A Grisaille Wedding

Let It Die

Score by Taul Katz and Damsel Elysium
Leng Bian harp
Taul Katz synth, production
Damsel elysium strings

GRACE'S THEME

clip : youtube.com/watch?v=u4Ofkx3qMGE

composed & written by @almond_butyl

mix @almond_butyl 
master Émilie Daelemans

cover & clip @user-175645456-801419698 @almond_butyl

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Almond Butyl - Natural idol

LAVURN is the debut self-titled album from Lavurn Lee, a singer, songwriter, producer, performer and DJ from the inner suburbs of Toronto. He has also lived and worked in Sydney, Hong Kong and Berlin. His music is an emotionally complex assemblage of processed vocals, filtered pads, surgically programmed drums, haunting melodic fragments and hazy textures. This 13 track album of sparse, emotive and experimental R&B is his second for SUMAC and his first under his own name, following a previous record under the name Fake in 2018. Lavurn was made over three years between Toronto, Berlin and Hong Kong in close dialogue with SUMAC founders DJ Plead and T.Morimoto.

Previously, as Cassius Select, he has established himself as a unique voice in dance music, releasing on cult labels such as Unknown to the Unknown, Accidental Jnr, Hypercolour, Banoffee Pies, Raw Basics and Bruk Records. His side projects include collaborations with vocalists such as VV Pete and Daemon, his previous experimental R&B aliases Guerre and Fake, and BV (alongside Marcus Whale and DJ Plead).


THOUGHTS & REFLECTIONS ON THE MAKING OF LAVURN

“I’m trying to make pop music. Not in the industry sense, but in the way that everyone is making their own type of pop music. It wants to be listenable, so it can create emotions. I come from bedroom song writing in the age of the internet. The lyrical content and sounds reflect my demeanor. Big ego with low sense of self-worth. Constantly posturing. At once both strong and weak. I don’t always trust my abilities. I don’t have the voice to produce contemporary radio R&B. I don’t do traditional harmonies, mine are all over the place.

It's the first time I'm writing about my own life in a literal sense. I spent years writing love songs having never been in a relationship. Whereas this feels very raw as a reflection of my experiences. To me the album sounds insular because it was made that way, in isolation. The vocals are used in a sampled way. A chorus for one track might be chopped and turned into another hook. A verse for one song is half timed and used for the chorus of another. Auto-Tune is used heavily. Some tracks are ‘written’ by pulling different beats, textures and vocals from different tracks and seeing what fits together. I tried to take self-sampling further and further. I was thinking of ways to world-build.

Most of the lyrical content on the album is about dealing with a breakup. But the album doesn’t reflect a break-up because it’s completely one sided. It doesn’t reflect the reality that I was an awful person during the relationship. Really it's an inward study of a reaction to rejection. It’s ambivalent. The attitude is “hey imma do me and improve myself”, while also desperately wanting someone back (for all the wrong reasons). There’s a veneer of self-improvement and healing. But it’s all performance. I used to think all the songs had a kind of toxic intent because of this. Trying to impress someone in a way that would make them want to return to you. In retrospect I understand the songs differently. They’re not perfect. A bit confused in their vulnerability. Maybe quite sweet in a way. I think it’s healthy for me to see the lyrics on the album as directed at myself. It’s an album about self-love. I learnt that making music can be a kind of self-care.” 
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released February 16, 2024

Written, recorded, produced and mixed by Lavurn Lee
Mastered by T.Morimoto
Photography by DJ Plead

LAVURN - CCC

MORT À L'IMPÉRIALISME, ÉTERNITÉ POUR LES OUBLIÉS by @jsdonny. Taken from S4R001 V/A, out March 19, 2024 via @sounds4resistance.

Pre-order: https://bitly.ws/3g7p7
Read: https://bitly.ws/3g7L2

SOUNDS4RESISTANCE is a solidarity fundraising project to gather musicians and creatives together for community support where its urgency claims.

The Palestinian people have been subject, for over 75 years, to incommensurable violence by the hands of the Israeli settler colonial state and the western imperial war machine pretending to keep us safe in the blindness of our capitalist consumerism habits - an ignorance and allowance that kills everyday.

