ZOBOL

EPs 2023

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Zobol

Next up we have Bristol boss Zobol, having a fruitful last 2 years with his two brilliant albums “Aquatic Observations” and “Silver Lining of A Rain Cloud”      while also releasing EP’s on Mint Tea, Erbium Records & Sci-Fact. 
His mixes are right up our alley as well with otherworldly pads colliding brilliantly with fast breaks. This dreamy brain dance flavour put him next to the likes of Extrawelt, WHØ, Adam Pits and on series as Nocta Numerica, Galactic Funk & Noise To Meet You.  

Be sure to check out his collab label together with Entrave called Distorted Sensory Perception, right after you let your brain wave on DUSK129.  
 
Let his music do the talking. 

Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/zobol
Bandcamp : https://zobol.bandcamp.com/
Discogs : https://www.discogs.com/artist/4113576-Zobol
RA : https://ra.co/dj/zobol
 Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ZobolUK
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/jonski.zobol/
Contact : jdchmielewski@hotmail.co.uk


Tracklist
Zobol – Nimbus [ Noise To Meet You ]
214 – Hurley [ Lunar Disko ]
Cygnus – Ebony Starlight [ Craigie Knowes ]
Armec – Celestial Mechanics [ We’re Going Deep ]
Sound Synthesis – Melody Chords [ Distorted Sensory Perception ]
Blackploid – Night Drive [ Central Processing Unit ]
D’Arcangelo – Pull Seven [Happy Skull]
Caramel Chameleon – Brainacid v2 [ Distorted Sensory Perception ]
Moy – Cidic Duty (PH3 Mix) [ Altered Sense ]
The Jaffa Kid – Jig Jag Electron [ The Imaginary Museum ]
Versalife – Versalife Kurzweil [ Altered Sense ]
Nullptr – Generec [ Fanzine ]
214 – Penny’s Crimp Funk [ 20/20 Vision ]
Zobol – Foreign Objects [ Sci-Fact ]

DUSK129 By Zobol

Basic Contact

Optimistic Octopus 2.0

Mambo Kahn - Raskit Boi
Aggregate - CLTX006

Release on 07.10.22

Artwork by: Romain "Indent" Girbal
Mastered by: Miguel "Médula" Orlando

Mambo Kahn:
https://soundcloud.com/mambokahnmusic

Cluster Traxx
https://soundcloud.com/clustertraxx
https://www.facebook.com/bonjourcestcluster
https://www.instagram.com/bonjourcestcluster
https://clustertraxx.bandcamp.com/

PREMIERE: Mambo Kahn - Raskit Boi [Cluster Traxx]

Nerve Collect is a new label co-founded by Dutch collaborators Identified Patient and Gamma Intel. The first release is Identified Patient's Elevator Music for Headbangers EP and it comes digitally with two bonus cuts, or as a six-track 12". It's a freaky journey into exactly the sort of leftfield electronics to expect going forwards complete with AI artwork by Nina van den Berg and Design by Sander Molenaar.

Amsterdam's Identified Patient has an off-the-hook approach that's seen him spend the last six years colliding techno, acid, breaks and dub into futurist sound worlds full of irresistible discomfort. With all that experience of playing Europe's most open-minded dance floors, he is now truly dialed into what works for him. He is making deeper-than-ever connections between what he hears in his head, what he plays, and what he makes. Now speaking clearly through his machines, Nerve Collect marks the start of an all-new conversation based around dark energy, paranoid tension and otherwordly seduction.

The first EP features music written between 2019 and 2022 and takes you deep into the netherworld. It feels both dystopian yet inviting, with hefty bass and twitchy acid that will make both brain and body dance. There's a taughtness right from the off when 'Walk With Me' marries cavernous and booming kicks with bright flashes of acid. 'You Are the Loop' is an AI hallucination with mangled synths, while 'The Fun Never Stops' is psyched-out mutant jungle. The b-side keeps on building with the dark and pressurised energy of 'Dead Demo' and screw-face swagger of 'The Devil is Blue' leading into the final cut 'Second-Hand Nostalgia' which is an industrial take on trip-hop. The bonus cuts spin out yet further into intergalactic electro-techno warfare and controlled rhythmic chaos.

