High digital warmly welcomes Zonaa for the final release of its CD series.
The Parisian producer makes a point of delivering a strong hybrid vision for his first outing under this alias, shifting from dark dnb to softer sonic adventures, diluting club heavy quantum leaps into psychedelic liquid.
Music made to be felt deep in your bones.

Music by @z_o_n_a_a
Mastering by @paulie-jan
Visual by Rembagram

Tidal Simulation

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Laenz's supernatural bass music lands on the Italian label Early Reflex.

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PREMIERE: Laenz - Undue Valence (Early Reflex)

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AGILITÄT - Salience

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MixSeries 17 // @alejandro-santos-61. Un mix cargado de energía, blends buena onda y tracks elevados hechos por amigues. 

Alejandro Santos es un artista audiovisual que ha dedicado su trabajo a explorar la relación entre la música y la imagen desde una perspectiva documental y experimental… 

más info en nuestra web : https://www.hypersonicss.com/ 

Tracklist >> https://www.instagram.com/p/C30y6YPulDt/?img_index=1

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MIX SERIES_17 // S4NTOS

Artist: Sote
Title: Ministry of Tall Tales
Label: SVBKVLT
Cat No: SBKT062
Artwork: Leila Hobooty Fard, Arash Bolouri & Luke Griffiths
Mastering: Raphael Valensi
Format: Limited LP + digital
Release date: 29th February 2024

For our first album release of 2024, we are excited and honored to welcome Sote to the SVBKVLT family with ‘Ministry of Tall Tales’

Ata Ebtekar, better known as Sote, is an electronic music composer and sound artist based in Tehran, Iran. His wide-ranging love of rich sounds and textures is embodied in diverse paths such as hardcore club sounds, collaborations that straddle (traditional) acoustic and electronic instrumentation, and solo experimental electronics – making Ebtekar equally at home in concert halls, galleries, or clubs. Over the last three decades, he has released on labels such as Warp, Sub Rosa, Morphine, Diagonal, and Opal Tapes.

‘Ministry of Tall Tales’ is an electronic music composition that reflects on hyperbolic orchestrations of political and social current affairs.

In this work, notions such as misinformation/disinformation, biased mental states, bigotry, dogma and ultimately corruption are brainchild of the composer in order to achieve a sonic spirit in abstract form.

Ludicrous and distorted human behaviors are told by magnifying musical intervals and entering the spaces in-between, and simultaneously dramatizing subtle microtonal motifs, ultra-fine polyrhythmic, polymetric and polytempic pitched patterns assemble the skeleton of an engine symbolizing various systems.

The configuration and framework of this mechanism represents both harmonious and non-harmonious aspects in society. Rearranging and coloring components of tradition, neglecting moral codes, and separating ingredients of rituals to showcase humankind’s failures and accomplishments.

The composer has been experiencing an immense amount of frustration, anger, confusion, helplessness and fear because of what has been happening in his surroundings and the sociopolitical system. Consequently, the music is contemplations on corruption, oppression and murder.

“Ministry Of Tall Tales” is an all-synthesis based work, dark and melodic with a noise aesthetic.

Ministry of Tall Tales

Sote - 1401 Beautiful Souls

On ACEN058, label boss DJ Pitch teams up with Berlin-based artist MLE to put together an EP of energetic, stripped-down dancefloor cuts. MLE, Rhythm Section affiliate and Refuge Worldwide resident, presents her first released productions; DJ Pitch puts out his first offerings on the label since 2022’s Scared.

First up on the record is the energetic Proto Windmill. Kicking off in a relentlessly jacking house groove, a blissful sample gently enters the fray. A lively vocal sample, reminiscent of UK funky MCs, encourages the dancers whilst MLE and Pitch masterfully switch between dreamy strings and punchy percussive sections.

Next up is Drum Trak 101. Playful, satisfyingly off-kilter drums set the pace, punctuated by oddball vocal samples and rallying whistles. Whilst the percussion gets a thorough workout, this drum track has an emotional edge to it, with soaring strings and a bouncy, uplifting chord progression.

Wicked Cool Mega Safe ramps things up into a high-intensity groove. Whilst stripping things down to percussive basics, the track remains endlessly compelling, with a forceful four-to-the-floor clap pattern surrounded by ecstatic snare rolls, percussive grunts and syncopated tom hits.

Closing the record in fine style is Post Club Post Step. An acidic synth line rolls underneath rigid four-to-the-flour drums, whilst a bouncy sub bass jumps between the beats. A dubbed-out vocal sample brings an air of urgency to the track, introducing an earworm synth melody that runs above the track’s energetic tech house groove.

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