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Dhil-un Taht Shajarat Al-zaqum by Msylma

Msylma

Dhil-un Taht Shajarat Al-zaqum
Halcyon Veil

“Mecca, Saudi Arabia’s Msylma follows his standout vocal on Zuli’s acclaimed ‘Terminal’ album - The Wire magazine’s #2 AOTY, 2018 - with a compelling coming-of-age tale, sung in beautiful classical Arabic and meshed with a stark palette of electronics and percussion by himself, Zuli, 1127 and Karim El Ghazoly for Rabit’s Halcyon Veil. RIYL Fatima Al Qadiri, Scott Walker, Omar Souleyman​...  Profoundly original, but steeped in millennia of both Pre-Islamic (pagan) and Islamic theology and Arabic tradition, Dhil-un Taht Shajarat Al-Zaqum is a unique album no matter which way it’s approached. With a dramatic sense of purpose at the album’s core, its 11 songs propose a work of literary fiction that draws upon a rich knowledge of pre-Islamic and Quranic poetry.  Myslma spells out a subversive take on existential angst, charting a transition from a romanticised childhood, thru the rising self-awareness of adolescence, to problems with parents and the sardonic cynicism of adulthood, before looping back to childhood, and resolving with a burned-out, sore conclusion. Naturally, anyone who doesn’t speak Arabic (or even classical Arabic) will have trouble comprehending the lyrics literally, but with thanks to the impassioned intonation of his vocals, and the connotations of his starkly evocative backdrops, non-Arabic speakers should have no problem grasping the album’s emotional pull. Whether channelling a sort of R&B/soul spirit in the aching delivery and floating chords of opener ‘Inqirad (Rihab-U Dhakir)’, singing from the middle of a weightless grime skirmish in ‘Min Bab AlKamal-i w AlDawam’, then floating on...

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03/08/2019 5060165485079 

 


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03/08/2019 5060165485079 

 


Toe In The Bardo Pond EP by Rabit

Rabit

Toe In The Bardo Pond EP
Halcyon Veil

“Toe In The Bardo Pond’ is Rabit’s remix extension of his Jodorowsky-inspired ‘Life After Death’ album  Peering thru the Halcyon Veil into vast, imaginative, psychedelic dimensions, Rabit further projects the experimental designs of ‘Life After Death’ to suggest and invoke surreal non-places and sites of metaphysical investigation. While it’s not made explicit anywhere, it’s possible to gauge the influence of DMT and its putative effects inside the ‘Toe In The Bardo Pond EP’, who title likely refers as much to the Tibetan Book of the Dead as the US psych band who also borrowed it for their name. Heck, the EP length is even the same as most DMT trips. In this context, rabbit supposes a fractured, fractal trip in 5 stages, emerging with the digitised exhalation and surprisingly lush revelations of ‘Rebirth (Smoked Out)’, and un/furling inward/outward thru the origami fractals of ‘Rebirth II’, the screwed sensuality of ‘Rebirth 33’, and the percussive tumult of ‘Rebirth 4’, to culminate in the serene ambiguity of ‘Rebirth 5 (Voidness)’.”—Boomkat

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11/23/2018 5060165484768 

 


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11/23/2018 5060165484768 

 


God As Daddy The Deranged by Der Kindestod

Der Kindestod

God As Daddy The Deranged
Halcyon Veil

“San Antonio, TX’s Der Kindestod speaks in an arcane, extreme, futuristic language of noise and dance music on a hard-edged debut with Rabit’s Halcyon Veil  An integral associate of House of Kenzo, Der Kindestod delivers an acrid taste of queer US dance culture’s mutant fringes on ‘God As Daddy The Deranged’. Firstly whipping up a bitter tornado of ecstatically colourful noise, booming bass, and reversed rhythms in ‘You Don’t Believe Me’, before roping in LEDEF on vocals for the queasy tumult and emosh prang out of ‘Mortal Coil’, and then, outta nowhere slugging hardcore techno against Diane Di Prima’s spoken word on ‘Numb Flesh’. Killer.”—Boomkat

