update, 28.2.2026

Hello, I have made a few changes to the site. Unfortunately, I am not quite finished yet, but it should continue without interruption. I hope you find the changes useful. Stay tuned. Konrad

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M.V.A – Temperature’s Rising

M.V.A – Temperature's Rising
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M.V.A

“Temperature’s Rising”

Originally set to be part of his next project, M.V.A felt that this one had to be released right now. Enjoy. More art speaking the truth that is all around us. Please find ways that you can help bring about change.

Thank you so much for the art, M.V.A! There’s never enough that speaks truth to power.

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!

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posted 12 June 2020

misaa – minoritario

misaa – minoritario
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misaa

“minoritario”

At times, a tent appears in the hallways of a giant shopping center announcing a collective desire to elope. The times of cynicism and sitting on the beach chair, believing that nothing was going to melt from its foundations, are over.

The exercise of power is a pressure cooker, using (re)pression. Machinery requires to generate a drowning, and drown every slap made by the oppressed. It represses it with physical and economical violence, and with tons of images alluding to static structures. A majority category, a common point, to agree, but fundamentally unreachable and inaccessible in its totality. And there is a minority counterpart: poor, ugly, violeted, spectator of its own minority but immersed in the dream of being included, someday, by the majority.

But there is a third category, the one who does not want or need to continue playing the rules of a game that was created so that they would lose it. People with defective bodies, physically weak, second-level genres, depressed, shy and mutant, although they don’t stop moving. They require shaking and articulating themselves, know each other and look at each other, and so they realize that they were not so alone, and that they did not need the normality that the repressive images proposed to them. Seek the not obvious and realize yourself as a constant flow, that shakes and makes uncomfortable the status; questions, says and screams, and whose only way to be stopped completely, to be killed, is by condemning it to oblivion. Unfortunately, we have a good memory.

“minoritario” is an album that inserts us in a constant intermittency. Short rhythms and textures that draw a landscape where we are forced to be alert. The challenge of paying attention and perceiving what is around usduring a change of decade where we have the challenge of living with uncertainty every day. Musical pieces that announce the arrival of a momentthat does not stop becoming present, and in turn the challenge of facing what surrounds usto follow our constant march.

César Fuenzalida.
Comunicador Audiovisual.
(Santiago, junio / June, 2020)

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posted 06 June 2020

Chix, Acrartep – Studio Session

Chix, Acrartep – Studio Session
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Chix, Acrartep

“Studio Session”

Composed, arranged and produced by Chix and Eugenio Petrarca at Strato Dischi Studios, Roma
Mastered by Fabio Pieri at Strato Dischi Mobile, Roma

Chix: drum machine, programming, bass, guitars
Eugenio Petrarca: drum machine, programming

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posted 02 June 2020

303 – True Time

303 – True Time
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303

“True Time”

We met online on the basis of interest in non-standard electronic music its production and distribution.

Trio 303 as an improvisational gang has formed in St. Petersburg, where the participants met on the pretext of the apartment renovation around 2011. The guys devoted all possible time to getting to know local musicians, organizing performance parties and exploring the environment.

In the process of renovation, sound equipment appeared in the flat in the form of a subwoofer amp from a PC system 5.1 and the Radiotehnika S30 speaker. That how we started to improvise in a free style using mostly computers.

We do this constantly and periodically to this day, slightly changing the composition of the participants. Today we are happy to present our a new album.

Attention! illocanblo (6,7), Nishimaru (8) and Potential DifferenSe (9) participated in several jams. Thank you.

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posted 01 June 2020

xenoton – crescent

xenoton – crescent
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xenoton

“crescent”

it has taken more than 5 years until a new xenoton release is finally completed. with a total length of only 21 minutes, the work resembles exactly the format of the original tonAtom releases, which were designed for 3″ cds. six tracks combine dark soundscapes and xenoton-typical, melody-focused electronica miniatures. six studies between stylistic development and continuity with the previous releases “traveller” (2015) and “in a world of lights and glass” (2013). an additional bonus is the crescent-artwork as wallpaper for the background of your computer desktop and in full size as a printable poster
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posted 01 June 2020

