Back 2 Bellingham - available now. EP out 25/03

I TRY TO REMIND MYSELF THAT THE TREES WILL STILL BLOSSOM. 2021. GAGE. 2 B REAL. THANKS AGAIN FINN. MASTERED BY NICK SINNA @ HIDDEN SOUNDS. ARTWORK BY ALEX GROSS @ ALL PURPOSE STUDIO.

Back 2 Bellingham

DOWNLOAD: https://zivamuzika.bandcamp.com/album/collective-reverbs

Curated by: Živa Muzika
Mastering: Sensorium Studio (http://www.sensoriumstudio.com)

Bringing together seven artists coming from different musical backgrounds, digital remix compilation 'Collective Reverbs' aims to encourage exchange between the artists and provide an overview of current developments on contemporary electronic music scene in Croatia.

*Projekt podržan od strane Gradskog ureda za kulturu Grada Zagreba.

Collective Reverbs

Neon Lies - Learn (N/OBE remix)

IM089 - @galtier - Pulchra Es Elementis
Label: Infinite Machine
Release Date: September 24th,2021
Format: 12" / Digital

With 10 years in the ‘biz’ firmly under his belt, Jiah Wells is poised to release the first full-length LP of his Galtier project, Pulchra Es Elementis. Whilst Galtier is arguably one of the originators of the percussive style that would eventually fall under the Hard Drum label, the heightened theatrics of his recent output have seen him channel Blade Runner-styled sonics and move further away from absolute club functionality. Whilst Galtier’s output often seems to soundtrack hypothetical, off-planet words, Pulchra Es Elementis turns the focus inwards: towards Wells’ own emotional constellation, his evolving spirituality and his attempts to tap into planes of existence beyond the tangible. The album’s Latin title translates to ‘Elements are Beautiful’ and encapsulates the artist’s belief that there is grace in all of life’s aspects; pushing past what we deem as good or bad, minuscule or massive.

Pulchra Es Elementis begins with Crystalised Larva, a brooding opener of breathy pad synths and expansive kick drums which reverberate through the mix as if the hits originate from the bottom of a valley. There’s an indistinct sense of tension on this track, in part due to a central melody, which never resolves but only descends lower in pitch. This tension turns to explorative wonder on Wilfull Saviour, where a mirage of musical ideas come in and out of focus. Although the sonic worlds Galtier explores are internal to him, Wilfull Saviour still possesses that sense of a cosmic journey we’ve come to expect from Wells; an ardent fan of dystopian films and literature.

Continuing this emotional odyssey, Bruised, But Not Broken sees the artist push deeper into the psychological undergrowth; its murky tonality juxtaposes crisp, Reggaeton-inspired drum patterns with a heavily compressed one-note synth line that modulates wildly - cutting through the mix like a nagging thought that won’t leave your mind. Next up is U Were, U Are & What U Will Be, one of the more club-ready tracks of the LP, which gets us moving with a snarling bassline and layers upon layers of percussive hits and inflections.

At Pulchra Es Elementis’ mid-point is the LP’s title track, a drumless interlude where blissful, shimmering synths create a patchwork of intensities. Galtier’s approach to songwriting shines through here; ignoring musical pragmatics, he opts to feel his way through his compositions without knowing where they might end up. Following on from that weightless breather, Phantasiai turns up the freneticism with its head-spinning mix of drum programming and a glitched-out synth line that yo-yos up and down octaves. Things get even more furious on the Superficie-featuring Cavernam, a hollow Hard Drum banger inspired by Eskibeat sensibilities and designed to create a sense of self-implosion.

The album’s penultimate track, (U Are) Beautiful, is a tale of two halves: beginning with a moment of serenity as synthesizers swell like an ocean tide before evolving into a marching crescendo of raw energy. Rounding off the album, Shine Forth hurtles through pacey drum work and all manner of strange zaps and klaxons before giving way to a final dose of nebulous ambience.

