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Taken from SBKT049: Osheyack - Intimate Publics
Release date: 8th June 2022

Intimate Publics, Osheyack’s second album, is an homage to Shanghai, the city he has called home since 2012. Over the past ten years the producer has evolved from an avid club-goer to a key member of the vital soundscape that emerged from ALL Club and its predecessor, the now defunct club The Shelter. As hinted by the title, which draws on American social theorist Michael Warner’s work on publics and counterpublics, the album expresses a commitment to mining the utopian potential of club music, forging new worlds and generating future social relations, just as the artist bids farewell to the city at a moment of uncertain transition. While tracks like 'Edging' and 'Thrall' continue to present his signature collage of harder club music, the rest of the record reveals a shift to synthetic approximations of acoustic instruments. 'Still', the central track of the album, is a piece composed almost entirely of samples found on Vocaloid (a vocal synthesizer developed by Yamaha, commonly used to give voice to Japanese virtual idols). While echoing themes explored in previous projects, like the nature of realism and authenticity in a techno-mediated landscape, Intimate Publics is charged with an unexpected emotional candor and vulnerability, unveiling a personal side Osheyack is only beginning to explore.

Words by Alvin Li
Artwork by Xiaofei Qiu
Design by Luke Griffiths
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Intimate Publics

Osheyack - Edging

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Track 1. Gunderman - 9||310495||072187
Track 2. Monako - Back2Back
Track 3. D V D - Don't Stop 
Track 4. DJGR3Y - Deified⅋reviled 
Track 5. Landfill - Gaban
Track 6. Disgrays - Art Song 
Track 7. Hextape - Chill Out Cunts

Artwork and videos by nicha
Mastering by Cirrus Audio

Hextape - Chill Out Cunts

Resurf

Mossambi - Cross Seam

The third entry into our Crux singles series comes from Circular Square, currently one of Brussel’s secret gems, but clearly on the verge of blowing up. Circular Square’s seemingly natural skill at crafting exciting interzones of bass-heavy club acrobatics and melodic realms, prime his productions for both adventurous dancefloors and deeper home immersion.

As the central piece, 3-HT-(xon) finds an equilibrium between its surgical drum stitches, swaths of glassy chimes and rapturous flutes. That balance tips a bit as lush, almost pastoral elements come to the fore half-way through, before the drums regain their ground.

Swiveling hi-hats surround a mighty, prowling bass on GBS_02x, an expertly crafted minimalist and stealthy pouncer, that successfully wrings every last drop of momentum out of its carefully selected components. As an addition, Leese’s snakey flip reconstructs its stagger into a rolling parade of tribal percussion, intermittent vocal stabs and cavernous drop-outs, mastering the fine art of remixing that is true to the original, while still bearing the unmistakable handwriting of the remixer.

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Circular Square - Crux III: 3-HT-(xon
CXA008 - 24.03.2023 | Digital & Streaming

01. 3-HT-(xon)
02. GBS_02x
03. GBS_02x (Leese Remix)

Produced by Circular Square
Mastered by Alberto Bertelli
Artwork by Ferenc Petöcz

https://soundcloud.com/cruxaxul
https://soundcloud.com/circular_square

Crux III: 3-HT-(xon)

Premiere: Circular Square - 3-HT-(xon)[Crux Axul]

Me In Mono - Reflections
Label: Infinite Machine
CAT#: IM104
Format: Digital
Release: July 7th, 2023

Me In Mono has been making music under various guises for 15 years, and during that journey through sonic landscapes one thing has been a constant feature: raw energy. Coupled with a taste for the peculiar, it’s no surprise that he finds himself most at home in the darker, dingier parts of the dancefloor.

An homage of sorts to the music that led him to produce in the first place, this collection of tracks explores the beauty in the weird, and the starkness in simplicity. Created for optimal energy, percussive elements and de-tuned synth's feature heavily, underpinned by subs that help to make the tracks ready to take on the most hardened dancefloor audiences.

The music itself is relentless and loopy. While the sound design is futuristic, in structure the tracks are more progressive, content to fully explore a certain space before moving on, wringing every possible nuance from each groove. The melodies for the most part aim to generate tension, in insistent sixteenth notes that detune gradually, until we reach ‘Roo’, where some respite is provided by a sensitive Rhodes. Closer ‘Stop Harping On’ goes further into melodic explorations, featuring hyperreal scalar runs that could have come from Ferraro’s Far Side Virtual.

Me In Mono - ab3 (IM104)

RELEASE! "Gravity Always Wins" by TX4 is out now!

We are more than excited to present you the full EP and the first release on our freshly launched label LAYE AUDIO now!

"Gravity Always Wins" is the first release on our freshly launched label LAYE AUDIO. A culmination of various influences, with an emphasis on bass, sound design and broken rhythms. Mixing chopped samples, wigged-out FM synthesis and lots of saturation. Representing an aesthetic and sound we currently love to hear in the club: Heavy bass sounds, wide stereo fields and an arrangement which keeps you guessing.

You can buy and list to the whole EP now on Bandcamp https://layeaudio.bandcamp.com/album/gravity-always-wins-ly01

Since today is Bandcamp-Friday we are especially thankful, if you buy the EP today 😅

Thanks for your support!
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Mastering by Neel @ Enisslab
Artwork by TX4

TX4 - Gravity Always Wins [LY01]

woof woof, entre chien et loup : 2 nouveaux riddims symphoniques pour les plus téméraires. S/O DJ Gerard pour la track broken dancehall telephonique.

Mastering by @qqant

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Kaval - Free Doggos

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Maloca, Vol. 1 is OUT NOV 13th - @nickleon
Pre-order : https://maloca.bandcamp.com/album/maloca-vol-1

Tracklist :
01. Dengue Dengue Dengue - Minerals
02. DJ JM - Skirts
03. Nick León - Creation Story
04. DJ N.K. - Quebra Ossos
05. Le Motel - Durban
06. Coen - Stomp
07. Omaar - Denumbawon (The Number One)
08. Tsongo - Fantasy Girl

Featuring 8 different artists from Mexico to Lithuania, Peru, Portugal, Florida, UK and Belgium, ‘Maloca Vol. 1’ outlines the worldly focus of Le Motel’s new label. 

Launching Maloca Records earlier this year, the label’s ethos is to build bridges interlinking disparate yet like-minded musicians dedicated to blending organic electronic and acoustic elements. The global network of makers highlighted on Maloca Vol.1, the label’s first compilation, confabs a terrestrial and borderless percussive sound that has been bubbling in clubs and Le Motel’s orbit. 

Opening the compilation is esteemed Peruvian duo Dengue Dengue Dengue followed by Lithuania's DJ JM who has previously released on the likes of Nervous Horizon and Goon Club Allstars, Miami artist and NAAFI affiliate Nick León and Lisbon’s DJ N.K. On the second half of the compilation, there are contributions from the label founder himself, Mexico’s Omaar, UK’s Coen and mysterious artist Tsongo. 

Maloca Records has put out three vinyl releases to date from Oakland’s Farsight, Beijing’s Howie Lee and Le Motel. The label is quickly building a reputation for releasing brilliant forward-thinking club records whilst capturing specific international sounds.

ARTWORK BY HELL’O COLLECTIVE 
GRAPHIC DESIGN BY LE MOTEL 
MASTERED BY BRANDENBURG 
DISTRIBUTED BY CREVETTE DISTRIBUTION

Maloca, Vol. 1

Nick León - Creation Story

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