A selection of our favorite music submitted by XLR8R+ members last month.
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TRNGS - TRAFFIC SHARE

Organ Tapes and friends play disparate music plied and wrenched together with religious fervour. Sound of E5 上海 monthly on a Monday. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/organ-tapes/episodes/organ-tapes-8th-april-2024

Organ Tapes b2b CRASH TRACY 080424

Giselle (@37735i6) is an ambient artist from Nebraska, USA. She is an avid outdoor runner and is constantly immersed in ethereal scenery and sounds; miles and miles of transmission lines, big sunset skies, open prairies, and clear horizons that constantly emit peace. Her music and mixes echo the feeling of running through these beautiful dreamscapes while deeply contemplating the meaning of natural and creative processes.

Tracklist:
1991 — no more dreams 
envio — touched by the sun (rusch & elusive's chill out mix)
evieluv222 — tears i shed
solarstone — like a waterfall
insigma — open our eyes (insigma mix)
tim hecker — arctic lover's rock pt. 2
lila — manos de mas
dear sora rae... — faction 
rui da silva feat. cassandra — touch me (vocals only)
dear sora rae... — core
huerco s. — a sea of love

SC #4 — Feel the Sky Fall w/ Giselle

Nerve w/ nullflowflesh - 10/09/2024

American Artist - season 1
tm - powerful 
Babyfather - fonda 
Klein - black timbs
Chilly Gonzales - Music Is Back
Lolina - I Am Your Ambient Wife Live
Spresso, Alpha Maid, Mica Levi - curse
The Wrens - This Is Not What You Had Planned
The Magnetic Fields - How Fucking Romantic
Chilly Gonzales - Gogol
Council on Foreign Relations - My Homemade Movie
Anastasia Coope - He is On His Way Home, We Don’t Live Together
Synd og Skam - Vine 1
Hans Werner Henze - Royal Winter Music
Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, Julian Casablancas - Litt

OB0515 — American Artist

[EP048] Guest mix by https://soundcloud.com/kagamismile, featuring 100% unreleased work made during 2024 in Shenzhen.

Aired via https://soundcloud.com/stegi-radio-athens.

Commissioned by Stegi Radio
Produced by Onassis Stegi

Kagami Smile

Stegi | evo-natura with Kagami Smile ― 24 September 2024

Starting off Romance Relic's Windbreak show's 2024-2025 season, they invite a Helsinki-based ambient producer and 3D designer Two Heavens (Gabriel Boicel) who will present a guest mix on the first 30 minutes of the show.

Windbreak w/ Romance Relic, Two Heavens

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - HOAX (PAN 148)
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 148
Release Date: 04 October 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/HOAX

Mutating out of the collaborative practice established on STROBE.RIP, Amnesia Scanner and Freeka Tet are so back with a new dual record project that explores and explodes norms of music production, songwriting and sonic aesthetics. HOAX is *not* an album and remix released together, but rather, a singular experience unfolding as two mirroring, mutually-reinforcing (or perhaps deconstructing) records.

The Amnesia Scanner “AS HOAX” record administers the liquid drip of devastating ballads, wandering mosh-ups and industrial flood lights that we fiend for. But, as with every AS record it is impossible to mistake the grunged-out doom for nihilism: there is simply too much raw emotion, vulnerable narrative and playful experimentation. With drums and chaos from Freeka on four “ASFT” tracks, AS has delivered perhaps their most prescient, hopeful and soon-to-be-seminal record of their genre-defining career.

Against this belligerent crispness emerges the sublime obelisk of noise in Freeka Tet’s “FT HOAX”. This is the debut full-length record released under the Freeka Tet moniker. It is a conceptual art piece that is unapologetically immediate. Using custom bashed scripts the AS record is negated, inverted and buffed down to reveal underlying rhythms and textures.

Freeka has taken the ubiquitous technology of noise-canceling headphones as a point of departure for this experiment in music-denial. The desire for eliminating environmental sounds is turned inwards to undermine the music itself. A variety of original techniques are used for ambient AS cancellation including creating a virtual space simulation and adding noise to spectrogram images.

While Freeka’s gesture is extreme, the result brings you to a serene contemplative plateau. The dual mirrored records are meant to be unlocked together: listening to the drone-ification opens up patterns and movements previously hidden, your newly trained ear will go deeper into the layers of subliminal encoding on HOAX leaving you reprogrammed.

