A smaller four track ep from new artist epitomeZero now, some ambient works which could be seen as influenced by Tangerine Dream and perhaps some subtle caribbean flavours in moderation.
epitomeZero gives us a small introduction EP ‘Shortforms EP’ taken from the album ‘Lightforms 2.0’ which you can find on his bandcamp page: epitomezero.bandcamp.com/album/lightforms-20
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released July 23, 2020
Culture Horn Sound System, the heavyweight Russian dub sound system from the town of Kremenki in the Kaluga region in Russia, returns with a new EP. After the first release in year 2018 and the great feedback it received from listeners all around the world (“I am a Rootsman” was awarded “Best Album of 2018” in Russia and “Best Indie Artist” for Madi Simmons), the sound system crew returns with a new collaboration, this time featuring the Jamaican uprising artist Aza Lineage.
Aza Lineage was born to teenage parents in the harsh inner cities of Kingston, Jamaica in late 1980s. She grew up with her extended family with hergrandmother being the head of the household. Growing up Aza realized she could sing and would often do so for friends, schoolmates and family members. On searching she found Rastafari, the Energy she thanks for changing her thinking, brought African Spirituality to her awareness and connected her to her roots, hoping to impact people in a positive way through her music.
The new EP of Culture Horn includes six tracks: 2 vocals tracks and 4 instrumentals/dubs. The first one is a special dubplate on the Roots Radics Riddim, recorded exclusive for Culture Horn Sound System., followed by a flute version ft. Aktuch and the obligatory we woulld be gratefdub. The second one is the title track. With lyrics to spark your mind, I Give Thanks is followed by a special melodica dub by Med Dred and a heavyweight cut by Culture Horn Sound System.
The intergalactic beat shaman once again returns to Earth during a time of worldwide sickness to heal the weakened hearts of the downtrodden with his unique blend of tribal breaks and uplifting soundscapes. Helaku is sound. Helaku is vibrations. Helaku is full of sun. Helaku is pure light.
RELEASE DATE: July 18, 2020
GENRE: Breakbeat, Drum and Bass, IDM
This album is a real treasure: produced from 2005 to 2010 and distributed via CD in underground networks, it has been finally unearthed ten years later via a Pueblo Nuevo remastered version.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Chilean musician and producer Marcelo Peña C. (Miopec, Tobías Alcayota, MKRNI, VAN, among others), “Wet Desert” presents an harmonic experimental blending of digital programming, midi sequences and analog samples. Sounds reminiscing ethnographic recordings mixed with experimentation in rhythms, turning into uncanny soundscapes, are turning points on the album. Complex programming and melodies suggesting psychedelic analog keyboards, are also present a-plenty, as a recurring feature in Miopec‘s extensive musical output.
“Wet Desert” is an intimate, auteur album I’ve been listening to for years. It is also twofold: on the one hand, it sounds very well outdoors, played loud, mostly in isolated landscapes, coming together with the environment. On the other hand, considering Miopec’s experience in production and mixing, it is also a pleasant listening experience with headphones, constantly discovering new sounds and arrangements. A reminder that electronica’s usually dry colors can also present reflective, enlightened, and, mostly, liquid moments.
Jorge Cabieses-Valdes
(Santiago, Chile. Julio / July 2020)
English version by Gerardo Figueroa.
Based in Japan, Harueda Mizu describes himself as cinematic dark ambient.
Desert Song is a very well produced EP and the level of skill this talented artist is noted. This is a release that fits the definition of ‘soundscape’ perfectly.
A must listen and we bet that after listen this EP you will listen again and again. And you will be desperaly waiting to hear more from this amazing japanese musician.
The necrophile hummingbird & Hamfuggi Records present a marvellous journey on the Dark Side Of Wonderland by Mescalibur.
Alice trip has been revisited many time, from the Jan Švankmajer’s Alice to the Jeff Noon’s Vurt… it’s always very psychedelic… but this time it’s the dark side… then perhaps the rabbit hole is actually more looking like Norman Spinrad LSD description in The Mind Game… you know like watching inside a bubble with the whole surface made in mirror. Some call also this kind of bubble a Eye Ball. I don’t know where you are know but take care, next to listen this, perhaps you will think that you are still in the same dimension… but I really don’t know… Sometime things are not what they seems. I wouldn’t spoil the end of your travel.
