Jonnnah - Social Nebula

Hard Fantasy lands on All Centre with a 5 track EP, Mechanicus, exploring the distinctive experimental style of the London-based producer's sound.

Rogue Advisor emerges with atmospheric sound design. Pummeling drums provide an industrial groove whilst a piercing siren sounds above, its intensity rising to a fever pitch as the track progresses.

Mechanicus is available across all platforms on the 3rd of February.

@yungadultxx

Mechanicus

Hard Fantasy - Rogue Advisor

'Huiracchuro' is the first single taken from the EP 'Aviario', out on the 23rd February.

'Aviario' is a collaborative EP by Ecuadorian electronic music producers Entrañas and Ene Ese, alongside visual artist Destello. The release coalesces the unique sonic palette, textures and rhythms of Ecuadorian music with the darkness of Club and Bass music. Taking influence from bird species inhabiting the diverse ecosystems of Ecuador, Entrañas and Ene Ese seamlessly transmute delicately layered soundscapes and birdsong into cutting drum patterns, creating invigorating compositions that spotlight the rich musical heritage of Ecuador and its natural environment.

'Aviario' ranges sonically from moments of ambient textural exploration in 'Trogón', to dance floor ready tracks such as the single 'Huiracchuro' where overdriven melodies weave between sultry drums making heavy use of 6/8 polyrhythms found in Ecuadorian genres such as Albazo and Bomba. The third track 'Curiquingüe' features additional composition from producer Zunfo.

The EP is accompanied by six corresponding artworks by Destello, who reimagines the colours and forms of the birds into candescent abstractions.

Bandcamp

Entrañas & Ene Ese - Huiracchuro

all i wanted (paramore flip)

Artist: Dayoung
EP: Latency
Format: Digital
Cat.No: CHI052
Master: Justin Randel
Artwork: Dayoung
Release Date: 25 October 2024

Baroque meets industrial techno on Latency, the latest EP from Seoul-based DJ and musician Dayoung. Through the pounding rhythms of taiko drums and dark swirling electronica, she creates a melancholic soundtrack to an existential crisis on the dancefloor.

Latency, her first release on Chinabot, comes after a period of self-realisation for Dayoung. “I aim to express emotions such anxiety and uneasiness into experimental, deconstructed sounds that are still more or less describable in dance-floor grammar,” she says. “Strong sounds and textures are a kind of release for me. Subversive music is an outlet. It screams out things I can't say in words.”

 

Building from the creeping, liquid sadness of the opening tracks, Strong/Weak, Dangerous fills in a slow BPM with distorted samples, including her own whispering voice, to create a stuttering whirlwind of repressed angst. “Sometimes you want to say something but it’s just not easy due to circumstances, and I wanted to reflect on this kind of situation,” Dayoung says.

 

On the next track, Disturbing Choir, heavy kicks and breakbeats turn the drama up a notch, driven by stacked melodies that interlace like a choir. An ominous feeling grows throughout the record, which ends with Expired, built around a Latin American tresillo rhythm bulked out with heavy bass and kicks. Leaving the listener with a sense of unease, it is characteristic of Dayoung’s refusal to provide any simple conclusions, preferring instead to draw us into the mist of the emotional moment.

Dayoung is a DJ and promoter based in Seoul who plays heavy bass, reggaeton, UK bass, breakbeat and more. She is also a member of the art collective Lost Air which archives and researches the underground electronic music scenes of (mostly) Seoul. In 2023, she launched a new Seoul-based collective, Fragmented Service, with fellow musician and DJ Jaeho Hwang. She has played with and supported artists like Dis Fig, Flora Yin Wong, NET GALA, and Salamanda. At the moment she is the promoter of her own party series [Girls Gone Wild] and is a monthly roster member of Visla.fm radio.

Latency

Disturbing Choir

It's popular in literary circles to consider "autofiction" some sort of narcissistic, neoliberal fad. Done right, it’s the opposite. Autofiction, or what McKenzie Wark reframes as the 'autotextual', is a long tradition of writing in which the writer attempts to account, from within, for the historical circumstances that made them. Its experiments in accounting for subjectivity as a thing made by forces outside itself. 