The lyrics are a sticker suspended above reflective abyss: labeled ingredients are anchors that pull a connection out of the crashing shores of Oracle’s baritone sax croning and operatic countertenor samples from latent space. The resulting They Live glasses that are ripped from your eyes makes this dual record project a scathing polemic on state of music and creativity, thus raising the stakes of what it means to be an artist in the post-post-post-digital-crypto-AI-utopia-anthropocene.

Written and produced by Amnesia Scanner
ASFT RUFF, ASFT TAZZIE, ASFT ISSOK, ASFT ICAROS, written and produced by Freeka Tet & Amnesia Scanner
Drums on ASTF TAZZIE & ASFT ISSOK by Freeka Tet
Mixed by Amnesia Scanner
Additional mixing on AS OVER by Enyang Urbiks
Mastered by Enyang Urbiks

FT HOAX

Freeka Tet - FT U (Active noise cancelling script)

Written by Ismail Jackson, Arif Fusilier, Graydon Fritzsching
Produced by Ismail Jackson, Graydon Fritzsching, Arif Fusilier
Cover by Raphaël Moreira Gonçalves

Ish Couture feat. Karma - Crashout

Fuckboy's Rhythm

The debut single from usr/friendly

LYRICS
Faithful wounds
Obey the noise
In function
Of the fright

A daylight reminder
Awaking the sleeper
In bodies of water

A shadow pleaser
Painting a picture

Servants of
The phantom wall
Fixed on
Veiled voids

Just a daylight reminder
Awaking the sleeper
As birds become feathers


CREDITS
Written & Arranged by Steven DeLair, Bradley Clevinger, Karlee Reiss, and Collin McCarthy
Recorded by James Fleege at Silver Street in Ashland, NE
Produced by usr/friendly and James Fleege
Mastered by Doug Van Sloun at Focus Mastering in Omaha, NE

Sleeper

Slam Jams Vol.2

Dawn RAzor - Be As One 2 [Holding Hands]

Disconnected, But Connected (feat. Ane Trolle) is the first single from the group Finds Them And Thrills Them.  Tyler Pope of LCD Soundsystem and Steven Jess Borth II (CHLLNGR) combine forces alongside Danish synth wiz Anders Dixen and drummer/producer Stunn Gunn to create dub influenced dance music that combines live horns, percussion and vintage analog and modular synths creating heavy and epic tunes for the dance floor.  Ane Trolle joins them for Disconnected, But Connected adding her charming melodies over science fictions landscapes.

Disconnected, But Connected (feat. Ane Trolle)

On Inhuman Spaces, Sour Gout creates collages of organic and virtual intensities, sculpting them into a series of immersive soundscapes. The album combines digital, instrumental, and organic sounds into a wide array of abstract forms. Sour Gout seeks to create a sense of the inhuman through the blends of these sonic sources. Inhuman Spaces takes influence from the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, Frank Zappa's late synclavier compositions, and the apocalyptic healing manga Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō. The album represents a sonic shift for Sour Gout toward a more personal and abstract space, which represents a move forward to new frontiers of musical exploration for the artist moving into the new decade.

Credits
All music produced and mixed by Sour Gout
Mastering by Nerve
Artwork by arisa

PRE-ORDER

Pulses

Taken from the 20th edition of XLR8R+, featuring GARZA, Toada, and Blue Fields, plus artwork by Will Canning.

Get the package: bit.ly/XLR8Rplus_Twenty

@toadaescapista

XLR8R+020: Toada - Brisas De Lisboa

Why Be - Caged Animal [YGK013]
https://youtu.be/S0O-eWZA6t0

1. Impiety with Patrick Belaga
2. Smf Teaser
3. Impossible Drops1
4. Impossible Drops2
5. Parental Glide
6. Dragged with Elias Rønnenfelt

Format: Digital/EP
Release Date: 7 Dec, 2020
Mixed by Gil Schneider
Cover by Stewart Uoo
Mastered by Alexis Chan

Special thanks to:
Nadine Fraczkowski, Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, Simon Van Deurs Formann, Sabaku no tako, Jackie Poloni

Why Be - Parental Glide [YGK013]

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Pulses

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