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Urbanfailure plays live at non-mainstream festival Luhovany Vincent 2021.
New record by Bartek. From Bratislava with bang. KIDS FRIENDLY MACHINE MUSIC
All music by Bartek
Mastered by RBNX
Cover art and design Lucia Simkova
The cassette was co-released and manufactured by nomadskydiaries-skyburial.bandcamp.com
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New release by Bartek – Cpal Nanuq on cassette. Find more about the release here.
You will receive a professionally recorded and printed audio cassette, limited to 25 pieces, and a download code for the digital version of the album.
Releases 8th of May 2021.
When listening to Daniel Kordik and Milos Krmicek’s ep ‘Selas’, one feels the joy of discovering a new sonic palette.
Kordik (Jamka, Earshots Recordings, Next Festival) and Krmicek (Gottlieb, Milosko siesty, Nasladle Susienky) have known each other since their teen years. Their modular synth communications sound like a short excursion through electronic music history; from the pioneers of the 1960’s, through the British industrial music landscape of the 1980’s, and onto the masters of 90’s IDM.
The ep ‘Selas’ was recorded during the first wave of the pandemic, but it doesn’t sound depressing or apocalyptic. Kordik and Krmicek sent each other their recorded parts but refrained from overworking the music. Their contributions were recorded in one take with no additional overdubs or edits. These are the moments of music as they happened … and won’t happen again.
All music created by Daniel Kordik and Milos Krmicek
Mastering by RBNX
Cover art Jan Skalican
Selas EP was digitally released on 12th of April 2021.
Dead Janitor presents his new album Pendulum after the steadily produced Medusa LP in 2019.
In Pendulum Dead Janitor uses an arsenal of pixelated breakbeats, stuttering samples, and soundscapes to create an adventurous form of polyrhythmic electronica.
Your ears will be pleased by complex IDM experiences that reveal hidden patterns and rhythmic undercurrents over repeated listenings.
The Pendulum releases on the 19th of March 2021. Preorder your copy now.
All tracks composed, performed, and produced by Dead Janitor
Mixed by Dead Janitor
Mastered by Fausto Mercier
Artwork by Dead Janitor
New release by Dead Janitor – Pendulum on cassette. Find more about the release here.
You will receive a professionally recorded and printed audio cassette, limited to 50 pieces, and a download code for the digital version of the album.
Releases 19th of March 2021.
the upcoming album „Ost,“ to be launched in late Spring 2021. Vinyl edition will be co-released by Aesthetic Death (UK), Urbsounds (Slovakia), Grom&Lord records (Switzerland), Véva records (Czechia) and Debila records (Slovenia)
“Ost is third full-length UGFC calling
a deep emotional spin of Willhelm Grasslich’s heart at last
a reflection, litany, and the myth
a struggle, salute, and surrender
Ost is mother, cradle, and the grave
Ost is a promise
or just a bleak vision
This sadness makes you feel
that East is the Best
and always will be”
Ost is to be the third album of UGFC and will represent the most emotional sound palette in the history of this project…and probably the darkest one
hüzün horns revive the concept of deep existential sadness in the cathartic permeation with Kon Ichikawa’s old war movies This time you will float on heavy drones to reach the edge of the deepest state of spiritual and volitional collapse. This sadness makes you feel that East is the best and always will be!
is drone/industrial/noise project based on surreal imaginary, “eastern” visions and apocalyptical manifests of unquiet sonic artist Willhelm Grasslich. Avantgarde and propaganda fascinations and the topics of war, power relations, religions, ideologies, painful historical legacies etc. shape the palette of its inspiration and articulation. Dedicated to Kon Ichikawa
Sáloš, Jan Kruml, Obstík/Usnu?, Tosper, Karolina Válová, Marek Juřica, Wajt, NBDY, Janele z Liků
Yoon Yong-Gyu
Kon Ichikawa
Nikolai Kryukov
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen
London Air Defence Area organisation
Ivo Balaďa
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
and to all eastern mothers who lost their children
Recorded in Willhelm’s Eastern studio
Kettle drums recorded by Ondřej Ježek/Jamor studio
Drones of “Mother Lied” recorded at Underdog’s venue, Prague
Field recordings were taken in the Old Venetian Fortress of Korfu
Mastered by Ralzeil_de_Vires
Album art by Tereza Žižková and Willhelm Grasslich
The inlay card picture is taken from the xylograph “The Combat” by Otto Matoušek (1890-1977)
New release by Uncle Grasha’s Flying Circus – Ost on black vinyl. Find more about the release here.
