More information: http://shapeplatform.eu/2018/shape-platform-announces-2019-list-of-artists/

SHAPE Artists 2019

Niobium Beats                 

Mystère 20

Parisian DJ Betty Bensimon mashes electro, gqom, footwork and Sonic the Hedgehog on this rapid-fire showcase.

For more information and tracklist head here: http://www.factmag.com/2017/08/22/betty-bensimon-fact-mix/

FACT Mixes

FACT mix 615 - Betty (Aug '17)

Knives are proud to present the debut release from Belgian artist Obsequies, entitled Organn. 

At its core, Organn is a record about love and duality. Taking inspiration from Isidore-Lucien Ducasse's poem 'Les Chants de Maldoror', the record is antagonistic yet often drops its temper to reveal blistered beauty within the fray. Such are the condradictory elements within the compositions themselves: widescreen claustrophobia; glimmering sludge; piercing VHS ambience.

Visuals come courtesy of French mixed-media artist, Thomas Hauser. Hauser's imagery similarly evokes retrograde surrealism and further insists on a narrative at work here, with obscured characters playing out alongside mantric piano, filmic vox and hyperspeed jungle.

Organn

Obsequies - Asthme

MiCHELA PELUSIO (IT) @michela-pelusio, GLENN VERVLIET (BE) @glenn-vervliet & Hugo Morales Murguia (MX) @hugomoralesmurguia 
Thursday October 20, 2016 - Teatro de la Ciudad (A/VISIONS 2) 
Mastered by @Pure-evilness

WHO: Italian multidisciplinary artist Michela Pelusio, Belgian sound artist Glenn Vervliet & Mexican guest musician Hugo Morales Murguia
STYLE: Installations with space, light, matter, and sound which explore human perception, sense of belonging, nature, culture, art and science.
 LATEST WORK: SpaceTime Helix (2011-2016)

During MUTEK Mexico, Pelusio presented the piece SpaceTime Helix, an audiovisual performance which plays with light, spiral symmetries, geometry, and the infinite. This kinetic light and sound installation creates an overlapping of harmonic movements in a string. The lighting and sound properties of the spiral were optimized to be used as optical and acoustic instruments, as well as a surrounding experience of spaces, geometry, and light.

MUTEKLIVE143 - Michela Pelusio & Glenn Vervliet

- the second release in our series, curated alongside @classicaltrax 

- download: http://bit.ly/2Ebu2KB

-sounds from:

@strick
@iamquestionmarc
@jamesbangura
@jg_jour
@plvybxy
@mojogoro
@bl-nco
@yumeka-ah
@thisislenfant
@bamaoyende
@lighghtofficial
@pastichecph
@armasounds

Pineal Sounds & Classical Trax Presents : Slam Jam Vol. 2

Bamao Yendé - Zenga

Japanese vocal performer Hatis Noit will release her enigmatic EP Illogical Dance via Erased Tapes worldwide on 23rd  March 2018. The arresting 4-track record creates unique song-worlds with transcendent vocal interpretations that at once deconstruct and recombine Western Classical, Japanese folk and nature’s own ambience atmosphere. Illogical Dance also features Björk-collaborators Matmos, who were so impressed with Hatis Noit’s recordings, they volunteered to edit the lead track Illogical Lullaby. 

Hailing from the distant Shiretoko, a small town in Hokkaido, which is the largest island in north Japan, Hatis Noit’s accomplished range is astonishingly self-taught, inspired by everything she could find from Gagaku — Japanese classical music — and operatic styles, Bulgarian and Gregorian chanting, to avant-garde and pop vocalists. The sounds she created on Illogical Dance, co-produced by Haruhisa Tanaka and Matmos, bring to mind the experimental vocal patterns of Meredith Monk with the attentive production of Holly Herndon.

It was at the age of 16, during a trek in Nepal to the Buddha’s birthplace, when she realised singing was her calling. While staying at a women’s temple in Lumbini, one morning on a walk Hatis Noit heard someone singing. On further investigation it was a female monk singing Buddhist chants, alone. The sound moved her so intensely she was instantly aware of the visceral power of the human voice; a primal and instinctive instrument that connects us to the very essence of humanity, nature and our universe. 

