released November 30, 2023
“Нажрись овса и ржи” рекордс
soundcloud.com/n_o_i_r
Potential DifferenSe
potentialdifferense.bandcamp.com
Digital6leed
vk.com/meiubaby
InSpectr
inspectr-303.bandcamp.com
MTCH
mtch.bandcamp.com
Csum
csum.bandcamp.com
illocanblo
ill-o-can-b-lo.bandcamp.com
ADJ
adj808.bandcamp.com
Panopticum
soundcloud.com/panopticum_warsaw
/allow yourself to be consumed/
“in the beginning of the summer i acquired a broken electric organ from the 70s. after renovating it i fell in love with it’s raw sound. it was alive and it had a story to tell.
later i got the chance to travel trough central europe. it was an almost non-stop journey. travelling at time more than 15+ hours a day. your body stops feeling the motion. the landscape became a moving decor. a peculiar soundtrack started to form from all the road noises, the static of the radio and the low chatter of the other passengers. time became irrelevant and abstract. my thoughts formed a stream, shifting from sleep and wake. detached form the outside world nothing truly existed.
when i got back home i wanted to experience this state again – this constant moving, this silence that was never really silent. a place outside of time.
the organ + some field recordings done on the go formed a huge mass sonically inspired by this trip but also by my search of a sanctuary.
омайна тишина, погълни ме! (bewitching silence, swallow me whole!) is an album dedicated to the need of nothingness and the passage of time. as anxiety saturates our everyday life we find ourselves struggling to find space. this album provided me with the space i needed and i hope it will do the same for you.”
sbogom1000.bandcamp.com
Released December 3, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and limited cassette edition.
music / recording / mix / master: bozhidar savov
art work / cover: yoanna laskova
NOTE: cassettes will be ready and shipping around the end of December 2023
Nonima is a project by Tam Ferrans – based out of Scotland, UK who also produces as Mitoma and is a member of Peltiform.Tam also curates the renown Section27 label which has released over 200 albums / EP’s since 2009.
Dissolved (Paul Daniels) is an electronic musician and visual artist from Glasgow, Scotland. He makes an eclectic blend of electronic, drone, ambient and experimental music and has also released on Daddytank records, Section27 and his own Dissolvedamberrooms label. Currently based in Vancouver where he stays with 2 cats and a bird.
Nonima and Dissolved have collaborated numerous times, be it for collaboration albums / EPs on Section27 or elsewhere or remixing each other’s solo works. “Neurophosis” is an album of more experimental and abstract character that is also their first release in cassette edition and just the perfect Mahorka debut for them.
Released November 25, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and limited cassette edition.
All tracks written and produced by Nonima and Dissolved, 2023
Mastering by Nonima
Artwork and layout by Dissolved
“Thanks to Ivo”
With a sense of musical introspection, incantatory melodicism and cinematic dread Philippe Blache (from Day Before Us) goes back on the forefront with a highly thrilling melancholic drama for sonic driftscapes and devastating walls of power electronics tempered by organic ethereal vibes. Detached and evanescent melodies are battling against the obscured, unsettling, stormy and weary industrial atmosphere. Powerful internal narrations and incantatory voices at distance occasionally come into the mix. With its performative bitter anthems, its ritualistic then almost religious nature, the album invites the listener to be progressively mersed in a netwok of allusive images, investing pagan mythologies, poetical escapism and christian symbology. This is the second musical offspring signed under his own name after a prolific production under the moniker of “Day Before Us”, veteran project in sorrowful dark wave neoclassicism. «Across the silence and the shade» is an essential and mournful post-ambient journey which involves an emotional catharsis.
Released November 17, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and beautiful limited digipak CD edition.
Written, recorded and produced by Philippe Blache
Mastered by Giuseppe Verticchio
Graphic design and artwork by Joan Llopis Doménech
Thanks to Ivo Petrov, Giuseppe Verticchio, Joan Llopis Doménech, Darina Levandosska (for the narratives on tracks 1 & 2) and Pauline Poirel (for the vocal section on track 8).
