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GODMODE:  POTENTIAL IMMORTALITY - PURE PLEASURE

* Announcing CANVAS005 *

Michael Speers - xtr'ctn (LP)

Format: Digital/Vinyl
Cat.No: CANVAS005
Release Date: 13th of September 2019

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synthetic listening environments :: created with material extracted from field recordings and processed/arranged using software, alongside electronic signals from no-input feedback + test equipment.

most of the source material was generated at my place of work[as a technician]—whilst testing large amounts of audio equipment—capturing electronics’ internal behaviours + using very high levels of amplification on various small capsule microphones, connected to wireless transmitters placed in resonant vessels/spaces and materials of interest
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Northern Irish, London based musician Michael Speers composes and performs music as a temporal and worldly extension of himself and the tools at his disposition. As a percussionist by training, Michael extends his contact and interplay with resonant objects through instrumentalised amplification and feedback, employing signal processing to articulate the almost tangible constitution of sonic material as structural, nearly cellular, microscopic entities. Following his integral presence in C.A.N.V.A.S. performance events since their inception and his recent participation in the Cipher compilation, xtr’ctn is released in September 2019 as a debut solo LP for both the artist and the label.

Dehumanised black metal screams, attributed to seagulls - specifically “recorded in Ramsgate, 06.2017”. It’s the inhuman that concerns us here, or our complex relationship with non-human entities and abstractions. Extracting is a process. By integrating recorded and found sound phenomena, treated as profane and material entities, Michael meticulously arranges sound objects into composition, upholding a fidelity to their emergent properties. Most of these objects become seemingly un-referential, although occasionally you arrive at a near-recognisable sound source or environment, disrupting the invitation towards a total loss of a sense of self.

This is fictional music - it is of and for a world that doesn’t exist. Although presenting sound with sincerity and integrity, without allusion to linear narrative, Michael's materialistic approach is transcended by the sensitivity of his composition. In a sense, it comes after both feeling and expression, as the subdued emotion of a person attempting to reach beyond their own affective limitations. It reaches out without ever really touching anything. Yet for all it’s clinical reduction, there are moments of unhindered emotion which strike harder for their arrival from such a seemingly nonhuman place.

“xtr’ctn” fails in reaching a point of immanent abstraction - a flatline horizon. It arrives instead at the outer brim of a sensory dam, where organic glitches from the extremities of our perception have spread - like sonic cataracts - intercepting the flow of our auditory awareness. In its state of fiction, “xtr’ctn” acts as a flag for the C.A.N.V.A.S. community, pitched as a marker of our enacted existence, weathered though unliving. To follow this signal to its depth is to accept the unknown - you only follow, knowing no alternative.

Mastering by Ali Najafi
Artwork and product design by AALTAR

@michaelspeers

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Buy DL/LP

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Ifs = Krzysztof Freeze Ostrowski & Fischerle

Source: https://fasrat.bandcamp.com/album/fasrat-compilation-3

Ifs - Candyflipper

buy the 2018 vinyl edition: https://boomkat.com/products/time-exercises

"Unexpectedly, the closing "Exercise 5" betrays some rare hints of conventional musicality, as cosmic synth drones glimmer and streak across dark skies as the ruined earth shudders, smolders, and collapses beneath.  It is a fitting end to a truly disturbing album, as it feels like I am getting one last glance from space at the final paroxysm of a world where hell has opened up to drag the living into its fiery depths." - Brainwashed

Cam Deas - Exercise 5 [RAVE022]

Death Kneel - Moral Inventory

Xephem Records presents "The Compiler Series"; A collection of short compilations featuring various artists from the Braindance community.

Includes 1 bonus track

Featuring:
Repeat Eater (Stazma The Junglechrist)
Mause
fxbip
Tysk Raider
Caltha
Eggshell Goblin
Dr. Doctor
®adår
Dan J. Wilcox
Beathaven
InhuM'AwZ

Compiler - Level 2

Compiler Level 2 - Track Previews

stacks

No Tears (in the sad party feat. Maria Erre)

From my upcoming EP titled "Casino".
Cassette/digital pre-order available at:
kelbyclark.bandcamp.com

Four Roses

Tustance est fier de vous présenter sa septième sortie produite par Private Grief. Originaire de Salerno en Italie, Private Grief nous fait l’honneur ici d’un long format chaleureux et mystique. Le projet voit plusieurs genres s’entremêler au fil des pistes créant une atmosphère unique proche de l’état méditatif. 

Entre ambient, experimental et techno, Deadline plonge l’auditeur dans un univers aux frontières de la science-fiction et de l’heroic fantasy. C’est avec un réél plaisir que nous vous partageons cet album, produit avec le cœur et près de la mer, dédié à tous ceux qui souhaitent s’échapper de la réalité même pour quelques instants. 

«Imagine toi grandir dans une ville qui reste silencieuse, qui ne comprends pas tes besoins, imagine toi marcher dans une forêt enchantée au beau milieu de la nuit. » 

English: 

Tustance are very proud to present you our seventh release with our new family member: Private Grief. Living in Salerno, Italy, Private Grief made us the honor to produce a very mystic yet generous album here.

The project offers different electronic music styles with a deep and unique atmosphere close to sci-fi movies and heroic fantasy novels. Between ambient, experimental and techno, Deadline is an experience to hear and to live. It’s a real pleasure for us to release such a beautiful album, produced close to the sea, with passion. 

This one is dedicated to all those who want to escape the reality, even for a moment. 

“Imagine growing up in a city that remains silent, which does not want to listen to your needs, imagine walking in a forest enchanted in the middle of the night.” 
credits
releases November 7, 2020 

Produced by Manuel Longo 
Artwork by Llyazel 
Mastering by Studio Bagar

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