The name Hatis Noit itself is taken from Japanese folklore, meaning the stem of the lotus flower. The lotus represents the living world, while its root the spirit world, therefore Hatis Noit is what connects the two. For Hatis Noit, music represents the same netherworld with its ability to move and transport us to the other side; the past, a memory, our subconscious. It is the same for Illogical Dance, a set of transformative songs that taps into our most primal instincts. 

“The human voice is our oldest, most primal yet most powerful instrument. I use it to describe nature’s many sounds, a language that isn’t logical. Yet it forms a beautiful conversation that isn’t restricted to words like the human language is. I want my music to remind us of that.” — Hatis Noit

Wanting to interpret and mimic the sounds Hatis Noit hears in nature, Illogical Dance is as unpredictable, beautiful and mysterious as the world around us. Each track is made up from multi layers of vocals, all improvised and without words, before being carefully pieced together. Astonishingly no samples are used throughout, even the sound of crushing leaves came from Hatis Noit’s own vocal chords. The result is a stunning array of sound sculptures that see her switching between multiple styles with great ease. From the sweet operatics on Illogical Lullaby, the manipulated vocal loops duplicating electronic production on Anagram c.i.y. to the primordial chanting call to arms of Angelus Novus, a 10-minute odyssey that features whispering and leaves crunching, it showcases Hatis Noit’s full range and introduces a truly original artist. 



After participating in a memorial and appreciation ceremony tailored to the withdrawal of the evacuation area in Fukushima on 31st March 2017, Hatis Noit collaborated with renowned visual artist Nobumichi Asai on a project titled INORI (prayer) which they premiered live as part of an Erased Tapes showcase at Mutek Japan in Tokyo. 

Having recently moved to London and performed a first string of UK shows, followed by a special live performance at the Milan Fashion Week and Mutek Japan appearance, Peter Broderick has invited Hatis Noit to support him at the Jazz Cafe on April 15th. She’s also been announced as part of this year’s Sea Change Festival line-up, and asked to participate in a workshop with the London Contemporary Orchestra.

Illogical Dance

Buy 12" / CD / DL

Hatis Noit - Illogical Lullaby

Taken from the album 'Paradise 94', to be released by Modern Love on March 23rd, 2018. Cover Photo by Rebecca Salvadori.

Paradise 94

Lucy Railton - Pinnevik

RIP Douk Saga / Marguerite 
Purchase at : https://crystallmess.bandcamp.com/album/mere-noises

Just Because This is A Funeral It Doesn't Mean We Can't Rave

TRACK LIST:

URSULA K. LE GUIN & TODD BARTON - MUSIC AND POETRY OF THE KESH
XENIA XAMANEK - SITIO LL
CTM - RED DRAGON
CAROLINE SHAW - PARTITTA FOR 8 VOICES - PARTITTA 2, SARABANDE
SUSUMU YOKOTA - AMANOGAWA
PHEW - AQUA
BOLI GROUP - WHITE TEARS
PEP LLOPIS - JARDINS AQUATICS
SHIRLEY COLLINGS & THE ALBION COUNTRY BAND - MURDER OF MARIA MARTEN
ALBERT GIMENEZ - JAVA
SMERZ - BAIL ON ME
LTJ BUKEM - DEMON'S THEME
SPEEDY J - SOMETHING FOR YOUR MIND
BASIC CHANNEL - PHHYLYPS TRAK
LTJ BUKEM - HORIZONS
ASTRID SONNE - ALSO

Smerz on NTS - Astrid Sonne guest mix 27.04.18

"AFRIPROGNOIZ" by KK NULL & Balazs Pandi duo "Demoncore" . Composed & performed by Kazuyuki Kishino (computer, synthesizer) & Balazs Pandi (drums). Decomposed & remixed by Kazuyuki Kishino @ prima natura studio November 2016.

KK NULL & Balazs Pandi / AFRIPROGNOIZ

Clara! - Reggaetoneras 3 (GRVTS013)

A - Reggaetoneras 3 (Face A)
B - Reggaetoneras 3 (Face B)

