Single by Turkana & Authentically plastic, off forthcoming Split EP "DOXA".

As a collaborative effort from ANTI-MASS residents; Turkana, Nsasi, & Authentically Plastic, DOXA emerged from a year of group experiments & listening sessions between the three artists. It reflects their common interest in shaking up traditional forms, techniques & palettes; making them leak in all directions, discovering new tensions in familiar methods, always with an eye towards the alien & disorienting. The opening track / video “Galiba” takes its inspiration from “Kadodi”, the male circumcision ritual from Eastern Uganda, and “Baksimba”, a royal dance from the Buganda region, and reconstructs them through a decidedly perverse lens. 

A newfound affinity for the music of the Diaspora also serves as a motor for these collaborative experiments. Authentically Plastic recently spoke to Borshch Magazine about: 

“discovering the ghost of one genre in the other…all the industrial potentials of Gqom waiting to be actualised, and all those 'Gqom tendencies' in Industrial & Noise that usually go unnoticed. It has nothing to do with merging, or combining, but gliding; drawing a line between the two that is an expression in its own right."

The lead single “Diesel Femme” draws from Turkana & Authentically Plastic’s interest in Techno, Industrial & Gqom; making connections between these disparate worlds. Nsasi’s playful solo track brings to mind the loose arrangements of Chicago House in the vein of Hieroglyphic Being, or Mutant Beat Dance, just as much as it does the polyrhythmic percussion of his local culture. There’s an undeniable joy here, that comes from assembling sounds or phenomena that have nothing to do with each other, stacking them, stretching them, distorting them; sometimes beyond recognition, and other times accidentally arriving at something vaguely familiar. This openness to unpredictability is generally fuelled by Kampala’s young, but thriving underground music scene; as well as the resilient, queer friendships that have emerged from this small collective; its ethics of care & mutual support.

DOXA

Turkana & Authentically Plastic - Diesel Femme

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B E N N - Synesthesya

Taken from SBKT045: Skyshaker - Novox 10
Release date: 26th November 2021
Artwork by Sam Madhu
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

After a decade navigating ten communities surrounding ten genres of Black music, House of Vemanei founder Skyshaker shares their latest mixtape as an anthology reimagining select cuts from the SVBKVLT back catalog. Novox 10 is an ingenious take on the remix album as Sky LaBeija commemorates a decade of remixing under the Skyshaker alias

In their own words:

“Novox 10 is a vocal album of the voiceless. With the number 10 pronounced in your own native tongue, this is a collection of electronic music commemorating a decade of Black voices silenced by anti-black racism and xenophobia. The Black experience remains an inspirational cornerstone of popular music worldwide, yet Black artists with deeper skin color remain doubted, dismissed, and uncompensated. Popular music in Asia is no exception, as fair-skinned Asian artists rise to superstardom and financial prosperity off the backs of Black artistry and Black suffering. Novox 10 emerges in Shanghai as a navigation beyond that contempt into a place of autonomy, authority, and commitment towards the shaping of worlds in which Black people best fit.

As a retracing of steps through my own coming-out process, Novox 10 revisits my utilization of diasporic sound as a means of creating surrogate family structures as an unhoused queer youth. After a decade of assimilation and traversing ideologies, skills I considered merely tools of survival are now celebrated as home-grown versatility that both saved my life and built a career unchained by genre. What began as a decision to rest as a songwriter for others has become a reclamation of my own voice, as a singer living with selective mutism. Novox 10 is my return to singing via songs unsung, at once mourning and recontextualizing the silence that came before.

With sounds lovingly gifted by their original artists, Novox 10 is an album within an album for voices not yet stepped into. A show of gratitude for all I gained over all I lost as a ghostwriter. It is more than an homage to the music of my childhood and the DJs that saved my life. Each song is a gateway to other bodies of work directing Black feminine bodies towards the same single truth: There is space to do all we intend to. Our only mission is to arrive and return there.”

Novox 10

33EMYBW - English (Skyshaker Kodeswisha Novox)

This is my first album. Release on June 3rd via MAMBArec.

05 Cheia

lo que no conocí

Authentically Plastic - RAW SPACE

"RAW SPACE" is rooted in chaos and chance, sensuality and intensity - it's an album that's able to sound alarmingly freeform and tightly controlled simultaneously. Already established as a genre-disrupting DJ, and even dubbed "demon of the Nile" by Ugandan politicians after an exuberant performance at Nyege Nyege festival in September 2019, Kampala-based sonic hypnotist Authentically Plastic brings a digger's literacy, an activist's intent, and an artist's playfulness to their jagged debut album.

As both a DJ and a producer, Authentically Plastic is drawn to the idea of chance as a creative tool - to push against the idea of the all-knowing genius, and approach artistry instead as a facilitator, unraveling parallel mismatched rhythmic events. Their musical process is to start with chaos, then attempt to mold those fleshy structures into polyrhythmic mutations, pulling influence from East Africa's innovative musical landscape and augmenting it with an exploratory sense of surrealism.

