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WL//WH Premiere: LAB PERSONNEL - "Contraband" [Bella Ursa Recordings]

The final track, "Contraband", WL//WH is pleased to premiere, is murky high-energy claustrophobic jam cast in tinny cymbal-triggered, heavy pounding, rugged body-shaking kick-driven grooves, ominous droning circular low-ends, fluttering angsty jagged acidic strains, and a light shivering layer of heady synth strings, to bounce and release in a magnetic mind-bending dancefloor loop.

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Letherique's Bella Ursa Recordings presents "Marked For Disassembly" EP from Lab Personnel.

Hailing from Croatia, Lab Personnel is a musical collaboration turned collective and label between many like-minded artists such as Goran Lautar (aka Neon Lies), Jasmin Mahmić (aka Le Chocolat Noir, Fiume & more), Luka Kurjan (aka Man of Cloth), Marijan Katić, Nikola Kos (aka Ikonal) and Saša Rajković (aka Zarkoff, part of Sumerian Fleet, part of Neugrau & more). Over the years, they would occasionally meet for and record lengthy sessions of improvisational music. 'Marked for Disassembly' is their latest output. This time, deep within the skeletal remains of an abandoned chemical processing plant, eight of their members captured the disquieting essence of a world suspended between haunting melodies and forgotten industry. Immersed in an atmosphere of palpable musical anxiety, their machines oozed up a sonic alchemy of experimental EBM where strange syncopated drums meet with eerie acid lines and gooey textures.

"Marked for Disassembly" is set to be released on Mar 20th across all digital platforms, accompanied by a beautiful UV printed cassette.

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EP Title: Marked For Dissasembly

Label: Bella Ursa Recordings

Artists: Lab Personnel

Format: Cassette & Digital

Masters: mixed & mastered by Zarkoff @ Sensorium

Artwork: Analog Collage by Bapt Man

Release Date: March 20, 2024

Purchase: https://bellaursa.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-dissasembly

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Lab Personnel:

BC: labpersonnel.bandcamp.com

SC: @labpersonnel

Bella Ursa Recordings :

BC: www.bellaursa.bandcamp.com

FB: www.facebook.com/bella.ursa.recordings

IG: www.instagram.com/bellaursa.rec

SC: @bellaursa

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"Marked for Disassembly" is set to be released on Mar 20th across all digital platforms, accompanied by a beautiful UV printed cassette.

More info at WL//WH blog:

WL//WH Premiere: AUTUMNS "Have You Ever Held a Snake" [Idlestates]

Scotland, UK-based DIY label Idlestates is back, after a brief hiatus, to strike the most sharp-edged dancefloors, unveiling a tantalizing 13-track Various Artists compilation, titled "The Semiconscious System II VA", that delves deep into the avant-garde realms of EBM and Industrial electronic music.

Northern Ireland's Off-kilter Body Music experimentalist Christian T., a.k.a. Autumns, blends, with a minimalistic and straightforward hardware-led production approach, an electrifying crossover of Dub, Techno, Electro, New Beat, Post-punk, Industrial and No Wave to scratch the boundaries of EBM realms, braced with raw Punk energy.

Distinctive of the Irish artist's cold, minimal, hypnotic, and whip-cracked delivery, “Have You Ever Held a Snake” triggers a snappy barrage of punchy kicks, stark pounding snares, obsessive crispy claps, cracking percussive fills and a relentless syncopated squelching bassline, to compel fear and thrills along with minimal bestial growls, whilst warm, disruptive, emotional brass blows screech and tear through a thick intoxication of dance-compelling darkness.

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Album Title: The Semiconscious System II VA

Label: Idlestates Recordings

Artists: Various Artists

Format: Cassette & Digital

Catalogue: ISR005

Masters: Aden Melvin (Ludgate Squatter / Dreadful Activist)

Artwork: SIN OF THE FATHER

Release Date: March 29th. 2024

Purchase: idlestatesrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/th…em-ii-va

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Tracklist

1. Autumns - Have You Ever Held a Snake

2. Meshes ft BB Deng - Satisfy or Terrify

3. Anti Yo - Rey De Las Caricias

4. Abby Knives - The Valley Of Dry Bones

5. Yansyet - Tell Me

6. Swærm - Bury Me

7. Extensive Infarction - Killer Look

8. Sevrd Wings - Blinded By Horrific Visions

9. EYES GONE - Which of These Corpses Deserve Mercy?

10. Ludgate Squatter - Parasites

11. Panorama Lineal - Le Afgan

12. Luct Melod - Ademption

13. Kirsten - Sigil Mastery

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AUTUMNS:

