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Olan Monk - Auto Life
Format: Digital (EP)
Cat. No: CANVAS011
Release Date: 1st October 2021

Watch the video for 'Fameless': https://youtu.be/-xndTe8uWrc

Pre-order Auto Life (EP): canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/auto-life

‘A farewell to idolatry, where culture is absorbed into nature, like a body back into the fertile soil. Written as a 27 club survivor, lamenting the young dead, no longer young and celebrating the spectral presence of iconised peers. Reflexive and self-aware of the problem of over-identifying with the fictional performance of the solo act in various guises or archetypes: the rockstar or trapstar. Auto Life is a practical attempt at a weird re-hybridisation of otherwise seemingly divergent strands of popular music, conflating stylisations usually segregated by genre.

Auto Life was written as a collection of songs for eventual live performance. Recording music is absurd—an act in which you initially perform to no-one. The inclusion of a sample of crowd noise in ‘Fameless’ is the music studio equivalent of a laugh track being added to the soundtrack of a sitcom—unable to give up on disappearing horizons completely and imagining another context for performance in which an actual audience beyond the performer is present.

Autotune Punk—as a music of antagonism that resists from within, bending the lanes of a machine that flattens out the vocal performance to a given scale. I can still express feeling—even angst—but the machine doesn’t care. Refusing its own funeral, emulating the dead—it’s a Rock simulacrum. A renewably performed myth. I broke the spell. I just heard it as it was. The sacred framing of presence makes the pop idol always-already-dead by turning them into a symbol and an image—undead, un-ageing and endlessly reproducible within a commercialist visual culture.

The music which I would grow up listening to would later become a tool towards first facing, maybe later dismantling—or at least bending—the structures in which music was still being written, performed and recorded into existence. My emulation of and interest in pop—and popular—music is not in irony. I love this music—yet I question the context and conditions through which it has come to exist and continues to change shape. Opening up the horizon of pop to a new kind of strangeness, where the familiarity of the pop song disappears into blissful distortions and mixed signifiers towards a world in-between, otherwise unknown’.

— @olanmonk

Written, performed and recorded by Olan Monk

‘Bruised Fruit’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City, additional production and vocals written and performed by Elvin Brandhi
‘Burnout’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City

Tracks 01–07 mastered by Ali Najafi
Tracks 08 and 09 mastered by Jam City

Artwork by Ewa Awe

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Auto Life

Olan Monk - Fameless

" She is black" clips of the son

"She Is Black" eclipse of the son

IVVVO - Good, Bad, Baby, Horny 
A1 - Good, Bad, Baby, Horny
A2 - Tongue Kiss Crying 
B1 - Self Rape
B2 - I Fucked it Up
https://boomkat.com/products/good-bad-baby-horny

HALC008
Available 14 February 2017 on 12" Vinyl and Digital
Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy
Artwork by Masha Popova & Lane Stewart for Halcyon Veil

IVVVO -  Good, Bad, Baby, Horny (HALC008)

Alternate unmastered remix for @epsilove
check out her EP and the remix we did with @Lastrackqlf 
https://soundcloud.com/dkmntl/dkmntl071-epsilove-psychic-venom

Epsilove - Sea Snakes (Hajj's schmirred pop version)

Robert Miles - Children (Xtreme onction edit)

The closing track on "Expand," the forthcoming compilation to be released by Danish record label @petrola-80.

"Melancholic ambient, bangers for your woozy late night DJ set, mind-bending sonic experimentation and forward-facing alternative pop cuts - Petrola 80 lay it all down for you on March 20th 2020."

Tracklist:
Yangze - Hold Your Horses
Yearling - Resortplex Guide
Basic House - Sweater Shop
Gel - Antiquit
KhalilH20P - 100 Tears 02:59	
Piag3t - Turn Out Tense 03:09	
Rasmus Juncker - Sauna
Francesca Burattelli - Condition
Lighyer - Awakpo
SATNAV - Floe Wichu
jjjacob - Solitary Defeat

Artwork: Laurits Hanak
Master: Valdemar Kragelund
Format: Cassette, digital and T-shirt

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PREMIERE: jjjacob - Solitary Defeat [PET-007]

Undivided, unified, the overwhelming sense of oneness. Feeling and experiencing this was her strongest desire since the departure, a deep longing. Walking back to base, she knew this had been obtained, it was clear and ran through her like water. Though she did not feel complete, she did not feel intergrated or a part of the whole, as it were. The collective 'one' disected, distributed and proliferated without her. Did she feel spaciousness or emptiness?

The next release on Lyon-based label BFDM is a raw palette of sonics created by Dawn head honcho and visual artist, Hajj. Opening track 'My Love Is Rotten To The Core' floats in and thunders out; delicate piano and textural delays drift upon cavernous low end. The track pushes and pulls and creates space for reflection, or even just a temporary moment to bask in...

PREMIERE: Hajj - My Love Is Rotten To The Core [Brothers From Different Mothers]

https://luttolento.bandcamp.com/album/legendo

BANDCAMP

HORNED HEART FEAT. KATARZYNA KARPOWICZ

(‾̴̴͡͡▿•‾̴̴͡͡ʃƪ) 30 min live/dj set for Nice Setting on Skylab radio- chopped up loops.,60% my own productions & loops & cut up samples
12.2020

oh, out of time mix

ccontrary pits angular club structures against yearning woodwind on Mun Sing's Illegal Data imprint.

'Illegal Data Compilation #2' is out February 26th.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2ZpwAQR

@ccntrr
@illegaldata

Premiere: ccontrary - Gasp [Illegal Data]

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With our core team immersed in all aspects of dance music, we publish news, articles, and interviews covering the greatest in innovative, underground culture from across the globe. We offer regular, exclusive music and mixtapes from our favourite artists, and publish features shining a light on everything from the freshest new artists to the untold tales from rave history.

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