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Micachu - I Dare You (Demdike Stare Edit)

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Green Room

Riohv - Sun Shadow

Nico Niquo - In A Silent Way
2/24/17(LP / Digital)

Nico Niquo returns to Orange Milk with the synthetic ambient masterpiece In A Silent Way. The work contains slowly evolving compositions and sound meditations based around the palette of modern grime music minus the percussion. In the songs “Arbo Arco” and “He Loved Him Madly” the grime theme is most present, with droplets of synth and bass rising and melting to suggest invisible kick drums underneath. “Rendered” and “In A Silent Way” begin with simple arpeggios that build to intense climaxes, while closing track “Aa-m” is an almost ASMR-inducing meditation.

Music by Nico Callaghan. Tenor Saxophone by Joseph Buchan. Mastered by Simon Lam. Visual art by Keith Rankin.

In A Silent Way

Nico Niquo - In A Silent Way

Whities 010 - Coby Sey
Release date - 7th April 2017
Buy - whiti.es/

A1 - Active (Peak)
A2 - All Change
B1 - Vestry
B2 - Seed (Our Cells Meet)
B3 - Ticket

Artwork by Alex McCullough
 Distributed by Rush Hour

Thanks to Coby, Alex, Kwes, Tic and Matt!

010 - Coby Sey: Active (Peak) / All Change / Vestry / Seed (Our Cells Meet) / Ticket

World In Action

Helm – Blue Scene

See the full article and tracklist here: https://i-d.vice.com/de_de/article/premiere-lyra-elevate

Lyra is one of the talents in our BEYOND CLUBBING series which explores Berlin night life and portraits people who make the club a safer and more special place. Today we are happy to premiere her first track from her upcoming EP.  

https://soundcloud.com/lyra_songs

premiere: lyra, elevate

Overexisting

Poison

Mess Tool (Lush Walkman Loose-Tempo Tool)

Prod. by GlobalKirk and El Trick. Vocals & lyrics by Erika de Casier.

Watch video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IqiQhM39B58

©2017 Erika de Casier. All rights reserved.

What u Wanna Do?

Artist: Errorsmith
Album: Superlative Fatigue 
Format: 2xLP / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 81 
Release Date: 20 October 2017
@errorsmith

https://errorsmithpan.bandcamp.com/album/superlative-fatigue

Returning with his first album in 13 years, Errorsmith’s ‘Superlative Fatigue’ long-awaited release on PAN arrives as his perhaps most optimistic record yet.

Placing a strong emphasis on spectral exploration, the tracks tell an inherent story and span a musical arc with his recognisable synthesised tones, computerised vocal effects and timbral changes in motion.

In comparison to his previous productions, Errorsmith (Erik Wiegand) sees the release as less abstract, harsh or aggressive: “I would say it is rather accessible and cheerful; at times ridiculously cheerful but still very sincere and emotional.” He suggests. “I find it touching when this little android raises its pitch at the end of ‘Lightspeed’ or the android catching its breath in ‘My Party’ for instance.”

The album title, ‘Superlative Fatigue’ reflects this tension between an over-the-top, hysterical emotion, against more deeply felt expressions or realness.

Besides collaborating with the likes of Mark Fell, to Berghain resident Fiedel as MMM, and Soundstream as Smith N Hack, Wiegand has released a string of seminal dancefloor tracks. Building his own instruments using modular software synthesizers is a large part of his work. Where almost all the sounds in the LP were created with his synth, ‘Razor’, (a synthesizer plug-in he developed for Native instruments, released in 2011) or slightly modified versions of it.

Premiered at Unsound Festival last year, this new material he has developed since has finally taken form in this epic full-length.

The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by James Hoff and layout by Bill Kouligas.

Superlative Fatigue

Errorsmith - Who-is (PAN 81)

@hed-ardennes
Taken from Fantastic Effects.

HED Ardennes is the club work of Doug Wright (@fishing / Body Promise).

For Fantastic Effects he shares Devender, a shuffling utilitarian slink used to move things in a downwards direction when a rigid 4/4 stomper just won’t do.

Fantastic Effects

Denvender

HED Ardennes - Devender

Learn more at RVNG: https://smarturl.it/rvngnl44

©2017 RVNG Intl. // www.igetrvng.com

Lex (320 - Promo - RVNGNL44)

Visible Cloaks - Keys

Rezzett LP, out 19.02.18

Pre-order here www.shop.thetrilogytapes.com

Hala 
Longboat 
Sexzzy Creep 
Yunus in Ekstasi 
Wet Bilge 
Tarang 
Gremlinz 
Worst Ever Contender

TTT070

Rezzett LP

TTT SHOP

Rezzett – Yunus In Ekstasi

OSSIA - TUMULT (LURKA REMIX)
AYYA - SECOND MISTAKE
PARRIS - HANGING WITH BIRDS
JESSY LANZA - GIDDY
E-UNITY - WORMHOLE IN THE 4TH WALL

TRACKSOUND

Lady Gaga, you once said in an interview that you write music for the fashion industry. Is fashion as important to you as music? 
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Artist/Album: Jan Jelinek presents Zwischen
Format: LP Vinyl/DL
Label#: faitiche17
Release date: May 4th 2018

Faitiche is delighted to release a short version of the radio play Zwischen (German for ‘between’). Devised and produced by Jan Jelinek for German public broadcaster SWR2, Zwischen brings together twelve sound poetry collages using interview answers by public figures. Each collage consists of the brief moments between the spoken words: silences, pauses for breath and hesitations in which the interviewees utter non-semantic sound particles. These voice collages also control a synthesizer, creating electronic sounds that overlay and merge with the voices to make twelve acoustic structures.

