Taken from BAD ZU (@bad-zu) new EP MIRAGE, out March 12, 2021, via Hyperboloid (@hyperboloid)

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4 tracks about travel and for traveling. Nostalgia for open borders and nightlife, fear of the future and hope for a new world - the most personal and honest release by Bad Zu to date.

The canonical understanding of the term "underground" describes the music of the Bad Zu project in the best possible way - the generally recognized traditions in his tracks are utterly mixed. In one of his compositions, both the traditional British breakbeat and the no less traditional British grime, as well as the African rhythms of gqom and Brazilian carioca, can coexist. Rhythmic electronics live here in sync with live drums, and the polyphony of genres is supplemented with feats with Russian rapper Saluki or weedwave producer Summer of Haze - and even so the music retains an absolutely understandable harmony.

Reason for that is honest work with meanings and concepts. Bad Zu does not shift the emphasis to the concept, but by all means speaks of what he felt and saw: the globalist culture floods the streets of every city, and it is completely pointless to fight this.

Artwork by gsmgarden
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Mastering by iBenji, Bad Zu

Released by Hyperboloid

Premiere: BAD ZU - WE WILL DANCE AGAIN [Hyperboloid]

Taken from A/N new album ACIE E R R, out February 25, 2022, via OOH-sounds (@ooh-sounds)

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► Under the new moniker A/N, French producer Apollo Noir (@apollonoirisnoir) delves deeper into his music and casts a strong yet versatile sonic alloy of atmosphere, beat, voice and texture.

► ACIE E R R (alliteration, French for steel) is a raw, eloquent and fickle stream of consciousness of openness and transparency.

Coming from steel-city of Thiers, where his family forged a reputation as unrivaled knife manufacturers, A/N does not hide his deep bond with the age-old metal alloy and its making, which here become a structural metaphor in a work that inevitably goes deep into the emotional, the personal and the political.

A sort of ‘romanticism of steel’ sets the narrative mode of the eight tracker where moving chords progressions, pounding beats, synth washes and eerie vocal intrusions alternate grounded physicality and propulsive sways with unfathomable angelic hues and electro-acoustic subtleties.
Making use of a wide range of analog equipment and the invaluable help of drummer Seb Forrester, A/N’s textural sound stream tempers its gleaming chrome finishes by means of sonic shocks and sublime coatings of distorted warmth.

From the bubbling arpeggios of ‘Mentir En Temps De Crise’ and the organic texture of ‘Disparaître’, to the clustered sound particles of ‘Chromé’ and the instant-classic attitude of ‘Avoueur Condamner’ (Andy Stott, Lanark Artefax) ACIE E R R’s contrasting sonic energies bring openness and versatility into focus.

Steel is one of the world's most-recycled materials ☺

Cover-art by Nicola Tirabasso

Mastered by Lupo Lubich

Released by OOH-sounds

Premiere: A/N - Avouer Condamner [OOH-sounds]

[EP017] B2B Guest mix by https://soundcloud.com/mxntrxss & TOWNJEWELER.

Aired via https://soundcloud.com/ma3azef.

Tracklist

Paul de Marianis - Fonetica Francese
Morten HD - Autotrophic
Montross - Basilica
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Winds Over Neo-Tokyo
TOWNJEWELER - Swirly Bird
Montross - Interlagos (Drumless edit)
K. Leimer - Facing East
Coro Polifonico di Alghero - Ave Maria
Montross - ???
AYYA - Second Mistake
Jac Berrocal - Nuit de la Troisième Lune
Yoko Kanno - Chorale
Juan Marcos Blanco - Sueños
LORN - Sega Sunset
Suso Sáiz - Tierra Media
Oklou & Casey MQ - Lurk
Montross - ???
Miedo Total - Inno
Debit - Overcome Isolation
Amina Alaoui - Ode D’Ibn Arabi
Lol Coxhill & Morgan Fisher - Que En Paz Descanse
Montross - Hilkantu
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Empire Systems
Fatima Al-Qadiri - Pre-Extinction
Vainqueur - Solanus
Robbie Basho - Blue Crystal Fire
Malibu - Camargue
Todd Barton & Ursula Le Guin - Long Singing
K. Leimer - Two Voices
Montross - ???
TOWNJEWELER - Dream Drift
D. Burgos - Nomad Wind
Taaj Al-Khaliq - Re in Time
J. Form - Winding Path
Juan Blanco - Galaxia M-50

Ma3azef | evo-natura with Montross B2B TOWNJEWELER ― 25 February 2022

Taken from Yokubari (@soft-circle) new EP Sakai, out May 4, 2022, via CHINABOT (@chinabot)

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YOKUBARI is Hisham Akira Bharoocha, an american percussionist, composer, and visual artist based in New York City, which focuses on electronics, drum and sampled sounds. Yokubari, which means “greedy” in Japanese, reflects Bharoocha’s love for every genre of music; a greediness for wanting to incorporate disparate sounds into a song structure or DJ set.

With YOKUBARI, Bharoocha aims to create music that entwines the multi-faceted cultures we all come from, to expound upon the interconnectivity of the language of sound, and to embrace the rhythms we experience in daily life as a resplendent yet chaotic balancing act. His debut EP on Chinabot will be released on the 4th of May 2022.

The title of this EP is ‘Sakai’ which means “border” in Japanese. On this EP, Bharoocha attempts to express the push and pull one feels when they are born from multiple cultures, trying to be accepted by those distinct cultures, yet trying to show self acceptance from being forever different, forever on the cusp.