SC: @autumns

FB: https://www.facebook.com/autumns.dss.official

BC: https://autumnsdss.bandcamp.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/autumns.dss/

IDLESTATES Recordings:

SC: @idlestates

FB: www.facebook.com/IdlestatesRecordings

BC: idlestatesrecordings.bandcamp.com/music

IG: www.instagram.com/ethan_idlestatesrecordings

Check for more on the WL//WH Blog: https://www.whitelight-whiteheat.com/wl-wh-premiere-autumns-have-you-ever-held-a-snake-idlestates-recordings/

WL//WH Premiere: FORMA - "Imaginario" [Of Dolls and Murder]

Paraguayan producer spins a rushing high-impact slab of mind-melting compulsive energy, propelled by restless crispy snare rolls' whiplash and a call-and-response of squelchy basslines with buzzing clouds looping overhead, for an escapist rise and fall of dancing hypnosis at its finest.

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Of dolls and murder presents [ODM019] Fragmentos (Forma\Alld33333)

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Buenos Aires-based Of Dolls and Murder label is thrilled to present Fragmentos, a six-track split EP by Forma (Paraguay) and Alld33333 (Argentina) reflecting the diverse and innovative spirit of the Electro and Techno scenes in the region.

Artist: Forma (@djforma777) \ Alld3333

Album: Fragmentos

Label: Of dolls and murder (@ofdollsandmurder)

Format: Digital Split EP

Catalogue: [ODM019]

Design: KONSARO

Mastering: Demian Visgarra

Release Date: 02-16-2024

Link:

https:/ ofdollsandmurder.bandcamp.com/album/odm019-fragmentos-for ma-alld33333

WL//WH Premiere: PAYTA "Pleasure Manoeuvre" [Bricolage]

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"Pleasure Manoeuvre" molds an analogue-fueled lilting, warm and immersive head space, lit by a looping wavering of obsessive mellow wispy melodies, icy piercing fascinations, muted rolling percussions, and subtly clapping echoes, to rouse attention-grabbing frequencies gaining focus through curiosity.

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Glasgow-based Bricolage imprint's first release of 2024 sees a new addition to the label in the form of Payta and her Bricolage album debut, "Samsara".

Payta (@user-52989591) is a multi-disciplinary creative, based in the UK. Adept in both the audio and visual side of the arts and performing live at events across the UK,

Payta's new album sees her take that warm analogue feel from her live sets and channel it into a stunning release full of slowly evolving hypnotic soundscapes.

Side A of the cassette is a collection of fleeting, electronica and IDM influenced sketches. Ephemeral bursts of melody and cascading rhythms combining to create a colourful and vivid mosaic of sounds.

Side B consists of two longer tracks that allow time for a sense of depth but keep that hazy kaleidoscopic feel while allowing for a more textural flow and blossoming ambient palettes to emerge.

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ARTIST: Payta (@user-52989591)

LABEL: Bricolage ( @bricolage-g5 )

TITLE: Samsara

CATALOGUE: bc082

FORMAT: Cassette & Digital

ARTWORK: Payta

MASTER: J Gorecki

RELEASE DATE: February 23, 2024

PURCHASE: @ bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/samsara-bc082

WL//WH PREMIERE: Fifth Person (@ilyss @jordanquim @voyager_solar_sytem) - "Whales" [Bella Ursa] (@bellaursa)

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"Hope and Mind It" tells the story of three young artists (Voyager Solar System, ILYSS, and Quim) lost in the mesmerizing embrace of late-night jam sessions. Reverberating with the glow of the nascent sunrays, they wholeheartedly crafted these 6 pieces of ethereal melancholia and cosmic tranquillity.

Through their collective bliss, they've woven an auditory tapestry that reads like a love letter to early Boards of Canada and Autechre, where simple elements intertwine with unexpected intricacies and soul-stirring melodies, proudly expanding further Bella Ursa's sonic universe.

The EP is set to be released on Feb 7th across all digital platforms, along with a beautiful UV-printed cassette.

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"Whales" is an evocative underwater fantasy that blends softly droning, glowing and enveloping emotive synth pads with cicada-like hisses, aquatic FXs, light whale whistles, slow metronomic lashing beats, and bass heart pulses, to manifest a vigilant stillness, where the listener is surrounded by other life forms, albeit mysterious and not human.

