TIBSLC - Delusive Tongue Shifts - Situation Based Compositions (sferic009)[Preview]

Assembled to accompany a short film from Manchester-born visual artist, poet and filmmaker Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh, Joshua Inyang and Joshua Tarelle’s newest is a cinematic audit of identity and ancestry. In the film, Sanoh works hard to visually illustrate an honest and vulnerable picture of her soul. Inyang and Tarelle respond by doing the same with sound, collaging disparate elements together in a way that should be familiar to anyone who heard "hybtwibt?" or their jawdropping RA mix from earlier this year.

Warped field recordings, overdriven rhythmic pressure, syrupy pads and disorienting vocals are cut and pasted over each other, generating a living, breathing study of the duo's Northern working class Black British reality. Unlike the duo's acclaimed "Somewhere Decent To Live" full-length, elements mutate and transform: mushy noise bends into street sounds, haunted vocals into echoing drill melancholia and muffled howls into shattered digital remnants.

Special Edition 10" & digital out now. 
Gold metallic Pantone printed on reverse board.  Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung, cut by LUPO.

Tracklist:

Untitled (To Describe You) [OST] feat. Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh
Version 1
Version 2
Version 3

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Space Afrika - Untitled (To Describe You) [OST] (SFERIC10") [Preview]

MBE Series founder Giovanni Napolano continues his research of the Mediterranean, offering up his own personal Porta Del Mediterraneo.

Unfolding along two sprawling 15 min sides, Napolano stitches threads of chopped & screwed folksong with a discrete dub strategy, seamlessly leading the mind down labyrinthine ginnels of his imagination in a sort of uchronic regression session where the ghosts of the past inform the present. In the process it humbly speaks to Naples’ position at the frontier of the current migrant crisis, and necessarily takes a standpoint against Italy’s resurgent, nationalist fascism, revealing the beauty and energy of its indigenous mixture of peoples, rather than erecting borders between them. 

Taking his native Naples as a locus of Mediteranean culture, Napolano plunges the port city’s palimpsest of energies embedded by successive waves of Greek, Northern African & Eastern migration to discover an underlying, rhizomic connection and commonality linked by dub and hip hop as a contemporary iteration of folk music. 

Under its titular, mythical metaphor for the fall of Babylon, and usage in Rastafari culture, ‘Le Macerie Di Babilonia’ imaginatively examines a sense of self via a historic lens, drawing on Napolano’s upbringing in the chaotic port city and his autodidactic research into the rich mosaic of Napolitan heritage, to model how a folk class solidarity and shared character, with its own rules and rituals, has emerged from its syncretic milieu. 

Variously a treatise on provenance; an impressionistic tale of the European north meets a global south; a dub-abstracted, allegoric, ethnomusicological collage; ‘Le Macerie Di Babilonia’ is a fascinating and immersive listen that presents its maker’s dilated world view at its most mesmerising.

Limited Edition LP & Digi out 27th October.

© sferic 2022.

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Giovanni Napolano - Le Macerie di Babilonia (SFERIC11) [Preview]

thirty seventh of our "States United" show on @n10-as, with guest @gab_ii

States United 37: ｇａｂ_ｉ

Bianca Scout - Chances (Pattern Damage, SFERIC12)

@yungwebster7 @nstlgns

additional prod. by @astariii • @smooksss • @kaciefree • @sasmochi • @txxvo • @rxmer • @dielauryn • star • comeinalone

Mastered by @isaacrohr & @tnotsobad
Photography by Ruth Gaëlle Genéus
Design by Will Boyd

© sferic 2023

Yungwebster - Yungwebster (SFERIC14) [Preview]

Zaumne feat. YL Hooi - Sorcières (Parfum, SFERIC13)

from 'Transcorporal Portal', out now on Somewhere Press
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Transcorporeal Portal

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Slowfoam - Divine Morpho, Shimmering (feat. RAN PARK)

Recording of truglut's day 2 opening set at last year's Kloster

@truglut

truglut @ Eigenblau Kloster III

New releases and current inspirations from your hosts Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang aka HTRK. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/htrk/episodes/htrk-13th-november-2024

HTRK 131124

Monthly hub for club geographies, place-specific constructions, architectural musics and the production of sonic space and scale. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/astral-plane/episodes/astral-plane-16th-november-2024

Topias w/ Gabriel Meier 161124

What happens when dubby drum & bass meets Dischord’s post-punk colossus Black Eyes? “Break” is the new EP from NY’s Relaxer, the long running alias of Daniel Martin-McCormick (Black Eyes, Ital and co-founder of Dripping), and it signals a decisive shift in his music.

Prompted by friends to write a drum & bass live set just as Black Eyes was reuniting, the results didn’t quite fit the d&b genre. But it felt right. Quick, nimble, with room for the ferocity of his favorite post punk and some of the spaciousness of dub. Evergreen vibes, really, but seen from a fresh perspective.

Honed over a period of two years, the five tracks on “Break” fuse Relaxer’s careening, technoid sounds with free jazz-tinted drum programming, snarling sound design and spacious echo trails. It’s a perfect fit for 29 Speedway’s future-facing, exploratory anti-genre approach to electronics. The tape features two remixes by the singular DJ Marcelle and mastering by Dubplates & Mastering. Daniel tells his side of the story below:

“Two years ago my friends who run the drum ‘n’ bass party Headznite asked me to write a live set for a Ukraine fundraiser they were putting on. Right at the same time, my punk band Black Eyes was having our first practices in 20 years, which meant I was re-training my body to scream at top volume and high registers and to lay into my guitar at full force. In those same months, Dripping was forming and ideas were flying for crazy, boundary-pushing lineups. I had just finished writing the meditative composition suite “In Softening Air” and was feeling the call; it was time to let it rip.

Everything poured into that live set for Headznite, and a new style was born. Relaxer had begun as a decisively techno project, but pushing the BPMs and working in drum breaks tweaked the formula enough to cut any lingering ties with that ethos.

Over the next two years I kept on it, writing more, recording, pushing the technique and exploring the sound. “Break” is the first time any of this work has been made public. Sometimes a detour can hack your brain. My first dance 12” as Ital was supposed to be a one-off side project to my punk band and it ended up taking over my life. Now punk music is calling asking for the debt to be repaid. Fuck it.”

Written & recorded by Daniel Martin-McCormick, 2022-2024.
Mixed by Daniel Martin-McCormick & Sol León, with assistance from Sphente Shepherd.
Mastered at Dubplates & Mastering.
Art & design by Brian Mark.
Thanks to Headznite for the prompt.

Chasing Your Own Tail (DJ Marcelle's Strong Tale Remix)

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From a series of (almost) daily ocean glimpses. The music is composed to a video of the sea (photons captured fresh every day). You can experience the full video version here: https://youtu.be/SvKmg3uUdsk

Glimpse 1381 (Jul 13 2025)

Electronic music label based in Manchester, UK.

TIBSLC - Delusive Tongue Shifts - Situation Based Compositions (sferic009)[Preview]

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