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The second EP from Jack Dice sees a huge leap in ambition for the project, a 5 track session that’s more addictive, direct and heady than its predecessor.
‘Sip Paint’ centres around ‘Stash’s Theme’ featuring rapper and producer Stash Marina, a track that deploys crisp triplets and saturated production straddling mainstream signatures on the one hand and a world of analogue/deviant recording techniques on the other. It’s an odd, hyper-addictive track - available here in both vocal and instrumental versions.
‘Low Glo’, ‘Kerosene’ and ‘Radium Dial’ are more subdued and immersive; you could draw lines straight through the material here to a number of different projects Twells has been involved with through the last decade, though he seems to benefit immeasurably from Chambliss’ presence. The pair find a perfect balance between their respective disciplines, resulting in an EP that at different points throws stylistic references to everything from Prince’s Black Album to The Art of Noise, Drake, Philip Jeck and Evian Christ’s DUGA 3 sessions - without ever sounding overworked or too knowing, a feat in itself.

Stash's Theme (Feat. Stash Marina)

- taken from "Superimpositions" (BKEDIT010)

A3. Zeroth-Order Approximation

WAMA19.07.25 song1.1.Flötenspiel

Having Visions while listening to this song

Visions

Melodiesinfonie - Lo Pop Fi (feat. Kyoundso)

Tracks featuring More Eaze and Koeosaeme.
Mastered by Ryu Yoshizawa.
Art by Seth Graham
Layout by Paulina Okninska.

Pierre Ruby - Featuring More Eaze

Lightning Brat

web of lies

feat. Laurel Halo, Kuljit Bhamra, Jonny Lam, Verity Susman, Untold

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No: PAN 106
Release Date: 07 February 2020
Purchase: bit.ly/33ISoYr

‘Workaround’ is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythmobsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN. It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro- Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.

Recorded over 2017-2019 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14 bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play.

‘Workaround’ evolves Dillon’s notions in a coolly unfolding manner that speaks directly to the album’s literary and visual inspirations, ranging from James P. Carse’s book ‘Finite And Infinite Games’ to the abstract drawings of Tomma Abts or Jorinde Voigt as well as painter Bridget Riley’s essays on grids and colour. Operating inside this rooted but mutable theoretical wireframe, Dillon’s ideas come to life as interrelated, efficient patterns in a self-sufficient system.

With a naturally fractal-not-fractional logic, Dillon’s rhythms unfold between unresolved 5/4 tresillo patterns, complex tabla strokes and spark-jumping tics in a fluid, tactile dance of dynamic contrasts between strong/light, sudden/restrained, and bound/free made in reference to the notational instructions of choreographer Rudolf Laban. Working in and around the beat and philosophy, the album’s freehand physics contract and expand between the lissom rolls of Bhamra’s tabla in the first, to a harmonious balance of hard drum angles and swooping FM synth cadence featuring additional synth and vocal from Laurel Halo in ‘Workaround Two’, while the extruded strings of Lucy Railton create a sublime tension at the album’s palatecleansing denouement, triggering a scintillating run of technoid pieces that riff on the kind of swung physics found in Artwork’s seminal ‘Basic G’, or Rian Treanor’s disruptive flux with a singularly tight yet loose motion and infectious joy.

Crucially, the album sees Dillon focus on dub music’s pliable emptiness, rather than the moody dematerialisation of reverb and echo. The substance of her music is rematerialised in supple, concise emotional curves and soberly freed to enact its ideas in balletic plies, rugged parries and sweeping, capoeira-like floor action. Applying deeply canny insight drawn from her years of practice as sound designer, musician and hugely knowledgable/intuitive DJ, ‘Workaround’ can be heard as Dillon’s ingenious solution or key to unlocking to perceptions of stiffness, darkness or grid-locked rigidity in electronic music. And as such it speaks to an ideal of rhythm-based and experimental music ranging from the hypnotic senegalese mbalax of Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, through SND and, more currently, the hard drum torque of DJ Plead; to adroitly exert the sensation of weightlessness and freedom in the dance and personal headspace.

The album is mixed by James Rand and mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Thomas Ruff, layout by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

Workaround

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround Two (PAN 106)

Following on from a pair of Extended Players released in 2011 ("Passed Me By" / "We Stay Together") Andy Stott returns to Modern Love with 'Luxury Problems', an 8 track album of new material recorded over the last 12 months. Five of the tracks on the album feature the voice of Alison Skidmore, Andy's onetime Piano teacher whom he hadnt seen since he was a teenager back in 1996. There was no grand gesture in mind, it just sort of happened - but after almost a year of studio work the result is really quite unlike anything you'll have heard from him before. 'Numb' opens the album with Alison's voice; layered and looped but essentially left bare and exposed, tumbling into a dense shuffle, sort of somewhere between Theo Parrish and Sade, but more f*cked. 'Lost and Found' follows and deploys a growling rave bassline and a disturbed vocal, the beat assembling itself around a squashed Linndrum like a submerged Prince/Cameo production, haunted and impenetrable, but full of funk. 'Sleepless' started life as an African drum edit that sooner or later succumbed to Stott's intense rhythmic shifts. It's a sound that's been imitated countless times since the release of 'Passed Me By', here re-tooled and re-built for its next evolutionary phase. 'Hatch The Plan' ends the first half of the album with some heavily treated location recordings and a low end grind that probably doesnt quite prepare you for the vocal arrangements that follow - it's just a beautifuly inverted pop song. The second half opens with 'Expecting', the most recognisably 'Stott' moment on the album: a wrecked, deliriously knocked-out 4/4 shuffle deployed at halfspeed; those heavy kickdrums sucking in everything around them. 'Luxury Problems' is next and offers up the album's most quietly euphoric and open 5 minutes; conventional arrangements and drumloops disrupted by sharp disco bursts that mess with what you know: it's straight and beautiful and unbalanced and damaged, somehow all at once. "Up the box" switches up the narrative and goes somewhere else entirely, an extended intro that seems to build continuously for 3 minutes before breaking off into a slowed-down Amen edit, creating a kind of narcotic Jungle variant that fragments everything and ends just at the point you think it's going to go off, before "Leaving" finishes the album with an almost unbareably beautiful arrangement of voice and synth and a final key-change that takes you from joyful to forlorn in an instant.

