Pneumatic and Grasps proudly presents ‘the HEAVEN Remixes’

Grasps enlist Monker187, Wa?ste and Lovefear to reimagine the ‘HEAVEN’ single. Three different methods, ideas and processes combined to complete the story.

‘HEAVEN’ a project by Grasps.
Internet obsession, rave-nostalgia & intense anxiety surrounding death. A sense of purpose was dwindling from euphoric moments. Extended eye contact till you can feel it in your stomach, to be everlasting, to look up to the sky & say: “This feels Like Heaven”.

Mastering by Christian Whitwell (@grasps)
Artwork by Oliva Rawlings (@oli.svg)
Remixed by https://soundcloud.com/monker178

Grasps - HEAVEN (Monker178 Remix)

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LILY ALLEN - LDN (TONY EDIT)

Isaka - H34T D34TH (superN0V4)

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 - Harvest (ABADIR Remix)

TRNGS - TRAFFIC SHARE

Shelter proudly presents: Mizgîn, a leviathan compilation of 18 tracks by 21 artists presiding on the cutting edge of electronic music. 

As we find ourselves in the eye of the storm during the most deteriorated epoch in modern history, Mizgîn, meaning "good news" in Kurdish, was motivated by the desire to offer respite from the horrors of the world. Shelter's ambition to unite different regional music scenes has once again brought together artists from nearly every continent, with contributions from legendary names.

This compilation is dedicated to everyone struggling towards the liberation of the oppressed.

Mizgîn releases on 17.05.2024 on all streaming platforms.

Landscape & Tufi - Dry Mouth

BADGIRLSPIT REF*CKED

BADGIRLSPIT (s.t3v Remix)

Too Proud is a tender banger — a floor-filler dressed in vulnerability.
Skippy garage rhythms meet gospel-soul vocals in a deep bass confession.
It’s about holding your head high, even when your heart’s on the floor.
Sometimes pride two-steps with pain… and love still shines through.



Too Proud

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"Hostages" is a dark and emotionally charged composition that reflects the state of a society held hostage by a mad regime. With elements of protest, pain, and despair, the track paints an apocalyptic vision of a world ruled by a dictator who strips people of their freedom and hope.

The lyrics are rich in symbolism: children draw omens, weapons are at the ready, and the mysterious “Messiah” is not a savior, but rather an illusion of salvation in a shattered world. The chorus resonates like a cry from the soul on behalf of an entire generation: “we are hostages.”

[Verse 1]
Oh, why — you wanna blow up the sky?
All children draw the sign
We’re waiting for Messiah
This weapon stands by

[Verse 2]
Close the door
I bleed and saw the fame
Oh, we fall — my life is grief and pain
A thief took the throne, I’m crushed and feel ashamed
Who are we now? A madman rules the slaves

[Chorus]
We are hostages — he locked us up
We are hostages — his fist is strangling
We, the hostages — we’re all messed up
We, the hostages — it’s risky gambling

We are hostages — he locked us up
We, the hostages — we’re all messed up
We, the hostages — it’s risky gambling
We are hostages — it’s “Don’t Look Up”
We are hostages — just hostages

Samurai SLT - Hostages

“DISPLAY OF CRAWLING AND DWELLING TECHNIQUES, 
SUPREME ARTS OF LIVING A GROOVY LIFE....
THE ETERNAL FIGHT BETWEEN ACTION AND VIBE, 
CRAWLERS AND DWELLERS... THRIVE!!!” 

... from "Crawl & Dwell"

https://tvshoww.bandcamp.com/album/crawl-dwell

out on @tvshoww 03/04/2020

LILY ALLEN - LDN (TONY EDIT)

TONY PEREZ