2024
'Selling England' is an unphased portrayal of the shit we do to pay the rent. Highlighting themes of disenfranchisement and resilience. His lyrical approach does away with the rapid fire flows of his previous output for intimate spoken word that drifts freely across a dense acoustic loop salvaged from cracked vinyl. Lloydfears continues to push the boundaries of grime, delivering a profoundly engaging and introspective listen.
Music and Lyrics by Lloydfears
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Tam Tam @ Soundrays Studio Berlin
Visuals by Edgar Lugo-Vasquez
2022
Their fervent production engulfs the viewer with an arcane sound palette that alludes to a story of introspection. A sense of paradoxical juxtaposition lies at the base of the EP, which guides the viewer through a tumultuous journey of beauty and discomfort. The whole release is marked by haunting vocals which are paired together with grating percussion to create a cacophonic mixture of emotions
Mastered by Nicola Zolin
Artwork by Alberto Cattani
2021
Entirely written and recorded during the first Corona lockdown, ‘Eye, Iris’ is a sound collage of contradictions: memories of distant raves, walking home along rivers and lakes in the morning, and broken futures. A dirge of time lost, of wasted months and wasted lifetimes, pleading for forgiveness—a paean of joy for this one body, this one life. ‘Eye, Iris’ evokes a world where vision succumbs to sound, where memory and experience melt into one.
Oravin is a sound artist with a background in literature and philosophy, living and working in Vienna. The artistic journey started with literature and audiovisual poetry performances. His poetic practice focused on the oral quality of words, using a limited and repetitive word pool. As part of Babelsprech, an international network of young German language poetry, these performances brought him to the stages of literature houses and festivals, including Tokyo, Marseille, Sarajevo and Chernivtsi.
Mastered by Tom Tommers at YourOhm Studio B
Artwork by Herwig Scherabon
2021
Following his established musical aesthetic based on massive electroacoustic samples and granular synthesis practice, Queimada shaped a project that conceptually draws from the idea of Id and Es, decomposing himself into the musical process. The electroacoustic features and the field recording ones melt together and shatter into a fragmented and brand new sonic architecture. Gigantic structures collapse under the pounding clashes of the kick. Simultaneously, granular particles create a stream of synthetic harmonies, the whole supported by the distant memory of an organized beat sequence. The concept’s duality recreates itself in the ontological aspects of the sonic material used in the EP’s compositional process. It results in a unique structure that alternates harsh deflagrations and eerie events.
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Mastered by Tom Tommers at YourOhm Studio B
Artwork by Nicolas Berger
Graphic by Alberto Cattani
2021
As the original Die Hard project of Rest Now! was created as a deconstruction of the action movie soundtrack’s classical elements, DIE HARD RMXS VOL. 2 represents a further deconstruction, with a series of new characteristics and experimentations, results of the exceptional artistic practices of the artists involved. The project detaches itself from the original soundtrack-based feature to become a stand-alone environment. DIE HARD RMXS VOL 2 features remixes by Queimada, ptwiggs, Emily Glass, Tristan and Lorica (fka Avbvrn).
All the proceeds will be devolved to the #closed4women emergency fund promoted by ActionAid to allow the anti-violence centers to continue working at their best even during this difficult period of coronavirus pandemic.
Mastered by Tom Tommers at YourOhm Studio B
Artwork by Nicolas Berger
Graphic by Alberto Cattani
2021
DIE HARD RMXS VOL.1 is the first of two instalments, presented as a rework of few selected tracks from the original Rest Now! compilation ‘Die Hard (Rest Now! Motion Picture Soundtrack)’ in which new artists from all over the world are involved in a series of unusual and avant-garde reinterpretations, featuring Miedo Total, object blue, ccontrary, estoc and Aho Ssan.
As the original Die Hard project of Rest Now! was created as a deconstruction of the action movie soundtrack’s classical elements, DIE HARD RMXS VOL. 1 represents a further deconstruction, with a series of new characteristics and experimentations, results of the exceptional artistic practices of the artists involved. The project detaches itself from the original soundtrack-based feature to become a stand-alone environment. DIE HARD RMXS VOL 1 features remixes by Miedo Total, object blue, ccontrary, estoc and Aho Ssan.
