Taken from SBKT043: Prettybwoy - Tayutau
Release date: 17th September 2021

Prettybwoy’s debut is entitled Tayutau ( 揺蕩う), a traditional Japanese term often used in haiku and literature, meaning ‘waver’ - a state of indecisiveness, to lose determination or purpose, often temporarily, or to drift or sway to and fro. Made over the last two years whilst dealing with isolation, job loss, burnt hard-drives and almost losing the whole project, the album has seen several phases and degrees of anxiety, uncertainty, hope and frustration.

‘Too many things have changed since starting to make this album, and I think that is reflected in the production. The album can be split into three parts – tracks I made before the pandemic when things felt stable, tracks made during lockdown in isolation, and tracks made during the cautious and conflicted opening up and the lead up to the Olympics. There has been so much confusion and changes back and forth, but I want to have hope and try to keep focused, which at times hasn't been easy’

As well as drawing from external causes, 'Tayutau' also comes from a place of internal uncertainty.

'This is a trip in search of my new identity, or maybe to understand my current one. I am Japanese, living in Japan, but my music is only released by labels from other countries. I am a member of SVBKVLT (China), and also Polaar (France), but where or who am I in Japan?’

Tayutau is a 10 track album, featuring two vocal appearances from lIlI and a collaboration with Primula, and comes with artwork and video from Wang Jingxin. A separate EP of remixes will be released shortly after the album.

Cover Design: Wang Jingxin
Mastering: Raphael Valensi

Tayutau

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Confined Space stems from the idea of repurposing audio material from YouTube, in an artistic process that values quantity over quality. Random videos are selected using different key words and their audio is chopped and compressed into the DAW to be used as compositional elements. Often scrolling down to get the uploads with the least views, this process is both a reflection on the enormous quantity of material that can be found online and an invitation to use and repurpose digital content in new artistic ways. What is inside the database is not important, its size already makes for an infinite output of ideas.

Luca Favaro is an Italian musician and composer. Starting as a classical percussionist, he approaches electronic music composition finding his roots in sound design, club music and field recording. With the moniker T.U. he has published with False Industries (Berlin), Hide Productions (Milan, Udine) and World Canvas (Helsinki) as well as scoring music for installations, theatre and ballet. He currently hosts Desktop Music, a monthly show on radio Raheem where he explores sound design and generative music through original compositions. With the dance-focused project Capiuz, Favaro investigates a more rhythmic approach to his compositions, exploring the more experimental and hypnotic sides of dance music. As a programmer, he has created various Max for Live devices published by Hide Productions in an ongoing series.

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Cicada is a time manipulation effect that warps and smears audio in real time. The device is divided into two independent sections: SCRMBL creates a cloud like texture by running the incoming sound through a cascade of modulating delays, with the possibility of adding extra pitch shifted layers. WARP imitates the warp feature on Ableton’s clips, with a grain/speed control and the possibility of having it synced and retriggered according to live’s tempo.

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uncaame is a producer and DJ, member of an abstract hip-hop duo mosa.technology. 
His productions draw themes from deconstructed club music, uk bass and early Posh Isolation records. Uncaame is also a co-founder of the narocz13 collective - an initiative combining grassroots underground raves with outsider art exhibitions. 

uncaame marks his first appearance on 00effort with a grim, bass-heavy piece titled “saliva”. Its uneasy atmosphere gains on intensity with the reverberation of high-pitched vocal samples. Using silence as a negative space, the producer keeps us alert and waiting for the release of overdriven bass wobbles.

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uncaame - saliva

For EYX009 London based producer Tooth Rust steps out to follow up her breakout release on Cherce Encore ‘Striae’ in 2021. 

The producer from London debuts on Early Reflex with the experimental downtempo three-tracker ‘Glut’, which blends both organic matter and artificial elements yet thinking about the club. 

The enchanted opener ‘Gyre’ swallows immediately the listener into Tooth Rust’s cosmic vortex of eerie sounds, mournful chorus and marching snare drums. The relentlessly hypnotising kick drum and its rhythmic session do their job delivering a spell-casting club tool.

Buy via: https://earlyreflex.bandcamp.com/album/glut


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Glut [EYX009]

Premiere: Tooth Rust - Gyre [Early Reflex]

out a serie of remixes for @matteocoffetti's embryo furafura album

first remix out by @piezopz
buy it here: https://pampsychia.bandcamp.com/track/quentin-selva-fooza-piezo-mondialcasa-remix
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original track: https://soundcloud.com/pampsychia/3-quentin-selva-fooza?in=pampsychia/sets/matteo-coffetti-embryo

Quentin Selva Fooza (Piezo MondialCasa Remix)

@audiobambino debutant @gobekli has conjured an EP both futuristic and ancient. Taking their name from Göbekli Tepe, an archaeological site considered the oldest place of worship yet discovered, ‘Clovis’ is as much informed by the harsh climate of the time as ancient religious practices long forgotten.

