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Label: Posh Isolation

The deeply weird meets lush on a genre-hopping mix from New York-based multidisciplinary artist @jamesk_1.

Read more: ifonlyuk.com/if-only-podcast-96-james-k

If-Only Podcast #96: James K

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Taken from the upcoming LUST FOR YOUTH &amp; CROATIAN AMOR ”SISTER” 7”&#13;
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Two reworked tracks from the <i>Pomegranate</i> collaboration from last year in brand new club versions. Ambivalent synthetic sex music from the masters of romance.&#13;


Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor - "Sister"

Aïsha Devi returns with new album 'Death is Home' on Houndstooth, her first LP since 2018 and her most personal work yet.

Aïsha Devi nurtures an idiosyncratic approach to her music. She describes her sound as Aetherave, and uses bassy-heavy club motifs and intentional aesthetic signifiers to transport listeners to a dizzying, kinetic environment, harnessing timeless frequencies. On each record, Devi has advanced her philosophy and developed her technology; her last album 'DNA Feelings' (2018) was a radical hybrid of ancient mysticism and rebellious pop, and her upcoming LP 'Death is Home' propels listeners towards the extremes, bending fictile beats and cybernetic textures into transformational songs. This eagerly-awaited new album is a liveable, breathable sonic essence that reveals itself alchemically, reorienting anachronistic cultural preconceptions with its contemporary, ornate language and eerie architecture.

'Death is Home' is ultimately a manifesto. It's Devi's most revealing work to date and a direct result of her personal evolution and ongoing quest. Growing up under the shadow of isolation and abuse, she formed her practice as a healing method, using it to neutralize her past and recreate an alternate, more hospitable reality - beyond the human condition. Her feelings were compounded when she tracked down the whereabouts of her father B.K. Gurung, a Nepali drummer whom she never knew. Devi was informed he had died young, but rather than perceive this as a binary, through mourning, she realized that his existence had already offered her a lifeline and a refuge.

Devi's words and productions reach out to a place where weightlessness has the power to dissolve the corporeal world's manufactured terror of death. Without this trepidation, life's boundaries and limitations fall away. "Burn the flesh, a Deva's born," she sings over tense, pneumatic kicks on 'Not Defined by the Visible'. Her voice is contorted by electronic processes, but the meaning is human: to reach the holy, we must shed our skin. The narrative that guides the album unfurls with the plasticity of an open-world videogame, a space where one can unravel the dogma of life vs. death. On 'Lick Your Wounds', Devi reveals her deepest trauma, pacifying it with rousing, ritualistic rhythms and melancholic pads. "Vapors of violence remain in my broken bones, intoxicate my DNA," she invokes. "I'll lick my wounds and heal at night. I'll take over." She extends this invitation to anybody tuned in to her signals, providing lodging for those that crave it. Birth is virtual. Death is home. 
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releases November 10, 2023

Written, composed & produced by Aïsha Devi
Track 4 features Slikback
Mixed by Theo Karon
Artwork by Niels Wehrspann
Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios, London
Manufactured at optimal-media, Germany
Cat. No. HTH172 – All rights reserved
℗ & © Houndstooth 2023

Aïsha Devi - Dimensional Spleen (feat. Slikback)

Marina Herlop shares 'Karada', the second single from the upcoming full-length album 'Nekkuja' out via PAN on October 27th.

Composed, produced and recorded by Marina Herlop
Vocals by Marina Herlop
Mixed and mastered by Joker
Artwork by Mati Klarewin

Marina Herlop - Karada (PAN 141S2)

Kamil Dossar is back with two more singles ‘Third Installment’ and ‘Silk Examples’.

Dossar provides another tightly knit assemblage of close-ups: Sirens intersect through hazy fumes, metal fatigue and amber hermetics.

Alchemical patchwork welding re-membering disjointed phantom limbs A heart’s amnesia- decrystalized! 

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Third Installment / Silk Examples

Kamil Dossar - Silk Examples (feat. CTM)

Quintela

Prologue: Cando a Pena Me Mata, a Alegría Dame Alento

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - Over
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 148S
Release Date: 17 July 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Over

Amnesia Scanner drops a schitzo pop anthem to celebrate the neverending cycle of us being so back – it being so over; boom vs doom; hyperoptimism vs hyperpessimism.

Freeka Tet also interprets, or cancels, Amnesia Scanner’s original on FT Over, where an active noise cancelation script reveals a hidden dimension of lowercase ambient sublime.