Chini.png – Fricativa Velar Sorda

Chini.png – Fricativa Velar Sorda

Chini.png

“Fricativa Velar Sorda”

released May 29, 2020

Compuesta y escrita por Chini Ayarza
Producida, grabada y mezclada por Martin Perez Roa en Estudios Niebla
Masterizada por Arturo Zegers en Estudio 050

Voz, Guitarras, teclados y samples: Chini Ayarza
Batería y percusiones: Gabriel Lele Holzapfel
Teclados y Arreglos adicionales: Martín Perez Roa

Arte de Portada:
Parte Abstracta: Sebastián Riffo
Parte Figurativa: Chini Ayarza

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posted 31 May 2020

Bledi Boraku – Makbeth (muzikë për teatër)

Bledi Boraku – Makbeth (muzikë për teatër)
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Bledi Boraku

“Makbeth (muzikë për teatër)”

Bledi Boraku, who has released Tha
in 2017, made a soundtrack album.
“I was commissioned to compose for a theatre piece on Macbeth for the
National theatre of Albania. It is mostly music done on Max/MSP (audio
programming language) & sample manipultion.
I re-edited the music from the original soundtrack so it can fit on an
album concept as the original sountrack is longer and it was meant to be
played live during the theatrical show.”
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posted 24 May 2020

TKno BeurK – Coronavirus World Tour

TKno BeurK – Coronavirus World Tour
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TKno BeurK

“Coronavirus World Tour”

The full album Coronavirus World Tour is available in free download here https://archive.org/details/Coronavirus_World_Tour_TKno_BeurK Strange mix between electropunk noise rock like ButtholeSurfers and psychedelic triphop like Portishead and experimental electro ethnic like Muslimgauze… indeed this may be mostly post-industrial music

Don’t miss the two extra tracks :
A redux version of “Capitalism is the Virus” on The World is Over! work in progress metacompilation.
https://zonefusion.bandcamp.com/track/capitalism-is-the-virus
And an extended version of “Virus Last Call” on amazing Virus metacompilation ANDREAS 24
http://www.fractionstudiocompilation.bandcamp.com/album/andreas-n-24-virus-compilation-fraction-2020

This album is dedicated to all the victims of the Coronavirus, and to all the medical staff who fight covid-19 all over the world. Especially the french ones, because few months ago while struggling for less worst work conditions they were beat and hurt by the french cops.
We will not forget how aweful is the france governement.
So much blood on their hands…
All track recorded by Ed End in March 2020 at the Cave Haven in Foucherans
https://ello.co/ed_end
and upgrade (²)by Alain Grille at the Studio 112 in Dole till the fall of may 2020.
https://studio112.bandcamp.com/
All the TKno BeurK music is free to download here http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22TKno+BeurK%22

Our main project is Multiple Personality 3
https://www.facebook.com/MultiplePersonality3/
Our side project is PIRATE Tapes
http://www.horsnorme.org/PIRATE_Tapes/index.html

Artwork is a deriv of this article illustration http://www.librescommeres.fr/read/195

Video Art Clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV1TDMXSpo4
or here https://www.bitchute.com/video/7rrB9YyjNNKq/

In 1334 in the Hubei province started the Black Plague.
In 2019 in the Hubei province started the COVID -19 pandemic.

“Capitalism is the Virus” is not our idea, it comes from the street culture, and it’s so obvious these days that we were very happy to create a song with. While neo liberalists, or whatever the name we give to the believers of this system are isolating us. Solidarity come from the people and I hope tomorrow together we will save the world out of their dirty hands.

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posted 23 May 2020

Jose Miguel Candela – Rezos

Jose Miguel Candela – Rezos
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Jose Miguel Candela

“Rezos”

The following collection of prayers intends to establish a kind of intimate, microscopic, deep kinesics, an inner “small dance” that opens up introspection, meditation and / or contemplation paths. It is important, therefore, to consider that this set should not be understood as a religious production. Tao Te King (foundation for Taoist philosophy), insightfully states in its XXVIII epigram that religiousness is only an appearance of loyalty, but destitution of a real spiritual dimension.

