Artwork credits:

Installation - Rebecca Ackroyd
Photo - Stephen White & Co and c/o Lockup International

Mastered by Maximillian Kritsch

United Rust is a collaboration between Italian electronic musicians Nicola Zolin (vise.) and Alexander Comana (Miedo Total). The project emerged after the pair met while carrying out a master in Sonic Arts at Goldsmiths University, London. They found common ground in black metal theory, ecology and sound design, and sought to create work which incorporates these elements. 

The result of this collaboration is Stillmother, initially conceived as a multimedia project involving performance, live sound, and dance. Reconfigured due to the global pandemic, the 8-track EP is an assemblage of pieces that mine elements from black metal and club culture, both of which are simultaneously embedded in notions of collectiveness and separation. The opposing forces of these elements interact, developing into viscous distortion and low-frequency kick blasts,  side-chaining gabber percussions with raw and obscure guitar riffs, driving cruel metallic clashes with acidic and digital textures.

Stillmother is inspired in part by the concept of dépense, coined by Georges Bataille, a term that describes the surplus of offerings made by ancient populations to their deities; an excess that is left to rot or burn. Stillmother combines this idea with the theory of Flat Ontology by Manuel DeLanda, as well as the notion of Deep Ecology. By charging each element in the piece with excessive processing, their musical context is flattened and remodelled; the individual components become more relevant than their totality: the final result is metal from a flattened perspective. Music under pressure from the excessive force of its individual parts.

Stillmother is a study of excess: the ferocious, machinegun-like blast beat of drums that surges to the forefront, pushing everything else into the background, the overwhelming wall of distorted noise that smothers every object, even itself, like black smoke billowing from an industrial chimney, in the full range of the frequency spectrum; a blind space surrounded by an inhuman blackness.

A Reorientation Towards The Vertical

ev w/ DJ Strawberry invites güns - 14/12/20021

Vampyroteuthia is an ongoing composition project by Nick James Scavo and Xander Seren. Art by Kyselina. Concept by Vilém Flusser and Louis Bec. Text by Nick James Scavo.

https://theactualschool.com/#/initiative/1617/701

Vampyroteuthia

Placentnihil

https://soundcloud.com/0rods - From Slow Division
from "The Fortunes Told" (QNR031)
released 1st January

Baby, just because
they dig up   
your body
and kiss your bones
after they bury you
that doesn't mean they have earned redemption
greet them in hell
with your skeleton smile
remind them
you have been laying with your demons
far longer than you have been laying
in that shallow grave they forced you into

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCVgA7hmUtM

DOWNLOAD:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/9g4hiyeophs2pe1/i.o_-_The_Fortunes_Told_%2528QNR031%2529.zip/file?fbclid=IwAR24vCqWRvlcmGEh1vdNxW1dGpzveR14P5CfWRqwqNVtvPe5jJoafghFYGQ

The Fortunes Told

QNR031 (↓↓↓)

i.o - From Slow Division

OUT NOW on tape & digital on Genot Centre. 
Produced by https://soundcloud.com/helllllllllo. 
Mastered by https://soundcloud.com/wimdehaen. 
Album cover by https://soundcloud.com/galentipton.
Limited edition of 55 C34 tapes with on-body printing pro-dubbed by Headless Duplicated Tapes.

"The album is a poignant snapshot of the state of electronic music as of 2020, inspired by the weight of hardcore subcultures being rediscovered, subconscious pop culture references, reflections on economic, political, and social structures in a hopeless search for meaningful communitarian experiences, glittering social anxiety, dystopian paranoia, and much much more." (https://soundcloud.com/paynomindtous)

"adammmmmmmmmmmm's album is a multifaceted, dense complete piece, using processed dance floor idioms, sharp granular sound design and some very unusual sample selection ranging from euphoric trance to bratty pop punk/sad boys vocals. It’s wild af and we hope you will like it as much as we do." (https://soundcloud.com/mixmag-1)

