a name I havent seen a while, good shit as always

Taken from Async Figure upcoming EP, Figure I out on June 23, 2021, via @seacucumberlabel

Async Figure is the ultimate alliance of UK based artists MM & Suda. The project was first unveiled with a live show at 2018’s Unsound Festival, inside a gutted industrial kitchen in Krakow. Their debut release Figure I features three high-intensity, melody-first club statements and marks the first in a trifecta of releases for Sea Cucumber.

Photo by xiaopeng_yuan

Read: https://bit.ly/3gfTaDG
Pre-Order: asyncfigure.bandcamp.com/album/figure-i-2

Figure I

Premiere:  Async Figure - Waking World [Sea Cucumber]

sampled ML Buch's song "O", loved the guitar melody a lot so did some work with it. I will remove it if there's any copyright issue.

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ML Buch - O (Zean Edit)

Ready

Design Default - Quartz Silica EP
Format: Digital
Release: December 2nd, 2022
Artwork by Benfika

Marking the 100th record of the imprint’s prolific history, Infinite Machine are proud to present the release of Quartz Silica EP by new-comer Design Default. A self-described ‘tone scientist’, the Parisian delivers a 5-track of uniquely textural compositions which map out a sonic world influenced by dystopian anime titles like Trigun & Neon Genesis Evangelion. Like many on the IM discography, Quartz Silica acts almost like a simulation or audio-film representation of an abstract space you’re invited to traverse.

The EP opens with ‘Between Wasteland and Sky’; percussive assault on your senses which clearly exemplifies Design Default’s meticulous approach to sound design. Every detail, every sample and every automation is carefully considered to add to the heightened affective theatrics heard here.

‘A.S.K’ follows things up on this release, a highly inventive composition with a loose structure that evolves from phrase-to-phrase, refusing to sit still. Design Default’s interest in jazz and free-form arrangements is married up with an angular sonic palette of industrial groans and splutters; generating the impression of hearing a glitch (or hiccup, even) in the machine. There’s something refreshingly playful about the maximalistic breakdown of ‘A.S.K’ akin to the wry smile found in some of AYA and her YCO label’s output.

After two highly frenetic tracks, Design Default turns the tempo down slightly with the groove-laden ‘S.E.E.D.S’. Layers of rich, fuzzy synapses phase in and out of prominence over a bed of complex drum programming. The producer deploys negative space here to great effect, with the absence of a drum hit or sample where you might expect one adding to the hypnotic rhythmic swing of ‘S.E.E.D.S’.

Rounding out the originals of Quartz Silica EP, ‘SILEX’ is a club-ready construction with a paint-shaking bassline which seems to slip downwards in pitch as if it can’t get steady footing. Again, Design Default’s tone science/alchemy shines through clearly here, with stutters of melodies, bursts of white noise and stacked drum patterns managing to sit cohesively in this dynamic expanse.

Fellow Parisian De Grandi jumps on remix duties for ‘S.E.E.D.S’ to finish off the EP. The Paradoxe Club signee adds further syncopation and strips the original’s elements down to its fundamental core. The results are a spectral creeper of a tune - built almost intentionally with dark, low ceiling environments in mind.

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Design Default - A.S.K (IM100)

Featured on VA Compilation Steel Genesis ver​.​3C3C1D11940 [M​.​A027] out on Magdalena's Apathy https://soundcloud.com/regrets_regrets

Artwork direction and curation by DJ Loser https://soundcloud.com/loser111

Mastering by Astytekk https://soundcloud.com/astytekk

Ice_Eyes - DARK UNIT

Tzusing and Taipei’s FINAL club curate a five-track compilation of local experimental electronic talent on @seacucumberlabel. Hear @sandystrace's ‘Beholden’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-sandys-trace-beholden

Premiere: Sandy’s Trace ‘Beholden’

‘Inflatable Gravestone’ is the debut album by Mun Sing (aka Harry Wright) released on https://soundcloud.com/planetmurecords on 2nd June 2023

https://munsing.bandcamp.com/album/inflatable-gravestone

The motivating force of the album is the sudden loss of Harry’s father in 2020. Their father struggled with substance addiction and the album explores ideas of 'spirituality' and the ‘higher self’ in relation to addiction and its parallels with the coping mechanisms of grief. It also aims to highlight the importance of humour and distraction when coping with loss.

