Monday, September 23, 2024
07:00 PM (01:00 PM New York)

Psychic Liberation Show hosted by Nick Klein
Itsï Ramirez
46 Canal Street
New York

Itsï Ramirez is a Chicago based composer. Her 2024 album debut, New Animals, was released on No Rent Records. Stepping out of the naturalized preoccupation with sound as sound, she takes on the project of recovering a new music that has been forgotten.

PSYCHIC LIBERATION SHOW ON MONTEZ PRESS RADIO SEPTEMBER 2024 w/ ITSI RAMIREZ

Various Artists - ' COLLAGE ’ (SER002)

How many fleeting paths fade away each time you close your eyes ? Hidden just beyond the fine lining of your lids, walking these roads to nowhere can be tempting, just as the urge to leave everything behind. Paradoxically, embracing the void feels so fulfilling - but isn’t acceptance part of the grief ? We’re all searching for a secret place where inner peace could finally grow from its embryonic shrine.

Much like that uncertain trail, Second End Records charts a course through the soft, dreamy side of electronic music with its upcoming 'Collage' compilation. Designed either for the club or a living room, this ethereal patchwork of 14 tracks is woven from silk-like sound design : Ambient, techno, experimental, IDM and atmospheric dub… All these feathers fuse into the weightless cushion of Jonnnah’s curation. An astonishing line-up composed of andrea_andrea, Box5ive, Cotton Mouth, Doris Dana & Angelina Nonaj, emre girginkaya, Genus Aix, innerinnerlife, Intertoto, ϙue x Comechelet, Lucas Dupuy, Match Fixer, so wet’s water kingdom, Takeo.K and Whylie.

With this new imprint, Second End Records further informs its signature sound: spotlighting cold-yet-heartwarming textures, celestial synths, and volatile rhythms. Chase away the clouds and bask in the sunny spell of “Collage”, available both in CD and digital formats, starting 1 November, 2024.

releases December 6, 2024

A.D : Jonnnah 
Graphic Design : Tiphaine Voix, Lucas Dupuy
Mastering : kick21 
Words : Loïs Markarian

Bandcamp

SER002 // VA : COLLAGE (previews)

APPX:14 – Sseq – Intensity

Cat: APPX14
Title: Intensity
Artist(s): Sseq

Featuring Artist(s): excel dj, Mariam Khundadze
Description: EP, Mini Album
Label(s): Appendix.files

Format(s): Limited Edition 12” Lathe Cut Vinyl, Digital, Stream

Tracklist:
01. Scar Gel
02. Shell
03. Pan
04. Rely
05. Hard Reset
06. Take it Softer
07. Bonds we share
08. I like you but I’m lazy

Credits:
Written and produced by Beqa Ungiadze
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Artwork by Amos Turner

Featuring vocals by Mariam Khundadze on ‘Rely’
Featuring excel dj on ‘I like you but i’m lazy’
Using samples from Recovery Girl’s stems on “Bond we share”.

All rights reserved to Appendix.files
Copyright Appendix.files

Intensity

I like you but i'm lazy Ft. excel dj

Shell

@jonnnah
Angel R Selkie Reflections - 13 Untitled II
Felisha Ledesma & Angelo Harmsworth - PDA
emer - through the earth 
CHANTSSS - if u 
Asio Otus - Helix 
Pyur - Night Sea 
Intertoto - Couchock Hex
Gas - Untitled 3 
softi - Liquid Saturn 
dummy tree - Room of Ladders 
qwqwqwqwa - when words lose their meaning
Joseph Theodor - Sea Rail 
emre girginkaya - skit
??
so wet’s water kingdom - coming dub
Andrii Kunin - Unmoved Areas I

Jonnnah 'Lakes' ⓜⓘⓧ ⓪⑥②

Releasing December 6, 2024 Via Second End Records 

SER002 // VA : COLLAGE
A.D : Jonnnah 
Graphic Design : Tiphaine Voix, Lucas Dupuy 
Mastering : kick21
https://secondendrec.bandcamp.com/album/ser002-va-collage

SER002 // VA : COLLAGE

Atami

from 'Thread', out 25th October
Somewhere Press
SP04

Man Rei - Where the Opaqueness Begins

Hugo Esquinca offers his debut album format release, DOCUMENTO_UNO, for Psychic Liberation stating:

“DOCUMENTO_UNO [2014-2024] is a -mis-selection of bastardized personal archival material containing actions, installations, induced DSP corruption, after-hours field recordings and direct documentation of audio equipment degradation. With the intention to dispose rather than preserve, all files utilized for the production of this CD have been permanently deleted after usage.”

