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“I Am Here Now, When Will You Be Here Again?” collects 28 contemporary voices, from or with connection to the music landscape of Copenhagen today. 

In 28 songs and more than two hours of music ”I Am Here Now, When Will You Be Here Again?” presents a multitude of expressions. An empty holiday retreat, a portrait of a season’s end. Echoes of emotion, laughter in the background, someone cried here too. Sandalwood scent or patchouli, rain pools gathering on the piled up daybeds, it is colder now. If the storm comes, i’ll let myself get carried away too. I am here now, when will you be here again? 

The compilation is presented digitally and as a limited set of cassettes out late October “I Am Here Now, When Will You Be Here Again?” is the newest addition to a lineage of Posh Isolation compilations. Sung in voices of today it echoes a past cry; 

“Give me a mask to put my face in. A mask to put over my other mask. What do I care if some curious person sees my flaws? Let this mask, with its black eyebrows, blush for me.” 

Artist: Lyra Valenza / @lyravalenza
Title: "I Am Here Now, When Will You Be Here Again?"
Label: Posh Isolation / @poshisolation
Date: October 27, 2023
Buy: https://poshisolation.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-here-now-when-will-you-be-here-again

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PREMIERE: Lyra Valenza — Reverie (Posh Isolation, 2023)

Artist: @nikitavontiraspol
Title: Iki Pasimatymo! LP
Label: @noorden
Release Date: November 2, 2023
Format: digital / cassette
Buy: https://noorden.bandcamp.com/album/iki-pasimatymo

A longtime contributor of the label, ex-Cologne based / freshly Lithuania-relocated producer Nikita von Tiraspol returns to Noorden with his new cassette album, »Iki Pasimatymo!«, which is his way to say ›goodbye‹ to the city he called home for many years. Following up to his 2019-issued solo tape »Was Lucifer More Beautiful Than Adonis?«, this new effort from the German producer has us embarking on a multi-faceted ride down kaleidoscopic rapids of downtempo, jungle, folk and electronica narratives, all rolled into one luxuriant tableau of variably lit and emotionally versatile fluctuations.

The opener »Anschlag auf alle Kontinente« translates anguished vibrations into raucous bass menace billowing out from under quiet beds of watercoloured synth swashes, and across a grain of playfully tap-tapping drums. Thunder and aether as one. On the off-kilter and colourful »Interzone Inc.«, Nikita von Tiraspol shows his more experimental-leaning facet, whereas »Gratte-Ciel Oddity (ft. Leo)« evokes that of Bochum Welt’s most weightless, ambient-friendly sonic tapestries. Back to a proper cinematic vibe, »Talking Is Nonsense« is a poetic sequence of floating pads and shifting octaves – think a haiku of sorts, languidly dressed against a screen of vaporous abstraction and metronomic straightforwardness. Reminiscent of Eduard Artemyev’s haunted organic soundscapes, »Saldžių Sapnų« conjures up consoling images of nature through minimally re-arranged, patched-up field recording and strips of oddball drum programming, endowing it with a near esoteric rhythmic capacity.

An ambivalent slab of atmospheric lushness and proper intricate jungle patterns, »A Critic’s Opinion Makes People Change Their Minds« is pure bleached-out D’n’B on a down phase, its chiselled snares and hats cutting deep in the nostalgic flesh. Pushing the junglistic cursor a little further with »Random Friends«, Nikita von Tiraspol blows a fiery wind of 8-bit-like dementia and faded folk tropes as chopped-up UK style percussions hover over the battle field ominously. Sliced and diced to exhilarating – near Gabber-ish – effect, the snake-charming »Gilian Taylor« evokes Demdike Stare on a trip to the souk as seen through a polaroid lens. Pure dreaminess is on with the chimey »My Mind During Night«, where brittle bells peal joyfully as we depart for all-blue and peaceful ocean-like territories. »Thank You For The Time (ft. Eglé)« rounds off the package on a ghostly, beatless note, beautifully topping off Nikita von Tiraspol’s bright new soundtrack to everyone’s daily bag of small struggles and superlative bliss. ~ Baptiste Girou

Iki Pasimatymo!

PREMIERE: Nikita von Tiraspol — Interzone Inc. (Noorden, 2023)

Artist: @letherique
Title: Letherique — Rhobocop
Label: @tripalium-corp
Release Date: November 24, 2023
Buy: https://tripalium.bandcamp.com/album/tmf-04-va-tripalium-fucked-up-squad-vol-2

The Fucked-Up Squad is back with a selection of freaky braindance, noisey jungle, nutter hardcore, ghetto rave and loony breakcore: 14 sick tunes coming from all over the world, 14 producers who will take you on a brutal and deconstructed trip. Play it loud, weirdos!

