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Hey Friends! Here we are with our next Urbsounds Label Night. Join us on the 25th of November in A4 in Bratislava. Facebook event. You will see live performances by
This Dublin-born artist has already established himself as part of the techno underground with critically acclaimed LPs and EPs on labels like Voltax, 47 and Instruments of Discipline, and standout sets at meccas like Berghain. His distinctive sound comes from over a decade of releases spanning multiple genres and tempos. A resolutely non-conformist approach to his productions has earned him a reputation as a true trailblazer in the realm of techno. He does it all from rhythmic noise to brutal and bleak, and now takes the next step with the launch of his label. Swarm Intelligence is the sound of an unknown techno future made brilliantly real.
https://www.youtube.com/c/HATE/search?query=swarm%20intelligence
As noahstas I transform my artistic ideas into sound structures since 2014, started as a sonic offshoot of my visual art practices, then became a self-contained entity. Built from the dynamics between repression and breakout, control and loss of control, lots of feedback, analog synths and pulastions, slowly decaying tape loops and dark spatial atmosphere. Genre wise “melodic, narrative noise” somewhere between power electronics, rhythmic noise, drone, musique concrète and post-industrial. First few recordings came out on my own now ceased label, CYST records, the latest album “Black Bile” came out this year on EXILES on cassette and digital.
https://noahstas.bandcamp.com/album/black-bile-2
orqan is an abstract music project from West Liguria, Italy formed in 2016. Their sound is in between noise, techno, drone and dark ambient. Every performance, studio or live, often (but not always) utilizes techniques of improvisation and different gear: electric and acoustic instruments, microphones, drum machines and samples are filtered and processed in a constantly changing stream of sound.
Often performing as a duo, sometimes as a trio or in collaboration with other projects, they released a lot of different material through various labels like Urbsounds (SK), Noise Bombing (Indonesia), Ho.Gravi.Malattie (IT), Musica Orizzontale (IT), Spettro Rec (IT), EK4T3 (IT), Washing Machine Tapes (USA) and more. Their live appearances are really rare.
Based in between London and Bratislava, Kordik’s music making spans across three domains: electronic music, free improvisations and field recordings. Over the years, he’s been involved in several projects, including the hardware noise duo Jamka and his solo and collaboration ventures, which span free improv and field recordings (check out his [Sy][ria] release on LOM, for instance). Together with Edward Lucas he co-runs Earshots label: earshots.bandcamp.com His music has been released on labels like Superpang, Weltschmerzen, LOM, Sub Rosa, Takuroku, Baba Vanga, Confront Recordings, Scatter Archive, Urbsounds Collective and Earshots Recordings. https://danielkordik.bandcamp.com/
Hlukár is an evil twin brother of Peter Kerekes. Hlukar enjoys digging up a lot of filth, shit, sadness, and misery of our meaningless lives and throwing it back in our faces to relive it again in audible form. Come to see his live performance.
Abstract ultra microsounds and discrete rhythm textures sonic puzzle that’s the live act Urbanfailure. Rhythmic noise or lo-fi techno thrash is the best description of the sound coming from his hardware. Cold and hypnotizing disco that will suck you in. Urbanfailure is a member of the Slovakian Urbsounds Collective and Vermin party crew.
Flyer by Vladimira Pcolova.
Limited edition of our Urbsounds abrasive electronics T-Shirt with logo design by Vladimira Pcolova, available in dark gray and white.
The T-shirt logo is inspired by Urbsounds Label Night 221125 flyer art. Screen printed on high-quality cotton.
Hey Friends! Here we go! Gabber/Speed Core/Hard Core/Acid/Noise
Sofia Nøt from the project IAmNøt is a DJ and a producer from Bratislava/Slovakia, who just released her debut album “Changes”.
The album stems from the sounds of electronic dance music of the 90s and describes Sofia’s battle with gender identity. The music video for the track “Changes” won a prize at an international festival in Košice and participated in a prestigious ‘London Music Video Festival. In this video, Sofia kills her “old self” with an axe.
Since 2019 IAmNøt has posted her singles online. Many are also accompanied by story-driven music videos from director Simon Seriš. The music style comprises many genres, including breakbeat, techno, and synth-wave.
In the past three years, Sofia played DJ’s sets filled with breakbeats and 4/4 rhythms across the Czech Republic and Slovakia. You could see her, for example, at the Brutal Assault festival this summer.
Sofia’s debut album “Changes” was released on 9th September and is now available on all major digital platforms and a 12” vinyl record from labels Urbsounds and Haluzeum Produkt. The LP can be ordered directly on the Urbsounds or digitally by Bandcamp.
