Icahera — 'Symbol Drama'

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Murrettumeri & Romance Relic - Piano Compositions releases on August 23rd.

Composed, mixed and mastered by Henia Nikkilä and Jussi Hertz
Cover art by Jassir Kuronen

Piano Compositions

Murrettumeri & Romance Relic - Piano Composition III

「 taken from 'Give up Chanel' 」
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/give-up-channel

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Julek ploski’s ‘Give up Channel’ is on mappa. It’s the follow-up to the Poland-based FL Studio demon’s ‘Hotel *****’, released via Orange Milk in 2023.

It’s an album that wrestles against a shadow self. It’s about shelter from the hailstorm of unwanted memories and guilt pangs and serrated blades of thought. It’s about clinging on to some semblance of hope, knuckles taut and teeth gritted.

The fragmented drift of opener ‘Naysayer’ flows forward like an anxious daydream, pad eddies and piano plinks anchored by Trapaholics drops and bursts of guaracha drums. It’s a mess of mind: the bleakness of ‘Truth’ is punctuated by gun cocking and bullet spray and sudden jester-like blasts of unhinged, schizo-whimsical melody. An internal war without a clear winner.

Shame snakes through this music like venom through an emaciated body. Blue screenlight in a dark bedroom, pulsating temples, lockjaw. ‘Titanic’ hits like the thrashing resistance of a being built for love grappling against the scalding vengefulness it’s forced to contend with, the song’s abstracted rave synths giving way to warped voices and spiralling derangement. ‘Hollywood’ is a scarred battleground, the martial bludgeoning of a tightly wound hardstyle stomp blistering and shredding a delicate piano-and-string arrangement.

This music is about deep solitude, a meditation on simmering, slow-marinating hatred. But it’s ultimately about prevailing. It doesn’t revel in negativity, it roils and twists and writhes against it. Dots of light in oppressive darkness. Clarity and purpose against chaos and filth. It’s a struggle worth waging. 

Composed, recorded and mixed by Julek ploski
julekploski.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/julekploski/

Additional production in Earth Trax / Bartosz Kruczyński
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Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
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Artwork and design by Julek Ploski

Words by Madjestic Kasual
www.instagram.com/madjestickasual/


Released by mappa as MAP055 in 2025

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SLA24: 'Symbol Drama' by @icahera

Type: EP
Format: Digital
Releasedate: March 28th
Cat. number: SLA24
Artwork: Jaan Pavliuk
Master: Joel Krozer

‘Symbol Drama’ is London-based, Estonian artist Icahera’s Slagwerk debut.

Three tightly coiled portals to control and release within. It begins with the low-lidded smokestream on ‘Dusk’, bringing with it all the tension and temptation of a nocturnal ride through the glimmer and grime of a sinister, teeming metropolis. The hyper-disciplined body-lock of ‘Re-amp’ brings motion — crosshairs calibrated, levitating, a state of flow beyond conscious thought. It’s primal and physical, subtly smeared textures over Villaloban drumwork that moves and swings and propels forward with intent beyond the banality of conscious thought.

Per the artist, this is “music for an imagined club space”. Closer ‘Nylon’ brings the space to full being: darkness and concrete, scuffed surfaces and sweat, a place where shadows thrive and bodies surge with synthetic inputs and newfound sensations. Strains of dub and progressive house and techno run through this music like chemicals through blood — ‘Symbol Drama is body music, it’s music that’s serious about pleasure.
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Icahera — 'Nylon' (SLA24)

From 'Symbol Drama', out March 28th on Slagwerk.

YOU INTEND TO BUY: https://slagwerk.bandcamp.com/album/symbol-drama

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It's not going to plan. I can tell. Wreckage defines you, rubble becomes you. What a mess, dude. What could've been. It'd be tragic if you'd ever had real prospects. Not much to salvage, there never really was. Forgotten by God. Remembered: Icahera's 'Re-Amp', out on Slagwerk, premiered by Madjestic Kasual. There's hope for you still. Maybe if you listen to it, like it, repost it, share it widely and relentlessly. Yes, yes. It's becoming clear now. A spark in you yet. Some faint reason. But a reason nonetheless.

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Icahera - Re-Amp [MK PREMIERE]

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Icahera — 'Dusk'

Following a number of key contributions to Eastern Nurseries compilations, Romance Relic returns to the fold with their latest EP, “Hundred Petals of Suffocation”.

Expanding on minute moments of daily life, Romance Relic’s delicate layering of field recordings, melancholic clarinet passages and vlog samples is interspersed with juxtaposing bursts of SFX across the EP’s 6 tracks. Capturing beauty in the mundane, “Hundred Petals of Suffocation” seeks to emphasise the allure of imperfection, gesturing toward a corporeality of the sonic palette.

Respecting the limitations of one’s own body sits at the core of Jussi’s compositional ethos, where value is placed on striking a balance between the intended and the possible, culminating in a tender and deeply affecting sensibility.

Eastern Nurseries no. 40

Produced, mixed & written by Jussi Hertz
Mastered by Owen Pratt

Artwork by Tristán Alcover 

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