I hope you guys like this but, more importantly, I hope it can provide some benefit to the world. I think that music is the only thing in the universe.
Holy cow, what’s broken? Have we taken leave of our senses? Quite the opposite: we know exactly what we’re doing and we sense (sic!) that this album by Lilac Complex (our new addition to the Würfel) will be huge. And we sincerely ask you not to take the title of the album as a call to action – or if you do, then simply delete all the other tracks in your music collection, except for Lilac Complex. Because this release takes no prisoners.
We hear digital-harsh drum’n’bass with a wonderfully outrageous retrofuturistic sound aesthetic. Wait, what does that mean again? Ok, glad you asked. One thing at a time.
„Retrofuturistic“ refers to a vision of the future from times gone by, in this case drum’n’bass from the 90s, as it was celebrated on countless Playstation 1 games. Everything tends to be 12 rather than 32 bit, with small glitches and a certain digital harshness, but getting the maximum sound out of the limited possibilities. Until the chips glow and the computer crashes. Cyberpunk is the word of the hour and the future will be breathtaking. Digital freedom galore.
“Outrageous” is of course an insinuation, because this “looting” in seemingly past worlds of sound is not done here naively reproducing, but with a keen eye and, above all, sharpened ears from the present day. In postmodern arbitrariness, not everything is arbitrary, but only available at the same time and invites you to hunt and collect and then sort in and out. Whatever is needed at the moment.
„Wonderful“ in the end is what has emerged here: a musical time machine. But the journey not only goes back to the 90s but also (yes, why not) into the future. Throw a little industrial, metal, glitchcore and bitcrusher into the maelstrom and let the machine run at maximum until it screeches and gives up the ghost. Only to then beg its owner to please, please not dispose of it. Fortunately for us, her pleas were heeded by Lilac Complex. We can only hope that this old, slightly broken machine (which has only just survived a nuclear explosion) will be started up again in the future. Regardless of whether this future is rosy or rusty.
Briefly about the artist: Lilac Complex lives and works in the south-east of the USA. That’s all that matters at the moment.
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Featuring piano, soprano saxophone, drum kit, upright bass, solo cello, and string ensemble.
All music by
Cartoon Vandal cartoonvandal.bandcamp.com
Arco5 arco5.bandcamp.com
Veelargo veelargo.bandcamp.com
Undsidedly undsidedly.bandcamp.com
Firnwald firnwald.bandcamp.com
Collagist collagist.bandcamp.com
D-Fried d-fried.bandcamp.com
Marric soundcloud.com/mar-ric
.kri tik kritik.bandcamp.com
Inoperative System inoperativesystem.bandcamp.com
Samplequence samplequence.bandcamp.com
Flip For Garth flipforgarth.bandcamp.com
AtOm_AnT atomant.bandcamp.com
KS|Optionica soundcloud.com/ksoptionica
Mutellat soundcloud.com/mutellat
Sedatic sedatic.bandcamp.com
Kilmarth kilmarth.bandcamp.com/music
nF soundcloud.com/nearfield-1
Remix track 14 by Sobrio sobrio.bandcamp.com
Mastering by Optionica: www.instagram.com/optionica_
Original photo by ALTEREDSNAPS: www.pexels.com/@alteredsnaps
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released December 22, 2023
Review;
Scheduled for release via Proper Cuts Recordings as a highly limited lathe cut vinyl on December 22nd, 2k23 is “Back To The Funk”, probably the final release of the year for the ever active underground production force that is Uelsen’s finest Sascha Müller. “Back To Funk”, the sole track on this one-sided 12″ release, caters a fast-paced, hounded and functional take on highly percussive ToolTechno which will most likely resonate with the seasoned and experienced DJ’s out there due to its main focus on pure efficiency and loop-oriented nature.
By nitestylez.de
The necrophile hummingbird netlabel present L’Exploration Des Vertiges
Vol. 2 by Studio112.
“Pataphysical Music for Space Dada”
The future where we live is a bad joke.
Studio112 is the main project of Alain Grille also electric guitarist and musicmaker in Multiple Personality 3 / PIRATE Tapes / EVA Vertigo / TKno BeurK / REfugEEs From Beyond / Invisible Illusion / MK-Ultra
The Puntarenazo and the strike of a beast.
We are facing a documentary work capable of communicating an open wound, the slash of a predatory beast that slipped through the cracks of our history. The musical group Lluvia Ácida has offered an account of testimonies and images that document, “El Puntarenazo”, the first demonstration against dictator Augusto Pinochet in his presence, which took place on February 26, 1984, in the main square of the city of Punta Arenas. There, the tyrant in his uniform from uncertain battles and his gray cape encountered the reaction of a people who, behind the bars of the cathedral, accused him of his crimes, baseness, and felonies. All of this led to a series of episodes linked to the political expression of the regime, culminating in the tragic events of October 6 of that same year: the installation of a bomb that destroyed the parish of “Nuestra Señora de Fátima (Our Lady of Fatima)” and which also ended the life of the army lieutenant who placed the explosive.
