Gusła (Human Rites) EP

''789'' is a collection of moments, frustrations and various emotional states of surrender. It became a stamp for beginnings, middles and ends. An experimentation of colliding words, or rather a revoke. From the spark of the will towards the step of an existence.
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released May 30, 2021

All tracks written, produced and
engineered by Isabella Bassi

Co-engineering of 'Gracha Razz’ &
Mastering by Eric Baldwin

Artwork by David Terry & Etkin Çekin
KS020, Kinship, Berlin 2021

Isabassi - 789 - 03 RLDL

Taken from the new LP from The Untouchables - Grassroots [SMDELP07] 
Out now on Skull Gold Marble or Black 3x12" and Digital - https://samurai.lnk.to/smdelp07

We welcome back the sub frequency specialists from Brussels for their second LP on Samurai Music. Peppered with a sizzling selection of like-minded collaborators, Grassroots continues the enhanced exploration into dub infused, stripped back Drum and Bass, deftly splashing breakbeat shards over their rolling grooves. The collaborators each add their signature spice to the Untouchables proven recipe while retaining the heat-seeking attention to groove that is inherent to The Untouchables signature construction methods. Originally an EP for the label, the submissions outgrew the EP format organically until the project became an LP that flows seamlessly, touching every corner of the Untouchables stylistic repertoire. While their considered attention to the nether regions of bass frequencies gives the LP the weight it needs to command any large system, this is also an LP for listeners - an alluring headphone expedition.

Tracklist:

A1. Fouls Game
A2. Answer Rhythm
B1. Forbidden Thoughts
B2. Genetic X (with Loxy)
C1. Devil's Dance
C2. Helena (with Mantra)
D1. Sorcerer Supreme
D2. None Human
E1. Stage 3 (with Djinn)
E2. Poison Dart (with Sam KDC)
F1. Gunmetal
F2. Grassroots

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Grassroots

The Untouchables - Helena (with Mantra) [SMDELP07]

IM096 - @aroent - Say
Label: Infinite Machine
Release Date: May 27th,2022
Format: Digital
Artwork by Vojd

Following on from a release-packed 2021, Infinite Machine are back with a new 4-track offering from the relative newcomer, Aroent. Across 3 new original cuts (plus a rework by UK dance royalty, Ploy) the Berlin-based producer delivers some serious rollers crammed full of gnarly drumwork and a pervasive air of unease. Like the strange, abstract creature of the record artwork, the music of Say EP is an amorphous beast, mixing the dense arrangements/layering of 90s IDM records with the off-kilter and swung beats of UK Techno and Funky.

The EP opens with its title track; a whirl of snaps, claps and phantom samples all firmly underpinned by an acid-inflected bassline. Aroent embracing of chance and luck in his compositions is evident on this track, throwing in idiosyncratic automations and randomizers to grow and evolve the tune over its 5 minute duration. The vox samples (stolen from Breaking Bad) seem to decay and fall inwards on each other on ‘Say’, as if the song is soundtrack to a decaying and corrupted society (not dissimilar to Heisenberg’s).

On ‘Rolling Oddities’, Aroent’s love for the Bristol bass & techno scene really shines through clearly. A track that seems almost built for a spinny night that rolls on until the morning, the song really does what it says on the tin with its combination of driving, rhythmic elements and it’s smattering of pretty out-there decisions in terms of arrangement and sound processing. This is a definite must-listen tune for fans of Batu, Lurka or Hodge.

Next up, ‘Bobcat’ takes things in a slightly more buoyant and ecstatic direction with its ever-rising filters and muted percussion that seems like it’s dancing along on tip-toes. On this song especially, Aroent’s genre-agnostic approach to production is abundantly obvious with elements of techno and bass sitting alongside kick drums that wouldn’t feel out of place on some Jersey Club tracks.

Ploy brings up the rear on Say EP with a ferocious ‘Skeletal Tool remix’ of the releases’ title track. Taking a reductionist approach to his rework, the Timedance signee strips out some of the originals’ more hyperbolic or dramatic elements and reduces it to a polyrhythmic, semi-genreless heater. Seriously - you try and pin this edit down to a single ‘genre label’, I dare you!

