released September 4, 2020
All music and artwork by Cialyn (cc) A.Pachins 2020. Recorded during Spring 2020.
Tokee is an alter-ego of the Russian/Israeli composer and sound engineer Anatoly Grinberg who has released numerous solo and collaborative albums and is mostly known as prominent Dark Ambient / Cinematic Drone / Industrial music composer. Tokee’s new album “Stages”, though, can be described as having roots in the early 80′ synth wave and synth pop. This specific sound, amazingly aesthetically preserved also by the remixers with their unique twists on side B of the tape, and the very coming out as special cassette artefact take us back to Anatoly’s childhood and youth before the Soviet Union was split, where those early electronica sounds fascinated and inspired him, and in many cases they were found on or recorded to tapes.
released August 23, 2020
Composed and produced by Anatoly Grinberg in Moscow, Russia in 2019-2020
Tracks 1 to 7 (Side A of the cassette) are all original tracks
Tracks 8 to 15 (Side B of the cassette) are all remixes, with additional production and remix by: MindDivided (8), Thermidor (9), aAirial (10), 4T Thieves (11), Frontier Guards (12), Autoclav1.1 (13), The Pixel Door (14) and UDPWNF (15)
Artwork design by Stefan Alt
In loving memory of Anatoly’s beloved mother Natalia (1946-2017)
Gothic music compilations powered by Humanfobia project and Cian Orbe Netlabel. links:
https://archive.org/details/fav-pastel_musik_compilations
https://gothicspectracompilation.bandcamp.com/
Compiled, cover artwork design by Sábila Orbe.
model in the cover, photography: Mist Spectra.
10 tracks of absolute gut wrenching sonic demonic expulsions featuring ERO GURO’s brain cracking emotive vocalizations and soul fracturing lyrics set to the convulsive chaotic rhythms of THE FIRST SEED. An unconventional and dynamic follow up to their 2017 debut as a collaborative unit “Not Quite Gods”. Anxious, distorted, non-linear digital hardcore music to have personal freakouts to.
credits
released August 14, 2020
Ero Guro – Voice/Lyrics
The First Seed – Sounds
Mastering – Greg Dawson
Cover Art – Davy Baker
Digital Medication Vol 1 is a retrospective of the Redose Series, which began as a netlabel offshoot of Rednetic in 2004. Gathered here is a track from every release from the beginning to now.
Track 1 taken from “Souls Escaping” [RDS001]
Track 2 taken from “Summer Rain” [RDS002]
Track 3 taken from “Lee-Ann (Zainetica Remix)” [RDS003]
Track 4 taken from “Seiko World One” [RDS004]
Track 5 taken from “Vacume (Original Version)” [RDS005]
Track 6 taken from “Cheju [Glow Worms (Filament Mix)” [RDS006]
Track 7 taken from “Droid” [RDS007]
Track 8 taken from “Tommi Labs Vol 2 (Battle Royale)” [RDS008]
Track 9 taken from “Spring Variations” [RDS010]
Track 10 taken from “Book of the week” [RDS0011]
Track 11 taken from “There’s no answers” [RDS0012]
Track 12 taken from “Isolation Trax Vol 1” [RDS013]
Track 13 taken from “Isolation Trax Vol 2” [RDS014]
Track 14 taken from “Social Process” [RDS015]
Track 15 taken from “Alpha 7” [RDS016]
Track 16 taken from “Recorded Live in Nakano” [RDS017]
Track 17 taken from “Samudra Remixes” [RDS018]
Track 18 taken from “Nakano Sessions” [RDS019]
Track 19 taken from “Samudra Remixes 2” [RDS020]
Track 20 taken from “The Story so Far” [RDS021]
Track 21 taken from “Ammo Case Sessions” [RDS022]
Track 22 taken from “Panta Rhei” [RDS023]
Track 23 taken from “Electronic Soul Muse” [RDS024]
Track 24 taken from “Travelling” [RDS025]
Track 25 taken from “Investor Matrix” [RDS026]
Track 26 taken from “Humanoid” [RDS027]
Track 27 taken from “Zandvoort Remixes” [RDS028]
Track 28 taken from “Red Sun” [RDS029]
Track 29 taken from “Ceplok” [RDS030]
Track 30 taken from “Dual One” [RDS031]
This creation of this album obeys the heartbreaking need to musically narrate the story of a beautiful place, which was destroyed in the worst way, and whose ruins are currently in dispute. From those who suffer from knowing the violent history that surrounds these ruins, a transformative musical experience emerges, created by Alisú, in a healing exercise that responds to the pain that endures through time.
