38 and in a celestial state

Hyperdub's Loraine James picks out artists discovered during lockdown on an eclectic Fact Mix.

More info and tracklist here: https://www.factmag.com/2021/06/28/loraine-james-fact-mix/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 814: Loraine James (Jun '21)

There is nothing safe about @dis_fig. The Berlin-based artist makes confrontational, unconventional music that harnesses the power of chaos. She initially came up on the New York club scene but was always most interested in the weirder end of the spectrum so moved to Berlin. It is there that she has established herself as someone who operates on the fringes of the dance floor. Her debut album PURGE in 2019 was wrought with emotional turmoil thanks to her own unique vocal work, while the electronics were just as twisted and harrowing. Last year she showed another side to her vocal skills on In Blue, a collaborative album of bass-heavy dreamscapes with The Bug.

This week's mix is 90 minutes of fulsome body music, contorting rhythms and exaggerated percussion. The boundaries between club, techno, jungle, rap and bass are blurred as Dis Fig plots a route through them all with great control. Even when tempos jump around wildly, there is no break in the flow, and to end such a high octane ride on the sultry mind nineties r&b of Total is a stroke of genius.

Dekmantel Podcast 353 - Dis Fig

Spring 2023 is shaping up to be Tzusing season, with appearances at Manchester's The White Hotel (where he'll make his debut in the city at a party with the PAN crew this evening), Rewire and Lyon festival Nuits Sonores all taking place in the coming weeks. This playful selection of hard drum, hip-hop edits and other dancefloor weapons plucked from his current club set rotation makes it easy to see why.

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Tzusing plays Nuits Sonores, Lyon, 17-21 May.

Crack Mix 495: Tzusing

Bill Kouligas is the mind behind one of modern electronic music's greatest and most innovative labels, PAN. His remarkable ear for music meant that he released some of the earliest records from luminaries like Yves Tumor, Helena Hauff and Eartheater, helping to jumpstart several remarkable careers. And each PAN release is lovingly and lavishly packaged like an art object in itself, an approach you can read more about in this month's feature-length cover story.

The Berlin artist's RA Podcast is an audio companion to that cover story, and it underlines not only Kouligas's range as a label A&R but also as a DJ. Reflecting the label's evolution from straight-up noise to musique concréte to leftfield dance music and then avant-pop, the mix cycles through stages of strange, staggered beats, almost celestial ambient music, passages of overwhelming noise and sound that sublimate into floating clouds before solidifying back into club music, and a couple engaging spoken word passages and endless manipulations of the human voice. In other words, it sounds a lot like PAN.

@pan_hq

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/880

RA podcast

RA.880 Bill Kouligas

This week we're all about "low-end hitters and dancehall business", as the Warsaw-based DJ and vocalist hermeneia is at the helm of our Rhythmic Culture podcast. Not only is she running the FURDA event series – she's also associated with Unsound Festival and holds down a regular show on LYL and Noods Radio. In the 46-minute journey she delivers, hermeneia takes you into the head-wobbly realms of soundsystem music – this one will be on repeat for a while.

@hermeneiaa

RC:132 hermeneia

Live recording of mi-el's two hour closing set earlier this year at OHM Berlin. 

Danse Noire V - May 19th, 2023 w/ mi-el, Dis Fig, ZULI, Dmitra & Soraya 

@miellllllll

Danse Noire x OHM Berlin: mi-el DJ set (19.05.2023)

It would be no exaggeration to say that 33EMYBW is one of the most original club music producers we've heard in recent years. In addition to being a talented visual artist and a bass player in the experimental band Duck Fight Goose, her solo productions are a highlight of Shanghai’s bustling underground scene—home to forward-thinking artists like Tzusing, Osheyack, Swimful and Hyph11e—moving with their own rhythmic language. She has a lexicon of drum sounds borrowed from all over the world, including tablas, bongos and mallets. As 33EMYBW, she puts together strange, multi-limbed rhythms that bring to mind images of dancing spiders and insects, something she addressed directly on 2019's showstopping Arthropods LP, released on the influential SVBKVLT label. As she says in the interview below, you basically need more than two legs to dance to her music. Maybe even eight.

