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REfugEEs From Beyond – Etrange Constellation

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REfugEEs From Beyond

“Etrange Constellation”

The Necrophile Hummingbird netlabel presents Etrange Constellation by reFUGeeS From Beyond.
“Electronicosmic Music for Space Shamans”

Improvisation recorded the 25th July 2025 at Le Champ Du Possible (The Possibility’s Field) in Dole. Track 6 is a solo test done before the session, edited with the today stormy weather. Etrange Constellation means Strange Constellation. There is the english translation of the track titles below :
1. Emergence Of The Time Of Myth
2. Outside Inside
3. Levitation
4. Extra Sensory Experience
5. Somewhere Else Immersion
6. Emergence Under The Rain

Members :
Master of Ceremony : Psyché Pelik
Disc Jockey : Yoshiwaku Mushotoku

I wanted for this one to use french titles, because it’s our native language, of course nations are plagues, we are from earth or beyond, depend on from where you are, and despite we are so happy that people from around the earth and beyond listen to our music, it’s very sad to use the empire language instead of our own one (aŭ via lingvo) to communicate.

A few hours later, our bodies lay in the woods beneath the hermitage cave from the angels valley, surrounded by a shamanic musical circle. Yet our spirits had already departed.
Time is not linear; wavelets surround every event for those who know how to perceive them.

Immersed in the dream, I picked stars, not ordinary stars, lightholes, coming from those constellations that were in the sky and reflected beneath the earth.
We were the links between those who danced.
In each one I placed a seed of that light.
Let’s see what will grow.

I think you can feel it in the music.

Dedicated to those who are not afraid to dream.

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posted 10 August 2025

dagshenma – nut(s)

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dagshenma

“nut(s)”

Experimental artist Dagshenma returns to MiMi Records with his new album titled nut(s) — an intense dive into the emotional and sensory cacophony of contemporary life.

Blending elements of noise, ambient, and musique concrète, nut(s) gives voice to inner disorder — a sonic confusion that unsettles and liberates in equal measure. The work challenges the listener to find beauty in noise, and structure within rupture.

Dagshenma, known for exploring the outer edges of conventional music, once again delivers a stimulus to strangeness, much like in his previous album Kyoto Japan Walk.

nut(s) is less an album and more an experience – a lucid cacophony that turns chaos into art.

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posted 04 August 2025

PIRATE Tapes – POP Of The POT

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PIRATE Tapes

“POP Of The POT”

The Necrophile Hummingbird Netlabel presents POP Of The POT by PIRATE Tapes.

“Shoegazing Music for Chillwave Lovers”

Summertime is summertime… So imagine PIRATE Tapes goes record a BBC session, and you won’t be far from what you can listen here. It’s mostly based on “And so it goes again” the sequel of that track from Hippy Death Day and “a mere sonic ecstasy”, our most shoegazer side, but as well as along the last years we collected several noise pop tracks, not that much pop, but often removed because being too much poppy, like the True Love Color song removed from Oddschool. Maybe POP has never been so desirable…
So what about POT ?
As surprising as it can be you can sound highly psychodelic, create the perfect music to listen high on weed without smoking it. I have not smoked since years because music is a better dope for me. On another side, I love psychedelics and Stu’ may be totally stoned while recording his part. There is no difference between shamans and psychedelic lovers : (Rooting/Flexibility/Love) they both are able to remove their roots form the floor the time to flight and go back after spreading and sharing love.

Dedicated to all those who remain fluid so as not to be imprisoned in dogmas.

“Your freedom extends my freedom to infinity” quote from an anonymous free dreamer.

There is no Video Art Clip, you may noticed that next to the Death Of Video Art I’m not creating anymore Video Art, this is not a coincidence but it may be temporary… also you can still watch this one done for And so it goes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RD4wK3XuXI

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posted 01 August 2025

Various Artists On (呪怨) The music compilation

Various Artists

“Ju-On (呪怨) The music compilation”

Compiled, cover collage by Sábila Orbe.-

Each track composed by the respective artists. Links:

– Filmy Ghost: archive.org/details/fav-sabila_orbe02 / /// https://hearthis.at/filmy-ghost/

– el_masmore: elmasmore.bandcamp.com/

– cruxrgxx: soundcloud.com/gxxpy

– fourthousandblackbirds: fourthousandblackbirds.bandcamp.com/

– Humanfobia: humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/ // open.spotify.com/intl-es/artist/04WVEhq4UDRTKpWEfMSeZT