Despite the small number of releases to his name, Say EP is a highly confident and well-realized offering from the Greek-born, Berlin-based producer. In a way, Aroent is already creating his own sonic signature that lifts and interpolates aspects across the UK Bass spectrum and turns it into something totally unique. This is music that lurks in the shadows of warehouse clubs.

Tracklist:

1. Say
2. Rolling Oddities
3. Bobcat
4. Say (Ploy's Skeletal Tool Remix)

Aroent - Rolling Oddities

PREMIERE: Loula Yorke - Silverweed

Echo Maker

Premiering "Not As In Like" by @barom taken from "Dante's Rise" out on December 2nd via @offswitchaudio

Buy: https://fanlink.to/OSD011

Dante’s Rise is the sequel to Dante’s Fall, finalising Barom’s two-part album project inspired by Dante’s Inferno. Catchy and triumphant melodies laced with remnant tones of evil, soundtrack Dante’s journey from the centre of hell back up to the surface of the Earth.

"Not As In Like" sounds game-like and questful. With a stabby and euphoric lead providing the harmonic foundation, the piece transitions through various emotive states upon a percussive bed of beats.

Dante's Rise

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[Premiere] Barom - Not As In Like (Dante's Rise out via OFF-SWITCH AUDIO)

By popular demand - from IfZ Support Compilation - 2014

Duran Duran Duran - Corryslander

Ossia's militant, nerve-jangling dub wouldn't sound out of place in Gerald Donald and James Stinson's imagined Drexciyan waterworld.

'The Marzahn Versions' is out soon on Berceuse Heroique.

Pre-order: bit.ly/32orZOa

@ossiamusic
@kemal187

Premiere: Ossia - Hack Dub [Berceuse Heroique]

Together with their newest EP Immorality, which will be released this June on Knekelhuis label, Zaliva-D brings traditional futurism and oriental mysticism.

Sick Step is a perfect example of ritualistic behaviour which this Chinese duo brings to their melodics combined together with sinister vocals. Shamanism and powerful percussions are at a threatening point in this track which is nearly the most powerful one of the entire ingenious release.

Immorality will be out on Knekelhuis 8th June.

Zaliva-D - Sick Step

"Nieludzie (Ignorance Ha)" is an updated version of the 2019's track that featured on Oramics' Total Solidarity compilation. Now featuring Przemysław Czarnek's (the recently appointed minister of education) infamous dehumanising quote* about the LGBTQ+ community and human rights being drowned out by its doomy stabs. The track's distorted bass and slo-mo deconstruction of ballroom tropes sound even more ominous than ever.

the full sampled quote goes: "Let's defend ourselves from the LGBT ideology. We have to stop listening to this nonsense about some human rights or some equality. These people are not equal to normal people. End of story." 

Production: Avtomat
Additional mix: Szymon Weiss
Mastering: Air Max '97
Artwork: Anna Kaźmierak

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Zrealizowano w ramach programu stypendialnego Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego – Kultura w sieci.

Gusła (Human Rites)

Avtomat - Nieludzie (Ignorance Ha)

Avtomat jest jednym z najważniejszych artystów queerowych w Polsce, producentem, DJ-em i wokalistą. Organizuje cykle imprez (m.in. Ciężki Brokat), należy też do prężnego kolektywu Oramics. „Gusła (Human Rites)” to jego pierwsze wydawnictwo od siedmiu lat. Premiera EP-ki 6 listopada nakładem Tańców.

EP-ka „Gusła (Human Rites)” powstała w okresie trudnym zarówno dla Avtomata, jak i każdej innej osoby queerowej w Polsce. Muzyka po części narodziła się w trakcie artystycznej rezydencji w Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej w Warszawie, gdzie kolektyw Oramics odprawił queerowy rytuał uzdrowienia. Artysta opisuje ją jako „kolektywny krzyk społeczności postawionej pod ścianą”. W czerwcu 2020, w przeddzień performansu, Avtomat został aresztowany protestując przeciwko bezprawnemu zatrzymaniu Margot Szutowicz z kolektywu Stop Bzdurom oraz narastającej opresji wobec społeczności LGBTQ+ w Polsce. 

