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released February 16, 2020
feat Hugin at the guitar
posted 12 March 2020
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Salomè Lego Playset – FAILURES
[SR217]
Salomè Lego Playset
“FAILURES”
Forgotten on a dying hard drive for years, FAILURES is Salomè’s latest, and last, work.
An utter failure, but we did the best we could.
Credits:
Tracks recorded in Bologna in 2013 and mixed by Salomè Lego Playset and Fabio Iaci in 2018/19.
Mastering by Fabio Iaci.
Salomè Lego Playset is:
Davide Landi (bass guitar)
Elia Dalla Casa (saxophone)
Jacopo Cinti (drums)
Nicola Boari (guitar and voice)
Track 2, Magenta Jealousy Blackened, features John Duncan on voice and his are the lyrics too.
Front photo by Davide Landi.
Back photo by Giancarlo Morieri
Inner photo by Nicola Boari
Art direction by Matteo Linari
posted 12 March 2020
Special Request – Zero Fucks
Special Request
“Zero Fucks”
Special Request drops the fourth and final album of 2019. Concentrating purely on the heavyweight original hardcore ethos of taking whatever you want from anywhere, these tracks are made for shelling down dances and losing your marbles.
Those who have been paying close attention will recognise the face-melting drum treatments from those instagram clips, constructed using purpose-built equipment and a healthy amount of irreverence.
Elsewhere we find clock mechanisms worked into the layers of various tracks, the voices of Francis Bacon, David Lynch and others & eventually one such clock speeding up to oblivion, merely hinting at where Special Request is taking you next…
Vinyl editions to follow in 2020 and will be released and deleted on the same day. Pay 0.00 for these downloads. Enjoy life.
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released December 30, 2019
posted 10 March 2020
Cyff Gwawd – Cyff Gwawd
Cyff Gwawd
“Cyff Gwawd”
Cyff Gwawd is Stuart Estell, a piano, and a couple of barely-functional tape machines. The project draws on his love of Satie, Cage, Feldman and Basinski while also being a logical step from his compositions for drone/doom tuba outfit ORE, which he left in 2014. Cyff Gwawd is named in tribute to Mark Hollis. It means “Laughing Stock” in Welsh.
The pieces on this release started as miniatures, some of the material freely composed, and some of it restricted to sets of just four pitch classes. In performance, however, they took on a life of their own and didn’t seem to want to be constrained to what had been written down — resulting in what might be better described as planned improvisations.
The same side of the same C90 — an old and far-from-clean TDK SA90, naturally — was used to record all four pieces. The older cassette machine’s completely unreliable motor and faulty tape head resulted in some happy accidents (speed changes, incomplete erasure) that would be impossible to reproduce. Apart from EQ, some additional reverb and the occasional overlaying of additional tracks (from the same source material), the only editing here has been structural. Other than that, what you hear is how it… more
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released March 6, 2020
posted 09 March 2020
Rogelio Nobara & Chris Silver T – Humming Bard
[SR214]
Rogelio Nobara & Chris Silver T
“Humming Bard”
Greece/Mexico
Released 2/3/2020
https://nostockproject.wordpress.com
https://soundcloud.com/rogelio-nobara
Released 2/3/2020
https://nostockproject.wordpress.com
https://soundcloud.com/rogelio-nobara
posted 02 March 2020
Ethernet Orchestra – Oceans between Sound
[pn150]
Ethernet Orchestra
“Oceans between Sound”
REVIEW / RESEÑA
Oceans between Sound is a selection of live improvisations by the internet based music ensemble, Ethernet Orchestra. The album was recorded during located venue performances and online sessions between 2014-2019, featuring musicians from a diverse range of cultures, performing across international time-zones and physical locations in Brazil, the USA, Canada, UK, Germany and Australia. The music was inspired by the ebb and flow of network data as a metaphor for the world’s oceans and waterways separating the members of the ensemble, and their geographically dispersed lives.
