Realia is proud to announce the release of 'Inisint' EP (Realia004) by trapcore duo INSIN, comprised of Welsh producer/vocalist Elvin Brandhi and Palestinian producer/MC Bashar Suleiman. Formed in Cairo in 2018, with Inisint the duo consolidate a recently established yet prolific alliance, completing a trilogy which includes two earlier co-authored EPs (both released in 2019, 'Sadsun' on Cairo-based label/collective/artist residence Hizz, and 'INSINCERITY' on Vienna's imprint Amen).

Uncompromising in spirit and uninhibited on stage, INSIN’s politically engaged yet down-to-earth artistic practice preserves a genuine sense of craftsmanship, in the fullest sense of the term, which eludes any form of domestication and becomes even more evident in this new work. Contaminated with trap’s latest developments, but clearly imbued with an anti-establishment, bitterly punk attitude, in Inisint sharp-edged metallic fragments driven forward by pulsing rhythms provide the backdrop against which Elvin Brandhi’s and Bashar Suleiman’s digitally stretched, mantra-like vocals surface—sometimes in the form of an intimate, almost indistinct chatter, at other times with high-spirited, although contained, vehemence.

The duo’s five tracks are assembled together as a freeform architecture, wherein a great variety of biodigital elements become the constitutive parts of a polymateric sculpture: crafted with sound and to be handled with care. All in all, the thrill of this work stems from its capacity to arouse conflicting emotions at once, ranging from vengeful anger to light-heartened abandon.

INSIN's five original tracks are complemented with three remixes. Charged with reinterpreting ‘Aknno’, the EP’s opening track, are Occult Punk Gang alumni Wisecrack—in partnership with Enjoyable Music. ‘Kidney Spears’, the second track from Inisint, has inspired two remixes—by Labyrinth Body and Blue Plastic, respectively. Labyrinth Body (also known as Cobweaver | Yem Gel) has turned Elvin Brandhi’s vocals-led piece into a synthetic neo-Renaissance solo cantata. Blue Plastic’s eerily immersive remix serves as the final track of the EP, whose vertiginous 7-minute coda sounds like vanishing into the most remote corner of a forbidden memory. 
credits
released December 20, 2019

All tracks produced and recorded by INSIN
Tracks 1, 2, 5, and 7 mixed by Noumeno. Tracks 3 and 4 mixed by Noumeno and Giovanni Maria
Additional production and mix on tracks 6, 7 and 8 by Labyrinth Body, Wisecrack feat. Enjoyable Music, and Blue Plastic
Mastered at Tapewave Mastering
Artwork by Orgen
Graphic design by Lidia Ginga Cozzupoli

INSIN - Inisint [REALIA004]

Taken from SBKT039: Osheyack & Nahash - Club Apathy
Release date: 2nd April 2021

‘Club Apathy’ is a new collaborative EP from Osheyack and Nahash. 4 club-ready tracks, with remixes from DJ Marcelle and Nkisi.

Cover photo: Dre Romero
Layout & Design: Luke Griffiths
Handstyles: Orron Fearon
Makeup: Freya Ni
Hair: 柯维涛
Model: Ary
Mastering: Raphael Valensi

Club Apathy

Osheyack & Nahash - The Heel

MARTYYNA - SWEEP THE DARK CORNERS

INSIN - Havuzsus

INSIN - Joust

Racine - Quelque Chose Tombe 
Cat. Nr: DN016
Format: LP / DL 
Release Date: 21 February 2020

Hidden in plain sight, grinning through worry, living in insecurity – modern society has returned to a day-by-day race for survival. To be vulnerable is the new normal; afraid, a bare minimum. Something was bound to emerge from the quiet throngs of the new precariat, and Racine is such a voice, setting to music those modern lives defined by uncertainty.

Quelque Chose Tombe (‘Something Falls’) is a set of compositions that confronts demons both inner and outer head-on. Created during a period of necessary unemployment somewhere in Montreal – caring for one’s health can take precedence over work – the music is both a grotesque dance of the goblins and the gentle opiatic breath of the protectors. It’s a harrowing reflection of the prevalent vampiric hypochondria forcing a generation into fatigue. 

