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London-based musician @ikavapii is up next on @EarlyReflex with 'EPOS Digitale', a three-track EP that builds on the sonic concepts introduced to us throughout 2020's two-part album 'Post Capitalist Hyperwars', released through Pii's co-founded label Too Much Information.

EPOS Digital

Ikävä Pii - the end of the end of History [Early Reflex]

In June 2021, an unmarked package arrived at the Psychic Liberation headquarters. The small box, which had no return address, contained three items: a thumb drive, a printed message from a notes app, and a small satchel of what seemed to be carambola seeds. The note reads: “We were raised in the ashes of time. This is a philosophy of live. Made while sailing the seas of chaos on our humble houseboat, a place you’ll come to know. But do not seek us out. We are gone.”


Unwilling to risk a computer virus, or humor what was maybe a prank, the thumb drive sat on a shelf for a number of weeks. Eventually, label head Nick Klein decided to take it to the Royal Library of the Netherlands and open its contents on a computer there, just in case.


The thumb drive was titled jd swift. It’s unclear whether this is the artist’s name, the title of the album, or both. The recording opens with an alien spaghetti western: a chopped voice and wobbly single note, signaling that this is a strange place. The percussion is directionless at first, but warbled samples, including the nostalgic clink of getting a coin in Donkey Kong, give way to mutant structure.


Distorted twinkles, dubby hats, and big paranoid kicks occasionally swirl into lo-fi hurricanes, but mostly this music resides in the calm but weirdly charged eye of the storm.


Though little can be assumed about the context of these sonic creations, they seem to be the result of extended jams. The toolbox includes broken arpeggiations and fuzzed bells, air horns and watery pannings. This is twisted globalism, a nexus of serenity and catastrophe, a series of unrecognizable landscapes that read like field recordings though they are intentional creations. The inscrutability of their delivery captures perfectly the sense that artists are no longer individuals or collectives—they are circuits of larger machinery.


Meandering between sounds, these sui generis recordings don’t quite fit the categories of contemporary electronic music. Junk ambient, marginal acid… it’s a struggle to appropriately describe the sounds. Part of this difficulty comes from the artist’s (or artists’) purposefully self-effacing strategy, a circumventing of the systems that edify and circulate art based on identity, practice, and vision. Indeed, this is one of the reasons PL was strangely attracted to these recordings in the first place.


All eight of the individual pieces that make up jd swift are untitled, but are labelled with the time at which they start in the recording. The first track is titled 0:00. Does this hint at new beginnings, or a stance against time itself? If you find yourself on a coast, keep an eye out for a houseboat. Its occupants may know the answer. 
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releases October 7, 2021

Mastered by Glyn Maier

Graphic Design and Art by Germán Enrique Caceres Cueto

Psychic Liberation, in operation since 2018, is an experimental music label started in Brooklyn, New York, currently based in Berlin, Germany.

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@matt-from-if-only took the reins for September's @noodsradio show, bringing ambient, euphoria, hi-def more from the If-Only archives. 

Listen back to hear new bits from STROOM, oxhy, Hyperdub, SVBKVLT, Chinabot, Buttechno, Hakuna Kulala and more.

Tracklist:

Sofie Birch & Johan Carøe - Calibrating Sense
oxhy - and we try
yab_ yvanko - Fanes
DJ Meddle - Skin (feat. Lou____iza)
aya - Emley lights us moor (feat. Iceboy Violet)
:3LON X Scratchclart - Flex
Jonnnah & Salma Rosa - Every Clouds Has A Silver Lining
Prettybwoy - Destination (feat. lIlI)
KAVARI - Tusk
solatura - Compression
Oyisse - Skunk
Hypna - DRM//BLL (Blacksea Não Maya Remix)
Buttechno - Big D Acid
Pilgrim Raid - Cardboard Creek
HAJJ - Rage Of Empire
Bonaventure - Feelings Matter
Synalegg - Computer Series 01
Nueen - Syn
oxhy - latest nights

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Cuban Chamber of Commerce - 15 Septembre 2021

Décalé presents the Marseille-based DJ Lugal Lanbada. In between traditional and folkloric, Lanbada explores music of the world and discloses points of convergence among civilizations by associating ancient and modern inspirations. 

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Premiere release on Jon K @jon_k_mcr & Elle Andrews’ @SOUVENIRUK new label, MAL Recordings

This is the solo vinyl debut by Berlin-based hard drum mutant, Ausschuss. @Ausschuss 'Proper dancefloor screwballs; decimating UKG, dembow and industrial dancehall styles in a playfully mutable volley of devilish club ballistics'

• Mastering by Nick Sinna at Hiddensounds.  Ltd edition of 300 
• Sleeves hand screened by Yas at Small Press. Design by Jon K.

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@realitycheck-4 fits into this new generation of DJs and producers of a hybrid kind of music, his influences drawing from a large spectrum of electronic music and beyond. The quest of a unique mix of sounds, textures and rhythms constitutes the essence of his work as a DJ.

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Frenzied, high-octane breakbeat ordnance from Sorry Records debutant Figur.

'Respawn in 36​.​.​.' is out March 4th on Sorry Records.

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