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KAGAMI Smile

‘KAGAMI Smile is the project of Ryan Hill originally from a midwestern industrial city, and now resides in a futuristic sprawl of Shenzhen, China. His work under this guise affirm and strong influences from shoegaze and minimal techno. Using a parsed down sound pallets and cinematic compositions; he is able to conjure all sorts of arresting and emotional storylines.

Releases out on

Tekres, aurawire, Dream Catalogue, House of Leg, Forgot Imprint, Sores, Sounds+Matter, Fallen Metropolis, and many more.

Listen/Buy Melting_Heart_Data here.

Babak Ahteshamipour

Babak Ahteshamipour is a multidisciplinary artist based in Athens, Greece. His practice is based on the collision of the virtual vs actual, aimed at correlating various topics that are not directly connected at first glance from cyberspace to ecology and politics to identity exploring them via MMORPGs / video games, social media and online while integrating themes of co-existence and simultaneity.

He has exhibited and performed at Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), New Art City (online), The Wrong (online), Sub Rosa space (Athens, Greece), arebyte (London, U.K.), Biquini Wax ESP (Mexico City, Mexico), Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago, Illinois), Milan Machinima Festival (Milan, Italy) and elsewhere. He has released music on the independent cassette label Industrial Coast and his music has been played on radio stations such as Noods Radio (Bristol, U.K.), Radio Raheem (Milan, Italy) and Radio alHara.

Listen/Buy Mind Flaying Flavored Flails here.

Norfik

Norfik is a project by Jeff Gill a prolific Chicago based producer and musician. Tracing a line from new age and Midwestern soul, through to the hardcore continuum and beyond; Norfik mixes styles to create a sound entirely his own.

Norfik has releases on TAR, Satellite Era, Dome of Doom, Kalibr+, Low Key Recs, and Nophi Recordings.

Listen/Buy Realization here.

Sentry

Sentry is a music project by producer and musician Jonathan George Fox. Sentry productions are exuberant, crafty, and deftly composed. Through his command of machines he molds audio into whatever material one can imagine, from sand to rubber and back again. Shifting perspectives, tilting the odds, transforming dread to funk.

On Perfect Blue Bubbles musicality marries electronic hardware jams through a warped prism. That is to say you are in for a fun trippy adventure full of twists and turns, beautiful passages, and clunky industrial funk.

Jonathan has produced under aliases Aches and Foundling he plays in bands Scum Bastard and Power Therapy. Sentry has releases out on Proto Sites, Flight Coda, Seagrave, and Jollies.

Listen/Buy Perfect Blue Bubbles here.

Women of the Pore

WOMEN OF THE PORE,

NEW BRUNSWICK BASED BUNKER JAZZER

This clandestine group of musicians, have produced a great amount of work in a short amount of time. Combining the heft industrial music, the lift off of free jazz, crankiness of power electronics, add in some pulsing bass, a sense of isolation, and some serious sound design; you begin to understand where these artists are coming from…The underground. This subterranean troop of troublemakers have a vision and know how to deliver it, leaving it up to you, the listener to put the pieces together.

Releases on Nevermind Tapes, Magic Mother, Noisy Forecast, Patient Records, Arachnidiscs, and Orb Tapes.

Listen/Buy Hot Town – Rip Up the Streets… here.

Kritzkom

KRITZKOM IS THE SOLO PROJECT OF MARINE DROUAN,

A FRENCH BORN MUSICIAN LIVING IN BERLIN.

She produces and plays live electronic music with an assortment of machines interacting with one another. Her career as musician started in 2002 in France where she studied graphic design. In 2008 she decided to move to Berlin to be more focused on her music.

She worked the last ten years on several projects with releases on different labels like Seagrave, Where To Now? Records, Hylé Tapes… She compose regularly soundtracks for videos and perform for art performances (Kunsthalle Wien, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin…).

Listen/Buy Fuzziness here.

Abaunz

ABAUNZ IS THE WORK OF ONE XAVIER UCIN.

An enigma based out of the Iberian Peninsula situated in the rugged terrain of the Basque mountains.

This multi-instrumentalist cast a long dark shadow across a predawn landscape. Conjuring cinematic vignettes cut with funky rhythms, gaseous guitar textures, synth stabs, and strained soulful vocals. Filthy raw constructions, that are a thrill to listen to.

We are proud to bring you Abaunz fantastic debut release. A sound all his own, and a bar set high by a real talent.

This is a force to keep your eyes on.

Listen/Buy Ilunpean Arnas Hotsa Entzuten here.

African Ghost Valley

African Ghost Valley are a Switzerland based duo,

formed by Childe Grangier and Gabriel Ghebrezghi,

creating dub-noise bass laden soundscapes, with aplomb.These hardware electronic improvisations carve out a boundless space that is both haunting in vastness, yet a welcoming immersive universe, held within each composition.

These two artist clearly know their gear and anticipate how the other will react; creating moving passages, that evoke a wide breathe of feeling, and a confidence to continually experiment and evolve. It’s a pleasure to experience the thick atmosphere this duo set forth.

Releases on Natural Sciences, Jungle Gym, Hylé Tapes, Forwind, EHRH

Listen/Buy AAM here.

Listen/Buy Iberville here.

MOS FET & Eustress

Photo by Cameron Gulley

MOS FET & EUSTRESS, ART TWO, LONG TIME FRIENDS

WHO RESIDE IN INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

There is an undeniable working bond, heard on each track they create; an ability to pivot and feed one another strengths, hint at a collaboration going back many more years, than the duo have actually produced together.

These merchants of mutant midwestern mutations, cook up vibes emotive and pastural, pulling at heartstrings, then slamming doors, swallowing the key, burning down the club, with stapler to the head madness, at once about to fall off the rails

before being expertly reeled back in. These two always ensure that the listener is taken on an interesting ride through the unique lens, these talented auteurs envisioned.

MOS FET and Eustress (as Street Urchin) have both released solo material on NEO and Absolute Trax

Listen/Buy Hidden in the Night Lp here.

Andrew Haines

Photo by Ae2

ANDREW HAINES HAILES

FROM THE CLOCAEMOG FOREST

IN NORTHERN WALES.

Situated among the hills, his productions channel the local, and ancient Ordovices’, druidic essences, through rhythmic manipulations, weaving natural, shamanistic rituals with industrial mechanistic precision, and wild techno paganism. Radar made of reverb, conjuring, abandoned, invisible, and forgotten practices into focus. These monolithic gestures, remind us all, that customs of the past remain within our being, everywhere we have been, and everywhere we go, we are the continuation.

Andrew also records under Midnight Circuitry, and with Ae2 Multimedia. He creates visual art and Djs.

Past release on Kimochi, Lost Elements Netlabel, Sleep FUSE, and Haunted Port

Listen/Buy Hidden in the Night Lp here.

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