– Reece Kirby: soundcloud.com/user-905286115

– Zazie Productions: zazieproductions.bandcamp.com /// linktr.ee/zazieproductions

– Phargoomax: youtube.com/@Phargoomax

– Waving Ant: soundcloud.com/wavingant

– RDKPL: rdkpl.bandcamp.com/

– Sonvol: –

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posted 26 July 2025

Invisible Illusion – Insanity Be My Guide

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Invisible Illusion

“Insanity Be My Guide”

Perhaps the most fucked up album done by Invisible Illusion.
This was the third one, recorded in 2022 at the Cave Haven in Foucherans, right after Electronic Control and it stayed a while hidden, perhaps too much avantgardist noise to my own ears. Do I say radical ? I was meaning : horsnorme.

If you want to decypher the artwork the little girl is not an echo of my daughter looking at what I’m doing. It’s her : insanity. My guide.

Dedicated to all the self therapists, healing themselves, because doing so they heal the world.

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posted 25 July 2025

Andreas Davids – Weltraum

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Andreas Davids

“Weltraum”

released April 6, 2025

Andreas Davids is maybe best known for his electro-industrial project XOTOX with albums released since 1998 gaining quite some attention in his native Germany and around the world. In 2023, for the project’s 25th year anniversary the “Ich Bin Da / Ich Funktioniere” album was released.

On Mahorka Andreas appeared first as one half of the Natura Est dark ambient duo with British electronic producer Tony Young (Autoclav1.1). After their self-titled monolithic debut on Ant-zen in 2018, Mahorka released their “Second” album, a new chapter of colossal, brooding ambient, where light is slowly crushed by shade, within a multi-faceted arena of sound.

In 2020 Andreas Davids released on Mahorka under his real name “7 Jahre vor der Gegenwart” – an emotional rollercoaster running from dark ambient and broken structures to technoid rhythms and sequences, and “Isolation” – his deepest and most personal solo album, also on in a beautiful cassette edition. In 2022 the label also published “Space Ambient Pop”, the genre-defining collaboration album of Andreas Davids + Sven Phalanx, also in cassette edition.

With “Weltraum”, his new solo EP on Mahorka, Andreas Davids deals with one of his favorite motifs: Space. Since his early childhood he has been fascinated by science-fiction and adventures in space, either in books, comics or movies. Somewhere between Ambient, IDM, Berlin School and Electronica, he created a place for the listeners to experience their own adventures.

Created and mastered by Andreas Davids in 2024 at Separate Room, MTH.

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posted 23 July 2025

Cobramor – Flores do Vazio

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Cobramor

“Flores do Vazio”

On a journey through the tide of impermanence, in this sonic Koan, we capture the notes of silence and, between each one, its echo. Flowers of Emptiness opens the door to a slow fire and here, as we burn, we become presence.

Flowers of Emptiness is an exercise in minimalism, desired with the intensity of a mantra. Inspired in equal parts by Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Japanese architectural minimalism and Terry Riley’s sonic mandalas, both seek to embody the cosmic void of Dōgen’s poetry, the guiding thread of this album.

Cobramor is an author, performer, sonic explorer, writer, translator, editor, and cultural mutineer.

Written by Ana Guimil (Cultural curator in New York)

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posted 21 July 2025

Various Artists – Making Things Happen: Netlabel Day 10th Anniversary Compilation

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Various Artists

“Making Things Happen: Netlabel Day 10th Anniversary Compilation”

released July 14, 2025

We have put together a special release to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Netlabel Day. It’s an album – compilation of tracks – collaborations between different Mahorka artists from the last nearly 25 years and from all around the world. Most pieces are new collaborations, initiated for the occasion, but we also have unearthed some older previously unreleased material. “Making Things Happen” is as diverse and eclectic as Mahorka can be, a blast of a celebration of community, collaboration and creative commons. Dive in and enjoy!

Communicated and compiled by Ivo Petrov
Artwork by Jeremy Rice (Abdicant) + Angel Draganov (Polygon Ring)
Final mastering by Zach Bridier (Captive Portal)

Huge thanks to everybody that made this happen!

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posted 21 July 2025

Jazzaria – Fingers Find Things

Jazzaria

“Fingers Find Things”

Semi-structured plans. Partial tonality. Improvised approach. Musical outcomes?

Fingers find things.

Featuring improvised baritone saxophone accompanied by a randomly generated modal sequence of synthesized voice and electric keys. Released on Netlabel Day 2025.

