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Taken from SBKT054: Gorgonn - Six Paths
Release date: 31st January

Artwork and layout by Akihide Monna
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

In Japanese Buddhism, it's believed that when someone dies they are ushered down one of six paths depending on the karma accumulated during their previous lives. A being might end up in the world of humans, animals, demigods, or celestials, but it's also possible to end up reborn as a pitiable hungry ghost, doomed to an existence of insatiable desire, or even worse - be sent to hell, or jigoku. Ruled over by the Japanese lord of death Emma-ō, this hell isn't quite like the Christian hell, it's closer to purgatory, and cleansing the karma can take hundreds of millions of years of excruciating torture in extreme cold or immense fire. Japanese bass alchemist Gorgonn takes these themes as the basis of his debut album "Six Paths", assembling a spiritually weighty set of futurist dubs that consider the possibility that our mortal domain might be closer to hell than we realize.

Gorgonn describes himself as a Japalien exile. He left the country of his birth almost two decades ago, and since then has been working tirelessly to formulate Jamaican dub, noise, techno, and no-wave into a sound he calls "sci-fi steppas". If you've not come across his name before, there's a good chance you've heard his reverberations. An established sound tech who's worked with The Bug, Hype Williams, Seefeel and others, he's part of G36 with Kevin Martin, Dokkebi Q with Kiki Hitomi, and a former member of Devilman with DJ Scotch Egg and Bo Ningen's Taigen Kawabe. Just last year he released the acclaimed "Disentegration Dubs" full-length alongside JK Flesh, the veteran producer who's best known for masterminding Godflesh. All this experience blesses Gorgonn's productions with remarkable sonic force, and "Six Paths" is his most crushing display yet, smelting cannonball bass and osmium beats into sharp-edged soundsystem weapons.

Look no further than opener 'Abyss' for evidence of this: psychedelic synths draw the mind away from the mortal realm, while tangled, distorted beats push us back down to earth, our faces crushed into the grit and gravel. Using tweaked sub bass and unsettling drones, Gorgonn lays out a cinematic backdrop for the album, drawing us into a world that's terrifying, viscous, and nauseatingly familiar. There's a militaristic roll to 'Without Beginning and End', a track that juxtaposes spacey halfstep thrusts with death metal distortion, footwork polyrhythms, and unearthly pads that addresses the crushing endlessness of jigoku. On 'Invisible' meanwhile, Gorgonn torches the skeletal remains of D&B, abstracting familiar rhythmic patterns into fuzzy, ritualistic cycles that sound both ancient and humming with prospective technology. But on the closing track 'Life as a Beast', it sounds as if Gorgonn has come to a conclusion, and in a flurry of acid squelches and doomy foghorn bass blasts, he seems to have accepted that being reincarnated as an animal might be the best anyone can hope for. Who knows, you might end up as a cat.

Six Paths

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EYX012 ‘Is This Future Now?’ [Future Now? Remixed] reinterprets, through a collection of remixes and unreleased materials, undiscovered sides of the dystopian futuristic world originally depicted in Alec Pace’s EP ‘Future Now?’ released last year in March 2022.

 releases March 24, 2023 

Alec Pace said:
“Is This Future Now? pushes further the concept of dystopian future originally depicted in Future Now? EP.
New technologies and artificial intelligence will have an even deeper influence on our lives and on the way people interact with each other.
It has been a blessing to have the support and the contribution from such talented pool artists and producers such as Stenny, Sobolik and Klahrk who enabled bringing out further elements from the concept into their remixes.”

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[EYX012] Alec Pace - Is This Future Now? (preview clips)

snufkin is a DJ and producer based in Amsterdam. He is the curator of the Sonic Acts Biennial, as well as the main member of the band Valley. His mixes bring the mischievous spirit of unconventional creativity to life, with defiant unrestraint and palpable fun, adding in a bit of EDM, hard techno and hard house, his mixes are a joyful sprint through grinning experimentation and a shameless vibe of bright mood.

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Manchester’s choice bully Ship Sket (@hdmurder) fully connects on our tenth (and final) Radio Raheem Milano show. Airing tonight at 22:00 CST.

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Ship Sket: top 5 baddest in the game. No question, don’t ask. He doesn’t need to prove nothing; but, by god's good grace, he’s bestowed us with a classic.

This kid’s aura is so true that you may just shit somebody else’s pants this time.

Total confusion lies certain within his fog: the man puts the itch in glitch. He is the side-effects the drugs told you not to worry about.

He’s released on LCY’s SZNS7N and his latest project “Nuerolink” is available on Bandcamp. His biggest project of all time shall be dropping sometime this year…

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A proper sending off to Radio Raheem . Thank you for letting us broadcast our mates mixes and document the next wave of Manc-based talent. We’ll be putting our focus towards new projects in the coming months.

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Gorgonn - When Can I Come Back?

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