the significant novelty of kyoka‘s first full length album »is (Is Superpowered)« is that she uses her own voice much more often than usual, in the form of short snippets as well as longer sung melodies. these elements are set and arranged as if they were an autonomous instrument, and sometimes they give the impression of being a babelesque language mix-up, or even a kind of cryptic message for the listener like found in the song »meander«.

the production process of the record was heavily supported by her label mates frank bretscheider and robert lippok, which is, in this way of forming a production team, a unique constellation in the history of raster-noton. whereas lippok focused on preserving the roughness and complexity of kyoka‘s compositions, bretschneider concentrated on refining them regarding their fluidity and focus. both tried to keep the vitality and hyperactivity of the initial tracks without losing their distinctive eccentricity.

although kyoka‘s sound is often kind of chaotic, it is by no means stressful but rather energizing and easy to enjoy. the only exception to this can be found in »piezo version vision«, the noticeably roughest track of the record. her particularly progressive style is best reflected by the song »re-pulsion«, a rolling groove combined with unusual clicks and snares and topped with crazy sounding voice fragments.

the album thus further deepens what was already initiated with her first ep »iSH«, released as part five of raster-noton‘s unun series. it presents a stylistically broader spectrum of kyoka‘s music but at the same time exhibits the fresh and positive, sometimes even childlike attitude she is already known for. this eventually renders »is (Is Superpowered)« a perfect extension of our label catalogue.

kyoka. lined up. taken from kyoka. is (is superpowered)

Taken from Annual General Meeting Record (Vol. I), the first in our new annual compilation release series, with all profits going to a different charity each year. For the first year, all proceeds will go to Médecins Sans Frontières.

Available as digital download and limited edition cassette from:

www.antighostmoonray.bandcamp.com

Annual General Meeting Record (Vol. 1)

Ravoir

Ravoir — Ausschuss

https://mindrecordsjapan.bandcamp.com/album/crave-loco-8

MIND CLEAR 012 - CRAVE - LET'S DO VOODOO!

Manchester's Daniel Ruane kickstarts his new label Failed Units with four explosive cuts of mangled electronics.

Read more: https://hyponik.com/features/first-listen-daniel-ruane-nest-failed-units/

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@daniel-ruane-2

Dawn Of The Failed Units Pt. 1

First Listen: Daniel Ruane - 'Nest' (Failed Units)

Jenna Sutela - nimiia vibié
Format: LP / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 104
Release Date: 09 August 2019
Purchase: bit.ly/2MPpaSa / https://bit.ly/2KpeKHi

Aspiring to connect with a world beyond our consciousness and our planet, nimiia vibié sounds the interactions between a neural network, audio recordings of early Martian language, and microscopic footage of extremophilic space bacteria. Here, the computer is a medium, channeling messages from entities that usually cannot speak. However, it is also an alien of our creation.

Drawing on nimiia cétiï, Jenna Sutela's project on machine learning and interspecies communication, the record manifests a more-than-human language. This language is based on the computer's interpretation of a Martian tongue from the late 1800s, originally channeled by the French medium Hélène Smith and now voiced by Sutela, as well as the movement of Bacillus subtilis, an extreme loving bacterium that, according to recent spaceflight experimentation, can survive on Mars. The bacterium is also present in nattō, or fermented soybeans, a probiotic food considered as a secret to long life. Beyond Bacterial-Martian culture, or Martian gut bacteria, the project attempts to express the nonhuman condition of computers that work as our interlocutors and infrastructure. 

Jenna Sutela works with words, sounds, and other living materials. Her audiovisual pieces, sculptures, and performances seek to identify and react to precarious social and material moments, often in relation to technology. Sutela's work has been presented at museums and art contexts internationally, including Guggenheim Bilbao, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, and Serpentine Galleries. She is a Visiting Artist at The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) in 2019-20. 

The project originates in n-dimensions, Google Arts & Culture's artist-in-residence program at Somerset House Studios. Machine learning in collaboration with Memo Akten and Damien Henry. Miako Klein in the contrabass recorder and Shin-Joo Morgantini in the flute, with sound production by Ville Haimala. The album is mastered by Rashad Becker at d+m, Berlin.

nimiia vibié 

Jenna Sutela - nimiia vibié II (PAN 104)

Intended to ground Non/Being's future work in collective foundations of collaboration and social consciousness, this compilation brings together varying musical artists across the world with the intent of raising money for the organization Rainbow Railroad.

All proceed earned from sales will be donated to Rainbow Railroad's efforts in helping LGBTQIA2S+ people to escape violence and persecution in their home countries.

Cover art by Heather Mitchell AKA REMOTE ACCESS

FLUQS - Kighin

Cold Blow excavate a melancholic, machinist soundscape from Croatia's Robert Merlak.

