Pre-order : https://ar-fm.bandcamp.com/album/stakhanov
Release date: June 2, 2021

One year and a half after Jaroska’s ’Red Room Offering’ release, Lyon-based AR/FM label is back with the fourth imprint of its catalog, due for June 2021.
Following the label’s aim of exploring a widened techno spectrum while working with and promoting unsung talented friends, AR/FM is about to provide another beautiful piece of music, this time from ephemeral trio Stakhanov.

This eponymous LP offers 55 minutes of dense, fluctuant electronic experimentations, taking inspirations in the relentless Soviet worker myth. Its frantic and industrial overall atmosphere, set by sharp yet harsh paces, is eventually pulled to pieces by murky and hallucinated ambient acts, depicting a way darker story than the one told by the USSR propaganda.  
Thus, one rhetorical question remains: Could this unhealthy man-a-machine glorification come to any different end than madness?

Based upon Hugo Charpentier’s drawings, that can be found both on inner and outer sleeves, the 7-track album definitely takes advantage of its visual dimension, resulting in an elegant double-12” black-&-white gatefold layout. 

Releasing Stakhanov was also for AR/FM a way to pay tribute to the golden era of Lyon alternative electronic scene around 2013-2016, of which the project-members were three of the many faces. 
Through their different collectives and labels (CLFT Militia, SILO, Palma…) amongst others, all the instigators of this creative craze considerably contributed to the constitution of a new generation of Lyon-scene protagonists, AR/FM being one of them.

Release Infos:
Date of announcement: Monday, May 17, 2021 
Date of release: Wednesday, June 2, 2021.
Styles: Deep Techno, Dub Techno, Ambient, Industrial, Acid, Downtempo, Drone
Limited-edition of 150 double-12” Gatefold vinyls, including download code and 30*30cm insert by Hugo Charpentier.
Public price: 26 € + shipping.

Credits:
Music: Mathieu Reynaud, Léo Paillard & Fabien Ainardi 
Mastering: Lorenzo Targhetta
Artworks & Design: Hugo Charpentier 

AR/FM Links:
Bandcamp: https://ar-fm.bandcamp.com
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/aroomfmuzik 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ARoomFMuzik
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/fr/label/1457939-ARFM 
Contact: contact.arfm@gmail.com

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Reaching number 70 in our Inchmix series we are treated to a mix that encompasses why we began this project some 8 years ago. Toulouse-based, Tunisian artist @deenaabdelwahed has meticulously curated a vibrant musical map of Levantine & Arabic music. Melting traditional with contemporary, classical with experimental, Abdelwahed sews the songs together from the perspective of where she draws inspiration for her own genre-bending productions. 
It does not serve much purpose for us to constrain these songs through categorisation and labels, however a Foreward from Abdelwahed herself can best contextualize this hour long immersion. Enjoy.  

“I had several goosebumps while recording this actually. 
I started with Islamic trance chants from Egypt and Tunisia, since it’s Ramadan here, it reminded me of its beauty - even if I relate it to some oppressive and hard times… 

From there i’ve highlighted some experimental modern Middle eastern artists that have influenced me before switching to Arab Andalus music from Tunis called Ma'luf - Ma’luf is still considered as the main ‘classy’ music of Maghreb. Then I included my song “Insaniyti” to demonstrate the influence of that music on my track. 
The final tracks of the mix are a mixture of folklore music from Qatar, Bahrain, South of Iran called Fjiri and modern pop from Saudi Arabia. And I finish with US based Saint Abdullah who uses a cassette technique in abstracting Shiaa chants of Iran and blend with overloaded distortion.”

Artwork: Clement Chapillon 'Promise me a Land" (2020)
IG: www.instagram.com/clemchap

Links:
SC: @deenaabdelwahed
BC: https://deenabdelwahed.bandcamp.com/
IG: www.instagram.com/deena___abdelwahed

Tracklist:
Track :: Artist :: Country

1. Mawal 1 - 1 موال :: Sheikh Abd-Ennabi Al-Rannan  الشيخ عبد النبى الرنان :: Egypt
2. Hezb Al-Latif 1 - 1 اللطيف حزب :: Sheikh Ahmad Jelmam احمد الشيخ جلمام :: Tunisia
3. Hezb Al-Latif 2 - 2 اللطيف حزب :: Sheikh Ahmad Jelmam احمد الشيخ جلمام :: Tunisia
4. Pseudo Scholastic :: Sote :: Iran
5. Li-Kul-i_Murad-in_Hijaa :: MSYLMA :: Saudi Arabia
6. Prelude for the Triumphant Man  (Part II) :: Two or The Dragon :: Lebanon
7. Al Shaatte Al Akhar :: Kamilya Jubran & Werner Hasler :: Palestine & Switzerland
8. Bahdha Hbibti - حبيبتي بحذى :: Amina Srarfi & El Azifet أمينة صرارفي و العازفات :: Tunisia
9. Insaniyti :: Deena Abdelwahed :: Tunisia
10. Fjiri :: Music of the Pearl Divers :: Bahrain
11. Emsek El-Saf w Al’ab Ya La’oub -  شيلة امسك الصف والعب يالعوب :: 12. Abdullah Al-Dousari الدوسري عبدال :: Saudi Arabia
13. Let's mourn together :: Saint Abdullah :: Iran

INCHMIX070: Deena Abdelwahed

Real relaxed show today as Shawn and Chris begin to shoot the shit about Basic Channel's "Dytiq" and Kid Creole & The Coconuts "Don't Take My Coconuts" but quickly get derailed towards topics from sourdough to NFTs.

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On ‘Losing Track’ EP, Shanghai resident @laughingears demonstrates clear reverence for the loosely defined UK bass music that emerged following the formative years of dubstep. However, this is not to say that the track is formulaic. ‘Breakaway’ is certainly going to keep both dancers and DJs guessing.

Losing Track EP

Laughing Ears - Breakaway [Hemlock Recordings]

QuixSmell - Rythm

Gallowdance - Nakeshe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsvYEecnMwY
https://slashretta.bandcamp.com/track/decay-ngg

they like "yuyu what you on, how you get like that"
i only do it cause i ain't feelin this vessel i got
they like "yuyu what you on, all that fckn swagg"
i'm out decay!ngg bitch i promise this ain't what you want
he like "yuyu what you want, walkin up like that"
tryna flip yo soul like you candice hooper
"okay yuyu what you on, all that fckn swagg"
got a crag top, jeans dirtied up

send a curse one way then put a prayer behind me
white crystals shine*shine i rock ketamine
rave girl, she want me like ecstasy
push back, i know you not what i need
coolin w my dead sisters, neva even known them
they gon stand beside me, if i need you broken
they gon hit again, they some revenants
bitch you might get split nigga like you morrigan

bite slowly, girl it ain't no rush
wnna see some lust flow, wnna shake you up
i got these scissors round my neck to get you cut
ik what you like kuchisake what you want
diamonds dancin crawlin on me like some centipedes
same ones in my organs wna vomitt now it's all on me
gross grll biohazard like i'm eveline
i can't be clean, how you still want me ?

//decay!ngg',, (prod me)

Mixed by Basic House {@opal-tapes} - UK
Artwork by Steve Johnson / IG: artbystevej

Artist links:
Basic House: goo.gl/qC1X2e
Opal Tapes: goo.gl/JhvVl0
'I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me' album: goo.gl/7cbyMP

Lyrics of episode:
"Hold fast by the present. Every situation – nay, every moment – is of infinite worth, for it is the representative of a whole eternity." – Goethe

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