Stockholm-based composer and musician Linus Hillborg has an interest in compositional techniques born out of limited computing power and sample memory. Residue is a collection of weird, darkened and solitary sounds derived from such practices, including soundtracks and ambiences from early bootleg games - heavy on FM-synthesis, repurposed samples and microtonality - as well as music of past presents and future pasts constructed in a similar vein.

Ksiesyc - Smieszki
Martin Galway - Title (Parallax)
Kanako Kakino - Floe (Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere)
Matt Seldon - Suburban Symphony (DreamWeb)
Paul Ruskay - Great Wastelands (Homeworld)
Minako Hamano - BSL Ambience (Metroid Fusion)
Gregory Alper - BGM 10 (Darkseed)
Steven O’Brien - The Wardrobe (Only If)
Zhèng Yi - Green Hill Zone (Somari)
Keiichi Suzuki/Hirokazu Tanaka - Deeper Into Ness’ Unconcious (MOTHER2 ギーグの逆襲)
Ksiezyc - Dychana
Aydin Esen - Induan
Ellen Meijers - Rupture Farms, extracted ambience (Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee)
Theodor Kentros - In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni
Kelly Bailey - Town, extracted ambience (Half-Life 2)
László Hortobágyi - Bhairavi
László Hortobágyi - The End
Shahin Souri - Discord
Kelly Bailey - Canal, extracted ambience (Half-Life 2)
Brenda El Rayes - Min dikt tillbaka
Kazunaka Yamane - Doppelganger (Double Dragon II)
Yuzo Kishiro - Tunnelway (Bare Knuckle III)
Haruhiko Souno - Onryou Senki, extracted audio (怨霊戦記)
Mathieu Serruys - Phosphorescent Landscapes
Sonja Tofik - The Earth Spirit
Linus Hillborg - Atlashamnen
Moonilena - Arasole Rain
Zurich 1916 - The Children’s Song
KABLAM - bryt
Keiichi Suzuki/Hirokazu Tanaka - Cave of the Past (MOTHER2 ギーグの逆襲)

Extracted sounds and music have their source game listed in parentheses.

Residue w/ Linus Hillborg - Radio Ma3azef

in meinen träumen

The Haunting 幽霊

German  newcomer  Ausschuss  debuts  on  Haunter  Records  with  a  6-track  offering,  throwing  in  elements  from  the  whole  spectrum  of  contemporary  experimental  music.  The  subtle  yet  intense  melodic  work,  put  in  a  place  of  dangerous  acoustic  creatures  (bit-crushed  drones,  metallic  clangs,  slow  hard  beats),  allows  him  to  explore  both  negative  and  positive  affections.  The  main  goal  is  dominance—or  rather,  positive  acceptance—of  melancholia,  using  harsh  frequencies  as  a  crucible  for  one’s  psyche,  teaching  how  to  stand  amidst  the  noise,  breathing  it,  accepting  it  as  nutrition.  It’s  not  a  matter  of  riffing  against  listeners,  but  of  accompanying  them  through  different  rooms,  different  states,  and  molding  them  according  to  their  will  and  sensibility.  Ausschuss’  use  of  space,  reverb  and  harmony  gives  solidity  to  the  sound,  creating  a  proper  environment  in  which  insight  and  growth  can  happen  freely.


All tracks written and produced by L. Nicholson
Additional Vocals by Stella Chung
Mixed by James Kelly and L. Nicholson
Mastered by Tapewave Mastering
Cover by Richard Frater
Design by Jack Kimberley
Original painting by Richard Bryant

For Mattis

Haunter Records 2018

Ausschuss - Yellow Sick Glow

Written & Produced by 111X.
Mastered by Noah Kin.
Artwork by Helen Korpak.

@111x

Envy

111X - To Regret (Closure)

We are glad to announce the first compilation of the label.

