Founded in 1994, Ultra-red are an audio activist group producing radio broadcasts, street actions, performances, recordings, installations and public actions. Exploring acoustic space as enunciative of social relations, the group's work radicalizes the conventions of electro-acoustic and ambient music. In practice and membership, Ultra-red occupy the borders between art and political organizing. Ultra-red have developed projects around a variety of urban ambiences including needle exchange (Soundtrax, 1996), public sex (Second Nature, 1999), public housing (Structural Adjustments, 2000), spaces of resistance to global capital (Value System, work in progress), labor (Social Factory, work in progress) and education (School of Echoes, work in progress).
"La Economía Nueva" is composed entirely from source recordings made at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, on the US / Mexico border, on 10th December 2000 – United Nations International Human Rights Day. Sounds were taken from demonstrations held that day in opposition to "Operation Gatekeeper." This massive militarization of the border between California, USA and Baja California, Mexico, has had the practical effect of regulating the flow of cheap labor while capital and jobs freely cross the border thanks to official "free trade" policies such as NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement).
Rough-and-tumble folk guitars co-mingle with stark synth melodies on the LA duo's third LP, bridging the gap between Americana and ambient. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 22, 2023
Euphoric club instrumentals from the duo of Brooklyn's HMXGOD and San Francisco's Kush Arora, blending dancehall, drill, kuduro, and more. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 22, 2023
Esteemed London producer with over three decades' worth of experience taps Talib Kweli, Jah Digga, and others for an urgent, concise EP. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 22, 2023
Epic power metal storytelling from the California outfit, detailing alternate dimensions and supernatural encounters in the NWOBHM style. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 22, 2023
The first LP from nightlife cornerstone Melissa Maristuen, aka Doc Sleep, turns away from the dancefloor and toward the personal. Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 21, 2023