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- FACT mix 723: Gabber Modus Operandi
- Shackleton debuts new ensemble Tunes of Negation with double LP
- rRoxymore to release debut album, Face To Phase, on Don’t Be Afraid
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Posted: 15 Aug 2019 11:30 AM PDT
Indonesian duo Gabber Modus Operandi blast off into the far reaches of the global dance continuum.
Made up of DJ Kasimyn and vocalist Ican Harem, Gabber Modus Operandi were formed in Bali, where the two artists bonded over a shared love of disparate music and art, and similar feelings of alienation from the local scene. When he was a student in Yogyakarta, Harem was deeply embedded in the local experimental and metal scenes, performing as part of Black Metal Karaoke (a black metal act that performs using Nokia cellphones). Kas, meanwhile, was working as a wedding DJ in Bali, and when the two met, they realized they both shared a fascination with dangdut, a 1970s folk dance form, and jathilan, a Javan ritual that encourages altered states with incense, repetitive music and movement. Somehow, the duo’s music as Gabber Modus Operandi manages to represent all their disparate influences, rolling them up into a package of hard, fast dance music and pulling influence from across the global dance continuum and beyond. Their second album HOXXXYA is due for release on Shanghai’s SVBKVLT imprint on August 16, and drifts from noisy, irreverent gabber into footwork-influenced noise and beyond. It sounds like everything and nothing, an album deeply embedded in internet culture, but wary of its algorithmic averaging. Kas and Harem’s FACT mix gives some hints at where their heads are at right now, drifting from Japan’s Foodman and Finnish IDM veteran Aleksi Perälä through tracks from Dutch hard dance mainstay DJ Looney Tune, bass OG dBridge, footwork legend DJ Rashad, Manchester’s fabulous AYA (fka LOFT), even finding time to throw in some exclusive material of their own. Gabber Modus Operandi paint a vivid picture of not only where they sit, sandwiched between the West and the East, but of the hopeful, spiky hedonism of the club’s most urgent fringes right now. Tracklist: Foodman – ‘Moyashi Kids’ Aleksi Perälä – ‘UK74R1827130’ Le Dom – ‘Blossom’ Slick Shoota – ‘Hyperflexx’ DJ Looney Tune – ‘Beatbox’ (Acieed Remix) Mr. Tounu – ‘Internet’s Dream’ DJ Smokie – ‘The Dream Continues’ dBridge – ‘dB vs 45 King’ Satanicpornocultshop – ‘Kinzoku Bat’ (Tone Ra Remix) DJ Rashad – ‘Juketasy’ Hardsequencer – ‘From The Ear To The Brain’ Microwave Prince – ‘Solar Eclipse’ Aaron Spectre – ‘Say More Fire’ DJ Chap – ‘Brujeria’ LOFT – ‘That Hyde Trakk’ Phrenetic System – ‘Wayfarer’ Zymotic – ‘Time To Get Busy’ Final Exposure – ‘Vortex’ DJ Marco Balley – ‘Scorpia’ Kelvin T – ‘Exclaim’ Stas – ‘Nuki-Nuki’ Gabber Modus Operandi – ‘Kon’ Tour dates: August 16 – Loopy, Hangzhou August 17 – ZhaoDai, Beijing August 23 – Final, Taipei Read next: CTM Festival 2019 – Dance music is not in crisis, it's more hopeful than ever The post FACT mix 723: Gabber Modus Operandi appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..  |
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Posted: 15 Aug 2019 04:37 AM PDT
A mind-expanding new release from new Shackleton-led collective ahead of Berlin Atonal performance.
Stalwart electronic producer Shackleton has formed a new group called Tunes of Negation. Ahead of their performance at this year's Berlin Atonal festival, they have announced a new double LP, Reach The Endless Sea. The release is named after the eponymous poem by thirteenth-century mystic Jalalu'l-Din Rumi, which Cosmo Rhythmatic explain "is a description of what Shackleton himself hopes to achieve with the music”, to "aid transmutation and enter into the light". They further describe it as "a meditation on the non-finitude of life and spirit, and the limits of perception in dealing with it." Towards this, the "double-cantos continuum" of opening track 'The World Is A Stage'/'Reach The Endless Sea', "deals with time, or rather its illusory, treacherous nature, as well as spiritually investigating ideas of immortality, memory, and grief." This iteration of the seemingly to-be fluid group, which QU Junktions characterizes as "an open-ended musical project revolving around Shackleton and a fluid cast of musicians", features Takumi Motokawa on keys, percussion, and gongs, Raphael Meinhart on mallets and percussion, and haunting guest vocals by Heather Leigh. Reach The Endless Sea arrives on October 17 and is available for preorder here. Check out the cover art and tracklist below.  Tracklist: 01. 'The World Is A Stage / Reach The Endless Sea' 02. 'Tundra Erotic' 03. 'Nowhere Ending Sky' 04. 'Rückschlag / Rising, then Resonant' 05. 'The Time Has Come' Read next: Berlin Atonal 2018 highlighted the changing face of the techno capital The post Shackleton debuts new ensemble Tunes of Negation with double LP appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..  |
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Posted: 15 Aug 2019 04:33 AM PDT
“Forged by the spirit of club music cultures”.
rRoxymore will release her debut album on Don’t Be Afraid next month. Face To Phase follows a string of EPs for the label, and came out of her “annual creative hibernation practice”. According to Don’t Be Afraid, the result is a stripped-back eight tracks of “rumbling minimalist dub, sparse polymetric drums, boldy unpredictable melodic narratives and subtleties which hover out-of-reach or disappear into vapour”. The album sees the Berlin DJ and producer using her own archive of field recordings as well as exploring beatless music on opener ‘Home Is Where The Music Is’ (inspired by Planningtorock) alongside clubbier tracks like ‘Passages’, inspired by UK breakbeat. Face To Phase is released on September 27 on vinyl and digital formats – pre-order it at Bandcamp. rRoxymore will also make her live debut in collaboration with a percussionist at this year’s Berlin Atonal on September 1. Revisit rRoxymore’s FACT mix here and watch her recent episode of Against The Clock below.  Tracklist: 01. ‘Home Is Where The Music Is’ 02. ‘Passages’ 03. ‘Forward Flamingo’ 04. ‘Energy Points’ 05. ‘Someone Else’s Memory’ 06. ‘Hectadrums’ 07. ‘PPS21’ 08. ‘What’s The Plan’ Read next: Deep Inside – August 2019's must-hear house and techno The post rRoxymore to release debut album, <em>Face To Phase</em>, on Don’t Be Afraid appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..  |
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