These prayers represent an austere act of ancestral memory, an attempt to voice out a compound of elemental imagery found in many worldviews of the most diverse aboriginal cultures. It is incarnated through singing (an embodiment act) in order to share a willingness to connect with something I consider essential, something we cannot name (for by naming it, it is undone), the ancient, irrational core of all things living. Because of this, I invite you to listen to these pieces not as a work of art, even though they live as musical sound (not electroacoustic this time, but appealing to ambient music). The invitation is, through listening, to build up that bridge (pons + ifice, the bridge builder) that connects us and that primal, atavistic footprint living silently inside of us.

Five years after a homemade, very limited first release, I share this digital-only, free-download reissue via Pueblo Nuevo Netlabel. It is a small gift, looking forward to accompanying (us), one way or another, during these complex, critical (political, social, health, spiritual) moments we are going through as a planetary society.

José Miguel Candela
(Santiago, Chile. Mayo / May 2020)
English version by Gerardo Figueroa.

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posted 22 May 2020

SMILTZO – A LIFELONG QUARANTINE

SMILTZO – A LIFELONG QUARANTINE
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SMILTZO

“A LIFELONG QUARANTINE”

A collection of electronic paintings, suffused, decisive and revealing, an opening of the veil that imprisons us. Exciting and never obvious, it ranges from the ambient to the purest electronic music, conceived by a superior musical mind. Longlife Quarantine is good beyond this period we are experiencing, and will give you lots of emotions.

The titles are in Sanskrit. the most perfect and musical language we have, and this work is connected with the whole just like the oldest language.

Smilzo (aka Francesco Monaci) was born as a guitarist, but develops around the age of 20 his passion for the enormous compositional possibilities that software and electronic music in general provide. For about twenty years he has been part of the electronic pop songwriting band Liberal Carme (initially only as a guitarist, now also a singer), which has three assets, and in which they have collaborated with exponents of Italian indie music such as Paolo Benvegnù, Alessandro Fiori (Mariposa) and Massimo Fantoni (Marco Parente, Andrea Chimenti).

Since 2000 he has collaborated on soundtracks for Lorenzo Pecchioni’s Video & Archeos project, and produces music for other exponents of the Italian underground video scene.

As an electronic music composer he does not rely on a defined genre, but ranges from suggestions ranging from Apex Twin to Andrew Lloyd Webber, going from World Music to the noise of Einsturzende Neubauten, considering electronics only the means of expression that in the new millennium he exponentially expanded the compositional possibilities once reserved for symphonic music.

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posted 11 May 2020

Pablo Gomez Bate – Conflicto Belico

Pablo Gomez Bate – Conflicto Belico
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Pablo Gomez Bate

“Conflicto Belico”

When listening to “Conflicto Bélico” (War Conflict) we can immediately contextualize the situation
of the country in the album’s first track, a track that evolves and begins to distance itself from
external discourse, while unveiling its own story through noise, tension and depth.

Over the course of the LP, we are offered ambiences of constant sounds achieved through low
frequencies, generating a contrast with the high and rhythmic frequencies present through much of
this work. The rhythm develops in an imprecise way, with the beginning marked by the absence of
a beat, and when it appears it is not repetitive, it is only used as a gesture that disappears
among other elements. The lack of beat generates uncertainty for us as we wait for possible
cinematographic elements, suspenseful ambience and sound landscapes that produce a feeling of
hoping for something, while generating an anxious tension in the environment set forth.

As we approach the middle of the disc, the first melodic elements appear, allowing the sound
developed by Pablo Gómez Bate to approach a dreamlike state. The calm after the storm with an
ascent to the hopeful, demonstrating an excellent handling of the intensities that appear.

At the listening’s end, the same timbres and protaganistic frequencies from the first compositions
remain present, hinting that the total work can be considered as chapters telling us a complete
story that leads us either by reason or consequence to reflective and meditative states.

This creation shows an exhaustive exploration of timbres and various sound sources, including
samples, synthesizers, acoustic and organic sounds. Compositions made over low heat, allowing
the author to test and polish each track until everything was in its right place.

