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KLAHRK & Zoë Mc Pherson, 'E-merge Stgy' (2021). Courtesy SFX, Berlin.

Out June 3 on Riddims Supplies 002, alongside Kaval's Panna Cotta.

Buy: https://riddims-supplies.bandcamp.com/album/riddims-supplies-002
Label: @riddims-supplies
Artist: @stacktracedub

[Premiere] Stacktrace - Mysticyal Floot (out on Riddims Supplies)

Returning with our first release of 2022, we are delighted to welcome @soreabuk to the label :) 5 cuts bridging the gap between Bass Music, Italian Techno and early IDM. As well as a weighty remix from the formidable @pugilistmusic <3

150 copies, hand stamped.

Release date: 17/06/2022
Distributed by Rubadub
Design by Atelier Plus and Giuditta Turchi

Pre-order: tbc

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PSEU003 - Soreab - Bound to Origins [PREVIEWS]

Scorpio Red is pleased to announce the release of Zeynep Ağcabay’s second EP, out on the 7th June 2024.

The Turkish born, London based artist’s 4-track release ‘Memories from the Future’ re-frames memory as a non-linear plane of time: visions and sounds collected from “memories” that are yet to occur but feel already lived. An effort to merge her self-titled spiritual folk project with her former ambient pop moniker mea0u, ‘Memories From The Future’ evokes a cyclical, nostalgic and trippy dream sequence. Distorted vocals, a nod to heavy exposure to Western pop influences, meet with samples of Turkish Ney flute and percussion reminiscent of "home".

Zeynep Ağcabay - On My Mind

Based in Prague, Xynnh is a mainliner of past joys and desolate elegance, part of a collective Glory Affairs - an ever morphing entity dedicated to bonding through audiovisual circus, as Mary would say. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/ran-cap-duoi/episodes/ran-cap-duoi-25th-july-2024

RẮN CẠP ĐUÔI w/ Xynnh {Glory Affairs} 250724

One last offer from our Gretchen before we gather on Saturday to
welcome ECHIDNA:

Gretchen has curated a mix for us which highlights some auditory gems
from the artists performing at our first event, embedded into related
sounds and noises and further united by some of Gretchen's favorite
transitions. It captures how ECHIDNA's vision of experimentation and
transgression translates into lurching amplitudes and unexpected
danceability.

Lose yourself in it as you adorn yourself for our initial gathering or use
these shattering sound waves to entice the last sleeping beings to join
ECHIDNA.

ECHIDNA MIX 001: Gretchen

Delivery 2 20 bpm take 1 21625

feat. Kenichi Iwasa, Kuljit Bhamra

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No: PAN 106
Release Date: 07 February 2020
Purchase: bit.ly/33ISoYr

‘Workaround’ is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythmobsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN. It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro- Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.

Recorded over 2017-2019 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14 bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play.

‘Workaround’ evolves Dillon’s notions in a coolly unfolding manner that speaks directly to the album’s literary and visual inspirations, ranging from James P. Carse’s book ‘Finite And Infinite Games’ to the abstract drawings of Tomma Abts or Jorinde Voigt as well as painter Bridget Riley’s essays on grids and colour. Operating inside this rooted but mutable theoretical wireframe, Dillon’s ideas come to life as interrelated, efficient patterns in a self-sufficient system.

With a naturally fractal-not-fractional logic, Dillon’s rhythms unfold between unresolved 5/4 tresillo patterns, complex tabla strokes and spark-jumping tics in a fluid, tactile dance of dynamic contrasts between strong/light, sudden/restrained, and bound/free made in reference to the notational instructions of choreographer Rudolf Laban. Working in and around the beat and philosophy, the album’s freehand physics contract and expand between the lissom rolls of Bhamra’s tabla in the first, to a harmonious balance of hard drum angles and swooping FM synth cadence featuring additional synth and vocal from Laurel Halo in ‘Workaround Two’, while the extruded strings of Lucy Railton create a sublime tension at the album’s palatecleansing denouement, triggering a scintillating run of technoid pieces that riff on the kind of swung physics found in Artwork’s seminal ‘Basic G’, or Rian Treanor’s disruptive flux with a singularly tight yet loose motion and infectious joy.

Crucially, the album sees Dillon focus on dub music’s pliable emptiness, rather than the moody dematerialisation of reverb and echo. The substance of her music is rematerialised in supple, concise emotional curves and soberly freed to enact its ideas in balletic plies, rugged parries and sweeping, capoeira-like floor action. Applying deeply canny insight drawn from her years of practice as sound designer, musician and hugely knowledgable/intuitive DJ, ‘Workaround’ can be heard as Dillon’s ingenious solution or key to unlocking to perceptions of stiffness, darkness or grid-locked rigidity in electronic music. And as such it speaks to an ideal of rhythm-based and experimental music ranging from the hypnotic senegalese mbalax of Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, through SND and, more currently, the hard drum torque of DJ Plead; to adroitly exert the sensation of weightlessness and freedom in the dance and personal headspace.

The album is mixed by James Rand and mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Thomas Ruff, layout by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

Workaround

Beatrice Dillon - Square Fifths (PAN 106)

@jellvako - FaMe' x @ama-54 - ARABXO DESERTTON

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