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Jonnnah - Social Nebula

The Spark

Hard Fantasy lands on All Centre with a 5 track EP, Mechanicus, exploring the distinctive experimental style of the London-based producer's sound.

Rogue Advisor emerges with atmospheric sound design. Pummeling drums provide an industrial groove whilst a piercing siren sounds above, its intensity rising to a fever pitch as the track progresses.

Mechanicus is available across all platforms on the 3rd of February.

@yungadultxx

Mechanicus

Hard Fantasy - Rogue Advisor

Following the video release of Lamella, SFX co-label head Zoë Mc Pherson elevates their groundbreaking album Pitch Blender released in March, to new heights with an electrifying remix EP that's sure to set dancefloors On Fire! 
Today we have your first listen of Chicago artist Jana Rush's high-octane dancefloor remix of Potentials. The high-energy purveyor of ghetto house, injects Potentials with frenetic beats, chopped vocals, and irresistible grooves that are bound to get bodies moving. 
Drawing on a diverse range of styles and influences including Ghetto House, South African club music, Rave and Experimental Electronic music, this EP boasts an exciting lineup including Scratcha DVA, Kasimyn Gendang, and Jessica Ekomane who bring their distinct touch and talents to the table, resulting in a thrilling reimagining of the original album. 
Additionally,  MC Yallah and Mc Pherson also collaborate on a spontaneous rework of "Lamella" showcasing the fierce energy of Kenyan/Ugandan rapper in a high-speed tom-infused jukey-steppy rework, also released in it’s instrumental club rework version.

The artwork created by SFX co-label head Alessandra Leone is an alteration of the futuristic Unidentified Objects story, extracted from the duo’s Pitch Blender AV show, which is currently on tour.

Follow the Buy link to Pre-Order Now! Out May 26th!

[PREMIERE] Zoë Mc Pherson-Potentials (Jana Rush Remix)(SFX)

Taken from SBKT059: Gooooose - Rudiments
Limited vinyl + digital - 26th July 2023

For our 59th release, we are very excited to present ‘Rudiments’, a new album by Gooooose.

‘2022 was a strange time in Shanghai. The good thing about being locked inside for months on end was that I had had the chance to find the time to observe ordinary, everyday things that surround me and probably many other people. A pencil, socks, a packet of biscuits, vegetables, meat, or small thoughts or some feelings or emotions that last for only half of a second. They all have interesting shapes and very delicate structures, multiple layers, like some sort of primal architecture made by an anonymous person many years ago. They are constantly telling stories, however often ignored by me, or us, for whatever reason. I decided to sit down and observe them carefully, and later started making sounds for them and their stories.

in drumming, rudiments are small and sometimes fundamental pieces that could later form longer rhythmic patterns.’ - Gooooose

Artwork: Joshi Farnbauer
Design: Luke Griffiths
Mastering: Raphael Valensi

Rudiments

Gooooose - Eggs

Ready To Go.

Tongue In The Mind - Pretty Canary 
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 140S
Release Date: 20 September 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/PrettyCanary

Tongue In The Mind shares ‘Pretty Canary’, the first single from the upcoming EP out via PAN.

Performed by Juliana Huxtable, Via App, Jealous Orgasm

Production by Juliana Huxtable, Joe Rinaldo Heffernan, Fakethias
Vocals by Juliana Huxtable
Synthesizers by Joe Rinaldo Heffernan, Juliana Huxtable
Guitar, Drums, Backing Vocals by Joe Rinaldo Heffernan

Tongue In The Mind - Pretty Canary (PAN 140S)

Long-time friend of the label Plesk Parallel makes her way to All Centre to release a sublime double tracker. On Spit Fountain, Plesk Parallel revitalizes her sound with a pair of transcendent, explorative club tracks.

Spit Fountain opens as a CR-78 drum machine workout heavily manipulated by masterful sound design. Drum clicks reverberate across a cavernous space charted by booming sub-low kicks. A disorienting melody enters the fray in the latter half of the track, reminiscent of AFX b-sides and microtonal experiments.

Morpho shifts into a more mechanical, to-the-grid groove with rigid kick drums and earworm percussion. Drawing on 90s & 00s broken techno, Plesk Parallel puts her own spin on these conventions, augmenting the style with perfected sound design, hypnotic pads and a heavy, dubbed-out bassline.

Spit Fountain is available on all digital platforms from November 10th.

@pleskparallel

Spit Fountain

Plesk Parallel - Spit Fountain [ACEN053]

¿Alguna vez te has detenido a contemplar algo y te has sentido abrumado por su belleza, su exuberancia, su vitalidad? A veces, nos encontramos frente a cosas que parecen desafiar toda lógica, que nos hacen cuestionar por qué son como son: su sonido, su tamaño, su forma, su aroma, su sabor. Son como anomalías en la realidad, algunas de ellas tan maravillosas que nos hacen reflexionar sobre nuestra propia existencia, mientras que otras parecen estar fuera de lugar, aunque necesarias para mantener un equilibrio.

Y luego están esas otras anomalías, las que la sociedad nos ha impuesto: cómo pensamos, cómo nos vestimos, cómo actuamos, nuestro color de piel, nuestra estatura, nuestra complexión, nuestra voz, nuestros sentimientos, incluso por lo que no sentimos. Nos hacen sentir como si fuéramos seres fuera de lo común, simplemente porque no encajamos en los moldes establecidos. Cualquier cosa que hagamos parece confirmar nuestra condición de anomalía.

