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Stone - Blurry Apple [3XL]

Futurist electronics from stars of the Chinese underground, presented monthly by Shanghai-based label & scene linchpins SVBKVLT. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/svbkvlt/episodes/svbkvlt-21st-september-2023

Svbkvlt w/ Abadir 210923

femi FM ⏤ femi

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.

//

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

produced by Kissen, Special Guest DJ, Ben Bondy, & nueen <3
@kissenirl @specialguest-dj @benbondy @nueen

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Kissen 'Tijuana Fog'

LAVURN is the debut self-titled album from Lavurn Lee, a singer, songwriter, producer, performer and DJ from the inner suburbs of Toronto. He has also lived and worked in Sydney, Hong Kong and Berlin. His music is an emotionally complex assemblage of processed vocals, filtered pads, surgically programmed drums, haunting melodic fragments and hazy textures. This 13 track album of sparse, emotive and experimental R&B is his second for SUMAC and his first under his own name, following a previous record under the name Fake in 2018. Lavurn was made over three years between Toronto, Berlin and Hong Kong in close dialogue with SUMAC founders DJ Plead and T.Morimoto.

Previously, as Cassius Select, he has established himself as a unique voice in dance music, releasing on cult labels such as Unknown to the Unknown, Accidental Jnr, Hypercolour, Banoffee Pies, Raw Basics and Bruk Records. His side projects include collaborations with vocalists such as VV Pete and Daemon, his previous experimental R&B aliases Guerre and Fake, and BV (alongside Marcus Whale and DJ Plead).


THOUGHTS & REFLECTIONS ON THE MAKING OF LAVURN

“I’m trying to make pop music. Not in the industry sense, but in the way that everyone is making their own type of pop music. It wants to be listenable, so it can create emotions. I come from bedroom song writing in the age of the internet. The lyrical content and sounds reflect my demeanor. Big ego with low sense of self-worth. Constantly posturing. At once both strong and weak. I don’t always trust my abilities. I don’t have the voice to produce contemporary radio R&B. I don’t do traditional harmonies, mine are all over the place.

It's the first time I'm writing about my own life in a literal sense. I spent years writing love songs having never been in a relationship. Whereas this feels very raw as a reflection of my experiences. To me the album sounds insular because it was made that way, in isolation. The vocals are used in a sampled way. A chorus for one track might be chopped and turned into another hook. A verse for one song is half timed and used for the chorus of another. Auto-Tune is used heavily. Some tracks are ‘written’ by pulling different beats, textures and vocals from different tracks and seeing what fits together. I tried to take self-sampling further and further. I was thinking of ways to world-build.

Most of the lyrical content on the album is about dealing with a breakup. But the album doesn’t reflect a break-up because it’s completely one sided. It doesn’t reflect the reality that I was an awful person during the relationship. Really it's an inward study of a reaction to rejection. It’s ambivalent. The attitude is “hey imma do me and improve myself”, while also desperately wanting someone back (for all the wrong reasons). There’s a veneer of self-improvement and healing. But it’s all performance. I used to think all the songs had a kind of toxic intent because of this. Trying to impress someone in a way that would make them want to return to you. In retrospect I understand the songs differently. They’re not perfect. A bit confused in their vulnerability. Maybe quite sweet in a way. I think it’s healthy for me to see the lyrics on the album as directed at myself. It’s an album about self-love. I learnt that making music can be a kind of self-care.” 
credits
released February 16, 2024

Written, recorded, produced and mixed by Lavurn Lee
Mastered by T.Morimoto
Photography by DJ Plead

LAVURN - JK

Karmina, formed by Civil, Pintalabios, and D.F.G., is a music collective and club night based in Texas and NYC. Tune into a specially curated guest hour they have done for NTS.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/karmina-1st-march-2024

Karmina 010324

𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐢𝐱 𝐛𝐲 ⊹ @6314 ⊹

➽ With a new album coming up, we asked bela if they wanted to make a guest mix for us, showcasing their favourite music and inspiration behind the album. 
➽ Read the whole article here: https://swinedaily.com/bela-noise-and-cries/

➽ 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓
Kirara - i can not speak english (2015)
Dogr & Sung Hwan Kim - Cicada Fade-In (2013)
Cecily Renns - 모두 살아 Everyone, Live (2023)
Hongsam - Untitled (2023)
Gobchang - Who Told You That I’m Gay (2023)
Supermotel K - 동성애 전환 치료(Homosexuality Conversion Therapy) (2021)
Heejin Jang - KAO (가오) (2024)
Seesea - COLA-TEK AUTOBAHN SIDE A (2022)
Choi Taehyun & Park Daham - In 肥頭音樂 (2019.10.06)
Astronoise - Degression (2004)
bela - 풀이 (2024)
밤섬해적단 Bamseom Pirates - 밥그릇싸움 (2011)
Seesea - COLA-TEK AUTOBAHN SIDE A (2022)
Sulsa - Hasugu (2018)
조월 Jowall - 다시, 퇴로 Retreat, Again (2020)
지숙과 죠커스 - 그림 (1971)
이민휘 Minhwi Lee - 침묵의 빛 The Light of Silence (2016)
위지영 Jiyoung Wi - Packing Up In The Penthouse (2024)
Puredigitalsilence - See You Through Your Eyes (1998)
Dogr & Sung Hwan Kim - Cicada Fade-Out (2013)
이연실 Lee Yeon Sil - 먼나라 (1975)

Foto: © Camille Blake

[Swine Guest Mix] - bela - Mix For Noise And Cries

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

Gauzy bliss-out and pop abstraction to forward-facing dancefloor pressure, @imgonebaby founder Jetty (@mystictearz) delivers the 131st podcast. 

67 engrossing minutes from a real one. Definitely the handiwork for the brains behind a label that trades in the tender, mutant, smudged and sublime.

RIYL: Madjestic Kasual, Slagwerk, Organ Tapes, blastah, TT

“Sometimes I’m catering to the imaginary techno-industrial board of directors… sometimes my eyes are closed and my brain is smooth. This one has been Schwinn and Salt Marsh approved - the true test of pure intent. All glory goes to the producers behind the songs I stitched together.” – Jetty

If-Only Podcast #131: Jetty

"A dream of the dance to come" from Lafawndah.

Full details and tracklist here: https://www.factmag.com/2020/06/29/lafawndah-fact-mix/

Fact Mixes

Fact mix 764: Lafawndah

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Fact mix 764: Lafawndah

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