Serving as a narrative for their own experiences, the album is largely built around club-centred tracks (such as ‘Spider’ and ’Squabble’) broken up by moments of yearning and reflection in tracks like ’The Poison Garden’ and ‘Helhest (Azrael Smirks)’ and moments of dark anguish like 'Inheritor' with its heavy slab-like chords and pensive piano. Flirting with awkward and suggestive rhythms, Wright deliberately suspends moments of resolution and groove in favour of drama and jerky, unexpected cartoonish humour, taking as much influence from the likes of the Art Of Noise as Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. 

Wright rewards the listener with moments of clarity and introspection like flags on the journey, recruiting vocalist MX World to deliver lyrics and melodic ideas created by them and their father. Their father’s journals in rehab helped inform most of the lyrics. Some take whole sentences as a way to physically ‘give life’ to his words for the first time. The lyrics describe feelings, revelations and  apocalyptic hallucinations. MX World's clear, direct tone suggests folk music and the timelessness of the human condition.

The album concludes with the title track ‘Inflatable Gravestone’ which features a chorus of giddy manipulated laughter from Wright’s friends and family to a truly maddening effect. This is then resolved by bright and clear piano chords and the sound of Wright’s father breathing in his sleep. A deeply affecting and personal record with corkscrew twists and turns and a healthy dose of absurdism. 
credits
releases June 2, 2023

All tracks written and produced by Harry Wright. Lyrics by Harry Wright, except track 10 lyrics by Harry Wright and William Wright. Lead vocals by MX World. Additional vocals by Nashne, Akiko Haruna and Mouse.

Mastered by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven Mastering.

Published by Domino Publishing.

Waiting In The Car

Abrasive club-ready track from @klahrk.

Scribbles by Jack Clarke

Purchase on Bandcamp ⬎

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REVOLVE

In the Neptarion star cluster, the Cyborganos, biomechanical beings, fuse technology and biology to create an advanced and highly structured society. Under the leadership of Cybernetro, these beings explore the boundaries of science and technological innovation.

Previews "Cybernetro" by Take Karaka

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HANAH - Imprezzza

demos&inquiries to->warecollective@gmail.com

⊚mega8080⊚
We return to Spanners for one final full send for the year — joined by friends from near and afar. See you in the smoke.
->https://ra.co/events/1804846

☄PlanetWARE Is Building A Bonfire☄
Since our inaugural Coinstorm seminar, a recognised group of fraudsters set out to infiltrate our beloved walls with corporate slander. It has been concluded that these imposters were mere imitations of Euphoria Investments Inc and the Foundation of PlanetWare. In light of this, we have concluded that it is now time to stack it high and burn it to the ground. 4th November, Corsica Studios.
->https://ra.co/events/1778245

⎰ Molten Solids ⎱
WARE return to The Glove That Fits for another day ⟶ night party, this time teaming up with Valley as we bring them over the channel for their debut appearance on these shores.  ☼Outside 5⟶10 / Inside 9⟶1☾
-> https://ra.co/events/1746207

☼Helios☾
WARE & Red Waxxx team up for a day ⟶ night party as we enter the second half of the year. ☼Outside 3⟶8 / Inside 8⟶1☾
-> https://ra.co/events/1713561

⋆PlanetWARE: Coinstorm⋆ 
After 5 years of accumulating credit; two rogue enterprises with a shared taste for inside trading set out to seize Corsica Studios in one token-fuelled, autonomous spectacle. 
-> https://ra.co/events/1663937

◈Ancient History◈
join us for our first night of 2023 to celebrate ➄ years of ⓦ. featuring KAVARI b2b Citytronix, Stem, Stolen Velour, Joel EB & Asics Twin
-> https://ra.co/events/1649826

➲Marathon➲
A series of fundraising events in aid of Mermaids, Refugee Action, Inquest & 
KAVARI's Survival Fund for Ware 2021.

First release is a Limited Edition Soft Shell Embroidered Gilet. Made to order limited run. Available on our site.
-> http://ware.zone

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