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11/09/2018 5060165484720 

 


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11/09/2018 5060165484720 

 


Life After Death by Rabit

Rabit

Life After Death
Halcyon Veil

“Rabit presents “Life After Death,” his third full-length album. The album was recorded in home studios in Houston, Texas and Paris, France, and is the culmination of two years’ worth of experiments in various forms of synthesis.  Like last year's “Les Fleurs Du Mal,” the new album marks a further advancement in the development of his own distinct musical language. Realized through genre-free expressions that pull inspiration from Surrealist art to DJ Screw, Enigma, and Japanese Ambient artists like Hiroshi Yoshimura, the album has an exploratory, transcendental core. The project's artwork - a cut up mandala– can be seen as a reflection of the artist's kaleidoscopic approach to this pivotal new album. This is a transformative moment not only for the creator but for the listener as well. The idea that genres have become a noose is clear upon the first listen – Rabit notes “the probing and revisiting of genres in electronic music felt fetishistic and limiting and wasn’t the best way for me to communicate.” Instead, his approach reflects a wider, broader sound field – these aren’t simply tracks, they are sonic worlds of feeling to bathe in. Rabit adds, “Exploring sound is alchemy if you want it to be, but I would be wary to explain these aspects of my work because there’s a raw understated quality to the record that I want to respect. I think the occult term is interesting because I don’t hear this explored in music in ways that I find relevant....

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10/05/2018 5060165484584 

 


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10/05/2018 5060165484584 

 


O Fucc Im On The Wrong Planet by Prison Religion

Prison Religion

O Fucc Im On The Wrong Planet
Halcyon Veil

Bruisingly powerful scream rap noise from Prison Religion on Rabit’s amazing Halcyon Veil.Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Prison Religion are one of the most hardcore, rap-related acts we’ve heard in years. No cock out business, just Philip Best levels of mic-burning bile and vitriol shrieked and expectorated over bludgeoning beats, field recordings and charred electronics.No song outstays it welcome. They all say their piece and get the fuuck on with the next one, from the electroid slosh and harsh holler of ‘Messenger’ to the stark EP highlight of ‘Aliciakeys’ and the speaker-worrying shudders of ‘Ansss1’, to the gabber gallop of ‘Yabbadabbdont’, and a final, cataclysmic descent into hellish strings on ‘Nibiru’.

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09/28/2018 5060165484522 

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09/28/2018 5060165484522 

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Resonance In Exoplanetary Hybridization by Prison Religion

Prison Religion

Resonance In Exoplanetary Hybridization
Halcyon Veil

Prison Religion’s screamo rap remixed by a top team including Swan Meat, Lee Gamble, Geng, Bonaventure, and Rabit for the latter’s Halcyon Veil label.Swan Meat dons metal gauntlets for a severe mauling of ‘Messenger’ battered with wrecking ball drums. Lee Gamble takes a rare step to the darkside with ‘Alicia Keys’, swerving thru fractured, spasmodic and thistly chicanery to a proper hardcore climax. You can trust Rabit to provide the set’s most feral and futuristic remix with a riotously delirious flip of ‘Ansss1’, while Geng tosses off into the void with ‘Yabbadabbadont’, and Bonaventure balances the rabid vocals of ‘Alicia Keys’ with effortlessly rolling techno bass.