'Finomehanika' is out July 1st on Cold Blow.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2UZ3bex

@cold-blow-records

Premiere: Robert Merlak - Pao MD [Cold Blow]

02 Shit forest

Santé Fragile Vol.1  [SRC 001]
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Mastering - Maxime Maurel @ Studio Noir
Artwork   - Ulysse
Santé Rec 2020

Voici déjà quelques mois qu'elle circule. Une mystérieuse mixtape qui se passe de la main à la main dans les rues mal famées et immatérielles du web. Il se dit que c'est la première d'une série à venir chez Santé Records.
Il s'agit là d'une compilation de titres aux tendances Acid/Expérimentaux que nous propose le label qui, pour composer cette sélection au poil, à envoyé ses émissaires battre la campagne française, poussant même l'exploration des territoires jusqu'en Italie !
Cette compilation est un mélange de têtes connues proches de Santé Records ou
aillant déjà collaboré avec le label, mais aussi de talents cachés dans l'ombre
de leur home-studio n'aillant que trop rarement dévoilé leurs talents au grand
jour.
Une compilation qu'elle compile sacrément bien !

07 - Glass - Fuck Dreams

Constantine Skourlis - Collapse
taken from "Eternal Recurrence"
 
Label : Bedouin Records
Bandcamp : https://bedouinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-recurrence

Tracklist
1. Collapse
2. Reality Cancelled
3. Atonement
4. Reckoning
5. Destroy False Idols
6. Elegy
7. Lethe
8. Ascension

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@bedouinrecords

Premiere: Constantine Skourlis - Collapse

Artist: Neo Geodesia
Album: 2562 Neon Flames
Format: Digital / Tape /LP
Cat.No: CHI030
Master: John Hannon
Artwork: Saphy Vong
Release Date: 11th April 2020

The razor-sharp edge of life, death and rebirth is explored with an almost hallucinatory intensity in Saphy Vong’s new album 2562 Neon Flames, his first under the name Neo Geodesia. The album, which is dedicated to his mother Chun Leng and released two years after her death, revisits her sudden, tragic, shocking loss during the celebration of Khmer New Year 2562. It was made during a particularly trauma and cathartic time.

The compositions are sonic tales synchronously decoding and regenerating customary patterns of thought in nature; aural designs of crisis and harmony where contemporary meets folklore, orchestrating an artificial saga with a variety of illuminations and analysis. A matrix of dazzling sequencers, warped vocal samples, synthetic instruments, Khmer Melismatic Smot, Kantoam Ming (Funeral Orchestra), Beksloy, Karaoke DVDs, Abstract electronic and personal archives are arranged into holograms of dreams. Through digital superimposition processes, instruments mutate and take on new forms of articulation. Crystalline organs, mourning voices and insistent Bamboo flutes dance with metal drums and traditional Angkorian percussion as compositional schizophrenia or absurd fusion.

Saphy was due to return to Cambodia in April 2020, a trip which was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak in another cycle of bad luck, displacement, missed connection and sickness. This album is for all diaspora who struggle to return to a country, and for all parents like Chun Leng, who balance life between returning and helping relatives and making a new life for herself and her family. It is for everyone who has searched for a country, lost a parent, or found joy and new life in the bitter ashes of grief. Most of all, it is for Chun Leng.

The album release is accompanied by the self-directed video for Venomesis, a surreal, colourful animation full of mythology – both ancient Cambodian and from modern pop culture. Venomesis pairs the traditional Angkorian Khmer percussions skor samphor and skor daey with off-kilter syncopated rhythms and Roam Vong 90’s karaoke melodies. Kla klouk video game app sounds, growling creatures, and pulsating chaos grows into a cacophony of erratic beats and surreal cartoonish samples, creating a space where balance and chaos co-exist in a hyperkinetic, abstract electronic landscape.
The music video explores life, death, poison and evolution – the rapid flux of growth and decay which is accelerated in Cambodia as development and climate change transform the country. “The video takes place in a flooded seaside town after the impact of a typhoon, as people get ready for celebrating Khmer New Year,” explains Saphy.
“It shows a disaster at the end of the harvesting season, when farmers enjoy the fruits of their labour before the rainy season begins. Khmer people set up altars to offer sacrifices to the sky deities, or devodas, who are believed to make their way to the Mount Meru of legend at this time of year.” Games are a core part of New Year celebrations. In his surreal video, aquatic zombies evolve into humans after winning games, while humans die after losing. People eat tarantulas, a traditional Khmer snack which are defanged before consumption, a food which remains taboo in the West but helped the people to survive during Pol Pot Regime..
At the heart of the video is the paradox of poison best expressed by Paracelsus - "All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison." Venomesis explores this maxim within the context of Saphy’s deeply personal experience of loss, as well as the intense changes happening in contemporary Cambodia.

Watch VENOMESIS - Music Video https://youtu.be/iBeMbWSqv3U
Read: https://couvrexchefs.com/neo-geodesia-chinabot-venomesis-2562-neon-flames/