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posted 20 July 2025

PIRATE Tapes – The Lost Rainbow Tapes

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PIRATE Tapes

“The Lost Rainbow Tapes”

This collection of lost tapes is intended to be a kind of Audio Kaleidoscope. All are total improvisations recorded live by Studio 112 & Ed End (mostly between 2019-2020) at the Cave Haven in Foucherans. Straight after the Shagreen Tape we continued to record more colors. Halas, I have only one life and still so much music waiting to be achieved. So despite ideally we wanted to add a spoken word to one track of each album (and perhaps we lose a few tracks in time) this remains instrumental music. This is a quite trippy collection of bootlegs.

Dedicated to all the lovers of the rainbow LGBTQIA+ struggling for our right to live and be proud of who we are.

Also these 6 improvised albums were part of the netlabel contribution to the netlabel day 2025 https://netlabelday.org/netlabel-day-2025-releases/

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posted 17 July 2025

VARRHO & StereoKollektor – Vertical Protocol

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VARRHO & StereoKollektor

“Vertical Protocol”

Debut of two Portuguese drum and bass projects who have been collaborating on a few tracks lately and put together this fire 6 track EP edging on breakcore. VARRHO from Pombal and StereoKollektor from Portimão. Special appearance by Carlos A. on the trumpet on track 1 and Vasco Fortes on tracks 2, 3 and 4. Artwork by Archifilm Studio.
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posted 16 July 2025

SANDIKALA ENSEMBLE – Epitaph

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SANDIKALA ENSEMBLE

“Epitaph”

Epitaph is a composition by Dion Nataraja, developed in collaboration with Sandikala Ensemble.

Epitaph is a continuation of an investigation into a compositional method in which the tempo progressively decelerates. This method is inspired by the concept of rhythm in Javanese gamelan, where as the tempo of a gending slows down, the spacing between the balungan (core melody) tones widens, while instruments like the gendèr, gambang, and peking become increasingly dense: there is a paradoxical sense of time.

In Javanese gamelan, this process is often likened to the image of a blossoming flower: a gending begins like a closed bud, and as the rhythmic level rises, as the ornamental density increases, the flower blooms. However, I am not interested in a blooming flower—I am interested in a flower that withers and rots. This is why, in my works including Epitaph, the tempo continuously slows down.

The rotten flower is a symbol of critique. I have no desire to align myself with the glorification of tradition—to hell with the sublime. Rather than glorification, this work pays attention to the wounds of history that risk being forgotten. In the middle section of the piece, there is an electronic sound intervention resembling a broken radio: it is a collage of the voices of Wiji Thukul, Mahmoud Darwish (the Palestinian poet), and Frantz Fanon (the anti-colonial thinker and revolutionary from Martinique). Wiji Thukul sings his poem Apa Guna, Mahmoud Darwish reads a poem about his longing for the land of Palestine, and Frantz Fanon speaks on anti-racism and national liberation. But these voices appear unclearly, like traumatic memories arriving beyond our will.

These fragments are sandwiched between quotations from the traditional gending Lalermengeng, a piece often associated with death. Its presence, too, resembles trauma: a history that returns without control. The reference to Lalermengeng also reframes the three voices mentioned earlier; the broken-radio-like sound is also reminiscent of a swarm of flies, hovering around a rotting memory of the past.

At the end of the piece, there is an intervention in the form of noise. This moment is the only one in the work that uses noise, creating a stark contrast. Poetically, noise plays the role of a Ratu Adil—a messianic figure who halts the unstoppable flow of history toward apocalypse. In an irrational world, the hope for redemption is the only rational thing. But redemption can never clearly articulate itself—thus noise arrives. Noise is the future that refuses clear articulation.

Epitaph adalah karya komponis Dion Nataraja yang dikembangkan bersama Sandikala Ensemble.

Epitaph adalah karya kelanjutan dari investigasi mengenai metode komposisi di mana tempo karya terus-menerus melambat. Metode ini terinspirasi dari konsep irama di gamelan Jawa, di mana ketika tempo gending melambat, jarak antara nada balungan semakin melambat, instrumen-instrumen seperti gendèr, gambang, dan peking justru semakin padat: ada konsep waktu yang paradoksal.

Di gamelan Jawa, proses ini sering dikaitkan dengan gambar bunga yang berkembang: gending dimulai dengan kembang yang tertutup, dan seiring naiknya tingkat irama, seiring kepadatan ornamen meningkat, kembang ini menjadi mekar. Namun, saya tidak tertarik dengan kembang mekar: saya tertarik dengan kembang yang layu dan busuk. Ini sebabnya dalam karya-karya saya, termasuk Epitaph, tempo secara terus-menerus melambat.

