Artist: @benfikaa
Album: Ruinas
Release Date: June 26, 2020
Format: Digital

Carlos Marta is the Tijuana-based producer behind Benfika, an enigmatic music project from Infinite Machine that released his debut on the imprint back in 2015 with the EP 121214, taking him to open for Four Tet, Ben Ufo and play at Mutek festival in Mexico. In his most recent comeback Ruinas, he presents a mystical and ethereal release where he unveils his most overwhelming and rousing side with 5 absorbing and captivating tracks.

Ruinas is an eerie exploration on organic, celestial and crystalline sounds. A set of compositions effused in a synthetic and futuristic orchestral experience that incites cathartic sensations. The warm and meticulously put-together melodies of the 5 pieces that compose this EP generates a utopian sonic environment with otherworldly and mystical backgrounds.

Influenced by the powerful narrative components in Benfika’s production, Ruinas summons the memories and resilience of another dimension, where mythical surroundings emerge with arcane possibilities. Cyclic imaginaries of ancestral yet futuristic references collide in a dialogue between mixed dualities; pain and healing, desolation and disclosure, uncertainty and hope, evoking the feeling of an ongoing transformation.

The carefully processing on the melodies, samples and tonalities that Benfika meticulously assembled in
Ruinas don’t follow an accurate musical structure but were rather conceived as a living sonic-ecosystems, dissolving in complex layers of aerial ambiences.

In Exodexo the delicate harmonies of otherworldly frequencies resonate like an alien whisper while the gathering of synthetic voices in Pentimento creates a sacred invitation for a futuristic ritual. The deep and trance-indulging sonorities of Mundo Schizo crash with a percussive field of disruption, and the uncanny atmospheres of Ríos de Azoth dissolves for the unearthly vibes of Ollín, where overwhelming choruses and dislocated pianos mutate in immaculate melodies.

Ruinas It’s a promise of a new beginning, where devotional possibilities can coexist with the inherent chaos of spirituality. It is music created from a wide perception of entropy and the prospect of becoming-with transmutation. A reprogramming of the organic existence for unphysical transcendence.

Rituals that stream violently
through infinite cracks in time
generational chants stored in the abyss
reveal intrinsic shadows coded into every seed.

Tracklist:

1. Exodexo
2. Pentimento
3. Mundo Schizo
4. Rios de Azoth
5. Ollin

Artwork by Benfika
Mastered by Kamil Sarcowicz

Ruinas EP

Ruinas

Benfika - Pentimento

Taken from @iptpf's new EP 'Obsession' (G&P014), out July 5, 2020
buy: https://ginandplatonic.bandcamp.com/album/obsession

ptpf is an acronym derived from the surname of Russian producer Ilya Potapov. Coming from Saint Petersburg, Potapov has been self-releasing comprehensive collections of sorely wrenched music for the past couple years. His first two projects under the ptpf moniker - '1935' and 'G.D. ' (dating back to 2015 and 2016, respectively) somewhat resemble the formula fundamental for the haunting atmosphere of an early witch house or other industrial offshots. Although the experimental nature of ptpf's works is evident throughout these releases, the transition towards more abstract realms manifests utterly on his 2019 album 'Salivation'. Coming out via the already-cult label Quantum Natives, 'Salivation' sees ptpf embracing the disorder and the tensity that was previously tamed and now has been let loose entirely. Gin&Platonic are now pleased to present ptpf's follow-up musical instalment - 'obsession'.

On 'obsession', Potapov's signature distant muttering collides with abraded power electronics, together creating a four-track EP full of dreadful emotional confession not everybody is ready to hear out loud. The disturbing nature of the project evokes a gradual dissociation from a long-forgotten tenderness into an emotional imbalance and urgent confusion. What once felt like affection, now feels like an obsession.
The leading single 'Shibari' is remixed by Rina Priduvalova, a Ukrainian interdisciplinary artist who released her first EP 'The Tears Of Things' in 2019. She is now in the process of preparing multiple audiovisual projects together with Diana Azzuz as Ximena. We also reached out to Greek rhythmic alchemists Ice_Eyes, whose releases we have on heavy rotation, having received a slamming remix of 'Nobody´s Fault'. Last but not least, the endlessly creative brain behind Quantum Natives themselves - ornine - closes the release with a sublime rework of 'Last Record'.

releases July 5, 2020

Written and produced by Ilya Potapov
@iptpf

Mastered by Wim Dehaen
@wimdehaen

Artwork by Jiri Macku
jirimacku.tumblr.com

Obsession on bandcamp

ptpf - Shibari

https://soundcloud.com/z0it - Shoe Study 5
from "Music to Dance to" (QNR038)
released 10th August 2020
DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/file/et129vaddkn3tyc/z0it_-_music_to_dance_to_%2528QNR038%2529.zip/file

Music to Dance to

QNR038 (↓↓↓)

z0it - Shoe Study 5

https://soundcloud.com/z0it - Instructions (The Lick)
from "Music to Dance to" (QNR038)
released 10th August 2020
DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/file/et129vaddkn3tyc/z0it_-_music_to_dance_to_%2528QNR038%2529.zip/file

z0it - Instructions (The Lick)

Taken from SBKT037: Hyph11E - Aperture
2 x LP / Digital - October 16th 2020

Artwork by Wang Newone
Mixed by Raphael Valensi
Mastered by Miles Whittaker
Text by megakira✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧

Aperture is the debut album from Hyph11E.