All the proceeds will be devolved to the #closed4women emergency fund promoted by ActionAid to allow the anti-violence centres to continue working at their best even during this difficult period of coronavirus pandemic.
Mastered by Swan Meat
Artwork by Alberto Cattani
2020
The title refers to the damages and collateral effects linked to the application of information technology in the medical field. In ‘eIATROGENIC’, every track is realized at the first take. The result is research in the immediate relation with machines: discipline and control give birth to fake dichotomies in a co-existence between different plans.
The introductive track ‘Fuck Bureau’ gives a blasting start to the entire product, quantizing the time through a series of double-kick sonic assaults and ending in a fading stance. ‘God Damn Black Metal Head’ is a soundtrack for a primordial age made of mechanical beats and trap remnants, structured in a grid of martial and violent percussions. The disintegrate textures of ‘Lido’ recreate an environment based on dichotomies, in which a dynamic and thriving setting becomes gradually stifling and sidereal in an exhausting succession of panic and exaltation. This background made of oppressive behaviors continues in ‘Rimosso’, though its concatenations of polyrhythms, that chasing each other until the end when the beats collapse in a frozen miasma. ‘Unmet Needs’ results as an intersect between virtual voices and pending rhythms, leading to the frantic finale of ‘Jinn’.
Mixed and mastered by Wesqk Coast
Artwork: Monkey Business, from the series Margins of Excess © 2018 Max Pinckers
2020
migu projects himself through characters, giving them an identity, a voice, a story, as in the complex weave of science-fiction universes. This allows him to express deep emotions that are difficult to share in real life. The feelings are amplified in the characters, but they are part of his questions and his nightmares.
‘The Disappearance of Memories’ represents the artist’s palette of emotions like a painful storm. Through the sizzle of the overdrive, he tries to describe the power one could feel when the body, love and memory disintegrate.
All tracks written and produced by migu
Mastered by Swan Meat
Design by Nicholas Matthew Elstran
2019
"An ecomusical force majeure, an interesting interspecies outcry." - Zenevloed
"Drifting between destructive, ominous waves and sparkling electronics, is this ambient banger of sorts." - Magnetic Magazine
"Chyo is a sort of hallucinatory exploration of the abysses of sound, through experimentation in electronic music that is first of all "philosophical research" and then analys in a musical key." - Rockit
‘Chyo’ is the debut EP for Rest Now! by Tristan, the French multidisciplinary artist Tristan Brundler. Tristan makes music like he sculpts: by shaping voices, empty landscapes, organic forms, melting plastic and vegetals to create spaces and dimensions to walking in.
It goes through stages of recovery, deconstruction, reassembly and fusion of sound materials. Tristan's music meets his sculptural desire: the creation of places, atmospheres and poetry. Swaying between electronic violence and mental sweetness, between ambient, club and neo-trap influences, Tristan tries to move forward in the construction of his psychological projection space.
‘Chyo’ is a poetic area of future inquiries. During the production, Tristan worked with the artists Migu and Whiterose for the vocal parts. Tristan describes ‘Chyo’ as if everything is falling out, and “I do not understand what I’m doing here, what is the sense of my presence in this environment.”
released October 29, 2019
All tracks written and produced by Tristan, except track 2, which was produced by Tristan and Whiterose
Additional Vocals by Migu and Whiterose
Mastered by Swan Meat
Design by Michele Nannini
2019
Recording and sampling are used to recognize and construct patterns from the mass of sonic material and associations present not only in the web’s archives, feeds, and stacks but in memory and personal history.
Archive Poem was originally intended to be sourced entirely from digital fragments and ephemera found on the Internet Archive. During the development, material from a wide range of sources including social media, voice memos, field recordings, and midi composition has been added. At its core, the piece is an attempt to consciously digest the sonic material of the personal digital life.
Midwestern sacred music is built from recordings of Catholic masses and contemporary Catholic hymns found primarily through YouTube. Its structure loosely mimics the form of Catholic liturgy. The piece is meant to act as both a critique of contemporary religious spaces and an attempt to transform the sonic material of these spaces into something genuinely personal and meditative.
Produced, mixed and mastered by Infant
Artwork by Gianluca Lonigro
Distributed by Rest Now!