2021_Aug

Recorded live at Soapbox Music - Humboldt Park, Chicago
April 16-17, 2021

Art by DJ PW
Mastered by Shy

Purelink - Maintain The Bliss

Los Angeles native Sha Sha Kimbo undeniably lives for the rave. As exemplified through her every intentional move as a producer, DJ, promoter, radio host and label owner, Sha Sha radiates an unwavering love for amplifying, nurturing and supporting the culture of underground electronic music and the community that surrounds it, with her forthcoming release absolutely no exception to this.

Set for release as a digital download and limited edition cassette tape on August 13, the LA rave staple is happy to announce her debut EP on Evar Records, Total Chaos. A brilliant testament to the cathartic importance of staying up late and getting lost in a buzzing crowd of kindred spirits, Total Chaos harnesses the universal experience of having pent-up energy into massive, angst-ridden breakbeat anthems. Over six tracks, Sha Sha channels the hair-raising spirit of '90s rave along with her formative experiences with DMZ-via-Low End Theory dubstep and punk rock. Finding her place within LA's bass music, house, techno and rave scenes while defying easy categorization, Sha Sha personifies the no-rules electronic music ethos behind John Frusciante and Aura T-09's Evar Records. To supplement Total Chaos' three originals, LYZZA, Machine Girl and LCY provide three raw remixes highlighting various aspects of Sha Sha Kimbo's renegade rave spirit.

Drawing from the Los Angeles punk rock and '90s rave music that soundtracked her youth, Total Chaos personifies how she grew up on the dance floor, showcasing Sha Sha's tried and true ability to express rich, nuanced emotions through tracks that, first and foremost, can level a warehouse party. Kicking off the vibe on July 30, the EP's lead single "Save The World" is a perfect representation of this, with the jump-up rave cut employing a megaton breakbeat and sickly-sweet vocal samples over simmering base of dark, UK-influenced atmospherics. From the late night energy of the title track to the euphoric, dawn-breaking feel of "Limited Perfect," Total Chaos offers the refuge of a robust dance floor with the warm reassurance to be one with the universe.

Rounding out Total Chaos EP are three remixes that amicably and serendipitously support Sha Sha Kimbo's visionary aim to both explore the unknown and bring people together along the way. Brazilian-born, Amsterdam-based powerhouse LYZZA adds a full verse and a nest of serrated rhythms to her version of "Total Chaos," while New York's Machine Girl applies their trademark punk electronics approach to "Save The World." Meanwhile, Bristol's own LCY hollows out "Limited Perfect" into a haunting amalgam of post-punk minimalism and low-frequency pressure. A study of the opposing light and dark energies of underground dance music, Total Chaos presents a breakbeat-heavy vortex, sure to awaken everyone's inner raver.

Total Chaos

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Sha Sha Kimbo - Total Chaos [EVAR007 PREVIEW]

コミュニティーを作るのは一人だけでできることではない。~  Making community is not something one can do alone.

Umé Records presents the new album from V. Kristoff (@v-kristoff @rene-najera) "Golden Pacific", out July 11th, 2021.

Listen: https://umerecords.bandcamp.com/album/golden-pacific

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V. Kristoff ~ Golden Pacific (snippets)

Already featured on Groovedge Records in 2019 under his Satis alias along with Manesu, Franck Gérard & Géo Mancie for the amazing 'Autonomi' LP, Martin Vital Durand just released his 'Maquetas' album on the Lyon-based label. 
Take off aboard ethereal guitars and dreamy synths from the 80s cosmic era, when rock melt with folk high up in the spatial spheres of psychedelic music. 

https://groovedge.bandcamp.com/album/martin-vital-durand-maquetas-gtp004

https://www.discogs.com/fr/Martin-Vital-Durand-Maquetas/release/19103377

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℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Martin Vital Durand - Porta Octavia [Groovedge Records]

VA - 'Out of Season'
Release Date: August 6, 2021
Pre-order/follow: theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-season

Out of Season

“I liked the unusual side of the water – the bench set back
from the path looked up to windows rather than down
onto ploughed width. From here, I saw trees assert
their permanence, bending over backwards to prove
they still had it. Branches poked at homes then dashed – 
I was the lookout, or friend who misread herself included,
just one hand in the mischief. What a salve it was 
to pair a song with the moment and watch, feast and flee, 
drink all the good stuff that view had going free then leave. 
I did it once when a phone call felled me, or on days that
didn’t suit me, once again when I let a chance sail past 
like a bus I should have run for. We had an understanding, 
I thought. If I recognised how my body eased in this beauty, 
I could call a corner of it mine.”

