Ruhail Qaisar - Fatima 
Cat. Nr: DN019
Format: DL + 48 page photography & text publication (Urdu / English) 
Release Date: January 27, 2023
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/fatima

Ruhail Qaisar’s Fatima is a requiem for a dead future. The debut album release by the self-taught artist and producer screams with the trauma and decay of life in his hometown of Leh—a high-altitude plateau region in the contested Ladakh area, extending from the Himalayan to the Kunlun Ranges. Qaisar absorbs this external condition of perpetual conflict between nation states into his internal life and resulting compositions, crossing sound art, noise music and experimental filmmaking. Hauntological drones, power electronics and convulsive post-industrial dissonance create an unnerving sense of fear, anger, and alienation. A broken transistor with a knob tuned to the abyss is bombarded with the cries and bitter laughter of a city’s inhabitants tyrannized, not only by military occupation but the soft-power subjugation of the tourism industry.
 
Following 2016’s Ltalam EP—released under Qaisar’s now-defunct Sister moniker—Fatima serves to transmit memories carried through the events, local mythos and personal recollections of growing up between the remote agrarian villages of Ladakh and the urban center of its joint capital—Leh. The album was mixed between that area, and a DIY home studio in New Delhi, where the artist amalgamates his collected found sounds and field recordings into unrecognizable hybrids. Discordant pads and atmospherics on the dark ambient of “Daily Hunger” is disrupted by a crashing, pounding reverb, while contributor Elvin Brandhi shrieks towards its horrifying conclusion in the squelching, scratching sound of something soft being chewed.
 
An anti-lingual conjuring of metaphysical totems in music, Fatima is a seething chronicle of experience through the dynamics of riots, violence, colonization, unemployment, PTSD, and self-abuse. The cycling tumult of “Namgang” hosts a menacing whisper that echoes the hissing fury of something like Einstürzende Neubauten and Lydia Lunch’s “Thirsty Animal,” while a trouncing distorted bass line on “Fatima’s Poplar” circles a voice that barks, "The Western Civilization Show has been discontinued."

The Bunker, New Delhi
Choglamsar Village, Ladakh

Mastering by Rashad Becker
Mixing by Julien Racine 
Photography by Rana Ghose 
Design by Niels Wehrspann

Fatima

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Ruhail Qaisar - Namgang

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KUTHI JIN - GARAMUNDU, BAANG, SALUS PUNCH

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with versions by @gyurbhi @dylanscheer
out May 15, 2019
Mastering @avbvrn
Artwork/Design @shbadr sarahbadr.com

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In an effort to give back to our community, which has been hit hard during Covid-19, over the past month, we’ve been collecting unreleased tracks from some of our favorite musical artists. ALL of the money raised through this purchase will go to the Artist Relief Project, which was created to help artists in need during Covid-19.

Sirens Scrapyard takes form as a digital album with an A and B side. Side A takes listeners on an emotionally ambient ride and Side B celebrates high energy rave hymns.

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M. James – Dragliner

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Taken from @iptpf new album Obsession, out July 5, 2020 via @ginandplatonic.

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ptpf is an acronym derived from the surname of Russian producer Ilya Potapov. Coming from Saint Petersburg, Potapov has been self-releasing comprehensive collections of sorely wrenched music for the past couple years. His first two projects under the ptpf moniker - '1935' and 'G.D. ' (dating back to 2015 and 2016, respectively) somewhat resemble the formula fundamental for the haunting atmosphere of an early witch house or other industrial offshots. Although the experimental nature of ptpf's works is evident throughout these releases, the transition towards more abstract realms manifests utterly on his 2019 album 'Salivation'. Coming out via the already-cult label Quantum Natives, 'Salivation' sees ptpf embracing the disorder and the tensity that was previously tamed and now has been let loose entirely. Gin&Platonic are now pleased to present ptpf's follow-up musical instalment - 'obsession'.

On 'obsession', Potapov's signature distant muttering collides with abraded power electronics, together creating a four-track EP full of dreadful emotional confession not everybody is ready to hear out loud. The disturbing nature of the project evokes a gradual dissociation from a long-forgotten tenderness into an emotional imbalance and urgent confusion. What once felt like affection, now feels like an obsession.

The leading single 'Shibari' is remixed by @rina-priduvalova, a Ukrainian interdisciplinary artist who released her first EP 'The Tears Of Things' in 2019. She is now in the process of preparing multiple audiovisual projects together with Diana Azzuz as Ximena. We also reached out to Greek rhythmic alchemists @ice_eyes, whose releases we have on heavy rotation, having received a slamming remix of 'Nobody´s Fault'. Last but not least, the endlessly creative brain behind Quantum Natives themselves - @ornine - closes the release with a sublime rework of 'Last Record'.