Kembang busuk adalah simbol kritik. Saya tidak memiliki keinginan untuk terhubung dengan pengagungan tradisi—persetan dengan yang adiluhung. Daripada pengagungan, karya ini menaruh perhatian pada luka-luka sejarah yang terancam dilupakan. Di bagian tengah karya, ada intervensi bunyi elektronik yang terdengar seperti radio rusak: ini adalah tumpukan dari suara Wiji Thukul, Mahmoud Darwish (penyair Palestina), dan Frantz Fanon (pemikir dan pejuang anti kolonial dari Martinique). Wiji Thukul menyanyikan puisinya “Apa Guna,” Mahmoud Darwish membaca puisinya yang berkenaan dengan rasa rindunya pada tanah Palestina, dan Frantz Fanon berbicara tentang anti-rasisme dan pembebasan nasional. Tapi suara-suara ini hadir tanpa kejelasan, seperti memori traumatik yang kedatangannya berada di luar kehendak kita.

Fragmen suara ini hadir dihimpit kutipan gending tradisional, yakni Lalermengeng. Ini gending yang kerap dihubungkan dengan kematian. Kehadiran gending ini juga mirip dengan trauma: sejarah yang tiba tanpa ada kontrol. Referensi Lalermengeng juga memberi asosiasi baru terhadap fragment tiga orang yang saya sebutkan, suara yang terdengar seperti radio rusak juga mirip dengan kerumunan lalat, mengitari memori masa lalu yang busuk.

Pada akhir karya, ada intervensi dalam bentuk noise. Momen ini adalah satu-satunya momen di karya yang menggunakan elemen noise, membentuk kontras yang kuat. Dari sisi puitis, noise berperan seperti Ratu Adil yang menghentikan laju sejarah yang terus-menerus mengarah pada kiamat. Di dunia yang irasional, harapan akan penebusan adalah satu-satunya hal yang rasional. Tapi penebusan tidak pernah bisa mengungkapkan dirinya secara jelas: maka noise hadir. Noise adalah masa depan yang menolak artikulasi jelas.

About the Ensemble

Sandikala Ensemble is a Yogyakarta-based group dedicated to exploring experimental techniques and designing new gamelan instruments in order to expand the horizons of contemporary gamelan music. Founded in 2020 by Dion Nataraja and Yustiawan Paradigma Umar, the ensemble features musicians Roni Driyastoto, Mustika Garis Sejati, Suseno Setyo Wibowo, Muhamad Erdifadillah, and Muhammad Khoirur Roziqin. The ensemble has developed new instruments, including four genders with a 36-tone non-octave tuning system. More recently, Sandikala has added instruments designed by Dion Nataraja, including two gambang and two sets of gong kemodhong, crafted in Klaten by Karnadi Handoko and Siswo Pradangga.

Sandikala Ensemble berbasis di Yogyakarta dan berfokus pada eksplorasi teknik eksperimental serta perancangan instrumen gamelan baru untuk memperluas cakrawala musik gamelan kontemporer. Didirikan pada tahun 2020 oleh Dion Nataraja dan Yustiawan Paradigma Umar, ensemble ini beranggotakan para musisi Roni Driyastoto, Mustika Garis Sejati, Suseno Setyo Wibowo, Muhamad Erdifadillah, dan Muhammad Khoirur Roziqin. Ensemble ini telah mengembangkan instrumen-instrumen baru, termasuk empat buah gendèr dengan sistem laras 36 nada non-oktaf. Baru-baru ini, Sandikala menambahkan instrumen rancangan Dion Nataraja, termasuk dua gambang dan dua set gong kemodhong, yang dibuat di Klaten oleh Karnadi Handoko dan Siswo Pradangga.

About the Composer

Dion Nataraja is a composer, experimental vocalist, and scholar from Indonesia, currently pursuing a PhD in music composition at UC Berkeley. His musical and scholarly works have been focusing on the intersection of areas such as Javanese gamelan, spectral techniques, instrument building, multimedia composition, and anticolonial theories.

The composer-pianist Anthony Cheung described Dion’s music as “a true intercultural music for our time.” By the gamelan composer-performer Wahyu Thoyyib Pambayun, his music has been described as “succeeded in expanding the musical language of the Javanese gendèr.” He has attended masterclasses and studied with musicians of various genres, such as Toshio Hosokawa, Chinary Ung, Ken Ueno, Edmund Campion, Carmine-Emanuele Cella, Nick Brooke, Allen Shawn, Steve Lehman, Darsono Hadiraharjo, and Midiyanto. In 2020, he was awarded as a finalist of Talea Ensemble’s emerging composer competition, and in 2022, he was awarded as a OneBeat fellow.

