I do not dance
I look awkward
I do not drink
I am too much
I smile less
my teeth are not aligned
not too shabby
my gut shines bright red
down the pipe

Suk Hong - Three Movements for the Play Deprived

(UNSLS025)

Crafted with meticulous detail, Hong's six minute debut single on unseelie blends orchestral grandeur with hypermodern sound design in a style reminiscent of James Ferraro, Oneohtrix Point Never or György Ligeti. The song stitches a glitchy spider web of fragmented textures made on Suk's laptop with incidental silences, creating a mesmerizing auditory experience. With its thematic focus on the paradoxical comfort found in discomfort, "Three Movements For The Play Deprived" is a testament to Hong's ability to capture the hidden magic within the mundane.

This narrative is further brought to life by a detailed triptych depicting Suk in a futuristic Korean "BODYFRIEND" massage chair, enveloped by a nightmarish swarm of dancers below an opalescent dancefloor protected by Pegasus. The artwork was painted by renowned visual artist Dian Liang, best known this year for their covers for caro♡ and Holly Waxing (PC Music). "Three Movements For The Play Deprived" is a compelling addition to unseelie's catalog as 2023 comes to a close.

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Consequences_of_Play_Deprivation

Composed by @0sukhong
Artwork by Dian Liang
Mixed by @fire-toolz
Mastered by @jesseosbornelanthier

Released on unseelie, 2023.

Three Movements For The Play Deprived

Suk Hong - Three Movements for the Play Deprived (UNSLS025)

The 38th release of katharsis and our final release of 2023 is the prodigious compilation "Embracing Darkness, Absorbing Light" featuring a vast array of artist beloved by the label. Throughout the grandiose line-up of the 36 tracks, the listener is absorbed by various differing interpretations of the theme outlined in the title of the album. Some of the invited artist went full into introverted progressions and meditative sounds, while others focused on aggressive rhythms or anthemic melodies. But even though the styles and techniques of the songs differ from each other, the artists seem to have some commonality in their sonic palettes that binds it all together in a mutual love for music as a healing force of nature <3

releases December 29, 2023

artwork by jjjacob
mastering by jjjacob

pre-order:
https://katharsis-label.bandcamp.com/album/embracing-darkness-absorbing-light

Embracing Darkness  Absorbing Light

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premiere: luxxuryproblems - wiry_learning_version (lxp)

cover art by @bygone_angel

© 2024 Headless

@foreverheadless

Caffeine Flutes

Happy to release a second single by Sunchaser called 'Witness'. A fresh take on the hushed lushness of dreampop, it's a hypnotic tune that's been stuck in our heads for months.

Available now to stream anywhere!

Catch Sunchaser playing live on the 21st of February at Beurs Café in Brussels.

Mastering by Victor Gybels
Cover pic by: Kieran

Sunchaser - Witness

You buy: https://transatlanticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ilysm

From 'ILYSM', out March 22nd on Transatlantic Records.

@innerinnerlife 🤍
@transatlanticrecords 🤍

A reckoning is coming. It looms over us like a massive loomer. I’m talking huge, bigstyle big. An oppressive shadow of pure concentrated indeterminate dread. There will be consequences. What shape might they take? It starts with innerinnerlife’s ‘what rymes with getting by’, out on Transatlantic. It’s upon us now.

ILYSM

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innerinnerlife - what rhymes with getting by [MK PREMIERE]

New York City based multifaceted musician and artist Drumloop releases “Limiting Mindset” on 12” LP on Psychic Liberation on May 1st, 2024.

Emerging from the freezing sea, a winged automata ascends over  Mount Erebus and the ice shelves below. Like an arrow aimed at the heavens she flies towards the atmosphere, caught by gravity's kiss. Held, inches from the interstellar sublime, aching for release. Negotiations with divine emissaries. She's accepted into the twinkling astral entropy of soundless void. Breathless in the endless womb of stars. Phantom echoes of the language of unknown metals. Internal depths exposed, exalted and reabsorbed. Returned, whole and warm. Softly descending. Imbued with ultraviolet, embraced by blue depths, returned to the liquid core. Succor for the oceans of grief.

“Limiting Mindset” is sublime. Closer to a sacrament than an album. A divine transmission intercepted by Antarctic listening stations. I am reminded of the depths plumbed by Porter Ricks, of the tundra cool of Thomas Köner’s solo works, the tapestry of Tim Hecker’s emotional fractals and Autechre at their most interstellar. One could draw these comparisons, but Drumloop clearly inhabits her own unique space. A piercing emotional resonance permeates the entire proceeding. It’s like listening to a conversation between fathomless and private internal spaces with the endless astral entropy that surrounds all things. Each song stands beautifully on its own, while remaining integral to the whole. Transmutation as song. You will not leave unmoved.
-F

Daffy Scanlan is an artist and musician based in New York City. Her work compounds the corresponding passageways between memory, time, and space. Under the moniker Drumloop, she collages language with piano and digital synthesis, creating sonic representations of emotive internal universes.

