From the compilation "Palace Of Memory Where Nostalgia Is Fear" released by Public System Recordings.

Released by:
Public System Recordings
Release date:
28 February 2022

20 Cans of Gasoline

↪︎ @themoderninstitute

With this release they aim to return to the city in the wake of the blackout to explore the aftermath in the underground in what some describe as ‘psychogeography’, travelling back to scenes of their previous works and experiencing the city in a different light.

1926 / Live in Tallinn / Antifa / Mered-Pot / Inframundo / Interplanetary Dialogue – Prólogo y Rondo / KLAM – Iučatva / Torpedo Son / Diego Tiscali – Riposo / Lojban / Digital Fritz Klamer / Lojban / Zuar / Pauce / Asnat and Arte / The v.s. The Edge / Inframundo /

“This work highlights the diversity and creativity of modern artists, and is designed to attract and energise these artists. It is a powerful display from POONEX GLOBO’s collection, with images that we can share with our friends and families, who are interested in having the music available to play at their home and business venues for the first time.”

Released on @cafeoto label TAKUROKO in 2021

TOMORROW FORGOT TO PLAN FOR YOU

THE MODERN INSTITUTE - 'CONTINUITY' (from PG003 'TOMORROW FORGOT TO PLAN FOR YOU')

Cassette/digital release available from https://soundcloud.com/mappaeditions
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/chim-ras

Named after the mythological hybrid of the chimaera, Forces’ first collection for mappa was put together in a similar fashion. The sounds all stem from a fruitful residency at Stockholm’s EMS Elektronmusikstudion in May & June 2022, leading to a bounty of source material with which to build. The sounds and concept are equally chimeric, stringing together disparate and unintuitive jams, the music mimicking the multi-limbed, sewn together beasts of both creative open source coding and destructive multinational concerns who hide their cores amid endless appendages. Like Doctor Moreau, Forces - aka Finnish artist Joonas Siren - weaves wildly varying attributes into something new, from short-circuiting 8-bit dream ambience to fractured digital groans, drones, and noisy freakouts.

Though EMS is best known for its Buchla and Serge modular systems, Forces went ‘digital’ and largely navigated a lesser-known synth rack one can wheel between studios, affectionately known as the ‘90s Wagon’. “It housed different digital rack synth modules,” explains Siren, “ like the super unknown EVS-1 by Evolution Synthesis, a UK company who only produced this one rack synth only and then vanished.” Some truly alien sounds emerge from Forces’ creative misuse of forgotten 90s boxes and sampled modular jams. The result is an erratic trip through mismatched circuitry and digital codes, slipping between emotional artifice and harshly logical music.

The track titles stem from both famous mythological chimaeras and multinational arms dealing conglomerates. “Different quite sinister firms can operate in broad daylight, easily hiding their true nature. Many of these mega-corporations have different branches (like chimeric limbs) that are producing quite normal mundane every-day items, as well as mass-producing weapons.” A dedicated SuperCollider user too however, Siren states how open source coding snippets are also ‘chimeric beings’. “You end up always using some part of some old code and then building completely new work on some old idea,” Siren explains. Despite its misuses, there’s also something hopeful in the malleability of ideas, and the ability to creatively collage the world as it is into something wholly new, even better.

Complete gear list:
SuperCollider
Evolution Synthesis EVS-1
Yamaha TX81Z
Nord G2 Modular
Nord Wave
GRM Plugins
OddVoices website
Omnisphere VST
Vital VST
Diva VST
Waldorf Microwave XT
Serge Modular
Buchla 200 System
Buchla 100 clone 

credits
released August 10, 2023

Recorded, coded, composed, performed & mixed by Forces (Joonas Siren)
joonassiren.fi
www.instagram.com/fffforces/

Recorded at EMS Stockholm, June 2022, with the digital synths of the "90's wagon" synth rack, and the SuperCollider programming language

Artwork by Marutonkun
www.marutonkun.com
www.instagram.com/marutonkun/

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
abdonoval.com

Words by Tristan Bath
Photography by Zoltan Czakó

Released by mappa as MAP039 in 2023

Chim​æ​ras

Forces - Rheinmetall (from Chim​æ​ras, MAP039)

Bank NYC is very excited to present the definitive statement of Collector, "No Prospects". Collector is the solo guise of Jason Campbell, resident of Newcastle, Australia. Since 2014, Campbell has been channelling the industrial malaise of his hometown through his unique take on heavy electronics. After a series of releases on global-spanning labels such Steel City Dance Discs (UK), Nice Music (AUS), Clan Destine (SCO) & Night People (US), the debut long-player for Bank NYC finds Collector embracing true album form for the first time in his discography. Across eight pieces, Collector delivers a bleak sonic narrative via a hardware-only approach to production: Analog drum machine patterns are intricately intertwined with menacing synth lines, and driving bass is met with the unrelenting clatter of tightly-sequenced field recordings taken straight from the heart of local industry.

