The enigmatic artist offers us a utopian project for a newborn communist country pictured in Isotopia, a mysterious sound manifesto blending Afro-Caribbean traditional sounds with contemporary electronics, to be released on Paris via Brussels imprint Promesses.

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Stress Lust Revisited

HUUMO - Fortune Cookie (KABLAM Remix)

Taken from SBKT057: mmph - Harvest

Release date: 26th April 2023

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It's been five years since Korean-born, Los Angeles-based sound designer and composer Sae Heum Han, aka mmph, released his last EP Serenade on the Tri Angle label in flurry of activity. "Harvest" arrives after an unintentional pause; three years ago, Han was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that immediately changed his priorities. Bedridden and exhausted from medication, he was only able to work on music for around an hour each day - the rest of his time was swallowed by rest and precarious trips to hospital in the midst of a global pandemic. Now in remission, Han looks back on this period as a time of emotional evolution where the ideas behind "Harvest" could be unravelled. The album emerges from his desire to reconnect with the Korean music he heard when he was growing up in Seoul, using these discernible timbres as building blocks to decorate with his advanced palette of electronic sounds and processes.

Han's music has always balanced precariously between the rigor of classical training and the relative open-endedness of electronic experimentation. This duality is still present on "Harvest", but Han's canvas has widened slightly. He continues to blur the line between the traditional and the modern, emulating and mirroring Korean instruments with synthesizers and sound design elements, and blending them with acoustic sounds and live percussion samples. But where his previous records and scoring work highlighted his ability to weave baroque forms into tight, contemporary sonic tapestries, this album adds the drama, yearning and spirituality of folk. On 'Dialogue' for example, pitch-warped traditional vocals twist through an ensemble of bizarre future-ancient sounds; fluttering strings dissolve into spiked percussive barbs and synthesized wails cut through walls of industrial noise.

'Spirit' follows quickly, coaxing listeners into a trance state with its flurry of microtonal string plucks and irregular percussion. Han is a master of breath control, letting his brief moments of negative space interrupt any expected regularity and guide the track away from electronic music's expected grid. This just about prepares the ground for the title track, a labyrinthine maze of dramatic compositional motifs and dizzying sonics that mutates from gugak forms into a cacophony of pneumatic blast beats before snapping back. From here the album lurches towards the dancefloor for a moment, absorbing and contorting cantankerous club rhythms on 'Avnue' and 'Moon Jar', slowing to a crawl on 'Harvest II'. Despite hijacking its theme from the title track's blast beat section, it transforms into a ballad, acting as a fittingly tearjerking finale.

The record is rounded off by a trio of remixes that draw Han further into the SVBKVLT family. Egyptian producer ABADIR chops up 'Harvest' and reassembles it into a jerky banger, extracting its dancefloor potential and evolving hardstyle thuds into spectral concertina flexes. 'Moon Jar' meanwhile is turned into twitchy trance by Shade Seoul's NET GALA, and Yen Tech stitches together 'Avnue' and 'Dialogue', creating an anxious backdrop that shuttles mmph's android folk to the modern metropolis.

Artwork by Sae Heum Han
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Harvest

mmph - Moon Jar (NET GALA New Simmian Remix)

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For our first release of 2024 we welcome @undrwght, a prolific producer from Mexico who has long been cultivating a highly individual take on Latin club music. On his 𝙔𝙜𝙜𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙡 EP, his productions burst and blossom, rooted with grimey basslines while vibrating percussion shoots all the way up to the canopies.

In Norse mythology, the Yggdrasil tree connected the many realms of the universe, linking gods, giants, and mortals. Here, Undrwght connects his many musical influences to draw in listeners whatever their natural or supernatural status.

From Undrwght:
𝘠𝘨𝘨𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴, 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘣 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘩𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘮𝘴, 𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺.

𝘠𝘨𝘨𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘴𝘵á 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰 𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘭 á𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘭 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘢 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨í𝘢 𝘯ó𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘶𝘯𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘪ó𝘯 𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘨𝘶𝘯𝘰𝘴 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘴 𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘶 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘴, 𝘭𝘰𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘴 𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘢í𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘦 é𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘴, 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘺 𝘦𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘣 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘮𝘰𝘴, 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘫𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘴, 𝘺 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘭ó𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘢 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘥 𝘴ó𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢.

Artwork by oference2.0 (IG oference2.0)

Yggdrasil

Undrwght - Nueve Mundos

Néctar y Neón describe acontecimientos ocurridos en los coloridos
recovecos delirantes de la vida urbana nocturna, insectos y luces
deslumbrantes. Una escalonada travesía en búsqueda del venue secreto y la
revelación de ocho tracks refrescantes del submundo de la insectrónica.
Usando una piscina de samples construida en conjunto e intercambiando
motivos. paltamango y syntrovert produjeron cada lado del EP de manera
paralela e individual. Generando un relato espontáneo muy consistente de
principio a fin.


Disponible 7 de marzo
pre-order: ineffable.bandcamp.com/album/n-ctar-y-ne-n

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Krampus Season Can Start

MAMMOTH - ELCANO (Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, MOGUAI - MAMMOTH Remix)

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MAMMOTH - ELCANO

Djembe Cyclone

TAKEN FROM 'UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES'

A RAVY ARSENAL OF VIOLENT TRIBAL WEAPONS.

released October 10, 2018 

Produced and Mastered by @krolikmusic
Design by Gianluca Lonigro and Riccardo Redeghieri 
Typeface in use: 
CANE Typeface designed by 
Gianluca Lonigro and Jacopo Tripodi [VIRTUA POSSE] 
www.gianlucalonigro.net | www.jacopotripodi.com 
Produced by HEEL.ZONE 
#00FF00 
© 2018 HEEL.ZONE 
heel.records@gmail.com 
www.heel.zone

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