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SPA RELEASES x NTS SHOWS

RA:005 - VA001

Current Bias - Transient Bubble (@currentbia5)

all profits to be donated to www.musichelps.org.nz

Releases on cassette and digital on 19/11/2021

Mastered by Ike Zwanniken
Cover Art by Mas Guerrero
Digital Design by Molly McLennan
Cassette Layout by Grace Verweij

RA:005 - VA001

Current Bias - Transient Bubble

Following an incredibly well-received rework of Xtasis by Jeph Vanger for inklingroom's first release, not to mention finding support from Hyperdub stalwart Loraine James, the hugely immersive and kaleidoscopic Argento EP serves as Yraki's debut record proper.

‘Argento’ is a complex exercise in modern club music aesthetics and a contemporary hybrid of experimental sound design. As described by the artist himself: ‘I would like to produce music that is ‘genre-fluid’, and balance between many styles that influenced me as an artist. Whether it’s a contemporary take on instrumental grime, deconstructed techno, and bass, or the immersive world of experimental sound design.’

Yraki is the new avant-garde creation born of London-based artist Mariano Sibilia. Its existence is the manifestation of the inner workings of Sibilia’s mind interacting with the sensations of the outer world propelled into form via his extraordinary synaesthesia phenomenon. As an external expression, from an electronic world detached from the rules and strictures of human life, Yraki’s existence is a conduit for pure creativity.

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Yraki - Zenith

01 - Foam Era
02 - Ascendo Schleife

Written & Produced by enDen 
Mastered by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven 
Artwork by enDen & France'98 
SPA Recordings 2022

https://sparecordings.bandcamp.com/album/spa009-enden-losing-my-grip-on-the-sky

SPA009: enDen - losing my grip on the sky

ZZEN é o meu EP debut. Está composto por 3 tracks que constitúen o camiño paralelo ao ZEN. O Universo en desencanto, a procura da continuidade e da sorte a través de ritmos rotos, de samples enerxéticos e de melodías que emerxen dalgún lugar.

Calella, Cafurna e ZBreak son 3 momentos, 3 pílulas para a escoita e o club. Foi producido xunto a Juait no inverno compostelán de 2022.


ZZEN is my debut EP. It is composed of 3 tracks that make up the path parallel to the ZEN. The Universe in disenchantment, the search for continuity and luck through broken rhythms, energetic samples and melodies that emerge from somewhere.

Calella, Cafurna and ZBreak are 3 moments, 3 pills for listening and the club. It was produced with Juait in the compostelan winter of 2022.


Produced by Russ & Juait
Mixed by Juait
Mastered by Spinal Sound
Graphic design by Celia López

Adicado con especial cariño a niña nai e a Amara.

ZBreak

Based in Buenos Aires, Cimarrón is a producer and sound artist who creates hyper-contemporary, genre-fluid compositions that blur the boundaries between experimental club music and Latin rhythms. His debut EP Sin Cara, Sin Nombre [NODO label] narrated a liberating process of profound inner change through heartbreaking yet euphoric club beats.

His second project, Rubí/Zafíro, is in a sense a continuation of Sin Cara, Sin Nombre. Here, Cimarrón delves deeper into a club-focused sound, offering stomping drums over harsh euphoric synth leads, without compromising his experimental approach to sound design or his Latino influence. Yet in another sense, it is a great departure. In contrast to the at times gloomy mood of his debut, this new EP celebrates the bliss of expressing oneself, in a cheerful and exciting way.

Written and produced by Cimarrón
Mastered by Spencer Bell

Cover art and additional visuals: Asdrúbal Gómez [IG @asdrubalvisualartist]

Rubí/Zafíro

Support

Cimarrón - Zafíro

⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎ ⁵⁰⁰⁰ ᶜʳⁱᵐˢᵒⁿ ˢᵗᵃʳˢ⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎

prod engineering by DJH
Part 1 of Solar Triptych

Incense

Recorded by @blondo + @djbrom, originally broadcasted on April 23rd, 2024 on nts.live

photo by @ssaliva

nts.live/shows/spa

SPA#42: Phillip Jondo & DJ Brom for NTS Radio

Recorded in Cologne by @blondo and @djbrom for NTS Radio

https://www.nts.live/shows/spa

SPA#43: Halloween Special with Phillip Jondo & DJ Brom

SPA017: Brodinski - Hex Screwdriver

SPA017: luxxuryproblems & Phillip Jondo - silençio

SPA017: Loto Retina - Thousand Sides

Music label based in Cologne
19.07.25 - SPA at Open Ground
28.05.25 - SPA at Salon des Amateurs
28.03.25 - SPA w/ Mechatok - Jaki, Köln
06.12.24 - SPA presents perila, Xzavier Stone, luxxuryproblems & Sarah San - Cherry Hill, Köln
19.10.24 - NoS w/ Kode9, aya, HiTech, luxxuryproblems+++
07.09.24 - SPA recordings at Open Ground
23.08.24 - SPA x KALKAIRS w/ Ultrafog, Joyul, Inwoo Jung
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