💊 INTRZ-D01 - "Manifèsto 2020"

MANIFÈSTO abj. [Manifestus]
Apparent, palpable, manifest, evident, plain: It collects tracks made by 27 different artists, committed into the italian's electronic music scene.
From ambient to techno, exploring downtempo, low-fi, electro and break-beat sides.
The main goal is to valorize and to reinforce the intersections between us and other artists and collectives that happened during time, getting our voices together and showing a cry for hope and change ❤️

It will be distributed worldwide by Beatrising Distribution and will be available on: #iTunes, #Spotify, #Beatport, #AmazonMusic, #GooglePlay, #Deezer, #AppleMusic, #AWA, #PrimeMusic, #Soundcloud, #Tidal, #Traxsource, #Xiami, #Napster, #TikTok, #Beatsource, #Tesla and more.

dj rrrr -  Tool For Lentio Viulentio Dj

Underneath the stark white light of the laboratory lamps, the mysterious organism writhed and twisted into obtuse and indistinct shapes. Everybody gathered round in awe as it began to sprout new features, strange abnormalities that grew and lengthened before their eyes. What it would morph into, nobody knew, but curiosity kept them firmly fixed on this unspecified life form. 

The next transmission from Polish label Pointless Geometry comes courtesy of percussionist and leading force in Polish experimental music Qba Janicki, and Belgian sound sculptor and Knives alumni Obsequies. Titled Autolysis, the release blends various production techniques, from sound sculpting to processed percussion and digital manipulation, recorded through improvisation before being fully formed into an album. Described by both parties as an "electro-acoustic sound organism, which consumes its own flesh for the purpose of self-regeneration", the release explores a new world of sonics that are built, morphed and layered in the most unpredictable ways.

PREMIERE: Qba Janicki and Obsequies - Desintegration [Pointless Geometry]

DEAP - Musik I En Tid

"For 0" is a radio show by UNITEDSTATESOF where the most outward fringes of underground art are welcomed and brought together to create two hours of genderless musical submission.

@quanticaonline
radioquantica.com

"for 0" #1 | Rádio Quântica

NorthXport is a 30 minute mixtape with tracks made by Ezra V and April Bourne. 
The mixtape is available on cassette and digital.
All the tracks are available on bandcamp.

Artists:
@ezra_v
@4prilb0urn3

Artwork;
Jorien Vonk

Tracklist:
01. April Bourne - Polka Dot Plant
02. Ezra V - Static Route
03. April Bourne - All System Go
04. April Bourne - Strigidae
05. April Bourne - Buitenberg
06. Ezra V - Graintronics
07. Ezra V - Rufflowers 
08. April Bourne - Zip Line Combo
09. Ezra V - Allout
10. Ezra V - Park Peaks
11. Ezra V - Antenna Joy
12. April Bourne - Back and Forth

NorthXport

April Bourne & Ezra V - northXport (clips)

SYNOPSIS
As a child you dreamt nightly of forest and immortals: tribes of experimental bears and wolves. You recorded secrets shouted by cicadas, who first heard them whispered from roots of the great central tree. In this hypogeal gossip, sky dwellers were the evil ambitious gods. You were told, “It’s the underworld, deep below the soil, that’s where you are loved”.
You’d wake with sleep sand in your eyes and disbelieve the elves and their paintings. You’d even find the rumours from the tree a little slanted. But that one dream, with the boiling hand and ladybug ice cubes, the face buried in the funeral garden—that, you never forgot. When it proved a kind of premonition, you became a shadow self.
Your thoughts became a monoculture, writing the same fantasy on repeat. Over and over again your fiction coddled the creatures who once lived in your dreams, until the numbness spread and they could no longer hold a lute, let alone fend off pests.

Story & Voice by Claire Morse
Music by Levan Shanidze

read story: https://blueyogurt.medium.com/funeral-garden-claire-morse-b0b8bc87db3a

TearZ Behind Sunglasses

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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.

Alongside this we offer musings on film, books, life, and art, generating some context and controversy as an antidote to the reheated PR that clogs up the internet. Our office is fuelled by Tunnock’s Bars, cat memes, hangovers and a ridiculous, never ending love for our culture.

We're always interested in getting new writers on board – feel free to get in touch if you’ve got a story to tell.

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