Playing music at the ocean, an infinite mirror curls upward towards you. Picturesque and perverse, cracked enamel castings sit in lazy but unsettled sands. Something is just right, having once stirred beneath the surface it now hovers misting at eye level. You can put your hand through it; pushing humidity around like a furry catkins flake in a tepid wind.

𝑏𝑎𝑑 𝐿𝑆𝐷 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑠 is a collaboration between artists Domingo Castillo and doris dana. Working through the process of developing sounds during the pandemic, the duo amassed large swaths of recordings on a weekly basis from 2020 and 2021 in Miami, Florida. The debut recording of 𝑏𝑎𝑑 𝐿𝑆𝐷 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑠 for the ENXPL series is documentation of improvising and honing a sonic vocabulary that is rooted in the tradition of early industrial, dark ambient and tape music. The backdrop of the recorded effort is a geographical conundrum of a city worn threadbare by candied advertising, tourism, and aesthetics. 𝑏𝑎𝑑 𝐿𝑆𝐷 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑠 inverts the spectacle of their locale with psychedelic meditations searching for, and occasionally digging inside of, a place of ease.

Recorded by Domingo Castillo and doris dana
𝐿𝐴𝑍𝑌 𝐻𝐼𝐷𝐸𝐴𝑊𝐴𝑌 contains elements of Zabelle Panosian - Groung
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Source material for design from 𝑆𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑦 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑂𝑚
Design by RJM Vanderheyden

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bad lsd trips - Lavadora Levitando (ENXPL12)

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

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Limen

Vinyl & digital album

KMRU & Aho Ssan - Ruined Abstractions

"Shadow Guild" is taken from "II. Елегии", the second Vague Voices full-length out on tape & digital on October 28 at: http://amekcollective.bandcamp.com

Vague Voices - Shadow Guild

"No Light Therapy" is the opening track of "When Did You Stop Looking at the Sky", a new Dayin full-length to be released until the end of the year on @purlieu-recordings on tape & digital.

Keep an eye on: https://purlieurecordings.bandcamp.com/

When Did You Stop Looking At The Sky

No Light Therapy

KASSEL JAEGER 'Shift In Dreams' (SP144)

From the album 'Shift In Dreams', out on Feb. 24, 2023 on Shelter Press
Order: https://kasseljaeger.bandcamp.com/album/shifted-in-dreams

Music composed and performed by François J. Bonnet
Artwork by Eléonore Huisse
Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi

Shifted In Dreams

KASSEL JAEGER 'Shifted In Dreams' (SP144)

The opposite of closure is opening. The album CLOSURES fractionally links back to Konspekt by mapping the condition of perception and feeling after the closure (of a certain) phase of life. Even though we’re talking about a concrete phase – the most painful loss so far – the pieces don’t revolve around it at all. What is taking place in the pieces is everything after June 2023.

– “a lively joy (from life)”
– “perceiving the environment”
– “the world is a beautiful place”
– “you are an angel, and angels are not from this world”
– “bridges, layers”
– “connections / circles”

With love,
Richard Hronský

CLOSURES

Richard Hronský - pásmo (ft. Ema Mihálová)

RASHAD BECKER - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol II

Format: LP / Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No: PAN 74
Release Date: 02 December 2016

p-a-n.org/

purchase:
site: http://bit.ly/2gTtKLE
bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2gTt1dJ

Rashad Becker's new full length album, 'Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol II', due for release next month on PAN is a newly developed continuation and exploration of work since his highly-acclaimed first 
volume.

Incorporating more instrumental-sounding components, the record moves through both fluid and dissonant sounds which take on different structural and sculptural challenges through carefully-layered compositions. 

Following 'Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol I', the new album expands in various elements, distorted and warped, focusing in on the tension and energy of synthesized sounds that appear to exist hauntingly physically.

Known for his unrivalled attention to sonic detail across his work, Becker's unique techniques and expressive manipulations of sound are laid bare in an exhilarating new form, stylistically distinctive and uncompromising. 

The album is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, featuring artwork by Bill Kouligas.

traditional music of notional species vol.II

Rashad Becker - Dances VII (PAN 74)

Finally finished my microtonal MIDI/CV retuning system so that I can play any hardware synths in La Monte Young's just intonation tuning from "The Well-Tuned Piano"

Moon Wheel — Vandetadgunalabhdhaye

High Speed Wind

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DJ Trystero – 賛辞

Nikolay Kozlov and Ben Bondy's nebulous collaboration exists somewhere between ambient and electro-acoustic experimentation.

'20 Segment' is out October 2nd.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3cAuIuD

@h09boi
@benbondy

Premiere: Nikolay Kozlov - Binary (feat. Ben Bondy)

Moving away from the American surf pop manipulations of his debut 'Lady's Mantle', Jake journeys through a nocturnal city-scape meandering the dimly lit streets via club back rooms and decadent boudoirs; his ode to the endless night and those who take residence under it's cloak.

A psychedelic map of ASMR rattles, drones and tones melting in-and-out of the night with the heaving intensity of an open window on a busy city street, lubricating familiar rumbles with sensual tones, mirroring the blurry high of a low-light encounter.

A1. on occasions of this kind
A2. fleeting touches
A3. reservoir of memory
A4. melting like the stars

B1. red as the print of a kiss
B2. the dimness of the sealed eye
B3. like sweet thoughts in a dream
B4. silent sailing

Limited edition of 500 copies pressed up on transparent red vinyl.
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering.
Release date: October 23rd

@jake-muir

Jake Muir - the hum of your veiled voice (sferic007) [Preview]

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

KMRU & Aho Ssan - Ruined Abstractions

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