You will receive a black vinyl LP, limited to 250 pieces, and a download code for the digital version of the album.
Releases 31th of May 2021.
are three projects of non-conventional noise hailing from Italy, joining forces for the first time in this Transitions to Absence 3-way split tape.
Transitions to Absence its a one way trip to the nothingness: five different transitions, from the Aztecan myths told by Ipomea, to the internal process of facing a loss described by E.M., filled with chemistry references or actual musical transitions provided by orqan. Five episodes about this topic creating altogether a transition itself. The sonic material it’s various but somehow cohesive, with a hybrid approach between digital and analogic harsh noise, sometimes improvised otherwise composed.
focuses on an abrasive mix of power electronics involving heavy synthesizer work fused with abused contact mics sounds. The overall mixture results in a heavy mass of grief pointing to express the ultimate cognition of losing a loved one.
tracks are built around three heavy-manipulated impro-sessions. The guitar-driven Soundcheck, the hidden conversations in Weak acid part III or the blasting noise edit of #lunga are good examples of their sound, based on instruments processed with a cascade of effects to create a unique sound palette.
(θεός βρῶμα – food of Gods) shows the more digital side of the album, recombining various sound sources from synthesis to soundscape records, creating this dynamic but melodic piece composed by Ipomea, the mysterious noise project focused on giving voice to plants.
Releases 28th of December 2020 on tape and digital.
are three projects of non-conventional noise hailing from Italy, joining forces for the first time in this Transitions to Absence 3-way split tape.
You will receive a cassette with a red body and transparent red jewel case limited to 24 pieces, and code for the digital version of the album.
Releases 28th on December 2020.
The new album Existential Dread Simulator by Venta Protesix will be released on the 30th of November. Enjoy the abstract digital mayhem.
Cover art by Castell Lanko.
Video by Fra Zedde.
is the London based, Slovakian electronica producer who is also half of the Jamka projects with Daniel Kordik. This EP marks her debut solo outing, offering another facet to her work beyond the mechanoid chimeras of techno, industrial muscularity, and polyvalent modular synthesis found within Jamka’s lauded works.
An extension of a commission for Slovak Radio, OMNIA sports three tracks of slipstream techno with a polished veneer of mid-tempo sequencing that slide through recombinant variations on the themes. The moderate pace allows for these pieces of to breathe with an effortless sway to the melody on “/.//” that updates the cold perfection of Conrad Schnitzler’s “Ballet Mechanique.” Hints of Coil’s moon musik lurk in the elegantly produced “//./” Subtrova teases out one arpeggiated texture after another in the rather majestic finale “///.”. Fans of the rhythmic offerings from Janushoved and Berhgain-era Vatican Shadow would be well served with OMNIA.
Music by Monika Subrtova
Mastered by Gabriel Séverin at Laboratoire Central, Brussels
Artwork by Vladimira Pcolova
Releases October 30, 2020
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The video track Incompatibl3 is for Urbanfailure, a trip to new territories and a link to the distant past via track Compatible from his second album urban2NDfailure, from the year y2k.
Is the introduction of the new element enhancement or initiation of disintegration?
Chaos is the order and complexity of ever-changing variables creates our world an reality we are unable to saddle and tame.
Incompatible is also a product of the creative collaboration of two fools who enjoy not only walking on paved sidewalks.
Vj Wosa is a Bratislava Vj and Dj. He uses the Unreal Engine in his work.
As a Vj, he performs at the Urbsounds label events and the parties of the free techno sound system Lazy Bastards.
Video Vj Wosa
Music Urbanfailure
Photogrammetry Azad Balabanian
Cyber geisha model Oscar Creativo
Costumes František Radačovský
Mastering Julien Stazma
