary sound design. In this project, the Mexican artist deconstructs and rebuilds rhythms of the Latin diaspora, pushing genres like dembow, reggaeton, dancehall, and cumbia into uncharted territories. With a minimalist and futuristic approach, each track immerses the listener in meticulously synthesized soundscapes, where electronic textures and latent pulses blend to create an auditory experience that challenges club conventions, straddling the line between the classic and the avant-garde.

This EP also features 6 stunning remixes by Zutzut, Imaabs, Lyo XS, Ruiseñor, Entrañas, and Benfika + Pegaso. Every track has been carefully mastered by Imaabs, with cover art by Sofia Papadopoulos.

Microhm - El Contacto (Imaabs Remix)

All proceeds raised from the sales of the compilation will be donated to funding Palestinian e-SIMs via gazaesims.com (@connectinghumanity_).

Connecting Humanity is an organisation that provides eSIMs to connect people in Gaza to the internet, giving a voice to journalists, medical professionals, aid workers, families and people documenting the genocide, allowing people in Gaza to stay connected to the world.

Contributing artists: Ship Sket, Crimson Chaos, Apu Nanu, exmantera, aDeAD, xeccute, novasdemise, Golce, h4S, Preost, Capiuz, Misha Faulty, EvaneH, Tommy Ryoma, optionlist, bod [包家巷], Bianca Scout, vorem ipsum, Shast, Silv-o, Tailtiu, Mongleaux, TCV, incel-x, Hellsing, Azrel and Charlie Osborne.

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aDeAD - Machine Ferocity

TCV - CUT

++ PRESENTATION ++

Scores +°-  glyphs to sounds !

+°°+--+
Scores is a compilation exploring musical notations and how they can be interpreted as sounds. People have always tried to translate sonic expressions into visual cues that could be archived, passed down, and transformed back into music. 

From symbols to numbers, grids, staffs, figures or abstract shapes, several languages have been developed and continuously questioned to improve the ability to retain the emotion and meaning sounds can convey - what lies behind the veil.
 
What if this time, the notation would come beforehand?

+°°+--+
The project unfolded in two phases. In the first one, visual artists from the Global URL Nation could propose one sheet of music score, free of interpretation. They were invited to play with musical notations and explore what it would even mean.
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It welcomed chaggrin, Eurrope, M4X1US, MYEN, s1m0nc3ll0 & Ziyiz for 6 sheets


+°°+--+
In the second phase, artists from GUN could pick one sheet and create a track trying to follow it as much as possible. It invited them to question music as a physical object, with its shapes, colors, textures and layers with the following :

__How is the overall composition? Are there any axis or lines that could be interpreted as a timeline or a melodic scale?
__How many discrete elements are in the image? How are they laid out?
__What are the shapes involved?  What is their scale? Do they have sharp or blurry outlines?
__What are the colors/textures used? How do they relate with each other in terms of tones, contrasts…?
__How are the different elements layered on top of each other? Are they superimposed or do they merge in some way?
__How would they translate them in musical terms, such as textures, notes, structures, timbres, rhythms, dynamics? 

It welcomed Bademjan, Baje Nunca, C+Vis, Capiuz, Clair X, C.T.A.A.M.  Ecovoron, Epiphagi, HeedLess, Mambo Kahn, migu, POL100, Yau Hei ASJ & Ziyiz for 14 tracks ranging from ethereal scorescapes to hyperstimulating scratches. Sounds and shapes weave together, blurring the boundaries between the two media to create one whole entity

+°°+--+
With Scores, we invite you to seek the music that can be hidden in our surroundings, to decrypt and hear the phantom scores one can find in every shape, every color and every little visual detail __ open your ears and see the sounds, sometimes music lies in a simple fold of clothing


++ TRACKLIST ++

__((Sheet A by chaggrin))
A1. Clair X - Unravel
A2. migu - Red for Funeral
A3. Epiphagi - Everything We've Come To Be

__((Sheet B by Eurrope))
B1. Bademjan - Wrinklenest
B2. Yau Hei ASJ - Jigsaw Puzzle

__((Sheet C by s1m0nc3ll0))
C1. Ecovoron - Burning Shide
C2. C.T.A.A.M. - A-L

__((Sheet D by MYEN))
D1. Capiuz - Dreamer of Nightmares
D2. POL100 - Butterfly Wall

__((Sheet E by Ziyiz))
E1. Baje Nunca - En Blue Gray et DVD
E2. HeedLess - Incomprensibile

__((Sheet F by M4X1US))
F1. Mambo Kahn - Celestial Arson
F2. C+Vis - Untitled
F3. Ziyiz - Skies Inside (Ring The Bell)


++ CREDITS ++ 

Music sheets created by chaggrin, Eurrope, M4X1US, MYEN, s1m0nc3ll0 & Ziyiz. 

Tracks produced by Bademjan, Baje Nunca, C+Vis, Capiuz, Clair X, C.T.A.A.M.  Ecovoron, Epiphagi, HeedLess, Mambo Kahn, migu, POL100, Yau Hei ASJ & Ziyiz. 

Common cover by Griigg
https://www.instagram.com/griigg

Mastering by Ioannis Nafpliotis
https://www.instagram.com/iamxato/

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F3. Ziyiz - Skies Inside (Ring The Bell)

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Hello everyone,

I know it's been a while since I have released a track but I wanted to give this one 4 free for those who have supported me thus far! Hope you enjoy and sending you loads of orbits of love

Single - Isabel

Isabel

CITYTRONIX 'Isabel' [FREE DL]

Profiling the experimental dance music world and throwing parties in between.

~~~ Edinburgh / Glasgow / Galway ~~~

PREMIERE: Ozwald - Aoife's Neck (City Imp Records)

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