Banlieue is proud to release Les Chroniques du Crépuscule, an EP by Le Fléau des Vignobles as a digital release on Bandcamp and the usual platforms, accompanied by unique merch - a limited run of 7 one of a kind handmade candles designed by Adrienne Kammerer.

Le Fléau des Vignobles is a solo project by s1m0nc3ll0 (@simon-villaret), an artist hailing from the wine-producing Bordeaux region in Southwestern France. Entitled Les Chroniques du Crépuscule (The Chronicles of Dusk), the EP is an homage to all the sagas and various narrative experiences that have made an impression on the artist over the years.

A lifelong fan of fantasy stories, the artist has always been drawn to the imagined worlds that come to life in the many fantasy books, films, RPGs, and video games his collection, with their fully realized worlds, breathtaking illustrations, deep lore, and epic stories full of struggles between light and darkness. The name of his project is a nod to dungeon synth and black metal scenes with their traditional and mythological inspirations along with their mystical, oftentimes larger-than-life personas.

The first thing that one notices while listening to the project is the artists’ unique combination of traditional sounds, melodies, and even words with modern production techniques and a forward-thinking sensitivity.

This is best exemplified in the opening track, which features autotuned singing in Latin by the singer M3C (@m3cmelove), and throughout the EP, where musical elements reminiscent of medieval music and other melodic choices are abundant, with the use of several medieval instruments. But this is not revivalist dungeon synth or some watered-down take on medieval music. Instead, the artist weaves sound tapestries using the influences cited previously and makes the music resolutely his own.

With several identifiable samples, from horror films to cult dance tracks, the EP is marked by a very heartfelt approach to melody and harmony, with a vulnerable, at times bittersweet thread running through the entire work, whether it is on an Elliott Smith cover doused in reverb, IDM / electronica adjacent cuts or more floaty numbers.

As a whole, it is a timeless, dreamy affair, that leaves the listener in a state of aesthetical satisfaction and that activates the more imaginative parts of their minds, in order to take them to truly fantastic places.

You can get your candle on Banlieue’s Bandcamp, including a download code of the EP.  They are here to guide your listening experience. Switch off your light, light your candle, and play the music ✨

Words by Ed Isar (@ed-isar)
Lettering by The Lazy Dog (www.julesdurand.xyz)

Les Chroniques du Crépuscule

PREMIERE - Le Fléau Des Vignobles feat M3C - Chagrin Dans l'Antichambre Du Roi (BR013)

For the third episode of their residence, Harpies Records invite their first guests : Elouan Zébla and BDSTF. A four-handed proposal between cloud rap, pop and ambient music.


AK77XICA, ALZA54 & GLASSWAYSS - Migodeleuze (Rhizom Ende)
SSIEGE - Blind
KOLOAH - Serenity
GUY BONNET & ROLAND ROMANELLI - Amour, émoi... et vous
OUR.V - Bloom of Lopho
PK - finga itchin
IVVVO - Ceramic Chaos
FUTURE X SAMI BAHA - Shit x Chunk (212 Thug blend)
BDSTF - Through Perfect Glass
V1984 - Toxe x Aaliyah (v1984 edit)
ANA ROXANNE - Untitled
WORLD OF WARCRAFT OST - Dragonblight
VALET - The way that u see yourself
JUNYA NAKANO - This is your story
Someone will call you back shortly
WHITEARMOR - Eternal hills highest crest
MECHATOK X YOUNG THUG - Stunna Dew
ESTOC - Diamond Consumption (CYPHR x RIHANNA)
ESTOC - A FINE DAY TO STILL BE ALIVE (ALEX COMPTON x OPUS 3)
JAZZ LAMBAUX - Xorcism in B-Flat Minor
BDSTF - White Paparazzi Fence (Lady Gaga x Koreless)
SCIM - ℓѕ Fates
USER-0 - Justin Bieber talks about Selena Gomez (First Real Love)
DJ GOSSIP - ROSALÍA & GIL ❤ LEVERET SUITE NANA (｡◕‿‿◕｡)
IAN WILLIAM CRAIG - An End Of Rooms
BDSTF - Cater 2 U (Destiny's Child x Yamaneko)
S280F - Owls Singing for the Birth of Lilith (F168)
RXKNEPHEW - I Forgot the Beat
LOKEY - Inverse (dnbless)
MISS JAY - We All Need Saving Sometimes
PALMISTRY - Memory Taffeta
JANET JACKSON FT. VANESSA-Mae - Velvet Rope

