zenevloed series

The Exchange

"Sheol, translated as « common grave of humanity » or « abyss » is the underworld of the Old Testament. A place which all the dead souls go and remain until the Last Judgement ; both the righteous and the wicked, regardless of the moral choices made in life. A place of stillness and darkness cut off from God.

In a perfect balance between forceful distinctive entities, Blime Dust and The Undertaker’s Tapes join forces on a sharp narrative soundscape probing the sinister atmosphere of Sheol. This first collaboration gives rise to an unique experimental sonic art, in which rage-filled distorted vocals, destructive war drums, harsh guitars or abstract noises provide a performance coming from deep down inside."

Tracklist
A1. The Undertaker’s Tapes - Roughless Politics
A2. Blime Dust - Come To Life
A3. The Undertaker’s Tapes - XIVI
A4. Blime Dust - Assault
B1. The Undertaker’s Tapes - Roughless Politics (Blime Dust Version)
B2. Blime Dust - Come To Life (The Undertaker’s Tapes Version)
B3. The Undertaker’s Tapes - XIVI (Blime Dust Version)
B4. Blime Dust - Assault (The Undertaker’s Tapes Version)

Buy via: https://apneeartefact.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/apneeartefact
https://soundcloud.com/theundertakerstapes

Premiere: The Undertaker's Tapes - XIVI [Apnée Artefact]

Paranoid dancing machine.

With 'Vuile Leugenaar' Dollkraut delivers four solid techno tracks on Viewlexx that convey his love of distorted vintage electronics. He demonstrates his knowledge of the harder, genuine edge of music made for dark dance floors. Even more melancholic and darker than his earlier releases Ghoulia and Fetish. A perfect fit for the mighty Viewlexx label.

https://soundcloud.com/dollkraut
https://soundcloud.com/user-795059665

Premiere: Dollkraut - Wie Ein (Slow) Groupie [Viewlexx]

From the depths of an ancient dark underworld, Nigh/T\mare has conjured a powerful offering of burning emotions that light the fires of one’s demons and invite the beginning of an epic journey through the unknown.

Via Thrènes Records from Switzerland, this offering is on point with their consistent releasing of top quality industrial/experimental techno. Entitled ‘Katharsis’, this artistically crafted set of tracks in the form a debut album twists and turns its way over tribal rhythms with dynamic feels and beating drums that break down anything standing in the way.

https://soundcloud.com/threnes
https://soundcloud.com/nigh-t-mare
https://soundcloud.com/lauralair
https://soundcloud.com/rommek

Katharsis

Premiere: Nigh/T\mare - The Summoning feat. LAIR (Torn Relics Remix)[Thrènes]

After an extended stop over in London, B E N N returned to Taiwan, inspired, with a commitment to create percussion-heavy, hard drum tracks at a furious rate.
His style draws from genres on the bass continuum, merged with traditional Taiwanese sounds and his innate and unique sense of rhythm. 

The EP “Synesthesia” using his own percussion-words expressing the inner conditions during past few months, featuring two tracks with personalbrand.
With the influences of hard drum, he attempted to reach out the diverse dimensions into the production, with natural sounds blending into different asian vibes with broken beats.

Experiments in rhythm that come into the exploration of nonspace in mind circle.

Out on October 1st. on @kepasaparadoks.

@bedoublensound
@personalbrand
@kepasaparadoks

Premiere: B E N N - DKHD (feat. Personalbrand) [kepasaparadoks]

Taken from EP smog - STUXXXXX [DMS046]

Out on april 22nd, 2022
Cassette + Digital
Order : tripalium.bandcamp.com/album/dms046-smog-stuxxxxx

Co-founder of the Berlin-based collective oqko, Paris native smog focuses on the phenomenon of experimentation using electroacoustic methods combined with digital and analogue processing. His sound is rooted in techno, industrial, jungle and ambient.
After an EP on Failed Units, he joins Tripalium Corp with a six tracks EP combining ethereal atmospheres, distorted metallic noise and flittering overtones : from apocalyptic landscapes to mindfuck breakcore, here is a fantastic cocktail for the weirdos !

TRACKLIST :
A1. P/I - 1:12
A2. T/I - 4:21
A3. T/II - 5:23
B1. T/III - 4:47
B2. T/IV - 5:50
B3. T/V - 7:06

Mastered by 4bstr4ck3r
Artwork by smog
[TRIPALIUM CORP] - Disturbed Mutant Series 046

https://soundcloud.com/tripalium-corp
https://soundcloud.com/oqko
https://soundcloud.com/smog_0

STUXXXXX

Premiere: smog - T-III [Tripalium Corp]

Lacrima is the second outing on lunar convoy's efja label. Carte blanche has been given to the artists, allowing them to convey their own vision of experimental music. Throughout its 45min, Lacrima features a wide range of feelings and emotions, from the intricate Taklamakan Trek to the tear-jerking Inner Hill. A collection of dark & light ambient excursions, inherently personal and playful, meant to question the past, present and future.

https://soundcloud.com/efja
https://soundcloud.com/zhe-pechorin

Pre-order via: https://efja.bandcamp.com/album/lacrima

Premiere: Zhe Pechorin - Inner Hill [efja]

Since “Narimasu” EP released last year by label USI KUVO (Tokyo), Tokyo based producer DJ/Producer WRACK has been seeking to make Japanese-style club music. As for the first release on the label, WRACK combines genres like GQOM and GORGE with this 4-track EP album ”Hotto Kotto”, which is also keeping his Japanese scale style and iconic sound on club music description.

