Artwork: Wang Newone
Design: VXXII
Mixing & Mastering: Raphael Valensi

NXE Remixes

DJ Narciso & Endgame - Sem Limites (Nahash Remix)

Taken from SBKT049: Osheyack - Intimate Publics
Release date: 8th June 2022

Intimate Publics, Osheyack’s second album, is an homage to Shanghai, the city he has called home since 2012. Over the past ten years the producer has evolved from an avid club-goer to a key member of the vital soundscape that emerged from ALL Club and its predecessor, the now defunct club The Shelter. As hinted by the title, which draws on American social theorist Michael Warner’s work on publics and counterpublics, the album expresses a commitment to mining the utopian potential of club music, forging new worlds and generating future social relations, just as the artist bids farewell to the city at a moment of uncertain transition. While tracks like 'Edging' and 'Thrall' continue to present his signature collage of harder club music, the rest of the record reveals a shift to synthetic approximations of acoustic instruments. 'Still', the central track of the album, is a piece composed almost entirely of samples found on Vocaloid (a vocal synthesizer developed by Yamaha, commonly used to give voice to Japanese virtual idols). While echoing themes explored in previous projects, like the nature of realism and authenticity in a techno-mediated landscape, Intimate Publics is charged with an unexpected emotional candor and vulnerability, unveiling a personal side Osheyack is only beginning to explore.

Words by Alvin Li
Artwork by Xiaofei Qiu
Design by Luke Griffiths
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Intimate Publics

Osheyack - Thrall

A promising track of EP2, plays around with a catchy and naive vocal phrase, insisting that ‘Sometimes It’s Hard’. The statement, sung by a soft but mechanical female voice, is underlined by a glitchy and relentless breakbeat layered with visceral subs. The track’s weltschmerz disposition is equally seductive and destructive, which makes ‘Sometimes It’s Hard’ an unusual tune that will satisfy both seasoned ravers and a wider festival crowd.

EP2’s mesmerising cover art, a piece created for affected called ‘Crinoid Scanner’, was made by local 3D artist Caroline Vang. The work is inspired by the alien yet familiar look of crinoid fossils. Finding her inspiration in the most alien and quirky parts of nature, Vang specializes in an experimental and surreal play of texture and shape, to challenge the line between fiction and hyper-reality.

Sometimes It's Hard is mastered by SUGAR aka. Nikolaj Jakobsen in Copenhagen.

Hedo Hydr8 - Sometimes Its Hard

5 piosenek z UST wyobrażonych na nowo przez Ku Ku, aniis, Miss Jay, Goro i julka ploskiego

Cały dochód idzie na akcję Podziel się ciepłem z Ukrainą zorganizowaną przez SDK Słonecznik

Archiwum (Miss Jay remix)

For his next EP, Belgian producer dybbuk takes us on a 25 minutes trip between experimental ambient sounds, horror movie synth pads, drums, and of course bass.

Read more on CxC 🔗 https://couvrexchefs.com/en/dybbuk-interloper-herbal-bride-montage

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PREMIERE: dybbuk - Herbal Bride (MONTAGE)

Tzusing and Taipei’s FINAL club curate a five-track compilation of local experimental electronic talent on @seacucumberlabel. Hear @sandystrace's ‘Beholden’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-sandys-trace-beholden

Premiere: Sandy’s Trace ‘Beholden’

Ice_eyes and Sueuga have linked Athens and Mexico for a percussive and industrial EP labeled post-pandemic club music.

Read more on CxC 🔗 couvrexchefs.com/en/ice_eyes-sueuga-arboretum-records-superficie-ziur-remix

PREMIERE: Ice_eyes x Sueuga - Superficie (Ziúr Remix) (Arboretum Records)

‘Inflatable Gravestone’ is the debut album by Mun Sing (aka Harry Wright) released on https://soundcloud.com/planetmurecords on 2nd June 2023

https://munsing.bandcamp.com/album/inflatable-gravestone

The motivating force of the album is the sudden loss of Harry’s father in 2020. Their father struggled with substance addiction and the album explores ideas of 'spirituality' and the ‘higher self’ in relation to addiction and its parallels with the coping mechanisms of grief. It also aims to highlight the importance of humour and distraction when coping with loss.

Serving as a narrative for their own experiences, the album is largely built around club-centred tracks (such as ‘Spider’ and ’Squabble’) broken up by moments of yearning and reflection in tracks like ’The Poison Garden’ and ‘Helhest (Azrael Smirks)’ and moments of dark anguish like 'Inheritor' with its heavy slab-like chords and pensive piano. Flirting with awkward and suggestive rhythms, Wright deliberately suspends moments of resolution and groove in favour of drama and jerky, unexpected cartoonish humour, taking as much influence from the likes of the Art Of Noise as Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. 

Wright rewards the listener with moments of clarity and introspection like flags on the journey, recruiting vocalist MX World to deliver lyrics and melodic ideas created by them and their father. Their father’s journals in rehab helped inform most of the lyrics. Some take whole sentences as a way to physically ‘give life’ to his words for the first time. The lyrics describe feelings, revelations and  apocalyptic hallucinations. MX World's clear, direct tone suggests folk music and the timelessness of the human condition.

The album concludes with the title track ‘Inflatable Gravestone’ which features a chorus of giddy manipulated laughter from Wright’s friends and family to a truly maddening effect. This is then resolved by bright and clear piano chords and the sound of Wright’s father breathing in his sleep. A deeply affecting and personal record with corkscrew twists and turns and a healthy dose of absurdism. 
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releases June 2, 2023

All tracks written and produced by Harry Wright. Lyrics by Harry Wright, except track 10 lyrics by Harry Wright and William Wright. Lead vocals by MX World. Additional vocals by Nashne, Akiko Haruna and Mouse.

Mastered by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven Mastering.

Published by Domino Publishing.

Waiting In The Car

Tzusing X The Chemical Brothers X Phelimuncasi X Afrika Bambaataa - ABADIR Hey Balkanize Mashup

>< CRUDE Premiere ><

Artist: WRACK & B E N N
Track name: Moon Beam 
Label: Over My Body
Release date: 28th July 2023

>> https://overmybody.bandcamp.com/album/moon-beam

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@bedoublensound
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CRUDE Premiere: WRACK & B E N N - Moon Beam (T5UMUT5UMU REMIX)

Dang yall woke up the bear, and he only got 4 months of hibernation ooh he gonna be mad.

Archiwum (Miss Jay remix)

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