ROAZHON PARK /w ELOUAN ZÉBLA & BDSTF (17.06.2022)

bwitueveryday

bwitueveryday///: mix

Songs for Stamina

All Tomorrow's Clouds

Promise - All Tomorrow's Clouds

Thirty-seventh Cime show on @radio80000

w/ @freestyler123

s280f - 5m (sv1)
escha & ytem - drill fr 4
an system - strange world
ingrate - there is
doss - strawberry (singing club mix)
mc kitinho e mc 7belo - ngdp m.r. (nahshi edit)
bonsai2004 - shadows (forthcoming on transatlantic)
agazero - earth
evian christ - on embers
luxxuryproblems - scene change
soda plains - meet me at escados
willem feltzer - new heights
snufkin - spinning chronicles (lag switch x torus)
escha & ytem - ???
dj coldsteel - starseed activations (@ax3lcloud remix)

Artwork by www.instagram.com/alexanderturovsky

Cime w/ Freestyler on Radio 80000 (December, 5th, 2023)

HeavyToCarry w/ Apu Nanu & Wanton Witch 17-05-2024

CLUB YAOI takeover OLA RADIO le samedi 18/05/2024 avec ses résident.x <3

☆IRL ☆ (air-core set)
@bel_irl @irl_333
Je m’appelle IRL. Ca veut dire « In Real Life », et en français « dans la vraie vie ».
C’est comme ça qu’on désigne le monde physique depuis un espace virtuel, quelque chose comme le nom de domaine de la réalité.
Je fais de la musique entre deux mondes, celui où je me promène en silence, que j’observe pour y trouver quelque chose à raconter, et celui où j’enregistre, où je duplique, où je coupe, où j’archive, où je sauvegarde, où je partage.
Je fais des chansons pour passer de l’un à l’autre, pour que tout tienne ensemble, le dedans et le dehors, les instants et les traces.

IRL
ici est là
Infini et sans pixel

☆Ped Castor☆ (live performance)
@theoczdbt_
Conteur d’histoires nocturnes pour des queers qui ne seront jamais de vrais adultes, animateur un peu bourré au club ped, entre un grand enfant et un vieux guncle, ped castor et ses récits humides veulent que vous ne vous sentiez jamais seulx.

☆loïs☆ (dj set)
@loissmd
NeoDJ, artiste et programmateur du festival MOFO

☆BABY-B ☆ (dj set)
@baby_b__b_
Personnage kawaï de la scène queer parisienne, BABY-B jongle habilement entre DnB, LatinCore et HardBass avec ses édits post-apocalyptiques MTV <3

☆Sweet Amadeus☆ (bijoux/trésors)
@sweet.amadeus
Depuis 2 ans à Marseille, Sweet Amadeus dépose dans le creux de vos mains des bijoux chauds et coulants. De l’amour à offrir, à couver, à saupoudrer autours de soi, comme quand on laisse couler des grains de sable entre ses doigts.

 
<3333

Club Yaoi TAKEOVER — IRL

@Katnzingha is a trans, multidisciplinary experimental artist born and raised in Philadelphia. Their artistic practices explore abstruse textures through sonic and sculptural materials. 

Combining their sculptural works with heavy low-end frequencies and celebratory tones they create blissfully cryptic sonic resonances that are the extended bodies of the modified objects they fabricate. Kat Nzingha uses convulsing kicks, metallic percussion, and hyper-processed textures to design sound, and distinct repetitive techniques, industrial materials, and elongated forms in their sculptural works. 

After releasing an EP, "Angeltribe" on London @TT_label in 2020, and "Vorphic Skin" on @Toothgrinderpress in 2023, Kat Nzingha released the album "Grind" on @Angeltribe.XTL .Shorty after, they released “RIM” under the artist name “@BRYYA” on the label formfourm which consists of heavy focused sound design techniques. 

Live on @hkcr 🪡

Coccyx 21-May-24 - HKCR feat. Kat Nzingha

++ PRESENTATION ++

Scores +°-  glyphs to sounds !

