Vinyl & digital album: kmruahossan.bandcamp.com/album/limen

Released on April 29th, 2022

Last year, Kenyan sound artist Joseph Kamaru (aka KMRU) and French digital alchemist Niamké Désiré (aka Aho Ssan) were invited by Berlin Atonal to collaborate on a project for the festival's Metabolic Rift edition.

The duo had already been working together, but the offer provided the momentum to shift the conversation into another gear. Initially, they looked for thematic connections within their individual practices that might match Kamaru's meditative soundscapes with Désiré's crumbling cyberpunk expressionism, and surprisingly for two artists renowned for their grasp of minimalism, it was the opposite that drew their attention. Watching the world shift as it reacted to the spiraling pandemic, Kamaru and Désiré were moved to experiment with volume, physicality, and intense emotionality.

“I never made something so extreme," Désiré says of the duo's first recording, 2021's 'Ruined Abstractions', an extended composition that matches dense, powerful low-end drones with fractal digital fuzz and smokestack bruit. It set the mood for a back-and-forth that resulted in their seismic debut full-length, "Limen", described by the two acclaimed artists as an attempt to scrutinize the yin and yang of destruction and creation.

Cacophonous, concrete crunches fanfare the album's opening piece 'Resurgence' - the result of their Berlin Atonal commission - but the track refuses to languish in wrecking ball devastation. Instead, powerful synthesized harmonies ring from beneath the rubble, before stifling everything in a humid fuzz of dense, emotionally-charged cinematic electronics.

Influenced by the prescient post-apocalyptic mood of Katsuhiro Otomo's "Akira" and the mythological phoenix, an immortal bird said to be reborn from the ashes of its dying predecessor, "Limen" is an album that sonically snapshots the anxious, floral beauty of an explosion or the colorful intensity of a raging fire. It's rooted in concepts of duality - the idea something unsettling can be viewed from a different angle and re-interpreted.

On the album's epic, 21-minute centerpiece 'Ruined Abstraction I + II', swirling electromagnetic interference paints a haunted parallel vista that dissolves slowly into subtle, orchestral tones and booming, widescreen thuds.

Almost angelic closing track 'Rebirth' meanwhile is the most unashamedly beautiful composition Kamaru and Désiré have written together, but its choral bliss is doused in petroleum noise and saturated distortion.

"Limen" is an album that seeks to lift a veil of silence from the world, replacing it with maximalist bombast and vivid passion. It's a dynamic piece of work that finds its creators pushing themselves to the limits, deconstructing history as it detonates around us.

All tracks written and produced by Joseph Kamaru
and Niamké Désiré; mastered by Joker

Published by Multiverse Media Publishing
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Limen

Vinyl & digital album

KMRU & Aho Ssan - Resurgence

"Flippen Bits is the new offshoot from the Amsterdam based Flippen Disks label ran by Monty DJ. While the main imprint sets out to find its own space in between genres to move dance floors while staying non-functional enough for home listening pleasure, this new sub has a more functional approach. Wild and energetic, bass heavy bits for the more playful DJ's in the late nights.

First up is Marok (@letsgomaroki), the Wales raised and Amsterdam based producer, known for recent releases on E-Beamz and Shall Not Fade offshoot Lost Palms, comes in strong with four excellent futuristic bass hybrids. It also contains two MXC reworks created together with Nottingham's @coraliescoob

Coldred EP is a wild ride, it takes you from the heavy percussion title-track Coldred to the acidic stuttering breakbeats of Nightshop On The Way. The MXC version adds a true sub-heavy steppers vibe to the original where they flip TFMPP into a mesmerizing broken beat affair fit for the wormhole. With early support from DJ's like Madam X and mad miran it's an exciting new chapter in the Flippen Disks catalog with loads more lined up for the next year."

Out  now via bandcamp. https://flippendisks.bandcamp.com/album/coldred-ep

OUT NOW

*PREMIERE* Maroki & Coralie - TFMPP (MXC Version)

Space Jungle (2008)

Soapy

Second single from the forthcoming album from Dead Man's Chest & King Kutlass

Pre-order the album here: sq.lnk.to/SNKR051

'Ananda Tandava' pushes the limits of the jungle template, embracing distinctive twists without losing the fundamentals of the sound, and that comes through loud and clear on this searing workout.

Dead Man's Chest X King Kutlass -  Ananda Tandava

Listen to 'CT00001' by N95 taken from '419448783' out on 15th November via Fuselab

Bandcamp: https://fuselab.bandcamp.com/album/419448783

419448783 is an experimental album representing a protest to aggressive electronica in the year 2024. Deep moods are accompanied by extremely clear rhythms forming a completely new form of dance music. 419448783 project is dedicated to the route from squeaky and fuzzy lofi-house to arrhythmic and concrete slowed-down footwork.

N95 - Moscow-based DJ, artist and producer of experimental but somewhat more accessible music (in his own words), CEO of the MOSOBLELECTRO label and community.

Member of Glam Trax FW, an anonymous union of footwork artists in Moscow. Started his career in 2019 after release of his first album “8gb//5Mpx” consisting of raw house and sample based music, which defined his way of sound production. Nowadays N95 is more focused on juke, ghettotech and breakbeat.

Links:
N95
@n95n95n95
www.instagram.com/n95n95n95n95
@mosoblelectro
Fuselab
https://soundcloud.com/fuselab
https://fuselab.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/fuselabrecords

419448783

bandcamp

N95 - CT00001 (Fuselab)

Color squad compiler 17 is out! (tm)

https://colorsquadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/c-o-l-o-r-s-q-u-a-d-0-1-7

Missionary Control

Mixed from Moscow by @klotho00

A new path on our cloud of serenity — a one-hour floating journey through the worlds of Homer and Plato by the multifaceted producer, DJ, and musician Mark Griboedov, who today manifests through his project Klotho.

«In search of hidden realities. The world is filled with energies and waves, many of which remain invisible and elusive. We have learned to measure some of them, but much escapes beyond the reach of instruments and human perception, leaving only mysterious hints of another existence.

Music becomes a guide to these transcendental worlds, allowing us to touch what cannot be expressed in words or seen with the eyes. It is the language of subtle vibrations, linking dimensions in the pulsation of infinity. Through sound, we feel the breath of the Universe, immersing ourselves in its blissful grandeur.»

Download link:
https://bit.ly/3Q4pc84

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