Collateral Intelligence's Butterflies In Funerals is widescreen, sometimes dark, often hopeful electronica with one eye on the stars, but grounded in the sheer cathartic necessity of its creation.

The new moniker from Maltese wunderkind Neil "Acidulant" Hales, the album was formed during a turbulent period in the artist's life, when his father was seriously ill in hospital. Butterflies in Funerals is his way of expressing the complexity of emotion he was going through at the time.

"To me it all looked like a very dark movie," he says. "That's why the tracks are are at times cold or have a sad, emotional, or hopeful feeling."

Drawing on his impressive background in acid house and electro – with releases on Balkan Vinyl and Jack Trax – the album takes in mutant breakbeat, battle-scarred ambient, and tripped out 303 grooves, but pushes his sound further and deeper than ever before.

The album cover features specially designed artwork by rising star Fei Meng, who will be exhibiting at the Royal Society of British Artists later this year.

So in 2021 join Collateral Intelligence on a journey into the recesses of the soul, and emerge, purified, and ready for the rest of the trip.

Revisit (Clip)

Tracklisting:
A1. Divisible Cause 
A2. Stray Thrills 
B1. Pleasure Systems 
B2. Mindless

A bridging of minds and energies, a confluence of souls and spirits. Midnight Shift releases an exclusive collaboration between Prequel Tapes and dBridge - Ionize. Cast all genres aside, as two electronic worlds collide to produce a third sonic space.

Start your engines with 'Divisible Cause' speeding and hurtling into the great atmospheric unknown. Outlier for the freaks, 'Stray Thrills' amalgamates between the classicist EBM and futurist UK bass. Stumble through 'Pleasure Systems' with light sabres, wrangled beats and gun shots ricochetting off the walls in one heady disorientation. Then wander aimlessly into the warehouse at 170bpm with 'Mindless', led by twilight tones and menacing machines at every turn.

Written and produced by Marco Freivogel and Darren White
Mixed by Prequel Tapes
Artwork by EPOD
Layout by Graeme "Gramrcy" Bateman
Mastered and cut by Simon from The Exchange

Ionize

Mindless

Bandcamp

MNSX024 - Prequel Tapes & dBridge - Mindless (Full stream 128Kbps)

Flatland Frequencies - Monthly Show
Luke Sanger (Tigerbeat6)
Sseagulls (Cosmic Pint Glass)
Jeran Portis (Motech)

Luke Sanger [Flatland Frequencies] [19.05.2021]

An all vinyl session from last week on a rainy, cool day that required some good music.

O Yuki Conjugate - Forgotten Summer II / Endless Heat [Kynant Records]
natural/electronic.system. - Scirocco [Tikita]
Minae Minae - Flossensäume [Marionette]
Upsammy - Metallic [Dekmantel]
Shine Grooves - Sydgo [Hanagasumi]
Neinzer - Cause pan Tact Insoluble [Where To Now?]
mu tate - All 3 [Experiences Ltd.]
Ura - Freestyle Rain [Collect-Call]
Pontiac Streator - Trizlang Gem ft. Ulla [Motion Ward]
Cofaxx - Auto Pilot [Exotic Robotics]
Sunun - Msg Inna Stab [Cold Light]
Khotin - A Loving Blue [Khotin Industries]
F§D - C1D3H [TAX FREE RECORDS]
Serpente - Nivel De Cinza [Ecstatic]
Misha Sultan - Morning At Mudua Wan [DIG]

Rainy & Gray Day In May Vinyl Mix II

A selection of music, for Passa Porta's Literatuurmix series, with readings from two books that observe natural life in the realms least accessible to humankind. ‘Other Minds’ by Peter Godfrey-Smith philosophically explores the profound, sub-aquatic world of the cephalopods; while ‘The Peregrine’ by J.A. Baker examines the heightened, expansive world of birds in meticulous and poetic detail… 

“Living, as I am now, almost immersed in nature on the north-west coast of Mallorca, I found my persistent recollections of these two books were prominent and enlightening as I started to observe certain other beings, in close proximity, on a daily basis. Were I to follow in the footsteps of these two writers, the subjects of my study would have be the jellyfish Pelagia Noctiluca and the Blue Rock Thrush. The former graces these shores in greater numbers each spring, and once I’d become more acclimatised to their idiosyncratic resistance to direct contact, I learned to be happy swimming alongside and amongst them, seeing the beauty beyond the sting in their speckled pink and purple caps. The latter, with its glorious plumage fading gently from light to dark blue, and its hypnotising song, is even less keen on close interaction––lucky for me then that the rock in front of my house is a chosen home to one. We congregate daily, morning and evening, some 10 metres apart, and he’s become my trusted and most beloved neighbour.”

