Motorcycle Angel (Bedouin Records 2022)

E-Saggila / Exploited Body — Split
Format: 12"
Cat.No: PAN 125
Release Date: 25 November 2021
Purchase: https://p-a-n.bandcamp.com/merch/e-saggila-exploited-body-split

Fourth installment of PAN's split 12'' series, featuring Toronto-based producer E-Saggila (Northern Electronics, Hospital Productions) and Helsinki's experimentalist and Changeless label founder Exploited Body.

Limited to 300 copies, hand stamped, no repress.

The EP is mastered by Beau Thomas

A1 E-Saggila - Cluebeat (PAN 125)

aircode's dank, sensuous downtempo takes inspiration from the microcosm world of moss.

'Grounded' is out January 28th on Alien Jams.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3zxiy13

@aircode
@alien-jams

Grounded

Premiere: aircode - Krypin [Alien Jams]

3XL02 
Remastered tunes from bandcamp fridays and some comps.. 
Sleeve design by Nahyun Park. 
www.nahpark.xyz

"Clearing their cache of stray bullets, Exael returns with a gyring plunge into percussive wormholes and low-lit mood enhancers .The tracks are broadly cleft along schisms of dark/light and demonic/angelic, switching from restive propellers to more sublime sensations in a fine testament to their practice - making for prob our favourite Exael release thus far.

On the “darker” side, they commit the convulsive, fractious footwork pulses and warped tones of ‘Circle (Squishy Mix)’ in a sort of parallel to 33EMYBW’s insectoid rhythms and combustion systems, while ‘Ice That melts The Tips’ trades in rapid, ice-skating thizz and ‘Ghoul Search (Demonic Attachment Mix)’ fires up the junglist particle accelerator for a proper gauntlet of hyper techstep dynamics.

The contrast is epitomised by ’Composure’, arranging flinty breaks on a luscious waterbed of floating pads, before ‘Eidolon’ renders a sort of airborne dembow pressure in the vicinity of Ben Bondy & special guest dj’s xphresh works.  ‘L-theanine’ closes the session on a fine tread inside emo ambient styles and flurries on the same spectrum between DJ Lostboi and Teresa Winter, complete with a reverberating, half-buried vocal. 

All smoke & strobe doozies."

Circle (Squishy Mix)

https://emotionalwaves.bandcamp.com/album/emotional-waves-v-a-vol-3

In this compilation we build a beautiful constelation of sound stars, from soft deep glitched feelings to bassy subby reactions :p
credits
released June 15, 2022

Masters by Tomo20

Artwork by MXHZ
Drawings by Nita Chan

sigh/ Emotional Waves Vol.3

A particularly pungent whiff of Dale Cornish's 'Traditional Music of South London', imminent on vinyl and digital via Boomkat.com.  

Mastered by Rashad Becker. Photo by David Keen. Artwork by Philip Marshall.

Traditional Music of South London

Dale Cornish - Foxhole [RAVE040]

Taken from SBKT053: Zaliva-D - 孽儿谣 Misbegotten Ballads
Release date: 23rd November 2022

孽儿谣 Misbegotten Ballads is the long-awaited fourth studio album from Beijing based A/V duo Zaliva-D.

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The years are passed on to the elderly, and the elderly sing to the children. Unfamiliar and uncomfortable.

A song for several lifetimes, then blurred and reduced to a hum.

People who have forgotten where home is, believe in deceptive signposts.

Festive steps backwards, one step to the left, two steps to the right, singing without using the mouth, humming, not knowing who is who.

Faces ingress into kids, laughing and jumping, shouting and pissing. Darkness pours into midnight musume, floating in the water, two eyes, three eyes, not me, not me either.

The river waves all the way. Stars that lead the singing, towards the ripples of the bells, stumbling and untidy.

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Artwork by 周沫 MoZhou
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

孽儿谣 Misbegotten Ballads

Zaliva-D - 吊揉揉 Diao Rou Rou

Featured on the compilation From Ukraine, For Ukraine, out now on Standard Deviation.

