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Vinyl & digital album: kmruahossan.bandcamp.com/album/limen

Released on April 29th, 2022

Last year, Kenyan sound artist Joseph Kamaru (aka KMRU) and French digital alchemist Niamké Désiré (aka Aho Ssan) were invited by Berlin Atonal to collaborate on a project for the festival's Metabolic Rift edition.

The duo had already been working together, but the offer provided the momentum to shift the conversation into another gear. Initially, they looked for thematic connections within their individual practices that might match Kamaru's meditative soundscapes with Désiré's crumbling cyberpunk expressionism, and surprisingly for two artists renowned for their grasp of minimalism, it was the opposite that drew their attention. Watching the world shift as it reacted to the spiraling pandemic, Kamaru and Désiré were moved to experiment with volume, physicality, and intense emotionality.

“I never made something so extreme," Désiré says of the duo's first recording, 2021's 'Ruined Abstractions', an extended composition that matches dense, powerful low-end drones with fractal digital fuzz and smokestack bruit. It set the mood for a back-and-forth that resulted in their seismic debut full-length, "Limen", described by the two acclaimed artists as an attempt to scrutinize the yin and yang of destruction and creation.

Cacophonous, concrete crunches fanfare the album's opening piece 'Resurgence' - the result of their Berlin Atonal commission - but the track refuses to languish in wrecking ball devastation. Instead, powerful synthesized harmonies ring from beneath the rubble, before stifling everything in a humid fuzz of dense, emotionally-charged cinematic electronics.

Influenced by the prescient post-apocalyptic mood of Katsuhiro Otomo's "Akira" and the mythological phoenix, an immortal bird said to be reborn from the ashes of its dying predecessor, "Limen" is an album that sonically snapshots the anxious, floral beauty of an explosion or the colorful intensity of a raging fire. It's rooted in concepts of duality - the idea something unsettling can be viewed from a different angle and re-interpreted.

On the album's epic, 21-minute centerpiece 'Ruined Abstraction I + II', swirling electromagnetic interference paints a haunted parallel vista that dissolves slowly into subtle, orchestral tones and booming, widescreen thuds.

Almost angelic closing track 'Rebirth' meanwhile is the most unashamedly beautiful composition Kamaru and Désiré have written together, but its choral bliss is doused in petroleum noise and saturated distortion.

"Limen" is an album that seeks to lift a veil of silence from the world, replacing it with maximalist bombast and vivid passion. It's a dynamic piece of work that finds its creators pushing themselves to the limits, deconstructing history as it detonates around us.

All tracks written and produced by Joseph Kamaru
and Niamké Désiré; mastered by Joker

Published by Multiverse Media Publishing
© & ℗ Subtext / Multiverse LTD 2022

subtextrecordings.net/

Vinyl & digital album

KMRU & Aho Ssan - Limen

stationary condition

Get Closer - Dec 22

Darko Kolar 
(Katran, Jezgro, Ontal)

Katran is the main solo project of Darko Kolar, who is also one half of the Ontal (alongside with Boris Brenecki), and he is also part of Impuls Controls (a project of Ontal and Blush Response). 
Darko Kolar is also the founder of Jezgro label and Ontal Series.

Darko's residence is up on the north of Serbia in the city of Subotica. His musical career started in 2005. under Dekode moniker. He passionately started to collect records and slowly to produce music. Soon enough hi started to release music on different labels alongside with the names such as Si Begg, 
Radioactiveman, Sillicon Scally, Scape One and more. Even until today he plays some of that old electro, breakbeat, IDM stuff  that may be forgotten. 

The year of 2011. was one of the most important years in his musical career. Ever since forming Ontal his musical career advanced. With Ontal being recognized amongst leading industrial techno/experimental names on the world scene, Darko has developed a new way of expressing himself through Katran project. He puts all of his creative force and energy into his music, so the stuff that he creates as Katran is dark, rough and intensive, always in a constant change.

In 2016 Darko launched a label called Jezgro. The first release was by MRTVI, on of the Huren's pseudonym and with additional remix by Violet Poison. The second release came out in 2017, created by the master of noise music - Merzbow. The main focus of the label is to represent more obscure, dark and unstructured parts of the electronic music. Crucial aesthetical core of the label are genres such as 
harsh noise, industrial techno, drone, off beat techno, rhythmic noise, ambiental and similar styles.

Artist Contact: jezgromusic@gmail.com


Artist Pages:

Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/jezgromusic

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/jezgrorecordings

Bandcamp:
https://jezgro.bandcamp.com

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/jezgro_music

Jezgro Olam Mix

No.28 - Darko Kolar

At Your Gamut

Full stream of Aeondelit's "Primary Sensation," taken from his EP Anima Minima on Sadan Records, out March 17.

More: www.orbmag.com/music/

@sadan_rec
@aeondelit

Anima Minima

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Premiere:  Aeondelit - Primary Sensation

Taken from EP smog - STUXXXXX [DMS046]

Out on april 22nd, 2022
Cassette + Digital
Order : https://tripalium.bandcamp.com/album/dms046-smog-stuxxxxx

Co-founder of the Berlin-based collective oqko, Paris native smog focuses on the phenomenon of experimentation using electroacoustic methods combined with digital and analogue processing. His sound is rooted in techno, industrial, jungle and ambient. 
After an EP on Failed Units, he joins Tripalium Corp with a six tracks EP combining ethereal atmospheres, distorted metallic noise and flittering overtones : from apocalyptic landscapes to mindfuck breakcore, here is a fantastic cocktail for the weirdos !

