Terranean Recordings bolsters the roster with the first outing by hot-blood Half-Lifer, presenting six mucky fusions of industrial spoil and sound system technology misuse. Working back to back with Luke Lund, they open up a caustic rift to a world of adulterated electronics, spawning a slanted vision of rhythmic solutions lugged from the bruxist fringe of the ‘floor.
We kick off with Luke’s helpings of gut-punching pressure. “Pusher” balances with tricky percussive odd-time sleights and ‘woofer bombs while “Blazed” veers off the atmosphere to a frenzied narcotic mania twisting samples of wheezer laughs. Fun’s over and an air of darkness enters on “Dregs” with its ear-shredding skree.
Passing the ball to Half-Lifer; “Dump Truck” and its razor sharp slashes, skeletal patterns and precise kick drum weight. Corrosive slurry textures dominate on the crunched out roughage of “Trash Compactor”. The EP signs off with nigh-beatless “Under” full of dread, tectonic low end movement and carefully placed shudder-inducing No U-Turn -esque shockout stabs.
All foreshadowing the imminent Half-Lifer debut album “Trigger Stacking” on Barely Here, of course.
Unlike plants, mushrooms cannot synthesize their own food from the sun’s energy. They lack chlorophyll – the substance which permits plants to use sunlight to form sugars from the water and carbon dioxide in the air. Mushrooms therefore had to develop special methods of living: symbiosis, saprophytism and parasitism.
Most of the mushrooms growing on the forest floor are intimately linked to trees by symbiosis. This association, called mycorrhiza, occurs between the root ends of a tree and the vegetative system of a mushroom. Mycorrhiza benefits both organisms: there is an exchange of nutrients, one providing to other what it cannot synthesize or extract from the soil by itself. In general, the mushroom helps the tree extract minerals and water from the soil; in exchange, the tree supplies the mushroom with sugar compounds (carbohydrates).
Saprophytism is another important living method for mushrooms, especially for species which grow on lawns, on rotting wood or on excrement. Here the mushroom’s role is one of decomposition. It feeds itself by digesting the organic matter and at the same time returns nutrients to the soil.
Finally, some mushrooms are parasites. There are several kinds of parasitism, ranging from the species which attacks a healthy host (tree, plant or insect) and lives on it without killing it, to the kind which attacks only unhealthy hosts, thereby hastening their death. The parasitic species are generally microscopic mushrooms.
source: m.espacepourlavie.ca/en/role-mushrooms-nature
credits
released September 17, 2018
Label: Nenormalizm Recs.
Compiled and Mastered by Ilya Bitekhtin
RELEASE INFO:
ARTIST:Airplanemusic
RELEASE TITLE:Elements
CAT Nº:TRANZ069
RELEASE DATE:September20, 2018
FORMAT: Mp3 / 320kbps / 44.100MHZ
GENRE: Electronic
SUB-GENRE:IDM, Glitch, Experimental, Downtempo, Balearic, Chillout, Techno
TOTAL TIME:38:42
SIZE: 96,4MB
TRACKLIST:
01. Elements (4:50)
02. Amorphous Substance of Consciousness (4:02)
03. Geometrical Pulsation (5:42)
04. Microscopia (3:14)
05. Astral Hologram Disappear (5:25)
06. Feel The Shaman Spirit (4:36)
07. Elemental (3:14)
08. Awesome Dream Places (3:07)
09. Discovery Frequencies (4:32)
The music makes you feel the rustle of insect wings, taking away your human skin. Forms are crashed by the narrative, narrative breaks up by forms. Within the tracks architecture you can hear flinging and hesitations in the flow of natural processes. Track by track you’re invited to explore your personality antipodes and face your fears, as for ex. the artist’s primeval centipedes phobia.
The latest addition to xenonyms’ catalogue is the debut release from L3T3 a 23 year old producer from the city of Cracow, where he lives and creates. CARE EP is an exciting piece of contemporary music influenced by various genres such as witch house, coldwave and experimental music.
L3T3 carefully selects his sounds on this EP in an attempt to render the processes that take place in his body, mind & soul. His music also offers a personal take on the concepts of post-humanity, the expanding of sensual experiences and a new era of hi-tech.
L3T3 is also a member of the OVER SEERS collective.
Faex Optim is back with another Netlabel Day EP. The master the abandoned places meets inspiring and nostalgic riffs and melodies (akin to Boards of Canada and the like) arrives with a four track EP entitled ‘As the Summer Die’.