Standard Deviation

Tarantel

Taken from SBKT055: TRANCE BAND - Entrancing
Release date: 3rd March 2023

'There's a Ghost in the Lantern
Accordion – Dis Fig
Guzheng – KIM KHAN

In a global landscape that increasingly prioritizes individuality over collaborative expression, TRANCE is a distinctive project. Initiated by Chinese multidisciplinary artist Tianzhuo Chen, best known for his work with Asian Dope Boys, TRANCE is as artistically amorphous as its constantly evolving line-up, that fluctuates as it shimmers across borders and time-zones. In 2019, the project was demoed in Beijing as part of a solo exhibition from Chen, a 12-hour durational performance that examined the altered states of living and dying and pondered the sounds, sensations, bodies and spaces that notion might suggest. On hold for three years due to COVID-19 restrictions, TRANCE was eventually premiered in Hamburg at the Kampnagel Theatre last year where it was presented as a surreal three-day ceremony. This time around the Trance Band was made up of Berlin-based noisemaker and vocalist Dis Fig, Indonesia's Gabber Modus Operandi, musician and MC KIM KHAN, guitarist and engineer Felix-Florian Tödtloff, and Vancouver-based percussionist and producer CITY. Chen directed the show, channeling each artist's unique energy into an alliance that highlighted their independent skills while pushing towards ideas that simply couldn't have been realized discretely.


"Entrancing" is a live documentation of that incendiary Hamburg session, powered by the performative fireworks that came from having the project halted for two years before it was allowed to burst into life once more. Just as with previous iterations of TRANCE, the space was terraformed into an alien landscape that allowed the collective to enact a carnivalesque display that was tightly controlled but creatively boundless. Musical u-turns were accompanied by monumental stage overhauls that reshaped a muddy, fog-filled outdoor riverscape into an arena, or a sweaty nightclub. This theatrical impact can't be visualized as clearly on the record, but musical cues do just enough heavy lifting to provide a tantalizing contour. When the alluring electro-acoustic plucks and resonant sustained string tones of 'There's a Ghost in the Lantern' cascade into cinematic drone metal on 'Ylva's Theme', it's impossible not to be drawn into the TRANCE narrative. Sonic stage lights flicker with uncommon intensity as the nebulous group rewrite their collective personal stories into stirring, synergistic poetry.


"Something changes!" KIM KHAN calls out on 'Soft and Black', cutting through warbling synths and itchy beatbox percussion. The track builds quickly, reaching a sizzling crescendo of buzzsaw noise and acidic electronics. It's a stylistic sea change that channels the group's kinetic energy into a rock show, and CITY picks up the message on 'Trance Genesis', adding rapid-fire drums to a barrage of guitar skronk. 'Shaolin Affliction' glues Trance Band's jagged artistic edges to a vintage metal template, gradually dissolving into throaty post-hardcore, while 'My Fortress' brings the show to a powerful conclusion with Dis Fig assuming the role of grunge balladeer, bellowing into the void over cacophonous live instrumentation. Unbound by musical and artistic conventions, TRANCE peers out from the basement, the gallery and the playhouse to forge an expression that's all of this and something new entirely. It's refreshing, witty, exhilarating and most of all, completely unpredictable.

Preorder

TRANCE BAND - There’s a Ghost in the Lantern

https://ishi-vu.bandcamp.com/album/planet-of-death
Digital Download & Audio CD in jewel case with print design by Jacob J. Wise.

@ishivu

Planet of Death

Touch of Cloth

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ishi vu – Touch of Cloth

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Marseille mentalists Brothers From Different Mothers (@BFDMRec) serve up a bowl of flaming hot badness from the serially strange @Maoupa-Mazzocchetti in the form of his next album, 'Uxy Dosing'.

Uxy Dosing

Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Sceptre Chases Away Shadows [Brothers From Different Mothers]

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@noodsradio 3-4pm BST every 2nd Friday of the month

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