WRACK had released many bangers by albums/V.A with labels in recent years, such as NAAFI, Eco Futurism Corporation, Club Late Music, Oxyorange, Absurd TRAX, CyberSonicLA, Babel Records. He also organized club party CHEMICAL MONSTERS in Tokyo which invited NAAFI's Imaabs, Lao, Zutzut, Fausto Bahia, Mexican Jihad, STAYCORE's Dinamarca, Mechatok, Intruder Alert's B.YHZZ etc.

Pre-order via: https://overmybody.bandcamp.com/album/hotto-kotto

https://soundcloud.com/overmybodytw
https://soundcloud.com/wrack90

Pre-order

Premiere: WRACK - Gustom [Over My Body]

"Embrace your primal nature and let the frenzied beat lead you back to your ancestral roots". Leese and Capiuz join forces for a new split ep on Over My Body. Along with two mutual remixes of previous recordings and a brand new track from the experimental oriented duo.

Capiuz is the experimental dance project of producer and performer Luca Favaro. Based in Italy, his genre-merging production focuses on exploring rhythm and sound design in a club context. Often leaning towards live performances, Capiuz’s music takes the form of a heavy hitting outburst filled with heavy bass, breakcore progressions and granular textures.

Leese, based in Brussels, is an electronic music artist who has gained recognition for her unique style blending break and tribal influences. She recently signed two EPs with label Yuku, one of which was named the Best Bandcamp Release of April, and performs at clubs and festivals throughout Europe. On stage, Leese delivers a passionate and energetic performance, mesmerizing her audience with her powerful beats and enchanting atmospheres. She is becoming increasingly well-known in the electronic/bass music scene and her project is continually evolving and developing.

All tracks produced and mixed by Capiuz & Leese
Mastering by B E N N
Artwork by ERRANTH
releases March 31, 2023

https://soundcloud.com/tu_music
https://soundcloud.com/l-eese
https://soundcloud.com/overmybodytw

Premiere: Leese - Sag (Capiuz Remix)[Over My Body]

Misinput Tycoon (GEN052) is an album full of intricately engineered, futuristic sound explorations. More than ever, this album is littered with colorful, even contemplative segments: having an orchestrated, playful feeling. But make no mistake: more than mere intermezzos, this only a further dimension of the album's depth, the bright timbres ready to interface with a stroboscopic, liquid, granular counterpoint at any time.

Hungarian sound engineer, ex-media arts student, and sought-after producer Roland Nagy (previously on Infinite Machine or Pointless Geometry) says about his album:

“I’m constantly watching pixels since I was 5. This album reflects wasted time and digital traumas. MISINPUT TYCOON is a sequel of my FULLSCREEN album from 2019 - a sonic playground that feels much safer to me compared to my previous works. Also, it's the first album I made without hearing „What would XY think about this track?” in my head. These are my hymns for healing from the digital core - hope it will help.”

https://soundcloud.com/genotcentre
https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier

Misinput Tycoon

Premiere: Fausto Mercier - softlock by default [Genot Centre]

Archaic Vaults is pleased to present the first vinyl album for the label, cataloguing ten tracks from ten artists spanning the globe. This curation brings together a multiplicity of genres within the label’s ongoing thematic output - durational ambience, field recordings, oversaturated improvisations and spatialised synthetic loops among them. A diverse cohort of familiar and new collaborators alike.

Edition of 300. Design by Severin Black.

‘Continuing A Worn Out Tradition III’ will be available for pre-order from Friday 5th May 2023 and then shipping from Monday 15th May 2023. Mastered by Owen Pratt at Shepard Tone.

https://archaicvaults.bandcamp.com/album/continuing-a-worn-out-tradition-iii

https://soundcloud.com/archaicvaults
https://soundcloud.com/floraytw

Premiere: Ciaran Jacob & Flora Yin Wong - Dome C [Archaic Vaults]

Sann Odea proudly presents ‘Ithomiines', the first various artist LP and an immersive dive into the realm of experimental electronic music and narrative soundscapes. 

Drawing inspiration from the mesmerizing beauty of the Ithomiini butterflies, renowned for their delicate glass-like wings and intricate patterns, this compilation brings together 12 artists. It explores the concept of musical metamorphosis, mirroring the transformative journeys undertaken by these butterflies. Each track on the compilation is meticulously crafted, inviting you to connect with its unfolding story, building tension, and evoking emotions.

Zero Crossing Point is a sound designer originating from Grenoble, France. He released his first album on the Lyon-based imprint Comic Sans Records, combining sonic research and evocative melodies, influenced by many musical forms, ranging from film scoring to metal.

Order via: https://sann-odea.bandcamp.com/album/ithomiines-lp

https://soundcloud.com/sann-odea
https://soundcloud.com/zerocrossingpoint

Order

Premiere: Zero Crossing Point - We'll Go Away [Sann Odea]

Berlin-based label Post Hoc presents their eighth release, “Summer’s End Vol. 3”, featuring 8 young artists from various musical backgrounds. Forming the third edition of a soundtrack as the summer comes to a close, the compilation explores the combination of various sentiments: Of nostalgia, passion, and melancholy, a visceral passage traversing morning breezes and hazy nights. “Summer’s End Vol. 3” recollects a memory, paying tribute to a feeling that is no more, but is sure to return once again.

