Marks of Existence [Exist001]

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1.	Drew McDowall - Conceal The Wound 06:05	buy track
2.	Muqata'a - Idari 04:41	buy track
3.	CASKO - The Price You Pay To Be Unattached Flesh 05:00	buy track
4.	Adel Poursamadi & Tegh - Atf 05:57	buy track

about

After the impact of Exist in Ramallah festival back in 2019, and how relationships between the artists got established and the attendees contribution that helped to shape the identity and the vision of the project itself. Exist decided to take the next step and expand the project with a label that is runned between Amman based and festival founder Odai Masri and Amsterdam based and label co-founder Chafik Chennouf with the same ethics that the festival is standing for.

Some of the main principles Exist upholds include resistance to homophobia, and the ongoing colonization of various parts of the world by state actors or multi-national oligarchs. In turn, we think that this colonization leaves no one free, and that it especially targets communities (human and non-human) that are most marginalized by capital and historical racial and ethnic structures.

The first release 'Marks of Existence' is a collection of mind-melds with some of the scene's most continuously exciting and refreshing artists: Drew McDowall, Muqata'a, CASKO, Adel Poursamadi & Tegh.

The Scottish, NYC-based experimental musician, Drew McDowall, has been subverting the formula for many years now, having clocked up storied work with Coil and Psychic TV back in the day. His track 'Conceal the Wound' is a stunning, exquisitely chiselled piece of synth music. It's like waking from a dream, only to return to its febrile clutches.

Ramallah's Muqata'a came through flawless with his cut 'Administrative Detention', a blast of chaotic chopped breaks and lurching neo-beat tape MPC programming. The breakcore influence in combination with referencing crimes against humanity makes the tune an intense headmelter. The ideal soundtrack for unorganized resistance from a firsthand perspective.

‘The Price You Pay To Be Unattached Flesh’ sees CASKO push the hi-tech dirt of his Opal Tapes, Leyla Records and Voidance releases down darker ginnels to claustrophobic, anxiety-raising effect in a collection of brilliantly neon explosions of colour and exuberance floating on a sleazy and slow beat with bags of North-African swagger.

Experimental electronic musicians from Iran have marked their prints on the face of the universal experimental music scene for some time now, though the manner in which their status went from "non-existent" to "present" and from "silent" to "noisy" might somehow seem "unpredictable" to the naked eye. Tegh, known for his work on Opal Tapes joined forces with Adel Poursamadi to come up with a beautifully bittersweet synthetic orchestration in a staggering fashion to close this EP with.

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released April 15, 2022

Label: Exist Records
Title: Marks of Existence
Artist(s): Drew McDowall, Muqata'a, CASKO, Adel Poursamadi & Tegh
Mastered by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven Mastering
Artwork by Marius Houschyar

Tracklist:

A1 Drew McDowall - Conceal the Wound
A2 Muqata'a - Idari
B1 CASKO - The Price You Pay To Be Unattached Flesh
B2 Adel Poursamadi & Tegh - Atf

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Exist Aiming to build bridges between Palestinian sound artists, music curators, musicians, DJs, labels and sound designers from various parts of the world.

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