+°°+--+
Scores is a compilation exploring musical notations and how they can be interpreted as sounds. People have always tried to translate sonic expressions into visual cues that could be archived, passed down, and transformed back into music. 

From symbols to numbers, grids, staffs, figures or abstract shapes, several languages have been developed and continuously questioned to improve the ability to retain the emotion and meaning sounds can convey - what lies behind the veil.
 
What if this time, the notation would come beforehand?

+°°+--+
The project unfolded in two phases. In the first one, visual artists from the Global URL Nation could propose one sheet of music score, free of interpretation. They were invited to play with musical notations and explore what it would even mean.
–
It welcomed chaggrin, Eurrope, M4X1US, MYEN, s1m0nc3ll0 & Ziyiz for 6 sheets


+°°+--+
In the second phase, artists from GUN could pick one sheet and create a track trying to follow it as much as possible. It invited them to question music as a physical object, with its shapes, colors, textures and layers with the following :

__How is the overall composition? Are there any axis or lines that could be interpreted as a timeline or a melodic scale?
__How many discrete elements are in the image? How are they laid out?
__What are the shapes involved?  What is their scale? Do they have sharp or blurry outlines?
__What are the colors/textures used? How do they relate with each other in terms of tones, contrasts…?
__How are the different elements layered on top of each other? Are they superimposed or do they merge in some way?
__How would they translate them in musical terms, such as textures, notes, structures, timbres, rhythms, dynamics? 

It welcomed Bademjan, Baje Nunca, C+Vis, Capiuz, Clair X, C.T.A.A.M.  Ecovoron, Epiphagi, HeedLess, Mambo Kahn, migu, POL100, Yau Hei ASJ & Ziyiz for 14 tracks ranging from ethereal scorescapes to hyperstimulating scratches. Sounds and shapes weave together, blurring the boundaries between the two media to create one whole entity

+°°+--+
With Scores, we invite you to seek the music that can be hidden in our surroundings, to decrypt and hear the phantom scores one can find in every shape, every color and every little visual detail __ open your ears and see the sounds, sometimes music lies in a simple fold of clothing


++ TRACKLIST ++

__((Sheet A by chaggrin))
A1. Clair X - Unravel
A2. migu - Red for Funeral
A3. Epiphagi - Everything We've Come To Be

__((Sheet B by Eurrope))
B1. Bademjan - Wrinklenest
B2. Yau Hei ASJ - Jigsaw Puzzle

__((Sheet C by s1m0nc3ll0))
C1. Ecovoron - Burning Shide
C2. C.T.A.A.M. - A-L

__((Sheet D by MYEN))
D1. Capiuz - Dreamer of Nightmares
D2. POL100 - Butterfly Wall

__((Sheet E by Ziyiz))
E1. Baje Nunca - En Blue Gray et DVD
E2. HeedLess - Incomprensibile

__((Sheet F by M4X1US))
F1. Mambo Kahn - Celestial Arson
F2. C+Vis - Untitled
F3. Ziyiz - Skies Inside (Ring The Bell)


++ CREDITS ++ 

Music sheets created by chaggrin, Eurrope, M4X1US, MYEN, s1m0nc3ll0 & Ziyiz. 

Tracks produced by Bademjan, Baje Nunca, C+Vis, Capiuz, Clair X, C.T.A.A.M.  Ecovoron, Epiphagi, HeedLess, Mambo Kahn, migu, POL100, Yau Hei ASJ & Ziyiz. 

Common cover by Griigg
https://www.instagram.com/griigg

Mastering by Ioannis Nafpliotis
https://www.instagram.com/iamxato/

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F2. C+Vis - Untitled

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Another Remix of a song I loved ♡
Original song: You & Me - Disclosure (Flume Remix)

(This is a sped up version so soundcloud doesn't take this down, I'll add a link for the original one later)

YOU & ME HARDTEKK - ELPIZZA

Radio Raheem is an independent online radio station streaming 24/7 music and visuals from Milan with a cosmic perspective.
The radio, located inside Triennale Design Museum.
The platform aims to support and elevate a genuine and diverse local scene while keeping an eye to the moon and the galaxies far away.

HeavyToCarry w/ Apu Nanu & Wanton Witch 17-05-2024

Radio Raheem Milano

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