The London-born and based artist Beatrice Dillon first came to our attention with her Folkways 2 release on Will Bankhead’s buy-on-sight label The Trilogy Tapes. As well as that project, she has released an impressive number of works ranging from experimental solo and collaborative compositions, musical pieces for art installations as well as soundtracking films. Her mix for the consistently brilliant Blowing Up The Workshop series is a great example of her unique and broad tastes, and we cannot recommend Beatrice’s shows on Resonance FM highly enough. We had the pleasure of speaking with Beatrice over email about her musical background, past, current and future projects, her music-making process and creating compositions for different contexts. She also provided us with our 99th Truancy Volume, a mix of typically wide-ranging and fascinating sounds that provides a taste for her impeccable crate-digging and selection skills.

Read more: http://truantsblog.com/2014/truancy-volume-99-beatrice-dillon

Photo: Anne Tetzlaff

Truancy Volume 99: Beatrice Dillon

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Tracklist + download: https://boilerroom.tv/upfront/051-aspartame/

"I see DJing as aestheticised fandom, so I always try to make edits and mixes that are hopefully as fun to hear as they are to make. We all live atop this shitheap they call life; we may as well pick through the trash and find something beautiful together."

- @aspartames

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Upfront 051: Aspartame

Marcus Whale's solo production project offers a uneasy, breathless composition that would, ideally, be played exclusively in St. Peter's Basilica. If that's not available, a blood rave — or your headphones — will do. To Be Possessed features on the debut release of Sydney label Body Promise, Harmony From A Dominant Hue.

premiere: marcus (not singing), to be possessed

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Rinse FM Podcast - Swan Meat - 9th April 2017

An exclusive mix by R Hunter for whothehell.net, ft Hyde, Pollen Trio, Marcus (not Singing) and more,  plus exclusive R Hunter material and remixes

R Hunter Who the Hell mix

Melbourne-based producer R hunter takes equal influence from club, ambient and classical styles to create combined and alternate representations of genres. Following a background in composition he has rapidly progressed towards a voracious need to create without discernible reference, regardless of chosen sound palette or platform. On his debut release ‘Estrus’, out on NICE Music in 2016, plumbing the world of software synthesis and sound manipulation with abandon to forge dystopian and at times hellish sound collages.

R hunter's exclusive piece ‘3 imprinted textures’ is a mix of unreleased music that explores how form can be subordinated by timbre. The work makes reference to many different musical experiences: synthesized and recorded sounds interact organically with one another, embedded within an architecture of ambient textures, field recordings and YouTube sampling. The result is a struggle between the measured and unmeasured, where music moves freely between ‘on’ the grid and ‘off’ the grid.

Listen back to the full EHE broadcast via the FBi website here: https://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears

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Artist: STILL
Album: I 
Format: LP / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 80 
Release Date: 15 September 2017
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order:  https://still-pan.bandcamp.com/album/i

Shapeshifting through his vernacular worlds of sound and imagery, Milan artist and musician STILL (Simone Trabucchi)'s practice is defined by a unique, nomadic approach. Previously known as Dracula Lewis, a project developing his personal take on ‘folk’ music, he has accumulated a number of releases on various seminal labels, alongside running Hundebiss Records.

His new moniker, STILL, follows the unearthing of the histories that connect his hometown of Vernasca to Ethiopia and Jamaica, explored under his visual arts project Invernomuto as an in-depth fieldwork lead to ‘Negus’: a series of sculptures, installations, a book, and a long-feature experimental documentary, screened at Unsound 2016.

'Negus' revolves around a cleansing counter-ritual performed by Lee "Scratch" Perry in the Vernasca square where 80 years earlier, an effigy of Haile Selassie I was burned. The documentary then follows a trajectory connecting Italy's overlooked colonial past seen through personal history to a reverberation of symbols in Ethiopia and Jamaica. Within STILL, he connects these research threads, evolving their sonic and linguistic aspects further, where ‘computerized riddims’ sustain a shared gospel channelled through a polyphony of voices.

Six Milan-based African-Italian vocalists and singers voice a complex, overarching past that is both communal and individual. Using the medium of language, the record is a multi-layered with meanings contemplating the historical weight of words. Both the city and the studio became workshops for the shaping of their complex network.

The release is mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M, artwork by Invernomuto & Bill Kouligas.

STILL - Nazenèt [Wasp Riddim] (PAN 80)

Artist: M.E.S.H. 
Album: Hesaitix
Cat.Nr: PAN 82
Format: LP / Digital
Release Date: 10 November 2017

buy: http://p-a-n.org/product/m-e-s-h-hesaitix-pan82/
bandcamp: https://optimate.bandcamp.com/album/hesaitix

Further departing from both the cinematic abstraction of ‘Piteous Gate’ and the hectic drums of ‘Damaged Merc’, Berlin producer M.E.S.H.’s new full-length, ‘Hesaitix’, is marked by its hyper-ornamented rhythms and a sense of pensive, moonlit spaces.

The atmosphere has shifted; the radical deconstruction of previous releases has given way to subtler interventions, building new structures in strange territories. Shifting from the meditative to states of manic unease, Hesaitix is an unnerving injection into both the social space of club music and the interior space of digital audio fantasy.

How did I become so stupid?

A sound can be both formless and over-rendered, like a boneless but fleshy hand from a life drawing class.

What agent could set these broken sounds in motion?

A laugh behind an evil curtain. A drummer that’s cool and grotesque, a detuned siren. A brushfire under a full moon.

Recorded in Berlin and Umbria, Hesaitix sees Janus resident and PAN staple M.E.S.H. firmly engaged in a kind of sonic worldbuilding, a place where the unconscious and the alien intersect.

The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Michael Guidetti & James Whipple.

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