Mescalibur is here http://mescalibur.fr/ perhaps… the only one who knows that kind of answers.
This single track is a remix of the tracks of the Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt album: “A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there” released in 2015 by Kruk Records. link: https://archive.org/details/KRUK02_SeanDerrickCooperMarquardt_AComfortZoneIsABeautifulPlaceButNothingEverGrowsThere
Instrumentation by Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt
vocals by Mist Spectra.
mixed, remixed by Sábila Orbe.
– Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt (Chicago, Berlin)
Also releasing music under the moniker – MoreBlackThenGod , and Drone Messiah , the developer of the Accidental Guitar Method
links: https://sdcmarquardt.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/SeanDerrickCooperMarquardt
https://stadtsprachen.de/en/author/sean-derrick-cooper-marquardt/
https://www.discogs.com/es/artist/1535075-Sean-Derrick-Cooper-Marquardt
– Humanfobia is a dark experimental, ghostly music duo from Rancagua, Chile. //// Sábila Orbe (sound programming, mixer) & Mist Spectra (lead vocals, visual support) Links:
https://humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/
https://archive.org/details/fav-mist_spectra
https://hearthis.at/humanfobia/
released June 12, 2020
Self-recorded at Ultramarinos Costa Brava and Cal Pau Recordings between 2017/2019.
Mixed by Santi Garcia & Víctor Garcia. Mastered by Víctor Garcia.
Cassette released in June 2020 by Saltamarges Records.
Artwork by Gerard Serrano and Carlos Moya at IKOU Studio.
Tracklist:
01. Old Signal Radio
02. Paranoia
03. Virus on my computer
04. Wrong Answer
Review:
SMOK – Brain Damage
Who is behind this curious musical project called SMOK? It is a question I made to myself a couple of years ago after listening to a collab between Andrés and Nicolás (a.k.a Slang). Time has passed and I have discovered that this curiousity comes from Andrés, who is music studious and part of the new generation of producers from Quinta Región. Brain Damage is the result of his curiosity. Accelerated beats, bass drums, violent boxes and acid basses; a sharp chaos which is tidied up within mysterious and obscure melodies. An album that brings me back to the 90’s and spotting strong influences of the electro, such as Underground Resistance, Drexciya, Aux88, or Radioactive Man, among others. Nineties reminiscence that mixes technological advance and that succeeds in locating us nowadays, thus giving life to an album which treasures the origins of the electro-techno, but at the same time adapts perfectly to the present.
Kamila Govorcin, Cáhuil, 2020
SMOK – Brain Damage
Quién está detrás de este curioso proyecto musical llamado SMOK? Es una pregunta que me hice hace un par de años después de escuchar una colaboración que hizo Andrés junto con Nicolás (a.k.a Slang). Pasado el tiempo, he descubierto que esa curiosidad es parte de Andrés; estudioso de la música y parte de la nueva generación de productores de la Quinta Región. Brain Damage es un resultado de su curiosidad. Ritmos acelerados, bombos y cajas violentas, bajos ácidos, un caos agudo que se ordena dentro de melodías misteriosas y oscuras. Un disco que me traslada a los noventas, reconociendo fuertes influencias del electro como Underground Resistance, Drexciya, Aux88 o Radioactive Man, entre otros. Reminiscencia noventera que combina un avance tecnológico logrando ubicarnos en la actualidad, dando así vida a un disco que valora los orígenes del electro-techno y que a la vez se adapta al presente.
Kamila Govorcin, Cáhuil, 2020
released June 5, 2020
Toda la música compuesta, tocada, cantada, grabada y mezclada por Pablo Sánchez, excepto:
Violines en “Psicolbap”, tocados por Manu Clavijo y grabados por César Gruart en los estudios Grooveart (Madrid).
Saxo tenor en “La luna y el dinosaurio”, tocado y grabado por Andrés Theaux en su casa de Córdoba (Argentina).