Literatuurmix for Passa Porta

Brutal Waves is joined by Nip to Safeway for two hours of dark ambience, modern classical and experimental electronica. Leftfield gems from start to finish.

Brutal Waves w/ Nip to Safeway - June 2021

Joel AM was live with June's instalment of the General Public show. He ran a stack of soulful gospel, RnB, house and broken beat tracks from the likes of Aretha Franklin, Sunday Service Choir and Balamii resident Wayne Snow.

Anchor Song – Windmills
Raelle – Sunrise
Aretha Franklin – Ain’t Noting Like The Real Thing
Children Of Zeus – 42Long
Space Afrika – B E ft. Blackhaine
ThE DiAboLIcaL LibERTieS – Dub Protection (feat Emma-Jean Thackray
Ivan Ave – On The Very Low
Kofi Stone – Dirty Airforces
Luke Vibert – Hot Fingers
Children Of Zeus – Children Of Zeus
SAULT – Black
Androo & Bony Fly – As A Sign (Assassine Mix)
WAYNE SNOW – Nothing Wrong (Byron The Aquarius Live Mix)
East Coast Love Affair – Date with the Rain (feat. Peter Hunningale & L. Ross)
Laima – Disco Pregnancy
Son Of Lee Edit – Groove Me (Son Of Lee Sunday Sleaze Edit)
Greentea Peng – Free My People (feat. Simmy & Kid Cruise)
Lola – Wax the Van
B.Visible – Pancakes
52nd Street – You're My Last Chance (Extended Version)
Caprice – 100%
(Sunday Service Choir)Faith – Follow me
Lua Preta – Baile Lotus (DJ Raff Remix)
Afrobuddha – Obame
Owiny Sigoma Band – Tech 9
A Vision Of Panorama – Unique Tiger
Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange – Kreuzberg Kix (GE-OLOGY's Brooklyn SLAP
Mix)
Zanzibar Chanel – Drunk at the Jazz Club
Anchorsong – Horseback
Osunlade, Carlos Mena, The Heavy Quarterz – Los Tambores Te Llaman (The
Heavy Quarterz 3am Dose)
V.A. – Mr. Raoul K - Sene Kela feat. Sona Diabate (Mr. Raoul K & Laolu Version
The Paradise – In Love With You

General Public w/ Joel AM - June 2021

Some of my favourite experimental works, discovered in the past 12 months. 

Tracklist: 

1. ŌTONN - CRAMPS. Released 08.04.21
2. Ronce - Pure. Released 04.03.21
3. Euan Dalgarno - Moon#4. Released 25.09.20 
4. Autechre - marhide. Released 28.10.20 
5. Odete - There's No Language For Angels. Released 19.12.19
6. Sugai Ken - Headwaters Of The Tone River. Released 17.11.20 
7. Horla - Mizumi (Le Lac). Released 06.01.21
8. Karol Bijata - Gienek. Released 08.03.20 
9. The Wyrding Module - Tesseract Liquefaction. Released 27.11.20 
10. Burial - Chemz. Released 21.05.21

Experimental set for the Intergalactic FM Streaming Festival 2021

https://hkcr.live/shows/weather-prediction-moondog-038-sjazd-21-06-2021

Weather Prediction｜Moondog & Sjazd.mp3 - 21/06/2021

Hot Love w/ babyschön 19/06/21

New dynamic and spacey track fulfilled with mindtrip stuffs. 
Some elements have been recorded live using a TR8, TB-03, MS-20 mini and effects pedals. It also includes a sound from a Yamaha Rm1x, on which I have been working a lot through Ableton.
+ voice samples extracted from an old documentary film.

Stabilization System

Subdued.
Half of Squared Union.
H336.
https://subduedmusic.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/subduedescapes/
https://www.facebook.com/sqrdunn/