https://fanlink.to/comicsans12_xliks

Composed by Jean-Baptiste Arthus
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta
A&R by GBoi & Jean Mi
3D by Jack Anderson
Graphic Design by Virgile Flores

The virgin idealist bedroom producer is buried, now make way for the 4.0 romantic sound designer! After some appearances on various artists, xl.iks unearths his long-time working debut EP and is ready to win the he@rts all around the world with a stunning piece of corrosive-but-sentimental IDM. Entitled "eoseubnida", this record is the result of all the contradictory passions the Grenoble based producer is crossed by. His bad boy tastes for dark, harsh and noisy stuff coexist in harmony with his emo soul interested in flowers, love and birds. In 5 tracks xl.iks expresses this inner duality : tortured beats are enlightened by mellow synths, outdated video games references are bundled up in HD sound design and the whole piece describes the thin line between reality and virtual world. xl.iks definitely belongs to our hypermodern era except the fact that, facing our uncertain future, he prefers to unsheathe the final fantasy sword of poetry rather than the cyberpunk cynism.

xl.iks - konako

Taken from SBKT043: Prettybwoy - Tayutau
Release date: 17th September 2021

Prettybwoy’s debut is entitled Tayutau ( 揺蕩う), a traditional Japanese term often used in haiku and literature, meaning ‘waver’ - a state of indecisiveness, to lose determination or purpose, often temporarily, or to drift or sway to and fro. Made over the last two years whilst dealing with isolation, job loss, burnt hard-drives and almost losing the whole project, the album has seen several phases and degrees of anxiety, uncertainty, hope and frustration.

‘Too many things have changed since starting to make this album, and I think that is reflected in the production. The album can be split into three parts – tracks I made before the pandemic when things felt stable, tracks made during lockdown in isolation, and tracks made during the cautious and conflicted opening up and the lead up to the Olympics. There has been so much confusion and changes back and forth, but I want to have hope and try to keep focused, which at times hasn't been easy’

As well as drawing from external causes, 'Tayutau' also comes from a place of internal uncertainty.

'This is a trip in search of my new identity, or maybe to understand my current one. I am Japanese, living in Japan, but my music is only released by labels from other countries. I am a member of SVBKVLT (China), and also Polaar (France), but where or who am I in Japan?’

Tayutau is a 10 track album, featuring two vocal appearances from lIlI and a collaboration with Primula, and comes with artwork and video from Wang Jingxin. A separate EP of remixes will be released shortly after the album.

Cover Design: Wang Jingxin
Mastering: Raphael Valensi

Tayutau

Prettybwoy - Brontides

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”.
More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

Isengard w/ Mystique @ Kiosk Radio 15.09.2022

Artist: V/A
Album: 5
Format: Digital / Tape
Cat.No: CHI042
Master: Justin Randel
Artwork: Saphy Vong
Release Date: 23rd November 2022

Celebrating five years of the experimental music label Chinabot, longtime collaborators and new acts join together for 5, Chinabot’s latest compilation release on cassette and digital.
The 12-track compilation features music from key artists who have defined Chinabot as a label, such as Jaeho Hwang, Sabiwa, Sarah Haras, Ayankoko, JPN Kasai and Pal Hwang Dan. The mix also looks to the future of the label with new artists Nanzhen Yang, Papaphilia, Chooc Ly and more.

Leaning into the label’s experimental tendencies, 5 journeys through fractured club tunes from Papaphilia, the experimental electronic project of queer Sri Lankan-Australian sound and visual artist Fjorn Bastos, hardcore rave from Jaeho Hwang, percussive broken beats and percussive broken beats and cinematic soundscapes from QwentyZ, and Beijing field recordings (described by the artist as “blurred memories”) from Nanzhen Yang.
It continues the hyper-eclectic vision which has become synonymous with the label, which seeks to take risks and promote the work of exciting emerging producers. The record features Ondo footwork from JPN Kasai, whorecently changed his artist name from Jap Kasai following the racist discrimination against a friend in Europe (“‘Jap’ is a derogatory term for Japanese people,” he says. “I used to dare to use it, but I have changed my mind. I don’t want to encourage discrimination against Japanese people.”) Like the compilation, his track, 早苗 唄 hayanae uta, is about the emergence of the new in this case, growth of rice shoots and the “happiness of harvest.”

Growth and experimentation remain key in the track from new Chinabot artist Papaphilia, who is due to release a full album next year. Inspired in part by the voracious learning of her newborn, ‘no path is forged over the abyss without meeting at the altar’ expresses the “leaps into the unknown that forging radical new meaning requires.”

The new compilation, with artwork by Saphy Vong, pays tribute to London’s experimental music scene, showcasing producers Chooc Ly, Yewen Jin and Nanzhen Yang who have performed at Chinabot’s events in the city over the years.

Album credits:

Track 3:

Name: no path is forged over the abyss without meeting at the altar
Written by: Papaphilia
Production: Kuya Neil

Track 4:

Name: Exaltation Onirique
Written by: Chooc Ly
Production: Alia Pathan

Exaltation Onirique

Chooc Ly - Exaltation Onirique

Some nice dance tracks at a low tempo :)

https://lighghtmusic.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-witness-ep

Ray Gun Fumes

Soundtrack for The Zone
3-hour performance and installation at Frascati, Amsterdam
2023

bandcamp

Stop making sense© ⸻ The Zone

Experiment 5 - chill version
Sculpture is by Nilüfer Şatana (Light as a feather)

Yeni deneme 5

All sounds were recorded in the field on Kombumerri Country (Gold Coast, 'Australia'), 2019

Conservationix (Nerang Rhythm)

Rescue & Research Pt. 2

Article

Premiere: Yogev Freilichman - False Unit

@pisitakun @chinabot @elvin-brandhi-1
Read more: pw-magazine.com/2020/premiere-pisitakun-monn-aarchhe-eat-jackaaal-elvin-brandhi-remix

Absolute C.O.U.P.

Premiere: Pisitakun »MONn - AARCHhE - EAT- JACKAAAL Elvin Brandhi Remix)« [Chinabot]

He walked further and further, and each step took him closer to his fate. The sound that the leaves made as they crunched under his footsteps was the only thing that could be heard. It was pitch black now, and a fear he had never felt before sunk deep into his stomach. Where had everybody gone? His arms were stretched out in front him, finding trees, branches, and bushes in the darkness that guided him to nowhere. The hairs on the back of his neck stood up straight as he felt a warm wind pass through him. “Are you lost?”

Leeds producer Lawrence Nash unveils a new alias, ZiyiZ, who has built his own mysterious world through visual and audio. Referring to himself as an "archivist", a collector of objects who is merely facilitating a story, his new moniker comes to life for the first time with five tracks on Manchester/Berlin-based label Failed Units. The release, titled Rescue & Research Pt. 3, traverses the psychedelic outer-rims of techno and bass, with our pick “Entity Preferences,” exhibiting the latter.

PREMIERE: ZiyiZ - Entity Preferences [Failed Units]

high performance artist / composer
ryan.universalfm@gmail.com
1/2 https://soundcloud.com/know-va

Informed by both mass media and internet micro-scenes, the performance artist and composer Marijn Brussaard creates dream-like sonic textures. Under the name Universal Ryan, elements of bedroom pop and futuristic synth wave are interwoven, intent on reaching states of ecstasy, escapism and transcendence.

Stop making sense© ⸻ The Zone

Universal Ryan

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