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Recorded in Berlin / Event Liquid Channel (Breakfast Club) / Place Giri / Day 21 06 25

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https://erfrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/burn-perf000

Burn is the second YS album and written as a direct follow-up album to Brutal Flowers. If their first album was an exercise in the incremental, a construction of poise and patience, Burn, should be taken way the fuck at it’s word: it quite literally finds catharsis in twisted reverse. Birthed out the malignant kick found in deconstruction and chaos. Evil twin, psychotic younger sibling, call it what the hell you like. It might take you a moment to get the lay of the land in this darkly mutated world. Like a bug eye’d native first confronted with a zippo, the hit is radical and instant: a new way for the world to go up in smoke.

Splice the Seattle slacker scene with the spliffhead soundsystem culture of the '90s Bristol trip-hop scene, then cross-breed that with the DIY optimism and glee in creation found in the cut-and-paste worlds of skate, graffiti and hiphop, now run that through the skitzo basement mind of John.T. Gast and you’re close to the kind of scorched earth and spiked suburbia that birthed Burn.

Dunno quite what YS have been ingesting of late, but this massively twisted LP touches on a host of gloriously fucked totemic underground sources while not sounding much like any of them. It has the ballsy swagger and hard flipping of the script as Massive Attack’s seminal Blue Lines. Indeed, the eponymous album tracks sound similar - the opener ‘Burn’ is like a hard-nosed, jammed-out redux of ‘Blue Lines’. Getting into a kind of slow-spinning overdubbed maximal euphoria ending with mumbled downer vocals, struggling to conceal their tongues in their cheeks, there’s an air of paranoia and proto-conspiracy theory. It’ll leave you scratching your head, feeling like you’ve stepped into a New World Order governed by a cacophony of dropouts, dope fiends, and apocalyptic stoners. A cracked-out world somewhere between Richard Linklater’s movie Slacker (1990) and Marc Singer’s Dark Days (2001).

The rest of the album parts like a tongue on a wine glass: Smith and Mighty, Bandulu, ambient Luke Slater records, Wah Wah Wino, Nurse with Wound, Land of the Loops, Placid Angels, Adrian Sherwood, Urban Tribe and DJ Shadow can all be heard in momentary splatters - but Burn like other works by YS, is its own ritual beast. ‘Moth’, a track that has been circulating the underground DJ circuit for many moons, is a raw, chopped, and screwed slice of stoner erotica that reeks of obsession and unrequited desire. Elsewhere, on tracks like ‘Switch’, ‘Trying’, and ‘Drift’, the throughline from Brutal Flowers can be heard. Underneath the driving heavy gravity, the trademark emotional intimacies of YS linger: eternal recurrence, ghosts of static and shortwave, worn memories of the playful and painful sort. The brief moments when flashes of orchestral ambience emerge from beneath the swagger are so pure, personal, and unguarded that, for a moment, they leave you completely alone. In the album’s closer ‘End’, you can hear the fleeting promise and DIY possibilities of an analogue world and embers of ash that flutter in its wake: where it seemed, for a brief moment, that collective of DJs, engineers, rappers, graffiti artists and skate crews were emerging from the streets, giving the middle fingers to the system, before just as quickly disappearing back to the doldrums of obscurity. ‘End’ is a bittersweet ode to early soundsystem culture, MCs and pirate radio - an out of step time where for a moment the underdogs and weirdos seemed to be kicking on the door of something bigger.

A veritable teenage doof suite dosed with desire, claustrophobia, and deviance. Burn is a good old howl at the moon: lonely, raw, and out for blood; basement style exegesis at its best. A thump to the gut, a stud through your blood. A dubbed-to-death classic straight out of the annals of nowhere. A perfect postcard from oblivion. A bleak, bold, and personally ferocious vision of tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

PREMIERE | YS - Moth [PERF000]

Low Tape - Python Way

@opheliek - 'Salty Skin' is part of Gravity Pleasure's inaugural release, Water Bodies: a rippling compilation of FLINTA* artists and collaborators that invites listeners into an aqueous paraworld.