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09/28/2018 5060165484515 

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Standout début album of dream-like electronics and avant garde collage that properly introduces Rome-based Montreal artist CECILIA after guesting on Rabit’s Les Fleurs Du Mal album last year. Devastatingly restrained yet ravishing songs in haunting English, French and Italian vocals, huge recommendation if you're into Yves Tumor, Rabit, Teresa Winter, Portishead, Leila.  Cecilia wrote and produced Adoration, with accompaniment by mutual spirits such as her friend Jasmine Pisapia and the poet activist Griséldis Réal, who help to render a stark yet subtly gilded cross-section of her psyche, which places the listener as dark interpreter to a series of tumultuous inner dialogues - “One is summoned to whisper truth, beauty, tragedy to demon ears.”  Incubated for one and half years between Montreal, Toronto and New York, Adoration reads like intimately diaristic pages recalling an amorphous lucid dream. In that phantasmagoric headspace she meditates on loss and romanticism, using a shifting backdrop of highly visual stimuli to frame her thoughts and bring them to life with an uncannily immersive effect perhaps not felt so strongly since Félicia Atkinson’s Hand In Hand LP.  Electronic bass and percussion are shadowed with traces of synth and guitar improvisations, but the one consistent element is the female voice. Sometime detached, glossolalic, and at others uncannily familiar, plaintive, the voice’s presence is integral to the album's quietly absorbing atmosphere, and even if the listener can’t understand their direct meaning, they connote so much more through abstracted inference and ambiguity.  Following her early forays...

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05/04/2018 5060165484041 

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Halcyon Veil present Renick Bell’s long-awaited long-player, the follow up to his 2016 release for Lee Gamble's UIQ imprint.  "The 10 tracks on Wary come from Bell's practice of live coding in the algorave tradition; a distinct technique that involves manipulating a vast library of samples with text-based editing software. The album is an improvisatory gesture that sets him well apart from the DAW preset crowd, and one that equal influence from free jazz, King Tubby, Mark Fell, and Pan Sonic. Still, as the musician points out in a paper he authored in 2014, live coding isn't a genre; it's simply a performing method. To focus on the technique is to lose sight of the huge amount of flex and funk that's contained in these tracks, from the vivid, elastic bass of opener "Root of the Light," to the blissed-out dub pads and FX of "Recognizing Conditioning," or the racecar-fuel lead synth in "Cyclical Forces." These tracks, while constantly intricate, are just as often tuneful and memorable. "Resolute in Shedding" is a perfect example of Bell's disparate musical ingredients cohering into something with enough swagger to tear up a sound system or turn a dancefloor on its head. "Cliff-face Growth" similarly underpins its frantic high-register synth work with a staggering sub-bass kick that immediately pulls the listener into the club. The artwork, a bubbled hive of play buttons, comes courtesy of Jesse Osborne-Lanthier. The overlapping and swarming aspect of the art reflects the disorienting barrage of sounds that Renick...

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03/23/2018 5060165483761 

 


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03/23/2018 5060165483761 

 


Les Fleurs Du Mal by Rabit

Rabit

Les Fleurs Du Mal
Halcyon Veil

Les Fleurs Dul Mal is the absorbingly grotesque sophomore album by pioneering artist, DJ and label owner Eric C. Burton aka Rabit, who, along with regular collaborators such as Chino Amobi (NON) and Elysia Crampton, is in part responsible for defining the contemporary conflux of avant club, folk and noise musics.   On his solo follow-up to Communion [Tri Angle, 2015], Rabit indulges his fascinations with psychedelic themes in an ambitious attempt to locate his sense of self amid increasingly chaotic environments. The result is a personal milestone for the artist; a riveting tableaux of hyper sensual texture, colour and melody forming a densely detailed and layered prism to best peer upon the abyss between reality and our shared hallucinations.  Mantled in reference to Baudelaire’s classic volume of poetry on decadence and eroticism, Rabit presents a metaphorical arena or “spielraum” - described by author Frances S. Connelly as “a vehicle for mediating the ever-collapsing boundaries of the unknown” - opening an im/possible noumenal no-man’s-land where his imagination can express itself unimpeded, without judgement.  In aesthetic and intent, Rabit boldly embraces the vacuum left by the late, great Coil; realising a genre-agnostic consolidation of folk, new age, drone and noise tropes transcended thru acousmatic processing and modular synthesis, in this case fittingly provided by erstwhile Coil member Drew McDowell. In the process he potentially triangulates Les Fleurs Dul Mal with records by fellow Coil fiends, Elysia Crampton’s Demon City and Chino Amobi’s Paradiso, who all essentially project bold,...

