@blackringsundermyeyes

Black Rings Under My Eyes est le projet solo de Baptiste Malgoire (Supernaive, Standard). Influencé par l'IDM et la culture UK tout en restant très libre, son univers est éclectique et coloré. Il a sorti son premier album ""Unknown Phenomena"" sur Standard Records en 2021 et l'EP ""GAMBLER"" chez Luud Disc il y a un mois.
Il nous propose ici un set composé d'une sélection de morceaux (dont plusieurs unreleased) sur lesquels il a travaillé au cours de ces 3 dernières années.

Terra 86 invite Black Rings Under My Eyes

recording of my show from june 2023 in dresden (germany)

live @ Musik für Pflanzen (June 2023)

Phaseshft [DL]

Same shit, different month. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/ony/episodes/ony-5th-september-2023

Ony w/ Daox 050923

Alex Deforce made his debut as a poet in 2019 with Nachtdichter (Knekelhuis), alongside Victor De Roo. In  September 2020 his first solo 7” vinyl was released on Lexi Disques. Nonchalance Calculée: focusses on poetry, bar culture and the Brussels dialect.

Nonchalance Calculée w/ Alex Deforce & Friends @ Kiosk Radio 25.09.2023

As he prepares for a new album in 2024, Gallo teases us with his ‘Hidden Inside EP’ on Hell Yeah. This new outing comes not long after his Tropical Hinterhof Remix of Calm's sublime 'I Love You'.

At the vanguard of the nu-breed Balearic movement, Gallo is a mainstay. Part of the Balearic Gabba Sound System crew, and Buena Onda resident, he has an uplifting sound that has come out mostly on Hell Yeah but has also had music selected for compilations that include Cafe del Mar and Colleen’ Cosmo’ Murphy's Balearic Breakfast. The Berlin-based artist is currently working on his debut long player but first shares with the world these four enchanting cuts. 

'Life on Preset' is a gorgeous downbeat groove embellished with majestic keys that twinkle while gentle chords melt the heart. 'The Last Bud (Beat mix)' slows down further with dusty trip-hop breaks overlaid with pulsing synths to have you gazing off into the distance, lost in a hazy late-night reverie.  Here Gallo showcases his mastery of dreamy, ambient synth work as he suspends you amongst heavenly rays of light and bright white fluffy clouds on 'Hidden Inside'.  Closing down the EP the hazy lazy piano house grooves of 'That Moment' conveys feelings of pure blissed out joy and peacefulness.

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Gallo - That Moment

しかし、少しづつ社会、文化、あるいは人間の存在と資本の違いが薄くなってきた。~  However, slowly, the boundary between society, culture, and human existence and capital has become increasingly blurred.

Umé Records presents the album "Serotones" by Sacramento, USA's Bleu System.

Listen: https://umerecords.bandcamp.com/album/serotones

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Bleu System ~ Serotones (snippets)

Preorder now on Juno:  https://www.juno.co.uk/products/gratts-presents-trackhead-t-klub-romance-vinyl/971622-01/ 

Gratts is back once again, hot on the heels of various Balearic outings like 'Sun Circles', 'Pretty Lights' and 'Jour De Fete' but this time he is in house mode. This release comes under his new Trackhead T moniker and finds him keeping things raw and stripped back. For the sessions, the Belgian artist limited himself to using inly around 12 channels maximum per tune. This Klub Romance EP is the result and a track that harks back to his Berlin stomping ground, with deep but driving house cuts that have subtle hints of everyone from Felix Da Housecat to Boo Williams. The low slung sleaze and muted rave stabs of 'My Miseducation' is our standout.

More from the label: https://www.juno.co.uk/labels/Be+Strong+Be+Free/

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PREMIERE! Gratts - Mantra [Be Strong Be Free]

Twin heavyweights Kevin Richard Martin (The Bug) and Joseph Kamaru (KMRU) unite for Disconnect, a powerful study of dread, hope, and profound sonics that marries depth-trawling dub with Kamaru’s voice, ambient sensibilities, and negative space.

Kevin Martin first became aware of Kenyan ambient musician KMRU “watching the short 2020 documentary Under The Bridge,” he tells us. “Which, aside from immediately finding Joseph's approach to sound and music so instantly impressive, I also found his spoken voice possessed a captivating, lilting, tonal quality, with his soft-spoken accent.” Following this, Martin dug into Kamaru’s records, and found not only a kindred spirit in skillful exploration of sonic space, but also a fan of The Bug. So began a mutually respectful relationship, initially held in Instagram DMs and reciprocal admiration for each other’s work and eventually blossoming into an invitation sent by Kevin to Joseph to collaborate on a new album.

The results - debut collaboration album Disconnect - collect a back-and-forth creative dialogue that started life in Martin’s studio. “I think I surprised Joseph by suggesting he contributes vocals,” Martin tells us. This ability to identify, isolate and exploit the nonstandard is a trait shared by both musicians and employed to devastating effect on Disconnect. Its vocals, sitting somewhere between intonation and spoken word, capture the ear and fizz with simmering power. They are indeed a surprise, coming from a musician specialising in instrumental, field recording-laced ambient musics, but tell intensely evocative stories, weaving poetry into the pair’s grandiose greyscale musical architecture.

The record is just as deep, dark, and arresting as we can expect from Kevin Richard Martin, following his acclaimed rescore of Solaris (released in 2021 on Phantom Limb) and a handful of self-released solo albums that explore a sound just as heavy as The Bug but at a menacingly slower pace. And it is just as evocative and unique as Kamaru’s KMRU canon, each object delicately and purposefully placed so the timbral mosaic builds with shimmering and hypnotic beauty.

KRM & KMRU - Ark

T.V. Children, Pt. 2

Inside My Mind, Inside Yours (instrumental)

~Ambient~
~アンビエント~

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Bleu System ~ Serotones (snippets)

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