Buy via: https://post-hoc.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-summers-end-vol-3-ph008

https://soundcloud.com/evitceles
https://soundcloud.com/posth0c

Premiere: Evitceles - I Want To Be Eternal [Post Hoc]

Marijn S debuts on XXX with a remix of the Roe Deers' The Enter of Sun. While the original is a trippy hypnotic journey that takes almost take you to otherworldly realms, Marijn S' remix kicks it up a notch making it a track that works really well on the dancefloor. Keeping the same hypnotic vibe but adding a punchy breakbeat line and adding up to the tempo, it for sure makes dark basements moving. Enjoy. XXX

https://soundcloud.com/roedeers
https://soundcloud.com/marijnswillens
https://soundcloud.com/xxxthelabel

Premiere: Roe Deers - The Enter Of Sun (Marijn S Entrance Remix) [XXX]

Ópalo is the alias of DJ/Producer Alejandro Romero and was created to explore down- tempo beats and ambient drifts. Focus points of the project touch mysticism and spirituality while the music is created to leave the listener questioning its intentions. As the focus drifts from why it was made to how you’re feeling, clarity begins to shine through. The smooth, gentle, warm and deep sounds put the mind at ease, allowing the listener to find answers.

Sundial is a five track album created in Quito, Ecuador earlier this year. The album was created with a Yamaha MX49, a Korg Electribe and some effects from Arturia like the Buchla Easel, Synthi V and the Mini V. It also features collaborations from two Ecuadorian musicians, Pájaro de Rodillas and Luis García Montufar, who played a Fender Stratocaster and a quena respectively (quena is a traditional flute from the Andes commonly made from wood).

https://soundcloud.com/music_is1
https://soundcloud.com/opalomusic

Premiere: Ópalo Feat. Pájaro De Rodillas - Cuando Se Haga Tarde [music_is]

After 'Auras Around Humans' in 2021 and 'Waterfall Cave' in 2022, Grande Rousse disques is really proud and happy to unveil 'Ephemeral and Unseen', Sopoorific's third tape.

"Ephemeral and Unseen' is a celestial journey in seven magical chapters, seven new age incantations taking us into the dizzying immensity of an enigmatic cosmos. With each new step into its infinite depths, the echo of this astral ritual resonates louder and louder, spreading its invisible forces until it engulfs the mind and the heart. Perception is blurred, and it is on the threshold of liminality that consciousness wanders amid brilliant stars, mystical planets, comet dust and spectres that are the messengers of omens.

https://soundcloud.com/sopoorific
https://soundcloud.com/grande-rousse-disques

Premiere: Sopoorific - Farewell Forever [Grande rousse disques]

Following their release on evo-natura, ARIGTO presents Lukuss. Inspired in part by Hiroshi Hamasaki's and Chiaki J. Konaka's 'Texhnolyze', the record plays with the idea of false hopes of self-optimization. 

Credits:
Mastering by Lawrence English
Album cover ‘untitled / 3:19 a.m’ by Jörgen Axelvall

https://soundcloud.com/arigto

Premiere: ARIGTO - The Ghost Of An Empty Dream

Moving Deeply Through the Forest
You Out of Time II
You Out of Time V
Facing A Pavement
Invisible Pavement
Dust
No

An unreleased assortment of minimal ambient tracks I have been making the last few weeks.
Thanks to Set.

https://soundcloud.com/kagamismile

KAGAMI smile presents: Unreleased Ambient Mix for Zenevloed.

𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺,

𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦 — 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘳

𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘴.

𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴.

- Kristen Soller, April 2022


“In the back of the throat there is a subterranean river that holds you, humming towards the cave’s end. This end is a liminal mirror reflecting the contours of your voice. The mirror shows how —when brought to certain aquatic depths— unheard of limbs and wondrous branches are prone to sprout from your voice. Blind sibyls, your voice’s branches climb towards the surface, in search of light and warmth. After the great drought, your voice’s limbs persevere. They stand naked, pulsating in the purple that lies underneath grey. Your voice’s limbs erect themselves as monuments to air, kin among the deafening night. The water level is now only tall enough to keep your voice’s core below. Your voice, fed by the swamp, cradled by duckweed, wrapped in horse tail, has become a secret organ. Your voice palpitates and releases twin echoes that undulate, to smoke’s rhythm, in the afterglow. Intricately connected by labyrinth to soil and moon, through the water lilies’ roots, your voice weaves an underweb that flickers like the eye of a flame. Your voice sediments the entwined veils of miracle and prayer.”

- Marta Núñez Pouzols, October 2023All music by Kristen Soller

Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Cover photo by Jenn Huynh
Design by Joe Bastardo

All proceeds to:
Love the Everglades Movement (https://www.lovetheeverglades.org/)
Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Palestine (https://uawc-pal.org/)

Premiere: taupe set xl - Iridescence [enmossed]

The obelisk at the center of Lukuss as the Vatican is at the center of Rome. The French proverb retorts ‘l’église au milieu du village’, in the center to always be in front of the citizens' eyes, to remind them that someone is always watching them.

https://soundcloud.com/arigto

ARIGTO presents: Obelisk

Enrico Cesaro, the person behind the alias Mace., is back releasing his brand new work in collaboration with viscm and angoisse.