A musical journey unlike any other ‘club music’ albums, Pulchra Es Elementis is an LP that demands to be consumed in one sitting. Reflecting on his place within the universe and the musical landscape, the album could be viewed as a musical exorcism which sees Galtier working through and shedding huge chunks of his ego that stuck to him out of fear of the unknown. Pulchra Es Elementis begins on an insecure, overwhelming or, even, existential note before rounding off with a related sense of vastness seen with new, more positive eyes. It’s a voyage we hope you will join him on.

Galtier - Bruised, But Not Broken

Rilla - Yugeki / 遊撃 EP
Label: SVBKVLT
Release date: 21st January 2022
Artwork by Tianyi
Mixed & Mastered by Raphael Valensi
https://svbkvlt.bandcamp.com/album/yugeki-ep

Yugeki / 遊撃 EP

Premiere: Rilla - Seven Stars

Release Date : March 18th
Buy : gridrecords.bandcamp.com/album/low-priority-ep
Stream : li.sten.to/og33p97u

Young Russian producer, qwqwqwqwa, known for his Neoplasm imprint and club night in Saint Petersburg with Ugly Club, lands on Grid for our fifth release, full of surprises.

The EP contains six, varied tracks, all with a jagged, UK-edge. With EP-opener 'Core,' you board an ark of dread across a turbulent sea of sub frequencies that rock the ship. 'STBS' twinkles with modular tones of unpredictability, hanging the listener in a subtle groove. 'F Mate' is a rampant roller scurrying across the seafloor with unpredictable and petrifying bass. 'S-Low' is irresistibly groovy, boasting a b-boy drum pattern that is spread meticulously across the frequency spectrum. 'Perk' is dark and dirty with phased percussion that chimes over rumbling kicks. EP-closer 'p+DRM' is a 129bpm new-school jungle and bass hybrid with chords that are luscious and welcoming. TIP!

Tracklist :
01 Core
02 STBS
03 F Mate
04 S-Low
05 Perk
06 p+DRM

All tracks produced and mixed by Григорий Грибов (Grigori Gribov).
Artwork by Unité Studio.
Mastered by Krikor Kouchian.

Supported by : Azamat B, Breaka, Charlie Juarez, Christian Coiffure, dBridge, D.Tiffany, DJ Autumn, De Grandi, Dead Man's Chest, Deft, Design Default, DVS1, Eric Cloutier, Etapp Kyle, Etch, Gigsta, Henry Greenleaf, Interstellar Funk, Jurango, Laksa, Marcel Dettmann, Martha, Mumdance, Nico, Orson, Peder Mannerfelt, Pessimist, Romy Mats, Ronan, Solid Blake, Sputnik One, Surgeons Girl, Synkro, Tammo Hesselink, The Maghreban, Upsammy, Wordcolour, Yak, Yushh, Ziúr and more.

Low Priority EP

qwqwqwqwa - Perk

Ice_Eyes Movement Radio https://soundcloud.com/movement-radio-athens 191022

aya - somewhere between the 8th and 9th floor
Gargantuan Grief - Your Guts Are Weak
Pan Daijing - Dust
clipping. - Looking Like Meat (Aho Ssan Remix)
Animistic Beliefs - Thức Tỉnh [Rebirth]
Sueuga, Lila Tirando a Violeta`- Residual Self Image
Alan Johnson - Stillness
B E N N - Photon
Thys - DoomTimelineTM
Exploited Body - Nothing Personal
Van Boom, Oldyungmayn - Ayshay
Van Boom - Agora
Ice_Eyes - OFF THROAT
Gargantuan Grief - Forcefully Rip Object From Body
Walton - Dark Silk
Bapari - Thrust
Varg2TM - WITHOUT WAVES : 消える
Beth Sawlts - Eyes Of Defeat (feat. Siouxxie)
Aestum - salomé
Space Afrika - Indigo Grit (feat. guest)