His music has been included as a part of Brown University’s “Asian Musical Modernisms” course syllabus, as well as in concerts such as PGVIS Symposium (Traditions in Transition), Jogja Noise Bombing, Salihara Jazz Buzz, MATA Festival, Soundbridge Festival, and many more. As a scholar, he has published his writing in Jurnal Kajian Seni of Gadjah Mada University, and he has given lectures in venues such as California Institute of the Arts, Salihara Arts Center, Perpromi, October Meeting, among others. At the moment, he is focusing his work on Sandikala Ensemble, a Yogyakarta-based ensemble that develops experimental techniques and new gamelan instruments with the aim of expanding contemporary gamelan music’s horizon.

Dion Nataraja adalah komponis, vokalis eksperimental, dan peneliti asal Indonesia yang saat ini tengah menempuh studi doktoral dalam bidang komposisi musik di UC Berkeley. Karya-karya musik dan akademisnya berfokus pada persilangan antara gamelan Jawa, teknik spektral, pembangunan instrumen, komposisi multimedia, dan teori antikolonial.

Komponis-pianis Anthony Cheung pernah menggambarkan musik Dion sebagai “musik lintas budaya sejati untuk zaman kita.” Sementara komponis-pemanggung gamelan Wahyu Thoyyib Pambayun menyatakan bahwa musik Dion “berhasil memperluas bahasa musikal dari gendèr Jawa.”

Dion pernah mengikuti masterclass dan belajar dengan para musisi dari berbagai genre, seperti Toshio Hosokawa, Chinary Ung, Ken Ueno, Edmund Campion, Carmine-Emanuele Cella, Nick Brooke, Allen Shawn, Steve Lehman, Darsono Hadiraharjo, dan Midiyanto. Pada tahun 2020, ia menjadi finalis kompetisi komponis muda Talea Ensemble, dan pada tahun 2022 ia terpilih sebagai fellow OneBeat.

Karya musiknya telah menjadi bagian dari silabus mata kuliah “Asian Musical Modernisms” di Brown University, serta dipentaskan dalam berbagai acara seperti PGVIS Symposium (Traditions in Transition), Jogja Noise Bombing, Salihara Jazz Buzz, MATA Festival, Soundbridge Festival, dan banyak lagi. Sebagai peneliti, tulisannya telah diterbitkan dalam Jurnal Kajian Seni Universitas Gadjah Mada, dan ia pernah memberikan kuliah di berbagai institusi seperti California Institute of the Arts, Salihara Arts Center, Perpromi, October Meeting, dan lainnya.

Saat ini, Dion memfokuskan perhatiannya pada Sandikala Ensemble, sebuah kelompok musik berbasis di Yogyakarta yang mengembangkan teknik eksperimental dan instrumen gamelan baru guna memperluas cakrawala musik gamelan kontemporer.

Credits

Instruments: gender barung, gender penerus, gambang, rebab, gong kemodhong, gong ageng, percussion, electronics

Composed and electronics by:
Dion Nataraja

Produced by:

Dion Nataraja & Yustiawan Paradigma Umar

Performed by:

Yustiawan Paradigma Umar, gender barung

Roni Driyastoto, gambang, gender penerus, rebab

Suseno Setyo Wibowo, kemodhong, gambang, gender barung

Mustika Garis Sejati, rebab, kemodhong, gender penerus

Muhammad Erdifadillah, percussion, kemodhong

Mixed and mastered by:
Luke Taylor

Recorded by: Muhammad Khoirur Roziqin

Production crew: Muhammad Eko Sudarmanto

Illustration:

“Kerkhof in het park van Buitenzorg” by Raden Saleh
Edited by Wok The Rock

Sandikala Ensemble Logo and Cover layout by:
Wok The Rock

Recorded in:
Sleman, D. I. Yogyakarta, 2025

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posted 16 July 2025

The Big Circus Project – Iris

The Big Circus Project

“Iris”

Started in 2020 with an initial full-length, after 20 years of maturing his work after his late teen band’s split, The Big Circus Project is a solo guitar-oriented, instrumental punkrock thing, with programmed drums and bass, incorporating some melodic hardcore, hard rock and progressive elements in the punkrock mixture.

Here comes the 4th full-length album in a discography of 4 releases.

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posted 14 July 2025