MECHANIQUE(S)
Dafna Naphtali – live sound processing & voice
Hans Tammen – endangered guitar
Mechanique(s) is the New York-based duo of Dafna Naphtali and Hans Tammen — live computer-based electronics and audio processing, endangered guitar and voice. In their active collaboration since 1998, the duo probes and playfully undermines the overlap of various elements of their technical and aesthetic practices. With Naphtali’s interactive processed sound/noise system and 4-octave vocal range, and Tammen’s mechanical and energetic laptop manipulations of modified guitars, the duo sets out on a crazed collision course of the acoustic and the electronic – all along the route paying homage (in a twirl of the radio dial) to music concrete, free jazz and European improvised music, as well as the contemporary classical and all manner of non-Western musics.
This album is a live recording of a performance in Schenectady, NY in 2009. Zachary Seldess provided the live visuals processing, an image of which is used for the album design.
Eduardo Vega, cover photo.
Nearly three years after the release of netBloc Vol. 51, the much-beloved series returns and it’s a scorcher! 11 tracks deep and over an hour long… it’s a nice representation of what’s been happening in the Creative Commons music world over the past 3 years. Included on this one are old friends and new… including legendary Anticon co-founder and underground avant-garde rap pioneer, sole! So don’t sleep… download this and add it to the collection.
A huge thank you to all participating artists and labels! Much respect.
Of course, thanks once again to you for downloading & listening. We always strive to deliver the music you’ll love. Please spread the word about blocSonic, if you enjoy what we do. Remember… everything we release is cool to share! Always keep the music moving… share it… blog it… podcast it! If you’re in radio… support independent music and broadcast it!
NNYz? was last seen back at #375, and he returns to Kahvi with a short but sweet seven track EP called ‘Aetiology’.
Highly detailed textures with glitchy beats, field recordings and IDM arps combined into simply named but exotic sounding tracks.
Track of choice: 4am for deliciously sweeping eighths for emotive spine tingling nostalgia.
A powerful trip ambient trip into the woods of a long winter, some steps into the snow and his rumours. Wonderful and terrible at the same time.
DR, born 1982, is a sound artist from Lower Saxony, Germany. Uses synthesizers, acoustic instruments (Ukulele & Cavaquinho ) field recordings, tape loops & granular synthesis to create melancholy ambient / drone soundscapes.
it is called “Nina Sergejewna”, the main person in a beautiful book from Lydia Tschukowskaja
TRACKLIST
1. Nina Sergejewna
2. Bilibin
3. Katjuscha
4. Der Birkenwald
5. Frischer Schnee
6. Alles Lebendige sucht Brüderlichkeit
7. Untertauchen
8. Aljoscha
Debut de Hadokowa, banda de 8-bit punk de Taiwán.
Crève fumeur, cantado en francés, habla sobre los efectos de fumar. 囡囡 (NanNan), en Chino, explica porque ser lesbiana es un acto político 買狗養狗 (Get a dog pet a dog) describe como los perros están reemplazando a los niños en el Taiwán moderno.
Reelanzado y co-editado por Enough Records y Nación Libre Records.
Fluffy Inside (otherwise known as Pandacetamols more trance related alter-ego) brings us Fluffy Inside EP, a seven track riot of oldskool-trance-idm-acid-vibes.
More experimental using authentic 90s era sounds, Fluffy Inside takes you back to the roots.
“Humasaurs”, sounds from a dystopic World of corrupt and luxurious reptile-humans.
Personnel: Giuseppe Pascucci – Vito Pesce : Electric Guitars, effects.
Live recorded by V. Pesce, G. Pascucci, between September 2016 and February 2017.
Sound Design, Mixing and Mastering: Enrico L’Insalata, ChiralityAudio.
Graphic Illustration : TACHY147
“Nikola, Was Right!”, has been freely inspired by Nikola Tesla’s works and Life.
Personnel: Giuseppe Pascucci – Vito Pesce : Electric Guitars, effects.
Live recorded by V. Pesce, G. Pascucci, between September 2016 and February 2017.
Sound Design, Mixing and Mastering: Enrico L’Insalata, ChiralityAudio.
Graphic Illustration : Vito Battista
Just before Christmas, Curious Inversions came up with the idea for our next artist challenge in the shape of a ‘Secret Santa’ challenge.
The challenge was to create a track using at least some of the sounds from sample packs, along with a few additional sounds such as bass, percussion from the artists own collection.
Seven sample packs were created by seven different artists, and then randomly distributed. The result is what’s now known as ‘Forms’.
For its 39th release, Da ! Heard It Records gives birth to a new alchemy.
As an emblematic figure of the French alternative scene of the 70s and 80s, Bernard Filipetti has been heating up his analog synthesizers’ circuits within the band Camizole along with Dominique Grimaud, and with his solo project Art & Technique. Raw, industrial, and without concession, Bernard’s recordings of that time resonate among those of a new generation of mavericks, whom he discovers with enthusiasm at the heart of the Parisian musical network of Rue des Gardes. He then surrounds himself with Mathieu Habig, the energetic drummer of Guili Guili Goulag and Spoliature, to fire up his machines during the Merguez Electroniques festival in June 2017. This memorable concert is the origin of the present cassette, born from the spontaneous invitation of the Da ! Heard It label and the arrival of Ravi Shardja, (GOL Couloir Gang) into this new formula.
For three days, after strategically placing mics and ventilators in an overheated cave in Porte de la Villette, the formation of varying geometry cans nearly 12 hours of material in July 2018. From these largely improvised sessions arise unpublished sonorous structures, marked by the canicular atmosphere of the place.
A true celebration of the alloy of complementary personalities, the saturated cloths gradually ignite the speakers to reveal the sustained play of Mathieu Habig. Synthetic volutes briefly appear and melt into these long compact shores, as if shaped directly in the material. In two of the four tracks on the album, Ravi Shardja’s bass brings in a krautock flow to add to these stretched out compositions, extended and forged compulsively in the heat of this underground studio. Reminiscent of the various sonorous strata machined at the forefront of this percussive assembly, the sleeve that accompanies this production was conceived with precision by Pia Mélissa Laroche. Inside, the magnetic tapes that capture the vivid energy of these sessions give a fair idea of their concerts and invite to a collective frenzy.
Thirty years after its debut, Art & Technique reinvents itself with tribal rhythms, obstinate bass lines wrapped in a dense, psychedelic, and perpetually boiling electronic.
071617182018, the 39th release of Da ! Heard It Records is distributed under a Creative Commons BY_NC_ND license. The album is fully listenable and downloadable at the following address : https://www.daheardit-records.net/en/discography/dhr-39