Tripalium Fucked-Up Squad vol. 2

PREMIERE: Letherique — Rhobocop (Tripalium Corp, 2023)

Artist: @kikok_audio / @yakovets
Title: Kikok "Flight In The Night" (Yakovets Remix)
Label: @spaziolabel
Date: 17/11/2023 
Buy: https://spazio.bandcamp.com/album/kikok-cacao-beach-ep

PREMIERE: Kikok — Flight In The Night (Yakovets Remix) (Spazio, 2023)

Artist: @lyudmilasevertseva
Title: Metasilence
Label:@hyperboloid
Date: 15.12.2023
Buy: https://hyperboloid.bandcamp.com/album/metasilence

Metasilence

PREMIERE: Lyudmila Severtseva — Self-Care (Hyperboloid, 2023)

Artist: @altoaria
Title: To Keep My Own Dream
Label: @rhz000
Release Date: February 14th 2024
Buy: https://rhz000.bandcamp.com/album/limerence

PREMIERE: Alto Aria — To Keep My Own Dream (Rhizome, 2024)

Ulyap is a village in the Caucasus, where one can find an enormous number of accordion and harmonica players. “Ulyap Songs:  Beyond Circassian Tradition” represents an attempt to document ancient bards‘ chants and their entanglement with popular rural heritage as well as Soviet culture during modern times, through a critical prism. Interacting with a rich book on the subject, this issue reflects on a music phenomenon involving talented female and male musicians, performing in lively (and sometimes festive) social dynamics. It does so by revealing important songs of the repertoire on the one hand, inviting original artists to experiment with Ulyap songs on the other.

In 2021, Flee Project met with Nalchik-based music journalist Bulat Khalilov. The music enthusiast kept on speaking about a fascinating vernacular musical genre from the North Caucasus, involving a lot of heavy drinking and which had absorbed urban elements of petit-criminal as well as Gulag-returnees’ chanson. A few months after this encounter, the FLEE collective traveled across the Caucasus to interview and record local toughies, wedding musicians, bards and researchers to make sense of this peculiar folklore. The expedition culminated in the visit of Ulyap, a tiny village home to many virtuoso accordion players that gave its name to this festive music tradition. Three years later, forced to readapt the project to the many issues and challenges that the war in Ukraine has brought up, the art collective finally publishes a book, including essays, artworks, and unpublished pictures depicting the colors of life in this forgotten (post)soviet underworld. The book encompasses the contributions of: Lina Tsrimova, Bulat Khalilov, Madina Pashtova, Milana Khalilova, Nikita Rasskazov, Almagul Menlibayeva, Akhmat Bikanov, Olivier Duport, Alan Marzo.

Musically, the double LP conists of rare and unpublished archives as well as recordings made by FLEE, Ored recordings and Nikita Rasskazov over the last years in various locations of the Caucasus. These original celebration and drinking songs performed by group of professional and amateur musicians alike have been used as a creative fabric by sonic sound artists and musicians: Zongamin, Misha Sultan, Emmanuelle Parrenin & Colin Johnco, Simone Aubert, Valentina Goncharova, Minami Deutsch, G.A.M.S. & Vatannar, Jrpjej & Ben Wheeler.

The transmedia object comprehends of an LP and book in an innovative packaging made out of traditionnal wool. FLEE 005 will be officially released January the 19th of 2024, with launches around the world and followed by a traveling exhibition.

Order: https://fleeproject.com/order/005
@fleeproject

PREMIERE: Zongamin — My Darling (FLEE, 2024)

Leftfield electro and breaked material in its finest. A delight not only for the body but also for the nervous system at a higher level. 

Label's words: "Ascension is about moving our Consciousness from one reality to another. Since reality is a dimension, what we are undertaking is essentially a full dimensional shift.

Croatian bad boy Iggy Dope aka FTP UP launch his record label with a versatile VA compilation, that features 8th international and inter-generational talented artists from different corners of the genre spectrum and scenes (Italy, USA, Austria, Germany, UK).

The inaugural compilation by Etherwerkz is packed with high-vibrational bass-heavy club music from friends and faves, setting the tone for the Etherwerkz genre-free sound vision, from etherial experimental intro by Weightausend, peak time tech-uk funky by Xen Chron, hi-tek hood electro from Soular-Dj Phiene and User Delusion, through bass bangers from Toupaz and Lindenberg Support to 160 bpm tekkerz by Johnny Megabyte and Dj Balance.

Nothing is random everithing is connected and ether is the nothing that connects everything..."

Label: @etherwerkz
Buy: https://etherwerkz.bandcamp.com/album/va-ascension

PREMIERE: Weightausend — Hijack Momentum (EtherwerkZ, 2023)

French Geneva-based artist NUNU is known for unique sound crafting, infusing each composition with distinctive character.

NUNU embraces versatility and gritty club aesthetics in his experimental approach, creating pieces that resonate with unfiltered authenticity.