- Ellen Renton

Eora (Sydney) based label Theory Therapy presents Out of Season, a 13-track collection of immersive ambient and downtempo recordings inspired by place, environment and the passing seasons. 

100% of the proceeds from the compilation will go to headspace, a national youth mental health foundation that provides early intervention mental health services to 12 to 25-year-olds.

TT001: VA - 'Out of Season' (Snippets)

“Is it better to mediate in the complete absence of sound or the complete submersion of it?” @felinefine / @meltmelbourne

Cover: Marc Chagall

CX - feline fine

Twin Womb w/ J.TRIPP for NOODS Radio (08.03.21)

https://soundcloud.com/lodding

https://www.retreatradio.net/mattias-looks-around

Mattias Looks Around #23 (31/07/21)

Tracklisting available via the LYL Radio site :^)

https://lyl.live/episode/peace-pilgrimage-2

Peace Pilgrimage w/Good Morning Tapes 300721

The last intrinsic Speculations of this season features a guestmix by the co-founder of Fors.FM, Synth developer and artist Felisha Ledesma, collaging electro-acoustic pieces, spoken word and blissful ambient scapes into an immersive & gratifyingly heady listening experience.

more infos and tracklist at www.lyl.live

Intrinsic Speculations (29/07/21) w/Broshuda & Felisha Ledesma

Swedish producer Moonilena offers a Sunday soundtrack filled with dreamy house, ambient and gentle rhythms, in the same vein as her sublime debut, 'Tiny Portals'.

Check out the tracklist on crackaud.io → https://crackm.ag/3lEDG0y

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Sunday Mix: Moonilena

Recorded live at @thelotradio in Brooklyn on July 25, 2021.

TRAXLIST:
De Fabriek - Gewalt
@otto-inoffizielle-seite - Delirien
Dérive (@sneakerdj & @june) - Schicksalhafte Begegnung
Visitors - Flatwoods Story
Albion (@big-muffle) - Experimento
@saschafunkeofficial & @niklaswandtmusik - Kreidekreis (@alexanderarpeggio Remix)
@credit00ratlife - Jus Tee Naa
@biondaelupo - Zug Der Vögel
@reymour - Daya (Feat. Low Bat @nighttravelonablanketshow)
Voyagers - Distant Planet
Pieter Kock (@peacock-o-tannenbaum) - Untitled #4
De Fabriek - Hersenvreters
Saturnia - Aqua
Dark Star - 90 Days
Cicih Cangkurileung - Nyoreang Katukang
The Dance - She Likes to beat
@sneakerdj - Misty Mirror
Big Jesus Trash Can - The Prayer Tower (Part 2)
Sun-La-Shan - Catch
Litia~Loe - Each Dawn Every Dawn (The Day After)
Colin Newman - Fish 3
Peter Schäfer - No Human Touch
Salomon - La Fin
Vic Flick - Chopper

LOT RADIO REDUX

From Endurance's Long-Term Memory, available for pre-order now:https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/long-term-memory

Endurance - Synapse

from "Amethyst: New Sounds from Moon Glyph Records" CS
https://moonglyph.bandcamp.com/album/amethyst-new-sounds-from-moon-glyph-records

Iceblink - "Molecules"

For each Sunday's guest mix, and in turn mix, a special emphasis is put on having that personal feeling or touch. Those mornings can be particularly poignant and I believe capturing that in sound adds an edge to music chosen.

With that in mind, Barcelona based Rodrigo Garcia has crafted a delightfully deep hour-long mix as he puts it, ‘to investigate your interior.’ Those not familiar with the name, Garcia is the musical director of Diffuse Reality, Teorema Festival and Periphylla. His mixes and productions range throughout the lands of Techno and beyond, much like the breadth of the mix he’s presenting today. A ‘special session of ambient sounds, drones, with textures and atmospheres to relax the mind, body and soul’.