Perhaps best-known for his role as the drummer and founding member of experimental rock band Black Dice, his precise and complex sense of rhythm drives Sakai through a kaleidoscope of textures. Touching on techno, ambient and experimental noise, Sakai remains sonically true to Bharoocha’s own unique cultural background.

Artwork by Hisham Akira Bharoocha

Mastered by Justin Randel

Released by CHINABOT

Premiere: Yokubari - Drumurdrum [CHINABOT]

TRACKLIST: 

smog - T/I
Osheyack - Thrall
Glass - crY (Klahrk Renix)
Islam Elnabawi - Mashy  (forthcoming irsh)
De Grandi - Winamp Skin
Klahrk & KAVARI - Can You Hear Me?
Yaseen ft. Dakn - Siteh (forthcoming irsh)
SINERAW - FORZANTICA
Le Dom - Water Coaster
Earl Sweatshirt - Lobby (Int)
Zomby - Ouija Riddim
EKSE & ELAZY - HEART SHAPED HEDGES
Clerk 37 - Xgile (Mike Drones Remix)
East Man & Killa P - Mission
TXETEXT - NeVe 1
Walton - Rush
De Grandi - Amore Remix (ft. Le Diouck)
JHL - GSCF
Brodinski & Modulaw - NRPN
Deriansky - Padelle (Siincro)
Hedo Hydr8 - cyco
Sébastien Forrester ft. 3Phaz - Steep
Modern Collapse - They Had It. (Waters)
Evitceles - Ръцете ми са счупени
Assyouti - Null (forthcoming irsh)

Noods Radio show 040 | 01.06.2022

TRACKLIST: 

ABADIR, Granul, Freddie Gibbs & Rick Ross - Another Ice Cream Cypher (Rama's 34 flavors Mashup)
Mutant Joe - Eyes Without a Face
Ashrar - Granulosis
DJ soyboi & salt pillar - It's not the taking part that counts, it's the winning
Ani Klang - daddyo
Cocktail Party Effect - C_A_T_C_R
Junglord - Riddim Again
Dev/Null - RNG Remix
A. Fruit - Propaganda
Metrist	- Oerchar
A$AP Ant & Curren$y - 3AM in New Orleans
Forces - Futurability
MISFYA - DECONSTRUCT
Hajj - unreleased
Klahrk & KAVARI	- Wax
East Man - Jaws 2
Kinlaw & Franco Franco - WAVED LED
Hedo Hydr8 - BBBBBB (ft. Alva Alva)
Low End Activist - Signal To Noise (Tek Remix)
COIDO - Liquidstarter
Ani Klang - elastic drumplay
Chrisman - Mediocre
furious styles - like me (Meekz)

Noods Radio show 043 | 19.08.22

Phonk Drift (Ultra Slowed & Reverb)

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Alpha Maid - CHUCKLE *OUT NOW*

Format: Digital/Vinyl
Cat.No: CANVAS010
Release Date: 19th of March 2021


CHUCKLE is the first solo release by Leisha Thomas as Alpha Maid on the C.A.N.V.A.S. label, following a contribution to the recent Apocope compilation LP. The signature Alpha Maid genre prevails—the sincere, strong vocal style, aligned with a UK indignant and iconoclastic artistic lineage, set against dredging, grungy instrumentals reminiscent of North American open plains or urban sprawl. As if desert rock had occurred in mundane and claustrophobic South London rather than the Southern States. Alpha Maid observes and reflects on an urban, smoggy, UK surrounding, although appears to drive through it on an open interstate highway in a really wide car.

Alpha Maid's vocals vacillate between sometimes candid, close and unclouded, then drifting towards fragmentary, cutting and pasting in the manner of unstable media or limited bandwidth.

Opening with a quote—found footage from broadcasted media—‘i knew the figures’, pointing to a setting of British media harassment and scrutiny, WOWOWOW conveys amazement and disbelief, faced with the bare and flagrant injustices of the time and place. Vocals are swallowed by the cavernous reverberation, while slow paced stoner rock-like drifting instrumentals amble underneath.

CHUCKLE Follows Alpha Maid's debut EP Spy, released via the ever-transforming collective and label CURL, of which Alpha Maid is a member, alongside the founders Coby Sey, Mica Levi and Brother May. Whilst Spy expressed revulsion in the face of creeping surveillance and the increasingly concealed and deceptive nature of power, CHUCKLE embodies the spirit of internal disorientation and realisations, exacerbated by a backdrop of social crises and injustices reaching levels beyond our grasp or comprehension.

Electronic interventions, eclectic instrumentation and found footage intersperse Alpha Maid's trademark sound. Brief interludes reminiscent of Scandinavian metal themes, undistorted but purveying doom—opening MILD WEATHER and closing NEWLY WOKE & THOUGHT PROVOKED—contribute to the creation of an atmosphere of eerie dread. Within that, there is regular respite to be found—NEWLY WOKE & THOUGHT PROVOKED feels light, rural, nearly folk, delivered with clarity of mind and of pace amongst the otherwise smoggy and moody overlying theme of the EP. The title of the track, however points to a familiar context of confusion amongst cosmopolitan and globalised socio-political contagion. NEWLY WOKE & THOUGHT PROVOKED, in harmony with the nature of the whole release, is fresh, melodically simple, optimistic and yet suspended within a murky atmosphere of cataclysm and wonder.



Music by Leisha Thomas
Trumpet on 'MILD WEATHER' and 'NEWLY WOKE & THOUGHT PROVOKED' performed by Jovis Lane
Flute on 'DOGGY' performed by Niazy Hazeldine

Mastered by Chris Pawlusek

Artwork by Fennella McCallum
Graphic Design by Zuzana Pabisova



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