Label's word: “Experimenting with analog and digital sound sources, NUNU blurs the line between genres, using gritty textures and sound design to deliver 7 tracks ranging from drum driven tools to atmospheric pieces”.

Artist: NUNU / @nunununu
Label: @99ctsrcrds
Buy: https://99ctsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/user-friendly
Release Date: January 1, 2024

PREMIERE: NUNU — Juggler (99CTS RCRDS, 2024)

A suite of relaxing songs composed by Marat Shainsky releasing on Not Not Fun on January 5, 2024. Seven tracks are already available for your ears on BC. We have listened to the rest six privately and belive you have a lot to look forward to.

Artist: @frunk29
Label: @not-not-fun-1
Buy: https://frunk29.bandcamp.com/album/sequentia

Sequentia

PREMIERE: Frunk29 — Exitt (Not Not Fun, 2024)

Artist: @beennooutside
Label: @cll-kll 
Out: 7th January 2024

Buy: https://cll-kll.bandcamp.com/album/cctv17

PREMIERE: небылснаружи — насыпь (cll-kll, 2024)

In a fusion of science and sound, Kalocain's debut vinyl release, "Genetic Memory," unfolds an eerie tale. "W.N.G." opens a portal to an ancient world, where forgotten tongues unveil cryptic secrets. "Genetic Memory" weaves ethereal connections between ancestral recollections and the present, warping the fabric of time. "Ivermectin" delves into the surreal realms of molecular melodies, as if sonic DNA deciphers sound's enigmas. Remixes from Normal 4, Patricia Kokett, and Jacques Satre reshape the auditory cosmos with a dash of the bizarre. 

To amplify the weirdness, Evaldas Bubinas aka Hermandrowing, concocts mind-bending artwork, beckoning listeners into a realm where sound and art meld in uncanny harmony. 

But that's not all! The digital copy unveils an additional original track, "Groove Drift," along with a wild array of remixes by Henry Greenleaf, Frankfurt Bass, and Dogpatrol. 

"Genetic Memory" isn't just music; it's a transcendent odyssey blending the past, present, and the surreal future, with a digital twist that will leave you questioning the boundaries of sonic exploration.

Artist: @kalocain / @dogpatrolinaction
Label: @electric_shapes
Release: February 9, 2024 
Buy: https://electricshapes.bandcamp.com/album/genetic-memory

Genetic Memory

PREMIERE: Kalocain — Groove Drift (Dogpatrol Remix) (Electric Shapes, 2024)

"Under the unusual casing of the Schönfeld album are many small cogwheels, whirring drive belts, elastic support straps and clattering cylinder heads that want to push the experimental device towards the dance floor and succeed in doing so. 
An ant city with a functioning infrastructure from whose towers the trumpet riffs, professionally played by the master himself, resound. 
The stubborn otherness with the artist's masticating signature is what secures the album a temporary place on my Mp3 player." – Sandrow M. (Uncanny Valley)

Artist: Schönfeld / @tromboneschoenfeld	
Album: "Interconnected Lip Vibes"
Label: Kontrapunkt / @kontrapunktsound	
Release date: 1st March 2024
Format:  tape & digital
Stream/buy: https://kontrapunktsound.bandcamp.com/album/interconnected-lip-vibes

PREMIERE: Schönfeld — It's Just The Time (Kontrapunkt, 2024)

Following acclaimed underground releases on labels like Schacke’s imprint Moral Defeat, Katharsis and Perfect Aesthetics, Danish electronic musician Sortlegeme (the solo moniker of Jeppe Dalsgaard Andersen) returns with his most spellbinding work to date. “They Are Many” is an album of sprawling textures that like music in its most intuitive state captures the essence of the indescribable.

Built from polyrhythmic synth lines that surge towards sensory overload, “They Are Many” is equally full of subtle layers that emerge delicately from the foundations. In this ever-evolving sonic landscape, one senses the earthly, deliberate movements of tectonic plates colliding before settling into yet another million years of relentless grind. It's a soundscape that teeters on the edge of a total breaking point: a beautifully ominous foreshadowing of collapse.

Andersen reflects: “I was playing Starcraft at the time I made this music, and I think the Zerg was an inspiration and model for this kind of life. I was thinking about creeping and crawling things. The
album reflects on the world humans might leave behind in our self-destruction and how opportunistic species might thrive in our absence, like weeds sprouting from the ashes of a forest fire. I was always big on post-rock, and this setup allowed me to do big buildups in that style.”

With “They Are Many,” Andersen fully embraces a departure from any rhythmic constraints in his music, allowing for expansive exploration throughout the album. While hope – or what is left of it –
might seem sparse in the album's 45-minute journey, the music is punctuated by beautiful, voice-like melodies that are eventually overwhelmed by a noisy climax, leading to a profound numbness. The sensation is akin to synthesizers forging their way towards the void.