Rodrigo Garcia on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/rodrigo-garcia
Rodrigo Garcia on FB: https://www.facebook.com/rodrigogarciamusic


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Sundays are for... Rodrigo Garcia

Pre-order vinyl: 
https://needsnfp.bandcamp.com/album/needs-x-gvr-present-the-future-of-vinyl

Needs moves into the future of vinyl production partnering with Green Vinyl Records in Holland to produce a 100% recyclable record which uses 60% less energy cost compared to traditional vinyl production methods. This revolutionary step in vinyl history features the production skills of Saoirse, Reptant, Sansibar, Pugilist, LUXE and Hassan Abou Alam.

For Needs 009 we welcome another all-star lineup of producers, established and emerging, from around the world. Featuring room 1 ready techno from one of the scenes leading lights Saoirse; a bass heavy, electro-tech weapon from Melbourne's Pugilist; the cosmic electro baselines of the irrepressible Reptant; an otherworldly space excursion courtesy of Norway’s finest Sansibar; dancehall inflected acid trance from London-based up and comer LUXE; and to round things off some twisted breaky tech-house from Egypt’s latest export Hassan Abou Alam.

THE PROBLEM
With 4.3m vinyl sales in the UK last year (the 12th consecutive year of growth), it’s clear that vinyl is back in a BIG way. But the basic technological principles of record pressing have not changed for a century. While the vinyl boom has been a bright spot for physical media lovers and the record industry alike, pressing vinyl poses a more urgent environmental concern than it did in the format’s heyday. At times, the process can seem almost antithetical to green living. Records are made of PVC, which comes from refined oil and can take up to 1,000 years to decompose in a landfill. Traditional pressing machines are powered by steam boilers that require fossil fuels to generate heat and pressure; the water used is treated with anti-corrosive chemicals in order to prevent rusting, thus creating more wastewater. And that’s just the pressing procedure.

Consider, then, vinyl’s packaging and distribution. The ink that’s used to print cover art and liner notes is traditionally solvent-based, meaning it contains volatile organic compounds that can contribute to the production of ozone. Once the record is encased in a beautiful jacket, it’s then shrink-wrapped in plastic wrap before boarding a gas-burning, carbon-emitting truck to ship. Suddenly the choice to buy physical music shifts from an action that helps sustain an artist’s career, to one that potentially threatens broader sustainability.

THE SOLUTION
In 2019 Needs started conversations with Green Vinyl, a brand new pressing plant based in Holland, who have devised a revolutionary production method which uses injection moulding rather than steam energy, equalling 60% less energy cost than the traditional vinyl production. It also uses no PVC and is a 100% recyclable product, meaning you can dispose of it in your home recycling bin.

The other benefits are that the record sounds better (it has a wider frequency spectrum), it cannot warp, and it also has a longer play life.

The key features of a Green Vinyl produced record are:
- Injection Moulding instead of steam pressing
- 60% less energy cost 
- No PVC
 - 100% recyclable product
- Wider frequency spectrum - sound is equal or better than traditional vinyl pressing 
- Longer stamper life time - can be played more than 400 times (traditional vinyl starts to deteriorate after 100 plays)
- Rapid vinyl turnaround of 8 weeks (wait times are generally 12-16 weeks)
- No warping of records 
- No paper labels

Green Vinyl is currently the only pressing plant in the world with this technology and we are proud and honoured to be the first label to work with them and share this amazing new technology with you all.

Join us as we change the future of vinyl <3

B1. Sansibar - Sky Express (Needs 009)

@alien-jams founder @chloefrieda and @recsund record a mix from the London experimental electronic label's catalogue

Since 2014, Alien Jams has been releasing music that balances propulsive dancefloor energy with extraterrestrial experimentation. In this month's The Sound Of feature, Chloe Frieda chats to Eoin Murray about its origins on NTS Radio, creating an inclusive platform for artists, and how moving away from vinyl has allowed it to thrive

Interview: https://djmag.com/features/sound-alien-jams-chloe-frieda-recsund

The Sound Of: Alien Jams

Adrian Bang is an Normandie-born, non-conventional composer, drummer and visual artist mixing up his performances with various effects and textural devices and own projections. He's been partner or frequent collaborator with uncompromising A-list psychedelic acts in the last decade. He plays in the Berliner Krautrock band Zukunft.

Adrian Bang Live from bar O Tannenbaum [27.07.2021]

https://soundcloud.com/elisefritzson

https://www.retreatradio.net/quelle

Quelle #13 (11/08/21)

https://soundcloud.com/malinbobo

https://www.retreatradio.net/malin-bobo