VA - Astraltopia
APR128 | Out Now

Available here: https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/astraltopia

Astraltopia is the third and final compilation in the Topia series, as well as the terminal release in the Astral Plane Recordings catalog. Made up of contributions from longtime APR artists and friends, Astraltopia traverses outgrowths of past label releases, novel sonic formulations and the infra-zones between and underneath extant club sounds. Accompanied by artwork from Sam Meier and mastering by Will Mitchell, the compilation follows 2012’s Heterotopia and 2015’s Psychotropia, both of which preceded the formal inauguration of Astral Plane Recordings. Contributions include material from Alis, Amazondotcom, CHANTS, Dane Law, LOFT, Maral, MICHAELBRAILEY (with Iceboy Violet), nunu and SHALT. Astraltopia is out now as a free and/or pay-what-you-want download.1. CHANTS - Seven Billion Spheres
2. Maral - lita
3. SHALT - Face Like A Wet Sun
4. LOFT - an safe heavenn
5. Alis - Catra
6. Amazondotcom - Pico Blvd
7. nunu - ransom
8. MICHAELBRAILEY - dead space (prod. MICHAELBRAILEY, Iceboy Violet)
9. Dane Law - Summer's End (Lift Me Up)

Astraltopia

MICHAELBRAILEY - dead space (prod. MICHAELBRAILEY & Iceboy Violet)

@jjjacob
★★★
buy comp: summ0n.bandcamp.com/releases

released June 24, 2022

Summon I

stella

jjjacob - stella

@dan1dang3r

channeling sentiment through experimental electronics, trance, hyperpop, breaks and much more.

Invité•e Spécial•e ⏤ Dan1Dang3r

All the profits generated by the sales of this compilation will be donated to the Legal Team Antiraciste fund, which aims at helping the victims of french police violence and their families, fighting against systemic racial discrimination as well as defending their access to fundamental rights.

Huge thanks to Casual Gabberz <3
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta
Cover by JB Normand

Blood of Aza - Jerked

SET DA GM (Schatz Flip)

nadie pierde siempre

@icfam

The 43rd release of katharsis is the album “Love Language” by the Danish artist icfam. It is evocative like a long makeout session, tongue action specifically. icfam celebrates the long journeys to daydreamy destinations on a record that is romantic and peaceful, yet at times highly energetic.

Through streamlined synthesis and arrangements, icfam produces a composite world of sound that carries a message of love and simplicity. Despite the meticulous care for sound design on this record, the use of intuitive sounds and phrases so simple, sometimes approaches a sort of mindlessness. Building conceptually on sinewaves as the only sound that really exists, the artist develops a nonfragmented illusion through obsession over the harmonic series and melodies within melodies.

Love Language is both reassuring and mystifying, like your favourite lullaby. As well as intoxicatingly painful like exquisite torture. icfam wants to express a special feeling one might get from going to the hospital. A cathartic feeling of being safe and held.

If you’ve fallen from above
You’re walking with your woes
If there’s nowhere to run
The happy hospital

releases August 26, 2024

artwork by Emma Kallan
Mastering by icfam
Mastering of the remix by Søren Oliver Due

icfam - Ocean Blue

Alex - Feat. DJ Kody

Producer, vocalist, DJ, and dancer Andras_2020 is a rising figure in Europe’s burgeoning electronic music
scene. Originally from Brazil, the artist garnered a dedicated following by releasing their intricate and
textured debut EP, “Cuerpo Temperamental (acting in concert),” in 2021. This success was followed by
the Cuerpo Tour, which saw Andras enthralling audiences across Europe and the UK for nearly two years.
As a live performer, Andras’ work amalgamates contemporary dance and club culture. Their performances
fuse the visceral materiality of the body, violent screams, and poetry, exploring themes of survival and
physical transformation, contrasted with the gentleness of soft pop live aesthetics.
Motivated by a desire and natural ability to fuse personal experiences with creative expression, Andras
released “Blowhole” for Rest Now!. The title candidly contrasts the concept of inhaling and exhaling
through a hole, like cetaceans, with anal pleasure and its associations with queerness and discomfort.
At the base of the creative process lies the recovery experience from a series of major rectal surgeries,
serving as a paradox and a mirroring of the shame, sorrow, pain, and torment they endured during such
a period.
The EP balances its profoundly personal core with a lively and polished avant-garde pop exterior,
showcasing prominent synthetic sounds and metallic textures, evoking the ambiance of an operating
room or the calls of dolphins. Andras’ second bedroom studio record features collaborations with thrilling
artists such as Bristol-based Sarahsson and MICHAELBRAILEY.

Songs composed, produced, performed and mixed by Andras_2020
Mastered by Dreeks
Vocals by Sarahsson in ‘Gestation’
Additional production by Yvy in ‘Wings’
Additional vocal processing by Angel Demon in ‘Wings’
Additional synth programming by Toue in ‘Gestation’ & ‘Shell-Shifting (interlude)’
Featuring vocals, lyrics and additional production by MICHAELBRAILEY in ‘In Your Eyes’
Strings played and record by Carl Nöe in ‘Sofrimento’
Artwork by Photographed and edited by Thomas Lambertz

Blowhole

Sofrimento

Shell-Shifting (Interlude)

Spaces: Basically just when everything around you is melting.

@spacesbeats

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