Andersen: “We as humans are often consumed by our knowledge, ethics, and complex systems, but sometimes it's important to remember that life's origin is pure survival. Our present culture is overly intellectual, and I find myself drawn to the instinctive, opportunistic aspects of life, much like a hive of smaller organisms operates, without conscious thought. We tend to view everything from our individualistic, single-body perspective, forgetting that the world's very essence is multiplicity.”

Artist: @sortlegeme
Pre-order/order: https://srtrecs.bandcamp.com/album/they-are-many

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PREMIERE: Sortlegeme — Drowning In The Swamp (Barkhausen, 2024)

Analog Concept's SCENA ACID series enters its 3rd chapter, this time with Suseki presents '303 Variations' EP. True to the title and label aesthetic, these 4 tracks are full of fun personality and intricate, detailed production resulting in a seamless yet dynamic integration of techno based style.

Energetic, thoughtful, yet otherworldly & relentless perfection for the senses and dancefloor - within each track adventure, you'll be delighted with sonic travels through layered atmospheres of lysergic techno funk, progressive trance, electro, new beat, industrial vibes and more;

Suseki presents '303 Variations', … the confident acid with purpose that pushes the boundaries of your speakers and your imagination.

PREMIERE: Suseki — Present Priboys - Consciousness Is God (Scena Acid, 2024)

"In 2020, I came up with the idea to record an album, the concept of which revolves around immersion in various genres (trip-hop, post-punk, ambient, synthwave, trance), as well as blending genres within tracks, giving them different "rooms" or spaces. I was searching for something new, to see how I could feel in different roles. I started making the album quite slowly and often encountered a lack of resources (instruments, studio time, etc.).

I also had a dislike for vocals and little experience in experimenting with singing. A characteristic feature of the album is its occasionally dark, melancholic, mystical sound, immersing listeners into a space of alienation, akin to silence. Nothing is heard, nothing is seen, the fear of silence. It's as if that fear flickers here too.

In March 2022, I was forced to move and couldn't finish "Silencio." I had to try to work on what remained on the disks and introduce something new. Through obstacles and a series of failures, I managed to complete the album. I am silent no more!" ~  Werfol

Artist: @werfol
Purchase: https://werfol1.bandcamp.com/album/silencio
Released: March 1, 2024

PREMIERE: Werfol — Noir (Self-released, 2024)

Nørus & Dj Whipr Snipr team up for Gravitational Attraction on Nerang Recordings. The duo air their Second collaborative EP With flavours from breaks, electro, techno and beyond.

Title: Invisible Commission
Artist: Nørus & DJ Whipr Snipr / @djwhiprsnipr 
EP Title: Gravitational Attraction
Label: Nerang Records
Release Date: March 8th, 2024
Buy: https://nerangrecordings4211.bandcamp.com/album/nrng015-n-rus-dj-whipr-snipr-gravitational-attraction

Gravitational Attraction

PREMIERE: Nørus & DJ Whipr Snipr — Invisible Commission (Nerang Records, 2024)

"Couple of my demos from summer '23 that somehow ended up from the folder 'untitled' to the folder 'complete.' Featuring cracked VSTs, YouTube rips, samples from cheap 90s CDs, and a lot of sarcasm plus sincerity at the same time. It's definitely 'name your price' tag music, but it's nicely mixed with additional help from Cnstruct, mastered by simply the best, Lopazz, and comes with lovely design by Mollakaev. Feel free to support! And remember to always stay hydrated." ~ Zhilin

Artist: @andrei-zhilin
Title: Stars&
Purchase: https://zhilin.bandcamp.com/album/stars
Released: 13 March 2024

PREMIERE: Zhilin — Stars& (self-released, 2024)

Amarhac is an audiovisual artist from Mar del Plata, Argentina. In his productions, futuristic soundscapes are explored through synthetic and digital sounds. He also incorporates digital art and 3D animations to visually enhance the sound scenes.

Asplenium, his 2nd release on the label, moves through different ecosystems within a unified narrative. It is divided into parts, but the aim is to provide a single, uninterrupted listening experience without cuts. The EP incorporates IDM, broken rhythms, deconstructed and ambient tones, all layered under a highly defined palette of textures and sound design.

Artist: Amarhac / @amarhac
Label: @nodolabel
Release date: 24 April 2024

PREMIERE: Amarhac — Part 6 (Nodo, 2024)

Artist: metra.vestlud / @metra_vestlud
Album: Crystallllliiiine
Label: Фактура / @faktura_ural
Release: 15 April
Format: Cassette

Buy: https://faktura-ural.bandcamp.com/album/crystallllliiiine

PREMIERE: metra.vestlud — Maallachittebiird (Фактура, 2024)

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