Taken from yab; yvanko debut album Biome, out July 30, 2021, via OOH-sounds (@ooh-sounds)

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‘We think music, as well as prose, shall drug, entrance, be intimate, otherwise it fails to touch the soul’ (YY)

From otherness to ether-ness, synthetic sounds like living organisms collide in chaotic yet collaborative ways. Their symbiotic communities are an agent < and product > of contorted forms that unite to create an aural metropolis. A biome that conditions acts of progression and regression, revolution and revelation.

Such is the work of the quite elusive duo yab; yvanko, a coproductive project from the South West of France. Their compositional approach is to accompany the biodiversity of sounds through the progressive / patient / exhaustive observation of dilated chord sequencing, inter-modulation and generative arrangement. Their simple gesture is to feed these infinite systems—tenderizing latent compounds and disrupting dormant frequencies—to extract the most striking drama.
Just as the transient wanderlust of floaters—a defective crystallization of the vitreous humour that colonizes the sight—inspired visual artist Laura Radzewicz for the cover art, the process prompts us to privilege an extra-perceptual sensitivity, until something gradually emerges and manifests as being other.

‘Our most precious goods are sometimes hidden in the background, reflected in the briefest sound objects, which took a long time to calibrate.’

Biome is never static, nor can it be replicable. Its adaptive nature orbits a pleasant disorientation, free to embrace the unpredictable form.

Artwork by Laura Radzewicz

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi

Released by OOH-sounds

Biome

Premiere: yab; yvanko - Biome21 [OOH-sounds]

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music by @yunzero
mastered by Rashad Becker
art & CD design by Ben Bondy

Yunzero – Butterfly DNA (OUEST089) [Preview]

Ho ho ho, the mystery-shrouded Rrose - named after Marcel Duchamp’s eponymous persona, punches in right on cue for Xmas with an absolute monster of a two-hour jaunt into their exquisitely twisted headspace. Having served up some of the finest techno slabs of the past decade through the likes of Sandwell District, Stroboscopic Artefacts and now their own dedicated imprint, Eaux, Rrose steps in the series with a bonkers mix of dusty techno hustle-and-bustle, neatly alternating sequences of pumping 4x4 aerobatics, searing, noise-adjacent outbursts and eerie melodies to hypnotic effect. A constant balancing act of raw power and haunting score, Rrose’s RYC mix takes us on a deep and fascinating trip into genre-unbound territories, where only abandon and wildness reign supreme. Happy EOY celebrations, y’all! See you in 2024. 

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01. Free Free Palestine! (chant)
02. Habits of Hate - Limelight Roles - Electronic Explorations
03. Ø [Phase] - module overload pt 1 - Cosmic
04. Regis - Cold Water - Downwards
05. Wata Igarashi - Haziest Just Before The Dawn (Svreca Remix1) - Bitta
06. Ma Sha - Are They Back - CEE
07. JK Flesh - Empty Words (Rrose remix) - KR3 (upcoming)
08. Metapattern - Assimilation - Mord
09. RS Tangent - Bovine Overbite - Trilogy Tapes
10. Bookworms - Bluephoria
11. CAIV - Shamanfreude - Tresor
12. Dj Deeon - Off - Dance Mania
13. Nikos - Metaturnal - Flippen Disks
14. Priori & Al Wootton - Leniency - Trule
15. Mad Zach - Tunnel Snare
16. CAIV - Ötzi - Tresor
17. Bias - Rest Energy - Diffuse Reality
18. Conceptual - 200 camels and a hot desert - Conceptual
19. Quelza - My Eyes Are Closed - Newrhythmic
20. Altinbas - Spoken Word - Token
21. WTCHCRFT - Shake It (Nikki Nair’s Shook Mix)
22. Azu Tiwaline - Blowing Flow - IOT
23. Rrose vs Octo Octa - unreleased
24. Rrose vs Speedy J - unreleased
25. Carrier - Fathom - Felt
26. Rrose vs Polygonia - unreleased
27. Rrose vs Polygonia - unreleased
28. Pocopo - Segre - AEDI
29. Tsimtsum - Konvoi
30. A4 - Optical Device - Faut Section
31. Mad Zach - Strangeloop
32. Skee mask - Cylo - Ilian Tape
33. Bas Dobbelaer - HSS-01 - Trule
34. Fergus Sweetland - Gangalang - Illegal Alien
35. Trolley Route - A Transcendence Of The Individual - Semantica
36. Al Wootton - Russell - Trule
37. Ruman - Three Butts Are Enough - Warm Up
38. Notzing - Molniya - Warm Up
39. Maurizio - Eleye - M1
40. Ladan - Knives - Sublunar
41. Potter Natalizia Zen / PNZ -  Magari - Ecstatic
42. Tony Conrad - Four Violins (Table of the Elements, 1964)
43. Cheryl E. Leonard - Frozen Over

Reclaim Your City  

Reclaim Your City 571 | Rrose

Label: Cumulonimbus Berlin
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, Electro
Cat No: 13
Date release: 11.04.2024
Format: Digital
Mastering: Younes Jamil
Artwork: DJ DEKADENT, Mara Vorberg

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Tsukiho Takada

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