rr.gross – Cacti
rr.gross
“Cacti”
Constructed in Reaper using Hainbach’s Isolation Loops as the sole sound source.
posted 29 January 2022
music tagged with: abstract
posted 07 January 2022
posted 06 January 2022
SOUND_00 + LEFTERNA – Collab 44
[ACP 1313]
SOUND_00 + LEFTERNA
“Collab 44”
photo Dan Penschuck
design by EMERGE
Sound_00 is Toni Dimitrov
Lefterna is Boban Ristevski
posted 06 January 2022
Nick R 61 – Castaneda. The Teachings of Don Juan
[FN_63]
Nick R 61
“Castaneda. The Teachings of Don Juan”
Style | Genre: Abstract, Braindance, Broken Beat, Electronic, Experimental, Glitch, IDM
Duration: 00:13:56
Released: 01.01.2022
Tracklist:
01. The Teachings of Don Juan. Spot
02. The Teachings of Don Juan. Mescalito
03. The Teachings of Don Juan. Smoke
posted 01 January 2022
c i t a d e l 寒い世界 – 運命の手
[VSS127]
c i t a d e l 寒い世界
“運命の手”
Short lofi vaporwave cuts that dig deep into your consciousness.
posted 25 December 2021
Lil Shitcore – the unfunny and bad and unrequired rebirth of lil shitcore
[BFTG_107]
Lil Shitcore
“the unfunny and bad and unrequired rebirth of lil shitcore”
posted 16 December 2021
B-Maltais & Konejo – Abel’s Journey to Revival
B-Maltais & Konejo
“Abel’s Journey to Revival”
If recent genetic research and the Bible come together on one point, it is on the subject of our fraternity : descendants of the Mitochondrial Eve, which would have lived about 150,000 years ago, we all are, on this planet, brothers and sisters of DNA, bound by blood. Thus, each war, every assassination, every murder is a fratricide, the Cains of this world killing and mutilating by instrumentalizing love, science or religion, often from the same egocentric jealousy that made Abel its first victim. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries from the earth to me”… In the same way it is building bridges between sample-based music and acoustic instrumentation, redemptional melodies and tormented sound collages, ambient introspection (“The Spilling Breaker of Eternity and Ever”) and cinematographic tension (“A Quiet Moment of Abandon Away from Avidity and Turmoil”), disillusioned melancholy (“A One-Way Stroll”) and serenity found again in the communion of feelings (” Our Ascension “), the first collaborative album from B-Maltais and Konejo connects the dots of its biblical references by the blood and tears of universal traumas with personal echoes (“A Temporary Eclipse of the Mind”), and the fleeting lines of current events that weigh more and more heavily on our daily lives. Influenced by a common living experience far from these democracies that some senseless pandemic-skeptics dare compare these days to dictatorships, the duo that has been back in France for a few years now, crystallize over the narrative course of “Abel’s Journey to Revival” another form of anxiety : in the crosshairs, the renewed instability of real authoritarian regimes (“Deluge”), their campaigns of lies and propaganda (“Dealing with Liars”), their violations of privacy and freedom of speach posing as a new securitarian normality (“Abused Privacy of a Born-Prisoner”), their contempt for feminicide which goes on blaming its victims (“Selfie with Adam pointing at me”), their transgressions of scientific ethics (as shown by the cover from B-Maltais, mixing collage work, painting and digital art) and the neurotic behavior of their leaders born in violence and frustration (“The Old Cunt Betrayed Me, I Wanna Kill Everybody!”).
credits
released November 30, 2021
Artwork (collage, painting and digital) by B-Maltais, layout by Konejo.
