Gusła (Human Rites) EP

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From the upcoming release "Shifting" (04/06/2021)

With its minimal and rhythm focused atmospheres, Shifting takes on a clinical and experimental approach to the techniques of rhythmic phasing and shifting. On a foundation of straight forward techno-ish grooves, identical patterns are superimposed and displaced to create self-similar versions of themselves and new, ever changing rhythmic combinations. A hypnotic, dance-focused release that uses rhythm as a ritualistic instrument.

Shift II

Out July 30, pre-order it here: https://infinitemachine.bandcamp.com/album/im092-bonebrokk-the-astral-catalyst

A new signee to @infinite-machine, @bonebrokk’s 'The Astral Catalyst' EP marks his first official release for the Athens-based producer outside of his @trialanderrorsound imprint. Influenced by late capitalism and sci-fi dystopias, across two productions Bonebrokk deftly showcases his ‘ExoPunk’ sound; a retrofuturist mix of broken beats from the continuum blended with meticulous, future-facing sound design. 

Long-standing IM alumni @galtier as well as techno giant Surgeon round off the release with two blistering remixes of Bonebrokk’s originals. Galtier reworks 'Hyperparadox' by stripping back some of the layers of samples but ramping up the tension with the elements he leaves in the mix.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Bonebrokk 'Hyperparadox' (Galtier Remix)

Buy__ https://insurgentes-co.bandcamp.com/album/el-david-muerte

Mastering__ Imaabs
Artwork__ Julián Guzmán 
Painting__ Matías Solar
Concept__ Tomás Urquieta | Division84

All nrg programmed by Tomás Urquieta between Santiago de Chile y la CDMX, 2020 — 2021 | www.insurgentes.co 

Tomás Urquieta is back home. Today, the New York-based Chilean producer returns to Insurgentes to present: 'El David Muerte', his second studio album. This time, eight cuts are exploring meaninglessness moments, cigarette haze and night, pure serial mistakes. This full-length is a eulogy to failed acts. Reflections and loops sometimes delirious, in a sort of threshold of affective links and connections towards all the no-mind states which emerge daily, anonymous, as a small-time exercise that blur with the same speed in which one wanders down the street. This is a journey into elusive and distracted thoughts, both yours and Tomás'ones. They are memories of past and future loves, political ideas that get lost among the horrible advertising, in a graffiti or at the moment you look down to send a useless text message.

Tomás indelible sound print, where nostalgia collides with incisive percussion and soaring sound design, are creative acts that culminate as anonymous milestones of this wandering. Perhaps, more than an album, this release is a set of fragments, frugal chronicles, small stories that enhance and consolidate Tomás Urquieta´s coherence and consistency in recent years.

Tomás Urquieta — Poshlost — INS 13

Taken from EP smog - STUXXXXX [DMS046]

Out on april 22nd, 2022
Cassette + Digital
Order : https://tripalium.bandcamp.com/album/dms046-smog-stuxxxxx

Co-founder of the Berlin-based collective oqko, Paris native smog focuses on the phenomenon of experimentation using electroacoustic methods combined with digital and analogue processing. His sound is rooted in techno, industrial, jungle and ambient. 
After an EP on Failed Units, he joins Tripalium Corp with a six tracks EP combining ethereal atmospheres, distorted metallic noise and flittering overtones : from apocalyptic landscapes to mindfuck breakcore, here is a fantastic cocktail for the weirdos !

TRACKLIST :
A1. P/I - 1:12
A2. T/I - 4:21
A3. T/II - 5:23
B1. T/III - 4:47
B2. T/IV - 5:50
B3. T/V - 7:06

Mastered by 4bstr4ck3r
Artwork by smog
[TRIPALIUM CORP] - Disturbed Mutant Series 046

Order

smog - T/I [Disturbed Mutant Series 046]

Everyday Battle 4 the SOUL

Organized Sound

Ismael - No 39

C2. J-ZBEL - Sebulba (Feat SIMO CELL)

Taken from the Termina EP // Out May 17th on R&S Records
smarturl.it/termina // @yaksound

Buy the EP here

Yak - Skooma

"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

***

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)

Brooklyn-based DJ and producer, Ayesha is set to release her debut EP, 'Natural Phenomena' on local label Kindergarten Records (founded by Ma Sha) later this week. Tapping into her Indian heritage for the wide-scoping four-track release, evoking the country's lush environments and sounds. As she puts it, “this is cultural memory channeled into universal club format.”

In Ayesha’s words, Natural Phenomena is “an undulating love letter to nature and the dancefloor, [a] space where [her] biophilia collides with her yearning for the dancefloor."

The aptly-titled track 'The Club is a Sea' draws from aquatic soundscapes, leaving you feeling like you're immersed in soft waves, floating under the warm summer sun. Bringing it back to the club environment, the track is filled with driving percussions, polyrhythmic elements, and hypnotic, echoing vocals. 

Pre-order 'Natural Phenomena' here: https://kindergartenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/natural-phenomena

@kindergartenrecords
@masha-ny
@aye5ha

Natural Phenomena

Premiere: Ayesha - The Club is a Sea

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".

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]

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.

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

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