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11/03/2017 5060165483488 

 


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11/03/2017 5060165483488 

 


Total Power Exchange by Naked

Naked

Total Power Exchange
Halcyon Veil

Blistering, BDSM-inspired power electronics and transgressive industrial dance from Mykki Blanco-collaborators NAKED, ripping lyrics from Salò over a nailbed of sex sounds and anti-peristaltic convulsions for spine-busting effect. We’d wager even William Bennett or Prurient might be impressed with their efforts here.  The emo, shoegazy tropes of previous NAKED releases are swiped away this time in favour of proper stare-down sonics and eviscerating vocals, coughed up in four tarry black lumps of gristly, hi-pitched noise and ramrod beats designed to leave nobody on the fence.  Taking its title from a masochistic practice where the submissive gives to the dominant partner power and authority over the submissive’s body in exchange for the submissive’s happiness and health - which can also be taken as metaphor for socio-political control - NAKED live up to every letter of that premise, subjecting the listener to a barrage of unpleasantries/ecstasies in the destructive maul of Unleash Me, then drowning them like Yellow Tears in the cistern with the paso-doble flashcore battery of Spit, before sousing ears with incendiary sonics in Disease, and obliterating the senses via tirade of blastbeats and unrepentant squall in Whip.  We promise they aren’t messing about; my ears are seriously ringing right now. Approach with caution/abandon; find your limits.  RIYL Pan Daijing, Croww, Rabit, Whitehouse

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10/13/2017 5060165483389 

 


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10/13/2017 5060165483389 

 


A Goal Is An Image by City

City

A Goal Is An Image
Halcyon Veil

The first album release on Rabit’s Halcyon Veil label comes from Vancouver’s Will Ballantyne aka City; offering a mercurial set of metal experiments with caustic, vaporized trance riffs emulating upward motion and weightless dynamics. Highly recommended if you'e into Lorenzo Senni, Logos, Rabit or Croww...  A Goal is an Image is an elusive yet tangibly bittersweet testament to the Vancouver artist’s hybrid of experimental metal and weightless electronics distilled into 11 naturally tempestuous takes on the digital zeitgeist, ripping away its hi-fi sheen to reveal a reactive ecology of overgrown, semi-organic textures and pranging rhythms wrapped up in chaotic harmony.  Getting right under the skin of his thing, Will Ballantyne has realised a mean contribution to the conversation around peripheral club music and its electronic production, morphing its perimeters between computer game and film soundtrack tropes, soundsystem-testing prangs, and styles foreign to the putative club experience. The effect is simultaneously hyperreal and severed from the daily grind; a simulacra of impossibility animated with physically reactive impact.  Across the album listeners are torn in and out of ‘the box’, perpetually reframing his sound between naturally elegant and digitally unreal environments in a way that resonates with the LP artwork. He establishes this upending uncertainty with the gravelly whorl of field recordings, processed textures and floating, Coil-like harpsichord motifs in Provinces and Your Stream, harnessing a sense of struggle against gravity in the buckshot-riddled mass of Pain/Power and with searing trance riffs nailed into place on End Zone like...

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10/06/2017 5060165483341 

 


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10/06/2017 5060165483341 

 


Bonfires Of Urbanity by House Of Kenzo

House Of Kenzo

Bonfires Of Urbanity
Halcyon Veil

San Antonio, Texas-based House of Kenzo add to the trail of dancefloor destruction on Rabit’s Halcyon Veil with a debut EP of rugged hard club tracks experimenting with a fusion of gabber kicks and heavy metal slashes.  Bonfires of Urbanity showcases three of the collective in fierce fashion, tossing up the controlled rage of Ledef’s blast beat rushes, side-eying vocals and cartoonish sirens in Purity Bynez, and to Death Grips-like effect in Hangar Queen featuring barked vocals by Kelly Mizrahi, with a paranoid, claustrophobic diagnosis of American contemporary culture in the EP’s most impressive part, Tone Pardon’s fractious anti-banger, Melania Carry.

