Martin Khanja (aka Lord Spike Heart) and Sam Karugu emerge from Nairobi’s flourishing underground metal scene as former members of the bands Lust of a Dying Breed and Seeds of Datura. Together in 2019 they formed Duma (Darkness in Kikuyu) with Sam abandoning bass for production and guitars and Lord Spike Heart providing extreme vocals to the project.

Recorded at Nyege Nyege Studios in Kampala over three months in mid 2019 their self-titled debut album fuses the frenetic euphoria, unrelenting physicality and rebellious attitude of hardcore punk and trash metal with bone-crunching breakcore and raw, nihilist industrial noise through a claustrophobic vortex of visceral screams.

Out on Nyege Nyege.

by All Times Now Nothing.

Dial into the void! Mundanity bends and twists here, courting an entertaining psychosis. Don’t ask why, don’t ask how. There is no why, there is no how. Only noise and synesthesia.

The duo’s debut LP ‘Tears Voyuer’ released in 2020 on wherethetimegoes.

Ai Aso’s immaculately crafted form of minimalist pop music skirts the edges of tensity with the manner and with the skill of a tight rope walker, calmly balancing repeatedly at every step, with a combination of surety and the risk of a slip, a fall, and an unknown uncoiling of events. Aso’s capacity to capture, or inspire, the tension and attention from within the listener and observer are quite pronounced. At Aso’s concert the performance constantly teeters near the brink, a sharpened awareness in the hall emerges from all observing, with the will of that most delicate balance.

On “The Faintest Hint” she brings a meta level to the proceedings, the dream of a singer in a bright sunlit room in the centre of the density of the society, simply and precisely searching for single ideas, single tones, a sense of sensuality and even a dream of a grandeur (rock dream) emerge. A stillness prevails, even a sharp set of instances of dreaming, melancholia, nostalgia… or even saudade. The album was recorded, mixed & mastered by Soichiro Nakamura at Peace Music between 2018-2020. Atsuo and I joined these sessions as producers, and moreso as catalysts, yet also became the skeleton of a band on the album (with the tender touch). The legendary Japanese rock band Boris accompany Aso on two pieces. A faintest hint of sharpness and la tendresse féroce quickly erodes into a fine brief cloud of the purest crystalline dust.

Out on Ideologic Organ.

Originally released over a decade ago and played by the Chemical Brothers as a super disco weapon, Dorothys Fortress soon gained underground cult status, but no sooner than they appeared, they went back to the secret studio in El Santoro, Los Angeles.

There is a rumble in the Alps. The animals are nervous and on the high plateaus, where the meadows are lush and green, some people might feel a cold shiver down their spines. The chamois know: With her second EP Viennese artist Conny Frischauf will deliver a masterpiece. (2018)

Sahel Sounds presents “Music from Saharan WhatsApp.” Every month, we’ll be releasing an EP from a musical group in the Sahel. Every album will be recorded on a cellphone, transmitted over WhatsApp, and uploaded to Bandcamp, where it will live for one month only. Available for pay as you want, 100% of the sales will go directly to the artist or group. After one month, the album will be replaced by another one, until the end of the year.

Eyedress returns with a new album, ‘Let’s Skip To The Wedding’ – a loved up remedy for uncertain times.

Eyedress is a Filipino singer, musician and producer. ‘Let’s Skip To The Wedding’ is the first album he’s created since relocating from Manila to LA in late 2018. A passionate exploration of the themes of love, adjusting to life in a new city, and preparing to welcome a child into this ever changing world.

Due for release 7 August 2020.

This video cassette recording was brought to you by…
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in part with…
The New York Aerial Shot Association™
25 minutes of nocturnal aerial views over the Big Apple, New York.
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Kevin Richard Martin (The Bug/King Midas Sound/ Zonal), launched his own digital label, Intercranial Recordings, with the release of ‘Frequencies for Leaving Earth’. All volumes were composed, mixed and produced during the lockdown period. Kevin spent this surreal, intense time, rebuilding his studio and retreating into these alternate sonic realities.

Vol.4 / Vol.5 will drop via Intercranial Recordings on Bandcamp on August 7th.