Written and produced by Amnesia Scanner
Mixed by Amnesia Scanner
Additional mixing by Enyang Urbiks
Mastered by Enyang Urbiks

Freeka Tet - FT Over (Active noise cancelling script)

Kamixlo - DEATHWORK
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 144
Release Date: 26 July 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/DEATHWORK

A peppery smorgasbord of industrial rhythms, razor-sharp stabs and provocative vocals, 'Deathwork' is Brixton-based Kamixlo's strongest statement yet, sandwiching earworm-laced pop between refried layers of euphoric back-room ambience and visceral hard dance distortion. It's been four years since Kamixlo poured his heart out on his acclaimed debut album 'Cicatriz', and he's been experimenting incessantly since then, figuring out how to integrate bold, memorable hooks into his signature alloy of burnished synths and mangled samples. And if its predecessor represented catharsis after a discomfiting period of loss, 'Deathwork' finds Kamixlo's emotional load lightened, freeing him to survey and tighten his formula by traversing club music's most eccentric, genre-agnostic fringes.

The young DJ and producer cut his teeth in the early 2010s, forming the iconic Bala Club party and label before deploying a series of EPs that accurately captured the era's voracious zeitgeist. Muddling references to nu-metal and emo classics with nervy dembow and bass deconstructions and dissociated SoundCloud rap thuds, Kamixlo characterized a new type of inclusive artist, unprejudiced by preconceptions of the underground or mainstream. 'Deathwork' builds on this legacy and widens his outlook substantially, urging listeners to step towards the dancefloor no matter how they might engage with music. And for the first time, Kamixlo seamlessly amalgamates his delirious bass-heavy atmospheres and kinetic beats with vocals, incorporating compelling performances from reggaetón sensation Isabella Lovestory, avant-pop outsider Puzzle, and Drain Gang's infamous Bladee. There's even an appearance from Berlin's Mechatok, who shows out with a production assist on the album's syrupy closing track 'Insect'.

From the ecstatic opening breaths of 'Ketamine Fields', it's clear that Kamixlo's in a fresh headspace. Weightless angelic voices curve gracefully around overdriven rave-ready bass twangs, while muffled, blown-out drums echo somewhere in the distance. It's the perfect pre-game to an endless, messy night, leaving Isabella Lovestory to lurch towards the mass of sweaty bodies on 'Pitch Black', rhyming sensually over Kamixlo's provocative metallic plucks and slow-motion dembow pulse. And by 'Combe', the peak time energy is palpable, with carnivalesque percussion and eardrum-popping high pitched squeals that grind against the pummeling gabber kicks. Puzzle brings the album back down to earth on 'Chaos', casually free associating and providing a light-hearted counter to the fog of machine crunches and deranged laughter.

On 'One More Night At The Line', Kamixlo carves the house blueprint into a neurotic chatter of helium voices and cocky slams, and when Bladee arrives in a wisp of smoke on 'Death Forever', the noise has calmed a little. Here, Kamixlo flexes his most exploratory muscles, nesting Bladee's grungy voice in an erratic tangle of muted, almost pacifying, black metal screams and nursery rhyme chimes. It's a paradox that perfectly encapsulates the scope of 'Deathwork', an album that continually flips expectations, turning in on itself and questioning its own logic without ever losing its momentum.

Written and produced by Kamixlo
Mixed by Felix Lee
Mastered by Enyang Urbiks
Artwork by Daniel Swan

Deathwork

Kamixlo - EGO FRAGILE / SPIRIT WEAK

Kamixlo - Ketamine Fields

Microhm, the alias of Mexican artist Leslie García, releases "Entre Formas" on Terminal today. This track is part of her upcoming EP "Entrelazada," a five-track project that delves into the rhythms of the Latin diaspora through intense and experimental sound design.

"Entre Formas" is an exercise in genre fusion, maintaining a minimalist and futuristic structure that integrates elements of classic downtempo, dembow, reggaeton, dancehall, and cumbia, all processed and reconstructed. Recognized by Pitchfork as one of the most interesting sound artists of her generation, Leslie García showcases her ability to create immersive emotional states and complex rhythmic journeys.

We are also thrilled to feature a very special remix of "Entre Formas" by Lyo XS, one of Terminal's OGs.

Mastering by @imaabs
Cover art by @uinaina

Microhm - Entre formas

like jmw turner found a renoise terminal
shoutout the goat @evianchrist

Evian Christ - On Embers (naramnesia edit)

Varg - Under Beige Nylon

Taken from "The Spiral" LP, out March 25th on Posh Isolation

Puce Mary - 'Night Is A Trap II'

Body Sculptures - "A body Turns to Eden" LP 
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Body Sculptures - A Body Turns To Eden

Arca - "Manners"

PSYCHIC LIBERATION SHOW ON MONTEZ PRESS RADIO WITH : James K

Saint Abdullah // “In God’s Image” // 2xCD on Psychic Liberation // 
Release date: August 21, 2020

Saint Abdullah, composed of Tehran-born brothers Mohammad and Mehdi, have fine-tuned their vision of conceptual, blown-out dub and free jazz with “In God’s Image,” an ambitious twenty-song double CD on Psychic Liberation. The opus by the two Iranians living in New York, is full of mourning and rage, but these affects only scratch the surface of the work’s emotional and formal heterogeneity. 