"I think that's an important writerly method in an historical moment when the media that make us have become pervasive, distributed, and double as means of surveillance. Moreover, when almost everyone's textual product is being strip-mined by so-called AI to mimic the language of the human, it seems timely to look critically and intimately in what made us imagine we are humans in the first place." - McKenzie

Originally from Newcastle NSW, McKenzie Wark is a New York based writer and scholar specializing in media theory. Her books include A Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory and Raving. Her current project is provisionally titled From Writing to Texting. She teaches at The New School for Social Research.

McKenzie Wark - Critical (Auto) Theory | SUPERMODEL [discourse]

Sweet Grip Transmissions invites st.grimes - 11/10/2024

DRIP Mixes: Spinefluid

Pour cette nouvelle émission on a le plaisir d'accueillir l'artiste parisienne Keki. keki trace des diagonales torves entre IDM, Noise, wave, grime et bangers post club avec un goût prononcé pour les ascensions épiques, les chants mystiques et les basses vrombissantes. 

Connu pour sa sélection ultra précises on est honorés d'enfin l'inviter pour 1h entre dub hybride, trap déformée et pop lointaine.

On remercie @frgm.ntsdis pour notre nouvelle DA visuelle <3

Ex Magazine Invite Keki

Sweet Bye and Bye - Second Episode w/ instar 🎼

Sweet Bye and Bye is designed to help you unwind with soothing melodies and peaceful rhythms, offering a gentle respite from the fast-paced dancefloor.

In this episode, I invited my dear friend @cam_cool - DJ, producer, and member of Burenhinder. Instar is also known as the captivating voice of the shoegaze band Sunchaser. Through their personal sonic explorations, instar plays and creates trance-tekno & noise music, amongst a wider arts practice under the same moniker. Instar takes here a softer approach blending nostalgic soundscapes with textured ambient music to create a tranquil soundscape.

Now, Sit back and enjoy 💌

instar's part:
jenny hval - lorna
malibu - held
death grips - on gp
dj olive - one day old
ena - spirito
finn idris - willmyson
birthed - pledge
chuck person - A3
instar improv drone outro

waltur's part:
Permanent Six Flags - 13 + 18 + 6 
Autumn Fair - A Night on the Tiles
Oren Ambarchi Johan Berthling Andreas Werliin - fyra
Klein ft. POLO PERKS <3 <3 - karmic freestyle
Loren Connors & David Grubbs - Evening Air
Charles Curtis - Elaine Radigue - Occam V (2012)
Oren Ambarchi Johan Berthling Andreas Werliin - IV
Ishmael Reed - How High The Moon
Eiko Ishibashi - Ask Me How I Sleep at Night

LYL radio 30.10 Sweet Bye and Bye w/  instar + waltur

New @parkingstone compilation: BLIST
01. piano princess - all the time
02. Meuko! Meuko! - none (live recording)
03. Deli Girls - SILENCE
04. Nkisi - phantasia
05. IDKLANG - Self-Optimize Pt. I The Mirror
06. INSIN - Kali Phos
07. Khadije - Ms. Thinking
08. Lizzitsky - Gum Massacre (C-Gen Mix)
09. Osheyack - Obfuscate ft. Jordan Tierney
10. Gabber Modus Operandi - Banci
11. Tati au Miel - Clairvoyance
12. Summer Satana - Mutation needs violence
13. ENDGAME - DRAINED
14. Van Boom & Oldyungmayn - 20965
15. whiterose - h'X
16. HDMIRROR - RE-ENTRY
17. Gabber Eleganza - Bonjour Travelers
Cover: Joe Pascale
Mastering: Lorenzo Targhetta

Meuko! Meuko! - none (live recording)

Gadigal / Sydney based arts organisation, est. 2017. Ecstatic encounters with art, sound and new media.

McKenzie Wark - Critical (Auto) Theory | SUPERMODEL [discourse]

SOFT CENTRE