The mind-melting sonics of this first release proves Nerve Collect is here to do things differently.

Pre-orders https://nervecollect.bandcamp.com/

Elevator Music for Headbangers

NC001 // Identified Patient - Elevator Music for Headbangers

buy here: https://whoispaula.bandcamp.com/album/shades-of-acid


Vertical67 - Shades of Acid

A Side (45 RPM) 
A1 - Soleil Acid
A2 - Woozy

B Side (33 RPM)
B1 - Head In The Clouds
B2- Broken Rays
B3 - Sea Of Lights

Who Is Paula WIP003

Format 12” (incl. Free DL Code)
Digital Formats (Bandcamp only)

Written & Produced: Thomas Pahl
Artwork: Sebastian Grap
Mastering: Johanz Westerman
Pressing: Deepgrooves Pressing Plant

Paula took a trip. And as she was walking on clouds,
beautiful clouds, hovering through kaleidoscopic
forests and gliding through multicolored reefs, she
couldn’t help but cry. In glee, in absolute
enchantment. And when she had to leave, all that was
left were Shades of Acid. And dry tears, tears of joy.

There will be a release party at Crack Ballmer Berlin March 3rd. 2023 ✌🏽

Shades Of Acid

WIP003 - Vertical67 - Shades Of Acid - Snippets

Drum Mode

Verve EP

Impetus

Pre-order vinyl

A2. Siro Silo

Prophecy

buy here: https://whoispaula.bandcamp.com/album/reality-testing

A Side

Hell Bender
Element Of Risk
Astronomical Significance

B Side 

Saturation Diving
Reality Testing


Label Who Is Paula
Cat. No WIP004
Format 12” (incl. Free DL Code)
Digital Formats (Bandcamp only)

Written & Produced Jon Chmielewski
Artwork David Balstert
Mastering Johanz Westerman
Pressing Deepgrooves Pressing Plant


Paula said: there are words they tried to print, there are thoughts they tried to speak, there are pictures you cannot show, photos you cannot snap and lyrics that you cannot sing. Think as I think, she said, see as I see, I kiss your thoughts, I kiss your dreams, I leave my steps upon your reality.

Reality Testing

WIP004 - Zobol - Reality Testing - Snippets

Buy Vinyl and Digital:

https://whoispaula.bandcamp.com/album/reality-testing

Release Info :

@zobol - Reality Testing [Who Is Paula // WIP004]

Paula said: there are words they tried to print, there are thoughts they tried to speak, there are pictures you cannot show, photos you cannot snap and lyrics that you cannot sing. Think as I think, she said, see as I see, I kiss your thoughts, I kiss your dreams, I leave my steps upon your reality.

Tracklist :
A1. Hell Bender
A2. Element Of Risk
A3. Astronomical Significance
B1. Saturation Diving
B2. Reality Testing

releases April 28, 2023

Written & Produced : Jon Chmielewski
Artwork : Dave Balstert
Mastering : Johanz Westerman
Pressing : Deepgrooves Pressing Plant

Pre-Order Vinyl:

▶︎ Bandcamp : https://whoispaula.bandcamp.com/album/reality-testing
▶︎ Hard Wax : https://bit.ly/3LjJ0Se
▶︎ Clone : https://bit.ly/4462Usl
▶︎ Kompakt : https://bit.ly/442ii9f
▶︎ Decks : https://bit.ly/3Lan3EP
▶︎ deejay.de : https://bit.ly/3HgNIih
▶︎ Juno : https://bit.ly/3VaBflP

[PREMIERE] - Zobol - Hell Bender [WIP004]

Buy Vinyl and Digital:

https://whoispaula.bandcamp.com/album/outside-in-the-dark

Release Info :

@who22 - Outside In The Dark [Who Is Paula // WIP005]

Paula heads outside in the dark. Touch and release, fingers probe searching for the unknown and return to the glove, still there for me and you.
It's ours to preserve!