Saxo tenor en “La luna y el dinosaurio”, tocado por Leo Lanz y grabado por Pablo Sánchez
Charles electrónico en “Arder”, tocado y grabado por Juan Sánchez (aka Alter Ego) en Segovia.
Ningún animal fue herido en la realización de este disco.
This EP was entirely written and recorded in the cable kingdom of bleeps and bloops in the city of Sofia, Bulgaria during their tradition of Martenitsa. While Ivan Shopov was working on his project Kanatitsa with Avigeya, Valance Drakes was into a rookie year for Amek, working on the collab LP with Ivan and working on his debut album for the label (An Angel In Alliance With Falsehood).
“Much love goes out to my brother Ivan Shopov for the art piece, mastering and doing a remix for the project” – Valance Drakes
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released June 30, 2020
Original tracks by Valance Drakes
Artwork by Ivan Shopov
Mastering by Ivan Shopov
All music by Imperatrix.
Vocals, model in the cover: Mist Spectra.
additional mix, voice effects, cover artwork design: Sábila Orbe.
Imperatrix is a composer from Vienna, Austria.
more music in: https://www.youtube.com/user/LabyrinthEditor/videos
updates: https://www.facebook.com/Imperatrix-245501002148590
Humanfobia is a dark experimental music duo from Chile.
https://humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/
https://hearthis.at/humanfobia/
Pandacetamol is turning into a regular feature on Kahvi in recent times, this time he’s back with a twelve track album of minimal beats, dark factory atmospheres and a tasting of Autechre influences.
Off key leads, glitchy, shifting direction constantly. Something to chillout to in the summer sun with an ice cold beer or two.
Watch out for Pandacetamol’s retro sound of choice – classic acid.
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released June 23, 2020
Pour sa 46ème sortie, Da ! Heard It Records fait dans la haute fidélité.
Les années passent mais la passion reste : voilà ce que semble raconter Wankers United à travers Solo Romance, un nouvel album où l’Audonien continue de créer de belles histoires avec ses machines.
Deux ans après Polygon Soup (2018, Da ! Heard It), Thomas Lanza affirme encore un peu plus son amour pour les sonorités franches héritées de l’électro de Détroit. Ce laps de temps a permis à son funk robotique de prendre un peu de vitesse, de s’étoffer de multiples mélodies chaleureuses et de s’offrir un son plus épais, notamment grâce au travail de mastering réalisé par le Finlandais Mesak, compagnon de longue route du musicien.
Il faut dire que contrairement à ce que le titre de cette cassette laisse entendre, Thomas montre au fil des morceaux qu’il reste toujours bien entouré. Au-delà du portrait ornant la pochette dessinée par son ami marseillais Poborsk, ce faux solitaire prend ainsi plaisir à émailler le nom de chaque instrumental d’allusions à son entourage ou à d’autres bons souvenirs bien enfouis dans la bobine. L’ensemble, s’il laisse percevoir une petite pointe de nostalgie, n’est pas passéiste pour autant : il rappelle surtout à ceux qui l’écouteront tout le chemin parcouru par ce fin connaisseur de sonorités électroniques.
Iryna Maziuk – vocal,
Pavał Silivončyk – vocal,
Dzianis Kudraŭcaŭ – guitar,
Eryk Arłoŭ-Šymkus – double bass,
Frydrych Samotny – tenor saxophone,
Uładzisłava Chaŭratovič – hapi drum,
Vasil Pankrataŭ – percussion, Korg monotron,
Viktar Siamaška – text, declamation, winds, percussion.
The Memorial Museum-Studio of Zair Azgur, Miensk, Biełaruś, 24-04-2015.
Contagious beats and danceable rhythms, so we are welcomed by Yamashita Takuya, the alter ego of the Portuguese Fábio Pinto. The dance floor transposed to our home, to our living room, to our body. An incessant energy, reminiscent of colorful oriental realities!
Electronics and Japan, in one reality! Anime driven Beats!
Over 5 themes, 5 short discharges of sweet and melodic rhythms, of hard beats, 5 aural, punitive amalgams that will drag you across the dance floor, that will embrace you until you fall asleep.
https://mimirecords.bandcamp.com/track/night-classes
