"Cold Crystal Timbres" recalls the immediate past. Hight-tech emotions and synthetic unnaturalness: When sonic hybridities were echoing early 2000s pop.

Once a haven for nerds and enthusiasts, the internet became accessible to many in the early 2010s. Utopias linked to the early internet, such as that of an anonymous and democratic cyberspace, are finally being displaced by a neoliberal Silicon Valley ideology that manifests itself in platforms like Facebook and Amazon.

Rebecca Fuxen and Martin Rovan’s mixtape "Cold Crystal Timbres" pays tribute to the music that emerged from this structural change and aesthetically relates to it. This hybrid music genre, which developed between 2010 and 2015, is characterized by both cold digital sounds and nostalgic pop references. It is embedded in collectives, loose associations, labels, events, or curatorial projects that network primarily through platforms such as SoundCloud and Myspace. Although this music takes place mostly in traditional club settings, it is transnational, digital networking practices that create political activism and solidarity: many collectives establish platforms for DJs, producers, and activists. They reclaim the white- and male-dominated club scene and emphasize the queer context of its genesis and the central role of BPoC within club music.

Listening to the digital, high-resolution sounds of the time one comes to grasp the intersections of digital everyday culture and music as well as the influence that technological developments have on the realities of the artists’ lives.


Credits:
Mixtape by Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan
fkoff1963 - everytime
Rabit - Hex [Tri Angle Records]
boygirl - YE SLOW
Celestial Trax - Secrets [Purple Tape Pedigree]
Blastah - Fica [Mäss]
Sami Baha - Chunk [Planet Mu]
Retina Set - I've Got Feelings Too
SOPHIE - Not Okay [Future Classic]
Lotic - PHLEGM (ZZ GOLOSO EDIT) [NAAFI]
Toxe - Let Me Thru [STAYCORE]
Resla - Nitro [STAYCORE]
Lechuga Zafiro - Agua y Puerta [NAAFI]
MikeQ - The Ha Dub Rewerk'd [Fade To Mind]
Mechatok - Placer [STAYCORE]
Dat Oven - Icy Lake (Total Freedom Remix) [Fade To Mind & Night Slugs]
Toxe x Aaliyah (v1984 edit) [BUILD]

Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan: Cold Crystal Timbres, Mixtape

Recorded in Formby, England 2010 and 2013 and inspired by the myths and legends of Glastonbury and The Isle of Avalon.
Composed and performed by Paul Landry
Buy https://www.newagemusicplanet.com/buy-paul-landry-avalonia

© 2015 Paul Landry Music
℗ 2025 Ditto Music LTD


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The Red Spring

Forthcoming on Sweat Taste:
@jjjacob – Body Without Organs [SWT019]

'Heart Failure' is the second single from the incredible album by the Danish producer.

"Music as the only relief valve at the hospital. After suffering a brain haemorrhage, in a wheel chair and with the right side of his body paralysed, jjjacob looked for a refuge on his laptop creating music until his wounds healed. The Danish producer realised that his music "quickly changed from being only about having fun and making stuff that sounded cool to trying to express some of the crazy feelings and thoughts going through my head".

All songs written, produced and mixed: @jjjacob
Mastering: Pablo Martin
Artwork: Paranoidme (instagram.com/paranoidmeart)

'Body Without Organs' will be available in Bandcamp, and all streaming platforms on March 19th.

Spotify

jjjacob - Heart Failure

jjjacob -  Body Without Organs

The first single off the upcoming EP 'Ioeth' by @aeoi out Aug 18th on TAR


More from TAR at::
instagram.com/wearetar
twitter.com/wearetar
facebook.com/wearetar
wearetar.bandcamp.com

Ioeth

Aeoi - "Urn Block"

“Within and without are different sides of the same coin, without separation there is no unity. ‘The Illusion Of Separation’ is for those who feel trapped in a situation to find hope and power”

