losing my mind

washed away

Clouds

A long time Moscow favorite, OL, lands on the Motion Cast for Vol. 22.  Here, he’s paired a few of his own tracks from his forthcoming release (MW005) with a range of slowed down, complimentary sounds. Stay tuned for more soon ~~~~~

https://soundcloud.com/olegbuyanov
https://soundcloud.com/nvrec

Motion Cast Vol. 22: OL

Vinyl & Digital:
https://superutu.bandcamp.com/album/pantene

Pantene was a live performance art-pop group that existed in Berlin, Germany in 2015. Its four band members: Marijn Degenaar, Molly Dyson, Olle Holmberg, and Rahel Tierbach took a DIY approach to instrumentation and arrangement, where intergenerational low-fidelity samples collide with subversive and pithy lyrics. Using laptops, MIDI, samplers and effects units to deliver re-contextualised pieces of music, Pantene explored issues surrounding cultural constructions of power, identity and sexuality with effortless aplomb.

This collection of 4 songs has been, for the past few years, sitting on Soundcloud slowly collecting plays, likes and no doubt intrigue from its listeners, as it seems since the time of upload Pantene have gone silent. Super Utu will be reissuing this remastered digi-relic on 10” polyvinyl chloride for the very first time. On side A is Don’t Touch Me I’m Dancing, a piercing retribution to seedy characters who lurk in dark corners of nightclubs. Molly and Rahel’s disaffected vocals pan “It’s a quest for satisfaction. A finger in every hole.” As if the nightclub is the playing field for some sort of sadistic sexual sport. Just Business, dejectedly examines our autonomy as individuals existing in an increasingly monotonous world controlled by capitalists. It’s the kind of work Barbara Kruger might have written if she decided to make music instead of visual art. Olle reflects “…cos everywhere you go there is another IKEA store to stock up your new life.” It’s a witty remark that would feel as much at home in a dole-wave jangle as a David Foster Wallace novel. At once extremely familiar, yet totally mentally isolating.

On the flip we hear Near To The Wild Heart. A legato, time-warped sample breathes deep and heavy beneath the reverb drenched vocals which sing “I am calm, I am cool, I wait for you. Take me all the way down, stretch it to the limit.” The lyrics float around in the back of your mind, in the exact same way the thought does that the attractive other from across the room, who’s been making eyes at you all night, might go home with you. On My Knees 2 Pray also does not falter in it’s sexually implicit/explicit vocal tango. The hapax legomenon of sultry deutsche sprache translates to “Virgin Mary, I know you see me. My knees only suffer for you.” 

While public discourse on sampling is contentious, it definitely pays to look beyond the technicalities and understand the context and contention of the creator(s). Pantene’s use of samples trounce any blatant pastiche. They re-appropriate decades old night club hits into breath-of-fresh-air political-pop songs. Perhaps you could even call them protest songs. At least we’re confident in knowing that they’ll be broadcast in institutions which were once symbols of anti-establishment, freedom and expression. Maybe they’re still like that. or Maybe not.

Words by Raudie McLeod
http://atelierutu.tumblr.com

SUPER UTU 2 - PANTENE - SNIPPETS

From the EP 'Serwed'
Release date : 26th April 

Asyncro is a record label launched by Moscow's electronic music producer OL in 2019. The opening release is an LP by Serwed – the debut collaborative project from OL and his Gost Zvuk label-mate Flaty. This record offers precise cuts with a wide range of rhythmic structures and granulated backgrounds, based on the duo’s explorations of free-form generative sound.

Artist : @soundcloud.com/olegbuyanov
www.facebook.com/olmoscow/

@soundcloud.com/producedbyflaty
www.facebook.com/producedbyflaty/?ref=hl

Label : @soundcloud.com/asyncro
www.facebook.com/asyncromusic

Premiere : Serwed - Linear [Asyncro]

Meandering between the back streets of nowhere there was little signposting which might act as a guide for escape. He had been trying for as long as he could remember to leave this town but it always found a way of pulling him back in when he least expected it. Out here in the midst of the woodand there was little but for the falling snow and the little huts which huddled together beneath dense green trees. This was his village, where he was born and where he would die. Only in snow it seemed he would live. 

