@isabarb & @anton-lambert combine on 'Tombola 37' for the third instalment of @m0ntage's conceptual compilations series 'Referential Irony'.

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Premiere: Inferior Design & Lambert - Tombola 37

Taken from SBKT054: Gorgonn - Six Paths
Release date: 31st January

Artwork and layout by Akihide Monna
Mastered by Raphael Valensi


In Japanese Buddhism, it's believed that when someone dies they are ushered down one of six paths depending on the karma accumulated during their previous lives. A being might end up in the world of humans, animals, demigods, or celestials, but it's also possible to end up reborn as a pitiable hungry ghost, doomed to an existence of insatiable desire, or even worse - be sent to hell, or jigoku. Ruled over by the Japanese lord of death Emma-ō, this hell isn't quite like the Christian hell, it's closer to purgatory, and cleansing the karma can take hundreds of millions of years of excruciating torture in extreme cold or immense fire. Japanese bass alchemist Gorgonn takes these themes as the basis of his debut album "Six Paths", assembling a spiritually weighty set of futurist dubs that consider the possibility that our mortal domain might be closer to hell than we realize.


Gorgonn describes himself as a Japalien exile. He left the country of his birth almost two decades ago, and since then has been working tirelessly to formulate Jamaican dub, noise, techno, and no-wave into a sound he calls "sci-fi steppas". If you've not come across his name before, there's a good chance you've heard his reverberations. An established sound tech who's worked with The Bug, Hype Williams, Seefeel and others, he's part of G36 with Kevin Martin, Dokkebi Q with Kiki Hitomi, and a former member of Devilman with DJ Scotch Egg and Bo Ningen's Taigen Kawabe. Just last year he released the acclaimed "Disentegration Dubs" full-length alongside JK Flesh, the veteran producer who's best known for masterminding Godflesh. All this experience blesses Gorgonn's productions with remarkable sonic force, and "Six Paths" is his most crushing display yet, smelting cannonball bass and osmium beats into sharp-edged soundsystem weapons.


Look no further than opener 'Abyss' for evidence of this: psychedelic synths draw the mind away from the mortal realm, while tangled, distorted beats push us back down to earth, our faces crushed into the grit and gravel. Using tweaked sub bass and unsettling drones, Gorgonn lays out a cinematic backdrop for the album, drawing us into a world that's terrifying, viscous, and nauseatingly familiar. There's a militaristic roll to 'Without Beginning and End', a track that juxtaposes spacey halfstep thrusts with death metal distortion, footwork polyrhythms, and unearthly pads that addresses the crushing endlessness of jigoku. On 'Invisible' meanwhile, Gorgonn torches the skeletal remains of D&B, abstracting familiar rhythmic patterns into fuzzy, ritualistic cycles that sound both ancient and humming with prospective technology. But on the closing track 'Life as a Beast', it sounds as if Gorgonn has come to a conclusion, and in a flurry of acid squelches and doomy foghorn bass blasts, he seems to have accepted that being reincarnated as an animal might be the best anyone can hope for. Who knows, you might end up as a cat.

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Six Paths

Gorgonn - Greed

L. Salicis - Infant

bimestrial show with sounds selected by Julek ploski and Limited guests they invite ! GIVE—UP is a promise of M.M. (Meaningful Music) and promises always come with anxiety . 


GIVE UP RADIO w/ Julek ploski, Ludwig Wandinger (24/09/24)

From the depths of an intimate world where silence multiplies and transforms, Tendre Ael delivers her new EP: Thousands of Silences. Blending experimental folk, avant-pop, and dark ambient, this project stands out as a hybrid, elusive work. The tracks oscillate between tension and serenity, evoking fragments of solitude, resilience, and hope. This chiaroscuro comes alive through complex vocal arrangements, sequences of field recordings, and the repurposing of acoustic instrumental elements into a nostalgic, modern, and post-electronic realm.

Artist: @tendreael
Label: @howaboutplor
Release date: 24.01.2025

BC: https://howaboutplor.bandcamp.com/ 

Mastering: Antoine Alcaraz
Artwork: Tom Polleau & Léa Paintandre

premiere: Tendre Ael - C'est comme Hier [label: Plor]

Moodswings  ep01 — deux rue

"I still laugh thinking about the crazy things i found in that chest years ago... Here they are!"

Mastering and handmade drawings on tapes by Kuthi.
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Mondo Magico Primo (Estensione Unificata Prima)

Gretsch Bariton

I will open the ground beneath you
Let it swallow your voices first
Your words will choke you
Your tongues will blister in smoke

I will turn your blood to fire
Your hearts will beat in agony
Every pulse every scream
Every breath a confession

I will burn your homes from within
The walls will whisper your sins
The air will taste of metal
And your shadows will flee from you

I will make the night eternal
The sun will beg for mercy
The stars will turn away
And leave you blind in heat
in heat

L. Salicis - Infant

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