Since 2007, Gaza’s borders are controlled by the Israeli state. This reality perdures despite the urgent demands caused by this offensive.

All profit from this release is followed to Estafette4Palestine: a militant, volunteer-based collective in Brussels that distributes funds between 50 Gazan families living in Brussels; and Fondation Marius Jacob: a radical, autonomous and collective tool that supports grassroots actions, together with Brussels Against Genocide.

Music alone might not save the world but it does bring us together: in the streets, at the dance floor, in communities, in ways of listening to one another, in breaking societal norms.

Artwork by orso

Mastering by usof (except for COLINE's track, mastered by Gaspard Emma Hers)

Released by S4R

Premiere: Js Donny - MORT À L'IMPÉRIALISME, ÉTERNITÉ POUR LES OUBLIÉS [S4R]

Kamixlo & Isabella Lovestory - Pitch Black
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 144S2
Release Date: 27 June 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/PitchBlack

Kamixlo and Isabella Lovestory share the new single 'Pitch Black' out via PAN out June 27th.
It's the perfect pre-game to an endless, messy night, leaving Isabella Lovestory to lurch towards the mass of sweaty bodies on 'Pitch Black', rhyming sensually over Kamixlo's provocative metallic plucks and slow-motion dembow pulse.

Written by Kamixlo and Isabella Lovestory
Produced by Kamixlo
Mixed by Felix Lee
Mastered by Enyang Urbiks
Artwork by Daniel Swan

Deathwork

Kamixlo & Isabella Lovestory - Pitch Black (PAN 144S2)

𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗮 𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗱𝗮, nudo’s debut full-length coming out via halcyon veil on july 26th, 2024 is the culmination of years of sonic field work. “alma blindada means armored soul, or bulletproof spirit,” highlights hernandez, “but ‘blindado’ is also narco slang for a protected person.” their album, the most refined iteration to their sound yet, explores the spectrum of potentiality within a person. creation vs destruction; innocence vs guilt; conflicting sides to a story. 

just like two competing radio signals merging at the border of eagle pass, tx, 𝗻𝘂𝗱𝗼’s music is full of entropies. nudo (translating to “knot” in spanish) is a regional-electronic duo that boldly introduces the complexities of border war, cartel violence and corrido lore; the power vacuums, cannibalization of heroes and villains, and the duality that comes with what side you're rooting for or what area you're from. through antagonistic genres, subcultural samples and constant distortion, the pair pushes you into uncharted territory. but for nudo, who grew up in between chicano homes in rural texas and urban neighborhoods in juarez, this process is a natural byproduct of survival. the pair, formed by eric hernandez and joaquin tenorio, met when starting an industrial band while residing in austin, shortly before succumbing to their apodictic synergy creating as a duo.

nudo - nueces strip (alluvial)

For our latest radio show, Vienna-based MARAws @wsmara_archive embraces the intangible through an intertextual sound collage. Leading you to find peace amidst the chaos, while piecing together a narrative of trans resistance and remembrance.

Thank you so much Mara for the captivating mix and artwork 🕯️
https://www.instagram.com/waldoers/

xenial on Cashmere Radio w/ MARAws

Charli xcx - Everything is romantic (SuperVP edit)

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@starleaf
The 44th release of katharsis is the debut album “Late Bloomer” by the malmö-based entity Starleaf. A whisper caught between interstellar winds, a tale of a cosmic protagonist - something growing, something distant and near at once. The album manifests the ethereal spirit of Starleaf with deep rhythmic pulses of bass sprouting from the deep, strong melodic forces of trancey synths and hard-hitting space-warping percussion.

Starleaf is an organism thriving on the edge of the comprehensible, drawing from energies that defy the natural laws we claim to know. In its branches, rhythms weave, harmonic growth pulses, and textures bloom from the nexus of the organic and the alien. Its origins are a paradox of seed and starlight, where sound becomes a tendril, twisting through Malmö’s underground and far beyond.

releases September 30, 2024

Artwork by jjjacob
Mastering by jjjacob & Starleaf

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