Holes are ontologically parasitic - they are always within something else and cannot exist in isolation. Holes accompany us throughout our lives, dilative and devoured, fillable but indispensable. On one hand, they are the driven force for evolution, on the other hand, holes are also the layer of scab that signals growth. Without tearing, cutting and gluing, we cannot create or eliminate a hole. Topologists use the number of holes to distinguish geometric objects. In the same method, in the closed circuit of Encrust and Erosion, we became idiographic individuals.

In her new album, Hyph11E guides the light to travel within and through the hole, and it becomes Aperture.

Aperture

Hyph11E - Accretion

katharsis is a new label and monthly radio show hosted by jjjacob, focusing on the purification and purgation of emotions through ambient and experimental music. In this episode of the show, he invited @hviledag & @ancestralvision to do a guestmix.

jjjacob part [00:00:00 - 00:41:20]
Victor Metske - Flour On Her Feet
Joanne Robertson & Dean Blunt
Soho Rezanejad - This Sea Is Not A Memorial
Luz Oscura - Academia
The Insects & Ben Salisbury - You're Fired
d'Eon - #05
Ulla - Soak
Villaelvin - Rey
Rashad becker - matraquage
KMRU - behind there
santebela - Flying over the forest In a dream
Cicada Shell - 光芒
Victor Metske - First Sight
ana roxanne - Nocturne
waller & xato - Doubtful Mercy [forthcoming on katharsis]
oqbqbo - Ama Divers
Suzanne Kraft - Scripted Space
Duval Timothy - 9
MARTYYNA – Tongue Untied

Hviledag part [00:41:20- 01:27:48]
Ben Frost - Swarm
Autechre - r cazt
Son Ash - Rainbow Trout
Dj Lostboi - Don’t Worry
Second Woman- 100407jd7
Astrid Sonne - Overexisting
Anders Lauge Meldgaard - A3 (At Synge Verden Ind I En Ny Og Mangefoldet Tid)
Bladee & Ssaliva - Undergone
KYO / Croatian Amor - An Angel (Feat. Health & Safety) (Kyo Remix)
Torus - Arrival
Autechre - F7
Sophia Loizou - Shadows of Futurity
Roly Porter - An Open Door
Hviledag - Unreleased
Oneohtrix Point Never - The Pure and The Damned (Feat. Iggy Pop)

Ancestral Vision part [01:27:48 - 02:00:00]
Flying Lotus - Cosmic Drama
Anne Imhof’s Faust - Postscriptum (Faust OST)
Nick Cave - Fireflies
Aho Ssan - Simulacrum IV
Kris Vango - EMpress 2 (UNRELEASED)
Iku - Devil Chaser
Kris Vango - The Walls Around My Heart
Clark - Strangled to Death on a Public Toilet
Suda - Hive/Mind
Ancestral Vision - Eerie Life Structures (UNRELEASED)
Joshua Sabin - Sutarti VI
Otro - Untitled (10 March 2020)
Mouchoir Étanche - Sécheresse
enchanted lands - Images Of Gold And Clay (ft. Racine)
Nick Storring - Tides That Defeat Identity
thirdworldlabour - Totem (The Revolution Will Not Be Streamed)

katharsis with jjjacob, Hviledag & Ancestral Vision on Threads*Nordvest (22/10/20)

Download

QUALIATIK with Otro - 01 November 2020

See here for more info: https://bit.ly/36eGJms

Hydrangea

Holly Childs & Gediminas Žygus, 'Blue Carbon, Intertidal' (2020). Courtesy Subtext, Berlin.

Taken from Hypnagogic Surge (GEN043). Presale is on!
To be released on November 22 on tape & digital on Genot Centre.

Produced by https://soundcloud.com/amselysen.
Mastered by @wimdehaen. 
Album cover by eurasiandesert.
Limited edition of 55 C29 tapes with on-body printing pro-dubbed by Headless Duplicated Tapes.

