Tzusing Remixes Collabs Comps and Misc.

Van Boom & Oldyungmayn - Nosferatu

First single from "Stillmother," a new EP from United Rust, the collaborative project of artists @vviissee & @miedototal, to be released 16/04/21 on @1000amen.

Mastered by Maximillian Kritsch

Artwork credits:
Installation - Rebecca Ackroyd
Photo - Stephen White & Co and c/o Lockup International

Stillmother

PREMIERE: United Rust - No Pastoral [AMEN]

V/A - Kikommando
Label: PAN / Hakuna Kulala 
Cat.No. PAN 124 / HK029 
Format: DL / Book
Release Date: 6 August 2021
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Kikommando
Video: https://bit.ly/3i2EgSg

A collective effort from a vital scene in Kampala, KIKOMMANDO takes its name from Ugandan street food of flat bread and beans. As a ‘food of soldiers’ offering maximum energy for minimum funds, the eponymous mixtape, video series and book project is an equally nourishing and ambitious proposition. It all began in the East African summer of 2018, during a two-month residency at the Nyege Nyege label and collective’s villa, in collaboration with their sublabel Hakuna Kulala. Producer and PAN artist Simone Trabucchi (aka STILL) opened the door to his temporary studio in the city and a crucial cross-cultural collaboration was born.

“The intention was to record as much as possible,” Trabucchi says about KIKOMMANDO’s musical showcase of eight Kampala-based artists, coming from the spectrum of musical influences, crossing trap, drill, cut ups, kuduro, electro, smooth jams—the list goes on. In creating a sonic space to support the expression of its featured singers, poets and emcees, the mixtape ties countless styles and flows into a single snapshot of a particular part of the Kampala music scene, at a particular point in time. The invective of rapper and street legend Blaq Bandana’s “Nkwaata” is laid over a spare and brooding ambient. Kampala Unit trumpet player and first-time singer, Florence, rolls a thick melodic texture through the organic clicks, knocks and atmospherics of “Bae Tasanze”. Jahcity’s unique lyricism combines a personal take on traditional music and soulful-reggae with a jerky, wobbly collection of drops and donks.

Meanwhile, Ecko Bazz applies his grimey vocals and rhythmic, introspective words to lead single ‘Ntabala (Rolex Riddim) at a particularly pertinent moment of self-reflection. “I was trying to listen to the voice inside myself and wanted to achieve a higher level of understanding of things, life,” he says about the themes that he felt inspired to explore with Trabucchi at the recording desk. The accompanying video, shot on a rooftop in the Kampala neighborhood of Ggaba, is one of a series of slick and high-definition films complementing each one of the KIKOMMANDO tracks. These also include contributions from Ugandan emcee and key Hakuna Kulala member Biga Yut, don dada of the GabaGaza gang Swordman Kitala (with Omutaba on percussion) and South Sudanese poet and singer Winnie Lado.

Also accompanying a ‘visual mixtape’ of moving images for each song on KIKOMMANDO is a recording diary of sorts, where Trabucchi compiles a vibrant collection of pictures, colours and textures reflecting the its heterogeneous sonic palette into a book. Together this multifaceted, interdisciplinary project showcases, what Lamin Fofana’s liner notes describe as, “amazing originality, complexity”, while “embracing dissonance”.

Trabucchi’s personal take on a kind of ‘digital dancehall’ defined the sound of his ground-breaking rumination on Italy’s colonial history on debut STILL album, I, in 2017. KIKOMMANDO is a different proposition entirely, where he finds new ways to complement the personality and skills of its contributors sprung from a constant stream of visitors arriving at the Nyege Nyege Villa’s makeshift studio. “It was a dialogue,” stresses Trabucchi, who has always preferred collaboration as a means to escape branded and stereotypical identities, while creating something new. “I created the musical platform to make the singers confident, and challenged them at the same time. Working together accelerates ideas and reveals that nothing is your invention alone. That’s why KIKOMMANDO is a mixtape to me, and not an album.”

The mixtape is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by NMR. Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11 & 12 mixed by Ville Haimala. Tracks 5, 6 & 8 mixed by Lorenzo Dal Ri.

@hakunakulala

KIKOMMANDO

STILL, ECKO BAZZ - Ntabala (Rolex Riddim) (PAN 124 / HK029)

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SLIKBACK X TZUSING - JAHAD

Simulacrum Remixed

Simulacrum III (Exploited Body Remix)

In ‘Next Life’ the ashes of Tzusing’s tracks are reanimated by some of his favorite producers.

Tzusing - Digital Properties (Tomás Urquieta Remix)

MNSXANDREAS

MNSXANDREAS - Tzusing - I DO NOT OWN THIS SONG

Purchase: http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=92190

Samo DJ & Tzusing - NBA (Snippet)

Artist: Hyph11e
Title: Vanishing Cinema
Label: SVBKVLT
Cat. No: SBKT017
Release Date: 10th November 2017
Artwork: Wang Newone
Mastering: Raphael Valensi
Format: Digital
Distribution: Cargo UK

In 2016, DJ, producer and member of Genome 6.66MBP Tess Sun, aka Hyph11e, began work on her debut EP.

Living a double life as a composer for TV by day, and DJing around Shanghai by night, the passing of time often stifled and spurred on her production process. After having a dream of a Vanishing Cinema, a place where memories disappear in front of your eyes through the passage of time, Hyph11e quit her day job to focus on her own music full-time. The result is four original, uncompromising tracks that owe as much to vintage noise and industrial music as they do to field recordings and contemporary club music.

On the remixes, Tzusing tweaks and tunes “Black Pepper”, driving it into idiosyncratically ominous territory; M.E.S.H. rebuilds “Unknown Number” from the ground up until it reaches the clouds; while Kid Antoine takes “Escapism”s warning sirens and cuts them into playful, bouncing cascades.