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Links:

soundcloud.com/bellaursa/sets

@ilyss @jordanquim @voyager_solar_sytem

Artists IG:

www.instagram.com/ilyss_10va/

www.instagram.com/jordanquim/

www.instagram.com/voyager_solar_system/

Bella Ursa Label socials

BC: bellaursa.bandcamp.com/

FB: www.facebook.com/bella.ursa.recordings

IG: www.instagram.com/bellaursa.rec/

Fifth Person – "Hope & Mind" EP [BUR 015] I Cassette & Digital | Released date: Feb 7th 2024 | Bella Ursa Recordings

Purchase at: https://bellaursa.bandcamp.com/album/hope-mind-it

WL//WH Premiere: CHROME CORPS "Body Attestation" [Next Wave Acid Punx DEUX - Secret Cuts // Eskimo Recs]

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One of the compilations of 2023 "Curses' Next Wave Acid Punx DEUX" saw the Berlin-based Musician and DJ explore the darker side of club music, bringing together 49 tracks that joined the dots between early Industrial pioneers, EBM legends, and Post-punk bands with some of the most exciting artists around today.

But it was not over, Curses still kept something special from his clubland's gothic vaults, and here is the encore "Next Wave Acid Punx DEUX - Secret Cuts", with 11 bonus tracks that all deserve their own moment in the strobe light, featuring the likes of Ghost Cop, Paresse, Nuovo Testamento, You Man, plus a new Curses track and Redux version, making Secret Cuts a worthy companion piece.

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WL//WH is pleased to welcome Seattle's dystopic industrialist act Chrome Corps, who ceaselessly explore ever-evolving high-energy Electro-Techno and EBM sonic realms, this time peppered with old school Hip-Hop elements, powered by an impactful combination of relentless whipping drum programming along with rumbling crackling bassline syncopations and mercurial rolls of crispy and tinny hitting percussions, jolted by a swirling array of shimmering and noisy synth riffs, over urgently frenetic vocals, assaulted by a whirlwind of off-kilter back-up aggressions, making for an absolute compulsive dance burner.

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Artist: Chrome Corps (@michael-flynch)

Title: "Body Attestation"

LP Title: Curses (@cursesforever) presents "Next Wave Acid Punx DEUX - Secret Cuts"

Label: Eskimo Recordings (@eskimorecordings)

Cat #: 541416667419D

Release date: February 07, 2024

Format: Digital

Buy link: https://cursesforever.bandcamp.com/album/next-wave-acid-punx-deux-secret-cuts

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CHROME CORPS:

- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chromecorpsebm/

- Soundcloud: @michael-flynch

- Bandcamp: https://chromecorps.bandcamp.com/

CURSES

- Soundcloud: @cursesforever

- Bandcamp: cursesforever.bandcamp.com/

- Instagram: www.instagram.com/cursesforever

ESKIMO RECORDINGS

- Website: www.eskimorecordings.be

- Soundcloud: @eskimorecordings

- Bandcamp: eskimorecordings.bandcamp.com/

- Instagram: |www.instagram.com/eskimorecordings

Purchase link: https://cursesforever.bandcamp.com/album/next-wave-acid-punx-deux-secret-cuts

For more info check WL//WH Blog: https://www.whitelight-whiteheat.com/p94onm-lrn/

WL//WH Premiere: OFELIA ORTODOXA - "Secret knights ft Ferdinand Carclash" [DYSTATIK]

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The Columbian DJ and producer Ofelia Ortodoxa (@ofeliaortodoxa) returns to the Greek DIY label DYSTATIK (@dystatik), run by Athenian DJ/producer dry_feel (@dry_feel), this time for his debut cassette album on the label!

Ofelia is one of the most expressive and interesting producers from Columbia who makes Electronic music varying from Electro to Ambient. On his album "Basics For Sadness", rescued tracks and ideas from old cassette recordings and new collaborations with other artists, namely Valanaïs (@val-rie-hendrich) & Ferdinand Cärclash (@ferdinand-carclash), offering us a powerful EP with Minimal Synth and Dark Wave aesthetic using for all of them, a certain nostalgic fee.

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WL//WH is glad to premiere the desolate, ominous, and spectral atmospheric synth-laden "Secret Knights" featuring fellow Bogotà's synth musician Fernando Carranza aka Ferdinand Cärclash, drowned in a barren wasteland of the soul, where numb 'Secret Nights' are spent wanting to feel, but a heavy droning sequence of bouncy bass throbs, relentless icy bright rippling obsessive synth loops and mechanical blank stacked marching beats surround cold, baritone spoken words with an endless spiral of angsty frequencies, whilst a distant blurry layer of haunting whirring disturbances ignites paranoia and impending doom.

