Rising Dutch producer + DJ Upsammy brings her ear for crystalline melody and intricate rhythm to the NTS airwaves for adventurous and narrative mixes once a month.

https://www.nts.live/shows/upsammy/episodes/upsammy-20th-april-2023

Pacing The Platform w/ upsammy 200423

upsammy - Germs in a Population of Buildings
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 132
Release Date: 05 May 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/GerminaPopulationofBuildings

On her sophomore album "Germ in a Population of Buildings”, upsammy moves through her surroundings with the curiosity of a place-bending landscape architect. The album is rooted in her interest for ambiguous environments in constant shift, and the feeling of discovering strange patterns in different ecosystems. Often, the Amsterdam-based artist finds herself zooming in and out beyond a place's most recognizable surface features to inhabit the microscopic and gigantic. Gathering field recordings and evocative environmental sounds, she shapes this source material into vibrating electro-acoustic rhythms and unstable, psychedelic textures.

upsammy's debut album, 2020's critically-acclaimed "Zoom", was praised for its careful reimagining of IDM, evolving vignettes that nodded towards the dancefloor without being shackled to its rigid set of rules. On "Germ in a Population of Buildings" her process has evolved considerably; the skeletal trace of IDM is still present but it's been trapped in amber, allowing her unique sonic landscape to develop organically. 'Being is a Stone' is a proof of concept in many ways, layering upsammy's contorted voice in rickety patterns beneath a lattice of fragile rhythms and faintly melancholy synths. It's never immediately obvious where the sounds are coming from - a hiccuping beat might be glass cracking underfoot, and larger pulses could be wet concrete, rusted iron or bent plastic. As the sounds develop they morph into each other, demolishing what came before and building on top of the ornamental wreckage.

On the dynamic 'Constructing', upsammy's sound design fluxes through hyperactive bass music structures, abstracting expectations at every turn. Often her sounds are whisper quiet, rattling and vibrating until heavier masonry drops and disrupts the structure. And when discernible rhythms subside into the background, like on the album's eerie title track, they become almost illusory, morphing between the real world and the electronic. upsammy's processed voice works like a bridge between these realms, snaking between stark, whimsical melodies on 'Patterning', arching from AutoTuned detachment into cooing, dreamy intimacy. By considering the harmonies between each location she's visited, upsammy has been able to build a unique topology that's an uncanny digital amalgam of her lived experience. It's a thoughtful alternative in an era more concerned with flatting the landscape than crumpling it and examining its peaks and troughs.

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Mixed by James Ginzburg
Artwork by Jonathan Castro Alejos and Tharim Cornelisse

Germ in a Population of Buildings

upsammy - Being is a Stone (PAN 132)

From album LOUFR - "FEARS"
Preorder 27.01.2024 / Premiere 03.02.2024
Listen & buy > https://pointless-geometry.bandcamp.com
Limited edition of 60 copies / C-35 cassette
POINTLESS GEOMETRY 2024 / POINT#55

Music and mix by LOUFR (Piotr Bednarczyk) / @loufr
Mastered by Fausto Mercier / @fausto_mercier
Artwork by Aleksandra Ołdak / https://www.instagram.com/aleksandra_ou

LOUFR is a solo project by the Polish composer Piotr Bednarczyk. His work focuses on intermedial chamber and electronic music. In his sonic endeavors, he explores the spaces of sound design, seeking sounds and structures characterized by a subjective, strong physical, and emotional impact. The non-musical content woven into his compositions revolves around global changes inevitably leading to the collapse of the world.


FEARS is the third album by Piotr Bednarczyk under the pseudonym LOUFR. The compositions of the Polish artist have resonated in numerous concert halls across Europe, and this time his work finds its home in Pointless Geometry, a label showcasing the most intriguing domestic electronic music.

LOUFR occupies an exceptionally stable position between contemporary music, hyperpop, and deconstructed club sounds. FEARS is a melancholic album, distinctly human despite the high degree of vocal processing and electronic instrumentation. This contrast is palpable from the very beginning, as emotional vocals collide with an almost trap-like beat. The album is not devoid of moments of true beauty, as evident in "269," a track built around a catchy, sung phrase. The title of this composition serves as a kind of manifesto, referencing the number of a calf rescued from a dairy farm by activists.

FEARS explores the extremes of sonic spectrums, juxtaposing delicate piano strikes with industrial noise and string instruments with a creaking synthesizer. Whether shrouded in electronics or warmed by organic instrumentation, all layers resonate with each other in an incredible, engaging harmony.

FEARS is a unique auditory experience—sharp, unconventional, and avant-garde in some places, while warm, inviting, and familiar in others. Bednarczyk's voice carries this paradox, emotional yet bathed in mechanical processing. The music of the Polish artist resonates with the disintegration of the world but does not relinquish hope. If it is to assist us in anything, it is in navigating through difficult emotions. And FEARS accomplishes this with finesse.

FEARS

LOUFR - 269  / POINT#55

https://secd.bandcamp.com/album/se-cd03-match-fixer-done

Match Fixer - My Lot

Flying in autopilot. 
Sharing the spaceship with moss.

autopilot

alfacenttauri - 08/03/2024

https://soundcloud.com/teristavi recorded at Lost In Transition showcase at Left Bank, Tbilisi 16/02/24.

Lost In Transition in Left Bank w/ Ethimraz (09/03/24)

Schema

Great Age

“Cartel Dreams – Dark Reggaeton & Trap Lust” is the sound of forbidden nights, where danger and desire collide. Mixing reggaeton beats, Latin trap rhythms, and dark cinematic atmospheres, this album embodies the erotic power of luxury and vice. Each track feels like a party in a cartel mansion — fast cars, champagne showers, whispered deals, and bodies moving to hypnotic rhythms. Designed for nightlife, it’s a soundtrack for lust, rebellion, and sensual excess.

Apart

Invisible Church & Marie Davidson - Collage
Tzusing - Shame
Tommy Four Seven - The Trace
JK Flesh - Fear of Fear
Suuns - Minor Work (Clouds remix)
Ganado 1 (Resident Evil 4 OST)
Perth Drug Legend - B
Isabella - I'm High
Pinch - Water Bomb
Insiden - Le Puits et le Pendule
Boddika, Joy Orbison & Pearson Sound - Faint
OAKE - Abul
Thomas P. Heckmann - Himmel & Hoelle
The Haxan Cloak - Burning Torches of Despair
Vex'd - Bombardment of Saturn
IC3PEAK - Quartz
Black Merlin - Tanksport
foozool - AZAT Ազատ
Rune Bagge - Coup d'État
Vatican Shadow - Enter Paradise
Oscar Mulero - Form (Kangding Ray remix)
Beneath - Cack
Lemna - Metamorphosis
Belief Defect - Disembarking Horizons
DJ Shadow - The Number Song (Lee Bannon remix)
C.R.K. - 60 rue mes Couilles
Lord of the Isles - Tocpe 28
Antigone - Lonely Places

Muy Mental

Aeon Shaker - Bougnader

UNDERCOVER just released a 12inch “The Droogs” by MARS89 at selected UNDERCOVER stores in Japan. It features the songs that MARS89 created for the UNDERCOVER 19-20AW Runway-show and re-edited for this release, as well as Remixes by Thom Yorke, Zomby and myself.

Happy to share with you my contribution to it :)
http://undercoverism.com

The Droogs

Buy at Boomkat

MARS89 - Strack (Low Jack Remix)

https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/unlimited-editions-pointless-geometry

https://www.dwutygodnik.com/artykul/11779-rozszczelnianie-kultury.html

LOUFR - 269 / POINT#55

Pointless Geometry

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