faux naif

Originally broadcast on 15th Feb 2022.
A special on 80s goth culture & positive punk scene in Japan with Marimoriko on @cashmere_radio

Here we discuss our own views and interpretation of how the goth scene in Japan helped the emergence of the positive punk scene and vice versa. 

So here it is: the new positive punk, with no empty promises of revolution, either in the rock'n'roll sense or the wider political sphere. Here is only a chance of self-awareness, of personal revolution, of colourful perception and galvanisation of the imagination that startles the slumbering mind and body from their sloth." - Richard North in NME, Feb. 1983

Cashmere Radio with Marimoriko: 80s goth culture & positive punk in Japan special

London-based DJ and M II M founder faux naïf is live in the @RefugeWorldwide Berlin studio, playing some of her favourite past, present and future artists

faux naïf x Refuge Worldwide July 2022

faux naïf is live in the studio playing crossover sounds from new beat, EBM & 90s rave, after recently starting the new event series, Elegia, in Manchester with Boomkat/The Death Of Rave boss Conor Thomas. This show is a nod to the Haçienda era.
Elegia iii with Conor Thomas & faux naïf Fri, 2 Jun 2023 @ The Peer Hat, Manchester

Elegia w/ faux naïf x Refuge Worldwide

Rinse FM Podcast

Rinse x Love Child (Pride 2023 Takeover) feat. faux naif - 30 June 2023

Faux Naïf

adjective
1. appearing or seeking to appear simple and unsophisticated a faux-naïf narration

noun
2. a person who pretends to be naïve

Languishing in the depths of the seductive underworld of EBM, faux naïf champions the more obscure tones of dance music. Rooted in goth, darkwave, body music post-punk and industrial, the sound of faux naïf stems from the anarchistic attitude aligned with these 80s-born genres. Representing the spectrum of these subcultures in her DJ sets and her annual event M II M (mouthiimouth) parties, she builds a sultry feel on the dancefloor while keeping a watchful eye on her audience, creating a delicate balance between tension and wild abandon.

This year faux naif birthed a new Manchester event ‘’Elegia’’ which is in collaboration with Boomkat / Death Of Rave boss Conor Thomas, bringing goth, body music and new beat sounds to the Northern Quarter basements of Manchester.

Today, faux naïf remains fiercely loyal to her punk-by-way-of-goth spirit, co-existing in the largely trend-driven landscape of dance music.

Words by Niamh O’Connor

@faux_naif
www.facebook.com/fauxnaifmiim
www.instagram.com/faux_naif

> > DARK DISCO #139 podcast by FAUX NAïF <<

Love Child w/ faux naïf - 25 November 2023

This month Faux Naif is joined by Fortune Taylor from the Brvtalist. Faux Naif starts off with some dark & atmospheric sounds, whilst Taylor rounds off the show with some New Beat / EBM selctions.

27/10/18 - 199radio -  faux naïf with special guest Fortune Taylor (the Brvtalist)

Broadcast originally 24/11/18 on @199radio - faux naif presents an @avant Special with a few favourite selections from the label over past years.
@buzzkull takes over the airwaves for the second hour.

AVANT! Special Track list:

Pleasure Symbols	- Ultraviolence			
White Hex - Holiday		
Hot Guts - Will Carry		
Ritual Veil -  All Black       
Night Sins - Evangeline		
Rendez Vous - Demian		
Buzz Kull - Ode to Hate		
Phase Fatale - Waveguide		
Qual - Above Thee Below Thee 
SDH -  Tell Them			
Sally Dige - I Can't Be		
Veil Of Light - Bridges Of God

faux naïf AVANT! Special With Buzz Kull Guest Mix

Originally broadcast on NTS2 20th November 2018 as a guest mix for @silentservant

Tracklist:

Uncanny Valley - Western	
Buzz Kull - New Kind Of Cross 
Evil Dust - Rinse Me Out 
Marmo - Fire	
Fairground of Tears - Pain Is God 
Lapse of Reason - Go Away 
Uncanny Valley - Popcorn 
Velvet Condom - Samt Und Stein	
Inhalt der Nacht & Echos Of October - Die Liebe 
Randolph & Mortimer - Apply Yourself (LauraPalmer Remix) 
The Force Dimension - Process And Reality	
Coldgeist - Unknown Bodies 
Sumerian Fleet - Pendulum 
Gyves - Dead Embrace 
La Fete Triste - Inkonsequent	
Zanias - Exuvia

faux naïf guest mix for Silent Servant Optimistic Decay on NTS2

Originally broadcast on 23.02.19 
22:00-00:00 on @threadsradio 
I invite @oliver_gibson to go body2body with me for the first hour and @zanias from @fleisch-berlin collective takes over the second hour ahead of Fleisch Records & M II M at the Glove That Fits this Friday 01.03.19.

