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CNTRT 007LP
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On its return to the Sam Kerridge's Contort label, Emanuele Porcinai's WSR project renders a dense, gut-wrenching session combining self-built string instruments and field recordings in a sort of shoegazing noise-techno stress test. Chambers was written over the course of the last three years between Manchester, Florence and Berlin, and pursues the themes of structural decay and melancholic ambience from his Stainless debut (CNTRT 005EP, 2015) into a more coruscating, haunting zone of hypnagogic sound design and textural expression. Porcinai's self-built string instruments, guitar and field recordings are processed and layered with additional cello and double bass by Thomas Griffiths in a seamless movement of eight parts cleft over two sides, giving ample room for the sometime techno artist to thoroughly, systematically draw out and exasperate his instrument's character in a way that recalls Colin Stetson "beasting" his sax as much as some sore-as-fuck JK Flesh recording or his label mates, SØS Gunver Ryberg or Sam Kerridge, for that matter. It feels like music purpose built for the transition of seasons and darker, longer nights where there's nothing to do but get your head stuck right in the jaws of a slab like this. Porcinai has collaborated with Rabit and Shapednoise. Special edition detachable cover; Edition of 500.
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CNTRT 006EP
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SØS Gunver Ryberg's performance and production history encompasses contemporary compositions, installation and exhibition works, dance and performance art, commissioned productions, audio walks, and, of course, live music performances. She has received several awards for her music and worked as a composer and sound designer for the 2016 Inside video game developed by Playdead. Aftryk, her debut EP, is an astonishing sonic assault that challenges the listener's state of consciousness with transformative musical experiences of insistent rhythms combined with a meticulous exploration of textures and timbres, framing synthesized sounds and processed field recordings with symphonic forms for a unique expressivity.
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CNTRT 005EP
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Electroacoustic musician WSR is focused on the contrast between acoustic music and synthetic rhythms, and the manipulation of the source via tape and electronic means. Emanuele Porcinai's research and experimentation mainly concerns aural architecture and natural reverberation, and the creative use of these in compositional practice. Following his performance on the main stage at the 2015 Berlin Atonal festival, Porcinai presents his debut for Sam and Hayley Kerridge's Contort label, marking the label's fifth release with four pieces of truly original work that crosses boundaries between industrial, techno, classical, and more. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton. Artwork by Anthony Gerace. Edition of 500.
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CNTRT 003EP
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Following a mighty 2015 drum and bass mixtape from Karl O'Connor, Sam and Hayley Kerridge's Berlin-based event-series-turned-label returns with a killer addendum to its first release, Sam Kerridge's 2015 Always Offended Never Ashamed album. These two tracks are a clarion call-to-arms -- both sides excerpted from a live Kerridge performance for the NTO, Berlin, 2013. Convulsing chunks of distorted, heaving junglist venom on the A-side's brutal "Sonic Instruments of War #01." The flipside explores more abstract terrain thru vicious, atonal outbursts. Highly recommended for those into the Downwards catalogue, HATE, or late Shapednoise.
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