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Enter the sonic universe of Junya Tokuda, a visionary Osaka-based electronic musician who intricately weaves innovation and artistry into his compositions. With a diverse repertoire, including previous releases like “map not seen EP,” “A Day In The Alley,” “Unleash EP,” and “No Man’s Land,” Tokuda’s musical journey extends beyond performance, encompassing the management of Linesound web label and the orchestration of the immersive “Line” electronic music event. “VANITY RE-MAKE/RE-MODEL Vol.1,” ingeniously remixes Tokyo-based project Tolerance by Junko Tange. This album, conceived in parallel with “Anemic Cinema,” showcases Tokuda’s mastery of dub-like spatial effects, resulting in an ethereal interplay between fragmented Tolerance elements and oceanic soundscapes. Evoking tactile ASMR-like sensations and skillfully integrating foreign components, Tokuda’s music transcends conventional boundaries, revealing hidden patterns amidst hard, distorted sounds. An exhilarating, magical work that unveils his caliber as an artist.

Junya Tokuda – Desert Tribe
Junya Tokuda – Pruning Conceptions
Junya Tokuda – Perspective
Junya Tokuda – Immense Pulse
Junya Tokuda – Serenity Junya Tokuda – Signifiant
Junya Tokuda × Tolerance – Pulse Static (Tranqillia)
Junya Tokuda – Echoes
Junya Tokuda – Rain
Junya Tokuda – Anemic Cinema
Junya Tokuda – Unwoven J
unya Tokuda – Simulacrum
Junya Tokuda – Intolerance
Junya Tokuda – Replica
Junya Tokuda – Interruptions
Junya Tokuda – Reverie
Junya Tokuda – Parallax View
Junya Tokuda – Take Shelter

Ex.Hale is the brainchild of Italian multi-disciplinary artist Francesco Presotto.

Ex. Hale’s music is characterised by dark, atmospheric textures that is driven by a modern vision of club music. The project is focused on the deconstruction of common compositional standards with the addition of crushing rhythm structures that establishes the unusual framework of Ex.Hale’s subversive approach.

With releases on Sonic Groove, Rudiment, and Voidance, in addition to soundtracks for fashion runways and design companies and to an increasing number of performances in clubs, museums and festivals around Europe, Ex.Hale has become a formidable force in electronic and experimental music.

Tracklist:
⚫︎Tonsil Pearls ー Sarahsson

⚫︎Nyege Digital Immersion ー Wulffluw XCIV

⚫︎Cry In Vain ーKazuki koga

⚫︎Close Your Eyes ーSunshine Vendetta

⚫︎Serenade To a Gelatin ー　Maoupa Mazzocchetti ft. ZULI

⚫︎Re-Entry ー HDMIR

⚫︎Beholden ー Sandy’s Trance

⚫︎The Horns (feat. Osheyack) ー Nahash

⚫︎Suckling Grown (SOULFEGGIO REMIX) ー Swan Meat

⚫︎Electronic Body ー LULU

⚫︎Mambu ー Lova Lova

⚫︎Whoa ー GRRL

⚫︎KAMON ー Pixelord

⚫︎Luca Rain – Perigo ー We Wer

⚫︎FREAK ー Shygirl

⚫︎Tic Tac (feat. Lambo) ー UNIIQU

⚫︎Buzzer ーJdotbala

⚫︎Jugal Bone ー AIROD

⚫︎Horime ー Brutalis

⚫︎Brass Knuckles (feat. Duellist) ー Drvg Cvltvre

⚫︎H°X ー whiteros ⚫︎Wall ー LVRA

Tracklist:

Haarvol & Martijn Comes – A Quiet, Indecipherable Tone, Moving Furniture Records
Karen Vogt – Stranded by the Spring Tide (Lucy Adlington Remix), A Thousand Arms
Enno Velthuys – Church in Spain, Dead Mind Records
Khem One – Threshold of Eastern Octaves, Silent Records
Chad Mossholder – Lus Us, Schematic Records
Saverio Rosi & TeZ – Sauterne, Backwards
Nicoleta Chatzopoulou & Martijn Comes – Bicameral Mind, The Crystal Cabinet
Jacob Audrey Taves & Martijn Comes – Hybrid Plant Nebulae, Low Noise Productions
Hessel Veldman & Martijn Comes – MotherVox/Impromptu, Unreleased

