Taken from SBKT040: Yen Tech - Assembler

Release date: 28th May 2021

With Assembler, his second full-length album, Yen Tech re emerges in ecstatic and primordial new form -- a multi-layered and interwoven work that blends futuristic production, meta-science fiction, and anthropic critique into a dizzying array of next scenarios -- a maze-like vision of our technological and exponentially oracular, full-stack future.

This imagined future becomes a construct or place in itself; one in which the record buzzes and swarms; a mechanosphere of towering melodic vocal samples and sound design - all narrated by Yen Tech's unnerving, diaristic vocals - as he channels the form of post-human techno cretin, whispering hyperbolic ASMR to no one in particular. We follow this character from one disorienting experience to the next as he recites a stream of indecipherable neologisms and hyper-descriptives, the existential residue seeping from every line. In the end though, a strange, uneasy beauty comes into focus; the metamorphic lyrics and musical euphorias revealing Assembler as a type of elegy: a wet glass reflection of the failures of what we are and were - and a jubilant celebration of what we may become.

"I imagined Assembler as a type of self imposed simulation, an invisible boundary that the narrator has to navigate out of to move forward. It was a way of looking at how we may carry the issues and failures of the past with us into the future. The psychological baggage of history, the guilt of geotrauma, the addictive melange of technology all become dealt with in this stage of acceptance and recovery. I wrote the album with this in mind, a process to find the slimy pearl of who we are" - Yen Tech

All music and lyrics written by Yen Tech
Produced and arranged by Yen Tech
Vocals by Yen Tech
Additional vocals by Katy Townsend
Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Artwork and vinyl design by Johannes Schnatmann

Assembler

Yen Tech - Arsenal

A haunting cinematic mix from Oakland-based artist Sueuga. 

Making their production debut back in 2019 on Terror Negro Records under the Sueuga Kamau moniker, Sueuga is now a solo venture by Manolis Sueuga. Using their music to explore their Afro-Latinx heritage, Sueuga's releases often draw from historical moments, with their 1973 EP on Argentinian label Hiedrah Club de Baile looking back to the title year and the more recent release ‘Como El Viento, Vuelve' on Uruguayan label Salviatek, Sueuga attempts to explore their Native American ancestry, that of the Tohono O’odham, a people of both northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. Out today is a remix EP for this release with the likes of Aggromance, TAYHANA, EL PLVYBXY, Only Now and LTAV reimagining the tracks. 

In the mix for us, Sueuga brings that storytelling approach weaving through different moods with the use of piercing, boisterous industrial soundscapes and contrasting classical quiet moments. It’s an art in tension building, bringing people to their peak before giving them a moment to relish in the stillness and in the end reflect upon their experience. 

‘Como El Viento, Vuelve Remixed’ by Various Artists is out today via Salviatek - buy here: https://salviatek.bandcamp.com/album/como-el-viento-vuelve-remixed

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Untitled 909 Podcast 108: Sueuga

Takeover by @oldyungmayn

TRACKLIST:

Rincon Sapiencia - Ponta de Lança (MU540 FAVELA RIDDIM FLIP)
410-think-again-ss-ed1t
???
Twisted Rope - Michael Aurelius
Oldyungmayn - eldwar 
fragment01
Inertya - Apophenia (Aho Ssan Remix)
SACADA
razormade
Precolumbian & Estoc –CCT02
realitydistortion field potop out
TROPICAL INTERFACE - reborn A
My sword - fade away
slikback-srt
Leo - efforts dashed
Kilbourne - Gore Tex
tzusing-hodge-lcd-estoc 
DMON/ ENDGAME - Eye Teeth

Noods Radio show 039 w/ oldyungmayn | 15.04.2022

Brutal, fetid power electronics from Sarahsson's transgressive Illegal Data debut.

'The Horgenaith' is out July 15th on Illegal Data.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3xBAisM

@sarahsson
@illegaldata

The Horgenaith

Premiere: Sarahsson - Swallow [Illegal Data]

xl.iks - Sebundoheiseu

part of the comp SpeedParade Vol.1 by Les Points/GI/Infoline

Speedparade Compilation Vol. 1

Bandcamp

Meet Them Somewhere

POSTWORLD - personalbrand w/ Beatrix Weapons - 19/09/2022

A sweltering entity pierces the veil of our atmosphere, a shimmering light echoes a warning of its arrival.

Exploited Body returns to Changeless with their earth-shattering two track EP. 'Collapsar' is a high-octane, howling, extraterrestrial banger caving in on itself, with its relentless drums and harrowing screeches clawing their way into the physical realm. 'Syrtis' is a deceptive slow-burner that halfway through the track reassembles itself in double-time through hyperactive breaks and disjointed rhythms.

’Collapsar / Syrtis’ will be released 11th November via Changeless.

Written, produced, mixed & mastered by Nori Kin.
Artwork by Jesse Draxler, Nori Kin & Samuli Vienola.

@exploitedbody

Collapsar / Syrtis

Exploited Body - Syrtis

Like thunder rolling over darkened open fields, this mix by Karoliina Pärnänen is an ode to lower-level frictions and frequencies. Delve into this masterful selection just in time for the weekend. 

Cover photo courtesy of Karoliina Pärnänen 
Lay out by Oliva Rawlings

Valley Radio 098 - Karoliina Pärnänen

rip ME - exhale, exfoliate

E-Saggila - Tilt

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Noods Radio show 039 w/ oldyungmayn | 15.04.2022

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