Mastered by our dear friend Anatoly ‘Tokee’ Grinberg (www.discogs.com/artist/3790715-Anatoly-Tokee-Grinberg).
posted 30 November 2021
Valgidrà – Watched Watchers
Valgidrà
“Watched Watchers”
Quatrième sortie déjà pour Valgidrà sur IRM Netlabel, après deux EPs avec Konejo et un premier album, “Warplush Vol 1”, paru il y a tout juste un an. Aux influences électroniques warpiennes de ce dernier, influencé notamment par Boards of Canada ou les “Selected Ambient Works” d’Aphex Twin, le Rennais a préféré pour “Watched Watchers”, composé sur près de deux ans, une approche plus éclatée qui fait feu de tout bois, une narration plus dynamique aux contrepieds fréquents et aux respirations d’autant plus captivantes. L’album télescope ainsi à la manière d’un “Psyence Fiction” sampling baroque et beats abstract (“David II”), trip-hop lynchien et spoken word (“Hypnik Jerk”), nappes électroniques déstructurées et mélodies acoustiques (le single “Golden Trap”), ambient cinématographiques et spleen cristallin (“Yellow Kalaw”), orchestrations malmenées et rythmique en roue libre (“Strings Interlude”), synthés saturés et groove hip-hop (“Queried”, peut-être le sommet du disque), évoluant d’un downtempo capiteux (“Moaïs”) à une électronique plus froide et malaisante (le morceau-titre), de syncopations mélancoliques (“Mood”) en pulsations techno étouffées (“Sampling Life”). Comme chez UNKLE à l’époque où DJ Shadow tenait encore les rênes, l’humeur est plutôt… more
credits
released November 20, 2021
credits
released November 20, 2021
posted 22 November 2021
Rhonchus – بلَووِه
[mhrk290]
Rhonchus
“بلَووِه”
Rhonchus is the more rhythmic electronic, experimental techno and idm alias of Iranian artist Shahin Souri, born and based in Tehran, who has also been releasing more ambient/drone oriented music under his real name. He has notable releases on Moloton, Noise à Noise, Diffuse Reallity Records. “بلَووِه” is his debut EP on Mahorka.
Released November 21, 2021
Music composed, produced and mastered by Shahin Souri
Track 4 is a collaboration with creeperbrofist2002
Аrtwork by Bahargol.e
posted 21 November 2021
Invisible Illlusion – Tohu Wa Bohu Disc 1
[LCNLP137]
Invisible Illlusion
“Tohu Wa Bohu Disc 1”
The Necrophile Hummingbird netlabel and Internet Daemon (Cian Orbe Netlabel) present
Tohu Wa Bohu Disc 1 & 2
“Unreal Music for Real People” or “Real Music for Unreal People” ?
Disc 1here archive.org/details/Invisible_Illusion_Tohu_Wa_Bohu_Disc_1/
Disc 2 here archive.org/details/tohu-wa-bohu-disc-2
Download Disc 1 in Flac and Wav format here yoshiwaku.bandcamp.com/album/tohu-wa-bohu-disc-1
I’m very happy that the first Invisible Illusion is a split with Humanfobia. I orientated my sound with this project to be closer of witch house style for example because of Cian Orbe Netlabel compilations like this one archive.org/details/v-a-post-witch-music-vi and also because we share very close ideas about free music.
This is not the first time we do a split, we already did one “Strange Pearls” archive.org/details/yaka-anima-yoshiwaku-strange-pearls-split with other projects. But this time the process is slightly different, and that’s why this is not a rADio eNd album, last summer I sent the raw improvisation session to Humanfobia and they created these upgraded tracks listenable on disc 2. And next I reworked a little the raw tracks adding one or two layers on one, reading poetry on another one and that’s the disc 1.
While I was trying hard to cut out the Gordian knot about how to organise this split album, thinking about to melt our contributions in the playlist or to follow the rhythm progression for Humanfobia playlist etc, I noticed Humanfobia choice to base their tracks on the 10 egyptian plagues instead of me who based it on the seven plagues of the apocalypse. So I kept the 10 plagues order for the playlist and split the album in two discs.
This to point out that what could seems a missunderstanding could be more meaningfull about the way these two propheties could be link.
Same way I’m not that much in apocalypse topic, really not into collapsology I didn’t choice the theme, it comes by itself. But I noticed that in addition of “The World is Over !”,
archive.org/details/VA_The_World_is_Over__A_side and despite it’s still not achieve we’ve got a Multiple Personality 3 album called Glauko Psyche waiting since several years amongst other things like the french lyrics of Paroxysmic Rhapsody with that sort of end of time theme. Perhaps it’s only because that I feel everything around, I don’t make any statement about it I just think there are many signs. So perhaps the way this album is organise could talk about the way it’s organise between real life and myths, who knows ?