Tracklist :
A1. Outside In The Dark 
A2. All Night
B1. Sublime Grooves
B2. 6:38 AM

releases September 1st, 2023

Written & Produced : whø?
Artwork : Niels Weißenborn
Mastering : Johanz Westerman
Pressing : Deepgrooves Pressing Plant

Pre-Order Vinyl:

▶︎ Bandcamp : https://whoispaula.bandcamp.com/album/outside-in-the-dark
▶︎ Hard Wax : http://bit.ly/3KTSgNf
▶︎ Clone : http://bit.ly/3smRxOl
▶︎ Kompakt : https://bit.ly/45EMV4l
▶︎ HHV : https://bit.ly/3sfwb5i
▶︎ Decks : https://bit.ly/3Ea3Tfa
▶︎ deejay.de : https://bit.ly/44tK51m
▶︎ Juno : https://bit.ly/3KWmoHR

Ouside In The Dark

[PREMIERE] - whø? - Sublime Grooves  [WIP005]

TIGERCAST stands as an engaging monthly podcast series, streaming on Fade Radio. 
Its primary mission is to provide a platform for a wide-ranging spectrum of artists, each contributing to the elaborate and diverse landscape that defines the immersive realm of Electro.

We are delighted to launch the series with a captivating one-hour vinyl-only mix from Zobol

Jon Chmielewski AKA Zobol is DJ and Live act hailing from Birmingham (UK) and operating out of Bristol (UK). His music is heavily influenced by Detroit Techno, Kraftwerk and all things funky and futuristic. He has a passion for making, mixing and performing deeper forms of electronic music with a focus on Electro, Acid, Techno, Braindance, Breakbeat & ambient music. 

Tracklist:

ReKaB – Me And You [ Magnonic Signals ]
Jonny3snareS – Recovery2 [ Dynamics Of Acid ]
Splitradix – West Coast Way [ Central Processing Unit ]
Ninechecker – Generating Coastline [ Orson ]
Reedale Rise – Driftwood [ Delsin ]
Vertical Dimension – In Between [ Forthcoming on Distorted Sensory Perception ] 
Vertical67 – Head In The Clouds [ Who Is Paula? ]
DVS NME – Class Conflict [ Tiger Weeds ]
Zobol – Data Wars [ 20/20 Vision ]
E.R.P – VI Eight [ Omnia ] 
Versalife – Oculus [ 20/20 Vision ]
Morphology – Karma Flies [ Analogical Force ]
Umwelt – Reflectivity [ Shipwrec ] 
Nullptr – Resilience [ Klakson ]

Links:

https://soundcloud.com/zobol
https://www.instagram.com/jonski.zobol/
https://www.facebook.com/ZobolUK

TIGERCAST 001 - Zobol

buy here: https://whoispaula.bandcamp.com/album/acid-illusion

@not-even-noticed - Acid Illusion

A Side (45 RPM)
A1 - Acid Illusion
A2 - Rodinia

B Side (45 RPM)
B1 - Xenograft 
B2- Cloudless
B3 - Cyber Rhythm

Who Is Paula WIP006

Format 12” (incl. Free DL Code)
Digital Formats (Bandcamp only)

Written & Produced: Carsten Fluck & Lucas Lejeune
Artwork: Chris Morgan
Mastering: Johanz Westerman
Pressing: Deepgrooves Pressing Plant

Paula looked into the mirror, when logic and proportion have fallen apart, white fog lifting and falling, glimpsed thru mullioned glass, crawling around her face like a thousand micrograms of bleeps, far above the moon.
Is it real or an illusion?

There will be a release party at Crack Ballmer Berlin May 4rd. 2024 ✌🏽

Acid Illusion

WIP006 - not even noticed - Acid Illusion - Snippets

Zyklon B

Celestial Nomad EP

Falling

Ecker & Meulyzer “Carbon” (SUB033)

Digital: https://eckermeulyzer.bandcamp.com/album/carbon

Koenraad Ecker and Frederik Meulyzer make their Subtext debut with Carbon. 