Oceans between Sound includes performances by internationally acclaimed improvisers such as guitarist Chris Vine, best known for his work with the British post punk band Blurt (Factory Records), and Elliott Sharp and Bob Boilen in the downtown music scenes of New York and Washington D.C. The ensemble founder, trumpeter Roger Mills, came to prominence during the 1990s with his work with the Bristol-based free jazz ensemble Space Ways and the trip-hop collective Statik Sound System (Cup of Tea Records). Performing on many of the tracks is the UK based free improviser Hervé Perez, acclaimed German pianist Holger Deuter, as well as world-renowned Moorin Khuur player and throat singer, Bukhchuluun Ganburged. The album also features a performance by the late Richard Lainhart, who worked and performed with John Cage, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Rhys Chatham. His musical contributions to Seymareh ensure his presence continues to live on in our music.
A salient characteristic of the recordings on Oceans between Sound is how they reflect the materiality of the telematic performance medium. Musical sound travels through multiple networks, and is subject to a variety of operational conditions, latency, speeds, compression, and jitter. These phenomena imprint themselves on the sound as an aesthetic parameter within the music, rather like the crackle of an old vinyl album. These sonic qualities are also a testament to the incredible feat of musicians performing in real-time across distances of thousands of kilometres.
Roger Mills
(Sydney, Australia, marzo / March 2020)
posted 01 March 2020
Various Artists – 2019 Compilation
Various Artists
“2019 Compilation”
Each December we release a compilation that reflects the current year and looks ahead to the next. It’s a mix of tracks where artists complement each other and where we feature some of their strongest work. It can be seen as a proud collection of tracks that defines the Atomnation sound.
2K19 features new work from Applescal, Milio, Mordisco and Sam Goku. Tunnelvisions, boys be kko, Coloray, Sky Civilian and Polynation complete the selection with songs that got released earlier this year on their respective albums / EP’s.
On behalf of our artists and team, we wish you all the best for the new year. A couple of great projects are in the planning which we can’t wait to share with you. Thanks for your support!
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released December 19, 2019
posted 22 February 2020
All shall be well (and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well) – ZWARTGROEN
All shall be well (and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well)
“ZWARTGROEN”
ZWARTGROEN is our third full length album after releasing ROODBLAUW in 2011 and BLAUWGEEL in 2014 and releasing our EP GEELZWART in 2016.
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released February 20, 2020
ALL music by All Shall Be Well (and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well). Artwork by Bas. Many thanks to Tom Huissen, Henk Suurling, Jochem de Jong, Cedric Muyres, Mart, Darius, Antje, Blazenka, Marta, Meldody, Sanne and of course you (for your support). For Juno, Kess, Leah, Lukas, Omar and Niev.
posted 20 February 2020
Smooth Genestar – Music For Sleepless Cities
[CYAN 105]
Smooth Genestar
“Music For Sleepless Cities”
Smooth Genestar returns with a massive load of Lounge, NuJazz, TripHop and Downbeat: 3 hours and 21 tracks full of deep, melancholic and uplifting vibes, always influenced by Oldschool HipHop and Jazz. These tracks have been written with Love, and they are dedicated to all those restless Hotspots and people – who turn the cities into sleepless cities. This collection of pure and calming urban tracks is meant to be the perfect soundtrack for all sunset people or night owls. Joining a good glass of wine at home, working or studying at night or as musical painting for Late Nite Bars – the included tracks will fit every situation and every need. For the sleepless ones. For the cities. For the urban adventures. And at least – for your senses.
Written, produced and mastered by Marco Rockstroh
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released February 2, 2020
posted 19 February 2020
Nicolas Tourney – Ram
[BN_LP028_02_20]
Nicolas Tourney
“Ram”
Nicolas Tourney is a french experimental musician and sound designer, also owner of the label Snow in Water Records. With Ram, he offers us an electronic work focused on perception and act of listening, with the use of various sound devices and drones. Ram is a work in-progress with long-sustained tones. Ram submit to the listener some perceptual experience: there would be a “sound” as object of perception and source of this same perception. This held sound that we dress by calling it a soundscape, spacing exploration from the gesture. Look at what draws us to a sound, how listening gets caught up in it, and how it draws our attention to an experience. Ram sounds like a suspense that opens onto interiority. In this silence, the listener finds himself contemplating the act of listening, as if it is the constant noise of natural electricity.
posted 17 February 2020
Laurent Fairon – QUIRKS
Laurent Fairon
“QUIRKS”
Hi, there,
Maybe you’ll fing something to your tastes in my new project QUIRKS:
https://laurentfairon.bandcamp.com/album/quirks
The blurb:
The QUIRKS mini album combines various scattered audio remains –vinyl detritus, found sounds and spoken word– to produce new sound chimeras and audio collages with a life of their own.
