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Taken from Gavilán Rayna Russom - The Envoy LP/Download [ELP047]

• Solo debut album of pulsing, beat-less urges by NYC transdisciplary artist Gavilán Rayna Russom
• Includes guest appearance by industrial and downtown figures Cosey Fanni Tutti and Peter Zummo 
• Cut at D&M, Berlin

Transdisciplinary NYC artist Gavilán Rayna Russom beautifully comes into her own with a distinguished solo debut album statement including the voice of Cosey Fanni Tutti and brass arrangements by downtown legend Peter Zummo

After decades exploring her sonic personality in various projects inspired by her deep immersion in NYC’s club and avant-garde scenes, Rayna uses ‘The Envoy’ as a vessel to firm up and convey her personal conclusions on intersections of gender and electronic music. Enriched with complex human experience and key influence from sci-fi writer Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel ’The Left Hand of Darkness’ - a book that strongly resonated with her due to its descriptions of an alien race with multiple sexual characteristics - the album is intended to realign misconceptions of Russom’s prescient early work such as 2005’s ‘The Days of Mars’ LP for DFA, which arguably foreshadowed a rise of beat-less and more ambiguous urges that are now commonplace in contemporary dance music, yet were at the time lumped in with retro-fetishist trends. With ‘The Envoy’ Russom returns to a 2019 music scene that’s better prepared with the politics of an emerging new world, and thus readied for her ideas to take hold in the public consciousness.

Entwining Russom’s perspectives on gender, the occult, and spirituality, and how they relate to the body and music’s healing properties, ‘The Envoy’ clearly yet ambiguously expresses the artist’s concerns in nine interrelated parts. Practically devoid of percussion, but full of body-moving polyrhythmic pattern, the pieces spill out of the lines of any typically imposed “grid”. Within this loose context, porous to the chaos of noise, Russom smudges a blend of analogue and digital synths to connote an elusive sense of self, encouraging the listener to navigate the music’s curves and silhouettes by instinct. 

Employing the fluid potential of electronic music at its most fundamental in a way that loops right back to the glyding suspense of her prized early work, even literally incorporating elements of long form solo recordings made in the late ‘90s in the wake of Russom’s psych/noise band Soma.

Unanchored by kicks, yet pulsing in its own ways, the album flows with an underlying elegance from Cosey Fanni Tutti’s spellbinding recital of Russom’s text in ‘Kemmer’, set to an organic, orgiastic writhe of arps and stressed noise, and on thru the free-floating organ scape of ‘Envoy’, to acknowledge more grimly industrial impulses with ‘Strength out of the Dark’ and also a towering highlight of the album in ‘Discipline of Presence’, where Russom’s throbbing mass is hauntingly illuminated by plangent brass arrangement from Peter Zummo (key Arthur Russell collaborator). The 10 minute ‘Winter’ then wraps it all up under a titular reference to Ursula K Le Guin’s novel, placing Russom as a filament of solo piano-playing light within the cold expanse of NYC.

Gavilán Rayna Russom - Kemmer (w/ Cosey Fanni Tutti)[ELP047]

An EBM-laced, 100 BPM beatdown of steel fisted heft and queasy electronics from Beau Wanzer and the late Dan Jugle.

'Old Reliable' is out January 20th on CLEAR.

Pre-order: bit.ly/37HvLFf

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Old Reliable

Premiere: Juzer - Old Reliable [CLEAR]

Idealism (08.01.20) w/ Joachim Nordwall

An anxious hardware tantrum from Beau Wanzer and the late Chicago underground champion Dan Jugle.

Read more: https://hyponik.com/features/exclusive-features/first-listen-exclusive-features/first-listen-juzer-busy-bees-clear-records/

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First Listen: Juzer - Busy Bees (CLEAR Records)

Halflings, the electronic music group of Jeremy Nissan and Ryan Woodhall, was started on Long Island NY in 2005 as a direct response to their suburban upbringing. The duo’s background in DIY punk and their obsession with raw sound led to a distinctly compositional and live approach to harsh noise and power electronics. As teenagers, Halflings caught the ear of Ron Lessard, who released their first full Length LP Self Esteem on RRRecords. 
 Over the years the band has pushed the structural element of their work to the forefront, fusing extreme sound with pop, prog, and electronic dance music. Halflings develop each album thematically, often writing lyrics from a first-person perspective as a means to gain understanding of their subjects as well as their own psyche. 

