C O L O R S Q U A D 0 1 3 by Color Squad Records
https://colorsquadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/c-o-l-o-r-s-q-u-a-d-0-1-3

ASA5 [snyx3.2] | COLORSQUAD COMP 013

BUNYI BUNYI TUMBAL

HULUBALANG - Cerca

Yoshitake Kawai, Bussei

Butta

JEROME On Iso Radio w/ defled, wyme, mos fet and max rollins

Cassette/digital release available from https://soundcloud.com/mappaeditions
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/chim-ras

Named after the mythological hybrid of the chimaera, Forces’ first collection for mappa was put together in a similar fashion. The sounds all stem from a fruitful residency at Stockholm’s EMS Elektronmusikstudion in May & June 2022, leading to a bounty of source material with which to build. The sounds and concept are equally chimeric, stringing together disparate and unintuitive jams, the music mimicking the multi-limbed, sewn together beasts of both creative open source coding and destructive multinational concerns who hide their cores amid endless appendages. Like Doctor Moreau, Forces - aka Finnish artist Joonas Siren - weaves wildly varying attributes into something new, from short-circuiting 8-bit dream ambience to fractured digital groans, drones, and noisy freakouts.

Though EMS is best known for its Buchla and Serge modular systems, Forces went ‘digital’ and largely navigated a lesser-known synth rack one can wheel between studios, affectionately known as the ‘90s Wagon’. “It housed different digital rack synth modules,” explains Siren, “ like the super unknown EVS-1 by Evolution Synthesis, a UK company who only produced this one rack synth only and then vanished.” Some truly alien sounds emerge from Forces’ creative misuse of forgotten 90s boxes and sampled modular jams. The result is an erratic trip through mismatched circuitry and digital codes, slipping between emotional artifice and harshly logical music.

The track titles stem from both famous mythological chimaeras and multinational arms dealing conglomerates. “Different quite sinister firms can operate in broad daylight, easily hiding their true nature. Many of these mega-corporations have different branches (like chimeric limbs) that are producing quite normal mundane every-day items, as well as mass-producing weapons.” A dedicated SuperCollider user too however, Siren states how open source coding snippets are also ‘chimeric beings’. “You end up always using some part of some old code and then building completely new work on some old idea,” Siren explains. Despite its misuses, there’s also something hopeful in the malleability of ideas, and the ability to creatively collage the world as it is into something wholly new, even better.

Complete gear list:
SuperCollider
Evolution Synthesis EVS-1
Yamaha TX81Z
Nord G2 Modular
Nord Wave
GRM Plugins
OddVoices website
Omnisphere VST
Vital VST
Diva VST
Waldorf Microwave XT
Serge Modular
Buchla 200 System
Buchla 100 clone 

credits
released August 10, 2023

Recorded, coded, composed, performed & mixed by Forces (Joonas Siren)
joonassiren.fi
www.instagram.com/fffforces/

Recorded at EMS Stockholm, June 2022, with the digital synths of the "90's wagon" synth rack, and the SuperCollider programming language

Artwork by Marutonkun
www.marutonkun.com
www.instagram.com/marutonkun/

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
abdonoval.com

Words by Tristan Bath
Photography by Zoltan Czakó

Released by mappa as MAP039 in 2023

Chim​æ​ras

Forces - Rheinmetall (from Chim​æ​ras, MAP039)

Solifuj4 is a producer, DJ and multidisciplinary artist based in Paris.

His industrial & hybrid lullabies navigates between harsh noise, emo pop & hard drums. 

Airing on Ola Radio, his monthly show RAINING ARROWS explores his differents influences from noise rock, ambient, experimental music, alternative pop, soundtrack to deconstructed club. He has played his music at GRRRND ZERO, META and opened for the duo LEYA in Lyon and Paris.


For his guest mix on MUTED, he made a selection of music from his own production, from friends and artists that feeds his practice. 

From LEYA’s uncanny harp & violin, Richie Culver spoken poetry, Elvin Brandhi vocal mayhem to Young Thug melodies, 

the mix is waving between soft melancholic tunes, post-club, trap, dark ambient or noise.


Tracklist:
Leya - Wave
Klein - storm
Honour - Giz-'aard ($uckets)
Ziur - Nontrivial Differential (feat Elvin Brandhi)
Slikback - Acid
NET GALA - Reclaim It
Elvin Brandhi - Reap Solace
Deli Girls - all the things i've done
Amnesia Scanner - Scorpions, Bats & Spiders
group A - Channel Surfing I
Young Thug - Safe 
Oli XL - Cygnostik
Rainy Miller - Misery is as Misery Does
M.E.S.H. - Coercer
Oxhy - send them away
Osheyack - With Us
Felix Lee - Smoke (feat Kamixlo)
Brodinski - No Smell
Slikback - VIOLENT BEND
Alpha Maid - Aman
Cecilia - Opening Night
Iceboy Violet - Lillith (feat Daemon & Blackhaine)
Tot Onyx - Clumsy Ineptitude
Richie Culver - Goth Night At The Community Centre
Aho Ssan - Tetsuo II
Palmistry - Rainer
Solifuj4 - With the leeches
Skrillex - Ceremony (feat Bladee & Yung Lean)
Leikeli47 X Erwan Sene - Iron JunQ (Solifuj4 mashup)
Hajj - Reflections On Repulsiveness
Future - Blow a bag

MUTED - V3n3c3nt invite Solifuj4 - 16/11

No Escape Except Peace W/ Bride & Treglia

Recorded at Midnight in the rain, at a marshy wetland at Buckeye Creek Farm Cherokee GA. 

Audio captured with the Sennheiser MKH-8040 Compact Cardioid Condenser Microphones x 4, in ORTF configuration. Recorded at 24-bit 96khz with the Sound Devices 788T.  Free Download

buckeyecreekfarmga.com/


Multichannel Field recording of A Symphony Of Frogs in the Rain.

dingndents.bandcamp.com/album/retrogrades

Retrograde24

New EP Systik now available: https://richarddevine.bandcamp.com/

Bookings: mia@lb-agency.net

Multichannel Field recording of A Symphony Of Frogs in the Rain.

RichardDevine