I can only hope each one is conscious about the disasters humanity is spreading over this world.
And that we will not let this rot like a larva wasting its ressources before turn into butterfly and then diying stupidly.
But that we will do obvious choices to stop all this shit. There is a time to think and a time to act.
Last thing this is a share of free culture, and it’s not a hasard if there are two poems ( In french here lundi.am/Arracher-l-art-a-l-artifice ) from an anonymous writer in this album,
free culture is not only the opposite of property but also of narcissic behavior. It was so good to read the writer answer to do whatever I want because its writing owns itself.
This is one of Brion Gysin & William S Burroughs legacy : the Cut-Up teaching shows that most of the artist live only with the illusion to be generator,
because everything is a permanent mix of conscious and subconscious sources. Others know they are only mediums and care of their artworks that way. I mean if we bring children on earth it’s for they do their own choices. Not to be steril clones stuck in a loop.
I struggle for free culture since more than 20 years because the free share of ressources seems for me the key for a world no more rule by nations or multinational corporations.
And that’s one of the things I’m talking about we are all connected to each one, and we need to get ride of the separation illusion.
Invisible Illusion may be a kind of key.
Before this album two tracks by Invisible Illusion are allready release on these excellent compilations :
Communitas Volume 2 mickmagic.bandcamp.com/track/unreal-mixtape
Cicada 17 requiem : brood X 3 camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/flying-salt-shakers-of-death
And last thing there is an interview here in aproximative english here cian-orbe-netlabel.blogspot.com/2021/10/interview-with-ed-end-2021.html or in french in podcast here aligrefm.org/podcasts/la-vie-est-un-roman-08-juin-2021-le-colibri-necrophile-ed-end-1400
But nothing talking as well than the music.
posted 31 October 2021
EERIE – EERIE-SAM RUSHTON AYANKOKO FA CESARIO LAUREN RODZ
[AR118]
EERIE
“EERIE-SAM RUSHTON AYANKOKO FA CESARIO LAUREN RODZ”
sam rushton: analog modular
ayankoko: ppooll, guembri
fa cesario: analog modular
lauren rodz: diy electronics, voice
recorded live in Marseille, june 2021
Release date: 27 October 2021
posted 27 October 2021
Boban Ristevski – Some Favourite Reading 2
[ACP 1312]
Boban Ristevski
“Some Favourite Reading 2”
photo by brezenstudio.com
design by EMERGE
design by EMERGE
posted 25 October 2021
Per Scelstak – Tentativas Frustradas
[mhrk289]
Per Scelstak
“Tentativas Frustradas”
TENTATIVAS FRUSTRADAS (Failed Attempts), Sept. 18th, 2021
“Sometimes you get bored with yourself and, simply, want to get rid of your old life. In pandemic times, such thing is easily possible when you feel in such a bore in lockdown, in isolation. Per Scelstak came into existence when George Christian felt disgust with himself and, also, with the way virtuality has become something exploitative in his life.
In fact, Per was born only as a pseudonym when he sent a concert piece for a competition (for which he didn’t win or earn anything). The secret behind his name can be found in contemporary classical music composers: Per Nörgard, Giacinto Scelsi and Walter Smetak. Influential to the mind behind Per, a certain guy whose last name is Pereira? Quite possibly. Per has only gained an image, though, when his creator felt in a real distress, in his personal life. Per killed the past social profile of George Christian, which was too revealing of his thoughts, too personal, too disastrous to be reached, too naïve. Per is the result of George’s anger against the way personal life is treated in the virtuality, by the social networks. Nowadays, Per is in conciliation with his creator. But not for so long.
Per is different. Per never talks in 1st person. Per is never personal. Per can be read here, or not. You might not understand why such distance, but probably you are closer to him. More than you imagine. Per is another face of reality that wants to be in the realm of different senses. And the reflection of such persona is in his music.
It took a long time to George Christian figure out the existence of Per. But Per has been following his steps since the days he decided to experiment only with electronics in his 3rd album, Three Dimensions of Unrecognizement and Other Unknown Reaches. Maybe he can be found in Exílios 3. Per can also be found in Secretos Universos. His real debut, though, is with two other crazy fellows from India: Hatiyar and Hazardnaut. Per is George into electronic extremities.