For the past five years, Saint Abdullah has been using sound collage and experimental electronics to bridge the personal and political. Born in Tehran, raised in Canada, and now based in NY, the Mehrabani-Yeganeh brothers stitch together tapestries of sound that syncretize their Iranian heritage with their North American upbringing. Like Elysia Crampton Chuquimia and bod [包家巷], Saint Abdullah conjures a bricolage of sounds that explore the in-between. The brothers are more defiantly political, however, challenging the Islamophobia that continues to plague the West with provocative imagery and combative lyricism. On Patience of a Traitor, they’re joined by Irish producer Eomac, aka Ian McDonnell, using the hammam (traditional Persian bath) as a starting point for a broader investigation of culture and memory.

Saint Abdullah’s project is to “challenge stereotypes and act as a conduit between unnecessary enemies”; as such, the unifying theme of the hammam is quite apt. Influenced by the Roman thermae, the hammam is itself a centuries-old amalgamation of West and East, brought into existence by war and trade. Opening track “At the Opposite Pole of Architectural Virtue” might provide a parallel to that history, full of distorted boom-bap dynamics that sample George Gershwin’s jazz standard “Summertime” alongside Farsi chants and field recordings. The next track “In One Corner the Male Relatives” jumps across the Atlantic, wielding the syncopated snare rhythms of UK garage alongside a relentless 4×4 beat for a heady, immersive track just as suited for headphones as for a warehouse soundsystem.

There’s an ineffable sense of loss throughout the record; “Tiles of the Facade” feels like it’s crumbling, a series of shattered, emotive chords a la Tim Hecker flecked with bits of microsonic debris. “Chafing Dish” brings jittery IDM stylings to that formula, as well as a meandering microtonal melody that feels like a reprise of “4000 Rat Patrol Posters” from their earlier album Inshallahland. Once centers of social life and community, the hammams of today often lay unused or have been repurposed, their place in Iranian culture historicized and recontextualized. To the diasporic Mehrabani-Yeganeh brothers, the memory of the hammam takes on an even more mythical aura that they inscribe into sound. Patience of a Traitor is a sonic manifestation of what’s lost when flows of time—and space—chip away at essences that might seem unchangeable.

@ianmcdonnellmusic

@bedouinrecords

ABOUT THE MIXTAPE

Otto Lindholm and Ross Tones put together a collection of songs that have influenced the creation of their duo and that guide their common musical approach. An invitation to discover their inspirations while waiting for the release of their debut album.

EVERYTHING FALLS APART

“In fact, the more I try to escape, the less I can breathe. The more I try to hold on, the less I can focus. Something’s leaving me. Parts of me. Everything falls apart.”

Inspired by Danielewski’s chef-d’oeuvre House of Leaves, Everything Falls Apart (EFA) gathers prolific producer Ross Tones also known as Throwing Snow (Houndstooth) and double bass player Otto Lindholm (Icarus, Gizeh) in an improvised and brilliant dialog. Acting as a human FX on the initial acoustic sound, Ross Tones gives a third dimension to each impulse of the double bass, which in the same time influences back Lindholm’s play. The whole process, from linear to circular, creates a profound musical loop, almost a larsen, that brings EFA’s sound into music : a unique catharsis of unforgiven soundscapes and melodies.

EFA Debut album will be released on Totalism (sept 15 2023)

A first single, Wonderfully Desolate, will be released on 27 April on all digital platforms, kicking off pre-orders for the upcoming vinyl.

Tracklist:

Nilindigo – Otto Lindholm

Overstaying – Demdike Stare

Trim – Mark-Anthony Turnage, John Scofield

Requiem: II Kyrie – György Ligeti

Gravity – Roly Porter

Anagamin for 11 strings – Scelsi

Frankie Teardrop – Suicide

River Song – Richard Skelton

L’éléphant – Henri Texier

100% – Sonci Youth

Speak – Emptyset

Parallelograms – Linda perhacs

Saturday Sun – Nick Drake

Proverb – Steve Reich

Peril Crooner fuses together ghosts of past sound collages and a few released and unreleased forthcoming Drowned By Locals material by artists Ian Bruner @ideath Abdel Ja7eem Hafeth @laithdemashqieh @1800sinternet @sheekiesheekie @djgawad @rknddn @kin40k ft Robin Stewart @robin_esssss Operation Egodeath and @hulubalng.hulubalang

Photo by @dontblamebaha