M4u (René Roco + Polwor)
(Santiago, Chile, mayo / May 2020)

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posted 10 May 2020

M-PeX – O Cultivo de Flores de Plástico

M-PeX – O Cultivo de Flores de Plástico
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M-PeX

“O Cultivo de Flores de Plástico”

Short cinematic electronic ambient album by Portuguese project M-PeX with tracks originally composed as original soundtrack for the theater piece CASA – O cultivo de flores de plastico (produced by Gato que Ladra, text by Afonso Cruz and staging by Rute Rocha, 2013). Cover design by Marco Madruga, photography by Carina Nunes.
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posted 04 May 2020

Substak – Bass and Space NetlabelMix

Substak – Bass and Space NetlabelMix

Substak

“Bass and Space NetlabelMix”

1.Substak – The Light
2.Retablo – Aurial
3.Heavenchord- Untitledub9
4.Insect O. – WTX4FAM
5.Tripsolate & Redundezent- Yaled
6.R.Hz – Signal
7.Sub.made- The Fall
8.Andras Kiss – 0401801181
9.Solef – Monument Of Love
10.Patch#02- Indistinct
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posted 03 May 2020

Spiedkiks – A Pompous Whimsy Peak

Spiedkiks – A Pompous Whimsy Peak
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Spiedkiks

“A Pompous Whimsy Peak”

Today we’re thrilled to introduce you to the sounds of electronic duo Spiedkiks (pronounced “speedkicks”)! A German electronic music duo formed in Cologne & Stuttgart. Consisting of Chris “Kik” Stark and Andi “Spied” Möller, they deliver their fifth long-player and blocSonic debut A Pompous Whimsy Peak. Eleven tracks deeps, the album is a sonic gem through and through. Do yourselve a favor, download and bump this right away. Enjoy!

A huge thanks to Spiedkiks for your interest in releasing this incredible new album here! Welcome to the blocSonic fam!

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!

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posted 02 May 2020

co-dec & Android – Internado

co-dec & Android – Internado
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co-dec & Android

“Internado”

Patricio González (co-dec) & Cristián Reyes (Android) are restless producers within the electronic culture in Santiago de Chile, each of them with an interesting portfolio of projects to his credit. González is the current director of prolific Orion Network label and former member of historic bands such as Vigilante. Reyes is an active composer and remixer whose tracks give live to the dancefloor in many clubs. Both come together in the live techno music group “Dentro del Mismo Individuo”.

Within their different styles, both have a common path of musical influences, that include from electro pop, new wave, dark to industrial techno and minimalism. Together they present this time an unreleased album based in the unique experience that “live” gives to recordings sessions, which unlike the work on studio, allows them to give free rein to the improvised exercise of building soundscapes with analogue electronic machines, samplers and drum machines.

The essence of this work, mainly guided by techno and electro beats, is a remix that both musicians have built in a single moment in live format, using as base and initial spark the individual stems from the track “Miniature” by C/VVV (Mika Martini, Pablo Flores and Francisco Pinto), electronic trio based in Santiago as well. The perfect excuse to start a journey of almost 45 minutes, which can be enjoyed both rhythmically and through the rich textures, melodies and modulations of synthesisers. Also, because the different scenes and emotions generated from this unique live creation, this release is a suggestive trip.

The recording of this concert was on July 28th, 2018, in the basement of “El Internado” venue, on the occasion of the celebration of the 13th Anniversary of Pueblo Nuevo netlabel.

Turn off lights, seek stimulation and make room to move freely with this album.

Francisco Pinto
(Santiago, Chile, mayo / May 2020)
Trad by Alejandro Albornoz.

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posted 01 May 2020

Cutside – State of Art

Cutside – State of Art
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Cutside

“State of Art”

Just about a year ago, Cutside delivered the excellent In Orbit EP. Today we’re thrilled to bring you his follow-up long player, State of Art! A serene and gorgeous collection of ten downtempo tracks that are sure to fast become fan favorites. Please enjoy. If you’re hearing Cutside for the first time, be sure to checkout his four other blocSonic releases.

Hey Cutside, thanks for such a gorgeous downtempo gem! I suspect this will be a fan favorite.

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!