Little Orchard Boy was conceived as a concept album born from their shared formative experiences of sexuality & masculinity. It should be no surprise that the record digs into the band’s early encounters with New York night life. A distinct NYC dirge permeates the raw funk grooves spanning the album. The 3 tracks featured on Little Orchard Boy were initially composed for live performance before being put to tape in 2019. The EP marks an evolution in Halflings’ sound; While the band’s style of noise has always exuded musicality, Little Orchard Boy introduces a more streamlined usage of melody and song structure. The album’s complex drum programming and subtle studio techniques showcase Nissan’s background as a drummer and Woodhall’s background as a producer respectively, but the true power of the sound lies in the duo’s shared musical vocabulary that they’ve developed over the past two decades.

Primitive Languages/Psychic Liberation concludes it’s year span of amorphous output with Little Orchard Boy. Marking the final chapter in the output of the label formally known as Primitive Languages, which created the lane for the new undertaking of Psychic Liberation.

“ Little Orchard Boy “ mastered by Josh Bonati and pressed at Palomino Records, ships February 14th.
Photo by Nikki Sneakers.
Distributed by Fantastique, LLC.

Order at www.primitivelanguages.bandcamp.com

Halflings "Little Orchard Boy" SNIPPETS

On weekdays she is an engineering lecturer at the National Technical University of Minsk. Weekend audiences are rather different - Elena shares her musical knowledge with the crowds at underground parties.

The Belarus based DJ and producer is probably best known for collaboration with Heinrich Mueller for a conceptual Der Zyklus mini-album on WéMè Records as well as meticulously crafted mixes and her educated taste. Also she is a member of Daughter Produkt project and co-hosting RADIO RITUEL show on french radio LYL.

This mix is a perfect example of Elena's skills and refined palette of soundscapes achieved through over a decade of work and pleasure behind the decks.  She showcases her talent and expertise in an elegant hour-long journey of obscure and intelligent sounds.


• https://soundcloud.com/lectra
• https://www.facebook.com/elena.sizova
• https://soundcloud.com/user-584333214
• https://www.instagram.com/e235sizova
• https://www.discogs.com/artist/3352266-Elena-Sizova?fbclid=IwAR1FLz-g4524jw2POc7-VKHl78dBkWS4hcp-xXNbqjKtDgl3s9AWeRIkkVc

Comme des Larmes podcast w / Elena Sizova # 17

Legowelt needs no introduction, a voracious music fiend that knows know boundaries, a man of many names and many styles....we are pleased to get an hour and a half mix from one of the modern masters of contemporary electronic music. As usual we get the full scope here...from Memphis Rap, to NY boogie, to Hague scum electronics, to unreleased gems, to chi-town beat tracks...it's all there....a truly psychedelic trip....tune in!!!!!

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LIES-149
Robert Bergman-Whats on Yr Mind
from upcoming four track ep.
to be released Feb 2020

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Robert Bergman-Whats On Yr Mind (LIES-149)

MMP IS A MEDIUM THAT AIMS TO SUMMARISE AND BROADCAST INNER THOUGHTS AND BELIEFS OF LIKEMINDED RATHER THAN FOLLOWING STYLES AND GENRES OF PROFANE.
THE FORTY-FIFTH CHAPTER IS WRITTEN BY THE PRODUCERS AND DJS @MIKE-TANSELLA-JR AND @TANS-1 AKA SONS OF TRADERS

ABOUT ARTISTS:
INSPIRED BY NEWSPAPERS AND UPS & DOWNS OF CIVILIZATION SONS OF TRADERS DUO WAS BORN IN BERLIN IN 2018. BEHIND THE NAME SONS OF TRADERS ARE TANS & MIKE TANSELLA JR. 
COLLABORATED WITH VASTECHOOSES, RENGAINE, ACERO, GRAVITATIONAL WAVES SONS OF TRADERS ARE FINALLY PRESENTING THEIR FIRST SELF-RELEASED "DEEP IN THE FLOWERS" EP, WHICH INCLUDES REMIXES BY JASEN LOVELAND (THE BUNKER NY) AND CHRIS MITCHELL (SQUIRRELS ON FILM).
WITH EVERY BEAT THEY INVENT SOMETHING UNHEARD, SOMETHING BEHIND THE GRAVITY OF SOUND WAVES, WHERE INDUSTRIAL MEETS THEATRICAL, WHERE TRASH IS MIXED WITH GOLD AND ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES REVEAL.

RELEASE: https://sonsoftraders.bandcamp.com/
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