Taken from SBKT048: 33EMYBW & Gooooose - Trans-Aeon Express

Artwork: Weirdcore
Design: Luke Griffiths
Mastering: Raphael Valensi
Release Date: 25th March 2022

In late 2020, in the midst of lock downs and worldwide uncertainty, London based visual artist Weirdcore presented his first solo exhibition, ‘Orient Flux’, at SKP-S in Beijing, supported by Kennedy London. Developed and produced remotely due to travel restrictions, the exhibition spanned 7 interconnecting audio-visual installations forming a ‘train station from the future’, with music and sound design by 33EMYBW and Gooooose. Initially arriving at the ‘Stellar Lounge’, passengers traversed through the ‘Oblique’ security checks, decompress and adjust their bodies for travel in the ‘Microcosmic’ zone, and pass through the ‘Infinity Gates’ and ‘Dimensional Horizon’ to finally board the ‘Trans-Aeon Express’, an illusory bullet train, to embark on a spatio-temporal journey through time.

‘Trans-Aeon Express’ by 33EMYBW and Gooooose is a continuation of this project, with music and sound design from the exhibition, as well as new tracks inspired by and sampling elements/ambience from the various installations. Released on a limited-edition LP, as well as digitally, the album features new artwork by Weirdcore, updating and evolving the original Orient Flux emblem, with graphic design and layout by Luke Griffiths.

Special thanks to Kennedy London and SKP-S Beijing.

Trans-Aeon Express

33EMYBW - Microcosmic

Italian dudes from Pho Bho Records to display another release from co-founder Matteo Coffetti soon! With his 'Safe Crash' EP, the Torino based artist invites on the B-Side some fellow producers to completely wreck and re-interpret his four tracks appearing on A-Side.
For our premiere, Pampsychia's Reptilian Expo drops the perfect Sci-Fi dancefloor killer. Made of head-banging halftime rhythms, otherworldly sound design, fantasized Egyptian grime.
At last, they were right, Cleopatra came from space!

Cassette and digits available on May 6: https://phobhorecords.bandcamp.com/album/safe-crash

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Safe Crash

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Mark Fell & Gábor Lázár

'The Neurobiology of Moral Decision Making'

Advanced warehouse music classic
2015/2022

Repress with new artwork. 300 clear 2LP
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The Neurobiology of Moral Decision Making

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Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - STROBE.RIP
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 139
Release Date: 16 June 2023
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/STROBE.RIP

Amnesia Scanner’s third full-length album titled STROBE.RIP is a collaboration with the artist and musician Freeka Tet, who joins the album and associated live performances as a vocalist and creative collaborator.

Released by PAN records, STROBE.RIP is part of a broader series of live performances, installations, videos and physical products created by the group.

Since its inception in 2014, Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala have continued to evolve and redefine Amnesia Scanner through experimentation across online and IRL realms. This album brings them a step closer to the latter.

With French-born, New York City-based Freeka Tet on board, STROBE.RIP acquires a new array of influences that draw from the multidisciplinary artist’s hacker mindset, shaping the sound into new forms. As a programmer and technologist, Freeka Tet’s work straddles commerce and art, combining intuitive and performative modes of expression with emergent technology and creative coding. Much like Amnesia Scanner, Tet draws from online vernacular and techno-magic to create satirical, uncanny work – artificially augmented, and highly engineered sounds, textures, images and ideas that translate memes and code into a more human and affective language.

Haimala and Kalliala say, “Amnesia Scanner is now living in the world it has built,” signaling a sincere commitment to the act. The human dimension in STROBE.RIP is chaotic: a reverse hero’s journey that merges deep-fried baroque with the quasi-angelic into a psychotic megamix of tropes, lyrics, genres, and sonic palettes that are both disorienting and deeply resonant.

The opening track Tongue Demons perfectly summarizes this, with blaring synth stabs and frenetic drum patterns paving the way for a broken melody arranged through a digital brass chord progression. Giggle and Bounds follow right after: two outstanding pieces of introspection signaling the melodic turn of the album, with the latter almost posing as a weirdo 2-step ballad filled with deep pads and pitched-up and down vocals.

