• poems written and read by Nat Marcus
https://www.instagram.com/nymphnet/
https://www.instagram.com/tabloidpress/
https://tabloidpress.net/

• sound by Alexandra Zakharenko
http://zakharenko.es/

Poems By Nat

Fluid Hammer

Pancrace - CSO

Stine Omar sharing from her notes in this first in a series of unticked boxes and other love stories

• read and written by Stine Omar
https://www.instagram.com/stine.omar/
• sound by Alexandra Zakharenko
http://zakharenko.es/

Unticked Boxes By Stine Omar And Other Love Stories

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Dreamcycles - Future Lights and Archetypes

https://sitequeeste.bandcamp.com/album/future-lights-and-archetypes
Available 1 May 2020 exclusively on Bandcamp. Available 29 May 2020 on all digital platforms.

Dreamcycles, the moniker of Irish-Canadian artist Jennifer Moore, emerges from the ashen present to deliver her conceptual debut mini-album Future Lights and Archetypes. Operating at the node between technological reality and speculative fiction, Moore transforms ethereal bedroom pop and monolithic electronics into uncanny soundscapes to explore what she describes as the “landscape of a future global economy.”

Moore’s imagination conjures a new order of global governance which uses data to assess the competencies, characteristics, and productivity capacity of its citizens. Predictive analytics are used to shuttle humans around the globe in a tightly choreographed dance of space, labour and capital. Spanning a perspective both personal and systemic, the Dublin-based producer guides the listener through her sober invention, anchoring its alienating events around simple longings for home.

Across six tracks, present-day sonics are repurposed to create warped atmospherics. “If I wanted to see the world, I’d have to imagine it,” says a disembodied voice on opening track ‘Memory (Temporary Access)’. Pitter-patter footsteps, playing children, and whirring device noises swirl around the words: harsh, familiar, and ultimately unsettling. ‘Fonn Abhaile’ follows—its vaporous synths matched by breathy vocals—but ‘Abrasive Routes’ reveals the haunting potential of Moore’s psychoacoustic constructions. News report snippets detailing the Dublin financial district jostle with screeching high-definition cars. “It’s become the most extraordinary contrast to everything else here,” recites a roving correspondent, cataloguing inequalities suffused into the electronic artist’s home.

As the mini-album progresses, the emotional intensity rises. ‘Memory Laneways’ pairs an elegiac refrain with industrial kicks before ‘Playing with the Concrete’ offers a moment of brightness. “You look good when you’re smiling,” sings Moore over a distant sinogrime melody, followed by her closing, and most affecting track, ‘Final Goodbye.’ Meditations on belonging are swept along by circular, trance-like synths whose closing destination is bittersweet: euphoria tempered by the artist’s sombre backdrop.

Moore describes Future Lights and Archetypes as a “post-extraction artefact.” Through its diary entries, radio clippings, and fragmented songs, the mini-album resembles an object hewn from a fully-realised world, like an Ursula K. Le Guin novel refracted through machine learning. Keen listeners might also detect a flicker of Grouper’s place-based musings or even the crumbling electronics of Actress. But this release melds intimacy with pulsating stimuli, Moore’s gaze oriented firmly towards the human cost of an omniscient technological future.

Future Lights & Archetypes

Dreamcycles - Memory Laneways

Acousmatic poem by the ambassador of unconsciousness and sound designer Asio Otus (@asiootus)

Recorded in Lisbon 28/03/2020

The artwork is a collab between @asiootus and @iq94

FR059 Asio Otus (Lisbon, Portugal)

As featured on AQNB's 'even my dreams don't go outside' art & music compendium.

Buy now: bit.ly/2RXX9JY

even my dreams don't go outside

Keru Not Ever, 'Strette' (2020). Courtesy the artist.

ewa awe - Too Fast Now

Yours, emerges from the shadows as 333 Boyz’s first release since their EP Pink Freak (Creamcake, 2015). A rare fruit, the duo’s album nods (and headbangs) to a curious range of musical influences through heavy sampling and live instrumentation. Yours, unapologetically attempts to fit the mould of a "conventional” album, while at the same time allowing for naive weirdness.

Artwork: Sam Lubicz & Liam Morrison
Mixing: Ben Jackson
Mastering: Jordan Juras

Yours,

ANM059 - CARE001 333 Boyz — Natural History

Felisha Ledesma - In A Bow

@felishaledesma

Edited Arts is launching Serotonin, the second in a new series of charity fundraising compilations.

Serotonin features contributions by some long-lasting friends and new found collaborators ; Dane Law, DIDA, dj celes, Eye Measure, FARWARMTH, Felisha Ledesma, Georgie McVicar, hogobogobogo, IVVVO, KMRU, Lauren Duffus, Lenticloud, Monofee, mu tate, Nexcyia, onybdy, Shit Creek, SPECIMENS and 空蟬(Cicada Shell)

Cherubic voices, sparkling drums, and drones on their way back home from an all-nighter set the scene for this compilation. 19 artists have made sonic references to the hormone that acts to regulate our wellbeing. This is the second release from a series that is musically themed on psycho-sensory states of happiness, or the lack thereof.

Profits from this release will go to the Black Cultural Archives and Raw Music Media. 2 Brixton based organisations / charities.

Mastered by Colin Moir/ Moir Air
Artwork by Eliza

We appreciate your support and hope you enjoy the music. Thank you for listening.

Felisha Ledesma - In A Bow

KMRU and Aho Ssan collaborate on a cosmic collision of lacerating sound design and conscious-expanding synth.

All proceeds from the music and painting are donated to Hackney Migrant Centre, a local organisation that provides support to asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in London by offering advice on immigration, welfare, housing and health: hackneymigrantcentre.org.uk

'WFH003' is out December 18th on Hot Desk.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3nyhiDO

@ahossan
@kamarujoseph
@hot-desk

Premiere: Aho Ssan & KMRU - Ruined Abstractions [Hot Desk]

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