12 Disclosure

I think part of being mature is truly feeling the flow of time and realizing how short and fragile life can be. When you see people around you die, or get ill, or even when you yourself are attacked – like when strangers shot rockets at you – it makes you question your own beliefs but also be grateful for what you have.

This serves as a reminder for myself to be bold, brave, and strong. It's a call not to waste time and to cherish what life has to offer.

Maturity

In South Louisiana, Clifton Chenier (1925-1987) grew up hearing his father play a style of music known as La La at house dances held in Black French Creole communities. It had a percussive and syncopated sound, played in spare combinations of an accordion and a washboard used to scrub out a rhythm. After picking up accordion as a curious teenager, Chenier soon brought into this sound the rhythm and blues that dominated radios and jukeboxes, crafting a new style that would be called zydeco. In the 1950s, he recorded for Elko, Specialty, and Chess, and joined national package show tours with stars like Little Richard and Etta James. A decade later, Chenier was quietly settled in Houston, the big stages seemingly behind him. But one rainy Saturday night at a Houston neighborhood bar, Chenier’s cousin Lightning Hopkins introduced him to Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records, where zydeco and Clifton Chenier would find a new home and champion.  

King of Louisiana Blues & Zydeco is a 4 CD/6 LP retrospective box set assembled in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Chenier’s birth. The set features a chronology of Chenier’s landmark work with Arhoolie and other labels, alongside a healthy dose of previously unissued gems. The 160-page book includes photos, posters, and other graphic artifacts from the Strachwitz Collection and deeply researched liner note essays by Grammy award-winning writer Adam Machado, public folklorist and radio host Nick Spitzer and longtime Louisiana journalist Herman Fusilier, along with a moving personal remembrance by Clifton’s son, Zydeco musician C.J. Chenier. The set is the first release on Arhoolie since the label became a part of Smithsonian Folkways.  

With music and storytelling and abundant visual imagery, this set demonstrates Clifton Chenier's life as a transformative artist -- from his earliest days practicing in the barn back home, to his reign as the undisputed King of Zydeco. 

Clifton Chenier - "Mr. Charlie (Live)"

Lush Amazonian soundscapes (raw and cooked); bullroarers, catfish trumpets and laughing alligators; a documentary filmmaker who wants to get eaten by Indians; two friends, inspired by adventurous characters like Richard Evans Schultes and Werner Herzog, go to the northern amazon and experiment with sound machines; a news segment on alien face-peelers (or gold miners with jetpacks); an extra-terrestrial cumbia…

TRACKLIST
Whistle on Wire & Rhombe (Ashaninka Route – Arawak) and Along the River (Aguaruna Itinerary) from Amazonia - Music, songs and natural sounds – Recorded by Xavier Bellenger (GREM – G 9112, 1991)

Bará (Tukano) Music from the Vaupés Region of Southeastern Colombia – The Bara Collection of Jean E. Jackson (n.d.)
 
Pirá-Paraná Yuruparí Music from the Vaupés Region of Southeastern Colombia – Recorded by Stephen Hugh-Jones and Christine Hugh-Jones (1968-1970)
 
Excerpt from the Laughing Alligator by Juan Downey (Museum of Modern Art, 1979)
 
Schultes navegando el Apaporis & Expedición Botánica – Vaupes-Uapes (Dada Phone, 2024)

News segment on Alien Face-peelers (Or Gold Miners on Jetpacks) in Alto Nanay, Peru

Afrosound - Cumbia de E.T. El Extraterrestre (Fuentes, 1983)

Chaco (Paraguay) and the Pantanal (South Mato Grosso) – Recorded by Richard Chapelle (Unidisc – UD 30 1293, 1977)

BULLROARERS, CATFISH TRUMPETS, LAUGHING ALLIGATORS, AND ALIEN FACE-PEELERS

Image (1983-1998)

Yume Uta (2025 Remastered)

Jessica Moss • Washing Machine

CUTUPS - "BLOODBATH"
ILLUSIONS vol. XXIII

Twenty-third mix in the #ILLUSIONS mix series,
Recorded in September 2025
mixed by cutups

futuristic buzzing anthems from the autonomous zone
sweat to synthrave, cyberpunk, witch house, hardwave
while the industrial warehouse crumbles around you

More info:
www.facebook.com/illvsions
hauntedshit.com/events/illusions/
blog.cutupsmethod.com
www.youtube.com/channel/UCfmg3--e3YSsMhiJO3SOmtA

Tracklist
figure, destryur - save room [@destryur, @figure]
igres, enxk - no mercy [@prodigres]
accesstogod - ancient of days
phase fatale - binding by oath [@phasefatale]
meldamor - die to live again [@meldamormusic]
a shrine to failure - locked room
mvtant - pretty flesh [@mvtant-music]
rogue vhs, kareful, pale fortress - virus [@karefuluk]
dvrst - reason to live [@wazmusic]
neuromancer - apollo [@neuromancer_official]
akiaura - sleepwalker [@akiaura]
perpetualll - sacred [@perpetualll]
oldflop, lostmane - through the dark [@prodbylostmane]
shxde - enter the void [@shxde]
sidewalks and skeletons x suffer ring - abandon [@sidewalksandskeletons]
nghtly - take a revenge again [@nghtly-music]
cardinal noire - useful idiot [@cardinalnoire]
sh3tlviz - revival
siie - cite lunaire (panthera remix) [@siie-music]
frontline assembly - provision
soft crash ft. marie davidson - your last everything (alan skanner remix) [@softcrash-music]
human error ft the 3rd man - sadhi tehjiria
maelstrom & louisahhh - i'm not a casulty [@louisahhh]
karassimeon - panique synthetique [@karassimeon]
blush response - black blade [@blushresponseofficial]
author & punisher - nihil strength [@authorpunisher]
phase fatale - ambivalence
krssv - a.c.m.e. [@krssv]
obsrvr - cypher [@dimentia]
nuxx - done [@nuxx-vomica]
nevada hardware - the suburbs dream of violence
aekae - blurred visions [@aekaemusic]
juke you - replicant [@jukeyou]
deadcrow, heimanu - reality [@deadcrxw]
mayven - radiance [@mayvenofficial]
cardopusher - delusions [@cardopusherofficial]
ho99o9 - off the meter [@ho99o9]
youth code - i'm sorry [@youth-code]
advanced dealer - the ultimate nightmare [@advanceddealer]
protectorate - industrial action (oldschool union remix)
donny - 3 day binge (sinister souls remix) [@barcoderecordings]
cloudymane - need for speed
yell. - hollow [@yellwave]
heimanu - grief [@heimanux]