We are releasing our new album Changes by I Am Not on vinyl and download. Join us at release party.
All tracks were written, produced & recorded by Sofia NØT
except ‘Estrogen’: written by Sofia NØT & Pkrek and
‘2020’ contains a guitar by Jakub Spiszak
Mixed & mastered at Pulp studio by Jakub Hríbik
Front photography by Wera
Back photography by Simon Seriš
Design by Bamba
Special thanks to Matúš Hufnagel
Published by Haluzeum Produkt & Urbsounds [ / ]
2022
All tracks were written, produced & recorded by Sofia NØT
except ‘Estrogen’: written by Sofia NØT & Pkrek and
‘2020’ contains a guitar by Jakub Spiszak
Mixed & mastered at Pulp studio by Jakub Hríbik
Front photography by Wera
Back photography by Simon Seriš
Design by Bamba
Special thanks to Matúš Hufnagel
Published by Haluzeum Produkt & Urbsounds [ / ]
2022
Find more about the release here.
You will receive a 180g black vinyl LP limited to 200 pieces and a download code for the digital version of the album.
Released 9th of September 2022.
Urbsounds Unpolished fidelity releases on 20th of August, the release party is happening at same day in Bratislava`s a4. Join us! FB event.
Find more about the release here.
You will receive a vinyl LP limited to 100 pieces (marbled green or black by your choice) and a download code for the digital version of the album.
Released 20th of August 2022.
The Bratislava DIY collective celebrates its twentieth anniversary with new, unheard music on vinyl. The world has changed a lot since the beginning of the millennium. However, Urbsounds still go for noisy and dirty experimental electronics, from which you can feel the spirit of abandoned industrial spaces and punk squats. They commemorate their 20th anniversary with ten tracks created especially for the Unpolished fidelity compilation. It’s an abstract, raw, aggressive statement, attempting to tame their energy on record. It’s music that takes no prisoners. Urbsounds have never forgotten their punk past, carrying this as the main line throughout their twenty years.
The DIY approach to making and releasing music and organizing parties remained. Synths and tone generators replaced punk guitars. It is a spontaneous, immediate piece built on interaction with hardware. Capturing the moment of jamming on sound modules, effects, and other boxes is more important than composition and studio procedures. It’s music that will never be popular. It’s music for the faithful, for the community.
Urbsounds have been maintaining it for twenty years, but they are open to new people – both listeners and creators. Urbsounds also released foreign musicians, but on LP Unpolished Fidelity, you will find their hardcore, only Slovak music.
Tracks are by the founders of the collective – Urbanfailure and RBNX. Ex-Jamka Daniel Kordík and Monika Šubrtová are today respected soloists known internationally. Here we find samples of their current sound, i.e., modular worlds and dystopian, slow techno. It’s not just noise here. On Unpolished Fidelity, you can hear IDM (NDS), hypnotic techno (Makkatu), deep psychedelic dives (Vŕtačky po desáté hodine), industrial (Dead Janitor), and tekno (Maraki). Music never sounds the same, and you can always find something new in it. It’s music that must be listened to loud, on noisy equipment.
Adam Matej, a generation younger creator of electronic music performing as DJ GÄP, took care of the Unpolished Fidelity master.
Boris Vitázek, a renowned new media artist, designed the cover art and design.
Unpolished Fidelity releases on LP (marbled green limited to 100pcs and black limited to 100pcs.) and digital on August 20, 2022. The release party will be on the same day in Bratislava’s A4.
Find more about the release here.
You will receive a vinyl LP limited to 100 pieces (marbled green or black by your choice) and a download code for the digital version of the album.
Released 20th of August 2022.
Surfin’ Bazooka is a Prague (Czechia) based duo surfing in avant-garde waters of free jazz, free improvisation, noise, kraut electronics, and industrial. Its live shows are a dynamic flow of energy, sonic experiments, and semi-impro feelings. Both musicians are active in many bands and projects. Surfin’ Bazooka is their chamber of fun (and power).
Retribution Angels were recorded at Vidoule bunker, Prague, Spring 202I
recording, mixing, editing, and mastering by Willhelm Grasslich
The live collab with The Owl was recorded and edited by The Owl, mixed and mastered by Willhelm Grasslich
Willhelm Grasslich – noises, percussions, voice, samples & visuals
Stepan Hurnik – sax
& Krystof Borovka – logistics and help
Catalogue number URB061
Urbanfailure will join Italian Valerio Marras (S A R R A M) and will play live variations of tracks from his recent release Recurring Errors and new tracks too in Bratislava/T3 on the 3rd of May. Join us.
Hradby Samoty – Bratislava intermezzo. 1st night curated by Urbsounds. Join us!
