“Camelo”, the new single off JASSS’s sophomore album ‘A World Of Service’, is an electrifying juxtaposition of warm, alluring Spanish vox set against rigid pillars of industrial heft and bass grind.

Save the date: Album release party in Berghain on November 26 with CEM, Crystallmess, Gabber Eleganza and Ziúr, https://www.berghain.berlin/events/73131

Giving form to a broad personal project of continuous inquiry and existential expression, ‘A World Of Service’ marks the Ostgut Ton debut of Spanish producer, DJ and artist JASSS [@jass-29] aka Silvia Jiménez Alvarez.

Buy ‘A World Of Service’ as 12" LP, digipak CD or in digital formats: https://berghain.berlin/jasss
Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/a-world-of-service

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Bandcamp: https://ostgut.bandcamp.com/album/a-world-of-service
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/album/a-world-of-service/1587326314
Derer: https://www.deezer.com/playlist/9615082122
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5R76uc259XhrHUYGDcalQh
YouTube: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mOqu3yBiTOGor8eQrL9Kyrmbi6jVKDKiY

Watch the music video for “A World Of Service”, directed by Sander Houtkruijer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZzRP2p7Lek

The evolution of ‘A World Of Service’ has curved around genre collapsing and unexpected metamorphoses. Formerly the name of the monthly radio show JASSS hosted in Berlin, and soon to be the title of her expansive multi-sensory touring concept in collaboration with Ben Kreukniet, here ‘A World Of Service’ is powerfully concentrated in sonic form. Throughout the album JASSS muses on the especially current human and technological barriers to interconnectivity; both lyrically and musically she deconstructs the self, unmasks anxieties and interrogates the insufficiencies of language as applied to gender, identity and interpersonal relationships. Forming her own fluid, nuanced lexicon in response, JASSS seeks a deeper understanding of her multiple selves, emerging through unbridled adolescent rage and the wisdom of maturation, traversing liminality with abstract electronics and baroque industrial pop. Visually this is underscored by Matt Lambert’s uncanny floral cover portraiture, as well as the record’s distinct scent of wet earth, flower and woods developed for the album by Meri Bonastre and applied to the vinyl innersleeve.

Following the imaginative nostalgia of ‘Weightless’, her 2017 debut album for iDEAL Recordings, as well as her blistering dancefloor 12” for Whities / AD 93, ‘A World Of Service’ folds personal and societal concepts in on themselves, not seeking answers but rather luxuriating in the unique friction that questions create. JASSS is intensely focused yet musically unbridled; this is reflected in tonal shifts of ‘A World Of Service’. Through the computerised yearning and bruising of a heartbreak on “Luis”, to the jagged and wordless tundra of “Vapor Dentro”; the intriguing juxtaposition of warm, alluring Spanish vocals against rigid pillars of industrial heft and bass grind (“Camelo”), and the soaring maximalist industrial pop of the album’s closer, “Wish.”

As intensity rises through the pandemic-era trip hop of the album’s title track “A World Of Service”, JASSS sings:

“Pleasure /
Is nowhere to be found inside this world of service /
I call to be my life.”

Pleasure may remain elusive to her, but in the determination to make peace with her various identities in this technological age, JASSS offers a compelling glimpse into an essential type of artistic voice.

— Text: Christine Kakaire

Cover and artwork photography: Matt Lambert | Layout: Yusuf Etiman
Florals: Anatomie Fleur
Make-up: Christian Fritzenwanker and Mario Mendez
Scent: Fum de Kyphi

A World Of Service

Camelo

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All tracks written, produced and mixed by Nathalie Seres
Mastering at Seres Studio by Ankur Sood
Graphic Layout by Tobias Vielmetter-Diekmann
Video Edits by Kiss Nuka

Label: Never Not Now
Format: Digital Only
Cat no: nevernotnow004
Release Date: 02.06.2022

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LIES-193
FULL EFX-HEADRUSH
2XLP
to be released November 4th, 2022
Turning a new chapter with a new alias, techno stalwart Anthony Parasole delivers his FULL EFX project. The New York City artist known for his work on OsGut Ton, Dekmantel, and his own imprint The Corner, now makes his debut on L.I.E.S. Records.

While the backbone of this project is rooted in the structural ideas of traditional techno, we now hear Parasole expand on his past sound in a refined manner with acute attention to detail throughout these new productions. Most notably is the repeated use of processed "vocals" on the recording which serves a psychedelic element that drives many of the tracks with haunting results. Tempos push and pull from lightspeed 140 bpm club cuts to 89 bpm pseudo-dancehall to the broken beat closer "Scared to Death" with its chopped vocal, sizzling percussions and industrial crunch, all tracks taking their own persona.

With FULL EFX, Parasole expertly puts forth an lp that brings together and transforms the many sounds of modern electronic music in a unique and laser focused fashion with his new vision.

