Self-released track
Production, vocals, words : Sainte Marina

-In the presence of the Sun, I feel dry ;
"Appeared like muses, in the night of Destiny" (Khalil Gibran)

Destiny - Sainte Marina

lavender, fake gold, salt is an ambient sound piece addressing the spaces, rituals, and sounds that surround my relationship with self-care and healing. Thinking about my connection to sound on an embodied, intimate level, I consider the sonic accumulation that exists in the everyday spaces I inhabit. Traditional Middle Eastern instruments are distorted and stretched, collapsing into drones, synths, and the sounds of jewelry being rustled around. How do we wear the spaces we pass through like adornments?

Originally commissioned for SF MOMA's Open Space in March 2018

lavender, fake gold, salt

London-based DJ, producer and sonic activist Nkisi is first up on UIQ this year with her long-awaited debut album ‘7 Directions’.

Dedicated to the late academic and author of African Cosmology of the Bantu-Kongo, Dr Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau (“He’s one of the few scholars who wrote about other systems of thought outside more Eurocentric ways of viewing the world,” she told us last year) the album explores a slew of spiritual concepts such as the importance of self-knowing.

More introverted perhaps in comparison to the dark, heavy, club-focused deconstructed workouts shared by Nkisi previously, it’s a wonderful project that delivers seven unique interpretations of Congolese percussion cast far into a future realm. 

Pre-order ‘7 Directions’ below before it lands on January 18 and check out ‘V’ now.

Pre-order: https://u-i-q.org/releases/nkisi-7-directions

7 Directions

More exclusive music

Premiere: Nkisi 'V'

Schumacher Vol.4 with E-Saggila

BLF1C007 LATRINES: "2%" 5 TRACK EP [192k] 
HIGH QUALITY VERSIONS AVAILABLE IN TAPE/DIGITAL FORMATS AT https://blacklodge.bandcamp.com/

ALL PROCEEDS OF THE CASSETTE WILL GO 2 THE LEBANESE FOOD BANK https://donate.lebanesefoodbank.org IN ORDER TO HELP WITH THE RECENT DISASTER IN BEIRUT, ALONG WITH ALL DIGITAL SALES WITHIN THE MONTH OF AUGUST.

LATRINES IS NICK KLEIN & ENRIQUE, DENIZENS OF VARIOUS NETHERWORLDS WHO HOLD A SPECIAL PLACE IN THE REALM OF THE BLACK LODGE. https://soundcloud.com/nick-klein https://soundcloud.com/psychicliberation

BLF1C007 LATRINES: "2%" EP [192k]

written, recorded and mastered: Pavel Milyakov @buttechno
label: Rassvet & Gost Zvuk
release date: August 7, 2020 
link: https://buttechno.bandcamp.com/album/psy-x

Buttechno - X-tr

香港長大的 Yanling 小時帶氛圍的選曲

Hong Kong native Yanling is bringing us an hour long mellow set with some spherical and bright dystopia touch into it.  @hkcrlive

Abul Mogard - Upon The Smallish Circulation
Special Request - Chrysalis
Hiro Kone - Akoluthic Phase
Pessimist - Grit
Know V.A. - Reification
E-Saggila - Glass Wing
Perc - Pre-Steel (Tengui Remix)
Yanling - Blixa
Sophia Loizou - Singularity is Near
Shed - Sterbende Alleen
Dedekind Cut - Equity
DJ Richard - His Threshing Floor
Opal Tapes - Sand
FRKTL - Will, Want, Desire
M.E.S.H. - Captivated
Tim Hecker - The Piano Drop
Arca - Urchin 
Andre Kronert - 1000 
Rico Casazza - Oh My Lord
Alva Noto - Xerrox Argo

Ambient - Hong Kong Community Radio - 20/08/19

Rinse France Podcast

E-Saggila invite Exploited Body - 25 Août 2020

Two club focused tracks from the archives of the San Francisco based artist, writer, and community organizer. Nihar has been instrumental in carving out space for parties that tow the line of function and experimentation on the west coast of the United States as co-founder of the SURFACE TENSION party series. Along with Chris Zaldua, Nihar also runs the Left Hand Path label, highlighting electronic anomalies and documenting challenging work in his locale. Nihar has performed worldwide in Shanghai, Osaka, and Mexico City and has been programmed into the Recombinant and Mutek festivals.

On this single sided 12", "Rumble" centers Tabla rhythms amidst syncopated and undulating drum and synth work for an uptempo club affect. "Vermillion Garden" slows things down with a more throbbing groove that uses vocal synthesis to oscillate in and out of sweaty-wall atmospherics. The record is accompanied by a text titled "Against Having a Music Industry; For a Renegade Future", an essay at once taking inventory, and leaving room for hope, amidst the perplexing times for electronic music that this record presents itself inside of.
credits
releases September 25, 2020

Written and recorded by Nihar
Mastered by Jack Callahan
Distributed by Fantastique

NIHAR - A1. Rumble

On the second Monday of every month, SOAK's hosts @soft-matter and @venusinfoil extend tendrils to the experimental edges of electronic music to bring you an hour of corporeal club music and sweat-inducing soundscapes

SOAK w/ Venus in Foil on Internet Public Radio [Oct 12-20]

Podcast no 201 filled with harsh and raw sounds comes from smog!

“His work, which has been picked up by the likes of Donato Dozzy and Objekt, blends breakneck industrial sounds with the belligerent power of hardcore techno and abstracted percussion of UK dance music. At its root are carefully researched electro-acoustic techniques blended with digital and analogue processing, used to shape his ideas into warped ethereal soundscapes.”
XLR8R
 
Co-founder of the Berlin-based collective Oqko, Paris native smog focuses on the phenomenon of experimentation using electroacoustic methods combined with digital and analogue processing. His sound is rooted in techno, industrial, jungle and ambient. His sonic landscape is one of ethereal atmospheres, distorted metallic noise and flittering overtones.

SC: https://soundcloud.com/smog_0
FB: https://www.facebook.com/smog3000/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/oqkoinfo/
RA: https://ra.co/dj/smogoqko
BC: https://smog3000.bandcamp.com/music

BTS Podcast 201 - smog

SOAK is a collective and club night aimed at supporting people of marginalized genders at the experimental edges of electronic music. 

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