Euphorique

Available on cassette at https://causalchain.bandcamp.com/album/oko

oko is laced’s sophomore EP under her new moniker, which takes a new path compared to her previous noise explorations. Drawing inspiration from ambient music, dreampop, video game and anime soundtracks, breakbeat and IDM, the music conveys a dream world where the artist tends to escape in. The EP was produced over the course of 2021 since laced’s 2020 MUTEK performance in Montreal, taking a melodic approach in contrast to her more percussive productions. oko is best consumed under a pile of warm blankets or under the rain, its energy being one of catharsis, contemplation, healing and dreaming.
credits
released May 6, 2022

Music by laced (@lacedetail)
Mixed and mastered by SIM
Remixes by dybbuk (@disk-wraith), Xen Model (@xenmodel), SIM (@sim_mtl) & Gobekli (@gobekli)
Album art by Bruno Lauzon Tanzi (@bruno-lauzon-tanzi)
Texture generated by Andrew Nowacki

laced - Angel

@lighyer

https://youtu.be/SrV9izwK5M0

s̶̓̏̀̇̈̎͝um002: lighyer - Wongk Dust [2019-2022]
summ0n.bandcamp.com/album/wongk-dust-2019-2022

lighyer - dddemon Dust

Night Wire

Backshifting

You & Me

You & Me (Rivo Remix) [feat. Eliza Doolittle]

It's So Good

The Complete Collection

All Night Long

Absolute Music 2/5

Gold Rush (Primum Mobile Mix)

Billy Bultheel - Two Cycles
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 138
Release Date: 08 March 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/TwoCycles

Billy Bultheel's debut solo album is an ambitious distillation of the composer's,' sprawling litany of influences and his unique approach to site-specific composition. A compilation of pieces created between 2016 and 2023, the album is a forceful testament to Bultheel's expansive performance practice and collaborations with cutting-edge visual artists like Anne Imhof and James Richards.

Drawing inspiration from industrial music and metal as well as medieval and baroque polyphony, Bultheel devised a way to present this collection of works side-by-side. The record is split into two distinct cycles: the Snow Cycle, which collects Bultheel's electro-acoustic and compositional work, and the Game Cycle, which assembles his electronic productions. These two suites have unmistakable symmetry; Bultheel's traditional compositions are bolstered by his understanding of electronic production, while his electronic pieces are moulded by his knowledge of classical and traditional music. "Two Cycles" is an album that exhibits duality, embodying the dichotomy of Bultheel's roles as both an ensemble composer and an electronic producer.

The haunting opening track of the 'Snow Cycle', 'The Arcades Project', — named after the unfinished compendium of architectural contemplations penned by the eminent German philosopher, Walter Benjamin - places four tubas in strategic towers surrounding the audience, creating an immersive auditory experience. Conversely, 'The Snows of Venice' — named after Alexander Kluge and Ben Lerner collection of short stories and poems — was conceived for two flautists directed to intertwine their melodies as they traversed through knee-high water.

The 'Game Cycle' meanwhile places a strong emphasis on rhythm, crafting a sonic landscape that resonates with overdriven metallic clanks and sharp stabs. Drawing upon his extensive experience in composing for choreography, Bultheel envisions a series of jittery dances that purposefully deviate from conventional timelines. 'Decreation' infuses techno with the visceral qualities of noise music and 'Game Theory' offers an unsettling skeletal barrage of saturated, precisely tuned percussive hits. Bultheel brings 'Two Cycles' to a close with 'Gigue,' a reference to the 6/8 baroque court dance that traditionally marked the conclusion of a dance suite; by merging marching rhythms performed by two percussionists on a single drum set with chaotic and evocative synth leads, he establishes a tantalizing counterpoint.

'Two Cycles' is a musical compilation that explores the themes of locale and landscape, elucidating the intricate dynamics that arise between the musicians and their audience, the ears and the architecture. Considering timbre, density and the psycho-acoustic qualities of communal spaces, from the warehouse to the cathedral, Bultheel draws indelible lines between seemingly distant concepts, merging the celestial with the terrestrial.

The double album cover, one for each side and cycle on the record, features a collage created by the Welsh video artist James Richards that merges medieval iconography with snippets of queer memorabilia.

All tracks written by Billy Bultheel
Mixed by James Ginsburg
Mastered by Enyang Urbicks

Billy Bultheel - Gigue (Game Cycle) (PAN 138)

LAGR(I)MAL is an event organized by Madrid based platforms Interior & Lagrima Collective (@lagrima-collective).