“adammmmmmmmmmmm’s new album fuses euphoric dance music arpeggios and vocal snippets that were wrenched from the pop-punk autotune-emo-sad-boy continuum at an advanced point of synthesis." (https://soundcloud.com/pw-magazine)

In "ok im real i think" (GEN041), adammmmmmmmmm plays a high-stakes game of far-reaching density, acceleration and saturation. Instantly blasting off, this album is a showcase in extreme kick drum technology, a detuned synth stab pandaemonium, a granular fission chamber full of dense clicking sounds, seemingly originating from some digital slime dimension. This notion of saturation is not just in reference to the in-your-face full spectrum sound approach, a conceptual saturation procedure is notably at play too, via euphoric dance music arpeggios and vocal snippets snatched somewhere on an advanced synthesis point of the pop punk-autotune emo-sad boy continuum. This way, a high velocity sense of conceptual concentration is obtained, with extreme stretching modes resulting in chipmunk chatterings and source material skrewed beyond all decent reason. But don't let these suggestions of multiplicity and apparent incongruence create the illusion this is just a particularly goofy and extreme collage exercise: relentless energy and coherent construction lift this up to the level of an alluring complete entity.

// adammmmmmmmmmmm (https://soundcloud.com/helllllllllo) about the album
“ok im real i think is an affectively charged tangle of sounds that fabulates fragmented worlds, reminding us that the individual is a product of the collective. The intimate energy manifested through the natural-physical-virtual-digital materialization of sound finds its way into your ears, skull, body and mind. adammmmmmmmmmmm invites you to decompose into its eclectic, collective nature and dissociate so that we can heal together. We are closer than we think, close your eyes, and let these tracks massage you until you decay.”

// https://soundcloud.com/galentipton about the cover design
“The piece depicts a figure baptized in collective chaos, simultaneously emerging from and dissolving into this raw emotional energy. I wanted to capture the maximalism and drama of the project and how overwhelming yet grounded it is; a vat of healing acid for the listener to sink into and find peace in being one with the storm.”

Buy // Stream

adaa - our collective adventure is multiple and ceaselesly reinvented

100% of the proceeds will be donated to aid swedish network "Ingen människa är illegal (No One is Illegal)".
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"The network No One is Illegal demand permanent residency for everyone who has come to Sweden and wish to remain here.
We work self organized to provide practical, social and economic support to people who are in the process of applying for asylum or forced to live hidden without documents after having their applications denied. We believe in a world without borders, where everyone is free to live where and how they want, in a world where no one is illegal."
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More information about the network:
https://www.ingenillegal.org/english/
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Graphic design made by Neeltje , @basicyear

Aeoi - High Glavia

@cnamha

https://joshwarry.bandcamp.com/album/absolution

Cnámha & Josh Warry - Absolution (Josh Warry Version)

Bag of Toys

Wim Dehaen - crs

Kuthi Jin & Reptilian Expo welded their musical friendship sharing high level inner & outer explorations, coming from their eternal discovery experience of the fresh developments from the italian/global contemporary sonic realm, linked to the constant exchange with both their labels (Heel.Zone, Clam, Pampsychia) and thru the hyper productive stimulus of peer-pressure.

Kuthi Jin & Reptilian Expo - LIL SIR BALLS & DON DONG BOB

"For 0" is a radio show by UNITEDSTATESOF where the most outward fringes of underground art are welcomed and brought together to create two hours of genderless musical submission.

@quanticaonline
radioquantica.com

"for 0" #1 | Rádio Quântica

B:Thorough x Crafty 893 - Being Quit You feat. Ariana Grande (Puzzy Stack Blend)

SILK丝 @silkcreatefuture founder
DJ/Producer of Beijing 
Booking: silkcreatefuture@gmail.com / puzzystack@qq.com

B:Thorough x Crafty 893 - Being Quit You feat. Ariana Grande (Puzzy Stack Blend)

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