Copious libations and long, long walks around metropolitan sprawl are part of the process material that cultivate the contained audio within DOCUMENTO_UNO. Esquinca posits a formal conundrum, skewing the perceptual intake of the organic and inorganic aurality in a collaged twenty-nine minutes and thirty-nine seconds of Esquinca’s auto-documentarian efforts. Something about weighted city environments, places like Mexico City or Berlin or Glasgow, and how they interrelate with weather extremities, finances, alcohol, and one's personhood are embedded in DOCUMENTO_UNO. At the end of the day, you are not at home.

Esquinca is known for large scale audio works that take on the extremity of amplification to incite situations and circumstances that become ruminations on what is impenetrable or absent* yet consequently disruptive**. For DOCUMENTO_UNO a similar through line to materiality and ephemeral outcome is observed. The pushing of a recording device to its furthest capabilities and the harmonic damages that follow through as a result. The unwavering compositional directive to keep finding the threshold of the audio space, first in capturing from life and then later from processing and arranging. This is Esquincas first album effort.

The truth is that Esquinca is exhausted by Sound and its orbiting cultural sphere. His multifaceted work as an artist, researcher, and writer continually exhibits a perspective in extremity that manifests a perspective a politer audience recoils in facing. Esquinca though is no brute, nor looking for cheap tactics to elicit canonized pearl-clutching responses to the vulgarity of our times. DOCUMENTO_UNO complexly collages confrontation in formal, mechanistic, or actionable methods to unsettle your stereo and effectively not save your world.

In many ways, this release is a family affair for Esquinca. DOCUMENTO_UNO is the result of many nights of long talks and beverage consumption with friend and collaborator Nick Klein. Additionally, a selection of the original source material has been remixed by Russell Haswell, a longtime collaborator and friend of Esquinca.


* See works done at EMPAC in Troy, New York, where an entire auditorium's multi-channel sound system was played at maximum volume after hours with no one allowed in the building, leaving only the vibratory sensation of the architecture to speak to the idea of absence for the viewer.
** See Esquincas latest work, as part of a festival dedicated to Alvin Lucier, where the artist reinterprets Luciers “Sound On Paper”. Here Esquinca trades paper for architectural glass, focusing thousands of watts of amplification onto the glass to more caustically illustrate Luciers paper observations. 
credits
releases November 30, 2024

Edition of 100 Compact Discs
Each copy has been individually numbered, stamped, marked and wrapped in 50 liter garbage bags.

Recorded and arranged by Hugo Esquinca
Mastered by Russell Haswell
Designed and assembled by Hugo Esquinca
Product Photography by Gustavo Saiegh
Artist Photography by Dominique Saiegh

DOCUMENTO_UNO

ALBUM PURCHA$E

PLIB066 - HUGO ESQUINCA - DOCUMENTO_UNO (EXCERPT)

What happens when dubby drum & bass meets Dischord’s post-punk colossus Black Eyes? “Break” is the new EP from NY’s Relaxer, the long running alias of Daniel Martin-McCormick (Black Eyes, Ital and co-founder of Dripping), and it signals a decisive shift in his music. 

Prompted by friends to write a drum & bass live set just as Black Eyes was reuniting, the results didn’t quite fit the d&b genre. But it felt right. Quick, nimble, with room for the ferocity of his favorite post punk and some of the spaciousness of dub. Evergreen vibes, really, but seen from a fresh perspective.
 