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posted 29 April 2020

Javier Moraga – Violence is in the air

Javier Moraga – Violence is in the air
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Javier Moraga

“Violence is in the air”

In times of social revolution against an abusive economic system, in a Valparaíso that does not yield to brutal police repression, there is also a strong cultural response to this unpopular government that does not listen to any slogan. The artistic expressions that confront this whirlwind of state violence are varied, contributing with creative beauty influenced by the social movement, and it is there where electronic music is also present.

Javier Moraga is one of the most important representatives and diffusers of this musical style in the Valparaíso region. Week after week he delights us with records on his radio program “Sala de Máquinas” (Room of Machines) on the radio Valentín Letelier, broadcasting on the modulated frequency of the “V Costa”, new albums by producers of national and international electronica. His musical knowledge is vast, he has publications in the most important Buenos Aires netlabels such as Modismo and Epasonidos. Furthermore, as a sound technician, we can affirm that his new album “Violence is in the air” leaves no doubt about his great musical experience. We will listen to nine songs that cross the sounds of ambient, glitch and experimental, with great sonic amplitude, expressive frequencies, varied and enveloping samples with a clear avant-garde tendency both musically and conceptually, understanding that, in Chile, today more than ever there exist winds of profound social change.

Felipe Baradit Stevenson
(Concón, Chile, abril / April 2020)

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posted 17 April 2020

Joan’s Diary – Vargtimmen

Joan's Diary – Vargtimmen
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Joan’s Diary

“Vargtimmen”

Born in 2011, JOAN’S DIARY made their debut with the ep HYSTERIA for Toten Schwan Records, followed by the album AND OR NOT (Toten Schwan / ® esisto) and HELLO, BLOODY SISTER also on Toten Schwan (which will make use of graphic works by the master Sergio Padovani) and in 2015 TSUCHIGUMO (latest release for Toten Schwan Records).

They partecipate in several compilations and a 4 way split with Luciferi, OV Temple and Inghippo. The latest album was called SINDROME VAUCANSON and was released on Tu-Fa Records in Palermo. The group is made up of Davide Rossi, Luca Rossi and Eleonora Frascatore.

This is a tribute to the memory of DAVIDE ROSSI who in September of the year 2019 had decided to end his existence by giving us an appointment somewhere else.

The tracks that make up this album are drafts of what could have been something new for JOAN’S DIARY and which I found in a forgotten folder on my computer.

I completed them myself, trying to keep faith with Davide’s approach, as far as I could. They represent one of the many ways that I put in place not to forget him and to alleviate the pain still alive for his silent escape.
If he had had them in his hands they would certainly have been different, probably better, but I am not and will never be like him, so take them like this, as they came out.

It is an album that does not seek glory or complacency, but which only aims to keep his memory alive.

Many Thanks to Marco Valente of Toten Schwain Records, and Anime Nere.

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posted 11 April 2020

Diego Faskner S. + Guilherme Darisbo – Cimento Tarantela

Diego Faskner S. + Guilherme Darisbo – Cimento Tarantela
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Diego Faskner S. + Guilherme Darisbo

“Cimento Tarantela”

released April 9, 2020

Diego Faskner S.: chimney, balloon, radio, bulb horns, vuvuzelas and maybe PET bottle
Guilherme Darisbo: Crise Vitória, electric guitar

Recorded april 28, 2017, Porto Alegre
Recording, mixing, mastering, cover by Darisbo

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posted 10 April 2020

cozilos VIVOS – RUA

cozilos VIVOS – RUA

cozilos VIVOS

“RUA”

released March 27, 2020

arte por Diego Maia @miragemmaia
produzido e gravado por Vitor C.
mixado por Vitor C. e Diego Maia
masterizado por Diego Maia

released March 26, 2020

todos os instrumentos por Vitor C.
todas as vozes por Vitor C.
áudios/samples captados por Vitor C.*

no texto de “Um sonho incontido” tem também a letra de “Niños Heroes”, por Negro Leo. gentilmente cedido pelo Artista.

todas as músicas por Vitor C., exceto “A faca instrumental”, música por Vitor C. e Bruno Rafael.

o texto de “Eletricidade” é um poema, com o mesmo nome, de Raisa Christina

*áudio de ligação telefônica em “A faca instrumental”, voz: Bruno Rafael
*áudio de ligação para auto-atendimento bancário.