DECISIONS is pleased to welcome Hong Kong based producer ASJ to the label with ‘The Illusion Of Separation’. Deploying a blistering and emotive sonic palette, ASJ explores emotional alienation, difference and the social unity that nonetheless binds us — themes that are especially pertinent in the wake of Hong Kong’s recent political upheaval and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The journey begins with ‘Melancholy’, a distortion-streaked meditation on loneliness and isolation. The richly melodic ‘Pendulum’ speaks to the potential for personal growth that stems from an awareness of the cyclical nature of positive and negative mind states. Imagining life as a video game, ’The Game Host’ features playfully twisted vocals and syncopated percussion to evoke agency beyond systemic rules, while ’Chant To Eternity’ offers an ultra tough sonic aid to personal empowerment by drawing on the spiritually cleansing power of chanting. ‘Sublimity’ completes the release. Arcing from musique concrete into ethereal vocals before arriving at a hypnotically elevated plateau, ASJ considers changes of state in the field of chemistry as an analogue to moments of transcendence in our daily lives.

A distilled and ambitious body of work that captures the deeply personal, social and metaphysical realms, ‘The Illusion Of Separation’ is an affecting and timely new entry into ASJ’s catalogue. A ‘Magic Eye’ style stereogram artwork (view at a large size!) further embodies the illusory and cosmic dimensions of the release.

The Illusion Of Separation

ASJ - The Game Host

SBVRSV Mix Series EP. 014 feat. LA-based DJ/producer @treglia aired 17/08/20 on @internetpublicradio.

SBVRSV 014 w/ Treglia - Internet Public Radio

Mastering by jjjacob
Artwork by jjjacob
Video by jjjacob

Victor Metske is a Rotterdam-based electronic musician, who is normally known for his energetic club-ready style of production and for the label Bound Centre, which he co-founded with Ice Viper, Imhotel & Ezra V. On katharsis, he presents a more introspective and thoughtful side of himself with his EP “In The Midst Of Things”, which seems to stem from this weird year of isolation and quarantine.

The 4 tracks of the EP send us on a contemplative journey through our feelings, spanning from the blissful pads on the beautiful opener “Flour On Her Feet” to the more disturbing and anxious plucked strings on “First Sight”. Metske states the following about the release:

“In the midst of things, in between life changing events and entirely new daily routines there were small moments where I could sit down and reflect. The four tracks of this EP were created in these small pockets of time. During the pregnancy of my girlfriend, after the birth of our son, at the arrival of a global crisis.

Melodic and atmospheric elements previously hidden in my send channels have been braving the foreground of my productions for a while now. But more recently I've been able to use these elements to translate the weight of recent events directly into some of my music. All four tracks represent very personal abstract feelings that I could never put to words.

Within these four tracks, I can hear feelings of joy, love, doubt and melancholy scream back at me. I can hear myself settling into a new world, struggling with relinquishing control and discovering calmth.”

Music Video for "Flour On Her Feet": www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxVoSkuO_mA&ab_channel=jjjacob  

released October 15, 2020

In The Midst Of Things

Victor Metske - Flour On Her Feet

Fresh hybrid sounds from Persian Gulf. The less is Kuwaiti producer Van Boom allowed to bang heavy DJ sets in his homeland, the harder his mixes blast on internet.

𝖒𝖎𝖝 @realvanboom
𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖐 @ancestralvision

𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙

whiterose - ID 
Ice_Eyes - OFF THROAT 
Miss Jay - Homance or Bromance 
EL PLVYBXY - Insomniaa 
Tension - Cargo 
Bunkerterror - Let Me Tie Your Nikes (LABURNUM) 
T5UMUT5UMU- What’s Outside The Simulation? 
Slikback - Kite 
Animal Holocaust - Istanbul (TWAN Remix) 
AQXDM - Ballad 002 
ENDGAME - SKULL RIDDIM (ESTOC REMIX) 
CLUBKELLY - BTP 
Tropical Interface & Ytem - Unreleased // Réalité

UNIZONE: VAN BOOM [s02e15]

Stems: https://www.mediafire.com/file/z3m2n2zriyresr7/Morpho+Stems.zip/file

Agrias

From CLAM006 | PHANTASMAGORIA

@voronhil

https://clam-pressure.bandcamp.com/album/clam006-phantasmagoria

WWW.CLAM.LIFE

VORONHIL - 13

Sweat Taste is a young record label based in Spain. 
Created by @Mark-Luva & Vision in Bilbao back in 2011, and currently owned together with the additions of Pablo Martin and @YDVST.

https://sweattaste.bandcamp.com/