Honed over a period of two years, the five tracks on “Break” fuse Relaxer’s careening, technoid sounds with free jazz-tinted drum programming, snarling sound design and spacious echo trails. It’s a perfect fit for 29 Speedway’s future-facing, exploratory anti-genre approach to electronics. The tape features two remixes by the singular DJ Marcelle and mastering by Dubplates & Mastering. Daniel tells his side of the story below:

“Two years ago my friends who run the drum ‘n’ bass party Headznite asked me to write a live set for a Ukraine fundraiser they were putting on. Right at the same time, my punk band Black Eyes was having our first practices in 20 years, which meant I was re-training my body to scream at top volume and high registers and to lay into my guitar at full force. In those same months, Dripping was forming and ideas were flying for crazy, boundary-pushing lineups. I had just finished writing the meditative composition suite “In Softening Air” and was feeling the call; it was time to let it rip. 

Everything poured into that live set for Headznite, and a new style was born. Relaxer had begun as a decisively techno project, but pushing the BPMs and working in drum breaks tweaked the formula enough to cut any lingering ties with that ethos. 

Over the next two years I kept on it, writing more, recording, pushing the technique and exploring the sound. “Break” is the first time any of this work has been made public. Sometimes a  detour can hack your brain. My first dance 12” as Ital was supposed to be a one-off side project to my punk band and it ended up taking over my life. Now punk music is calling asking for the debt to be repaid. Fuck it.”


Burning Spear [Break LP out 11.22.24]

@dorisdana
@second-end-rec

If it appeared right before you, just for a second, would you either walk this fleeting path or let it vanish in a blink, hidden forever beyond the fine lining of your eyelid? Taking the road to nowhere can be tempting, just as the urge to leave everything behind. Paradoxically, embracing the void feels so fulfilling - but isn’t acceptance part of the grief? We’re all searching for our own secret place, where inner peace could finally grow from its embryonic stasis.

Much like that uncertain trail, Second End Records charts a course through the soft, dreamy side of contemporary electronic music with its upcoming 'Collage' compilation. Designed either for the club or a living room, this ethereal patchwork of 14 tracks is woven from silk-like sound design: ambient, techno, experimental, IDM, atmospheric dub - each genre highlighting in turns ultra-stretched audio spectrums, smooth instrumental lines, introspective reverberations or digital breaks. An astonishing line-up, composed of andrea_andrea, Box5ive, Cotton Mouth, Doris Dana & Angelina Nonaj, emre girginkay, Genus Aix, innerinnerlife, Intertoto, ϙue x Comechelet, Lucas Dupuy, Match Fixer, so wet’s water kingdom, Takeo.K and Whylie.

With this new imprint, Second End Records further informs its signature sound: cold-yet-heartwarming textures, celestial synths and volatile rhythms. Chase away the clouds and bask in the sunny spell of “Collage”, available both in CD and digital formats, starting 6 December, 2024.

https://secondendrec.bandcamp.com/album/ser002-va-collage

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℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ doris dana - 8 Minutes After 12 ft. Angelina Nonaj [Second End Records]

CYBERMISSION drops ‘Zona’ on INDEX:Records – five cuts of radiant, IDM-pop and hopeful electro. Written in Berlin across 2021-2022, this record wanders into self-discovery, deep romance and memories of the things that we’ve lost.

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“Each of us has a purpose and a mission in this world. What is yours? Take some time alone, don't force it, and the answer will reveal itself.”

Written & Produced by CYBERMISSION
Mixed & Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Artwork by Maximillian Holzer
Distribution by One Eye Witness

Zona

CYBERMISSION – Zona (previews) [INDEX:017]

Label ran by @nick-klein
contact: psychicliberation@gmail.com

For the physical and digital purchasing of PSYCHIC LIBERATION/PRIMITIVE LANGUAGES :
www.psychicliberation.bandcamp.com

Distributed in the USA by Fantastique
Distributed in UK/EU by Industrial Coast
Distributed in RU by Stellage Store
Distributed in Japan by Tobira Records
Distributed in South Korea by Rope Editions

PLIB066 - HUGO ESQUINCA - DOCUMENTO_UNO (EXCERPT)

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