Estela Esperanza:
@estela_esperanza
www.instagram.com/estela__esperanza/

Mixed and recorded by doihateya (www.instagram.com/doihateya_)
Event recap: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4-Y4mhq6XZ

(10.02.24, Madrid)

LAGR(I)MAL Live #2: Estela Esperanza

RECOMP:OST w/ E3P & ealing ft. Nerdie - 11/04/2024

Dayrealease "Revery Intuition" [AD006]

"Inspired by baroque, free jazz, dubstep, and early rave. Fairytale melodies, crafted on a MacBook Air, intertwine with sheer reality, expressed through self-captured ZOOM field recordings and cuts from foley sample libraries. orchestral instruments and melodic bass create almost nervous, excessively emotional condition, taken placidly as if in a meditative state, with help of ASMR-like experimental drum patterns."

bandcamp/streaming https://album.link/reveryintuition

Revery Intuition

Dayrealease - Stone's Feelings

Shelter proudly presents: Mizgîn, a leviathan compilation of 18 tracks by 21 artists presiding on the cutting edge of electronic music. 

As we find ourselves in the eye of the storm during the most deteriorated epoch in modern history, Mizgîn, meaning "good news" in Kurdish, was motivated by the desire to offer respite from the horrors of the world. Shelter's ambition to unite different regional music scenes has once again brought together artists from nearly every continent, with contributions from legendary names.

This compilation is dedicated to everyone struggling towards the liberation of the oppressed.

Mizgîn releases on 17.05.2024 on all streaming platforms.

Maarja Nuut - Digging Beginning

@huar-huarco
"Pain goes by, don't worry. I wish the timing would have been better. It still hurts sometimes but I try to stay happy…

credits

Produced and mixed by Huar Huarco, Ed Lalo
Mastering by Ed Lalo
Artwork by Huar Huarco

BANDCAMP

I Give You All

@chichichannibal & @felix-idle

Premiered via @do-the-astral-plane http://bit.ly/BPVA001AP
 
Taken from 'Harmony From A Dominant Hue', the debut release from Body Promise.
Get it here http://bit.ly/BPVA001Juno / http://bit.ly/BPVA001BC

"We wanted to make something delicate and pretty as a way of dealing with a kind of seasonal isolation. "

Harmony From A Dominant Hue

Mya Gomez & Felix Idle - T2 Meltdown

@676210

Agraph - Poli Perspective
Funki Porcini - New Dope
Yuna – Come As You Are
Vattenrum – 2 beats
D'arcangelo - H13
Mallory Weiss - Shoemaker's Song
Andy Stott - How It Was
Kensuke Ushio - Peco
Inc. - Desert Rose ( War Prayer )
Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers
Aya Fraqsea - Glass Lake
Akira Yamaoka - All
Akira Yamaoka - Fear Of The Dark
Yves Tumor - Annas Loop
Kensuke Ushio – Tenderness
Mus.hiba - Hidamari (feat. Sekka Yuffu)
Mallory Weiss – Sarsenet
Aunt Sally - ?
Nelson Schaub – Le Trou
Dan Bodan - Jaws Of Life (Lotic Remix)
Joe Hisaishi – Death Spiral
Joe Hisaishi - Drifter...in LAX
Akira Yamaoka - Claw Finger
Mya Gomez & Dexter Duckett – I Forgot Now
Elysia Crampton - Ax Amores Edit
Polygon Window – Quino Phec
Ken Ishii – Naiad
Akira Yamaoka - Hear Nothing
Andy Stott - Violence
Chindamo - My Mind Sound Like This
Mallory Weiss - Bête Noire
Salem – Sunrise
Yayoyanoh & Dexter Duckett – Str8
Funki Porcini - The Great Drive
Funki Porcini – Back Home
Silkbless – Dyou
Vattenrum – Frame
Silkbless – Tapu
Akira Yamaoka - Far
Rone – Roads (feat. Bryce Dessner)
Funki Porcini - 50,000 (feat. Freefall)
War – Low Rider

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originally posted 8/11/2016

violette - inside me

absolute music 2/5 Vinyl + CD: 
https://shop.year0001.com/

lovisa@foundation.fm

Gold Rush (Primum Mobile Mix)

Stella Explorer

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