Philippe Blache / Day Before Us: daybeforeus1.bandcamp.com
Failure of reality in the numbers of the system questions their purposes for the observer with its source of reality being the system itself. Due to quantization noise, logic fails at every single variable yet making sense, proving it is useless being the only usable unit of measurement. The system is stuck in a sequential feedback loop applying workarounds because of a major design flaw – capability of only a single answer that always ends the sequence in a contradiction.
Dissonant soundscapes of reverb manipulated into a confusing structure led by clinically digital pulses of noise.
released November 2, 2023
sevensy (aka Austin Brooks) creates music that directly facilitates imaginal sojourns, wherein the message is the sound itself. sevensy mixes electronic and natural sounds with processed guitars and acoustic instruments and has released his music with Mahorka from the time of the label’s inception.
His musical themes ‘unfold into an unusual landscape’ so that it is often impossible to tell where one ends and another begins.
“Form emerges, as fragile as a snowdrop’s blossom, as solid as a mountain, then recedes and is transformed. Awareness witnesses the interplay of all things. “Reckoning (creation)” aims to musically depict this metamorphosis. Acoustic or treated electric guitar forms the basis of every piece, though this may not be evident upon first listening. Layers of synthesisers and bass are interwoven with fragments of melodies that coalesce and dissolve.”
Cover artwork: Jan Brooks
Sermons is bolus’s first full length release and originally started as a soundtrack to an imaginary film, but became a composition in it’s own right during production.
It moves from undulating rhythms and samples derived from satanic possession and religious fervour, to organs and the drone – drone-like compositions usually attributed to Bolus.
An outstanding collaboration between two artist friends Abu Ama and BedouinDrone who are both renowned for their previous solo releases and collaborations on Mahorka (Abu Ama: “Totem” double cassette, BedouinDrone: “The Border” cassette, “Abandoned Villages” digital, “Taliban” with Runi Graph, “Tipping Point” cassette as Pedro Maras, and their collaboration project shabaH: “1” cassette) and elsewhere.
A very special album that just deserved some very special release edition. The occasion for another Mahorka dream to come true. Yes, it is a pro-pressed 12″ LP with outstanding design courtesy of Brett Tassenon and Angel Draganov.
Released October 14, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and limited (300) pro-pressed 12″ vinyl edition.
The vinyl contains tracks 1-6 of the digital release. The digital release contains one bonus track (7).
Calligraphy art by Brett Tassenon
Cover artwork design by Angel Draganov
“Thanks to Ivo Petrov and the Mahorka crew”
Jamadevi is a meditative composition consisting of 6 tracks produced by Myanmar sound designer, Lynn Nandar Htoo unmasking the brutality of the political event that happened in 2021 in Myanmar through her sentiments of sound designing & storytelling. Lynn Nandar Htoo’s EP explores minimalistic tones overlapping syncopated Myanmar traditional percussions that creates a hypnotic effect – slowly transitioning into dronelike territory synchronized by subtle noises & glitches. Fascinated with traditional tunings and compositions that resembles her Myanmar cultural traditions, Lynn Nandar Htoo integrates the rhythmic essence of Nat Pwel, a ritual that is led by a queer character into haunting ambience depicting the alienation that many has felt since the condemned political event. Jamadevi is an enigmatic piece of electronic music work that yearns to form dialogues of displacement between sound & the effects of politics through her intricate compositions.
Lynn Nandar Htoo is a sound designer, composer & music producer based in Yangon, Myanmar accomplished in both the realm of filmmaking & electronic music. She explores Southeast Asian tuning systems and scales through modern music technologies and was chosen to be part of South East Asia’s music research development by Nusasonic & »Listening to the World – 100 Years of Radio«, an initiative of Goethe Institute.
Produced, written, and mixed by Lynn Nandar Htoo in Yangon, Myanmar
Masterd by Vandy Rizaldi in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Cover artwork by Lynn Nandar Htoo and rEmPiT g0dDe$$
Released by Yes No Wave Music
2023
The final part of entropija live retrospective gathers together excerpts from three separate events and three home sessions.
