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$25.00
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RELEASE DATE: 10/3/2025
In Kasimyn's own words, the phrase Bunyi Bunyi Tumbal signifies a "Synthetic Feeling for Anonymous Sacrifice," encompassing the emotions born out of a deep dive into the Indonesian war archives. These archives include a trove of photographs documenting the era of Dutch rule, captured through the lens of the colonizers themselves. It is from this point of departure that the project Hulubalang was born. Hulubalang's gaze is drawn to the peripheral figures populating these historical records. These secondary characters, devoid of individual significance, bear no names, receive no recognition, and serve as props in the broader narrative of history. Simultaneously, they become indispensable instruments in acquiring "lessons learned" from the perspectives of both the victors and the vanquished. Within this framework, the notion of Tumbal, the non-belligerent "sacrifice," assumes a weight surpassing its translation. Tumbal neither acts as a victim nor martyrs itself for its cause. It hauntingly reminds listeners of the systemic curse perpetually engendering disillusionment. Bunyi Bunyi Tumbal is a personal act of catharsis stemming from a long lineage of anger. It stands as a tribute to a village whose ritualistic dance, one night, was disrupted by external forces, causing the tune to shatter and leaving the dance caught in a space between innocence and pain. Featuring SaintMary.
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DBL 131LP
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$12.00
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RELEASE DATE: 10/3/2025
Rathauz is a cybernetic media ritual from Veneto's paranoid hinterlands -- a clandestine A‑zienda founded by masked brothers, mythologizing techno as direct action. Ciccio Bomba Cannoniere is a gateway drug, a gateway into the cybernetic multimedia cult of Rathauz. And while a physical release might run counter to the insanely futuristic drive of the Rathauz, it's probably the album of the year so buckle up. For the uninitiated the A side might play out like merely the best goddam side of actually fun techno you've heard in 2020s. Rollicking acidic galompers. The most techno can get in the bin these days but this swinging evil continuum championed by Acidic Male/Giant Swan/Missterspoon is more than right. Rathauz add internet dial up noises, reggaeton shuffle, distorted screams and frayed EBM arps into this heady heady mix, showing they're about twice as interesting as the top 10 techno on Bandcamp already. Then side B gets rolling with boom baps and distorted guitars in a kinda frat-trap circle pit. This is the sound online Rathauz disciples know and love; electro-punk-trap-pop twisted genius. Their scifi vision and demented humor reminds listeners most closely of the beloved Kinlaw & Franco Franco if Franco had spent more time living in Milanese squats. Vinyl with printed sleeve.
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$25.00
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RELEASE DATE: 10/3/2025
Cheb Terro vs DJ Die Soon features Cheb Terro's posthumous vocals on Die Soon's beats; a work that was finished one day before Terro's tragic passing. Starting somewhere in the last quarter of 2020, having approached Daisuke Imamura aka DJ Die Soon for a release, and just heard about Cheb Terro's work with his Toxic Club, Drowned By Locals made the hook up that would result in a match made in the Underplanet, as Terro would describe it. Hailing from the city of Sousse in Tunisia, the site of the worst of several Jihadist attacks in recent years, Cheb Terro's writings and delivery embody the violence stemming from the frustration shared by Tunisia's new generation; and reflect sadness, rebellion and an obsession with death.
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DBL 014CD
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$14.50
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RELEASE DATE: 10/3/2025
The album artwork reproduces the strands woven through the album's emotional core. The hazy image has the soft, pliant edges of a memory. You're delivered to a dappled glade in the Legend of Zelda game that you played as a child, a glowing 16-bit respite from danger. And danger is present - just as darkness circles the sun-kissed lakeside, threatening noises rattle at the periphery of even the most vulnerable, blissed-out tracks. Machines gurgle with hydraulic glee, swords ring out as they are unsheathed, and indistinct voices mutter as they stomp just past your bedroom door. Balconi's use of tension is masterful -- glowing chords ripple outwards, and technicolor harmonies shiver before drifting leftwards to an unsettling discordance. Opening track "Rideau Perle" is a defining statement. Its wrought melancholy and driving arrangement drop you off at an entirely different location from where you started. Deft percussion, such as on "Dame De Pique," drags you along by the scruff off the neck for a hyperreal Bildungsroman. When a gruff narrator calls for the layers of glistening and grinding noise to drop out, just a pearlescent melody remains. It's a deep breath within a deep breath.
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$28.00
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RELEASE DATE: 8/8/2025
DJ Die Soon is the apocalyptic alter-ego Daisuke Imamura, whose performances of masked malice have been a fixture in the Berlin underground for the past decade. His latest record My Brothel The Wind takes inspiration from Sun Ra at his most grotesque, conjuring a distorted phantasmagoria with an eclectic crew of compatriots like Rully Shabara, Sara Persico, and longtime collaborator Kiki Hitomi. Film director Hiroo Tanaka's visual contributions in the album art, poster, and music video complete the album's narrative, telling a story not of villainy but of phantom caprice in a dying world. My Brothel The Wind shows DJ Die Soon as an alchemist of distortion, transmuting the club-forward beats of his 2020 debut Kappa Slap and the seething horrorscapes of DIEMAJIN, his 2022 collaboration with Tokyo vocalist MA. Imamura's obsession with noise stems from his upbringing in Tokyo, where he grew up hearing the deafening roar of trains every day. While most would content themselves with avoiding loudness, DJ Die Soon seeks to unpack its visceral potential. His subterranean productions form a monstrous gestalt with the eclectic contributions of his network of co-conspirators. "Unfinished" and "Directions" are pulsating chimeras that highlight animalistic vocalizations from Hitomi and Shabara; Italian MC Franco Franco's verses snake underneath the noisy onslaught. The tectonic textures of "Dandelion Crackers" are courtesy of multi-instrumentalist Laure Boer's handmade stone synth. Sara Persico's mangled vocables hang as fleshy reminders of human fragility on "SAQ4IME;" in the Hiroo Tanaka-directed music video, the track's sonic uncanniness is made cinematic, with an ambient dread that references Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1964 psychological thriller Woman in the Dunes. While Sun Ra's intergalactic Moog reached for the stars, DJ Die Soon plunges into the depths of hell.
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Ardor or Entropy is Nzʉmbe's first album in nine years, following 2015's Titubeo. During this period, philosopher and artist Miguel Prado's sonic output has included synthesizing a sonic Gernika with his band HARRGA alongside Dali de Saint Paul, and crafting a hallucinatory sci-fi mythology for Lucrecia Dalt's latest album, ¡Ay! Rewiring the conventions of chamber electronics and postmodern songwriting, here is presented a Spanish song cycle on love and cosmological redshift. The distant echo of Tristan‐and‐Iseult's smoking gun where lovemaking becomes an enactment of entropy, a transformation between the dynamic and the static, the human and the fetish, illustrating the inevitable decline into chaos and stillness. A beached singing voice (beautifully processed by Rashad Becker) against electro-acoustic backdrops ranging from the caustic, viscous to the bonecrushingly dense worldbuilding shared by HR Giger, Ballard, and Pynchon. Transcendental and psychotic vistas that boldly examine human fragility and the surrounding abyss of godlessness.
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