PAN mainstay M.E.S.H. dons a new alias, evolving Diana Azzuz's original into a menacing, swaggering electro rhythm.

'Anastrophe' is out July 20th on Standard Deviation.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3hyNhmT

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@dianaazzuz
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Anastrophe

Premiere: Diana Azzuz - Recursive Gesture (eea Remix) [Standard Deviation]

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XENIA REAPER – Plain

Tracklist:
01 DREH03
02 GEEEG
03 Stereo Dipole
04 HTZEE M
05 OMNNM1
06 CONTINUATION SHAPE

All profits to be donated to the APPX:Fund

Written & Produced by @user-951049725-782254964
Mastered by @ikezwanikken
Digital art by @amos-turner

Released by:
APPX: (Appendix.files) subsidiary of INDEX:Records

Contact:
indexrecords@cyborgorgy.com

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digis & lathes

APPX:09 – XENIA REAPER – Plain (previews)

>< CRUDE Premiere ><

Artist: Beatrice
Title: Brighton
Label​: ~surf
Release date: 18th Jan 2023

>> https://surf.bandcamp.com/album/proximity

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@wesurf

CRUDE Premiere: Beatrice - Brighton

https://cocktailpartyeffectmusic.bandcamp.com/album/fixing-the-roof-ep

Cocktail Party Effect starts 2023 with his debut release on Nervous Horizon: ‘Fixing The Roof EP’.

The South London via Berlin artist known for his jaw dropping releases on Tectonic Recordings delivers 5 solid cuts all with their unique style. Made with a bunch of battered vintage hardware: in particular 90s samplers, synths, filters and distortion units paired with the latest computer software, this project really pushes the sound palette beyond conventional club music.

The opening track Fixing The Roof feels like a classic Nervous Horizon track from the time the label first started gaining traction. Safety Button is the bass heavy - dance floor pounder of the lot, a must in every set! 767 enters the “jungle experimentation” realm reminiscent of early Paradox (DnB producer Dev Pandya). Gecko Slide & The Police Took My Garden Away present copious amounts of analog distortion and explosive drum patterns that are really at the heart of the Cocktail Party Effect modus operandi.

Cocktail Party Effect - Safety Button

incredibly honored to have been invited to contribute a piece of music for the new @companionmelb compilation.

this one is called ‘metanoia’ which essentially means the change in one’s life after a profound mystical experience. my intention with the music is for those moments of depth where your heart and mind have been opened and you feel raw and vulnerable and the music is just holding you there, reassuring that you’re experience is valid and you are seen by the universe, by the earth and by your fellow humans.

thanks to @pjenne and @milluu for including me in this amazing body of work and to all the other artists involved.

bless,
-r

metanoia

@despina - Fire from Heat
Label: Infinite Machine
CAT#: IM105
Format: Digital
Release: October 20th, 2023

Despina was trying to write a follow-up to their 2022 record ‘Gravity Games’ on Kindergarten Records as they fell into a deep depression, during a harsh New York winter and against a backdrop of escalating legislative attacks on trans people in the USA. In the struggle to express themselves through music while maintaining their usual exuberant voice, they found a darker musical path, and ‘Fire From Heat’ is the result of exploring this path.

The title ‘Fire From Heat’ comes from the expression “heat from fire, fire from heat,” an expression that is used by the trans community in voice training and that was popularized by YouTuber Z from TransVoiceLessons. At the same time as Despina searched for their voice as a trans, non-binary person in a country continuously stripping the rights of their trans siblings, they found an alternate, musical voice through the extensive use of human and non-human voices. This dichotomy and the interplay of both voices became a conceptual thread that runs through the entire record. These voices are countered by rhythmic constraints, undulating cyclical grooves, sinister basslines, and interruptive structures that create a delicate interplay between the imagined speaker and an idealized dancer.

Artwork by Benfika
Mastered by Fausto Mercier

Despina - Lo Tech Hi Life (WTCHCRFT Remix)

metaphys1ca

Walls

London-based Egyptian-French filmmaker and artist Susu Laroche @tsvsvnami (one half of Fertile Crescent with Oxhy, and most recently released a collaborative project with Mobbs on Modern Love) returns with a long-awaited new solo album.

Longtime collaborator of the Doyenne label after tracks on the first cassette as a split with Flora Yin-Wong, and a cover for the 'Venus Rising From The Sea' compilation via Doyenne x Boomkat. Here she hones her signature brooding Middle Eastern melodies, dabke drums and haunted vocalisations into the culmination of a contemporary artefact arriving as a wax-sealed box.

STREAM / PRE-ORDER FULL ALBUM: https://doyenne-books.bandcamp.com/album/d-09-war-against-the-lie 

After the discovery of an artefact known only as 'Body 53' in the British Museum - 'human skeletal remains; ribbon; comb; diadem; ear-ring; collar; necklace; bowl; cosmetic sample' - Laroche inquired deeper into the connections to where the body was found, at the Royal Cemetery at Ur in Southern Iraq. Coming across Queen Puabi, a prominent figure in ancient Sumer found at the same grounds, the artist drew parallels between the shadowy figure often cited as a queen, consort, or priestess, with the Sufi female saint, Rabia. 

Alongside these mytho-historical documentations, her work with Sufi texts including 'Al Hallaj Tawasin' (Book of the Purity of the Glory of the One) formed the basis of the lyrics embedded in the album. 'War Against The Lie' devises a para-fictional account of a historical law that governed this period of ancient Zoroastrian civilisation in Persia, and a buried demand for truth.

The Moth

Artwork, written, mixed and mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis

Side effects of a model's life

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Adelynn Dz. Kiichi - Through Sadness

Passinho do Caos

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Premiere: Diana Azzuz - Recursive Gesture (eea Remix) [Standard Deviation]

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