TRACKLIST :
A1. P/I - 1:12
A2. T/I - 4:21
A3. T/II - 5:23
B1. T/III - 4:47
B2. T/IV - 5:50
B3. T/V - 7:06

Mastered by 4bstr4ck3r
Artwork by smog
[TRIPALIUM CORP] - Disturbed Mutant Series 046

Order

smog - T/I [Disturbed Mutant Series 046]

A collection of fearless love songs, inspired by Spring and the pains and ecstasies of nesting season. A gallery of lovelorn electronic ballads in the name of heartache. "Wild Love To Grow" is Eastern Nurseries' longest and bravest release to date, as well as the first to be presented physically as a double cassette edition.

"When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light."

EN28

Photo by Toby Ziff
Mastered by Diego Escriche

Softie - As We Sat On The Shore

From KMRU & Aho Ssan's Limen LP

Vinyl & digital album: https://kmruahossan.bandcamp.com/album/limen

Released on April 29th, 2022

Last year, Kenyan sound artist Joseph Kamaru (aka KMRU) and French digital alchemist Niamké Désiré (aka Aho Ssan) were invited by Berlin Atonal to collaborate on a project for the festival's Metabolic Rift edition.

The duo had already been working together, but the offer provided the momentum to shift the conversation into another gear. Initially, they looked for thematic connections within their individual practices that might match Kamaru's meditative soundscapes with Désiré's crumbling cyberpunk expressionism, and surprisingly for two artists renowned for their grasp of minimalism, it was the opposite that drew their attention. Watching the world shift as it reacted to the spiraling pandemic, Kamaru and Désiré were moved to experiment with volume, physicality, and intense emotionality.

“I never made something so extreme," Désiré says of the duo's first recording, 2021's 'Ruined Abstractions', an extended composition that matches dense, powerful low-end drones with fractal digital fuzz and smokestack bruit. It set the mood for a back-and-forth that resulted in their seismic debut full-length, "Limen", described by the two acclaimed artists as an attempt to scrutinize the yin and yang of destruction and creation.

Cacophonous, concrete crunches fanfare the album's opening piece 'Resurgence' - the result of their Berlin Atonal commission - but the track refuses to languish in wrecking ball devastation. Instead, powerful synthesized harmonies ring from beneath the rubble, before stifling everything in a humid fuzz of dense, emotionally-charged cinematic electronics.

Influenced by the prescient post-apocalyptic mood of Katsuhiro Otomo's "Akira" and the mythological phoenix, an immortal bird said to be reborn from the ashes of its dying predecessor, "Limen" is an album that sonically snapshots the anxious, floral beauty of an explosion or the colorful intensity of a raging fire. It's rooted in concepts of duality - the idea something unsettling can be viewed from a different angle and re-interpreted.

On the album's epic, 21-minute centerpiece 'Ruined Abstraction I + II', swirling electromagnetic interference paints a haunted parallel vista that dissolves slowly into subtle, orchestral tones and booming, widescreen thuds.

Almost angelic closing track 'Rebirth' meanwhile is the most unashamedly beautiful composition Kamaru and Désiré have written together, but its choral bliss is doused in petroleum noise and saturated distortion.

"Limen" is an album that seeks to lift a veil of silence from the world, replacing it with maximalist bombast and vivid passion. It's a dynamic piece of work that finds its creators pushing themselves to the limits, deconstructing history as it detonates around us. 

All tracks written and produced by Joseph Kamaru
and Niamké Désiré; mastered by Joker

Published by Multiverse Media Publishing
© & ℗ Subtext / Multiverse LTD 2022

http://subtextrecordings.net/

Limen

KMRU & Aho Ssan - Rebirth

KMRU & Aho Ssan - Resurgence

KMRU & Aho Ssan - Ruined Abstractions

Buffy

Tuhka, like its titular cinder or ash symbolises new beginnings, fertile ground and creativity after a long lapse. In the same vein, the tracks on this edition were created after a long fallow period. 

Tuhka was created out of archival snippets and new vocal loops created on the sunny top floor of Merlijnstraat in early 2022. Late lockdown there was spent writing on the balcony and walking or playing in nearby parks. This creative but relaxed time is embodied in the feeling on ’Tuhka,’ a release wrapping itself around the core of two long-form tracks:

Kärpässieni is a soft, pensive number, with an archival cheap synth track and a chopped-up mystery field recording mingling with a simple subdued vocal loop. There is a titular reference to amanita mushrooms, a fungi encompassing the mystery and the melancholy bitterness present in the track. The feeling is akin to a frosty morning spent on a walk to the Mercatorplein library and feeling your toes start numbing.

Varisevalehti means ’shudderingleaf’ and it consists of an airy, optimistic voice loop that progresses and winds around the length of the track. Alongside it, at times you can hear tape-manipulated samples from a ’learn Italian’ record I used to own. The feeling is more of a wander around Westerpark when the blossoms have started come loose and fly around in the air, forming soft pink deposits in the corners of streets. 

Thanks to Haron Aumaj for enduring support and for the copious quantities of Banjaan borani.

Tuhka

Cucina Povera - Kärpässieni (excerpt)

of "Vegas Fountain" LP
2015
posh isolation 144
Alter 20


Damien Dubrovnik - Vegas Fountain

A sample from Imaginary Forces "Visitation", to be released by Fang Bomb in 2016.

Imaginary Forces return to Fang Bomb with “Visitation”, a collection of dark, menacing rhythmic noise and crumbled techno that predate the recent releases on Halcyon Veil, Bedouin, Entr’acte and his Basic Rhythm album on Type.

Deep and ominous with a grimy, industrial edge, Visitation also features the spoken word of long time Imaginary Forces collaborator Closed Circuits. 

Imaginary Forces - Visitation

If I Were A Carpenter

Superstar

The Collection

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Live)

Dommage Teknique no. 15: Drew McDowall

Agalma

Agalma V (feat. Kali Malone)

Subtext Recordings is a Bristol founded / Berlin based label curated by james ginzburg.