"How to be Yourself” is an ode to the ever-changing, untouchable unfolding of the self and the elusive observation of it.The ensemble of tracks shapes a canvas of individual experiences, family memories and collective uncoscious that suggests - both by blending together and maintaining their own singular character - the hurdle of grasping totality. Unexpected contrasts and social emotional imaginery inputs are present throughout the whole work, depicted with a range of sonorities that goes from progressive electronics to classical, from almost orchestral to noisy shoegaze.

https://soundcloud.com/angoisse
https://soundcloud.com/viscmlabel

Premiere: Entire City - Four Hands Become Eight [Viscm x angoisse]

’Trystero’, the debut full-length album of Stockholm-based composer Theodor Kentros, could easily be interpreted as “just” an assemblage of pieces written between 2021-2024. Named after the paranoid hallucination (or, if said hallucination is real, the underground secret mail system) figuring in the 1966 Thomas Pynchon novel ‘The Crying of Lot 49’, it should rather be perceived as a very distinct, coherent stream running through his output during these years.

The six tracks – ranging in sound and disposition from serialised organ drones constructed to reach screeching and beautiful culminations, to minimalist, repetitive studies in tape loops and string synthesis – were composed and recorded in Stockholm and Visby at different occasions during down-time from his many other projects, which includes a myriad of other commissions, co-running labels XKatedral and Kalkatraz Cassettes and touring with punk groups and solo shows.

In October he embarks on a west-coast US-tour in relation to the album being released. Moloton are proud to present ‘Trystero’ on a limited edition of 200 vinyl LPs.

Tracklist
A1 - Caveat Emptor
A2 - Μαύρη άμμος

A3 - 4CH015LM
B1 - Melt One
B2 - Trystero
B3 - Approximately Fifteen.Five Minutes Surrounding F & C

Credits
Composed and performed by Theodor Kentros in Stockholm and Visby between 2021-2024.
Artwork by Marlena Salonen.
Mastered by Mikael Lindblad Ehnborg.
Special thanks to Maja Grimsted.

Copyright
Moloton

https://soundcloud.com/moloton
https://soundcloud.com/theodor-kentros

Premiere:  Theodor Kentros - Melt One [Moloton]

To earmark Aulic Veil's latest EP release on Failed Units, 'Rescue & Research Pt. 5: Aulic Veil', we are pleased to host a special mix with all own productions. The EP marks a specific transitional period in the musical journey of Aulic Veil.

Aulic Veil - STEPPE
Aulic Veil - SOLETAKEN
Aulic Veil - COUCHED LANCE DAMAGE
Aulic Veil - Thyrsus
Aulic Veil - ?
Aulic Veil - Bjorn Andresen
Aulic Veil - A-V_001.2
Aulic Veil - ?
Aulic Veil - A-V_004.2
Aulic Veil - A-V_006
Aulic Veil - A-V_007
Aulic Veil - A-V_009
Aulic Veil - Melusine
Aulic Veil - Sneerer
Aulic Veil - A-V_008
Aulic Veil - porphyry grotto dub ii

Hailing from the mountains of the United States interior highlands, 24 year old producer Aulic Veil makes dark and heavy-hitting club music indebted equally to mid-00s UK bass weight, underground Midwestern techno, computer music morphology, and Symbolist art. Utilizing a variety of synthesis techniques, stochastic compositions, and custom software instruments, they blur the line between chaos and order and weave multilayered tapestries of sound from the unpredictable beauty that emerges. Expect warped acousmatic sound design interspersed between fierce hooks and high esotericism; no dancefloor left unshaken...

https://soundcloud.com/aulicveil
https://soundcloud.com/failed-units

https://failedunits.bandcamp.com/album/rescue-research-pt-5-aulic-veil

New EP

zenevloed 128: Aulic Veil

For the first promotion mix of zenevloed we invited the UK based dj Stratton to put some banging sounds together.

His first EP is out on Aardkern and many more are to come soon.
https://soundcloud.com/strattontrax

Image credit https://soundcloud.com/ress93


zenevloed 001 - Stratton

Featuring in our second mix is an unknown dj. As a newborn star, he still prefers the decks over the bright spotlights.

Who is this guy? 
Where does he come from? 
This mix might be the only answer.

Image credit: Setareh 


zenevloed 002 - Westerlund

The third mix for the zenevloed podcast series is a special banger from the talented dj strachkvas. Combining a mix of genres, from reggaeton to terror and from cinematic soundscapes to pure club beats, it still keeps the hard edge we love.

You can find more tunes of strachkvas on https://soundcloud.com/strachkvas

Image credit: Setareh 



zenevloed 003 - strachkvas

This weeks podcast featuring tenebris takes you on a journey along deep, powerful techno tunes. This mix of nice, rich sounds is guaranteed to make you want to move on the floor, thus perfect to start your weekend with.
Make sure to keep an eye on this dj with new releases coming up soon and an already released EP on Kitchen Smoke Records.

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tenebris-724547501
Animae EP: https://soundcloud.com/kitchen-smoke-records/sets/tenebris-animae-ep-ksr027

Image credit: Jeremias Diekmann (tenebris)

zenevloed 004 - tenebris

Moving up to a higher gear, industrial techno heavyweight Huck Farper delivers a podcast which is bound to send shivers through the body of every listener. With an exclusive cut from a live set and some unreleased material, this is an edition you don´t want to miss.

