Plastic Vibes

LOFT - Turbulent Dynamics EP
Release Date: October 14
Buy: https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/turbulent-dynamics

LOFT (@loftminduk) is the latest artist to join the Astral Plane Recordings family and will debut on October 14 with the enigmatic Turbulent Dynamics EP. With a penchant for rhizomic drum programming, sparkling synth work and hallucinogenic sound design, Turbulent Dynamics is comprised of two totemic floor burners and three interstitial efforts, ranging from cerebral polyrhythmic techno to grotesque new age manipulations. In terms of sound alone LOFT’s entry to the APR catalogue marks something of a departure, but his unwillingness to genuflect to sonic convention means he fits right in with the ethos that SHALT, Chants and Nunu have previously set out.

Turbulent Dynamics

LOFT - Heffalump

Split release with Crude Tapes for the February 2020 East Coast Zoner tour. Limited edition of 50 Cassettes, and Digital available via Bandcamp.

@jamesk_1
@hjacksonnn

James K & Hank Jackson - Untitled

Turin label early reflex debuts with a compilation of club bangers from Loraine James, hmurd, DJ P, Hence Therefore and more. Hear DJ P’s rolling dancefloor warm-up ‘If You Want (You're New Alarm)’ now

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If You Want (You're New Alarm)

Premiere: DJ P ‘If You Want (You're New Alarm)’

@hoshina

Hoshina Anniversary - 五七五七七 (Go Shichi Go Shichi Go)

01 - Iwa Utsi Nami
02 - Tokyo Geijutsu Sai
03 - Shinobaremu
04 - Oumagatoki
05 - Shinju
06 - Narinuredo
07 - Yomosugara
08 - Ryuushouten
09 - Tororo Soba
10 - Asagiri

Released on CD & Digitally: June 16th, 2020

https://theyouthlabel.bandcamp.com/album/hoshina-anniversary-go-shichi-go-shichi-shichi-yocd7

Hoshina Anniversary - 五七五七七 (Go Shichi Go Shichi Shichi) - YOCD7

During the making of this record I was primarily concerned with the anxieties of postmodern existence. Living with constant information connects us but ultimately drives us apart as powerful institutions use information and disinformation to manipulate the public and manufacture consent. As a first generation Chinese immigrant raised in the west, I am interested in the process of sampling from ethnically diverse, "foreign" origins as well as local, familiar sources and seeing how they interplay with each other in startling new ways. Sampling is an old artform, a foundation of electronic music, and we are learning as a new generation how to utilize this tradition under changing ethical standards. Stylistically this record was made with the intention of using a lot of disparate samples from politically-incongruous places: European colonialist films, a white Mormon indie rock band, Japanese kabuki, traditional Chinese hand percussion, Nixon's speeches, vocals from both American and Cantonese pop icons, an experimental record about the Vietnam war, etc., and combine them in ways that are unexpected, non-fetishistic, and nuanced. As post-millennial people, we enjoy greater access to cultural artifacts ("samples") than ever before which can lead to great artistic works if used with respect to context, meaning, and cultural significance. This EP was an attempt to explore that. 
-Ciel (@cl_lit)

Le Fleuve

Za Sui

Trojan Horse

Taken from Fé/Vazio [ELP051] out 07/08/20

Properly mazy rhythmic psychedelia from Lisbon’s Serpente who comes back to Ecstatic Recordings pursuing the spirits of Alice Coltrane and Don Cherry via Fourth World gateways and the spiralling broken beat vortices of Anthony Shakir, following on from that killer LinnDrum tribute to Prince’s ‘Parade’ album last summer.

A direct reference to Dischord’s legendary Faith/Void split album, Fé/Vazio draws thrilling, jagged lines between the ground-breaking jazz fusions of the ‘60s-‘70s and the Afro-Futurist pinnacles of ’90 Detroit and UK-based techno and their offshoots; broken beat, jungle, and “IDM”. 

His style broadly collapses the psychedelia of his work as Ondness (Where To Now?, Holuzam, Sucata Tapes) into a more ravishing and arguably vital sound that frames a modern state of mind between dystopian paranoia and utopian freedom.

Like last year’s cultishly acclaimed Parada (Ecstatic Recordings, ELP044), 'Fé / Vazio' comes to restlessly fulfil a physical and spiritual need for this kind of music right now; it sidewinds into chaotic multiples of polymetric rhythms, hypnotic drone and curious folk hooks that somehow gel with a fractious, rhythmelodic coherence that rudely acknowledges all that came before it. 

Track to track Bruno recalls the kaotic harmonies of Derrick May as much as Anthony Shakir’s sleight drum edits in ‘Nível De Fumo’, and the Reinforced cosmic rolige of Colin Lindo (Alpha Omega/Nubian Mindz) or 4Hero - who were no strangers to the promise of spiritual jazz music and the Afro-Latin codes of Brazilian music - in ‘Em Sendo’, while the reticulated hot steppers ‘Visitação’ and ‘Escalpe’ seamlessly bind roots and futurism in a singular, headlong style and the scudding ‘90s techno/IDM tone of ‘Razia’ surely recalls the rhythmic ingenuity and modern blueness of early Autechre. 

It's a record that feels unlocked and cosmically free compared with so much rictus, floor-based music, but with a grit and colour that can’t be denied on (currently imaginary) dance floors.

Buy!

Serpente - Rainhas [ELP051]

• stories written and read by Inger Wold Lund
www.ingerwoldlund.no/

• sound by Alexandra Zakharenko
http://zakharenko.es/
https://dome.pw/

An audio piece originally made to be listened to in a house in a harbor on the windy east coast of Iceland.
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Some nights ago I dreamt I was holding eggs in my hands. Their shells were so fragile that just being next to each other could make them crack.

Inger Wold Lund – 7 stories

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-rone-ginkgo-biloba-loraine-james-remix

@infine-music invite @lorainejames to remix tracks from @rone-music latest full-length album ‘Room With A View’. Her remix of 'Ginkgo Biloba' contrasts not only the glossy finish of the original track, but also the approaches taken by other remixers on ‘Views Of A Room’.

Views Of A Room

Rone – Ginkgo Biloba (Loraine James Remix) [InFiné]

New York City based label created by Umfang.

Trojan Horse

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