Track list:

01. Black Pepper 炎
02. Unknown Number 未知
03. Escapism 庇
04. Speak To Me 呓语 feat. Sharon Stewart
05. Black Pepper炎 (Tzusing Remix)
06. Unknown Number 未知 (M.E.S.H. Remix)
07. Escapism 庇 (Kid Antoine Remix)

Vanishing Cinema

Hyph11e - Black Pepper 炎 (Tzusing Remix)

The most fun I ever had making a track was this one with Samo. It came out almost 2 years ago on Public Possession. I recently stumbled on a remix online where a Aaron Richter threw the original Gwen Stefani vocals back into our version. I really dug it but didn't really like the singing bits as there was a bit of a key clash. So here is my take on it free 4 you all. A remix of a remix of a remix. Njoy!

Download: http://tzusing.com/music/Samo%20DJ%20and%20Tzusing%20-%20Hollahback%20Boi%20%28Tzusing%27s%20Vocal%20Remix%20of%20a%20Remix%20of%20a%20Remix%20Edit%29.aif

Samo DJ And Tzusing - Hollahback Boi (Tzusing's Vocal Remix Of A Remix Of A Remix Edit) Free DL ^_^

Meuko! Meuko! 
'鬼島 Ghost Island' EP (DN013)w/ remixes by Dutch E Germ & GIL
Format: digital / limited edition CD 
Release Date: 6 July 2018
@meukomeuko @gilschneider

Dreamscape:

The fog, snow, streets … everything had only altered slightly from my memory yet I perceived this world as one that might be a couple years, or even a few centuries, into the future. I was amongst a group of futuristically dressed children, school dropouts turned street dwellers, who had just run away from their homes, and I seemed to be one of them, wearing dark sailor clothes, with black hair just past my shoulders.

We had been hiding for quite a while in the white stairwell of a newly built building, uninhabited since its completion. The children set up a den in the stairwell, equipped with a TV and video games. I had somehow become their leader, directing the others where to safely spend their nights. These children were not afraid of the darkness in this world.

One young girl even managed to communicate with rabbits living in the snow. She often hid in a corner of the stairwell, listening to an old yellow cassette player. The girl believed the sound she heard was a gift from the ancestors – music had vanished in this world, you see. She would listen to recorded lectures and pray in the temple left by her predecessors.

Eventually the hideout was discovered by the building’s construction workers when the children were returning from their scavenging mission, so we were forced to leave and seek new shelter. Once again we retreated along the bustling streets, where neon lights were beaming everywhere, and creeping smog rendered peoples’ faces lost and helpless. Elder street vendors were selling every last bit of their wares, hawking outmoded objects of their forefathers. Finally we arranged some cardboard boxes in an alley, just for one night’s sojourn. We knew it was still a long road ahead. That night felt like a year.

Another morning we were driven out from previous night’s hideout, as we had become accustomed to, and while out scouring the streets for food the girl stumbled upon a forgotten temple. A dense fog hovered in the air, as if the place was high up in the clouds. The temple was too crammed with dark painted bronze figures of canine deities for her to even find a way in. She sensed from these figures, a time of strife and warfare harkening back thousands of years, a time when mankind destroyed the earthly body of Buddha and the Gods. These sacred bodies had subsequently been sold and dispersed throughout the world for thousands of years. This temple had become the haven for these anthropomorphized animal figures since then.

Realizing she had in fact lost consciousness, the girl awoke to find the temple floating among the clouds, an island in the sky. Only then did it dawn upon her that humanity will inevitably return to its primal state among the ancient forests, and that the temple suspended in the heavens contained the ghosts of humanity.

DN013 鬼島 Ghost Island

Meuko! Meuko! - 希卡公主 Princess Sika (GIL Remix)

Tzusing / M.E.S.H. — Split
Format: 12"
Cat.No: PAN 95
Release Date: 19 February 2019 
Purchase: https://bit.ly/2U0NNMw

Tzusing and PAN mainstay M.E.S.H. join forces for a club-ready split EP, the first white label in a new series.

Limited to 300 copies, hand stamped, no repress.

This EP is mastered by Jeremy Cox

@m-e-s-h @tzusing
p-a-n.org

A1. Tzusing - Circa Taipei (PAN 95)

https://luttolento.bandcamp.com/album/legendo

BANDCAMP

HORNED HEART FEAT. KATARZYNA KARPOWICZ

Debut track by @badxspin. Taken From @sadan_rec's first compilation 'Unform'.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/bad-spin-core-ban

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Premiere: Bad Spin - CORE - BAN

https://questionmarcdj.bandcamp.com/album/quest-on-on-the-kit-vol-2-pit

Sunn O))) / @sunno-southernlord are an American band from Seattle, Washington. They are known for their expansive and experimental exploration within realms such as but not limited to - drone, black metal, dark ambient and noise. 

I let off some pandemic stress w/ the growling on this one :D 

support their expansive discography on bandcamp: 
http://sunn.bandcamp.com 

experience a live performance via their 2015 Boiler Room 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzVpcVJsOBg 

original photo James Richards IV

http://southernlord.com

Aghartha (quest?onmarc Bootleg) - Sunn O)))

人生得意须尽欢，莫使金樽空对月
Stockholm syndrome Shanghai
Started @seacucumberlabel

upcoming dates:
Oct 13 NetherSphere @ Miscellania , Melbourne
October 14 @ mode festival , Sydney 
Oct 27, Berlin
Nov 4 Club 2 Club, Turin
Nov 11 Eel, Taipei 

Bookings:
EU: brandon@lb-agency.net
Asia: This Page Direct

Hyph11e - Black Pepper 炎 (Tzusing Remix)

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