The 160bpm, 4-to-4 pulsing kicks of Ledge and the palm-muted chords of Disperse serve as a perfect build-up to Ride, right in the middle of the tracklist: a summer hit from hell, a crooked saxophone-graced tune carried by a crusty, Balearic acoustic arpeggio. The alt acoustics continue with Damon, or at least before the track turns from Nirvana’s Unplugged to Slayer’s double kick drum pedals and becomes thrashtronica with Tet on screamo duties.

Things get softer with Clown, specifically in the chanted refrain, and even more aetherial in the almost trip-hop timbres of abandoned.club, where chopped-and-screwed vocals sing “I lost myself in the club.” Scorpions, Bats & Spiders is the abstract gem declaring the death of Deconstructed Club Music—a genre created by journalists and pioneered by the duo, among others. The words “deconstructed,” “club,” and “panel discussion” are spelled out in a vortex throughout the track as if they were to be carved on the genre’s imaginary gravestone. Closing the album, the saw bass of Cat serves Euro-electro à la Benny Benassi’s Satisfaction, while the doomed outro Merge closes the album in a triumphant aggregation of noise and pixelated drums that render the image of a crust-punk ensemble.

Written by Amnesia Scanner
Produced by Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet
Mastered by Enyang Urbiks

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - Ledge (PAN 139)

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Next level digital tribalism from roving Punk ethno-musicologist and label boss of the archival re-issue label petPets' tapes , Julien Hairon. After spending the past 6 years recording soundscapes and traditional musicians across Asia, Oceania and Africa, he moved to Tanzania in 2017. Inspired by the sounds he heard around him and field recordings he made over the past couple of years during his stay their, Judgitzu was born. Umeme Kelele represents his debut release and his first foray into electronic music production.

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Silver-plated tracks that will make you feel like a slowly emerging cobra snake - courtesy of PA based artist Mall Prowler. DL available at buy link.

Mall Prowler - Theater Creep / Strange Drink

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The second EP on the Berlin-based @OXYORANGE label is an comes from Milan's @rapala700 called 'BAROTRAUMA', backed with remixes from @iamquestionmarc, @kuthijin + @voronhil, and @aironkolarow.

OXYORANGE founder Airon Kolarow's remix of 'depTH' closes out the record. He transforms the sinister and abrasive original with sounds that hit upon atmospheric bliss while still retaining a gritty edge.

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Premiere: Rapala700 'depTH' (Airon Kolarow Remix)

Following guest shows on NTS and Radio Bonita, Philadelphia based artist and producer Kat Nzingha joins TT to present their debut EP, Angeltribe.

Angeltribe is available via TT from 8th October.

www.katnzingha.com
soundcloud.com/katnzingha
Mixing and mastering - Kat Nzingha
Artwork - Josh Crumpler

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Kat Nzingha - Denial

Amongst the layers of sheets, she buried her head deep into the folds, hiding away from the world. Her bed had become an unhealthy sanctuary; a place for eating, sleeping and working. The outside filled her with dread, the thought of interaction with another forcing her chest to tighten and her breath to shorten. She willed the tears back into her ears, afraid to show how defeated she'd become, but she needed to accept the help that she'd spent so long ignoring.

Greek artist Penelope's Fiancé follows a string of tape releases on the likes of Clan Destine Records and Live Adult Entertainment, with a vinyl debut on Hypermedium. The Cutting Edge Of A Knife fuses the sounds he's become known for across his previous releases; a fuzzy blend of post-industrial, lo-fi and techno, and merges frantic percussion with ghostly, eerie atmospheres and thunderous bass lines.  

Penelope’s Fiancé 'The Cutting Edge Of The Knife’ will be followed on Hypermedium by Yara 'Eyeless / Loss' EP, out December 11th & Ice_Eyes ‘Vicious Circles’ due out February 19th.

The Cutting Edge Of The Knife

PREMIERE: Penelope's Fiancé - Anxiety [Hypermedium]

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PREMIERE: Penelope's Fiancé - Anxiety [Hypermedium]

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