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posted 05 April 2020

F600 – El Color que cayó del Cielo

F600 – El Color que cayó del Cielo
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F600

“El Color que cayó del Cielo”

[pn151] 03.04.2020 “El Color que cayó del Cielo” by F600 feat. Mauricio Garrido [Chile]

REVIEW By Vicente Ruiz.

Collaborating is a contemporary exercise. Authorship in art through a common creation outcome dissolves the limits and merges personalities. “The Colour out of Space” has H.P. Lovecraft as the first collaboratorby creating the literary work in 1927. A story that describes the fall of a giant energy like a meteorite from outer space to planet Earth; the energy stains the place where it has fallen with a colour that is just the opposite, in fact it is the absence of colour and which is non-existence itself, capable of corroding the living forms of a palpable reality, although the confirmation of the birth of a proper field of subjectivity as well. Mauricio Garrido interprets the text and transfer it to collage (122 x 69 cm. Expo LEER 2018) where is possible to see a column of colour vibrations that upon reaching the earth enters nothing less than to the heart of the Pantheon building, iconic place precisely for its opening in the dome – The eye of God?- sweeping with a force of abduction simultaneous to the one that invades, so everything he finds begins to rise to infinity, bringing at the same time materials from space to establish them as a conjunction of materials and souls.

From the original text and the collage, Miguel Conejeros creates a musical composition that reflects the journey of a monstrous force that is falling from the sky in a sharply way. A voice recounts the events of the impact that is gradually transforming the landscape, giving birth to a gray wasteland which expands precisely in the space and life of the protagonists. This is described through Garrido’s voice, who is a central character in the story acting as a bridge between literature, sound and the visual workthat he himself gave birth to, coming to occupy the place of a mediator who glimpses within creation the possibility of magic.

The musical work manages to fully capture the terror that Lovecraft has put in the literary work. The different moments are shot in a kind of futuristic fictionthat takes the classic aspects of an audio work and at the same time brings them together to make way for a creation that reaches the human, not only for its ability to generate realities, but also by proposing a sound certainty which multiplies in different but harmonic directions, where the intimate structures of music are moved in community with the lyrics and the plastic creation.

Contemporaneity is manifested in the artistic collaboration of these three creators: Lovecraft, Conejeros and Garrido. The mysteries described through the audible are part of the world as is seen today: large devastated territories that move like a destructive plague where there is usually nothing or very little left to restart life or at least continue it. Spaces where the sinister rises with ominous aims. And the journey manifests as displacement of forms and senses.

However, pleasure prevails, one that arises from within the sounds and their relationships. One that drags Mauricio
Garrido’s visual work and passing through the sensitivity of Miguel Conejeros and gives way to an inevitable torrent of lights in the midst of shadows, the non-existent confirming the existent, what is destroyed as part of the shapeand emptiness as a symptom of the universe.

Vicente Ruiz
(Santiago, Chile. Abril / April 2020)
English version by Alejandro Albornoz

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posted 03 April 2020

Various Artist – 6 years of naviar haiku

Various Artist – 6 years of naviar haiku

Various Artist

“6 years of naviar haiku”

A compilation to celebrate the 6th anniversary of the Naviar Haiku challenge, which every week invites artists to make music in response to an assigned haiku poem.

55 artists, 91 tracks, over 9 hours of music selected from the submissions Naviar received in 2019.

Participation in the Naviar Haiku challenge is free and open to all: to participate visit www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

For credits and info about the authors, visit www.naviarrecords.com/blog

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posted 31 March 2020

Seuil Optique – Les Habitants

Seuil Optique – Les Habitants
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Seuil Optique

“Les Habitants”

Seuil Optique, duo of Sig Valax and Nicolas Tourney, offers a unique experience of listening to music in the dark. Immersing the stage and the public in constant darkness, Seuil Optique creates soundscapes where electronic transmissions, acousmatic landscapes and refined drones intersect. By jostling the boundaries between listening, blind manipulation of machines and immersive experience offered to the audience, the two musicians explore new sound tracks, in permanent dialogue with hybrid musicalities and the practice of singular instruments: persephone, field recording, electro-acoustic devices, matrices and samples.
On stage, they use deliberately “open” improvisation strategies and defeat the boundaries between manipulating machines in the dark, harmonics tinged with noise-producing materials and the “eyes closed” hearing experience offered to the public.