A veces, las mayores y más perjudiciales anomalías son celebradas, se vuelven históricamente relevantes, pero su legado puede ser devastador, ya que erosionan nuestra identidad y nos hacen sentir inferiores. Nos frustra sentirnos impotentes ante estas grandes anomalías, incapaces de corregirlas. Sin embargo, aunque no podamos eliminarlas por completo, podemos iniciar un cambio, sembrar una idea que despierte y motive a las futuras generaciones a comprender que ser una "anomalía" no es malo.

Ser diferente no es una maldición; de hecho, es lo que evita que todo se desmorone. Es hora de abrazar nuestra singularidad, de reconocer que la diversidad es lo que enriquece nuestro mundo y nos impulsa hacia adelante.

Somos errores del sistema
Busca ser una anomalía y rompe las reglas siguiendo tu pasión. 
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Anomalías

El Irreal Veintiuno - Tez

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Sweet Bye and Bye - Second Episode w/ instar 🎼

Sweet Bye and Bye is designed to help you unwind with soothing melodies and peaceful rhythms, offering a gentle respite from the fast-paced dancefloor.

In this episode, I invited my dear friend @cam_cool - DJ, producer, and member of Burenhinder. Instar is also known as the captivating voice of the shoegaze band Sunchaser. Through their personal sonic explorations, instar plays and creates trance-tekno & noise music, amongst a wider arts practice under the same moniker. Instar takes here a softer approach blending nostalgic soundscapes with textured ambient music to create a tranquil soundscape.

Now, Sit back and enjoy 💌

instar's part:
jenny hval - lorna
malibu - held
death grips - on gp
dj olive - one day old
ena - spirito
finn idris - willmyson
birthed - pledge
chuck person - A3
instar improv drone outro

waltur's part:
Permanent Six Flags - 13 + 18 + 6 
Autumn Fair - A Night on the Tiles
Oren Ambarchi Johan Berthling Andreas Werliin - fyra
Klein ft. POLO PERKS <3 <3 - karmic freestyle
Loren Connors & David Grubbs - Evening Air
Charles Curtis - Elaine Radigue - Occam V (2012)
Oren Ambarchi Johan Berthling Andreas Werliin - IV
Ishmael Reed - How High The Moon
Eiko Ishibashi - Ask Me How I Sleep at Night

LYL radio 30.10 Sweet Bye and Bye w/  instar + waltur

ALIEN INCURSION is the echo of a contact from beyond.
A scrambled signal, an intercepted code — an intrusion into our frequencies.
Between cosmic tension and mechanical pulse, the line between human and extraterrestrial dissolves…

Mix/Master : Abnormal Reality

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ALIEN INCURSION (Free DL)

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Parasite

K9//GUENOUILLE - Parasite

Artist: @laughingears
Catalogue Number: IM086
Album: Blood
Release Date: February 26th, 2021
Format: Digital

Laughing Ears is poised to release her second LP this January via club music vanguards, Infinite Machine. Her lengthiest offering to date, Blood consists of 10 tracks that highlight Laughing Ears’s knack for building otherworldly atmospherics within club-ready, dance music structures. Taking the tale of Fenrir as it’s starting point, (a giant wolf in Norse mythology who spent much of his life bound and chained to a rock in captivity), the album conceptually deals with family ties and the melancholic beauty that can be found in the darkness of loss.

Blood opens with the airy, gliding synths and heavy drumwork of Flickering Shadows. The track has a unique sense of space due its wide stereo-imaging as well as Laughing Ears’ haunting melodies and driving rhythms. A 100bpm creeper fit for exploring uncharted virtual lands. On the following track, Loki, things are stripped back to their functional essentials. Tabla hits, bass pluses and strange whistles brush up against each other in a head-spinning assemblage before surging towards a climactic resolution.

The serene Untouched Places showcases Laughing Ears’ unique approach to melody and harmony. With a background in singing herself, her synths lines here seem to tonally intertwine, like vocal DNA, veering from harmonious and dissonant phases. Compared to the tranquility of Untouched Places, LP title-track, Blood, moves the record in a more intense direction. A brick wall of compressed percussion and humanoid-sung samples seem to battle it out for the listener’s attention in an enthralling sonic confrontation.

On Blood’s mid-point, Night Whisps, the producer’s love for the thrilling soundtracks of Satoshi Kon’s anime movies definitely comes through clearly. Bass drones claustrophobically reverberate around the mix - acting as a musical backbone that a wide array of staccato samples are stitched onto. Next up, Murderous Means, as its blood-thirsty title suggests, is a brutal and hard-hitting club track that’ll keep listeners guessing as the composition twists and turns. The song’s furious, ever-evolving drum patterns create mesmerizing rhythms you can’t help but bob your head to.

The polyrhythms continue on the following piece, Buona Fortuna. Like footwork, a genre she looks to for inspiration, on Buona Fortuna, the main groove is built out of a disparate family of drum samples which work in tandem - much like how individual dots of an Impressionist painting cooperate to form a single, concrete image. Laughing Ears then slows things down slightly with Glimmer, which sees the producer mix the low end stylings of UK Funky with strung out horns and gong hits.

On Potcheen, the longest of the record, Laughing Ears ambitiously constructs a track that starts from curious, ambient beginnings before morphing into a ferocious footwork-infused banger. Rounding off the release, Warm as A Lizard is a groove-laided drum freakout, crammed full of dense textures which build into a tonal fever pitch.

Artwork by Nic Symbios
Mastered by Fausto Mercier

Blood

Laughing Ears - Loki (IM086)

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