We all know the speaker’s fate: you falter, you mispronounce, there are breaks, silences and false starts. This results in delays, a language noise compared by Roland Barthes to the knocks made by a malfunctioning motor. Such gaps can be disconcerting, standing as they do for a failure of the speaker’s rhetorical skills. But what happens when they become a constitutive, poetic factor?

Zwischen consists of twelve answers to twelve questions. The answers were all recorded in interview situations. From the speech of the interviewees – all eloquent public figures – the pauses are extracted and edited together. The result is a series of sound collages of silence. But this silence is deceptive, as it is only meaning that falls silent. What remains audible is an archaic body language: modes of breathing, planning phases, seething word particles in search of sense that can break out into onomatopoeic tumult or drift off into sonorous noise.

In a further step, each of the twelve collages controls a modular synthesizer via its amplitude and frequency. Supposedly defective speech acts conduct synthetic sounds and the speakers regain their composure – not via the spoken word, but through sound.

The opening questions in the various interviews are answered by: Alice Schwarzer, John Cage, Hubert Fichte, Slavoj Žižek, Joseph Beuys, Lady Gaga, Ernst Jandl, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Marcel Duchamp, Friederike Mayröcker, Yoko Ono and Max Ernst.

Jan Jelinek: Lady Gaga, (...) Is Fashion As Important To You As Music?

premiere: dormir, in pursuit

Justin Swinburne (part of @18plus18plus18plus alongside Samia Mirza) has announced his first solo mixtape as jj18. 

WATCH THE VIDEO > https://youtu.be/QO-WS-IFZC8

jj's prayer will arrive on March 23 alongside a 48 minute visual. jj's prayer is as political as it is personal - spanning themes of disaster fantasy, the presence of avatars in today's social spheres, identity, and co-dependency and the realities of being alone.

While 18+ was a project that touched on the relationship between two people, jj18 is about an individual attempting to piece together their own narrative of identity in an increasingly fragmented world. To coincide with this announcement, jj18 is also sharing the first single and visual from the mixtape.

jj's prayer

better days

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jj18 - better days

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Worth it

Appears on Physically Sick 2, released March 6, 2018

Physically Sick 2 is a charity compilation by Allergy Season and Discwoman curated by Umfang, Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson, and Physical Therapy. 100% percent of profits from the compilation will go to the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund. Out Tuesday March 6th, 2018 and available exclusively through Bandcamp.

https://physicallysick2.bandcamp.com/

Terracotta [Allergy Season]

From Boli Group "N.P.D.S" LP/DL 
Posh Isolation 208 
Out May 4th, 2018

"Via negativa, not a collection of skills but an eradication of (mental) blocks
Meme sonate, winter sun fails but 'spirits bright'
Matiné meditation
A picture of fresh moringa leaves
The sound of NSA listening in on your most intimate moments.
Early 21st Century Music”

Boli Group is a new ensemble spearheaded by Copenhagen based composer and producer Asger Hartvig. Responsible for some of the most fearless and intriguing works to come from the city in recent years, Hartvig is as imposing as he is mysterious, and his debut release for Posh Isolation makes no concessions.

Hartvig is perhaps best known for his work with the group Synd Og Skam. And though less known, Brynje 1&2 is just as exceptional. Taking both technology and classicism as allegories, each group charts routes in and out of pop music, somehow arriving at an observer's distance to the distinct stylistic choices in the process. The label Visage has published the best of this, and the logic has certainly been carried into 'Boli Group LP,' the latest offering from Hartvig and his distinguished ensemble of Nina Cristante, Holger Hartvig, Thea Thorborg, and Cæcilie Trier.

There is a nearly unendurable fragility to 'Boli Group LP.' It's as if Hartvig has let the complexities of his themes stand in mourning; his narrator taking a moment to themselves behind sunglasses, exhausted for the rose-tinted lens of the prepared script. The album is willingly dramatic, though it never plateaus into melancholia. Hartvig pirouettes at the edge with the sorrowful string arrangements and the pristine timbre of the piano, the immediacy of the acoustics always binding the listener tightly to the risk. Pastoral and meditative, the electronics don't tamper with the delicate fabric being woven. They always register as supportive and understated. The synthetic hum, occasionally yielding a doleful melody as it does, manages to imbue a naiveté to this contemporary and subtly idiosyncratic chamber music.

Though the track titles lead us on, in time the examination the album provokes is that of the tension in transparency. The album's secret, barely kept through the minimalism, is its distinct folk noir quality in holding it.

"boli group creating new chamber folklore embracing the playing of instruments, not the played, but that which is playing for the sake of future focus and edit into the very minerals of instrument, intuition, emotion, fragility underlying, the warning, always pulsating acts of drama, wet leaves, asphalt, pan to right, agriculture and electricity poles a container ship, lonely in horizon hoping for a clear thought, but everything existing as conspiracy the sound of a search, uncertain and always asking, for certainty is false, showing sceneries changing permanently and forever narrating, like a panorama of grey clouds, keeping humidity levels high, heating up before the release of water and lightning investigation for folk instruments. What are their songs and where will they go, over time, woven together like a piece of fabric created to stand against the lethal winds”

A1. Overture 04:36
A2. How To Play 03:12
A3. Monsanto Folk Song 02:46
A4. Toxica 03:15
A5. Moringa 03:15
A6. Garden Picture 02:28

B1. Tension In Three Stages (Drama) 06:28
B2. Tension In Three Stages (Country) 03:18
B3. Tension In Three Stages (Nautic) 05:39
B4. Summit 01:35

Posh Isolation 208

04 05 2018

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