Thematically, "No Prospects" navigates the downfall of Newcastle's BHP Steelworks at the end of the 20th century. Acknowledged widely as the largest de-industrialisation event in Australian history, the closure of the Steelworks in 1999 marked a dramatic cultural shift where blue-collar vocations were vanquished due to an economic slump, and were consumed by the trending cosmopolitanism seen in adjacent cities. "No Prospects" draws on Campbell's family lineage in the Newcastle's steelworks, providing a rich, personal context to an industry that both gives and takes away. The sharp intensity of the album is sustained by dramatic shifts in pace: the devestating slow burners of 'Two From Five' and 'Ricochet' are instinctually offset by the frenetic 'CFT' and 'Workers Club Collapse', which showcase Campbell's no-nonsense approach to shaping an almost club-ready breed of modern industrial techno. Although diverse across both sides, cohesion is found in Campbell's toolkit of samples that are unmistakably Collector. The album's eponymous track, 'No Prospects', serves as an introspective centrepoint - a largely arrhythmic excursion shrouded in familiar brooding, textural drones, and underpinned by the chug of machinery on the brink of collapse.

Although forever indebted to the spirit of local electronic outcasts, Bloody Fist Records, Collector's "No Prospects" is a remarkably distinct statement straight from the heart of Australia's Steel City. The complexity of arrangements speak to Campbell's long association in experimental music communities, whilst the persistent feeling of dread conveys a uniquely regional story of decay and futility. Pure Novocastrian industrial electronics.

No Prospects

Collector - Gauze (BNK-040)

STRUMA+IODINE PREMIERE 
THESOSUNG - "Residues of the past" 

To support the artist, buy it here
https://paulebhart.bandcamp.com/album/thesosung-ii

Artist: THESOSUNG
Title: THESOSUNG II
Label: THESOSUNG 
Catalogue: THE02
Format: CD
Release date: January 18th, 2024

Recorded, Processed and Mixed by Paul Ebhart between 2021 - 2023 at Joanelligasse, Petraschgasse & during a residency at  Westbahnstudios          

Mastered by - Wouter Brandenburg 

Sophia Stemshorn (Violin) - 1
Christopher Schulz (Git.) - 6
Luis Hackbeil Krüger (Git.) - 5
Hans Nikolaus Schmidt (G.Piano & Trumpet) - 4
Chiara Bartl Salvi (Vox) - 4

Artist Links:
https://soundcloud.com/ebhardy
https://www.instagram.com/ebhardy/

S+I PREMIERE: THESOSUNG - "Residues of The Past" [THE02]

Opéra Mort - Le Présent  (GRVTS022) / Vinyle & Digital 

OUT : February 1

Tracklist :
A1 - Le Monde
A2 - Secrets 
A3 - L'humanité entière 
B1 - Oeufs
B2 - La nouvelle fin du monde 
B3 - Damien Shultz 

Crédits :
. illustration & design : Piá-Mélissa Laroche
. Macarons : David Coquelin
. Mastering : Alstadt Frederic
. Distribution : Boomkat

Le Présent

Opéra Mort "Damien Schultz"

Nouvelle édition d’Emprise avec Aho Ssan continuant d’explorer les répertoires électroniques contemporains! On pourra y retrouver des artistes comme Vanessa Bedoret, Teresa Winter, Niecy Blues ou Honour.


Emprise w/ Aho Ssan (16/01/24)

More @marwabelhajyoussef: http://www.movement.radio/podcasts/marwa-belhaj-youssef

Qow w/ Marwa Belhaj Youssef (04.01.2024)

ZULI, experimental club producer and VENT co-founder hailing from Cairo hits the NTS airwaves to showcase his club wares: aggressively left-field.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/ZULI/episodes/zuli-22nd-april-2024

ZULI w/ Mo Ayoub 220424

ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ

Aho Ssan is the artist name of Paris based Niamké Désiré. After studying graphic design and cinema, he began to com-pose electronic music and create his own digital instruments. Shortly thereafter he went on to win the Foundation France television prize for his soundtrack to the film of Ingha Mago in 2015 and has worked on several projects related to IRCAM/GRM in France. His debut LP «Simulacrum» was released on the 7th of February 2020 via Subtext Recordings.Based on the concept of Jean Baudrillard, it navigates through society’s presentation of inclusivity and equality against my own experience of growing up black in France.

https://soundcloud.com/ahossan
https://ahossan.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.instagram.com/aho_ssan/

🌿 ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ꜱᴏɴɪᴄ ᴀɢᴇɴᴄʏ

Spurred on by the acuteness of current global events, we are raising our voices in solidarity with the oppressed, the tortured, the silenced, and the unheard. While humanity is at stake, and our values are on trial, in moments of despair, rage and endless grief, acts of solidarity are needed more than ever. The events that shake Palestine and Israel are resulting in an ever-tighter spiral of violence and desperation. They are a horrific wake-up call that brutally brings the precarious situation on our planet to the fore. The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, and Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians are intolerable. On top of that, the military actions threaten the lives of the remaining hostages in the Gaza-Strip, and even more innocent people in Gaza.

…being together, in community

Read the full curatorial statement here
strumandiodine.com/article/sonic-agency/

SONIC AGENCY - AHO SSAN - "EBi (Patch Improvisation)"

(tape version) .. I Feel Like A Strawberry

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THE MODERN INSTITUTE - 'CONTINUITY' (from PG003 'TOMORROW FORGOT TO PLAN FOR YOU')

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