TENTATIVAS FRUSTRADAS is the first album under Per’s name and a sum of principles that have been guiding his electronic experimentation. In fact, this principle is just a single surrealist one: automatic writing. Per is completely ignorant concerning on how a machine language operates. Per IS a machine. Per IS a computer. Per IS nothing.
These pieces can be understood as inner failures. No songs, no hooks, no melody that can be easily sung. It requires a real deranged mind to deconstruct and build another world. Per is no strange to post-minimalism, post-spectralism, post-jazz, post-rock, post-psychedelia. His electroacoustics comes from the inwards of MIDI and tone colors’ researches to the spontaneous structural architectures.
Per is NEVER quiet. His brain listens to several voices and do not find peace in a single one. Per embraces all the voices. Heaven, hell, purgatory. Per has been in all of these places. He invites you to dance with your wrist and dry yourself into the waters. His manners may be of electronic, artificial gestures. But what he delivers is plain and pure reality. Cruel REALITY. Your nightmares should be dancing.”
released October 24, 2021
posted 24 October 2021
UbiniqU vs fourthousandblackbirds – Kingdom of Maybe
[ACP 1329]
UbiniqU vs fourthousandblackbirds
“Kingdom of Maybe”
Recorded for Drone Day 2021 by UbiniqU and fourthousandblackbirds.
Mixed by Albérick.
photo by Wilfried Hanrath
design by EMERGE
posted 19 October 2021
Anamorph Experimental Music – AMORGOS. To A Green Star
[PT124]
Anamorph Experimental Music
“AMORGOS. To A Green Star”
Dedicated to Nikos Gatsos, the Star of Sirius, Mikos and the Holographic Library of Katharia
posted 10 October 2021
Fabio Keiner – Nine Eleven
[zen236]
Fabio Keiner
“Nine Eleven”
an abstract ambient soundpoem
www.zenapolae.com/releases/zen236/zen236__Fabio_Keiner__Nine_Eleven__01_Impacts.mp3
posted 23 September 2021
Kid Data – The Oddity of Existence
[AR_103]
Kid Data
“The Oddity of Existence”
Usually you can’t put ƘÏÐ ƉΔŦΛ in a specific genre as he is producing several styles of music. But in this case he is showing us his signature sound he developed over the last 15 years. You could describe his music as electro-acoustic compositions as there is no good name for his kind of music. With a combination of acoustic Instruments, electronic beats and soundscapes his signature sound is melancholically melodic but yet unusualy rhythmic. Growing up with IDM, Brokenbeats and Folk Music this EP stirs it all up and combines it to something new.
posted 23 September 2021
rowboats on the river – Türkmenistan
[s65102]
rowboats on the river
“Türkmenistan”
posted 19 September 2021
Laurent Fairon – Redivivus
Laurent Fairon
“Redivivus”
Musique concrète suite for bullroarer, church organ, cimbalom, vocoder, boat horns, Romanian Catholic choir, Indian ashram temple bell, Radio Afghanistan station ID, and other aural ablutions. Researching melodic patterns in musique concrète.
Recorded in July–August, 2021 in Paris and Poitiers, France.
L.F.: found sounds, samples, loops, sound collage, virtual synth, artwork.
posted 08 September 2021
rADio eNd – Salvator Salvandus
rADio eNd
“Salvator Salvandus”
Ed End:
Album concept, song titles, and original source music.
Charles Rice Goff III:
Additional sounds, mixes, final edits, and cover art.
Technology:
Ed End:
Novation Bass Station analog synthesizer in rack with Yamaha DX21 keyboard.
Rhythms generated by a Digitech Trio Pedal in various FX circuits, coupled with a pink Mini Kaossilator Korg, an electric frequencies generator, and various FX pedals.
Samples are done with an old turntable with an elastic band and some other stuff under the records to make irregular playing surfaces.
Etheric Body incorporates a computer overlayer mix.