On opening track 'Aesthetic Terrorism', rough-hewn industrial rhythms chug mechanically against course, dissonant synth blasts and acidic arpeggios. There's a faint sparkle of Detroit's chrome-plated Afro-futurism, but bathed in neon light, reflecting Africa's contemporary electronic revolution. Authentically Plastic's productions have a sense of thematic coherence, but their myriad influences are torched into cinders, leaving inverse impressions and ghost rhythms: the tuned overdriven clatter of 'Anti-Fun' echoes Ugandan kadodi modes, yet simultaneously mirrors the rugged out-zone grit of Container or Speaker Music; standout centerpiece 'Buul Okyelo' meanwhile is as rhythmically cross-eyed as Slikback or Nazar, but juxtaposes kinetic dancefloor thumps with chaotic microtonal ritual cycles.

Writing "RAW SPACE", Authentically Plastic found themselves fascinated by sonic flatness. They realized that in Western art, there's an obsession with depth of field that carries into music, robbing it of intensity. The album is an example of the power that can be reclaimed when you let go of depth, letting sounds rub together carnally and spawn something fresh and unexpected

Buul Okyelo

🇬🇧 DJ Latinchat announces debut EP for french label Le Ciel Records

After a series of mysterious ambient dembow releases on Bandcamp and Soundcloud, Peruvian producer DJ Latinchat joins the roster of Le Ciel Records for its label debut. The EP features three original tracks that explore different characteristics of Latin American dance music, fusing it with elements of ambient, techno and dub.
The EP also features Ecuadorian producer Entrañas, who has been making waves in the last two years and now debuts for Le Ciel Records with a remix of the title track, and label boss Sevenbeatz, who puts a dancehall spin to the second track 'Budian'.

The EP will be available on all digital platforms from 9 June.

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🇪🇸 DJ Latinchat anuncia su primer EP vía el sello Le Ciel Records

Luego de una serie de misteriosos lanzamientos vía Bandcamp y Soundcloud, el productor peruano DJ Latinchat se une a Le Ciel Records para su EP debut, ‘Candela’. El disco incluye tres canciones originales que exploran distintas características de la música de baile Latinoaméricana, fusionándola con elementos del ambient, techno y dub.
En el EP participan también el productor ecuatoriano Entrañas, que ha estado dando mucho que hablar en los últimos dos años y ahora debuta en Le Ciel Records con un remix del track que da título al EP, y el jefe del sello Sevenbeatz, quien reversiona en clave dancehall ‘Budian’, la segunda canción del disco.

El EP estará disponible en todas las plataformas digitales a partir del 9 de junio. 
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Candela EP

Budian (Sevenbeatz Remix)

DJ Latinchat - Budian (Sevenbeatz Remix)

Since Ficciones, Artificio has been expanding its sonic universe by introducing new realities and sounds into its catalogue. This time, the Chilean Rasgar presents a release of five tracks where he explores organic and fluctuating textures hand in hand, going from sensory moments to a state of deconstruction of changes, speeds and tensions, thus managing to throw a deep and discreet balance that gradually advances. Through this EP, Rasgar seeks to shape what allows us to face collective oppressions in a molecular and granular way, between cracks and fissures from which to visualize and compose spaces and sounds that go beyond micropolitical sensibility between what is not one nor the other. All this embodied in synthesized rhythms that escape between the interstices and find recognition again. 

‘Intersticios’ praises the construction of soundscape and concrete music, deforming its sound, textures and transitions returning to a state in which some genre is recognized in each track; it is a path to the threshold between composing spaces and bodies beyond the human, varying between sensory and dance music. 

Alfacenttauri, Brainscan, ojosfinos and Rachiid Paralyzing collaborate with Rasgar to result in the most hybrid work released by Artificio that at times allows us to recognize elements of trip hop, carioca funk, breakbeats, gabber, glitch and ambient.

Written and produced by Rasgar, Alfacenttauri, Brainscan, ojosfinos and Rachiid Paralyzing 
Mastered by Miguel Isaza at momoto 
Artwork by Juliana Cuervo

Intersticios

Estratos

Bandcamp

Rasgar - Estratos (feat. Brainscan)

Electronic Music (2024). Instrumental. Techno. Techno-Industrial. Tech House.

Jocelyn

READ MORE –– https://www.dummymag.com/new-music/premiere-ehua-meteora/

As a label that pushes distinctive shades of club music, Nervous Horizon’s compilations are always eagerly-anticipated, and their third instalment, ‘NH Vol 3’, is no exception. Featuring cuts by Tzusing and object blue plus long-term affiliates DJ JM and DJ Plead plus head honchos TSVI and Wallwork, it’s another exercise in gold standard percussive club sounds. Italian-Ivorian producer and DJ Ehua (check her mad Boiler Room Bass & Percs set here) has long been pioneering bass sounds from across the globe. The femme culture affiliate blends up elements of bass music, gqom, Hard Drum and house in her own productions, and ‘Meteora’, which we’re premiering below, is one of the most memorable tracks on ‘NH Vol 3’. Driven by a thumping drum line and percussive textures, it reinforces her knack for crafting club music that’s as interesting as it is brutal.

Nervous Horizon Vol 3

Premiere: Ehua - 'Meteora'

CNDSD - Flux

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