3XL02 
Remastered tunes from bandcamp fridays and some comps.. 
Sleeve design by Nahyun Park. 
www.nahpark.xyz

"Clearing their cache of stray bullets, Exael returns with a gyring plunge into percussive wormholes and low-lit mood enhancers .The tracks are broadly cleft along schisms of dark/light and demonic/angelic, switching from restive propellers to more sublime sensations in a fine testament to their practice - making for prob our favourite Exael release thus far.

On the “darker” side, they commit the convulsive, fractious footwork pulses and warped tones of ‘Circle (Squishy Mix)’ in a sort of parallel to 33EMYBW’s insectoid rhythms and combustion systems, while ‘Ice That melts The Tips’ trades in rapid, ice-skating thizz and ‘Ghoul Search (Demonic Attachment Mix)’ fires up the junglist particle accelerator for a proper gauntlet of hyper techstep dynamics.

The contrast is epitomised by ’Composure’, arranging flinty breaks on a luscious waterbed of floating pads, before ‘Eidolon’ renders a sort of airborne dembow pressure in the vicinity of Ben Bondy & special guest dj’s xphresh works.  ‘L-theanine’ closes the session on a fine tread inside emo ambient styles and flurries on the same spectrum between DJ Lostboi and Teresa Winter, complete with a reverberating, half-buried vocal. 

All smoke & strobe doozies."

Circle (Squishy Mix)

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07 - Gustave Retour - Feu De Joie

@cassius-select plays Trackwork's CLUB SERVICE at The CTA Business Club, Sydney (3.6.23) ☣︎☣︎☣︎

Presented by Vivid Sydney, City of Sydney & Trackwork
Curated by @utilitycatalogue
Recorded by Nahar Pleshet
Live sound by Jon Watts

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With „I DARE YOU II“, Xzavier Stone unlifted the veil: Removing the usual hard-hitting drums and pop structures he highlighted the meticulous sound design that has made up a big part of his signature sound. This culminated in a soothing and ever evolving 26 min soundscape. With I DARE YOU II (Interpolated Versions), the artist invites friends to re-interpret his sonics. Whether it's made up of one sequence or many; there weren’t any rules to the creation process. This open approach resulted in a variety of interpolations - featuring a vocal debut by American musician and DJ P. Morris, the Dutch duo KEY/GEN, Montreal’s producer and DJ Martyn “M.” Bootyspoon, Swiss producers and artists 2AAB, Kombé, Modulaw and Tobias Koch, french pianist Joseph Schiano di Lombo, genre-bending French producer Brodinski and Xzavier’s frequent collaborator Phillip Jondo from Cologne.

Original compositions by Xzavier Stone
Mastered by Modulaw
Artwork based on a still by Enayet Kabir's video work for "I DARE YOU II"
www.instagram.com/_enayet/

I DARE YOU II (Brodinski Interpolation)

After a recent output on Moon Glyph, Nicolas Gaunin is back on Artetetra with a new digital EP of tender digital folklore hymns for personal mini-worlds. Known for his composition style centered on interlocking polyrhythms and bidimensional sound fonts advancing the field of a possible 2.0 exotica, in Huti ゲーム Gaunin momentarily abandons his customary musical vocabulary to experiment with an atypical ‘ensemble’ approach: percussions interweave with string samples and synthetic choirs. This change gives his tracks a surprising lyrical dimension. Timbral textures are lightened in place of airy, delicate sound spaces while densely layered arrangements breath through tight interplay.

Inspired by a number of classic essays, novels and mythical texts by the likes of Elémire Zolla, E.R. Eddison and Mircea Eliade, the imagery of Huti ゲーム (Game) is built as a soundtrack of an imaginary videogame, an epic adventure starring the hero Rokoreke Taribaku, alter ego of Nicolas Gaunin (in turn alter ego of Nicola Sanguin). In the land of Huti, inhabited by strange animal-human creatures, Rokoreke must face his nemesis: the gigantic Serpent swallowing everything in its path and trapping the creatures' souls in its tunnel-like stomach. The musical narration follows the hero's quest to defeat the monster and free the trapped critters’ souls, thus making each track a miniature stage-soundtrack expressing fragments of this fantasy world.
The Serpent, a recurrent symbol of eternal return and rebirth in many cultures, becomes the central figure on the EP. Each track suggests the idea of an inner and cosmic battle, in which music becomes a metaphor for the conflict between polarities of any kind. The choice of synthetic sounds and evocative strings amplifies this symbolism, tracing an emotional path that superimposes the mythical seriousness of Rokoreke’s destiny with registers coming from popular culture and children’s tales.

Once again, Gaunin renews his worldbuilding potential by propelling hybrid folk imageries into the 21st century. Huti ゲーム is a sound experience that transcends the concept of a soundtrack, becoming a short immersive and poetic suite, in which Gaunin plays with sounds to tell a story of redemption and rebirth, with echoes of ancient myths and future worlds.


Huti Ghosts

https://soundcloud.com/jtamul for https://soundcloud.com/ruminaa

https://www.retreatradio.net/rattle

Listen 24/7 at www.retreatradio.net

Rattle #20 w/ jtamul (25/10/24)

Glabra and ENKI are a duo of djs traveling between Paris and Amsterdam. Coming from different approaches to music and sound, together they lapse in and out of clubbing and soundscaping. For Baxua’s residency ‘Wandering Melodies’ at Lyl Radio they prepared an hour-long meandering, from sunrise to sunset, through crystal beats and moaning melodies.


Wandering Melodies w/ Glabra, ENKI (19/11/24)

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KILLAS - Odd Occasion

New Speed Garage tune made by me, hope you lot enjoy this one.

Drop It

Rumour has it you’re looking for a new favourite artist — and inva is asking: Could I Be? (the one)…

Bandcamp Link: https://offlicenserecords.bandcamp.com/album/could-i-be
Buy Link: https://cygnusmusic.link/zdrqebe
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/DB3XHaPAx5Y

• inva •
Soundcloud: @inva
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/o.reveha/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/invadnb/

• Off-License •
Website: https://offlicenserecords.co.uk/
Soundcloud: @offlicenserecords
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/offlicenserecords
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@offlicenserecords
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/offlicenserecords
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/OffLicenseRecords

Could I Be?

LCY was back with the second instalment of the SZNS7N show. Experimental breaks, bass and other club orientated business throughout. In the second half of the show, she is joined by Diessa on guest mix duties who brings more of the same.

SZNS7N w/ LCY & Diessa - January 2021

Sydney-based rap label & platform, releasing projects executive produced by Utility & associates https://soundcloud.com/utilitycatalogue

contact@trackwork.work

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