More info here:
https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1196789

MIIM presents Fleisch Records with Zanias + Øliver body2body with faux naïf on Threads radio

This month on @Threadsradio we shared my opening set from Kaos  last year, originally recorded on Saturday 30.06.18. at Electrowekz with Silent Servant, Years of Denial (live), Sophie Coletta & Choronzon.
Random selections on the night from:
HTRK
Zanias
Skinny Puppy
Lebanon Hanover
Detriti Records 
Front Line Assembly
Qual
Fairground Of Tears
LFDM
Human Performance Lab 
PIL
Acid Vatican
+ more

faux naïf on Threads Radio recorded live at Kaos 30th June 2018

Re-uploaded from 199radio originally broadcast in August 2018.
@becka-diamond
@faux_naif

[reupload] faux naif recorded live @ Exiled (16.06.18) With special guest mix from Becka Diamond

M II M hosts a Threads Radio special in support of 19th October at The Glove That Fits 
bit.ly/MIIMXBRVTALIST
🌹
For this broadcast @velvetmay99 & @TheBrvtalist have selected 5 of their current favourite tracks, mixed in with selections from faux naif including music from Velvet May himself AND new / forthcoming music from TWINS @thatwhichisnotsaid in support of his new album coming out 25th October.

Track list:
TWINS - Left Behind
Velvet May - Thought With Tears
@ 12 minutes 5 selections from Velvet May
Front 242 - Masterhit
Suicide - Dominic Christ
Psyche - The Saint Became A Lush
Le Chocolat Noir - Revamp
The Body Electric - Dash 1721
TWINS - Slow Decline
Velvet May - Vast As Black Night
@ 49 minutes 5 selections from The Brvtalist
Kontravoid- Turn Away
Le Chocolat Noir - Peer Pressure
An-I + Unhuman - Entschuldigung
Missing Persons - Rotten to the Core
TWINS - Wicked Game
@ 1 hour 10 mins M II M presents:
Velvet May - Shoot Your Eye Out
White Magik - Total Ego Loss ( Randolph & Mortimer Remix )
Raw Amdassador - Pushing
Saturator - 89s†
TWINS - Lie Awake
Thomas Bodenstandig - Is This EBM?
End Of Mortal Life - Cette Fille

07.09.19 M II M Presents The Brvtalist, TWINS & Velvet May on Threads Radio

Originally broadcast on @threadsradio on Saturday 5th October 22:00-00:00 live from the Cause.

Event info here for next M II M here:
bit.ly/MIIMXBRVTALIST

All selections on this show are recordings from DKA Records. Featuring, Boy Harsher, Videograve, Passing, Valis, High Functioning Flesh, Multiple Man, TWINS, Xander Harris, Tannhauser Gate, Sally Dige & more..

For October's radio show we host a @dka-records  special in support of one half of the label head's @thatwhichisnotsaid London debut on 19.10.19 - M II M & The Brvtalist present: Velvet May Live (Tears on Waves) Twins Live (DKA) at the glove that fits 🧤

05.10.19 -  faux naif / M II M Presents DKA Records on Threads Radio

Originally broadcast on @threadsradio on 09.11.19 at 23:59-02:00
This month a special guest mix in the second hour from London based producer @evildust. 

https://www.facebook.com/evildustt

First hour is hosted by faux naif with some darker and atmospheric sounds; a dedication to Halloween. Music from Uniform & The Body, Prurient, Alvar, Christian Death, Jonnine Standish, MY DISCO, Coil, Orion Syndicate, Pindrops, Distortion Shape & more

09.11.19 faux naif with special guest Evil Dust on Threads Radio

This month on @threadsradio invite special guest @nathanielyoung to takeover my show with a 1 hour guest mix. 🔥