C. Goff III:
Voice, Korg R3 Vocoder/Synthesizer, Korg Z1 Synthesizer, Micro Moog Analog Synthesizer, Hello Kitty Stratocaster Electronic Guitar, Aklot Electro-Acoustic Soprano Ukulele, Various Plectra, Boss RC 20X Loop Station Loop Duplicator, Ibanez DM 1000 Digital Delay, Yamaha FX 500 Effects Unit, Various Analog Foot Pedal Sound Effects, Tascam 424MKIII 4-Track Cassette Recorder, K-Mart Portable Phonograph, Modified Vinyl and Flexidisk Records, Cool Edit Pro II, Audacity, Midisoft MIDI Scorewriter, Windows Media Player, Roxio 2011 Sound Recorder, Several Plug-In Audio Sound Effects, Amazing MIDI Wave-To-MIDI, Polysoft MIDI to Mp3 Converter, Natural Reader Voice Emulator
Editing Process:
To produce this collection, Goff blended many of his own original recordings with Ed’s source materials. Goff also modified Ed’s source materials in many ways. Simple digital effects altered source track sounds and/or speeds. Some source tracks were played on a keyboard directly through the inputs of a Korg Vocoder. On one piece, a single rhythmic source phrase was modified in a number of ways, then the various modified phrases were linked together into a chain. Some source tracks were converted to MIDI files, then the resulting tracks were altered to showcase a variety of MIDI sounds. Some edits were recorded onto a 4 track cassette tape and remixed manually into digital files.
Below the surface :
We talked a lot about the symbolic elements before Goff upgrade it.
About Salvador Salvandus concept you will discover yourself an answer if you translate the fifth track title.
It seems one big problem in this world is about on one side the self proclamated saviors, kind of people often thinking that there is only one solution : their solution… and on the other side the savior worshipers, kind of people often thinking it’s more safe to be save by someone else than to do it themselves…
For me both are wrong. Of course, people with a little psychological skills know that the “hand seeking help”, is more trying to drag down someone else to feel less low. Sameway that the “helping hand” is more trying to steal the benefit of the salvation. Obviously the savior can’t save and the savior seeker can’t be save.
Both being blinded because too much self centered. In this problem there is not only two subjects but three and this third one is the world itself, and the world, this wide network of living beings brings a real solution if you are able to listen it. You get the process and knows how to act toward to solve it till you are able to feel these connections and understand how to set your mind.
Hard to explain fully in few words roughly translate that’s why I prefer let the music talk.
Above the surface :
It took me several listening before to get it, Salvador Salvandus is the kind of album you can often go back to and slowly become a familliar presence as well as that shadow behind you can be. For me it’s an important step in rADio eNd study of how a kind of soul can be reveal thru the transformation of the sound material. That’s why I’m so happy Goff share his editing process. And I hope you will be as joyfull than me that he brings this music to life.
This album is also available here:
archive.org/details/rADio_eNd_Salvator_Salvandus
posted 03 September 2021
Shifala – Thank You Null Noises
[s65101]
Shifala
“Thank You Null Noises”
posted 03 September 2021
evoked response & CLOrk – untitled/revisited (Live at Concordia University)
[ACP 1323]
evoked response & CLOrk
“untitled/revisited (Live at Concordia University)”
evoked response: Eric Boivin & Albérick
CLOrk : Mo Abbas, Marcus Aterman, Didier Bergeron, Nicholas Brown-Hernandez, Aidan Charlton, Arthur Yi Duo Chen, Thomas Christie, Kevin Cogen, Bennett Dobni, William Graham-Simpkins, Jared Jukes, Simon Lacelle, Tyler Lewis, Dario Lozano-Thornton, Timothy MacKenzie, David Macri, Ryan Jeffrey Ockenden, Andres Andy Poblete, Adrian Roy Taylor, David Philip R. Russell, Thomas Speakman, Vanessa Zaurrini.
Eldad Tsabary, dir.
Recorded live at Concordia University, Room 8.245, January 29th 2015.
Recorded & mixed by Eldad Tsabary.
photos by Dan Penschuck (feindesign.de)
design by EMERGE
posted 16 August 2021
posted 07 August 2021
organon contemporaneous – collapsed anchors
[ACP 1318]
organon contemporaneous
“collapsed anchors”
photo and design by EMERGE
posted 05 August 2021
