Did You Hear

Track from forthcoming tape on Ascetic House

Appetite - Kiss of Judas

Vika Kuchak "Stels" out on 21st Februaty via Fuselab

Pre-order: https://fuselab.bandcamp.com/album/stels

"Stels. There's no agenda here. It's about missing the chaotic, free, sometimes violent space of childhood. The flickering episodes when it was good and the music that was playing at that moment. Basically, nothing new. Plus - the desire that there was music similar to the bastard child of Dr. Alban or Faithless and Biosphere mixed with the notorious low-fi house.
But in the end, it turned out the way it did. I don't know what I was thinking..."

Following up her vibrant singles, Kazakhstan-born, California-based rising star Vika Kuchak brings us her debut album “Stels”. The unique sensibility of the artist’s tape-fi house and leftfield pop is now materialised into one hour of deep beauty that provides welcome confirmation to her hidden talents. Opening things up with the moody Nocow and DJ Designer collaboration “На танцполе (On the dancefloor)”, Kuchak sets the tone for the rest of the album with its elegiac, sensual atmosphere. Each track's internal ambience has the paradoxical effect of creating an euphoric, emotional centre via a melancholic meandering of sound, smudging her soundscape into a swirling bliss of hauntological house music. 

There's certainly intimacy and nostalgia; “Stels” is dedicated to childhood flashbacks full of anarchic, loose, and sometimes traumatised moments. Professional teacher and psychology student in the daytime, Kuchak on “Stels” melted her sonic introspection into the joyous memoradelia, spinning the ghosts of low-brow dance music favourites of her pre-adolescent age with the recent high-concept drone and ambient obsessions. In her hands, psychoanalytic and sound reinterpretations of cultural and personal memories become portals to perceiving emotionally resonant dancefloor rhythms and gentleness of avant pop music.

Links:
Vika Kuchak
https://soundcloud.com/vika-kuchak
https://www.instagram.com/vika_kuchak
https://t.me/vikakuchak

Nocow: https://soundcloud.com/nocow

Fuselab
https://soundcloud.com/fuselab
https://fuselab.bandcamp.com/music

Stels

Bandcamp

PREMIERE: Vika Kuchak – На Танцполе (ft. Nocow, Dj Designer) [Fuselab]

premiere of "Confirmation" by Bovitz 
taken from the compilation "Moduli", released soon on Routine Records

Compilation Details:
https://novafuture.blog/2024/02/19/various-moduli-routine-records/

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Artist: Bovitz | @bovitz
Label:  Routine Records |  @routinemoscow

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Order via Bandcamp: https://nfredirect.de/?r=ROUTINEVA003-BC

Info & Buy

Bovitz - Confirmation [ROUTINEVA003 | Premiere]

Chaoss - Monkey

Emerging from the fertile chaos of Düsseldorf’s Salon des Amateurs scene, Sequence of Events, the collaborative project of Deniz Saridas and Joshua Gottmanns, presents The Art of Memory, an album that feels both intimate and ungraspable, like recalling a dream that fades upon waking.

Rooted in the post-industrial landscapes of West Germany, The Art of Memory channels the bleak resilience of these environments into its sound. It’s a collage of kraut-infused electronics, shoegaze textures, and industrial pulses, filtered through a lens of introspective psychedelia. “We don't consciously break down or combine genres,” they explain. “Everything is interwoven, like chemistry. Some reactions happen immediately, others take years under pressure.”

From the opening track TAR, with its stoic vocals and drum-heavy propulsion, to the robotic Meagre Gardens, where autotuned chants coil around unconventional drum programming, the album moves like a fever dream through fragmented memories. Soul Divider unfolds like a cinematic journey through yearning and desire, its repetitive pulses echoing the ache of unfulfilled longing, while Nature Hates Life distills pop music through the eyes of a killjoy: “Kurt Cobain on an AKAI MPC2000,” as the band describes it. Even moments of...  more
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Music written and produced by Deniz Ahmet Saridas and Joshua Gottmanns
Lyrics by Joshua Gottmanns
Recorded in Düsseldorf and Berlin
Additional recordings with Alexander Fuchs at Hotel Viktoria in Meersburg
Mixed by Deniz Ahmet Saridas
Mastered and Lacquer Cut by Isabel Schröer at Scape Mastering
Cover and inner sleeve by Deniz Ahmet Saridas, concept by Joshua Gottmanns
Liner Notes: Caroline Whiteley
A&R by Dominik André & Nevesthika Muralitharan
Original Release by Subject To Restrictions Discs
Distributed by Bordello A Parigi

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Collab CD comin soon.

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