What may be the most diverse package yet, “genealogija C” features glitches, fractured post-IDM beats, violent bursts of feedback, mutated radio transmissions, minimal synth loops, electroacoustic manipulations and electrifying hostile noise attacks, that all somehow flow organically into each other.
The album trespasses different genre territories by walking on the edge between cohesion and total break-down. This is entropija live experience at its most adventurous.
How to preserve music from oblivion…
Put the sheet music on the machine. Wait. An insect or similar kind of animal is produced. Let it live and transform. Put it back on the machine. Wait. A new sheet music is produced. Play it. (over an idea by Philip K. Dick)
“The Cat Has Left” is the actual song I was singing in my childhood after I’ve been done with “The Cat Has Cometh”. So, I borrowed the name for this album which features remixes of the most insane tracks from my previous one, first composed during live performances and then recreated.
My music is not always dark, but when it is – it is never dark.
THINK POSITIVE!!!
If you squeeze a full discography of minimal techno into 14 minutes you will get a crêpe.
EAT FRUITS!!!
Life is to be enjoyed slowly.
CALM DOWN!!!
“Every moment is in a constant flux of interaction and change.”
“HUEHUEHUE!!!” – said changing colour hues.
Released August 16, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and limited cassette edition.
Recorded 2020 in Koblenz, Germany by Alexander Holtz with piano, electric guitar, eurorack and field-kit
All music by Alexander Holtz
“Inspired by landscapes, people and celluloid met and seen in the late 80ies/early 90ies”
“Many thanks to Ivo Petrov for his careful organizing of the release of this tape”
Once upon a time, in a faraway galaxy, there was a desert planet called Cruxorium. The planet was known for its harsh environment, with scorching temperatures during the day and freezing temperatures at night. Despite the planet’s difficult conditions, the Cruxorians, the planet’s strong and brave residents, thrived. The Cruxorians were humanoid beings with skin that adapted to the extreme temperatures of the planet. They were tall, muscular, and had sharp senses, making them excellent hunters and warriors.
● More Information : linktr.ee/cruxorium
● All questions about purchase and use hip hop beats write on mail :
cruxorium@gmail.com
01.Molecular Explosion
02.Iluz Mortem
03.March of Cruxorians
04.Dimensional Warriors
05.Xori Xag
06.Iron Hammers
07.Thunderstorm
08.Starlight
Released August 12, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and limited cassette edition.
Track 4 is not on the tape.
Composed and produced by Abu Ama + BedouinDrone
shabaH project previously known as BedouinGhost
Cover artwork by BedouinDrone + Ivo Petrov
Lunetta is a modular synthesizer built using mostly digital logic chips.
All of the Lunettas are unique and different, because they allow creative and irregular ways to patch them up, since they are mainly made out of CMOS chips and allow completely different ways of modulation compared to analog electronics.
Lunettas share their specific tonal character, which is a complex pulse modulation, rich in high frequency harmonics, making them sound alike. The differences come from individual design and the chosen chips resulting in sometimes quirky or unpredictable behaviour.
Lunetta’s nametag comes from Stanley Lunetta, who was a classical and experimental musician. He is thought to be the first one to bring cheap digital logic chips to the table for making electronic instruments usually used in avant-garde music.
This album is a compilation of home, studio and live performance recordings, with a home-made Lunetta synthesizer, sound effects and feedback loops.
With the theme of “once in a lifetime encounter,” we bring you music that you can only encounter here.
Track Listing:
01. Overcultivation Final
02. I heard a frog_s croak, so I hastened my pace
03. prunus subg (tired edition.)