If you haven´t already, check out the banging releases on his Raven Sigh label: https://ravensigh.bandcamp.com/

Image credit: Setareh 


zenevloed 005 - Huck Farper

The Exchange is a periodic in-depth look at the artistic motivations of musicians and collectives. We try to approach this from a more cultural and societal perspective, aside from the necessary musical one, because we cannot deny the influence of modern age bringing ideas from all over the world which broaden our horizons. It is a fact that we can learn a lot from movements that are foreign to us.

Link to the interview: https://zenevloed.nl/music/exchange/devianza/

Interview

Devianza for Zenevloed - The Exchange

The Exchange is a periodic in-depth look at the artistic motivations of musicians and collectives. We try to approach this from a more cultural and societal perspective, aside from the necessary musical one, because we cannot deny the influence of modern age bringing ideas from all over the world which broaden our horizons. It is a fact that we can learn a lot from movements that are foreign to us.

Link to the interview: https://zenevloed.nl/music/exchange/rendered/

RENDERED for Zenevloed - The Exchange

The Exchange is a periodic in-depth look at the artistic motivations of musicians and collectives. We try to approach this from a more cultural and societal perspective, aside from the necessary musical one, because we cannot deny the influence of modern age bringing ideas from all over the world which broaden our horizons. It is a fact that we can learn a lot from movements that are foreign to us.

https://zenevloed.nl/music/exchange/oqko/

Tracklist:
Pierre Vasseur - Champs X
John Chowning - Stria 
Daniel Ruane - ???
RIDLER - Chin The Bas
Shed - Crystal Cubes
AFX - Isopropophlex
Eomac - Slide FX
smog - Aurore
HATE - Triple Bypass
Trg - Decisions
Digital Mystikz - Misty Winter
B-Ball Joints - Joint 1
smog - ???
Stolz Norbert - Before Death
astvaldur - Otruni
Oneirogen - Vessel
Yair Elazar Glotman - Low Tide 
Exensinn - EOALD_19
Shapednoise - 0.1dbhisdoi’fioa
DEKJ - extract_1
Tomaga - Gonda’s Dream
HMOT - Collapse
astvaldur - NK99
Daniel Ruane - ???
Fis - SeaPR
smog - ???
Helm - Silencer
Dis Fig - Rebirth
Emptyset - Return
Schloss Tegal - Black Dahila 
Megan Roberts - I Could Sit Here All Day
Lvis Mejía - Anthropology of AmnesiA
Louis-Cesar Ewande - Mandiani
Lvis Mejía - Intro
Demdike Stare - Collision
Dillinja - Deadly Deep Subs (Remix) (2015 Remaster)
Millie & Andrea - Corrosive
Else Marie Pade - Faust 
Current Value - Sub Low Reference
Aphex Twin - Digeridoo
RIDLER - Bad Code
Lakker - Fierljeppen 
Vladislav Delay Quartet - Hohtokivi
Death Grips - Lost Boys (Practice)

Interview.

smog for Zenevloed - The Exchange

The Exchange is a periodic in-depth look at the artistic motivations of musicians and collectives. We try to approach this from a more cultural and societal perspective, aside from the necessary musical one, because we cannot deny the influence of modern age bringing ideas from all over the world which broaden our horizons. It is a fact that we can learn a lot from movements that are foreign to us.

Link to the interview: http://zenevloed.nl/music/exchange/s%ce%bbrin/
Link to the event @ RADION, Amsterdam: https://www.facebook.com/events/178843289398871/

https://soundcloud.com/sarinvx/
https://x-img.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sarinberlin/

Exchange

SΛRIN for Zenevloed - The Exchange

"“Despite Everything” keeps the perfectly balanced feel of the EP; it offers a subtle touch of dreaming and a hidden optimism."

https://soundcloud.com/giuseppe-sciretti-1
https://soundcloud.com/threnes

Hypnagogia EP

Premiere: Nigh/T\mare - Despite Everything [Thrènes]

Pier blasts a fresh wind in the saturated French scene and is joined by veteran JoeFarr and artists of the moment Corroid and SDB. Divided Attention could be an ode to realization that life happens when one is busy making other plans. To be able to be more efficient in our day-to-day lives, divided attention allows us to process and carry out multiple tasks at a time. In music however, different sounds – which can be seen as stimuli – are often organized in a rhythm and are subconsciously heard as one piece, the composition.

Tracklist:
1.	Pier - Genesis Reading
2.	Pier - Genesis Reading (SDB Remix)
3.	Pier - Divided Attention
4.	Pier - Divided Attention (JoeFarr Remix)
5.	Pier - Reign Over Fury
6.	Pier - Reign Over Fury (Corroid's Widerstand)

https://soundcloud.com/markedamsterdam
https://soundcloud.com/pierparis

Premiere: Pier - Genesis Reading [Märked]

"A mix of influences, vintage techno, some wave and body music"

"I think that’s the one thing about the mix that comes through – these tunes are more than just club tracks they are saying something, and it’s not all darkness. It’s about how fucking crazy and fun life can when you accept that dark edge is always around the corner."