Artwork by Jiri Macku
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Mastered by @wimdehaen

Released by Gin&Platonic

Premiere: ptpf - Nobody's Fault (Ice_Eyes Remix)[Gin&Platonic]

Track Premiere: Awaken by @martyyna-1 [@bcaasystem]
Awaken EP due August 10th https://bcaasystem.bandcamp.com/
Read More: https://paynomindtous.it/awaken-martyyna-bcaa/
Artwork by Igor Sabaev [https://instagram.com/igorlorok/]
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Today, we’d like to offer you the last track premiere just before the so longed summer break. On the spotlight is MARTYYNA, a producer / DJ born and currently based in Prague, affiliated with the Blazing Bullets DJs collective, co-founder of the Illegal Taipei research hub and of the cutting-edge KSK events series in the Czech capital. Her debut EP, titled Awaken and developed around the deployment and dissection of traditional Asian instruments such as guzheng and erhu, will see the light on August 10th on the local BCAA system platform.

Already appeared on outcomes such as Eco Futurism Corporation, Unizone, ANBA, and others more with multilayered, textured gems of glitchy ambiance, rusty percussions, and dim melodies, her intimate approach to composition is enriched for the occasion by the use of her own vocals, appearing throughout all the record as the leading component together with the aforementioned deconstruction of string instruments.

In particular, MARTYYNA’s peculiar drive comes from her background as architecture/urbanism professional which led her to spend several years in Taiwan and other far-East regions researching local, illegal, and unofficial housing and the economic forces at play. Her creative outings are somehow suspended between a sense of tidiness and order and the unrestrained desire to create living, breathing sonic entities. The two components show up in a tense exchange where none of the sides prevail, enhancing each other instead.

Mastered by Dominik Gajarský, the EP comes with a neu-grunge cover by Igor Lorok, a visual artist and DJ based in Prague. Also involved with the KSK crew as the author of its graphic identity, his artwork for the EP is the fruit of a close relationship with the producer that brought them working together around the album concept.

As the title suggests, Awaken is a largely experimental work composed of five pieces that are focused on affirmation, inner discovery, acceptance of all the experiences – both painful and cheering – life throws our way, and how we manage to react and embrace them. In the words of Adela Sobotkova aka NEW MAGIC MEDIA, MARTYYNA’s musical approach “works with honestly admitted chaos, positively welcomed coincidence”.

We’re honored to share with you the eponymous album track, the keystone to understanding the whole EP concept, style, and motivations. As strongly introspective as any of the other four pieces, Awaken reminisces about the toxicity of sorrow and the cathartic power of pain, while affirming the courage of vulnerability and the will to manifest ourselves with no refrains. From a musical point of view, the track combines dreamy atmospheres, somber yet steady percussive elements, and layered vocal lines chanting wholehearted lyrics. “When you allow yourself to live your truth and also speak it without fear, then comes the liberating awareness that what doesn’t kill you will actually make you stronger”. Enjoy!

MARTYYNA - Awaken [PAYNOMINDTOUS Premiere / BCAA system]

Will You Let Go, Sire

Yantan Ministry - Radio Unnameable [YGK012]

1. Marginalia
2. Sanguine
3. Keenu (with Stíofán Ó Luachráin)
4. History Hum
5. Spoondrift
6. From Harm
7. Attidiya Jct.

Format: Digital/EP
Release Date: 23 Oct, 2020
Cover by Mechatok
Mastered by Soda Plains

Yantan Ministry - From Harm [YGK012]

XI-N - "Jiang Install"
taken from "Lymph"

Label : A Flooded Need @a-flooded-need
Release date : November 3 2020
Bandcamp : afloodedneed.bandcamp.com/album/lymph-afn004

Tracklist
01 0090q
02 Jiang Install
03 No Shadows
04 Syndicate
05 Skintight

Produced by Dovlet Shyhmyradov
Mastered by Carmine Laurenza

Premiere: XI-N - Jiang Install

Record Label - info@yegorka.de
[YGK023] - https://fanlink.tv/PALOMINO-YGK023
[YGK022] - https://fanlink.tv/MONKS-ON-PLANES-YGK22
[YGK021] - https://fanlink.tv/SODAPLAINS-YGK21
[YGK020] - https://fanlink.tv/SOLIPSIST-YGK20
[YGK019] - https://fanlink.tv/BOGTROLL-YGK019
[YGK018] - https://fanlink.tv/TheWorldisYours-YGK018
[YGK017] - https://fanlink.tv/AtarashiKarada-YGK017
[YGK016] - https://fanlink.tv/FlagrantHours-YGK016
[YGK015] - https://fanlink.tv/UnbreakableBonds-YGK015
[YGK014] - https://fanlink.tv/AYearofMourning-YGK014
[YGK013] - https://fanlink.tv/CagedAnimal-YGK013
[YGK012] - https://fanlink.tv/RadioUnnameable-YGK012
[YGK011] - https://fanlink.tv/AreYouIn-YGK011
[YGK010] - https://fanlink.tv/Tadleeh-YGK010
[YGK009] - https://fanlink.tv/Mechatok-YGK009
[YGK008] - https://fanlink.tv/GIL-YGK008
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