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concentration 🪬🗝️

I’m not from here 🛸

Creative pt2

Enantiodromia

Ex Nilalang

Muvaland Vol. 2

Lite Werk

With particular focus on Indonesia's Yes No Wave label, Filipina-Australian composer and recent UIQ debutant @corinmusic traverses experimental electronic terrain. 

Read more: https://ifonlyuk.com/if-only-podcast-93-corin/

If-Only Podcast #93: CORIN

GOOD PUSS

V/A - Kikommando
Label: PAN / Hakuna Kulala 
Cat.No. PAN 124 / HK029 
Format: DL / Book
Release Date: 6 August 2021
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Kikommando
Video: https://bit.ly/3i2EgSg

A collective effort from a vital scene in Kampala, KIKOMMANDO takes its name from Ugandan street food of flat bread and beans. As a ‘food of soldiers’ offering maximum energy for minimum funds, the eponymous mixtape, video series and book project is an equally nourishing and ambitious proposition. It all began in the East African summer of 2018, during a two-month residency at the Nyege Nyege label and collective’s villa, in collaboration with their sublabel Hakuna Kulala. Producer and PAN artist Simone Trabucchi (aka STILL) opened the door to his temporary studio in the city and a crucial cross-cultural collaboration was born.

“The intention was to record as much as possible,” Trabucchi says about KIKOMMANDO’s musical showcase of eight Kampala-based artists, coming from the spectrum of musical influences, crossing trap, drill, cut ups, kuduro, electro, smooth jams—the list goes on. In creating a sonic space to support the expression of its featured singers, poets and emcees, the mixtape ties countless styles and flows into a single snapshot of a particular part of the Kampala music scene, at a particular point in time. The invective of rapper and street legend Blaq Bandana’s “Nkwaata” is laid over a spare and brooding ambient. Kampala Unit trumpet player and first-time singer, Florence, rolls a thick melodic texture through the organic clicks, knocks and atmospherics of “Bae Tasanze”. Jahcity’s unique lyricism combines a personal take on traditional music and soulful-reggae with a jerky, wobbly collection of drops and donks.

Meanwhile, Ecko Bazz applies his grimey vocals and rhythmic, introspective words to lead single ‘Ntabala (Rolex Riddim) at a particularly pertinent moment of self-reflection. “I was trying to listen to the voice inside myself and wanted to achieve a higher level of understanding of things, life,” he says about the themes that he felt inspired to explore with Trabucchi at the recording desk. The accompanying video, shot on a rooftop in the Kampala neighborhood of Ggaba, is one of a series of slick and high-definition films complementing each one of the KIKOMMANDO tracks. These also include contributions from Ugandan emcee and key Hakuna Kulala member Biga Yut, don dada of the GabaGaza gang Swordman Kitala (with Omutaba on percussion) and South Sudanese poet and singer Winnie Lado.

Also accompanying a ‘visual mixtape’ of moving images for each song on KIKOMMANDO is a recording diary of sorts, where Trabucchi compiles a vibrant collection of pictures, colours and textures reflecting the its heterogeneous sonic palette into a book. Together this multifaceted, interdisciplinary project showcases, what Lamin Fofana’s liner notes describe as, “amazing originality, complexity”, while “embracing dissonance”.

Trabucchi’s personal take on a kind of ‘digital dancehall’ defined the sound of his ground-breaking rumination on Italy’s colonial history on debut STILL album, I, in 2017. KIKOMMANDO is a different proposition entirely, where he finds new ways to complement the personality and skills of its contributors sprung from a constant stream of visitors arriving at the Nyege Nyege Villa’s makeshift studio. “It was a dialogue,” stresses Trabucchi, who has always preferred collaboration as a means to escape branded and stereotypical identities, while creating something new. “I created the musical platform to make the singers confident, and challenged them at the same time. Working together accelerates ideas and reveals that nothing is your invention alone. That’s why KIKOMMANDO is a mixtape to me, and not an album.”

The mixtape is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by NMR. Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11 & 12 mixed by Ville Haimala. Tracks 5, 6 & 8 mixed by Lorenzo Dal Ri.

@hakunakulala

KIKOMMANDO

STILL, ECKO BAZZ - Ntabala (Rolex Riddim) (PAN 124 / HK029)

SHINIE

All tracks are unreleased music by RUI HO

WINDOWSEN SS22 Monster Heart Soundtrack Pt.1

produced by @basecampmusique

featuring @devonbaldwin

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/deadroses/id964337434

waste away ft. Devon Baldwin

I Don't Need Anyone

Maud Geffray - Anna

Maud Geffray - High Side

Numb

Produced by Corin Ileto
Mastering - Jeremy Cox
Artwork - Tristan Jalleh

fatal redemption

Download

Solivagant

prod. larry minor

Hook:
Guess I’m on my own, I don’t wanna go.
Bungee round my neck and the chord is froze.
Motorola phone, blow a quarter O. 
Kiss me on my soul, give my heart a hole. 

Verse 1:
20,000 bones, won’t leave me alone. 
You left me on my own I been bleeding slow. 
Sulphur on my tongue, not seen you in months. 
You been saying stuff, are you due my trust?
I’m drifting faster than a track star.
Spotlights and barbed wire in my backyard.
But there’s no escape, never feeling safe. 
Bleeding grey, tears rolling down my face.

Hook:
Guess I’m on my own, I don’t wanna go.
Bungee round my neck and the chord is froze.
Motorola phone, blow a quarter O. 
Kiss me on my soul, give my heart a hole.

On My Own Freestyle  (Prod. Larry Minor)

Eternalism

video - https://youtu.be/FqkUdIrl734

produced by taehuncho & elixir

i hate this with all my heart , okay bye !

[intro]
just look me in my eyes
i see the hatred, i see that ur tired
all the time just went by
but im so glad that u tried

[ver]
please dont tell me lies
all my life ive felt so tied
i feel unimportant
memories so boring
whats my storyline
just look me in my eyes
i see the hatred, i see that ur tired
all the time just went by
but im so glad that u tried

[outro]
love u til im not moving
were moving slow but we are moving
emotions rush but cant u feel
that i really want it when get in my feels

i need it (taehuncho elixir)

produced by yung thom

suicide,
great time
suicide,
last time

its the time,
little lies,
im on the floor,
ur standing by

crying over you,
dont have the time,
its the last night,
you walk past by

neon green plastic band up on my wrist
will the time help idk what it is
im not that young, innocence gone long
all they say is what could go wrong

Buy on iTunes

suicide thru skype (yung thom)

https://soundcloud.com/820
https://soundcloud.com/birth-face

Nosgov and birthface ~ Holy Water

SWEETEST (PROD. SANPERSEUS)

Lykke Li - Little Bit (SOS Cover)

muurziek

ECCO2K - Fragile (remix)

Much love and respect to the don @iaminfms

Shoutout to @existanze for the new tag

Art credit: lordess.foudre on IG

Spotify

Lie w/ iNFMS

All tracks composed, written and performed by RUI HO except “Leave“ features Golin @5_lin. 
All tracks mixed by Tobias Koch & Rui Ho
Mastered by Ten Eight Seven Mastering 
Artwork by Min Jie 
Released on Planet Mu Recordings

Special thanks to Marie Rae Gailey

Hikari

@therealruan 

All inquiries : rui.ho.ho.hoo@gmail.com
EU bookings:  cj@constellatetalent.com