La Fe is a collaboration between Daniel Rincon of Ambien Baby/ NAP and Michael Red of Souns. Together they have collaborated to produce an EP with dub leaning tendencies. Weirdo electronics and hazy soundscapes weave atop reggaeton percussion and the rumble of drums.

Con Que

PREMIERE: La Fe - Ois! [Isla]

from the Delicious Fantasy EP: https://ivanivyphran.bandcamp.com/track/good

Lyrics:

I was good before you got here
And I'll be good after you leave
Estaba bien antes de que llegaras
Y estaré bien después de que te vayas
Así lo sentí
Estoy bien así
I was all I needed
I am all I need
Me quiero a mí
Sólo me necesito a mí

Delicious Fantasy

Good

FULL ALBUM HERE: https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/bamboo-shows-tapes-001

LINKS:
Bandcamp: www.bambooshows.bandcamp.com/
SoundCloud: www.soundcloud.com/bambooshows/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/bambooshows/
YouTube: bit.ly/bambooshows-yt
Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/bambooshows/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/erevan_bamboo/
Web: www.bambooshows.com

CREDITS : 
Mastering: Guillaume Lespinasse
Design: Loïs Markarian
Print: Studio H13
A&R: Erevan DJ

Bamboo Shows Tapes 001

Download & Buy Tapes

BST001 - Various - Bamboo Shows Tapes 001 (previews) - FULL ALBUM IN DESCRIPTION

@mlinpatz

Artwork: Nomascigs
https://www.instagram.com/nomascigs

It is so interesting that periods suddenly come in life that seem to completely format the space around, charging it with sparks of a much needed, sometimes scorching experience...It's what happened with me...

I live in a small, lost on maps town, called OM, surrounded by the sea on one side and vast forests, pierced like a circulatory system by the veins of rivers on the other...Someone says that OM exists, while others have never even heard of such a place...Imagine, there is such a story that somewhere 50 years ago, in newspapers you can find articles proving the non-existence of this city, and then, apparently, the same wise men refuted these strange theories...

Everything in my life was moving in a measured way, following the vector of an illusory game of stability imposed from childhood...It's absurd in a constantly changing world, but everything looks so serious...It felt like a wall was built around this place, hiding the flow of time of the surrounding world, isolating us from ourselves... This contributed to one degree or another to the acquired indifference to many manifestations of human qualities that are inherent in the original embodiment of our species...But, to my pleasure, the space around me moved against my tyrannical expectations, constancy and non-interference in life...And, you know,  it definitely had more plans for me...

I vaguely remember exactly when, but at some point, thanks to the results of this external movement, I was able to see things as they are, observing everything from the outside, without interfering with the processes...It's as if every time you take a step into the abyss, in an attempt to find out what is there - in the dark matter of this eternal radiance?

All these transformations undoubtedly caused waves of protest and a desire to escape to my shelter - a huge Fossil...It is likely that for many millions of years it has been hiding from outsiders, but opens up to those who are ready to dissolve in musical form, in poetry supported by the voices of instruments...There, an understanding comes to me that rhythms are cyclical, like ebb and flow, and compositions, with proper immersion in them, no longer contain sharpness and do not allow the listener to be taken by surprise...You can also say that all this is the result of the desire to put the clocks on the dial down...

AMATEUR EXOTIC

MLIN PATZ - AMATEUR EXOTIC'S SHELTER IN THE SHELL

Bamboo Shows 056 - Rites of Wisdom w/ Anthony Junkoid
Infos, Links & Podcast Series: bambooshows.com/anthony-junkoid-bs056

@anthony_junkoid

Hail from Kyiv, Ukraine with Anthony Junkoid (Антон Шмаргович), host of the ‘Unaussprechlichen Kulten’ show on Kiev 20ft Radio, dedicated to the other side of the music ark: weird, obscure & rare tunes.

For his ‘Rites of Wisdom’ guestmix, Anthony prepared an exclusive gathering of Russian and Ukrainian compositions from the 80s to 2000s. Here you can find radiant new age chants and mesmerizing post-rock ambience, fragile avant-folk passages and healing acoustic string overtones. The result is a soft, pleasant hour with here and there a few hallucinated parts, to keep your mind awake.