Like the image gracing its cover—a tiny, dusty peykan, its roof fitted with an image of Ruhollah Khomeini and cone speakers—Saint Abdullah uses DIY minimalism to deliver maximal messaging. On “Problem,” distorted percussion, Shia oration, and a sample of the late Nipsy Hussle meld into a cathartic club burner, while the rhythms and lifted string arpeggiations on “Potion for sorrow” induce hazy cinematics, the duo’s attempt at Persian stoner boom bap. 

Elsewhere are instances of improvised jamming, melancholic twinkling, and pensive restraint. The powerfully eclectic statement by Saint Abdullah includes appearances by saxophonist Travis Laplante, who blows a spiralling noir line over feedbacking cacophony. On another track, Moor Mother delivers a poetic lashing on Western imperialists who rain missiles on hospitals, grieves the bodies piling up as capital gets sucked from the Earth. 

The sample work on “In God’s Image” draws heavily from Iranian documentaries, and includes the brothers’ field recordings from Tehran and New York. Heretical combinations collide senses of antiquity and contemporaneity, resisting the many orientalist reads on Iranian culture and politics. In this struggle, Saint Abdullah conveys many emotional registers, from exhausted depression to righteous indignation. 

Among many things, the image of Khomeini on the cover, which often scandalizes American audiences, represents the overthrow of a 2,500-year-long monarchy. All forms of dehumanization receive the sonic snakebite of Saint Abdullah, and “In God’s Image” resuscitates the revolutionary potential of music that pulls from the traditions of oppressed peoples in both the East and West. 

Psychic Liberation, in operation since 2018, is an experimental music label started in Brooklyn, New York, currently based in The Hague, Netherlands. The label is distributed in North America by Fantastique, and in EU/UK by Boomkat.
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña 
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releases August 21, 2020

psychicliberation.net

Audio by Saint Abdullah
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña

PLIB007 - SAINT ABDULLAH - A8. Problem

Manchester-based collective All Hands on Deck have been on our radar for a little while, but it wasn't until this summer that we were introduced to one of the minds behind it, Abena. It was her stream for We Out Here that had us hooked; a mind-bending mix of energetic electronics that saw her dropping in edits from Panic At The Disco and Bloc Party in the most surprising, yet effortless fashion.

For those that aren't au fait with All Hands on Deck's movements, they are a DJ collective that consists of, and supports, people who identify as women, non-binary and trans, by running a series of open deck parties and DJ workshops in the city, which have been replaced by an online mix series during this year's COVID restrictions.

With the memory of Abena's stream still ringing loudly in our ears, we were eager to see what she would bring to the table for her Shine A Light On mix, and the result is suitably gripping, moving through moody, chuggy cuts that perfectly soundtrack the darkening days...

Abena: The 'Shine A Light On' Mix

In memoriam Charles Manson 

Produced by @wasbeatz
Art by @comatoxicc

[LYRICS]

[VERSE 1]
"I have no memory
For things I've learned
Or things I have experienced or heard"
So it was on the track Puce Mary - "No Memory"
And I totally agree
Properly
We are nothing and we are never be free

All that we know is a lie
Life is death, so why should we live, let's die
So let's all commit world suicide
Finally open our eyes
To see how angels comes falling from the sky

Yes of course, I assured
That our world is absurd
How do I know?
Because I am the third
child of this fucking Earth
And I've reserved a berth
Where there will be death and mirth
So fuck the world, fuck human rebirth

[VERSE 2]
Fuck God's creation
People make fashion
Out of freaks
What are fuck with this population?

My world is crashing
I dont need ur compassion
So what I need?
I need my fucking sexual satisfaction

Like Charles Manson
I don't have mansion
So what I have?
I have a sadistic passion

I have pathological depression,
Sick imagination
I have awfull life
With fucking desperation

Yeah I'm pathetic
I have achieved nothing
So people make me laughing
While I'm dancing, while I'm dancing

Like Charlie Manson
I'm dancing, I'm dancing
Like Charlie Manson
I'm dancing, I'm dancing

[OUTRO]
So people make me laughing
While I'm dancing
Like Charlie Manson
I'm dancing, I'm dancing

I have achieved nothing
And I'm dancing
Like Charlie Manson
I'm dancing, I'm dancing

"No Memory" - Case No. 1 "The Third Child" [prod. w a s]

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