LIMITING MINDSET

PURCHASE COPY

DRUMLOOP - A2. FORCEFIELD (PLIB040)

🏄‍♀️🌎🏄‍♀️

Free download on Bandcamp via the 'Buy' link

Artwork by me

Core Values (No Heartbeat)

SLA21: 'Starling' by @deejaycharme

Gavin Vanaelst, also known as DJ Charme (formerly recognized as Kassett), produces electronic music that varies from bombastic ambient compositions to lofty rhythmic cuts. In the past he has collaborated with notable artists like Dntel, Golin, Lauren Auder and Zwangere Guy. His debut album 'Charme' in 2018 received support from renowned international labels such as Warp. After a brief period of silence, DJ Charme returned in October with his second full-length album, 'Hartenjagen', followed now by the 5-track extended play 'Starling', which marks his debut on Slagwerk.

Type: EP
Format: Digital
Releasedate: March 28th 2024
Cat. number: SLA21
Artwork: Joeri Woudstra
Master: Gibby

All tracks written, produced and mixed by Gavin Vanaelst.
Except for 'Speed Weaver', which is a joint effort between Gavin Vanaelst and Jimmy Tamborello.
Guitar on 'Spores' by Jente Waerzeggers.

Download

DJ Charme — 'Starling'

London label @tobago-tracks serving up a vital one as @lovefear1 makes his debut album proper

Big on detail, ‘Schema’ imagines symbiotic futures. A spooling suite of sonic sensitivity and dank, lysergic vision, complete with a cameo from Sydney Bass originator 3NDLESS. 

10 tracks found in a hazy interzone of downbeat-adjacent styles, and it’s woozy number ‘Mother Null’ getting the premiere treatment today.

Pre-order: https://lovefear.bandcamp.com/album/schema

Mother Null

Premiere: Lovefear - Mother Null [TT]

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04/14/24

buy: https://www.ninaprotocol.com/releases/tau-contrib-cmyl 
//
https://taucontrib.bandcamp.com/track/cmyl

artwork by Carla di Girolamo (www.instagram.com/carla.44444444/)
master by Christoff Riedel (www.instagram.com/christoff.riedel/)
sample by Tank

CMYL

TroubleInTerroristTown

label + event series  run by @oti_s 
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slagwerk events:

30.03.24: DOSS, aya, Loto Retina
28.03.24: ML Buch, DJ Charme
15.03.24: Miley Serious, Lyra Valenza, LazerGazer
23.02.24: Snow Strippers, Angelita, Fakethias
20.01.24: Emma DJ, felicita, Braden Wells
08.12.23: SKY H1, Emma DJ, Moogy Maserati
24.11.23: Jam City, Toxe, Liyo, Phillip Jondo
18.11.23: Boiler Room x Slagwerk
24.10.23: Voice Actor, Benjamim Furtado
20.10.23: Soraya & Dmitra, Emma DJ, Ingrate
21.07.23: DJ G2G, Europa, Bugasmurf
08.06.23: Klein, Crystallmess, ssaliva
28.05.23: SKY H1, Proc Fiskal, Himera
31.03.23: Dis Fig, Endgame b2b DJ Narciso
25.03.23: Emma DJ, Jasmine Infiniti, Estoc
17.03.23: Vegyn, Cõvco, DJ Travella
16.02.23: Palmistry, Lauren Duffus, ESP
25.11.22: TDJ, felicita, Money Lang, Femi
28.10.22: Oli XL, Golin, Club Eat, Estoc
30.09.22: Mechatok, Debit, Celes
03.06.22: Low Jack, Yawning Portal, Fetva
05.05.22: James Ferraro, Pebblle, Diony Lake
02.04.22: John T Gast, x/o, ssaliva
11.03.22: Why Be, Emma DJ, Dasychira
22.10.21: Toxe, Oli XL, Himera
28.03.20: James Ferraro, x/o (cancelled)
05.03.20: Rezzett, Varg2™, Merely
25.01.20: Acre, Croww, Hiele
14.12.19: M.E.S.H, Thoom, Felix Lee
18.10.19: Torus, Alobhe, Krampf
13.09.19: Oxhy, DJ Lostboi
20.07.19: Lee Gamble, Flora Yin-Wong
27.06.19: Baby Blue, ssaliva
16.03.19: Malibu, Ausschuss, 0comeups
07.12.18: Oli XL, Terribilis, Nunu, Detente
18.10.18: Aïsha Devi, Abyss X
20.09.18: Amnesia Scanner, ssaliva
04.05.18: Rabit, IVVVO, Petit Singe
02.02.18: Celestial Trax, Dis Fig
29.06.17: Kid Antoine, Retina Set, Liyo
24.05.17: Air Max '97, Samuelspaniel
10.03.17: Trim
30.09.16: Last Japan, Paleman
15.05.16: Neana, Know V.A.
01.03.16: Sully
24.11.15: Dark0
26.06.15: Torus
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Slagwerk operates as a platform primarily focussing on contemporary music and art. The events which ranged from intimate settings to outright club nights have always aimed for the intersection of sound and scenography and presented a wide range of significant artists such as Amnesia Scanner, Oli XL, Aïsha Devi, Lee Gamble, Varg2™, Rabit, Abyss X, M.E.S.H. and many others. Besides organizing events, they present themselves as a music label. Their aesthetic ranges from metamodern internetculture to endeavours into spiritual ambiences contaminated with strikingly dynamic club environments. Striving for an eclectic body of work is the main intention.
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