Materiał składa się z czterech agresywnych, klubowych utworów. Ich korzeni można szukać m.in. w polirytmii i synkopach tańców takich jak oberek czy chodzony. Avtomat ma również smykałkę do domowych perkusjonaliów oraz przerabiania starych pieśni na wokalne drony i desperackie wrzaski. EP-kę otwiera tytułowy numer, w którym łoskot garnków i patelni ułożony jest w wirującą, ażurową strukturę. Pozwala to na pozostawienie przestrzeni w miksie dla wprowadzającego napięcie, gumowego groove'u, który ciągnie kawałek do przodu. Z kolei „Szeptucha (Hex Therapy)” to Avtomat gotowy do konfrontacji. Producent ściera ze sobą pełne dramaturgii dźgnięcia akordów, wycie wiedźm i metaliczne dźwięki, rzucając klątwę na osoby odpowiedzialne za codzienną przemoc wobec osób queer.

„Stop Bzdurom (The Bad Gays)” wydaje się być najbardziej wściekłym utworem na płycie. Kawałek dedykowany jest tytułowemu kolektywowi i jego walce z pseudoreligijnymi bzdurami głoszonymi przez podejrzane organizacje pro-life. Ciężarówki oklejone homofobicznymi hasłami jeżdżą po całej Polsce w obstawie policji, nie dziwi więc, że numer oparty jest na dźwięku rzężącego silnika. Inwazja dźwięków, krzyków, uderzeń i brzmień suki biłgorajskiej nawiązuje otwarcie do tej nierównej batalii.

Zamykający EP-kę kawałek „Nieludzie (Ignorance Ha)” jest zaktualizowaną wersją utworu ze składanki „Total Solidarity” wydanej przez Oramics w 2019 roku. Tym razem to nowy minister edukacji Przemysław Czarnek i jego dehumanizujący społeczność LGBTQ+ cytat zostają zagłuszone dźwiękami nadchodzącej zguby. Zniekształcony bas i powolna dekonstrukcja ballroomowej stylistyki brzmią teraz bardziej złowieszczo niż kiedykolwiek.

Zrealizowano w ramach programu stypendialnego Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego – Kultura w sieci.

Avtomat - Gusła (Human Rites)

https://tance.bandcamp.com/album/gus-a-human-rites

Stop Bzdurom (The Bad Gays) is dedicated to all the queer people fighting for their rights in Poland. The titulary collective, Stop Bzdurom, became known for their vivid reaction to the homophobic trucks roaming Polish cities (hence the roaring engines in the track). As far as I know just two days ago (on Halloween) they did a Samhain ritual to the sounds of this track. The Bad Gays is a humorous name I came up with sitting in a jail cell after my arrest in August to lift up the spirits of my cellmates, it refers to the fake Polish stereotype of a radical, gay hit squad financed by "the West".

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Premiere: Avtomat 'Stop Bzdurom (The Bad Gays)'

For miles and miles the streets were filled with people, the roar of the crowd ringing loudly through the city. In their swathes they'd come together to fight for basic human rights; no matter the outcome their voices would be heard. Regardless of the obstacles they would have to contest with, they would never give up the fight.

Polish DJ, producer, activist and Ciężki Brokat and Oramics Member Avtomat inaugurates Polish label Tańce with Gusła (Human Rites), his first full release in seven years. An important figure in the country's queer scene, Avtomat cites the EP as a "scream of a community put up against the wall" with the four tracks representing a sonic response to the Polish government's inhumane views toward LGBTQIA+ people. Written during a turbulent time this year for both Avtomat and the queer scene, the abrasive tracks are informed by Polish folk polyrhythms and peppered with droning vocal manipulations.

PREMIERE: Avtomat - Szeptucha (Hex Therapy) [Tańce]

Quarantine Sonic Squad is a collective uniting many electronic producers and musical activists in France (and beyond), born under the epidemic era and brought together by Tim Karbon. Its aim is to create a musical corpus that has its roots in today's electronic / club music phenomenon, regardless of genre attributions of any kind.

QSS VOL. 2 "LOCKDOWN COMBAT" is our new militant album, following the initial "DAL de Vivre" project which was thought as a musical tool to gather funds and waving public attention upon bad housing problematics in France, increased by the COVID-19 pandemic. This first opus was released in May 1st of 2020 & quickly gained critical / media acclaim from the like of Resident Advisor, CouvreXChefs, SeekSickSound, Dure Vie...

