Newly-arrived experimental electronic music duo @un_p debuts on A Flooded Need with a monumental four-track EP that violently bursts upon us like a sonic train, mixing various elements of contemporary electronic music, with the aim of abruptly liquidating all our awareness.
From the very first moment, the sensation that pervades us is like being catapulted into an icy dilapidated environment where ancient statuesque sound masses are corroded by noisy, saturated isolationist atmospheres.
The same acoustic creatures that seem on the verge of encompassing us, are able to whisper as-yet-unknown indecipherable conventions, suggesting the acceptance of the overwhelming power of noise as a remedy to the evil of modernity and a form of relief.
Ensemble Axiom is dynamic stasis. Huge stormy sound clusters meet liquid, bilious silences.
It is shining ruin and cold restoration.
It is digital sculpture and human escapism.

1. un_p - DEM
2. un_p - ERS
3. un_p - NON
4. un_p - OST

Produced by Stefano Giampietro and Giorgio Bosso.
Mastered by Stefano Giampietro and Giorgio Bosso.
Artwork by Carmine Laurenza.
AFN009 - @a-flooded-need
A Flooded Need, 2022.

Ensemble Axiom

un_p - DEM

Hiding nowhere, there is supposed to be more...
ljj555998 aka moremore
One of FunctionLab's resident DJ.
moremore is good ep coming soon

releases June 24, 2022

moremore is good

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Heaven's Gate

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"Veering from fractured hyperpop into deconstructed club oddness and ambience, this album is a restless and rewarding experience that will delight fans of the Orange Milk catalogue and the stranger corners of Oneohtrix Point Never’s discography." (https://soundcloud.com/djmag) 

"Time and time again, we have found ourselves lost in this album. A potent stew of element we’d possible not normally enjoy tumbling in space with sections we wish continued into far longer expanses." (Obladada) 

On Organe Solaire (GEN051) by https://soundcloud.com/amselysen a coherent ensemble is presented consisting of digital, hyperprocessed textures, minuscule sound fragmentations and impassioned, pressing vocal broadcasts. Deceptively, the sound at intermittently even approaches something like a sugary sweet pop production: chord stabs, piano tones, heartfelt howling, energetic kicks, the whole works. The most powerful weapons in the electro-acoustic toolkit are used here: sound events occur on a microscopic scale, sliced, granulated, pitch-bent, resonant, bubbling, stretching - but at the same time have an impactful, cinematic, piercing quality. From the arrangement point of view there is a cryptic multi-centered, restless logic, with the trajectory of all tracks constantly getting out of balance, twisting, self-subverting. The human voice, or the remnants of it, form an important thread through this album; spanning a wide tonal, textural range, the voice material is sometimes vocoded, stuttering, crushed, resampled, fried, totally pushed beyond its limits; but at other times innately performative, assertive - a declaration of intent or active intervention, conveying meaning, communicating something important. Organe solaire follows 2020's murky transmission Hypnagogic Surge.

/ Hakeem Lapointe (https://soundcloud.com/amselysen) about GEN051
“My [Amselysen’s] second full length album’s focus, Organe Solaire, strays from conceptual music and goes on dissecting and splaying a dark but colourful sludge of emotions. A major point source in my compositional approach to the record has been imagining the trajectory of hyper-pop if it evolved with a more pessimistic tendency, with the same bells and whistles, but less shiny and squeaky clean — like the rainbow reflections of tar bubbles.
Organe Solaire, unable to afford being cryptic, doubles down on honest, raw lyricism and is quick to open up, building a comprehensive musical and gestural language that reflects the narratives behind each and every track. They range from slow suicidal ballads, to demented hyper-melancholic pop, to interludes containing heavy narratives, like Discrepancies (for Kellyanne): a heavily filtered piano composition dating from my late teens, also acting as a hope to reach out to a long lost then-best friend.
I did not shy away at referencing personal idols who’ve inspired me throughout the years: The Labour of Love samples Akira Fuse’s Shikuramen No Kahori, a song mentioned in Joji Koyama and Tujiko Noriko’s feature length film Kuro, and matches its theme: gazing at the afterimage of a romance long gone. Post-modern Tsunami, as outlined by “shoutout to Hito Steyerl”, is made to the image of Steyerl’s Liquidity Inc.: in its wave-like structure; in its senseless meme aesthetic; and nods at its conceptual approach, dissecting contemporary culture with economic undertones.
To aid me in my efforts, I have called upon two outstanding collaborators to lend their strengths on the album. I’ve recruited the excellent Ubu Boi, providing tactful compositions and solid vocal performances, and the mysterious 2x|n, a.k.a. Seraphim, for precise sound design and incisive aural interventions.
Delving into romantic torment, drug use, artistic frustrations, struggles with mental illness, Organe Solaire brings forth a fundamentally human experience in the form of raw edges thinly veiled under a layer of gloss.”

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Amselysen - Post-Modern Tsunami

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Following stellar tracks on Eastern Nurseries' 2022 compilation 'Wild Love to Grow' and 'Songs For Sirens' earlier this year, Mirror Organs' label debut "Sunless" sees the London-based producer deliver a strident selection of compositions that shimmer on new horizons of what contemporary ambient music can be.

Known for his previous work on his own imprint Steep Incline, Mirror Organs' second album sees the artist in a moment of transition. Sculpted granular harmonics and glitched-out drum programming encircle one another while spectral disembodied vocals cut through with an uncanny valley sensibility. Sonic blasts and ghostly drones offer dynamic richness throughout the album's opening oeuvre, while the tail-end of "Sunless" conjures an altogether headier atmosphere driven by its dancefloor aesthetic impulses. Cut-up breakbeats introduce a readiness to embrace a stroboscopic point of view, set against a glorious backdrop of youthful, post-rave nostalgia. Playful by design, 'Sunless' markedly bears influence from the UK's rich history of dance music innovation as much as it does from recent European ambient movements - a returnal moment driven by Pooley's first experiences with electronic music in the late '00s.

EN33

Mirror Organs is Bene Pooley
Recorded 2021-2023

Cover image by Bene Pooley
Mastered by Owen Pratt

Sunless

Mirror Organs - Sunless

evo-lation four is evo-natura's forth fundraising compilation, featuring gorse panshawe, usof, bod [包家巷], Arigto, Blood of Aza, angel's corpse & SONE URBIA.

Focusing on natural sounds, the project skillfully blends field recordings, drones, and electronics, with each artist sonically reflecting towards the subject.

All the earnings will be donated to Eden Reforestation Projects. (https://www.edenprojects.org/)

Artwork & Cassette Design by Ronja-Elina Kappl
Mastered by Panagiotis Vaxevanakis
Curated by Ioannis Nafpliotis

evo-lation four

Cassette / Digital

SONE URBIA - NAEGLERIA

got nothing

"The contended boundaries between technology and the body, nature and artifice - the oldest themes of science fiction - are ... repositioned through the ambiguous status of the bodybuilder star, who is both natural and unnatural, biological and constructed." - Mizejewski

BC005 - Jesse Osborne-Lanthier/Death Qualia/CVN/Gaul Plus/Greg Z/Via App

BC [↓↓↓]

breathe / destroy

"The authorities said the changes were for the greater good. But good isn't the same as right."

LIVE: xinoulei@gmail.com

Heaven's Gate

XI-N

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