Seuil Optique’s third album, Les Habitants, focuses on the practice of electronic improvisation. Recorded in three days and three nights, in Paris, in total darkness, Les Habitants aims to be a place of recognition of gesture as a creative act. No preparation beforehand, no benchmark, no intro or climax, only the interaction between two ways of producing spectral imprints. In this sound dialogue, electronics are the vector of total sincerity: the inhabitants target the listener, bringing them to live the experience of the moment that guides the “non-idiomatic” music of Seuil Optique, in which each sound, each transmitted waveform is dedicated to the inhabitants of the present.

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posted 16 March 2020

Filmy ghost – The Phase

Filmy ghost – The Phase
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Filmy ghost

“The Phase”

The phase is the transfiguration of the body to other dimensions and planes of existence, also to othe states of the human spiritual conscious.

https://archive.org/details/earsheltering097

Filmy Ghost is a dark experimental, atmospheric, ghostly music project created by Sábila Orbe from Rancagua Chile.

website: https://humanfobia.jimdo.com/filmy-ghost/
music webs: https://archive.org/details/fav-sabila_orbe02 // https://hearthis.at/filmy-ghost/

Publication date
2020-03-14
Usage
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Topics
sountrack, dark ambient

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posted 14 March 2020

Jude Cowan Montague – to India

Jude Cowan Montague – to India

Jude Cowan Montague

“to India”

Linear Obsessional is delighted to present a solo album by Jude Cowan Monague (of Montague Armstrong who released the acclaimed “Hammond Hits” on LinOb last year.
“To India” was originally self released as a very limited CDr – this re-issue includes the original CDr packaging as jpg files.
Mixing Jude’s trademark mix of quirky travel reportage, poetry and a fascination with archaic keyboard instruments, “To India” is a joyous collection of songs from this unstoppable and endlessly creative artist.

tracks 1 – 7 – written on an art residency on Goa India
tracks 7 – 9 – written in Mauritius and first published as poems in “The Groodoyals of Terre Rouge” (Dark Windows Press 2013)

Thanks to Rekha Sameer and my fellow artists and to Kiran Groodoyal and her brilliant family
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released March 14, 2020

tracks 1-6 recorded at J.C. Montague’s, London by Matt Armstrong

Jude Cowan Montague – Vocals, Hammond, Fender Rhodes, Min-Moog
Matt Armstrong – Bass, Backing Vocals, Philichorda
Tom Murrow – Drums

tracks 7-9 recorded and mixed at Bark Studios, London by Brian Ono
Jude Cowan Montague – Vocals/Alesis Micron
Matt Armstrong – Bass/Percussion/Vocals
Mark Braby – Vocals

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posted 14 March 2020

Cyff Gwawd – Cyff Gwawd

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

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posted 09 March 2020

Agia Monaxia – Analekta

Agia Monaxia – Analekta
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Agia Monaxia

“Analekta”

Ανάλεκτα /analekta/ (greek) : analects, collection, travels, drones, selections, greatest hits, moments, drones, struggles, time, poems, peyote, being/not being, drones/not drones, third eye, self-realization, album, enjoy before sleeping.
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posted 03 March 2020

t16c – re

t16c – re

t16c

“re”

t16c is a duo formed by underground Slovak musicians. Two friends, Peter Kudlička (16 colours, EGA) and Andrej Nechaj (Tatratank) have been making music for over 20 years. t16c is a natural result of their unceasing commitment to diverse sonics.

“re” is a debut collaborative album of t16c. Post-apocalyptic space exploration, transmitted over lo-fi radio signal back to the Earth. Grid-less, yet pulsating culmination of eerie field recordings, samples, and electronics. Alluring melancholic glimpses of an unclear future.
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released February 29, 2020

Cover by Andrej Nechaj
Photos by Andrej Nechaj and Peter Kudlička
Mastering by Angakok at Mydriasis

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posted 03 March 2020