Ice_Eyes MOVEMENT RADIO 191022

Track two of our self-titled debut EP 'Azarae'
1. Stardust 
2. Osmium Veil 
3. Inertia 
Composed, produced, and performed by Shayu & Chemist
Cover Artwork by Shayu
Visuals/video by Chemist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcmzwsbB3_4
Font by Maxitype
buy EP here
https://shayu.bandcamp.com/album/azarae

Azarae - Osmium Veil

Ondulation
A travers les échelles
La matière s’agite
Et vapo
-transpire
des fleuves aériens
Nuages
Qui
S’écoulent
Sans précipitation

~ Sound piece I did last year about flying rivers ~
Tried to imagine how their water cycle would sound from inside, at different scales

Bloup bloup

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Taken from SBKT054: Gorgonn - Six Paths
Release date: 31st January

Artwork and layout by Akihide Monna
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

In Japanese Buddhism, it's believed that when someone dies they are ushered down one of six paths depending on the karma accumulated during their previous lives. A being might end up in the world of humans, animals, demigods, or celestials, but it's also possible to end up reborn as a pitiable hungry ghost, doomed to an existence of insatiable desire, or even worse - be sent to hell, or jigoku. Ruled over by the Japanese lord of death Emma-ō, this hell isn't quite like the Christian hell, it's closer to purgatory, and cleansing the karma can take hundreds of millions of years of excruciating torture in extreme cold or immense fire. Japanese bass alchemist Gorgonn takes these themes as the basis of his debut album "Six Paths", assembling a spiritually weighty set of futurist dubs that consider the possibility that our mortal domain might be closer to hell than we realize.

Gorgonn describes himself as a Japalien exile. He left the country of his birth almost two decades ago, and since then has been working tirelessly to formulate Jamaican dub, noise, techno, and no-wave into a sound he calls "sci-fi steppas". If you've not come across his name before, there's a good chance you've heard his reverberations. An established sound tech who's worked with The Bug, Hype Williams, Seefeel and others, he's part of G36 with Kevin Martin, Dokkebi Q with Kiki Hitomi, and a former member of Devilman with DJ Scotch Egg and Bo Ningen's Taigen Kawabe. Just last year he released the acclaimed "Disentegration Dubs" full-length alongside JK Flesh, the veteran producer who's best known for masterminding Godflesh. All this experience blesses Gorgonn's productions with remarkable sonic force, and "Six Paths" is his most crushing display yet, smelting cannonball bass and osmium beats into sharp-edged soundsystem weapons.

Look no further than opener 'Abyss' for evidence of this: psychedelic synths draw the mind away from the mortal realm, while tangled, distorted beats push us back down to earth, our faces crushed into the grit and gravel. Using tweaked sub bass and unsettling drones, Gorgonn lays out a cinematic backdrop for the album, drawing us into a world that's terrifying, viscous, and nauseatingly familiar. There's a militaristic roll to 'Without Beginning and End', a track that juxtaposes spacey halfstep thrusts with death metal distortion, footwork polyrhythms, and unearthly pads that addresses the crushing endlessness of jigoku. On 'Invisible' meanwhile, Gorgonn torches the skeletal remains of D&B, abstracting familiar rhythmic patterns into fuzzy, ritualistic cycles that sound both ancient and humming with prospective technology. But on the closing track 'Life as a Beast', it sounds as if Gorgonn has come to a conclusion, and in a flurry of acid squelches and doomy foghorn bass blasts, he seems to have accepted that being reincarnated as an animal might be the best anyone can hope for. Who knows, you might end up as a cat.

Six Paths

Gorgonn - When Can I Come Back?

(DAWN018)QOSO - MEDUSA
50 limited copies
CD
Mastered by Lastrack
Photos by Melchior Tersen
Design by Studio Janiaut
Type Design by Isia Yurowski
Dawn 2023

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