In art and in earth, inordinate pressure leads to extraordinary form. This maxim is pivotal to the
work of Guilt Attendant, a multidisciplinary artist and creative producer based in Brooklyn, NY.
Born and raised amongst the cool greenery and porous fog of the Pacific Northwest, Young is a
lifelong musician whose contemporary work explores techno through reductive and elemental
processes, inverting its silhouette and navigating within its shadow.
Young, raised religious, was inspirited by the power of community at a young age. Since then
he has pushed against the inhibiting constraint of his upbringing, trading dogma and doctrine for
empathy and candor.
In 2013, Young co-founded Blankstairs, a musical platform issuing cassettes and vinyl from
electronic musicians from all over the world. His first productions, under his own name and
several aliases, came not long after, the result of an artist confidently finding his voice.

30.11.19 faux naif presents Guilt Attendant on Threads Radio

Back in the studio & returning to the airwaves tomorrow with a special guest mix from The Fifth Stigma, a new talented producer of the label Italian Olympics.
Drawing inspiration from liturgical music, crusade wars, body music & power electronics, he tells stories through his releases. Blending sounds of contemporary industrial music, Japanoise and techno.

First hour hosted by faux-naif featuring tracks from Kris Baha, Phase Fatale, Blind Delon & The Black Egg, SDH, Morah & more

25.01.20 -  faux naïf with Special Guest The Fifth Stigma on Threads Radio

Opening
First Five Minutes After Death - Coil 
(1986, Force & Form) ‎
 
I
Lonely Lover - Haus Arafna 
(2013, Galakthorrö)
If Anywhere Was Here He Would Know - Raime
(2010, Blackest Ever Black) 
Alone - This Mortal Coil 
(1986, 4AD)
Shake This Disease - Depeche Mode 
(1985, Mute)
Disease and Desire - Soft Cell
(1984, Some Bizarre)
We Shall Cleanse The World - Revolting Cocks 
(1984, Wax Trax!)
 
II
Isolation - La Fete Triste 
(2011, aufnahme + wiedergabe)
Escape - In A Lonely Place  
(2015, Symptome Der Entfremdung)
No Escape From Planet Earth - Ekman 
(2103, Katabatik)
Sei Still! - Duotronic Synterror
(2004, Was Soll Das?)
 
III
The Ignorance Of Misperception - JC & Kastil 
(2017, Cabrera)
Don't Give Way To Fear - British Murder Boys
(2003, Counterbalance)
Plague Song - Broken English Club + Symptoms - Pain Teens 
(2017, L.I.E.S) +  (1988, Anomie Records)
Better Off Alone (Or In A Small Group) - Basic House 
(2017, Sores)
Clean Air - Karl O' Connor 
(2011, Downwards)
Be Brave - Tropic Of Cancer 
(2011, Downwards)
 
IIII
Sick - Grouper 
(2010, Room40)
Melancholia VII - William Basinski 
(2003, 2026)
Somehow We'll Get Through This - Lebanon Hanover  
(2013, Dead Scarlett)
Disneyland Can Wait -  Boyd Rice 
(1990, New European Recordings)
Indoctrination (A Design For Living) - Dead Can Dance
(1985, 4AD)
A Cold Cell- Coil ( 2005, Threshold House)
 
End
Set Me Free (Remotivate Me) - Depeche Mode 
(1984, Mute)

Due to current situation, I decided to document this weird time & select tracks from my past collection which I felt relevant to me now in mood, style + track title for my own COVID-19 aural scrapbook.
A show inspired by the present day; the theme of isolation, disease, virus & illness. 
Each track is a narrative of the now and the common themes we are all living through.
I / we hope you / someone listens & find(s) comfort that you / they are not 'alone'.

Isolation is a temporary state unless you don't want it to be.

21.03.20 faux naïf Disease/Desire on Threads Radio

This month in quarantine-
Playing new tracks from
@avant_records
@hordmusic
@skemer_official chasmsband kasparhausermusic @pleasuresymbols @softkillpdx @localsuicide clanofxymox shepleasuresherself & more + a little bit of chat.