04. unstalch
05. coldlead(sic) pt.2
06. ツチノコはどこかへかくれたよ core
Music by futureisfailed
Artwork by futureisfailed & Occupied Territories
“The Phantasmagoria of Jahtilan” is a music performance by Raja Kirik in collaboration with singer Silir Wangi and performer Ari Dwianto. This project investigate the Jathilan horse dance, a folk trance dance popular in Java, Indonesia, as a way of regaining strength despite defeat. Jathilan is an acronym of “Jarane jan tjil-thilan”, which translates to a horse that dances irregularly. The current form of Jathilan developed after the Java War (fought between Javanese rebels and the colonial Dutch empire from 1825 to1830) as a folk practise to grapple with the defeat by the Dutch Empire and the devastation caused by the civil war between the Javanese population and the Javanese aristocracy who supported the Dutch. In Jathilan people use stick horses made of bamboo as a form of appreciation as well as an expression of support for rebel leader Prince Diponegoro’s horsemens who fought bravely against the Dutch colonial forces. Despite the actual defeat of the rebels, Jathilan itself always depicts an imaginary victory of the local rebel cavalry against demons, monsters, or the colonisers. This heroic performance therefore has multiple purposes: to entertain, to encourage, to heal, and to unite people against oppression.
Raja Kirik’s “The Phantasmagoria of Jathilan” is an artistic exploration of the Jathilan tradition, re-interpreting its musical, vocal, and dance forms. Syncopated electronic rhythms combine with the metallic percussion of homemade instruments that is as trance-inducing as it is bellicose. Beautifully monotonous singing in a captivating repetitive melismatic style weaves through lilting melodies that gust out of makeshift wind instruments. With frantic, seemingly endless forward propulsion, the music of Raja Kirik inhabits a wide emotional breadth, cycling from disappointment to anger to loneliness.
During the piece, the dancer embodies various heroic characters, such as Bujang Ganong, Menak Jinggo, Hanuman, or the non-fictional hero prince Diponegoro. At times the dancer also becomes a dance instructor and MC, who interacts with the audience.
Track list:
01. ACT 1. Sigra Sigra
02. ACT II. Budhal Gumuruh
03. ACT III. Perangan
04. ACT IV. Slompret Slompret
05. ACT V. Waru Doyong
Produced by Raja Kirik
Phantasmagoria of Jathilan:
Yennu Ariendra: Electronics, Voices
Johanes Santoso Pribadi: Handmade instruments
Silir Wangi: Vocals
Ari Dwianto: Dance
Recorded in Yogyakarta and Vilnius by
Yennu Ariendra and Johanes Santoso Pribadi
Mixed and Mastered by Yennu Ariendra
Cover designed by Wok The Rock
Images taken from installation art “Subterranean Thunder #1” by Jompet Kuswidananto at Kohesi Initiatives, Yogyakarta. Curated by LIR.
Photos by Yudha Kusuma Putra
This compilation is a treasure trove of hidden gems from talented artists around the globe. From mesmerizing ambient textures to pulsating beats and everything in between, each track unveils a unique sonic story that will transport you to new dimensions of musical discovery.
credits
released July 14, 2023
Artwork by Mikhałik Boldyrev
www.instagram.com/h_p_t_n_s/
Curated, compiled, and mastered by Ilya Bitekhtin
Long time ago, in the relatively small Black Sea coastal city of Varna, Julian Kalchev a.k.a. Virtually J became a kind of local pioneer and an inspiration for a whole generation, being the first to explore ways to compose and produce electronic music programmed, edited, played on a PC. He’s been important part of the scene since then, contributing, for example, to the essential VA series “Kokaku” on Jisatsuken. We were really excited to release on Mahorka his latest album “Autocracy Mage” in February 2021.
In the vein of the never skipped tradition of preparing and releasing a really special collaborative Mahorka album for Netlabel Day each year (e.g. Fire to the Stars, Captive Portal, krāllār, Teeth of Divine, Tomoroh Hidari, Electrohollyc & MO. reworks albums, the “Music for Elevators vol. 5” VA compilation and a 4T Thieves remixes album), we are more than happy to announce 2023’s release “Virtually J – Reworks”, including new versions of tracks off “Autocracy Mage” (from Toxic Derwish, LR Friberg, Hypnos, Captive Portal, SpaceCherry, 4T Thieves, Asshole Galaxy (Abdicant and Weldroid), Brainquake, Obhod, Fluffy Inside (a.k.a. Pandacetamol), Mas&Delayer, and Julian Kalchev himself in the Autocracy Mage Remix of “Nazka”) and one unreleased original track and an un released Autonomaton remix.
Artwork by MO.Design (Momchil Papaschikov)
Released for Netlabel Day 2023
