Jana Rush ~ Painful Enlightenment

“Chicago’s Jana Rush returns with “Painful Enlightenment”, an intense emotional rollercoaster of disfigured samples, quivering electronics and vagrant percussion. As implied by the title, the album is a document of her own personal growth through struggles with depression and suicidal thoughts, a glimpse into a dark period of her life amid learning the art of

Ripatti ~ Fun is Not a Straight Line

“Since the beginning, Ripatti has tried to find a balance between his experimental urges and drive to create more universal music. As his more recent albums have traveled into darker, more extreme realms, he has craved something different for balance. By drawing a crooked line between DJ Premier, DJ Screw and DJ Rashad, Sasu Ripatti

V/A ~ Meili Xueshan I&II

Compiled by the japanese blog Hi-Hi-Whoopee (RIP), this selection from 2014 unconsciously helped to define the internet ghetto of the time. Free download ^^ g.

Yyu ~ Karaoke

“Insanely honored to be able to bring you the newest from Yyu. Karaoke packs so much for one to consider and reflect upon in just thirteen compact, but sonically expansive tracks. Every second of this tape is full of new rhythms and sounds—it does not stand still. Melancholy keys blend into hopped up vocal samples

Ahnnu ~ Pattern Play

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Kukangendai ~ Jimen (2016) + Palm (2019)

© Kukangendai “The music that listeners will encounter on this album stands apart from Kukangendai’s past offerings. The six compositions comprising Palm have come a long way from the genetically mutated Japanese alt-rock of the band’s earliest days; from the ambitious excursions embarked upon by the second album, which sought to translate the rhythmical structures

Galen Tipton ~ Fake Meat

“..emerging from the smallest pivotal moments of self growth, fake meat is focused overstimulation, an attempt to control constant sound bombardment while making peace with the overwhelming nature of being a living, experiencing being in an impossible to fully grasp world. sometimes a soothing massage for buzzing nerves and other times an electric baptism of lava

Tuamie ~ Happy Holidays

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YPY ~ Zurhyrethm ズリレズム

“Solo debut release from YPY, known more widely as Koshiro Hino, Osaka-based artist, leader of acclaimed Japanese groups Goat and Bonanzas. He recently realized his first large-ensemble piece, “Virginal Variations”, in Tokyo. Springing up from the Osaka underground club music scene in 2006, Hino is a rhythm master, intimately examining and extending pulses and grooves

Jenna Sutela ~ Nimiia Vibié

“Aspiring to connect with a world beyond our consciousness and our planet, nimiia vibié sounds the interactions between a neural network, audio recordings of early Martian language, and microscopic footage of extremophilic space bacteria. Here, the computer is a medium, channeling messages from entities that usually cannot speak. However, it is also an alien of