This podcast is paired with a small Exchange to be found here: https://zenevloed.nl/featured/body-beat-ritual/
going a bit deeper into the influences and local scene that shaped Body Beat Ritual's expression.

Instinct Primitive​/​Crash Report out on HAVEN: https://havenakl.bandcamp.com/album/instinct-primitive-crash-report-hvn004

https://soundcloud.com/bodybeatritual
https://soundcloud.com/havenakl

Body Beat Ritual for Zenevloed - The Exchange

VA w/ H880, ARTIK, SHROUDS & ISTIGKEIT [ISTGKT 002] 

Istigkeit surrounds itself with 3 producers with a strong identity to deliver a raw punk electronic compilation. ARTIK, who already released on labels like Monolith and COUM, delivers a nice industrial-EBM hybrid with very distinct broken rhythms.

https://soundcloud.com/artikofficial
https://soundcloud.com/istigkeit-1

Format: Cassette, Digital 
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Buy via: https://istigkeit.bandcamp.com/album/various-artists-istgkt-002

Premiere: ARTIK - Existence And Knowledge [Istigkeit]

Zenevloed premieres the title track Vast As Black Night on the upcoming Velvet May EP 'Vast As Black Night'

Tracklist:

A1. Vast As Black Night 
A2. Dagger And Fire 
A3. Sinuous As A Swan 
B1. The Venal Muse (ft. The Shivery Of Veil)
B2. Your Eyes Resemble Mud 
B3. Though With Tears

Release date: mid March

The Venal Muse is always present and gives birth to big pleasures and life representations, but at the same time, with eyes full of mud, to mind perversions and reality collapses, generating a contrast which leads the artist to another state of his mind. There a no simplifications, everything is translated without polishings and shades.

The music talks, it doesn’t lie and able to solve many cold and unsolved enigmas of the life, like a flower among many complexes, give reasons to the dramatic mind to live and generate something that is far away from the reality, spreading pleasures for all concerned.

https://www.facebook.com/velvetmay99
https://soundcloud.com/hobimusic

Premiere: Velvet May - Vast As Black Night [Tears On Waves]

"The Toulouse-based trio Blind Delon favors distorted basslines, dirty beats, and cold synths. On their new post-punk-ebm-techno 4-track EP, "Drugs", they invite french industrial veteran HIV+ to contribute some harsh lyrics and characteristic smashed voice, under the influence of psychotropic substances. Including a post-apocalyptic remix from Russian producer Alexey Volkov."

Release date: April 26, 2019
Order via: https://tripalium.bandcamp.com/album/trplm005-drugs

https://soundcloud.com/blind-delon

Premiere: Blind Delon & HIV+ - Aldous Huxley [Tripalium Corp]

First hour of our A+W invite, with Imperial Black Unit

Imperial Black Unit is a technoïd French duo formed by Lapse of Reason and Templer in 2017. Their sound is characterized by a blend of early EBM/ Industrial vibes with today's sensibilities. By using an anti-establishment attitude and militaristic esthetic on top of hard rhythms, screams and sharp synths, they create an intense fusion of the past and the present.

https://soundcloud.com/imperialblackunit
https://soundcloud.com/lapse-ofreason
https://soundcloud.com/templer-noise
https://soundcloud.com/aufnahme-wiedergabe

Imperial Black Unit / Zenevloed invites A+W @ Red Light Radio

Versatile A/V artist and producer based between Riga and Berlin, N1L intersects eclectic "club" music experiments with post-industrial psychedelia and intense alien soundscapes. Having recently been focused on independent self-publishing, his previous releases have also been put out by acclaimed labels such as UIQ, Opal Tapes, among others.

ПОТОП (“potop”, or deluge in Russian) presents seven pieces encapsulating dark apocalyptic themes, each setting the scene for a disorientating sonic landscape that references the genesis flood narrative found in the world’s ancient mythologies. Centered on Earth's return to a pre-anthropocene state of watery chaos, this allegory illustrates both punishment for man’s mortal sins as well as new beginnings born from the washing away of everything that has reached its final, obsolete stage — the message of which is increasingly relevant today.

Release date: September 15th, 2019
Pre-order via: https://n1lmusic.bandcamp.com/album/-

Tracklist:

1. потоп
2. fang mark semantics
3. 8bit telekinesis
4. reality distortion field
5. cracks in the monolith
6. disrupt the karmic cycle
7. universal cannibalism of the sea

https://soundcloud.com/n_1_l

ПОТОП

Premiere: N1L - fang mark semantics [Self-Released]

Marco Colocci (@queimada77) is an Italian producer and sound engineer based in Berlin. Learning how to play the contrabass and music theory has initiated the growth of his interest in the techniques of field recording and sound design, as well as his overall passion for electronic music. After self-releasing music during his teens, and later producing for Taiwanese artist Sabiwa from Chinabot, under the moniker Queimada he now presents a debut record coming out on Gin&Platonic.

Built around a concept proposed by Harvard professor E.O. Wilson, Eremocene depicts a future state of miserable epoch into which human species is slowly but steadily accelerating. Characterized by the existential & material isolation that comes from having calamitously extinguishing other forms of life on Earth while intrepidly fulfilling our immediate needs, the future labeled as The Age of Loneliness sees our identity completely transformed. 
On the record, Queimada explores precisely the conflict between the tempting ease and a pang of unconfessed guilt in an attempt to capture the ironical relationship they epitomize. The album represents an encounter between different techniques of granular synthesis and field recording. The encounter between the unstoppable and destructive, altogether resulting in a disruptive anthem of the intensifying burden of the postmodern times.