After uniting our energies to work with the DAL - Droit Au Logement ("right to housing") french association, which is helping oppressed and homeless people to get safe spaces to live in, we are now joining forces with the BAAM, another solidarity collective based in Paris. They are providing to all refugees & migrants a juridic, cultural and social support through french classes, administrative help and housing solutions, among many other things. They have also created a LGBTQIA+ safe-space for asylum seekers facing daily homophobia or transphobia.

This 49-tracks album is our personal tribute to all the people threatened by governmental actions with the hunting of refugees, to all victims of police brutality & systemic racism. Spreading sonic love to all our brothers and sisters who face state violence and neoliberal laws that place economic growth of the few above the right to live with dignity for all human beings. The whole piece will be exclusively downloadable on Bandcamp for a low price, with all funds going to the BAAM to help them on militant and activism aspects.

Here is a link to the BAAM's website, to know more about their lovely work for dignity and respect : 
baamasso.org/fr/

MUCH LUV / BE SAFE / HELP REFUGEES / KEEP DOING MUSIC

All tracks mastered by A-Sim (excepted "Qant - ΔFMFS" mastered by Qant)
Artwork by DMT

QSS VOL. 2 "COMBAT LOCKDOWN"

Tim Karbon & 132Hz  - À Nos Soeurs Assassinées

Not your run-of-the-mill working-class Eastern European non-binary DJ. The producer, vocalist, but also visual and digital artist strives for innovative sound design and visceral body response, despite (or maybe coupled with) raw emotion that permeates their musical output. They’re a proud member of the Ciężki Brokat crew (with whom they run the annual Warsaw Pride official afterparty), ex-Oramics member (2019-2022), co-creator of Radio Kapitał, Polish ambassador for Keychange and SHAPE Platform 2021 resident.

Their own music has morphed several times throughout the last 15 years – from industrial or purely synthetic timbres, through polyphonic singing with Pleśni to a perplexing fusion of rhythmically and sonically jagged compositions, bass-heavy club tracks on their EPs, 'Gusła (Human Rites)' on Tańce, a limited vinyl release on London-based 51-53 Records, 'Doolska' and the latest, more experimental 'Lamenty' EP.

They presented their music during numerous festivals (Unsound, CTM, Schiev, Up To Date, Tauron Nowa Muzyka, Les Siestes Electroniques, Audioriver) and an assortment of clubs (including the legendary Berghain) in Poland and abroad (Berlin, London, Prague, Oslo, Copenhagen, Ljubljana). They remixed tracks by Kamp and Baasch, recorded mixes for Resident Advisor, DJ Mag, HӦR and CRACK, composed and created impromptu live music for interactive theatre plays: Method of National Constellations, quadraphonic sound for Jawić się, music for a Women’s Strike street theatre Manifesta and original score for Ideologix, a US-written and directed queer opera.

In the club their seventeen-year experience of supporting queer, anti-fascist and underground scenes results in an almost annoyingly disparate selection of the most forward-thinking sound offered by today’s scene. In their series of DJ-sets and club nights they blend unusual rhythmic patterns kicked up a notch with their improvised vocals.

http://tance.dance

Tańce to wytwórnia polskiej muzyki tanecznej i elektronicznej. Silnie zainspirowani kulturą klubową zbudowaną przez czarnych artystów ze Stanów Zjednoczonych, Wielkiej Brytanii, Republiki Południowej Afryki czy Brazylii, poszukujemy nowych środków wyrazu wywodzących się z polskiego instrumentarium folkowego, zapomnianych rytuałów oraz odnoszących się do naszych codziennych doświadczeń w narastająco opresyjnej rzeczywistości.

Tańce prowadzi @tancerusalki.

Tańce is a music label for electronic and dance music from Poland. We're heavily inspired by the club culture built by Black artists in the United States, United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil, but we're looking for new forms of expression in Polish folk instruments, forgotten rituals and our everyday experience in an increasingly oppressive reality.

Tańce is run by @tancerusalki.

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HOPCD001 @spacenaphta - Żałość
HOP004 @kukumuzik - Za dużo / Od nowa
HOP003 @spacenaphta - Dom strawiło
HOP002 @semprey - Balanga
HOP001 @avtomatmusic - Gusła (Human Rites)

Avtomat - Gusła (Human Rites)

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