Vinyl & digital album: kmruahossan.bandcamp.com/album/limen

Released on April 29th, 2022

Last year, Kenyan sound artist Joseph Kamaru (aka KMRU) and French digital alchemist Niamké Désiré (aka Aho Ssan) were invited by Berlin Atonal to collaborate on a project for the festival's Metabolic Rift edition.

The duo had already been working together, but the offer provided the momentum to shift the conversation into another gear. Initially, they looked for thematic connections within their individual practices that might match Kamaru's meditative soundscapes with Désiré's crumbling cyberpunk expressionism, and surprisingly for two artists renowned for their grasp of minimalism, it was the opposite that drew their attention. Watching the world shift as it reacted to the spiraling pandemic, Kamaru and Désiré were moved to experiment with volume, physicality, and intense emotionality.

“I never made something so extreme," Désiré says of the duo's first recording, 2021's 'Ruined Abstractions', an extended composition that matches dense, powerful low-end drones with fractal digital fuzz and smokestack bruit. It set the mood for a back-and-forth that resulted in their seismic debut full-length, "Limen", described by the two acclaimed artists as an attempt to scrutinize the yin and yang of destruction and creation.

Cacophonous, concrete crunches fanfare the album's opening piece 'Resurgence' - the result of their Berlin Atonal commission - but the track refuses to languish in wrecking ball devastation. Instead, powerful synthesized harmonies ring from beneath the rubble, before stifling everything in a humid fuzz of dense, emotionally-charged cinematic electronics.

Influenced by the prescient post-apocalyptic mood of Katsuhiro Otomo's "Akira" and the mythological phoenix, an immortal bird said to be reborn from the ashes of its dying predecessor, "Limen" is an album that sonically snapshots the anxious, floral beauty of an explosion or the colorful intensity of a raging fire. It's rooted in concepts of duality - the idea something unsettling can be viewed from a different angle and re-interpreted.

On the album's epic, 21-minute centerpiece 'Ruined Abstraction I + II', swirling electromagnetic interference paints a haunted parallel vista that dissolves slowly into subtle, orchestral tones and booming, widescreen thuds.

Almost angelic closing track 'Rebirth' meanwhile is the most unashamedly beautiful composition Kamaru and Désiré have written together, but its choral bliss is doused in petroleum noise and saturated distortion.

"Limen" is an album that seeks to lift a veil of silence from the world, replacing it with maximalist bombast and vivid passion. It's a dynamic piece of work that finds its creators pushing themselves to the limits, deconstructing history as it detonates around us.

All tracks written and produced by Joseph Kamaru
and Niamké Désiré; mastered by Joker

Published by Multiverse Media Publishing
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Limen

Vinyl & digital album

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EN: Mini EP by an artist from Yekaterinburg. This material traces the sound, which is rooted in the history of English rave, as interpreted by the artist. In this EP you can also notice the transitional moment of music from the 90s to the 2000s
In short, there are a lot of breaks, soft pads and synth bass inside. All this is packed with good mixing. Listens exclusively with a "bass face".
Vanya Stomer is a resident of the labels NEDOSTUPNOSTЬ, Welofi and Soviett records. He also has releases on System108.

RU: Мини альбом от артиста из Екатеринбурга. В этом материале прослеживается звук, который корнями уходит в историю Английского рейва, в прочтении артиста. Здесь так же можно заметить переходный момент музыки из 90-х в нулевые года
Если кратко, то внутри много брейксов, мягких пэдов и синтового басса. Всё это упаковано хорошим сведением. Слушается исключительно с «басс-фэйсом».
Ваня Стомер является резидентом лейблов NEDOSTUPNOSTЬ, Welofi и Soviett records. Также выпускал свои треки на System108.

Full release:
https://welofi.bandcamp.com/album/2000s
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STOMER  – Music For Your Fav Videogame [Welofi]

@marienonnis 

visual by Justine Ferrer  

Tracklist : 

saand - return 
rec - treckin’ 
xato - grief 
Angelo Harmsworth - Splinter ft. Felisha Ledesma 
Ytem - alta tears 
Mirror Organs - Fexofen 
Messell - envelope follower_ll 
Cotton Pills -  Oriental Script
qwqwqwqwa - Phantom 
Lensk - Negation Cycles
SKSSS - 712perc 
ssaliva - True Star 
Schacke - Mutual Secrecy (part 2) 
Antonia XM - Bronze Key 
Evitceles - Transfixed 
Marble Bust - N053X 
Pablo Altar - Infra

Invitée Spéciale — marie nonnis

12D3ATHLØRD$ (prod. Glockiee)

🇬🇧 English

A dark, minimal industrial soundscape built on distorted analog synths, sparse glitchy percussion, and deep sub-bass.
Haunting vocal textures and evolving drones shape a cinematic, dystopian atmosphere — raw, introspective, and emotionally charged.

🇮🇹 Italiano

Un viaggio sonoro oscuro e minimale tra paesaggi industriali e tensione cinematografica.
Sintetizzatori analogici distorti, percussioni glitch rarefatte e bassi profondi creano un’atmosfera densa e inquieta.
Voci elaborate emergono come echi lontani in un ambiente distopico e futurista, dove emozione e introspezione si fondono in una spirale di suoni grezzi e suggestivi.
