Taken from Knekelhuis' compilation .​.​.​it wasn't really me, out December 16.

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Premiere: Purelink - Personal Velocity

Argentinian but Barcelona-based, nueen has been crafting some very particular sound drifts through a luminescent and recurring warm atmosphere, endlessly fluidic and delicate pads, recombining rhythms where multiple temporalities are juxtaposed. 
Over the years, he has developed a highly personal style –profoundly intimate yet immediately giving onto distant space-times. His dub-ambient embroiled sound has been released on labels such as Good Morning Tapes, Quiet Time, Balmat and APPX. 
His mix released today as part of our series is a very good example of his versatility mixing tons & very different paths all together. Completely fan of this epizode!  Merci Nacho x

https://soundcloud.com/nueen

On Board Music - Mix Series - nueen OB22

teotihuacan :: 11.09.2024

The newest release from 29 Speedway, UltraBody, is a compilation record featuring the music of Jake Muir, Pent & Dylan Kerr, Nexcyia & mu tate, James K, Flora Yin-Wong, Ex Wiish & Dorothy Carlos, Kamran Sadeghi, Tati au Miel, James Hoff, Eric Frye, qwqwqwqwa & sop.io, Muein, & Maxwell Sterling. The record is emblematic of the artists who have performed at 29 Speedway shows in New York and Europe during the past two years, and is the third in a series released by the label.

The record investigates how the self, spirituality, and language are intertwined with the intervention of subjectivity by new technologies. With increasingly sophisticated tech, and the supposed ability to remake the world and ourselves, what differentiates our individual discretion from the will imposed upon us by software? Quoting Walter Chaw, “Decades of rampant, unregulated and ill-considered technological leaps have begun to evolve, to mutate, humans at a biological level”. This haphazard acceleration towards a techno-utopic transformation of humanity has faulted, and as William Gibson put it, is leading us to live in a “half assed singularity”. In this reality, artistic processes are influenced by excessive access to computational tools and assistance, but not utterly controlled.

This in-between state of dominion is explored on UltraBody. “Incoherences” samples the utterances of Dylan Kerr’s voice processed between Pent’s percolated glazes, muddying the gulf between vaporous ambient and reflexive sound design. The voice on James Hoff’s “A... ...Cha.... A... I feel l” was created by trying to get voice cloning technology to sing a gps data stream, the music an extrapolation from an earworm he got stuck in his head while shopping in Kyoto. On “Plogue Chain”, Eric Frye’s most speculative sci-fi observations spiral into a glazed pool of digital cacophony, while Kamran Sadeghi’s “Formula Fiction” is an experiment in (un)controlled generativity. Incorporating minimal pings from a 3D simulation scene based on gravitational interaction, cello bits evolve on “Assimilation”, a collaboration between Ex Wiish & Dorothy Carlos.

On UltraBody, sound has no separate existence from space.

Kamran Sadeghi - Formula Fiction

gi - Thought Makes Music

01. 21, 22, 23
02. fold
03. laces
04. knots
05. morning
06. coil
07. feedback
08. rapture (with Marcus Whale)

Digital + Vinyl 12”
@gistrung

Absorb is proud to present ‘Thought Makes Music’, the highly anticipated long-player by gi, solo moniker of unbridled musician, performer, and lyricist Gigi De Lacy (Optic Nerve).

'Thought Makes Music' is gi’s farthest-reaching work, a conclusive vision that follows a succession of revered sketches and short-form releases on labels such as Altered States Tapes (AUS) and Beyond the Bridge (ROK). So far her work sits on the outer limits of what can be considered “dance music”, and at full-length, its singular and immersive quality is glaring. Here, gi’s familiar spacious sound design and metallic IDM percussion is refined by an intertidal palette and restrained songwriting parameters. Given a larger canvas, gi works with increasingly blurred, distorted and feedbacking sounds, enclosed by asynchronous rhythms, bent and then snapped back into grid; the album reveals its musicality in moments of overlap, where everything happens at once.

Across eight tracks, listeners find electronic music that is less concerned with narrative so much as with landscape. gi habitually uses a set of recurring samples, melodies and drums to create the murky atmosphere that permeates the record. Instances of repetition, like a re-used drum break across 'laces', 'coil' & 'rapture' reveal a practice that is constantly rearranging itself via generative drum programming and resampled modulation. This impulse for repetition snowballs into a prominent exploration into feedback on this release. From the warping harmonies on 'feedback'; screeching textures on 'rapture'; and the metronomic jolts of frequency on 'morning' and 'knots', we hear gi’s fascination with “failed” methods of capture, nodding to her history with DIY, punk and hardcore scenes in so-called Australia. Exploring “blown out” re-recorded musical qualities for the first time under the gi alias, we find overtures of amplified noise bleed into otherwise crisp arrangements.

Allowing discreet reference-points to blur, new tonal profiles and distorted intensities arise for gi. 'Thought Makes Music' draws connections with the world around it, following rolling moments of feeling. gi presents her debut confidently, but the sound remains curious, playful & protective of itself; it answers no questions.

Written by Gigi De Lacy
on Wangal and Gadigal land

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Artwork by Clara Joyce
Inner Artwork by Mackenzie Benato
Layout by J Amelie Cantrell

Thank you to Kavil, Marcus Whale, Kenzie, and to everyone who the music comes from.

03. Laces

01. 21, 22, 23

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1 Gamajorba (intro edit)
2 Garret's Plea
3 Secret of Heather Ale (synthetic demo) (Robert Louis Stevenson)
4 Contentment (Thomas Paine)
5 The Old Priest (William Butler Yeats)
6 And If (Mihai Eminescu)
7 I Serve A Mistress (Anthony Munday)
8 Convalescent Crescent Groans 
9 Who Cares
10 Nervous
11 Here Comes a New Life 
12 Fate of Sakartvelo
13 Swanheart (Nightwish) 
14 I Fear Thy Kisses (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
15 Lies About Vietnam (Adrian Mitchell)
16 The Twin of Sleep (Robert Graves)
17 Addison’s Ode (Joseph Addison)
18 Blakehead Babyhead (Adrian Mitchell)
19 Friends Who Write, Draw and Carve (Christopher Logue) 
20 There Are No Millers Anymore (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
21 As Phantoms Go (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
22 The Initiation (Manly P Hall)
23 Life Is Not Easy 
24 I Only Ever Have Bad Ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVqevCB1ZoI

The Initiation(0018)

UFO BAR with @elegyoflight, @kuthijin, @ord_nas, giovanni_3055, @eltaninmilan, @notmass

ballads_infinite representing

Live recorded at @inbeatwin, Milano
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=C11TKLRUNuY

Originally streamed on www.fritto.fm

Fritto FM

UFO BAR with Leo, Kuthijin, Ordnas, Gianni, Eltanin, and Not Mass on Fritto FM 18.10.24

Crime Scene

Deep within the ocean a Chiton dreams of flying but has never seen the sky.

Departed Space

Winging It

TrLR_Cdiment

Record label from Naarm/Melbourne, est. 2020

https://absorb.world/

Label/Kavil DJ contact: 
absorbinquiries@gmail.com

01. 21, 22, 23

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