Based on field recordings made at Norway’s Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a secure seed bank located on the island of Spitsbergen, Carbon grapples with the many contradictions that lie at the heart of our shift into the capitalocene. The project began in 2017, when Ecker and Meulyzer scored the performance “Frozen Songs,” a commission by Zero Visibility Dance Company led by Ina Christel Johannesen.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault was conceived of as an effort to preserve copies of seeds from key crop varieties, ensuring their persistence in the event of large-scale crises. Yet the area is warming faster than anywhere else on earth, causing the permafrost to melt and putting the seed vault at risk. 

Across from the Seed Vault lie the decrepit remnants of Svalbard’s mining activities of the early 20th century; Carbon wrestles with the incongruities nestled in the town’s landscape. Reflecting on dissonances of stasis and change, closeness and distance, enclosure and expanse, as well as cynicism and hope, Ecker and Meulyzer consider the urgency of our situation while trying to sidestep all-too popular depictions of dystopia. In Ecker’s own words, “we don’t have the luxury to afford that kind of pessimism.” 

From close, supple sounds to cold, brutal sonics, Carbon meditates on the many challenging questions and contradictions raised by the Seed Vault and its surroundings—a landscape that embodies and makes visible the many intertwined phenomena that shape our current predicament.

Ecker and Meulyzer, formerly known as Stray Dogs, have released works such as Wasteland, recorded in deconsecrated church in Antwerp, and Kalkar, recorded in the cooling tower of a former power station in Germany. 

Koenraad Ecker works in the fields of electro-acoustic music, field recording, radio plays, stage performance and text. Together with Andrea Taeggi, he is part of the Opal Tapes-affiliated duo Lumisokea. His output encompasses studio albums, audiovisual installations, texts, performances, and sound design for film. 

Frederik Meulyzer is a percussionist active in projects including Belgian jazz band Hamster Axis of the One-Click Panther, contemporary music and theatre company Post uit Hessdalen, and experimental psych-krautrock band Slumberland.

The ecological impact of the production of this record will be compensated through a carbon offsetting program .

Bandcamp

Ecker & Meulyzer - Metabolic Rift

Perpetual Cycle

Support here: tinyurl.com/VIRALVOL1

Dear Earthlings, 

We gather that dark times lay ahead of us, the unpredictable trajectory of this outbreak is out of our hands as we enter a period of real uncertainty. For our music industry we hold so dear, our musicians, clubs and festivals, the agents, promoters and dancers, and all others involved in making our industry what it is today, this has far-reaching implications for all of us. 

Viral Syndicate is a digital compilation series formed by ourselves to help support artists financially during the Coronavirus outbreak. All proceeds will directly fund artists involved with the release, or towards a charity of their choice if the artist prefers. We hope to deliver these compilations on a regular basis to help fund artists as much as possible. This is our way of helping our scene stay afloat during this difficult time. 

We hope our project and the music we’ll be sharing through this series will shed some light over this darkness. 


Stay strong, stay safe, and support our artists if you can. 


With love, Haŵs x

Zobol - Latch

* Read more: https://boltingbits.com/zobol-rings-of-saturn-erbium-records
* Watch on YouTube:

With Solar Return EP, Bristol-based artist, Jon Chmielewski, who goes by the alias Zobol, continues to refine his space age-y, sci-fi leaning approach to dance music. Across three sprawling tracks, Zobol takes listeners on a voyage through distant, expansive, awe-inspiring soundscapes. 
	Opening track, “Rings of Saturn (Fading),” is a sonic portal into another dimension, one seemingly unbothered by the ordinary rules and logic of space and time. The track illustrates what it might feel like for one’s body, or a substance of some kind, to undergo a form of transmutation. Beginning with a skeletal kick-drum pattern, it quickly evolves with glistening synth arpeggios, atmospheric, reverberating keys, undulating bass, and squelchy acid hits. It’s almost as if the track takes on a life of its own as it continues mutating into a surprisingly graceful, multi-tiered organism with every new break. 
	Dropping on July 31st via Birmingham-based Erbium Records, this track is refreshingly organic and tuneful, while still retaining a mechanized, heady approach. While Zobol’s work here might not be exactly humanist, it certainly has a mercurial, exploratory quality to it that feels very much the work of someone who is tirelessly searching for new, inventive ways of synthesizing machine-made sounds for the dancefloor.

PREMIERE: Zobol - Rings Of Saturn

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