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08/25/2017 5060165483228 

 


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08/25/2017 5060165483228 

 


West Philly’s avant-R&B up + comer Mhysa makes a big impression with fantasii, her first album proper following dispatches with NON and a lauded mixtape alongside chukwumaa as SCRAAATCH for The Fader. Think Klein’s freeform R&B structures riddled with Rabit-like production tics, and you’re in grasping distance of the fractious but idiosyncratically coherent styes inhabited by this highly intriguing addition to the vanguard of new music from the fertile margins of American music and society.  Against a refreshing general lack of broken glass or gunshot samples, the self-described ‘Black queer femme cultural producer, sound designer, womanist + Diva’ animates swirling, impossibly balanced structures with a tearaway imagination, keening from vaulted, pitch-shifting gospel in Special Needs Intro to a multi-dimensional, abstract grime cover of Prince in the course of 11 songs.  The Klein comparisons only end where she tends toward collage, and Mhysa uses original production, but beside that difference, the pair share a unique perception of R&B and church musics as a gateway to other, dreamlike dimensions. From the way she appropriates the ecclesiastic psychedelia of physical church spaces in the reverbstorm of Glory be Black to the rugged ambient inversion of R&B’s usual warmth in the 6minute highlight Bb, or undermining the conventions of club music in the A-grade anti-bangers Strobe and You Not About That Lyfe, she offers a particular example of the contemporary, young, Black and queer experience.  No doubt, Fantasii is a vial addition to the canon of boundary pushing and resetting music...

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07/21/2017 5060165483167 

 


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07/21/2017 5060165483167 

 


Death Is The Goddess by Fawkes

Fawkes

Death Is The Goddess
Halcyon Veil

Halcyon Veil render Fawkes’ solo debut mixtape, Death Is The Goddess in its constituent parts of gothic R&B succour and convulsive digital glitch, following from the Paris-based artist’s appearance on the 20 Years of Planet Mu compilation.  Across its 16 minutes Sarah Foulquiere aka Fawkes upends her home city’s legacy of electro-acoustic innovation into something resembling an anxiety dream riddled with disparate, fractious nods to Enya’s take on Celtic folk music as much as classic Trance vocals and ‘90s trip hop, all woven into a scrolling tableaux of deconstructed club music memes and operatic chamber gestures.  Make no mistake, though; these are songs, rather than collages, following a personal narrative logic from the roiling designs and schizoid vocaloid processing of Synchronising Inner Demon to thru bittersweet harpsichord ripped right out of Portishead’s most avant fantasies in Suicide, before placing her vox sky high over a battlefield of machine gun percussion and recursive digital retches in Blatant Snake, then recalling nastier Arca in Nemesis, and Katie Gately in the strobing chops of La Ghoula.

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06/09/2017 5060165482986 

 


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06/09/2017 5060165482986 

 