The QUIRKS concept and methodology were inspired by a famous US boardgame from the 1980s, where cards of various animal parts combine to create new, imaginary creatures – the cover artwork chosen for this Bandcamp album intended to emulate the mood as well.
This project is also indebted to US provocateurs Bill Buchanan and Dickie Goodman, who pioneered the “break-in” record in the 1950s, or plunderphonics avant la lettre.
L.F.: vinyl, found sounds, loops, artwork
Best,
Laurent Fairon
posted 12 February 2020
audio Weldroid & Room of Wires – The Deep Blue Knight
[S27-176]
audio Weldroid & Room of Wires
“The Deep Blue Knight”
All music produced, performed, recorded & mixed by Weldroid & Room of Wires.
Mastering by Weldroid.
credits
released February 10, 2020
posted 11 February 2020
Tijana Stanković – Freezer
[LOM17]
Tijana Stanković
“Freezer”
Freezer is an album of raw and emotive improvisations by Serbian violinist-vocalist Tijana Stanković. Her chosen theme, the proverbial ‘freezer’, makes for a stark setting, serving as both a musical metaphor and literally the echoey meat freezer in Bratislava where the music was created and recorded. “Freezer is a place of cruelty and hope,” Stanković says. “It is a metaphor – an inner place where thoughts and feelings wait to be addressed.”
Though a dedicated free improviser, Stanković’s background in folk and Ethnomusicology puts her in touch with an ancient emotional syntax. Her key tools – violin and vocals – both yearn with an organic and creaking fragility, tied irrevocably to old cultures. As a means to express, they offer boundless possibilities (something Stanković has long explored in a vast array of collaborative groups, ensembles, and projects), but locker herself in the Freezer, on these recordings Stanković gains access to some potent introverted sonic realms, putting them in stasis to keep them at their most genuine, honest, and revealing. “To freeze,” she explains, ”is to preserve.”
Each of the four lengthy improvisations captured on Freezer takes its aesthetic to a logical endpoint. For example, ‘From dust and shine’ is a trip into gentle bow strokes over jarring and… more
credits
released February 2, 2020
Vocal, prepared violin and bow by Tijana Stanković
Recorded by Jonáš Gruska in LOM freezer in Petržalka
Mastered at The House of What You See
Cover by Jonáš Gruska and Lucia Kovaľová
Text by Tristan Bath
Released by LOM as LOM17 in 2020
posted 04 February 2020
The EyE – Wilt
[zen203]
The EyE
“Wilt”
a splendid experimental ambience from Iran
posted 01 February 2020
Various Artist – V.Ʌ. 2020
Various Artist
“V.Ʌ. 2020”
It’s with great pleasure that after one year of silence Ekar records is now presenting a truly eclectic music collection. A compilation that consolidates old collaborations and open the doors to the new ones. A mix of talented artists but above all, beautiful people who do what they do out of love and not out of duty, feeling the freedom to express themselves as they see fit.With this free download compilation Ekar records also renews the goal of spreading creativity and passion without limiting the enjoyment to specific audiences, especially based on monetary reasons. Not a product, but music. Music by individuals for individuals and not for the masses, leaving to the user the freedom and the power to support the label and the artists as they like, based on what the music was worth to them.
If you like what you are listening show us some love!
credits
released January 31, 2020
Cover artwork created by F. Rosso aka Sherbert H.
Mastered by V. Massucci at Hypertone Studio.
posted 31 January 2020
Yashiyah – The Untitled Tape
Yashiyah
“The Untitled Tape”
released November 12, 2019
posted 31 January 2020
Mikael Fyrek – Further Asunder
Mikael Fyrek
“Further Asunder”
It’s been a while since Mikael Fyrek last appeared on Kahvi with releases known for their quality, exciting melodies and detailed subtleties and we’re extremely happy to welcome him back for his newest EP ‘Further Asunder’. Once again, amazingly detailed pieces polished to an immaculate shine.
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released January 29, 2020
Cover artwork by Linda Devad
posted 29 January 2020
PRG3 – In silenzio tra le urla
[EKR019]
PRG3
“In silenzio tra le urla”
DISTORTED POWERFUL SOUNDS
and
FLASHBACKS FROM LONG GONE RAVES
Like a 15 years old girl locked in a room by her evil father.