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Album by @konstantinknerik
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Artwork by @xxxof
Typo by Steffen Hotel
Mixing by Yokaze
Mastering by Jeremy Cox

Vocals on Oncoming Lights by Tatyana Tregubenko
Additional guitar samples by Ilya Andreev

Fantasy Violence

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LIGH TN ING - Take The Fall

The Great Sleep is a series of 13 narrative audio mixes that will be aired on Internet Public Radio every first Thursday of the month from December 2019 to December 2020. For each episode, a musician and a visual artist from the Global URL Nation collaborate to develop the story with audiovisual material - a 1h mix and a visual cover, which then serve as a base for written text. Each month, we will post here and on our website a new chapter meant to be heard, seen and read.

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The ninth episode is about the celebration of communion and the crystallization of nascent bonds. A ceremony guided by laced, LCL Stream & s1m0nc3ll0.

https://soundcloud.com/lacedetail
https://soundcloud.com/bruno-lauzon-tanzi
https://www.instagram.com/s1m0nc3ll0/

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For the full experience : clublatemusic.com/the-great-sleep
Listen on Internet Public Radio : internetpublicradio.live/residents/clmxgun
Listen on soundcloud : soundcloud.com/club-late-music/sets/internet-public-radio

(2020) - THE GREAT SLEEP - E09 / LCL_Stream & Laced Mix

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IPR // THE GREAT SLEEP - E09 : Liminal Thresholds w/ laced, LCL Stream & s1m0nc3ll0

From Evo Lation One Compilation 

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Embers

sortlegeme - wandering

Third installment of our show on @ma3azef radio with a guestmix by @fllat

00:00 – 60:00 – Gin&Platonic

Posverdad Trax - Endrick Water Of Metabolic Hazard And Of Following Grave Displace
Amselysen - C+arillon
Gi Gi - Tricofero
Leo - Stanza 
Sockethead - Devotion
Penelope’s Fiancé - The Lie Closest To The Truth
Tia Maria Produções - Mete o Bass
HOLY SIMILAUN - Reclusium
INFX - bs303
Alex Zhang Hungtai & Pavel Milyakov - may-1
Actress - Tony
TASHI - X03 FRACTAL CLOAKS
ENA - Merman
Jasmine Infiniti - Ghettro
Phelimuncasi - Umgido (Prod by Menzi)
Maral - Vortex In Love
City Sounds
LOG - LOG6
Joanne Robertson - High Noon
Dylan Henner - Two Trains Came Through The Station At Once and It Felt Like A Hurricane

60:00 - 120:00 - julek ploski

Rocky Balboa Remix - DJTape(son)
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Yair Elazar Glotman - The Sun
Dean Blunt - I Run New York
Luis Pestana - Ao Romper da Bela Aurora
Sokół feat. Pono - Uderz w puchara
Eminem - My Name Is
WSZYSTKO - NIGDZIE
Makoto Yoshimori - Kokoro wo Shibaru Ai no Kotoba
Max LL - The Swarms of Hades
Naoki Sato - Kyouki
SUGAI KEN - 坂東太郎のはぢまり / Headwaters Of The Tone River
Takashi Watanabe - Absurd Conversations
Smerz - The favourite
Yu Miyashita - Symbol Manipulators
SUGAI KEN - Urayabu no Okinadake
Equiknoxx - Clunk
Levan Shanidze - Berserkers
Erick Alexander & Jared Bulmer - The Vast of Night soundtrack
Claudio Simonetti - Main Theme
Claudio Simonetti - Black Birds
Lutto Lento - Excerpt (for choir and solo voice)
Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata, Hajime Wakai - Maze Forest
Yu Miyashita - Spirit Lancers
Lutto Lento - MEDIEVAL DREAMS I - XIII (excerpt)
Kenji Kawai - 葉問 (Instrumental)
Thomas Clay - Retribution
Janet Kay - Silly Games
Koreatown Oddity - No Llores
Esk RAADL - Rocky Balboa Remix

Gin&Platonic w/ julek ploski - ma3azef.live - 5th February 2021

@jeromeworldwide is an American experimental label, and a platform whose goal is to push even further the frontiers of music. Their monthly show is just as much a showcase for their guests and the occasion to showcase the less-definable elements of their signature sound.
Tune in for JEROME every 1st Thursday of the month, from 00h to 02h [CET] on rinse.fr

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