Myxomy - Myxomy (SUB042)

Stream & download: https://myxomy.bandcamp.com/album/myxomy

Artistic collaborations don't have to be exhaustive, competitive or combative. And for Berlin-based producers James Ginzburg and Ziúr, their work together as myxomy has been almost effortless. Both artists bring with them a deep history of recording in vastly different circumstances: Ginzburg has worked on bass music, folk, experimental techno (as half of Emptyset) and experimental drone, while Ziúr played in a number of bands before settling into her current explorative electronic mode. So when they started working together in 2020, it was their respective backgrounds that provided the touch-paper for an explosive artistic head-to-head.

Ginzburg instigated the process by sending Ziúr beats he'd made in Bristol in a former life, and Ziúr, fresh from finishing her PAN-released third solo album "Antifate", set about sculpting them into completely new forms. In response, Ziúr dispatched vignettes to Ginzburg and he did the same. As they exchanged ideas back and forth and lapsed into absurdity, the songs followed suit, evolving from raw concepts and loops into proper songs as both Ziúr and Ginzburg traded melodies, lyrics and production tricks. The duo's fragmented sketches and scribbles took on new life, channeled, refined and re-invigorated as they developed into anxious, hybridized pop jewels.

Their surprising stylistic choice is revealed immediately on opening track 'Sloppy Attempt', a fractured mood stabilizer that dissociates from Bristolian trip-hop into glossy android pop. Ziúr's singing voice carries the track into a sonic black hole, mutated into an alien gurgle as she gently coos the prophetic words, "a sloppy attempt won't cut it, no no." And as Ginzburg takes the reins on 'A little opaque', singing over Ziúr's twisted neon electronics, it's clear that both artists have pushed each other outside of their comfort zones, providing the reassurance and comfort necessary to evolve.

On 'In and Until', they find an exact median between their two most recent albums. Twanging hurdy-gurdy sounds remind of Ginzburg's 'crystallise, a frozen eye', compelled forward by brittle foley percussion we last heard on "Antifate". A scalding industrial boil of deranged synthesizer squeals and rolling drums parts like the Red Sea on 'Toxin Out', cooling to a crust for Ziúr's half-sung words to echo overhead. "Burn the bridges it's a choice, eat the rich, and throw up on the fuckbois."

"Myxomy" isn't an overtly political album, but driven by a desire to create and a shared philosophical space, Ziúr and Ginzburg are naturally outspoken. Their vision of pop is twisted through history and floated on frustration, growth and constant reinvention. It's a unique mix of polar elements - light and dark, noise and silence, joy and melancholy - that centers itself on one important theme: together, we're far more powerful than we ever could be alone. 
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releases November 12, 2021

All tracks written and produced by Ziúr and James Ginzburg
Album art by Stefan Fähler
Design by Philip Marshall
Artist photo by Kasia Zacharko
Mastered by Joker
Published by Multiverse Media Publishing © & ℗ Subtext / Multiverse LTD 2021
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Myxomy

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Myxomy - A Little Opaque

Tracklist & more: http://www.movement.radio/show/Guest-Mix-by-ABADIR-02122021

@marwabelhajyoussef // @rami-abadir

photo credits: Hassan Emad

Guest Mix by ABADIR w/ Marwa Belhaj Youssef - 2 December 2021

Jiyoung Wi - Chimerizations

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Taken from the forthcoming album "Printemps-Ete" on In Paradisum, to be released April 11 2016.


After a couple of EPs, qoso reveals his first LP on In Paradisum, a label he joined in 2013 for the Like It Soft EP he cosigned with Low Jack. Charlie Janiaut opens up a third way between physical energy and experiments on sound textures. The producer originally from Franche Comté has dusted his fingers on battle scratch and his playing with computer is totally instinct driven. Playing techno from the viewpoint of rap music, qoso’s music is entirely based on samples and feeds on mistakes, frequency translation and a piling up of effects leaving space to randomness. The tracks on Printemps Ete were composed all at once and speak more to the body than the head - they’re rhythm tracks as stated by Emotional, which opens the record where most electronic albums like to put a nice ambient track. After being compared to Blawan or Levon Vincent by Resident Advisor, qoso is now leaving most references points behind with a syncopated sound that puts some fun into the raw.

Qoso -  Peaches N Cream

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AVAILABLE AT CHINA / JAPAN SHOWS FIRST 

8/11 @ WEB MISHUKU, TOKYO (YOUNG D DJ)
9/11 @ CLUB OPEN, TOKYO 
14/11 @ COMPUFUNK, OSAKA

GENERAL PHYSICAL/DIGITAL RELEASE - NOV 18TH 2019
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5GTOUR ~ TRACK 12 ~ MESSAGES

Tracklist:
https://hkcr.live/shows/jiyoung-wi-12-08-2020

Jiyoung Wi - 12/08/2020

Further information: bleep.com/features/bleep-mix-146-holly-childs-gediminas-zygus

In their Perfect Potting mix for Bleep’s mix series, Holly Childs and Gediminas Žygus have created a wonderful companion piece to their LP Hydrangea. Much like that album, Perfect Potting is a stunning hour of music which fashions new sonic vistas from a huge variety of styles - avant-garde balladry, futurist gabber and various schools of 20th Century classical music to name but three. The fact that Fatima Al Qadiri, Goldie, Elysia Crampton and John Cage are all in the tracklisting here should signpost just how wide Childs and Žygus have cast their net, but the focus and vision with which the pieces are combined is hugely impressive. From its weightless, heavily classical opening section, through the boundary-pushing songcraft of its midsection and onto its increasingly beat-driven second-half, Perfect Potting is a testament to the artistic ambition of its creators.

Bleep Mixes

Bleep Mix #146 - Holly Childs and Gediminas Žygus

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Salamanda is a Seoul-based Leftfield Ambient music producer/DJ duo of Uman Therma (Sala) and Yetsuby (Manda).

Salamanda believes every sound has beauty, and loves to collect and create music from field recordings of the world around them.

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Florisa 5 ma gosh what should i do?

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