The music and the progression of the documentary provide the viewer with a significant universe, an eloquence to appreciate, on the one hand, a mark of pain. And in another sense, the beautiful symphony of civic organization. I am aware that as a musical group and also as audiovisual artists, Lluvia Ácida have a long history of developing themes related to the social struggles of our southern community.
“Puntarenazo” is a work where the voices of the past coexist to convey a new pact with history. It goes without saying that many times there is a tendency to emphasize the Coup and the dictatorship as something that mainly happened in Santiago, the political and administrative capital of our country. But there was also Dawson, Tejas Verdes, Isla Quiriquina, Pisagua, and, in the same way, citizens from different areas of the territory protested against tyranny. In this case, the southernmost continental city in the world was the stage for that gesture of rebellion, forged in different town hall meetings held in the heart of the community.
Where do the silenced words and the pains that never healed persist? It is a truth and a certainty that art is often there to interrogate that trauma, to dive into the depths and bring back the lessons of history, sometimes even exposing the matrix of an era. Therefore, Lluvia Ácida has created a unique, impeccable document that unearths a time when horror and infamy were the daily currency. Amid the amnesiac choruses that some propose in our present, they have addressed the need for memory and the epic of a distant community that rose up against the dictates of a hooded and cruel general who betrayed the most elementary principles of a republic.
Oscar Barrientos Bradasic
Escritor / Writer
(Punta Arenas, Magallanes, Chile. December 2023)
Full album available for free download here: www.panyrosasdiscos.org/pyr326-jukka-pekka-kervinen-asymmetric-modes/
Celestia Rytm, that sounds like the galactic smoothie the time machine forgot! Imagine you’re on a dance floor in space, surrounded by fluorescent unicorns bouncing techno-house on their stardust trampolines. The beats are like interdimensional Jell-O explosions, and the synths are so colorful they’ll make the rainbow jealous!
The necrophile hummingbird netlabel present L’Exploration Des Vertiges
Vol. 1 by Studio112.
“Pataphysical Music for Space Dadaphile”
The future where we live is a bad joke.
Studio112 is the main project of Alain Grille also electric guitarist and musicmaker in Multiple Personality 3 / PIRATE Tapes / EVA Vertigo / TKno BeurK / REfugEEs From Beyond / Invisible Illusion / MK-Ultra
A bird flies
Beyond human eyes –
We can surmise: much is unseen in trees.
Kaleidoscopes,
(Used as a trope)
Multiply the perception of beauties.
This contrafact of “Blue in Green” features a big band of clarinet, flute, piano, electric guitar, vibes, acoustic bass, brushed drums, saxes, trombones, and muted trumpets.
Today, Vietnam II return with their great new EP “Still Empty Like Before”, a collection of six previously recorded songs. For this release, Eddie & Jamarr deconstructed their originals, reworked them and essentially ended up recontextualizing them so they sound fresh and new. Could they be considered remixes? Perhaps… you decide. Download and enjoy.
Jamarr & Eddie, thank you both for another terrific release! Seriously incredible work.
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!
Lifecutter’s music is a true love affair with saturated frequencies, glitchy anomalies and distorted patinas, exploring the extremes of aggressive electronic music. However, it doesn’t have much in common with mindless fist-bumping, trendy TikTok hard techno dancing and bland distorted techno for big room raves. Although his music is rough and somewhat violent, it still radiates an aura of inexplicable mysticism. He borrows from the post-Einstürzende Neubauten industrial era and the groundbreaking techno sounds of the 90s and wraps them in a high-tech, digitally-enhanced format to underscore the dystopian, post-AI reality we live in.
”Hollow”, his fifth album for the Ljubljana-based label Kamizdat, is a logical continuation of the aesthetic he presented on his last full length album ”Sub Persona”. The new album contains nine powerful cuts that maintain his fascination with the dark and sludgy elements of British industrial techno strains and their connections to EBM, rhythmic noise, no wave and other “dark hued” genres. Melodies are sprinkled throughout the album, but they always verge on “melodic noise” rather than fully-blown melodicism in the… mehr
Mitwirkende
veröffentlicht am 14. Dezember 2023
Domen Učakar · music, mixing
Chris McCormack at Blacklisted Mastering · mastering
Jaša Bužinel · liner notes
Andro Giunio · graphic design
Maruša Hren · USB booklet, printing, bookmaking
Katja Kosi · proofreading
Luka Prinčič & Luka T. Zagoričnik · executive production
City of Ljubljana · financial support
produced by Emanat emanat.si
released by Kamizdat kamizdat.si
Portuguese artist Renildo Pereira (a.k.a. The Wiolets) debuts on MiMi Records with this beautiful EP.
“The self that you left back” is the name of the album and is composed of four subtle and minimalist piano themes.
Distant, otherworldly and melancholic, this 4-track EP is the perfect choice for a rainy day spent looking out the window, remembering the good times in life.
Some of these themes have the potential to appear in a film or television program due to their cinematic ambiance.
A must-listen album!!!
