Artwork credits:

Installation - Rebecca Ackroyd
Photo - Stephen White & Co and c/o Lockup International

Mastered by Maximillian Kritsch

United Rust is a collaboration between Italian electronic musicians Nicola Zolin (vise.) and Alexander Comana (Miedo Total). The project emerged after the pair met while carrying out a master in Sonic Arts at Goldsmiths University, London. They found common ground in black metal theory, ecology and sound design, and sought to create work which incorporates these elements. 

The result of this collaboration is Stillmother, initially conceived as a multimedia project involving performance, live sound, and dance. Reconfigured due to the global pandemic, the 8-track EP is an assemblage of pieces that mine elements from black metal and club culture, both of which are simultaneously embedded in notions of collectiveness and separation. The opposing forces of these elements interact, developing into viscous distortion and low-frequency kick blasts,  side-chaining gabber percussions with raw and obscure guitar riffs, driving cruel metallic clashes with acidic and digital textures.

Stillmother is inspired in part by the concept of dépense, coined by Georges Bataille, a term that describes the surplus of offerings made by ancient populations to their deities; an excess that is left to rot or burn. Stillmother combines this idea with the theory of Flat Ontology by Manuel DeLanda, as well as the notion of Deep Ecology. By charging each element in the piece with excessive processing, their musical context is flattened and remodelled; the individual components become more relevant than their totality: the final result is metal from a flattened perspective. Music under pressure from the excessive force of its individual parts.

Stillmother is a study of excess: the ferocious, machinegun-like blast beat of drums that surges to the forefront, pushing everything else into the background, the overwhelming wall of distorted noise that smothers every object, even itself, like black smoke billowing from an industrial chimney, in the full range of the frequency spectrum; a blind space surrounded by an inhuman blackness.

Petronas Bath

REALDEALROCKSTAR

hopeforthebest

If you finish the song and still think its terrible, i love you. Sorry life's so tough. Try to open your mind a little bit. 

Slept Away in the Storm

lorem ipsum ✦

°w°s - eucalyptus

Track 7 - siq~1
https://ultravirus.bandcamp.com/album/siq-1
music: @rrzeng
artwork: @simon-villaret
curation: @thickowens
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Track 6 - siq~1
https://ultravirus.bandcamp.com/album/siq-1
music: @drojji
artwork: @simon-villaret
curation: @thickowens
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Drojji - Althorun

full compilation:
https://radiokapital.bandcamp.com/releases

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Peramen! A Compilation for Belarus

“Change! Our hearts demand it. Change! Our eyes demand it”, sings Kino’s Viktor Tsoi in “Peremen”. This song may now be heard on the streets of not just Minsk and Grodno, but also Babruysk, Brest, Gomel, Mogilev, Pinsk, Vitebsk and what – at least to a foreign onlooker – looks like countless Belarussian cities and towns engulfed in protest. Following years of Alexander Lukashenko’s rule, another rigged election, omnipresent violence perpetrated by the state apparatus, censorship and draconian laws, the people have taken to the streets en masse. This is not the first time the Belarusians are out to protest, but the scale of these disturbances is unprecedented. Also unprecedented is the fact the rallies are led by women, who head the peaceful marches that have spread onto the streets of Belarus. Workers, miners, teachers, employees of the media and the Minsk underground as well as artists from the Belarusian State Philharmonic have all joined the protests. They stand against lies, demand the transparency of public life, and access to power. As they rally against repression and torture, they expose themselves to the...  more
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released September 19, 2020

All proceeds from Peramen! A Compilation for Belarus will go to #BY_help, a grassroots initiative offering aid to victims of repression, established on the wave of arrests that shook Belarus in March 2017. The funds will be used to pay fines, unlawful fees imposed for being held in detention, medical costs and lawyers.

The idea for the compilation was developed by Elena Sizova, Minsk-based DJ and producer. Peramen! A Compilation for Belarus was prepared with the help of the Radio Kapitał collective.

Жыве Беларусь! Zhyve Belarus! Žyvie Biełaruś!

Mastering Engineering by Dr Rey | Uferlos Studios & more
Artwork by Zofia Kofta

Strength In Numbers (from Peramen! A Compilation for Belarus)

Bag of Toys

Giant Claw - Drops Of Primed Water Leading To Another World (Live)

FRKTL - 03/12/2020

d333p listening.
2019-24
net.dump by @thickowens

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OUT NOW ON BANDCAMP 🗯 🗯 🗯

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