Olan Monk - Auto Life
Format: Digital (EP)
Cat. No: CANVAS011
Release Date: 1st October 2021

Watch the video for 'Fameless': https://youtu.be/-xndTe8uWrc

Pre-order Auto Life (EP): canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/auto-life

‘A farewell to idolatry, where culture is absorbed into nature, like a body back into the fertile soil. Written as a 27 club survivor, lamenting the young dead, no longer young and celebrating the spectral presence of iconised peers. Reflexive and self-aware of the problem of over-identifying with the fictional performance of the solo act in various guises or archetypes: the rockstar or trapstar. Auto Life is a practical attempt at a weird re-hybridisation of otherwise seemingly divergent strands of popular music, conflating stylisations usually segregated by genre.

Auto Life was written as a collection of songs for eventual live performance. Recording music is absurd—an act in which you initially perform to no-one. The inclusion of a sample of crowd noise in ‘Fameless’ is the music studio equivalent of a laugh track being added to the soundtrack of a sitcom—unable to give up on disappearing horizons completely and imagining another context for performance in which an actual audience beyond the performer is present.

Autotune Punk—as a music of antagonism that resists from within, bending the lanes of a machine that flattens out the vocal performance to a given scale. I can still express feeling—even angst—but the machine doesn’t care. Refusing its own funeral, emulating the dead—it’s a Rock simulacrum. A renewably performed myth. I broke the spell. I just heard it as it was. The sacred framing of presence makes the pop idol always-already-dead by turning them into a symbol and an image—undead, un-ageing and endlessly reproducible within a commercialist visual culture.

The music which I would grow up listening to would later become a tool towards first facing, maybe later dismantling—or at least bending—the structures in which music was still being written, performed and recorded into existence. My emulation of and interest in pop—and popular—music is not in irony. I love this music—yet I question the context and conditions through which it has come to exist and continues to change shape. Opening up the horizon of pop to a new kind of strangeness, where the familiarity of the pop song disappears into blissful distortions and mixed signifiers towards a world in-between, otherwise unknown’.

— @olanmonk

Written, performed and recorded by Olan Monk

‘Bruised Fruit’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City, additional production and vocals written and performed by Elvin Brandhi
‘Burnout’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City

Tracks 01–07 mastered by Ali Najafi
Tracks 08 and 09 mastered by Jam City

Artwork by Ewa Awe

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Auto Life

Olan Monk - Fameless

Heith - Your Element (a spell of equality)
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 119S
Format: DL
Release Date: 26 July 2022
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/YourElement

X, Wheel

Heith - Your Element (a spell of equality) (PAN 119S)

‘Face The Music’ presents @lolina_relaxin, FKA Inga Copeland, at her most accessible. That said, the four-tracker - a swooning, dismantled volley of warped pop, jazz fusion and spoken word-cum-rap recital - retains the dissociated abstraction of previous efforts. 

It isn’t quite as strange and beguiling as the recently-released ‘Fast Fashion’ album.  Nonetheless, the former Hype Williams member approaches it with that same improvisational spirit, and brilliantly weird, our premiere poses the question “What is power?” over some asymmetric, discordant avant-jazz-fusion.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3U1sDgs

Face The Music

Discover More

Premiere: Lolina - What Is Power [Relaxin Records]

Shes Excited

sometimes u come in from the club at 7am and need all the music to be MORE AMBIENT so u have to make your own

a lot of my friends have been tryna escape recently , hopefully this and a spot of 30 degree mancunian sun will help

p . s. pls excuse my vv vapor artwork , i think i might have sunstroke

filton [ dissociative edit ]

Bliss Song

Alternate unmastered remix for @epsilove
check out her EP and the remix we did with @Lastrackqlf 
https://soundcloud.com/dkmntl/dkmntl071-epsilove-psychic-venom

Epsilove - Sea Snakes (Hajj's schmirred pop version)

with @lolina_relaxin 
Recorded at Healthm8, London, 2017
https://copelandgast.bandcamp.com/track/shred-2

copeland & gast - SHRED

As featured on AQNB's 'Between two stars' art & music mini-compendium.

Buy now: bit.ly/2ZrG2V1

Download for free via our Patreon: www.patreon.com/aqnb

Between two stars

Iku, 'Personal Horizon' (2020). Courtesy the artist.

Taken from 'Deserted / Reclaimed'(G&P015), out September 16, 2020

With a handful of releases out on various pioneering imprints (including longplays RISC Chip and Meme Booth via Conditional Records or the latest contribution to the groove series by Warsaw based label outlines), the producer, programmer and live-coder Mike Hodnick is one of the leading figures representing a movement of computer-centred music production, recently labeled as algorave. Since we are devoted fans for quite some time, the Platonic's are proud to present Mike Hodnick´s latest project under the prolific Kindohm alias - 'Deserted / Reclaimed'.
Sequenced live on a drum machine, the diptych stretches across four vast sonic plains, bounded by curvy dunes formed by countless TidalCycles code bits, constantly pouring over like the grains of scorching and shiny sand. Full of paradoxical rhythm twists planted into the ever-bending landscape, Deserted / Reclaimed reads as a fragmented and sometimes petrifying ride towards the chaotic percepts of the monumental surroundings, dissolving in the thermal inversion somewhere far on the horizon.

Written, produced & mastered by Mike Hodnick
www.kindohm.com
@kindohm

Artwork by Jiri Macku
jirimacku.tumblr.com

🦂

Deserted / Reclaimed

Digital & Cassette

Kindohm - Reclaimed 2

see your world in a grain of sand
heaven in a wild flower
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
an eternity in an hour

i'm so bored i'm so bored
i could die die i could die
some things are not meant to be found
some things are not meant to be found
wheres your 
head at?
wheres your 
head at?

tomb raider

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

Premiere: Lolina - What Is Power [Relaxin Records]

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