Produced by Queimada
Mastered by Wim Dehaen
Artwork by Jiri Macku

Buy via: https://ginandplatonic.bandcamp.com/album/eremocene

https://soundcloud.com/ginandplatonic

Eremocene

Premiere: Queimada - Why U Cry? (ft. Sabiwa)[Gin&Platonic]

With this 6 track opus, the King of Darkness still needs to make sure that Hell is inevitable. Influenced by witchcraft mythology, Missa introduces the long and painful journey ahead of us.

The three remixers have their own take on this witch fest. Donna Harringwey pushes further the punk aspect with a screamer and garage interpretation, BLNDR brings us back to spooky island with some tribal grooves and Ryuji Takeuchi shows us the way to industrial trance with an underground futuristic black magic vibe.

Pre-order via: https://intervision2.bandcamp.com/album/sabbatum-nigrum

https://soundcloud.com/intervisionparis
https://soundcloud.com/versetzeromusic

Premiere: Verset Zero - Maleficus (Ryuji Takeuchi Remix) [Intervision]

"Märked presents a 16-tracker album with some of underground techno’s most interesting and promising talents in current times. In this compilation you find a mix of artists who are more on the surface and some who are less, but all evenly contributing to an amazing program of diversity."

Tracklist:
1. Amstra - Komorebi
2. Brecc – Worst Enemy
3. CYNKT – Maximum Of Potential
4. Exilles – Modul B14
5. Kander – [Insert Emotional Meaning Here]
6. Metapattern – Time
7. Pier – Zest
8. Reveillon – The Things You Do
9. Sleeps Everywhere – Subject To Corruption
10. Torgue – Summer Requiem (Ft. Anna Mikhailova)
11. Umbraid – Lost In Passion
12. Unart8 – RAL 9017
13. VINYA - Dagra
14. YÅ - Lost In The Jungle With 20Kw
15. Zimo – The Dream Is A Lie
16. Znzl – The Missing Channel

https://soundcloud.com/markedamsterdam
https://soundcloud.com/pierparis

Premiere: Pier - Zest [Märked]

The artist’s menial employment at a nightclub is explored in his third solo release, Coatcheck. In it, Zeisig carves a series of surreal apertures for viewing the club’s framework of workplace behavior and patron expectation. These viewpoints are so immersed and encoded in the physical and economic structures of the club that they sound far removed, or completely distinct—marking the realities of wage laborers who enable the necessary but still fantastical “escape” from capitalist drudgery.

The record presents different atmospheres and acoustics of the club—a place where people go to escape their working lives and release their inhibitions—from the perspective of a person working there. Functioning as a conceptual map of the space, each track on the album follows a different location of the building, activity, and mood of the worker. Instead of thundering beats and whirling debauchery, the artist yields the sounds of structures hidden from view but necessary to the production of public space.

The album is a meditation on the contradiction inherent in supposedly free and progressive spaces, which are in many ways the same as any capitalist institution in terms of what’s experienced by their menial workers and marginalized attendees. In an attempt to provide an auditory and psychic balm to the listener in recognition of this fact, Zeisig draws upon his extensive research and practice of ASMR phenomena during the recording process. A cultural sonic development that is located most often in the privacy of one’s home and head, such techniques are explored as a means of challenging the rules and arrangements that guide the club.  

All proceeds go to Women In Exile, a Berlin-based organization dedicated to helping women and families seeking refugee status and resettlement in Germany.
 
Florian T M Zeisig holds a master’s degree in sound arts from Universität der Künste Berlinand, and is a current excellence student of Prof. Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto). His solo and collaborative work as half of the duo OCA has been released by labels such as Important Records/Cassauna, Anòmia, Constellation Tatsu and Métron Records. Recent collaborations include a feature on Kelela’s Aquaphoria mixtape and a remix for Loraine James. He has presented installation and performance work at institutions such as Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Cafe OTO, and Hangar Barcelona, amongst others.

Track list:
A1 Been Listening A Lot 
A2 Ambient Middle Part 
A3 First Version 

B1 Straining To Hear 
B2 Only Textures 
 B3 Aspire


Release date: July 2nd 2020
Pre-order via: https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/coatcheck

https://soundcloud.com/enmossed
https://soundcloud.com/floriantmzeisig

Premiere: Florian T M Zeisig - Been Listening A Lot [Enmossed]

On the A-side, Portuguese producer Lake Haze delivers three techno cuts for the floor, all composed with a brutal acid line. On the B-side, Swedish producer Celldöd returns with three electro and techno tunes for those who like the cold groove of northern Europe. Sometimes ravey, sometimes martial, sometimes funky, here is a new split EP with six raw bangers!

Buy via: https://tripalium.bandcamp.com/album/aar016-lake-haze-celld-d-acid-avengers-016

https://soundcloud.com/tripalium-corp
https://soundcloud.com/celldod

Acid Avengers 016

Premiere: Celldöd - En Iskall Omfamning [Tripalium Records]

Unknown delivers his first EP called "Inferno", which is part of the limited tapes catalog of the Greek label OSM tapes. The release contains collaborations with Bad Faith Actor (half of Alpha & Necromante) and Dolgener (half of MDD) and also remixes of Exome and Opioid Slot Machine. The producer has reunited his most industrial/noisy tracks for this release.