Sentimental melodies, off key leads and glorious hip hop beats kick into live epic greats such as ‘Major Calendar’.
Fantastic artwork by Precocious Mouse
Slovak producer MacroNoise presents his seemingly chaotic EP balancing on the edge of downtempo, ambient and IDM that will take you far away from the Earth and back. What you are about to experience is the Continuum.
VIDEO BY: Norbert Čierťašský
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“Artificial Thoughts” is the first Zzy‘s album. The story of this album is about two different realities: the humanity and the machine revolution. In other words, this work criticizes “the modern society” and their addictions. Do humans control the machine or does the machine control humans?
The technological revolution an its progress seems to us unbreakable and doesn’t show signs of ending.
Will we all be dominated by the machine? Is this our end?
“Artificial Thoughts” is struggling with those questions that have no concrete answer. However, the future looks dangerous and THE HUMANITY has to make decisions to survive in this game, against the endless evolution of the machine.
Noisefever is known for his cheerful, dance verging on 70s disco beats from his previous releases and Love EP is no different.
Classic beats mix with hammering basslines (and a spattering of chip sound effects) and cheerful melodies in this perfect four tracker to compliment the summer. Time to knock back those glasses of Pimms and enjoy the beats in the summer sun!
We welcome new artist Axiom 23 from Sweden to Kahvi this time. Eight tracks of sublime sounds, with the great ‘Above the Sky’ kicking off the audio treats.
Transforming from melodic IDM to more dub style tracks as the EP progresses, a nice to while away 30 minutes and a cool glass of something on a hot day.
Kick back and chill out. Fantastic cover artwork by Precocious Mouse.
Recently we set a challenge for a small hand picked selection of Kahvi artists, along with a couple of guest artists. The challenge? Create a track using only one synth.
This album is the result. A hugely diverse selection of electronic masterpieces from 20 artists, giving you some idea of the huge talent these artists have and the knowledge of their tools of choice.
RELEASE INFO:
ARTIST: Awake In The Dew
RELEASE TITLE: Sounds To Ascension
CAT Nº: TRANZ068
RELEASE DATE: June 01, 2018
FORMAT: Mp3 / 320kbps / 44.100 MHZ
GENRE: Electronic
SUB-GENRE: IDM, Glitch, Experimental, Downtempo, Balearic, Chillout
TOTAL TIME: 36:32
SIZE: 109 MB
TRACKLIST:
01. FRACTAL (4:52)
02. WAVES OF COSMIC FIRE (4:55)
03. THE LIGHT HOPE (6:15)
04. INFINITE WAYS TO FLY (3:56)
05. BURNING THE VIOLET FLAME (5:42)
06. LIGHT IN THE SHADOWS (5:28)
07. CHILDREN OF THE SUN (5:24)
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BIO:
‘Sounds to Ascension’ é um EP do projeto de música eletrônica e experimental Awake In The Dew que tem por base o álbum ‘Last Sounds to Ascension’, lançado digitalmente em novembro de 2015. O EP reúne os principais títulos do disco e traz as faixas na íntegra sem a sonoplastia contida no álbum.
A sonoridade de ‘Sounds to Ascension’ se volta para os gêneros mais experimentais da música eletrônica, como o dark ambient, drone, glitch e idm, que formam as influências trabalhadas dentro do projeto e contam com referências a artistas atuais como Access To Arasaka, Hecq e The Flashbulb, além de grupos clássicos como Autechre e The Future Sound of London.
Awake In The Dew foi criado em meados da década de 2000 na cidade de Maceió pelo produtor alagoano Diego Henrique. O projeto teve sua primeira fase entre os anos de 2007 e 2011, com uma sonoridade mais noise com bases em gravações lo-fi e conotações post-rock e psicodélicas. A segunda fase se iniciou em 2012 e já conta com quase uma dúzia de discos lançados, mais voltados para música eletrônica experimental.
O produtor Diego tem 31 anos de idade, cresceu ouvindo dance music e outros gêneros da eletrônica, até se interessar por sonoridades experimentais no final da adolescência. Autodidata, começou a se interessar por softwares de produção e edição sonora aos 17 anos de idade, época em que integrou o coletivo de DJs pragatecno em sua cidade, tocando suas próprias produções como DJ.
Atualmente, ele mantém outros projetos além do Awake In The Dew, nos quais ele desenvolve seu estilo particular e característicos em outros segmentos da eletrônica, seja voltado para pistas, seja misturado com elementos do rock, como pode ser conferido nos trabalhos do Airplanemusic, Hightech Factor e Plumarino.
