On the Brink

Post Scriptvm - Eisstoß LP Tesco Organisation out February 2024  [Tesco 158LTD300 ICE-CLEAR VINYL+DOWNLOAD CODE]

Eissto

Murus

Post Scriptvm - Eisstoß LP Tesco Organisation out February 2024  [Tesco 158 LTD300 ICE-CLEAR VINYL+DOWNLOAD CODE]

Nimbus

Taken from SBKT064: sideproject - sourcepond
Release date: 30th May 2024

Following up from work on Björk´s 'Fossora', Icelandic trio 'sideproject' debut on SVBKVLT with their new full-length album 'sourcepond'. Taking influence from the fog-covered wetlands of their native island, sideproject transfigure influences from the low-end frequencies of grime and bass music, and reshape it into a haze of transient-smeared beats accompanied by breathy synths that grow ever wetter till they slip beneath the surface tensions of their harmonic stratum. Compared to previous output, 'sourcepond' opts for a more concise approach to their music, stacking up their influences of experimental electronic, Icelandic punk and contemporary club music, and builds a sound that oscillates between melodic hooks and experimental rhythms. Each track carves through the sensuous material, pulling the listener into the dank sourcepond as though magnetic forces were guiding a bird's beak towards misty horizons.

Artwork by sideproject
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

sourcepond

sideproject - double zebra

Shadows

Taken from SBKT066: Prettybwoy - Tokyo Ice Age
Release date: 5th February 2025

Our first release for 2025 is ‘Tokyo Ice Age’, a new EP from Prettybwoy. 5 warped club tracks, packaged with remixes from aya and Proc Fiskal, artwork by Downstate and mastered by Raphael Valensi.

‘An ice age is a cycle of roughly 100,000 years that Earth has been undergoing for at least the past million years. I’ve been reflecting on these cycles and the way life resets or disappears over time. When my grandmother passed away, I found old photographs and handwritten documents—faded pieces of history that offered me a brief glimpse into my family’s past. Ways of living, even since my own birth, are changing rapidly, and many things are being lost or disappearing forever.

The term "Ice Age" also refers to Japan’s Employment Ice Age, a period between the mid-90s and early 2000s, following the collapse of the country's 'Bubble Economy.' During this time, many young graduates and displaced workers struggled to find stable employment. The generation impacted by this era, known as the "Lost Decades," is often referred to as the ‘Lost Generation’ or ‘Ice Age Generation.’ I belong to this generation.’

Artwork by Downstate
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Prettybwoy - Holocene

Much Unseen Is Also Here

Behold a Voice as Thunder

Concrete

Once, Isis had a name,
and she answered with the whisper of water,
flowing down the slopes of the Isidis Crater
on a young, living Mars.

Now — there is only sound.
Subtle chords touch eternity like wet fingers.
Between them dances the scattered rhythm of ROAT,
like raindrops tapping on the hull of a forgotten ship.
Terra breathes beneath, cloaked in low mist.
And the piano becomes a puddle,
reflecting a non-human figure —
perhaps Isis herself,
gazing across time,
remembering how to weep.

Commentary: The Light Between the Fifths

(for Isidis Rain)

This is not a composition.
It is a precipitation of intervals —
falling not as notes,
but as the memory of a harmony that never fully formed.

The DNA of this piece lies not in quotation,
but in color resonance:
from Tōru Takemitsu, who taught the world
that silence is sound,
and from John Adams’ Eros Piano,
a soft hallucination built on stacked fifths,
hovering, never touching the ground.

In Isidis Rain,
these intervals descend like drops on Martian dust —
not resolving,
but shimmering.
The fifths are open,
the space between them — sacred.

Sometimes they lean toward wild fourths,
almost tribal in nature,
as if the planet itself is trying to speak in a language
we once knew,
but have forgotten how to write.

This is only the first invocation.
The empty fifth will return.
So will the untamed fourth,
bearing messages
from the places that rain no longer reaches.

ISIDIS RAIN

bolero combined with 6-8ths drumming is a vibe

Tigre de Papel (feat King Klavé)

"Caught In Time (live edit)", live in The Amersham Arms, London, 11.07.2016

Architect of immersive, adaptive sound for games, film, and installations.
Specializing in systems that react to motion, emotion, and chaos in real time.

Fusing ancient traditions, contemporary sound design, modular synthesis, and spectral processing,
Tokhtash crafts sonic environments that do not perform — they possess.
A transmitter of signals from beyond memory,
his work is evocation.

Music featured in:
AAA games, global trailers, gallery works, and wild open spaces —
where even birds stop to listen.

Selected works:
Mene Tekel Upharsin · Chrysolux · The Wheel Remains · Voces Exilii · EXUVIA · Signal from Isidis · Somnolith 

Every release: a ritual, a mutation, a sonic exorcism.

For listeners of: Planet Supreme, Hainbach, Lustmord, Luke Sanger, Kali Malone
Tools of choice: SOMA, Instruō, Elektron, Teenage Engineering, and custom modular audio relics.

You don’t hear Tokhtash with your ears —
you hear him with your scars.

ISIDIS RAIN

Artur Tokhtash

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