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Digital: https://geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-the-capital
Catalog #: GN40
Limited to 300 LPs on clear vinyl
Mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering

'Love is the Capital' the debut LP by Hiro Kone, the recording alias of Nicky Mao. The album is a follow-up to the incredibly well received 'Fallen Angels' cassette, bringing with it some of Mao's most emotionally and politically driven work yet. It is Hiro Kone’s long coming opus, examining a number of all-too-relevant themes: capital, the state, egoism, anxiety, and steadfast optimism. 

The eight songs on 'Love is the Capital' highlight Mao’s austere, politicized techno battling for the greater good. Songs are visceral meditations of rhythm, noise, and melody in the vein of Pan Sonic, Chris & Cosey, Muslimgauze, and Kangding Ray.

The sounds were often recorded in scenes of isolation, whether physically or emotionally. “Infinite Regress” was during a trek with Roxy Farman (Wetware) up to the sleepy, upstate NY town of Palenville. There, frozen in a cabin with the most DIY of recording booths, Mao recorded Roxy’s vocals and what would be the track that would put into motion the entire album.“Less Than Two Seconds” was written in a single afternoon in late December 2015 when it was revealed that the grand jury had declined to indict the police officer who shot to death 12-year old Tamir Rice.

The taut techno, industrial minimalism, and aural upheaval is embedded in tracks “Rukhsana” (featuring Drew McDowall, formerly of Coil & Psychic TV, on modular synthesizer), “The Place Where Spirits Get Eaten,” and “Less Than Two Seconds,” an emotionally wrought blitz of serrated Monomachine tones flanked by timeless recordings of essayist, poet, and social writer James Baldwin. Mao ventures deep into heady, prismatic runs of hypnotic techno, on “Don’t Drink the Water” and “The Declared Enemy.” On opener “Being Earnest” and “Love is the Capital,” foreboding motifs brood their way back into the narrative.

Still, the album maintains a sense transformation, burdened with an alien tension– the awareness of an impending and necessary collapse. And what may come next.

Hiro Kone - Rukhsana (Feat. Drew McDowall)

A conversation between scholar and historian Amy Cimini, Yarn/Wire percussionist and Adjacencies interpreter Russell Greenberg, and Lawrence Kumpf situating Maryanne Amacher’s "Adjacencies" within the lineage of her larger body of work. They discuss the practical challenges surrounding the interpretation and re-staging of the piece 51 years after its last performance and play a variety of pertinent audio, including a rehearsal recording of "Adjacencies"’ original performance by Jan Williams and Edward Burnham, audio research material used as a model for its reinterpretation, and a selection from the later piece "City-Links..: Buffalo" demonstrating Amacher’s practice of recycling audio material from earlier work.

Blank Forms #21: Maryanne Amacher's Adjacencies

Ever since graduating from the Red Bull Music Academy 2014 in Tokyo, Turkish sound artist Ipek Gorgun has been refining her craft consistently. Following her first solo LP, ‘Aphelion’ and her collaborative album with Ceramic TL (Egyptrixx), ‘Perfect Lung,’ ‘Ecce Homo’ marks the next step in her impressive development. The album arrives via Touch, the UK electronic and experimental powerhouse known for releases by Ryoji Ikeda, Biosphere, Phil Niblock and Hildur Guðnadóttir, to name but a few. Currently enrolled in a doctoral program of Sonic Arts in Istanbul, Gorgun and her head-spinning compositions slot right in with the label’s trailblazing talent and “Tserin Dopchut” proves the point: Washes of sound envelop the listener from all angles, conjuring an evocative universe of pleasure and pain.

Ipek Gorgun’s ‘Ecce Homo’ LP is out September 7 via Touch and can be purchased here:
https://touch333.bandcamp.com/album/ecce-homo

@ipekgorgun
http://ipekgorgun.com
http://redbullmusicacademy.com

Ecce Homo

Ipek Gorgun - Tserin Dopchut

Buzzer

LIES-127
Torn Hawk-Time is a Scam
snippets from the upcoming 11 track 2xlp
to be released Dec 1st 2018
www.liesrecords.com

Time is a Scam

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Torn Hawk- "Time is a Scam" lp snippets (LIES-127)

London based sonic researcher @DiversionProgram contributes a rough around the edges hour of global club riddims.

Episode Fifteen - Diversion Program

Available from 27 June 2019 on vinyl & digital formats
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The Jibaro philosophy and way-of-___ing, life from land, music from hand, tension and release, hard work and nothing to show.

"The music is calling the shots to me & I just listen." - John McLaughlin

Music for spiritual rituals: can I reach Pedro Albizu Campos?
Music for the bosque - music made by hand from trash and dust, ground relics and artefacts connect the past present and future.

The Rhythm may not include drums, but it should reference the ocean and the mountains - spoken in storms.

The pile may not add value to its individual layers, but there was never time to second guess this attempt at cobble-and-collage.  No Kopyright Infringement intended under fair use of a mortar and pestle.

Buy the farm and bury yourself in mud.

"Yo, múltiple, como en contradicción" - Julia de Borgos

**RIYL**
Eddie Palmieri, Herbie Hancock, Airto, Terje Rypdal, MF Doom, Bill Laswell, Ray Barretto, Eberhard Weber, RZA, Nana Vasconcelos, Lol Coxhill, Fred Frith, Brian Eno, Mongo Santamaria, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Andreas Vollenweider, Varese, Wendy Carlos, Wally Badarou, Irakere, Sakamoto, Bill Vermette, Jack DeJohnette, & countless more.

Bought The Farm (OUEST095)

Mister Water Wet – Bought The Farm (OUEST095 preview)

Chicago born @Antenes is a Brooklyn based synth obsessive. She builds her own modulars and then sets them to the future to cook up rough edged warehouse tracks that are gritty and bleakly atmospheric, as well as more textured, detailed ambient work. She has done installations at Moogfest as well as playing as far afield as China, Colombia and Japan, and has appeared on LIES, Silent Season, Bunker NY and Mord. She DJs as well as playing live, has roots in goth and industrial as well as noise  from her early years playing guitar, but also has a real love of techno, electro and experimental.

Her darkly absorbing mix for us this week includes tracks from Electric Indigo, Stephanie Merchak, Fjader, Oisel, Rrose, Lonefront, DJ ESP, Erica Mar, Wata Igarashi, Silent Servant, Ewa Justka, Bergsonist and Uun. It reflects her interest in a healthy amount of ominous dance hypnagogia while also drawing from a large pool of influences from the experimental to her roots in the Midwest. “The ESP track in there has some weird filtering and panning with the crunchy drums for example,” she says, “I love hearing how raw it is”.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 259 - Antenes

keep on runnin' (cat power cover)

Protractor - Sonya Gonzales / Anisa Boukhlif

recycled/igital // sounds // art
goldsmiths alumni (sonic arts)
managing director, http://friendlyghost.org/

keep on runnin' (cat power cover)

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