Across 21 tracks, Water Bodies spans a post-genre miasma of ethereal mermaid music, cathartic flows, and glistening sibilants ~ each one an exquisite message-in-a-bottle of deep diving emotionality. Pulling from a wide-range of musical perspectives ~ field recording, lovesick ballads, shimmering downtempo, post-party comedown, and percolating ambient ~ the compilation contains multitudes yet maintains deep sentimental coherence. Like a wave crashing in slow motion, it sonifies possible ways of being, insisting on the porous, the interdependent, and the deep and unruly. Water Bodies reminds us that home is a body made of water, to which we all belong.

~~*~~

Home is a body made of water.
Remember.

Close eyes.
Listen to drips; hear voices.
What do they tell you?
Make your body a grotto.
What does it hold?

Spider’s tapestry: flycatcher.
Roadmap: net of sinews.
Lost in night forest: seek breadcrumbs.
Remember?
Body is lighthouse: shine through cloud canopy.
Body is fish: wet is all you know.

Sink deep, fly high,
stretch your arpeggio from young to old.
Remember.

-Lou Croff Blake

ophélie - Salty Skin [GP01 - Water Bodies VA]

In the new episode of Vestnik Podcast, we get acquainted with the work of Nesq, a producer, multi-genre musician, live performer and DJ from the Urals. He is known for tracks on SUBWISE, 7.1.6/Label and several self-releases, and soon a compilation with his participation will be released on the vinyl label 343.

In addition to his own projects, Nesq has been involved in sound production for notable rap artists, and his recordings and mixes can be found on 5BYKV RADIO, CODERED, TESTFM, КОМНАТА and Istanbul's NOH RADIO.

The artist has been developing the underground scene since 2007 and during this time has performed in a dozen cities in Russia and abroad. Among the projects with his participation are RAYONS, Sativa Dreams, Ural Beat Junkies, Bratan Selecta and ЖВХ.

We listen to Nesq's analogue live, recorded in St. Petersburg's 'Audio Club'. Inside is a fusion of experimental electronics and sampling, where the sound fluctuates freely between atmospheric ambient, warm house rhythms and energetic breakbeat.

ARTIST- @nesq

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Vestnik Podcast 29 - Nesq (Live in Audio Club)

Silent Era kicks off the first episode in her new season with an exciting change to the usual format of Dark Corners. This season she will be inviting guests onto the show, and for this episode she will be joined by Seattle-based DJ, producer, and new Of Paradise affiliate, Hünter. Together, they form a blissful 1-hour that traverses ambient, electronica, IDM and bass music.
Hünter takes the reigns for the second half of Dark Corners, bringing some of his favourite productions and exclusive forthcoming material from his upcoming project with Of Paradise.
Guest link https://www.instagram.com/hoonterdot/

With @hoonterdot


Dark Corners feat. Hünter w/ Silent Era (08.10.2025)

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https://isla.bandcamp.com/album/mean-old-man

‘Mean Old Man’ is a squall for villains; a sharp head turn to a macabre deviant, avant in its stumble & filth. Based on the sadists of a Lynch movie and sampling ya boy David himself, it’s one of them ones. Rocksteady for Frank & Mr. Eddy.

To companion is a muffled howl of lament, smoked out rapt head nodder ‘No Sound’, featuring Nikita T on the fuckery.

pi premiere: Big Leg - No Sound ft. Nikita T [ISLA]

По следам нашумевшего интервью, (https://youtu.be/MPBl5HXUKTI) встречайте 11-й выпуск нашего видеоподкаста, в котором Вова Strange FM прошелся по каталогу своего лейбла Analog Concept. Содержание соответствует концепту: полный аналог, треки Ivna Ji, Sinitsin, Domenic Cappello, Acidulant, Larionov, Nullptr внутри.

Видео: https://youtu.be/4eA7EWg5_Tk

Strange FM/Acid rain radio (11) (2025)

Brahms von Gelderland - Gute

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