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Track from NE87 Rune Bagge – Grab a Star

Out on LP and digital December 2nd

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome
northernelectronics.bandcamp.com

Marking his third for Northern Electronics, Rune Bagge's new album, Grab a Star, narrates a melancholic thread through a brilliantly luminous astral-electro scene. Carving an achingly delicate relief through six tracks, there's a neon hinge to the emotive mechanisms at work, offsetting the meditative armature with sheer torque and a blustered spirit.

Rune Bagge – Fade Away (Touch The Sky)

Two years since their first compilation, Herrensauna returns with a double 12-inch V/A showcasing eight crucial artists from the global underground.
For their second release, the Berlin-based label and queer collective look to the forefront of experimentalism in electronic music, connecting the dots between producers of varying backgrounds to provide an aesthetic statement of intent.
Driving percussion, drilling offbeats, and eerie soundscapes paint an intense picture of Herrensauna’s own events - for which they regularly collaborate with other collectives - whilst also looking outward for inspiration.
A droning, distortion-soaked new track by Kenyan Nyege Nyege resident Slikback sits alongside a maximalist electro remix of Georgian resident Salome by DJ Stingray 313, whilst Colombian producer Verraco offers up a euphoric, percussive rework of Merino and Greece’s DJ Loser + Malafama offer up a syncopated, multi-genre new cut for the peak hours.
By prioritising freedom of expression, the compilation serves as an inspiring example of collaboration beyond genre restraints, and a documentation of some of the most innovative producers of the moment.
Artwork for the release was created by in-house resident Mauro Ventura (aka DJ Saliva), with the photography of Haakon Korbi.
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https://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-154-l-f-t-hollow-head-the-hacker-remix

After his sold out LP "Salz" and an extensive tour in Europe, L.F.T. aka Johannes Haas is back on Mannequin Records with a brand new 6-tracks EP  "Hollow Head".

Blessed by the vocal features of Rosaceae ( the bloodthirsty breaktbeat 'I Want To Be A Witch'), Nils Fock (the banging wave 'Hörst Du Das') and Petra Flurr (EBM anthem 'Panzer Tanz'), L.F.T. music evokes a urge of dancing while simultaneously embracing a DIY aesthetic, creating a sonic universe where past, present, and future converge. 

The Hacker aka Michel Amato, a long time collaborator of Mannequin Records, is joining the pack with his interpretation of 'Panzer Tanz', turning the track into a straight techno banger.

L.F.T. is a visionary artist who takes listeners on a mesmerizing journey through a sonic landscape that fuses elements of electro and new wave aesthetics. 

release date July 7, 2023

Limited edition of 400 copies on black vinyl. First 100 copies on smoked clear vinyl, handnumbered.

Mastered by Rude 66, Amsterdam, 2023.
Mixed by Alessandro Adriani, Berlin, 2023
Graphic design by AA.

Hollow Head EP

L.F.T. - I Want To Be A Witch

Artist: 3Ddancer
Title: You could do anything.
Label: Planet X /
Catalogue: PX010
Genre: Electronic
Release date : 19.07.2023

Tracklist:

1. cool it doot
2. Catnip
3. byte me
4. Carnival Engine Room (Alex’ Guitar Edit)
5. Swarm Unit
6. Feel Something Weird Now	
7. roadworks
8. you could do anything
9. Feel Me Now
10. hopscotch
11. WHATSUPP MOTHERFUCKERS
12. Continue

You could do anything when everything is varying in daring ways.
Unexpected, inspected, rectified, but not corrected.
hardcore zen, yet again, funny fun, so come and get some.

3Ddancer bring you wild sounds and noises from the other side,
join them side by side on a voyage through chaos, order and emotion,
riding the moment, following it to strange places and getting lost in a dream world.

Returning to be perceived through Exos’ pounding Planet X lens, 3Ddancers you could do anything brings 12 punchy tracks cut from live performances at Kraftwerk, Human, RSO, Mjut, Arkaoda and Funkhaus, following the 4 hour “new exciting toys” of 2022. As one has come to expect from the trio, the industrial techno-y electro IDM dances between the cool and surreal, at times reaching almost comical absurdity. Swaying from the serene to the abrasive, the sound is rough and alive - thick low end and sharp highs ever-present.

Starting with the surreal, cool it doot, Catnip and byte me pack a disorientating punch to prepare the listener for what's to come. Carnival Engine Room (Alex’s Guitar Edit) gives us some soothing atmospheric respite before we descend into the sonic violence of swarm unit, really highlighting 3Ddancers signature groovy thumping crunch. The momentum isn’t lost from there, returning briefly to the surreal with Feel Something Weird Now, only to continue punching through with roadworks, Feel Me Now, and hopscotch. you could do anything adds some rolling bassline to the mix along with some meme vocals, after which we conclude the absurdity in WHATSUPP MOTHERFUCKERS and ending in the reds with continue.

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