London’s avant prism-pusher Dale Cornish debuts for Rabit’s Halcyon Veil imprint with an acute distillation of pointillist rhythms, stark noise and contemporary politics in the barbed bouquet of Cut Sleeve, following a multi-pronged attack on 2016 which saw him issue singles with Where To Now? and The Wormhole, plus a remix of Billie Ray Martin and a guest vocal on Powell’s Sport album.  Stripped to the barest truth of biting drums and his own vocals rent within acres of negative space, when compared with his run of solo aces for Entr’acte and The Wormhole, the six tracks of Cut Sleeve conversely amount to some of the most corporeal works in Cornish’s solo catalogue whilst serving to neatly intersect the Halcyon Veil aesthetic from both mutual and personally developed perspectives.   Dale wears his politics explicitly and suggestively on Cut Sleeve. Starting with the nagging reminder that “in 2016 it is illegal to be gay in approximately 75 nations and regions around the world” delivered in acrid noise and a slurred tone that makes sure the message rings out slowly and uncomfortably, the session presents in reductionist take on UK and US club music in brittle, certain, and uniquely, drily f*nked-up terms, taking on skeletal steppers templates in Cut and chasmic darkness on LW or Vauxhall, before feeding his own, bestial vocals back into the mix with a blend of glossolalic deviance, cryptic poetry and stoic funk in Emperor Ai.

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03/17/2017 5060165482849 

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Good, Bad, Baby, Horny by Ivvvo

Ivvvo

Good, Bad, Baby, Horny
Halcyon Veil

Halcyon Veil deliver the first IVVVO EP since Mark Leckey Made Me Hardcore - his soundtrack for Raf Simons’ SS16 show. RIYL Rabit, Actress, Zomby, Soda Plains, Mark Leckey, Lorenzo Senni  On his thrilling, wide-eyed debut for Rabit’s Halcyon Veil, London-based IVVVO gets deep under the hood of rave music’s emotive mechanics and reasserts his crucial role in the borderland between lonely bedrooms and heaving clubs.   Good, Bad, Baby, Horny is a distressing but necessary distillation of contemporary worries. Largely shy of beats but heavy on symbolic, contorted references to ‘90s and ’00s pop, rave, and video games, as much as the current ecology of effluent news feeds and rampant social anxiety, it plays out like a frazzled AI attempting to parse the confusion of memory thru state of infinitely up-to-the-second hyperreality.   Its four tracks fuse visceral and highly visual sonic cues in synaesthetic rushes that mirror our sense of physicality within the framework of daily digital experience; somehow isolating the motion sick feeling of hurtling toward a shared endgame with life flashing before our eyes, whilst simultaneously remaining static at the centre of a rave and resisting the perceived tempo of reality.   Scaling from the intensely queasy sensuality of the title track’s gasps and deathly synth drop, thru the the sky-kissing guitar licks off Self Rape, to the frozen Eski shoegaze burn of I Fucked It Up and an elusive glimpse of ecstasy in Tongue Kiss Crying, the mood is perpetually high-strung...

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02/24/2017 5060165482832 

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A.T.L.H.F.V.A.M.L.T.H.A.T.U. by Osborne-Lanthier, Jesse

Osborne-Lanthier, Jesse

A.T.L.H.F.V.A.M.L.T.H.A.T.U.
Halcyon Veil

Intensely dynamic, deconstructed club music. RIYL Chino Amobi, v1984, Rabit, M.E.S.H., Kara-Lis Coverdale, Autechre, Arca, TCF...  On his riveting debut for Rabit’s Halcyon Veil, Jesse Osborne-Lanthier hacks club, classical and avant-garde music in a visceral, time-warping car crash of styles perceived from a multitude of angles with unflinchingly candid, cinematic sound design under the urgency of accelerationist tendencies.Wrenched into being just ahead of his rumoured Raster-Noton release and some months after the obsolete technology salvage of C L S M with Grischa Lichtenberger, Osborne-Lanthier’s latest work is p’raps best described as a sui-generis, intemporal laceration of contemporary electronic music, consolidating the memes of noise, grime, avant-classical, computer music in a scrolling, vertiginous simulation of video game sound design violence, racial and cultural tensions, political instability, and the virality of social networks. It’s sensational stuff in the most bruising, breathlessly beat-em-up 1st player style, but executed with a clinical approach that practically sutures as quick as it cuts, as though operated by a squadron of invasive nanobot drones programmed by Burroughs and Shane Carruth to decimate the present and let encrypted future codes bleed thru in the milliseconds of strobing space between. Unfortunately we’re not up to AI speed yet, but, like Autechre, Osborne-Lanthier appears to be attuned to their level of cybernetic computation and emotion, conducting a symphony of pure physics encrypted in cultural and esoteric references between the mechanized slaughter of North Face Killah and the TCF-alike proprioceptive headf**k of Velocity, Bilocation, Pyrokinesis feat. Bataille Solaire, taking in...