The music transports us to these unfinished stories, it situates us in a lost memory, a ghostly creation of a spectral place, located in front of the sea. It is not a happy album, but that is precisely what makes it risky, turning it into a sonic adventure within a sad story without end.
Alisú realizes a composition that generates sensations upon listening, creating a style of musical documentary, in which she integrates testimonies of survivors with electronic creations, which interpret and evoke the hidden memory of a place that was created as a popular summer resort during the socialist government of Salvador Allende’s in the 70s in Chile, and which, after Gen. Pinochet’s coup, was converted into the School of Torture and Center Extermination for the dictatorship’s secret police, a place in which hundreds were tortured and made to disappear as opponents of the regime.
With these antecedents, Alisú creates an eclectic album, with sounds full of feeling and emotion, where the most cheerful electronic harmonies coalesce to evoke the memories of vacationers, the distant laughter of girls and boys at play in the sea, the breeze of the wind; and with darker sounds that set the pain of the survivors and the disconcerting calm in the voice of a torturer.
Recently this memorial site located in Rocas de Santo Domingo (In the Valparaíso Region), was declared a National Monument, but it is still owned by the Chilean Army, which ordered its destruction in 2014, and which keep its ruins sequestered until today and makes its visitation and investigation impossible. It is for this reason that this new album by Alisú is destined not only to be listened to in an intimate way, but also to become a piece that creates and complements the first musical, sound and testimonial archive of electronic production, about a place full of memories in dispute, such as the Rocas de Santo Domingo Memorial.
The origin of this album is in the soundtrack of a documentary investigation and an immersive work in Augmented Reality, complementing an interdisciplinary creation that aims to be a contribution to the memory of Chile and to respect the Human Rights of all, all and all.
Pepe Rovano
Documentalista e Investigador DEI UV / Documentarian and Researcher DEI UV
Director Memorial Rocas AR
(Santiago, Chile. Agosto / August 2020)
DEDICATORIA / DEDICATED TO:
Dedicado a las víctimas y sobrevivientes del triunvirato del horror, constituido por las ex cabañas de Rocas de Santo Domingo, el Regimiento de Tejas Verdes y el Casino de Ingenieros Militares del ejército, lugar de horror desde donde desaparecieron cientos de mujeres y hombres.
Dedicated to the victims and survivors of the triumvirate of horror, made up of the former cabins of Rocas de Santo Domingo, the Tejas Verdes Regiment and the Army Military Engineers Casino, a place of horror from where hundreds of women and men disappeared.
Greyhead, a.k.a. “G-cero”, shares his new EP “No tienen necesidad de hacerlo” (No Need For It), originally premiered a few blocks from Plaza Dignidad(*) in October 2019, in the midst of Chilean upheaval, also offering help, support and relief to those in need.
Since 1973’s coup d’état, carried out by the US government in conjunction with Chilean Armed Forces against Presidente Allende’s Unidad Popular, there was no more freedom for people again: they set up a new Constitution, invented Pension Fund Managers and Private Health Funds, our jobs became precarious, imposing a neoliberal economic system that has privatized almost everything, in a state terrorism context, using torture, disappearance, and exile.
Since returning to this “compromised democracy” in 1990, franja del NO campaign promises of change became dust in the wind. As singer-songwriter Jorge González, quoted in one of the tracks of this record, said in 2011: “They have the law supporting them: the whole press, the media, the police, and the army, if everything else fails; and that last resource won’t ever fail». This was a self-fulfilled prophecy during Chile’s awakening on October 18. The government invoked anti terrorist law, the press blatantly lied in radio, TV, and newspapers; the police shot straight to the eyes of the protestors, the army went out to kill, just like President Sebastián Piñera proclaimed: “We’re at war”. Thus the Chilean ruling elite, headed by one of the 5 richest Chileans in the world, according to Forbes magazine, faced this upheaval. But this time they were not able to use their power single-handedly: the whole world was watching, via social networks and the millions of cameras every single person carries in their pockets, what was really happening in Chile – an impossible thing to do in the 80s. If the “aliens” and “the front line”, haven’t met every Friday at Plaza Dignidad and other key spots along the country, our politicians wouldn’t have ever thought about trading the coming elections for changing the Constitution for a new one, allowing us to live in a real democracy.
