Olan Monk - Auto Life
Format: Digital (EP)
Cat. No: CANVAS011
Release Date: 1st October 2021

Watch the video for 'Fameless': https://youtu.be/-xndTe8uWrc

Pre-order Auto Life (EP): canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/auto-life

‘A farewell to idolatry, where culture is absorbed into nature, like a body back into the fertile soil. Written as a 27 club survivor, lamenting the young dead, no longer young and celebrating the spectral presence of iconised peers. Reflexive and self-aware of the problem of over-identifying with the fictional performance of the solo act in various guises or archetypes: the rockstar or trapstar. Auto Life is a practical attempt at a weird re-hybridisation of otherwise seemingly divergent strands of popular music, conflating stylisations usually segregated by genre.

Auto Life was written as a collection of songs for eventual live performance. Recording music is absurd—an act in which you initially perform to no-one. The inclusion of a sample of crowd noise in ‘Fameless’ is the music studio equivalent of a laugh track being added to the soundtrack of a sitcom—unable to give up on disappearing horizons completely and imagining another context for performance in which an actual audience beyond the performer is present.

Autotune Punk—as a music of antagonism that resists from within, bending the lanes of a machine that flattens out the vocal performance to a given scale. I can still express feeling—even angst—but the machine doesn’t care. Refusing its own funeral, emulating the dead—it’s a Rock simulacrum. A renewably performed myth. I broke the spell. I just heard it as it was. The sacred framing of presence makes the pop idol always-already-dead by turning them into a symbol and an image—undead, un-ageing and endlessly reproducible within a commercialist visual culture.

The music which I would grow up listening to would later become a tool towards first facing, maybe later dismantling—or at least bending—the structures in which music was still being written, performed and recorded into existence. My emulation of and interest in pop—and popular—music is not in irony. I love this music—yet I question the context and conditions through which it has come to exist and continues to change shape. Opening up the horizon of pop to a new kind of strangeness, where the familiarity of the pop song disappears into blissful distortions and mixed signifiers towards a world in-between, otherwise unknown’.

— @olanmonk

Written, performed and recorded by Olan Monk

‘Bruised Fruit’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City, additional production and vocals written and performed by Elvin Brandhi
‘Burnout’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City

Tracks 01–07 mastered by Ali Najafi
Tracks 08 and 09 mastered by Jam City

Artwork by Ewa Awe

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Auto Life

Olan Monk - Fameless

LDM - John Beltran Remix

Soli City debuts with the double single "Ultra Violet / At this point, only the memory of it remains vital" from the upcoming album “Paradoxe” coming on Posh Isolation.

Soli City explores the divine world of technological representation of life and humans in a mixture of westeren classical instrumentation and radical electronic soundscapes.

Posh Isolation 292

Soli City - At this point, only the memory of it remains vital

whole samples from wagwan trak by destroy lonely (yes its lol)

produced/mixed by ceny4
mastered by sbk

we love u nerds

wagwan tilidin flip

Bandcamp <3

Drifting Reverie

HOWME

Varg "Nordic Flora Series Pt. 5: Crush" 2 x LP 
Posh Isolation 209 
Out June 22, 2018
When the fight-or-flight response edges in—adrenaline coursing and perception wired—our behaviour is especially spiked by an emotional intensity. And with that peak comes a trough. It's a chemical freefall, just like a crush.

Presented by Posh Isolation, 'Crush' marks the beginning of the end for Varg's turbulent Nordic Flora Series. Getting us lost in an exhilarating maze of fainting beauty and breaks, the fifth piece of the series invites us to relish the harmony just as much as the dissonance.

Following on from the previous iterations of the series, particularly the widely acclaimed 'Nordic Flora Series Pt.3: Gore​-​Tex City,' the cast of collaborators remain familiar. Some faces are more prominent on this occasion, while others were folded into the series for the first time at last year's Berlin Atonal festival where Varg's Nordic Flora program was unveiled.

The album's most tender moments arrive when the acoustic instrumentation and ambient ascents cross and tangle with the spoken word performances from AnnaMelina and Chloe Wise. They speak in lullabies of decadence. And the sincerity catches you out, tapering the rush, awakening the crush. When working with both AnnaMelina and Vanity Productions, the gentle details get scaled up for bigger arenas, the track signalling a kinship with last year's Yung Lean collaboration.

Tracing another kind of intimacy is a collection of deft and agile club-cursed tracks that set a new level of scattered cohesion for Varg. Spirited and biting, they bump and quake with a whiplashed gait, effortless af. Not surprisingly, Varg configures this side of 'Crush' alone, perhaps letting this stormy intensity out just the once in a mournful piece with Ecco2k.

True to the Nordic Flora Series, the artwork comes from American multidisciplinary artist Cali Thornhill DeWitt. The artwork is presented in collaboration with international copyright agreements.

Our burning passions light diverse paths, and as the fragility of the heart is learned and lamented, then surely a cause to celebrate this fate comes?



Tracklist:

A1 Varg - Music For Breakups ft. Morning Star 07:13
A2 Varg - Rush/Tinder 06:03
A3 Varg - Vanity Lights (First Crush) ft. Ecco2k 01:15
A4 Varg - (+46) Placing My IPhone X Facing Up To See When U Answer My Texts    04:16

B1 Varg - Stonewall Poem ft. AnnaMelina 02:04
B2 Varg - U Control the Ocean (Second Crush) 04:12
B3 Varg - OND_F.T.P. 03:51
B4 Varg - Love Economy/Anti Police Music 09:43

C1 Varg - Archive 1 "Spit Sugar Free Red Bull Into My Mouth" ft. Chloe Wise, Matti Bye, Christian Augustin & Henrik Söderström 09:54
C2 Varg - Blue Line 2 (112 Fridhemsplan) ft. AnnaMelina & Vanity Productions 05:45
C3 Varg - Rush/Wickr 04:49

D1 Varg - Archive 2 "Dm Excerpts Between @ skaeliptom & @ chloewise_” 03:25
D2 Varg - 5 Stars & Vanity Lights ft. Ecco2k 04:20
D3 Varg - Final Crush (For 940524) 04:40

Varg - U Control The Ocean (Second Crush)

Julietta 7y (Eterna Refx)

Emiranda - My Face [YGK005]

1. Real Life
2. Time To Go
3. Music (Time Out)
4. SXF
5. Emiranda (Break)
6. Ice Tea

Format: Digital/EP
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Cover: Janus
Mastered by: Jeremy Cox

My Face

Emiranda - Ice Tea [YGK005]

Edited Arts is launching Static by mu tate. This is the 3rd release for the audiovisual label. 

As an experimental platform for artists, Edited Arts also
coordinates events, films and radio shows.

Static is a collection of 6 tracks recorded during the fall and winter season of 2018/19. Ambient yet experimental. Patient and introspective - the soundtrack for slowing down.

Giving it’s name to the release, track 5 titled Static is a collaboration with PAN affiliate Kareem Lotfy. Additionally, the EP includes a remix from Moscow based Art Crime.

Static

mu tate - Safeguard (Art Crime Remix)

50 x Cassette released on Periferin delivered with a small bag containing the ashes of a burnt down church.

Varg - Skaeliptom (PRF040)

www.poshisolation.net
https://poshisolation.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/poshisolationsounds/