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10/21/2016 5060165482559 

 


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Cretan producer Abyss X takes a big step up from her debut, Echoes, with the unreal Mouthed for Rabit’s Halcyon Veil, pursuing her debut’s mythologic provenance into more labyrinthine sound designs and subterranean lamentations.  Her music is riddled with references to her homeland on the Greek island, sourcing from its incredible ancient history - whose mythology has widely permeated popular and modern culture - to make a music which reflects Crete’s strong culture whilst tending to its deeply esoteric, enigmatic roots.  It’s dance music if you want it to be, or, if you prefer, the soundtrack to your hypnagogic reveries; following a silk thread of dreamlike logic from the deliquescent, organic strings and siren calls of Thru Lids Matono Stagona Stagona - which is her nod to the symbolic Master of Animals Pendant - whereas Mouth is an expansive, sloshing piece of swarming voices anchored in whirlpool sonics, and Razor rises up to more stable ground, caging flighty vox in vortices of clapping music, before it really all comes together to dramatic degrees in the weightless avant R&Bass of Blowback, her own vocals pushed front and centre against a the lushest, misty backdrop.

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10/07/2016 5060165482504 

 


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10/07/2016 5060165482504 

 


Driks Ultra Three by N-prolenta

N-prolenta

Driks Ultra Three
Halcyon Veil

North Carolina, USA’s N-Prolenta hits Rabit’s Halcyon Veil with a severe, discombobulating trio of cuts to mark their solo debut proper after appearances on the Non Worldwide Compilation Vol.1 and production for Serpentwithfeet in the past year.  Driks Ultra Three draws upon the claustrophobia of living next to a massive military base, and the boundaries of societal structures, to forge a way or method of expressing the tension and limits experienced by those who fall beyond those parameters.  The slashing string harpies of NeoD make a smart first incision, operating on an electrified highline between Lotic’s warped R&B and Lorenzo Senni’s elusive trance peaks, before Sizz resolves to not resolve a pensive blend of militant drums and cartoonishly giddy chromatic squabble right on the edge of sanity, whereas thingthing feels to flesh out the frequency spectrum with a pensive but slightly lusher, ambiguously positive display of spiralling arpeggios and calving new age chords held under a glassy ceiling.  It’s freaky and damn compelling with it. Exactly what we’d expect from Rabit’s steadily expanding label.

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08/12/2016 5060165482184 

 


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08/12/2016 5060165482184 

 


Outstanding debut of zinging, weightless productions by New Orleans-based Mistress, picked up by Rabit’s Halcyon Veil hot on the heels of that amazing Conspiración Progresso compilation 12” and their excellent Dreadfile mix earlier in 2016.  The six tracks on Hollygrove are articulated with an almost unmistakably American diction, yet draw heavily upon UK grime styles, existing in a double refractive flux of club music dialogue that transcends geography much like Rabit’s own output.  Upfront, they rumble out the shuddering echo chamber drill menace of Lie Dormant, an aching balance between stasis and cocked tension, whilst the dank-but-dainty southern bounce of Hollygrove nails a sort of gaunt 3-step swagger aching for an acapella, and Mjolnir sounds like a Scratchy ’05 riddim sent into orbit.  Flipside, that classic grime sound is twisted back into the twinkling 8-bar dancer, Kanagawa Homicide, and Behemoth veers back to U.S./Latino club sounds, and finally Gatekeeper ascends/descends into heavenly hellish, weightless baroque synth structure.  Fucking deadly 12" this.