This record is an open mic sonic experiment, recorded at Plaza Dignidad during October demonstrations, later processed in an experimental EP, where G-cero mingles this whole revolt in refined waves, glitch sounds, envelopes, powerful bass drums, arpeggios, ambient hi-hats, assorted samples and noise loops. All of this following the rallies beat.
Felipe Baradit Stevenson
(Concón, Chile. Agosto / August 2020)
English version by Gerardo Figueroa.
– dkzyin is a chiptune, electronic project, created by Juan Velter.
for more music visit:
https://losvelters.bandcamp.com/
https://losvelters.blogspot.com/
https://www.instagram.com/juan.velter/
https://www.youtube.com/losvelters
– Yaka-anima is an experimental, weird electronic project from Rancagua, Chile. Created by Sábila Orbe.
for more music visit:
https://humanfobia.jimdofree.com/yaka-anima/
https://hearthis.at/yaka-anima/
https://archive.org/details/@yaka-anima_noise
This track has a story.
Initially, it was about managing to make a decent track out of a melody that had been playing in my head for… about 10 years. The first attempts were put together years ago using LMMS. They were not good at all: LMMS is great for certain things, but not as great for others. Then this year, when I rebuilt a decent studio setup and went back to Reaper, I gave another go at it and… oh joy! It started to sound decent.
So far I had a house-ish track with a vibe similar to those romantic french movies from the 70s and 80s. Those who grew up watching “La Boum” and such will know what I mean.
But then I stumbled upon a movie on archive.org called “My Man Godfrey”, a delightful romantic comedy from 1936 starring Carole Lombart and William Powell. The movie being Public Domain I thought it would be okay to sample dialogs from it and rearrange them to tell a slightly different story. I added them to the track and… a miracle! It sounded fantastic! I was in heaven!
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), I decided to be 100% sure and checked whether it was actually legal to sample a movie in the Public Domain and… I got serious doubts. From what I understand, the movie could still be copyrighted in other countries, or its soundtrack (or its written dialogs) might still be protected. The joys of the current copyright mess… The only way to be sure would be to ask a lawyer to check whether the sampling is legit as far as his knowledge goes.
Right.
This is exactly why I believe copyright has it sooo wrong.
So I decided not to take the risk. I do find the whole thing ridiculous, but I don’t want to create any sort of trouble to the kind hosters of my tunes so I did a version without the dialogs. This is why this release has only one single track: a “romantic”, instrumental house tune. A bit of a shame if you ask me, but better than nothing!
The good news is: the track is under CreativeCommons BY-SA 4.0, which is as permissive as it gets while respecting intellectual property. So share it, mix it, spread it as you wish. Just leave my name next to it ;-)
The first Explorations In Dub compilation was released back in year 2013, showcasing the works of many artists from around the world and their personal approach on dub music. In the present time of COVID-19, most producers have been in a lockdown. Nevertheless their creativity did not stop and some fresh ideas started to sprout while in isolation. So it was time, seven years later, for a Vol. 2, showcasing again many great outernational projects.
Explorations in Dub Vol. 2 is compiled by Dub Cmd & Dub Thomas and includes fifteen tracks by label artists, guests and friends, in a collaborative effort to keep producing music during the COVID-19 lockdown situation: Dillon Wyte (USA), Deepke & Wirk (GER), Boom One Soundsystem (USA), O.L.M. (ITA), Dub Cmd (UK), iGL & Alecho (GR), SistaSara (ITA), Stefanosis (USA), Don Fe All Stars & Manwel T (SP/MT)*, High & I (UK), Barnaba (PL ), Subconscious Dub (CY)**, Hermit Dubz (CY/UK), Xicury Dub & Rocka (MEX) and Xucar Warriors (SP)
CREDITS:
* musicians are T. Oldfield , Paul Maiden, Tina Brown, Ras Bruno, Platty Garcia, Hector Silva – mix by Manwel T
** Don Fe Stems Patreon project, produced by T. Oldfield – mix by Subconscious Dub
Artwork by Savvas Thomas & Gabriel Ufir