Somewhere between euphoric braindance ritual and bass mutation, opening track ‘Highground’ arrives suspended in a state of frenetic flux. Direct IDM torque punctuated with vocal chops and plenty of synthetic bird call.

Clovis

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Premiere: Gobekli - Highground [audio bambino]

Prolific Japanese producer T5UMUT5UMU has built up a reputation in the last few years for his ability not just to recreate club styles but to flip them into almost unrecognizable dancefloor hybrids. "Sea of Trees" follows a blistering run of Bandcamp releases where T5UMUT5UMU has melted together gqom and techno, deconstructed grime and welded dubstep to traditional music from Japan and India. Here, he's operating completely off the grid, pulling raw materials from across the globe and hammering them into confounding shapes and patterns.

On its surface, 'Fireball' sounds like a liquid metal approximation of South African gqom, but move in closer and you can make out dubstep bass squelches, trap hats, and industrial techno jet propulsion filling in the gaps with rubberized mortar. 'Desert' is the EP's most lightheaded cut, a psychedelic percussive spiral that curves micro-tuned mbira clangs around bee sting bass, aerated noise blasts and sub-aqueous kicks. It's a hard track to place, but fits in somewhere between Donato Dozzy, Menzi and 33EMYBW, all shifting rhythms and precision-edited sound design.

'Sea of Trees' retains this momentum, pushing the tempo and interspersing woodblock vibrations with syncopated bass drums and goosebump-inducing synths, while closer 'Bottomless Valley' shifts back into a gqom framework, shuffling the expected pulse with a powerful dembow swing, half step subs and Indian-inspired rattles. "Asyl" is a varied but shockingly coherent statement from an enigmatic producer who refuses to confine himself to a single path, and at a time when "cross-genre" is the norm rather than the exception, it's refreshing to witness a producer who's unafraid to truly make stylistic left-turns, rather than simply mash together top-level aesthetics.

Sea of Trees

Desert

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Timesaver is Xen Model’s third full length album and second release on the Causal Chain imprint. The 9-track LP stays true to the duo’s eccentric sound while delving into the introspective side of their productions. Club-focused head nodders “Pin Cycle”, “Face Forward”, and “Controller” accompany key tracks like “Arm’s Edge Reach” and “Grip Dial”, which channel the duo’s affinity for ambient music. “A Bright Star” spotlights a catchy guitar hook and features close collaborator 11ai. Xen Model’s signature play on halftime structure is engaged in bass-heavy cuts “Ripstream” and “Local Group”. The album comes to a close with a radio edit of their previously released track “Lurch”, which clusters the duo’s myriad styles and influences in an encapsulating statement of the Xen Model sound.

All tracks produced by Xen Model (@xenmodel).
Mixing and mastering by Xen Model.
Released by Causal Chain.
Album art by John Bonetti.

Timesaver

Pin Cycle

Xen Model - Pin Cycle

Pro Unlimited refers to soundcloud premium accounts from the ancient ages. It's an archeological dig the label used to find its sources. 

This 17 tracks various is a wide spectrum gathering of label affiliates, newcomers and producers we had a crush on in the past months.

It's generous in term of styles and offers uplifting ambient, psychedelic ravy cuts, punk trip hop, post-clubbish belters and a big variety of sound design pleasures.

Available in CD limited edition and digital (link in bio)

Mastering : Lorenzo Targhetta
Design : Christophe Synak & Nina Muro
A&R : @sleekfata

08 - Hedo Hydr8 - BAD (feat. $LIMI)

Out September 15, pre-order it here: relatedarticles.bandcamp.com/album/coming-around

Current Bias (@currentbia5) is a Boorloo born, Poneke-based queer sound designer and producer of sonic work that encompasses a playful left field approach to contemporary electronic music.

Their second EP this year following March's self-released 'Communal Distance' and single 'Demonic Ascent', Current Bias has also released singles in a range of compilations such as Racquet Club's 'Network EP', 'Artists in Residence' compiled by Ludus, and Juke Bounce Werk's 'JBDUBZ Vol.7'.

'Coming Around' is available across all platforms from September 15th.

Coming Around

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Current Bias - Swoopee (RA:003)

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[RA001:] 'SALT LICK' - GG Mothra
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[RA003:] 'Coming Around' - Current Bias 
[RA004:] 'Hardcore' - VSB 
[RA005:] VA001
[RA006:] 'Hell Na / MOOM' - GG Mothra
[RA007:] 'Frontal' - Current Bias
[RA008:] 'Mutuals' - BJ Leo

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