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07/08/2016 5060165481774 

 


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Conspiracion Progresso by V/a

V/a

Conspiracion Progresso
Halcyon Veil

Rabit’s Halycon Veil renders a crucial 5-track showcase of up-to-the-minute style and pattern associated with the rhizomic Janus crew; compiled by their mutual brethren, Jim C. Nedd and titled Conspiración Progresso after his Milan-based club night, Progresso. Scoping three debut vinyl appearances and spanning a dizzying breadth of idiosyncratic collage and rhythmic structures, the EP serves to illustrate the boundary morphing DJ aesthetics common to these far-flung comrades, both in their celebrated online mixes and IRL in front of the bass bins. A-side: Bekelé Berhanu follows a compelling 30 minute JANUS003 mix from 2015 with a tense, fractious collage of East African instrumentation, chants and bass detonations heard from an elevated, drone-eyed perspective in W.I.I.A; Copenhagen’s Syg Nok records ring-leader Hvad induces a juking motion sickness with the warp speed tilt and juddering pulse of Bleeding Grey Wall ; and Príncipe’s DJ Nigga Fox ft. Vipra contributes a squashed pressure system of slow, heaving, squeaky kuduro and Italian Progressive in Lento Violento. B-side: Monterrey, MX producer Zutzut holds down dense mix of curdled, Autechrian harmonics and militant, latin drum cadence in the pitching slosh and bounce of Jala; the EP’s most minimal confection comes from Draveng with a writhing, muscle-tightening shuffle called Internal Debate that sounds like an insectoid Baby Ford trapped in a ketamine loop. Collected, Conspiración Progresso represents an imaginative cross-section of the contemporary dancefloor’s lesser-known, but no less than vital aspects: a new generation of club music lovers looking to advance and twist their art...

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Rabit's Halycon Veil label swerves left with a freakish 2nd release coming from the Korean-born, Danish-raised Why Be - a member of DJ Hvad's Syg Nok squad, Janus regular and contributor of Total Freedom's 'Blasting Voices' compilation. Equal measures of grime, bumpy techno and internet-world electronics tot up to a frictional but fluid batch tripping across imagined 'floor-spaces and the stranger black holes between their cracks. 'Heroin Hat' crosses wires between ersatz Afro melodies and sublow techno with the playful dexterity of Physical Therapy whereas the massive blackened mass of 'Whalin (Kyselina OST)' proves an impressive aptitude for beat-less, abstract sound design on a majestic, show-stopping scale.  Back to the 'floor on the B-side, he glances askew at ballroom house from the midst of a gif-like loop vortex with 'Deeq' and its b*tch-slapping, c*nty counterpart 'Late (Laser Ha)' throwing down limb-synched edits for the voguers. Very safe to say: if you're into Physical Therapy, Total Freedom or Rabit - this 12" is a strong look.

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‘Evaporate’ is the first issue from Rabit’s highly promising Halcyon Veil label, and also the exceptional solo debut from 21 year old s.w. Londoner, Myth. Infectiously emotive and nimbly weightless, it rotates seven slick grime and 2-step instrumentals including the instantly recognisable version of his and Rabit’s flip of Ciara’s ‘Backseat Love’. Its seven tracks were salvaged from a series of cheap, dying computers over the last two years and could be considered perfectly symptomatic of where grime is at right now - still succinctly FWD, but steeped in nostalgia for its formative era; which is perhaps understandable as he’s been writing beats since he was 10 after hearing grime on mobile phones at school circa 2000’s. It’s all as sharp cut, raw and moody as anything from Zomby or Visionist, but with a unique, salty streak of emotion running thru its skeletal structures, at its most potent in the majestic ‘Lonely’ or the iridescent 2-step twinkle of ‘Phoenix’, whilst the tensile tendons of ‘Evaporate’, or the Apple-style Funky drums of ‘Seven’ grip the ‘floor properly.

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