#suite 309

[furryartchive]

Breakcore Burnout (2024), Sophiaaaahjkl;8901. Cassette released under Suite 309; cover illustrated by Jammy bunbunbewwii & logo done by Autumn Dullahan (via)

[sophia-hjkl]

NEW hyphyskazerbox album: BPD SUPERSTAR ULTRA comes out on SEPTEMBER 26TH. Available on Cassette/Compact Disc/Digital on Suite 309

“an anxious piece of digital masochism, as funny as it is unnerving” - hyphyskazerbox herself

"it is legit my favorite record this year. more upbeat, stressful, whimsical, raging, and cringeworthy than ever before. all at the same time." - me, right now

(Olivia's not on tumblr but i know some of y'all love her music so i'm posting this without permission for her.)

[fire-toolz]

pre-order the cassette/DL from suite 309 here.

[sophia-hjkl]

THE PHYSICALS ARE FINALLY HEEEERREEE!!!!!! BREAKCORE BURNOUT cassette tapes and CD preorders available through SUITE 309 Illustration by @bunbunbewwii COMING OUT OCTOBER 29th🐾🎃🥁🐶🥁⚛️💕

[dustedmagazine]

Tiger Village — Grid Work (Suite 309)

Photo by Cari Thornton

As Tiger Village, Tim Thornton creates a joyfully anarchic process-based form of percussion centered electronic bedlam. On his latest album he imposes some restrictions on himself. Limited to 4/4 time and an average of 175bpm, Thornton still manages to subvert the straitjacket of tempo across its 16 short tracks of breakcore. He winds up his singular mechanisms and lets them go careening through his matrices. Layers of percussion, snippets of melody and distorted samples ricochet about, the elements colliding, fracturing, and regrouping. Rather than a dry, academic exercise, Grid Work is playful, full of humor and sly nods at formative influences.

“Fine Silk”, for instance, has the aquatic feel of Two Lone Swordsmen setting deep, dub inflected pans under stuttering beats that dance around like hyperactive robots. On “Amen Brak” and “Keys Ring” Thornton twiddles knobs and pushes buttons over classic late 1990s drum ‘n’ bass as if your old flip phone ringtone was repeating during a Luke Vibert set. As the album progresses you hear the whirling cogs of Thornton’s imagine translating into rhythm and sound. There are echoes of µ-ziq’s off-kilter beats and melodic sensibility, footwork influenced subversions of DAF’s electro-punk, bits of Aphex Twin’s fractal abstractions. Tiger Village weaves harsh computer noise and throwaway 8-bit game riffs into his tracks and makes them work in accessible ways. The high-pitched squeaks and squelches that threaten to send “Mono Rail” lurching off course play against clear lines of flattened drums. The dissonance between industrious rhythms and chaotic racket wittily conjures the daily commute. On “Good Boys” heavily processed chatter amidst the clamor of percussion effects calls into the question the intentions of the titular lads.

Tiger Village’s records are all rather wonderfully demented and inventive fun and Grid Work is as ingenious as its predecessors. Thornton says this is his least personal record but it bears all his hallmarks and feels like only he could have made it. Within the formal matrices, his omnivorous love of sound and rhythm, his gleeful genre juxtapositions and his enthusiasm for controlled chaos are the things that stay with you.

Andrew Forell

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The Tape Label Report, May 2023

May’s roundup of five tape labels to get obsessed with right now.

FEATURED IN A BANDCAMP DAILY WRITEUP ABOUT ONE OF MY FAVORITE LABELS, SUITE 309

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Music by Keith Rankin www.keithkawaii.com

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This is actually happening. I am really doing this. [Still in shock!]