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

KMRU & Aho Ssan - Resurgence

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BC: https://stepballchain.bandcamp.com/album/pillow-talk

Step Ball Chain’s unconventional prototype band trickpony is the 11th release on the ever evolving imprint. An assortment of sensual cyber jams collaged together by the trio over timezones, birthed in Perth, Australia by Mike Midnight and Roza Terenzi; old friends joined by Helsinki’s visionary songstress Maria Korkeila. A trinity of alchemy blossomed into an audio rendition of exquisite corpse, layers of each entity glistening through amongst a united cosmos; trip hop atmospherics and downtempo drippings.

The five track EP reveals a metamorphosis of nostalgia, a foot in the ever present and daydreams of future. A subconscious deep dive into lustful pop, guided by spine tingling vocal fantasies; textural hallucination, harmonic odes to the golden era underground and a flirtation with drum and bass, tribal percussive freakouts and dream tinged lyrics of desire.

Pillow talk is a timeless exhibit of esoteric treasures, a portal to a private world of modern enchantment that reveals itself in new ways each listen, music for lovers created by a supergroup of innovators to be digested, shared and cherished.

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Listen to 'CT00001' by N95 taken from '419448783' out on 15th November via Fuselab

Bandcamp: https://fuselab.bandcamp.com/album/419448783

419448783 is an experimental album representing a protest to aggressive electronica in the year 2024. Deep moods are accompanied by extremely clear rhythms forming a completely new form of dance music. 419448783 project is dedicated to the route from squeaky and fuzzy lofi-house to arrhythmic and concrete slowed-down footwork.

N95 - Moscow-based DJ, artist and producer of experimental but somewhat more accessible music (in his own words), CEO of the MOSOBLELECTRO label and community.

Member of Glam Trax FW, an anonymous union of footwork artists in Moscow. Started his career in 2019 after release of his first album “8gb//5Mpx” consisting of raw house and sample based music, which defined his way of sound production. Nowadays N95 is more focused on juke, ghettotech and breakbeat.

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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

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From the V/A Test Pressing III
https://soundcloud.com/muscut/va-test-pressing-iii-muscut-xx-12-2020-excerpts
Format: 12” LP, 300 copies, numbered, hand-stamped / Digital
Release date: December 11, 2020

Tracklist:
A1. G.E.S. - hipinterval 1&2
A2. Andrew Pekler - Early Bird (Loose)
A3. Hanno Leichtmann - offest 23
A4. S A D - Akpai Song
A5. Nikolaienko - Jazz Tape
B1. Koyil - Vāɡ
B2. Mårble - LESBEE (Shaggy Bumblebee)
B3. KWJAZ - Passing Saints
B4. uon duh - Under
B5. Ahnnu - Wandering

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