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ARTIST: Ofelia Ortodoxa

LABEL: Dystatik

TITLE: Basics For Sadness

FORMAT: Cassette & Digital

ARTWORK: Dry_Feel

MASTER: Faunes (aka Filmmaker)

RELEASE DATE: January 29, 2024

PURCHASE: https://dystatik.bandcamp.com/album/ofelia-ortodoxa-basics-for-sadness

More info on WL//WH blog: https://www.whitelight-whiteheat.com/wl-wh-premiere-ofelia-ortodoxa-secret-knights-ft-ferdinand-carclash-dystatik/

Greek DIY label DYSTATIK (@dystatik), run by Athenian DJ/producer dry_feel (@dry_feel), welcomes on board a Darkwave duo from Thessaloniki, Greece founded by tristixia and sofia spyridonidou, named Kama Muta. On Kama Muta's debut album on Dystatik, the band introduces us 8 +1 bonus (cassette & digital) tracks, fluctuating from Synth Pop to Darkwave and from Minimal Synth to Synth Punk sounds, when the same time, the lyrics unfolding an allegorical story within a dystopian setting. An infinite buzz in a boundless echo. 8 times that the voices burned.

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"A diver stares at a fire victim

forcing him to sink...

then burning together"

WL//WH is pleased to premiere "Δύτης / Diver", an off-kilter dystopian allegory, introduced by sad ceremonial glowing keyboard swells, unfolds over the resounding rhythms of tight crashing drum beats, and tense buzzing bassline pulses, surrounded by alarming glaring synth vortexes, to coalesce in an obsessive dramatic backdrop for ominous spoken word vocals, rising, albeit briefly, in terror as an attempt to save another tragically fails for both.

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ARTIST: Kama Muta (@tristixia)

LABEL: Dystatik

TITLE LP: ΟΙ ΦΩΝΕΣ ΚΑΗΚΑΝ / Voices got burned

FORMAT: Cassette & Digital

ARTWORK: Dry_Feel

MIX/MASTER: Savas Kaisaritis

RELEASE DATE: January 13, 2024

PURCHASE: https://dystatik.bandcamp.com/album/kama-muta

More info on WL//WH blog: https://www.whitelight-whiteheat.com/p94onm-lhd/

WL//WH Premiere: ANN GARCIA - "Perseguido (Mverto Futura Remix)"

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The acclaimed Mexican Techno DJ, producer and @rote_mx founder, Ann Garcia is making her debut on the label with a mighty release titled ‘Paranoia’. The EP includes two original cuts and features on the remix duties a super trio of Latino virtuosos: Mverto Futura, Diaz Tech, and Veltrán.

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Guatemala City-based producer Javier Celis a.k.a Mverto Futura (@muertofutura) takes "Perseguido" on high energy, vibrant, and eclectic, equally dark and crispy, Indie Dance territories, marching through heavy pounding beats and sharp knocking percussion hits, topped by desolate swirling string atmospherics, to trigger a syncopated hypnotic floor of undulating bass line drives overcast in a piercing drone frequency, whilst distant esoteric chants open a swaying and glitching dimension where arcade laser effects scatter and blast, with over-zealous obsessive tendencies, leaving the dancers awake and weary after being “Chased” through a heady strobing maze.

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Track: "Perseguido (Mverto Futura Remix)"

EP: "Paranoia" Label: Kyma Komplex ( @kymakomplex )

Format: Digital

Release date: December 22, 2023

Buy: https://kymakomplex.bandcamp.com/album/paranoia

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ANN GARCIA soundcloud.com/anngarciamusic https://www.instagram.com/anngarciadj/

MVERTO FUTURA

soundcloud.com/muertofutura https://www.instagram.com/mvertofutura/

Buy Link https://kymakomplex.bandcamp.com/album/paranoia

Fresh from delivering one of the most distinctive and imaginative Shoegaze albums of the year, the last March debut "Dreamers in Dark Cities" via Shelflife Records, the Melbourne / Naarm, Australia-based five-peace Oceans, currently on a New Zealand tour, have already started jamming and composing new tunes for an intriguing follow-up in the new year, whose first foretaste, titled “Laura”, written by the New Zealand singer/songwriter Mayzie, the band was kind enough to premiere on WL//WH, and we’re super excited to share it with you.

Oceans' upcoming single, "Laura", is due out independently on December 12th via the major digital platforms, while the band's sophomore album is scheduled to be released sometime in mid-2014.

Oceans links:

- Bandcamp: https://oceansmusicaus.bandcamp.com/

- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/artist/6eVkSPL8DcL8PJ104vAKfk

- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oceansmusic.aus/

Mayzie links:

- Soundcloud: @mayzieiscool

- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/track/1HyuDvcyYpJ5OsiXrzN4Ql?si=c3ea305854a64c2a&nd=1&dlsi=a67046e8228f4545

-Instagram: @mayzieiscool

More info on WL//WH blog: https://www.whitelight-whiteheat.com/wl-wh-premiere-oceans-long-for-laura/