Opioid Slot Machine has remixed “Slavery” showing us the ability he has to transform a techno track into a version more inspired by drone sounds.

@osmtapes
https://soundcloud.com/opioidslotmachine

order via: osmtapes.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-inferno

Premiere: Unknown - Slavery (Opioid Slot Machine Remix) [OSM Tapes]

>>>FREE PALESTINE 

Something is stirring in the deep. Truly ingenious progression can only be found hidden away.

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janushoved 10 x zenevloed w/ Internazionale, Tettix Hexer, Rold Skov, Casimir Geelhoed, Tegnander @ OCCII, Amsterdam / 04-10-2024

Archaic Vaults meets zenevloed w/ Flora Yin Wong, Severin Black, Casimir, Jonathan Castro @ OCCII, Amsterdam / POSTPONED

5 YRS ZENEVLOED:
zenevloed & Janushoved @ OCCII, Amsterdam / 16-09-2022
enmossed meets zenevloed @ OCCII, Amsterdam / 23-07-2022
Vaagner meets zenevloed: A reunion of spheres @ OCCII, Amsterdam / 25-06-2022

Zenevloed V w/ People Skills + Wanderwelle @ OCCII, Amsterdam / 03-09-2021

People Skills @ Operator, Rotterdam / 02-09-2021

Zenevloed w/ Monya @ Red Light Radio / POSTPONED 

Zenevloed w/ Armaxxx + Ex Continent @ Red Light Radio / 22-02-2020

Zenevloed presents OTher Ways of Watching Together: WEEK 3 @ MAMA, Rotterdam / 07-02-2020

Zenevloed w/ Blind Delon @ Red Light Radio / 11-12-2019

Zenevloed IV: Romantic Industrialism w/ Kollaps, unn & Kujo, Shrouds @ OCCII, Amsterdam / 12-10-2019

Garcon Taupe (Enfant Terrible) and Zenevloed w/ TWINS @ Red Light Radio / 26-09-2019

Zenevloed w/ Squaric @ Red Light Radio / 16-09-2019

Neither Here Nor There - Matt Plezier ft. Zenevloed Collective @ Staalplaat, Berlin / 01-08-2019 - 31-08-2019

Zenevloed w/ 3.14 @ Operator Radio / 05-07-2019

Zenevloed w/ Roberto Auser @ Red Light Radio / 18-06-2019

Zenevloed w/ Øliver @ Red Light Radio / 03-05-2019

Zenevloed invites Aufnahme+Wiedergabe w/ Imperial Black Unit, MELANIA @ Red Light Radio / 03-05-2019

Zenevloed w/ Kujo @ Red Light Radio / 25-03-2019

Tonotopic II w/ FUROR, June As, S S S S, Kujo +  installations by RandomZine, S., Sander Polderman, John Jansen @ 52,21,43.3N 4.55.12.8E, Amsterdam / 16-03-2019

Zenevloed w/ 3.14 @ Red Light Radio / 21-02-2019

Zenevloed w/ Michiel @ Red Light Radio / 29-01-2019

Tonotopic I w/ Renata, IGNOTA, Abstractive Mind, Kujo + visuals and installations by unn and RandomZine @ 52,21,43.3N 4.55.12.8E, Amsterdam / 19-01-2019

Zenevloed III w/ Years of Denial, Koichi Shimizu, Meer, FUROR, Kujo @ OCCII, Amsterdam / 02-11-2018
Visuals + short film screening by unn

Zenevloed w/ S S S S @ Red Light Radio / 29-09-2018

Zenevloed w/ Last Days of S.E.X. @ Red Light Radio / 01-09-2018

Zenevloed invites Aufnahme+Wiedergabe w/ Chloé Lula, Codex Empire, SΛRIN, Kujo @ RADION, Amsterdam / 13-04-2018

Zenevloed w/ Chloé Lula @ Red Light Radio / 14-04-2018

Zenevloed w/ Blind Delon @Operator Radio / 29-03-2018

Zenevloed II w/ Eomac 'Bedouin Trax', Divorce Ring, Kujo, Gana, Santoine @ OCCII, Amsterdam  / 02-02-2018

Zenevloed w/ Divorce Ring @ Red Light Radio / 03-02-2018

Zenevloed w/ S.A.F. @ Red Light Radio / 20-12-2017

The Tide__De Vloed @ OCCII, Amsterdam / Internazionale, Isorinne, Sequences, O Ratel Ratel, Svartvit, Kujo / 24-11-2017

Zenevloed w/ Kujo @ Red Light Radio / 27-09-2017

EXIL x Zenevloed @ Panama, Amsterdam / J.Tijn, Manni Dee, Remco Beekwilder, Vlaysin (live), SCRY + Théophiluss / 13-05-2017

Zenevloed I @ Cinetol, Amsterdam / Drvg Cvltvre, Kujo and Santoine (all live)
NOACH (dj set) / 24-03-17

Zenevloed invites Raven Sigh 28-10-2016 @ Q-Factory Amsterdam / Bone Skippers, Matt TdK (msq), Falhaber, UNDUST, NOACH, SCase / 28-10-2016

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