I want to escape from the window and breath.
posted 25 January 2020
Snarg – Snarg II
[KOF #327]
Snarg
“Snarg II”
Snarg II delivers 8 un-skippable tracks of all hits no shits chiptune post-hardcore fusion. There is not an ounce of fat on this release and nothing is over looked. The synth lines are uplifting, the softer melodic sections gear up perfectly into heavy breakdowns and what could be considered the standard punk elements feel cool and comforting. Call and response as well as gang vocals provide a genuine sense of comradery and adventure. Snarg bring something very unique to the table that we are simply unable to find anywhere else in the Nintendocore timeline.
Hanover Hardcore Punk.
Bass, Guitar, Drums and Synth.
posted 22 January 2020
Various Artist – Super Duper Digi-Punk Split Vol.5: Breakcore Edition
[KOF #335]
Various Artist
“Super Duper Digi-Punk Split Vol.5: Breakcore Edition”
This is the fifth Volume in the Super Duper Digi-Punk Split series. Eight tracks from seven artists whose work we have incredible respect for! All with very different approaches to the genre. All bringing something unique and important to the table.
This is our third release with Lil Kevo 303. Kevo loves living in Boston, making breakcore, spinning DnB, and selling high quality ice-cream.
Hitori Tori and RiDylan play an enormous role in the Vancouver electro scene. They are both incredibly talented braindance bad boys and we are beyond lucky to live in the same city as them.
Minogame is a pianist and breakcore producer from Colorado who runs one of our all time favourite labels, Bijou Bay.
Bethas from Finland provides us with two tracks that are wildly unique, haunting, and emotional.
Breakbeat Heartbeat is a chiptune / breakcore producer from the UK boasting a gorgeous catalogue of releases worth digging through.
yoxteller from Japan ends this release by absolutely burning it to the ground. Lootcanal (who is hands down the most powerful DJ in the world) brought him over from Japan to play a show and it was one of the best sets we have ever witnessed.
posted 22 January 2020
Nullva – All Things Must Pass
[EEM051]
Nullva
“All Things Must Pass”
All Things Must Pass is a journey through grief, melancholy, and reflection and is dedicated to the memory of my most faithful and parted friend.
posted 21 January 2020
shogonodo – drive slow
shogonodo
“drive slow”
French artist Shogonodo just released the new single “Drive Slow”, following his recently released track “Caribbean”, and is available across all digital platforms now on Orikami Records !
Il est français, et l’un des producteurs ayant connu une percée spectaculaire ces deux dernières années. Shogonodo vient de dévoiler sa toute dernière production ‘Drive Slow’ !
posted 18 January 2020
posted 15 January 2020
Laxenanchaos – Moth On The Light Source
[TAR097]
Laxenanchaos
“Moth On The Light Source”
@laxenanchaos
We’re starting the year off proper with a debut release from Japan based producer Laxenanchaos.
posted 15 January 2020
Mateo Hurtado – All The While Staying Perfectly Still
[ST010]
Mateo Hurtado
“All The While Staying Perfectly Still”
Creator of Techno and Experimental Music with an intuitive and analogue character. Deeply inspired by the surrealist movement, obscure symbolism and ritualistic incantations, his music seeks to invoke hidden, impossible images and bring to light the indecipherable messages buried in the unconscious.
Coming from a background which involves both early contact with more somber forms of musical expression as well as involvement and education in the world of art, his process and approach to electronic music seeks to overcome conventional boundaries of the genre and handle the musical material akin to the ideas of urrealism.
These concepts manifests themselves through an array of analog and digital, modular and conventional electronic instruments. Mateo has been focusing on heavily improvised live performances, in which shifting polyrhythmic material is fused with otherworldy, strange melodies, ritualistic drumwork and… more
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released January 13, 2020
Coming from a background which involves both early contact with more somber forms of musical expression as well as involvement and education in the world of art, his process and approach to electronic music seeks to overcome conventional boundaries of the genre and handle the musical material akin to the ideas of urrealism.
These concepts manifests themselves through an array of analog and digital, modular and conventional electronic instruments. Mateo has been focusing on heavily improvised live performances, in which shifting polyrhythmic material is fused with otherworldy, strange melodies, ritualistic drumwork and… more
credits
released January 13, 2020
posted 14 January 2020