HYPNAGOGIC SURGE (GEN043) by AMSELYSEN is a dense setup of signal interferences, of jacked up, spliced, reconstructed digital snippets, of outbursts whose amplitude overcooks the microphone's defenseless circuitry. Anxious with unreleased energy build-ups, the music is always pregnant with a double quality, something like a dagger made from ice, the possibility to shatter or crumble into a thousand shards combined with the looming threat of clean rupture posed by the blade's edge. Digital distortion is used here to unmask materials, to frontally attack them and expose their shimmering metallic face; pitch-time processing dilemmas get dodged by exploding into the high frequency gleam embedded but hidden in their algorithms. Completely removed from the "Lo-Fi" paradigm seeking warmth or nostalgia, the present degradation-reconstructions result in newly audible chirp figures, the sparkle of aliasing and the descent into the grainy territory of microscopic sound events. From a more panoramic perspective, these tracks are continually transforming contraptions, with looping frames accelerating, doubling, halting or stuttering, overloading, seemingly struggling to buffer, sometimes mixing with immiscible materials to form a glistening suspension of new sound material.

// Hakeem Lapointe (Amselysen) about the album 
"Stemming from confusion, indignation, and feeling disoriented, Hypnagogic Surge appeals to dream-like lenses that reinterpret the everyday world; words lose clarity and are reduced to phonemes and their perceived energy, well-known advert jingles and hit songs are obfuscated and develop into undecipherable melodies, feelings ranging from relief to aggression flash quickly into succession without rhyme or reason. In the awareness gaps of the dream state, information is made up and averaged into confusing erroneous approximations — here translated in the poised presence of aural artifacts such as bad mp3 bit rate shimmer, 1/8in inlet pops, bad aliasing and interpolation, unshielded cable radio interference, fake stereo, inverted polarizing, etc 
Amselysen’s nightmarish interpretation of the hypnagogic state is heavily informed by tropes surrounding hardcore music, only this time the tropes are removed from their context and reimagined before reappearing into the album, thus resulting in a hyperreality; a simulacra of hardcore, intensity and dynamism. Remediating genres like punk, techno, metal, rap and noise through distant mimicry and radical sampling, Hypnagogic Surge approaches liminal reverie with a garish maximalist attitude."

// Amselysen artist bio 
Amselysen is Montreal-based intermedia artist Hakeem Lapointe’s latest musical project. It focuses on approaching experimental electronics with a critical lens, bridging the gap between conceptual spaces typically reserved to institutional practices and accessible aural aesthetics. Usually described as an outsider artist, never privy to the music academia and alien to most of the underground scene, Lapointe sheds all concerns for musical conventions and pursues their own sonic obsessions, which commonly sit in the leftfield genre. Their current work process ponders on indeterminacy, plunderphonics, hyperrealities, cultural foraging, and hypnagogia. 
Works, outside of their own visual practice, include scores and sound design for short films, performances and installations in various exhibitions, including the After Hours at the McCord presented under Kent Monkman - Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience.

Hypnagogic Surge

Tape/Digital presale

Amselysen - Rhinestone Cowboy (GEN043)

@yyedd

Broadcast on @internetpublicradio

Barn Sour - Snaffle Bit
Moss Harvest - Ferric Memory (Yyed Remix)
Matthew Sullivan - M.O.
Charm High - Bonemeal 
Asha Sheshadri - Laboratory Channel
Alvin Curran - Natural History Part 2
Adrian Steele - The City Is The Place Where The Heart Dissolves 
Yyed - Unknown 
Alan Lamb, David Burraston - 8:05 PM Part I
Hildegard von Westerkamp - Beneath the Forest Floor
Yyed - Yyed @ Domer's Eve 2 
Residual Energy Boss - Sept 27 Murky 
La Befana - Imdemtatioms 
DJ Celes - Gate Bass 2 
S2 - Piety of an Empty Mind 
Lucy Liyou - Dog Dreams Part 1 
Kiera Mulhern - Syrinx
Coppice - Brim
Thomas Tilly - Hyla Nana

Field recordings by:

Jake Muir, Xela, Residual Energy Boss, DJ Hildegard von Bingen, Bog Body, Airostrate, Hair User, Yyed

Annexia w/ yyed - 20.11.20

Endgame
acolytes - lost
mya gomez - permission pt 2
zini- jesus wept
bigote - la kumbia da las nike tuburon  
araabmuzik vs zutzut - adonis latinx
endgame - drained
gil - wifey anthem
kamixlo - demonic y
wulffluw xciv - nyege digital immersion
tzusing +hodge - lcd
tyga paw - ownland
slickback - ncpa
hdmirror - re-entry
rick farin - god rain
avtomat nieludzie (ignorance ha)
daemon x endgame - caged

Oldyungmayn mix

PM RADIO - 25.11.20 - Endgame & Oldyungmayn

qu4ntumn4tives@gmail.com

The Dancers at the End of Time

z0it - Shoe Study 5

Quantum Natives

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