Name: Amaarae Against The Clock - Pistols At Dawn by 180.Fact
Duration: 1 min 57 s
Description: This week's episode of Against The Clock takes us to Accra, Ghana, where New York-born alternative R&B singer, songwriter, producer and engineer Amaarae took on the challenge of making a track in 10 minutes. Only using a DIY recording setup at her home studio, she laid down a beat and vocals to make what she describes as a Solange-inspired track.

Fav part of the record. Loved the entire thing.

Recording of the first hour from M.E.S.H.'s set at FINAL 4th Anniversary.

SoundCloud: @m-e-s-h

PURE Guest.036 M.E.S.H.

Ashland Mines, AKA Total Freedom, AKA Big Gay Idiot DJ, AKA Bobby Beethoven, is one of the best and most influential DJs of the 21st century. Starting out at pioneering parties like Mustache Mondays and Wildness (which he cofounded with Wu Tsang)—and a regular at GHE20G0TH1K—Mines helped to define the style that would become known, however cringe-inducingly, as experimental club or deconstructed club, directly inspiring fellow visionaries like Arca. 

Like some of the best DJs before him, Mines uses the CDJs as an instrument, but that doesn't mean just fancy tricks and looping. Instead, he artfully throws together clashing sounds—effects, samples, monologues, pop and R&B acapellas, and beats that run the gamut from dancehall to kuduro to breaks and techno. He's not afraid of the grotesquerie of human life and movement (just check out the monologue at the beginning of this mix), and he likes to push buttons. Once he put on a party where dancing wasn't allowed. Some of his sets are intentionally anxiety-inducing, evoking horror movies and modern classical composers like Penderecki, while others are bouncy and ebullient, weaving between genres and tempos like an old-school platformer. The best are both.

On Mines's RA Podcast—a milestone 900th in the series—he shows off this inimitable style, sharpened and reinforced over a decade-and-a-half of playing some of the world's best parties, fashion shows, you name it. He's the kind of DJ who creates his own music as he goes along. He makes you hear old tracks—especially pop music and R&B—in a whole new way. Titled "Cursed Piercing," this is a near-hour of controlled chaos that'll confound you at one moment and deeply move you the next.

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/900

RA podcast

RA.900 Bobby Beethoven (FKA Total Freedom)

New York City selector Sausha sounds the alarm with a high-velocity rush of sleaze, sweat and sirens.

https://www.factmag.com/2023/11/20/fact-mix-sausha/

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Fact Mix 935: Sausha (Nov '23)

Dinamarca’s outing for Lost Music Festival 2023 fully delivered the hypnotic and dreamy atmosphere we know and love him for; blending his own melodic, trance-infused productions with cumbia, dembow and reggaeton. Pure dancefloor bliss to get lost in.

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Live from Lost Music Festival: Dinamarca

Composer, producer, guitarist and vocalist ML Buch dazzles us with the latest Off-Kilter submission featuring previously unheard, unreleased music and an insight into the gentle makings of her latest album, Suntub. 

A dive into her sonic world and a glimpse of the songwriting processes, this hour long collage meanders through acapella and acoustic versions of existing tracks, sketches, ideas, loops, sound clips and other raw material. 

Blissful intimate pop-tinged electronic soundscapes; playful, glistening harmonies reverberating together, weaving and dissipating into air. It’s like the prequel to Subtub and sequel to the next album; the audio version of looking through an artist sketchbook. A reflection on where this journey began, where it is now and where, at some point, it may belong. 

Don’t let this one pass you by, it’s gold dust.

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ML Buch is Marie Louise Buch, a Copenhagen-based composer, producer, guitarist and vocalist. Following the EP ‘Fleshy’ in 2017 she released her critically acclaimed debut album ‘Skinned’ on Danish imprint Anyines in 2020. ‘Suntub’ is her second full length release, a double album consisting of 15 tracks released in October 2023 on new label 15 love. 

In her compositional practice ML Buch sketches up her music in an almost architectural way. The raw material is generated through immersion in playing and assembling as a way of triggering random magic. Her live performances, both in solo and group formations, is reflective of her love of combining 7-string electric guitars in open tunings with synthetic instruments and electronic experiments.

Instagram: @mlbuch_
Soundcloud: @mlbuch

OK021 - ML Buch

BRADEN WELLS + STONE 30.1.24

recorded live at kwia 17/01/2024 
@rami-abadir

Hajj - Drag Me Into The Void
TRYCE - Levitate
Pontiac Streator - shenae song
Florian T M Zeisig - iii
Lee Gamble - She’s Not
Burial - Streetlands
猫 シ Corp. & t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 - Dawn over the Metropolis
Tim Hecker - Glissalia
Perila - Transient 
Jan Jelinek - Fragments One
Vladislav Delay - I Saw A Polysexual 
Minor Science - Summer Diary
Radiant Futur - Life Amplifier’s Modulation
Purelink - Blue
Broshuda - Face2
AQ - Sea Bird
nueen - V444V
Kelman Duran - 2666 (Richard Pryor Edit)
XENIA REAPER - OMNNM1
mu tate - frank’s hublots
Space Afrika - Lose You Beau
KMRU - options
Adrew Pekler - Tuanahe
Alien D - Pattern
Roméo Poirier - Statuario (Eli Keszler Remix)
DJ Birdbath - Spec
nueen - I
Lia T - Kester
Corell - Fragility 
Jake Muir - Spindle
Nick Malkin - Approximate Location
Slowfoam - Playfully Rendered
k2dj - interna fiores w/ more eaze 
hironori nagatsuma - Osynlig struktur
LOG - LOG 2
textural bug - beaded rocks
Genus Aix - Exceptional Blooming
emer - through the earth
Andrew Tasselmyer & Blurstem - Paper Rain
0N4B - (Forthcoming)
Julian Zyklus - Waterpiano n.2

ABADIR 'Airborne' ⓜⓘⓧ ⓪⑤⑥

aya joins us for an hour every other month to leak brain fluid into the London studio.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/aya/episodes/aya-6th-march-2024

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HOME ALONE - ERIKA DE CASIER ༢ MAUVE DECADE REMIX ᥫ᭡ꗃ⋆࣪

Recorded by @henryaleksis @blondo, originally broadcasted on March 26th, 2024 on nts.live

photo by Kieran K

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SPA#41: bambinodj & Phillip Jondo for NTS Radio

This week's episode of Against The Clock takes us to Accra, Ghana, where New York-born alternative R&B singer, songwriter, producer and engineer Amaarae took on the challenge of making a track in 10 minutes. Only using a DIY recording setup at her home studio, she laid down a beat and vocals to make what she describes as a Solange-inspired track.

Amaarae Against The Clock - Pistols At Dawn

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