Track list-
The Sound (She pleasures herself remix) - En negativ 
Burn- OLMS
Wait For Me - SKEMER
Until It Happens To You - Chasms
Taste Of Metal - Augustus Mueller
Wunderbar- Kalipo & Local Suicide
Raging Tender - Grebenstein & Seefried
Your Touch - Nine Inch Nails
Jealousy Zoned -  HTRK
Beauty Needs Witness - PAAR
The Man With No Name- Kasper Hauser
Whipping Wind - Nebraska
Amen Yves - For Against
She - Clan Of Xymox
#13 - HORD
The Condos - Iron Curtain
Jazz Odeon - Slowdive
Killers - Kod
Rain Man - ALONE IN MY ROOM
34 Vampires - 34 Vampires
Dissociation - Pleasure Symbols
Not listening - Pure Ground
What They See- Luminance
Bunny Room / Saviour (Demo) - Soft Kill
DM6 - Paperdoll House
Yashar ( John Robie Remix) - Cabaret Voltaire

18.04.20 faux naïf on Threads Radio

Archived show from 14th December 2019.
As part of the Threads Radio 48 hour fundraiser, I invite Vercetti Technicolor & Evil Dust in the studio for a 2-hour B2B session.
@vercetti-technicolor
@evildust

faux naïf B2B with Vercetti Technicolor & Evil Dust on Threads Radio

Originally broadcast on 29th May 2020 as part of the Threads* Take Over Series.
Part I.
Beginning the 7 - hour musical journey with a Randolph and Mortimer interview + an exclusive first-ever play of Enjoy More remixed by Kris Baha.
Here Sam discusses his love of Ministry, Breakbeat, The Orbital, Sheffield & Snares..
@randolphandmortimer
2LP Vinyl to buy on Mecanica here:
https://mecanica.bigcartel.com/product/randolph-mortimer-manifesto-for-a-modern-world-2lp

𝔞𝔯𝔱 𝔟𝔶 @𝔞𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔢.𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔫𝔱.𝔣𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔥

29.05.20 Part I. Randolph & Mortimer Interview on faux naïf Threads* Take Over

Originally broadcast on 29th May 2020 as part of a 7-hour Take Over Series.
Part IV.
Conor Thomas of Boomkat.

𝔞𝔯𝔱 𝔟𝔶 @𝔞𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔢.𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔫𝔱.𝔣𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔥

29.05.20 Part IV. Conor Thomas (Boomkat)on faux naïf Threads* Take Over

Originally broadcast on 11th July 2020 on Threads Radio with Special Guest Lbeeze, who takes over the last hour of the show.
@lbeeze1
@upnorthrec

11.07.20 faux naïf presents Lbeeze/Up North Records on Threads Radio

This month Belgium based artist RAUM takes over with a special show. A man of many guises; releasing under his solo project RAUM, as part of the duo Orphan Swords & also 1 half Figure Section. Hear him talk us through his musical projects, influences and interests.
@raumbe

05.09.20 RAUM for faux naïf on Threads Radio

This month back in the studio live for Halloween to torment your ears. 
Tracks from:
SOFT CELL, DEAD CAN DANCE, THE KLINIK, SKINNY PUPPY,NOISE UNIT, :Wumpscut, S P O C K, MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT

31.10.20 faux naïf (Nothing But) Blood on Threads Radio

As part of Threads 2nd Birthday 36-hour stream, I invite fellow Libra & Italy based Strangers For Love / Religius Order who brings his beautifully melancholic post punk tinged sounds to the airwaves for a special 1-hour mix of his favourite selections; from current faves to tracks which have inspired him on his journey. #LoveLikeALibra 
@religiusorder
Art by archie.vincent.finch 
#newwave #postpunk #nowave #darkwave #tropicalgoth #shoegaze #strangersforlove #religiusorder #fauxnaif

26.01.21 faux naïf presents Strangers For Love on Threads Radio

This month a mixed bag of selections from: 
Anne Clarke, Das Ding, John Carpenter, Alberich, Kazuya Nagaya, Virile Games, Death In Vegas, Zwischenwelt, Andy Stott, Troller & more

20.02.2021 faux naïf on Threads Radio

faux naïf
adjective
appearing or seeking to appear simple and unsophisticated a faux-naïf narration
noun
a person who pretends to be naïve
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11.10 Volnost, Seoul
19.10 System, Shanghai
23.11 Peste, Manchester 
30.11 Metropolis, London
30.11 The White Hotel, Manchester

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