The sounds crawling out of Racine speak with their own internal logic. Snippets of fractured tunes creak through perturbed post-digital soundscapes, blurred and fragmented along the way into haunting amorphous instrumentals. The two-part title track is multi-part sonic maze where raven-like pitch bent notes gather, a broken rave theme punctures its way through bass fog, and silence clefts the music in two, ushering in a coda of heartbroken ambience. As the album’s suite progresses, Racine shepherds mutant melodic themes in and out of earshot, like clear thoughts bringing temporary order to a state of emotional panic and withdrawal. A host of other sounds too – voices and birdsong, cybernetically deformed – populate Racine’s scarred productions. 

Emerging from Quelque Chose Tombe’s constant darkness however, is a latent sense of hope. Racine is turning modern vulnerability into a strength, creating a singular aesthetic to reflect and confront an uncomfortable present.

Mastered by Beau Thomas 
Design by Niels Wehrspann 

@julienracine

Quelque Chose Tombe

Racine - Quelque Chose Tombe II

Courtesy of @realia
Full article: https://www.ptwschool.com/blog/insin-kidney-spears-inisint-ep-realia-004-xxxclusive.html

Insin - Kidney Spears [Ptwschool XXX]

Formed in Cairo in 2018, Insin is comprised of Welsh producer/vocalist Elvin Brandhi and Palestinian producer/MC Bashar Suleiman.

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Insin - Aqsat

Uncompromising in spirit and uninhibited on stage, Insin’s politically engaged yet down-to-earth artistic practice preserves a genuine sense of craftsmanship.

Article:  https://weareinsert.com/audio/premiere-insin-aknno-realia

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Premiere: Insin - Aknno [REALIA]

Ptwiggs - Leads To Nowhere

From the new LP, Excision After Love Collapses: frktl.bandcamp.com/album/excision-after-love-collapses

Excision After Love Collapses

FRKTL — Excision After Love Collapses

Acolytes - Side A

Taken from @amselysen new album Hypnagogic Surge, out November 22, 2020, via @genotcentre

Read: https://bit.ly/3pAWHjJ
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/36D2aOt

HYPNAGOGIC SURGE 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.

Designed by eurasiandesert
www.instagram.com/eurasiandesert

Mastered by Wim Dehaen
soundcloud.com/wimdehaen

Released by Genot Centre

Hypnagogic Surge

Premiere: Amselysen - Obsidian Shavings [Genot Centre]

+++ GUN UNITED 02 : P I T - Biotic Network +++

We’re truly happy to open the new year with another addition to our UNITED series, which for each EP in the series, one member of the GUN community collaborates freely with other producers and artists of their choice.

For the second piece in the series, multi-faceted producer and Biodiversità Records founder P I T brings together three up and rising talents : ASJ, myen and migu, whose activities of the past few years consistently kept pushing the boundaries of the electronic soundscape.

Biotic Network is a breeding experiment, a virtual field research that started with an open call to the GUN community to share data such as images, texts or sounds. These gathered multimedia specimens - an aggregation of personal experiences with nature, served as a substrate for the growth of a new life form inspired by mycorrhizal networks and internet archives.

From the moist synthetic echoes of Fungi on My Face.mkv to the interweaved chaos of Sculpting Mycelium.mkv and the encompassing symbiosis of Aggregate.mkv, Biotic Network transcends classifications and carefully crossbreeds counter-balancing sound species. 
The resulting EP is an interconnected web of sounds and imagery, providing us with a fertile ground for future generations of sonic ecosystems. 

++ TRACKLIST ++

01. P I T - Fungi on My Face.mkv
02. P I T, migu & myen - Sculpting Mycelium.mkv
03. P I T & ASJ - Aggregate.mkv

++ CREDITS ++

Track produced by P I T 
https://soundcloud.com/digiborg_pit

In collaboration with : 
ASJ https://soundcloud.com/weareasj
migu  https://soundcloud.com/miguzo
myen  https://soundcloud.com/myentericplexus/

Cover & visual works by Pacôme le Rouge 
https://www.instagram.com/pacomelerouge/

Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta

P I T - Fungi on My Face.mkv

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INSIN - Havuzsus

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