Her music deals with creatures that vary from the mythical to the everyday (her first album was called Golem). On her latest record Holes Of Sinian, also out on SVBKVLT, she imagines the mostly-unknown organisms from the recently discovered Ediacaran period. It's more esoteric, atmospheric and arguably even funkier than her previous work, with Marina Herlop on one hair-raising track that you can hear in a demo version on her RA Podcast. This mix is actually a version of her live set—a favourite at influential festivals like Unsound and CTM—featuring plenty of productions from across her career in mutated and improvisational forms. It's creepy, crawly and undeniably danceable. If you can keep up with it.

@33emybw

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/912

RA.913 33EMYBW

I recorded the first Junglesbian mix a bit over a year ago. It was the first DJ mix I ever recorded & released & quite honestly, probably one of the first times I managed to mix for an hour without fucking up super egregiously. Although I cringe at some of its blends & transitions, I still regard it pretty fondly because of the searching quality I hear in it. Listening back, it sounds like I’m chasing something, like my head is in the clouds & my eyes are on the horizon. I don’t really know what I’m looking for but I know I haven’t found it.

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Junglesbian 2 comes crashing back to Earth. I’m somewhere in New York & Kingston & London all at the same time but also nowhere. I made it inside the dancehall but the dancehall is a wormhole to hell & I’ve crossed the event horizon. I’m fighting the ghost of Lee “Scratch” Perry after getting too high. I’m playing a game of cat & mouse with the devil, & I’m the mouse & then I’m the cat & then I’m the mouse & then I’m the cat. I must not fear, fear is the Mindkiller.  I’m going to put on an iron shirt & chase the devil out of earth. I will electrocute a soundboy.

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Because in my eyes there is red like blood
And I've been moving around like a human flood
Smoke comes out my mouth and out of my nose
I smoke it in the air, 'cause it must expose

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Top Cat - Original Ses (Police In Helicopter)
Kid Lib - Prove
Noise Factory - 123 O'Clock Rock
Worsleyy & Ginks - Little John
The House Crew - Innah Sound Bwoy Head
DJ Sofa - Made To Last
Fracture - All Of The Massive
Dual Monitor - Switch It
Janaway - Come Down
Tim Reaper - Scorched Earth A1
Soeneido - Blood Sport
Hannah Account - Mindkiller
Rotating Heads - Dark Secrets (Wishdokta's Mash-Up Mix)
Cheetah & DJ B - Your Face Or Mine
Tom Oakley - 3 Storms
D'TCH - AY!
Kid Lib - Remedy
Tim Reaper - Oh My Gosh
DJ Lewi - Ganja (ft. Angie Angel)

Junglesbian 2: Hannah Account Meets The Disco Devil

Fractal Fantasy's Zora Jones assembles a delirious selection of exclusives and classics on her astounding debut FACT mix.

For more information and tracklist head here:

FACT Mix

FACT mix 592 - Zora Jones (Mar '17)

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Manchester's Finn McCorry comes correct with a slick selection of high-octane club bangers.

For more information and tracklist head here: http://www.factmag.com/2017/07/03/fact-mix-608-finn/

FACT Mixes

FACT mix 608 - Finn (Jul '17)

Gaika found a spare moment during his endless travels to whip up this exclusive mix filled with all the good stuff: we dare you not to dance along. Press play and find out what Brixton's finest is digging.

i-DJ: gaika

With maximum intensity club sounds, warped metal, futuristic jungle and exquisite sound design, SVBKVLT affiliate Hyph11E electrifies the Fresh Kicks mix series

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/features/fresh-kicks-122-hyph11e

Fresh Kicks 122: Hyph11E

Techno, gqom and synth pop, live from Taipei.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=741

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