@clara-uno

Tracklist:
Intro (feat. DJ Coquelin)
Demphra - Mal Polvo
Ivy Queen - Guillaera
Glory - Gata Gargola
Paul Marmota - Gio
La Sexy Rose - Que Se Le Hacen
La Bori - Tu no me conoce a mi
Chico Sonido - Sueltate el Dembow (NATYA) x Tamos Redy
Tomasa Del Real x Chico Sonido - Tamos Redy
R Y K T - Thousands (TOOL)
Felina - Bandolera
K-Mill - Cucala
La Goony Chonga - Hecha y Derecha
Jenny - La Carretilla
El Catorce - Sexivaguitas (V.I.P) 
Dj Germaniako - Sexy Vaguitas Remix
Las Gemelas Del Doble Paso (Prod. Dj Kike)
Munchi x Maless - Sucia Anthem
Alex Serna - Cumbia Storm
Las Culisueltas - Rakataka
Dj Peligro - Ella no quiere novio (feat. Grupo 5)
Lorna - No Puede
Zutzut - Tantra Negro
Lady Ann - Le Diste El
Dj Tachiz - Toma Tra lo Guarachozo
Dj Fraga - Arikiki
Shalimar - Desde Ahora
La Original con On The Mix - Me la sube, me la baja, me la trompetea
Jenn Morel - Ponteme
Dj Blass - La Rubia K
Ynfynyt Scroll - Papito Chulo
Las Gatas Outro

Buy at Bandcamp

Clara! - Reggaetoneras 3

Febrile, haunting and at times overwhelming, Beheaded Totem is nothing short of a dream for the necro-tourist. Cerebral and alluring. Toxic. Welcome to the four-dimensional meltdown.

Pre-order: 

www.houseofmythology.com

HHY & The Macumbas - Wilderness of Glass

Katharina Ernst - X 01 [V_011]

Full stream of @mariawhorn's haunting "Ave," a cut from her new album on @portals-editions.

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/premiere-hear-a-haunting-ambient-track-from-maria-w-horn

Kontrapoetik

More info

Premiere: Maria W Horn - Ave

1 0 1 0 Karmo

Almost three years after opening its doors, De School will launch their new label De Nieuw at the end of this year. For their first release, De Nieuw presents the first ever recording to surface from between the walls of the venue. On this LP is one of the first live concerts by Oceanic, recorded at the auditorium of De School on October 21st 2017. This was in the middle of a 64-hour event that lasted from Friday evening until Monday lunch. 

This LP contains a 40-minute recording of Oceanic's concert, performed on his custom-made string instrument connected to a modular synth. The concert was performed for 200 people laying on pillows, surrounding Oceanic and Warping Halos, a light installation by Children of the Light. 

Oceanic debuted this live show in spring 2017 during Minimal Music Festival in Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, and while minimal music might be an accurate description of the sound, it also touches themes of trance and folk music. There are no different tracks, it's one continuous and largely improvised performance, sometimes abstract, sometimes wonderfully melodic. To fit on a LP, the recording is cut in two parts, the composition gently fades around the halfway mark.

After releasing music on Nous'klaer and Versatile and a DJ residency at De School since its beginning, this LP covers the first steps of Oceanic as a solo live musician. This release also marks the first steps of De Nieuw, De School's new record label that will aim to capture the sounds of the different rooms of the venue from next year on.

Vinyl / digital release date: December 10

Pre-order: http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=106038

Oceanic - Live at De School (De Nieuw 01)

https://chaines.bandcamp.com/album/the-king-live-arrangement-first-ever-studio-take

***NEW ALBUM ON BANDCAMP***

This track is from my first ever play through, in my office, of the live set I developed for my album 'The King'; a solo set, featuring laptop, vocals, fife, flute, clarinet, recorder, guitar, keys and other electronics.

Being the first ever run through, it's not a completely perfect version. There are some errors, and some parts have changed since I've come up with better ideas. But I think this take still stands up, and is an artifact of the development process of which I'm fond, and want to have for posterity.

3. Narthex (Knockturning Part iii)

BFDM ZAHEF SHOW NTS RADIO 04.11.18 ( MYAKO )

http://www.patttten.com/re-edits/
http://smarturl.it/RE-EDITS-vol9
YT https://goo.gl/iUuzJT
BC https://patttten.bandcamp.com/album/re-edits-vol-9
DL https://www.mediafire.com/file/oxw8id0yq16oob8/patten-RE-EDITS_vol.9.zip/file

RE-EDITS vol.9

RE-EDIT27

written, produced and recorded by Lyra Pramuk 
additional mixing and mastering by Ben Pramuk
artwork by Helin Sahin

Download:
https://lyrapramuk.bandcamp.com/album/scrytch

Scrytch

Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe.

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