Buy these tracks here: https://www.buymusic.club/list/cutups-bloodbath-a-synthrave-cyberpunk-witch-house-hardwave-mix

Bloodbath

Download

Cutups - Bloodbath [ILLUSIONS XXIII mix]

Gray Acres has always been a space for subtlety and restraint, distinct from the denser, more cinematic atmospheres of Hotel Neon. Where that project often explores process, technique, and narrative arcs, Gray Acres tends to be produced "in the moment" and stays still. It lets you think for yourself. Soft Erasure especially embraces that characteristic stillness.

This is the first full-length Gray Acres album since 2021’s “Dreams and Phantoms.” It’s a project that came together slowly with an intentionally light touch…more about dissolving sounds than constructing them. Subtraction vs. addition.

The title Soft Erasure came about as we noticed a recurring quality across the recordings: a sense of tangible things like guitars, pianos, and strings fading, softening, and slipping just out of reach as we shaped and processed them. The music feels like it’s constantly on the verge of vanishing, or being gently wiped away into an indistinct atmosphere. That idea of erasure not as violence, but as gentleness, decay, or transformation, felt like the right metaphor to latch on to. It speaks to memory, distance, and time, and how all of those forces shape and reshape our perception of sound and self.

Musically, this album is built mainly from resampled acoustic instruments: delicate piano lines, sustained strings, frozen and looped guitar textures. Much of the source material was recorded clean, then stretched, blurred, and layered until it became something abstract…like an impression of a song, or a half-remembered phrase. In some ways, we were trying to find the most washed-out and ephemeral version of each sound. The result is a record that is designed less for narrative and more for immersion.

If you’ve followed this project before, I think you’ll hear a natural continuation of its aesthetic. But if you’re new to Gray Acres, this is a great entry point. It’s music that tries not to demand attention, but rewards those who tune in closely for a while.

Gray Acres - Soft Erasure
Music by Andrew & Michael Tasselmyer
Mastered by Alex at Quiet Details

Gray Acres - Vestige

Westerner: I support a two-state solution.
Israel: There will never be a Palestinian state.
Westerner: Okay then I support a one-state solution where everyone has equal rights.
Israel: You're calling for an end to the Jewish state you monster.
Westerner: Alright then I support the Palestinian resistance.
Israel: That's supporting terrorism. You are Hamas and we can legally murder you.
Westerner: Well can I at least support a permanent ceasefire to end the genocide?
Israel: [cocks pistol] What did I just tell you about supporting Hamas?
Westerner: Okay then, I support Palestinians living as a permanent underclass until they can be slowly salami sliced out of existence as a people.
Israel: Getting warmer.
Westerner: I support removing all Palestinians from their historic homeland via ethnic cleansing or extermination before the end of Donald Trump's presidential term.
Israel: [puts away gun] That's more like it.

Reading by Tim Foley.


"Recognizing" The Rubble Of Palestine

~ LAAPS 048 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP48]

artist : Ensemble 0
album : L'Incroyable Femme Des Neiges
duration : 26.40 mn
date : November 12th, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / white LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : October 23rd, 2025 / official release : November 12th, 2025
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Composition and arrangements: Joël Mérah, Stéphane Garin, Sylvain Chauveau

Performed by:
Jérôme Capdepont - trombone
Sylvain Chauveau - acoustic guitar
Vianney Desplantes - euphonium, tuba, flugabone
Tanguy Gallavardin - clarinets
Júlia Gállego Ronda - flutes
Stéphane Garin - percussion, piano, organ
Joël Mérah - acoustic guitar, piano, ukulele, organ, harmonium

Recording and mixing: Johannes Buff, Shorebreaker studio (Tarnos, France). 
Assistant: Xan Bidegain
Artistic director: Joël Mérah
Administration: Nicolas Michamblé

Thanks to Alexandre Maillet, Vanessa Pigot, Laurie Garcia Garin et Sébastien Betbeder.

Mastered by Simon Lancelot
Artwork by Jonathan Smith
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps.bandcamp.com/music
www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://www.ensemble0.com/
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Ensemble 0 - Les Grands Espaces

Frankie Lee – I’ve Thought About Living 
Buddy Holly – Well…Alright 
The King Pins – It Wont Be That Way Always 
Baby Huey & The Babysitters – Beg Me 
The Coasters – Hey Sexy 
Duane Eddy & The Ventures – I Fought the Law 
The Cadets – Rollin’ Stone 
King Solomon – New Figure 
James Ray – St James Infirmary 
Dimples Jackson – Love Comes Tumbling Down 
Sherri Taylor- He’s The One That Rings My Bell 
Ben E. King My Heart Cries For You 

12 Disclosure

Tomas Almvret